Discredited Rolling Stone Story Hurts All in Sex-Assault Debate
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Over the past week, 1,300 fraternity executives and student-affairs officials from across the U.S. met at the Omni hotel in Nashville. The most popular topics at the conference: media scrutiny and how to prevent sexual assault.
As the meeting wrapped up Friday, Rolling Stone magazine backed away from a story about the alleged gang rape of a woman named Jackie at the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. At the same time, the hashtag #IStandWithJackie drew attention on Twitter, with advocates saying they don’t want the episode to deter women from speaking up.