
A group of professors at the University of Virginia (UVA) has an online petition in support of Muslims and against the call by GOP frontrunner Donald Trump for a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the United States to protect Americans from possible terrorists.
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Dec 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a discredited “Rolling Stone” article that alleged members of the frat house gang-raped a freshman during a party has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against the magazine.
by Daniel Nussbaum9 Nov 2015, 2:16 PM PST0

In the blow-up that has followed the Rolling Stone story about “Jackie,” a student at UVA who claimed she had been gang-raped, Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana allowed that the mistake resulted from “individual failure” and “procedural failure, an institutional failure… Every single person at every level of this thing had opportunities to pull the strings a little harder, to question things a little more deeply, and that was not done.”
by William Bigelow6 Apr 2015, 4:51 AM PST0

As the reports on Rolling Stone’s journalistic fiasco make clear, author Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone’s editors failed to do the right—and professionally appropriate thing—time after time. Had they done anything akin to due diligence, the now-retracted mess of a story would never have seen the light of day, let alone have been enshrined in print.
by Dan Riehl5 Apr 2015, 8:30 PM PST0

The magazine fully retracts the original story, while CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that Rolling Stone’s publisher will not punish any employees involved in its publication.
by Breitbart News5 Apr 2015, 4:53 PM PST0