Nicole Eramo his a bone to pick with Rolling Stone who published the now retracted story about an alleged gang rape on UVA’s campus.

Matt Schiavenza reports for The Atlantic:

Damage Lingers From Retracted Rolling Stone Story

Much of the focus on Rolling Stone’s retracted “Rape on Campus” article has centered around its journalistic failures. But three weeks after a Columbia Journalism Review investigation seemed to conclude the controversy, another subject of Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s article has spoken out. On Wednesday, University of Virginia’s associate dean of students Nicole Eramo blasted Rolling Stone in a four-page open letter addressed to founder Jann Wenner that accused the magazine of causing her personal and professional damage.

“Using me as the personification of a heartless administration, the Rolling Stone article attacked my life’s work,” she wrote.

The article centered around a UVA freshman named “Jackie” who alleged that she was raped by seven students at a fraternity party in September 2012. The next year, Jackie reported the incident to Eramo, an administrator experienced in dealing with victims of sexual violence. According to Jackie, Eramo reacted to Jackie’s claim with indifference and stonewalling. During her reporting of the story, Erdely approached Eramo—but the dean declined to speak about Jackie’s specific allegation out of fear of violating university policy. The incident frustrated Erdely. “I had actually gone to campus thinking that they were going to be very helpful,” she said to CJR. Instead, the journalist portrayed Eramo’s response as emblematic of how universities deal poorly with reports of sexual violence.


 
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