Talk:University of Virginia fraternities and sororities

Easters Photo?
I'd love to have a photo of Easters included in the article. If anyone has an idea of a free-use photo that could be uploaded, feel free to let me know. This is probably the most well-known photo, but unfortunately I don't believe it's in the public domain. Puppysnot (talk) 19:44, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

The Rolling Stone article
Regarding the fraudulent story in Rolling Stone magazine, entitled "A Rape on Campus" and authored by Sabrina Erdely. I don't think the Controversies paragraph explains the outcome strongly enough. As I recall, Phi Psi earned an enormous settlement from the school and/or the magazine (and possibly the author of the story and the student who defamed the fraternity), which should be clarified front and center as the point of the scandal.

"UPDATED INFO: Nicole Eramo, the former UVA Associate Dean who was defamed in the story won a $7.5M settlement from Rolling Stone, and the fraternity, which sought redress for 'the wanton destruction caused to Phi Kappa Psi by Rolling Stone's intentional, reckless, and unethical behavior', settled their lawsuit for $1.65M. It doesn't appear the fraternity sued the administration, nor the alleged victim/student, even while they may have had grounds."

Kind of like the fraudulent Duke Lacrosse rape story, the lesson here is the magazine's, the reporter's, and the national media's rush to judgement and willingness to accept that such behavior occurred without a single pause to question the narrative... The administration didn't help the fraternity, rather, it distanced itself and let them hang in the wind. The 'reporter' was admonished later for perpetrating the worst case of journalistic malpractice that year. The Columbia Journalism Review called the story "this year's media-fail sweepstakes". . It was journalistic malpractice and feckless virtue signaling to the mob by the magazine and by the administration. --At least those are the reasons cited whereby the fraternity won their defamation lawsuits. Anyone with more accurate knowledge of this wish to take a run at improving the section?
 * These references may help:   See standalone Wikipedia article: A Rape on Campus  Original post: Jax MN (talk) 07:02, 10 December 2020 (UTC), Section updated: Jax MN (talk) 17:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)