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A number of churches and other organizations have giving-trees during the holidays that have ornaments with information about children or families that are in need. I prefer these over cash-based donations because they are more personal and there's no room for someone to skim something off the top of my donation. The…

You can select from a large number of charities to buy anything for the same price you would normally on Amazon with http://smile.amazon.com/ . The donations amount is a fraction of a cent of every purchase but it adds up. You can still use Amazon Prime. It works exactly the same as Amazon normally does, but in the…

What about something like Grease or My Fair Lady? Something uptempo with a little more excitement than Peter Pan. I wouldn't mind Beauty and the Beast even... Or as someone else said, Guys and Dolls.

Re: #2, I had a similar thought. I'm not all that familiar with the Greek system but all the names sound similar to me. Hell it could have been as simple as the reporter mishearing the interview subject. Or the subject misrembering, if she isn't familiar with all the names as well.

I'm not denying the fact checking wasn't done, or that the journalist wasn't irresponsible. But I think that to say this is obviously not true - that has not been verified to me either. And the fact that he wasn't a member - to say that's devastating - I don't really think it is. It's an egregious error, but to behave…

But the frat release everyone is discussing isn't exactly thorough unbiased info either. I'm just going to reiterate what this Gawker writer said on the matter:

I didn't attend UVA, and I know very little about how their Greek system operates, but I'm giving some real side-eye to their argument that Jackie's alleged attackers weren't fraternity affiliated since it wasn't formal recruitment/pledge period. Having attended an overwhelmingly Greek involved university that also…

Plenty of chapters have unofficial members (and I'm intrigued by the wording that says there is no Phi Psi lifeguard, rather than no Phi Psi employee). Plenty of chapters have social events that are not officially recognized as such. Plenty of chapters haze their new initiates until there is a new pledge class.

Agreed. The retraction letter was shitty because it foisted their lack of fact checking onto the victim (surprise! the victim must carry everything and be perfect because that's how rape is handled publicly). The "misplaced trust" was in their staff, who did not do their fucking job. Jackie's job isn't to investigate…

THIS. THIS THIS.

I was thinking about this. Confusion about certain details doesn't mean that the rape didn't occur. She could be confused due to trauma, whoever attacked her could have lied to her, or she may have changed some of her story out of fear. I think the same thing is true today that was true before the retraction: it needs…

Wait, we're supposed to be surprised that there are discrepancies in a story about a woman being brutally gang raped? The issue isn't with Jackie, it's with RS and their inadequate reporting. If they didn't believe her, they should never have published, not hang her out to dry in public for the crime of not being the…

I went to UVA and I just want to reinforce the obvious: whether Jackie's story was straight up fiction or just had minor discrepancies, the depiction of how Virginia handles rape cases was absolutely, terrifyingly accurate. The way that people are already using this to discredit rape survivors and give the school a…

I think the lesson here is to write down all of the details while being raped. It's the only way to be sure. Maybe tell your rapists to set up a camera. Otherwise, you bitches be lyin'.

Yes the poor, poor Greek system. Fraternities are the real victims here.

This is really bad, but a few things worth remembering:

It's still true that very, very few rape accusations are false. It's still true that UVA's system for dealing with rape accusations is fucking atrocious.

What stands out to me in the Washington Post article are the quotes from other UVA students who are survivors of rape. Whether or not Jackie's story is true/partially true/untrue, rape still occurs on college campuses and gets mishandled by administration, and that's a huge problem. I really hope schools still take…

So the Lost Boys are just, like, gayer Newsies