it s to me outrageous the extent that our colleges and universities are complicit in the sexual assault of young women at these fraternity houses. why don t the schools just disassociate themselves from the fraternities and kick them off campus? right. well, the colleges and universities have much more to gain from the fraternities than the fraternities have to gain from the colleges and universities. one out of every eight college students living on campus lives in greek housing. that s a tremendous amount of housing stock the colleges don t have to pay for, don t have to supervise. you also have to remember, you tie alumni to your campus in a very powerful way when you have a fraternity system. alumni giving is a massive part of giving. a large part of that is fraternity membership.
reporter: she says alcohol is at the root of a host of problems. let s talk about the inflicted trauma of hazing. let s talk about the sexual sadism, these are things that shouldn t have a place in a formal organized sanctioned college club. reporter: this student left with disturbing claims about hazing and asked we conceal his identity fearing retaliation. the lowest part for me when i was cleaning out the basement filled with dead animals and manure and sometimes human feces, i started failing my classes. i left and that was kind of it. fraternity houses like this are at a heart of a new wave of scandals across the country. some in greek life are trying to clean house. we did alcohol free housing. the culture was dominated by alcohol and that was at the ent he ter of everything we did. reporter: one of the first and oldest national fraternities
doesn t mean something terrible didn t happen to the college freshman called jackie at a fraternity house in 2012, just that the investigation has not uncovered sufficient facts and has no evidence of anything happening at that fraternity house. the case is not closed. so the woman who alleged the rape she didn t cooperate with the authorities. so what did police do to investigate the allegation? you know it took a lot of police work. investigators say that they spoke to nine of the 11 members of that fraternity. they sifted through phone records. here s this anderson. they say that they uncovered a photograph of that fraternity house, that they say was electronically slammed on the date of that alleged rape. and nothing jived. and the police chief, as i said said that they can t say that nothing ever happened to this woman, but he can say nothing happened to this woman that night at that fraternity. this wasn t the first time she had alleged an attack correct?
contradictions came to light and rolling stone later apologized. the police chief in charlottesville, virginia said the formal investigation into the alleged rape has not turned up any evidence to support the allegations made in the original story. now, the issue of investigation you ll violence on college campuses is an important one and can be difficult to navigate. we certainly don t want to add to the fear that women already have about perhaps coming forward. but the police chief made it clear in announcing the status of the investigation doesn t mean that something terrible didn t matter to the young woman and the case is not closed. rosa flora has more details. reporter: uva s rugby road is quaint. lined with manicured trees and beautiful fraternity houses. but in the original rolling stone article a rape on campus it s the scene of the alleged graphic rape of a woman who goes by the alias jackie. according to the rolling stone article, the freshman was
while the magazine apologized and news outlets, including cnn, poked homes into the story, it s not until today that we learn from police that the alleged gruesome chain of events don t hold up under scrutiny. we are not able to conclude any, to any standtive degree that an incident that is consistent with the facts contained in that article occurred at the phi kappa psi fraternity house or any other fraternity house. reporter: police say jackie did not cooperate with investigators. they did talk to nine of the 11 members of this fraternity. they pulled phone records and uncovered a photograph of this fraternity house that s electronically date stamped on the date of thealed attack. and they say that nothing lined up. but perhaps more concerning jackie spoke to police about a separate incident before the rolling stone article involving four men and a non-sexual attack which police