terrible did not happen to jackie on the evening of september 28 2012. we re just not able to gather sufficient facts to conclude what that something may have been. police is been investigating after rolling stone magazine published this story detailing this horrific account of this woman they called jackie. a college student who said she was gag rainrang raped. the article was called rain on campus. it horrified reader when it was published. the article also suggested the school failed to respond to the alleged assault. but inconsistency, questions in jackie s stories emerged causing rolling stone to apologize and investigate what went so wrong. remember they didn t reach out to the other side fear of retribution for the alleged victim and later apologized for that. let me bring in katherine valentine. we ve talked a number of times.
support from a very unlikely source a victim of rape. listen to ha she told cnn s don lemon. one of the things that i think is detrimental that s come out of this article in some ways is that dean eramo is being criticized for doing what quite frankly is the first page of the advocacy handbook is giving people options and not coercing. we can have a conversation about how deans of students and the officials in that capacity should handle these cases. if we want them to be advocates or we want to contract out. but she did advocacy best practice. katherine valentine is a reporter for the cavalierer daily and a student at the uva. she interviewed the dean at length in october. katherine, great to have you on the show. your interview was really the only look we ve gotten at the dean, her tone, her disposition and her answers and substance about this. do you think it is fair to blame the dean for the procedures of
is taking action in response to the rolling stone article that details an alleged attorney gang rape and a school s dispassionate response. uva president told students monday that, quote, a piece of our culture is broken. among the changes she announced, an additional trauma counselor for the women s center, a reassessment of the role alcohol plays in campus social life, and a review of the current policy that allows victims to choose whether assault will be prosecuted. university of virginia student journalist katherine valentine joins me. we first spoke on thanksgiving. thank you so much for coming back, katherine. welcome back. thank you so much for having me again, brooke. and you asked her, why students who have admitted to sexual assault, why they have not been expelled from the university. take a listen. do you not think it s
mentioned alcohol. you know, alcohol doesn t cause rape, but alcohol is often a tool of the predator. direct quote from her. how big of a problem is alcohol there at uva? and is it a major factor in those reported assaults? i think it s a huge factor. i don t think that s a uva problem, i think you re seeing students across the country drinking in excess. i think it s a common theme across, really, across all colleges in this nation. so i ve said before when we spoke, this is not a greek problem. this is not even a uva problem, but it is happening. i think that alcohol is playing a huge role in that. we re going to keep in close touch with you. katherine valentine, i hope it improves there at uva. i should point out on so many college campuses across this country. thank you so much. keep us posted, please. coming up next coming up next, charles barkley unfiltered.
expelled for sexual assault. i was hoping that president sullivan would announce the university s plan to implement the policy yesterday. but it seemed like they needed a little bit more time. let me back up. when we hear zero tolerance, katherine, what does that mean? i m not sure. it s going to be to me, that sounds like if you commit a sexual assault at the university, it sounds like you ll be expelled. but i m not sure how they plan to implement that. because it seems like when i spoke with the dean, it seemed like she was concerned with the perpetrators. and she was concerned with due process and the students rights. which i understand that students rights need to be upheld. but i m curious to see how the school plans to implement a zero tolerance policy. it still sounds for lack of a better word, sticky. what about this? what about the university president said yesterday, we