Amid turmoil and safety concerns, some thinking twice about applying to U-Va.

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Amid turmoil and safety concerns, some thinking twice about applying to U-Va.

Education
By Nick Anderson December 1 at 6:27 PM @wpnick

No school sends more students to the University of Virginia than the one in Fairfax County named after the university’s founder. Sixty-five freshmen in Charlottesville this fall come from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, one of the top magnet schools in the country.

Suddenly, some TJ seniors who had been strongly considering U-Va. are wondering about that choice, as recent allegations about a brutal gang rape at a fraternity there have caused turmoil, just weeks after U-Va. sophomore Hannah Graham was found dead after vanishing from a Charlottesville street. At the end of one of the toughest fall semesters ever for the university, parents are asking hard questions about campus safety.
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The public flagship university, with about 23,000 students, retains its stellar academic reputation. “Everyone agrees that U-Va. is a fantastic school,” Burke said. But he warned that university officials “are going to have to answer the questions of parents and well-educated students” who are thinking about going there.
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Applicants, understandably, do not want to say anything publicly that would harm their chances of getting in. One public sounding board some use is the U-Va. admissions blog, called Notes from Peabody. It is curated by a U-Va. admissions officer known as Dean J. Angst and wrath leapt out from comments on the blog after the Rolling Stone article.
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A former Post education editor, Nick writes about college from the perspective of a father of three who will soon be buried in tuition bills.

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I do have to note that doubts have been raised about the original article:

Author of Rolling Stone article on alleged U-Va. rape didn’t talk to accused perpetrators

By Paul Farhi December 1 at 6:24 PM @farhip

The writer of a blockbuster Rolling Stone magazine story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has said that she was unable to contact or interview the men who supposedly perpetrated the crime.

In interviews with The Washington Post and Slate.com last week, writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely declined to answer repeated questions about the men’s response to an allegation by a female student named Jackie that they had sexually assaulted her at a U-Va. fraternity party in 2012.
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1. The entire doubts about the original article deal with the fact that the accussed didn't come

forward. Complaints about the orginal article are hardly credible. As brought up in your other thread about this, why would unnamed accusers come forward?