Last month, Rolling Stone published a story entitled A Rape on Campus, which described a brutal gang rape of a woman named Jackie during a party at a University of Virginia fraternity house, the University's failure to respond to this alleged assault – and the school's troubling history of indifference to many other instances of alleged sexual assaults.  University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan on Saturday issued the following statement: 
 
 Dear members of the University Community, 
 
 Over the past week many of you have reached out to me directly to offer your opinions, reactions, and suggestions related to combatting sexual violence on Grounds. Sullivan’s announcement came at a particularly active moment on the university’s social calendar, with the last home football game of the Cavaliers’ season held Saturday. The fraternity’s national leadership said that it would cooperate in the police investigation and that it had launched its own internal investigation into the allegations. They responded that they couldn’t confirm or deny her story but that they had questions about the evidence. Other friends of Jackie’s told the Washington Post that they now have doubts about her narrative, but Jackie told the Washington Post that she firmly stands by the account she gave to Erdely. The mother said that she could not finish reading the article because “it was too painful.” 
 
 She said she believes that not much has changed since she was a student there three decades ago. The Rolling Stone article has roiled the campus, raising questions among students, faculty members and parents about the way the case was handled by university administrators. She'd switched her shift in the hopes of never seeing him again. I write you in great sorrow, great rage, but most importantly, with great determination. This is a serious problem, to say the least. I thought it was my fault because I had gotten myself into that situation.” 
 
 The woman said she never reported the rape because she felt vulnerable and alone. Beginning immediately, I am suspending all fraternal organizations and associated social activities until January 9th, ahead of the beginning of our spring semester. "Come and get me," Jackie told her, crying. Providing candid feedback to this policy is a practical step that you can take to help and I hope that you will. On Saturday afternoon, four protesters were arrested for trespassing at the Phi Kappa Psi house, said Lt. Stephen Upman, a Charlottesville police spokesman 
 
 “People were unsatisfied with [Sullivan’s] initial response,” said Retsy Holliday, a senior foreign affairs majors who was one of the drafters of the letter. This is an important first step, but our challenges will extend beyond this weekend. “The question of how to reform it is a big one.” 
 
 One mother of a recent U-Va. graduate from Northern Virginia said that the article left her daughter in tears. She also made her most forceful call to students and alumni to be cooperative in the police investigation: “There are individuals in our community who know what happened that night, and I am calling on them to come forward to the police to report the facts. She says Eramo answered wryly, "Because nobody wants to send their daughter to the rape school." “What is seared into my memory is that he was on top of me, and I was saying, ‘No! Only you can shed light on the truth, and it is your responsibility to do so. "They said that they believed me. The board pronounced the man guilty for sexual misconduct against Stacy, making him only the 14th guilty person in UVA's history. "The fact that they already had that first victim, they should have been taking action," says SurvJustice's Laura Dunn. There are individuals in our community who know what happened that night, and I am calling on them to come forward to the police to report the facts. Although the Greek suspension lasts seven weeks, the practical effect is modest.
– A Rolling Stone report on an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has prompted the school's president to suspend all frats until the spring semester. In an open letter to students and staff today, president Teresa Sullivan calls for "the collective strength of the members of our community" to fight sexual assault, the Washington Post reports. Before the spring term begins on Jan. 9, "we will assemble groups of students, faculty, alumni, and other concerned parties," including school officials, to address the issue. "I write you in great sorrow, great rage, but most importantly, with great determination," Sullivan writes. "Meaningful change is necessary, and we can lead that change for all universities." She also directs a message to those "individuals in our community who know what happened that night … I am calling on them to come forward to the police to report the facts. Only you can shed light on the truth, and it is your responsibility to do so." She adds: "There is no greater threat to honor than secrecy and indifference." Police are investigating the case, and another campus protest is planned for tonight following a football game, the Daily Progress reports.