@DunBoyer if the Maroon would raise their reporting standards to the level of Vox this thread would have gone in a different direction.
“So people in DU are definitely aware of these claims - with or without a formal report/investigation.”
Oh? Based on an unverified third party accounting that came in AFTER the presses were rolling on this “news”? That’s called a tip, not a reportable source. No one needs gospel truth. Some basic fact-checking would be sufficient.
“The frat’s statement specifically talks about DU as an organization. It says nothing about whether specific members of DU have been contacted by any of the above parties in any form other than a formal report.”
True - in other words, the Maroon knows nothing. Either they have no ability to crack the story open or they are persisting in something w/o any truth to it and exposing themselves to a potential libel suit down the road (they did, after all, publish the name of the frat. We know how that worked out for Rolling Stone and that incident actually had a specific “victim”).
Is the Maroon in the business of treating potential criminal activity on the same level as campus gossip about courses, new majors or administrative changes? If a bartender at Jimmy’s were drugging and assaulting its customers would there be the same unsubstantiated vagueries? Thought not.
It needn’t be pointed out - again - that “testing positive for Xanax” is missing a few connecting dots. A sizable number on campus probably tests positive for Xanax.