It took Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus” to really get the attention of privileged and ostrich-like University of Virginia and its terrible record of denying justice to rape victims.

As someone who loved living in Charlotteville just a bit over a year ago, I can tell you talk (at least among my friends there) has been of little else than the RS article this past week. After years when a lonely few tried to get the attention of a University proud of its traditions — however harmful, the mess is out in the open and a subject of much debate, hand-wringing and justification. This blog post from doctoral candidate Willa Hammett Brown distills the problems and the reactions of UVA really concisely.