article_snippet.sent: An anonymous undergraduate, given the name "Jackie," told Rolling Stone's writer Sabrina Rubin
article_snippet.sent: Erdely Sabrina Rubin had been invited to a party thrown by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012 -- only to end up beaten and gang-raped by seven boys, who were allegedly coached along in the attack by the same student, a casual acquaintance, who had invited Jackie to a party thrown by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: The horrific allegations sparked protests against Phi Kappa Psi fraternity,  a police investigation, the temporary suspension of all fraternities at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a nationwide debate about the prevalence of sexual violence on college campuses.
article_snippet.sent: Rolling Stone writer Erdely never verified the identity of the attacker and therefore never confronted the attacker with The horrific allegations; Sabrina Rubin never spoke to three of Jackie's friends who allegedly talked with Jackie immediately after the attack, and Sabrina Rubin never gave Phi Kappa Psi fraternity a fair chance to respond, refusing to provide specific information about what happened and when.
article_snippet.sent: And at every step of the way, when Jackie began acting flaky -- refusing to provide basic information needed to verify Jackie story or vanishing for weeks at a time without returning calls from the reporter -- neither Erdely nor Sabrina Rubin editors or the magazine's fact checkers made the hard but necessary decision to hit the pause button and decline to run the original story.