U.S Capitol...Too Much Partying?

This nation's capitol is one of the most protected buildings in the country. Being that the leaders of our nation have said the presidential oath there and the Capitol building is home to the United States Congress, it also has another side. A partying side surprisingly. Since 4th of July and Memorial weekend are creeping up, many concerts are being held on the Capitol grounds. The parties have gotten a little out of hand in the past years and the U.S Capitol police have had enough. They sent a letter to congress sometime in March calling for the big changes, such as paying attendees extra for coolers containing alcohol and to make the events more safe and try not to cause any embarrassment to Congress. The parties are hosted by lawmakers, U.S Capitol officials and concert organizer inside the Statuary Hall and on the upper balconies of the Capitol's west front. The number of people attending these concerts have grown each year which is causing people to venture into restricted areas in the historic building. It's making the police's job impossible to keep everyone safe.  The new changes would lower the number of people attending parties on the balconies and hopefully changing the venue to the Botanical Gardens. It's crazy how even our nation's capital building has a wild side.


Jones, Athena. "Boehner and McConnell Agree to Crack down on Drunken Parties at the Capitol - CNN.com." CNN. Cable News Network. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.

Rape Story Discredited: Phi Kappa Psi & Rolling Stone

In November, Rolling Stone magazine published a 9,000-word article describing a 2012 gang rape that happened to a freshman named 'Jackie' at the University of Virginia which was supposedly raped by a fraternity chapter called Phi Kappa Psi. The article also shows how the school mishandled the incident. This article had some importance since it got a lot of people talking about sexual assaults on college campus which definitely rose awareness in the subject. Phi Kappa Psi discredited the Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape at University of Virginia and "plans to pursue all available legal action against the magazine," the Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi said. "The report by Columbia University's School of Journalism demonstrates the reckless nature in which Rolling Stone researched and failed to verify facts in its article that erroneously accused Phi Kappa Psi of crimes its members did not commit," Stephen Scipione, president of the chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, said in the statement. Rolling Stone's managing editor, Will Dana, reacted to review that Columbia University did to the article by saying that the Rolling Stone magazine is "committing ourselves to a series of recommendations about journalistic practices that are spelled out in the report." Could all of this be false?  A police investigation in Charlottesville,Virginia found that there is no proof that this 'gang-rape' occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi frat house. Another thing that was pointed out in the report is that the Rolling Stones committed an error of not reaching out to 'Jackie's' friends and also didn't ask for help of identifying the alleged attacker/s. 'Jackie's' friends had quotes in the Rolling Stone article that were never said in the first place. Also the review states that the Phi Kappa Psi members didn't get the chance to responded to these allegations.  The fact that this is happening, and that this 'gang-rape' could be false gives rape victims another reason to keep quiet. This a case of bad journalism.



"Phi Kappa Psi Plans to Sue Rolling Stone Over Discredited UVA Rape Article." NBC News. 6 Apr. 2015. Web. 7 Apr. 2015.