If someone drugged HG at a frat party, I definitely think they should be held accountable in some way for drugging someone unwittingly. It's a blurred range of accountability if said drugging begat disorientation, begat walking alone, begat an easy target for JLM. Same can be said for if Tempo served HG alcohol I think (in terms of where does one place the blame).
But JLM abducts, rapes, and murders people on his own. All I'm saying is that I don't believe there is a chronic culture at UVa such that people are habitually drugging women at frat parties to prep for sexual violence whereby the administration covers it up to create a false sense of security in the entire town of C-ville which would hold the University responsible for HG's abduction, rape, and murder. Or for MH's. The perp being someone who is not, and was never, a student. And who was almost certainly (IMO) never associated with the UVa greek party scene.
Whether or not UVa and it's administration has handled past rape accusations appropriately, or has tried to protect an image of some sort for some reason, is an entirely different story IMO. (And I won't get into that topic as I only know what I've personally experienced myself and from friends and, like most of us, don't have enough inside information).
It's hard, having grown up in Cville and having been a student at UVa, to see the town and the university being dragged through the mud a bit right now. I pretty much blame it on JLM. Of course, any of these male college students who have done something like what has been alleged in RS make me ill, and they should bear full weight of fault for those wrongdoings. But the timing of the article and the way it was written, in my opinion, tries to draw parallels and cause/effect around UVa's party scene and the murders of MH and HG. Article doesn't state it explicitly, but it doesn't have to IMO. I was aware that JLM hurt many people through his killing escapades- his victims, their families and friends, his family and friends, etc. It's just additionally sad to me that he's now somehow gotten tangentially associated with a University I am proud to have graduated from. And while JLM may have lived in C-ville, JLM "does not a bad city make". He's a monster. They exist everywhere.
MOO
Anyway. I'm done I think with commenting on this topic. Thanks to all for the opportunity to share my opinions on it.
