It's inconceivable that nobody was fired for this. And that nobody will call this what it was -- a hoax of monumental proportions, perpetrated by the accuser and a credulous magazine that was more interested in promoting a social cause than in doing real journalism.

I suspect that if we dig deeper we will find more stories like this in the past from Rolling Stone. As the Wall Street Journal tech columnist put it, "There's irony in a publication assailing universities for systemic failure claiming its own failure is an unrepresentative one-off."