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Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the writer of the now-thoroughly discredited story in Rolling Stone magazine about a vicious gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, forgot to include one important group in her statement of apology issued Sunday. Earlier that day, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism delivered a crushing indictment of the November Rolling Stone feature, for which the report’s authors said the magazine “set aside or rationalized as unnecessary essential practices of reporting.” That flawed process allowed for Erdely’s 9,000-word tale, most of which we now understand to be untrue, to be viewed online more than 2.7 million times.

“The past few months, since my Rolling Stone article ‘A Rape on Campus’ was first called into question, have been among the most painful of my life,” Erdely wrote in a statement. “Reading the Columbia account of the mistakes and misjudgments in my reporting was a brutal and humbling experience. I want to offer my deepest apologies: to Rolling Stone’s readers, to my Rolling Stone editors and colleagues, to the U.V.A. community, and to any victims of sexual assault who may feel fearful as a result of my article.”

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Erdely’s mea culpa had one striking omission: it failed to offer an apology to the members of Phi Kappa Psi, whose lives were most directly affected by Rolling Stone’s run with fiction. These men were branded as ruthless misogynists and predatory gang rapists, of such derelict character that they would violate their victim with a beer bottle. Seven men allegedly carried out the rape against “Jackie,” the central figure in the Rolling Stone report, but all of the members of Phi Kappa Psi were immediately made suspects. Their house was vandalized, the windows broken, and they were ostracized on campus. Perhaps Erdely meant to include them when she expressed her remorse to the larger “U.V.A. community,” but surely, the men whose lives she derailed for months deserve special mention over those who were mildly inconvenienced by impromptu rallies blocking their route to class.