The Washington Post, December 13th, 1990
THE AWFUL hoax perpetrated by a George Washington University sophomore has had more than one repercussion. Mariam Kashani, a young women who describes herself as an "independent rape counselor," told the campus newspaper, the GW Hatchet, that a white student had been raped by two black men on campus the night of Oct. 31. The paper attempted to investigate the charge and printed a front-page story repeating Miss Kashani's tale. Hers was not an impulsive lie but a carefully constructed story repeated over a number of days that was designed to agitate and enrage students. She fabricated elaborate...
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