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When the Fear of Retaliation Keeps You Silent at UVA — Your Rights Under Virginia’s Hazing Law You are reading this at a hour when nobody is supposed to know you are awake. Maybe you are the pledge who survived something at a house on Rugby Road and is now getting text messages from the brother who organized it — messages that say, in not quite these words, keep your mouth shut or your life on Grounds is over. Maybe you are the parent who drove up to Charlottesville and found your son or daughter changed — withdrawn, anxious, drinking alone, flinching at a door slamming — and the university’s silence is telling you everything the official emails are not. Maybe you are the one who heard what happened to someone else and is terrified that saying something will make you the next target. We know what the culture of silence looks like at a place like UVA, where Greek life is woven into the social architecture so deeply that reporting a fraternity can feel like reporting the university itself. The fear of retaliation is not paranoia — it is a documented legal phenomenon, and under Virginia law, it is…