
To be fair it’s not just Cornell’s problem it’s every university who does this to protect their reputation I remember watching a documentary about it in hs this one just got publicized years later. I think we need to stand up for this issue as a whole and make sure all of them get punished
There were fifty other people in that group chat. Fifty seven boys (not men.) either participated or facilitated or encouraged or ignored this happening. No calls to police, no baseball bats swinging to get them away from her, no nothing. Two of the seven were given the essay to write. One wants to be a doctor, one wants to be a lawyer. They should all fifty seven be imprisoned until their bones are dust.
I don’t think Cornell intentionally let them slide. It’s more likely they couldn’t do more in terms of punishment. Educational discipline boards have a chronic lack of evidence because they don’t have the force of law. That makes meeting their burden of preponderance of evidence (more likely than not), extremely difficult. So while it’s disheartening to see, I can’t say I’m surprised or angry at Cornell in terms of the punishments given.
The issue is it’s an Ivy League school. These are the men who become our Supreme Court justices and or secretaries of defense and the fucking president of the country. An Ivy League University student should absolutely be held to the highest standard of moral action and the administration should absolutely enforce and embody that. No college should get away this this, especially not a renown school
When a prestigious institution sets the precedent that their male students are more important than their female students, to the point that men can get away with rape on campus, YEAH it’s a sorry excuse for a school. No hate on the professors or the other students going there, but the school it’s not the “one of the best schools in the country” if the female students enrolled there are in danger of being raped and having their futures stolen, while rapists walk free.
You think your comment is like a “gotcha” or something but that’s exactly how I feel about it. None of these colleges are safe for women, because they’ve all protected predators, so none of them should be considered prestigious. Also stop picking everything apart, you are toeing the line of defending rapists, and for what? Because you’re offended on behalf of a school, that is rightfully getting trashed for protecting predators…
Cornell University student (Jane Doe) was drugged and raped for seven hours by seven frat boys, one of whom was a friend she trusted. There were zero criminal charges and the only punishment was to write an essay to get by. Only two of the students were expelled and there is no foreseeable trial. One student sent into the fray snap chat with (I do not know the exact number but it was around 40 I think) other members of the fraternity and none of them said or did anything to protect her
Yeah definitely consented to getting ganged by 7 dudes. This doesn’t make any sense if true so it probably isn’t. The current situation I wouldn’t be where it was if that was the case. No one is allowing random frat dudes to do that unless drunk, roofied, etc. To the point that it is r*pe regardless
The second “no” enters the conversation, it’s rape. The second ketamine is forced into her mouth on a dick to immobilize her, it’s rape. The second it went from two to three to four to seven people without her consent, it’s rape. The second someone sends “free pussy” in a group chat and nobody did anything to stop them, it’s aiding and abetting rape. Do you not understand this?
Sexual assault is an umbrella of crimes including rape. Sadly it’s not as simple as always call the police. There’s a very good documentary called “Victim/Suspect” that exposes a disturbing national pattern of police turning sexual assault survivors into criminal suspects. And aside from that the justice system is hell for survivors between invasive and painful rape kits, traumatic witness examinations and more.
It doesn’t. Even if she remained conscious and they had sex with her, it’s still rape. You legally cannot consent when intoxicated. If she was intoxicated as she says, then she cannot consent, and if they did anything, it would be rape. Why is this so hard for you guys to understand?