October 2026

The truth is that the Cornell case is going to be very hard to prosecute because it’s going to turn on memory. The memory of people who were not only drunk but drugged up on ketamine. And so getting beyond a reasonable doubt is going to be a challenge unless one of the guys turns…

The hidden function of elite men’s college fraternities is not social. It is governmental. The fraternity is an induction device: it takes young men at the age when identity is still plastic, binds them through shared experience outsiders do not share, rewards them through a lifetime pipeline of preferment—the job, the loan, the clerkship, the…

The public debate over the Cornell case keeps falling into a false choice: either Jane Doe is completely telling the truth, or her post-event behavior proves nothing illegal happened. The actual evidence supports neither conclusion. It is entirely possible that Jane Doe was sexually assaulted while the current public evidence still isn’t enough to prove…

Gang rape is not best understood as one man’s offense multiplied. It is, across many eras and settings, a male rite of passage: a group act in which participation proves membership, shared guilt binds the group, and a woman’s body becomes the trophy that men display to one another and share among themselves. Publicly the…

Shapiro says: “The evidence in the Cornell 7 case demonstrates clearly that Jane Doe engaged in promiscuous and disgusting sexual behavior (as did the men), was embarrassed by it, and then changed her story to allege rape. That’s not now rape law works. But now the NY governor is unleashing mob justice on the men.”…

President Trump’s exact words regarding Cornell University and the associated student sexual assault allegations: Regarding the initial questions about the university and the case: “Well, I don’t know that much about it, but I think Cornell’s a fine school and I’m sure they’ll do what’s right.” Regarding the involvement of New York Attorney General Letitia…

“I’m Allison, Cornell, class of 1994 graduate, and what is going on now has been going on for quite some time. I myself reported two incidents at least to campus police: one when I was a freshman and I found out that the fraternity across the road from us created a room to spy on…

A sociology of institutional rape enablement, from one night in a fraternity house to the institutions that made it possible A young woman walked into a fraternity house because she wanted to be near someone she liked. She was twenty years old. She had been drinking. She was looking for the things almost any young…

In the days and weeks after the October 2024 incident at Cornell’s Chi Phi house, the public conversation has often centered on Jane Doe—what she said, how she reacted, whether her memory was clear enough, whether she should have left sooner. Online, that scrutiny has frequently tipped into piling on: second-guessing her every text, dissecting…

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-accusation-reporting.html What this points to is Jane Doe’s peers at Cornell, including the Chi Phi fraternity PRESIDENT, realizing she was raped before she was willing to admit it to herself. That makes the case even more damning.