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    "parsed_content": "Grafitti in Uris Library Bathrooms on Nov. 16th, 2024.\n \n \n Photo by Sophia Romanov Imber\n \/ The Cornell Daily Sun\n \n \n \n \n \n \n EDITORIAL | Cornell Won\u2019t, We Will\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By\n The Editorial Board\n \n \n \n \n \n Sep 21, 2026 10:32 pm\n \u00b7 Updated Sep 22, 2026 10:13 am\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reading time: about 6 minutes\n \n \n Matthew Ingalls. Jonathan Newell. Winston Lee. Gillio Lopes. Diego Sarabia. Scott Norris. Scott Kretzschmar.\u00a0\nThese are the names of the seven men named as defendants in a civil complaint filed on Sept. 14 alleging they drugged and gang raped a Cornell student, identified as Jane Doe, in the Chi Phi house in October 2024.\n \n \n \n \n \n A university's obligation to the physical safety of its students is not one commitment among several, to be weighed against reputation or litigation exposure. It is antecedent to everything else the institution does. Cornell exists to teach and to educate, and instruction presupposes a student capable of receiving it, which presupposes, in turn, a student who is not afraid to attend their lecture hall. Safety is not adjacent to the educational mission \u2014 safety is, in fact, its precondition.\nCornell has said as much, in the document that governs the student conduct, which announces that it is \u201cintended to preserve a higher education community and residential campus where \u2018any person\u2019 in the community can pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment.\u201d The promise was invoked again on Feb. 21, 2025, when then-Interim President Michael Kotlikoff published Cornell\u2019s guiding principles organized around opportunity, access, diversity, merit and the assurance that \u201cCornell follows the law.\u201d The statement appeared just four months after the October 2024 assault.\u00a0\nSo we ask the questions the University has left unanswered. If Cornell follows the law, then we should have access to a public deposition issued from the school, the Title IX investigation opened in January 2025 and how it concluded. Why were these men allowed to \u201cpursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment\u201d and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?\u00a0\nCornell wrote that the suspensions of the men were issued \u201cto protect the immediate physical health and safety of all students.\u201d The Faculty Senate, voting 80-16 in November 2025, held that interim suspensions should cease when the risk of harm ceases. For the men to be back on campus, either the danger passed at some identifiable moment, and thus this community is owed an account of what changed, or it did not and the suspensions were lifted anyway. Cornell has explained neither.\u00a0\nThe lawsuit alleges the suspended students were offered the chance to mitigate conduct by submitting essays. A student accused of copying on a prelim receives a written notice with the evidence, three business days to demand a hearing and resolution of their case within two weeks, under the Accepting Responsibility Program written into the Code of Academic Integrity, which passed by a vote of 97-3. Cornell is capable of speed, of structure and most definitely of proportion \u2014 at least for the chemistry department.\u00a0\nThough when it comes to sexual assault, Cornell\u2019s five-month-late response was a task force. During an interview with The Sun, the sexual assault task force co-lead and Dean of Students Marla Love said that \u201cthe charge was never for us to solve the problem.\u201d In the interim, the University saw an increase in \u201cnonconsensual sexual contact\u201d to 15% of survey respondents from 11% in 2023, with a fifth of the incidents against undergraduate women occurring in fraternity houses or annexes. If the task force\u2019s mission was not supposed to solve the problem of sexual assault, as Love has stated, then it has been a resounding success.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tackling sexual assault as an academic matter \u2014 complete with its charts and facts and figures \u2014 offers no respite to the victims who have undergone physical and mental abuse. Academic \u201csolutions,\u201d like the essays, allegedly offered to the defendants to mitigate their suspensions, is belittling to the severity of the crime. It offers no concrete, feasible solutions beyond the usual passivities of \u201ccommunication\u201d and \u201cunderstanding\u201d that assume we live in a world of saints and angels. Cornell administrators and researchers surely know this \u2014 they understand the futility of their reports and the minimal impact these studies and prevention classes will have on the campus culture that has continued for generations. It takes no statistician to see the selection bias in the fact that the people who attend sexual assault prevention meetings and listen to them are quite likely not the ones most likely to commit acts of sexual assault.\u00a0\nThis is not a dark chapter in Cornell\u2019s history, it\u2019s a morbid pattern, only rectified with thorough criminal investigations in the hands of parties independent of the University \u2014 the Ithaca Police Department and the Tompkins County district attorney. As for Cornell, administrators have allowed the idea that enough ambiguity, enough he-said-she-said, enough familial connections, enough money will allow you to get off scot-free. We call on Cornell to publish the standard by which a suspension in a sexual assault case is lifted. We call on them to state whether an allegation of sexual assault is eligible for emergency suspension at all under the revised Article VIII. Finally, we expect that the University shares with the complainant the outcome of her own investigation.\nIn Cornell\u2019s own words, in the very letter it published on Nov. 26, 2024 \u2014 \u201cOnly those who perpetrate sexual violence benefit from its concealment.\u201d\nWe refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story. Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.\n To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.\u00a0\nThe Cornell Daily Sun\u2019s Editorial Board is a collaborative team composed of Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser \u201928, Associate Editor Sophia Romanov Imber \u201928 and Opinion Editors Zara Cheek \u201928 and Rayen Zhou \u201929.\u00a0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nThe Editorial BoardThe Cornell Daily Sun\u2019s Editorial Board is a collaborative team composed of Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser \u201928, Associate Editor Sophia Romanov Imber \u201928 and Opinion Editors Zara Cheek \u201928 and Rayen Zhou '29. The Editorial Board\u2019s opinions are informed by expertise, research and debate to represent The Sun\u2019s long-standing values. The Sun\u2019s editorials are independent of its news coverage, other columnists and advertisers.\n \n \n \n \n Read More\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won\u2019t Listen, We Will\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Letter To The Editor | Generations of Cornellians Call for Accountability \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHWARZ | Looking Backward and Forward: Possibility and Opportunity for Each Student",
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