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Officials disputed her account of the conversation.\n\n> Usten-6:21 min Fsneetulanicee Df\n\nA woman who said she was raped at a Cornell University fraternity house in Octobe\n2024 wrote a letter the faculty\n\npresident believed her. Lauren Petracca f\n\noning whether the s\n\nOct. 20, 2026, 10:09 am. ET\n\nSee more of our coverage in your search results.\n\n\u2018Add The New York Times on Google 7\n\nThe former student who accused seven men of sexual assault in a\nlawsuit that has rocked Cornell University wrote in a letter to\nfaculty leaders last week that she felt \u201cunsupported\u201d and\n\u201cdisbelieved\u201d by the school\u2019s president, Michael Kotlikoff.\n\nIn a two-page letter to the faculty senate, the former student,\nknown as Jane Doe, said she wanted to share a \u201csecond-hand\naccount\u201d as the senate considers a rare vote of no-confidence in Dr.\nKotlikoff\u2019s administration. The letter described a comment she said\nhe made in a meeting shortly after she alleged she was raped at a\nfraternity house.\n\nHis \u201cinitial response,\u201d she wrote, \u201cwas along the lines of, \u2018Why did\nshe wait so long to report it?\u2019\u201d\n\nThe alleged assault occurred on Oct. 19 and 20, 2024. She went to\nthe campus police about three weeks later, on Nov. 8.\n\nKLM Royal Dutch Airlines\nTravel Well\n\nA Cornell spokeswoman said that while Dr. Kotlikoff made a similar\ncomment at a January 2025 meeting, the \u201csecond-hand account\u201d\nwas incorrect and the words were not directed at the former\nstudent.\n\n\u201cThe question \u2018Why did it take so long for the assault to be\nreported?\u2019 was directed at bystanders who did not use Cornell\u2019s\nanonymous tip line, despite ongoing social media activity about the\nincident in October 2024,\u201d the university said in a statement. \u201cHe\nwas not questioning Jane Doe's reporting.\u201d\n\nThe former student, now 22, stopped short of telling the faculty\nsenate how it should vote in her letter, but she said Dr. Kotlikoff\u2019s\nwords, as told to her, had shaken her trust in Cornell.\n\n\u201cIt diminished my confidence in the administration's ability to\napproach my experience with the understanding, sensitivity, and\nfairness I had hoped for and expected from what had been my\ndream school,\u201d she wrote.\n\nHer letter, obtained by The New York Times and authenticated by\nher lawyer, was dated Oct. 14, 2026, two weeks before the faculty\nsenate is scheduled to begin its vote. The letter shows how the\nwoman, who dropped out of Cornell after the incident, is actively\ntrying to weigh in on the roiling debate around her allegations.\n\nKLM Royal Dutch Airlines\n\nTravel Well\n\n\u201cShe believed that this was important information that the faculty\nshould know when considering what steps to take\u201d in relation to Dr.\nKotlikoff, said Thomas P. Giuffra, her lawyer.\n\nWhile the faculty senate has no power to remove officials, a no-\nconfidence vote would be a strong rebuke of Dr. Kotlikoff, who has\nhad the support of Cornell's powerful board of trustees in the face\nof some calls for his resignation. The senate will meet to debate the\nno-confidence resolution on Oct. 28, with voting continuing for\nseveral days after.\n\nMr. Giuffra sent the letter on behalf of his client to Samuel Mayer\nNelson, the speaker of the faculty senate, and Chris B. Schaffer, the\ndean of faculty. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Schaffer did not immediately\nrespond to requests for comment. It was unclear how many of the\napproximately 135 members of the faculty senate had seen the\nletter by early Tuesday morning.\n\nThe university has faced intense criticism for its handling of the\nformer student\u2019s allegations in the weeks since she filed a lawsuit\nagainst the university; the Chi Phi fraternity and seven of its\nformer brothers; and her sorority, Delta Delta Delta.\n\nIn the lawsuit, Jane Doe claims she was given drugs and gang\nraped over several hours in the Chi Phi fraternity house. All of the\nmen have denied wrongdoing and none have been charged with a\ncrime.\n\nKLM Royal Dutch Airlines\n\nTravel Well\n\nEditors\u2019 Picks\n\n19 Seconds-Worthy\nThanksgiving\nStuffing Recipes\nOur Readers Love\n\n| Renting in White\n\n| Plains to Be Close to\nFamily, anda\nLichtenstein\n\nWhen the former student reported her allegations to campus police\na few weeks later, a Title IX investigation was triggered.\n\nThe meeting the former student referred to in her letter took place\nin January 2025 and included representatives of many of Cornell\u2019s\nsororities as well as Dr. Kotlikoff and at least one other\nadministrator, according to a person with direct knowledge of the\nmeeting who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal details of a\nprivate meeting.\n\nAccording to a Cornell official familiar with the matter, the\nconversation took place at a meet and greet for Dr. Kotlikoff as he\nwas getting to know student groups during his interim president\nperiod. The official Cornell account comes from contemporaneous\nnotes from the meeting taken by the other administrator.\n\nIn the letter, the former student recounts the exchange that she\nsaid she was told happened between Dr. Kotlikoff and the president\nof her sorority. She wrote that her sorority sister relayed the\nconversation to her \u201cwith concern.\u201d\n\n\u201cShe interpreted his question as an expression of doubt in the\nveracity of my story,\u201d Jane Doe said in the letter.\n\nKLM! Royal Dutch Airlines\nTravel Well\n\nThe sorority president said other faculty or staff members heard\nthe conversation, according to the letter, and that \u201cat least one of\nthem appeared distressed\u201d by the president\u2019s comment.\n\n\u201cWhen the then-Tri Delta President relayed this conversation to\nme, I felt unsupported and disbelieved by President Kotlikoff,\u201d the\nformer student wrote. \u201cI am sharing this account now because, to\nmy knowledge, only a few individuals are aware of the\nconversation; I do not know if you or other members of the Faculty\nSenate are among them.\u201d\n\nShe added, \u201cI would not want to withhold something potentially\npertinent, only for Senate members to later discover that\ninformation relevant to their deliberations had not been made\navailable to them.\u201d\n\nThe former president of the Cornell chapter of Tri Delta declined to\ncomment.\n\nDr. Kotlikoff ha\nstudent\u2019s case after her initi:\n\nid he was not e of the details of the former\nial report, but has stressed that he took\nits claims of drug and alcohol fueled abuse seriously enough to\ncreate a presidential task force on campus sexual assault in\n\nFebruary 2025.\n\nCornell ultimately barred the fraternity from campus, expelled two\nof the accused men and suspended two others. The other three\nmen accused by the former undergraduate received lighter\npunishments.\n\nHurubie Meko and Andrea Barnes contributed reporting.\n\nSharon Otterman is a Times reporter covering higher education, public health and other\nissues facing New York City.\n\norweturenice AD f\n\nMore on the Rape Investigation\n\nat Cornell University\n\nCrisis Playbook: Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public\nrelations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes\nmaking leadership changes.\n\nCornell's President: In an interview with The New York Times, Michael Kotlikoff\naddressed his administration's handling of sexual assault accusations brought by\na former student. Here are five key moments from the conversation.\n\nJane Doe's Sorority: In the lawsuit brought by a former student known as Jane\nDoe one defendant has gone less scrutinized: Delta Delta Delta, the sorority the\nstudent had joined.\n\nEffects of Ketamine: The drug has been implicated in the case, and in its\npowdered form, ketamine can make a person feel pleasantly introspective,\nuncomfortably immobilized \u2014 or sedated enough to undergo surgery and not\nremember a thing.\n\nAddress Mix-Up: Members of a Marine's family have been deluged with threats\nand had garbage thrown on their lawn, said their lawyer, after the lawyers for Jane\nDoe mistakenly named him as a defendant in the case.\n\nMore in New York Trending in The Times\n\nIn Its Forever War on Rats, New At High-Powered Dinner, Lots of \u2018Other Desert Cities\u2019 Review: Julia\nYork Enlists a Killing Machine Love for Tisch, Less for Mayor Louis-Dreyfus\u2019s Smashing Debut\n\n\u2018The\n\nStylish, Hard-Wearing Boots for City\nLiving\n\n5 Common Medications That Can Mess\nWith Your Sleep\n\nI Loved This Crispy Broccoli So Much, I\nGot You the (Simplified) Recipe\n\nA New Guide on the Endless Quest for\nPersonal Style\n\nWho's Winning the Race for Congress?\n\nT'm Looking to Downsize. 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On it all.\n\n$0.25/week for your first six months.\n\nWoman Who Says She Was Raped\nat Cornell Sends Message to\n\nFaculty Senate\n\nIna letter, the former student said she felt \u201cunsupported\u201d after\nhearing about an exchange between the school president and her\nsorority sister. Officials disputed her account of the conversation.\n\n> Usten-6:21 min Fsneetulanicee Df\n\nA woman who said she was raped at a Cornell University fraternity house in Octobe\n2024 wrote a letter the faculty\n\npresident believed her. Lauren Petracca f\n\noning whether the s\n\nOct. 20, 2026, 10:09 am. ET\n\nSee more of our coverage in your search results.\n\n\u2018Add The New York Times on Google 7\n\nThe former student who accused seven men of sexual assault in a\nlawsuit that has rocked Cornell University wrote in a letter to\nfaculty leaders last week that she felt \u201cunsupported\u201d and\n\u201cdisbelieved\u201d by the school\u2019s president, Michael Kotlikoff.\n\nIn a two-page letter to the faculty senate, the former student,\nknown as Jane Doe, said she wanted to share a \u201csecond-hand\naccount\u201d as the senate considers a rare vote of no-confidence in Dr.\nKotlikoff\u2019s administration. The letter described a comment she said\nhe made in a meeting shortly after she alleged she was raped at a\nfraternity house.\n\nHis \u201cinitial response,\u201d she wrote, \u201cwas along the lines of, \u2018Why did\nshe wait so long to report it?\u2019\u201d\n\nThe alleged assault occurred on Oct. 19 and 20, 2024. She went to\nthe campus police about three weeks later, on Nov. 8.\n\nKLM Royal Dutch Airlines\nTravel Well\n\nA Cornell spokeswoman said that while Dr. Kotlikoff made a similar\ncomment at a January 2025 meeting, the \u201csecond-hand account\u201d\nwas incorrect and the words were not directed at the former\nstudent.\n\n\u201cThe question \u2018Why did it take so long for the assault to be\nreported?\u2019 was directed at bystanders who did not use Cornell\u2019s\nanonymous tip line, despite ongoing social media activity about the\nincident in October 2024,\u201d the university said in a statement. \u201cHe\nwas not questioning Jane Doe's reporting.\u201d\n\nThe former student, now 22, stopped short of telling the faculty\nsenate how it should vote in her letter, but she said Dr. Kotlikoff\u2019s\nwords, as told to her, had shaken her trust in Cornell.\n\n\u201cIt diminished my confidence in the administration's ability to\napproach my experience with the understanding, sensitivity, and\nfairness I had hoped for and expected from what had been my\ndream school,\u201d she wrote.\n\nHer letter, obtained by The New York Times and authenticated by\nher lawyer, was dated Oct. 14, 2026, two weeks before the faculty\nsenate is scheduled to begin its vote. The letter shows how the\nwoman, who dropped out of Cornell after the incident, is actively\ntrying to weigh in on the roiling debate around her allegations.\n\nKLM Royal Dutch Airlines\n\nTravel Well\n\n\u201cShe believed that this was important information that the faculty\nshould know when considering what steps to take\u201d in relation to Dr.\nKotlikoff, said Thomas P. Giuffra, her lawyer.\n\nWhile the faculty senate has no power to remove officials, a no-\nconfidence vote would be a strong rebuke of Dr. Kotlikoff, who has\nhad the support of Cornell's powerful board of trustees in the face\nof some calls for his resignation. The senate will meet to debate the\nno-confidence resolution on Oct. 28, with voting continuing for\nseveral days after.\n\nMr. Giuffra sent the letter on behalf of his client to Samuel Mayer\nNelson, the speaker of the faculty senate, and Chris B. Schaffer, the\ndean of faculty. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Schaffer did not immediately\nrespond to requests for comment. It was unclear how many of the\napproximately 135 members of the faculty senate had seen the\nletter by early Tuesday morning.\n\nThe university has faced intense criticism for its handling of the\nformer student\u2019s allegations in the weeks since she filed a lawsuit\nagainst the university; the Chi Phi fraternity and seven of its\nformer brothers; and her sorority, Delta Delta Delta.\n\nIn the lawsuit, Jane Doe claims she was given drugs and gang\nraped over several hours in the Chi Phi fraternity house. All of the\nmen have denied wrongdoing and none have been charged with a\ncrime.\n\nKLM Royal Dutch Airlines\n\nTravel Well\n\nEditors\u2019 Picks\n\n19 Seconds-Worthy\nThanksgiving\nStuffing Recipes\nOur Readers Love\n\n| Renting in White\n\n| Plains to Be Close to\nFamily, anda\nLichtenstein\n\nWhen the former student reported her allegations to campus police\na few weeks later, a Title IX investigation was triggered.\n\nThe meeting the former student referred to in her letter took place\nin January 2025 and included representatives of many of Cornell\u2019s\nsororities as well as Dr. Kotlikoff and at least one other\nadministrator, according to a person with direct knowledge of the\nmeeting who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal details of a\nprivate meeting.\n\nAccording to a Cornell official familiar with the matter, the\nconversation took place at a meet and greet for Dr. Kotlikoff as he\nwas getting to know student groups during his interim president\nperiod. The official Cornell account comes from contemporaneous\nnotes from the meeting taken by the other administrator.\n\nIn the letter, the former student recounts the exchange that she\nsaid she was told happened between Dr. Kotlikoff and the president\nof her sorority. She wrote that her sorority sister relayed the\nconversation to her \u201cwith concern.\u201d\n\n\u201cShe interpreted his question as an expression of doubt in the\nveracity of my story,\u201d Jane Doe said in the letter.\n\nKLM! Royal Dutch Airlines\nTravel Well\n\nThe sorority president said other faculty or staff members heard\nthe conversation, according to the letter, and that \u201cat least one of\nthem appeared distressed\u201d by the president\u2019s comment.\n\n\u201cWhen the then-Tri Delta President relayed this conversation to\nme, I felt unsupported and disbelieved by President Kotlikoff,\u201d the\nformer student wrote. \u201cI am sharing this account now because, to\nmy knowledge, only a few individuals are aware of the\nconversation; I do not know if you or other members of the Faculty\nSenate are among them.\u201d\n\nShe added, \u201cI would not want to withhold something potentially\npertinent, only for Senate members to later discover that\ninformation relevant to their deliberations had not been made\navailable to them.\u201d\n\nThe former president of the Cornell chapter of Tri Delta declined to\ncomment.\n\nDr. Kotlikoff ha\nstudent\u2019s case after her initi:\n\nid he was not e of the details of the former\nial report, but has stressed that he took\nits claims of drug and alcohol fueled abuse seriously enough to\ncreate a presidential task force on campus sexual assault in\n\nFebruary 2025.\n\nCornell ultimately barred the fraternity from campus, expelled two\nof the accused men and suspended two others. The other three\nmen accused by the former undergraduate received lighter\npunishments.\n\nHurubie Meko and Andrea Barnes contributed reporting.\n\nSharon Otterman is a Times reporter covering higher education, public health and other\nissues facing New York City.\n\norweturenice AD f\n\nMore on the Rape Investigation\n\nat Cornell University\n\nCrisis Playbook: Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public\nrelations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes\nmaking leadership changes.\n\nCornell's President: In an interview with The New York Times, Michael Kotlikoff\naddressed his administration's handling of sexual assault accusations brought by\na former student. Here are five key moments from the conversation.\n\nJane Doe's Sorority: In the lawsuit brought by a former student known as Jane\nDoe one defendant has gone less scrutinized: Delta Delta Delta, the sorority the\nstudent had joined.\n\nEffects of Ketamine: The drug has been implicated in the case, and in its\npowdered form, ketamine can make a person feel pleasantly introspective,\nuncomfortably immobilized \u2014 or sedated enough to undergo surgery and not\nremember a thing.\n\nAddress Mix-Up: Members of a Marine's family have been deluged with threats\nand had garbage thrown on their lawn, said their lawyer, after the lawyers for Jane\nDoe mistakenly named him as a defendant in the case.\n\nMore in New York Trending in The Times\n\nIn Its Forever War on Rats, New At High-Powered Dinner, Lots of \u2018Other Desert Cities\u2019 Review: Julia\nYork Enlists a Killing Machine Love for Tisch, Less for Mayor Louis-Dreyfus\u2019s Smashing Debut\n\n\u2018The\n\nStylish, Hard-Wearing Boots for City\nLiving\n\n5 Common Medications That Can Mess\nWith Your Sleep\n\nI Loved This Crispy Broccoli So Much, I\nGot You the (Simplified) Recipe\n\nA New Guide on the Endless Quest for\nPersonal Style\n\nWho's Winning the Race for Congress?\n\nT'm Looking to Downsize. Is Prefab\nHousing the Way to Go?\n\nMystery Continues\u2019: Latest Hunt for\n\nAmelia Earhart\u2019s Plane Comes Up Empty\nPlanet Earth and Brazil's Election\n\nCliff Hagan, Master of the Hook Shot,\n\nDies at 94\nWhen a Social Media MobCame How the Billionaire Owner of Two How a Comedian and Production\nfor Cornell's Jane Doe Sports Teams Spends a Day Assistant Lives on $30,000 in NDAs: Now They're for Housekeepers\nChasing Wins Brooklyn and Butlers, Too\n\nEditors\u2019 Picks\n\nExcuse me'sir-=\n\nThe VW Bus, Now Electrified, When Did Man-On-the-Street Victoria's Secret Brings Back the\nKeeps on Truckin\u2019 Videos Become Gentrified? Fantasy Bra \u2014 and an Old\nStereotype of Sexy\n\nCornell Rape Investigation WhatWeKnow JaneDoe University Board Fraternity PartyBan Timeline\n\neye Aew York ermes\n\nShare stories. Puzzles. Recipes. 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