{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","altText":"20261029_100956","alternateName":"20261029_100956.mp4","caption":"","contentUrl":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/685/raw","datePublished":"2026-10-29T16:04:05+00:00","description":"","encodingFormat":"video/mp4","identifier":"685","isAccessibleForFree":true,"machineReadable":{"json":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/685/index.json","markdown":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/685/index.md"},"name":"20261029_100956","ocrStatus":"not_applicable","ocrText":"","text":"[01:20] The details are graphic, the allegations are horrific.\n[01:24] My first reaction was referring to Jane Doe's testimony.\n[01:28] She said, I felt like bait.\n[01:30] I felt like lions around me.\n[01:32] The orange form, like this is not an isolated incident.\n[01:36] I am Jane Doe.\n[01:37] I am Jane Doe.\n[01:38] I am Jane Doe.\n[01:39] And I'm not the only one.\n[01:43] She thought this institution was going to fulfill her dream\n[01:45] and instead it became her nightmare.\n[01:47] She reported it.\n[01:48] And no arrests were made.\n[01:49] Jane Doe's story is alive and Cordell deserves an apology.\n[01:52] Why do we have to go right to She's a Victim?\n[01:54] She did.\n[01:55] Is that to everybody in the fraternity house?\n[01:59] Wow.\n[02:00] How do we expect students to navigate this?\n[02:03] I've never seen you feel so eager.\n[02:05] You're taking us for nothing.\n[02:06] We're just waiting for her.\n[02:07] Okay?\n[02:08] Don't receive any death threats.\n[02:09] This university building vandalized.\n[02:11] This has to stop.\n[02:13] No, no, please.\n[02:14] I made a ton of out of time in here.\n[02:38] There's going to be some time left.\n[02:40] That means to be like, okay.\n[02:42] The paper is the longest continuously independent college day in the nation so we were founded in 1880\n[03:13] which was 15 years after Cornell University was founded.\n[03:17] So most of the buildings you actually see on campus is newer than deeper.\n[03:22] We are independent, editorial and financial with one university.\n[03:27] It allows us to report completely honestly and be a very open source of information for students.\n[03:34] Back in 2024, we received a crime alert on November 8.\n[03:44] There was a complaint about sexual assault by several men\n[03:48] at the 100 Block of Edgemore Lane,\n[03:50] which is where the attack on paternity is located.\n[03:53] I was a freshman at the time.\n[03:55] I was about two months into my Cornell journey.\n[03:59] I just saw the sexual assault alert\n[04:02] and sent a screenshot to my mom\n[04:04] by Cornell's living up to the American University\n[04:07] I was in class and I remember getting a lot of texts.\n[04:14] People were just talking immediately because it was just so alarming.\n[04:18] We had all these questions about it.\n[04:21] I kind of realized that there's something there that it's worth continuing to pursue.\n[04:26] So it was kind of on my radar for a while.\n[04:31] I started reaching out to Jane Doe.\n[04:33] I told her I want to write a story on what happened.\n[04:39] So we started speaking and she told me that she was going to file a lawsuit.\n[04:44] A former Cornell University student filed a lawsuit alleging that she was\n[04:48] deroged and gained right by several fraternity members in 2024.\n[04:52] A former student sued Cornell with high-five fraternity and seven of the members.\n[04:57] Jango did trust the son.\n[05:00] She took to us and gave the son the only quote.\n[05:10] So we were able to give a little bit of her perspective into that initial article\n[05:15] published. The article walked through step by step with the lawsuit claim. Jane Doe went from a\n[05:23] sorority event to a bar in downtown Ithaca, according to the lawsuit, before making her way up to the\n[05:31] Kaifat house where she was texting with one of the defendants. He offered her a beer and they\n[05:38] danced on the floor. He asked if she wanted to have a threesome with him and another\n[05:43] member of the fraternity. According to the lawsuit, they went upstairs. She was allegedly\n[05:50] coerced into taking drugs, including ketamine, and she was already very intoxicated. Then they\n[05:56] started engaging in sexual activity. At first, she said it was consensual, and then became\n[06:03] unconsensual as more of others were invited upstairs on a snap chat group chat. One of the\n[06:09] It was just really important for me to personify individuals and so we decided to list the names of the simple defectors.\n[06:42] There was no hesitation within the editorial team.\n[06:45] We just wanted to make sure that people use it.\n[06:48] These were individuals who had been in their classes\n[06:51] that they could have possibly known.\n[06:53] But none of us expected it to be like this.\n[06:56] There was this decision in the category\n[06:58] to print the names of the accused men.\n[07:01] We need your process.\n[07:02] We can't just ruin people's lives based on allegations.\n[07:05] It's still a case where they are innocent.\n[07:07] They haven't been charged.\n[07:08] We did not want to sugarcoat anything.\n[07:11] and we didn't want to omit details.\n[07:13] We wanted to provide the community with as much transparency\n[07:17] as we wish we had from the University.\n[07:19] I'd like you to join me in looking at our great institution, Cornell University.\n[07:26] Cornell has been at the very center of the screen of ideas\n[07:29] and great events which have brought the world to various.\n[07:32] What is the secret of Cornell rapid rise into the front-ranked, fake universities?\n[07:39] Oh my God!\n[07:41] If there is a secret, I suspect it is the talent for finding the proper names of ideals and practice.\n[07:47] A blend of public and private.\n[07:49] A freedom to respond to all.\n[07:51] I'm here at Cornell.\n[08:02] I am a member of a fraternity on campus.\n[08:06] And I used to be a president of a fraternity.\n[08:10] Being in Ivy Mead School.\n[08:13] Cornell can probably be rigorous academically.\n[08:16] But the issue with the culture at Cornell is that we're incredibly isolated.\n[08:23] Which is nothing to do on campus.\n[08:25] Fraternities provide a place to socialize.\n[08:29] A place to build a community.\n[08:31] Most people see it as we'd rather than.\n[08:34] But we both have a problem.\n[08:37] I think the problem comes from the lack of accountability\n[08:41] and the education amongst fraternities\n[08:45] about building better men, that is what fraternities were initially created to do,\n[08:50] and they're not doing that exactly. What they're perpetuating is just a culture in some ways,\n[08:57] on a nature-wise scale, is a cultural party, a culture of drinking. Because of that culture,\n[09:03] it does create those, I wouldn't call them you got apples, but it does create the scenarios\n[09:08] that we've seen at Cornell and at other schools, too. I have been working with\n[09:17] the victims of sexual assault for just over 15 years,\n[09:21] including time at an Ivy League institution.\n[09:24] People will say you should talk to parents\n[09:26] who are sending kids off to college\n[09:28] about the prevalence of sexual assault.\n[09:30] I agree with that.\n[09:31] I think that's important conversation to have,\n[09:33] but it is hard to talk about this.\n[09:37] Parents sending students to universities\n[09:39] have an expectation that those students will be safe\n[09:42] or that schools will keep them as safe as possible\n[09:45] while they're on campus.\n[09:48] For students, it's an exploratory time.\n[09:52] It's their first time leaving away from home.\n[09:55] We see students doing things often for the first time,\n[09:59] exploring substances or alcohol or drugs,\n[10:03] rushing for sororities and fraternities.\n[10:07] This brings them into new experiences\n[10:09] and brings them into new places.\n[10:13] I'm still surprised by how little people know\n[10:17] about how prevalent sexual violence is on campus.\n[10:22] One in five undergraduate women report\n[10:25] having experienced sexual assault in some form.\n[10:28] You see much higher rates for people\n[10:31] who are associated with Greek organizations.\n[10:34] The numbers at Cornell do seem a bit higher.\n[10:37] And when students come forward\n[10:44] with a report of sexual assault,\n[10:46] they are supposed to be given\n[10:50] a range of options.\n[10:52] And one of those options is to report to law enforcement.\n[10:56] Number eight, 2024, Jane Doe went to the campus police\n[11:05] department.\n[11:06] She had two days of interviews with an intake officer who\n[11:10] conducted an investigation.\n[11:13] And then when they brought their investigation\n[11:15] to the Toppkins County District Attorney,\n[11:18] he said criminal charges weren't pursued\n[11:21] because the evidence that he was given\n[11:24] was insufficient to constitute sexual assault.\n[11:28] The district attorney declining to prosecute\n[11:30] after he said campus police only sent him\n[11:33] a six-page summary of Jane Doe's allegations,\n[11:36] which her attorney said omitted\n[11:38] her explicit allegation of rape.\n[11:40] We are learning exclusive details\n[11:42] about what the alleged Cornell rape victim\n[11:44] told campus police in 2024.\n[11:47] She said, quote,\n[11:48] I can say with 100% confidence I was right.\n[11:53] When she goes to CUP, she was calling the procedure.\n[11:58] She gave police board of five hours of testimony.\n[12:02] She also provided her medical records\n[12:04] from when she went to Cornell Health two days after they\n[12:07] saw.\n[12:08] And they had the group chat, which\n[12:11] invited members of the fraternity\n[12:13] that prompted an investigation.\n[12:16] And she thought that investigation was\n[12:17] to Hondo enough until very recently.\n[12:20] She thought they were still investigating,\n[12:21] they're looking for evidence, running down the leads\n[12:23] and all that stuff, and what we know now\n[12:25] is that they closed the case\n[12:26] and they weren't doing anything.\n[12:28] And we just didn't think that an entire case\n[12:31] could be distilled down to a six-page police report\n[12:34] and that's it.\n[12:35] To me, it is just shocking.\n[12:39] And the one thing this case has taught us\n[12:41] is that while you might have a great academic experience,\n[12:44] your safety is not being looked after in the way\n[12:48] that I think most parents expect when they drive their kids\n[12:51] off to college for the first day of first year.\n[12:55] My first reaction was, how disgusting.\n[12:59] Not again, but not again.\n[13:03] I went to Syracuse University.\n[13:06] There were a series of rapes our first week on campus,\n[13:09] and there was a sense of anxiety all around.\n[13:12] You don't tell your parents that.\n[13:14] You don't call home and say,\n[13:15] get a little worried walking to class, it's not new.\n[13:18] It's been going on a long time, and the culture\n[13:20] has just never changed.\n[13:23] In this case, the scaletus, the number of people involved,\n[13:27] and the repugnancy for allegations\n[13:30] would have drawn you to the local police department\n[13:33] fairly quickly.\n[13:35] Campus police, technically, they are\n[13:37] depotized by the local police to function as a policing\n[13:40] organization on campus.\n[13:42] But one can very quickly see that there could be a conflict\n[13:46] because you're also protecting the reputation\n[13:49] of your boss of the university.\n[13:55] Was influence my conflict an interest in this?\n[13:58] No, I have no evidence of that.\n[13:59] And I'm not saying that that was necessarily the case.\n[14:02] But in a situation like this, you\n[14:04] want to make sure that people believe in the process.\n[14:09] If you go to the NYPD, they're\n[14:11] employees of the city of New York.\n[14:14] The Cornell police is different because they're\n[14:16] employees of Cornell University. They're not independent. They're employees.\n[14:21] Does Jane Doe believe that there's a problem with the case?\n[14:24] I think Jane Doe does. I think her family does, and I certainly do.\n[14:28] I called the university president and said I wanted to have an independent investigation.\n[14:34] I want outside counsel to look at all the actions of the university.\n[14:38] In the Toppkins County District Attorney's announcement, he's reopening the case.\n[14:43] The point is a Jane Doe statement that said it did not establish a crime that occurred.\n[14:49] The new reporting raises serious questions about the information his office relied upon when it made that decision.\n[14:56] That's why I believe this case demands a special prosecutor who will provide a fresh thorough review of all the facts,\n[15:04] including the information that has recently come to light.\n[15:07] Prove to me and the public and the campus and the show women that everything you\n[15:13] did was correct. People say well why didn't law enforcement handle this? That's a\n[15:37] great question why didn't law enforcement handle this? In truth dangerous\n[15:41] experience with law enforcement is the norm. The rates of prosecution are so\n[15:47] incredibly low because the burden of proof required in a criminal\n[15:51] prosecution is so high. So there's also a world in which there is a very\n[15:55] real traumatic event that a school can and should address and there's not a\n[16:01] criminal prosecution that's going to move forward and so another option is to\n[16:08] bring forward a formal complaint for the University with Title IX.\n[16:14] Title IX is a civil rights law and it applies to educational institutions\n[16:19] that receive federal funding and it prohibits discrimination based on sex.\n[16:24] It has applications in different areas, admissions, athletics, all forms of sexual harassment.\n[16:33] There was guidance issued by the Obama administration.\n[16:37] Today we're taking another important step with a focus on our college campuses.\n[16:42] It essentially said you have an obligation to respond to sexual assault under Title IX.\n[16:48] And the school's process is not intended to decide did you violate the law.\n[16:53] it's intended to look at whether you violated the school rules that you\n[16:59] agreed to when you joined the school community. This is not ever intended to\n[17:03] replace a criminal prosecution but despite the fact that this is an\n[17:08] educational process it might be the only process that a student survivor has to\n[17:15] be heard. We know Jane Doe did file a Title IX complaint with the University but a lot of the\n[17:23] details of the Title IX investigation are private and to the university is not\n[17:29] allowed to share that. If you were to ask the question of what do we know about the\n[17:33] Title IX process of Jane Delto, Mexico, we would have no answer.\n[17:37] Tonight, the New York Times, obtaining more than 1,000 pages of material.\n[17:41] The New York Times obtained the internal Cornell Title IX investigation.\n[17:46] Photographs, texts, emails and interviews, according to the New York Times,\n[17:50] The school expelled the two fraternity members who first invited J. Doe to that house.\n[17:56] Two more suspended. One who had already graduated was barred from campus.\n[18:00] Two were found not to be responsible for sexual misconduct.\n[18:04] She wound up leaving the school while at least some of these young men were currently allowed to continue.\n[18:11] So many people empathized with J. Doe.\n[18:15] And this case and this situation opens a world for them.\n[18:20] Common reaction is, it happens in this room.\n[18:36] Oh yeah, they're in place.\n[18:38] Why?\n[18:39] I'm like, I don't like it.\n[18:41] Hearing about Jane Doe was very of my own.\n[18:45] I feel like I'm kind of having to like,\n[18:47] really grieve things that I already grieve.\n[18:52] When I was going through my trial, just after it happened,\n[18:54] I just felt a lot of like inexplicable anger.\n[18:58] And I feel like I don't realize I'm thinking something until I'm writing it down.\n[19:05] Like, things like felt a little bit more real and less in my head.\n[19:10] Oh my god, this one is about Title IX.\n[19:14] Title IX was one long gaslighting session.\n[19:19] For a whole year I felt like I was screaming into a crowd that couldn't hear me.\n[19:23] The day before my Title IX hearing, I was writing my victim impact statement.\n[19:35] I just didn't know what to say.\n[19:40] I communicated physically and verbally and over-taxed, but I did not want to do anything.\n[19:50] I did not choose to get raped, but I did experience the consequences.\n[19:54] This is every document.\n[20:00] that was used or involved in my case.\n[20:05] I feel like this is a physical embodiment of sweet bleeding for people to believe me.\n[20:11] I was a freshman. Two weeks after it happened is when I decided to report.\n[20:20] The first course that I worked with was hired directly by another time on my office.\n[20:27] And he was like, so you can go to time on night, or you can go to police, or you cannot report.\n[20:32] But then immediately after, he would list all these things going through Title IX, it's easier.\n[20:39] Obviously it's not easy no matter what, but to the years in the 19-year-old girl who was very lost and hurt and confused,\n[20:48] it was presented in a way that Title IX looked like it made the most sense.\n[20:54] My Title IX process was almost a year.\n[21:01] Some people just wait a year to get a date for a hearing.\n[21:06] There's probably 26,000 students at Cornell,\n[21:11] and at the time when I was going through the process,\n[21:14] there was two victim advocates.\n[21:17] They were spread so thin.\n[21:24] You don't know when your decision to come\n[21:27] kind of just pops up in your email.\n[21:30] There's something attached,\n[21:32] so you can download the verdict here.\n[21:34] The report said that they had found him responsible for sexual assault.\n[21:45] And there was kind of like this like sense of relief that I was believed.\n[21:50] And then I got to the parlor when there were the sanctions.\n[21:54] He had a written recommend, a no-contact order.\n[22:00] He was on disciplinary probation.\n[22:03] It says a year, but he graduated in two months.\n[22:06] So it in effect was two months.\n[22:08] And then he had to do a directed study that involved writing a reflection paper.\n[22:15] In my verdict, the language for their rationale was, he didn't seem malicious.\n[22:25] I was hoping he would get Sismedirex Belt.\n[22:32] You know, he gets to graduate, he's gonna start his career.\n[22:39] and he could just have remembered it as a bad night,\n[22:47] whereas I don't get that.\n[22:58] I just felt like, what did I do all of that for?\n[23:13] I think what we have to acknowledge is\n[23:15] Title IX procedures are not intended\n[23:18] to make a survivor feel better.\n[23:21] Some people think it is educational\n[23:23] and that the sanctions should be largely educational.\n[23:26] And so the process is often unsatisfactory, and so are nearly all systems of accountability that they can spill through.\n[23:39] I think if people are upset by Cornell's response, in this particular case, of Jane Doe,\n[23:49] and what they're truly upset with is what's Title IX.\n[23:54] Because it does look like, overall, Cornell comply with the Title IX regulations\n[24:01] and in fairness the process moved actually quite quickly for one that\n[24:05] involved as many students as this. And what I understand it was quite a robust\n[24:10] investigation, multiple hearings, hundreds of pages of evidence were gathered.\n[24:15] Cornell investigators conducted more than 50 interviews with 32 witnesses. The fact\n[24:21] that Cornell expelled two students and suspended two others shows that they\n[24:27] realized that this was a big case and that there was severe mishandling. We\n[24:34] don't see expulsions as an outcome in a lot of cases. So maybe the school did for\n[24:43] the most part what it is required to do. I guess then the question is, is that\n[24:51] I think everyone here has gotten a better education of the title of my classes\n[24:57] Classes, HX, Laws, Cormole, Regs, Libraries\n[25:01] Engle and back class are building at Cornell University\n[25:05] Thousands of students, faculty and community members demanding justice for Jay and Joe\n[25:11] Justice for Jay and Joe\n[25:14] The general kind of consensus among most of the students is that, oh, you know, you should\n[25:27] file time tonight, but don't expect much.\n[25:30] We had one little weekday enough with enough, and we're the main justice for Jane Doe.\n[25:40] hearing and reading Jane Doe's case the last couple weeks, it's like I knew Jane\n[25:46] Doe's experiences like all too well. I was sexually assaulted on campus. Seeing so\n[25:55] many different people come together, it showed me that I wasn't alone. Every\n[26:08] single person has either experienced personally or knows somebody who's\n[26:14] experienced something like this. It's not just about Jane Doe. It's about what happened\n[26:20] here five years ago, 20, 30 years ago. Sexual assault is a perennial problem at Cornell\n[26:26] and the students and the faculty are asking, when is this going to stop?\n[26:32] Administration can't just, you know, only care about these issues when it's something\n[26:38] that they feel pressure about,\n[26:42] they can't only be responding now\n[26:44] because they're under the pressure of national news.\n[26:55] Jimmy Doe felt really let down by the university.\n[26:59] She didn't feel support.\n[27:02] And so she wrote a letter from the faculty\n[27:05] about when the president of River of Sorority\n[27:08] spoke to the president of the university about it\n[27:10] and his reaction instead of being concerned,\n[27:12] expressing any concern for her.\n[27:14] Jane was, well, why didn't she go to the police sooner?\n[27:19] This was how he reacted.\n[27:21] Back then, when it was a fresh issue\n[27:23] and he could have really done something,\n[27:25] he could have reached out to the police\n[27:27] to find out what's going on.\n[27:28] He could have reached out to the district attorney\n[27:30] to find out what's going on.\n[27:31] The fact is, by his own admission, he didn't do anything.\n[27:35] Michael caught Lickoff telling the New York Times\n[27:38] he never followed up with her\n[27:40] or tried finding out if the accused men\n[27:43] had been punished.\n[27:44] Now, he's under heavy fire.\n[27:45] His institution is under heavy fire.\n[27:47] For the first time, Kotlokov offering a formal apology.\n[27:51] What happened to Jane Doe in 2024 is deeply disturbing.\n[27:56] Kotlokov acknowledging missteps in his administration\n[27:59] handling of the case.\n[28:01] My heart aches when I've been watching these videos.\n[28:04] The university president put out a statement this morning.\n[28:07] It acknowledges what he calls a deeply troubling culture\n[28:10] of alcohol and drug abuse on campus.\n[28:13] She thought this institution was gonna set her on a path\n[28:16] and fulfill her dream, and instead it became her nightmare.\n[28:18] But this is probably a first for her.\n[28:20] She's probably thrilled to be so admired.\n[28:22] You can't provoke consent two years after that.\n[28:24] People say a lot of nasty stuff online.\n[28:27] We're right over your horrendous behavior.\n[28:30] It's not right.\n[28:31] She's gone through hell for the last two years.\n[28:33] The last month has made that far worse.\n[28:36] She started getting tax, then she started getting threats,\n[28:40] and then I hear what there'd been a swatting about.\n[28:43] This person called the local police\n[28:45] said that somebody was being murdered in her house\n[28:47] and the police rolled up with assault rifles.\n[28:50] Her father had to come out and explain once again\n[28:53] to the swatting, hey, she's Jane Doe\n[28:56] and people are calling in false reports.\n[28:59] Her gun's put in a friend's face, her brother's face,\n[29:03] her father's face, it's scary.\n[29:06] This has gone too far.\n[29:08] It's really not too far.\n[29:10] It's a fucking mess.\n[29:11] There have been multiple people online targeting random dudes,\n[29:14] saying that they secretly wanted to pronounce that\n[29:16] group, Docs, all the motherfuckers that were on that Snapchat\n[29:19] fucking Fred.\n[29:20] I've been Docs' friend, and you're greatly killed in my family.\n[29:23] I would punch them all.\n[29:24] Marvel ruined the man's name, because the Nog just\n[29:28] wants to pull up.\n[29:33] We all stand with Jane Doe,\n[29:35] but this has been a huge pushback.\n[29:38] It's not scary.\n[29:41] And that's why I'm not revealing my name.\n[29:45] I know people who are getting friends out.\n[29:47] No part of this.\n[29:49] People who are not in Greek life,\n[29:51] people who are not here two years ago,\n[29:54] and yet because they're a Cornelian,\n[29:56] they're getting friends, and that's not right.\n[29:58] All of a sudden, it went from the Cornell 7\n[30:01] to the Cornell 26,000.\n[30:03] We are all somehow complicit in this failure\n[30:05] by our administration.\n[30:07] Tonight, a drastic step at Cornell University.\n[30:10] a new fallout from the sexual assault controversy at Cornell.\n[30:13] I just see my group child in my turn blow up.\n[30:16] People are freaking out.\n[30:18] People are angry.\n[30:20] Cornell University announcing that it is now\n[30:22] suspending all return to be social events for the rest\n[30:25] of the school year.\n[30:26] I threw my phone across the group.\n[30:28] I was flibbed.\n[30:30] People are upset that this happened.\n[30:32] For sure, the administration's response?\n[30:36] Yes, there is some blame to be put on attorneys.\n[30:39] absolutely, but there's no question about that. There needs to be reform, but why are we discussing this two years later?\n[30:45] Why did the institutions that were supposed to protect Jane Doe and investigate Jane Doe's allegations seem to all fail,\n[30:52] and why is that failure being put on the fraternities?\n[30:56] This blanket ban was all performative at the end of the day, because the parties are not ending, they're just going elsewhere.\n[31:05] A blanket suspension is not the way that you fix a cultural or any sort of problem.\n[31:14] We should all hear this case and be horrified.\n[31:20] Shock me.\n[31:25] I think about Emma at Columbia and the performance part.\n[31:29] I will be carrying this dorm room mattress with me everywhere I go\n[31:34] for as long as I attend the same school as Mary Viss.\n[31:37] She loved that mattress across the state as the university president turned away from her.\n[31:42] I think about Chanel Miller and the case involving Rock Turner at Sanford.\n[31:48] Her swimmer, Rock Turner, was convicted sexually assaulting a woman while she laid unconscious.\n[31:54] Rock Turner was free to have her only serving three months of a six-month sentence.\n[31:59] How do you see the new movement have this incredible impact on survivors coming forward\n[32:04] and telling their story.\n[32:08] Thank you for your courage, Jane.\n[32:10] There are these spikes in attention,\n[32:14] and we do take some steps forward,\n[32:16] but Salah in the backlash\n[32:18] puts us right back to where we started.\n[32:30] Wait, what is, is this the other?\n[32:32] I love it. People still send me.\n[32:35] That this is pizza place?\n[32:37] Yeah, pizza for everyone.\n[32:40] She signed Jane Doe.\n[32:43] This is so many different people.\n[32:45] Well, there was all Jane goes.\n[32:52] Despite several instances of real, real negativity,\n[32:57] there has been so much support for us.\n[33:00] It really puts into perspective what we're doing\n[33:03] and that our coverage is reaching people.\n[33:07] I don't think, especially in the near future,\n[33:11] that we're gonna revert back to how it was at Cornell.\n[33:14] I don't know what is going to change,\n[33:17] but the momentum on campus,\n[33:19] I don't think this is something that's going to die out.","thumbnailUrl":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/685/thumb.webp","transcriptSegments":[{"end":84.18,"start":80.5,"text":"The details are graphic, the allegations are horrific."},{"end":88.42,"start":84.18,"text":"My first reaction was referring to Jane Doe's testimony."},{"end":90.46,"start":88.42,"text":"She said, I felt like bait."},{"end":92.46,"start":90.46,"text":"I felt like lions around me."},{"end":96.62,"start":92.46,"text":"The orange form, like this is not an isolated incident."},{"end":97.82,"start":96.62,"text":"I am Jane Doe."},{"end":98.66,"start":97.82,"text":"I am Jane Doe."},{"end":99.98,"start":98.66,"text":"I am Jane Doe."},{"end":103.25,"start":99.98,"text":"And I'm not the only one."},{"end":105.77,"start":103.25,"text":"She thought this institution was going to fulfill her dream"},{"end":107.37,"start":105.77,"text":"and instead it became her nightmare."},{"end":108.57,"start":107.37,"text":"She reported it."},{"end":109.89,"start":108.57,"text":"And no arrests were made."},{"end":112.77,"start":109.89,"text":"Jane Doe's story is alive and Cordell deserves an apology."},{"end":114.77,"start":112.77,"text":"Why do we have to go right to She's a Victim?"},{"end":115.77,"start":114.77,"text":"She did."},{"end":119.66,"start":115.77,"text":"Is that to everybody in the 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were founded in 1880"},{"end":197.3,"start":193.3,"text":"which was 15 years after Cornell University was founded."},{"end":202.3,"start":197.3,"text":"So most of the buildings you actually see on campus is newer than deeper."},{"end":207.3,"start":202.3,"text":"We are independent, editorial and financial with one university."},{"end":214.3,"start":207.3,"text":"It allows us to report completely honestly and be a very open source of information for students."},{"end":224.77,"start":214.3,"text":"Back in 2024, we received a crime alert on November 8."},{"end":228.77,"start":224.77,"text":"There was a complaint about sexual assault by several men"},{"end":230.77,"start":228.77,"text":"at the 100 Block of Edgemore Lane,"},{"end":233.77,"start":230.77,"text":"which is where the attack on paternity is located."},{"end":235.77,"start":233.77,"text":"I was a freshman at the time."},{"end":239.77,"start":235.77,"text":"I was about two months into my Cornell 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lawsuit."},{"end":288.42,"start":284.74,"text":"A former Cornell University student filed a lawsuit alleging that she was"},{"end":292.5,"start":288.42,"text":"deroged and gained right by several fraternity members in 2024."},{"end":297.94,"start":292.5,"text":"A former student sued Cornell with high-five fraternity and seven of the members."},{"end":300.14,"start":297.94,"text":"Jango did trust the son."},{"end":310.12,"start":300.14,"text":"She took to us and gave the son the only quote."},{"end":315.04,"start":310.12,"text":"So we were able to give a little bit of her perspective into that initial article"},{"end":323.44,"start":315.04,"text":"published. The article walked through step by step with the lawsuit claim. Jane Doe went from a"},{"end":331.28,"start":323.44,"text":"sorority event to a bar in downtown Ithaca, according to the lawsuit, before making her way up to the"},{"end":338.08,"start":331.28,"text":"Kaifat house where she was texting with one of the defendants. He offered her a beer and they"},{"end":343.76,"start":338.08,"text":"danced on the floor. He asked if she wanted to have a threesome with him and another"},{"end":350.4,"start":343.76,"text":"member of the fraternity. According to the lawsuit, they went upstairs. She was allegedly"},{"end":356.96,"start":350.4,"text":"coerced into taking drugs, including ketamine, and she was already very intoxicated. Then they"},{"end":363.2,"start":356.96,"text":"started engaging in sexual activity. At first, she said it was consensual, and then became"},{"end":369.84,"start":363.2,"text":"unconsensual as more of others were invited upstairs on a snap chat group chat. One of the"},{"end":376.84,"start":369.84,"text":"It was just really important for me to personify individuals and so we decided to list the names of the simple defectors."},{"end":405.84,"start":402.24,"text":"There was no hesitation within the editorial team."},{"end":408.16,"start":405.84,"text":"We just wanted to make sure that people use it."},{"end":411.0,"start":408.16,"text":"These were individuals who had been in their classes"},{"end":413.52,"start":411.0,"text":"that they could have possibly known."},{"end":416.64,"start":413.52,"text":"But none of us expected it to be like this."},{"end":418.52,"start":416.64,"text":"There was this decision in the category"},{"end":421.64,"start":418.52,"text":"to print the names of the accused men."},{"end":422.6,"start":421.64,"text":"We need your process."},{"end":425.68,"start":422.6,"text":"We can't just ruin people's lives based on allegations."},{"end":427.52,"start":425.68,"text":"It's still a case where they are innocent."},{"end":428.6,"start":427.52,"text":"They haven't been charged."},{"end":431.24,"start":428.6,"text":"We did not want to sugarcoat anything."},{"end":433.24,"start":431.24,"text":"and we didn't want to omit details."},{"end":437.74,"start":433.24,"text":"We wanted to provide the community with as much transparency"},{"end":439.74,"start":437.74,"text":"as we wish we had from the University."},{"end":446.95,"start":439.74,"text":"I'd like you to join me in looking at our great institution, Cornell University."},{"end":449.95,"start":446.95,"text":"Cornell has been at the very center of the screen of ideas"},{"end":452.95,"start":449.95,"text":"and great events which have brought the world to various."},{"end":459.02,"start":452.95,"text":"What is the secret of Cornell rapid rise into the front-ranked, fake universities?"},{"end":461.02,"start":459.02,"text":"Oh my God!"},{"end":467.02,"start":461.02,"text":"If there is a secret, I suspect it is the talent for finding the proper names of ideals and practice."},{"end":469.02,"start":467.02,"text":"A blend of public and private."},{"end":471.02,"start":469.02,"text":"A freedom to respond to all."},{"end":482.39,"start":471.02,"text":"I'm here at Cornell."},{"end":486.39,"start":482.39,"text":"I am a member of a fraternity on campus."},{"end":490.39,"start":486.39,"text":"And I used to be a president of a fraternity."},{"end":493.39,"start":490.39,"text":"Being in Ivy Mead School."},{"end":496.39,"start":493.39,"text":"Cornell can probably be rigorous academically."},{"end":503.39,"start":496.39,"text":"But the issue with the culture at Cornell is that we're incredibly isolated."},{"end":505.39,"start":503.39,"text":"Which is nothing to do on campus."},{"end":509.99,"start":505.39,"text":"Fraternities provide a place to socialize."},{"end":511.99,"start":509.99,"text":"A place to build a community."},{"end":514.99,"start":511.99,"text":"Most people see it as we'd rather than."},{"end":517.99,"start":514.99,"text":"But we both have a problem."},{"end":521.99,"start":517.99,"text":"I think the problem comes from the lack of accountability"},{"end":525.99,"start":521.99,"text":"and the education amongst fraternities"},{"end":530.79,"start":525.99,"text":"about building better men, that is what fraternities were initially created to do,"},{"end":537.43,"start":530.79,"text":"and they're not doing that exactly. What they're perpetuating is just a culture in some ways,"},{"end":543.27,"start":537.43,"text":"on a nature-wise scale, is a cultural party, a culture of drinking. Because of that culture,"},{"end":548.07,"start":543.27,"text":"it does create those, I wouldn't call them you got apples, but it does create the scenarios"},{"end":557.1,"start":548.07,"text":"that we've seen at Cornell and at other schools, too. I have been working with"},{"end":561.66,"start":557.1,"text":"the victims of sexual assault for just over 15 years,"},{"end":564.82,"start":561.66,"text":"including time at an Ivy League institution."},{"end":566.7,"start":564.82,"text":"People will say you should talk to parents"},{"end":568.14,"start":566.7,"text":"who are sending kids off to college"},{"end":570.22,"start":568.14,"text":"about the prevalence of sexual assault."},{"end":571.06,"start":570.22,"text":"I agree with that."},{"end":573.42,"start":571.06,"text":"I think that's important conversation to have,"},{"end":575.54,"start":573.42,"text":"but it is hard to talk about this."},{"end":579.46,"start":577.1,"text":"Parents sending students to universities"},{"end":582.22,"start":579.46,"text":"have an expectation that those students will be safe"},{"end":585.22,"start":582.22,"text":"or that schools will keep them as safe as possible"},{"end":588.48,"start":585.22,"text":"while they're on campus."},{"end":592.32,"start":588.48,"text":"For students, it's an exploratory time."},{"end":595.36,"start":592.32,"text":"It's their first time leaving away from home."},{"end":599.16,"start":595.36,"text":"We see students doing things often for the first time,"},{"end":603.16,"start":599.16,"text":"exploring substances or alcohol or drugs,"},{"end":607.44,"start":603.16,"text":"rushing for sororities and fraternities."},{"end":609.88,"start":607.44,"text":"This brings them into new experiences"},{"end":613.9,"start":609.88,"text":"and brings them into new places."},{"end":617.54,"start":613.9,"text":"I'm still surprised by how little people know"},{"end":621.66,"start":617.54,"text":"about how prevalent sexual violence is on campus."},{"end":625.26,"start":622.78,"text":"One in five undergraduate women report"},{"end":628.66,"start":625.26,"text":"having experienced sexual assault in some form."},{"end":631.42,"start":628.66,"text":"You see much higher rates for people"},{"end":634.5,"start":631.42,"text":"who are associated with Greek organizations."},{"end":637.74,"start":634.5,"text":"The numbers at Cornell do seem a bit higher."},{"end":644.34,"start":637.74,"text":"And when students come forward"},{"end":646.58,"start":644.34,"text":"with a report of sexual assault,"},{"end":650.5,"start":646.58,"text":"they are supposed to be given"},{"end":652.76,"start":650.5,"text":"a range of options."},{"end":656.26,"start":652.76,"text":"And one of those options is to report to law enforcement."},{"end":665.09,"start":656.26,"text":"Number eight, 2024, Jane Doe went to the campus police"},{"end":666.93,"start":665.09,"text":"department."},{"end":670.89,"start":666.93,"text":"She had two days of interviews with an intake officer who"},{"end":673.53,"start":670.89,"text":"conducted an investigation."},{"end":675.73,"start":673.53,"text":"And then when they brought their investigation"},{"end":678.37,"start":675.73,"text":"to the Toppkins County District Attorney,"},{"end":681.45,"start":678.37,"text":"he said criminal charges weren't pursued"},{"end":684.73,"start":681.45,"text":"because the evidence that he was given"},{"end":688.41,"start":684.73,"text":"was insufficient to constitute sexual assault."},{"end":690.81,"start":688.41,"text":"The district attorney declining to prosecute"},{"end":693.45,"start":690.81,"text":"after he said campus police only sent him"},{"end":696.25,"start":693.45,"text":"a six-page summary of Jane Doe's allegations,"},{"end":698.01,"start":696.25,"text":"which her attorney said omitted"},{"end":700.29,"start":698.01,"text":"her explicit allegation of rape."},{"end":702.29,"start":700.29,"text":"We are learning exclusive details"},{"end":704.81,"start":702.29,"text":"about what the alleged Cornell rape victim"},{"end":707.25,"start":704.81,"text":"told campus police in 2024."},{"end":708.25,"start":707.25,"text":"She said, quote,"},{"end":713.75,"start":708.25,"text":"I can say with 100% confidence I was right."},{"end":718.83,"start":713.75,"text":"When she goes to CUP, she was calling the procedure."},{"end":722.19,"start":718.83,"text":"She gave police board of five hours of testimony."},{"end":724.91,"start":722.19,"text":"She also provided her medical records"},{"end":727.59,"start":724.91,"text":"from when she went to Cornell Health two days after they"},{"end":728.71,"start":727.59,"text":"saw."},{"end":731.27,"start":728.71,"text":"And they had the group chat, which"},{"end":733.99,"start":731.27,"text":"invited members of the fraternity"},{"end":736.11,"start":733.99,"text":"that prompted an investigation."},{"end":737.83,"start":736.11,"text":"And she thought that investigation was"},{"end":740.01,"start":737.83,"text":"to Hondo enough until very recently."},{"end":741.67,"start":740.01,"text":"She thought they were still investigating,"},{"end":743.75,"start":741.67,"text":"they're looking for evidence, running down the leads"},{"end":745.71,"start":743.75,"text":"and all that stuff, and what we know now"},{"end":746.87,"start":745.71,"text":"is that they closed the case"},{"end":748.83,"start":746.87,"text":"and they weren't doing anything."},{"end":751.95,"start":748.83,"text":"And we just didn't think that an entire case"},{"end":754.63,"start":751.95,"text":"could be distilled down to a six-page police report"},{"end":755.83,"start":754.63,"text":"and that's it."},{"end":757.87,"start":755.83,"text":"To me, it is just shocking."},{"end":761.55,"start":759.31,"text":"And the one thing this case has taught us"},{"end":764.71,"start":761.55,"text":"is that while you might have a great academic experience,"},{"end":768.51,"start":764.71,"text":"your safety is not being looked after in the way"},{"end":771.03,"start":768.51,"text":"that I think most parents expect when they drive their kids"},{"end":775.43,"start":771.03,"text":"off to college for the first day of first year."},{"end":779.79,"start":775.43,"text":"My first reaction was, how disgusting."},{"end":783.46,"start":779.79,"text":"Not again, but not again."},{"end":786.9,"start":783.46,"text":"I went to Syracuse University."},{"end":789.62,"start":786.9,"text":"There were a series of rapes our first week on campus,"},{"end":792.14,"start":789.62,"text":"and there was a sense of anxiety all around."},{"end":794.06,"start":792.14,"text":"You don't tell your parents that."},{"end":795.26,"start":794.06,"text":"You don't call home and say,"},{"end":798.86,"start":795.26,"text":"get a little worried walking to class, it's not new."},{"end":800.86,"start":798.86,"text":"It's been going on a long time, and the culture"},{"end":803.34,"start":800.86,"text":"has just never changed."},{"end":807.66,"start":803.34,"text":"In this case, the scaletus, the number of people involved,"},{"end":810.86,"start":807.66,"text":"and the repugnancy for allegations"},{"end":813.62,"start":810.86,"text":"would have drawn you to the local police department"},{"end":815.82,"start":813.62,"text":"fairly quickly."},{"end":817.66,"start":815.82,"text":"Campus police, technically, they are"},{"end":820.98,"start":817.66,"text":"depotized by the local police to function as a policing"},{"end":822.78,"start":820.98,"text":"organization on campus."},{"end":826.7,"start":822.78,"text":"But one can very quickly see that there could be a conflict"},{"end":829.3,"start":826.7,"text":"because you're also protecting the reputation"},{"end":835.74,"start":829.3,"text":"of your boss of the university."},{"end":838.42,"start":835.74,"text":"Was influence my conflict an interest in this?"},{"end":839.62,"start":838.42,"text":"No, I have no evidence of that."},{"end":842.5,"start":839.62,"text":"And I'm not saying that that was necessarily the case."},{"end":844.54,"start":842.5,"text":"But in a situation like this, you"},{"end":849.38,"start":844.54,"text":"want to make sure that people believe in the process."},{"end":851.34,"start":849.38,"text":"If you go to the NYPD, they're"},{"end":854.18,"start":851.34,"text":"employees of the city of New York."},{"end":856.66,"start":854.18,"text":"The Cornell police is different because they're"},{"end":861.66,"start":856.66,"text":"employees of Cornell University. They're not independent. They're employees."},{"end":864.66,"start":861.66,"text":"Does Jane Doe believe that there's a problem with the case?"},{"end":868.66,"start":864.66,"text":"I think Jane Doe does. I think her family does, and I certainly do."},{"end":874.66,"start":868.66,"text":"I called the university president and said I wanted to have an independent investigation."},{"end":878.66,"start":874.66,"text":"I want outside counsel to look at all the actions of the university."},{"end":883.66,"start":878.66,"text":"In the Toppkins County District Attorney's announcement, he's reopening the case."},{"end":888.66,"start":883.66,"text":"The point is a Jane Doe statement that said it did not establish a crime that occurred."},{"end":896.66,"start":889.66,"text":"The new reporting raises serious questions about the information his office relied upon when it made that decision."},{"end":904.66,"start":896.66,"text":"That's why I believe this case demands a special prosecutor who will provide a fresh thorough review of all the facts,"},{"end":907.66,"start":904.66,"text":"including the information that has recently come to light."},{"end":913.5,"start":907.66,"text":"Prove to me and the public and the campus and the show women that everything you"},{"end":937.08,"start":913.5,"text":"did was correct. People say well why didn't law enforcement handle this? That's a"},{"end":941.84,"start":937.08,"text":"great question why didn't law enforcement handle this? In truth dangerous"},{"end":947.04,"start":941.84,"text":"experience with law enforcement is the norm. The rates of prosecution are so"},{"end":951.24,"start":947.04,"text":"incredibly low because the burden of proof required in a criminal"},{"end":955.64,"start":951.24,"text":"prosecution is so high. So there's also a world in which there is a very"},{"end":961.82,"start":955.64,"text":"real traumatic event that a school can and should address and there's not a"},{"end":968.78,"start":961.82,"text":"criminal prosecution that's going to move forward and so another option is to"},{"end":974.1,"start":968.78,"text":"bring forward a formal complaint for the University with Title IX."},{"end":979.1,"start":974.1,"text":"Title IX is a civil rights law and it applies to educational institutions"},{"end":984.46,"start":979.1,"text":"that receive federal funding and it prohibits discrimination based on sex."},{"end":993.25,"start":984.46,"text":"It has applications in different areas, admissions, athletics, all forms of sexual harassment."},{"end":997.25,"start":993.25,"text":"There was guidance issued by the Obama administration."},{"end":1002.25,"start":997.25,"text":"Today we're taking another important step with a focus on our college campuses."},{"end":1008.25,"start":1002.25,"text":"It essentially said you have an obligation to respond to sexual assault under Title IX."},{"end":1013.25,"start":1008.25,"text":"And the school's process is not intended to decide did you violate the law."},{"end":1019.09,"start":1013.25,"text":"it's intended to look at whether you violated the school rules that you"},{"end":1023.53,"start":1019.09,"text":"agreed to when you joined the school community. This is not ever intended to"},{"end":1028.65,"start":1023.53,"text":"replace a criminal prosecution but despite the fact that this is an"},{"end":1035.17,"start":1028.65,"text":"educational process it might be the only process that a student survivor has to"},{"end":1043.28,"start":1035.17,"text":"be heard. We know Jane Doe did file a Title IX complaint with the University but a lot of the"},{"end":1049.28,"start":1043.28,"text":"details of the Title IX investigation are private and to the university is not"},{"end":1053.04,"start":1049.28,"text":"allowed to share that. If you were to ask the question of what do we know about the"},{"end":1057.52,"start":1053.04,"text":"Title IX process of Jane Delto, Mexico, we would have no answer."},{"end":1061.28,"start":1057.52,"text":"Tonight, the New York Times, obtaining more than 1,000 pages of material."},{"end":1066.08,"start":1061.28,"text":"The New York Times obtained the internal Cornell Title IX investigation."},{"end":1070.56,"start":1066.08,"text":"Photographs, texts, emails and interviews, according to the New York Times,"},{"end":1076.0,"start":1070.56,"text":"The school expelled the two fraternity members who first invited J. Doe to that house."},{"end":1080.64,"start":1076.0,"text":"Two more suspended. One who had already graduated was barred from campus."},{"end":1084.24,"start":1080.64,"text":"Two were found not to be responsible for sexual misconduct."},{"end":1091.68,"start":1084.24,"text":"She wound up leaving the school while at least some of these young men were currently allowed to continue."},{"end":1095.28,"start":1091.68,"text":"So many people empathized with J. Doe."},{"end":1100.02,"start":1095.28,"text":"And this case and this situation opens a world for them."},{"end":1116.54,"start":1100.02,"text":"Common reaction is, it happens in this room."},{"end":1118.84,"start":1116.54,"text":"Oh yeah, they're in place."},{"end":1119.34,"start":1118.84,"text":"Why?"},{"end":1121.78,"start":1119.34,"text":"I'm like, I don't like it."},{"end":1125.38,"start":1121.78,"text":"Hearing about Jane Doe was very of my own."},{"end":1127.3,"start":1125.38,"text":"I feel like I'm kind of having to like,"},{"end":1132.19,"start":1127.3,"text":"really grieve things that I already grieve."},{"end":1134.83,"start":1132.19,"text":"When I was going through my trial, just after it happened,"},{"end":1138.31,"start":1134.83,"text":"I just felt a lot of like inexplicable anger."},{"end":1145.31,"start":1138.31,"text":"And I feel like I don't realize I'm thinking something until I'm writing it down."},{"end":1150.31,"start":1145.31,"text":"Like, things like felt a little bit more real and less in my head."},{"end":1154.31,"start":1150.31,"text":"Oh my god, this one is about Title IX."},{"end":1159.31,"start":1154.31,"text":"Title IX was one long gaslighting session."},{"end":1163.31,"start":1159.31,"text":"For a whole year I felt like I was screaming into a crowd that couldn't hear me."},{"end":1175.26,"start":1163.31,"text":"The day before my Title IX hearing, I was writing my victim impact statement."},{"end":1180.26,"start":1175.26,"text":"I just didn't know what to say."},{"end":1190.23,"start":1180.26,"text":"I communicated physically and verbally and over-taxed, but I did not want to do anything."},{"end":1194.23,"start":1190.23,"text":"I did not choose to get raped, but I did experience the consequences."},{"end":1200.55,"start":1194.23,"text":"This is every document."},{"end":1205.0,"start":1200.0,"text":"that was used or involved in my case."},{"end":1211.0,"start":1205.0,"text":"I feel like this is a physical embodiment of sweet bleeding for people to believe me."},{"end":1220.23,"start":1211.0,"text":"I was a freshman. Two weeks after it happened is when I decided to report."},{"end":1227.23,"start":1220.23,"text":"The first course that I worked with was hired directly by another time on my office."},{"end":1232.23,"start":1227.23,"text":"And he was like, so you can go to time on night, or you can go to police, or you cannot report."},{"end":1239.23,"start":1232.23,"text":"But then immediately after, he would list all these things going through Title IX, it's easier."},{"end":1248.23,"start":1239.23,"text":"Obviously it's not easy no matter what, but to the years in the 19-year-old girl who was very lost and hurt and confused,"},{"end":1254.23,"start":1248.23,"text":"it was presented in a way that Title IX looked like it made the most sense."},{"end":1261.95,"start":1254.23,"text":"My Title IX process was almost a year."},{"end":1266.95,"start":1261.95,"text":"Some people just wait a year to get a date for a hearing."},{"end":1271.95,"start":1266.95,"text":"There's probably 26,000 students at Cornell,"},{"end":1274.95,"start":1271.95,"text":"and at the time when I was going through the process,"},{"end":1277.95,"start":1274.95,"text":"there was two victim advocates."},{"end":1284.63,"start":1277.95,"text":"They were spread so thin."},{"end":1287.63,"start":1284.63,"text":"You don't know when your decision to come"},{"end":1290.63,"start":1287.63,"text":"kind of just pops up in your email."},{"end":1292.63,"start":1290.63,"text":"There's something attached,"},{"end":1294.63,"start":1292.63,"text":"so you can download the verdict here."},{"end":1303.02,"start":1294.63,"text":"The report said that they had found him responsible for sexual assault."},{"end":1310.26,"start":1305.26,"text":"And there was kind of like this like sense of relief that I was believed."},{"end":1314.26,"start":1310.26,"text":"And then I got to the parlor when there were the sanctions."},{"end":1320.26,"start":1314.26,"text":"He had a written recommend, a no-contact order."},{"end":1323.26,"start":1320.26,"text":"He was on disciplinary probation."},{"end":1326.26,"start":1323.26,"text":"It says a year, but he graduated in two months."},{"end":1328.26,"start":1326.26,"text":"So it in effect was two months."},{"end":1335.26,"start":1328.26,"text":"And then he had to do a directed study that involved writing a reflection paper."},{"end":1345.73,"start":1335.26,"text":"In my verdict, the language for their rationale was, he didn't seem malicious."},{"end":1352.64,"start":1345.73,"text":"I was hoping he would get Sismedirex Belt."},{"end":1359.64,"start":1352.64,"text":"You know, he gets to graduate, he's gonna start his career."},{"end":1365.92,"start":1359.64,"text":"and he could just have remembered it as a bad night,"},{"end":1378.03,"start":1367.04,"text":"whereas I don't get that."},{"end":1393.47,"start":1378.03,"text":"I just felt like, what did I do all of that for?"},{"end":1395.83,"start":1393.47,"text":"I think what we have to acknowledge is"},{"end":1398.39,"start":1395.83,"text":"Title IX procedures are not intended"},{"end":1400.17,"start":1398.39,"text":"to make a survivor feel better."},{"end":1403.95,"start":1401.47,"text":"Some people think it is educational"},{"end":1406.91,"start":1403.95,"text":"and that the sanctions should be largely educational."},{"end":1419.43,"start":1406.91,"text":"And so the process is often unsatisfactory, and so are nearly all systems of accountability that they can spill through."},{"end":1429.35,"start":1419.43,"text":"I think if people are upset by Cornell's response, in this particular case, of Jane Doe,"},{"end":1434.35,"start":1429.35,"text":"and what they're truly upset with is what's Title IX."},{"end":1441.35,"start":1434.35,"text":"Because it does look like, overall, Cornell comply with the Title IX regulations"},{"end":1445.61,"start":1441.35,"text":"and in fairness the process moved actually quite quickly for one that"},{"end":1450.61,"start":1445.61,"text":"involved as many students as this. And what I understand it was quite a robust"},{"end":1455.11,"start":1450.61,"text":"investigation, multiple hearings, hundreds of pages of evidence were gathered."},{"end":1461.13,"start":1455.11,"text":"Cornell investigators conducted more than 50 interviews with 32 witnesses. The fact"},{"end":1467.45,"start":1461.13,"text":"that Cornell expelled two students and suspended two others shows that they"},{"end":1474.65,"start":1467.45,"text":"realized that this was a big case and that there was severe mishandling. We"},{"end":1483.49,"start":1474.65,"text":"don't see expulsions as an outcome in a lot of cases. So maybe the school did for"},{"end":1491.17,"start":1483.49,"text":"the most part what it is required to do. I guess then the question is, is that"},{"end":1497.17,"start":1491.17,"text":"I think everyone here has gotten a better education of the title of my classes"},{"end":1501.17,"start":1497.17,"text":"Classes, HX, Laws, Cormole, Regs, Libraries"},{"end":1505.17,"start":1501.17,"text":"Engle and back class are building at Cornell University"},{"end":1511.17,"start":1505.17,"text":"Thousands of students, faculty and community members demanding justice for Jay and Joe"},{"end":1514.17,"start":1511.17,"text":"Justice for Jay and Joe"},{"end":1527.81,"start":1514.17,"text":"The general kind of consensus among most of the students is that, oh, you know, you should"},{"end":1530.69,"start":1527.81,"text":"file time tonight, but don't expect much."},{"end":1540.08,"start":1530.69,"text":"We had one little weekday enough with enough, and we're the main justice for Jane Doe."},{"end":1546.86,"start":1540.08,"text":"hearing and reading Jane Doe's case the last couple weeks, it's like I knew Jane"},{"end":1555.82,"start":1546.86,"text":"Doe's experiences like all too well. I was sexually assaulted on campus. Seeing so"},{"end":1568.81,"start":1555.82,"text":"many different people come together, it showed me that I wasn't alone. Every"},{"end":1574.01,"start":1568.81,"text":"single person has either experienced personally or knows somebody who's"},{"end":1580.53,"start":1574.01,"text":"experienced something like this. It's not just about Jane Doe. It's about what happened"},{"end":1586.45,"start":1580.53,"text":"here five years ago, 20, 30 years ago. Sexual assault is a perennial problem at Cornell"},{"end":1592.28,"start":1586.45,"text":"and the students and the faculty are asking, when is this going to stop?"},{"end":1598.32,"start":1592.28,"text":"Administration can't just, you know, only care about these issues when it's something"},{"end":1602.56,"start":1598.32,"text":"that they feel pressure about,"},{"end":1604.56,"start":1602.56,"text":"they can't only be responding now"},{"end":1615.77,"start":1604.56,"text":"because they're under the pressure of national news."},{"end":1619.61,"start":1615.77,"text":"Jimmy Doe felt really let down by the university."},{"end":1620.93,"start":1619.61,"text":"She didn't feel support."},{"end":1625.73,"start":1622.57,"text":"And so she wrote a letter from the faculty"},{"end":1628.41,"start":1625.73,"text":"about when the president of River of Sorority"},{"end":1630.85,"start":1628.41,"text":"spoke to the president of the university about it"},{"end":1632.73,"start":1630.85,"text":"and his reaction instead of being concerned,"},{"end":1634.39,"start":1632.73,"text":"expressing any concern for her."},{"end":1639.42,"start":1634.39,"text":"Jane was, well, why didn't she go to the police sooner?"},{"end":1641.34,"start":1639.42,"text":"This was how he reacted."},{"end":1643.5,"start":1641.34,"text":"Back then, when it was a fresh issue"},{"end":1645.42,"start":1643.5,"text":"and he could have really done something,"},{"end":1647.1,"start":1645.42,"text":"he could have reached out to the police"},{"end":1648.26,"start":1647.1,"text":"to find out what's going on."},{"end":1650.18,"start":1648.26,"text":"He could have reached out to the district attorney"},{"end":1651.42,"start":1650.18,"text":"to find out what's going on."},{"end":1655.46,"start":1651.42,"text":"The fact is, by his own admission, he didn't do anything."},{"end":1658.9,"start":1655.46,"text":"Michael caught Lickoff telling the New York Times"},{"end":1660.7,"start":1658.9,"text":"he never followed up with her"},{"end":1663.06,"start":1660.7,"text":"or tried finding out if the accused men"},{"end":1664.1,"start":1663.06,"text":"had been punished."},{"end":1665.62,"start":1664.1,"text":"Now, he's under heavy fire."},{"end":1667.46,"start":1665.62,"text":"His institution is under heavy fire."},{"end":1671.58,"start":1667.46,"text":"For the first time, Kotlokov offering a formal apology."},{"end":1676.46,"start":1671.58,"text":"What happened to Jane Doe in 2024 is deeply disturbing."},{"end":1679.9,"start":1676.46,"text":"Kotlokov acknowledging missteps in his administration"},{"end":1681.54,"start":1679.9,"text":"handling of the case."},{"end":1684.5,"start":1681.54,"text":"My heart aches when I've been watching these videos."},{"end":1687.18,"start":1684.5,"text":"The university president put out a statement this morning."},{"end":1690.46,"start":1687.18,"text":"It acknowledges what he calls a deeply troubling culture"},{"end":1693.46,"start":1690.46,"text":"of alcohol and drug abuse on campus."},{"end":1696.14,"start":1693.46,"text":"She thought this institution was gonna set her on a path"},{"end":1698.86,"start":1696.14,"text":"and fulfill her dream, and instead it became her nightmare."},{"end":1700.02,"start":1698.86,"text":"But this is probably a first for her."},{"end":1702.1,"start":1700.02,"text":"She's probably thrilled to be so admired."},{"end":1704.46,"start":1702.1,"text":"You can't provoke consent two years after that."},{"end":1707.3,"start":1704.46,"text":"People say a lot of nasty stuff online."},{"end":1710.46,"start":1707.3,"text":"We're right over your horrendous behavior."},{"end":1711.3,"start":1710.46,"text":"It's not right."},{"end":1713.54,"start":1711.3,"text":"She's gone through hell for the last two years."},{"end":1716.62,"start":1713.54,"text":"The last month has made that far worse."},{"end":1720.3,"start":1716.62,"text":"She started getting tax, then she started getting threats,"},{"end":1723.74,"start":1720.3,"text":"and then I hear what there'd been a swatting about."},{"end":1725.78,"start":1723.74,"text":"This person called the local police"},{"end":1727.86,"start":1725.78,"text":"said that somebody was being murdered in her house"},{"end":1730.46,"start":1727.86,"text":"and the police rolled up with assault rifles."},{"end":1733.7,"start":1730.46,"text":"Her father had to come out and explain once again"},{"end":1736.38,"start":1733.7,"text":"to the swatting, hey, she's Jane Doe"},{"end":1739.3,"start":1736.38,"text":"and people are calling in false reports."},{"end":1743.18,"start":1739.3,"text":"Her gun's put in a friend's face, her brother's face,"},{"end":1746.94,"start":1743.18,"text":"her father's face, it's scary."},{"end":1748.22,"start":1746.94,"text":"This has gone too far."},{"end":1750.38,"start":1748.22,"text":"It's really not too far."},{"end":1751.82,"start":1750.38,"text":"It's a fucking mess."},{"end":1754.58,"start":1751.82,"text":"There have been multiple people online targeting random dudes,"},{"end":1756.18,"start":1754.58,"text":"saying that they secretly wanted to pronounce that"},{"end":1759.34,"start":1756.18,"text":"group, Docs, all the motherfuckers that were on that Snapchat"},{"end":1760.34,"start":1759.34,"text":"fucking Fred."},{"end":1763.38,"start":1760.34,"text":"I've been Docs' friend, and you're greatly killed in my family."},{"end":1764.7,"start":1763.38,"text":"I would punch them all."},{"end":1768.46,"start":1764.7,"text":"Marvel ruined the man's name, because the Nog just"},{"end":1773.1,"start":1768.46,"text":"wants to pull up."},{"end":1775.58,"start":1773.1,"text":"We all stand with Jane Doe,"},{"end":1778.9,"start":1775.58,"text":"but this has been a huge pushback."},{"end":1779.86,"start":1778.9,"text":"It's not scary."},{"end":1785.42,"start":1781.42,"text":"And that's why I'm not revealing my name."},{"end":1787.58,"start":1785.42,"text":"I know people who are getting friends out."},{"end":1789.54,"start":1787.58,"text":"No part of this."},{"end":1791.58,"start":1789.54,"text":"People who are not in Greek life,"},{"end":1794.54,"start":1791.58,"text":"people who are not here two years ago,"},{"end":1796.1,"start":1794.54,"text":"and yet because they're a Cornelian,"},{"end":1798.1,"start":1796.1,"text":"they're getting friends, and that's not right."},{"end":1801.46,"start":1798.1,"text":"All of a sudden, it went from the Cornell 7"},{"end":1803.22,"start":1801.46,"text":"to the Cornell 26,000."},{"end":1805.86,"start":1803.22,"text":"We are all somehow complicit in this failure"},{"end":1807.54,"start":1805.86,"text":"by our administration."},{"end":1810.22,"start":1807.54,"text":"Tonight, a drastic step at Cornell University."},{"end":1813.48,"start":1810.22,"text":"a new fallout from the sexual assault controversy at Cornell."},{"end":1816.58,"start":1813.48,"text":"I just see my group child in my turn blow up."},{"end":1818.46,"start":1816.58,"text":"People are freaking out."},{"end":1820.54,"start":1818.46,"text":"People are angry."},{"end":1822.3,"start":1820.54,"text":"Cornell University announcing that it is now"},{"end":1825.26,"start":1822.3,"text":"suspending all return to be social events for the rest"},{"end":1826.34,"start":1825.26,"text":"of the school year."},{"end":1828.5,"start":1826.34,"text":"I threw my phone across the group."},{"end":1830.54,"start":1828.5,"text":"I was flibbed."},{"end":1832.82,"start":1830.54,"text":"People are upset that this happened."},{"end":1836.46,"start":1832.82,"text":"For sure, the administration's response?"},{"end":1839.22,"start":1836.46,"text":"Yes, there is some blame to be put on attorneys."},{"end":1845.22,"start":1839.22,"text":"absolutely, but there's no question about that. There needs to be reform, but why are we discussing this two years later?"},{"end":1852.22,"start":1845.22,"text":"Why did the institutions that were supposed to protect Jane Doe and investigate Jane Doe's allegations seem to all fail,"},{"end":1856.22,"start":1852.22,"text":"and why is that failure being put on the fraternities?"},{"end":1865.82,"start":1856.22,"text":"This blanket ban was all performative at the end of the day, because the parties are not ending, they're just going elsewhere."},{"end":1874.82,"start":1865.82,"text":"A blanket suspension is not the way that you fix a cultural or any sort of problem."},{"end":1880.86,"start":1874.82,"text":"We should all hear this case and be horrified."},{"end":1885.06,"start":1880.86,"text":"Shock me."},{"end":1889.06,"start":1885.06,"text":"I think about Emma at Columbia and the performance part."},{"end":1894.06,"start":1889.06,"text":"I will be carrying this dorm room mattress with me everywhere I go"},{"end":1897.06,"start":1894.06,"text":"for as long as I attend the same school as Mary Viss."},{"end":1902.74,"start":1897.06,"text":"She loved that mattress across the state as the university president turned away from her."},{"end":1908.26,"start":1902.74,"text":"I think about Chanel Miller and the case involving Rock Turner at Sanford."},{"end":1914.34,"start":1908.26,"text":"Her swimmer, Rock Turner, was convicted sexually assaulting a woman while she laid unconscious."},{"end":1918.74,"start":1914.34,"text":"Rock Turner was free to have her only serving three months of a six-month sentence."},{"end":1924.1,"start":1919.46,"text":"How do you see the new movement have this incredible impact on survivors coming forward"},{"end":1928.18,"start":1924.1,"text":"and telling their story."},{"end":1930.18,"start":1928.18,"text":"Thank you for your courage, Jane."},{"end":1934.18,"start":1930.18,"text":"There are these spikes in attention,"},{"end":1936.18,"start":1934.18,"text":"and we do take some steps forward,"},{"end":1938.18,"start":1936.18,"text":"but Salah in the backlash"},{"end":1950.94,"start":1938.18,"text":"puts us right back to where we started."},{"end":1952.94,"start":1950.94,"text":"Wait, what is, is this the other?"},{"end":1955.94,"start":1952.94,"text":"I love it. People still send me."},{"end":1957.94,"start":1955.94,"text":"That this is pizza place?"},{"end":1960.94,"start":1957.94,"text":"Yeah, pizza for everyone."},{"end":1963.94,"start":1960.94,"text":"She signed Jane Doe."},{"end":1965.94,"start":1963.94,"text":"This is so many different people."},{"end":1972.84,"start":1965.94,"text":"Well, there was all Jane goes."},{"end":1977.64,"start":1972.84,"text":"Despite several instances of real, real negativity,"},{"end":1980.6,"start":1977.64,"text":"there has been so much support for us."},{"end":1983.56,"start":1980.6,"text":"It really puts into perspective what we're doing"},{"end":1987.5,"start":1983.56,"text":"and that our coverage is reaching people."},{"end":1991.78,"start":1987.5,"text":"I don't think, especially in the near future,"},{"end":1994.9,"start":1991.78,"text":"that we're gonna revert back to how it was at Cornell."},{"end":1997.54,"start":1994.9,"text":"I don't know what is going to change,"},{"end":1999.44,"start":1997.54,"text":"but the momentum on campus,"},{"end":2001.44,"start":1999.44,"text":"I don't think this is something that's going to die out."}],"transcriptStatus":"ready","transcriptText":"[01:20] The details are graphic, the allegations are horrific.\n[01:24] My first reaction was referring to Jane Doe's testimony.\n[01:28] She said, I felt like bait.\n[01:30] I felt like lions around me.\n[01:32] The orange form, like this is not an isolated incident.\n[01:36] I am Jane Doe.\n[01:37] I am Jane Doe.\n[01:38] I am Jane Doe.\n[01:39] And I'm not the only one.\n[01:43] She thought this institution was going to fulfill her dream\n[01:45] and instead it became her nightmare.\n[01:47] She reported it.\n[01:48] And no arrests were made.\n[01:49] Jane Doe's story is alive and Cordell deserves an apology.\n[01:52] Why do we have to go right to She's a Victim?\n[01:54] She did.\n[01:55] Is that to everybody in the fraternity house?\n[01:59] Wow.\n[02:00] How do we expect students to navigate this?\n[02:03] I've never seen you feel so eager.\n[02:05] You're taking us for nothing.\n[02:06] We're just waiting for her.\n[02:07] Okay?\n[02:08] Don't receive any death threats.\n[02:09] This university building vandalized.\n[02:11] This has to stop.\n[02:13] No, no, please.\n[02:14] I made a ton of out of time in here.\n[02:38] There's going to be some time left.\n[02:40] That means to be like, okay.\n[02:42] The paper is the longest continuously independent college day in the nation so we were founded in 1880\n[03:13] which was 15 years after Cornell University was founded.\n[03:17] So most of the buildings you actually see on campus is newer than deeper.\n[03:22] We are independent, editorial and financial with one university.\n[03:27] It allows us to report completely honestly and be a very open source of information for students.\n[03:34] Back in 2024, we received a crime alert on November 8.\n[03:44] There was a complaint about sexual assault by several men\n[03:48] at the 100 Block of Edgemore Lane,\n[03:50] which is where the attack on paternity is located.\n[03:53] I was a freshman at the time.\n[03:55] I was about two months into my Cornell journey.\n[03:59] I just saw the sexual assault alert\n[04:02] and sent a screenshot to my mom\n[04:04] by Cornell's living up to the American University\n[04:07] I was in class and I remember getting a lot of texts.\n[04:14] People were just talking immediately because it was just so alarming.\n[04:18] We had all these questions about it.\n[04:21] I kind of realized that there's something there that it's worth continuing to pursue.\n[04:26] So it was kind of on my radar for a while.\n[04:31] I started reaching out to Jane Doe.\n[04:33] I told her I want to write a story on what happened.\n[04:39] So we started speaking and she told me that she was going to file a lawsuit.\n[04:44] A former Cornell University student filed a lawsuit alleging that she was\n[04:48] deroged and gained right by several fraternity members in 2024.\n[04:52] A former student sued Cornell with high-five fraternity and seven of the members.\n[04:57] Jango did trust the son.\n[05:00] She took to us and gave the son the only quote.\n[05:10] So we were able to give a little bit of her perspective into that initial article\n[05:15] published. The article walked through step by step with the lawsuit claim. Jane Doe went from a\n[05:23] sorority event to a bar in downtown Ithaca, according to the lawsuit, before making her way up to the\n[05:31] Kaifat house where she was texting with one of the defendants. He offered her a beer and they\n[05:38] danced on the floor. He asked if she wanted to have a threesome with him and another\n[05:43] member of the fraternity. According to the lawsuit, they went upstairs. She was allegedly\n[05:50] coerced into taking drugs, including ketamine, and she was already very intoxicated. Then they\n[05:56] started engaging in sexual activity. At first, she said it was consensual, and then became\n[06:03] unconsensual as more of others were invited upstairs on a snap chat group chat. One of the\n[06:09] It was just really important for me to personify individuals and so we decided to list the names of the simple defectors.\n[06:42] There was no hesitation within the editorial team.\n[06:45] We just wanted to make sure that people use it.\n[06:48] These were individuals who had been in their classes\n[06:51] that they could have possibly known.\n[06:53] But none of us expected it to be like this.\n[06:56] There was this decision in the category\n[06:58] to print the names of the accused men.\n[07:01] We need your process.\n[07:02] We can't just ruin people's lives based on allegations.\n[07:05] It's still a case where they are innocent.\n[07:07] They haven't been charged.\n[07:08] We did not want to sugarcoat anything.\n[07:11] and we didn't want to omit details.\n[07:13] We wanted to provide the community with as much transparency\n[07:17] as we wish we had from the University.\n[07:19] I'd like you to join me in looking at our great institution, Cornell University.\n[07:26] Cornell has been at the very center of the screen of ideas\n[07:29] and great events which have brought the world to various.\n[07:32] What is the secret of Cornell rapid rise into the front-ranked, fake universities?\n[07:39] Oh my God!\n[07:41] If there is a secret, I suspect it is the talent for finding the proper names of ideals and practice.\n[07:47] A blend of public and private.\n[07:49] A freedom to respond to all.\n[07:51] I'm here at Cornell.\n[08:02] I am a member of a fraternity on campus.\n[08:06] And I used to be a president of a fraternity.\n[08:10] Being in Ivy Mead School.\n[08:13] Cornell can probably be rigorous academically.\n[08:16] But the issue with the culture at Cornell is that we're incredibly isolated.\n[08:23] Which is nothing to do on campus.\n[08:25] Fraternities provide a place to socialize.\n[08:29] A place to build a community.\n[08:31] Most people see it as we'd rather than.\n[08:34] But we both have a problem.\n[08:37] I think the problem comes from the lack of accountability\n[08:41] and the education amongst fraternities\n[08:45] about building better men, that is what fraternities were initially created to do,\n[08:50] and they're not doing that exactly. What they're perpetuating is just a culture in some ways,\n[08:57] on a nature-wise scale, is a cultural party, a culture of drinking. Because of that culture,\n[09:03] it does create those, I wouldn't call them you got apples, but it does create the scenarios\n[09:08] that we've seen at Cornell and at other schools, too. I have been working with\n[09:17] the victims of sexual assault for just over 15 years,\n[09:21] including time at an Ivy League institution.\n[09:24] People will say you should talk to parents\n[09:26] who are sending kids off to college\n[09:28] about the prevalence of sexual assault.\n[09:30] I agree with that.\n[09:31] I think that's important conversation to have,\n[09:33] but it is hard to talk about this.\n[09:37] Parents sending students to universities\n[09:39] have an expectation that those students will be safe\n[09:42] or that schools will keep them as safe as possible\n[09:45] while they're on campus.\n[09:48] For students, it's an exploratory time.\n[09:52] It's their first time leaving away from home.\n[09:55] We see students doing things often for the first time,\n[09:59] exploring substances or alcohol or drugs,\n[10:03] rushing for sororities and fraternities.\n[10:07] This brings them into new experiences\n[10:09] and brings them into new places.\n[10:13] I'm still surprised by how little people know\n[10:17] about how prevalent sexual violence is on campus.\n[10:22] One in five undergraduate women report\n[10:25] having experienced sexual assault in some form.\n[10:28] You see much higher rates for people\n[10:31] who are associated with Greek organizations.\n[10:34] The numbers at Cornell do seem a bit higher.\n[10:37] And when students come forward\n[10:44] with a report of sexual assault,\n[10:46] they are supposed to be given\n[10:50] a range of options.\n[10:52] And one of those options is to report to law enforcement.\n[10:56] Number eight, 2024, Jane Doe went to the campus police\n[11:05] department.\n[11:06] She had two days of interviews with an intake officer who\n[11:10] conducted an investigation.\n[11:13] And then when they brought their investigation\n[11:15] to the Toppkins County District Attorney,\n[11:18] he said criminal charges weren't pursued\n[11:21] because the evidence that he was given\n[11:24] was insufficient to constitute sexual assault.\n[11:28] The district attorney declining to prosecute\n[11:30] after he said campus police only sent him\n[11:33] a six-page summary of Jane Doe's allegations,\n[11:36] which her attorney said omitted\n[11:38] her explicit allegation of rape.\n[11:40] We are learning exclusive details\n[11:42] about what the alleged Cornell rape victim\n[11:44] told campus police in 2024.\n[11:47] She said, quote,\n[11:48] I can say with 100% confidence I was right.\n[11:53] When she goes to CUP, she was calling the procedure.\n[11:58] She gave police board of five hours of testimony.\n[12:02] She also provided her medical records\n[12:04] from when she went to Cornell Health two days after they\n[12:07] saw.\n[12:08] And they had the group chat, which\n[12:11] invited members of the fraternity\n[12:13] that prompted an investigation.\n[12:16] And she thought that investigation was\n[12:17] to Hondo enough until very recently.\n[12:20] She thought they were still investigating,\n[12:21] they're looking for evidence, running down the leads\n[12:23] and all that stuff, and what we know now\n[12:25] is that they closed the case\n[12:26] and they weren't doing anything.\n[12:28] And we just didn't think that an entire case\n[12:31] could be distilled down to a six-page police report\n[12:34] and that's it.\n[12:35] To me, it is just shocking.\n[12:39] And the one thing this case has taught us\n[12:41] is that while you might have a great academic experience,\n[12:44] your safety is not being looked after in the way\n[12:48] that I think most parents expect when they drive their kids\n[12:51] off to college for the first day of first year.\n[12:55] My first reaction was, how disgusting.\n[12:59] Not again, but not again.\n[13:03] I went to Syracuse University.\n[13:06] There were a series of rapes our first week on campus,\n[13:09] and there was a sense of anxiety all around.\n[13:12] You don't tell your parents that.\n[13:14] You don't call home and say,\n[13:15] get a little worried walking to class, it's not new.\n[13:18] It's been going on a long time, and the culture\n[13:20] has just never changed.\n[13:23] In this case, the scaletus, the number of people involved,\n[13:27] and the repugnancy for allegations\n[13:30] would have drawn you to the local police department\n[13:33] fairly quickly.\n[13:35] Campus police, technically, they are\n[13:37] depotized by the local police to function as a policing\n[13:40] organization on campus.\n[13:42] But one can very quickly see that there could be a conflict\n[13:46] because you're also protecting the reputation\n[13:49] of your boss of the university.\n[13:55] Was influence my conflict an interest in this?\n[13:58] No, I have no evidence of that.\n[13:59] And I'm not saying that that was necessarily the case.\n[14:02] But in a situation like this, you\n[14:04] want to make sure that people believe in the process.\n[14:09] If you go to the NYPD, they're\n[14:11] employees of the city of New York.\n[14:14] The Cornell police is different because they're\n[14:16] employees of Cornell University. They're not independent. They're employees.\n[14:21] Does Jane Doe believe that there's a problem with the case?\n[14:24] I think Jane Doe does. I think her family does, and I certainly do.\n[14:28] I called the university president and said I wanted to have an independent investigation.\n[14:34] I want outside counsel to look at all the actions of the university.\n[14:38] In the Toppkins County District Attorney's announcement, he's reopening the case.\n[14:43] The point is a Jane Doe statement that said it did not establish a crime that occurred.\n[14:49] The new reporting raises serious questions about the information his office relied upon when it made that decision.\n[14:56] That's why I believe this case demands a special prosecutor who will provide a fresh thorough review of all the facts,\n[15:04] including the information that has recently come to light.\n[15:07] Prove to me and the public and the campus and the show women that everything you\n[15:13] did was correct. People say well why didn't law enforcement handle this? That's a\n[15:37] great question why didn't law enforcement handle this? In truth dangerous\n[15:41] experience with law enforcement is the norm. The rates of prosecution are so\n[15:47] incredibly low because the burden of proof required in a criminal\n[15:51] prosecution is so high. So there's also a world in which there is a very\n[15:55] real traumatic event that a school can and should address and there's not a\n[16:01] criminal prosecution that's going to move forward and so another option is to\n[16:08] bring forward a formal complaint for the University with Title IX.\n[16:14] Title IX is a civil rights law and it applies to educational institutions\n[16:19] that receive federal funding and it prohibits discrimination based on sex.\n[16:24] It has applications in different areas, admissions, athletics, all forms of sexual harassment.\n[16:33] There was guidance issued by the Obama administration.\n[16:37] Today we're taking another important step with a focus on our college campuses.\n[16:42] It essentially said you have an obligation to respond to sexual assault under Title IX.\n[16:48] And the school's process is not intended to decide did you violate the law.\n[16:53] it's intended to look at whether you violated the school rules that you\n[16:59] agreed to when you joined the school community. This is not ever intended to\n[17:03] replace a criminal prosecution but despite the fact that this is an\n[17:08] educational process it might be the only process that a student survivor has to\n[17:15] be heard. We know Jane Doe did file a Title IX complaint with the University but a lot of the\n[17:23] details of the Title IX investigation are private and to the university is not\n[17:29] allowed to share that. If you were to ask the question of what do we know about the\n[17:33] Title IX process of Jane Delto, Mexico, we would have no answer.\n[17:37] Tonight, the New York Times, obtaining more than 1,000 pages of material.\n[17:41] The New York Times obtained the internal Cornell Title IX investigation.\n[17:46] Photographs, texts, emails and interviews, according to the New York Times,\n[17:50] The school expelled the two fraternity members who first invited J. Doe to that house.\n[17:56] Two more suspended. One who had already graduated was barred from campus.\n[18:00] Two were found not to be responsible for sexual misconduct.\n[18:04] She wound up leaving the school while at least some of these young men were currently allowed to continue.\n[18:11] So many people empathized with J. Doe.\n[18:15] And this case and this situation opens a world for them.\n[18:20] Common reaction is, it happens in this room.\n[18:36] Oh yeah, they're in place.\n[18:38] Why?\n[18:39] I'm like, I don't like it.\n[18:41] Hearing about Jane Doe was very of my own.\n[18:45] I feel like I'm kind of having to like,\n[18:47] really grieve things that I already grieve.\n[18:52] When I was going through my trial, just after it happened,\n[18:54] I just felt a lot of like inexplicable anger.\n[18:58] And I feel like I don't realize I'm thinking something until I'm writing it down.\n[19:05] Like, things like felt a little bit more real and less in my head.\n[19:10] Oh my god, this one is about Title IX.\n[19:14] Title IX was one long gaslighting session.\n[19:19] For a whole year I felt like I was screaming into a crowd that couldn't hear me.\n[19:23] The day before my Title IX hearing, I was writing my victim impact statement.\n[19:35] I just didn't know what to say.\n[19:40] I communicated physically and verbally and over-taxed, but I did not want to do anything.\n[19:50] I did not choose to get raped, but I did experience the consequences.\n[19:54] This is every document.\n[20:00] that was used or involved in my case.\n[20:05] I feel like this is a physical embodiment of sweet bleeding for people to believe me.\n[20:11] I was a freshman. Two weeks after it happened is when I decided to report.\n[20:20] The first course that I worked with was hired directly by another time on my office.\n[20:27] And he was like, so you can go to time on night, or you can go to police, or you cannot report.\n[20:32] But then immediately after, he would list all these things going through Title IX, it's easier.\n[20:39] Obviously it's not easy no matter what, but to the years in the 19-year-old girl who was very lost and hurt and confused,\n[20:48] it was presented in a way that Title IX looked like it made the most sense.\n[20:54] My Title IX process was almost a year.\n[21:01] Some people just wait a year to get a date for a hearing.\n[21:06] There's probably 26,000 students at Cornell,\n[21:11] and at the time when I was going through the process,\n[21:14] there was two victim advocates.\n[21:17] They were spread so thin.\n[21:24] You don't know when your decision to come\n[21:27] kind of just pops up in your email.\n[21:30] There's something attached,\n[21:32] so you can download the verdict here.\n[21:34] The report said that they had found him responsible for sexual assault.\n[21:45] And there was kind of like this like sense of relief that I was believed.\n[21:50] And then I got to the parlor when there were the sanctions.\n[21:54] He had a written recommend, a no-contact order.\n[22:00] He was on disciplinary probation.\n[22:03] It says a year, but he graduated in two months.\n[22:06] So it in effect was two months.\n[22:08] And then he had to do a directed study that involved writing a reflection paper.\n[22:15] In my verdict, the language for their rationale was, he didn't seem malicious.\n[22:25] I was hoping he would get Sismedirex Belt.\n[22:32] You know, he gets to graduate, he's gonna start his career.\n[22:39] and he could just have remembered it as a bad night,\n[22:47] whereas I don't get that.\n[22:58] I just felt like, what did I do all of that for?\n[23:13] I think what we have to acknowledge is\n[23:15] Title IX procedures are not intended\n[23:18] to make a survivor feel better.\n[23:21] Some people think it is educational\n[23:23] and that the sanctions should be largely educational.\n[23:26] And so the process is often unsatisfactory, and so are nearly all systems of accountability that they can spill through.\n[23:39] I think if people are upset by Cornell's response, in this particular case, of Jane Doe,\n[23:49] and what they're truly upset with is what's Title IX.\n[23:54] Because it does look like, overall, Cornell comply with the Title IX regulations\n[24:01] and in fairness the process moved actually quite quickly for one that\n[24:05] involved as many students as this. And what I understand it was quite a robust\n[24:10] investigation, multiple hearings, hundreds of pages of evidence were gathered.\n[24:15] Cornell investigators conducted more than 50 interviews with 32 witnesses. The fact\n[24:21] that Cornell expelled two students and suspended two others shows that they\n[24:27] realized that this was a big case and that there was severe mishandling. We\n[24:34] don't see expulsions as an outcome in a lot of cases. So maybe the school did for\n[24:43] the most part what it is required to do. I guess then the question is, is that\n[24:51] I think everyone here has gotten a better education of the title of my classes\n[24:57] Classes, HX, Laws, Cormole, Regs, Libraries\n[25:01] Engle and back class are building at Cornell University\n[25:05] Thousands of students, faculty and community members demanding justice for Jay and Joe\n[25:11] Justice for Jay and Joe\n[25:14] The general kind of consensus among most of the students is that, oh, you know, you should\n[25:27] file time tonight, but don't expect much.\n[25:30] We had one little weekday enough with enough, and we're the main justice for Jane Doe.\n[25:40] hearing and reading Jane Doe's case the last couple weeks, it's like I knew Jane\n[25:46] Doe's experiences like all too well. I was sexually assaulted on campus. Seeing so\n[25:55] many different people come together, it showed me that I wasn't alone. Every\n[26:08] single person has either experienced personally or knows somebody who's\n[26:14] experienced something like this. It's not just about Jane Doe. It's about what happened\n[26:20] here five years ago, 20, 30 years ago. Sexual assault is a perennial problem at Cornell\n[26:26] and the students and the faculty are asking, when is this going to stop?\n[26:32] Administration can't just, you know, only care about these issues when it's something\n[26:38] that they feel pressure about,\n[26:42] they can't only be responding now\n[26:44] because they're under the pressure of national news.\n[26:55] Jimmy Doe felt really let down by the university.\n[26:59] She didn't feel support.\n[27:02] And so she wrote a letter from the faculty\n[27:05] about when the president of River of Sorority\n[27:08] spoke to the president of the university about it\n[27:10] and his reaction instead of being concerned,\n[27:12] expressing any concern for her.\n[27:14] Jane was, well, why didn't she go to the police sooner?\n[27:19] This was how he reacted.\n[27:21] Back then, when it was a fresh issue\n[27:23] and he could have really done something,\n[27:25] he could have reached out to the police\n[27:27] to find out what's going on.\n[27:28] He could have reached out to the district attorney\n[27:30] to find out what's going on.\n[27:31] The fact is, by his own admission, he didn't do anything.\n[27:35] Michael caught Lickoff telling the New York Times\n[27:38] he never followed up with her\n[27:40] or tried finding out if the accused men\n[27:43] had been punished.\n[27:44] Now, he's under heavy fire.\n[27:45] His institution is under heavy fire.\n[27:47] For the first time, Kotlokov offering a formal apology.\n[27:51] What happened to Jane Doe in 2024 is deeply disturbing.\n[27:56] Kotlokov acknowledging missteps in his administration\n[27:59] handling of the case.\n[28:01] My heart aches when I've been watching these videos.\n[28:04] The university president put out a statement this morning.\n[28:07] It acknowledges what he calls a deeply troubling culture\n[28:10] of alcohol and drug abuse on campus.\n[28:13] She thought this institution was gonna set her on a path\n[28:16] and fulfill her dream, and instead it became her nightmare.\n[28:18] But this is probably a first for her.\n[28:20] She's probably thrilled to be so admired.\n[28:22] You can't provoke consent two years after that.\n[28:24] People say a lot of nasty stuff online.\n[28:27] We're right over your horrendous behavior.\n[28:30] It's not right.\n[28:31] She's gone through hell for the last two years.\n[28:33] The last month has made that far worse.\n[28:36] She started getting tax, then she started getting threats,\n[28:40] and then I hear what there'd been a swatting about.\n[28:43] This person called the local police\n[28:45] said that somebody was being murdered in her house\n[28:47] and the police rolled up with assault rifles.\n[28:50] Her father had to come out and explain once again\n[28:53] to the swatting, hey, she's Jane Doe\n[28:56] and people are calling in false reports.\n[28:59] Her gun's put in a friend's face, her brother's face,\n[29:03] her father's face, it's scary.\n[29:06] This has gone too far.\n[29:08] It's really not too far.\n[29:10] It's a fucking mess.\n[29:11] There have been multiple people online targeting random dudes,\n[29:14] saying that they secretly wanted to pronounce that\n[29:16] group, Docs, all the motherfuckers that were on that Snapchat\n[29:19] fucking Fred.\n[29:20] I've been Docs' friend, and you're greatly killed in my family.\n[29:23] I would punch them all.\n[29:24] Marvel ruined the man's name, because the Nog just\n[29:28] wants to pull up.\n[29:33] We all stand with Jane Doe,\n[29:35] but this has been a huge pushback.\n[29:38] It's not scary.\n[29:41] And that's why I'm not revealing my name.\n[29:45] I know people who are getting friends out.\n[29:47] No part of this.\n[29:49] People who are not in Greek life,\n[29:51] people who are not here two years ago,\n[29:54] and yet because they're a Cornelian,\n[29:56] they're getting friends, and that's not right.\n[29:58] All of a sudden, it went from the Cornell 7\n[30:01] to the Cornell 26,000.\n[30:03] We are all somehow complicit in this failure\n[30:05] by our administration.\n[30:07] Tonight, a drastic step at Cornell University.\n[30:10] a new fallout from the sexual assault controversy at Cornell.\n[30:13] I just see my group child in my turn blow up.\n[30:16] People are freaking out.\n[30:18] People are angry.\n[30:20] Cornell University announcing that it is now\n[30:22] suspending all return to be social events for the rest\n[30:25] of the school year.\n[30:26] I threw my phone across the group.\n[30:28] I was flibbed.\n[30:30] People are upset that this happened.\n[30:32] For sure, the administration's response?\n[30:36] Yes, there is some blame to be put on attorneys.\n[30:39] absolutely, but there's no question about that. There needs to be reform, but why are we discussing this two years later?\n[30:45] Why did the institutions that were supposed to protect Jane Doe and investigate Jane Doe's allegations seem to all fail,\n[30:52] and why is that failure being put on the fraternities?\n[30:56] This blanket ban was all performative at the end of the day, because the parties are not ending, they're just going elsewhere.\n[31:05] A blanket suspension is not the way that you fix a cultural or any sort of problem.\n[31:14] We should all hear this case and be horrified.\n[31:20] Shock me.\n[31:25] I think about Emma at Columbia and the performance part.\n[31:29] I will be carrying this dorm room mattress with me everywhere I go\n[31:34] for as long as I attend the same school as Mary Viss.\n[31:37] She loved that mattress across the state as the university president turned away from her.\n[31:42] I think about Chanel Miller and the case involving Rock Turner at Sanford.\n[31:48] Her swimmer, Rock Turner, was convicted sexually assaulting a woman while she laid unconscious.\n[31:54] Rock Turner was free to have her only serving three months of a six-month sentence.\n[31:59] How do you see the new movement have this incredible impact on survivors coming forward\n[32:04] and telling their story.\n[32:08] Thank you for your courage, Jane.\n[32:10] There are these spikes in attention,\n[32:14] and we do take some steps forward,\n[32:16] but Salah in the backlash\n[32:18] puts us right back to where we started.\n[32:30] Wait, what is, is this the other?\n[32:32] I love it. People still send me.\n[32:35] That this is pizza place?\n[32:37] Yeah, pizza for everyone.\n[32:40] She signed Jane Doe.\n[32:43] This is so many different people.\n[32:45] Well, there was all Jane goes.\n[32:52] Despite several instances of real, real negativity,\n[32:57] there has been so much support for us.\n[33:00] It really puts into perspective what we're doing\n[33:03] and that our coverage is reaching people.\n[33:07] I don't think, especially in the near future,\n[33:11] that we're gonna revert back to how it was at Cornell.\n[33:14] I don't know what is going to change,\n[33:17] but the momentum on campus,\n[33:19] I don't think this is something that's going to die out.","url":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/685"}