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[01:20] The details are graphic, the allegations are horrific.
[01:24] My first reaction was referring to Jane Doe's testimony.
[01:28] She said, I felt like bait.
[01:30] I felt like lions around me.
[01:32] The orange form, like this is not an isolated incident.
[01:36] I am Jane Doe.
[01:37] I am Jane Doe.
[01:38] I am Jane Doe.
[01:39] And I'm not the only one.
[01:43] She thought this institution was going to fulfill her dream
[01:45] and instead it became her nightmare.
[01:47] She reported it.
[01:48] And no arrests were made.
[01:49] Jane Doe's story is alive and Cordell deserves an apology.
[01:52] Why do we have to go right to She's a Victim?
[01:54] She did.
[01:55] Is that to everybody in the fraternity house?
[01:59] Wow.
[02:00] How do we expect students to navigate this?
[02:03] I've never seen you feel so eager.
[02:05] You're taking us for nothing.
[02:06] We're just waiting for her.
[02:07] Okay?
[02:08] Don't receive any death threats.
[02:09] This university building vandalized.
[02:11] This has to stop.
[02:13] No, no, please.
[02:14] I made a ton of out of time in here.
[02:38] There's going to be some time left.
[02:40] That means to be like, okay.
[02:42] The paper is the longest continuously independent college day in the nation so we were founded in 1880
[03:13] which was 15 years after Cornell University was founded.
[03:17] So most of the buildings you actually see on campus is newer than deeper.
[03:22] We are independent, editorial and financial with one university.
[03:27] It allows us to report completely honestly and be a very open source of information for students.
[03:34] Back in 2024, we received a crime alert on November 8.
[03:44] There was a complaint about sexual assault by several men
[03:48] at the 100 Block of Edgemore Lane,
[03:50] which is where the attack on paternity is located.
[03:53] I was a freshman at the time.
[03:55] I was about two months into my Cornell journey.
[03:59] I just saw the sexual assault alert
[04:02] and sent a screenshot to my mom
[04:04] by Cornell's living up to the American University
[04:07] I was in class and I remember getting a lot of texts.
[04:14] People were just talking immediately because it was just so alarming.
[04:18] We had all these questions about it.
[04:21] I kind of realized that there's something there that it's worth continuing to pursue.
[04:26] So it was kind of on my radar for a while.
[04:31] I started reaching out to Jane Doe.
[04:33] I told her I want to write a story on what happened.
[04:39] So we started speaking and she told me that she was going to file a lawsuit.
[04:44] A former Cornell University student filed a lawsuit alleging that she was
[04:48] deroged and gained right by several fraternity members in 2024.
[04:52] A former student sued Cornell with high-five fraternity and seven of the members.
[04:57] Jango did trust the son.
[05:00] She took to us and gave the son the only quote.
[05:10] So we were able to give a little bit of her perspective into that initial article
[05:15] published. The article walked through step by step with the lawsuit claim. Jane Doe went from a
[05:23] sorority event to a bar in downtown Ithaca, according to the lawsuit, before making her way up to the
[05:31] Kaifat house where she was texting with one of the defendants. He offered her a beer and they
[05:38] danced on the floor. He asked if she wanted to have a threesome with him and another
[05:43] member of the fraternity. According to the lawsuit, they went upstairs. She was allegedly
[05:50] coerced into taking drugs, including ketamine, and she was already very intoxicated. Then they
[05:56] started engaging in sexual activity. At first, she said it was consensual, and then became
[06:03] unconsensual as more of others were invited upstairs on a snap chat group chat. One of the
[06:09] It was just really important for me to personify individuals and so we decided to list the names of the simple defectors.
[06:42] There was no hesitation within the editorial team.
[06:45] We just wanted to make sure that people use it.
[06:48] These were individuals who had been in their classes
[06:51] that they could have possibly known.
[06:53] But none of us expected it to be like this.
[06:56] There was this decision in the category
[06:58] to print the names of the accused men.
[07:01] We need your process.
[07:02] We can't just ruin people's lives based on allegations.
[07:05] It's still a case where they are innocent.
[07:07] They haven't been charged.
[07:08] We did not want to sugarcoat anything.
[07:11] and we didn't want to omit details.
[07:13] We wanted to provide the community with as much transparency
[07:17] as we wish we had from the University.
[07:19] I'd like you to join me in looking at our great institution, Cornell University.
[07:26] Cornell has been at the very center of the screen of ideas
[07:29] and great events which have brought the world to various.
[07:32] What is the secret of Cornell rapid rise into the front-ranked, fake universities?
[07:39] Oh my God!
[07:41] If there is a secret, I suspect it is the talent for finding the proper names of ideals and practice.
[07:47] A blend of public and private.
[07:49] A freedom to respond to all.
[07:51] I'm here at Cornell.
[08:02] I am a member of a fraternity on campus.
[08:06] And I used to be a president of a fraternity.
[08:10] Being in Ivy Mead School.
[08:13] Cornell can probably be rigorous academically.
[08:16] But the issue with the culture at Cornell is that we're incredibly isolated.
[08:23] Which is nothing to do on campus.
[08:25] Fraternities provide a place to socialize.
[08:29] A place to build a community.
[08:31] Most people see it as we'd rather than.
[08:34] But we both have a problem.
[08:37] I think the problem comes from the lack of accountability
[08:41] and the education amongst fraternities
[08:45] about building better men, that is what fraternities were initially created to do,
[08:50] and they're not doing that exactly. What they're perpetuating is just a culture in some ways,
[08:57] on a nature-wise scale, is a cultural party, a culture of drinking. Because of that culture,
[09:03] it does create those, I wouldn't call them you got apples, but it does create the scenarios
[09:08] that we've seen at Cornell and at other schools, too. I have been working with
[09:17] the victims of sexual assault for just over 15 years,
[09:21] including time at an Ivy League institution.
[09:24] People will say you should talk to parents
[09:26] who are sending kids off to college
[09:28] about the prevalence of sexual assault.
[09:30] I agree with that.
[09:31] I think that's important conversation to have,
[09:33] but it is hard to talk about this.
[09:37] Parents sending students to universities
[09:39] have an expectation that those students will be safe
[09:42] or that schools will keep them as safe as possible
[09:45] while they're on campus.
[09:48] For students, it's an exploratory time.
[09:52] It's their first time leaving away from home.
[09:55] We see students doing things often for the first time,
[09:59] exploring substances or alcohol or drugs,
[10:03] rushing for sororities and fraternities.
[10:07] This brings them into new experiences
[10:09] and brings them into new places.
[10:13] I'm still surprised by how little people know
[10:17] about how prevalent sexual violence is on campus.
[10:22] One in five undergraduate women report
[10:25] having experienced sexual assault in some form.
[10:28] You see much higher rates for people
[10:31] who are associated with Greek organizations.
[10:34] The numbers at Cornell do seem a bit higher.
[10:37] And when students come forward
[10:44] with a report of sexual assault,
[10:46] they are supposed to be given
[10:50] a range of options.
[10:52] And one of those options is to report to law enforcement.
[10:56] Number eight, 2024, Jane Doe went to the campus police
[11:05] department.
[11:06] She had two days of interviews with an intake officer who
[11:10] conducted an investigation.
[11:13] And then when they brought their investigation
[11:15] to the Toppkins County District Attorney,
[11:18] he said criminal charges weren't pursued
[11:21] because the evidence that he was given
[11:24] was insufficient to constitute sexual assault.
[11:28] The district attorney declining to prosecute
[11:30] after he said campus police only sent him
[11:33] a six-page summary of Jane Doe's allegations,
[11:36] which her attorney said omitted
[11:38] her explicit allegation of rape.
[11:40] We are learning exclusive details
[11:42] about what the alleged Cornell rape victim
[11:44] told campus police in 2024.
[11:47] She said, quote,
[11:48] I can say with 100% confidence I was right.
[11:53] When she goes to CUP, she was calling the procedure.
[11:58] She gave police board of five hours of testimony.
[12:02] She also provided her medical records
[12:04] from when she went to Cornell Health two days after they
[12:07] saw.
[12:08] And they had the group chat, which
[12:11] invited members of the fraternity
[12:13] that prompted an investigation.
[12:16] And she thought that investigation was
[12:17] to Hondo enough until very recently.
[12:20] She thought they were still investigating,
[12:21] they're looking for evidence, running down the leads
[12:23] and all that stuff, and what we know now
[12:25] is that they closed the case
[12:26] and they weren't doing anything.
[12:28] And we just didn't think that an entire case
[12:31] could be distilled down to a six-page police report
[12:34] and that's it.
[12:35] To me, it is just shocking.
[12:39] And the one thing this case has taught us
[12:41] is that while you might have a great academic experience,
[12:44] your safety is not being looked after in the way
[12:48] that I think most parents expect when they drive their kids
[12:51] off to college for the first day of first year.
[12:55] My first reaction was, how disgusting.
[12:59] Not again, but not again.
[13:03] I went to Syracuse University.
[13:06] There were a series of rapes our first week on campus,
[13:09] and there was a sense of anxiety all around.
[13:12] You don't tell your parents that.
[13:14] You don't call home and say,
[13:15] get a little worried walking to class, it's not new.
[13:18] It's been going on a long time, and the culture
[13:20] has just never changed.
[13:23] In this case, the scaletus, the number of people involved,
[13:27] and the repugnancy for allegations
[13:30] would have drawn you to the local police department
[13:33] fairly quickly.
[13:35] Campus police, technically, they are
[13:37] depotized by the local police to function as a policing
[13:40] organization on campus.
[13:42] But one can very quickly see that there could be a conflict
[13:46] because you're also protecting the reputation
[13:49] of your boss of the university.
[13:55] Was influence my conflict an interest in this?
[13:58] No, I have no evidence of that.
[13:59] And I'm not saying that that was necessarily the case.
[14:02] But in a situation like this, you
[14:04] want to make sure that people believe in the process.
[14:09] If you go to the NYPD, they're
[14:11] employees of the city of New York.
[14:14] The Cornell police is different because they're
[14:16] employees of Cornell University. They're not independent. They're employees.
[14:21] Does Jane Doe believe that there's a problem with the case?
[14:24] I think Jane Doe does. I think her family does, and I certainly do.
[14:28] I called the university president and said I wanted to have an independent investigation.
[14:34] I want outside counsel to look at all the actions of the university.
[14:38] In the Toppkins County District Attorney's announcement, he's reopening the case.
[14:43] The point is a Jane Doe statement that said it did not establish a crime that occurred.
[14:49] The new reporting raises serious questions about the information his office relied upon when it made that decision.
[14:56] That's why I believe this case demands a special prosecutor who will provide a fresh thorough review of all the facts,
[15:04] including the information that has recently come to light.
[15:07] Prove to me and the public and the campus and the show women that everything you
[15:13] did was correct. People say well why didn't law enforcement handle this? That's a
[15:37] great question why didn't law enforcement handle this? In truth dangerous
[15:41] experience with law enforcement is the norm. The rates of prosecution are so
[15:47] incredibly low because the burden of proof required in a criminal
[15:51] prosecution is so high. So there's also a world in which there is a very
[15:55] real traumatic event that a school can and should address and there's not a
[16:01] criminal prosecution that's going to move forward and so another option is to
[16:08] bring forward a formal complaint for the University with Title IX.
[16:14] Title IX is a civil rights law and it applies to educational institutions
[16:19] that receive federal funding and it prohibits discrimination based on sex.
[16:24] It has applications in different areas, admissions, athletics, all forms of sexual harassment.
[16:33] There was guidance issued by the Obama administration.
[16:37] Today we're taking another important step with a focus on our college campuses.
[16:42] It essentially said you have an obligation to respond to sexual assault under Title IX.
[16:48] And the school's process is not intended to decide did you violate the law.
[16:53] it's intended to look at whether you violated the school rules that you
[16:59] agreed to when you joined the school community. This is not ever intended to
[17:03] replace a criminal prosecution but despite the fact that this is an
[17:08] educational process it might be the only process that a student survivor has to
[17:15] be heard. We know Jane Doe did file a Title IX complaint with the University but a lot of the
[17:23] details of the Title IX investigation are private and to the university is not
[17:29] allowed to share that. If you were to ask the question of what do we know about the
[17:33] Title IX process of Jane Delto, Mexico, we would have no answer.
[17:37] Tonight, the New York Times, obtaining more than 1,000 pages of material.
[17:41] The New York Times obtained the internal Cornell Title IX investigation.
[17:46] Photographs, texts, emails and interviews, according to the New York Times,
[17:50] The school expelled the two fraternity members who first invited J. Doe to that house.
[17:56] Two more suspended. One who had already graduated was barred from campus.
[18:00] Two were found not to be responsible for sexual misconduct.
[18:04] She wound up leaving the school while at least some of these young men were currently allowed to continue.
[18:11] So many people empathized with J. Doe.
[18:15] And this case and this situation opens a world for them.
[18:20] Common reaction is, it happens in this room.
[18:36] Oh yeah, they're in place.
[18:38] Why?
[18:39] I'm like, I don't like it.
[18:41] Hearing about Jane Doe was very of my own.
[18:45] I feel like I'm kind of having to like,
[18:47] really grieve things that I already grieve.
[18:52] When I was going through my trial, just after it happened,
[18:54] I just felt a lot of like inexplicable anger.
[18:58] And I feel like I don't realize I'm thinking something until I'm writing it down.
[19:05] Like, things like felt a little bit more real and less in my head.
[19:10] Oh my god, this one is about Title IX.
[19:14] Title IX was one long gaslighting session.
[19:19] For a whole year I felt like I was screaming into a crowd that couldn't hear me.
[19:23] The day before my Title IX hearing, I was writing my victim impact statement.
[19:35] I just didn't know what to say.
[19:40] I communicated physically and verbally and over-taxed, but I did not want to do anything.
[19:50] I did not choose to get raped, but I did experience the consequences.
[19:54] This is every document.
[20:00] that was used or involved in my case.
[20:05] I feel like this is a physical embodiment of sweet bleeding for people to believe me.
[20:11] I was a freshman. Two weeks after it happened is when I decided to report.
[20:20] The first course that I worked with was hired directly by another time on my office.
[20:27] And he was like, so you can go to time on night, or you can go to police, or you cannot report.
[20:32] But then immediately after, he would list all these things going through Title IX, it's easier.
[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,
[20:48] it was presented in a way that Title IX looked like it made the most sense.
[20:54] My Title IX process was almost a year.
[21:01] Some people just wait a year to get a date for a hearing.
[21:06] There's probably 26,000 students at Cornell,
[21:11] and at the time when I was going through the process,
[21:14] there was two victim advocates.
[21:17] They were spread so thin.
[21:24] You don't know when your decision to come
[21:27] kind of just pops up in your email.
[21:30] There's something attached,
[21:32] so you can download the verdict here.
[21:34] The report said that they had found him responsible for sexual assault.
[21:45] And there was kind of like this like sense of relief that I was believed.
[21:50] And then I got to the parlor when there were the sanctions.
[21:54] He had a written recommend, a no-contact order.
[22:00] He was on disciplinary probation.
[22:03] It says a year, but he graduated in two months.
[22:06] So it in effect was two months.
[22:08] And then he had to do a directed study that involved writing a reflection paper.
[22:15] In my verdict, the language for their rationale was, he didn't seem malicious.
[22:25] I was hoping he would get Sismedirex Belt.
[22:32] You know, he gets to graduate, he's gonna start his career.
[22:39] and he could just have remembered it as a bad night,
[22:47] whereas I don't get that.
[22:58] I just felt like, what did I do all of that for?
[23:13] I think what we have to acknowledge is
[23:15] Title IX procedures are not intended
[23:18] to make a survivor feel better.
[23:21] Some people think it is educational
[23:23] and that the sanctions should be largely educational.
[23:26] And so the process is often unsatisfactory, and so are nearly all systems of accountability that they can spill through.
[23:39] I think if people are upset by Cornell's response, in this particular case, of Jane Doe,
[23:49] and what they're truly upset with is what's Title IX.
[23:54] Because it does look like, overall, Cornell comply with the Title IX regulations
[24:01] and in fairness the process moved actually quite quickly for one that
[24:05] involved as many students as this. And what I understand it was quite a robust
[24:10] investigation, multiple hearings, hundreds of pages of evidence were gathered.
[24:15] Cornell investigators conducted more than 50 interviews with 32 witnesses. The fact
[24:21] that Cornell expelled two students and suspended two others shows that they
[24:27] realized that this was a big case and that there was severe mishandling. We
[24:34] don't see expulsions as an outcome in a lot of cases. So maybe the school did for
[24:43] the most part what it is required to do. I guess then the question is, is that
[24:51] I think everyone here has gotten a better education of the title of my classes
[24:57] Classes, HX, Laws, Cormole, Regs, Libraries
[25:01] Engle and back class are building at Cornell University
[25:05] Thousands of students, faculty and community members demanding justice for Jay and Joe
[25:11] Justice for Jay and Joe
[25:14] The general kind of consensus among most of the students is that, oh, you know, you should
[25:27] file time tonight, but don't expect much.
[25:30] We had one little weekday enough with enough, and we're the main justice for Jane Doe.
[25:40] hearing and reading Jane Doe's case the last couple weeks, it's like I knew Jane
[25:46] Doe's experiences like all too well. I was sexually assaulted on campus. Seeing so
[25:55] many different people come together, it showed me that I wasn't alone. Every
[26:08] single person has either experienced personally or knows somebody who's
[26:14] experienced something like this. It's not just about Jane Doe. It's about what happened
[26:20] here five years ago, 20, 30 years ago. Sexual assault is a perennial problem at Cornell
[26:26] and the students and the faculty are asking, when is this going to stop?
[26:32] Administration can't just, you know, only care about these issues when it's something
[26:38] that they feel pressure about,
[26:42] they can't only be responding now
[26:44] because they're under the pressure of national news.
[26:55] Jimmy Doe felt really let down by the university.
[26:59] She didn't feel support.
[27:02] And so she wrote a letter from the faculty
[27:05] about when the president of River of Sorority
[27:08] spoke to the president of the university about it
[27:10] and his reaction instead of being concerned,
[27:12] expressing any concern for her.
[27:14] Jane was, well, why didn't she go to the police sooner?
[27:19] This was how he reacted.
[27:21] Back then, when it was a fresh issue
[27:23] and he could have really done something,
[27:25] he could have reached out to the police
[27:27] to find out what's going on.
[27:28] He could have reached out to the district attorney
[27:30] to find out what's going on.
[27:31] The fact is, by his own admission, he didn't do anything.
[27:35] Michael caught Lickoff telling the New York Times
[27:38] he never followed up with her
[27:40] or tried finding out if the accused men
[27:43] had been punished.
[27:44] Now, he's under heavy fire.
[27:45] His institution is under heavy fire.
[27:47] For the first time, Kotlokov offering a formal apology.
[27:51] What happened to Jane Doe in 2024 is deeply disturbing.
[27:56] Kotlokov acknowledging missteps in his administration
[27:59] handling of the case.
[28:01] My heart aches when I've been watching these videos.
[28:04] The university president put out a statement this morning.
[28:07] It acknowledges what he calls a deeply troubling culture
[28:10] of alcohol and drug abuse on campus.
[28:13] She thought this institution was gonna set her on a path
[28:16] and fulfill her dream, and instead it became her nightmare.
[28:18] But this is probably a first for her.
[28:20] She's probably thrilled to be so admired.
[28:22] You can't provoke consent two years after that.
[28:24] People say a lot of nasty stuff online.
[28:27] We're right over your horrendous behavior.
[28:30] It's not right.
[28:31] She's gone through hell for the last two years.
[28:33] The last month has made that far worse.
[28:36] She started getting tax, then she started getting threats,
[28:40] and then I hear what there'd been a swatting about.
[28:43] This person called the local police
[28:45] said that somebody was being murdered in her house
[28:47] and the police rolled up with assault rifles.
[28:50] Her father had to come out and explain once again
[28:53] to the swatting, hey, she's Jane Doe
[28:56] and people are calling in false reports.
[28:59] Her gun's put in a friend's face, her brother's face,
[29:03] her father's face, it's scary.
[29:06] This has gone too far.
[29:08] It's really not too far.
[29:10] It's a fucking mess.
[29:11] There have been multiple people online targeting random dudes,
[29:14] saying that they secretly wanted to pronounce that
[29:16] group, Docs, all the motherfuckers that were on that Snapchat
[29:19] fucking Fred.
[29:20] I've been Docs' friend, and you're greatly killed in my family.
[29:23] I would punch them all.
[29:24] Marvel ruined the man's name, because the Nog just
[29:28] wants to pull up.
[29:33] We all stand with Jane Doe,
[29:35] but this has been a huge pushback.
[29:38] It's not scary.
[29:41] And that's why I'm not revealing my name.
[29:45] I know people who are getting friends out.
[29:47] No part of this.
[29:49] People who are not in Greek life,
[29:51] people who are not here two years ago,
[29:54] and yet because they're a Cornelian,
[29:56] they're getting friends, and that's not right.
[29:58] All of a sudden, it went from the Cornell 7
[30:01] to the Cornell 26,000.
[30:03] We are all somehow complicit in this failure
[30:05] by our administration.
[30:07] Tonight, a drastic step at Cornell University.
[30:10] a new fallout from the sexual assault controversy at Cornell.
[30:13] I just see my group child in my turn blow up.
[30:16] People are freaking out.
[30:18] People are angry.
[30:20] Cornell University announcing that it is now
[30:22] suspending all return to be social events for the rest
[30:25] of the school year.
[30:26] I threw my phone across the group.
[30:28] I was flibbed.
[30:30] People are upset that this happened.
[30:32] For sure, the administration's response?
[30:36] Yes, there is some blame to be put on attorneys.
[30:39] absolutely, but there's no question about that. There needs to be reform, but why are we discussing this two years later?
[30:45] Why did the institutions that were supposed to protect Jane Doe and investigate Jane Doe's allegations seem to all fail,
[30:52] and why is that failure being put on the fraternities?
[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.
[31:05] A blanket suspension is not the way that you fix a cultural or any sort of problem.
[31:14] We should all hear this case and be horrified.
[31:20] Shock me.
[31:25] I think about Emma at Columbia and the performance part.
[31:29] I will be carrying this dorm room mattress with me everywhere I go
[31:34] for as long as I attend the same school as Mary Viss.
[31:37] She loved that mattress across the state as the university president turned away from her.
[31:42] I think about Chanel Miller and the case involving Rock Turner at Sanford.
[31:48] Her swimmer, Rock Turner, was convicted sexually assaulting a woman while she laid unconscious.
[31:54] Rock Turner was free to have her only serving three months of a six-month sentence.
[31:59] How do you see the new movement have this incredible impact on survivors coming forward
[32:04] and telling their story.
[32:08] Thank you for your courage, Jane.
[32:10] There are these spikes in attention,
[32:14] and we do take some steps forward,
[32:16] but Salah in the backlash
[32:18] puts us right back to where we started.
[32:30] Wait, what is, is this the other?
[32:32] I love it. People still send me.
[32:35] That this is pizza place?
[32:37] Yeah, pizza for everyone.
[32:40] She signed Jane Doe.
[32:43] This is so many different people.
[32:45] Well, there was all Jane goes.
[32:52] Despite several instances of real, real negativity,
[32:57] there has been so much support for us.
[33:00] It really puts into perspective what we're doing
[33:03] and that our coverage is reaching people.
[33:07] I don't think, especially in the near future,
[33:11] that we're gonna revert back to how it was at Cornell.
[33:14] I don't know what is going to change,
[33:17] but the momentum on campus,
[33:19] I don't think this is something that's going to die out.

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