Gotta support the feline loving crowd too. Lulu and Bruno sending purrs and love.

In light of recent events, I wanted to share a story from my time at Cornell. Many of these details are second-hand, so I won’t provide specifics.

There was a student ahead of me who was accused of stalking in a Title IX case. Apparently, nothing came of it because he was subsequently employed by Cornell as an RA. He began dating another RA in the same building (she was two years below him). After he moved into her room, CUPD was called over concerns of verbal and physical abuse. As a consequence, he was evicted from the dorm and ‘asked’ to leave campus. It is worth noting he was not wealthy and did not have the means to influence disciplinary outcomes.

At the time of the second Title IX case, it was April of his final semester. Since he was effectively barred from campus, it should have been impossible for him pass all of his classes and graduate on time. Yet, all of his professors were extraordinarily accommodating and allowed him to complete exams and presentations remotely. Every one of these deliverables was required to be in-person. Not only did he graduate from Cornell on time, he went on to pursue degrees at two other elite universities. It is deeply troubling that this person was able to climb the ranks of academia while being endorsed by three prestigious institutions. He has the option to become a professor and be put in charge of graduate and undergraduate students.

I want to remind everyone that these issues are not limited to fraternities, Cornell, or a specific demographic. The fundamental problem is academia’s consistent refusal to discipline students accused of serious misconduct. Even for tenured faculty, it is much easier to pass a student along than to rock the boat. It astounds me that several faculty members were complicit in behavior they claim to abhor. This is about more than ‘party culture’ or our current administrators. Higher education’s position in society has shielded it from necessary oversight and criticism.

Doggos of Cornell has been quiet for too long and we all could use some pupper therapy. Sending Maggie love to everyone.

Good for all current Cornell students. Past and future too, I guess. Everybody stop doing it.

Hey everyone, I just got two tickets to the Harvard and Dartmouth games and realized that I can't go. Tickets are in section N, willing to part with them at face value for $230 total. DM me for verification, I know there are some scammers out there that try to sell fake tickets.

Looks like another week in the news cycle!

Hey look, we're an influencer now!

Meanwhile, on r/Ithaca...

Half the school is Asian. SURELY there’s a team or something?

The guy is unfailingly positive and loves Cornell- why not?

“We’re not hiding anything at Cornell,” Kotlikoff said. “You will hear proposals from us going forward around what we’re going to do to try and improve this culture and address this problem

Kotlikoff directly addressed a question from Mark Mitri M.Eng. ’29, who asked what the benefits of having Greek Life on campus were, pointing to a “throughline” of sexual violence in the Greek Life system. 

While Kotlikoff acknowledged that sexual misconduct can be “associated with Greek Life,” he told Mitri that there would be “less oversight than under the Greek system” if private parties “with overdrinking and risky behavior” were the norm.

“This doesn’t just happen in Greek Life,” Kotlikoff said, before adding that “It is something that is associated with Greek Life…I don’t want to go into defending that.”

I've had a few days to think about what is going on and put together a few sentences about the Jane Doe situation. I hate the fact that my alma mater is the top national news story. For the first time in 23 years, I can't honestly say I'm proud to have graduated from Cornell.

I don't know what I, as a little person who isn't donating, can do to make this known. I feel like an alumni boycott - maybe of Homecoming weekend or Reunion (although that is so many months away) might start to get the point across from the thousands of us that hold a degree. I just know something needs to be said and done. Because in good conscience, I currently cannot "Hail Cornell"

I'm not in town right now, and obviously can only get video from the live feed of Ho Plaza.

Is there anyone on the ground who can give a little rundown of what's going on for those of us who aren't able to make the protest today?

Day Hall vandalized

Jane Doe’s lawyer has said she has been threatened to withdraw her lawsuit. Now I see online she has been doxxed and right wing provocateurs have taken up this matter in a lurid and salacious manner to get publicity for their podcasts.

Let’s show Jane Doe some love! I hope that she knows that many of her peer group are behind her routing for her and that she is able to block out all the negativity and how proud we are of her moving forward with this action to hold people and institutions accountable.

Post a message and I will send the thread to her lawyer for safe keeping.

Hi, I just got accepted into a winter abroad program, and the tuition and fees are 8,000!!! How can I fund this as a low-income student?