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Woman in Cornell rape allegations case targeted with threats, her lawyer says
(www.theguardian.com)
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apparently 35% of female students have been victims of some form of SA in the university. cornell rarely punished anyone there. Cornell like other universities will bury any form of assault to keep thier reputation.
To keep their reputation of supporting rapists? You would think they would want to have a reputation of expelling them.
I mean, The only thing I know about them is that they are ivy league and its the school where you can get drugged and gang raped by half a dozen men for hours.
And they won't even expell your rapists.
PR wise, they have to think about the alumni donating, and these future "men" that become rich alumni that will donate and increase thier reputation.
Can't get past the idea that some parents would not want their son to go to Cornell because the school wouldn't protect him when he rapes. Like, maybe focus more on teaching your child not to rape. Or that a graduate's alumni pride is centered on how much raping the school afforded them over the years. That they would donate more but there was that one semester where their raping numbers were down..
schools only ever care about donations. even our CC when i was in 2000s, had bunch of rich alumni come every now and then to the school. and to stroke thier own ego, they donate to a specific building that has to be built in thier specifications only.
That's rape culture foe you.