Cornell Case Revives Anger About Handling of Campus Sexual Assault Cases
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A lawsuit alleging rape at Cornell has led to an outpouring of women sharing stories about sexual violence on college campuses.
Listen · 11:57 min Share full article On the campus of Cornell University and beyond, women are talking about their own experiences of sexual assault. Credit... Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times By Stephanie Saul and Emma Goldberg
Campus sexual assault survivors and their supporters have published essays in school newspapers and inundated social media in solidarity with the complainant, known in court records only as Jane Doe.
Some are using the familiar #MeToo hashtag of an earlier movement to combat sexual abuse and harassment. Others have adopted a new one: #IAmJaneDoe.
In one opinion article in the University of Pennsylvania campus newspaper, students wrote that “sexual violence happens far too often on college campuses everywhere.”
“It’s time to face the fact that the ‘Cornell incident’ isn’t just born of Cornell problems, or limited to a Cornell issue,” the students wrote.
The outrage flooding social media and rising up on campuses follows similar waves of disgust about campus sexual violence that emerged more than a decade ago and then reignited after the broader #MeToo reckoning that began with Hollywood sexual assault revelations. Driving the campaign in support of Ms. Doe is a feeling that not enough changed after similar movements.
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