ITHACA, N.Y. — At the start of midterms last week, Cornell University students woke up to their administration building vandalized. Glass was shattered. Walls had been spray-painted.
The Ivy League college where fraternities throw parties in towering mansions and students weave between deep gorges on their way to class is being rocked over the handling of rape allegations from 2024. A then-20-year-old sophomore described being drugged and raped by seven classmates to campus police, according to an ensuing lawsuit.