The Senate of USC\u2019s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) voted Tuesday on a resolution supporting the former Cornell student, identified in lawsuits as Jane Doe, and other sexual violence survivors. The resolution passed 12-0, as the student senate looks to ensure protection for those who report and protest, emphasize the school\u2019s responsibility to student safety, and clarify the resources already available.<\/p>\n
The resolution brought focus to the role universities play in ensuring the safety of their students, stating \u201cUSC and universities beyond Cornell maintain a moral obligation to protect their students and learn from peer institutions to ensure that similar events do not repeat themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The USG meeting comes amidst changes within Cornell\u2019s own response to the allegations and student protests, according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a statement Tuesday, <\/a>Cornell University President Michael I. Kotlikoff announced a ban on all parties and social events for members of Cornell\u2019s Interfraternity Council (IFC) houses for the remainder of the 2026-2027 school year. The letter announced three major changes the school is undertaking as they await findings from an independent review currently being conducted by former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.<\/p>\n The ban on IFC house parties and social gatherings falls under the first change: Strengthen campus safety. The ban has a zero-tolerance policy; any violation will result in the immediate emergency suspension of the IFC.<\/p>\n President Kotlikoff emphasized the importance of changing the social culture at Cornell. <\/p>\n \u201cWhile this is not a problem unique to Cornell, we are committed to setting a higher standard for education, oversight, and enforcement of safe and social behavior and citizenship,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe time for meaningful and lasting change at Cornell, and at campuses across the country, is now.\u201d<\/p>\n USG Senator Diane Kim authored the resolution as a way to bring change to USC\u2019s campus. <\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s been weighing on my heart and mine very heavily,\u201d she said. \u201cI just think that is so upsetting and deeply troubling, because victims already have such a hard time coming forward or saying anything at all or getting help, because of a fear of retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n The USG resolution also references the USC student protests in 2021 after reports of drugging and sexual assault at the Sigma Nu<\/a> fraternity.<\/p>\n \u201cCampus sexual violence is not merely pertinent to one university,\u201d the resolution wrote. <\/p>\n It will be delivered to numerous members of USC administration, including University President Beong-Soo Kim, Chair of the USC Board of Trustees Suzanne Nora Johnson and Vice President for Student Life Monique S. Allard.<\/p>\n \u201cI really want to emphasize to the USC administration that we should have incredible safety measures and protective measures to make sure that they want to stay anonymous, they stay anonymous, they don\u2019t fear losing their academic standing, fear of absences, whatnot,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n USC students can access confidential support through CARE-SC<\/a> and a 24-hour hotline at (213) 740-9355 (WELL).<\/a><\/p>\n Edited by Andriana Yatsyshyn<\/a> and Ally Nakamura<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate of USC\u2019s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) voted Tuesday on a resolution supporting the former Cornell student,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,3533,192935],"class_list":["post-496593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-usc","tag-usg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}