Cornell faculty press ahead with no-confidence vote in handling of gang-rape case
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A recording of a closed-door meeting revealed some faculty sought to delay the vote, but others urged immediacy
Faculty members at Cornell University are pressing ahead with a no-confidence vote in campus leadership over its handling of a gang-rape scandal involving students at a fraternity at the Ivy League institution.
Cornell professors on Wednesday discussed, at an emotional faculty meeting, how the school’s leadership tackled a woman’s report that she was raped by at least seven male students at a fraternity house in 2024.
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