Tear the frat houses down
‘I have grown tired of waiting for boys to grow up’: In the wake of the Cornell Chi Phi allegations, Malavika Kannan asks whether fraternity culture can really ever be reformed

At Cornell University in 2024, a female student, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, accused seven young men in the fraternity Chi Phi of drugging and gang-raping her. The men denied wrongdoing during Cornell’s investigation, maintaining that the sexual activity was consensual; the allegations are now the subject of a criminal investigation. Some of these men, according to reports, were offered the opportunity to mitigate their punishment by writinghellip;
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