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

Tear the frat houses down
Emma Sulkowicz

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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