Cornell’s Pusillanimous Response to an Alleged Gang Rape Is a Scandal in Its Own Right

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How a prestigious American university, confronted with allegations of fraternity gang rape, offered not justice but obfuscation—and why its president’s belated video statement is too little, too late. There is a particular kind of cowardice that afflicts great institutions when their reputations are imperilled. It is not the craven fear of the battlefield, but something more insidious: a bureaucratic torpor, a prevarication dressed up as due process, a reluctance to act lest the alumni chequebooks snap shut.