Oct 2, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Derek and Elwyn discuss the overwhelming nature of current news, focusing on the Cornell Seven case, which highlights systemic issues surrounding sexual assault and accountability…
Yeah, this has got to be, I think, sort of the... biggest news story going around right now and it is the story of a woman a student in Cornell who's not been named so she's referred to in court filings as Jane Doe who filed a lawsuit against Cornell University seven students and a bunch of other parties and people alleging that in October 2024 she was gang raped by these seven students and And the story that is told in the court papers is stunning in its awfulness, where she admits that she was intoxicated when she went to this fraternity house, a Chi Phi fraternity.
She was going to see someone who she had considered a friend.
She had been at a sorority party beforehand, so she was already intoxicated.
a little bit buzzy by her own admission.
And when she got there, they basically just kind of plied her with more alcohol, with weed, with ketamine, got her completely shit-faced to the point where she, and I think most people have to agree with this, even though incredibly there are some that don't, was incapable of consenting to any sort of sexual act in a manner that any reasonable person would find meaningful.
And these two guys first proceeded to have sex with her.
And then they sent a group chat to the 57 men in their fraternity saying, free pussy upstairs, come get some.
And everybody's like, wow, I love this place.
Oh my God, this is so amazing.
And over the course of the next six or seven hours, A total of seven college men came in, raped her, had her do drugs.
One allegation, one thing she says is that she was forced to snort ketamine off of someone's erection.
you know, and yeah, that, that's kind of it.
So she reported it a few weeks later in November of 2024, the school did their own investigation.
The local DA did, did an investigation.
No criminal charges were ever and have ever been brought in this case.
Uh, uh, Others were suspended.
The ones that were not expelled, part of their punishment, and not the whole punishment, so it's important to be fair with the details, but part of the punishment was that they had to write an essay talking about what they did.
I don't even know what the purpose of that is.
She, or through her parents, she then asked to transfer to a different school and asked for a tuition refund, and Cornell said, we will not give you a tuition refund.
Yeah.
I mean, the way so obviously it's also interesting and I think important in this day and age to understand that this all came out through the reporting of the Cornell student newspaper.
the New York times was like super duper late, even after the corner, like even after this went viral on social media, it was at least 18 hours before the New York times had any story about it on their homepage, on their online page at all.
You know, so just, it's an interesting aside about the efficacy and the ability of the actual media to find and develop what is actually an important story because this just ties into this incredible history of the Men in college, but at all levels of our government, right, obviously being allowed to rape and abuse and mistreat women with with really no meaningful punishment at all.
Yeah, this has got to be, I think, sort of the... biggest news story going around right now and it is the story of a woman a student in Cornell who's not been named so she's referred to in court filings as Jane Doe who filed a lawsuit against Cornell University seven students and a bunch of other parties and people alleging that in October 2024 she was gang raped by these seven students and And the story that is told in the court papers is stunning in its awfulness, where she admits that she was intoxicated when she went to this fraternity house, a Chi Phi fraternity.
She was going to see someone who she had considered a friend.
She had been at a sorority party beforehand, so she was already intoxicated.
a little bit buzzy by her own admission.
And when she got there, they basically just kind of plied her with more alcohol, with weed, with ketamine, got her completely shit-faced to the point where she, and I think most people have to agree with this, even though incredibly there are some that don't, was incapable of consenting to any sort of sexual act in a manner that any reasonable person would find meaningful.
And these two guys first proceeded to have sex with her.
And then they sent a group chat to the 57 men in their fraternity saying, free pussy upstairs, come get some.
And everybody's like, wow, I love this place.
Oh my God, this is so amazing.
And over the course of the next six or seven hours, A total of seven college men came in, raped her, had her do drugs.
One allegation, one thing she says is that she was forced to snort ketamine off of someone's erection.
you know, and yeah, that, that's kind of it.
So she reported it a few weeks later in November of 2024, the school did their own investigation.
The local DA did, did an investigation.
No criminal charges were ever and have ever been brought in this case.
Uh, uh, Others were suspended.
The ones that were not expelled, part of their punishment, and not the whole punishment, so it's important to be fair with the details, but part of the punishment was that they had to write an essay talking about what they did.
I don't even know what the purpose of that is.
She, or through her parents, she then asked to transfer to a different school and asked for a tuition refund, and Cornell said, we will not give you a tuition refund.
Yeah.
I mean, the way so obviously it's also interesting and I think important in this day and age to understand that this all came out through the reporting of the Cornell student newspaper.
the New York times was like super duper late, even after the corner, like even after this went viral on social media, it was at least 18 hours before the New York times had any story about it on their homepage, on their online page at all.
You know, so just, it's an interesting aside about the efficacy and the ability of the actual media to find and develop what is actually an important story because this just ties into this incredible history of the Men in college, but at all levels of our government, right, obviously being allowed to rape and abuse and mistreat women with with really no meaningful punishment at all.
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