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More on the Cornell 7 - great reporting by NY newspaper, the Times Union. Lordy, there are tapes! “Recordings offer a striking firsthand account of a national fraternity official claiming personal access to campus police around the time the department was also investigating the "Cornell 7" case.” “Within weeks of the Cornell University Police Department investigating an alleged gang rape at the school’s Chi Phi house two years ago, a top official of another national fraternity privately boasted that he could get his “friends” inside the campus police force to brush aside alleged misconduct from his chapter’s members.” “In one of the recordings, Paese referred to the chief of Cornell’s police department as “a good friend of mine.” Paese also said he and the chief’s “boss, the guy that’s in charge of campus security overall, … go back even farther.””

Jane Doe’s civil lawsuit alleging that she was sexually assaulted by seven students at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house was filed anonymously, to protect her identity. Doe’s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said that she initially resisted the advice to be anonymous. “She wanted to make a stand,” he said. He cautioned that using her name might create a “firestorm” that would forever be linked not just to her but to her family, and eventually, she agreed. But, of course, a firestorm came anyway. Within days of the case being filed, details about her identity began to emerge online. In the weeks since, she has experienced harassment, threats, and “swatting”—911 calls placed with false reports of ongoing violent crime, bomb threats, or other dangerous situations. “Jane Doe now finds herself at the center of another calamity—an ever-expanding blast radius of online abuse, threats, and vigilantism which has touched virtually every person connected to the case, along with people who have no immediate connection to it at all,” Ruby Cramer writes. Read about the doxing that has proliferated around the “Cornell Seven” case: https://t.co/DRmfYq5NEX