A proposal to resolve sexual assault accusations against students by using a process similar to the one for faculty or staff members failed in a vote by the Codes and Judicial Committee on Wednesday.

Students who are accused of sexual assault at Cornell may soon face a very different system for deciding their cases than the one they now encounter.

A temporary amendment to the Campus Code of Conduct that was approved in May is sparking a debate about how Cornell should treat students who are accused of sexually assaulting other students.

Ithaca’s first SlutWalk, a march to show solidarity against sexual assault and victim blaming, brought together more than a hundred members of the Cornell, Ithaca College and local communities in the Commons on Saturday.

Starting May 8, the Student Assembly will operate a free, late-night shuttle between libraries and student dorms for the duration of study week.  

The CUPD Chief Kathy Zoner reminds students of how to stay safe following a rash of forcible touching incidents on campus.

Guest columnist Kathryn Ling '11 takes on the controversy surrounding the publication of an insensitive column in The Eagle, a student-run newspaper at American University.

“Hey ho! These sexist assholes have to go!”

The chants heard on Ho Plaza last Wednesday reverberated throughout campus, within earshot of the University’s administrators tucked behind the walls of Day Hall. The student activist group, Sexual Violence Resistance Network, touted pickets and distributed pamphlets, inciting inflammatory statements such as, “one in four women at Cornell will have experienced rape and/or attempted rape.”

“Our campus is rife with rape culture,” said Marlena Fontes ’10, in front of a few dozen noisy protestors on Ho Plaza. “I tell you this not to bring you down, but to bring you out to fight.”