The Firestorm Over a Rape Allegation at Cornell
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The Firestorm Over a Rape Allegation at Cornell

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202631 min
  • Crime & justice

An alleged campus sexual assault at Cornell University has gripped the country and ignited a national debate over consent. Debra Kamin, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains what we know about what happened. Guest: Debra Kamin, an investigative reporter for the The New York Times. Background reading: Documents reviewed by The Times reveal how a Cornell student went from shame to action.A Cornell police report omitted the student’s claim that she was raped. Photo: Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times For more inf...

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From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily. An alleged sexual assault at Cornell has gripped the country and ignited a national debate over consent and how universities respond to allegations of rape. And now, documents reviewed by the New York Times help to explain what happened at the

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and why the district attorney initially decided not to pursue any charges against the men at the center of the allegations. And so today, Deborah Kamen explains what we know about what happened at Cornell and whether the systems in place are equipped to handle these sorts of complicated cases. It's Friday, October 2nd.

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Deborah Kamen, welcome to The Daily. Thank you for having me. So, Deborah, all week, there's been this news building and building about a case out of Cornell.

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