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The Guardian - US
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Eric Berger

Fraternities are the most likely place for US campus rapes. Should they be shut down?

a person holds a sign that reads 'fire Kotlikoff ban the frats'
A rally against Cornell University’s handling of an alleged 2024 sexual assault at a campus fraternity, on 5 October in Ithaca, New York. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Daniel R Schwarz, an 85-year-old English literature emeritus professor, still works at Cornell University after 59 years because he loves teaching and “watching young people grow”, he said.

Most of his students, he also said, have not been part of fraternities at Cornell in Ithaca, New York, where seven men allegedly gang-raped a woman in 2024.

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