As many as 35 percent of female undergraduates at Cornell University reported experiencing sexual assault during their time on campus—a staggering figure uncovered by a school task force that now hangs over a reopened criminal probe into a brutal fraternity gang rape.
The task force, formed in 2025 to tackle rampant campus sexual violence, issued recommendations earlier this year after its survey revealed the alarming statistic, alongside 8 percent of undergraduate men who reported being assaulted. Now, those findings provide a grim backdrop as a New York prosecutor reopens a criminal investigation into allegations that seven students drugged and gang-raped a woman at a Cornell fraternity in 2024.
