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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rachel Dobkin

University of Oregon receives 5 sexual assault reports in first week of classes amid Cornell ‘gang rape’ fallout

The University of Oregon has received five sexual assault reports in the first week of classes — while an Ivy League school on the other side of the country deals with the fallout of an alleged gang rape that was not prosecuted for years.

A lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student who goes by Jane Doe, alleging that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at the New York school in October 2024, has sparked a national conversation on campus safety and the culture of silence surrounding sexual assault. The case has been reopened, and New York State Attorney General Letitia James has taken it over.

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