Date: October 14th, 2018 12:14 PM
Author: Thank you for your cooperation.
Oh, what horror! And they blame Kavanaugh!
Cornell is investigating a report that male, first-year Cornell
Law School students ranked female first-year students on their
appearance in a private group chat, according to an email from the
school’s dean.
Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94 on Oct. 5 said in an email to law
students that Cornell’s Title IX Office is investigating the reported
behavior. He said that “ranking women on their appearance is inherently
degrading,” adding that it was “childish and unprofessional.”
Peñalver asked lawyering faculty, who teach first-year law
students, and section instructors to talk to their students about the
reported group chat and to tell students that, if true, “the behavior
may well violate” the University’s Policy 6.4, which outlines
discrimination, sexual harassment and other conduct prohibited by
Cornell.
A Cornell spokesperson, John Carberry, said the University cannot comment on an active Title IX investigation.
In a statement to The Sun, Peñalver said “Cornell Law School is
committed to providing all of our students with a welcoming and
inclusive environment.”
“We have asked our students to support this effort, and are
confident we will both sort through the facts in this situation and be
able to work with the University to apply the appropriate remedies,” the
dean wrote.
Peñalver urged students to use Cornell’s Bias Reporting
System to report any information that could help the Title IX Office’s
investigation.
Women comprise 52.5 percent of the law school’s first-year
class, but Emily Szopinski, a second-year law student, said “it is clear
that there is still a culture of sexism within this profession and our
community that needs to be addressed.”
“Members of Cornell Law School will go on to be leaders in their
communities and their profession,” said Szopinski, president of the
Women’s Law Coalition at Cornell. “This type of behavior has concerning
implications for the future positions of power that Cornell Law students
have the potential to hold.”
Szopinski said she first learned of the report on Sept. 26 and
that faculty members began discussing the report with students on Sept.
28.
Ryan Norton, a second-year law student, said it was good, but
unusual, that Peñalver had acknowledged the reported behavior in a
public email.
“Normally the law school administration handles things quietly,”
Norton said. “The general consensus is that the relevant people can be
punished without having to let everyone know about it.”
Norton also noted that students began learning of the incident
in the same week that Palo Alto University Prof. Christine Blasey Ford
testified that Brett Kavanaugh, now a Supreme Court justice, had
sexually assaulted and tried to rape her at a party when they were both
in high school.
Students’ reported behavior in the group chat is “utterly
repugnant to the unified front the law school community has taken in
that regard,” Norton said, pointing to an open letterin The New York
Times that was signed by more than 2,400 law professors — including 19
at Cornell — urging the Senate not to confirm Kavanaugh.
“I think that these circumstances highlighted how awful it is
that there was a group chat among Cornell Law students dedicated to
demeaning women,” Norton said.
https://cornellsun.com/2018/10/11/cornell-investigating-first-year-law-students-reported-ranking-female-peers-by-appearance-in-private-group-chat/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4105683&forum_id=2#37019539)
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