Cornell fraternity parties suspended after reports of drugging, sexual assault

Cornell College has suspended fraternity events after reviews surfaced over the weekend alleging that not less than 4 college students have been drugged and one was sexually assaulted, college directors introduced on Monday.

In an announcement addressed to the coed physique, Cornell President Martha Pollack and Ryan Lombardi, the vp of scholar and campus life, stated they realized of the alleged crimes in alerts despatched out by Cornell College police.

“Such as you, we’re outraged and saddened,” they wrote. “We strongly condemn the actions of all people accountable for these legal violations.”

The alleged incidents of drugging and sexual assault reportedly occurred at off-campus residences affiliated with registered fraternities at Cornell, in line with Pollack and Lombardi, who added that police and administrative investigations into the reviews are underway.

“All discovered accountable can be held accountable,” they stated.

The choice to pause fraternity events and social gatherings, which went into impact instantly, was confirmed on Sunday. The Interfraternity Council, which oversees some fraternities at Cornell, held an emergency assembly and “voluntarily” determined to droop events, in line with the assertion. Fraternity leaders are supposed to use the suspension to “implement stronger well being and security plans,” Pollack and Lombardi stated.

“No IFC-affiliated social occasions will resume till scholar leaders and Cornell workers are assured actions can happen accountable and safely,” they wrote.

Cornell police stated in a Friday alert that they turned conscious of not less than 4 college students who recalled being “incapacitated” after ingesting “little to no alcohol” throughout events off-campus in current weeks. The one that reported the allegations instructed police that the scholars got Rohypnol, the date-rape drug often called “roofies.”

Campus police issued one other alert on Sunday after a scholar reported that they have been sexually assaulted between 2:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. at an off-campus occasion. Ithaca police are helping within the investigation, in line with Cornell police.

Police and college officers are encouraging anybody with details about the alleged crimes to report what they know by calling Cornell police at 607-255-1111 or Ithaca police at 607-272-3245.