Don’t let poor, dumb Cornell take all of the justifiable ridicule and contempt when Harvard, the alleged creme-de-la-creme of the Ivies, has students behaving like this. From The Harvard Crimson:
More than 100 Harvard affiliates gathered in Harvard’s Zimmer Hall Plaza Thursday night to protest sexual violence, calling on the University to strengthen protections for survivors and reform its handling of harassment complaints. The rally was part of a nationwide day of action calling for justice for Jane Doe, a former Cornell University student, and Kendall D. Francis, a Louisiana State University student, who have both alleged sexual assault. Organizers at Harvard also issued six demands, including an independent grievance process for harassment and discrimination complaints, expanded resources for survivors, and the reopening of two diversity offices shuttered in July 2025…
“Jane Doe” is Lucy Craig, who has become one of the most improbable “Believe All Women” icons yet after suing seven male colleagues at Cornell for sexual assault despite massive evidence that she was a willing—well, you know. The only words that spring to mind are in bad taste. Women are disgracing themselves in this Ethics Train Wreck and apparently don’t care. My Leftist social media friends have decided that the Cornell 7 are rapists despite both the school and a district attorney determining that Craig’s claims are not credible; after all, she only sued after she was disinvited from a Halloween Party given by the same fraternity where she made whoopie, as Eddie Canter would say. But Lucy got her revenge: Cornell has cancelled that party and all others at fraternities for the rest of the school year. So there! New York’s woke Democratic governor Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor who had already announced that she had decided the men were guilty despite her assignment of running an “independent” investigation. (Your host is quoted in this story about that...)
The LSU case? I don’t know anything about it, and I suspect the Harvard demonstrators don’t know much about it either, but someone figured out that Lucy’s tale is too thin to base a “nationwide day of action” on even in The Age of the Great Stupid (and before mid-terms).
How does a dubious rape claim at Cornell relate to the need for more “diversity” offices at Harvard? Why don’t these affiliated organizations also demand that the MLB divisional play-offs be expanded from five games to seven? Or that the official language of the U.S. be changed to Swedish?
The rest of the Crimson report is equally risible:
Women are disgracing themselves in this Ethics Train Wreck and apparently don’t care.
I saw on Twitter:
It’s been a hard year for progressive women. Between:
Linsey Clancy
Christa Pike
Lucy Craig
Sydney Sweeney
And the Shane Gillis Joke (Women are dressing like whores at the gym)
They just can’t be normal. If people want to know why Trump wins, this short list alone is reason number one.
(Aside, the new login is horrible).
I’ve registered my complaint. At the same time, they also changed the tag process. I used to be able to write ” Donald Trump, click on it, and the tag would be up. Now I have to type it to get a menu of all similar tags, and click on one. If I want a new tag, I can’t just enter it…I have to open a “new tag” window, type the new tag in, and enter it. Then I have to type the new tag into the post to get the drop-down menu, and click on the now official tag on that.
I know it’s not your fault. It is…rather frustrating. I spent 20 minutes trying to get it to remove my last name from my profile when I never told it to put it there.
“How does a dubious rape claim at Cornell relate to the need for more “diversity” offices at Harvard?”
Diversity programs include women, especially women of color, but also white women when it’s necessary to pretend it’s not all anti-white racism. And, after all, women are not men who are the real oppressors. Unless, they are transmen, of course, in which case they are both diverse and oppressors (or is the narrative that transmen cannot be oppressors). Now where was I?
“And assuming that “Palestine Solidarity” means rationalizing the October 7 Hamas attack on civilians in Israel that included mass rape, that group’s supposed support for the victims of sexual assault may be the most spectacular public demonstration of hypocrisy in world history.”
And it is, but the narrative is that rapes and other sexually-based attacks on October 7 is all Israeli propaganda. Besides, we all know the Jews are the real sexual predators.
HitlerBill Kristof told us so.“This whole debacle is based on a woman who has refused to accept accountability for her own reckless actions, bad choices, and shifting stories.”
I swear I’m going to write ethics reviews of “The Office” someday. In the episode “Golden Ticket”, Michael Scott comes up with what he thinks is a great idea – he puts five golden tickets inside five different boxes of paper. Each ticket offers 50% off the next order. Unfortunatly, Michael doesn’t realize that he put five tickets in a pallet going to the same client – their biggest client – and the tickets don’t stipulate one offer per customer so the company is about to lose a ton of money. Realizing he’s in big trouble, Michael pressures one of his employees to take responsibility for the idea instead. Then the CFO of the company, who was initially angry about the promotion, shows up thrilled because the client was so happy about the discount that they’ve made the company their sole provider of paper which is a huge financial boon. Now, Michael’s idea is back to brilliant and someone else is getting the credit. When the whole scheme is finally laid bare, Michael tells his boss, “I want all of the credit and none of the blame”.
Hollywood wants all of the credit for bringing the country together during the Kennedy assassination and the moon landing, as well as for helping to end the conflict in Vietnam. It wants none of the blame for the coursening of society and its influence on the reckless abandonment of centuries of good morals.
Barack Obama wanted credit for killing Osama bin Laden and none of the blame for the Housing Bubble bursting. To be fair, every President wants credit for the good that happens while he’s in office whether he set the process in motion or not and, lately, every President blames the previous one for what is going wrong.
And a great deal of women want to do whatever they want with their bodies and none of the accountability for what happens when it goes wrong.
And it is, but the narrative is that rapes and other sexually-based attacks on October 7 is all Israeli propaganda.
That’s a tough case to make, since Hamas videoed the rapes themselves, and you can find them online.
There are none so blind as those who cannot see. Or, in this case, will not.
“But Lucy got her revenge: Cornell has cancelled that party and all others at fraternities for the rest of the school year.”
Obviously, Cornell is a private University, but this would seem to violate the First Amendment Freedom of Association. If Cornell has any version of this, they should fight it.
-Jut
when I was a freshman living in Harvard Yard, a group of students calling themselves “The Coalition to Levitate Mass Hall” would gather at midnight, surround Massachusetts Hall (the oldest building in the yard) and solemnly chant “Up! Up!” while gesturing skyward. This went on for months. Mass Hall never budged.
That really happened? This is not something out of the Harvard Lampoon? And here I thought student behavior in the ’60s was relatively rational by comparison to what’s going on these days.
Oh yes, it happened. It might have been a Lampoon stunt, but before all the rioting, there was a lot of inspired levity on campus.
I first read “inspired” as “insipid.”
All these groups are part of “The Movement.” Any one or group who wants to change all the rules and be in charge is welcome to join in “The Movement.” It’s all “Gimme, gimme, I get, without having to do anything other than complain.” Or, as my mother observed, “It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease,” as well as “the poor will always be with us.”
This collection of groups gives all new meaning to the term victim-hood.
Who knew that there were Monarchs at Harvard, let alone enough to form a coalition. Inquiring minds want to know if the Coalition marched in the “No Kings” rally…..