Slotkin on alleged rape at her alma mater, Cornell: 'We've lost our way'

Elissa Slotkin went to Cornell. She knows the place well enough to recognize something is rotten there. A lawsuit filed this month says seven fraternity members gang-raped a fellow student in 2024, and the university allegedly spent more energy managing the fallout than protecting the victim. Slotkin's verdict is blunt: "We've lost our way." That is an understatement.

Cornell chose image management over justice. The same left that demands we believe women in nearly every public accusation suddenly goes quiet when the accused are wearing Greek letters. This isn't about nuance. It's about power. Campus administrators don't answer to students. They answer to donors, alumni, and their own reputations. The victim was an inconvenience. The fraternity was a problem to be handled. That's not a moral failure, it's a business model, and it's been running these institutions for years.

Slotkin deserves some credit for saying this out loud. She's a Democrat, but she's telling the truth about what her own side has built. The same Title IX machinery and grievance studies departments she has voted to fund created this mess. Her party spent a decade lecturing the rest of us about due process and "survivor-centered" approaches, and now a Cornell student needed a lawyer just to.

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