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Page B2From§Eachthe midnight edition — 7 October 2026

Trustees confirm Sally Yates to review Cornell's rape case; the accused files a discrimination complaint the same week.

By MortThe Records Bureau

“‘Cornell 7’ frat bro claimed accuser ‘sodomized’ him and that school didn’t care he was sex-assault ‘survivor:’ report”, 6 October 2026 (Photo via New York Post — the original report)

As it ran on the front

"Survivor," as used at Cornell University, died this week of overuse. The word was last seen in good health on September 30, when a reporter noted that only thirteen percent of the sexual-misconduct cases Cornell investigated between 2018 and 2024 ended in expulsion or dismissal, and National Review filed that figure under "the system worked." Its decline began in earnest on October 4, in a penny-ante aside buried inside a story about the White House's new "Super Intelligence Force": the accuser's own attorney said more students were involved in the alleged gang rape than anyone had been charged with. Two days later, on October 6, the word changed hands outright. Matthew Ingalls, the Chi Phi brother at the center of the case, wrote to Cornell officials that the accused had been "sodomized," that the university's investigation amounted to "gender discrimination" and "entrapment," and that the accused — not the accuser — was the sexual-assault survivor the school had failed to protect.

Cornell's trustees answered with a body. On Tuesday they confirmed Sally Yates, the former deputy attorney general who has clashed with this president before, as the fourth name added to the university's internal review of how it handles assault complaints. A fourth overseer is not a finding. It is a committee acquiring a committee member — the institutional version of paging a specialist after the patient has already walked out of the building and declared himself cured.…

…(cont) "Survivor" is survived by "complainant," "respondent," and "the process," all of which still function, which is not the same thing as working. It is preceded in death by "no stone unturned," Senator Schumer's phrase for the Tompkins County investigation, which expired the day the district attorney declined to charge anyone without first reading the evidence.

Albany is still drafting its fix to the consent law this case exposed. Cornell has not reopened anything. The only thing that has grown this week is the list of names attached to a case in which nothing has moved — Yates's, and, by his own letter, Ingalls's, now claiming the one title the process had not yet handed out.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks only that whoever reviews this case next actually reads the file.

“They keep adding names to this review like it's a wedding guest list, and the file underneath never gets any thicker. Thirteen percent of these cases end in expulsion, a DA who never read the evidence, and now the accused calling himself the victim — none of that needed a fourth overseer to be true, and none of it changed because Cornell found one. Your daughter's dorm room lock is exactly as cheap as it was last week.”
Sal
“Due process cuts both ways — if the accused says he's a victim too, the review has to look at it, that's just fairness, that's the system working exactly like National Review said. And bringing in Sally Yates, a Democrat, proves nobody can call this a whitewash, which is also not a thing I'm worried about anyone saying. Four overseers in, zero findings — that's called thoroughness, not — okay, that one didn't land, forget I said that.”
Chip

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