A former Cornell student says seven fraternity brothers drugged and gang-raped her — and the university's idea of justice was making some of them write essays and attend workshops. Only two of the seven alleged assailants were expelled. No arrests were ever made. The victim dropped out. Now actress Florence Pugh is the one forcing the country to pay attention, because the institution sure wasn't going to do it on its own.
The lawsuit, filed September 16 in New York Supreme Court by a Jane Doe, lays out what happened October 19, 2014: after drinking at her sorority and a nightclub, the then-20-year-old went alone to visit a friend at the Chi Phi fraternity house. According to the suit, she was drugged with ketamine and sexually assaulted repeatedly by multiple fraternity members into the early morning hours, per TMZ. A Snapchat group called
