All parties and other social events held in fraternity houses on the campus of Cornell University will be cancelled for the remainder of the 2026-27 school year as the university’s administration contends with a lawsuit alleging a horrific 2024 gang rape in the Chi Phi fraternity house, which has sparked weeks of protest on and off its Ithaca, New York, campus. Michael Kotlikoff, the institution’s president, announced the frat party ban in an email Tuesday afternoon.

“These measures will provide time for a thorough review of fraternity life at Cornell to determine whether and how it can safely continue,” Kotlikoff said in his email. The university will also be allowing New York State Police to investigate on-campus sexual assault allegations; CBS News obtained a transcript of the interview between campus police and the anonymous student who filed suit against seven Chi Phi members, who told them, among other things, “I can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped”; campus police reportedly never showed that transcript to the district attorney.........

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