Cornell President Understands ‘Responsibility.’ Jane Doe Should Too– thefederalist.com

We’re apparently at the part of this “Cornell Seven” saga where the Ivy League university’s president needs to go through a ritualistic struggle session, enshrined by the political left, and he chose the most fitting location: The New York Times.

In an interview published this week, Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff, surely having already tortured himself with grubby lawyers and P.R. midwits, said he was sorry for an incident he had no control over, the details of which are unclear (even the people directly involved are in dispute about what happened).

“I think that this is a problem that relates to 20-year-olds, 21-year-olds leaving home for the first time,” he said, “coming into an environment where there’s access to alcohol, where there is unfortunately in some cases access to drugs. And they’re not prepared. And of course they’ve been exposed to social media, pornography, misogyny.” He described the fallout of the “gang rape,” as alleged by a woman known publicly as Jane Doe, as “a challenge for us” at Cornell. “We have to respond by building character, judgment, responsibility, care for each other.”