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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is the story that everybody's talking about, the
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  Speaker 2: alleged gang rape at Cornell University and the Cornell 7.
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  Speaker 2: And Natalie Migliore went out to find out what New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers thought about the case in her Beat on the Street.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, rallies are taking place across the nation
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  Speaker 3: in support of Cornell University's Jane Doe and other sexual
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  Speaker 3: assault victims. As Cornell students stage hours-long sit-ins and demand
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  Speaker 3: the expulsion of Chi Phi fraternity members who still remain
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  Speaker 3: on campus because the fraternity has been shut down, Jane
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  Speaker 3: Doe's attorney says his client is receiving death threats.
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  Speaker 4: And so there seems to be really.
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  Speaker 3: If you're paying attention to it, new details coming out
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  Speaker 3: every day and new allegations that he said that she
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  Speaker 3: said stuff. So what questions do New Yorkers have surrounding
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  Speaker 3: this case that stems from an alleged gang rape at
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  Speaker 3: a frat house in October of 2024?
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  Speaker 5: Is there anywhere where people can look to like, see
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  Speaker 5: like case details, things like that? Like, More witness statements
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  Speaker 5: from the girls if she was in a sorority. Also,
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  Speaker 5: what has Cornell actually done for providing a sense of
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  Speaker 5: security for the women on campus?
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  Speaker 6: Terrible that in order to get an education, such a
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  Speaker 6: school which is of great reputation and great expense, they
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  Speaker 6: have to risk getting raped. Disgusting and it's terrible. that
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  Speaker 6: it happened there. And I hope the administration is doing
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  Speaker 6: trying to do something about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, as Governor Hochul appoints New York State Attorney
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  Speaker 3: General Letitia James a special prosecutor.
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  Speaker 4: Cornell taps former acting U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review into
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  Speaker 3: how it handled the initial report. Cornell administration says it
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  Speaker 3: did investigate the allegations, saying it took the report seriously
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  Speaker 3: and escalated it to the Title IX process all those
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  Speaker 3: years ago. The chapter of the Chi Phi.
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  Speaker 4: Fraternity, why couldn't I think of that word, was closed
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  Speaker 4: in 2024 and remains open.
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  Speaker 3: Barred from campus so the question becomes could cornell have
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  Speaker 3: handled it differently.
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  Speaker 7: Do they really have an option uh i don't think
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  Speaker 7: so because it's like one you will lose funding and
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  Speaker 7: that's kind of what it is you know it's just
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  Speaker 7: like it's all money but what sucks is like even
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  Speaker 7: even using money it's like you can't you know it's
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  Speaker 7: like what are we gonna do boycott cornell like you
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  Speaker 7: know It's not.
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  Speaker 6: Going to happen.
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  Speaker 8: I think that's a systemic problem. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 8: just Cornell that handles things that way. So, if anything,
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  Speaker 8: there needs to be a nationwide movement rather than a
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  Speaker 8: specifically Cornell-oriented movement in order to address the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Now, a lot of people speaking out about it on
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  Speaker 4: social media.
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  Speaker 3: But what's the deal with people not being able to
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  Speaker 3: address the situation in person when I approach them?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, the internet.
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  Speaker 7: It's to contain people's discontent in general. You know, that's
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  Speaker 7: why most things, political action, maintains itself on social media.
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  Speaker 3: Well, either way, it's a delicate topic that leaves people
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  Speaker 3: frustrated but feeling as though there's nothing they can necessarily do.
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  Speaker 7: Violence is normalized. Displacement is normalized. If it ever gets
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  Speaker 7: covered in death by the mainstream media, at that point
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  Speaker 7: it's already gotten to the point where it's politically safe
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  Speaker 7: for the party, the state party.
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  Speaker 5: Knowing that this happens on school regularly, I mean, this
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  Speaker 5: stuff with the fraternities and stuff, it's not new. So
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  Speaker 5: knowing that school isn't even a place that you can
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  Speaker 5: find safety is crazy.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's been that way for a very long time,
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  Speaker 8: a very long time. I think, if anything, people are
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  Speaker 8: just speaking out more now than they did before. And
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  Speaker 8: we have to get to the bottom of the white
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  Speaker 8: privileged male issue. Although they weren't all white, we have
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  Speaker 8: to get to the bottom of that issue.
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  Speaker 1: How did she all of a sudden inject that into
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  Speaker 1: the discussion?
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  Speaker 2: White privilege? It's... They weren't all white.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And we haven't heard anybody mention that in all the
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  Speaker 1: days leading up to this. But you had to find
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  Speaker 1: the one SWA sister with an attitude who had to
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  Speaker 1: inject race into this discussion.
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  Speaker 2: It probably isn't the only person. There's some people that
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  Speaker 2: have agendas and it comes into everything you talk about.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a shame. I was really taken by very
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  Speaker 2: early on. There was a woman that said, where can
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  Speaker 2: we get more information? Where can we see this? There
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  Speaker 2: is a thirst out there to learn everything about this case,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously they can't put out everything right now. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to go to trial. And they can't now discriminate
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  Speaker 2: in the trial at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And also, there are places where people are putting out information, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: all over the internet. Cornell has its own information page
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  Speaker 3: that they update. It seems to be daily about how
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  Speaker 3: they feel they handled the initial incident. And obviously, they've
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  Speaker 3: now put Yates in charge of an independent review.
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  Speaker 4: So there are... I think you're right, though.
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  Speaker 6: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: anybody sort of starts Googling, you know, who Jane Doe
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  Speaker 3: is and they're trying to figure it out. And there's
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  Speaker 3: a slew of information, not just on who, what her,
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  Speaker 3: who her prudential identity is or who she may be,
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  Speaker 3: but also, you know, the messages that are tied to
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  Speaker 3: this incident that are also coming up, you know, Snapchat
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  Speaker 3: messages that there are pictures of, you know, what was
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  Speaker 3: discussed that night of, of this hours long incident. So,
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  Speaker 3: There are things that people want to know, and there
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  Speaker 3: are certainly more questions that I got on the street
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  Speaker 3: that I didn't have answers for because none.
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  Speaker 4: Of us have answers for it.
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  Speaker 2: And people are going to have to put forward everything.
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  Speaker 2: So just wait. Let the process play out because way
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  Speaker 2: too much stuff is leaking out.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question. I'm the only one of the
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  Speaker 1: four of us who has not gone to college. I
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  Speaker 1: speak at colleges. And when I walk the campus area,
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  Speaker 1: I always like to walk the campus area on campus,
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  Speaker 1: off campus. Whenever I make reference, hey, what's that house
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  Speaker 1: off campus? Oh, yeah, that's a frat. And they roll
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  Speaker 1: their eyes. It's like, apparently there's more eye rolling of
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  Speaker 1: frats off campus than there are frats on campus. Is
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  Speaker 1: there a differentiation?
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  Speaker 3: I went to a Jesuit university, Fordham university, and we
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  Speaker 3: did not have, we did not have frats. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: have Greek life, which was one of actually the reasons
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  Speaker 3: why I chose it. I wasn't interested in that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's so smart.
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  Speaker 3: So, and you know, we used to party at, at the,
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  Speaker 3: at the, uh, the sports houses, like the sports teams
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  Speaker 3: at houses, but, uh, We, there was never this, this,
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  Speaker 3: this verse or us versus them mentality with sports teams
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  Speaker 3: and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It was a different, it was different. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: that long ago.
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  Speaker 2: Sports teams that had houses. Oh, nothing bad's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 2: You were too drunk at the time?
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  Speaker 4: I plead the fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're doing a Dr. Fauci now, huh?
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  Speaker 4: You got it when we get into that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's really interesting what you got there. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're going to be doing a beat on
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  Speaker 2: the street for this in the near future as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as this story grows.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think that people are just so concerned
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  Speaker 3: about where this leads safety on and off campus around colleges.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And around the country. Right. Natalie Migliore is going to
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  Speaker 2: be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.
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  Speaker 4: With us.