2026年10月6日 / 美国东部时间下午4:37 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
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一群康奈尔大学前学生表示，他们被错误地与2024年兄弟会会所性侵指控联系在一起，在网上遭到诋毁和 targeted，他们希望校方明确表态，证明自己并非该事件涉案男性之一。
这些前学生均为Chi Phi兄弟会成员，于2022年和2023年毕业。他们称，网络侦探错误地将他们与骚扰行为挂钩，导致其个人和职业发展受到负面影响。
该团体的一名律师在10月3日的一封信中要求校方为他们以及所有在 alleged assault 前毕业的其他人正名。
“我们理解联邦隐私法限制了康奈尔大学披露个别学生的信息，我们并未要求康奈尔大学指出群聊中的具体成员，”律师亚当·福特在信中提及2024年10月事件当晚的Snapchat聊天记录时写道，“我们的诉求恰恰相反：公开确认哪些人不在该群聊中。”
一名化名简·多伊的女性起诉了康奈尔大学、该兄弟会以及数名男性，她称这些男子强迫她服用氯胺酮并对其实施性侵。根据今年9月提交的诉状，一名兄弟会成员在Chi Phi的Snapchat群聊中发送了一条粗俗信息，暗示一名女性在兄弟会会所的房间内可发生性关系，随后该事件演变为长达数小时的性侵。
当地地区检察官当时并未对任何人提起刑事指控。纽约州总检察长莉蒂西亚·詹姆斯现已被任命为该案特别检察官，负责调查此事。
福特的信中称，他所代表的男性均不在该群聊中。尽管他们都曾是康奈尔大学Chi Phi兄弟会的成员，但在 alleged assault 发生时，他们已经不再是该校学生。
福特写道，自一家专门曝光与该性侵案有关人员的网站将他们的名字列在Chi Phi前成员名单下后，这些男子便遭到了骚扰。据福特称，他们收到的威胁信息包括“我会找到你”“你永远不会得到安宁”以及“兄弟会的全部57名成员都应该被公开处决”。
10月2日发出停止侵权函后，该网站已移除了这些男子的名字。一名在推文中暗示自己在该群聊中的播客博主，在收到福特的信件后似乎也删除了相关帖子。
“他们中的大多数人已经遭遇了雇主和高等教育机构的不利处置，包括被停职，”福特在写给康奈尔大学副总裁兼总法律顾问布莱恩·怀特的信中写道，“我们认为康奈尔大学有能力纠正公开记录，发表明确无误的公开声明，说明2024年秋季未在康奈尔大学就读的Chi Phi兄弟会成员，并未参与相关的‘Chi Phi会员’Snapchat群聊。”
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这些男子还要求校方发出个性化的私人信件，“确认校方有证据证明他们并未加入‘Chi Phi会员’群聊”。
Former Cornell fraternity members, dragged into scandal, ask university to clear their names
October 6, 2026 / 4:37 PM EDT / CBS News
By Graham Kates Reporter
Graham Kates is an investigative reporter covering criminal justice, privacy issues and information security for CBS News Digital. Contact Graham at KatesG@cbsnews.com or grahamkates@protonmail.com
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A group of former Cornell University students say they are being falsely connected to the alleged 2024 fraternity house rape, and smeared and targeted online, and they want the college to say explicitly that they were not among men accused in the incident.
The former students, members of the Chi Phi fraternity who graduated in 2022 and 2023, say online sleuths have wrongly pegged them for harassment, leading to negative personal and professional consequences.
A lawyer for the group asked the school in a letter on Oct. 3 to clear them and others who graduated prior to the alleged assault.
“We understand that federal privacy law limits what Cornell may say about individual students, and we are not asking Cornell to identify anyone who was in the group chat,” wrote attorney Adam Ford, referring to a Snapchat message thread from the night of the October 2024 incident. “We are asking for the opposite: a public confirmation as to who was not.”
A woman identified as Jane Doe sued Cornell, the fraternity and several men who she says pressured her into taking the drug ketamine and sexually assaulted her. According to the suit, which was filed in September, a fraternity member sent a crude message to a Chi Phi Snapchat group chat suggesting that a woman was available for sex in a room in the frat house, leading to hours of assault.
The local district attorney did not bring criminal charges against anyone at the time. New York Attorney General Letitia James has now been appointed special counsel to investigate the case.
Ford’s letter says none of the men he represents were in the group chat. While all had been previous members of Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity, they were not students at the time of the alleged assault.
Ford wrote that the men have been harassed in the days since a website devoted to exposing people associated with the rape posted their names under a list of former Chi Phi members. The messages they received, according to Ford, included threats like “I will find you,” “you will never know peace” and “all 57 men of the fraternity deserve public execution.”
The men’s names have been removed from the website following a cease-and-desist letter sent on Oct. 2. A podcaster who indicated in a tweet that they were in the group chat also appears to have deleted the post after receiving a letter from Ford.
“Most of them have had their employers and higher education institutions take
adverse actions against them, including being placed on leave,” Ford wrote in the letter, which was addressed to Brian White, Cornell’s vice president and general counsel. “We believe Cornell is uniquely situated to correct the public record with a clear and unambiguous public statement that members of the Chi Phi fraternity who were not enrolled at Cornell during the fall of 2024 were not on the relevant ‘Chi Phi Actives’ Snapchat group chat.”
A spokesperson for the school did not immediately respond to CBS News’ request for comment.
The men have also asked for individualized private letters “confirming that the University has information proving they were not members of the Chi Phi Actives group chat.”
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