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伊萨卡市议会周三晚间投票通过一项针对康奈尔大学的特殊活动许可临时禁令，并要求该校将“暴力性犯罪”的调查工作移交伊萨卡警察局。
据伊萨卡市市长罗伯特·坎特尔莫介绍，此项禁令适用于康奈尔大学、该校的男女联谊会住宿与非住宿组织、普通学生社团以及所有隶属于大学的学生团体。
禁令即日起生效，该市将不再为上述受影响对象发放集会、游行、特别活动及噪音相关的新许可。这项以9票赞成、1票反对通过的禁令将于11月5日到期，议会可选择按月延长有效期。
坎特尔莫表示，议会通过此项禁令“基于对伊萨卡市居民及访客的安全、健康和福祉的严重担忧”。
市议会还在周三晚间对禁令进行了修订，新增一项决议，要求“康奈尔大学将暴力性犯罪的调查工作移交伊萨卡警察局”。
坎特尔莫称，该市要求校方采取更多行动，“惩处、透明监管并预防校园内的性暴力行为”。
这位市长提出校园活动禁令，源于上月一名前康奈尔学生约翰·多伊提起的民事诉讼。该学生指控自己于2024年10月在奇斐联谊会会堂被七名联谊会成员下药并轮奸。
她在三周后向康奈尔大学警察局报案。该部门在一份宣誓证词中将其指控的摘要提交给地区检察官，但检方决定不予起诉。伊萨卡警方表示，他们未被告知此案。
在康奈尔大学平等就业机会委员会办公室的调查结束后，校方称其中两名男子被开除，两人被暂停学业至少两个学期，一人在任何处罚作出前已毕业，另外两人被认定不存在性行为不端行为。
在该女生提起诉讼且指控细节公开后，纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔任命州总检察长莉蒂夏·詹姆斯为特别检察官，负责审查此案。
在康奈尔大学校园内，学生们举行了集会和抗议活动，表达对校方处理指控方式的不满，并声援性暴力幸存者。周一，包括学生、教授和伊萨卡当地居民在内的1000多人聚集在一起，要求校方做出改变。周三，超过100名学生在食堂进行了长达7小时的静坐抗议。
康奈尔大学2025年的一项调查显示，超过三分之一的本科女生称自入学以来曾遭遇涉及暴力或无行为能力状态的非自愿性接触。超过49%的受访者称曾遭受性骚扰。该调查指出，宿舍和联谊会会堂等校园相关场所是大多数此类事件的发生地。
反对这项禁令的康奈尔大学研究生塞西莉·考克斯在周三晚间的议会会议上发言。
“派对本身不会引发性暴力，”考克斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
她批评禁令“定义模糊”，称其影响范围将超出必要程度。
“这项禁令不应针对所有学生，也不应惩罚与这起性侵犯案件毫无关联的全体学生，”考克斯说道。
坎特尔莫表示，该禁令的实施方式不会侵犯任何学生的宗教信仰自由、言论自由或和平集会权利。
包括萨姆·普尔在内的其他学生认为，这项禁令是该市向校方施压的契机。
“康奈尔已经感受到了这种压力，我们需要市政府维持这项禁令，直到他们真正做出结构性变革，”普尔说道。
“除非有人逼迫，否则康奈尔不会保护幸存者，”普尔补充道，“我认为伊萨卡市可以通过威胁校方在乎的事物——也就是他们的活动——来施加影响力。”
Ithaca council passes moratorium on new Cornell events permits, calls for city police to handle sexual violence cases
2026-10-08T09:31:20-0400 / CBS News
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October 8, 2026 / 9:31 AM EDT / CBS News
The Ithaca Common Council voted Wednesday night to pass a temporary moratorium on special events permits at Cornell University and called on the school to hand over investigations into “violent sex crimes” to the Ithaca Police Department.
The moratorium will apply to Cornell University, its residential and nonresidential sorority and fraternity organizations, general student organizations, and university student affiliations, according to Ithaca’s mayor, Robert Cantelmo.
Effective immediately, the city will not issue new permits to the affected parties for assemblies, parades, special events and noise. The moratorium, which is set to expire on Nov. 5, passed by a 9-1 vote and is designed so that the council can choose to renew it on a monthly basis.
Cantelmo said the council adopted the moratorium “based on substantial concerns for the safety, health, and welfare of the residents of, and visitors to, the city of Ithaca.”
The council also amended the moratorium Wednesday night to include a resolution “that the city calls upon Cornell to hand over investigation of violent sex crimes” to the Ithaca Police Department.
Cantelmo said the city is demanding the school do more to “punish, monitor transparently and prevent sexual violence on campus.”
The mayor proposed the moratorium on campus events in the wake of a civil lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell student, Jane Doe, who alleged she was drugged and gang-raped by seven fraternity brothers at the Chi Phi house in October 2024.
She reported the alleged assault to the Cornell University Police Department three weeks later. The department turned over a summary of her allegations in a sworn statement to the district attorney, who decided not to pursue charges. Ithaca Police say they were not informed of the case.
In response to an investigation by Cornell’s Title IX office, the school said that two of the men were expelled, two were suspended for at least two semesters, one had already graduated before any punishment could be handed down, and two were found not to be responsible for sexual misconduct.
After the woman filed her lawsuit and details of the allegations became public, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to review the case.
On Cornell’s campus, students have held rallies and protests to express anger with the school administration’s handling of the allegations, and to stand in solidarity with sexual violence survivors. On Monday, over 1,000 people, including students, professors and local Ithaca residents, gathered to demand change from the school. On Wednesday, more than 100 students staged a seven-hour sit-in at a dining hall.
A 2025 survey conducted by Cornell found that more than one in three undergraduate women reported nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation since entering the school. More than 49% of respondents reported harassment. The survey identified campus-affiliated settings like residence halls and fraternity houses as the location of most incidents.
Cecily Cox, a graduate student at Cornell who opposes the moratorium, addressed the council Wednesday night at the meeting where it passed.
“Parties do not cause sexual violence,” Cox told CBS News.
She took issue with the moratorium’s “ambiguity” and said it will affect more students than necessary.
It “should not be for all students and should not punish all students who have nothing to do with what is going on with the sexual assault case,” Cox said.
Cantelmo said the moratorium is not intended to be applied in a way that would infringe on any student’s right to exercise freedom of religion, speech or peaceful assembly.
Other students, including Sam Poole, believe the moratorium is an opportunity for the city to put pressure on the school.
“Cornell’s already feeling this pressure, and we need the city to keep this moratorium in place until they actually make structural change,” said Poole.
“Cornell will not protect survivors unless somebody forces them to,” Poole added. “I think the city of Ithaca has the power by threatening the thing they care about, which is their events.”
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