By May 2026, Cornell's Title IX committee had held at least 12 hearings regarding the allegations.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
The at-least-12-hearings figure is well supported: multiple sources report at least twelve Title IX hearings in May. However, every source places those hearings in May 2025, not May 2026 as the claim states, and the passage itself says only "by May" with no year.
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… Title Nine is the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding and dictates rules around how colleges are required to respond when a student reports something like sexual assault or sexual harassment. According to The New York Times, by May, Cornell's Title IX committee had held at least 12 hearings involving these allegations in this situation. So Cornell now says that this investigation eventually resulted in what they describe as serious disciplinary sanctions, what they describe as things like suspensions and expulsions, and that the Ki-fi chapter that was involved in this is still barred from …
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Contradicts. Sources consistently date the at-least-12 hearings to May 2025 (May 2–29, 2025 per CNN; May 2025 per Snopes), which contradicts the claim's May 2026 timing.[1][2][3][4]
Supports. Multiple sources report that Cornell's Title IX process held at least twelve hearings in May, including a lawsuit-based timeline and reporting by Syracuse.com and CNN.[1][2][3][5][6]
Context. The source passage says only "by May" without a year; the claim's added year 2026 departs from the wording, though the posted date could be read to supply it. The hearings were in 2025 regardless.
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 5 not rated
- 1'Cornell 7' gang rape lawsuit: What we know about the allegations so farsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 2Gov. Hochul calls for review of Cornell University's handling of gang rape allegationssyracuse.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3A timeline of the Cornell gang rape allegations | CNNedition.cnn.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4The federal law aimed at protecting college students from ...wlrn.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Cornell rape case explained: Allegations, investigation, lawsuitdetroitnews.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6A timeline of the Cornell rape case, from the alleged 2024 ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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Related claims
- Jane Doe filed a formal Title IX complaint with Cornell University in January 2025.True
- Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten announced the reopening of a criminal investigation into the Cornell University sexual assault allegations on September 28, 2026.True
- The Cornell Daily Sun published the names of the men named as defendants in the Jane Doe lawsuit on September 21, 2026.True
- Jane Doe reported the alleged assault to the Cornell University Police on November 8, 2024.True
- Jane Doe's attorney stated that two of the seven students named in the lawsuit were expelled from Cornell University.True