PERSPECTIVES: Scandal at Cornell is Symptom of Larger Social Woes

Soraya Chemaly writing in Unmanned: “All parents have a vested interest in safe campuses, but without early childhood socialization that teaches mutual care, consent, empathy, and respect for other people before students ever set foot on a campus, what we are left with is ignorance, conflict, anger, corruption, cruelty, and fear. Look where that’s led us.” Read her complete commentary here.

Concerns expressed by Chemaly and others, on and off campus, led to reopening an investigation that had been previously closed. See today’s edition of The New York Times. (gift article)

 

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