ITHACA, N.Y. - A former Cornell University student who alleges she was gang raped at a fraternity in 2024 received a text-message apology from one of the brothers soon afterward. After initially saying she didn't see what happened as illegal, she became convinced within weeks that she had been violated, according to a newspaper report citing records from the university's private investigation.

The documents, as described by The New York Times, trace the woman's shift from seeing the alleged encounter as a dismaying embarrassment to seeing it as a sexual assault - one she then reported to campus police, discussed with the university's internal investigators and is pursuing in a lawsuit filed in September. The case has roiled the Ivy League campus and has raised questions about why no criminal case was brought.


According to the Times' report of records and statements gathered during the inquiry:

The day after the Oct. 19, 2024, party at the Chi Phi fraternity house, the woman got back to her room and told her roommates she'd taken ketamine - a powerful anesthetic sometimes used as a party drug - and had sex with multiple men. The roommates said that at that point, the woman didn't describe the events as rape or assault, but one roommate noted:  I don't really remember her ever kind of citing that she had said yes to anything that occurred,  the newspaper reported.

Texts between accuser and one of the accused

The following day, the woman got a text message from one of the men she would later accuse in her sexual assault lawsuit. He texted that he  just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night  and regretted that he and a fellow fraternity brother - also now a defendant in the woman's lawsuit - had been too intoxicated to  shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand. 

The woman texted back that  at the end of the day non of the sexual stuff was illegal  and that she had liked being with the two men.

But by Oct. 23, 2024, she was growing distraught that word of the episode had spread around campus. Soon, she saw a post in an onl

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