New footage shows a carnival of stupidity, hysteria, and rank defamation at Cornell

Cornell administrators belatedly put out audio and video of its October 14, 2026 meeting of the Faculty Senate, which readers may recall I tried to attend in person, but was relegated to milling around the perimeter with a gaggle of other mediocre journalists, as we waited for professors to come out and enlighten us about what went on.

Well, to absolutely no one’s shock, it turns out the actual meeting was a carnival of preposterous defamation and hysteria. What might be most striking is the utter absence of any remotely countervailing perspective. Even the Faculty Senators who registered tepid objections to the proposed motion of No Confidence against the University President and “central administration” (whatever that is) only expressed the most bare-bones requests for further information before acting. Virtually no one challenged any underlying premises or conceits, such as that there is currently an “ongoing crisis of sexual assault” ravaging this Ivy League university — a circumstance which has rendered the entire “Cornell community” deeply “unsafe,” and in need of urgent administrative interventions.

Claims of such a deep and systemic “crisis” mostly revolve around the phony-baloney statistic that’s been circulated so widely of late: that 35% of Cornell undergraduate females reported “experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact” in 2025, a purported factoid which, according to outspoken faculty member Iris Packman, is “the definition of rape.” So the working assumption, according to the most purportedly fearful and activist-minded segment of the “community,” is that over a third of female students have been raped with no meaningful consequence. Packman even asserted at the meeting that under the August 2026 edition of the Student Code of Conduct, “if you rape someone, you can still mitigate your sanctions by writing an essay.” Which is of course totally fake and ludicrous — but no one dared to correct her, as it’s not an exaggeration to say that the mere act of simply correcting her could very plausibly run the risk that one could subsequently be accused of “endangering” her and/or others, and/or making them feel “unsafe.” Nobody really wants to stick out their necks and do that, if they don’t have to. One current student told me over the weekend that anecdotally, sentiment regarding the veracity of the “gang rape” accusations seems to have shifted markedly in the past ten days or so, at least based on his personal observations — but even so, nobody’s really going to say much in public, and these taboo thoughts will mostly remain whispered in private, if they’re even articulated at all. Because again, who wants to deal with the headache?

Also on vivid display was these faculty members’ cavalier willingness to slime and slander the seven defendants named in the huckster lawyer’s plaintiff-anonymized civil complaint as confirmed “rapists” — whose very existence poses some mortal threat to the “safety” of anyone who might have the terrible misfortune of finding themselves in their vicinity. Particular fear was invoked as to the two defendants who are now back on campus — reportedly Gillio Lopes and Winston Lee, who were defamed the most outrageously at the Faculty Senate meeting. The biggest “perpetrator” of this defamatory onslaught was undoubtedly a person named Noah Tamarkin, Associate Professor of Anthropology:

Professor Tamarkin joined the meeting by Zoom to morosely ask the University President, Michael Kotlikoff, how on earth it could be the case that two of the men who were found to have “raped Jane Doe,” namely Lopes and Lee, could be permitted to roam around campus this semester; he’s heard from so many students and colleagues that the mere presence of these Gang Rape “perpetrators” in their midst has made them feel deathly “unsafe.”

POINT OF INFORMATION, PLEASE: Not even the shambolic Kangaroo Court Title IX process, which shouldn’t even exist in the first place, found Lopes and Lee guilty of anything close to “rape.” The brainless university bureaucrats running this fake tribunal had the option to give the harshest punishment — expulsion — to Lopes and Lee, but instead chose to temporarily suspend them, unlike the other two individuals with whom Jane Doe had her initial (consensual, by her own telling) sexual encounter: Matthew Ingalls and Jonathan Newell. Those two were both expelled, with Ingalls reportedly found “responsible for sexual assault,” according to the early wave of New York Times leaks. But bear in mind, even this “finding,” which was deemed to necessitate the most severe university-decreed punishments, would have been based on the “affirmative consent” standard that now governs collegiate sexual interactions. And “affirmative consent” has nothing to do with the actual criminal standard for “sexual assault” or “rape” — yet these concepts have been mercilessly conflated, including by a parade of Ivy League Professors, to impugn the seven civil complaint defendants as full-blown “rapists” — even though they’ve still never even been charged with a crime.

Here’s the full transcribed Zoom-based comments of Professor Tamarkin:

“When perpetrators see that nothing’s gonna happen to them, they’re emboldened. We’ve learned that in Jane Doe’s case the Title IX process found two of the men to have raped Jane Doe. But under this process they received temporary suspensions, and so like the other 86% of perpetrators, these two men are now back on campus, they’re attending classes, and freely interacting with other students. We’ve heard repeatedly from our students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as our colleagues and other staff, that they don’t feel safe with these men on campus.” — Professor Noah Tamarkin, 10/14/2026

What made his weepy little sermon extra damning and humiliating is that Tamarkin had to be swiftly corrected on the facts by the University President himself. “I have to say Noah, the two people you said have been found responsible for rape — that is not the charge, and that was not what they were found responsible for, for those two,” clarified President Kotlikoff.

So… what now? Is Tamarkin going to apologize for blurting out these false, reputation-obliterating statements in a public forum? Is he even going to correct the record at all? He had an opportunity to do so later in Faculty Senate meeting, but conspicuously declined. Where is the “accountability” for this “perpetrator” of peddling such defamatory garbage? Unsurprisingly, Tamarkin has not replied to my emailed requests for comment.

A host of other faculty members should also be “found responsible” for similar “misconduct” only marginally less severe than Tamarkin’s whopper of an offense:

• Andrew Moisey, an Associate Professor in the Department of “History of Art & Visual Studies,” declared that “every time… there’s a Jane Doe rape, it is not just a crime between seven men, but an act that by association dishonors all of Cornell.” Thereby declaring that all seven defendants conclusively committed the “crime” of “rape,” which Moisey apparently feels can be defensibly declared based on nothing but one huckster lawyer’s increasingly discredited civil complaint. Moisey also did not respond to my request for comment.

• Another faculty member named David — who I haven’t been able to definitively identify yet, due to the muddled audio, but would like help doing so if anyone can — ripped into President Kotlikoff with the following mushy-mouthed diatribe: “You went to the New York Times to talk about pathways to peace — you didn’t go to the New York Times to talk about gang rape when it happened.” Thereby, of course, he too presupposed that the “gang rape” did indeed occur as alleged in slimeball lawyer Thomas Giuffra’s civil complaint. (By the way, Giuffra has been waging a slimy behind-the-scenes media attack campaign against me — more on that later.)

• Corinna Löckenhoff, Professor of Gerontology in Medicine, complained to the President how appalling it was that he’d supposedly allowed one of the two currently-on-campus defendants to live this semester “in a shared room in a co-ed dorm, on a mixed gender floor, with a gender neutral multi-stall bathroom” — which she claims posed a “clear security risk,” for reasons she of course did not elaborate, but were just taken to be self-evident. According to Löckenhoff, administrators only took action to rectify the pernicious bathroom-related predicament “the day after Jane Doe was Swatted.” Assuming any of this is true as claimed, it would appear that Löckenhoff is spreading putatively confidential information in a public venue, but it could also just be bogus rumor — so who knows. Someone should totally ask her to clarify.

• Jennifer Colt, a faculty member who works for the campus library system in some capacity, bewailed that the President and his confederates “let criminal charges against rapists fall through the cracks” — thus taking as established fact that “rape” was actually committed, and that the defendants in the civil complaint have been credibly established as “rapists.” She also conclusorily called the alleged incident a “horrific sexual assault.” I emailed her to ask what independent investigation she’s evidently undertaken to reach such a firm, unshakeable conclusion — and moreover, how she determined that “criminal charges” were warranted in this matter, notwithstanding the District Attorney’s initial declination to bring them in November 2024. No answer.

• Trevor Dolan, described as a Climate Jobs Associate — whatever the F that is — Zoomed in to decry the “ongoing crisis of sexual assault” at this bucolic Ivy League locale, which he claimed was more than sufficient to pass a Motion of No Confidence against the University President, whether or not there is adequate information presently available regarding the specifics of “Jane Doe’s assault.” No response yet to my email, which asked him: “Is it your view that Jane Doe having been ‘assaulted’ can be taken as a matter of established fact, and if so, on what do you base this view?”

• Our lovely friend Iris Packman, who also happens to be an elected Tompkins County, NY legislator, proclaimed not just the moronic fiction that “essays” are still somehow considered an acceptable punishment for “rape,” but that it should shake everyone to their core that maintaining such an unacceptable status quo is “what this administration has done, two years out from the gang rape” — meaning she also takes the occurrence of a “gang rape” to be factually established beyond any reasonable doubt. (See my exchange with her last week for the mind-blowing inability she exhibited to defend this proposition with any coherence… despite herself being a lawyer!)

Other absurdities from the Faculty Senate meeting include Justine Modica, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, announcing that she is personally “paralyzed by fear,” adding: “I am so afraid to speak, I am shaking.” Shaoling Ma, who is described as “an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese literature, culture, and history,” decided to ask President Kotlikoff the following question: “Is rape a less destructive expressive activity than protesting against genocide?” Which is yet more evidence that some sort of Gang Rape Genocide has beset the unlikely setting of Ithaca, NY. Julia Chang, an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Studies, explained that her faculty duties include regular dealings with “first year, first semester students” — and they are “absolutely terrified” at the moment. They “feel unsafe,” she warned, because whenever they walk around a corner on campus now, they apparently believe they could be swarmed and gang-raped with impunity. Evidently, in no way does the perceived role of Cornell Faculty include disabusing their students of such wild delusions, if they do in fact harbor them, but instead to reinforce the reality-devoid delusions. For his part, President Kotlikoff has not helped the situation by repeatedly referring to Jane Doe as a “survivor.”

Perhaps the most touching moment was when Ariana Kim, a professor of something or other in the Music Department, performed some sort of dramatic self-revelatory poetry reading, to her colleagues’ sensitive applause:

What does it feel like when those who are meant to protect you do not?

What does it feel like when systems break down, and protocols are breached?

What does it feel like when accountability vanishes?

What does it feel like to be so steeped in fear culture that speaking up feels paralyzing?

What does it feel like to be gaslit into believing that harassment, bullying, and violence are your fault?

What does it feel like to be broken by another human being?

I can answer those questions…

So for now, while we all await the appropriate imposition of “accountability,” feel free to watch the below video compilation from the 10/14/2026 Faculty Senate meeting, courtesy of yours truly:

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