ELynah Forum

Per ESPN we are 22nd.

We have NPI.

# Team (W-L-T) Our Dates
 6 Qpc (3-1-0) 11/6, @1/16
 7 Uni (2-0-0) @1/8, 2/27
23 Clk (1-1-0) 11/20, @2/6
29 RPI (1-1-0) @1/9, 2/26
35 Cgt (0-2-0) 1/29, @1/30
56 SLU (0-3-0) 11/21, @2/5


SSDD.

How come when you report a burglary people believe you, but not a rape?

QuoteIf she really was raped, why didn't she speak up earlier? Why did she get drunk? Why was she wearing such a short skirt? Why did she walk home by herself?

God, it's exhausting, isn't it? Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without fail. People accuse the woman of asking for it. They question her motives; they scrutinize her looks; they attack her character. And without fail, she is punished for speaking up.

It happened to Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh, then a supreme court nominee, of assaulting her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. Ford and her family reportedly had to flee their home because of threats and harassment.

According to her lawyers, her email was hacked and she was impersonated online. Her entire life was turned upside down. Meanwhile, Kavanaugh was praised by Donald Trump and now has a lifetime appointment on the supreme court.

It happened with E Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her back in 1996. Trump said Carroll was not his "type" and "totally lying". His lawyer asked Carroll why she didn't scream during the alleged attack and why she didn't go to the police at the time. Carroll's life was upended and the Trump administration opened a criminal investigation into her.

Now we're seeing the cycle repeat with the woman known as Jane Doe in the Cornell gang-rape case. According to her attorney, Thomas Giuffra, Doe is receiving threats from people who have discovered her identity and is terrified for her safety. Doe was even the victim of a swatting episode this week, a form of harassment where someone places a false call to emergency services with the goal of sending armed officers to the victim's location. Giuffra told CNN that officers pointed weapons at Doe's family after a fake tip about someone "killing people in the house" on Tuesday evening. "If you had a trigger-happy cop, or somebody had done the wrong thing, somebody could have ended up dead," Giuffra said.

Nobody ended up dead on that particular occasion, but Doe's character is systematically being assassinated. "What attracts women to those parties – late at night, like Jane Doe – to walk alone to a fraternity house and take her chances?" Caitlin Flanagan tut-tutted in the Free Press. "What she's really looking for is a man. And she has no idea how to find a good one." The underlying message here? She should have known better than to go to a frat party. Silly little girl: she was asking for it.

Rightwing commentator Megyn Kelly, who has been vocal about her experience of sexual harassment at Fox News and should really know better, went even further and attacked Doe's looks. "No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on with four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because, I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal," Kelly said on a recent episode of her podcast. "She's extremely beefy in like her arms and her legs. She has a whole video online talking about her cankles. And she possibly enjoyed being admired. This is how women make these mistakes."

Odd game.  Team defending one side of the field outscored the other 67-3.

Jake Tapper went to Dartmouth.  No word whether he played hockey.

Meanwhile, the bugs are scurrying out from under the stones.

QuoteEarlier this month, a captain on the school's football team posted, "Free the Cornell 7," on Instagram. The "Cornell 7" has been used to describe the seven students accused of gang raping a Cornell University student at a fraternity party in 2024.

More than 200 Piner students staged a walkout Friday to protest the lack of accountability that the student faced for his post.

Plenty more where he came from.  I wonder how they vote...

Colgate is headed for being swept by Stonehill.  That's... not good.

Bad night so far for the conference, but it's not over yet.

Quote from: ursusminor on October 10, 2026, 05:24:17 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on October 10, 2026, 03:14:52 AMMore Tappers.  Can another Fusco be long in coming?

He's apparently not related to the earlier Tappers.

That's not possible.  I've heard of three Tappers, they're all RPI hockey players, and you're telling me this guy isn't related?

Nope.  I don't believe you.  He's even the right age to be offspring.

It is a terrible event -- terrible enough to deserves a serious response.  People should approach this with the gravity it deserves and not retreat back to their comfortable hypocrisies which will result in nothing changing.

The threat of rape emanating from frat row was taken as read in the 1980s.  It was already an old saw in the 1950s.  And every year in between.  And nothing happens.  Why is that?

Shelve your tots and pears and address the real issue: there is a subset of young males on our campus who have been socialized that women are their playthings.  Not that they needed it: they took to the message easily enough.  And we all knew these guys going back to high school and even before.  They're a type.  "Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand."  We all knew these douches and gave them a wide berth.  But why were they there at all?  Money?  Jock ability?  They sure as shit weren't students.

Until we decide to blackball them from any more reindeer games, this will keep happening.  It's exactly like flooding society with guns.  What do you expect to happen?

Quote from: stereax on October 09, 2026, 07:45:12 PM

Quote from: jkahn on October 08, 2026, 10:39:02 PMFlames broadcast did a nice job of highlighting Castagna pre-game and then also interviewed him coming off the ice at the end of the first.  When the broadcast was tossed back to the booth, they praised his "mature interview."

They showed his parents too :')

I met his parents in Lake Placid.  Great people!  I wish Jonathan a long and productive career.  He is an excellent Cornell hockey ambassador.

Trying to think if we've ever had 4.  Don't think so unless I'm being an idiot.

Michigan has already scored 21 goals.  They have a guy at 4-5-9.

More Tappers.  Can another Fusco be long in coming?

Quote from: underskill on October 09, 2026, 10:15:43 AMSomehow I don't think a drug fueled threesome equates to resisting nazis.

Rape isn't bad I guess.

You folks are charmers, I'll give you that.  Frat material, I'd say.

The point, for "those of you incapable of understanding" -- A. Mintz, circa 1989: these fine upstanding undergrads are saying "rape is bad, m'kay," and they'll do anything to stop it short of inconveniencing themselves in the slightest.  Evidently they learned these values from parents like the respondents here, since the majority eLF opinion is you fight evil unless you have to go out of your way. 

OK, so far so NYT.  I'm sure everyone who so responds also feels they would be the White Rose if they were in Berlin in 1943.  But the truth is: no, you wouldn't.  You are why shit never changes, because while others suffer it is not, after all, an emergency, until it affects you.  This is exactly what Singer was on about when he said we're all monsters.  A paper I wish I'd never read, since then I've never been able to shake it.

So, like the rest of you assholes, I'm a lazy selfish monster too.  But hey, at least, I'm not a hypocrite.

Kids: don't be like us.  And for God's sake don't listen to your elders when they tell you to be sensible in the face of evil.  And yeah, I know, you will.  Cornellians have shall we say a very high frequency of this type of virulence, and it's why nothing will ever get fixed.  But now you've been told, so maybe on your death bed you'll think "I prolly should have listened to that handsome man."

Quote from: TimV on October 09, 2026, 01:51:16 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on October 07, 2026, 06:02:00 PMMaybe countenancing the rape culture of jocks and fraternities for the last century?

I agree that something MUST be done.  You start.  Tear up your hockey tickets and demand to have your name removed from the season ticket list.

This is too stupid to respond to, but for the record I have not given a dollar to Cornell in over 20 years.