2026-10-10
34 分钟Hey there, a quick warning before we get into today's show.
This episode includes descriptions of sexual assault and rape.
This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shamita Basu.
Today, why sexual assault is still a fixture on college campuses.
For the past few weeks, news has been circulating across the country about an alleged
rape that took place in 2024 at a Cornell University fraternity house.
Student journalists at the Cornell Daily Sun broke the story and covered the university's
and law enforcement's handling of it.
And just last week, the local district attorney's office announced that it was reopening an investigation,
and New York's Attorney General Letitia James was appointed special prosecutor.
While all of that's been going on, there's been an outpouring of people sharing their own stories of campus assault,
some dating back decades, and their anger at the inadequacy of the systems in place to prevent them.
I really can't remember since Me Too this level of debate and discourse and this level of passion.
That's Sophie Gilbert, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
She is such a prolific thinker and writer about culture, the internet, and gender.
And in a recent piece, she explores why reports of sexual assaults
on college campuses have continued to go up despite more awareness of the issue.
So I wanted to sit down with Sophie to talk about why this case has become such a flashpoint,
how online spaces are fueling threats against women in new ways, and what meaningful change could look like.