The Ben Shapiro Show - October 07, 2026


The Cornell Investigation's New Leader, Explained

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00:00:00.000 By the way, the state of the law is really interesting.
00:00:02.000 So according to the Daily Wire, Amanda Prestigiacomo reporting, quote, in what may amount to a landmark decision for college campuses, a Maryland jury has declared a man falsely accused of sexual assault, the victim of sex-based harassment.
00:00:13.000 It's kind of fascinating, honestly.
00:00:16.000 There's a logic to it.
00:00:17.000 A male college student falsely accused of sexual assault scored a major victory for due process and equal rights late last month after a federal jury found the University of Maryland failed to protect him from severe harassment after he was falsely accused and ultimately cleared through the school's own Title IX process.
00:00:32.000 The jury sided with the falsely accused student, identified as John Doe, who accused the University of Maryland of failing to protect him from severe harassment, including a student led smear campaign, after he was fully cleared from the female students' allegations.
00:00:43.000 So he's saying, you know, what happened here is I was falsely accused of rape, and then the school allowed people to continue harassing me specifically because I'm a man.
00:00:50.000 If it had been a woman, they would have done something.
00:00:52.000 I'm a man, so they didn't.
00:00:53.000 This seems correct, by the way.
00:00:55.000 That case was heard before an Obama appointed judge named Paula Genes, and the jury found evidence that falsely accused man faced harassment that was so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive.
00:01:05.000 It deprived him of equal access to an educational opportunity or benefit at the University of Maryland.
00:01:11.000 And again, they said the University of Maryland was deliberately indifferent to the harassment.
00:01:14.000 And again, this is, this is right.
00:01:16.000 Jason Greaves, who's the lawyer, says, quote, this is the first case where a jury has found that false accusations of rape can constitute sexual harassment.
00:01:23.000 And the first time a university has been found liable for deliberate indifference to that harassment.
00:01:28.000 Now, again, this was not about the guy making money.
00:01:30.000 He sued the school for a buck.
00:01:32.000 And the ruling could set precedent going forward for a larger monetary payout.
00:01:36.000 Because, again, the idea here is that if you falsely accuse a man and that man ends up being run off of campus by the school, allowing people to destroy the falsely accused man, that's sexual harassment.
00:01:48.000 I mean, that seems correct.
00:01:50.000 That seems correct.
00:01:51.000 Despite his exoneration, John Doe said that leaders of the student organization preventing sexual assault continued to publicly harass him, orchestrating a smear campaign against him.
00:02:00.000 He was called a rapist, confronted in bars, shouted out, and ultimately, the pressure campaign succeeded in getting him kicked off his lacrosse team.
00:02:06.000 After the team was directly contacted and pressured to remove him.
00:02:09.000 And the university did nothing.
00:02:11.000 So, good for him and good for the court.
00:02:13.000 Again, that's an Obama judge who did that right there.
00:02:15.000 Put that aside for a second.
00:02:16.000 The fact that that cause has somehow been conflated with the Palestinian cause tells you everything that you need to know.
00:02:22.000 Here, for example, is a Cornell student, Adriana Vink, and her mom calling for Greek life to be ended on Cornell campus.
00:02:29.000 She is wearing the Palestinian kafia because it's all the same cause, always and forever.
00:02:36.000 We want any remaining brothers who are responsible for this off of campus.
00:02:40.000 We want any of them who graduated to have their degrees revoked.
00:02:43.000 And we honestly want all Greek life off of campus because, like you mentioned earlier, this is a serious systemic issue.
00:02:50.000 And the statistics show that it's more common within Greek life.
00:02:54.000 It's breeding this rape culture here at Cornell.
00:02:58.000 It's always the ones you most suspect when it comes to wearing the kefia.
00:03:02.000 The Cornell OmniCaus continues.
00:03:04.000 It's always the same, right?
00:03:05.000 It's all one big blob of we hate, quote unquote, the system.
00:03:09.000 Here are some of the protesters.
00:03:10.000 Film from Olivia Reingold here, basically declaring all the causes are the same.
00:03:14.000 They're all one.
00:03:14.000 It's always the same cause.
00:03:15.000 And in the end, that cause is against, quote unquote, the system.
00:03:19.000 And the rapist.
00:03:27.000 Rocky!
00:03:37.000 Again, it's just them chanting pretty much every left wing slogan they can.
00:03:40.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
00:03:41.000 First, truth is under attack in our culture, obviously.
00:03:44.000 People embrace lies about sex and gender.
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00:04:44.000 Here were the Cornell students chanting The Oppressive State is a Macho Rapist, which does not have much rhythm to it, by the way.
00:04:52.000 The Oppressive State is a Macho Rapist.
00:05:04.000 It's always the same.
00:05:05.000 It's again, it's always the same slogans at every single rally.
00:05:15.000 Well, Cornell has now named a deputy attorney general who you remember from the Obama administration, one Sally Yates, to spearhead a review.
00:05:23.000 The assessment, according to the AP, is to include how the Ivy League University investigates reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment, how the disciplinary process works, campus police responses, and more.
00:05:34.000 It doesn't matter.
00:05:35.000 It doesn't matter.
00:05:35.000 They'll hire a Sally Gates in an attempt to buy off left wingers, and it's not going to help whatsoever because, again, it's not about what happened on campus.
00:05:42.000 Understand, for the people who hate the West, who hate all the systems, the facts are an obstacle to the narrative.
00:05:48.000 They actively lie about things that happen.
00:05:50.000 They will actively lie about things that happen.
00:05:51.000 They will actively lie about what happened in Minnesota with George Floyd.
00:05:55.000 They will actively lie about a genocide in Gaza.
00:05:57.000 They will actively lie about Jane Doe in Cornell.
00:06:00.000 They will actively lie.
00:06:01.000 It doesn't matter to them.
00:06:02.000 The only truth is, as my friend Dennis Prager says, is not a left wing value.
00:06:06.000 All that matters is the narrative.
00:06:08.000 That is all that matters.
00:06:11.000 And well, now, the University of Arizona is about to suspend all frat activities amid a misconduct investigation, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.
00:06:17.000 The University of Arizona, which is a notorious party school, has abruptly suspended all frat activities campus wide following a surge in misconduct allegations.
00:06:25.000 The Dean of Students announced the immediate interim suspension after launching investigations into nearly half of the school's 21 chapters.
00:06:31.000 The investigations center on serious allegations, including hazing, assault, drugs, and alcohol.
00:06:36.000 The Dean of Students has some cases that are also under criminal investigation.
00:06:40.000 Now, one of the things that's happening, again, because there is an attempt to create an narrative whereby pretty much all women are victims and all men are aggressors, unsurprisingly, this means that the relations between the sexes are on the downswing here in the United States.
00:06:54.000 According to the Institute of Family Studies, some 55% of American adults aged 18 to 64 had sex once a week or more in 1990.
00:07:00.000 That number is now down to 37%.
00:07:03.000 Part of that is because fewer people are getting married.
00:07:06.000 Among young adults, 18 to 29, the biggest change occurred after 2010.
00:07:10.000 When the percentage of adults who reported not having sex in the last year jumped from 12 to 24%.
00:07:17.000 Part of this was people basically becoming addicted to pornography.
00:07:21.000 Part of this is the marriage gap.
00:07:23.000 But part of it is also that when it comes to male female relations, if the standard we are now setting up is that if you have sex with a person and three weeks later the person can claim rape based on the fact they had a drink, there is going to be a radical dissociation between the sexes that is going to happen.
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