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It's a no confidence vote. Let's talk a little bit
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more about what that means. This is West Michigan's morning news.
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Steve Kelly and Lauren Smith, Rory O'Neill, NBC News Radio
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national correspondent back. Rory, thanks for doing this today.
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Sure, Steve. Good morning.
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Let's get back to what's happening now with these rape
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allegations and its prosecution, I guess, is also center stage
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at Cornell University. Where do we stand today?
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Right.
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One of the interesting developments in the past 24 hours
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was this resolution by a labor history professor named Paul Ortiz.
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He wants the Faculty Senate to vote on a resolution
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of no confidence in the Cornell administration. No confidence in
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what happened two years ago and more recently, how they've
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been handling this lawsuit filed by a Jane Doe, making
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these very disturbing allegations. Now, the Faculty Senate will vote
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on this no confidence resolution one week from today. The
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other significant development in the past 24 hours, ABC News
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obtaining some audio recordings of phone calls that Jane Doe
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made with some of her alleged attackers. Some troubling stuff
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when you hear the audio, but again, it's part of
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a fuller investigation that really is getting new attention.
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Rory, is this professor saying the entire... kind of group,
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this entire board is a problem because at one point
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he's talking, you know, you get rid of one person
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and you bring a new person into a bad environment.
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It's not fixing anything.
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Right.
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Well, I think this is a, it's a signal to
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the trustees at the university, right. To try to change
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how the university handles these things. I should also note
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that the trustees also decided yesterday to bring in Sally Yates.
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She's a former deputy attorney general under the, um, working
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for the DOJ in the Obama administration. So she's going
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to come in specifically to look at how Cornell handles
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these allegations. She's not going to look into this Jane
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Doe case and whatever happened at the Chi Phi fraternity. Instead,
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she wants to see what the process is, how the
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institution handles or mishandles these kinds of complaints.
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Yeah, it's hard to, as a father of kids, those
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listening to the show right now may have sons and
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daughters far away at universities right now. I guess maybe
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there needs to be at some point a learning moment
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in all of this. And I just, it's hard to
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wrap your head around that too.
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Yeah, the frustration, and I'm guessing this is how a
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lot of women feel, is how many learning moments do
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we have to have here? It seems to be that
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it's one of those rinse, recycle, repeat kind of things that, sadly,
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these come up all too often. And these allegations and
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these horrible stories put forward by women, their tales tend
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to be ignored over and over again, and it doesn't
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seem to be changing.
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We will follow the story, let you know what we
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find out. Rory O'Neill, NBC News Radio National Correspondent. Thank you.
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Thanks, Steve.
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It's a no confidence vote. Let's talk a little bit
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more about what that means. This is West Michigan's morning news.
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Steve Kelly and Lauren Smith, Rory O'Neill, NBC News Radio
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national correspondent back. Rory, thanks for doing this today.
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Sure, Steve. Good morning.
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Let's get back to what's happening now with these rape
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allegations and its prosecution, I guess, is also center stage
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00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:24.179
at Cornell University. Where do we stand today?
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00:00:24.530 --> 00:00:24.769
Right.
10
00:00:25.050 --> 00:00:27.809
One of the interesting developments in the past 24 hours
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00:00:27.870 --> 00:00:32.310
was this resolution by a labor history professor named Paul Ortiz.
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00:00:32.670 --> 00:00:35.750
He wants the Faculty Senate to vote on a resolution
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00:00:35.869 --> 00:00:39.609
of no confidence in the Cornell administration. No confidence in
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00:00:39.630 --> 00:00:42.729
what happened two years ago and more recently, how they've
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been handling this lawsuit filed by a Jane Doe, making
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00:00:46.299 --> 00:00:50.179
these very disturbing allegations. Now, the Faculty Senate will vote
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00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.380
on this no confidence resolution one week from today. The
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other significant development in the past 24 hours, ABC News
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obtaining some audio recordings of phone calls that Jane Doe
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made with some of her alleged attackers. Some troubling stuff
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when you hear the audio, but again, it's part of
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a fuller investigation that really is getting new attention.
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Rory, is this professor saying the entire... kind of group,
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this entire board is a problem because at one point
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he's talking, you know, you get rid of one person
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and you bring a new person into a bad environment.
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It's not fixing anything.
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Right.
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Well, I think this is a, it's a signal to
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the trustees at the university, right. To try to change
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how the university handles these things. I should also note
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that the trustees also decided yesterday to bring in Sally Yates.
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She's a former deputy attorney general under the, um, working
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for the DOJ in the Obama administration. So she's going
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to come in specifically to look at how Cornell handles
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these allegations. She's not going to look into this Jane
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Doe case and whatever happened at the Chi Phi fraternity. Instead,
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she wants to see what the process is, how the
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institution handles or mishandles these kinds of complaints.
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Yeah, it's hard to, as a father of kids, those
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listening to the show right now may have sons and
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daughters far away at universities right now. I guess maybe
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there needs to be at some point a learning moment
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in all of this. And I just, it's hard to
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wrap your head around that too.
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Yeah, the frustration, and I'm guessing this is how a
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lot of women feel, is how many learning moments do
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we have to have here? It seems to be that
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it's one of those rinse, recycle, repeat kind of things that, sadly,
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these come up all too often. And these allegations and
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these horrible stories put forward by women, their tales tend
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to be ignored over and over again, and it doesn't
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seem to be changing.
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We will follow the story, let you know what we
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find out. Rory O'Neill, NBC News Radio National Correspondent. Thank you.
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Thanks, Steve.
