Cornell is a very large school with diversity of income, race, nationality, similar to the United States melting pot.
I applaud the new President of Cornell for taking it seriously, but frankly this is a cultural problem that can happen anywhere. Many users of this site are researching where to apply/attend, and the PR related to a very few high profile cases at a very few schools causes undue concern. There are racial incidents and rapes at colleges all over the country, but when it’s a well known school like Cornell, UNC, Duke etc, gets more press. Plain and simple.
Very difficult for a school of that size (maybe any size) to screen people and weed out such potential racists/rapists etc,
even when there is data to support keeping them out. I know someone who was kicked out of a major state undergrad school for bad behavior, somehow was allowed to transfer to my undergrad school, where he continue to terrorize others until we was caught and punished yet again. Years later I read about this individual, in an article about how his employees were picketing his business for terrible treatment. I noted that he ended up getting a masters from Cornell.
Three schools accepted this social deviant. We are too protective of the rights of the guilty, and they are allowed to carry on with their lives and bring their bad behavior with them.