Bill Maher stunned his audience after calling for all fraternities to be abolished in the wake of the Cornell 7 gang rape allegations.
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The talk show host, who graduated from the Ivy League in 1978, called out his alma mater on his show Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday evening.
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He closed the episode by addressing the alleged gang rape incident involving seven Chi Phi frat brothers accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a female student who has been identified only as Jane Doe in a recent lawsuit.
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The accused, Umar Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar, have not been charged with any crimes and deny the allegations.
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'Any place that's all male, no girls allowed, just doesn't function without depravity.
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Ask the Taliban,' the TV host said as the audience responded with a mix of gasps and applause.
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'Human nature is bad, and the best we can do is create institutions that don't make it so easy to be worse.
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And a great place to start would be getting rid of "Greek life",' Maher said in a sarcastic tone.
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Maher then listed all the negative aspects that he believes are associated with fraternities.
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'Everything that's inherently bad about men gets worse if you put them in a fraternity.
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The drinking gets worse, the cruelty, the treatment of women, the tribalism, the peer pressure, one-upmanship, conformity, segregation, nepotism, bullying, elitism, and just general a**holery - boat shoes, for example - and hypocrisy,' the comedian stated.
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Late night talk show host Bill Maher said that all frats should be abolished amid the ongoing Cornell 7 investigation
Seven Chi Phi frat brothers have been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a female student who has been identified only as Jane Doe in a recent lawsuit
The political commentator specifically discussed the case that has garnered national attention and a firestorm of backlash for Cornell.
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'Fraternity mission statements love to use the word "gentlemen"; well, in this current Jane Doe case, a young woman made a bad decision - as 20-year-olds do - when she went to a frat house drunk and did ketamine, and for that, she claims to have paid a price no woman should have to pay.
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'Now, no one there knows what happened, but I do know what a gentleman is: a gentleman, gentlemen, is someone who, in that situation, doesn't exploit the woman; he saves her.
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That's a gentleman,' Maher said as the crowd erupted in cheers and claps.
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Maher's guest, Republican North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, also applauded him.
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His comments come about a month after Jane Doe filed a lawsuit against the school, the fraternity and seven Chi Phi members, among other defendants.
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Ingalls, Newell, Lee, Lopes, Sarabia, Norris and Kretzschmar allegedly gang-raped the female former student at a frat party on October 19, 2024, according to the September filing.
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The alleged victim has claimed that the Chi Phi fraternity members engaged in sexual acts with her while she was incapacitated and without her consent.
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She also alleged that the men manipulated her into ingesting ketamine and alcohol that night, per the filing.
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Maher's guest, Republican North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis, also applauded him
Jane Doe, then a 20-year-old sophomore, first reported the allegations in 2024, but after an investigation by Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, no charges were filed.
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But after her recent lawsuit, the office has reopened the case, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul has tapped Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor.
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Since news of the alleged incident came out, a slew of evidence has come to light, including text messages between Jane Doe and the frat brothers.
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On Thursday, TMZ shared messages that allegedly show Jane Doe downplayed the alleged assault in conversations with Ingalls and Newell.
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According to Jane Doe, Ingalls had invited her to the house that night before asking her if she wanted to have a threesome with Newell.
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She agreed and was taken to a room where she was allegedly offered alcohol and ketamine, the lawsuit stated.
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Newell then sent a message to about 50 fraternity members on Snapchat that read 'free p****', referring to the woman.
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Other frat brothers then came into the room and allegedly sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated, according to Jane Doe.
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A female protester holds up a sign calling for fraternities to be banned amid the allegations against Cornell frat brothers
Thomas Giuffra told the Daily Mail that his client maintains her allegations and said that the newly released messages between her and some of the accused frat brothers did not suggest that the alleged encounter was consensual
In the newly released texts, Jane Doe told Newell that 'none of the sexual stuff was illegal,' and described the incident as a 'gangbang' that was 'our body our choice' in text messages.
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But her attorney, Thomas Giuffra, told the Daily Mail that his client maintains her allegations and said that the messages did not suggest that the alleged encounter was consensual.
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Giuffra argued that Jane Doe was showing 'classic symptoms of delayed recognition' about the gravity of the incident, meaning it took some time for her to realize that she had been the victim of an alleged crime.
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'This is a well-known phenomenon which is widely reported in medical and psychological literature,' the attorney said.
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'Most rape survivors do not immediately identify what happened to them as rape.'
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