India, Oct. 6 -- This article contains reports and discussions of sexual violence, including allegations of gang rape and campus sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised.

On the night of 19 October 2024, a young woman walked alone from a bar to the Chi Phi fraternity house on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. By the following morning, she would allege she had been drugged, incapacitated, and sexually assaulted by multiple members of the fraternity while barely conscious.

Two years later, the question that has convulsed one of America's most prestigious universities, and drawn in New York state's governor, attorney general, and the White House, is a deceptively simple one: what punishment is just?

Detailed disciplin...