Speaking to a crowd of 1,200 at the “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in Ithaca, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez directly addressed the lawsuit accusing seven Chi Phi fraternity members of drugging and gang-raping a student in 2024. Ocasio-Cortez condemned university leadership for protecting perpetrators while the survivor had to sacrifice her Cornell education. She called out an administrative double standard where some accused students were reportedly allowed to satisfy disciplinary sanctions with essays while walking away with Ivy League degrees. Connecting the Ithaca case to broader systemic failures across elite universities, Ocasio-Cortez urged students to stop protecting toxic campus spaces and reminded survivors that they are never defined by the harm done to them.