UA Codes and Judicial Committee

I have been a Cornell faculty member for a long time; I was even involved years ago in various stages of composing the Campus Code. I also have served as an advisor to student complainants in student-on-student harassment cases. The old campus code provides many protections for the accused and assumes that the accuser is the university. I hope that the codes committee will ensure in the new version that there are protections for student complainants. In one case in which I was involved, the accused caused great psychological harm to the complainant by successfully ‘gaming’ the system and, in fact, ultimately escaping any significant university penalty as a result.