Radiolab podcast from WNYC: “Into the No Part 2”
October 19, 2018
Into the No — Part 2, Hanna Stotland joins Radiolab’s conversation at the delicate intersection of misconduct, redemption, and what it means to reenter the world when your past mistakes have very public consequences. Navigating cases of ambiguous consent and institutional discipline, she shares her work helping expelled students reapply to schools and wrestles with generational shifts in accountability. Ultimately, the episode invites us to question: When do we punish? When do we permit growth?

The shocking details in a woman’s lawsuit against Cornell University, a fraternity, her sorority, and (most infamously) seven of her fellow students have ricocheted through the nation. By now you have likely heard the broad strokes of the case: “Jane Doe” says she went to Chi Phi fraternity one night, quite intoxicated, and two men had simultaneous sex with her (consent for the encounter is disputed). Later, one of them posted on Snapchat that there was “free pussy” in the house. What exactly happened after that is harder to parse, but now, Doe has brought a lawsuit against multiple entities alleging that she was gang-raped and that the crime was not taken seriously by the people that should have handled it. Read the article here >










