Students across the U.S. rally in support of Cornell's Jane Doe

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Scores of students from New York City’s Columbia University and Barnard College protested outside the gates of Columbia on Thursday in solidarity with Cornell University’s Jane Doe, the former student who was allegedly gang-raped in 2024 at the Chi Phi fraternity house by seven male students who avoided criminal prosecution. The protest was part of a national day of action during which high schoolers, college students and advocates held walkouts, rallies and vigils in at least 40 states across the country in response to Cornell’s handling of the Jane Doe case. “The feminist student movement is alive,” said Ella Duncan-High, the national organizing director of Feminist Generation and a student at George Mason University in Virginia. “We are here because every campus in this country has survivors, and every campus in this country deserves a movement fighting for them.”