DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY: Cornell student paper blasted out names of alleged frat rapists — but scrubbed bylines of own writer accused of sex assaults.
Then-Ivy League student and Cornell Sun scribe Esat Braveboy was accused in a 2023 lawsuit of the alleged “drug-facilitated sexual assault” of multiple coeds.
Braveboy had already left the school by the time the suit was filed, failing to finish his undergrad degree amid the accusations.
But before he left, he had his byline on at least seven Sun stories, according to online archives and his own LinkedIn page.
Or at least he used to.
The bylines on the stories that used to bear Braveboy’s name now each read, “News Department.”
The stories written by Braveboy — who worked at the paper for more than a year, between September 2020 and December 2021, according to his LinkedIn — include a report covering a student assembly calling for Cornell campus cops to sever ties with the Ithaca Police Department.
Memory-holed.