Sexual violence at US universities: young, male, drunk – and prone to violence?

“Shop still open?” This message from a group chat hides cruelty. Seven men are said to have drugged a student and raped her for hours; The alleged crime occurred in October 2024 at the elite Cornell University in the US state of New York. According to a civil lawsuit and research by US media, the men, their fellow students, were apparently writing in a Snapchat group of their Chi Phi fraternity. There is “free pussy” in the fraternity house, one wrote. Another one, you could just come over and get your cock out. The chat group had 57 members. Later that night someone asked: “Shop still open?” – meaning: Is the shop still open, are the goods still available? Another answered yes. None of the men came to the victim's aid.