The woman who accused seven Cornell University students of raping her at a fraternity house has weighed in on a looming faculty vote of no confidence in the school's leadership, saying the university's president questioned why she waited to report being assaulted - an alleged remark she said left her feeling "unsupported and disbelieved." The case of Jane Doe, as she is identified in court documents, has prompted student protests, renewed scrutiny of the university's disciplinary system and a state investigation into the alleged assault in October 2024.

In a letter last week to faculty leaders and obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, Jane Doe gave a secondhand account of a conversation from November 2024, shortly after she reported the alleged assault.

The president of her sorority told her that Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff had questioned Jane Doe's delay in reporting the alleged assault, which the sorority leader interpreted as casting doubt on her story.