Some Cornell faculty members say
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One faculty member called that a "silencing of Jane Doe's voice."
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Doe has
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The allegations have started and prompted as well as an over how it handled her allegations.
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The letter purporting to be from Doe was dated Oct. 14 and sent to Cornell faculty leaders.
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That's the same day members of the Faculty Senate began
in Kotlikoff's administration.
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In the letter, the writer says she felt "disbelieved" by Kotlikoff.
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The letter also asks the faculty be made aware of its contents.
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The writer says she's not trying to tell the faculty how to vote, she just wants them to have this information before they vote.
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However, three Cornell faculty sources tell CBS News New York's Mahsa Saeidi they never received the letter from university administration.
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"I think what's the most important at this point is that the Faculty Senate did not receive that letter from Jane Doe," Cornell Faculty Senate member Risa Lieberwitz said.
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Lieberwitz said because the Faculty Senate didn't receive the letter from Doe, they missed the opportunity to question Kotlikoff directly about it.
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"What we have is the silencing of Jane Doe's voice to the Faculty Senate when we were meeting and when we had the opportunity to ask about it," Lieberwitz said.
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The university says the dean of faculty sent the letter to general counsel for verification and then shared it with the independent review.
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"Now we have an administrator responding through a spokesperson who is saying this is what I recorded in my notes.
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And I think that there's a real question, once again, of transparency," Lieberwitz said.
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CBS News New York obtained a copy of the letter through another university source.
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It describes a conversation that the writer says was relayed to her by her former sorority president who claimed Kotlikoff questioned why Doe didn't come forward with her allegations sooner.
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The letter goes on to say that, as a result, Doe "felt unsupported and disbelieved by President Kotlikoff.
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CBS News New York has reached out to Doe's attorney, who told the New York Times the letter was authentic.
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"I don't think anybody doubts that the letter was from Jane Doe," Lieberwitz said.
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Cornell disputes the secondhand account the letter references, saying Kotlikoff was questioning why bystanders didn't report the incident sooner, not Doe.
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Multiple faculty members told CBS News New York the letter should have been shared with them.
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Lieberwitz said it was fortunate they received the letter before the second meeting to discuss a no-confidence vote on Oct. 24.
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As of right now, Kotlikoff is not scheduled to be present at that meeting, members of the Faculty Senate told CBS News New York.
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Associate Professor David Bateman of the American Association of University Professors supports a vote of no-confidence.
"Why I've come out in favor of a no-confidence vote, is simply that I was not persuaded after that meeting that the university administration is actually going to change its structures to listen to students and to faculty in a serious, deliberative way," Bateman said.
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Tuesday, former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, who has been appointed by Cornell to lead a review of the university's handling of sexual assault allegations, sent an email which CBS News New York obtained from a member of the Cornell community who received it.
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In the email, Yates promises to review the university's response to Doe's allegations and Cornell's sexual harassment and assault policies as well as make recommendations from its findings.
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All seven men accused of wrongdoing in Doe's lawsuit deny the allegations.
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Do you have a story that needs investigating?
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