🇺🇸⚡️- UnHerd Magazine obtained the written record of the Title IX court hearing against one of the Cornell 7, Scott Kretzchmar. The account of the hearing, which took place on May 15th, 2025, reads like a Fox News parody of how a university court operates.

The hearing, held over Zoom, included the Title IX panel members against Kretzchmar and his lawyer. One of the first incidents in the hearing was when the attorney for Kretzchmar noticed that one of the panel members was not paying attention to the Zoom meeting, instead driving around in her car with the phone camera pointed at her face. The lawyer, Jeremy Saland, immediately sent letters of protest. Saland also noticed another panel member surfing the web through the reflection of her glasses during testimony from another frat member, ignoring the ongoing hearing.

Kretzchmar challenges his conviction this year and, in so doing, says that the now-infamous “free pussy” text in the frat group chat prompted him to visit the room to make sure nothing “bad” was afoot. He also provided a hair follicle of himself, proving that he was not high on ketamine during the incident, clearing him of the charge that he snorted it off Craig’s naked body.

Despite this, the Title IX court continued to pursue action against Kretzchmar. Kretzchmar was eventually cleared of the rape charge; however, he was found guilty of “attempted sexual exploitation,” a charge that was never previously brought in this hearing and was added after the fact in order to secure at least some conviction, despite him proving he was cleared of wrongdoing on the other charges. The university also did not notify Kretzchmar of this charge, despite clear legal obligations to do so.

This is just a snapshot of how these Title IX courts operate. They have been a topic of discussion for well over a decade now, since the Obama Admin. Trump has issued multiple executive orders, in both his first term and his second, trying to clamp down on the range of Title IX on campuses.

In the next post, we will go over the police statement in particular and why, under New York State law, it was impossible to bring charges.