Make New York Post a Preferred Source Cornell University’s student newspaper gladly grabbed national headlines as the first outlet to name the frat bros recently sued for alleged gang rape — but it also apparently had no problem scrubbing the bylines of one of its own staff writers separately accused of sex assault.
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.
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.
The Sun recently made news when it became the first outlet to publish the names of the “Cornell 7,” the fraternity brothers tied to an alleged on-campus gang rape, in a editorial.
The men’s names had been listed in a Sept. 16 lawsuit filed against them by their anonymous accuser, although they have yet to be charged with a crime. The Post broke the story of the lawsuit.
“We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University’s concealment,” the paper wrote to the accused students.
The blistering editorial in September announced that the paper’s editors “refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.”
When the 2023 lawsuit was filed involving former staffer Braveboy, the outlet appears to have not covered it at all.
The Sun’s website also appears to have scrubbed any mention of Braveboy, aside from a contributing reporting tagline in a student column about renaming Cornell’s English department from “English” to its current iteration of “Literatures in English.”
The Daily Sun did not respond to Post requests for comment and clarification.
A new story on the transition listed on Braveboy’s LinkedIn, as well as several archival sites, no longer contains his byline, either.
The former Ivy Leaguer is now a “game master” who leads “Dungeons & Dragons role-playing adventures for adolescents, encouraging critical and collaborative thinking,” according to his LinkedIn.
Braveboy’s lawyer did not respond to a Post request for comment but has denied all of the sex allegations against their client in court.
Braveboy’s other stories concerned student assembly votes, local elections and a Gofundme campaign for a since-shuttered Ithaca bubble-tea joint.
