Bill Maher calls for end to frats amid Cornell 7 saga: Just ask the Catholic Church, ask the Taliban

Bill Maher blasted Cornell University, his alma mater, and called for the abolition of all fraternities amid the “Cornell 7” saga in a scathing segment on his HBO show. The late-night comedian had a sobering assessment of Greek life, saying: “Any place that’s all male, no girls allowed, just doesn’t function without depravity.Just ask the Catholic Church.

Ask the Taliban.” Maher, who graduated from the Ithaca-based Ivy league in 1978, added: “Everything that’s inherently bad about men gets worse if you put them in a fraternity.”“The drinking gets worse, the cruelty, the treatment of women, the tribalism, the peer pressure, the one-upmanship, conformity, segregation, nepotism, bullying, elitism and just general a–holery…boat shoes, for example,” he said on Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”“Human nature is bad, and the best we can do is create institutions that don’t make it easy to be worse,” Maher added.“And a great place to start would be getting rid of Greek life.” The funnyan is just the latest celebrity to speak out on the shocking September lawsuit filed by “Jane Doe,” a former Cornell student who accused seven Chi Phi brothers at the uni of gang raping her at a frat party in October 2024 after she was plied with alcohol and ketamine.

Her lawsuit accused the university of failing to protect her. The “alleged gang rape at the Cornell frat house is deeply disturbing,” Maher said.“But since it’s my alma mater, where I walked those hallowed halls for four years with so many memories, I don’t want to let my personal feelings get in the way…b ecause they’re all bad.“Cornell sucks and I f–king hated it,” he added.

“I’m glad to see them eating a s–t sandwich.It’s true.

Also, this s–t could have happened anywhere there are fraternities, because it happens everywhere there are fraternities.” Maher nodded to several fraternity mission statements that repeatedly mention th...