Some students at Cornell have created a new website called CornellFetch which allows people to vote on sorority girls on campus, and it’s receiving a lot of attention.

As of this writing, the site has received 2475190 hits even though it only went live at 1 a.m. on August 12.  The site also has registered over 400,000 votes.

Alex Greig of the Daily Mail UK reports.

Cornell University website that ranks sorority girls causes controversy

In the few days it has been live, website CornellFetch has garnered more than 1 million hits and resounding disapproval from the media and community alike.

The website uses pictures of Cornell University’s sorority members gathered from their Facebook pages and directs guests who enter the website to vote on one of two pictures. After that, another two pictures appear.

The site exhorts users to gain 1,000 points (10 points is gained for every vote) – although there’s apparently nothing to be gained by accumulating the points.

CornellFetch, begun by male undergraduate students at the Ivy League Cornell University in Ithaca, purports to be data-gathering experiment on ‘sorority hierarchy’.

But the website is being criticized for being an online ranking system where users vote on members of the university’s sororities based on attractiveness.

The screen capture below is from the conservative student newspaper the Cornell Review which has an interview with the site’s creators:

According to Cornell Fetch, its creators have received “multiple death threats, harassment emails, threats to reveal doxxed information, organized spam campaigns against our servers, and multiple MySQL injection attacks against our databases.”

Here are some additional screen captures of the home page:

And the site’s “Top 10” page: