It has been five years since The White Lotus first introduced viewers to the beautiful beaches, complicated guests, and deeply dysfunctional vacationers of the fictional resort. The first season transported viewers to Hawaii, where the scenery and picture-perfect beaches provided the ideal backdrop for the chaos unfolding inside the hotel.
Now, one tiny detail from that first season is getting a fresh round of attention — the Cornell baseball hat worn by Shane Patton, played by Jake Lacy.
Shane’s character is wealthy, entitled, and decidedly oblivious. He spends much of Season 1 obsessing over the honeymoon suite he believes he was promised, repeatedly clashing with resort manager Armond, and generally making life miserable for the people around him.
“Shane was written as the polished product of that kind of pipeline: money, a brand-name degree, a reflexive sense that the world owes him anything he wants to take, and almost no capacity to notice the damage he causes while insisting he’s the reasonable one. The show used Cornell as shorthand for that,” a new essay on Thought Catalog stated.
The show’s creator, Mike White, used the Cornell hat to communicate who Shane was without having to spell it out.
“When Lacy asked if Shane could wear an Ivy League baseball cap, [show creator Mike] White suggested the infamously douchey Cornell,” a 2021 Vulture profile of Lacy, stated.
In other words, it wasn’t a random costume choice.
The renewed attention comes as university has been at the center of a national conversation in recent weeks following renewed scrutiny of allegations that a former student was sexually assaulted by multiple fraternity members at the Chi Phi house in 2024. The woman, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit last month, prompting the Tompkins County district attorney to reopen the criminal investigation. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has since appointed Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to oversee the case.
As new details from the investigation have emerged and the case has received widespread attention, Cornell has once again become a prominent part of the national conversation.
At the time, Cornell’s then-president Martha Pollack laughed off the publicity from the show.
“Let me just say that that is not the product placement that I would’ve paid for with that character,” Pollack said in an interview with BloombergTV. “But it’s just fiction and we’re just kind of laughing it off.”
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