[FALL RECAP] Fraternity events suspended: Yet Another Turbulent Semester for Frats at Cornell
However, the administration seems to be quickly losing patience with the entire system. Perhaps the day is coming when the Greeks will be sent home.
However, the administration seems to be quickly losing patience with the entire system. Perhaps the day is coming when the Greeks will be sent home.
When you enter the Sesquicentennial Grove, remember those words inscribed on the Eddy Street Gate, “So enter that daily thou mayest become more learned and thoughtful. So depart that thou mayest become more useful to thy country and mankind.”
And it goes without saying, we don’t need to hear what another twenty-something thinks about an increasingly bitter septuagenarian.
On the night of Wednesday, November 9th, famed Cornell alumna Ann Coulter ‘84 attempted to give a speech on campus. However, she was prevented from delivering her remarks due to eight students who staged interruptions throughout the event. And yet, the story began well before that night.
We are humans first and foremost. Or, as the bus driver would have said it, “earthlings.”
On February 2nd, several Cornell student groups will be hosting Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Cornell is a centrally planned environment. For more than one hundred years, a single bureaucracy has designed campus with more or less one vision in mind. Yet on this constructed tract of 2,300 acres, Uris and Morrill Halls coexist. One cannot walk five steps without happening upon a new architectural style, sometimes radically so– all designed by one institution. Thirty minutes away, a place that looks more or less the same throughout has developed, quietly and steadily, without a single written rule.
All told, it was an eventful year at Cornell, with many developments that will prove to have a long-term impact.
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