At long last, Anabel’s Grocery Store is opening, and Sunday, May 7 is the fateful day. It only took a measly two years to set up a make-shift grocery store in the basement of Anabel Taylor Hall, but the campus is now eagerly awaiting for the singular solution to student food insecurity to finally become...
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Cornell Student Assembly Says No to Faculty Diversity
The Student Assembly (SA) struck down a resolution that would have requested for the creation of a committee to “increase and improve faculty ideological diversity” in a 10-11-1 vote on Thursday. SA President Jordan Berger ’17, who can only vote in the event of a tie, provided the necessary thumbs down to the proposed diversity...
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Rick Santorum Defies Rainbow Bandanna Hecklers at Cornell (Video)
Weather update: A sudden flurry of snowflakes fell in an isolated section of central campus Wednesday evening in anticipation of the Cornell Republican’s fall speaker event featuring former Republican Senator and two-time presidential contender Rick Santorum. Other chants went along the lines of “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Rick Santorum go away!” The event consisted of a...
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Cornell Students Debate: Is Football Coach’s “Big Sombrero” Tweet Cultural Appropriation?
Keeping up with the political left is becoming exhausting these days. On the one hand, Hillary Clinton recently said having taco trucks on every street corner “sounds absolutely delicious.” The mainstream media praised her awkward attempt at a joke and dig directed at a no-name Trump surrogate, and she didn’t come under fire from the...
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Cornell Republicans Get a Lawyer With an Interesting Track Record
After endorsing Gary Johnson for President, Cornell Republicans were de-recognized by the New York Federation of College Republicans. To most conservatives on campus, the Federation’s actions made sense. However, Cornell Republicans leadership was not not too happy about that, and today it was reported by the Cornell Sun that they filed an administrative appeal with...
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Cornell ‘Republicans’ Endorse Gary Johnson for President After Pressure from Cornell ‘Daily’ Sun
“True conservative” – a descriptor not even Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson would ascribe to himself, yet the Cornell Republicans declared him as such, and the only one of such running for president in 2016, in a recent Facebook post. The endorsement comes a little over a week after the Cornell “Daily” Sun published a...
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Cornell Student Assembly: We Have Too Much Money, How Can We Best Waste It?
SAy it isn’t so! The Student Assembly (SA) held its first meeting of the school year last Thursday, and the all-important first subject of debate was how to spend all of its money –- “too much money” according to Executive Vice President Matt Indimine ’18. According to this Cornell Sun report, most of the debate...
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Study: Fossil Fuel Divestment Would Cost University Endowments Billions of Dollars
“The costs of divestment would be substantial, while its benefits are uncertain.” That’s how Henrick Bessembinder, Professor of Finance at Arizona State University’s Carey School of Business, summarized his recent study calculating the costs associated with the growing call for universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuel investments. Usually, pro-divestment students stress the “symbolic”...
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Cornell Student Accused of Rape Sues University Claiming Due Process Violations
Suspended Cornell student Wofgang Ballinger is suing Cornell claiming numerous violations of his due process rights and to prevent the University from making a formal decision regarding his case. Back in February, Ballinger was suspended for an alleged sexual assault that occurred in his room in the Psi Upsilon fraternity house located on campus. Ballinger,...
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Cornell Student Assembly Calls for Mandatory Faculty Diversity Training
On Thursday Cornell’s undergraduate Student Assembly passed a resolution by a 22-1 margin calling for mandatory faculty diversity training. The resolution, titled “Towards a More Inclusive Learning Experience,” was based on a letter Cornell Black Students United (BSU) delivered to University administrators late last year. The letter read in part: “We want all employees of...