Call it a coronation, not an election. With 22 positions on Cornell’s Student Assembly (SA) up for election as voting begins today and ends tomorrow, a whopping 13 will be awarded in uncontested races. In terms of SA relevance to students, this just might be an all-time low. And, despite all the student clamor and...
Students associated with the Asian Pacific Americans for Action at Cornell University (APAA) are demanding the University create an Asian-American Studies major beginning next semester. In a letter, anonymous students argue that, “The University must give Asian American Studies more resources, because students want to learn about these histories.” “The current program is crucial in...
The Cornell Sun reported that an email sent to the Cornell Law School student listserv on Monday by the Cornell Black Law Student Association (BLSA) contained an “offensive image.” The image in question was a “meme captioned ‘ABBA REE I CAN FRYYY’ accompanied a photo of an Asian man singing,” according to the Sun. A...
A handful of student protesters gathered on Ho Plaza Thursday afternoon to denounce Cornell’s policy reversal on the Climate Action Plan to achieve campus “carbon neutrality” by 2035. The student protesters, numbering about 25, took turns speaking about why they disagree with Garrett’s position. Then then went into various chants and slogans, including “Cornell, step...
On Tuesday evening Cornell University Police(CUPD) arrested Kelsey McBean in the McGraw clock tower after he reportedly stole a laptop from Olin Library and threatened to brandish a knife towards students. According to the CUPD daily crime log, McBean was referred to Ithaca City Court. At approximately 4:00 pm Wednesday, McBean posted on his Facebook...
Management of the world, unite! Perhaps that should be the new motto of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), after four seniors in the school penned a letter to the editor in today’s Cornell Sun complaining of the ILR school’s exclusion from the future Cornell College of Business. The four authors—Juliana Batista ’16,...
At approximately 5:30 pm, a young black male reportedly stole a laptop in Olin Library and was chased into and barricaded inside the McGraw clock tower. The unidentified suspect was later apprehended by Cornell University Police shortly before 6:00 pm. The thief was chased through Olin’s first floor by the student whose laptop was...
The Cornell Daily Sun’s latest staff editorial, “Failing Shared Governance”, calls on the Cornell’s Board of Trustees to divest the university’s endowment from fossil fuel companies. The piece is in reaction to the board’s recent decision not to divest and its creation of new standards whereby the board will only vote to divest the endowment...
Black Lives Matter movement co-founders Opal Tometti and Alicia Garza as well as affiliated activist Janaya Kahn participated in a panel discussion as part of Cornell’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture held in Sage Chapel. The event was highly anticipated on campus and in Ithaca. Ushers had to turn people away after Sage...
British comedy star and Provost’s Visiting Professor at Cornell John Cleese recently blasted society’s growing hypersensitivity and political correctness, particularly on college campuses. In a video for Big Think, Cleese, co-founder of the British comedic act Monty Python, said, “Sometimes when people are offended they want someone to come in and say ‘stop that’ to...