All students and faculty will be invited to a number of events designed to “build understanding and foster discussion around the freedoms on which higher education, and democracy, depend.”
We want to empower students, not take away representation and power from them. What good would it do to completely take away students’ representation?
It was unnerving seeing a crowd of Cornell students, some of whom I have sat next to in class, call for the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world. Yet, as the local Hillel students said, the rhetoric was “shocking, but unsurprising.”
President Pollack addressed the assembly for the first time following the high-profile rejection of Resolution 31, which would have mandated trigger warnings in classrooms.
Chants of “from the river to the sea!” and “occupation is a crime, from New York to Palestine” could be heard on Ho Plaza Friday morning. A group of around 30-40 students and adults gathered to protest Israel’s recent reprisal raid, which killed 6. Israel launched the attack in response to the killing of twin brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv in recent weeks.
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