On April 3, the organizers of Fight the Fee released a document titled “Frequently Asked Questions” about the Fight the Fee movement and “Welcome the Trustees” demonstration. The document mainly addressed questions about the protests, such as “Why disruption?” and “Why did you refuse to speak to the Chairman of the Board at the protest?”...
On March 18, Reading Town Judge Raymond Berry dropped criminal charges against 42 “We Are Seneca Lake” protesters. Members of “We Are Seneca Lake” seek to “engage in peaceful, nonviolent acts of protest, up to and including civil disobedience, until additional storage of LPG and methane in Seneca Lake salt caverns is halted,” according to...
Do Cornell students care more about electing their Minority Liaison At-Large than their Student Assembly (SA) President? The SA election results reveal that the 3rd place candidate for Minority Liaison At-Large Samari Gilbert, ’17, received slightly more votes than Presidential runner-up Matthew Stefanko, ’16 (1,475 votes to his 1,461). Only one of the two candidates,...
The March 17 Student Assembly (SA) elections do not deserve a laudatory article that loftily states that SA members will now turn over a new leaf, buckle down and get to work. No, they warrant thorough scrutiny, analysis and criticism. It warrants pointing out that, even after a year of new fees, administrative cover-ups and tuition increases, students re-elected ten...
On March 12, the Cornell Student Assembly and Speech & Debate Union hosted a forum for Student Assembly (SA) and University Assembly (UA) representative candidates. Once again, Speech & Debate Society members Nick Rasch and Jennifer Kim moderated the forum. Due to a number of uncontested positions and absent candidates, the forum primarily focused on...
On March 10, multicultural organizations ALANA Intercultural Board and umbrella organizations Black Students United (BSU), Cornell University’s Asian Pacific Islander Student Union (CAPSU), La Association Latina (LAL), Native American Students at Cornell (NASAC), and LGBTQ group Haven hosted a forum for candidates for the Student Assembly (SA) president, executive vice-president, and minority liaison at-large. Moderated...
Despite its work on day-to-day student life resolutions, Cornell’s Student Assembly (SA) garners the most attention for its involvement in contentious issues. Cornell’s association with Israel, tuition rates, and fossil fuel divestment routinely polarize students on campus. Accordingly, the Review contacted SA Presidential candidates Jeffrey Breuer, Matthew Stefanko and Juliana Batista to determine their stances on these very issues....
One Minute Run-Downs Presidents: Juliana Batista, ’16: Current Executive Vice-President of Student Assembly, co-writer of “We Were Asked to Be Quiet,” focuses on small, quality-of-life changes; increasing opposition to administration, increasing S.A. outreach. Jeffrey Breuer, ’16: Student Assembly outsider, focuses on combatting sexual assault; increasing S.A. outreach and engagement; improving S.A. efficiency; improving administration-S.A. relations....
Cornell alumnus, liberal pundit and media personality Keith Olbermann (College of Arts and Life Sciences, ’79) took college smack talk too far in the past two days. On Feb. 23, Penn State alumna Lisa DeLeon (@lisaadeleon) tweeted “We Are!” at Olbermann’s account with a link to a Daily Collegian article about Penn State’s Interfraternity and...
It has been a tough two weeks for student assemblies. On Feb. 9, nine Cornell Student Assembly representatives wrote a letter to the editor of the Cornell Daily Sun stating that they are “tired of acting as a wall between the students and the administration without being given real power.” Ithaca College’s Student Government Association (SGA)...