BREAKING: Pollack endorses Plan B vending machines
President Pollack voiced approval for the proposal, stating in her email that she “support[s] efforts to expand access to non-prescription health care supplies, including contraception.”
President Pollack voiced approval for the proposal, stating in her email that she “support[s] efforts to expand access to non-prescription health care supplies, including contraception.”
In recent years, Cornell’s shared governance has taken an odd path, trying to find consensus between all five governing bodies on issues that don’t necessarily concern each one—the SA, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Faculty Senate, Employee Assembly (EA), and the University Assembly (UA)
On February 15, the Faculty Senate debated three resolutions, subject to an electronic vote after its hybrid in-person and Zoom meeting. Voting is now closed, and the Dean of the Faculty announced that all three resolutions were adopted.
On March 8th, the Cornell Review will be hosting alumnus Stephen Einhorn ‘64 to talk about climate change.
At the meeting last Tuesday, the UA approved the motion without much discussion or debate. Cady described the process as “very quick.”
On February 21, President Martha Pollack met with the University Assembly to discuss salary struggles, TCAT service cuts, and the humanitarian disaster in Turkey and Syria.
“Our highest ideal as a society is enshrined in the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, and federal, state and local law, which is you do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity. And we are seeing that unfortunately, under the concept of equity, that there is outright discrimination on the basis of race.”
The UA requested that Pollack speak on the dire parking shortage at Cornell, and in doing so, she pivoted to the transit authority: “we know there are people who would prefer not to drive, they prefer to take the buses, but they have been discouraged because of ongoing service issues with TCAT.”
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