BREAKING: Swenson Elected Student Trustee
Swenson promised to work on improving mental health services.
Swenson promised to work on improving mental health services.
Today is the first day of Student Assembly (SA) elections, which are open until May 4 at noon. Accordingly, the Cornell Review reached out for interviews from each candidate for SA President and SA Executive Vice President.
The Review interviewed the two candidates for the Student Assembly’s number two job: Executive Vice President. This article contains their responses on current issues and plans of action should they be elected.
Representatives debated “free speech absolutist language,” rejected including an anti-heckler clause, and wondered if the university can ever be politically neutral.
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The President answered questions about the Coulter disruptors, free expression, a graduate student workers union, and Research Training and Extension Faculty.
“Cornell is not alone in terms of having had an incident where a speaker was shouted down,” McGuire remarked.
Unfortunately, Cornell has instead enacted a complicated and much-misunderstood enforcement mechanism under Title IX and Cornell Policy 6.4 that regulates all communications between students — online, face-to-face, in classrooms, in the dorms, outside, and even off-campus.
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