Racial discrimination in college admissions has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Now is the time for unity and levelheaded conversation about the best way forward for Cornell.
Resolution 31 is an embarrassment, particularly for students. In fact, this debacle is only an embarrassment for Cornell insofar as how poorly it reflects on the caliber of Cornell students. Cornell students, if the Student Assembly is to be believed, would give up their freedoms—to learn, listen, speak and engage—to avert even the slightest discomfort.
We will get things wrong, and our audience does us a service by correcting our inaccuracies. Such corrections are most constructively delivered in emails to the Editor in Chief or a response published as a Letter to the Editor.
The troublemakers in question should be ashamed of themselves. While shouting that Coulter’s “speech is violence,” they assault the very basis upon which the nation stands.
In our deeply polarized society, Cornell is drowning in demands that it take stands on the issues of…
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