In just 15 hours, Cornell student Jonah Okike-Hephzibah successfully raised more than the $14,000 he needed in tuition payments to remain at Cornell this semester on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe. Okike-Hephzibah explains on his page that he is a “first-generation undocumented minority student from a single-parent home shared with my 5 siblings” who was...
As the student grocery store, now affectionately called Anabel’s Grocery, comes before the Student Assembly (SA) once again (though its proponents and the Daily Sun would have you believe it’s already a done deal), correspondence during the summer between former president David Skorton and the SA’s Vice President of Finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 has been...
The Student Assembly (SA) held its first meeting of the 2015-16 year on Thursday with a bustling and curious student audience of about seven. There is no need to bore readers with the parliamentary minutiae that dominated most of the discussion. The most striking aspect of the meeting was in fact what was not discussed:...
It seems outgoing Cornell President David Skorton’s last meaningful act as helmsman of the University has been to condemn the Student Assembly’s Student-Run Grocery Store proposal to “reconsideration.” I am most concerned about the long-term viability for such an operation given the extensive expense you anticipate up front and would want to see that plan...
By a vote of 18-4-1 the Student Assembly (SA) adopted Resolution 65, which calls for the creation for a student-run grocery store to address concerns regarding food insecurity on campus. That is, a majority of SA members voted to decrease emergency financial aid, possibly decrease students’ normal financial aid packages, and possibly implement new student fees. Their names are: Matthew...
The following is a guest submission from Max Weisbrod ’16 in response to “Oppose the Student Assembly’s Proposed Student-Run Grocery Store” published on April 23, 2015. With the new internship stipend program and a smaller endowment due to the funding structure of the Student Assembly’s (SA) proposed Student-Run Grocery Store, the emergency financial aid fund...
Vice President of Finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 and Arts and Sciences Representative Emma Johnston ’16 have proposed to the Student Assembly (SA) Resolution 65, titled “Developing and funding a student-run grocery store.” This resolution’s abstract describes its intent as the following: “This resolution takes $400,000 from the Students Help Students Grant and uses it to develop...