Cornell’s Board of Trustees rejected a proposal to divest the university’s endowment from the top 100 oil companies over the next 20 years. Instead, the board adopted guidelines to determine when it should divest the university’s endowment for “socially responsible reasons” according to Cornell Chronicle. Only when a company’s actions are “morally reprehensible” will the...
Antagonism towards the University’s Board of Trustees among a growing contingent of students is boiling over. The campus’s leftist umbrella organization, Save the Pass, which was responsible for the Fight the Fee protests, is planning a protest called “Welcome the Trustees” next Thursday on Ho Plaza. The protest leader, Daniel Marshall ’15, penned an op-ed...
You’ve seen Nathaniel Rosen ’13 channel his inner Rebecca Black, laughed at the dance moves of Alex Bores ’13, and wondered why the guy in charge of yelling “WE ARE THE STUDENTS” seemed so angry. Now, they’re debating the issues in hopes of replacing Asa Craig ’11 as the only undergraduate on the Board of...