A handful of student protesters gathered on Ho Plaza Thursday afternoon to denounce Cornell’s policy reversal on the Climate Action Plan to achieve campus “carbon neutrality” by 2035. The student protesters, numbering about 25, took turns speaking about why they disagree with Garrett’s position. Then then went into various chants and slogans, including “Cornell, step...
It seems the cold weather here in Ithaca is no deterrent to the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and non-student professional protesters. Yesterday afternoon—just one day after five Israelis were brutally slaughtered by machete-wielding Palestinian “lone wolf” terrorists in a Jerusalem synagogue—approximately 50 SJP-ers and at least one professional protester descended upon Ho Plaza to deliver the...
In the mid to late 1960s, Cornell was at the center of the two defining movements of the decade: that for Civil Rights and that against the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, as part of the College of Arts and Science’s celebration of the university’s sesquicentennial (150-year anniversary), a handful of some of the most prominent...