Despite its work on day-to-day student life resolutions, Cornell’s Student Assembly (SA) garners the most attention for its involvement in contentious issues. Cornell’s association with Israel, tuition rates, and fossil fuel divestment routinely polarize students on campus. Accordingly, the Review contacted SA Presidential candidates Jeffrey Breuer, Matthew Stefanko and Juliana Batista to determine their stances on these very issues....
On Global Divestment Day, DivestNOW! manned a table on the Arts Quad and urged students to sign their petition which asks the University to stop investing its endowment in the fossil fuel industry. They also gave away free hot chocolate. The effort looked like a dud–no massive rallies, no speeches. At least Cornell students braved the cold...
Cornell students are gearing up for their latest push to make the university divest its endowment from fossil fuel investments. With the recent fall in gas prices, energy stocks have been hit hard. But don’t expect the environmental justice students of DivestNOW! Cornell to even cite this fact. Instead, their latest pat-themselves-on-the-back campaign features students writing slogans, non-sequiturs, and...
DivestNOW! plays dead at Day Hall on May 2, 2013, calling attention to the administration’s reckless disregard for life and penguins.