Cornell Giving Day 2024: Go Woke – Go Broke
Thursday, March 14, was Cornell Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraising frenzy when Cornell’s friends and alumni were called upon to donate to very specific causes.
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Breaking: Day Hall Updates Expressive Activity Policy
On March 11, President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff issued a statement announcing further changes to the Interim Expressive Activity Policy.
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OPINION | Return Conduct Rules and Procedures to Shared Governance
Cornell’s Interim Expressive Activity Policy debate highlights issues of governance and fairness in conduct processes, with historical roots in the 1969 Straight Takeover leading to shared student-faculty-staff control, recently upended by university trustees.
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Lecture Examines the State of Free Speech at Cornell
On February 1, 2024, Robert C Platt ‘73 addressed the State of Free Speech at Cornell in Myron Taylor Hall.
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The Futility of the CML
The CML’s actions this semester amount to nothing more than virtue signaling, or an attempt to show that they care without taking any meaningful action.
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Authors of Canceling of the American Mind to Talk
On March 5, 2024, Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott co-authors of the “Canceling of the American Mind” will speak in Room 175 Warren Hall at 5:30 p.m.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw Delivers MLK Lecture
On Monday, February 19, Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81 delivered a talk entitled “The Urgency of Intersectional Justice.” Her talk follows an MLK talk by Stanford Law School Professor Richard Ford, who argued that if the Supreme Court strikes down race-based affirmative action, the black community should shift its focus from “diversity” to an interpretation of the 14th Amendment that emphasizes its original intent to benefit black people.
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Cornellians entrust algorithm with Valentine’s Day
Over 5,000 Cornell students received “Perfect Match” pairings this week, a service designed by and operated for Cornellians to find romantic partners.
