Opinion: Cornell Should Earmark Its Donations to City of Ithaca
President Martha Pollack and Mayor Laura Lewis have negotiated a 21-year agreement to make a $4 million per year voluntary payment in lieu of real property taxes.
President Martha Pollack and Mayor Laura Lewis have negotiated a 21-year agreement to make a $4 million per year voluntary payment in lieu of real property taxes.
With affirmative action declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, it’s time for conservatives to spearhead the case against legacy admissions.
When one responds to an idea, article, or work of art in print, he is forced to engage with the content critically. The act of writing, for that reason alone, is a noble endeavor.
Construction at Cornell is almost a constant, but so much work in so many areas of campus is rather unprecedented. One cannot walk anywhere on central campus without being forced to evade some project somewhere.
However, Pollack’s message misses out on a root cause of the directive; a pervasive culture of self-censorship on campus.
A panel of law professors discussed the purpose of academic freedom in a Law School event that kicked off Cornell’s theme year.
Executive agency powers may soon be used to circumvent this summer’s landmark affirmative action decisions.
All students and faculty will be invited to a number of events designed to “build understanding and foster discussion around the freedoms on which higher education, and democracy, depend.”
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