BREAKING: Cornell freshman leads in Ithaca Democratic primary
Ithaca’s Common Council primaries are being contested by numerous Cornellians, including freshman Clyde Lederman, who is currently winning.
Local Politics
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Cornell Freshman Declares Bid for Ithaca Common Council
Lederman believes Ithaca has incredible potential; however, he believes the local government must be aggressive in pursuing new solutions to the problems faced by the local community, eschewing the ‘go slow’ attitude of other politicians.
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Does Zoning Kill Dreams?
Cornell is a centrally planned environment. For more than one hundred years, a single bureaucracy has designed campus with more or less one vision in mind. Yet on this constructed tract of 2,300 acres, Uris and Morrill Halls coexist. One cannot walk five steps without happening upon a new architectural style, sometimes radically so– all designed by one institution. Thirty minutes away, a place that looks more or less the same throughout has developed, quietly and steadily, without a single written rule.
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Do Better: Razor-Thin Margins Decide SA Elections
The March 17 Student Assembly (SA) elections do not deserve a laudatory article that loftily states that SA members will now…
