As the student grocery store, now affectionately called Anabel’s Grocery, comes before the Student Assembly (SA) once again (though its proponents and the Daily Sun would have you believe it’s already a done deal), correspondence during the summer between former president David Skorton and the SA’s Vice President of Finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 has been...
The Student Assembly (SA) held its first meeting of the 2015-16 year on Thursday with a bustling and curious student audience of about seven. There is no need to bore readers with the parliamentary minutiae that dominated most of the discussion. The most striking aspect of the meeting was in fact what was not discussed:...
It seems outgoing Cornell President David Skorton’s last meaningful act as helmsman of the University has been to condemn the Student Assembly’s Student-Run Grocery Store proposal to “reconsideration.” I am most concerned about the long-term viability for such an operation given the extensive expense you anticipate up front and would want to see that plan...
Vice President of Finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 and Arts and Sciences Representative Emma Johnston ’16 have proposed to the Student Assembly (SA) Resolution 65, titled “Developing and funding a student-run grocery store.” This resolution’s abstract describes its intent as the following: “This resolution takes $400,000 from the Students Help Students Grant and uses it to develop...