On Thursday, Nov. 20 Cornell’s Africana Center hosted a speakers panel entitled “Resisting Domination: Theory to Action, Action to Theory.” The panel consisted of six speakers unaffiliated with Cornell, academia, government, or the private sector, but who all had extensive experience in that very vaguely defined occupation known as “activism.” The moderator of the panel...
In response to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri early last month, and the perceived racially-motivated circumstances surrounding Brown’s death, several student groups led by the Black Students Union (BSU) staged a protest of police brutality on Ho Plaza during the afternoon of Sep. 10. Compared to the anti-Israel protest staged by...
Written by Casey Breznick and Andres Sellitto. A ragtag group of students, faculty, and city locals associated with Cornell’s chapter of Students of Justice in Palestine (SJP) gathered in Cornell’s central campus Friday afternoon to stage a protest against Israel and Operation Protective Edge. The protestors stood in a crescent formation in Ho Plaza, one of...
A mob of about 100 leftist students overtook the Student Assembly to read aloud their previously-tabled resolution calling for divestment from businesses operating in Israel. The mob also made other speeches and comments criticizing university policies and the Student Assembly as non-democratic and non-representative of the student body. A confrontation with President David Skorton resulted...