Gov. Hochul Announces Budget Agreement
Of interest to Cornell, authorized capital spending includes $2.4 billion for transformation, maintenance, and preservation projects at SUNY and CUNY campuses across the state.
Student Assembly
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Cornell’s free speech revival is far from complete, and not all of the recent developments are good.
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UA Stalls Again on Resolution 7, Declines to Include Language Prohibiting “Heckler’s Veto”
Representatives debated “free speech absolutist language,” rejected including an anti-heckler clause, and wondered if the university can ever be politically neutral.
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Bill Maher ‘78 gives Martha “Cojones Award” for Defense of Free Speech
“Ladies and gentlemen, you know the Emmys, you know the Grammys, you know the Tonys, so now say hello to the Cojones!” Maher declared to a cheering studio audience.
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HEARD AT CORNELL: VP Lombardi Tells Student Assembly to Do Its Homework
Heard at Cornell is a column that regularly quotes important statements made by Cornellians.
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BREAKING: In Wake of National Backlash, Pollack Announces Year of Free Speech
Pollack began the announcement by reaffirming Cornell’s commitment to the “twin freedoms” of academic freedom and freedom of expression. Both, Pollack said, are foundational to Cornell’s identity and values.
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ACTA’s Steve McGuire discusses campus free speech
“Cornell is not alone in terms of having had an incident where a speaker was shouted down,” McGuire remarked.
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Freedom of Expression Between Students Needs Protection
Unfortunately, Cornell has instead enacted a complicated and much-misunderstood enforcement mechanism under Title IX and Cornell Policy 6.4 that regulates all communications between students — online, face-to-face, in classrooms, in the dorms, outside, and even off-campus.
