Two days before Spring Break, a group of student protesters marched into Statler Hotel and for two hours tried to infiltrate a Board of Trustees closed door meeting. The students chanted, danced, stomped feet, slammed on doors and walls, and screamed profanities at Cornell employees and trustees, but failed to force themselves into the meeting. Eventually,...
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Four Less Frequently-Asked Questions about #FightTheFee
On April 3, the organizers of Fight the Fee released a document titled “Frequently Asked Questions” about the Fight the Fee movement and “Welcome the Trustees” demonstration. The document mainly addressed questions about the protests, such as “Why disruption?” and “Why did you refuse to speak to the Chairman of the Board at the protest?”...
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Tom Reed Weighs In On Cornell Health Fee
Ithaca area’s Republican congressman Tom Reed published an op-ed in the Cornell Daily Sun Thursday night denouncing Cornell’s $350 student health fee. Reed writes:
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‘Let Us In’ Protesters Bang on Doors and Walls, Fail to Infiltrate Board of Trustee Meeting
Cornell’s 64-member Board of Trustees descended upon campus this week for its annual series of meetings during the month of March, and, as they held a meeting in Statler Hotel conference room Thursday afternoon, about 75 student protesters organized by Save the Pass and Fight the Fee pounded on doors and walls demanding entrance to the closed...
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Campaign to Tribute VP Murphy’s 20-Year Service, During Which Tuition Has Risen 156%
Fundraising going to naming a room after Murphy in expanded section of Gannett A group of alumni have organized a fundraising campaign dubbed “Friends of Susan” for retiring University Vice President Susan Murphy ’73, Ph.D. ’94. “Celebrate Susan Murphy’s 37 years of service to Cornell and her 20-year legacy of transforming the undergraduate student experience!”...
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Fight the Fee Teach-In
At a teach-in today regarding the recently-announced student health fee, Fight the Fee student leaders spoke at length about the fee, University finances, and the relationship between students and University administrators and trustees. The hour-long discussion, entitled “$350 is Everything: a #fightthefee teach-in,” began with a recitation of an original poem by Zakiya Wells ’17 on the role of radicalism...
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Fox News Interviews The Cornell Review on Cornell’s Student Health Fee
On Sunday morning The Cornell Review’s editor-in-chief was interviewed on Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel. It was the culmination of a week of reporting (story 1, story 2, story 3) and contacting various news organizations in order to get this story national. We would like to thank Legal Insurrection, Campus Reform, The...
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VP Murphy Reveals Where Student Health Fee is Truly Going, Gannet’s Debt Over $4 Million
During today’s modified Student Assembly (SA) meeting, Vice President Susan Murphy ’73, Ph.D. ’94 held an extended Q&A with students during which she revealed further information and several bombshells regarding the highly controversial student health fee. Seated next to two Forensics Society members moderating the Q&A on behalf of the SA, Murphy was immediately asked...
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Cornell Students Occupy Day Hall, President’s Office to Protest Student Health Fee
Around 150 students took over Cornell’s main administrative building, Day Hall, and University President David Skorton’s office Monday afternoon in order to protest the new student health fee. Language warning. The protest and protesters have rallied around the hashtag #FighttheFee, and are tweeting out updates from the Twitter account @FighttheFee. There is also a live feed...