Reminiscing on the events which transpired the past three years, one cannot help but notice how quickly many Cornell students, and more broadly speaking, Generation Z as a whole, have forsaken the liberal values of higher education. These events in campus politics have challenged long-standing principles, such as academic freedom and respectful discourse, and destabilized...
Tag: Student Protests
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Cornell May Day Student Protests: ‘F*ck America’, ‘F*ck Masculinity’ ‘Fight the Straightness’
Cornell students on Friday engaged in May Day protests across campus, marching from the Arts Quad to a street intersection where students proceeded to sit in the road for over an hour. There students and faculty took turns delivering short speeches and tirades covering a range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following: systematic...
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Mayday, Mayday: Student Protesters Take Stage at Cornell President’s Farewell Party, Jazz Band Plays On
Update: Video now available here. Approximately 50 student protesters marched into Barton Hall Friday afternoon to disrupt Cornell President David Skorton’s farewell party. The protesters marched across the gymnasium floor–filled with over 500 students, employees, and locals–waving signs and chanting various slogans, until ultimately settling upon the stage where a four-piece jazz band was playing...
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Professors Denounce Police Crackdown on Student Protesters, Chief Defends Actions
Police claim they are investigating a crime, but many Cornellians are beginning to think their civil liberties are under attack. As first reported by the Cornell Review, the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD) is cracking down on student protest organizers with threats of arrest, felony charges, and subpoenas for emails. Now 95 Cornell professors led...
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Cornell Police Mum on Claims of Student Protest Crackdown
Students associated with protest group Fight the Fee are claiming that the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD) is cracking down on student protest organizers. A lengthy statement titled “Communique on Repression of Student Activism at Cornell University” on Fight the Fee’s website claims CUPD criminal investigators have called several well-known members of Cornell’s protest community in for...
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Amid Claims of Police Investigations, Cornell Independent Students Union Declared on Bailey Plaza
“The future of education is here.” – Unidentified Cornell Independent Students Union speaker As members of the Cornell community descended upon campus this weekend to celebrate Cornell’s sesquicentennial and Charter Weekend, about 70 students gathered in Bailey Plaza this afternoon to declare the formation of the Cornell Independent Students’ Union (CISU). CISU describes itself as...
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‘Articulating the Threat’ — Campus Prepares to Protest Board of Trustees
Antagonism towards the University’s Board of Trustees among a growing contingent of students is boiling over. The campus’s leftist umbrella organization, Save the Pass, which was responsible for the Fight the Fee protests, is planning a protest called “Welcome the Trustees” next Thursday on Ho Plaza. The protest leader, Daniel Marshall ’15, penned an op-ed...
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Students for Justice in Palestine at Cornell Stage Anti-Israel Protest
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...