The Cornell Review sent out a request for comment to every candidate for the Student Elected Trustee Election. The following details the candidates’ thoughts on infrastructure, political representation and other key issues affecting Cornell’s community. The candidates’ remarks are preserved as originally transcribed, albeit with occasional edits for clarity and grammar. Ailen Salazar Ailen did...
Yamini Bhandari ’17 is Cornell’s newly elected student trustee, according to election results released by the Office of the Assemblies. Bhandari defeated Blake Brown ’17 and Sam Morrison ’17. Brown actually received the most votes out of any candidate, 2214, compared to Bhandari’s 2126 and Morrison’s 825. Due to the single transferable vote system used...
As we all know, the student trustee is the most important, influential, highly regarded, grandiose, and coveted position a Cornell student can assume. From day one until graduation, administrators, faculty, and fellow students tell us this. Why then was less than half a percent of the undergraduate student body present at today’s student trustee debate? Given all...
As promised in Monday’s liveblog, here’s the Insider‘s full recap of the debate and some final thoughts on the election as voting begins at 8 AM today. Earlier this morning, the Sun released its endorsement in the election for Student Trustee. Writing off the other two candidates I saw as serious contenders in Monday’s debate, Kat Balram ’13...
You’ve seen Nathaniel Rosen ’13 channel his inner Rebecca Black, laughed at the dance moves of Alex Bores ’13, and wondered why the guy in charge of yelling “WE ARE THE STUDENTS” seemed so angry. Now, they’re debating the issues in hopes of replacing Asa Craig ’11 as the only undergraduate on the Board of...
Alex Bores ’13, a recently announced candidate for the undergraduate spot on the University’s Board of Trustees being vacated by Asa Craig ’11, has taken a page out of the playbook of Student Assembly President-elect Natalie Raps ’12 and made a rap video to kick off his campaign. Perhaps looking to get on an episode...