This past week two trees have been cut down and stolen from Cornell Plantations property.
The first discovery came on Thursday, Dec. 4, when a 12-year old 18-foot white spruce was noticed missing. Plantations gardener Phil Syphrit was cited in an Ithaca Journal report stating that this tree is worth $2000. Then just this past Tuesday Plantations workers noticed a 4-foot red cedar was missing too.
Cornell Plantations’ trees are considered part of an open-air laboratory and a “living museum” according to the site’s website and employees. From their website:
Would you steal a Picasso from the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University? If your answer is no, then you shouldn’t steal a tree or even a plant from Cornell Plantations.
According to Plantations officials, these types of thefts are not uncommon during the holiday season. There is a $200 reward for anyone who provides information leading police to the tree thieves.
Mandatory statements, mechanically recited as if prayers at the start of events or on departmental websites will persuade no one. Nor does the current land acknowledgement appease either the AIISP or the advocates of indigenous land claims.
All five of Cornell’s shared governance bodies—undergraduate, graduate and professional, employee, faculty, and university assembly—have adopted resolutions calling…
Today is the first day of Student Assembly (SA) elections, which are open until May 4 at noon. Accordingly, the Cornell Review reached out for interviews from each candidate for SA President and SA Executive Vice President.
The arrogant self-righteousness on display Monday night is exactly why we never will get an apology from Cornell. The answers the public did get are cause for concern.
