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BREAKING: Pollack Rejects Student-Led Divestment, Ceasefire Referendum
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President Pollack formally expressed her disapproval of the student-led divestment and ceasefire referendum in a statement sent on Thursday.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/matthewkiviat/)
President Pollack formally expressed her disapproval of the student-led divestment and ceasefire referendum in a statement sent on Thursday.
Patrick Kuehl ’24, who served as the Cornell Student Assembly president during the 2023-2024 school year, reflected on his term with The Sun.
Amid the current encampment occurring on the Arts Quad, The Sun looked at Cornell’s history of student protest against South African apartheid in the 1980s.
The Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution supporting the rights of student protesters following a conversation defending the Interim Expressive Activity Policy from University administrators.
Approximately 50 students staged a pro-Palestine encampment on the Arts Quad as of early Thursday morning.
Ann Coulter ’84, a controversial conservative media personality, made her return to campus on Tuesday with a talk entitled “Immigration: The Conspiracy To End America.”
Audiences largely did not disrupt Coulter. However, Prof. Monica Cornejo was arrested during the question and answer section due to disorderly behavior. At Coulter’s last speaking appearance at Cornell in November 2022, numerous attendees protested, resulting in the removal of eight audience members and an early end to the event.
In March, The Sun broke news of Coulter’s invitation to campus, which was spearheaded by Provost Michael Kotlikoff as an effort to allow diverse perspectives on campus during the current freedom of expression theme year. At the start of the event, Kotlikoff expressed it was important to allow Coulter to speak again — this time without interruption. “We’re here really to correct something that happened a year and a half ago when [Coulter] who was invited by Cornell students was prevented from speaking at Cornell, something that I did not attend,” Kotlikoff said.
Students say Prof. Joe Lerangís, the Glee Club director, has built a “hostile and exhausting” culture based on fear.
Following immense public disapproval of the University’s Interim Expressive Activity Policy, the Cornell administration updated the measure in an email to students.
The Student Assembly passed three resolutions on March 7 addressing ILR credit limits, course statistics and gender-neutral bathrooms.
Prof. Emeritus Faust F. Rossi J.D. ’60, law, who is estimated to have taught more law students than any other professor in the Law School, died at 91.