Teresa Shoatz, the daughter of Maroon Shoatz — who has spent 39 years in the United States prison system, including nearly two decades in solitary confinement — visited Cornell Thursday as part of her countrywide tour promoting her father’s book, which advocates on behalf of those who are discriminatorily incarcerated and against social injustices in the prison system.

After a jury awarded a $2-million settlement to a white police officer who sued the City of Ithaca for discrimination, a federal judge has thrown out the damages and ordered a new trial to proceed, the City of Ithaca announced Friday.

A Cornell Information Technology employee is suing the University for $1 million for violating the Americans With Disabilities Act in a way that he says brought him “severe emotional pain and suffering, mental anguish, humiliation [and a] loss of enjoyment of life.”

Using places of worship as a stage for political protests makes a lot of sense, writes Emily Greenberg 13.

In a march that denounced the alleged racial incident at Sigma Pi and the reportedly inadequate response from the administration, protesters from Cornell, Ithaca College and the Ithaca community walked from the fraternity to Day Hall Wednesday, bringing with them the sound of syncopated drum beats and the fervor of about 100 shouting voices.

Sgt. Douglas Wright, an Ithaca Police officer who is suing the city for racial discrimination, was the second highest-paid employee in the Ithaca police and fire departments in the most recent pay period for which records are available.

As anger swells over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American male, Cornellians gathered in solidarity at Ujamaa Residential College Thursday to discuss critical issues surrounding the tragedy.

In the face of four ongoing discrimination lawsuits against the city, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said that Ithaca is “committed to diversity” and that he is confident the city will prevail in court.

Sun columnists, Julie Block, Andrew Daines and Munier Salem join Associate Editor Tony Manfred to talk about the stories and controversies that have defined their time in Ithaca in an epic, 10-part podcast.

To the Editor:

Re: “Defining Resolution 44,” Opinion, Feb. 23