Arthur Eisenberg, legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said he thinks the Supreme Court will avoid making a decision because it could have a major impact on all 50 states.
Ju Hwa Park ’15 has taken an unusual path to get to Cornell. At the age of 16, Park — known as Diana to her American friends — left her family, friends and life in South Korea for the starkly different atmosphere of High Point, N.C.
If a friend doesn’t respond to your Facebook messages this week, he or she may be one of more than 100 Cornell students who have pledged to disconnect from technology for three days.
“Why are we so intent on kicking [out] ‘Mexicans’ but not the ‘Canadians’? Is it because people associate Mexico with darker skin tone and equate this with [being] not American?” one student said.
While the anti-Greek side argued that the system exacerbates binge-drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity, the pro-Greek side argued that these issues are not exclusive to the Greek community.
Members of the Planning and Economic Development Committee presented a new plan for form-based code — zoning with the aim of creating attractive developments that better meet community needs — Tuesday at a Collegetown Neighborhood Council meeting.
The inspiration for “Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker's Guide to Culture” — a weekly meeting that teaches students about pop culture — first came about when Prof. Shawkat Toorawa tried to help students grasp new concepts in class by connecting new material to pop culture.
“Up until a few months ago, most people did not believe that this project would move forward at all. It was too difficult, too big and too expensive,” the Downtown Ithaca Alliance director said.
“Politics is about perception: right now, [the Republican party is] not high-minded or socially connected," said Cupp, the co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle.
Cornell, which has supplied more Peace Corps recruits than any Ivy League school for the past two years and helped Ithaca become the third-largest per capita contributor in the entire world, renewed and expanded its long-standing partnership with the agency Friday morning.
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.
On Sunday, the South Asian Council was officially inaugurated as the fifth umbrella organization — an organization that provides funding and support to its member organizations — under the African Latino Asian Native American Students Programming Board.
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