The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/china/page/2/)
Last Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting saw six resolutions passed, addressing issues that ranged from the University’s ties to ICE to international collaborations with countries charged with human rights abuses.
Chinese people have become conditioned to speak almost exclusively in euphemisms when discussing politics, especially on public platforms. Being straightforward would only lead to getting one’s post deleted, one’s account deactivated, or worse, being “invited” to “have tea” with law enforcement.
While one Cornell student tested negative for the novel coronavirus, the CDC is testing a second student for the disease.
A Cornell student presented symptoms that mirror the novel coronavirus strain — which has afflicted over 17,000 people internationally, Ryan Lombardi announced in an email. It is not confirmed that the student has coronavirus.
The University will not permit any Cornell students and faculty to travel to mainland China for University-related reasons in light of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak — which has sickened over 7,700 worldwide.
With multiple cases of the disease from Wuhan, China spreading to the United States, Cornell students are taking precautions to try and avoid getting sick.
All the time and effort in crafting that ‘quality shitpost’ could have been used not to hurt, but to educate, to unite and to heal.
Cornell announced that it will proactively work with local and state resources to ensure student safety.
As I was packing up on Friday, preparing myself for an unusually tiresome journey back to Ithaca totaling about three days on the road with three layovers, my phone buzzed: the U.S. Center for Disease Control announced that it would begin screening passengers arriving from Wuhan, China at Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco airports. Given my first layover in L.A.— lasting an unbelievably long twelve hours and giving me an excuse to visit Santa Monica for a bit— I was quite worried. For one, though I did not visit Wuhan this winter break, I was reminded of the panic after the West Africa Ebola epidemic back in 2013, when an overreaction caused a public health crisis in the United States, putting many African passengers under duress. Given the tense political climate between the U.S. and China, who knows there won’t be a repeat? A second, perhaps more foreboding concern, underlies my thoughts: Is the outbreak really this bad?
Through the “teach-in,” Professor Carlson hoped to “draw the attention of students who might not be focused on Hong Kong.”