The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student_assembly/page/2/)
Following the National Labor Relations Board’s decision that found that many of Starbucks’ actions to its employees who were Cornell students violated the National Labor Relations Act, the Cornell community intensified its questioning of the University’s relationship with Starbucks.
Following the removal of Pedro Da Silveira’s ’25 as S.A. president due to sexual assault allegations, the S.A. held a special meeting, where they named runner-up Patrick Kuehl ’24 as S.A. president.
Moments after being sworn in, Student Assembly President Pedro Da Silveira ’25 was voted out of office by his S.A. peers due to an arising sexual assault allegation. The current president of the S.A. is unclear due to discrepancies in the governing documents.
The 2023-2024 year Student Assembly representatives were announced on Tuesday.
Valeria Valencia ’23 describes her three-year terms in Student Assembly and how she tried to represent more voices on campus.
The candidates vying for the role of student-elected trustee touched on basic needs for students, mental health and their policy plans at Wednesday’s forum.
The candidates for Student Assembly president and executive vice president discussed free speech, Cornell’s administration and their qualifications at a Q&A-style forum on Tuesday.
President Martha Pollack attended this week’s Student Assembly meeting to discuss the resolutions regarding content warnings and a permanent on-campus gynecologist, which were both rejected by Pollack.
Not long ago, our Student Assembly proposed a resolution that would force professors to excuse students who wish not to read, discuss or listen to any course material that offends them, including anything that refers to “sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, child abuse, racial violence, transphobic violence, homophobic harassment, etc.” Conceivably, the resolution would apply to any and all social issues, triggers and distressing themes that a student might prefer not to engage with. The President and Provost annulled the resolution, reasoning that it stands against Cornell’s founding vision of free inquiry. On this matter, I agree with the administration.
On Thursday, the Student Assembly passed Resolution 31 — which pushes for University-mandated content warnings for graphic and sensitive material in classrooms — and disputed Resolution 32, which proposed amended election rules.