The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/aminakilpatrick/)
Cornell alumnus Robert F. Smith ’85 announced a plan to pay the student loan debt of nearly 400 Morehouse College graduates on Sunday, a gift estimated at $40 million.
This weekend, Prof. Emeritus James Turner was honored in a two-day celebration of his life and commitment to Africana Studies as founding director of the department at Cornell.
On Monday morning, students made their way across the Agriculture, Engineering and Arts quads that were flooded with signs sharing messages about incarceration and drug epidemics in the United States.
“For virtually the first time, white Americans have faced social disapproval for being caught on camera in the act of treating utterly normal behavior by black people as criminals,” Baptist and Holden wrote.
Kelly Anne Perkins, a 19-year-old Ithaca College freshman, died in a two-vehicle car crash on Monday in Caroline, N.Y., according to an Tompkins County press release.
President Martha Pollack wrote an op-ed in CNN against current immigration policies, citing the potential impact on international students in higher education.
Under a new initiative intended to help combat food insecurity, students had the opportunity to donate “bonus” meals they have on their meal plan, which range from 4 to 8 depending on the specific plan.
The biggest changes to the system will be free printing allocations for all students, reduced printing costs and the centralization of all net-print printers on campus under Cornell information technologies.
The Student Assembly discussed Students for Justice in Palestine, Slope Day’s headliner and student trustee and S.A. elections on Thursday’s meeting.
Anabel’s Grocery, first opened in May 2017, will be closing its doors temporarily to attempt to address issues dealing with the store’s longevity.