The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/breannefleer/page/4/)
“[The offered settlements] frankly didn’t have many of the features we would have liked to protect us from the University breaking our agreements like they did during the last campaign,” said Jaron Kent-Dobias grad, CGSU communications and outreach.
President Pollack explained why she denied The Sophie Fund’s request for an independent mental health task force and discussed progress on improving campus climate.
University Assembly will hold a referendum this spring for students to decide whether all tobacco products should be banned on the Ithaca campus.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 shared a personal #MeToo experience from her time at Cornell and voiced support for the movement on Sunday. Ginsburg was attending the Sundance Film Festival for the premier of RBG, a documentary that covers her life and career, according to The Washington Post. During an interview with Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for NPR, Ginsburg recalled that her chemistry instructor at Cornell once gave her a practice exam that she later discovered was the same as the actual exam. “I knew exactly what he wanted in return,” Ginsburg said. “And that’s just one of many examples.”
Despite what Ginsburg described as the dominant “boys will be boys” attitude toward sexual harassment at the time, she did not let this incident go.
After months of delays leading up to its opening, in its first semester, the store has begun to see real results for its customers, Devon Rosen ’19, programming team member, told The Sun.
Their aim is to support “student-led projects or events that empower women and raise awareness of women’s issues in the broader Cornell community,” the release said.
The provision in question, part of the tax reform bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, would repeal section 117(d) of the Internal Revenue Code that classifies a qualified tuition reduction as a non-taxable benefit. This would effectively tax qualified tuition reductions for many graduate students nationwide.
Former prime minister of Bosnia Haris Silajdžić explored the history and implications of multiculturalism in Bosnia at a talk on Monday.
Highlights of the week have so far included a #RiseForRohingya tabling and photo campaign, an exhibition on the Arts Quad and a write-a-thon, according to the event’s Facebook page.
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly recommended a $1 decrease to its student activity fee and urged the administration to create a strategic plan on Monday.