The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/elipallrand/)
As students return from fall break travel outside of Ithaca, the University is asking — but not mandating — that they take antigen tests before returning and before beginning to resume their regular campus activities.
The cocktail lounge, a popular Uris library study space, is closed until further notice for repairs. According to a sign left on the door by University maintenance, the closure is due to a water leak. As a result, students have had to find new spaces on campus to study.
The monkeypox vaccine arrives in Ithaca this month less than a month after three cases of monkeypox were reported in Tompkins County, adding monkeypox to the list of pandemics students face this fall. As of Sept. 6, 3,326 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in New York State.
For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, Cornell students are taking their swim tests, which are required for graduation.
“Being a first-year graduate student and coming from a large public university in Texas, the difference in COVID-19 responses between there and [Cornell] has been night and day,” said Matthew Dew grad. “At times it can feel like a bit much, but on the whole, I think they’ve done a pretty good job.”
On Friday, the University published a statement calling the Supreme Court’s elimination of constitutional protections for abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson “disappointing.” Student groups have been reacting throughout the day to both the Court’s decision and University’s statement.
On April 21, the University announced that actress Constance Wu, who starred in “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Fresh Off the Boat,” will be the 2022 Senior Convocation keynote speaker.
Cornellians at the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide are helping tell the story of Melissa Lucio, a Texas inmate on death row.
At Monday’s GPSA meeting, the assembly heard presentations on the history of the assemblies at Cornell and on the campaign to provide free period products in bathrooms across campus.
In its Jan. 27 meeting, the Student Assembly voted on proposals regarding live transcripts for virtual classes and funding for Chinese New Year celebrations and upheld its removal of the former Minority Student Liaison.