The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/emmanewburger/page/2/)
Forbes, the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media and former Republican presidential candidate, blamed the current economic rut on correctable policy errors in a lecture sponsored by the Cornell Republicans on Wednesday.
The students’ event at 4:30 on Wednesday, when organizers hope to be joined by University faculty and administrators, is in response to the plastering of anti-Semitic posters.
The survey showed that over half of Cornell students said they have experienced sexual or gender-based harassment since attending Cornell, and of those close to one in five either felt harassment had to be tolerated or that it created a hostile campus climate.
For Emery Bergmann ’21 — the Cornell freshman whose short film on transitioning into college has gone viral — getting acclimated and finding new friends on campus proved more difficult than she had anticipated.
The Unilever CEO argued that technology has polarized people and narrowed their understanding of global problems, and that job losses in the United States’ manufacturing industry have resulted from technological development.
The STEM department’s lack of involvement in the protest reflects the department’s general silence on issues of race and diversity on campus, students said.
The committee’s cut — which targeted the FFT program — would have brought the WRC’s byline funding to $3.67, instead of $4 per undergraduate student.
Hundreds of professors, staff, students and locals kneeled in solidarity with professional athletes and Cornell students who have been protesting brutality against black Americans.
“Cornell at that time was not in good shape,” he said in a 2015 oral history interview. “There were the big riots, there were guns on campus, black students had occupied Straight Hall. It was really in crisis.”
The two administrators also announced a philanthropic commitment from a Cornell alumnus to support first-generation and low-income student initiatives over the next five years, a gift that the University will use to hire a full-time staffer who will implement programs and support for this student population.