The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/jillcrosby/)
Over eight months since its founding in March, the Social Sciences Implementation Committee, created to help bolster Cornell’s public policy programs, has moved closer to making a recommendation — though its proposals have garnered push back from students and faculty.
“There are not designers moving forward that are going to identify with ‘policy.’ That is not our focus, and it has nothing to do with us,” said design and environmental analysis major Brandon Hoak ’21. “This is my college experience and you can drastically change it forever.”
Collegetown Bagels customers will soon have to walk an extra block downtown to get their coffee and Zabs order. The beloved restaurant’s downtown branch will move from the corner of N. Aurora Street to the new City Centre Ithaca building along the Commons.
The two name-change options are the latest in a long-term effort to improve social science studies. Last year, another committee suggested combining the human ecology college and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, which Provost Kotlikoff ultimately ruled against after considerable public backlash.
“Democracies used to die at the hands of men with guns,” Ziblatt said. “Today, democracies die at the hands of presidents and prime ministers.”
“For the first time, we are enabling students to tell us what materials they need for their courses, which we hope will allow us to better support students who want or need to utilize library resources for their work,” Hines said.
Eight selected students who are planning to work towards a career in dairy farming will each receive a scholarship of $5,000 per year for four years, to be first awarded in the fall of 2019.
The South Asian Council installed the signs in collaboration with Cornell Welcomes Refugees and Climate Justice Cornell for People’s Climate Week, which took place April 22 to 28.
The program was first broadcast in September 1967 and has aired at 8 p.m. on Sunday in the cafe in Anabel Taylor Hall for five decades since.
The former professor died Jan. 8 of kidney failure at his home in Herndon, Virginia. He was 96.