The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/matthewmcgowen/)
Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 intends to create a new commission to holistically assess long-standing housing issues in the city, including the lack of enforcement mechanisms, affordable housing and preventing landlords from requiring leases to be signed over a year in advance.
He established a summer school to pick up the slack for 300,000 failing students, doing away with automatic promotion to the next grade.
The student-led Mental Health Task Force formally submitted a letter to Vice President of Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi on Friday, outlining proposed actions to improve Cornell’s mental health services.
“It’s 50 percent presentation, 50 percent creativity, zero percent taste,” said Grace Shau ’20.
Water flooded out of the toilet in the bathroom of Shimon Shuchat ’19 and Mei Zheng ’18 on Sept. 24, collapsing a section of the ceiling in the apartment below them. The students had disabled all of the apartment’s carbon monoxide alarms and smoke detectors, and the gas oven was left on to heat the apartment while they slept.
According to Qiao, the boxes inspired some unexpected attention and several inquiries from the student body.
Only two New York counties have had periods without representation at Cornell in the past nine years, according to admission statistics, and Hamilton County has been off the map for five years running.
President Martha E. Pollack contested the idea that Cornell doesn’t pay its fair share in an interview with The Sun on Monday.
The program provides veterans with scholarships and classes in everything from maple syrup tapping to mushroom cultivation to beekeeping.
Collegetown housing has students signing leases almost 16 months before residence. With the number of large houses decreasing, demand has increased, causing students to compete for the few available properties and sign their leases earlier, even for houses not in the best condition.