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The Convocation Committee is continuing to search for a speaker, but author and Yale Prof. Roxane Gay is serious about one suggestion: pick her.
The comedian’s last-minute cancellation, and a contentious divestment vote immediately preceding the scheduled announcement, placed Convocation Committee leaders in a difficult predicament.
Officers arrested the woman on the Commons shortly after bars closed Saturday morning, tackling her to the ground in front of a small crowd.
The sentence followed a guilty plea by Maximilien Reynolds ’19, in which he admitted that he had paid someone to purchase a rifle for him and had illegally possessed the rifle, a silencer and a makeshift bomb.
In the days following the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference dinner, the alumnus’ comments have been denounced by students, Cornell alumni officials and a conglomerate of alumni associations. The alumni office is forming a task force.
Forecasters say Ithaca and Cornell should brace for the nasty combination, which could slick roads and sidewalks for commuters in the evening.
Honan joined the Cornell Police Department at a friend’s encouragement in 1995 and has stayed ever since, rising through the ranks. In March, he’ll take over as the department’s first new chief in almost a decade.
The newly-elected Tompkins County sheriff said he was not happy that the deputy had called ICE on a Mexican man and said he drafted a new policy this week making it clear how and when county employees should interact with immigration authorities.
While many students remain unbothered by the lack of information about Cornell’s search and only know the police chief by her emails, some are pushing for students to advise Cornell in selecting the first new police chief in nearly a decade.
The first woman to serve as Cornell’s top cop will leave the University on March 4 after more than a quarter century with the department.