The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/nicolezhu/)
Discord over the student-led protests in Hong Kong has spilled over onto Cornell’s campus, sparking cries of vandalism and spoiling plans to study abroad. A teach-in by students from both mainland China and Hong Kong hopes to address questions and misconceptions about the conflict.
After five months of protests in Hong Kong, the city’s universities are becoming epicenters of increasingly violent conflict— and now international students studying abroad in Hong Kong, like Abbie Zhu ’21, are evacuating the city.
After days of voting, five new representatives for this year’s Student Assembly have been elected into office.
Kayakers found the body floating down the waterway.
At Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting, President Martha Pollack and Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, fielded questions and gave updates on various initiatives and revealed plans for the future, including an all-new “festival of ideas” on Roosevelt Island.
For students rushing to print course syllabi, book lists and first assignments, the pages are already piling up. It seems like free printing can’t come soon enough. However, Cornellians can soon breathe a sigh of relief; an update to printing pricing is on the way.
For Ithaca’s many college students, those who use Planned Parenthood services shouldn’t expect any changes to their service, Kelly told The Sun in a phone interview.
As the clock tower bells chimed over a sunny Arts Quad, Student Assembly president-elect Joe Anderson ’20 sat down with The Sun to talk about presidential victory, funding reform, administration on campus, and his vision for the Assembly’s role in it all.
S.A. members deliberated the last resolutions of the year, including resolutions to denounce white supremacist imagery at county fairs, to establish formal relationships between committees and administrators, to create an ad-hoc committee to investigate student absence policy reform and to restructure how executive offices recruit staff.
Student Assembly minority students liaison Moriah Adeghe ’21 has been elected the next vice president of finance, the Assembly announced in an email Monday.