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Raphy Gendler '21 is a student in the ILR School. He is a senior editor on the 138th editorial board and was the sports editor on the 137th editorial board. Follow him on Twitter @raphy_gendler.
“No other challenges I have faced in 30 years come close to the challenges of this pandemic. Probably no other challenge for anyone has been this hard.”
Cornellians will come back to Ithaca for the fall 2020 semester, President Martha E. Pollack announced on Tuesday. Students will return home at Thanksgiving and finish the semester online, while the spring semester is scheduled to begin in February. Here’s Pollack’s email, annotated with background information and additional details:
The Southern Tier region of New York State can begin reopening later this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) said on Monday, marking the most significant step so far toward a return to everyday operations in the state.
A class action lawsuit against Cornell is one of several suits against universities that say distance learning isn’t a suitable replacement for in-person instruction.
100 percent of the $12.8 million in federal aid Cornell is getting from the CARES Act will go toward financial assistance for students.
Federal assistance from the CARES Act is not sufficient to help Ithaca during the pandemic, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said.
“We recognize that there is great interest in knowing Cornell’s plans for the fall semester. While we are committed to making a decision as early as possible, we are also committed to making that decision in a principled way, taking into account both the guidance of public health officials and a careful analysis of our own situation.”
A panel of four Cornellians answers common questions to help prospective students with their college decisions.
The Red will welcome four new members to the team next year.
The top two teams in the country at the end of the 2019-20 season will face off in a two-game series at Lynah Rink in late October.