ban the box
Cornell Employee Assembly Announces University’s Intention to ‘Ban the Box’
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Although not all details have been decided, Cornell expects to advance the policy barring significant complications.
Featured in Category
Cornell Prof. Jon Kleinberg Speaks on Internet Research, Power of Social Media
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“If in 1993, the way I interacted with you on the internet was that I created a page and my page linked to your page, now suddenly we were interacting much more directly,” Kleinberg said.
ban the box
Employee Assembly Pressures Cornell to ‘Ban the Box’
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Current legal guidelines stipulate that employers cannot discriminate based on prior convictions alone, which can be difficult to prove, according to Garrison Lovely ’16, co-founder and president of the Prison Reform and Education Project.
comedy
Stand up Comedians Dave Coulier and Hannibal Buress to Perform at Cornell
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Coulier — who played Uncle Joey on the ’90’s sitcom Full House — and Buress — who has acted in Broad City — are scheduled to perform later this semester.
Off Campus
Ithaca High School Student Threatens Mass Shooting in Facebook Post
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Jacob M. Rollins-Young, 17, a student at Ithaca High School, was arrested and charged with a felony Tuesday after threatening a mass shooting at his school via Facebook, according to a press release from the Ithaca Police Department. Police charged Rollins-Young with originating a terroristic threat — a Class D felony — Saturday night, and he was arrested Monday night, according to The Ithaca Journal. The police responded to an alert at approximately 3:28 p.m. Saturday, after concerned students who had seen Rollins-Young’s Facebook comments notified Ithaca High School principal Jason Trumble, according to the release. The Facebook posts included the narrative of an imagined shooting — “Local Teen Opens Fire at Ithaca High” — in which Rollins-Young describes a “Caucasian male” opening fire with an assault rifle “in a cafeteria nearby.” He also repeatedly suggested that he was not joking, according to the felony complaint. In a Facebook conversation between several IHS students, “one student became upset and made a direct threat to another student followed by a threat of violence to the entire IHS community,” according to an email sent by school administrators to students’ parents.
Elizabeth Garrett
Cornell Community Honors President Elizabeth Garrett at Interfaith Prayer Service
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“We pray for the loss, we pray for the departed soul and we come together as a community, as a whole, to help each other out in these times of difficulty,” said Saim Chaudhary ’17.
Cornell Graduate Students United
Cornell University Signs Brief Opposing Graduate Student Unionization
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“The core educational functions of the University are based, to a large extent, on the labor of the graduate employees, and their work thus has a real and measurable value,” the CGSU statement said.
Off Campus
Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 Defends New Drug Policy Plan at Press Conference
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“We need a drug policy to make sure that we are responding in a more humane and more equitable way,” Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said. “The war on drugs … has failed.”
College of Business
Faculty Call For Increased Input At College of Business Open Forum
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Faculty and staff emphasized the need for increased involvement in administrative decisions when discussing the College of Business initiative at an open forum Wednesday. Provost Michael Kotlikoff moderated deliberations about the administrative rationale for the decision at the forum. Although many have characterized the decision as sudden and surprising, Kotlikoff said discussion of the College of Business actually began in 2008. The provost called the creation of the College of Business a politically difficult initiative, explaining that this made the administration choose to bypass the faculty senate when making the decision to merge the colleges. “If we had entered an extended debate with faculty and alumni, it would have been tremendously resisted,” he said.
slope day
Increased Slope Day Revenues Broaden Artist Selection Process
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Over the past five years, total expenses for Slope Day have seen a net increase of more than $60,000 to $386,271.77 in 2015.