Opinion
EDITORIAL | Cornell Must Meet the Demands of Its R.A.s
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Today, Cornell must prove to its student staff that they are not pawns to be manipulated during times of global unrest.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/opinion/editorials/page/4/)
Today, Cornell must prove to its student staff that they are not pawns to be manipulated during times of global unrest.
Cornell, already, is not holding up their end of the bargain; we have to pick up the slack.
President Martha E. Pollack, fire Collum.
With a lack of public press conferences, investigations updates and public interface commonplace in even the IPD, it is clear that CUPD should — at least — be subject to the same student-interaction level that nearly every other facet of campus is mandated to.
Students aren’t sure who they should be listening to.
The University’s decision to suspend classes and accelerate the timeline for Ithaca departure is jarring. In the few days since President Martha Pollack’s Tuesday announcement, many students booked travel based on the presumed knowledge that they would not be ushered off campus until March 28. Professors have worked with students assuming that they had some in-person communication to make the transition to online learning as smooth as possible. Now, students have been forced to amend their travel plans again. Entire course syllabi have been destroyed and the academic merit of the current Cornell semester has been called into question.
You can only live Cornell once, and our time is being cut short.
After nine hours and 18 minutes, three boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts, a couple of hot wings and a few Bang! Energy drinks, The Sun has elected its 138th editorial board.
None of this is new. Cornell has a history of inconsistent snow day policies and waiting until the eleventh hour to close.
To say Cornell is the same institution today as it was in 1977, when former President Frank H. T. Rhodes took the helm, would be wrong. However, to say the University has had a vast character transformation over the past 43 years would ignore elements of this institution that still need to be changed. Yesterday, it was announced that the ninth president of Cornell, Rhodes, had died at the age of 93. Rhodes had the distinction of being one of the longest serving presidents of Cornell. He led the University across three decades, ending his term in 1995.