The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/page/5/?s=cat+huang)
The cancellation of Cornell Days amid the coronavirus pandemic has shifted admitted students to virtual campus tours — leading some to lean toward choosing schools they have already visited.
Despite the upcoming class cancellations, the Student Assembly discussed the suspension of its current elections and passed a resolution supporting fossil fuel divestment.
My freshman year in high school, I was playing an improv game in my theatre class. Everyone stood in a circle; one person began acting out what object or noun they were and then someone else jumped into the circle, acting as another object or noun that was subsequently added to the scenario. Usually, if people’s instinctive responses to playful prompts are not racist, the game is light-hearted. For instance, if one person jumps in acting like a dog, the next person jumps in acting like a fire hydrant. But alas, as the second round of the improv game progressed, it quickly turned volatile: One person jumped in saying they were a police officer and immediately after, the next person said they were “an african american” and then the following person jumped in with wide eyes and waving hands, exclaiming that he was “Ebola.” I left the room after this, so I am not sure how the game continued.
Student Assembly passes Resolutions to address concerns with the Title IX office, housing and more.
The long-standing effort to blunt the effect of the student contribution fee — a charge that ranges from $2,700 to $3,700 for all Cornell students — came to a head at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting, as a panel made up of students argued in favor of waiving the fee.
Among the laundry list of resolutions the Student Assembly ran through yesterday was an abolishment of the student activity fee and a motion to add an S.A. representative to the Cornell Incident Managing and Leadership teams. This would allow the S.A. to help make recommendations to shut the school down during inclement weather.
Amidst legal battles with Warner Bros. and a lack of sufficient volunteer support, the annual Wizarding Weekend is canceled for the foreseeable future.
The Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution Thursday to establish an Office of the Student Advocate, a student-run office which would provide counsel to students struggling to navigate Cornell’s administration.
The Student Assembly approved Thursday increases in byline funding for Cornell University Emergency Medical Services, the International Students Union and the Multicultural Greek and Fraternal Council Thursday, kicking off its funding cycle of 2019. If these increases are approved by the S.A. at the end of the semester, they will go into effect in 2020.
The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday that would call upon Cornell to urge an association of universities to divest from the construction of an observatory on Hawaii’s indigenous lands.