The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/arts_quad/page/2/)
Some of the about 1,500 visits to the portal residing outside of Olin Library, include President Martha E. Pollack, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and students in Biology & Society 2150: Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine.
One day, Cornellians woke up to find two unassuming, beige-colored structures in the Arts Quad that didn’t entirely seem at home there.
Morrill Hall is currently undergoing a roof replacement that began in mid-June and is slated to be completed by December. The 2-million-dollar construction project will primarily improve the drainage system of the 150-year-old building.
The Arts Quad erupted into clouds of color as an estimated 2,000 attendees threw “rang” — colored powder made of corn starch and non-toxic, organic dyes — to celebrate Holi.
Lifted, an organization run by anonymous Cornell students, will place balloons attached with thank you notes on the Arts Quad for the third year running to lift the spirits of the community.
The South Asian Council installed the signs in collaboration with Cornell Welcomes Refugees and Climate Justice Cornell for People’s Climate Week, which took place April 22 to 28.
The Our Place in Space event will take place on the Arts Quad on May 1st and will feature activities, demonstrations and projects to help raise money for Ithaca Welcomes Refugees and Sustainable Tompkins’ Youth Climate Challenge.
Scores of Cornell faculty members plan to take a knee on the Arts Quad on Wednesday in solidarity with football players who have been kneeling during the national anthem.
If you wander the arts quad today, you’ll see the patch of grass to the left of A.D. White covered in small flags. The display was created in remembrance of the Holocaust, with each flag representing 4,000 killed through the genocide. The flags are not only representative of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, but are also in memory of any minorities that suffered at the hands of the Nazis, including homosexuals and the mentally challenged. Each maligned group is represented by a different colored flag (e.g. Yellow flags represent Jewish victims)