LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Your Body, Admin’s Choice: Protest, Sexual Assault and the Contradictions of Campus Discipline

Ultimately, Cornell’s rush to suspend nonviolent protesters and its sluggish approach to sexual harassment and assault are simply two sides of the same coin. Both betray the administration’s disinterest in the welfare of its students, demonstrating that disciplinary procedure not only fails to achieve justice or provide safety for the campus community, but that it does so by design. 

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MARKELL | Expressive Activity After the Election

That’s why Cornell also has an obligation to take the larger circumstances behind a disruption into account, and to extend “tolerance,” too, to on-campus disruptions that are proportionate to the larger disruptive events in the world to which they respond. Content-neutral cannot mean content-free.