The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-protests/)
The Committee on Campus Expressive Activity submitted its recommendations for a final expressive activity policy to University leadership, which outlines expectations for Cornellians participating in expressive activity.
These arrests are insignificant compared to the consequences that previous protesters, journalists and resistance fighters faced while fighting for Palestinian liberation. This movement will never die, for we the people are first and foremost scholars that bear the responsibility to act — and act we will.
In theory, therefore, since Taal did not enter the alternate resolution, the complaint entered the “investigation” stage. This was six months ago, and Taal has received no updates.
With Taal’s permission we are writing to share our accounts, supported by written referrals and our contemporaneous notes, of what happened on the three occasions when Taal was the object of a disciplinary complaint.
Most Cornell students live simultaneously in two realities: one where they are aware that American missiles are being used in one of the most repugnant acts of ethnic cleansing in human history, where every day brings new stories of mothers forced collect the scattered remains of their infant children in plastic bags; and another where they are pursuing a lucrative career that will allow them to live comfortably in the most powerful nation on Earth after graduation.
By capturing a sliver of the Arts Quad and starting from scratch, the campers remind us that there is always another way — that there can be a better way.
As protestors challenge Cornell’s Interim Expressive Activity Policy, The Sun outlines the legal rights of student demonstrators.
Students started a pro-Palestine encampment on the Arts Quad early Thursday morning, following demonstrations at several other institutions which have prompted mass arrests and suspensions.