The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/elections/page/5/)
Cornell President Martha E. Pollack and Board of Trustees Chair Robert Harrison ’76 said Tuesday that a committee was wrong to disqualify an undergraduate student trustee candidate from the race.
Trevor Davis ’21, who was elected one of two undesignated S.A. representatives after an unsuccessful bid for the S.A. presidency, resigned from his new position Thursday morning. His replacement by succession, John Dominguez ’20, shared his own plans to resign with S.A. members less than six hours later.
After three days of voting, Cornell’s undergraduates elected Joe Anderson ’20 as the next Student Assembly president. Voters also elected Cat Huang ’21, current S.A. transfer representative, as Executive Vice President, the position currently held by Anderson.
The Student Assembly discussed Students for Justice in Palestine, Slope Day’s headliner and student trustee and S.A. elections on Thursday’s meeting.
Cornell University’s Board of Trustees is unique in its inclusion of students as full voting members. Of our Ivy League peers, we are the only one to seat students on our Board even though many other student communities have argued for a similar position. Other academic institutions may allow students to elect a representative to serve on their Board, but Cornell is one of the few institutions to seat not one but two students. One student-elected trustee must be an undergraduate student while the other must be either a graduate or a professional student. Regardless of their academic status, both student-elected trustees represent the student community as a whole.
At Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting, potential changes to campaign policies surrounding elections for Student Assembly and student-elected trustees were tabled.
The 2016 election changed the narrative of “who mattered” in terms of voter turnout, Schaffner said.
In the election for the 23rd Congressional District in New York, incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) beat Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 by a solid margin. Tompkins County significantly favored Mitrano, who came up short against Reed who has served as House Representative since 2010.
At the event, Mitrano mentioned that she wanted to run for public office after the 2016 presidential election, when she realized that this region needs a new voice.
The nearly $1 million reported by Mitrano would bring her total for the campaign to $1.1 million dollars, while her opponent, incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) has raised $2.6 million total for the election cycle up to June 30.