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WU | Who Cares If Cornell Cares?

By Ethan Wu | September 10, 2018

Watchful pedestrians may have caught a glimpse of the stout black truck trundling across campus last month. Its exterior, a carnelian-red LED screen, bore the unmistakable words “Does Cornell Care?” Does it? Should it? Its screen flashed another image, this one depicting Touchdown holding a “Displaced” sign alongside the text “Over 100 Students Without Housing.” If Cornell cared, it was certainly doing a poor job of showing it. Those responsible for the truck, the Tompkins-Cortland Building and Construction Trades Council, a local labor union, sought to right a wrong.

Majority of Maplewood Residents Move In, 186 Still Seeking Building Approval

By Maryam Zafar | August 23, 2018

More than 270 residents can or have moved into Maplewood Apartments following a delay announced on Aug. 13, just a week before the move-in date.

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Local Construction Union Group Blames University’s Failure to Hire Local Workers for Maplewood Construction Troubles

By Shruti Juneja | August 19, 2018

Asking “Does Cornell Care?”, a local union group of construction workers has created an online petition which calls upon the university to require that local skilled trade’s workers, companies and vendors complete the construction on any future student housing project.

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Delay in Maplewood Housing Opening Affects Over 100 Cornell Graduate Students

By Maryam Zafar | August 12, 2018

Residents were offered options to deal with the inconvenience caused by delays in a development that has been granted several work extensions.

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Trustees Approve Plans Expanding Graduate Student Housing

By Yun Soo Kim | February 3, 2016

Construction of replacement housing in Maplewood Park is to begin in the fall of 2016, with the goal to open during the summer of 2018 in time for the start of the 2018-2019 academic year.