The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/martha-pollack/page/5/)
In a ceremony on Tuesday, Cornell returned ancestral remains and sacred items to the Oneida Indian Nation that had been in possession of the University for six decades.
President Martha Pollack summarized the University’s achievements for the past year and expressed gratitude to staff and faculty.
Just as the queen was, Pollack is cut off from the population which she reigns over, locked behind closed doors, inaccessible to her subjects. That is not to say that being the president of a university is not an important job, but Pollack is missing out on a prime opportunity to engage with students as a strong female role model.
University president Martha Pollack spoke at the last GPSA meeting of the semester, touching on University finances and mental health.
Last Thursday, University president Martha Pollack announced the launch of a new campaign aiming to raise $500 million for undergraduate financial aid.
With campus COVID cases surpassing 300 as of Thursday, President Martha Pollack sent an email to the Cornell community to discuss potential outcomes for the fall semester and to remind Cornellians to remain vigilant about staying healthy.
In a statement, President Martha Pollack condemned the March 16 Atlanta spa shootings that resulted in the deaths of eight people, six of whom were Asian women.
You lied to us, President Martha Pollack. In an email you wrote to us on March 20, 2020, you promised us that we would have our commencement, and, in your own words, that: “It will be a joyous one!…It will take place in Ithaca.”
And yet I awoke Wednesday morning to an email from Michelle J. Vaeth, associate vice president for alumni affairs, effectively crushing any hopes of the in-person commencement that had been promised to the accursed Class of 2020. (Seven hours later, presumably at the end of the workday, you deigned to tell us yourself).
In lieu of an in-person celebration, you offered — no, you told us — that we would instead have a virtual celebration as a part of the Cornell Reunion. If the past year has taught me anything, though, it’s that virtual celebration is an oxymoron. Haven’t we been subjected to enough virtual happy hours and hangouts in the past year to learn that they just don’t work?
At best, the virtual celebration will be mediocre.
As the fall semester comes to a close, students can expect more of the same regulations and guidelines come spring.
Effective Jan. 1, the University plans on ending the temporary reductions to Cornell faculty salaries and retirement benefits instituted earlier this year.