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Ryan Lombardi and Marla Love Share Student Campus Life Priorities
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The Sun talked to Vice President of Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi and Dean of Students Marla Love about upcoming SCL priorities.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/north-campus-residential-expansion/)
The Sun talked to Vice President of Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi and Dean of Students Marla Love about upcoming SCL priorities.
As noise levels and dust particles mark the University’s expansion and renovation of campus, so do concerns over the sustainability of these extended projects.
Students living in the newly constructed North Campus dorms report infrastructure problems and a lack of community.
North campus construction continues, staying on track despite the pandemic but disrupting student lifestyles.
Through an atypical semester where most parts of campus were put on hold, Cornell continued its North Campus construction.
Two of Cornell’s new North Campus dorms will be named in honor of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, President Martha E. Pollack announced Friday morning.
The University has halted construction on the North Campus Residential Expansion project until further notice, following new state regulations in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday, the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board approved the preliminary site plan for the North Campus Residential Expansion, with certain restrictions and conditions.
As local municipalities review the University’s plan to expand North Campus housing, chairs of multiple planning boards expressed concern about how the project will affect traffic, parking and sewage on campus.
Several individuals from Climate Justice Cornell spoke out, citing concerns about the plan’s failing to account for upstream methane gas emissions and the University’s lack of transparency.