The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/palestine/)
On the last day of classes, the Coalition for Mutual Liberation led a rally and die-in for Palestine. Protesters blocked the entrances to Okenshields Dining Hall and Mann Library on Monday morning, leading to Cornell University Police Department officers threatening arrests, according to a CML press release.
Pro-Palestinian students and faculty staged a study-in at Mann Library on Tuesday afternoon.
The Sun captured scenes from a rally organized by graduate students in the School of Integrated Plant Sciences in collaboration with Cornell Graduate Students United on Friday.
Cornell Graduate Students United rallied in support of Ph.D. student Sriram Parasurama, who was de-enrolled from the University due to participating in a pro-Palestinian disruption that shut down a career fair on Sept. 18.
Rickford’s “processing of grief” rally was anti-Israel wrapped in the farce of pro-democracy. Cornell Democrats need to do better.
We are writing in response to Cornell administration’s use of temporary suspensions and “persona non grata” status as a disproportionate disciplinary tool to prevent student activism and protest.
Four student activists were issued persona non grata status and banned from campus for three years in the wake of the Statler protest. The three-year no-trespass orders were issued during one-on-one disciplinary meetings with the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards . They were issued by Cornell University Police Department, separate from and in addition to the suspensions meted out by OSCCS.
Why was an additional ban added onto the suspensions which already banned students from campus? The key is in the work done by the figure of the “persona non grata,” or “an unwelcome person.” As philosophical, political and moral investigations of belonging and hospitality show, the figure reveals how membership in a community is predicated on the exclusion of others. It makes visible the work of boundary drawing and policing in the making and re-making of communities.
We have to understand the imposition of PNG status in these cases of political protest as being explicitly intended to expel certain ideas, not as a disciplinary measure.
Cornell declined to answer whether members of six extremist groups would be allowed to speak on campus if invited by a faculty member or student group.
Interim President Michael Kotlikoff and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi fielded questions at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting on the housing process, Greek Life, protected speech and co-op funding.
What goes through their minds when they see the same violence I do? How can they justify it? And how can I separate the “them” and “us” when the parallels of our faith are right in front of me?
The Sun interviewed four pro-Palestinian voters from the Cornell community who settled for Vice President Kamala Harris or voted third-party. They said they disagreed with both the Democratic and Republican party’s stance on Israel’s military action in Gaza.