The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/politics/page/2/)
L.M. Nawrocki ’23 was awarded the Student Leader Award on Saturday, June 17 for cultivating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ Cornell students.
Ithacans shared why they chose their preferred candidates for Common Council after Tuesday, June 27’s primary elections.
Cornell Republicans, the Cornell Review and the Cornell Political Union hosted an event to discuss topics surrounding free speech and expression amid national attention at Cornell on the topic.
My interest in the law involves the intersection of labor and environmental law focusing on defending the rights of workers exploited by the agricultural system of America. This issue disproportionately impacts undocumented immigrants who don’t have the legal right to unionize given their lack of citizenship. And yet, seventy-three percent of all agricultural workers in the United States belong to immigrant backgrounds, while an estimated three percent of all workers in the U.S. belong to unions in agriculture. In addition to this overwhelmingly large population of agricultural workers that belong to immigrant backgrounds, twenty-eight percent of this workforce is women. This topic of discussion is not directly related to what I will be discussing today, but I figured offering context on my interest in the law might explain my inclination to enroll in a related course at CLS.
Cornell Votes announced its new voter ambassador program recently to increase voter turnout for future elections.
Rep. Marc Molinaro has called for the resignation of embattled Rep. George Santos, a fellow Republican, following a New York Times exposé of his lies about his personal life.
This election day, Cornellians are sending in absentee ballots to their home states across the country — but students can vote at several polling sites on or near campus as well.
In an installment of the “Our Bodies, Their Laws” event series, speakers discussed the impacts of the Dobbs v. Jackson supreme court ruling on the LGBTQ+ community.
The peers that I interact with, across the political spectrum and with a varying breakdown of identities and backgrounds, are more concerned with being normal college students than political actors in both an academic and social setting. Within a classroom setting, an academic and intellectual stance is taken on most issues, more aligned with a sophisticated conversation than a partisan talking point.
You’ve heard it all before: America is divided. Our politics are more adversarial than they’ve ever been. We’re on the verge of civil war. While we often hear these things on T.V., in academic studies or from political leaders, it all seems a little bit abstract when spoken about in those terms.