The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/president-pollack/)
In response to what they called a “systemic failure” on the part of Cornell, Sophie’s parents, Scott MacLeod and Susan Hack, asked the University to establish an independent, externally-led body that would be tasked with reviewing the mental health challenges facing Cornell students .
President Martha Pollack addressed questions about how free speech applies to University employees and encouraged risk-taking.
John P. A. Greenwood ’20, the student charged on Monday with a hate crime and who prosecutors and witnesses say punched a black student and called him the N-word in September, is currently “not on campus,” Pollack said.
Pollack argued the proposal would have a “perverse effect,” increasing the costs of Cornell while harming its ability to provide a quality education.
Less than a week after the administration informed students of updates to the presidential task force, President Martha Pollack detailed the nomination process.
Pollack announced the task force in September, among other initiatives, after a cluster of incidents that brought national attention to Cornell’s climate and led Black Students United to briefly occupy a campus building.
The University has already taken some steps to increase inclusivity on campus after several racially charged incidents on campus, but Pollack is delegating possibly the most important decisions to the hands of others.
Martha Pollack is now in charge of a campus so on-edge that a rope keeping electrical wires away from a construction site was mistaken for a noose by students on Sunday.