The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/protest/)
“Hey hey! Ho ho! Cornell’s greed has got to go!” could be heard from the courtyard between Uris Hall and Statler Hotel Thursday afternoon as graduate students gathered to express discontent with the University’s mental health services, particularly services for graduate students.
The six demands in the petition included an external review of Cornell Counseling and Psychological Services, gym membership reimbursement, improvement of the therapy referral process and others.
The famed dissident Wang Dan arrived in Ithaca — nearly 30 years after the protest — to give a 30 minute long speech to Cornellians on Wednesday evening.
The demonstration mirrored protests in over 1,000 U.S. cities, which converged on Thursday at 5 p.m. to call for the protection of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump-Russia ties.
The rally is in response to a memo obtained by the New York Times in which the Trump administration said it is working to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX such that gender is “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.”
The attendees of the rally responded to impassioned statements with snaps and yells of agreement, chanting “Stand up and fight back!” and “Hey ho ho Cavanaugh has come to go!”
Cornell student Radu Pârvulescu said he was beaten and arrested following his participation in a peaceful protest in Bucharest against corruption in the Romanian government on Aug. 10.
Chai led the demonstration Saturday morning after a clash with a professor earlier in the week, where the professor allegedly questioned her choice of clothing for a trial run of her thesis presentation on rehabilitation for displaced people and refugees.
Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American studies, Princeton University, joined Prof. Edward E. Baptist, history, in a panel to examine the state of protest politics in the 21st century as a mode of enacting social change.
Protesters and speakers criticized the Cornell Republicans for offering Cheney a platform to speak on Tuesday and expressed anger over the former vice president’s role in the Iraq War.