The Sun sat down with Vice President and General Counsel Donica Varner to learn more about the formation and future of the Interim Expressive Activity Policy.
We raise our voices to protest the Interim Policy’s restrictions that undermine academic freedom and freedom of speech and expression, which are fundamental to Cornell’s existence as an educational institution.
Students and Starbucks employees alike participated in a takeover of Day Hall on Thursday. The occupation was in order to force Starbucks off campus in the wake of the announced closures of the two remaining Ithaca locations.
In the event “Learning from the George Floyd Rebellion: Social Movements and Black Freedom Struggles Today,” speakers Prof. A.K. Thompson, sociology, Ithaca College, and Prof. Russell Rickford, history drew on their varying backgrounds to approach the topics of social movements and struggles for freedom from a combined sociological and historical perspective.
With outstanding early and absentee ballots yet to be counted, it seems like the presidential election will take a long time — maybe days — before conclusive results are announced. Both candidates gave speeches of confidence late in the night, but victory couldn’t be formally declared. The night was tense and many fear for their futures, the futures of their loved ones and the future of the nation. Knowing this, we must not let the battle for progressive change end, regardless of the election’s outcome. Racial injustice, climate change and COVID-19 have not gone away; they never will without pressure from the people.
The affront on Reed’s doorstep comes after he held a Thursday press conference to clean up graffiti left at the Tompkins County GOP headquarters from the Oct.16 demonstrations that were marked by physical altercations and burning Trump signs.