The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/referendum/)
Today, the Cornell Undergraduate Student Body voted by a ratio of 2:1, with 46.77 percent participation, to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to divest from the following weapons manufacturers: BAE Systems, Boeing, Elbit Systems, General Dynamics, L3Harris Technologies, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX and ThyssenKrupp.
Undergraduates voted “yes” on the ceasefire and divestment referendum questions by a 2:1 ratio.
Those endorsing divestment from arms manufacturers nobly do so in the name of peace and life. The irony, though, is that all divestment advances is war and death — and the destruction of the free world.
If the S.A. wants to abide by its own rules, this referendum must be scrapped from the ballot.
Students opposed to the divestment referendum argued that the questions were not phrased neutrally in Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting.
The Cornell community will vote on whether Cornell should divest from weapons manufacturers “supporting the ongoing war in Gaza.”
This upcoming Tuesday, Ithacans will vote on the creation of a city manager position and a state-wide referendum on the Environmental Bond Act.
This post has been updated.
This coming Tuesday, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to call for a state constitutional convention. While the idea of revising the state constitution is an attractive one, to do so now would be at best a non-event with costly side-effects, and at worst a dangerous exercise in the rollback of currently-existing protections. As a result, we urge voters to reject a constitutional convention at the ballot box this week. In the event of a convention, almost all delegates would be elected from existing state senate districts (15 would be elected at-large). The state senate map is consistently gerrymandered by the Republicans who have controlled the upper chamber for all but three years since 1938.
The University Assembly may vote to call for a referendum that would gauge the campus climate on making Cornell’s campus tobacco-free.
The referendum was introduced a week after Brown University announced that it will supply tampons and sanitary products for free in every gender’s non-residential bathrooms on campus.