The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/resolution/page/2/)
Last Monday, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly heard presentations from the Public Safety Advisory Committee and the Title IX office in a Monday meeting before passing a resolution to honor Veterans Day with a University-wide break.
The Student Assembly voted Thursday to hold the University responsible for actions taken by its third president Jacob Gould Schurman, who played a key role in advancing American involvement in the Philippines.
In a Tuesday meeting, the University Assembly discussed topics of emissions and immigration.
The Student Assembly reconvened for the first time since its tumultuous fall semester, continuing its work addressing campus police disarmament and reforming social issues.
Cornell’s Student Assembly passes resolution addressing concerns of privacy protections for students using Zoom.
The Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution Thursday to establish an Office of the Student Advocate, a student-run office which would provide counsel to students struggling to navigate Cornell’s administration.
The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday that would call upon Cornell to urge an association of universities to divest from the construction of an observatory on Hawaii’s indigenous lands.
The Student Assembly convened Thursday for a public forum on a resolution for the boycott, divest and sanction movement on campus. Community members voiced often emotional opinions on the pro-divestment Resolution 36 and delivered pointed appeals toward S.A. members in a packed room. Several supporters of the resolution wielded large signs with slogans such as “Cornell has blood on its hands” and “Our tuition is funding oppression.”
The resolution, which calls upon Cornell to “divest from companies participating in the human rights violations in the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” was introduced by co-sponsors Max Greenberg ’22 and Mahfuza Shovik ’19 — S.A. representative for the College of Engineering — as well as Students for Justice in Palestine leader Omar Din ’19, who is also S.A. representative for the College of Human Ecology. BDS has commanded the spotlight in the Student Assembly this semester, emerging as a major focus of S.A. presidential debates and assembly meetings, The Sun previously reported. At last week’s S.A. meeting, controversy erupted over allegations that supporters of the resolution had tried to force an early private vote, culminating in what observers called “Islamaphobic” comments.
The resolution requests the University to “remove this [security] policy immediately” so as to not create “any additional financial burden” on student groups sponsoring select events.
The University Assembly passed a resolution requesting all 12 colleges to review their academic departments to identify majors that might qualify for STEM certification — a certification that would grant international students two additional years of work authorization in the United States.