Following a string of campus tragedies, the Student Assembly passed a resolution implementing guidelines for campus-wide community restorative days in response to student deaths and sexual assault crime alerts.
Cornell acted hastily in its unilateral imposition of the IEAP. It is now up to this Committee to ensure that academic freedom, freedom of expression, due process and shared governance are respected in revising, reviewing and voting on any Expressive Activity Policy and any accompanying enforcement and sanctions measures.
Alongside the development of science, the development of the practice of science must also be innovated upon. It is in this light that Cornell has the opportunity to take an important step in the right direction, being among the first prominent research institutions to include students in the regulation of its publishing and research.
Following the removal of Pedro Da Silveira’s ’25 as S.A. president due to sexual assault allegations, the S.A. held a special meeting, where they named runner-up Patrick Kuehl ’24 as S.A. president.
In an April 3 email, President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff rejected a March 23 Student Assembly resolution requesting content warnings for graphic classroom content, citing academic freedom and academic integrity.
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly discussed and voted on proposals and resolutions to address rising costs of parking and installing Plan B vending machines on campus.
Cornell’s Student Assembly has a new president: Valeria Valencia ’23 has big plans for University policy changes as well as changes to the way the Assembly interacts with the rest of Cornell.
At Monday’s GPSA meeting, the assembly heard presentations on the history of the assemblies at Cornell and on the campaign to provide free period products in bathrooms across campus.
In the days leading up to Oct. 18, University administrators prepared to receive Cornell’s esteemed Board of Trustees, a group of 64 people “vested with ‘supreme control’ over the University” and with final say on all recommendations made by other administrating bodies, including the Student Assembly. Among this select group of people entrusted with such great decision making power are University President Martha Pollack, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the oldest living descendant of the University’s eponym Ezra Cornell. The student body is granted three representatives, Cornell faculty have two, University employees have only one and tens of thousands of others with a stake in the actions this institution undertakes have no representation at all. For all the talk of the system of “shared governance” on which the day-to-day administration of the University is supposedly run, we can’t help but note how unequally power is actually shared.