The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/stanford-university/)
Cornell finds itself on an ever-shrinking list of colleges persisting with plans to conduct a hybrid semester, with both the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University retreating from such decisions on Tuesday.
Shortly after Cornell announced a new set of stringent travel and policy guidelines, a growing number of COVID-19 cases prompted New York to declare a state of emergency and West Coast campuses to cancel in-person classes.
Jurafsky also examined people’s everyday interactions with police officers, tackling the question of whether officers treat white community members with a greater degree of respect than they treat black community members.
Prof. Prudence Carter, Stanford University, discussed the grave racial, educational and economic inequalities that hinder social mobility for many Americans in a lecture Monday. Carter identified tthe presence of a profound economic gap between caucasians and people of color. “For Hispanics and blacks, the median household income is significantly lower than the national average,” she said. “It is almost normal for black, Native American and Hispanic children to grow up in low-income families.”
Due to this growing economic divide, the U.S. needs to “recalibrate the wealth distribution,” she said. Carter compared the lack of social mobility of students of color — as a result of economic disparity and gaps in educational opportunity — to climbing a flight of stairs.