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Students Express Discontent Over Short Thanksgiving Break
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Cornellians voiced their concerns as students struggle to head home given the comparatively short Thanksgiving break.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student-reaction/)
Cornellians voiced their concerns as students struggle to head home given the comparatively short Thanksgiving break.
With COVID-19 mandates lifted and pre-pandemic activities returning to campus, Cornellians are now enjoying their first “normal” semester since the beginning of the outbreak.
In the wake of an email from Cornell detailing changing COVID-19 policies for the upcoming school year, students offer their perspectives and opinions on the changes.
Following the history-making unionization of an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, Cornell ILR students and professors offer their opinions on the event and what it means for the labor movement.
Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 controversial new drug policy plan — which proposes the implementation of the country’s first supervised heroin injection site — has been met with mixed reactions from both the Cornell and broader Ithaca community. At these proposed injection facilities, drug users would be able to receive monitored injections of opioids to reduce the risk of overdose without the fear of arrest. The mayor’s plan is billed as focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment, as it will instruct police officers to direct users to the social service system rather than perpetuate incarceration for low-level offenses. Several Cornellians expressed enthusiasm for the plan, saying they are hopeful about the larger changes the initiative could spark. Maria Chak ’18 said she appreciates the mayor’s efforts in reforming the system “from a punishment to a more rehabilitative framework.”
“For more than four decades, law enforcements have been arresting low-income, people of color for drug abuses but it has proven to have little effect,” Chak said.