The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student_assembly/page/3/)
On Thursday, the Student Assembly passed Resolution 31 — which pushes for University-mandated content warnings for graphic and sensitive material in classrooms — and disputed Resolution 32, which proposed amended election rules.
Cornell’s Board of Trustees assembled in Ithaca for their annual semester meeting, with committees reviewing New York State policies and finances, requesting Plant Science Building construction authorization and discussing shared governance resolutions.
On Thursday, the Student Assembly passed resolutions to protect free speech on campus and amend S.A. election procedures.
In their meeting on Mar. 9, Student Assembly passed Resolution 26 and Resolution 27, providing funding for the Pan-African Student Association and TEDxCornell through S.A.’s Special Projects Funding.
In an email to Student Assembly, President Martha Pollack expressed support for Resolution 20, which promotes increased access to nonprescription health care supplies including contraception through campus vending machines.
On Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting, the Office of Community Relations presented statistics on the University’s economic impact on Tompkins County.
In Thursday’s meeting, the Student Assembly voted to pass two resolutions: one approving the implementation of Plan B vending machines on campus, another to denounce atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in Xianjiang, China.
Student Assembly started the semester with elections and resolution updates during the first meeting.
Following weeks of campaigning, the Student Assembly freshman representative election results were announced on Friday, Oct. 12. The class of 2026 freshman student representatives are Ronan Chatterji ’26, Kathy Liu ’26, Bahram Mehretu ’26 and Andrew Richmond ’26 — who received 91, 153, 96 and 67 votes respectively. Yujian Yuan ’25 won the transfer seat with 25 votes. The Student Assembly holds regularly-scheduled elections twice a year.
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.