The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student_assembly/page/5/)
In their last meeting of the semester, the Student Assembly passed a new student activities fee of $310 — a $1 increase from the last funding cycle.
President Martha Pollack addressed the Student Assembly on last week’s emergency alerts, and protestors from Do Better Cornell visited as well.
The Student Assembly has elected the official new Vice President of Finance — Valeria Valencia ’23 who previously served as first generation student representative at-large.
We are reaching out to you as the respective presidents of the Graduate Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) and Student Assembly (SA) to express student concerns over the events that took place on the Ithaca campus the afternoon of November 7th.
In a Thursday meeting, the Student Assembly talked nominations, funding and non-disclosure agreements.
When I read EARS’ application for funding, I saw serious issues with how they planned to spend their money. Unfortunately, I cannot disclose many details. Though it is certainly unethical that organization budgets being funded by student tuitions are not public. It speaks volumes about the relationship between the S.A. and the student body when the only details that are public are ones that are on the audio recordings for meetings.
As the end-of-semester funding deadline approaches, the Student Assembly is in the midst of finding a new vice president of finance following the resignation of Morgan Baker ’23.
Thankfully, EARS is back in a reimagined way providing mentorship training and similar services. Although more limited in scope, the newly designed EARS planned to open its doors once again to students which brings us to the recent actions of the S.A.’s Appropriations Committee.
Beyond this, Schurman justified his view on the necessity of colonization using the prevailing “White Man’s Burden” logic. His personal writings on the Philippines contain paternalistic views of Filipinos, arguing that they must be “taught to govern themselves as Americans or Englishmen govern themselves.” They also include anti-Muslim tirades in which Schurman called Muslim Filipinos “heathen” and argued that America must “eliminate the Mohammedan”.
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.