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New S.A. Freshman and Transfer Representatives Excited for Year Ahead
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The newly elected freshman and transfer SA representatives share their excitement to begin their new positions and address the issues they campaigned on.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student_assembly/page/6/)
The newly elected freshman and transfer SA representatives share their excitement to begin their new positions and address the issues they campaigned on.
In a Thursday night meeting, the S.A. gathered to discuss late financial aid packages and lobby for the University to officially acknowledge the National Day of Remembrance for the U.S. Indian Boarding Schools.
After weeks of campaigning to clinch a seat on the Student Assembly, four newly elected freshmen and one transfer representative have joined the S.A.
Freshman and transfer candidates for Student Assembly seats gathered to discuss student safety and resources in a special forum on Sept. 23.
Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting addressed internal policy and the controversial U.S. federal treatment of Haitian migrants.
I’m Joseph Mullen ’24, and as the Vice President of Internal Operations for the Student Assembly, I see my role as helping build a shared sense of collective power among the student body, to have a shared sense of student solidarity whereby we all fight for and alongside one another. I believe that the S.A. can help students the most by ending the isolation produced by the pandemic and our economic conditions so that we can all unite and rise together.
During an in-person meeting Thursday, the Student Assembly gathered to discuss a restrictive abortion law recently passed by Texas, a Cayuga Nation governance dispute and the formation of a new Office of Ethics.
A two hour long meeting, resulted in three resolutions being passed at the Student Assembly’s first in person meeting in Willard Straight Hall.
Anuli Ononye ’22 is a familiar face around campus, part of the Office of the Student Advocate, the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs and more. Soon, she will be known for the position she was elected into: Student Assembly President.
The focus was both local and international at Thursday’s S.A. meeting, as representatives wrapped up end-of-year business, like reallocating funding and swearing in new members, and confronted escalating violence in Israel as conversations have rippled across campus.