Student Assembly
After A Week of Deliberations, Anuli Ononye ’22 Wins S.A. Presidency
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After a week’s delay due to challenges from candidates, Anuli Ononye ’22 has been confirmed as the next Student Assembly president.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student_assembly/page/7/)
After a week’s delay due to challenges from candidates, Anuli Ononye ’22 has been confirmed as the next Student Assembly president.
After voting closed last Friday, the Student Assembly has elected a new slate of representatives — though two seats, including the S.A. president, remain unconfirmed.
Frankly, it makes sense that students — particularly marginalized students who have had real, traumatizing voting experiences outside of Cornell — have lost faith in our University’s ability to manage and regulate our elections. And the statistics reflect this. Last fall only, 16.85 percent of eligible students voted in the S.A. election.
Despite delaying voting by a day due to technical problems with the voting website, student elections are officially underway.
Voting for Student Election Day began Tuesday at noon, but students only made it to the virtual polls for 30 minutes until the voting website crashed — putting a wrench in the elections process after weeks of student campaigns.
On Thursday April 22, the candidates for Student Assembly president and executive vice president held a debate on topics ranging from religious accommodation and mental health to police disarmament and reducing financial burdens.
At Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting, representatives focused on campus life, discussing proposals for better lighting and more surveillance in student dorms.
With less than a week until elections, the SA is seeking to push turnout with the help of a new Elections Director.
Tuesday’s debate featured nine candidates running for S.A. College Representative for their respective colleges.
Representatives at last week’s Student Assembly meeting sponsored resolutions that condemned University ties to the war in Yemen and that would provide students with ‘slip days’, giving them extra breathing room on assignment deadlines.