The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/west-campus/page/3/)
Cornell students and faculty are working to develop the unused plots of land on West Campus, making headway on West Campus’ efforts to expand living and learning amongst Cornell’s residences.
The goal of the zones were to ensure the safety of students and to reduce the risk of sexual assault, according to Andrew Rosenblatt ’20, vice chairman of the Student Assembly Health and Wellness Committee.
Shortstop Deli declined the Sun’s request for a comment on the disappearance of the Hot Truck which is usually parked at the intersection of Stewart and University Avenue.
The Wind Down Zones, organized by the Student Assembly Health and Wellness Committee, aim to address sexual assault by providing a space for students to take a break from the night. Halloween weekend, in the committee’s opinion, is a relatively high risk time period.
Cornell Dining hosted multiple food and beverage vendors at its West Campus Food show on Monday at Noyes Community Center. The event’s goal was to showcase the products and give out samples to students.
From the Indian-Inspired Festival of Color to the Heart and Soul Dinner to the Alice in Wonderland: A Mad Tea Party, this year’s themes reflect students’ creativity in promoting nutritionally balanced meals while incorporating each house chef’s cooking philosophy.
Two Cornell professors, including Prof. Bill Gaskins, art, who calls himself “a recovering white supremacist, as well as sexist and homophobic” in a culture that is “not yet post-racial, post-sexist or post-queer,” are leading an initiative seeking to address difficult issues of race and oppression on campus and beyond. Gaskins and Prof. Shorna Allred, natural resources, lead an hourlong discussion each Tuesday centered around academic and artistic works by people of color. Though the conversation usually begins with the specific elements of each piece, the seminar often quickly spirals into the societal implications of oppression, as well as each student’s experience with it. Both professors acknowledged that this class and its associated project — the “Where do we go from here?” initiative — were conceived this semester as a response to the many discriminatory actions they have witnessed on campus. “It was … a response to the incidents of racial harassment that took place last semester directed at the Latino Studies Center, the young man who was assaulted by the fraternity and the call from the Black Students United asking faculty to play a greater role in raising the literacies of students about race-based structural inequalities in our classrooms,” Gaskins said.
The basic motivator was through the Student Assembly. They wanted the general housing selection to be about friends, and they proposed quite a few of the changes,” said Kristen Loparco, undergraduate housing coordinator. “We had a team of students, staff and IT work together based off of the resolution.”
In the following article, I will first give brief descriptions of each dining hall’s setup, both in terms of seating and in terms of food station placement. I hope to create for you, my readership, an image that will transport you to each location and allow you to practically taste the foods I will highlight.
Cornell has a long way to go on student housing. Dozens of transfer students were forced to live in lounges on North Campus at the beginning of the semester, and 10 have still not been moved out. Collegetown apartments are expensive, and the annual rush to sign leases shows no sign of slowing. Simply, there is a dearth of on-campus housing: 78 percent of undergraduates surveyed in the spring indicated that they would like to live on campus, but only 56 percent managed to. Off campus, students often pay high rent and face subpar living conditions.