The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/womens-resource-center/)
Three years after the Free Period Products team rebooted a program to offer free menstrual products across campus, community organizations have continued to expand this goal.
After state budget cuts forced the Women’s Opportunity Center to lay off seven employees at the beginning of October, the center has made progress in its struggle for government funding.
Restrooms in Cornell buildings will now offer free menstrual products, due to the advocacy The Gender Justice Advocacy Center.
Recognizing the safety concerns of the Ithaca community, sophomores are delivering food to students in quarantine.
After several months of meaningful discussions, project teams and training sessions, Cornell’s Women’s Resource Center’s former Executive Board renamed itself the Gender Justice Advocacy Coalition to reflect changes to their mission statement, as well as a change to the structure of its leadership.
The Women’s Resource Center Executive Board, which wrote a letter to the editor in The Sun last week endorsing Hillary Clinton and condemning Donald Trump, said the board felt duty-bound to speak out after enduring months of Trump’s rhetoric.