Page 19 - Student Assembly News Today

Cornell’s Board of Trustees assembled in Ithaca for their annual semester meeting, with committees reviewing New York State policies and finances, requesting Plant Science Building construction authorization and discussing shared governance resolutions.

UGBC presidential and vice presidential campaign season kicked off Tuesday morning, with two teams announcing their bids in the election on April 3.

After launching their campaigns on Tuesday, the two teams running in this year’s UGBC presidential election faced off in the DEI debate Thursday night.

On Thursday, the Student Assembly passed resolutions to protect free speech on campus and amend S.A. election procedures.

At the Employee Assembly’s Wednesday meeting, the EA heard from the Office of Institutional Equity about resources for victims of sexual misconduct or discrimination and discussed their resolution for appointing an on-campus gynecologist.

The state Senate and Assembly thwarted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal for tuition hikes at the state’s public universities.

The imminent closure of Sansom Place West comes after Sansom Place East closed in April 2022 for redevelopment into a privately-owned apartment building. 

In their meeting on Mar. 9, Student Assembly passed Resolution 26 and Resolution 27, providing funding for the Pan-African Student Association and TEDxCornell through S.A.s Special Projects Funding.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly discussed and voted on proposals and resolutions to address rising costs of parking and installing Plan B vending machines on campus.

On Aug. 2, 2022, the newly adopted Cornell Student Code of Conduct replaced the Cornell Campus Code of Conduct, significantly changing Cornell’s judicial system. While an article from The Cornell Daily Sun covered the changes before they actually occurred almost two years ago, there has been little coverage since due to the mostly private nature of student misconduct across campus. There were no articles about students being reprimanded for underage drinking and campus store theft then and the...