For the second year in a row, Baruch College’s Undergraduate Student Government elections were held online, resulting in a one-party sweep by Endlessly Revolutionizing All.
Since students were not able to cast their ballots in-person as usual, students were able to vote virtually on MyBaruch from April 21 to April 28. A total of 456 students cast ballots, according to the Office of Student Life.
The party ran on a platform of, “synergy, empowerment and resilience,” according to an Instagram post. “Covid-19 has created many problems that need innovative solutions; our team is prepared to bring the new level of ingenuity across Baruch,” the post read.
Israel Trying to Kill Iran Deal
Secretary of State Tony Blinken says that the Biden administration “wants to extend and strengthen” the Iran Deal. The
New York Times says Biden is trying to “salvage” the deal that Trump “repudiated.”
This technically isn’t true. “Repudiated” means that you refuse to accept something. Iran had an agreement with the United States and the United States violated that agreement, thus killing the deal. Biden’s not trying to salvage the agreement, he’s trying to reboot it. Despite this fact, the U.S. has consistently acted as if Iran are the ones who need to be making concessions.
The advertisement, paid for by an anonymous organization called BDS Report, was released as the CUNY student government prepared to consider dueling resolutions addressing antisemitism at a meeting last weekend. It was only the most striking of what students on both sides said was a flurry of outside advocacy that poisoned an already deeply divisive debate.
Both of the resolutions, the latest in a spate of similar initiatives at campuses across the country, dealt with the very definition of antisemitism a seemingly esoteric issue that has increasingly become a proxy for larger questions concerning the polarizing politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, identity and free speech. And, after the intervention of national pro-Israel groups, both resolutions failed to pass at a contentious, hours-long Zoom meeting of CUNY’s Student Senate on Sunday.
The B. Altman & Company Building housing the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City. Photo: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia.
The City University of New York’s student senate voted down a resolution to adopt the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism on Sunday, in a process described as “devastating to Jewish students” by a campus Jewish community leader.
The University Student Senate (USS) of CUNY voted on two separate resolutions: one calling for the adoption of the IHRA definition, and the other offering a separate definition put forward by the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA), which would exclude anti-Zionist speech or activity from being considered antisemitic.
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