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I just don’t understand why a minor personal inconvenience should outweigh public health. With all of that in mind, I hope Cornell continues its mask mandate; given the risks, we should proceed with caution.
However, Samilow and I differ on our feelings about the University’s actions to control COVID on campus. I believe he fails to recognize — as this pandemic has taught us — that our own comfortability doesn’t always match the comfortability of others. I’m still nervous in the aftermath of the end of last semester. It didn’t feel like a turning point for me. It just felt like another chapter in this exhausting saga.
To the Editor:December 2021 officially marks two years since the initial known outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. Since then we have grown together through the pitfalls of novel viruses and their corresponding epidemiological impacts. But with the rise and fall of new variants, symptoms, illnesses and deaths, one thing is clear: we still have much to learn. Just […]
Carl Neuss, a Cornell University alumnus, has decided to withhold his donation to the school after learning about the diversity training professors have to undergo, which he views as liberal indoctrination on campus.
Alumni from major colleges are withdrawing their financial support in an effort to put pressure on university leadership to encourage and protect free speech on campus.