[FALL RECAP] Fraternity events suspended: Yet Another Turbulent Semester for Frats at Cornell
However, the administration seems to be quickly losing patience with the entire system. Perhaps the day is coming when the Greeks will be sent home.
Articles from the Fall 2022 print edition of the Cornell Review, published in December 2022. Major stories include the complete shutdown of Greek life after an alleged sexual assault, the shouting-down of Ann Coulter, and zoning troubles brewing in a little town 20 minutes southeast of Ithaca.
However, the administration seems to be quickly losing patience with the entire system. Perhaps the day is coming when the Greeks will be sent home.
When you enter the Sesquicentennial Grove, remember those words inscribed on the Eddy Street Gate, “So enter that daily thou mayest become more learned and thoughtful. So depart that thou mayest become more useful to thy country and mankind.”
And it goes without saying, we don’t need to hear what another twenty-something thinks about an increasingly bitter septuagenarian.
On the night of Wednesday, November 9th, famed Cornell alumna Ann Coulter ‘84 attempted to give a speech on campus. However, she was prevented from delivering her remarks due to eight students who staged interruptions throughout the event. And yet, the story began well before that night.
We are humans first and foremost. Or, as the bus driver would have said it, “earthlings.”
Cornell is a centrally planned environment. For more than one hundred years, a single bureaucracy has designed campus with more or less one vision in mind. Yet on this constructed tract of 2,300 acres, Uris and Morrill Halls coexist. One cannot walk five steps without happening upon a new architectural style, sometimes radically so– all designed by one institution. Thirty minutes away, a place that looks more or less the same throughout has developed, quietly and steadily, without a single written rule.
We lose a lot when we assume everyone is acting with ill intent. And indeed, shutting down those who act in bad faith is often the very action they desire.
Cornell is exploring using deep geothermal energy to heat Cornell’s campus through the creation of the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO).
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