The Cornell Daily Sun has the story. On June 29, Cornell informed Kenneth Glover, the residential housing director of Ujaama Residential College that he was going to be reassigned to supervising High Rise 5. After a considerable number of students voiced their opposition to this move, Cornell temporarily reinstated Glover for at least this upcoming academic year.
I don’t know enough about the residential housing programs or the university’s finances to speculate on the original decision, but I do find it odd for two reasons. While I have not personally met Mr. Glover, I have seen him several times in the Ujamaa building. In fact, if I recall correctly, all three times that I was at Ujamaa this year I saw Mr. Glover either working with or assisting students. I also saw him a lot at Nasties, and he seemed like a really nice and amiable guy. Based on my limited interaction with him, he seems like the last employee who needs to be moved to another position. Second, why move him to High Rise 5? Maybe it’s because I failed to “capitalize on the resources available to me” at Cornell, but the only interaction that I had with my residential director at High Rise 5 last year was when I was lobbying to get my wrongfully confiscated power cord back after Winter Break. Oh yeah, I think she also accused people on our floor of throwing fruit off the balcony.
Any thoughts from Ujamaa residents or people who are on campus this summer?
Typographic error in the headline. For the record, this blog post is the seventh result on Google when one searches the correct spelling.
And of course, I screwed up, because it’s correct in the headline, but not further down in the story: “Any thoughts from Ujaama residents or people who are on campus this summer?”
Oh, by the way, we did throw fruit off the balcony. Just once though.
Thank you for the rapid fire commentary, “Ferenk.” If only you didn’t write for the Progressive we would gladly offer you a position as a spell checker.
This particular fellow may be a great guy, but these segregationist housing programs are an embarrassment. They should have been eliminated a long time ago.