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1 week ago | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller |Matthew Kiviat |Julia Senzon
The Sun sat down with President Michael Kotlikoff and Provost Kavita Bala during a period where the “University is facing substantial challenges,” according to Kotlikoff. The two newly appointed administrators have steered Day Hall this semester amidst a federal funding freeze, controversy after Kehlani’s removal as Slope Day headliner, concerns about visa revocations and more.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
“A number of students” have been temporarily suspended following reports of sexual assault and drugging at the Chi Phi house, according to a Tuesday morning email statement sent from Interim President Michael Kotlikoff to the Cornell community. Chi Phi remains temporarily suspended amid an ongoing criminal investigation by campus police, Kotlikoff added.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
Sunflower House — a program providing affordable, transitional housing for formerly incarcerated individuals — was granted 45,000 dollars per year for three years from the Tompkins County budget at Thursday meeting, despite receiving initial recommendations denying further funding. Sunflower House offers services for formerly incarcerated or court-involved men including case management services for addiction and mental health challenges, medical needs, transportation and employment services.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
This weekend, thousands of raincoat-sporting, umbrella-carrying Cornell students headed to the Commons to celebrate Ithaca’s 42nd Annual Apple Harvest Festival. Organized by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, the street festival — commonly dubbed “Applefest” — sprawls from the Commons to Albany Street and Aurora Street. Every year, the festival brings together craftspeople, farmers, food vendors and live performers to celebrate the fall harvest.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
Over 100 pro-Palestine protesters confronted Boeing — a company students voted to divest from in April 2024 — at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’s Human Capital and Human Relations Career Fair Wednesday afternoon. The Coalition for Mutual Liberation organized a walk-out for Palestine at 1:30 p.m. at Day Hall.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
More than four months after allegations of harassment came to light during his unsuccessful bid for Student Assembly president, Getulio González-Mulattieri ’25 sits on the S.A. as an undesignated representative and has faced no punishment or formal charges. González-Mulattieri told The Sun that he has no plans to step down. “Yes, I’m staying,” he said after the first Student Assembly meeting of the semester, on Aug. 29, declining to comment further on the matter.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
News After four months of bargaining and two weeks of strikes, the United Auto Workers Local 2300 and Cornell University have reached a tentative agreement. If ratified in a vote early next week, then the UAW members will return to work on Sept. 3.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
Herbalist and owner of Black, Indigenous and people of color and LGBTQ+ safe Jane Minor Community Medicine Garden Amanda David has filed a lawsuit against neighbor Robert Whittaker for alleged discrimination, which she has documented over the past three years. David is alleging that Whittaker discriminated against her, her home and her business based on race, color and sex in violation of the , the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the New York State Human Rights Law.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
Umbrellas and fists were both raised high on Thursday, July 11 as approximately 50 members of United Auto Workers Local 2300 rallied to garner support for their bargaining efforts. Despite the rainy conditions, the union members gathered at A-Lot to share words of encouragement and chant for the University to hear their demands. The University and the UAW Local 2300 have been bargaining since June 2, and their contract expired on July 1.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
cornellsun.com | Dorothy France-Miller
Mary Gilliland ’73 MAT ’80 retired from her senior lecture position at Cornell to pursue writing full-time. Nearly two decades later, Gilliland’s pursuits have resulted in the award-winning poetry collections “The Devil’s Fools,” “The Ruined Walled Castle Garden” and “Ember Days.”At Cornell, Gilliland was heavily involved with the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.
