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Cornell Professors Condemn Student Suspensions On Tuesday, more than 325 Cornell professors signed an open letter condemning the University’s suspension of four students. The students were suspended for their role in the pro-Palestinian encampment on Cornell’s campus. The letter calls the suspensions “unwarranted and excessive.” Meanwhile suspended undergraduate protestor Nick Wilson rejected a deal from Cornell’s office of Student Conduct and Community Standards. The arrangement would have allowed him to receive credit for his coursework this semester provided he refrain from all involvement with the encampment. In a statement he said the offer was an “attempt to silence me and intimidate [his] peers.” Federal Dollars to Bring High Tech Jobs to Central New…
Youth Farm Project participants Stella Sapp-Dietrich and Etienne Exantus and Ray Hage Assistant Director of Cornell’s Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP) with Greta Garrison of the Youth Radio Project on WRFI.
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Listen to author Raul Palma in conversation with student organizers April Morales, Emily Trage, Riley Rhoder and Professor Jacob White. The 2024 New Voices Festival runs from April 24-26 at Ithaca College and in your community.
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What does community radio mean to you? We think this commercial-free, free-form, independent station helps make our listeners lives-and life in our communities-just a little better. We strive to make programing that opens ears, opens hearts, and leads us to ask important questions about our world. Even if it’s just to ask yourself, “What in…
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This is the last of my three stories about freedom of expression at Cornell University this year. Here are links to the first and second stories. The academic theme at Cornell this year is “Freedom of Expression.” In earlier stories, we reported about the general mood at Cornell around free speech, and students’ opinions about…
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Cornell administration has agreed to meet with organizers of a Resident Assistants’ strike, on the heels of over 50 RAs filing a list of demands to the university. The RAs cited concerns over their own health, residents’ needs, and evolving campus procedures as the school prepares to reopen. The Cornell Daily Sun reports that more…
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The Ithaca City School District Board of Education voted Tuesday night to enact a new school reopening plan for the Fall. Now, all ICSD students will begin the school year with remote learning on September 14, and students who elected to attend in-person classes will go back to school on October 5, the Ithaca Times…
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Ithaca College is not welcoming students back to campus for an in-person fall semester and will instead be extending online-only instruction. The announcement was made Tuesday morning in an email to the campus community, reports the Ithaca Voice.** It is a drastic departure from what college administrators have continued to promote publicly –– just last…
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To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crazy Words, Crazy Tune combined popular songs from 1945 with archival radio news and audio curiosities from that special summer. Originally broadcast August 7, 2020, noon to 2pm. Hosted by Roger Smith. (part 2 of 2) [photo: Maurice Rocco, from the motion…
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