After four days of arguments and exhaustive witness accounts about the events leading to the death of George Desdunes ’13, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 closed the criminal trial of three former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pledges for deliberation on Thursday.
As the third day of the criminal trial of three former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pledges unfolded on Wednesday, the question of whether the pledges' mock-kidnapping or Desdunes' own drinking led to the SAE brother's death continued to hang heavy in the air.
President David Skorton touted the benefits of the University's agreement with Google to temporarily host the school’s new tech campus on Tuesday, saying the space will allow Cornell to quickly establish a physical presence in New York City while saving money on prime real estate.
As the other SAE brother kidnapped that night, Gregory Wyler '12 is likely to have more insight into the events surrounding Desdunes’ death than perhaps anyone other than the pledges themselves.
In a march that denounced the alleged racial incident at Sigma Pi and the reportedly inadequate response from the administration, protesters from Cornell, Ithaca College and the Ithaca community walked from the fraternity to Day Hall Wednesday, bringing with them the sound of syncopated drum beats and the fervor of about 100 shouting voices.
In the wake of an alleged racial incident at the Sigma Pi fraternity, an estimated 100 protesters marched from the fraternity to Day Hall Wednesday to decry what they called the administration’s lack of action in response to the event.
Students and faculty expressed deeply-entrenched frustrations about the administration’s handling of racial issues at a forum held Wednesday that brought together approximately 200 members of the Cornell community.
Overriding student opposition, the Faculty Senate voted Wednesday, 35-25, to adopt the contentious changes to the academic calendar proposed by the University’s Calendar Committee.
After competitively screening close to 40 of the top architecture firms in the world, the University announced Tuesday that it has selected Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis to design the first academic building for the New York City tech campus on Roosevelt Island.
Two men wearing masks and brandishing a gun robbed a student on North Campus late Monday night, according to Cornell Police. The student was not injured, but the robbers took the student’s iPhone.
The Sigma Pi fraternity has been placed on interim suspension following an incident in which people allegedly threw bottles at black students and taunted them from the fraternity’s roof, the University said in a statement Tuesday.
In the wake of an incident early Sunday morning in which several black students were allegedly harassed by unknown individuals, minority leaders on campus expressed fear and anger toward what they said is the dangerous prevalence of racism on campus.
As the investigation continues into an incident in which a group of people allegedly hurled bottles and racial epithets at black students from the roof of the Sigma Pi fraternity house, the fraternity said that the attacker was not a brother of the house.
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