More than 40 Cornellians joined 12,000 protesters from around the United States in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Dozens of Cornell students, faculty and city residents joined the Cornell Democrats’ “Occupy Cornell” rally on Ho Plaza Friday afternoon.  

The Student Assembly debated Resolution 77, which would require student organizations to make their events accessible to people with disabilities.

The Cornell Democrats and the Cornell Republicans debated social issues Thursday night.

Although the 2012 presidential election is more than a year away, one group of Cornell students has already begun to mobilize.

Cornell's student body reacted along predictably partisan lines to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address.

As the midterm elections inch closer, the post-2008 political hangover still lingers over youth voter turnout.

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) — whose 29th District abuts a small piece of the western border of Ithaca’s 22nd District — told media yesterday that he will retire from Congress after this term. Massa cited the need to slow down after the return of his long battle with cancer as the reason for not seeking reelection.

The Cornell Democrats and The College Republicans found common ground in Rockefeller Hall last night during a debate concerning media bias and its effect on civic education. The debate was sponsored by the newly founded Freedom and Free Societies. The sponsors of the debate defined civic education as education enabling citizens to make informed decisions concerning public policy and elected officials.

“Bias is inevitable,” said Prof. Barry Strauss, history, one of the judges of the debate. “You have to force yourself to look at different points of view regularly and accept [that] media bias is real.”

While both republicans and democrats agreed that bias exists within the media and results in the decline of civic education, they disagreed on why and how the bias is elicited.