Both the Interfraternity Council and the Student Assembly unanimously passed resolutions this week in support of a campaign to spread awareness about New York State’s Good Samaritan law.

Drawing nearly 500 students, The Bear’s Den — a new pub nestled in Willard Straight Hall’s Ivy Room — kicked off its soft opening with a Super Bowl party Sunday evening. Although it was a dry run for the pub, plenty of liquor was served.

After a tight budget forced the Student Assembly  to deny several student organizations’ requests for increased funding, the S.A. cut its own budget by 10.2 percent. The decision will allow the S.A. to alleviate some of the funding shortfall other organizations face for the next year.

The official opening date of The Bear’s Den, a recently-named pub planned for the Ivy Room in Willard Straight Hall, has been postponed from this spring until fall 2012 because of delays in obtaining a liquor license, according to University administrators and students.

WVBR will launch a new online radio stream geared toward Cornell students when classes resume in the spring, according to a Powerpoint presentation obtained by The Sun.

President David Skorton pledged to search for sources of funding for undocumented students at Cornell at a meeting of the Student Assembly on Thursday.

The Student Assembly voted to reject the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union’s appeal for byline funding Thursday in the face of accusations from CAPSU members that doing so amounts to a dismissal of minority groups’ concerns.

The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday calling for the conversion of every single-stall bathroom on campus to a gender-neutral facility and prescribing the inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms in all future University buildings.

Cornell Cinema applied for and did not receive an increase of $1.50 per student in byline funding from the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee for 2012-2013, the S.A. announced Tuesday.

Students will see an end to trivia nights, movies on the Slope and free popcorn in Willard Straight Hall, after the Student Assembly rejected an appeal from the Willard Straight Hall Student Union Board to further increase its by-line funding allocation for the 2011-2012 year.