MARY DONLON HALL—The Cornell administration has worked tirelessly to demonstrate its commitment to the safety of its student body, protecting them from people holding signs, concerts, and chalk. Although many of the students and organizations responsible for perpetuating these despicable acts have been suspended, their radical messaging continues to spread in new and horrifying ways.
Last week, Mary Liu ‘29 was one of many dormitory residents to receive a piece of paper under her door, later identified as a flyer from the student-run group BRSS. Although Liu didn’t recognize this specific name, she “figured it was another leftist group with an indistinguishable acronym emerging as a result of infighting.”
Whatever the case, the flyer was most definitely a “call to action,” one which encouraged planning ahead and acting before the end of the term. BRSS’s stated mission is to aid the many students being displaced from their residence halls at the end of the school year, a message to which the administration strongly objects.
The student body has polarized around this issue. On one side, some feel threatened to have received these particular messages at their place of residence—not to mention this being in violation of the Expressive Activity Policy. Amy Allen ‘28 doesn’t understand why BRSS is needed, as her friend agreed to give her some storage space at his apartment. Yet others still believe the BRSS labor committee is doing the work necessary to move Cornellians in the right direction.
Some, however, remain undecided. Jamie Alexander ‘27 doesn’t want to be put in a box and has mixed feelings on the matter of occupying a storage unit. He thinks that, come move out, all this conflict could simply be avoided with a two-car solution.
