Reading time: about 7 minutesStudents packed the Student Assembly’s Thursday meeting to debate two contentious resolutions: Resolutions 61 and 55. The resolutions focus on Cornell Tech’s partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and University-sponsored events that feature people accused of war crimes or human rights violations. “When this university extends an official invitation to an individual radically implicated in war crimes, it is not engaging in open inquiry,” Burns said. Levi Schmuel ’27 criticized Resolution 55 specifically for what he described as selective focus and ambiguous language. What's stopping you?”The Student Assembly heard more than an hour of public comment before continuing deliberations on the measures.

Source: Daily Sun March 09, 2026 06:43 UTC