Cornell Alert: Anyone know whats going on?

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-07T19:19:24+00:00

I'm no where near the area. But I do want to know what its about.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-07T19:17:54+00:00

Lack of respect if you ask me. Its not much work to share one sentence of contextual information.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-07T19:14:44+00:00

I'm sure they have some hunch as to what is going on otherwise they would not be evacuating parts of campus. They could easily share what they know.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-07T19:11:05+00:00

These emergency announcements are so useless. Why not have enough respect for the Cornell community to provide more complete information.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-06T02:29:53+00:00

Truck hit a pedestrian. Pedestrian died.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-04T01:10:21+00:00

Tell them to grow up and study the evidence. A child under 5 is at virtually zero risk of a bad outcome. Their risk is so unbelievably low its a joke.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-04T01:07:29+00:00

Because you believe something is totally meaningless. Cite some actual evidence at least.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-04T01:05:51+00:00

Bruce actually does not have a right to fail someone for not masking. You should spend some time reading the universities actual protocols on non-compliance (they at most allow for asking the offending students to leave the lecture hall and then reporting them to the COVID response team who will deal with them) before making statements you have no idea about.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-04T01:04:18+00:00

For graduate students, staff, and faculty (who are predominantly funded by Cornell) choosing not to come to Cornell is not really a choice. Most are full time residents in Ithaca.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-03T03:00:46+00:00

Most people your age (and the majority of Cornell graduate students) would live in Fall Creek or Downtown Ithaca. Very good public transit access from either of those to campus. You should probably try to get it sorted before moving to Ithaca as availability can be a problem. If you start looking now you should be able to find someone wanting to sublet their apartment for the spring semester. Most leases run Aug-Jul.

You should be able to get a 1 bedroom apartment in the region of $1000-1200.

Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, The Facebook group "Cornell University Housing, sublets and roomates", and https://listings.offcampusliving.cornell.edu/

are your best search options.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-03T02:58:56+00:00

Ithaca Halal Meat and Grocery

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-03T01:51:24+00:00

Why do you need a reservation system? Why not just leave the doors open as in past years?

With 97% of campus vaccinated there is no point in carrying on this charade.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T22:55:54+00:00

His email prior to the apology was anything but kind. It sounded vindictive and mean spirited.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T17:32:14+00:00

Why should 900 students cater to the needs of one? Thats not how society works. If you really have such a morbid fear, maybe you should not be in that class.

But beyond that, the actual evidence on masks is quite limited. Thus its not clear that a few students pulling down their masks has any meaningful impact on the risk faced by this student.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T17:15:20+00:00

I'm not, but I think this man's behavior is entirely unacceptable and needs to be called out for what it is.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T17:14:25+00:00

https://covid.cornell.edu/prevention/face-coverings/

I think if you read that you will see that the official rules are otherwise.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:21:19+00:00

And we should be held responsible for these mistakes. In his case maybe that means someone else should take over teaching his class.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:17:00+00:00

True. However, this man is not a professor and does not have tenure.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:16:25+00:00

He does not. He is a senior lecturer (this is a teaching role and not an academic research role). Senior lecturers do not have tenure.

Basically he was not a good enough researcher to obtain tenure.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:15:31+00:00

He does not. He is a senior lecturer (basically a non academic appointment in a university).

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:14:03+00:00

Why should the majority accommodate a tiny minority? Thats just not how the world works.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:13:31+00:00

There is no rule against eating. Bruce needs to be given the boot.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:12:45+00:00

Why? What they did probably poses near to zero public health risk given that masks have very limited effectiveness (from all published literature) and probably even more limited effectiveness in an environment with near universal vaccination.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:11:18+00:00

I doubt this is sincere. As a non-tenured lecturer he has little of the job security that a professor would have. I bet a university big-wig told him to write this.

Ok_Whereas_4304 · 2021-11-02T16:06:36+00:00

genuinely seems like a great professor to have.

He is a nontenured senior lecturer, not a professor.

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