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LGBTQ+ Student Town Hall Emphasizes Admin Support for Queer Students
A panel of Cornell faculty discussed the recent executive orders targeting marginalized Americans and replied to LGBTQ+ students’ concerns in a town hall event on Tuesday evening at the Willard Straight Memorial Room. The LGBT Resource Center hosted this “LGBTQ+ Student Town Hall” alongside other student organizations like Haven, La Asociación Latina, QGrads and the Gender Equity Resource Center. Tina Coyne, interim associate dean and director of the LGBT Resource Center, said the town hall took the form of a panel followed by a Q&A period in order to inform students of relevant legal, healthcare and campus-related information. The panel follows recent federal policy changes relevant to LGBTQ+ students, such…
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Sen. Cruz-Led Investigation Labels $18.7M in Cornell Research Grants as Promoting DEI, ‘Neo-Marxist Class Warfare Propaganda’
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-T.X.) released a database of over 3,400 grants awarded by the National Science Foundation that he is requesting the agency conduct “significant scrutiny” of for “promot[ing] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanc[ing] neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda,” detailed a Feb. 11 press release. Of the listed projects, 22 were from Cornell, accumulating $18.7 million in NSF funding. This database was the “backbone” of Cruz’s October investigation into “how the Biden administration politicized scientific research,” according to the press release. The committee analysis named “Division. Extremism. Ideology.” found that more than 10 percent of NSF grants, or over $2.05 billion in federal dollars, funded…