The Ithacan

Accuracy • Independence • Integrity

The Ithacan has taken down an editorial cartoon published with the May 6 editorial, “Giving Day success comes at an inappropriate time.”

In terms of quality, students are still complaining about the things meant to have changed. The quality of the food remains questionable at times.

Students have complained about the facilities, including the showers, accessibility, elevators, meal plan requirements and poor maintenance.

Similar to now, contingent faculty members found themselves at risk of losing their jobs — and even more, their connections with students.

Stopping surveillance testing requirements presents a threat to campus safety, especially as it comes weeks before Kendall Day and before graduation.

The SGC meeting began a conversation to address racism at the college, but it did nothing to attempt to resolve or repair these issues.

We need to provide students stability and support as they attempt to break out into the workforce to support our national economy.

Marijuana convictions can prevent people from job opportunities, drive them away from their families and invite them into the criminal system.

Higher education in the U.S. is a business. Schools will market themselves through favorable reviews, pleasant images and flattering advertisements.

Ultimately, it’s up to members of the campus community to continue to practice COVID-19 precautions to ensure that we can actually return in the fall.

We are overcoming a pandemic, collegewide changes and individual challenges of life. All of us need more than one day to even begin recovering. 

Anti-Asian violence is racism. It will not be solved by hollow rhetoric that does not recognize how institutionalized these systems are in society.