r/Cornell

Hi all — apologies for posting this here, but I'm not able to post directly to r/Ithaca and I feel strongly that this concerns everyone on this reddit or we should all at least be aware of it.

I was walking down Ithaca Commons Sat. night (May 9), a little after midnight, and obviously given the time and day the area between Moonies and Bookies was swarming with people. There was a group of white college-aged guys (about 10-15 of them) surrounding 'Magic Man' (his real name is William Metro, he's a magician who works on the Commons), yelling at him aggressively, heckling him, and filming him, calling him a p***phile, while one another guy was getting up in his face and physically provoking him. A bunch of other college-aged people were just watching from the sides. At some point this guy shoved Metro hard, he pushed back, and a fight broke out, with more people joining in and beating up on him, although one guy did try to hold back the first aggressor. Metro ended up on the ground and eventually the guys ran off down State Street.

It's really hard to express just how disgusting and evil this was to witness — the violence, the idiotic cruelty of it all, the glee of the guys watching and filming everything on their smartphones, the fact that /no one else/ tried to talk to these guys or restrain them. I don't know if these guys were from Cornell or Ithaca College, but it honestly felt like watching a modern-day l**** mob.

If these were your friends or people you knew, if you ever see something like this happening, I hope to God that you would have the backbone to say something.

Saw this online - organization is called @mpuniversity (More Perfect University).

Klarissa López Guillen’s father was detained by ICE during her second semester at Cornell. She’s had to drop a class, pick up a job, and navigate a complicated financial aid system in order to remain enrolled in the university.

I have seen hundreds of comments across social media today with many people celebrating the fact that students got "bumped" with a car. Many saying that they should've been violently run over, even killed, for the offense of standing in the way of a car trying to back up. Many people say "bumping" students with a car is justified if they're in your way and don't respect the danger a car poses. Apparently here at Cornell it is okay to "bump" students with your car. Good to know!

Thousands of people believe running the students over was justified because they were "banging on his windows and threatening his life" which is provably false by the video evidence put out by Cornell itself.

Major news networks maintained this shameful lie that students surrounded his car and were banging on the windows. Cornell put out disinformation to create fake news to protect their leadership from personal criminal liability leading to thousands of people celebrating the violence against students and proclaiming it's perfectly reasonable behavior to wield a car as a weapon against them for the crime of "standing in the way".

Not only is this extremely Trump like, but similar to Trump's conduct, it likely will lead to more harm being done to students and/or Cornell staff and leadership. What happens if a student "bumps" a Cornell employee? Is that okay too? Or is it only okay when the powerful people who are above the law do it?

Hey everyone, just finished my sophomore year and I'm starting to spiral a little about med school. Sitting at a 3.65 cumulative after 61 credits and I know the median matriculant GPA is around 3.82; that gap is really stressing me out. The thing is, my hardest classes are still ahead of me. I still need to get through orgo, physics, and biochem, and I honestly don't know how I'll do in those. Every time I look at the MSAR numbers I feel like I'm already behind and it's only sophomore year.

For context I'm at Cornell (A&S), gonna declare a Psych major and planning to take a gap year to either do research or take more post grad classes.

I know 3.65 isn't a death sentence but I can't help fixating on it. Has anyone pulled their GPA up significantly junior/senior year? And for those who got in with sub-3.8 GPAs what else made your application work? Really could use some honest perspective right now.

The bebee lake beaver has died.

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I go to check my grades and this scary thing pops up??

I lunched with someone at Mac’s and seem to have misplaced my umbrella there. I just went back now that I realized that was where it was and don’t see it here. Is there a point of contact for me to get the lost umbrella?

Per the Sun article with plenty of video evidence, he ran over students and fled a crime scene. Instead of going through the adequate law enforcement channels (CUPD), he used his institutional voice through a Presidential statement sent to all current students, faculty and staff with his own individual account, which the video evidence proves is a fabrication of the facts.

No matter the actions of the students, this is so immensely unacceptable of him as the President that I think it warrants immediate resignation. I hope the students press criminal charges and this gets examined in court.

Evoking the recent history of the Covid-era penchant for daily statistical updates, Cornell's official website will begin posting a daily tracker noting the number of days since the University President has run over a student's foot with his car. According to chief University PR flack Chip Diller, this will be a means of communicating Cornell leadership's attention to general excellence and student well-being all at once. "It's like two birds with one stone," Diller said before adding: "I think we're at three, right? That's a pretty clear sign of improvement from where we were just last Friday, no?"