NEW YORK – Cornell University president Martha E. Pollack will step down at the end of June, she announced Thursday. Pollack’s resignation comes amid pro-Palestinian protests that have swept college campuses across the nation. She’s the third president of an Ivy League school to step down since December. Earlier, Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned, as […]
Mar. 7—CHIPPEWA FALLS — A Cornell man who stole several campers at the Rock Fest grounds last July has been sentenced to serve three years in prison. James S. Cooley, 39, 24044 Highway 178, pleaded no contest in Chippewa County Court to two counts of theft of movable property, fleeing or eluding an officer, criminal […]
Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, is threatening to subpoena Harvard University for documents in what appears to be a widening investigation into alleged antisemitism on college campuses. “We thought Harvard would take this more seriously,” Foxx told CNN in a phone interview. Harvard responded to the committee’s […]
Jan. 5—WILKES-BARRE — A former Laurel Run man on state parole for sexually assaulting a then 15-year-old girl in 2017 was sentenced to up to 16 years in state prison for sexually assaulting another girl in 2017. Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Vough sentenced Christopher Michael Cornell, 27, to eight-to-16 years in prison for […]