Whereas, Andrew Dickson White assigned student conduct to the faculty rather than the President in his 1866 Plan of Organization which the Trustees adopted before making him Cornell's first President;

Whereas, a key demand of the 1969 Willard Straight Hall Takeover that led to the creation of the elected Assemblies was the creation of a campus judicial system that was independent of the central administration;

Good afternoon President Kotlikoff,

I hope all is well as we hit the middle of October, which is somewhat hard to believe is possible already!

Whereas, the assemblies serve as advisory bodies to the administration, representing matters of concern and constituent interests to University leadership, and;

Whereas, the three constituent assemblies–representing undergraduate students, graduate and professional students, and staff–and the all-constituency University Assembly, along with the Faculty Senate, comprise shared governance at Cornell, and;