The Student Assembly voted on Thursday night to defund the Cornell Cinema, after a drawn out contentious battle between the University and the S.A. on how the Cinema should be funded. Yuji Yang ’19, Cornell Cinema student advisory board president, said at the meeting that voting to defund would be a “vote to make Cornell Cinema disappear.”But S.A. members disputed that claim. In particular, Noelle LaDue ’19 accused Kaufman of personally insulting employees of the Cornell Cinema. S.A. members and the Cornell Cinema staff consistently failed to agree on many facts. Appropriations committee member Olivia Corn ’19 said, with tears, that the decision to defund Cornell Cinema was not an easy one.

Source: Daily Sun December 01, 2017 03:33 UTC