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Local Triumph: TC3's Haichuan Gu Clinches First Place in Statewide Math League
Haichuan Gu, a student at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), won the annual statewide Math League competition organized by the New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (NYSMATYC). This competition includes participants from over 20 two-year colleges in the SUNY and CUNY systems. This is the first time a TC3 student has won the individual champion title since the college started participating in the Math League in the 2012-13 academic year.
Wells College closing to leave nearly 150 jobless, NY housing struggles, ICSD budget
It’s Tuesday again, and that means I’m going through my inbox to address something much of the Tompkins County community’s been talking about. If someone forwarded this to you, click the sign-up link here for more updates, and don’t forget to spread the word to anyone else who might enjoy giving it a read.
President Martha Pollack is quitting but to save Cornell, ditch DEI
Cornell University President Martha Pollack just unexpectedly announced that she’s stepping down at the end of June, after months of campus turmoil. So she’ll be gone, but the destructive race-focused agenda she imposed on the campus that contributed to the problems will continue, unless the trustees take this opportunity to save the school from group-identity politics. Pollack’s sudden departure almost certainly resulted from the post-Oct. 7 crisis on Cornell’s campus, which earned the school terrible press, the loss of donations and congressional scrutiny. Immediately after the Hamas massacre, the campus exploded with support for terrorism under the banner of “decolonization.” A student threatened to...
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