Cornell University cancelled Friday classes due to “extraordinary stress” caused by death threats against Jewish Students on campus.
From NBC News:
Cornell University has canceled Friday classes due to “extraordinary stress” amid a junior being federally charged with making antisemitic threats.Instead, Friday will serve as a “community day,” Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Christine Lovely, the vice president and chief human resources officer, said in an email to students and staff, school paper The Cornell Daily Sun reported.
“No classes will be held, and faculty and staff will be excused from work, except for employees who provide essential services,” the email said.
“We hope that everyone will use this restorative time to take care of yourselves and reflect on how we can nurture the kind of caring, mutually supportive community that we all value,” the email continued.
It comes after officials at the Ithaca, New York, university said antisemitic “threats of violence” appeared online over the weekend — the latest in a series of concerning incidents on college campuses across the U.S. since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last month.