In a march that denounced the alleged racial incident at Sigma Pi and the reportedly inadequate response from the administration, protesters from Cornell, Ithaca College and the Ithaca community walked from the fraternity to Day Hall Wednesday, bringing with them the sound of syncopated drum beats and the fervor of about 100 shouting voices.

Sgt. Douglas Wright, an Ithaca Police officer who is suing the city for racial discrimination, was the second highest-paid employee in the Ithaca police and fire departments in the most recent pay period for which records are available.

As anger swells over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American male, Cornellians gathered in solidarity at Ujamaa Residential College Thursday to discuss critical issues surrounding the tragedy.

In the face of four ongoing discrimination lawsuits against the city, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said that Ithaca is “committed to diversity” and that he is confident the city will prevail in court.

Sun columnists, Julie Block, Andrew Daines and Munier Salem join Associate Editor Tony Manfred to talk about the stories and controversies that have defined their time in Ithaca in an epic, 10-part podcast.

To the Editor:

Re: “Defining Resolution 44,” Opinion, Feb. 23

If the perfect university anti-discrimination statute had been devised, Cornell would have adopted it already (and not by a single tie-breaking vote). What we have now in the Student Assembly’s Resolution 44 is an imperfect proposal that, by most accounts, will fail to pass Presidential muster. Whether the search for an ideal discrimination or hate-speech statute is in vain, I cannot say.

Cornell University should provide members of independent student organizations the same First Amendment rights they would be entitled to in the real world.

To the Editor:

Re: “To Eliminte Discrimination,” Opinion, Feb. 11

Yesterday’s article, “U.A. Passes Non-Discrimination Clause, Changing the Campus Code of Conduct,” addressed many of the issues arising from the University Assembly’s recent revision of language in the Campus Code of Conduct concerning harassment on campus. Although some items were not addressed — or not adequately addressed — by this news piece, we were far more troubled by the editorial, “To Eliminate Discrimination,” which egregiously mischaracterized the resolution. It is imperative that the university community be presented with an accurate narrative of the facts when discussing important matters such as free speech, harassment and discrimination. Likewise, President Skorton must consider the full and true facts when he is presented with the U.A.’s recent resolution.

Yesterday, the S.A. broadened its proposed ban on discrimination in the leadership of student organizations.