After a tight budget forced the Student Assembly  to deny several student organizations’ requests for increased funding, the S.A. cut its own budget by 10.2 percent. The decision will allow the S.A. to alleviate some of the funding shortfall other organizations face for the next year.

The official opening date of The Bear’s Den, a recently-named pub planned for the Ivy Room in Willard Straight Hall, has been postponed from this spring until fall 2012 because of delays in obtaining a liquor license, according to University administrators and students.

WVBR will launch a new online radio stream geared toward Cornell students when classes resume in the spring, according to a Powerpoint presentation obtained by The Sun.

President David Skorton pledged to search for sources of funding for undocumented students at Cornell at a meeting of the Student Assembly on Thursday.

The Student Assembly voted to reject the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union’s appeal for byline funding Thursday in the face of accusations from CAPSU members that doing so amounts to a dismissal of minority groups’ concerns.

The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday calling for the conversion of every single-stall bathroom on campus to a gender-neutral facility and prescribing the inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms in all future University buildings.

Cornell Cinema applied for and did not receive an increase of $1.50 per student in byline funding from the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee for 2012-2013, the S.A. announced Tuesday.

Students will see an end to trivia nights, movies on the Slope and free popcorn in Willard Straight Hall, after the Student Assembly rejected an appeal from the Willard Straight Hall Student Union Board to further increase its by-line funding allocation for the 2011-2012 year.

The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday asking administrators to “formally reevaluate” its contentious appointment of Prof. Grant Farred, Africana studies and English, as chair of Africana’s faculty search committee.

Liana Passantino '11, a former staff member of WVBR, argues that the Student Assembly was wrong to grant byline funding to Slope Media Group.