When you think of the Student Assembly at Cornell, what comes to mind? Corruption? Inaction? Powerlessness? Or perhaps, nothing comes to mind at all?

Whatever it is, the Assembly has consistently failed us — the student body.

The Student Assembly is facing an existential threat in the form of a University administration that fails to implement almost any of its recommendations. President Kotlikoff has rejected resolutions left and right, and refuses to even respond in the time frame in which he’s required. Take Resolution 9, which seeks to end the ongoing collaboration between Cornell Career Services and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Kotlikoff is required to respond within 30 days — he took 63 days to “acknowledge” it, without implementing any of its recommendations.

Recently, the Student Assembly passed Resolutions 55 and 61, asking for new policies preventing the........

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