At a university with an approximately $10.7 billion dollar endowment, eradicating food insecurity for all students should be a top priority of Student and Campus Life. If students are unable to meet their basic needs, how can they be expected to excel academically or meaningfully contribute to campus life?

If there’s anywhere SCL should be investing, it’s Anabel’s Grocery.

During my time at Cornell, Anabel’s has become my grocery haven — quaint, convenient and comprehensive. And I’m not alone: students are expressing their support through a petition, currently with over 2,500 signatures.

So, when I learned that Cornell is cutting funding for Anabel’s Grocery and the Center for Transformative Action, effectively stripping away $100,000 in annual funding after 53 years of support, I was both saddened and outraged. This change, set to take effect at the end of the 2027 fiscal year, leaves the Center for Transformative Action scrambling to find alternative funding sources in the meantime.

According to the 2021 Cornell Undergraduate Experience survey, 12.5 percent of undergraduates reported that they very often ate less........

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