This year's Slope Day has been marred with controversy, so much so that its Pro-Palestine R&B singer Kehlani will no longer perform at the concert on the University's Libe Slope on May 7 as ...

Cornell University dropped R&B star Kehlani from Slope Day (an annual end-of-year celebratory student event) just two weeks after she was announced as the headliner, according to the Ithaca Journal.

Lightning and thunder brought an abrupt end to Cornell University’s 2018 Slope Day on Thursday, as warning sirens blared at the end of the headliner’s set and the University evacuated ...

A performance by R&B star Kehlani at Cornell's annual Slope Day festival was canceled after a backlash against the artist's anti-Israel remarks and statements labeled as antisemetic.

Due to protests and unrest that plagued the University in the early 1960s, the celebration was canceled in 1963. The next incarnation of Slope Day, known as Spring fest, appeared in the late 1970s.

Why did Cornell cancel Kehlani? Kehlani, initially scheduled to perform during Cornell University's Slope Day Concert, had her invite rescinded.

Cornell defended the invitation, saying Kehlani is performing at the request of a student-run group on “Slope Day,” an end-of-year celebration for students.