In response to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri early last month, and the perceived racially-motivated circumstances surrounding Brown’s death, several student groups led by the Black Students Union (BSU) staged a protest of police brutality on Ho Plaza during the afternoon of Sep. 10. Compared to the anti-Israel protest staged by...
As we all ponder just exactly how to handle — or not handle — the world events that are radically reshaping geopolitics in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, who else a better speaker on this topic than Lt. Col. Allen West? The Cornell College Republicans are sponsoring an event on Oct. 30 with West...
Readers, be prepared and get pumped: The first print issue of the year is out on Sunday! On Sunday we will be distributing exclusively to those who attend Club Fest in Barton Hall from 1-4 pm. Additionally, we will be uploading the PDF version to our main website, www.thecornellreview.com. On Monday we will distribute throughout...
Written by Casey Breznick and Andres Sellitto. A ragtag group of students, faculty, and city locals associated with Cornell’s chapter of Students of Justice in Palestine (SJP) gathered in Cornell’s central campus Friday afternoon to stage a protest against Israel and Operation Protective Edge. The protestors stood in a crescent formation in Ho Plaza, one of...
Dear Readers, It is with great enthusiasm that I and the rest of the editorial board of The Cornell Review announce our return to online and print publishing for the 2014-2015 academic year. We expect the first issue of our print publication to be distributed in early September. In the mean time and throughout the...
The Morris NorthStar, a conservative student newspaper at the University of Minnesota Morris, claims a professor at the school incited the theft and trashing of all distributed copies of its paper last November. In January, unknown perpetrators vandalized another 100 issues of the paper. The NorthStar is mulling filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the...
A mob of about 100 leftist students overtook the Student Assembly to read aloud their previously-tabled resolution calling for divestment from businesses operating in Israel. The mob also made other speeches and comments criticizing university policies and the Student Assembly as non-democratic and non-representative of the student body. A confrontation with President David Skorton resulted...
On Thursday, April 10 the Cornell Student Assembly voted 15-8-1 to indefinitely table a formal Resolution to Divest from all companies that conduct business in Israel. The vote came after the Assembly overruled a motion by President Ulysses Smith, ’14, to disallow the tabling of the resolution until after it was presented. Some of the...
Time is running out for Obamacare enrollment numbers to meet the new March 31 target of 6 million signups. As of this week, only 5 million people have successfully signed up for coverage via the Obamacare exchanges, with the number enrolling per month dropping significantly from over 2 million in December to less than a...
On Tuesday Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a Florida House district election dubbed by some in the media as the “ground zero” of Obamacare and largely seen as a test battle ground for the upcoming Congressional midterm elections in November. The election, which saw Jolly receive 48.5 percent of the vote compared...