A student-sponsored referendum to provide free tampons and pads in all Cornell bathrooms has passed, with 78.6% of 3,034 voting students casting a ballot in favor. The #FreetheTampon initiative aims to provide all bathrooms on campus of both genders–yes, men’s too–with free menstrual products throughout the year. Brown University has recently implemented a similar program....
Author: Laura Gundersen (Laura Gundersen)
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Cornell Students to Decide Whether to #FreetheTampon
Free tampons may be on the way to all bathrooms on Cornell’s campus — men’s included. Over 2,300 people have signed a petition sponsored by Student Assembly (SA) president Jordan Berger ’17 to provide pads and tampons free of charge in all Cornell bathrooms. Having received more than 10% of the undergraduate student body’s signatures,...
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Hollywood Conservative Rob Long at Cornell: The End of Hollywood and Why That’s a Good Thing
Rob Long, writer and producer of the long-running sitcom Cheers, spoke at Cornell last week at an event sponsored by Cornell’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies. Long focused on what he described as “the end of Hollywood,” and why it is in many ways a good thing. Hollywood used to be physical, with Hollywood...
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Fox News Releases More Watters’ World Cornell Video
More footage from Fox News’ recent visit to Cornell’s campus aired on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor. Last week, Jesse Watters of Fox News released video of him interviewing Cornell students about a Cornell Sun report that found 96% of Cornell faculty donations over the past four years went to Democrats. Watters was later kicked off campus...
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Cornell Prof. Lectures on Ithaca Elementary School Anti-Israel Event
When Legal Insurrection, the conservative website run by Cornell Professor William Jacobson, law, broke news of Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi’s appearance and anti-Israel comments at an Ithaca elementary school third-grade class, it quickly made national news. Jacobson, who frequently speaks on college campuses around the country about anti-Israel campus climates and Boycott, Divestment, and Sactions...
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Palestinian Human Rights Leader Condemns Hamas, BDS at Cornell Lecture
Founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) and outspoken critic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Bassem Eid spoke at Cornell last week, sponsored by CAMERA on Campus and Cornellians for Israel. “I am a human rights activist,” the speaker said as he started his speech, adding that he had never...
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President Obama Slams Coddled College Students, Microaggressions, and Culture of Victimhood
“The victim stance is a powerful one. The victim is always morally right, neither responsible nor accountable, and forever entitled to sympathy.” — Zur Institute Few days go by at Cornell or most other college campuses in which there is no mention of trigger warnings, oppression, sexism/heterosexism/genderism/racism/ableism/classism or the patriarchy, white societal favoritism, microaggressions,...
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The Carson Craze
Dr. Ben Carson is slowly but surely encroaching on Trump’s comfortably leading poll numbers as the campaign season only just begins. Very recently a no-name, quiet figure tucked away behind scrubs, the neurosurgeon has climbed his way up to a path that could very possibly lead him to the presidency. If you were fortunate enough...
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Ivy League Round Up
The Ivy League’s reputation for academic success is only eclipsed by its constituent universities’ left-wing antics. The Review mostly focuses on such antics here at Cornell, so we wanted to share some from our rivals as well. Harvard: A graduate school program, “Making Caring Common,” recently released a report that aims to educate parents to prevent “gender...
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University of Florida Fraternity Members Insult, Spit on Wounded Veterans
A hero’s welcome. That’s what veterans attending the semi annual Warrior Beach Retreat may have expected. But that they did not receive. Instead, the veterans who had hoped to spend a well-deserved, peaceful weekend at Panama City Beach, FL, were met by some extremely disrespectful college students, namely members of the University of Florida’s Zeta Beta Tau...