Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe to be 2009 Convocation Speaker At today’s Student Assembly meeting C.J. Slicklen, Chairman of the Convocation Committee and former SA President, announced that Barack Obama’s Campaign Manager, David Plouffe, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s convocation. Plouffe, who does not hold a college degree, will speak at the...
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Convocation Speaker to Be Announced Today
According to C.J. Slicklen, the 2009 Convocation Chair, the speaker for the Class of 2009 will be announced at the S.A. meeting today at 4:45pm. More to come when the news breaks.
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‘Quad Gaza’ shows a new side
Our own quasi-Gaza conflict which has been going on in the Arts Quad ‘strip’ the past few weeks, as well as in our classrooms and panel ‘discussions,’ (see here) has continued yet again this week. Today on the Arts Quad, where the controversial and allegedly one-sided signs and black flags once spanned the lengths of...
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Wikipedia and an Obstruction of the Facts
Here is a link to my column that appeared in the Cornell Daily Sun today about the inappropriate role many campus organizations played in last week’s “Gaza in Crisis” panel. Hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear feedback.
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Big week at The Cornell Review
Our extensive coverage of the “Black Flag” incident has received a little national coverage. The National Review’s blog on academia “Phi Beta Cons” has linked to us right here. Also, The Review had one of its more enjoyable days yesterday when we celebrated “Bottled Water Appreciation Day” in response to a year long movement by...
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Mark Your Calendars
I think I may be breaking the mold here by writing about an event that hasn’t happened yet, but I feel it is important to mention. If you are a Cornell student, there is an open discussion on February 26 from 3-4 pm hosted by a professor of the Applied Economics and Management Department regarding...
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SA Prez and VP Slates Announced
SA and UA candidates have been announced by elections director Mike McDermott. Usually, this wouldn’t be exciting news, but this year, students will have the chance to directly elect the president and executive vice president of the Student Assembly for the first time in the organization’s history. In a release, McDermott said the decision has...
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Academic Freedom Revisited
What is academic freedom? Liberals and conservatives have sparred over the meaning of the term seemingly for years. Prof. Stanley Fish of Florida International University put in his two cents in his NYTimes blog today. Fish writes in reaction to a University of Ottawa physics professor who last semester gave all students in his course...
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Dénouement of Flag Debacle
It is 12:30 on the Arts Quad right now and it appears activities and tensions for the day are finally coming to an end. After all of the previous events of the morning, the decision was made by IAJ members and other students willing to help to rearrange their black flags into a large peace...
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SA Response to Flag Incident
I just ran into the ILR representative on the SA Rebecca Stein, one of the very few unabashed conservatives on campus and the Cornell Review’s biggest supporter on the Student Assembly. She said she was “disgusted by the (original) flag display” continuing that the flags “celebrate the bombing of the only democracy in the Middle...