Intramural Hockey didn’t Just Die: It was Killed
Cornell has systematically made Lynah Rink inaccessible to most of its students.
Cornell has systematically made Lynah Rink inaccessible to most of its students.
When you enter the Sesquicentennial Grove, remember those words inscribed on the Eddy Street Gate, “So enter that daily thou mayest become more learned and thoughtful. So depart that thou mayest become more useful to thy country and mankind.”
We are humans first and foremost. Or, as the bus driver would have said it, “earthlings.”
On February 2nd, several Cornell student groups will be hosting Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
All told, it was an eventful year at Cornell, with many developments that will prove to have a long-term impact.
Cornell should follow the example of Bethe and other brave faculty of the 1950s to fight such attacks on academic freedom. If we continue to recklessly cancel people for ideological nonconformity, who knows? Perhaps it will take another 70 years before our successors can reverse our costly mistakes.
We lose a lot when we assume everyone is acting with ill intent. And indeed, shutting down those who act in bad faith is often the very action they desire.
On December 5, 2022, Congressman Greg Murphy (R-NC) hosted his second annual Campus Free Speech Roundtable in the Capitol.
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