Hi Ate Us / Anniversary / Video

Readers have may noticed the slow-down of posts this week. Finals are tough and news is slow – this week is a brief hiatus where blogging will be at a minimum.

This month also marks the the two-year anniversary of Cornell Insider! The Insider has come a long way since our first post – a book review – on December 1st.  In those two years Cornell Review writers have blogged at the Insider about all kinds of campus events, national news, and opinion commentary.  Insider has received the attention of over 300,000 unique viewers since we first began intermittent posts in 2008, and the rate  of new viewers continues to increase.  We’d like to give a hearty thank you to all the dedicated readers who have propelled our stories onto places like the Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, FOXNation, The Hill, and IvyGate.  We’ve even developed a strong relationship with another publication, The Daily Stun, by feeding them stories to sustain healthy competition.  ‘Daily Stun’ has been mentioned over 30 times, all on purpose.  We’ve written more than 660 posts as a team. Nearly a 1000 posts have been made in the comments section.

We’re grateful to the people who return to The Insider to stay abreast of Cornellian news, contribute to articles, and call us out when when needed (very rarely). In the past two years we’ve brought you the breaking news on Cornell’s protests, frat boys, financial hiccups (correctly), messy lawns, suicides, outbursts, and shootings.

To keep you occupied the next few days, enjoy this link to the recent Africana protest videos.  A lot of our readers couldn’t believe our quotes from the event were accurate.  See for yourself. The video is in 7 parts but the one below is one of the most… interesting. Beat drop at 1:56 – “we’re not going to be forced to go into buildings that have pictures of people that do not look like me, or you, or you and don’t care about me or you, or you.”