This article is a response to, among other things, an opinion piece published several weeks ago by the Cornell Sun, and growing opposition toward gun rights. “This Has Everything to Do With Guns.” That’s what Cornell Sun columnist Emily Hardin ’16 boldly and, as we will see, quite incorrectly titled her article in response to the...
All five of Cornell’s shared governance bodies—undergraduate, graduate and professional, employee, faculty, and university assembly—have adopted resolutions calling on the University to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. In a renewed push to achieve this aim, professor David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, will represent all five representative bodies in a presentation to Cornell’s Board...
In spring 2014, as reported by The Cornell Review, a group of roughly one hundred students took over a Student Assembly (SA) meeting. The sheer number of activists present caused the SA to cave and suspend itself, which the Review observed as the SA’s cowardly response and “unwillingness to assert its legitimacy.” The mob then...
Update 10/18/15: Fox News aired a segment on this story. View here . In a recent Cornell Sun article covering faculty political donations, of which 96% have gone to Democrats in the past four years, several Cornell professors were quoted on their thoughts about the lack of political diversity on campus. The article itself is...
“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,...
The following is an op-ed written by Drew Musto ’19, College of Engineering. Before I begin, let me make a declaration of modesty. I am by no means a legal expert, and, at this point, having a career as illustrious and fruitful as President Garrett’s is a mere dream. She is, of course, far...
The title “Transformational Leadership for Church and Society” sounds like it should describe a program promoting tolerance and open-mindedness, along with sophisticated leadership values. However, the workshop-based initiative by the Yale Divinity School (YDS) is doing the exact opposite with its hiring of “#BlackLivesMatter” protest leader DeRay McKesson. McKesson, who has two years’ experience teaching...
This past week, the New York Slimes published an op-ed by Annie Murphy Paul about the inherently discriminatory aspects of the paradigm of the American university lecture experience. It is passages like this one that really make a white male like myself feel the need to check my privilege: “Yet a growing body of evidence...
This might just be the read of 2015: “The struggle to be taken seriously in the age of subtle sexism”, an op-ed by UNC-Chapel Hill student Blake Dodge published in the campus newspaper, The News & Observer. Upon first read, you might think Ms. Dodge’s epic rant is an exercise in satire, much like the...
Remember my previous article about the Cornell Democrats hosting NY23 Democratic congressional candidate Martha Robertson, and how members of the Cornell Dems’ E-Board said no audio or video recording was permitted? Turns out that was a lie. The Cornell Daily Sun, the school’s major newspaper, took a nearly two-minute long video of Robertson speaking and...