There is a lot of fanfare surrounding the competition and opening of Cornell’s newest Ithaca campus building, Klarman Hall. The building is encased in glass and attached to the historical Goldwin Smith Hall on central campus. According to a report in the Cornell Chronicle, the new building will house the Departments of Romance Studies and...
Bill Nye “the Science Guy” ’77 might have had a semi-popular kids science show in the ’90s, but he’s probably more well-known now as a man-made climate change alarmist. The Review has covered some of Nye’s recent antics, such as his call for redistribution of wealth in order to combat global warming. Nye’s latter claim-to-fame...
Cornell alumnus, liberal pundit and media personality Keith Olbermann (College of Arts and Life Sciences, ’79) took college smack talk too far in the past two days. On Feb. 23, Penn State alumna Lisa DeLeon (@lisaadeleon) tweeted “We Are!” at Olbermann’s account with a link to a Daily Collegian article about Penn State’s Interfraternity and...
This week two female alumnae are making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
When Keith Olbermann ’79 spoke at Bailey last month and threw a temper tantrum over a certain Review article involving his tenure at MSNBC, we at the Insider thought we had calmed Keith down. “We love all our Cornell alumni, even the ones we disagree with,” we told him. Keith responded warmly and got the...
Insider favorite Keith Olbermann ’79 was at Bailey Hall tonight and, while he gave a talk that was, at times, ridiculous, funny, and (yes, I’ll admit it) pretty good, the real draw came in the question and answer section. The first questioner, an older gentleman who looked to be one of Ithaca’s crazy but lovable...
According to this article from BusinessWeek, Cornell posted the biggest percentage fundraising gains of the twenty schools that raised the most money last year. While total donations to U.S. colleges fell 12%, Cornell recorded a 9.1% increase in donations ($446.8 million total). Other top schools mentioned in the article experienced large drops in annual giving:...