Every year, the Cornell Republicans and Cornell Democrats come together to place flags on the Arts Quad in commemoration of those who lost and risked their lives on 9/11. The flags were arranged on Thursday evening to spell out “9-11” and can be viewed from the top of McGraw Tower. All day Friday members of...
On Sunday evening the Cornell Democrats released their Student Assembly (SA) election endorsements. Problem is, their club constitution as of Sunday evening circa 10 pm explicitly prohibited SA endorsements. Update: After this original article was published, the Cornell Democrats changed their website to reflect an amendment to their constitution on February 25th that permits the organization to...
Read here for updates. The Democrat contender for New York’s 23rd district, Martha Robertson, spoke briefly about her election campaign against incumbent Republican Tom Reed at a Cornell Democrats event Wednesday evening. Speaking for 30 minutes to a crowd of about 40 students, Robertson, Cornell Class of 1975, mainly stuck to autobiography and her major...
BREAKING! The Cornell College Republicans and College Democrats announced today that they will co-sponsor a debate this October between national political figures Rick Santorum and Howard Dean. The duo will take to the stage of Bailey Hall on the night of Thursday, October 18 in a debate titled “The Role of Government in a Free...
On the day before midterm elections, Cornell’s main drag was host to Democratic candidates taking the podium and Cornell leftists taking it to the streets. Cornell’s ‘Get out the Vote’ rally on Monday was originally a byproduct of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ – a satellite gathering designed to...
Yesterday in Kaufmann Auditorium, in a circus of a debate that rivaled that of the New York gubernatorial race, the Cornell Democrats and Cornell Republicans squared off on the Bush tax cuts and the fiscal future of the country. The Forensics Society provided judges. The debate was broken into three segments: the Bush tax cuts,...
This has been rather unpublicized, so I thought I’d alert our readers to this event. Barney Frank will be speaking at Cornell on Sunday, November 8 at 1:45 (Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith). Details here. According to the Cornell Democrats’ website, the event is “open to the Cornell community” but “closed to the press.” I highly encourage...