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Nobel ‘Piece’ Prizes: Iranian Cleric, Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, Prof. Jolene Rickard

The only plausible answer to the Obama Peace Prize is that it is, in fact, just one of many to be distributed this time around, making his just one segment of a larger distribution process.  Since just about everyone, including liberals and Obama himself, has openly acknowledged that this bestowal is either manipulative, unwarranted, or...

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FWS Will Not Be Taught By Undergrads

Yesterday the Sun ran an article about the prospect of undergraduates teaching Freshman Writing Seminars in light of university budget cuts and constraints. I quickly ridiculed my friends who said they would be perfect candidates to teach writing seminars. Were they out of their minds? Did they even consider the amount of time it would...

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Freshman Writing Seminars: Breeding ground for PC thinking?

I knew Cornell would most likely have, at very least, a politically correct, left-leaning faculty and student body. However, I thought that I would be able to tunnel under all of that by being in the College of Engineering. I had the image of myself working side by side with a politically inert genius physics...