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Cornell Prof: Blame Tea Party for Backlash Against Cartoons Depicting GOP as Terrorists, Molesters
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Cornell Prof: Blame Tea Party for Backlash Against Cartoons Depicting GOP as Terrorists, Molesters

Faculty at Cornell’s ILR School are really flexing their spin-doctor muscle here. In a Cornell Sun article published Monday about the cartoons displayed in the ILR School depicting the GOP as ISIS terrorists and molesters, and one featuring a swastika, an ILR professors was quoted saying Republicans, and the Tea Party specifically, are at fault...

Cornell Black Students United Deliver List of Demands to President Garrett
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Cornell Black Students United Deliver List of Demands to President Garrett

Cornell Black Students United’s list of demands have been released online . The six categories of demands are listed and explained in a seven page letter that was delivered to University President Elizabeth Garrett and Vice President Ryan Lombardi on Tuesday. Here is a summary of the demands: 1. Curriculum demands: Mandatory, ongoing coursework for...

Keeping It Classy: ILR School Hangs Posters Depicting GOP as ‘Jihadi John’
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Keeping It Classy: ILR School Hangs Posters Depicting GOP as ‘Jihadi John’

A labor and social justice roundtable at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) hosted on campus last weekend featured political cartoons prominently displayed along hallways depicting Republicans as a caricature of the infamous ISIS terrorist “Jihadi John” and as molesters. The story was first reported by Hypeline, and Campus Reform later obtained several...

The Return of In Loco Parentis: Cornell Students Accost President Garrett for Not Comforting Them
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The Return of In Loco Parentis: Cornell Students Accost President Garrett for Not Comforting Them

During a meeting between students and Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett and Vice President Ryan Lombardi at the Ujamaa residence hall on Tuesday, students accosted Garrett and the administration for not publicly supporting the student protests at other campuses across the country, the Cornell Sun reported. “This week you spoke in solidarity with the people of...

Million Student March at Cornell: ‘Retaking our democracy from the subversion of capitalism’
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Million Student March at Cornell: ‘Retaking our democracy from the subversion of capitalism’

On Thursday, Cornell students and some faculty members took to Ho Plaza to protest issues like the minimum wage and student loan debt as part of the national campaign called the Million Student March. The protests began their demonstration outside Willard Straight Hall, taking turns to deliver speeches. Some carried signs reading “No justice, no...

Bill O’Reilly Pokes Fun at Cornell (Again)
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Bill O’Reilly Pokes Fun at Cornell (Again)

Last Wednesday, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and his guest, comedian Dennis Miller, poked fun at a Cornell course titled “The Refusal of Work”, which is cross-listed in the comparative literature, English, and American studies departments. O’Reilly and Miller made light of the class in a segment on Campus Reform’s Biased Course Contest, which awarded this...

O’Keefe Video: Cornell Administrator Shreds Constitution Because it is ‘Triggering’
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O’Keefe Video: Cornell Administrator Shreds Constitution Because it is ‘Triggering’

Video from investigative journalism outfit Project Veritas (PV) released Thursday morning shows a Cornell administrator shredding a copy of the U.S. Constitution after a PV journalist posing as a student told the administrator the document is “triggering.” Elizabeth McGrath, Cornell’s Lead Title IX Investigator, is seen in the video feeding pages from a pocket-size Constitution...

Fox News Releases More Watters’ World Cornell Video
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Fox News Releases More Watters’ World Cornell Video

More footage from Fox News’ recent visit to Cornell’s campus aired on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor. Last week, Jesse Watters of Fox News released video of him interviewing Cornell students about a Cornell Sun report that found 96% of Cornell faculty donations over the past four years went to Democrats. Watters was later kicked off campus...

Fox News’ Jesse Watters Visits Cornell, Administration Denies Permission to Film On Campus
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Fox News’ Jesse Watters Visits Cornell, Administration Denies Permission to Film On Campus

Jesse Watters, a reporter and comic relief for Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, recently visited Cornell University to interview students about the recent finding that over 96% of Cornell faculty political donations over the past four years went to Democrats. As expected, most of the students interviewed succumbed to the usual antics of Watters, who regularly...