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From one human to another
We are humans first and foremost. Or, as the bus driver would have said it, “earthlings.”
Cornell
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The Cornell Review and other student groups present “Why Should We Defend Speech We Hate?”
On February 2nd, several Cornell student groups will be hosting Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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Does Zoning Kill Dreams?
Cornell is a centrally planned environment. For more than one hundred years, a single bureaucracy has designed campus with more or less one vision in mind. Yet on this constructed tract of 2,300 acres, Uris and Morrill Halls coexist. One cannot walk five steps without happening upon a new architectural style, sometimes radically so– all designed by one institution. Thirty minutes away, a place that looks more or less the same throughout has developed, quietly and steadily, without a single written rule.
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Cornell Launches an Admissions Task Force to Prepare for Supreme Court Decision
On December 6, 2022, Cornell announced that President Martha Pollack appointed a Task Force on Undergraduate Admissions that held its first meeting on November 21.
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Oppenheimer Vindication is a Valuable Cancel Culture Lesson for Cornell
Cornell should follow the example of Bethe and other brave faculty of the 1950s to fight such attacks on academic freedom. If we continue to recklessly cancel people for ideological nonconformity, who knows? Perhaps it will take another 70 years before our successors can reverse our costly mistakes.
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FREE SPEECH IS A BALANCING ACT: Professors Jacobson & Nelson debate political correctness
We lose a lot when we assume everyone is acting with ill intent. And indeed, shutting down those who act in bad faith is often the very action they desire.
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Hot Topic: Cornell Moves Toward Geothermal Heating
Cornell is exploring using deep geothermal energy to heat Cornell’s campus through the creation of the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO).
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Cornell’s Construction Crunch: Ithaca’s Housing Crisis and The Catherine Commons
Catherine Commons is a temporary band-aid to Cornell’s insatiable desire for growth. Until Cornell prioritizes sustainability over expansion, the situation will only worsen.
