The Cornell Review reached out to Deputy Chief Vincent Monticello, of the Ithaca Police Department, to discuss several topics including the events on October 22nd, as well as the Ithaca Police Department’s relationship with Cornell University. Samuel Kim: Good afternoon, Deputy Chief Monticello! How are you? Deputy Chief Monticello: Good. I cannot say a lot...
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Cornell University President Pollack Announces Plans for Reopening
At 1:07 PM (EDT), Cornell University President, Martha Pollack, emailed the Cornell community with general plans to reopen Ithaca for this coming fall semester. The Fall semester will begin on September 2nd, with students going back to their primary residences for Thanksgiving break. After Thanksgiving, students will complete the rest of their courses and final...
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An interview with Jim Xue, Lansing Resident and International Student
The following is a transcribed conversation between Senior Writer Hyung Ahn ’21 and Jim Xue. Hi, Jim! Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Jim Xue. I am a new transfer second semester sophomore. I transferred from Emory. I am originally from Shanghai, China, but I took two years of high school in New...
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The Case Against Educational Hysteria
Introduction Three primary issues broadly afflict college campuses today: intolerance towards diverse thought, the devolution of social purpose, and the rise of the inconsequential. These phenomena contribute to the educational hysteria that is increasingly dominating the political, social and educational spheres of the modern American university. They include trigger warnings for differing opinions, the non-ironic use of...
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Tompkins County Legislature Votes to Support New York’s $15 Min. Wage
The Tompkins County Legislature voted 13-1 on Tuesday to support New York’s plan to increase the statewide minimum wage to $15 by 2021. According to the Ithaca Voice, two of the legislature’s three Republicans, David McKenna and Glenn Morey, voted to support the minimum wage boost. The lone dissenter was Republican Michael Sigler. Sigler was...
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Ithaca ‘Fight for $15’ Protesters Squirt Ketchup and Mustard on Each Other
About 60 protesters organized by the Tompkins County Workers Center gathered in downtown Ithaca Tuesday evening to rally for a “living wage,” according to a report by the Ithaca Journal. “We want our wages, supersized. Hold the burger, hold the fries,” many of the protesters shouted, according to the Ithaca Journal. The Ithaca protest was...
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Black Lives Matter Protesters March Through Downtown Ithaca
“No justice, no peace, no racist police!” That’s what local protestors shouted this past Saturday as they participated in a “Solidarity March” along Seneca Street in downtown Ithaca, holding signs reading “BLACK LIVES MATTER” and, as one woman brazenly displayed, “CALL OUT WHITE + HETERO SUPREMACY”. The group, organized partially by Cornell’s Black Students United, started...
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Palestinian Activist Lectures Ithaca Third-Grade Class about ‘Israeli Occupation’
Last Friday, Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi gave a presentation to a third-grade class at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca. Tamimi is known for encouraging Palestinian children to confront Israeli soldiers in order to capture video footage portraying the soldiers negatively. In 2011, he was convicted by an Israeli military court for “sending people...
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Ithaca Commons Construction: $6 Million Over-Budget and 1 Year Late
It seems the entire state of New York is rejoicing over the completion of the Ithaca Commons Project, an infrastructure and cosmetic overhaul of Ithaca’s pedestrian-only downtown shopping space. As the Ithaca Journal reports, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 was accompanied by three former Ithaca mayors, state-level politicians, and representatives from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen....
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The Fallacy of Ithaca College’s Microaggression Reporting System
The Student Government Association (SGA) at Ithaca College recently voted to create an online reporting system for microaggressions. This bizarre system would collect the demographic information of the supposed micro-offenders. It is puzzling how exactly the collection of racial data will aid in fixing a manufactured problem whose advocates say pertains to race. Josh Kelly...