The following is an editorial written by Dennis Shiraev ’12, Editor-in-Chief, and Oliver Renick ’12, Executive Editor. It will appear in the semester’s final issue of The Cornell Review, which hits newsstands Wednesday. During a protest by Africana Center supporters on Friday, one African-American graduate student took the microphone and told the crowd bluntly: “[I...
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Protesters: Columbus Started Colonialism, Genocide.
Ho Plaza played host to a small and unenthusiastic crowd of 20 or so Columbus day protesters, who set up shop outside Willard-Straight just as Oakenshields began to get the lunch hour rush. The protesters carried a motley array of signs, although there seemed to be some common buzz words on their home-made boards; the...
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The Glover Debacle
Following a long Cornell tradition dating back to at least 1969 with the takeover of Willard Straight, the minority community has again uncovered racism and oppression where there is none to be found. The so-called Ken Glover controversy has raised the ire of many, resulting in the printing of countless letters and articles in the...
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Letter to the Editor
A few weeks back, I wrote an article in the Review titled Columbus Day and revisionist history (Vol. XXVIII, Issue 3). The Review subsequently received a letter to the editor which took issue with my article. The following is the original letter from Samuel Rose ’10. Mr. Oliver Renick, I wanted to share with you...
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MRM #22
– Continuing with our series of posts about the war between the White House and Fox News, check out this alternative viewpoint from Joe Klein. Even though he fits into the camp of people who think Fox “peddles a fair amount of hateful crap,” he still maintains that the administration is making a big mistake...
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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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Summer Recap. Blogging Starts Again Monday
As the staff of the Cornell Review meanders back to Campus for a brand new Fall Semester, we mark the end of summer blogging at the Cornell Insider. Although there weren’t any blockbuster events to report on like the Black Flags Protest or the Ann Coulter CALS Controversy, an otherwise lackadaisical summer did produce some...
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Ujamaa Director Temporarily Reinstated
The Cornell Daily Sun has the story. On June 29, Cornell informed Kenneth Glover, the residential housing director of Ujaama Residential College that he was going to be reassigned to supervising High Rise 5. After a considerable number of students voiced their opposition to this move, Cornell temporarily reinstated Glover for at least this upcoming...
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Program houses: objective break-down
I’ve continued to discuss the program house situation with various people, and each time my stance on the subject becomes a little bit more revised. While this is a situation especially prone to partisanship and generally just two views, this is where I currently stand, and it incorporates some elements from both sides: The way...
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Symbolic funeral march of Program Houses [full story]
Ho Plaza hosted yet another demonstration allegedly instigated by financial cutbacks yesterday- this time, in the form of a mock funeral for the death of “safe spaces at Cornell.” The march began at Sibley hall and speeches were made at Ho Plaza denouncing the administration’s approach to program houses. Afterward, the group of people proceeded...