HEARD AT CORNELL | Cornell’s future admissions policy
Heard at Cornell is a column that regularly quotes important statements from Cornellians. This excerpt is taken from Pollack’s statement on the affirmative action case.
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SCOTUS tosses Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, Biden proposes alternative
Cornell students with outstanding student loans awoke to an unpleasant surprise yesterday morning, as the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’s unconstitutional forgiveness scheme.
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MIT Debate on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Impacts Cornell
On April 4, the MIT Free Speech Alliance and the MIT Adam Smith Society held a much publicized, Oxford Union-style debate on the MIT campus to consider “Should Academic DEI Programs Be Abolished?” The in-person debate was also live-streamed and promoted by the Cornell Free Speech Alliance (CFSA), one of 15 co-sponsors.
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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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Professor Jacobson argues the case against affirmative action at CPU
Jacobson argued that we should “stop obsessing over something so vaguely and inconsistently defined like race.”
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Myths Debunked: A Post-Roe America
I am writing to dispel some of these myths, to explain what a post-Roe America would actually look like, and discuss the next steps that will be taken by the pro-life generation to help women and their children in this next chapter of our nation’s history
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On Burke and Fulton: A Review
Religious liberty and clearing a space for the free exercise of sincerely held religious beliefs will play a vital part in structuring and securing our common good
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Republicans Win by Doing Nothing: A Rare Chance for Tradition-Building
This past Friday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court Justice championed as a pioneer of women’s rights, sadly…
