Ouch. (Actually, there's a double-ouch in there.)
Cornell and all of the Ivy League schools are first rate when it comes to a hard science (physics, math, chem, engineering) education. It's when you leave the science buildings, that things got dicey and full of self absorbed idiots like this Cheyfitz character. He thinks that because he's teaching at Cornell that he's a somebody. Problem is he's teaching a course(s) that pretty much anyone with a reasonable command of english could teach. The Physics Dept. at Cornell was excellent. Head and shoulders above the school that I transferred in from (Clarkson).