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  • Amid Protest, Former Bush Administration Official Speaks at Cornell Club (John Yoo)

    01/16/2010 3:40:14 PM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 4 replies · 368+ views
    © 2009 The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | January 15, 2010 - 12:00am | By Ben Gitlin
    NEW YORK — About half a dozen protesters greeted John Yoo, University of California Berkeley law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general, outside the Cornell Club on Tuesday night, where he spoke as part of a scheduled stop on a tour promoting his new book Crisis and Command. The protesters waved signs that read, “Torture is a War Crime! Prosecute!” and “John Yoo: War Criminal” and welcomed opportunities to speak to pedestrians about the issue as they passed by. The controversy stems from several memoranda authored and co-authored by Yoo during his time at the Department of Justice from...
  • You’re a Gay Man, Charlie Brown: New Play recasts Peanuts Gang as Homosexuals

    01/14/2010 3:26:44 PM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 70 replies · 2,308+ views
    Federal Review ^ | January 14th, 2010
    ITHACA, NY--Somewhere, the late great Charles Schulz is rolling over in his grave. Schulz, the creator of the much-loved Peanuts comic strip (and a devout Christian), probably never envisioned a day when his characters would be appropriated for a “satirical story” about teenaged homosexuals. But that’s exactly what happens in the new play, “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," which the Ithaca Journal describes as “a satirical story that ... features characters from the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip gang in their volatile teenage years” It all begins with CB, Charlie Brown, who contemplates the death of his loyal dog,...
  • Public Safety Chair Arrested (Ithaca Dem uses connections to get charges dropped?)

    12/22/2009 10:46:34 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 9 replies · 489+ views
    ITHACA -- A Tompkins County legislator is facing a misdemeanor charge related to an outstanding traffic violation. Martha Robertson, who also is the chairwoman of the legislature's public safety committee, said her arrest last week was the result of a paperwork mix-up and that the Ithaca Police shouldn't have taken her into custody, "They could've issued me a ticket right there," she said, adding that police refused her request to go to her house and see the paperwork. At the station, Sgt. Andy Navarro told her they were waiving her bail based on her community connections, and Patrick Kimmich --...
  • Piano Wreckage at Ithaca College

    12/16/2009 10:47:27 AM PST · by bs9021 · 15 replies · 1,011+ views
    AIA-FL Blog ^ | December 16, 2009 | Bethany Stotts
    Piano Wreckage at Ithaca College Bethany Stotts, December 16, 2009 The Ithacan Online reported on Monday that person(s) had vandalized more than 60 pianos in college’s practice rooms over the weekend. And this wasn’t just scratches, it was violent vandalism: More than 60 pianos were damaged Saturday night in the first floor practice rooms in the Whalen School of Music… Sophomore Andrew Thomson, a composition and instrumental major, said he went into the first floor of the Whalen Center to retrieve some equipment and found damaged equipment in all of the practice rooms. “Two or three [pianos] were flipped completely...
  • Stimulus creates only 3.5 jobs in (NY Southern) Tier's 10 counties

    10/16/2009 4:04:22 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 30 replies · 1,708+ views
    Gannett News Service | October 15, 2009, 8:20 pm | By Doug Schneider
    Gannett News, so link only: http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20091015/NEWS01/910150392/Stimulus+creates+only+3.5+jobs+in+Tier+s+10+counties But the headline says it all.
  • Rally Decries Crimes of Columbus; Stresses Importance of Native Cultures

    10/12/2009 12:41:29 AM PDT · by Chet 99 · 63 replies · 2,344+ views
    Rally Decries Crimes of Columbus; Stresses Importance of Native Cultures October 9, 2009 - 4:02am By Margo Cohen Ristorucci Propped against a podium in Ho Plaza, a poster of Christopher Columbus sat with the message “Hate, Lies, Torture, Slavery and Oppression” inscribed along his face. Anticipating the Oct. 12 holiday, Native American Students at Cornell organized a rally yesterday called "Indigenous Day Rally: Rethinking Columbus." Alia Jones ’10, co-chair of NASAC, explained that the event was aimed to both challenge Columbus Day and to raise awareness about present indigenous communities. “Question: why should the United States of America celebrate Columbus...
  • Former Ithacan nominated by Obama

    10/06/2009 9:19:31 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 19 replies · 764+ views
    ITHACA, N.Y. -- President Obama has announced his intention to nominate a native Ithacan and Cornell graduate to a key post in his administration. Mary J. Miller is up for the position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets. Miller grew up in Ithaca and received her bachelor's degree in government from Cornell. She is now the vice president of T. Rowe Price, a Baltimore-based investment firm. The post Miller is up for advises the treasury secretary on financial markets, government debt and credit and lending. Miller must first be confirmed by the Senate.
  • Dog poop may turn into cash in Ithaca

    09/18/2009 1:29:12 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 20 replies · 1,659+ views
    Rochester Now ^ | September 18, 2009 - 12:50pm
    ITHACA — A group of upstate New York dog owners thinks it has a plan to profitably compost the tons of dog doo left behind by the roughly 50,000 canines that use the city’s pooch park each year. If their pilot project is successful, the Tompkins County Dog Owners Group and Cayuga Compost hope to market usable compost within the next two or three years. Dog and cat waste contain parasites and pathogens that make them unsuitable as compost for vegetable gardens and topsoil and can run off into local waterways and diminish water quality, said Cary Oshins, an assistant...
  • FYI: Is There a Scientific Way to Measure How Bad a Fart Smells?

    09/11/2009 6:39:55 PM PDT · by Saije · 79 replies · 5,066+ views
    Popular Science ^ | 9/1/2009 | Bjorn Carey
    You’re in luck. For their senior project, two Cornell University computer-engineering whizzes recently built a machine that does just that. After learning in class how breathalyzers work, Robert Clain and Miguel Salas assembled a fart detector from a sensitive hydrogen sulfide monitor, a thermometer and a microphone and wrote the software that would rate the emission. A “slight perturbance in the air” near the detector sets it to work measuring the three pillars of fart quality: stench, temperature and sound. Temperature, Clain explains, is critical. The hotter a fart, the faster it spreads. “It beeps faster if it’s a high...
  • Incoming Ithaca College Students (Required) To Discuss Barack Obama's Autobiography

    08/17/2009 7:33:00 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 30 replies · 1,233+ views
    Ithaca College Press Office ^ | 8/17/09 | Dave Maley
    ITHACA, NY — Incoming students at Ithaca College will get together the day before the start of classes to discuss their summer reading assignment: Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.” The 44th president’s autobiography was chosen as the 2009–10 First-Year Reading Initiative selection. “President Obama’s ruthlessly honest self-examination on issues of race and identity gives us an opportunity to lead students through what could be the most important conversation they will have during their freshman year,” says Ithaca College President Tom Rochon. The initiative was created in 2003 as a way to offer the incoming class a shared academic experience...
  • Easily grossed out? You're more likely a conservative, study says (Cornell U.)

    06/05/2009 4:48:53 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 64 replies · 1,660+ views
    Cornell Chronicle ^ | June 3, 2009 | By Lauren Gold
    Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch? If so, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians -- than your less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies. The results, said study leader David Pizarro, Cornell assistant professor of psychology, raise questions about the role of disgust -- an emotion that likely evolved in humans to keep them safe from potentially hazardous or disease-carrying environments -- in contemporary judgments of...
  • Ithaca drafts bike-registration law

    06/04/2009 7:20:06 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 45 replies · 1,114+ views
    Anyone who rides a bike anywhere in the city would have to register it with the City of Ithaca or face a $10 fine, based on a law being considered tonight by Common Council. The law would apply not just to city residents, but to anyone who rides in the city, including visitors The purpose of the new law is to support and encourage bicycle riding, to assist in documenting bikes for planning purposes, to disseminate information to bike riders, and to facilitate the return of lost or stolen bikes, according to the Common Council's resolution.
  • Neighbors hot about school AC units in Ithaca (school's air conditioning placement is "racist")

    06/03/2009 8:55:28 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 49 replies · 2,263+ views
    The constant hum of the air conditioning units across the street could be heard clearly from Ralph Moss's home. At a word, they were shut off. Sounds of talking neighbors rose through the silence. "My front porch has become my haven, and my haven is threatened," Moss said, sitting on his porch on North Albany Street. "It's so much of a nuisance, I have to go inside and close my doors and windows to get some peace." Moss has lived in the neighborhood facing the east entrance of Beverly J. Martin Elementary School on and off since 1982. The newest...
  • Outcry Erupts from Alleged Homophobia: Gay student asked to step down by Christian group

    04/23/2009 8:00:12 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 44 replies · 1,755+ views
    © 2009 The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | April 23, 2009 - 12:00am | By Alex Berg
    A campus Christian group that receives funding from the student activity fee is coming under scrutiny after a student was asked by advisors to step down from its leadership team when he told them that he had openly accepted his homosexuality. This incident is also raising questions about the effectiveness of campus mechanisms for addressing instances of discrimination. Chris Donohoe ’09, who joined the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship when he was a freshman, said he had been openly struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his faith in Chi Alpha before he was asked to step down from the leadership team...
  • Cornell University lays off employees because of fundraising problems (hah hah)

    04/22/2009 10:06:07 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 20 replies · 789+ views
    THE ITHACAN Park 269, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850 ^ | April 21st, 2009 | By David Durrett Senior Writer
    As Cornell University faces greater need for donations in the current recession, it also faces having to get more funds with less money as a result of the economic crisis. In order to better focus its fundraising efforts to meet its needs and in response to the university cutting its budget by 5 percent, Cornell’s Department of Alumni Affairs and Development recently laid off 41 employees, around 10 percent of the department’s workforce. Richard Banks, associate vice president for alumni affairs and development at Cornell, said the positions were cut based on which positions were least crucial. He said Cornell...
  • Stale Material: Funnyman Cleese Still Bashing Bush

    04/20/2009 1:10:57 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 58 replies · 1,353+ views
    Federal Review ^ | Monday, April 20, 2009
    ITHACA, NY--Nearly six months after the Presidential election, former Monty Python star John Cleese needs some new material.According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Cleese, in an appearance on campus, turned serious and launched into an attack on former President George W. Bush: Americans... are “much too respectful to the president,” said Cleese, who went on to say that George W. Bush would not be able to survive a single press conference in England. “It’s pathetic!” he exclaimed. “This is the most important country in the world ... It’s embarrassing because we want America to be great. There is emotion when...
  • Ithaca Town board shows support of raising taxes on wealthy

    03/11/2009 10:09:17 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 31 replies · 827+ views
    Fingerlakes1.com local network ^ | March 11 2009 | Staff Reports
    ITHACA - The Ithaca Town Board supports raising taxes on New Yorkers who make more than $250,000 in order to stave off some cuts to education and healthcare and other "essential services." The Board unanimously passed a resolution Monday urging state leaders to pass the Fair Share Tax Reform Act of 2009, which would increase tax rates for the top 3.5 percent of New Yorkers, according to their resolution. Those with taxable income over $250,000 would see a 1.4 percent increase, to 8.25 percent of their total income. Those with income over $500,000 would see a 2.12 percent increase, to...
  • Kiss-In on Ho Plaza Protests Sexuality Bias of Valentines Day (Cornell, Ithaca)

    02/13/2009 10:39:55 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 34 replies · 1,065+ views
    Cornell Daily Sun ^ | February 13, 2009 - 12:00am | By Eve Shabto
    ITHACA, NY--Love — or, at least, lust — was in the air on Ho Plaza yesterday at 12:15 p.m. A group of roughly 20 students lined up to hold a colorful banner that read “QUEER KISSIN’ … in progress” and then proceeded have a queer kiss-in, which lasted about five minutes. Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism sponsored the event, according to kiss-in participant Ashley McGovern ’09. She explained that heterosexism is “kind of like homophobia except heterosexism has to do with all facets of society … so the normalization of heterosexuality in society.” Heteronormativity refers to the idea that heterosexuality...
  • Protester throws shoes at [Ithaca Mayor] Peterson during city meeting

    02/05/2009 7:55:00 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 18 replies · 1,512+ views
    ITHACA - A protester dressed in his 1950s-era military uniform threw his shoes at Mayor Carolyn Peterson and brought Common Council's Wednesday night meeting to an almost hour-long standstill, insisting that he wanted to be arrested in protest over the Council's position against the "immoral wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long-time Ithacan and former Weather Underground member Robin Palmer began speaking at about 7:15 p.m., near the beginning of Council's privilege of the floor, during which any citizen may speak on any topic. Palmer handed out packets of information on the U.S.S. Indianapolis, a Navy vessel sunk during World War...
  • The Ithaca Journal makes changes to adjust to leaner times (Dinosaur Media Death Watch)

    12/30/2008 7:42:03 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 16 replies · 447+ views
    The Ithaca Journal | December 27, 2008 | Bruce Estes
    The body of the article is here. It cannot be reposted thanks to the cretins at Gannett News. However, the upshot of the editorial is that the only daily paper in Ithaca is cutting news pages AND advertising.All together now, cut the world's smallest violin: