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  • Cornell Surgeon Used Vibrator To Stimulate 6-Year-Olds

    10/05/2010 8:36:51 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 51 replies
    Jezebel Magazine ^ | By Katy Kelleher
    Article here.
  • Ithaca: Is ‘Comrade Tubman’ Mural Pushing a Socialist Agenda?

    09/24/2010 5:46:25 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 15 replies
    Ithaca Independent ^ | Sunday, September 19th, 2010 | By Ed Sutherland
    ITHACA, NY--A Green Street mural approved by the Public Arts Commission is causing a minor uproar after Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman was described as “Comrade” Tubman. In an interview, the artist said his goal is developing a “socialist movement in the United States.” Earlier this month, the city’s planning director lavished praise on the 30×600-foot mural of Tubman and Frederick Douglas beneath the Aurora Street bridge. “I think it’s a great introduction to our city,” Ithaca Planning and Development Director JoAnn Cornish said. The mural, paid for through a state grant applied for by the city and the business-oriented...
  • Is ‘Comrade Tubman’ Mural Pushing a Socialist Agenda? [In Ithaca, NY]

    A mural approved by the Public Arts Commission under the Green Street bridge is causing a minor uproar after Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman leader was described as “Comrade” Tubman. In an interview, the artist said his goal is developing a “socialist movement in the United States.”
  • Vote for Me Because I’m a Woman: New York State Senate Candidate

    08/28/2010 1:25:33 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 26 replies · 1+ views
    Federal Review ^ | 08/28/10
    ITHACA, NY--According to an upstate New York paper, "a candidate for state Senate announced that people should vote for her because she's a woman." Pamela Mackesey of Ithaca is a Tompkins County legislator and a Democratic candidate for the 53rd District Senate seat occupied by George H. Winner Jr., R-Elmira. Winner is not seeking re-election. During a stop at Elmira College, which was a women's school when it was founded in 1855, Mackesey pointed out that while women are active in the voting booth, they are less visible when it comes to running for office. "In 2010, 84 percent of...
  • Archeologists make historic discovery (Tomb of Odysseus)

    09/23/2005 7:37:53 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 123 replies · 5,382+ views
    The Madera Tribune ^ | 8/27/05 | Thomas Elias
    POROS, Island of Kefalonia, Greece - The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discovered here on this large island across a one-mile channel from the bone-dry islet that modern maps call Ithaca. This could be the most important archeological discovery of the last 40 years, a find that may eventually equal the German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann’s 19th Century dig at Troy. But the quirky people and politics involved in this achievement have delayed by several years the process of reporting the find to the world. Yet visitors to Kefalonia, an...
  • Odyssey's End? The Search for Ancient Ithaca

    04/02/2006 9:48:35 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 269+ views
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | Fergus M. Bordewich, Photographs by Jeffrey Aaronson
    Scholars have long agreed that ancient and modern Zachynthos are one and the same. Similarly, ancient Same was certainly the main body of modern Cephalonia, where a large town named Sami still exists. But modern Ithaca—a few miles east of Cephalonia—was hardly "the farthest out to sea," and its mountainous topography doesn't fit Homer's "lying low" description. (Bittlestone believes ancient Doulichion became modern Ithaca after refugees came there following an earthquake or other disaster and changed its name.) "The old explanations just felt unsatisfactory," says Bittlestone. "I kept wondering, was there possibly a radical new solution to this?" Back home...
  • Drill hole begins Homeric quest

    10/11/2006 9:53:43 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 409+ views
    BBC News ^ | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 | Jonathan Amos
    Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location. But geologists are this week sinking a test borehole on nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of Paliki is the real site. The scientists hope to find evidence that the peninsula once stood proud, separated from Kefalonia by a narrow, navigable marine channel. It is only within the last 2,500-3,000 years - and long after Homer's time - that the channel has been filled in, the team contends. "We can't prove the story of the Odyssey is true, but we can test whether...
  • Greek Archaeologists Claim They Discovered Odysseus' Palace

    08/25/2010 5:05:13 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    Novinite ^ | August 24, 2010 | unattributed
    Greek archaeologists have claimed they have found the palace of Odysseus during excavations on the Ithaca island in the Ionian Sea. On Tuesday, the archaeologist, Thanasis Papadopulos, who has been leading the excavation team on Odysseus' home island for 16 years, said that he knew the right place of the remains since 2006. "We found the ruins of a three-level palace with a staircase carved into the rock," Papadopulos said, adding that they also found a well, dating back to 13th century BC, when the Trojan War is believed to have taken place. According to the archaeologist, the discoveries are...
  • Ithaca College, Cornell Rank High for Gay-Friendly Schools

    08/17/2010 8:40:11 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 26 replies
    © 2010, The Ithaca Independent. ^ | August 13, 2010 - 5:39pm
    Three Ithaca-area schools rank among the most gay-friendly colleges, according to a survey by a national nonprofit group focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) college students. Ithaca College scored five out of five stars in the Campus Pride Climate Index. Cornell University scored 4.5 out of five. Binghamton University scored well, too - ranking four out of five stars. The annual index has become a yardstick used in student and faculty research, campus organizing efforts and gauging LGBT student safety and inclusion. Ithaca College high score - only 19 of more than 230 schools ranked five out of...
  • Writer: Ithaca is 'Berkeley of the East'

    08/11/2010 6:58:16 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 22 replies
    The Ithaca Independent. ^ | August 8, 2010 | Ed Sutherland
    Visitors to Ithaca come away with various impressions, focusing on the beautiful scenery, the liberal attitudes or our love of art. One theater reviewer from Washington, DC told readers Ithaca is a 'virtual Berkeley of the East.' Washington Times entertainment blogger Terry Ponick made that comment and many more while in town to see "Penelope of Ithaca" at the Hanger Theater. "It's like a trip back in time to the Woodstock Era here, with posters and adverts providing 'medical' marijuana even as the ubiquitous bikes seem at times to crowd out automobile and pedestrian traffic alike, writes Terry Ponick. Along...
  • Facebook Group Accuses (Ithaca) Mayor of Stifling Speech

    08/11/2010 6:55:33 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 7 replies
    Federal Review ^ | August 9th, 2010
    ITHACA, NY–The administrators of a Facebook page set up to support Ithaca Police Officer Bryan Bangs are accusing Mayor Carolyn Peterson and other city officials of attempting to suppress the group’s free speech rights. Police officials are denying the accusation. Bangs was cleared by a Tompkins County Grand Jury in July of wrongdoing in the shooting death of Shawn Greenwood. The Grand Jury found that Bangs acted in self-defense while trying to arrest Greenwood, a convicted felon, under a warrant. Later that month, Bangs’ house was torched in an apparent arson. No one has yet been charged in that fire....
  • Vending madness: New York state installs wine-by-the-glass machines

    06/29/2010 12:39:19 PM PDT · by MissTed · 14 replies
    The Patriot News ^ | 6/29/10 | Paul Vigna
    "WINE VENDING MACHINES of different kinds are spreading in different venues, which is great for consumers, wineries, and stores. A couple weeks ago I mentioned the Pennsylvania test market for buying bottled wine at kiosks (Wegman’s is one of the participating stores). "Corks & More, a wine store in Ithaca, is one of a handful of stores statewide that has wine-by-the-glass vending machines. You put your debit card in and get wine out by the taste, half-glass or glass. Ten vending machines dispense 40 wines, ranging from Opus One ($50 a glass) to Red Cat (75 cents a taste), with...
  • Sociologist receives $797K to develop methods to identify terrorist social networks (tea party?)

    06/12/2010 7:01:19 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 25 replies · 482+ views
    Cornell Chronicle ^ | June 11 2010 | By George Lowery
    A Cornell sociologist is launching a new study to develop methods of identifying covert social networks, including terrorists who are preparing attacks, human traffickers and drug smugglers, among other groups. Matthew Brashears, assistant professor of sociology, has received a three-year, $797,000 grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for the study that aims to help the U.S. government thwart terrorist attacks. "We're very excited to have a chance to do this kind of work," said Brashears, who wrote the grant proposal with sociology doctoral candidate Michael Genkin. "It's becoming very difficult in the modern age to interdict decentralized criminal activities....
  • White Officer Claims Bias by Ithaca Police

    06/01/2010 9:19:53 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 16 replies · 574+ views
    ITHACA, NY--The City of Ithaca, Police Chief Ed Vallely, Deputy Chief John Barber, Deputy Chief Pete Tyler and the Tompkins County District Attorney's office discriminated against Ithaca Police Officer Chris Miller and other white male officers, Miller is alleging in a $17 million lawsuit filed in federal court May 20. The lawsuit alleges they increased their discrimination against Miller after he filed human-rights complaints and retaliated with baseless accusations, threats of indictment and termination, harassment, greater scrutiny, and unjustified and unlawful discipline, including a bogus investigation of him in 2009. The suit also names the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association and...
  • Ithaca GOP Hopes to Revive Itself After Long Absence

    04/21/2010 7:39:10 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 14 replies · 387+ views
    © 2010 The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | April 21, 2010 | By Andrew Hu
    Last week, Janis Kelly announced the revival of monthly meetings for the City of Ithaca Republican Committee. Republicans have been absent from city politics for years, as local government has been dominated by Democrats and third party members. As committee chair, Kelly said the city’s current Democratic administration is setting Ithaca “on a path of unsustainable job-killing policies, regulatory overkill and financial foolishness,” and asked fellow Republicans to help restore bipartisan politics in Ithaca. Michael Sigler, chair of the Tompkins County GOP, said the primary goal of the monthly meetings is to get attendees more involved in political dialogue. Irene...
  • Auburn (NY) Teacher Arrested For Stealing School Lunches

    04/13/2010 11:33:56 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 19 replies · 903+ views
    A teacher at Genesee Elementary School in Auburn has been arrested for stealing lunch money. Police say 37-year-old Alan Robinson of Ithaca, a third-grade teacher at Genesee, used children's subsidized school lunch cards to buy himself lunch, and then never repaid the students. Robinson would have kids bring their own lunch to school, and then use their personal ID numbers to buy himself lunch. According to a state database, Robinson's salary is $50,000 a year. The investigation began after a parent saw suspicious charges on her bill. Robinson has been charged with three counts of petit larceny and three counts...
  • Africana Prof Accused of Making Sexist Comments

    04/12/2010 7:07:03 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 63 replies · 1,878+ views
    © 2010 The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | April 12, 2010 - 2:43am | By Lawrence Lan
    ITHACA, NY-Two months after an Africana professor allegedly called two black graduate students “black bitches,” members and allies of the Africana community — undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and alumni alike — have begun to speak out more fervently about the issue. Earlier this year, Prof. Grant Farred, English and Africana studies, invited two of his advisees — both female graduate students who wish to remain anonymous — to attend a Feb. 5 and 6 conference at the University of Rochester entitled “Theorizing Black Studies: Thinking Black Intellectuals.” The two students arrived late to a conference panel, after which Farred...
  • Cornellians Actually Are Using the Ithaca Gorges for Suicides These Days

    03/16/2010 3:08:47 PM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 34 replies · 859+ views
    nymag.com ^ | March 16, 2010 | Chris Rovzar
    So far this year, three Cornell students have leaped to their deaths in the famed gorges of Ithaca. This comes a year after a graduate from a decade ago was found dead at the bottom of one of them after having inexplicably returned to campus.
  • Ithaca Urges Congress to Pass Immigration Reform

    03/16/2010 7:47:23 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 20 replies · 451+ views
    © 2010 The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | March 16, 2010 - 2:35am | By Brynn Leopold
    The City of Ithaca Common Council this month addressed the nationally contentious issue of immigration by unanimously passing a resolution on March 3 that calls on Congress to replace the enforcement-only policy, cease raids and provide a pathway for legal citizenship. Alderpersons Eric Rosario (I-2nd Ward) and Maria Coles (D-1st Ward) introduced the bill after working for months in conjunction with the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition, Catholic Charities Immigrant Center and Tompkins County Workers Center. The resolution condemns the current laws, stating that “our nation’s immigration system continues to be broken, with the federal government pursuing an ineffective enforcement-only...
  • Pelosi to speak at Cornell in May (Madame Speaker hits the City of Evil)

    01/25/2010 8:38:27 PM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 14 replies · 394+ views
    The Post-Standard ^ | January 25, 2010, 8:06PM | By Charles McChesney
    Ithaca, NY — Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will speak at Cornell University's senior convocation May 29. Pelosi, the first woman to be speaker of the House, represents San Francisco in Congress. The senior convocation, part of graduation weekend at Cornell, is open to the public.