Cornell activists rally against conservatives; seek to defund conservative newspapers.

Cornell Daily Sun ^ | 4/17/04 | Americanus X

[Mr. K]

the best defense is a good offense- SEEK TO DEFUND THE LIBERAL PAPERS USING THEIR SAME ARGUMENTS!!~~!~~~!

[Incorrigible]

City of Eeeeeeeevil bump.

[Americanus X]

Here are the newspapers the radicals are trying to get defunded. Most of the anger was directed at the Cornell American because of their front cover.

http://www.cornellamerican.com/Archives.html

All the articles are posted there, but the PDF format shows the actual layout of the paper.

http://www.cornellreview.org/

[MegaSilver]

"This is not a white-black issue, this is a right-wrong issue," Elliot said.

And the oppressors of free speech are clearly wrong.

[DoughtyOne]

How about defunding some of these terrorist supporting universities? Just put the bitter socialist professors out on the street. Let other universities know that the larceny is going to end right here.

[Blue Screen of Death]

...a Ho Plaza rally ...

An appropriate name?

[jwalburg]

The best way to pressure a university is through alumni complaints. If well-heeled alumni start complaining, it could change policy, but I wonder how many conservatives fit that category.

[MegaSilver]

If well-heeled alumni start complaining, it could change policy, but I wonder how many conservatives fit that category.

I'm pretty sure Cornell has some good conservative alumnae...

[E Rocc]

...a Ho Plaza rally ...

An appropriate name?

No one (online anyway) seems to know how it got its name, which I suppose means my initial suspicion, involving a better-off-dead communist dictator, is incorrect.

-Eric

[blue-duncan]

The place this rally took place was "Ho Plaza" and one of the speakers was the director of "Minority and Educational Affairs/Committee on Special Education Projects". And these people are complaining about negative reporting of affirmative action and stereotyping? I guess you can't make this stuff up.

[DoughtyOne]

You're probably right, but like you I'm not sure either.

[Last Dakotan]

When you are stereotyping and putting people into groups that is a problem," said Sarah Elliot '06, president of the Cornell chapter of the NAACP.

Irony this rich just has to savored.

[SpyGuy]

No one (online anyway) seems to know how it got its name

You need to search a little harder. I too wanted to know if it was named after Ho Chi Minh. Apparently, it was not...

Ho Plaza, which was dedicated during Reunion 1995, is the result of a generous gift from the Ho family, who have had four Cornell graduates since 1955. According to a Cornell Chronicle article, "Hau Wong Ho received a bachelor's of engineering physics degree in 1955; his wife Christine received a bachelor's in chemistry in 1961; and their son, Jet King Shing Ho '91, has a bachelor's in physics." Mui Ho, Hau Wong's sister, has bachelor's degrees from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1962) and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (1966).

[wingster]

The multi-racial group of about 80 ...

I'm curious what the breakdown there was...

[Cicero]

The Cornell Review has been getting under the skin of faculty, administrators, and students at Cornell for decades.

There was an amusing book, "Poison Ivy," which describes some of this ideological warfare. Most famous, perhaps, was the incident in which a black professor bit a student in the stomach after he took exception to something the student said in class. The Cornell Review ran the story, much to the administration's displeasure.

[Cicero]

I have to confess I was wondering if it was the ebonic word for "wh*re." I'm relieved to learn that it is not.

[Morgan's Raider]

78 Blacks and 2 guilt-ridden white kids?

[cyborg]

Ithaca is the city of evil ping!

[E Rocc]

I have to confess I was wondering if it was the ebonic word for "wh*re." I'm relieved to learn that it is not.

In the lexicon of the student body, it almost certainly is. When I was in college, there was a fountain on the quad that resembled a phallic symbol. I doubt one student in ten knew its real name, it's easy to guess what its all-but-official name was. (This was before Clinton, so it wasn't named after him).

-Eric