Posted on 09/19/2008 12:10:03 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Cornell Review controversy over printing an article about campus “ghettos,” “bitter minorities” and affirmative action became even more pronounced yesterday when students proposed a resolution to the Student Assembly to ban the use of the Cornell name by the biweekly journal’s title.
The article, “What to Expect: The Angry Minority,” said students in program houses — only at Cornell because of affirmative action and scholarships — complain about brutal oppression from “whitey.”
Students Nikhil Kumar ’11, minority representative-at-large, and Nicole Rivera ’09, president of the Minority Business Student Association, brought the resolution to the table.
“As a student here at Cornell, I find this article extremely offensive, ignorant and completely inconsistent to Cornell’s values … I can’t believe a Cornell publication has the audacity to write articles full of hate. It’s an embarrassment for our community,” said Rivera. “This is not an issue of freedom of speech; this is an issue of respect for Cornell’s brand and for students at Cornell.”
Cornell’s statement of diversity, “Open Doors, Open Hearts, Open Minds,” adopted by the S.A. in 1999, provided the basis of the argument brought forth by Kumar and Rivera. The statement was passed to support “a more diverse and inclusive campus.”
“As elected student leaders, we have a responsibility — because we represent all undergraduates — to use our voices to change Cornell and our image in order to reflect our values,“ Kumar said.
Eddy Herron, editor-in-chief of The Review, was present at the meeting with copies of the latest issue that featured a response to the orientation-issue article, claiming that those were reprinted comments from previous years and that The Review is entirely independent, receiving no funding from the S.A.
Members of the S.A. questioned the resolution to remove the Cornell name from the publication, stating that many independent organizations use the logo.
Neither Kumar nor Rivera had a copy of the original story. It also no longer appears on The Cornell Review’s web site.
The resolution will be discussed further at next weeks’ meeting.
Heh. “The S.A.”
I seem to remember reading about another group that used the initials “S.A.”, about, eh, 75 to 80 years ago. There’s some similarities.
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Which includes freedom of speech.
Don’t paint with such a broad brush. There are plenty of decent Indian-Americans, like Bobby Jindal for one.
Time for Kumar to RETURN to the land of his fathers. See if those ol'boys'll go burn down a newspaper for him or something.
And only their values. That a key identifier of fascism. Only the views of the fascist are allowed and all others ruthlessly silenced. This kid has no idea how much of a fascist they are.
Free speech for party members only. Of course we don't have a copy so we don't know what it contained but if it appeared in the The Cornell Review, it had to bed very bad. The Cornell Review is a conservative publication that has been targeted by the socialists at Cornell over the years.
“This kid has no idea how much of a fascist they are.”
At one time students attended college to study, to open their minds, to learn about ideas, other ways of thinking and to understand others who hold differing views and evaluate those views.
Now they come with closed minds to lecture others, even before they themselves accumulate any meaningful experience and insight.
They come to tear down anything they don’t understand.
They spend their time destroying everything that doesn’t mesh into their simplistic world view instead of trying to understand why others think differently than they do.
They are arrogant racist pisants and don’t even know it.
Here a link to the ASO that will be considering the matter.
Folks can make their case politely here if they’d “care to share”.
http://sao.cornell.edu/SO/search.php?igroup=59
Judging by her public memberships, Nicole needs some “Diversity Training” as it seems she spends all her time focusing on being a “more involved minority”. It is a shame that she doesn’t see herself as part of the larger Cornell community.
Funny how these two say they have a resonsibility to those who elected them to stamp out this outrage, but don’t they realize they are there to do good by ALL Cornell students, not just those to whom they have a political or cultural loyalty? Seems they believe in power, patronage and group loyalty than service and the common good.
Don’t they appreciate that America takes great pains to protect the rights of minorities, even when the majority might oppose those rights?
Isn’t Ezra’s middle name “Whitey”?
I lived through that experience twice. Sucks to be a conservative at any university even if you are the Key Speaker at graduation.
That’s “Whiney”...
Not exactly a big sample, but the older folks I know are all conservatives.
One is well into his 70's, and the day after he received his citizenship he was so happy. Wouldn't let be go till we went though all of the items on his citizenship test. He was proud of what he knew of this country and how it fuinctions.
**I seem to remember reading about another group that used the initials “S.A.”, about, eh, 75 to 80 years ago. There’s some similarities.**
Driving a TAXI in “the CITY OF EVIL” (and being one of those UPPITY WHITEYS,) I have more trouble with Cornell Students than I do with the IC students. IC students (of ANY COLOR) treat me like a Person... Cornell students (of ANY COLOR) treat me like a ... servant!
These kids going to have to learn HISTORY, or they will be doomed to repeat it. YES, S.A. and ALL
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