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Make Room for Daddy Government The vast majority of government regulations result in restrictions on individual liberty that flush valuable resources down the toilet. Consider the case of an 85-year-old landlord in Ithaca, New York. Let’s call her Mrs. T. to protect her from the long arm of the local government. Mrs. T., like many older widows, does not make use of a large portion of her home. Hence, she chooses to rent out space in her house to college students so as to supplement her income. Each year, she engages in private voluntary arrangements with students who choose to...

Cornell Under Fire Over School In Qatar by Beth Shapiro 365Gay.com Newscenter in New York Posted: December 5, 2002 12:04 a.m. ET/+5GMT/-3PT (Ithaca, New York) Student groups are questioning a decision by Cornell University to open a a medical college in Qatar in view of the Arab state's record on lesbian and gay rights. "I think it's outrageous that Cornell would consider opening a school in a place where its students could be arrested for what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms," said Jake Lazarus one of the students opposed to the establishment of Cornell Weill...

The Cornell Review recently reported that Cornell University’s health center is considering making vibrators available in on-campus dispensaries. This news comes on the heels of Yale University promoting the same policy via a lecture entitled "Pleasure, Physiology, and Sex Toys." Ivy League feminism is now taking the form of a giant rubber penis. Welcome to the 21st century! On Wednesday night, the Yale University heath services center hosted a speech by sex therapist Carol Queen. Queen runs a sex shop in San Francisco called Good Vibrations, which, according to the Yale Daily News, sells everything from "butt-plugs" to the "Hitachi...

651 The Sexual Child R 1:25-3:20 Hanson, E.4 credits. (also WOMNS 651)With respect to children, the American imagination today is defined by what we might call pedophile gothic. The sexual child, as a volatile emblem of trauma, has become the focus of moral panics from every point on the political spectrum–panics about cultural phenomena as various as pornography, psychotherapy, day care, parenting, the women’s movement, the Roman Catholic priesthood, access to the Internet, and every level of school curricula. But what do we think a child is or ought to be? What does it mean to love or desire a...

At a Friday press conference with local lawmakers, the Tompkins County Living Wage Coalition kicked off its campaign to raise New York's minimum wage to $6.75 per hour. Assemblyman Marty Luster, who represents Tompkins County, said the state assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, has approved the increase several years in a row, but the state senate and Governor George Pataki have voted it down. "It is beyond me why we can't get the cooperation of the state senate or the governor," Luster said. "The gap between the rich and the poor is greater in New York State than in...