We're gonna be in the news again

[LGR14]

As I said, absolutely abhorrent and embarrassed that we share an alma mater.

You didn't stutter; I heard your doctrinaire silliness the first time.  Freiburg had Heidegger; only fair Cornell should have its... local color.

Let your Bibi flag fly.  He's not even committed to his genocide. He's just trying to save his wrinkled old ass by hiding behind you.  So pathetic.

He makes a desert and calls it peace.  Hamas and Likud are the same mental illness.  

Or, more likely, business model.  Prolly the same board, laughing all the way to the bank.

Thanks, will do.

[BearLover]

begging for this thread to be locked before it gets ugly. if this sounds like i am asking you to tie me to the mast, i am.

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from what little i can glean from toddlose's politics i think we almost certainly disagree but are united in asking all of you to please shut the fuck up

This is the silt trap.  You no like?  You leave.  Not your circus and not your clowns.

It is better to have it out with the fasc in Comments than with ordinance.  They are cowards.  They will always fold in the face of the viciousness they excuse, for whatever supernatural idiocy they ascribe to.

Setting aside the substance of what you're saying (honestly I have no comment and really don't care to get involved whatsoever), I think your writing style needs work.

[George64]

From today's D&C —

Three NY colleges under investigation for alleged civil rights violations

Here are the three New York schools named in the letters:

Cornell University and New York University for "allegedly engaging in race exclusionary practices in graduate programs."

Ithaca College for "allegedly impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation."
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[stereax]

"allegedly engaging in race exclusionary practices in graduate programs."

if I translate this from MAGA to English I'm assuming this is "you have a diversity program and we don't like that"? like the diversity fellowships?

[George64]

Cornell hosted a Pathways to Peace event today.

Speakers included a former VPM of Israel.

You can guess the amount of pro-Palestinian "activists" who screamed viva Palestine and got thrown out.

I just got home from it. Was slated to ask a question but after the first students with questions all decided to spend their time telling the former VPM she was a war criminal... didn't happen.

From The Jerusalem Post, March 17:

Cornell University anti-Israel student activists and the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine face suspension for the disruption of a panel last Monday on Middle East peace, Cornell Interim President Michael Kotlikoff said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Cornell University Police identified seventeen people for protesting and heckling Pathways to Peace panelists ex-Israeli deputy prime minister Tzipi Livni, ex-Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad, and ex-US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro.

"Five hundred children in 2014 – you killed them!" one of the protesters may have mistakenly yelled at Livni, who was Justice Minister during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza.
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[stereax]

Cornell hosted a Pathways to Peace event today.

Speakers included a former VPM of Israel.

You can guess the amount of pro-Palestinian "activists" who screamed viva Palestine and got thrown out.

I just got home from it. Was slated to ask a question but after the first students with questions all decided to spend their time telling the former VPM she was a war criminal... didn't happen.

From The Jerusalem Post, March 17:

Cornell University anti-Israel student activists and the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine face suspension for the disruption of a panel last Monday on Middle East peace, Cornell Interim President Michael Kotlikoff said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Cornell University Police identified seventeen people for protesting and heckling Pathways to Peace panelists ex-Israeli deputy prime minister Tzipi Livni, ex-Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad, and ex-US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro.

"Five hundred children in 2014 – you killed them!" one of the protesters may have mistakenly yelled at Livni, who was Justice Minister during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza.
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Can confirm I recall that being said, and I recall the statement Kotlikoff put out, too. Is that in this thread yet? Here it is, if not.

[George64]

Cornell hosted a Pathways to Peace event today.

Speakers included a former VPM of Israel.

You can guess the amount of pro-Palestinian "activists" who screamed viva Palestine and got thrown out.

I just got home from it. Was slated to ask a question but after the first students with questions all decided to spend their time telling the former VPM she was a war criminal... didn't happen.

From The Jerusalem Post, March 17:

Cornell University anti-Israel student activists and the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine face suspension for the disruption of a panel last Monday on Middle East peace, Cornell Interim President Michael Kotlikoff said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Cornell University Police identified seventeen people for protesting and heckling Pathways to Peace panelists ex-Israeli deputy prime minister Tzipi Livni, ex-Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad, and ex-US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro.

"Five hundred children in 2014 – you killed them!" one of the protesters may have mistakenly yelled at Livni, who was Justice Minister during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza.
.

Can confirm I recall that being said, and I recall the statement Kotlikoff put out, too. Is that in this thread yet? Here it is, if not.

Thanks!  I think Kotlikoff's been a terrific interim president and before that an outstanding provost.  I wish he was 15 years younger, so our Board could simply remove the "interim" tag.
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[stereax]

Cornell hosted a Pathways to Peace event today.

Speakers included a former VPM of Israel.

You can guess the amount of pro-Palestinian "activists" who screamed viva Palestine and got thrown out.

I just got home from it. Was slated to ask a question but after the first students with questions all decided to spend their time telling the former VPM she was a war criminal... didn't happen.

From The Jerusalem Post, March 17:

Cornell University anti-Israel student activists and the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine face suspension for the disruption of a panel last Monday on Middle East peace, Cornell Interim President Michael Kotlikoff said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Cornell University Police identified seventeen people for protesting and heckling Pathways to Peace panelists ex-Israeli deputy prime minister Tzipi Livni, ex-Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad, and ex-US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro.

"Five hundred children in 2014 – you killed them!" one of the protesters may have mistakenly yelled at Livni, who was Justice Minister during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza.
.

Can confirm I recall that being said, and I recall the statement Kotlikoff put out, too. Is that in this thread yet? Here it is, if not.

Thanks!  I think Kotlikoff's been a terrific interim president and before that an outstanding provost.  I wish he was 15 years younger, so our Board could simply remove the "interim" tag.
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I don't watch the wider Cornell community, so I don't know much about Kotlikoff, but he seems like a fine man from what little I've heard.

[George64]

I don't watch the wider Cornell community, so I don't know much about Kotlikoff, but he seems like a fine man from what little I've heard.

Here's a good summary of his achievements - [https://president.cornell.edu/about/]. Too bad, he's almost 75.
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[George64]

From today's D&C —

Three NY colleges under investigation for alleged civil rights violations

Here are the three New York schools named in the letters:

Cornell University and New York University for "allegedly engaging in race exclusionary practices in graduate programs."

Ithaca College for "allegedly impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation."
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The latest from today's D&C
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[stereax]

I don't watch the wider Cornell community, so I don't know much about Kotlikoff, but he seems like a fine man from what little I've heard.

Here's a good summary of his achievements - [https://president.cornell.edu/about/]. Too bad, he's almost 75.
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God damn, that's impressive.

[billhoward]

I don't watch the wider Cornell community, so I don't know much about Kotlikoff, but he seems like a fine man from what little I've heard.

Cornell wants every president to live up to the Frank HT Rhodes charisma level, well-dressed, tall, debonair, with a British accent.

Current provost now acting-President Michael Kotlikoff would make a good president but he's 73-74 years old this year and the ideal president has a ten-year tenure. Some say previous provost Kent Fuchs would have been a good David Skorton successor but some say he was not quite the engaging personality Cornell wanted. He was good enough to be named President of the University of Florida just after it became apparent Cornell was not pursuing him for president; Fuchs served 2015-2023 then came back in an interim role after the 14-month presidency tenure of former Sen. Ben Sasse.

Give Kotlikoff credit for sitting for a Cornell Daily Sun interview that, IMO, was confrontational and in some cases almost hostile, some might say. It's the kind of thing the Cornell handlers would recommend against.

Plus Kotlikoff is a Cornell basketball fan.

[chimpfood]

Plus Kotlikoff is a Cornell basketball fan.

He was at Ivy madness this year

[billhoward]

Plus Kotlikoff is a Cornell basketball fan.

He was at Ivy madness this year

Ivy Madness 2024-2025 is the encampments on the Ivy quads, threats whispered in the ears of Jewish students, most of us not understanding fully the horrors of living in Gaza, many of us in sorrow that Palestinian leaders are willing to sacrifice their people to make a point.

[George64]

Ivy Madness 2024-2025 is the encampments on the Ivy quads, threats whispered in the ears of Jewish students, most of us not understanding fully the horrors of living in Gaza, many of us in sorrow that Palestinian leaders are willing to sacrifice their people to make a point.

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