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Evaluating How Tenure Is Given
November 5th, 2009Imagine teaching English as an adjunct professor for five years, working towards becoming a tenured professor. When your time comes consideration, you wait anxiously to see if you are finally to be chosen for tenure … and get passed right on by. You may believe it will be just one more year of waiting, but the truth is, this guaranteed job may never come. Unfortunately, this is an increasingly common occurrence throughout campuses across the nation. Read More
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This Blog Has Been Brought to You by the Letter “B”
November 4th, 20092009 is a big year for Jim Henson and Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Street” program. On Wednesday, November 4, the series celebrated its 40th Anniversary, and on Tuesday, November 10, the show will premiere its 40th season. Read More
Vampire Mediocrity: Now with character development!
November 4th, 2009Good Lord! Is it that time already? What? You say it is Wednesday? Which Wednesday I might ask? Instead, perhaps I won’t .... Halloween returned this past weekend to tempt us Cornellians with the Devil’s ways (unstable table dancing, pumpkin beer, hot Ghostbusters and that sandwich at CTB with all the bacon that shall not be mentioned. I ate one today!!). Oh yeah. The lovely and inscrutable (joke!) Vampire Diaries returned as well to mystify our brains and seduce our silly bleeding Americampy hearts. Read More
California Cuisine Part 1
November 3rd, 2009My last post was a stop on the way to California over fall break. This time, I will be discussing some good cheap eats I had around LA and next time will be the fancy ones. Some of the places I ate at were a random Mexican stand at a street fair outside a Children of Bodom concert I went to, Chano’s, fig tree, Panini Café, Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles, and the famed In-N-Out Burger. Read More
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How to Lose Friends in Africa
November 3rd, 2009Paul Kagame is one of the West’s favorite African leaders. The current president of Rwanda, he was the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front when it ended the genocide in 1994. He has ruled over the reconciliation of as fractured a country as there ever has been, prevented the nation from falling into a prolonged civil war that once appeared inevitable, and has enjoyed robust economic growth for the last decade and a half. Read More
Seibald '09 Picked for 2010 U.S. Men's National Lacrosse Team
November 2nd, 2009Max Seibald '09, last year's lacrosse team captain and all-around unstoppable force on the lacrosse field, is one of 23 players picked to travel to the FIL World Championship in Manchester, England from July 14-24, 2010. Defenseman Ryan McClay '03 will join Seibald on Team USA. Seibald and Ned Crotty, Duke's standout attackman, are the only two 2009 graduates on the team. Read More
A Middle Way Forward
November 2nd, 2009In an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted at the end of September, only 11 percent of those polled believed that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should be the number one priority of the federal government. These numbers have changed little since then. However, a terrorist attack in the United States or a dramatic turn of events in Operation Enduring Freedom could quickly propel the Afghan War to the forefront of Americans’ minds. Read More
Pumpkin Turkey
November 1st, 2009Every fall I look forward to the reemergence of pumpkin in my life. I wait for the perfect fall day, cold and rainy with the leaves turning to red and orange, to take shelter in Starbucks and indulge in their pumpkin spice latte with a warm pumpkin muffin on the side. Read More
They said it
October 30th, 2009Other Ivy League daily papers seem generally unimpressed with Cornell football this season, and they have good reason. The team is 2-4 and hasn't won since Sept. 26, a 14-12 defensive shootout at Yale. The Harvard Crimson's Loren Amor picked Cornell over Princeton in the paper's weekly Around the Ivies roundup , but wrote that
"Cornell is a mess. Its best quarterback, Stephen Liuzza, is listed at wide receiver but spends most of his time at running back, which I think says it all."The Daily Pennsylanian's Ivy preview calls out coach Knowles on his uninspiring quotes in the video posted on Cornell's Athletics website: Read More
Illegal Immigration Attitudes: Growth of Bigotry or Legitimate Behavior?
October 28th, 2009With immigration to the US always growing, prejudice and nativist attitudes have skyrocketed, placing immigrant workers life threatening situations. In particular, regions with the greatest degree of documented and undocumented workers have experienced drastically increased violence against immigrants. Last year’s killing of an undocumented worker in Suffolk County, New York is a shocking example of how much hatred towards immigrant workers has amplified. Reporting on instances like this is minimal and difficult to find considering raging political opinions. Nonetheless, should the rights of immigrant workers be limited or has hatred gone too far? Read More