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Why Your Vote Counted More Than You Think
November 25th, 2008Election Day is almost a month behind us and a healthy majority of the country has been celebrating the victory of President-Elect Barack Obama. Though a large number of people went to the polls November 4th, many still did not. For those Cornell students who used the excuse "my vote doesn't count in liberal Ithaca, New York" — you were wrong. Alma Aldrich tells us why. Read More
Councilman Expounds on Election’s Significance
November 24th, 2008John Liu, New York City Councilman (D-Queens), spoke in Rockefeller Hall on Saturday, warming another frigid Ithacan afternoon with hopeful talk of a new era in American politics. Read More
Ithacans Protest Proposition 8
November 17th, 2008The dark gray of a typical Ithacan overcast sky contrasted sharply Saturday afternoon with the rainbow-hued umbrellas held by community members and students who were assembled on the Commons to protest Proposition 8, as well as Propositions 2 and 102, which ban marriage between same sex couples. Read More
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Cornellians Ponder Future of Republican Party
November 17th, 2008As Barack Obama transitions into his first presidential term, he will be backed by an overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress including the addition of at least five new Democratic seats in the Senate and at least 20 in the House. A few weeks after the election, Republican officials remain busy speculating about where they went wrong and which direction they need to move toward in the future. Read More
Dartmouth Undergrad Defeats Incumbent in N.H. County Treasurer Election
November 13th, 2008A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames her failed candidacy on "brainwashed college kids. Read More
C.U. Alums Win 5 Seats in House, 1 in N.Y. State Senate
November 13th, 2008In the weeks leading up to the election, the Cornell community watched Keith Olbermann ’79 lead MSNBC’s television coverage, read the blogs of Ann Coulter ’84 and watched Bill Maher ’78 on HBO and live in Barton Hall. And when it came time for Election Day, C.U. saw its alumni rise to the top, winning coveted seats in public offices. Read More
Presidency Not Only Issue: Ballot Measures Reassessed
November 13th, 2008On Nov. 4, voting was a particularly arduous task in Colorado. Apart from choosing the next president of the United States, as well as Senators and House Representatives, Coloradans were also asked to vote on a grand total of 14 ballot measures. Read More
It’s Hip to Be a Patriot
November 12th, 2008Americans love to feel good about themselves. The exhaustive yearning to connect with our leadership, our ideals, and our capabilities has been a primary driver of American electoral and cultural politics, and is perhaps one of our country’s greatest narratives. In the face of domestic or foreign adversity, Americans thirst to rid themselves of national self-doubt and to unify around national pride, the eternal stimulant of the American people. Such a mentality seems quite apposite since last Tuesday’s election as our generation — Generation Y — now finds itself at the helm of a resurgence of the ultimate restorative device: patriotism. Read More
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s … A Ban on Gay Marriage!
November 12th, 2008It’s a scary, scary day when citizens trust in a state to enforce their rights, and that same state turns on them within a course of hours. But, of course, there is no use of blaming the State of California. The proposition was voted on by ordinary people. So in the midst of a historic vote that elected our first black president, voices also cried out in favor of a reversal of human rights. What is it — we fulfilled our quota of justice for the year? Too much equality and our nation would spontaneously combust? Read More