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As the University Assembly ponders a clause that would prevent discrimination of membership in special-interest student organizations, an appropriately complex debate is playing out on campus. Citing a potential conflict between “discrimination, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly” on campus, the U.A.

Towards the end of my first year of law school I, like most of my classmates, attended a meeting in preparation for the writing competition. The writing competition is used for the law journals at Cornell to select their associates for the next year. At this meeting all the journals gave a brief presentation and distributed a handout providing information on their journal; during the presentation for one of the journals, I noticed that when they formed they originally funded themselves with a bake sale. This struck me as an excellent idea, and I decided I wanted to start my own law journal, The Cornell Journal of Space Law, which I would fund by selling cookies shaped like rocket ships, the sun, etc. (if this idea failed it was suggested to me that I should solicit Richard Branson for funds). While I never followed through with this idea, I do actually remain very interested in space law as a field, and many law students still approach me to discuss or joke about space law.

Today, thousands of student activists from around the country are cheering loudly — and for good reason.

A nation-wide alliance, the United Students Against Sweatshops, drove a persistent group of protesters to fight for the rights of sweatshop laborers who had been stripped of their jobs at a Russell Athletic factory after workers tried to unionize.

Most morally reprehensible activities are done under-the-radar. The same goes for cheating. That is, students don’t just flat out cheat in front of their teachers — they do it in a more “behind-the-scenes” kind of way.