china
Wang Dan, Student Leader From Tiananmen Square Protest, to Speak at Cornell
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The speaker at the event will address whether the U.S. should “actively support democratization in China,” according to the event’s Facebook page.
midterm elections
Cornell Republicans, Democrats Clash on Economy, Foreign Policy as Midterms Approach
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“America is a lot more than taxes and China,” said Isabelle De Brabanter ’19, president of Cornell Democrats.
debate
Cornell Democrats and Republicans to Clash Over Midterm Elections
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On Monday evening, two student leaders each from the Cornell Democrats and Cornell Republicans will argue a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues in a debate moderated by the Cornell Speech and Debate Society to offer a balanced perspective of the midterm elections.
Cornell Democrats
Incoming Republican and Democrat Presidents Share Contrasting Views on Hosting ‘Controversial’ Speakers
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Although supporting opposite sides, both presidents have similar intentions to influence voter turnout in upcoming elections.
Cornell Democrats
At Cornell, Vice Chair of DNC Calls for Youth Participation and Activism in Politics
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According to Blake, “marching and tweeting is not enough,” and millennials need to transfer their energy for activism into showing up voting booths.
Cornell Republicans
New Cornell Dems, Republicans Presidents Hope to Usher in Era of Bipartisanship on Campus
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“I will admit because we are a liberal campus, we have had more opportunities to poke things in the Republican faces over the years.”
Cornell Democrats
Cornell Dems Dispute Republicans’ Claim that ‘Obama Was a Failed President’
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There was little agreement at the debate and each side contested the validity of statistics and political facts raised by the other.
Lift Your Spirits Day
S.A.’s Lift Your Spirits Day Gathers Cornellians to Raise Awareness for Mental Health
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As students crossed the Arts Quad on their way to class on Friday afternoon, they wove around tables set up by different student organizations to commemorate Lift Your Spirits Day, an event organized by the Student Assembly. In fact, Friday’s event was the second Lift Your Spirits Day held this year. S.A. members explained that this event began in 2009 to raise awareness for mental health on campus, especially as a result of the circumstances of that year. “This is an event that is ingrained within Cornell because it’s been happening since 2009 or 2010 when there was a string of suicides on campus. It was put on by the Student Assembly with a bunch of different student organizations on campus to lift spirits in response to that,” said Matt Indimine ’18, organizer of the event.
Cornell Democrats
Local Democrats Aim to Move Past Division to Make Their Voices Heard
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Among other proposals, many democrats suggested reaching out to Republicans and supporters of President Trump as a “way to heal” and “move past division.”
Uncategorized
Dems and Republicans Debate Implications of Current Media
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The Cornell Democrats and The College Republicans found common ground in Rockefeller Hall last night during a debate concerning media bias and its effect on civic education. The debate was sponsored by the newly founded Freedom and Free Societies. The sponsors of the debate defined civic education as education enabling citizens to make informed decisions concerning public policy and elected officials.
“Bias is inevitable,” said Prof. Barry Strauss, history, one of the judges of the debate. “You have to force yourself to look at different points of view regularly and accept [that] media bias is real.”
While both republicans and democrats agreed that bias exists within the media and results in the decline of civic education, they disagreed on why and how the bias is elicited.