Columns
FARB | The Rotting Empire
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Rickford’s “processing of grief” rally was anti-Israel wrapped in the farce of pro-democracy. Cornell Democrats need to do better.
Letters To
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | To President Kotlikoff: Stop “Scrutinizing” Your Faculty
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After more than 20 years in the classroom, from graduate school through my time at Cornell, I have learned that if students feel that their teachers are scrutinizing what they say, the result is silence. If students feel trusted to explore ideas, the result is education. And when professors — as we surely will after this morning’s Sun story — teach from a place of fear rather than trust, the result is generalized apathy at best, widespread paranoia at worst.