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Cornell Republicans, the Cornell Review and the Cornell Political Union hosted an event to discuss topics surrounding free speech and expression amid national attention at Cornell on the topic.

Cornell students and faculty expressed mixed opinions regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s rescinding of the Free Inquiry Rule portion pertaining to religious student groups on college campuses.

Cornell University’s student government has voted unanimously in favor of requiring trigger warnings for “traumatic” material classes.

In an article last week, Avery Bower ’23 expressed his frustrations with my recent column on Cornell’s judicial system. Those who disagree with what I write are always entitled to disagree, however, they are not entitled to lie, misrepresent and blatantly mislead the public about what is fact and fiction.After reading that article, I believe […]

This pattern of scheduling during Jewish religious events is at best a troubling oversight and at worst a deliberate attempt to silence dissenting voices. Jewish students should not have to choose between practicing their religion and defending the existence of their historic homeland.

“If you want to really discredit somebody in an academic community, you challenge them intellectually,” Prof. Richard Bensel, government, told me. “Anger doesn’t do that.” Had those hecklers wanted to change the opinions of conservatives at Cornell, they would have disciplined their outrage into a well-reasoned argument. Instead of jeering her offstage, they would have challenged Coulter’s hateful rhetoric during the Q&A segment.

Speaking from his Mar a Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump attacked the policies of current president Joseph R. Biden, stoked fears of election fraud and touted his economic successes while in office — sometimes using false statistics to do so.

Cornellians protested against Ann Coulter, conservative media pundit who visited Cornell as a guest speaker, citing her past anti-muslim, sexist and controversial remarks; in response, several students were escorted out.

In part three of the series covering Cornellians opinions on battleground elections, students and alumni consider the larger issues associated with midterm elections, such as protecting democracy, abortion rights, climate change and gun control.

Students from New York weigh options for the upcoming gubernatorial race as New York shifts to become a battleground state.