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“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.