Posted on 03/02/2005 7:37:58 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA NY--Following a thirty-three percent cut in its funding, the Cornell Coalition for Life was prevented from bringing pro-life activict Norma McCorvey to speak at Cornell, the Cornell Daily Sun reports.
McCorvey is better known as Jane Roe, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that created the right to abortion. In 1995, she converted to evangelical Christianity and founded an anti-abortion organization called Roe No More.
McCorvey was scheduled to speak on campus, and the event was confirmed last year, the article says. However the University's Student Assembly Finance Committee cut the group's budget last week, the article explains.
According to the article:
The student organizations sponsoring the event asked for $5,700 and received $3,800 from the SAFC. [Paul Ibrahim, the group's president] said that he had committed at least 80 hours personally planning the event and that McCorvey had spent time scheduling and planning as well. According to Ibrahim, $700 in funds from co-sponsoring organizations had already been spent on the event.
According to the article, the Student Assembly maintains that the budget cuts were "for all student organizations," not just Cornell Coalition for Life.
However, Ibrahim feels that SAFC money could be better allocated among different types of groups, with more diverse political views, noting "'There are so many identical groups that [the SAFC] keeps funding ...'"
The article reports that the Cornell Coalition for Life will continue fund-raising to bring McCorvey to campus. Other potential fund-raising options, the article notes, include, "CU2Nite" and sponsorship through one of Cornell's academic departments.
However, given that studies have indicated that only approximately three percent of Cornell's faculty are Republican or Conservative, the student group may have little luck funding such a sponsor.
Have to fund the newly opened "Cornell Students in support of Hezbollah" Club.
RE: "Have to fund the newly opened "Cornell Students in support of Hezbollah" Club."
You're not far off:
http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/world_full_story.asp?service_id=1389
I am certain THAT would meet with their approval
Ping!
Somwhow I'm sure the $$ would sudenely appear if Fat-Ass Moore had already scheduled a visit.
Anyone taking up a collection? I'm in
Just sent an email to their officer, seeing if they can host the even if they recieve donations. I'll let everyone know what I hear back.
even = event
Brainwashing bump for Cornell. . .
Forget it Zech, it's Ithaca.
The liberal left and their eternal death wish wins another round for fostering a Culture of Death.
Notice again that the left only wins by suppressing the truth.
Ms. McCorvey should keep her engagement for free. The dead American babies and uninformed young Cornell women and fathers deserve no less!
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Here's the message I recieved. Yes, they are taking donations. I'm sending one.
Dear ___,
Thank you for your email. Yes we are still planning to host the event as long as we secure full funding within ten days or so. We would therefore appreciate any financial help we can get, if not to completely close the gap then at least to significantly narrow it. We really appreciate your interest in helping us.
Also, just so you know, our new website is www.cornell4life.org. We will be consolidating the old and new websites soon.
Thank you and take care,
Paul Ibrahim
President, CCFL
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It's a shame about Cornell..it's one of the most beautiful campuses on Earth.
We stayed in their student-run hotel last year for a vacation, and explored the campus and surrounding magnificent gorges and rivers.
Beautiful, beautiful area, as is the entire Finger Lakes and Gorges region of Upstate New York.
Ed
Upstate New York is incrediibly beautiful . .and It is sad about Cornell. .
. . ..but the plain truth is. . .Liberalism corrupts. . .
Lots of beautiful places in Cuba, the former Soviet Union, Somalia, and even Sudan too. But absolute hellholes for the humanity that endured and continues to endure there.
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