The Cornell-McKinney Debacle

Cornell Daily Sun ^ | TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2003 | By JOE SABIA

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Meanwhile, the liberal editorial Board of the Cornell Daily Sun defends the hiring of McKinney with typical liberal think:

there is an inherent academic value in bringing a figure like McKinney to our campus.

The Rhodes Class of '56 Professorship was created so that accomplished and intriguing individuals representing a variety of fields could share their experiences with colleagues and students while participating in a variety of on-campus lectures, forums, round table discussions and other events.

If McKinney can use her time at Cornell to foster discussion and encourage intelligent debate about a variety of pertinent topics, then the question becomes why would Cornell not offer her the position? The University is not handing McKinney a pulpit from which to inundate the Cornell population, but is offering students the opportunity to interact with, to learn from and to debate with a politician who -- for better or worse -- helped shape the history of a post Sept. 11 America.

Though it only began in 2000, the program has already hosted the scientist and entertainer Bill Nye '77, former United States Attorney General Janet Reno '60, famed architect Richard Meier '56 and the president of Merck Research Laboratories Edward M. Scolnick.

Additionally, as the first female African-American congressional delegate from Georgia and as an important member of various House committees, McKinney should be an intriguing addition to the Hill. And if Cornell gets a little heat for the hire, so much the better. It gives McKinney and Cornellians that much more to prove, potentially raising the intellectual bar on her weeks spent at Cornell.

The only downside to the controversy surrounding McKinney's appointment is that John Pilger, the Emmy Award-winning documentarian and journalist who was named a Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at the same time as McKinney, isn't getting the attention he deserves.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[doodad]

Thought you might like this. Especially the editorial.

[mhking]

Would someone please tell me what the hell she is supposed to be teaching at this college indoctrination center?

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[D. Brian Carter]

I'm confused. (I also am blonde)...

a visiting professor under the Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-large Program.

Is this a program named for Andrew Dickson White? Or a White Professors program named for Andrew Dickson?

[WestPacSailor]

If McKinney can use her time at Cornell to foster discussion and encourage intelligent debate...

Isn't this what she was SUPPOSED to do for her constituents when they elected her to Congress? Why does the People's University of Political Instruction at Cornell think she will be able to do there what she so aptly demonstrated her inability to do so in Washington?

[xzins]

If you want a real education go to the state universities: Kansas State, Ohio State, Penn State, etc.

You can't get anything at the "Ivys" that the State U's don't also have.

[an amused spectator]

So why is Cornell hiring a former congresswoman who is at best incompetent and at worst an appeaser of international terrorism? Clearly, the McKinney hire is a political payoff to the Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC). Prof. James Turner, Africana studies, invited McKinney to speak at Cornell this summer, recommended her hire, and has sponsored funding for her appointment. Rather than hire an ideologically balanced professor -- or, heaven forbid, a conservative! -- the administration once again caved to radical Leftists who use race to their political advantage.

Looks like it's time to hang the ol' Arbeit Macht Frei banner over the entrance to the ASRC. ;-)

[BlueLancer]

Far above Cayuga's waters
Rises such a smell;
It is not Cayuga's waters,
It is just Cornell.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Andrew Dickson White was a co-founder with Ezra Cornell of the University in 1865. It is an interesting institution in that Cornell is a private endowed university and the federal land-grant institution of New York State. It is a member of the Ivy League and a partner of the State University of New York.

Unfortunately, it is located in the City of Evil.

[liberallarry]

Looks to me like Joe Sabia is a Cornell Student writing in the student newspaper. If that's correct free speech is working its magic, isn't it?

[SuziQ]

so that accomplished and intriguing individuals representing a variety of fields could share their experiences with colleagues and students while participating in a variety of on-campus lectures, forums, round table discussions and other events.

Don't ya just love their broad description of who should be eligible to teach the young skulls full of mush at Cornell? Using this definition, the mind reels at the real and imagined possibilities; Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Hannibal Lecter, Bill Clinton, Al Franken, Heidi Fleiss, Ivana Trump.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

ping

[winner3000]

(The Rhodes Class of '56 Professorship was created so that accomplished and intriguing individuals...)

Intriguing is now a criteria? I bet Josef Stalin could have been discribed as accomplished and intriguing too! I bet Cornell is never intrigued by a conservative... How sad. Just like a few years ago the media's monolithic tilt to the left created the great business opportunity for Fox News to come in and clean up in the ratings, similarly the monolithic leftward tilt in American universities is creating a similar opportunity for a university that hires conservative and liberal professors and actually teaches...

[sandydipper]

Truely a worthless individual.

[Soaring Feather]

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[chimera]

Sabia's got guts to publish something like this. He'll be an outcast in a sea of liberal goodthink. Then again, its Cornell, so maybe that is preferable.

Assuming it isn't tokenism (which it could be), I'll give the CDS a reluctant compliment for publishing such a heterodox column.

[.cnI redruM]

Is there any possible way to redraw the US-Canadian border? Can we please send the 10th Mtn Division up there and force Canada to annex Cornell Political Reeducation Camp?

This University has nothing to offer, nothing. I thought UCLA was bad when I did my Masters there, but this is ludicrous!

The Cornell Soviet Socialist Republic would live a much happier life under Canada where medicine is socialized.

[liberallarry]

I bet Josef Stalin could have been discribed as accomplished and intriguing too!

You bet! Hitler too. In an ideal world who better to explain and defend their world-views? In the real world, of course, it's impossible.

I bet Cornell is never intrigued by a conservative... How sad.

Truly. However, Joe Sabia seems to be carrying the ball pretty well.