Howard Levin, my grandfather, was 17 years old when he lied to the Army recruiter about his age. The year was 1942 — the height of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler…
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SCHWARZ | Anti-Semitism at Cornell and Beyond: Then and Now
I not only have taught and written with great pleasure at Cornell for 56 years, but I have also been treated very well here. For those reasons, this is a difficult piece…
Letter to the Editor | Cornell University’s Funds Must Not, Cannot be Diverted
Re “Cornell Still Does Not Pay its Fair Share to the City of Ithaca” (Guest essay, Nov. 4) To the Editor: The guest piece by three officers of the Cornell Chapter of…
Letter to the Editor | Cornell University’s Funds Must Not, Cannot be Diverted
Re “Cornell Still Does Not Pay its Fair Share to the City of Ithaca” (Guest essay, Nov. 4) To the Editor: The guest piece by three officers of the Cornell Chapter of…
BATEMAN | Cornell Still Does Not Pay its Fair Share to the City of Ithaca
Wealthy universities across the country benefit from tax exempt status while they sit on endowments in the billions that grow every year and collect millions in tuition dollars annually. Their tax exempt…
LEVIN | I Thought I’d Be Safe From Antisemitism at Cornell. I Was Wrong.
An arrest has been made after evil posts online called for the eradication of Jews at Cornell, the university I attend. But I feel no sense of closure. Even though the suspect,…
LEVIN | I Thought I’d Be Safe From Antisemitism at Cornell. I Was Wrong.
An arrest has been made after evil posts online called for the eradication of Jews at Cornell, the university I attend. But I feel no sense of closure. Even though the suspect,…
Letter to the Editor | The Cornell Community Makes Final Remarks on Rickford’s Words
Re “Cornell Professor “Exhilarated” by Hamas’s Attack Defends Remark” (news article, Oct. 17) To the Editor: I thank Professor Rickford for delivering his anti-Semitic screed without recourse to the jargon used by…
LIEBERWITZ | Cornell University Has an Obligation to Protect Academic Freedom in Extramural Speech
Re: “To President Pollack: We Must Not be Punished for Our Words in A Time of War” (Editorial, Oct. 22) Cornell faces a test of its resolve to protect faculty academic freedom…
RUEFF | The Beginning of an End: Why Make Cornell Pay Matters
I get it, you’ve read a lot of articles this month about the Make Cornell Pay movement. You heard about the draft settlement last week and the strike on Monday, and maybe…