William Alberta M.S. ’77 is the “Elf Organizer” for the Cornell Elves Program, a charity established in 1989 that gives impoverished children in Tompkins County school supplies, clothes and toys.
We are often warned to "keep out of reach of children" typical, household products. At what point do we gain the wisdom and right for these things to come within reach?
It has been nearly a century and a half since Lewis Carroll gave us our first glimpse of Wonderland — where we learned to let our imaginations run wild, to dream impossible dreams and to believe in six impossible things all before breakfast. In this year’s adaptation of Carroll’s nonsensical sensation, director Tim Burton takes the story and flips it on its head.
When developmental and environmental psychologist Gary Evans, an Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, moved to the woods of Ithaca from his California home, he had two focuses in mind: the Human Ecology school and his children. He found a challenge by his students to look at poverty and education.
While most take for granted obtaining a high school education without cost, some are deprived of this opportunity. In Mississippi, children attending alternative schools face abusive treatment and fail to receive an adequate education regardless of the fact that they are among the country’s most vulnerable population. Most of the children attending alternative schools have special needs and are African Americans, neither of which are justifiable reasons for mistreatment or discriminatory action.
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