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A Passover Message

Judah Bellin  —  Apr 11, 2011

Judah Bellin '12 calls for a reassessment of the role of religion in the culture of intellectual and economic success. 

A Taste of Havana

Brandon Ho  —  Mar 29, 2011

Spring break in Cuba.

Egypt: A Mosaic Culture

Amelia Brown  —  Feb 9, 2011

Amelia Brown discusses Egypt's unique culture in light of the current crisis.

Spencer Wells Explores Cornell

Erin Szulman  —  Mar 10, 2010

Five years and over 400,000 samples later, Cornell’s most recent Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor, Dr. Spencer Wells, enhanced the public’s view of genetic anthropology.  His work re-traces humanity’s migrations over the past 60,000 years.

Where’s My Post-Feminist Manifesto?

Julie Block  —  Dec 1, 2009

You know the story: Girl starts middle school as “mean girl.” Poetic justice intervenes, and after mean girl-related trauma in high school, girl swears off other girls for life. Because girl has mostly male friends, other girls deem girl a slut. Girl retaliates by deciding all girls suck, declares that she hates other women, makes the requisite “woman make me a sandwich!” jokes, and tells her mother, spitefully, that she is anti-feminist. (Girl clearly does not know what this means. Mom throws up hands in air.) Then: girl goes to college, meets cool women-folk, starts studying feminism, joins sorority. 3.5 years later, girl has more female than male buds, gets over-reactive to the same sexist jokes she used to make, and has been writing papers about vaginas, columning about breasts and even devoted her entire THESIS to ze wimyns.

It’s the End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Swine…

Samantha Hartzband  —  Sep 9, 2009
This week, Cornell staff and students have been inundated with information, reported cases, and mass hysteria centered around the dreaded swine flu. Forget budget cuts and that there are now two salad lines at Statler - we’ve got the urge to oink. But what did a little swine ever do to you, besides giving you a temperature high enough to miss your sorority’s annual wine tour? Pigs were dealt the short end of the stick, and have paid countless contributions to our daily lives. Need proof? I present… The Top Five Pigs (Swine) in Popular Culture… NUMBER 5: WILBUR (The Literate Pig) It wouldn’t be right to have a pig countdown without this porker on the list.
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