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Louis Agassiz Fuertes - The Raven and Skulls. Final page in 'The Cornellian' (magazine) of 1896.
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ITHACA, NEW YORK – Jewish Cornell University students reported that many of their peers on campus have been questioning their allegiances to left-wing student groups after some came out in defense of a professor who called the Hamas terrorist attack in Southern Israel "exhilarating."
Fox News Digital spoke to "Cornellians" on background and on the record who said they were aware of a political shift among Jewish students. Some of them are questioning their ties with various progressive groups – and some with progressivism as a movement itself.
"A lot of the students that come to Cornell are liberal, and I think this is making a lot of Jews that would consider themselves liberal really question that," a student studying statistics and computer science, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said. "What they will be doing is silently reflecting and shifting who they would vote for in the future…. They're paying attention to… the Republican primaries to see who supports Israel the most even though that contradicts their previous values."
One of those students currently going through the dialectic – who has not yet found a political home – is Isaac Bloomgarten, a freshman studying engineering.
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Bloomgarten said he feels "betrayed" by the left with whom he always stood.
"I've always been an ally of the left. I've stood with LGBTQ people. I've stood with trans people, nonbinary people. I've always stood with them against forms of hate and discrimination. But I feel like they won't do the same for me," he said.
He has seen some of those same friends, including those he considered close, "make posts commending Hamas for what they did, declaring them as freedom fighters and how they were liberating their people by murdering Jews."
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"It's so hard to comprehend this level of hatred," he said. "And they sit next to you in class…I have to hope that people are just uneducated and don't know better and that they are not actually evil."
Ezra Galperin, a freshman who plans to major in government, said, "I think people for good reason are very much questioning their involvement with progressive organizations on campuses that have effectively justified Hamas' invasion."
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Galperin is questioning his ties to certain progressive groups on campus after some came out in support of Professor Russell Rickford. Rickford is currently on leave after saying he was "exhilerat[ed]" following the Hamas surprise terror attack that left 1,400 dead, including women, children, and elderly civilians.
Galperin said the comments and the outpouring of support for Rickford was as "regressive as it gets."
"I know without a shred of doubt that we as a Jewish community, we stand behind oppressed people… It's not all the progressive organizations on campus. I don't even know if it's most of them. But… we can't work with organizations that openly advocate for people who are exhilarated by the rape and murder of our families," he said.
CORNELL PROFESSOR WHO WAS 'EXHILARATED' AFTER HAMAS ATTACK ISSUES APOLOGY FOR 'REPREHENSIBLE' REMARKS
Galperin added that he hopes progressivism will reform away from being willing to associate with antisemitic groups.
"But I don't think any of us believe that that stops us from advocating for progressive things. You know, we can be Jewish and progressive. We can hold those beliefs… we're not going to let this stop us from advocating for a better world," he said.
Amanda Silberstein similarly said Rickford's comments and student groups' responses are "causing some more progressive Jews on campus… to reevaluate how much they adhere to certain ideologies."
Netanel Shapira explained that part of what is causing some of the shift is that Jewish students, who consider themselves a minority group, feel abandoned.
Shapira explained that he cannot support Black Lives Matter as an organization, though he does support Black liberation, because that particular political group is virulently anti-Israel.
"I find that pretty unfortunate if they're willing to side with people who are literally terrorists," he said.
Shapira said he is not alone in questioning ties to certain progressive groups.
"You want to believe that in a moment of despair where you were slaughtered, your people were raped, burned, murdered in cold blood, brutally on video with evidence. You'd like to think that the world was saying there is something wrong with that. And we stand by you in this moment of pain. Not only is there not that reaction. You have people who also have suffered horrible things in their history… justifying it. They're saying, ‘Oh yeah, it was fine because of X, Y, Z,'" Shapira said.
Sam Friedman also said that Jews are feeling left out of progressive politics, causing them to ask themselves "serious questions" about their alliances.
"The whole idea of the sort of liberal progressive movement is to be more caring and be more considerate of other people. But they're realizing that while a lot of minorities are getting good treatment… the Jewish people are not. They're almost treated… not worthy of consideration. And so I think… the progressive [Jews] are taking some serious questions… Either [to] make the progressive community more supportive… or be less involved."
Josh Rosenheim agreed, saying Hamas alignments from some progressive circles may be causing "political realignments" among Jews.
"I would hope we could go beyond scoring political victory points surrounding that issue and come together in the recognition that everyone, all students, should be safe on college campuses," he said.
Another student speaking on the condition of anonymity, who is studying biology, said the progressive left co-mingling with Hamas supporters is not only causing Cornell students to question their political ties, but the wider community.
"I definitely think that that's been happening not just on Cornell's campus. I think in general Jewish people feel that," she said.
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There's something about listening to old music and looking at pictures of worn down old house interiors devoid of people. Now I know I know someone is gonna point and say "that's the weirdcore aesthetic!" or "That's liminal spaces for you!" Which sure I'll give both of those their fair merit, but I think it's something more than that too.
It's not that I wish to dismiss the previous statements, so much as it's not so specifically the concept of like "this is supposed to have something and it doesn't anymore" or "this feels uncanny because it's not what we expect from this situation" it's more about the idea that there WAS and IS something here, people lived in these houses, many of these houses aren't even abandoned the images were just taken when people weren't around. The atmosphere isn't really there though, most of these pictures on their own are interesting, but when you pair them with some old jazzy tunes it creates an atmosphere that is something entirely unique from the aforementioned "weirdcore" or "liminal space" aesthetics; because unlike weirdcore it doesn't rely on anything unreality inducing; there's no need for editing text or things into the picture, there's no need to extrapolate some kind of paranormal understanding; there's no need for the liminal aesthetic of a space that should have people not having people; rather it's more like you're just kind of chilling with the vibe of the person who lived/lives there. You're viewing a literal snapshot of their life, a real human being not only lived there, made that interior what it is; and then possibly left there; since yea some of them are absolutely abandoned. But more over, someone went and took that picture, someone shared it online; there's a weird sense of community; and I can't help but think back to my childhood home.
I never moved or anything until I grew up and moved out with my partner, so for me the idea of my childhood home is very much my "home" if that makes any sense. It's a fond place to me despite all of it's problems, that building is one I know inside and out, it's one that changed with me, it's one that grew with me and decayed with me. Yet to anyone who sees an image of it, it's merely a house. There are stories along every wall that only I and my family know, and yet to anyone else it's a house. The beauty of this situation is the understanding that every single house, no matter how large or small, no matter how fancy or mundane; no matter if inhabited by a lone student trying to make ends meet and living paycheck to paycheck, or by a family of 5 who are well off and wealthy. They're all like this, they're all so much more to the people who live there, to the people who experience what it means to take shelter within their walls.
That isn't something someone can easily capture on camera, nor is it often the goal in mind by the photographers. Often we're only privy to the information being filtered through several layers of apathy towards what is otherwise a living art piece. Though I suppose living isn't quite the right word.
I used to often say that if I could survive and live comfortably with it, I'd love nothing more than to simply travel, maybe on foot maybe by car it doesn't really matter to me. I simply want to hear the stories of the world around me, and I think that's mostly why I enjoy photography, it's a form of art that tells me the story of a place summarized in a single frame.
Though I'm starting to sound really pretentious aren't I. Anyways, this whole thought came to me when "Bob Causer and his Cornellians, Russ Morgan "Were you foolin" 1938 Original" came on my playlist while I was scrolling through the tumblr blog "unteriors" it's likely a very pretentious feeling to have towards this sort of thing; but I like to try and find beauty and meaning in the mundane.
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As a Cornellian, glad that as broader trends in college going progress, Cornell's reputation in the Ivy League (relatively large and partially part of the SUNY system, it was essentially the state flagship college of the league) has risen in stature as Dartmouth (it's really New England boys from yachting families who went to prep school, without any reputation of being particularly good) has fallen
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have the reputation as elite-of-the-elite, Brown are the liberal arts hippies, it's actually kinda strange that even as NYU had its big come-up off "Being In Manhattan" you didn't really hear about Columbia
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easybib is so annoying they're giving me a cornellian dilemma with fucking adblocker
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Been super interested in reading more about how more established librarians view the future of our work and spaces.
~Including a picture from working at the public library the other day, which I should do more often~
#cornell#cornell university#library#university librarian#academic library#research library#research librarian#academic librarian#academic libraries#college#studyblr#study break#study#books#university#school#studying#library and information science#master of information#public library#public libraries#work from home#work from library
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Crobot "Feel This"
4rt. treball dels nord-americans Crobot amb el seu Hard Rock/Stoner ben afinat.
Aquest àlbum es deixa sentir molt bé. Té de tot (dintre del Rock dur) però sempre amb el seu segell d'una base atronadora amb aquells tints fuzzy de guitarra tan ben portats.
Personalment, he trobat una evolució positiva (tant en composicions, com en producció). La bateria és, simplement, brutal acompanyada d'un baix gruixut, creant un groove poderós i les guitarres fibroses embolcallen el producte fent que la veu harmònica resalti. Fins i tot, els temes més "fluixos" com "Set Your Free" (amb una melodia que recorda als Oasis) o la Hellacopteriana "Dance with the Dead", em semblen un encert ja que no perden el seu poder. Sentirem picades d'ull Cornellianes en "Golden", temes hard-roquers com "Electrified" o "Livin' on the Streets" i sonoritats Audioslavianes en "Dizzy" o "Into the Fire".
Un treball molt ben balancejat (en tots sentits) i amb personalitat. Tot i que a vegades ens recordin a segons quines bandes: qui no ha mamat de qui?...
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Fall 🍁🍂
Happy Fall Break Cornellians!
This newsclipping features a drawing by John T. McCutcheon. Newsclipping found in Collection #5693.
Photo description: A newspaper clipping drawing of Jack Frost sitting on leaves and painting them. The image is captioned, "Gosh! I'll be terribly busy for the next few weeks. I've got billions and billions of these leaves to decorate-- and every one has to be awork of art-- worth putting in a scrap book; and then, when I get 'em all done perfectly beautiful, folks will say "How purty" and then rake 'em up in a pile and burn 'em up. Gosh!" This famous cartoon by the late John T. McCutcheon is reprinted by request).
#Fall#FallBreak#JackFrost#KheelCenter#LaborHistory#Cornell#ArchivesLife#ArchivesOfTumblr#Labor#Unions#FromTheArchives
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Show Notes are now up for the GardenDC Podcast Episode 141: Nature's Best Hope. In this very special episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with Doug Tallamy, author of Nature's Best Hope. The plant profile is on the Cornellian Cherry and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events in the What's New segment. We close out with Eva Monheim, host of The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast, who shares the Last Word on Trees with Unique Services. Listen at the link below, on our YouTube channel, or wherever you get your great gardening podcasts- https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2023/03/gardendc-podcast-episode-141-natures.html #gardendc #gardening #dc #dmv #nativeplants #native #gardenpodcast #gardenpod #plantpodcast #gardeningpodcast (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2iTHSO__e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#gardendc#gardening#dc#dmv#nativeplants#native#gardenpodcast#gardenpod#plantpodcast#gardeningpodcast
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if tom doesn’t win the greatest fictional cornellian bracket i am going to burn the place down
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Yesterday I wear my Cornellian again with a new long chain.
As my hematite bracelet got broken I took that necklace and wore it on my neck.
Then there in my crystal shop I bought two emerald necklaces and a few chains.
He showed me the polished ones which are expensive to wear it as rings.
I told him I can't afford it now as it can become a big bill :)
Anyway, unpolished ones will be a good energy source being undisturbed by humans.
When comes to working with crystals unpolished ones their rough edges are good in many ways.
I know a little about it :)
My point is let me look different, as sef says one must change their look to openly say they are witches mages.
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A Lack of Imagination: Fictional Acceptance of Dewey Decimal System Without Question [Part 4]
Broken up into various parts because Tumblr was being funky. Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review and Wayback Machine.
Courtright as quoted in a Dec. 2017 HuffPost article
I'd love to see more fiction about this and building off this rather than blandly including DDC in their stories and then moving on, without challenging it. It seems like weak writing without substance to me. Why can't there be characters similar to Reanna Esmail, a outreach and engagement librarian at Olin Library at Cornell University, who criticized DDC and LCCO for being racist? [9] Is it that many of the librarian characters are White or that the ones writing the stories are White and they don't think about these issues? Sure, there were some stories I found which challenged DDC, but far too few. There should be many more. Personally, if I have an opportunity, I would definitely try and incorporate inclusive library classification into a story.
© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
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[9] See Maya Rader's "Cornellians Confront Anti-Asian Racism at Virtual Teach-In Event" May 2021 article in Cornell Daily Sun. She also said libraries have a "fraught history of being complicit in racism and in some cases upholding and disseminating racist ideas" and should be accountable for that and argued that "libraries are predominantly white fields, and Cornell is no exception in this regard,” both of which are correct.
#dewey decimal system#librarians#libraries#library patrons#pop culture#reviews#repost#library of congress#library classification
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Ok ok Karen is actually doing well
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Always fun to reconnect with a fellow #Cornellian - I had a fun lunch chatting with Dr. Dana Hatfield, a 2004 graduate of @cornellvet I haven’t seen since I graduated. #vetlife #lovewhatyoudo #speakerlife (at Virginia Beach Convention Center)
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lol like one thing that might not be obvious re: Ron Moore is he's a Cornellian, I was at one Cornell in Hollywood event with him circa neo-BSG where among other things he told us that Starbuck (03) was his take on Starbuck (78) on a "they'll notice she's an alcoholic gambling addict if she's a girl" basis
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I made this: orgiastic compendium of ocular delirium: Antiquarian Sticker Book. 300 page hardcover sticker book of historical ephemera + printed hallucinations. For Decorationists, Joseph Cornellians, Victorianistas, and/or Time Travelers.
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