City of Dallas v. Cornell professor

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<p>I thought this was interesting. A Cornell professor who wrote an essay on the new Dallas Center for Performing Arts, a billion-dollar public arts project in Downtown Dallas, has become a lightening rod for attacks on either Cornell professors or DTD. It’s up for debate whether he actually ever stepped foot in Dallas, but he wrote an incredibly long sneering essay using Ivy vernacular to make fun of Texas, and then ended up having to write a 1,500-word apology. lol</p>

<p>Here is the discovery of his first essay on the Dallas Observer’s online blog, Unfair Park.
[Dallas</a> - Unfair Park - Jeez, Somebody Really Doesn’t Like the Looks of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts](<a href=“http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/06/jeez_somebody_really_doesnt_li.php]Dallas”>http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/06/jeez_somebody_really_doesnt_li.php)</p>

<p>And here is the big old apology…
[Dallas</a> - Unfair Park - From Ithaca, New York, An Apology to the Citizens of Dallas. And, An Explanation.](<a href=“http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/06/from_ithaca_new_york_an_apolog.php]Dallas”>http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/06/from_ithaca_new_york_an_apolog.php)</p>

<p>I know it doesn’t specifically refer to college search, I just think it’s interesting how Cornell is choosing to do its “outreach” to the Dallas area…with the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. I wonder how many kids in Dallas that would have considered applying to Cornell next year will now reconsider and apply at some other Ivy like Brown or Dartmouth…not that their professors would have any different of an opinion of Texas.</p>

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<p>Good news for potential applicants from Texas: less competition from in-state this year, and, by way of embarrassment, admissions may overcompensate by admitting more of you too !!</p>

<p>And note to all potential applicants, he teaches music and not geography, or writing.
Moreover, the educational institutions that spawned his particular prose style, and sensitivity to others, were Harvard and Stanford, not Cornell.</p>

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<p>Yes, I’m sure Cornell will be saddened by the loss of Dallas applicants who throw hissyfits at professors who criticize their arts center.</p>

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<p>That’s the frightening thing. I shouldn’t be able to read an Ivy League professor’s essay and know where punctuation is missing.</p>