Religious Tolerance at Cornell

CayugaRed2005
Wed, 14 May 2008 13:08:10 +0000

cayuga, the c*nt festival im referring to was at RPCC…not the vagina monologues. vagina monologues are fine.



Well, then I stand corrected. But the event you are referring to must be a fairly fringe thing, and a lot of college campuses have events like that.

I imagine it must have been organized by Campus Life, which as I have pointed out repeatedly, is a place for the “far-left” on campus. My freshmen year, I was president of my residence hall, and was repeatedly told I couldn’t host things like a “Date Auction” because it would be offensive and “heteronormal”, which seemed really silly to me.

But my point all along is that Campus Life is in no way representative of the professors or student body at Cornell, and the vast majority of Cornellians are tolerant… and even accepting… of other opinions. It’s really only an issue on North during freshmen year. After that students start living everywhere – fraternities, West, co-ops, Collegetown, etc. and you don’t need to deal with that sort of environment at all. And even then, nobody forced you to go to the festival, just as nobody forces you to attend any of the different religious services that take place on campus. Some people go to festivals celebrating human anatomy others go to Ash Wednesday services. That’s the way the world works.

And no, the Review and the College Republican’s don’t necessarily help their cause by coming so far out of right wing. But if it wasn’t for their crazy stances, they wouldn’t get any attention on campus. And that’s what most student groups really are all about: attention. Read the papers: at Brown students just pied a NY Times journalist. At Yale a girl claimed to have induced abortion multiple time. At Harvard, the students knocked down a huge snow ***** and causes all sorts of controversy.

Cornell is no different. And if certain students spent less time complaining about really trivial things at Cornell (like how they need to walk five minutes to get to class, or how they have to (gasp!) study, or how guess what… it snows in the Northeast!, or how the residence hall directors are really liberal), they might be able to start getting a lot more out of the wonderful educational opportunities.

I realize I am at an advantage because I speak as a recent graduate. But it’s not nearly as bad (snowy, steep, liberal, hard) as people make it out to be. Honestly.