The Secret Cornell

How do you value a university that has no value for anyone else?

If you were to put all the responses of College authorities to issues that affect the rural community into categories — the largest category would be: “not answering.” In fact: in fifteen years of sending books, emails, and letters: I have only gotten one response:

Stating that the concept of rural people being deliberately marginalized and underserved comes from those who “lived in simpler times.”

The question of acting to stop rural poverty and marginalization is buffered with denial in local colleges. How different from the “inexcusable” and “unacceptable” labels that are pasted all over Tompkins County’s city-centric issues.

It’s revealing that Cornell’s “Rural Humanities” focuses on stories of LGBTQIA+ and Black lives – ignoring the plight of the county’s rural residents and reinforcing their tacit approval of “college friendly/rural repressive” policies.

When progressives are confronted by difficult questions and unwelcome answers: they always run home to doctrine.

So what happens when a disproportionate number of men die from COVID-19?

The County Health Department removes that gender data from the COVID demographics – only race and ethnicity are allowed to remain.

An interesting choice for medical reporting – and for a college with a medical school.

In Tompkins County; “overarching” policies have progressed to all-controlling ones — and only doctrinal “fact gathering” is allowed.