The Secret Cornell

This book is only a glimpse into a misconduct that goes much deeper, much wider, and much higher than I can expose.

There is a Power that comes from the power of money, the power of influence of people in high places, the power of cronyism and corruption, and the power of fear: the fear that silences the oversight and the media — and the more compelling fear of rural residents: fear of retaliation.

It’s an arrogant power that sees the county’s poor and marginalized rural people; not as a community in need of help, not even as a people to ignore, but as the perfect victim: to oppress, rob, and constructively evict – taking their homes and their land – and fulfilling a “vision of the future”: where the rural community no longer exists.

Cornell is at the heart of that power — and the source of all its policies.

Prestigious Colleges have built a special high ground for themselves: a position of public trust in their motives and their policies – a position that is seldom earned.

I have previously written on this subject to educate: to show how the needs of rural people have been dismissively ignored.

In this book I will trace the paths of greed and power to their source: a Centrality that maximizes the value of self-interest; and minimizes the value of people — an elitist doctrine of privilege and hate.

How outrageous can that be; when there is not one fact, act, or rural policy statement that refutes it?