Act Up?

The lack of activism at Cornell is absolutely fucking unbelievable. In the last four years, the things that have come closest to inciting action of any kind were the destruction of a few trees never deemed valuable until the threat of demolition and a failed attempt to shoot a porn film in a freshman dorm. When three freshmen guys almost got a freshman girl to hookup with one of them in front of a camera, the story got so many hits on www.cornelldailysun.com, it crashed the site. And Redbud Woods, a patch of trees (not Redbud trees) generously described as “woods” just west of West Campus, was cut down to construct a parking lot in decision so poorly handled it may have led to the forced resignation of former President Jeffery S. Lehman. Students chained themselves to trees for weeks.
We’ve fought two wars in this time, people. 3000 soldiers have died in Iraq, North Korea has engaged in nuclear testing and there is genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan, but thing that Cornellians care about is the time that a guy almost kissed a girl in Dickson and it was caught on camera. Apparently we’ve channeled our energies elsewhere, but it might nice if news from the outside could penetrate the Big Red bubble.