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The Cornell Review is a conservative newspaper published by students of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It usually adheres to a fortnightly or monthly tabloid format. While the ideological makeup of its staff shifts over the years, the paper has always maintained strident criticism of Cornell's prevailing left-wing politics and political correctness, delivered with a signature (and ironic) anti-establishment insolence—sometimes making the Review a controversy in itself.
The Review incorporated in 1986 as The Ithaca Review, Inc. The editorial staff is headed by an undergraduate editor-in-chief, while the business staff is headed by an undergraduate president, overseen by a 6-member board of directors, generally Review alumni, and an advisor who is a member of the Cornell faculty.
Primary funding for the Review comes from alumni donations and the undergraduate student government. It also receives major grants from The Collegiate Network , a syndicate of conservative campus newspapers funded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute .
The unheralded success of the Dartmouth Review at Dartmouth College inspired conservative students at other institutions to found similar newspapers. The Institute for Educational Affairs , founded in 1978 to assist conservative academics, created The Collegiate Network in 1984 to offer these groups technical and financial assistance.
Ann Coulter, an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences, founded The Cornell Review in the same year as an outlet for students disaffected by the university's perceived left slant. The paper drew immediate and critical attention for its discordant rhetoric and "shock journalism."During the 1980s the Review targeted affirmative actionAffirmative action ( U. English), also called positive discrimination or reverse discrimination ( British English) or employment equity is conciously choosing people who have traditionally been discriminated against. This consists of preferential access t, homosexual rights, communistThis article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. For issues regarding the organization of the communist movement, see the Communist party article. For issues regarding one-par sympathizers, and anti- apartheidApartheid ap-ar-taed is an Afrikaans word meaning "separation" or literally "aparthood" (or "apartness"). It was the name of the policy and the system of laws implemented and enforced by "White" minority governments in South Africa from 1948 till 1990. activists, while defending the Reagan AdministrationHeaded by U. President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989, the Reagan Administration was conservative, steadfastly anti-Communist and in favor of tax cuts and smaller government. It also liked to think of itself as supportive of business interests and being, the Greek systemWhile the term fraternity can be used to describe any number of social organizations, including the Lions Club and the Shriners, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students in the United States, and even the university administration—against strikingStrike action (or simply strike is a deliberate refusal to work on the part of multiple employees. This is a tactic often employed by labor unions during collective bargaining with an employer. A strike may consist of workers refusing to attend work or pi workers. It notably criticized university-sponsored ethnicityethnic group Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or groups of people to each other. Ethnicity" is sometimes used as a euphemism for " race", or as a synonym for minority group. While ethnicity and race are related con-oriented residential communities, known as "program houses," as segregationist.
The Review was embroiled in several controversies in the 1990s. In 1991, an editor was accused of inappropriately directing student funds to support the Review, although the allegation was dropped. In 1993 its funding was threatened again after it printed a cartoon critical of President Bill Clinton's move to permit gays in the U.S. military deemed by some to be homophobic.
In 1997, the Review printed an anonymous editorial lampooning the Oakland, California school district's move to mainstream so-called ebonics. Entitled "So U Be Wantin' to Take Dis Class," it presented a mock catalog of courses taught in African-American Vernacular English, but in highly stereotyped language, for instance "Da white man be evil an he tryin' to keep da brotherman down. We's got Sharpton and Farrakhan so who da...man now, white boy." A student protest followed in which a number of copies of the Review were burned. The editors, many of whom were members of racial minorities although none African-American, defended the editorial as satire and criticized the burning as suppression of free speech, winning some publicity in conservative circles.
More recently, the Review's social conservatism has mellowed; it has run articles in defense of homosexual marriage and abortion.
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