I arrived back in Ithaca on Tuesday afternoon. Fortunately enough, I didn’t fall too far behind in class work since there was a lot of downtime during the tournament. Being in the south for a week was an experience I had never been a part of before. Every word had 3 more syllables than it [...]
I’m in Georgia now and I had such a huge chunk of time during the tournament today that I did a rough draft of my paper and afterwords my speech coach told me about this website www.famousr.com where you have to pick whose more famous from a choice of two people. I’ve come to the conclusion [...]
Jon Stewart calls Robert Novak the D****bag of Liberty, Enemy of American democracy, a 115-year-old vampire demon, and my favorite, I sincerely believe you’re a terrible person. So who is he (besides what the title says)? Robert Novak is a conservative journalist who, as I mentioned above, was on CNN’s Crossfire when the show was on the air [...]
On Wednesday I’ll be leaving to go down to Rome, Georgia to compete in the National Championships for the Cornell Speech Team. It should be quite an experience. It’s five days long so there will be quite a lot of downtime to work on class assignments and the like, which is good since I’ll be [...]
The ‘44 should have an asterisk since he didn’t actually graduate from Cornell, but dropped out and joined the military during World War II. Nonetheless, THE Kurt Vonnegut, the Mark Twain of today, a Cornell and Cornell Daily Sun (our newspaper) alum, passed away on Wednesday night in Manhattan at an age of 84. His novel, [...]
On Monday the Queen of White House journalism came to Cornell to give a speech on her thoughts of the past and present of the White House press corps and the role of women in the press. She has worked as a White House correspondent for 55 years starting with JFK. It was by far [...]
The trip was quite an experience and a pretty fun one at that. First off, so as to get it out of the way, the British Parliamentary debate did not go so well. My partner and I went 2-4 meaning we won two debates, placed third (out of 4) in three more and came in [...]