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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Human Value

"Because of when most people go to college, their identity becomes closely associated with the identity of their university."... Let the college's standing drop in publications that rank universities [a Cornell student says] and "my value as a human being feels like it's dropping."


...The [Cornell image improvement] committee's roots lie in a Cornell-Yale football game in Ithaca four years ago. Yale fans in the stadium were wearing hats and other neat gear unlike anything Cornell offered for sale, [a committee member] said. He talked about that with students sitting nearby, including leaders of the campus Republicans and Democrats.

All were in agreement, he said. "Nobody was wearing our stuff," he said. "We didn't have cool hats, we didn't have cool hoodies."