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It's been 15 years since I joined Cornell, and yesterday my contract was renewed for another 5 years. I'll be 69-years-old at that point. Assuming I stay until then, I'm still not taking another official photo. Enough is enough.

"People had driven for hours to attend my speech. Liberal students had come to hear what I had to say.... Unless Cornell expels the disrupters and demands that they pay for the speech they prevented, students have been given the green light to shut down any speech, waste everyone’s time and money, and make a joke of free speech at this allegedly world-class university. "

Majority of CPU student members vote in favor of my opposition to racial preferences in admissions. My argument: "How about we stop obsessing over something so vaguely and inconsistently defined like race? How about we focus on the individual as an individual, not as part of a classification? ... The [Harvard admissions] holistic model is a ruse for the equivalent of quotas."