A&S student Olivia Corn, leader of the Cornell Republicans, is profiled in this Cornell Alumni Magazine story as she heads the organization at a monumental time in U.S. politics.
"I got to speak at a Gary Johnson event in New York City in front of 3,000 people, participate in a millennial panel on CBS, and talk to a lot of national media," she says in the story. "None of that would have happened if this election cycle hadn’t been so crazy and controversial. Yeah, it was difficult at times, and there were certain things that I wish hadn’t happened. But it opened up so many doors and showed me what the world of politics could be like."
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
