Previous Events

The Cornell Democrats host Congressman Barney Frank
This Sunday, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will speak to the Cornell Democrats.
Sunday, November 8th, 1:45pm in Lewis Auditorium - Goldwin Smith Hall

Election Day
Find your polling place here and don't forget to vote!
GENERAL ELECTION POLLING PLACES ARE OPEN FROM 6AM UNTIL 9PM
Tuesday, November 3rd

Planning Meeting
The Executive Board and interested members will have a Planning Meeting, where we will be discussing the activities on the club's horizon. Anyone interested in becoming more heavily involved with the club is encouraged to attend, but don't feel you have to - it's optional!
Monday, November 2th, 6pm in Rockefeller 187

GOTV Weekend with the Dryden Dems
The Dems will be doing literature drops for local races in nearby Dryden, NY.
Saturday, October 31st in the morning.

Local Campaign Focus: Eddie Rooker
Eddie Rooker is the Democratic candidate for 4th Ward Seat on the Ithaca City Council and will be speaking to the Dems about his campaign and vision for the future.
Wednesday, October 28th, 5pm in McGraw 165

Planning Meeting
The Executive Board and interested members will have a Planning Meeting, where we will be discussing the activities on the club's horizon. Anyone interested in becoming more heavily involved with the club is encouraged to attend, but don't feel you have to - it's optional!
Monday, October 26th, 6pm in Rockefeller 187

Health Care Debate
The Cornell Democrats, Cornell Libertarians, and Cornell Republicans will be debating some of the proposed mechanisms for health care reform. Topics to be covered will be: Tort Reform; Individual/Employer Mandates; Public Option; Medical Savings Accounts; and Buying Insurance Across State Lines.
Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm in McGraw 165

Planning Meeting
The Executive Board and interested members will have a Planning Meeting, where we will be discussing the activities on the club's horizon. Anyone interested in becoming more heavily involved with the club is encouraged to attend, but don't feel you have to - it's optional!
Monday, October 19th, 6pm in Rockefeller 187

Homecoming BBQ and Tailgating
The Dems will be welcoming back their alumni and enjoying some food and drinks by the grill.
Saturday, October 19th, 4pm at 516 University Ave (Ravenwood), Apt. B5.

Homecoming Parade
The parade will begin precisely at 10:30 a.m., so we’re asking that all groups gather at the Biotech Quad grassy area (behind Teagle Hall) by 9:45 a.m. on Saturday morning. Basic breakfast food will be provided (juice, muffins). Students and staff will be on hand to help line up groups. The parade should be finished by 11:30 a.m., and groups are encouraged to mingle with alumni at the tailgates afterward.
Here is a map of the basic parade route. Saturday, October 17th, 9:45am at Biotech Quad.

Planning Meeting
The Executive Board and interested members will have a Planning Meeting, where we will be discussing the activities on the club's horizon. Anyone interested in becoming more heavily involved with the club is encouraged to attend, but don't feel you have to - it's optional!
Monday, October 5th, 6pm in Rockefeller 187

Health Care Working Meeting
We will be working on our health care issue campaigns, preparing displays for after Fall Break and beginning our debate planning.
Wednesday, October 7th, 5pm in McGraw 165

Drinking Liberally
Come to 'Drinking Liberally', a Cornell Democrats tradition and great opportunity to socialize with other members!
Thursday, 1 October, 9pm at 516 University Ave (Ravenwood), Apt. B5

What's The Deal With Health Care?
Confused about what the public option is? Wondering what an individual mandate means? The Cornell Democrats will be hosting Professors Lowell Turner (ILR), Sean Nicholson (PAM), and Dr. Susan Solomon (Nutrition) to discuss the current state of the health care and insurance industries and the suggested mechanisms for reform. Bring your questions!
Wednesday, September 30th, 5pm in McGraw 165

Planning Meeting
The Executive Board and interested members will have a Planning Meeting, where we will be discussing the activities on the club's horizon. Anyone interested in becoming more heavily involved with the club is encouraged to attend, but don't feel you have to - it's optional!
Monday, September 28th, 5pm in Rockefeller 187

Intense Oral... Arguments: The Court, The Constitution, and Controversy
We discussed the contentious questions of Citizens United v. FEC and Gratz v. Bollinger.
Wednesday, September 23th, 5pm in McGraw 165

Planning Meeting
Monday, September 21th, 5pm in Rockefeller 187

Drinking Liberally
Come to our second 'Drinking Liberally', a Cornell Democrats tradition and great opportunity to socialize with other members!
Thursday, 17 September, 9pm at 516 University Ave (Ravenwood), Apt. B5'

Political Jeopardy!
Join the Cornell Democrats for our third meeting: Political Jeopardy! It'll be a great chance to meet the new members, catch up with the old ones, and win homemade baked goods!
Wednesday, September 16th, 5pm in McGraw 165

Planning Meeting
Monday, September 14th, 5pm in Rockefeller 187

Second Meeting with Dr. Scott Noren!
Join the Cornell Democrats as we host Dr. Scott Noren, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
Wednesday, September 9th, 5pm in McGraw 165

Planning Meeting
The Executive Board and interested members will have a Planning Meeting, where we will be discussing the activities on the club's horizon. Anyone interested in becoming more heavily involved with the club is encouraged to attend, but don't feel you have to - it's strictly optional!
Monday, September 7th, 5pm in Rockefeller 187

Drinking Liberally
Come to our first 'Drinking Liberally' of the year, a Cornell Democrats tradition and great opportunity to socialize with other members! Thursday, 3 September, 9pm at 105 Bool Street''

First Meeting!
An intro to the CU Dems & an overview of this semester’s activities, plus free pizza!
Wednesday, September 2nd, 5pm in Uris Auditorium

Club Fest, Sunday, August 30th
Join us to recruit new members and kick off the year!
Sunday, August 30th in Barton Hall

MEETING: End of the Year Meeting, April 29nd 5pm
McGraw 165
Come watch as the new executive board takes over, we celebrate a great year, and pass out awards.

MEETING: Cornell Democrats Election, April 22nd 5pm
McGraw 165
Come see democracy at work as we elect our new executive board for the next academic year. To vote or run in the election you must be a member of the Cornell Democrats, you must be self-described Democrat and have signed-in at three meeting this academic year to be a member of the club.

College Democrats of New York Convention, April 17th-19th
The Cornell Democrats will be traveling to NYC--in private cars--to attend the CDNY convention hosted by the St. John's College Democrats. The convention will have big name Democratic speakers, workshops, and a chance to socialize with college Democrats from around the state.

MEETING: Ithaca District Attorney Glen Wilkinson, April 15th 5pm
McGraw 165
Come here DA Wilkinson speak about her job as Ithaca DA and her upcoming campaign to get re-elected.

Cornell Democrats Annual Date Auction, April 14th 8pm
Location: The Nines

MEETING: US Senate Candidate Dr. Bill Thomas Speaks, April 8th 5pm
McGraw 165
Come here Dr. Thomas speak about his Democratic primary campaign against Senator Gillibrand.

Debate on Media Bias with The Cornell Republicans, April 7th 7:30pm
Location: Rockefeller 103

Previous Events of Interest

The US Health Care System and You.
Host: The Alpha Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: HEC Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall

Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived - with guests!
Virtual JFK investigates one of the most debated "what if" scenarios in the history of U.S. foreign policy: What would President John F. Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963, and had he been re-elected in 1964? The film employs what Harvard historian Niall Ferguson calls "virtual history," assessing the plausibility of counterfactuals--"what ifs"--and the outcomes they might have produced. The heart of the film deals with the question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? More at virtualjfk.com. LOCATION: Willard Straight Theatre
SPEAKER: Profs. Fredrik Logevall & Elizabeth Sanders
November 18, 2009 - 7:00PM to 9:00PM

Nancy Fraser of the New School delivers the Messenger Lectures
Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Reconstructing Karl Polanyi's Framework in Three Dimensions on Tuesday, October 27th, at 4:30pm in Goldwin Smith Hall-Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium
Regime Change: From Embedded Liberalism to Neoliberalism and Beyond on Wednesday, October 28th, at 4:30pm in Goldwin Smith Hall-Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium
Predatory Protections, Tragic Tradeoffs, and Dangerous Liaisons: Dilemmas of Justice in the Context of Capitalist Crisis on Thursday, October 29th, at 4:30pm in Goldwin Smith Hall-Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium

Institutionalized Municipal Exclusion of Poor and Minority Communities
Ann Moss Joyner is co-founder of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, a research and technical assistance nonprofit known for applying GIS mapping skills to the analysis of racial discrimination. She has a range of career experiences, including newspaper reporter, management consultant, and land developer, where she mastered land-use and zoning regulations. Joyner applies this knowledge in analyses of exclusion of minority neighborhoods across the country. Joyner has managed and participated in research and outreach programs, and has served as an expert consultant in numerous civil rights legal cases.
She is co-author of "Minority Exclusion in Small Town America," "Poverty and Race, March/April 2005;" "Racial Apartheid in a Small Southern Town," in the Review of Black Political Economy, 2003; and "Standards for Extending Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: Written in Black and White?" She was a co-investigator on an National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant, Racial Segregation in Small Southern Towns, examining the nature and effects of racial segregation created and maintained by the local political geography and developing alternative spatial measures of segregation incorporating the political geography. She is currently an expert consultant on on-going legal cases involving exclusion, zoning, and racially-isolated schools as well as a co-investigator in the National Children's Study.
Joyner received a bachelor of arts from New College and her masters of business administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Friday, October 23rd, 12:15pm-2pm and 5:15pm-7pm, in Goldwin Smith Hall-Lewis Auditorium

Principles of U.S. Energy Policy
John S. Lowe is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at SMU’s Dedman School of Law and the George W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law. He also holds long-term visiting appointments at Melbourne and Sydney universities in Australia, and at Dundee University in Scotland.
A graduate of Denison University and Harvard Law School and a member of the bars of Texas, Oklahoma, and Ohio, Professor Lowe is author of Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell (5th ed. West 2009), volumes 6, 7 and 7A of West's Texas Forms (3rd ed. West 1997), and volume 28 of West’s Legal Forms (3rd ed. 1997), and one of the editors of Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law 5th ed. West 2008), Hemingway’s Oil and Gas Law and Taxation (4th ed. West 2004), and International Petroleum Transactions (Rocky Mtn. Min. L. Fnd. 2nd ed. 2000), as well as a maintenance editor for Lexis/Nexis’ Kuntz on the Law of Oil and Gas.
Professor Lowe is a former President of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, a Past Chair of the Section of the Environment, Energy and Resources Law of the American Bar Association, and currently works with the US Department of Commerce as an International Legal Advisor for oil-related issues.
Thursday, October 22nd, at 4:30pm to 5:45pm, in 233 Plant Science

Bruce Raynor, ILR '72 meets with the Cornell Organization for Labor Action
C'mon out and meet with Bruce Raynor, ILR '72, president of the union Workers United. This is a great opportunity for face to face time with the head of a national labor union. This is a close up and personal discussion not a big lecture so you can make your voice heard. This is a student-run discussion; Bruce is here to talk with us about whatever we want so c'mon out and bring a friend!
Bring questions on:

          *UNITE HERE-Workers United split 

          *EFCA 

          *Labor and the Obama Administration 

          *Careers in the Labor Movement 

          *Anything else that's on your mind! 

Thursday, October 22nd, 5:30pm-6:30pm in 217 Ives Hall

Africa and the International Financial Crisis
Nicolas van de Walle (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1990) is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Professor of Government. His primary field is comparative politics. His teaching and research focuses on the political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa, on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform. His most recent book is African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Thursday, October 22th, at 2:30pm in G08 Uris Hall.

Stretching The Constitution: Abraham Lincoln As Commander-In-Chief
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson will deliver the Gail ('56) and Stephen Rudin lecture to open Cornell University Library's Abraham Lincoln exhibition. McPherson's lecture, entitled Stretching the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief will examine the steep learning curve Lincoln faced as commander in chief during the unprecedented crisis of civil war. His determination of Union war aims, his national strategy for mobilizing Northern resources, and his evolving military strategy sometimes stretched the Constitution, but in the end upheld the Constitution by preserving the United States as one nation, indivisible.
Cornell University Library celebrates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth with the exhibition "The Lincoln Presidency: Last Full Measure of Devotion," in the Carl A. Kroch Library. A reception and viewing of the exhibition, which features Cornell's manuscript of the Gettysburg Address along with other Lincoln documents and photographs, will follow immediately after the Professor McPherson's lecture.
This lecture is funded by a gift from Gail ('56) and Stephen Rudin. The exhibition is funded by a grant from the Nicholas H. Noyes, Jr. Memorial Foundation.
Tuesday, October 20th, 4:45pm to 5:45pm, in Goldwin Smith Hall-Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium

Truth In Journalism: Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse will be speaking. Greenhouse, the former New York Times Supreme Court reporter, is the author of Becoming Justice Blackmun.
Tuesday, October 20th, 4:30pm in Goldwin Smith Hall-Lewis Auditorium

The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A View From The Inside
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts Asaf Shariv, the Consul General of Israel in New York. Admission is free and open to the public. For details, visit their website.
Thursday, October 15th, 4:30pm in G10 Biotechnology Building

Civil Liberties in the Age of Obama
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) presents Susan Herman, President of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was elected President of the American Civil Liberties Union in October 2008, after having served on the ACLU National Board of Directors for twenty years, as a member of the Executive Committee for sixteen years, and as General Counsel for ten years. This lecture is part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs 2009 Colloquium Series.
Thursday, October 8th, 4:30pm in 233 Plant Science

U.S.-Libyan Relations: Classic Diplomacy At Work
The Cornell International Affairs Society presents The Honorable Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador of the United States to Libya. He is the first ambassador to Libya in over 36 years, after the U.S. pulled its envoy out shortly following the rise to power of Muammar Gadaffi. Relations with between the U.S. and Libya have gradually improved since 2003 after Gadaffi renounced terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Full diplomatic ties were restored in 2006. Gadaffi’s recent visit to the UN and New York was a reminder of the Lockerbie bombings of a Pan Am Flight 103, for which Libya has claimed responsibility and paid reparations. Though Gadaffi met with families and offered condolences, tensions concerning this event were high given the recent release of the convicted bomber on compassionate grounds.
Mr. Cretz was nominated by the President on July 11, 2007 to serve as Ambassador to Libya, and was confirmed by the Senate to serve as Ambassador on November 20, 2008. While awaiting Senate confirmation, Mr. Cretz served as the NEA Bureau’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Egyptian, Israeli-Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian Affairs. On August 4, 2008, he assumed responsibility for Maghreb and Arabian Peninsula Affairs. Mr. Cretz was sworn in as Ambassador to Libya by the Secretary of State on December 17, 2008. Mr. Cretz speaks Dari, Urdu, Arabic and Chinese.
Wednesday, October 7th, 5:30pm in 233 Plant Science

Reforming Public Education: How To Change The Conversation
The Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service presents Michelle Rhee AS '92, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Admission is free but advance tickets are required and are available at the Willard Straight ticket office and the Ticket Center in Center Ithaca on the Commons.
Monday, October 5th, 7:30pm in Bailey Hall

The Singing Revolution
This inspirational documentary analyzes Estonia's nonviolent revolution in the late 80's and early 90's. Following the film's conclusion, we will hold a discussion with Irakli Kakabadze. Irakli was one of the leaders of student movement for Georgia's liberation in 1988-1990. Kakabadze was a also member of “Civic Disobedience Committee” (CDC) during the “Rose Revolution” in November 2003. This civic organization was a main protagonist of non-violent social change in Georgia.
Monday, October 5th, 7:30pm in Goldwin Smith Hall-Kaufman Auditorium

Children of Jihad: The Changing Role of Youth in the Middle East
A Talk With Jared Cohen (State Department Policy Planning Advisor to Secretaries Rice and Clinton and the force that enabled the pivotal TWITTER movement during the IRANIAN elections protests).
Monday, October 5, 5:00pm in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room

The Future of Islam and Muslim-West Relations of the 21st Century
The Islamic Alliance for Justice presents Dr. John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, at Georgetown University. Cosponsored by the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR) and Americans For Informed Democracy (AID).
Tuesday, September 24th, 5:00pm in Malott Hall-Bache Auditorium

Tehran Divided: Iran's Presidential Election and Implications for US Foreign Policy
Speakers: David Patel, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Government; Ziad Fahmy, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies; Iago Gocheleishvili, Lecturer, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies.
Professor Fahmy will be speaking first about the historical implications, Mr. Gocheleishvili will speak second about current events on the ground in Iran, and Professor Patel will finish with challenges to the Islamic Republic and US foreign policy implications.
Monday, September 21st, 5:00pm in Warren Hall B45

The Financial Crisis And International Governance
The debate will focus on the financial crisis and international governance. Speakers are Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect, Professors Barry Eichengreen (University of California) and Eswar Prasad (Cornell). The debate will be moderated by Professor Jonathan Kirshner (Cornell). Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies; part of the Lund Critical Debate Series.
Tuesday, September 15th, 5:00pm in Kennedy Hall-Call Auditorium'

Freedom In Crisis
Come hear a lecture by David Boaz, the Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute. Hosted by "The Program on Freedom and Free Societies"
Thursday, September 10th, 4:30pm in McGraw 165'

General Anthony Zinni: The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East, April 21, 2009, 4:30p
Location: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Vigil Against Discrimination on Campus, 24 April 2009, 7:15pm
Location: In front of McGraw Hall on the Arts Quad