Ouch. At least Mark was able to be philosophical in a humorous vein about finishing second to a non entity. "Waiting for the Ithaca Times photographer to arrive, I was standing in the street in front of my home, holding a Bush-Cheney lawn sign," recalls Finkelstein. "A woman passing by in a car flipped me the bird. That sums up nicely the prestige associated with being the Best Republican in Ithaca."

"As recipients of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellowship, the event chairpeople receive full-tuition scholarships and stipends, as well as an extensive leadership development curriculum. Founding the Out for Undergraduate Business Conference is their service leadership project, the capstone of this two-year program."

Fraud Alert –

The Out for Undergraduate Business Conference is not in any way associated with the Common Ground’s Saturday party. All of the conference participants (approximately 90 GLBT students and professionals) from over 15 colleges/universities will be attending the HomoComing Party in Willard Straight Hall.

We regret that the Common Ground is maliciously attacking us for deciding against working with them and hope their management will learn to behave like mature, adult business people in the future.

Greetings [XXX] and organizers of the Out For Undergraduate Business Symposium,

I have not received response from [XXX] seeking clarification regarding his post to the OIW listserv.

I do need to go on the record with my feedback as a proudly out community member and small business owner, alumni of Cornell, and supporter of the goals set out by your symposium.

[XXX]'s email was the most irresponsible and inappropriate post that I have seen go across the OIW listerv in years. I have known the "management" of the Common Ground for quite a while. He has been a major advocate for all things pro-LGBT in this community for decades. This man bends over backwards to support our community oftentimes with no financial benefit to himself. I cannot imagine him doing anything that would warrant the email that [XXX] sent out.

When I went to check the outforbusiness.com web site... At the same moment [XXX] sent that post out, you still had the event listed on your own schedule of events!! So 'fraud' seemed a little harsh.

Unless [XXX] and the organizers can justify that email with an explanation of what exactly was THAT horrible, I think the organizers of this event and especially [XXX] owes [the Common Ground] a HUGE and very PUBLIC apology on the OIW listserv at least.

Every large and patently disrespectful action requires an equally large and humble reaction.

I know this was a Park Project, so unless I hear back in short order, I'll CC [the program coordinator] and the [foundation that sponsors the program] on my final request.

I hope everything else with your event is going as planned. I wholly support the goal of the symposium and hate that something like this has happened during the planning.

Shane,

It is, quite frankly, none of your business. Feel free to call me to discuss
at XXX.XXX.XXX.

Greetings,

I have been aware and grateful of the work that the Park Program has done and continues to do in the community. I have concerns, however, about a current Park Project that I wanted to bring to your attention. I was excited to learn that the Johnson School was going to host a symposium for LGBT undergraduates. I think this is a great project and support it completely!

However, I think one thing in particular that reflects poorly on the professionalism of the organizer(s) and the program is an email that was sent out surrounding one of the scheduled events.

At the bottom of this email you will find this message, a post that [XXX] sent to the OIW listserv with rhetoric unfitting of a Johnson School student (and a Park Fellow to be sure). No matter how negotiations may or may not have broken down between [XXX] and the Common Ground there is no need for the harsh language contained there.

As I understand it, Park Fellows are considered ambassadors from the Johnson School to the community at large, and as such are meant to organize programs and projects that benefit the community as a whole as opposed to harm and slander members of the community it purports to be helping.

[XXX]'s response to me, as you can also see, was disrespectful. By sending that message out on the public listserv, he did in fact make this public business. And of course I took him up on his offer of calling. That also produced a response that was inappropriate and disrespectful... A conversation in which he refused to acknowledge how anything he had done could be construed as inappropriate.

Thank you for your time.

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger must not be too troubled by what he's called 'girlie men' because he's just signed a bill into law that maintains 'sex' in California to include drag queens, cross-dressers and transsexuals," the Rev. Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition said in a statement. "Schwarzenegger has sided with the homosexual and drag queen lobby in muddying the biological realities of male and female."

[Keyes] criticized local efforts in favor of the civil rights movement and strongly supported the Vietnam War. After receiving death threats because of his political stances, Keyes left Cornell and continued his studies at Harvard University.

WORLD: Tell me about your college years.

KEYES: I started at Cornell University in 1968, then studied in Paris for a year, then I came back and transferred to Harvard. I was there the rest of the time, through my Ph.D.

WORLD: Those years were wild times for college students. How wild did things get for you?

KEYES: Wild enough that - have you read Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind"? There's a passage where he describes a black student who was harassed because he wouldn't go along with the tactics of the militants; that was me. I was getting myself into trouble even then. I resented the fact that I had gone to college to study, and they were breaking the place up. I had actually had a choice between Cornell and Harvard. I chose Cornell because they had a six-year Ph.D. program, and I was in a hurry. The second motivation was the rural atmosphere, the "Groves of Academe", where you could sit on a bridge listening to a waterfall as you read Plato. It was beautiful for a couple of months, then my pristine bubble was burst. It was an education of a sort I hadn't counted on getting.

LAUREL: From Rachel Kitko of Ithaca. To the owners of 510 West State St., (formerly Enuwan, now Felicia's Atomic Lounge), who interrupted their renovation activities to help me rescue my cat, who was trapped between their building and the adjoining building. They had to rip out part of a wall!

[F]aculty members in domestic partnerships pay more for benefits than married couples because of federal policy, said Lisa Maurer, coordinator of LGBT Education Outreach Services.

[Sarah] Jefferis said the policies are unequal.

“I’m very thankful for having the opportunity to place my partner on benefits, that’s great,” Jefferis said. “But it costs me money out of my pocket.”

LGBT faculty members with same-sex partners are forced to pay taxes on their insurance premiums, unlike heterosexual couples who are tax exempt under federal regulations, according to the Affidavit of Domestic Partnership.

In addition, same-sex couples married in Massachusetts remain unrecognized as married by the college, again because of federal policy.

Jefferis noted a discrepancy between the treatment of married couples and domestic partners.

“They told me that I had to bring Tammy [her domestic partner] in. Do they ask heterosexual couples to bring their spouse in? No. They just believe you.”

O’Rear, administrative assistant in the Office of Human Resources, compared the benefits policy to that of a bank.

“We require verification of cohabitation to make sure that they’re a committed couple - it’s like a joint bank account,” he said.

Human Resources does not require married faculty members to bring their spouse in for verification, O’Rear said.

These days, [Chris is] not sure which approach is best: disclosure or avoidance. “In either case, they could be upset,” he says. “When you tell a woman there’s no chemistry, it means ‘I don’t find you attractive.’ Women don’t want to hear that. In some cases, leaving them in the dark is better. Then they can say ‘He’s a player’ and forget about it.”

It’s easy to see that Gore, lacking public office, likes to teach. In his uninterrupted answer, he mentioned the brain-imaging center at New York University; “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess,” by Leonard Shlain; “Broca’s Brain,” by Carl Sagan; an Op-Ed piece in the Times about the decline of reading in America, by Andrew Solomon; the lack of research on the relation between the brain and television—“There is just nothing on the dendrite level about watching television”; Gutenberg and the rise of print; the sovereign rule of reason in the Enlightenment; individualism—“a term first used by de Tocqueville to describe America in the eighteen-thirties”; Thomas Paine; Benjamin Franklin. “O.K., now fast-forward through the telegraph, the phonograph.” O.K., but we didn’t fast-forward: first, there was Samuel Morse, who failed to hear the news of his wife’s dying while he was painting a portrait—“You know, he has a painting in the White House, if I remember correctly”—and therefore went out and invented a faster means of communication. “Now fast-forward again to Marconi . . . now that’s an interesting story”; the sinking of the Titanic; David Sarnoff; the agricultural origin of the term “broadcast”; moving right along to “the nineteen visual centers of the brain”; an article on “flow” in Scientific American; the “orienting reflex” in vertebrates; the poignancy and “ultimate failure” of political demonstrations as a means of engaging the aforementioned public sphere—“I mean, what do you really have? A crowd of people holding posters with five words on them at most hoping for a TV camera to come along for a few seconds of airtime?”—and, finally, Gore’s own 1969 Harvard thesis, on the effect of television on the Presidency and the rise, at about that time, of image over print as a means of transmitting news. This was all a way to talk about the cable-television station that he is developing.

“What kind of station will it be?” I asked.

“Well, I really can’t talk about it,” he said. “Not yet.”

It took Fresh Express until 1989--more than twenty years and another disasterous product rollout later--to "crack the code," as Lugg put it, and mass-produce the first retail bagged salads. Salad spinners were perfected, shredding knives sharpened, battalions of chemists subcontracted to create perfect polymers. Today's bags are a triumph of practical ingenuity. Their plastic is made up of five to ten layers, each with a different function. Some are designed to make the package shiny or crinkly, others to carry print well. Together, they have to be just permeable enough to keep the bag's artificial atmosphere in balance--the wrong ink alone can suffocate a salad. As lettuce sits on the shelf, the gases in the bag are constantly consumed, released, and replaced. Oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon-dioxide molecules bind with the polymers on one side of the plastic and are released on the other, diffusing from high concentrations to low. Every type of salad requires a different type of bag, tailored to its respiration rate by gas chromatography and computer analysis. Every bag is a miniature biosphere.

"I think everybody supports him," said Magda Martinez, a West New York resident who stood on a curb outside the school with several friends hoping to see McGreevey on Thursday. "Everybody makes mistakes. I don't hold it against him. He's a good person."

"Instead of escaping to some corner of the wilderness, we live in an environment that is separate from the world while remaining right in the middle of it. In our communities we try to exclude the evils of this world. At the same time we are near those who are floundering in the muck of this society."

"We regard all hardship as discipline." and Instead of worrying, we eagerly await the day that we will be a spotless Bride, prepared for our future as the wife of the Lamb."

"[The limits we must stay within to avoid eternal death in the Sea of Fire] are simple. A woman is to desire her husband and let him rule over her. She is to bear their children in pain. A man is to toil and sweat to provide for his family, not live off the labor of others. He is to rule over his wife. Sexual relationships are to be limited to the covenant of marriage."

"Families falling apart happened so frequently that it was shaking his security. It wasn't even a week ago that Ralph Evans left his faithful wife and children announcing that he was gay, to pursue an apparent "gender preference" that, until recently, didn't seem to have been a problem at all. His drastic change not only devastated his family, but left Allen having to explain to his daughter what happened to her best friend's father and why he still came over for business socials. When he heard his daughter say how afraid she was to ever get married, Allen found himself bankrupt on answers with tears running down his cheeks. Allen could hardly say what he really felt. He was afraid he might offend someone at work and lose his job."