Jamie Weinstein column
Jamie Weinstein
Jamie Weinstein '06 is a Cornell alumnus and former Sun columnist. Alumni Viewpoint appears periodically.

Me and Mahmoud in Tehran
Jamie Weinstein
January 31, 2007

Alumni Viewpoint While you — yes, you — were enjoying the frivolities of winter break, I left on a jet plane and flew all the way to Tehran for The . . .

Give my regards to Ezra
Jamie Weinstein
May 5, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Give my regards to Ezra Remember me to A.D. White Tell all the hippies on the Hill That I'll be back some night Tell them just how I . . .

Notes from underground
Jamie Weinstein
April 28, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Damn the world! Damn it! We were able to keep them out for so long. For so long, I tell you. Every time one of these corporate types . . .

Cornell, Qatar, and Hamas
Jamie Weinstein
April 21, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun In 2001, Cornell University announced a bold new project. With $750 million dollars in funds pledged by the Qatar Foundation for . . .

Cornell's five best professors
Jamie Weinstein
April 14, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Over my time at Cornell, I have had the opportunity to take classes from a wide array of professors. Some were good, some were bad and . . .

On immigration
Jamie Weinstein
April 10, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun As any third-grade tyke could tell you, the United States is a country of immigrants. It is a part of our national story. Our . . .

Terror in Tehran
Jamie Weinstein
April 7, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun As I write, Iran is continuing its illicit nuclear program, almost certainly in pursuit of an atomic weapon. This is frightening. The . . .

One year later: Behold Redbud Parking Lot!
Jamie Weinstein
April 2, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun It is difficult to imagine anything could be that magnificently beautiful and serene. I write this having just come from lying down in . . .

Reality bites. Kind of.
Jamie Weinstein
March 17, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun For over three years, an internal battle was waged in my mind as I struggled to determine what direction in life I wanted to pursue. . . .

King of what?
Jamie Weinstein
March 10, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Just when you thought it wasn't possible for a group of students to pick a graduation speaker worse than Danny Glover, came the . . .

PETA perversity
Jamie Weinstein
March 3, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Today's comic books aren't the same as they used to be. At least this is true with regards to the ones put out by the People for the . . .

Cartoon catastrophe
Jamie Weinstein
February 24, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Let's get one thing straight from the beginning: the violent outrage over the Muhammad cartoons published in a Danish paper is not . . .

Students against students
Jamie Weinstein
February 17, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun For three years I have witnessed and sometimes unsuccessfully participated in a less than grand ordeal known at the Student Assembly  . . .

Intellectual diversity still matters!
Jamie Weinstein
February 10, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun "Academia is simultaneously both the part of America that is most obsessed with diversity, and the least diverse part of the country. . . .

(No) dealing with Hamas
Jamie Weinstein
January 29, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Last week, the results of the Palestinian elections were released showing that the terrorist organization Hamas won a resounding . . .

Attacking Alito
Jamie Weinstein
January 27, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun Watching many hours of the Samuel A. Alito nomination hearings on C-Span at the beginning of the month, it was hard not to be . . .

Spielberg's Munich Massacre
Jamie Weinstein
January 19, 2006

© 2006 Cornell Daily Sun There is so much the Hollywood crowd could teach us and even more they could teach our President and his advisors. Take this for . . .

I am a freakin' freegan
Jamie Weinstein
December 2, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Let's face it: If it can't be said that capitalism has failed, then at least we can agree that it is a bit passι. Who among us can . . .

Saying some goodbyes and remembering
Jamie Weinstein
November 18, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Even if you know nothing of the Civil Rights movement that swept America a half century ago and its important accomplishments, you . . .

Democrats run amok
Jamie Weinstein
November 7, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun About a week ago, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called the Senate into secret session after invoking the rarely used Rule 21. . . .

Cornell's American
Jamie Weinstein
November 4, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun The Cornell American created controversy on campus recently by publishing a poorly written article entitled "The Color of Cornell's . . .

A couple suggestions
Jamie Weinstein
October 28, 2005

Having been at this institution for over three full years, I have come up with a couple ideas on how to improve certain aspects of the University. While . . .

Mired in Miers
Jamie Weinstein
October 21, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun In one of the most mystifying and disturbing decisions of his Presidency, President Bush decided to anger his base by nominating the . . .

Neo-fascist? What is that?
Jamie Weinstein
October 14, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun If you think the political discourse between politicians and pundits in the mainstream media is pretty low, it doesn't come close to . . .

I am a diversity arch success story
Jamie Weinstein
October 12, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Background for Non-Cornell readers: Giant red diversity arches were erected all over the Cornell University campus several weeks ago. . . .

Simply U.N.acceptable, Part Two
Jamie Weinstein
September 30, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Last week, I discussed several areas where the U.N has so decisively failed and how it has veered from the purpose of its founding. . . .

Simply U.N.acceptable, Part One
Jamie Weinstein
September 23, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun The United Nations was founded near the end of World War II in the hopes of keeping the peace and preventing another world war. The . . .

Dereliction of duty
Jamie Weinstein
September 16, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun International human rights organizations are supposedly altruistically motivated. Their goal is to strengthen human rights standards . . .

Still not forgetting
Jamie Weinstein
September 9, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun On Sept. 10, 2001, I was in New Haven, Connecticut. I was there on a college visit to Yale University with one of my high-school . . .

On disengagement
Jamie Weinstein
September 2, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Several weeks ago while flying back to Ithaca on Jet Blue I witnessed a scene that brought tears to my eyes. On the T.V.s provided to . . .

Welcome to Cornell
Jamie Weinstein
August 26, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun In the beginning of my freshman year I — along with my entire 2006 freshman class — was forced to endure a mandatory two-hour . . .

The Redbud revolution?
Jamie Weinstein
May 4, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Last Thursday, several students stormed President Jeffrey S. Lehman's '77 office in response to the University's decision to pave . . .

The power of freedom
Jamie Weinstein
April 27, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Every Passover, Natan Sharansky wear's the kippah that his friend made for him from the fabric of his clothes. This fabric protected . . .

DADT: Facing facts and summing up
Jamie Weinstein
April 20, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Over the last couple months the opinion pages of this paper have featured an intense debate about how Cornell should respond to the . . .

My Sharona
Jamie Weinstein
April 13, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun When Ariel Sharon was elected Prime Minister in February of 2001, an election one can credit Yasser Arafat, Hamas and Islamic Jihad . . .

Sandy Burglar
Jamie Weinstein
April 8, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun If it wasn't for the ultra/radical/όber conservative media which dominates our television and from which we cannot escape, you . . .

And the truth comes out
Jamie Weinstein
March 30, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun I guess I overestimated the movement to drive our military off campus. While it is true I believed the motivating force behind it was . . .

A lightning bolt named Bolton
Jamie Weinstein
March 15, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Last summer, I went to fairly small meeting in South Florida in which a government official from the State Department made a speech . . .

Protesting the Solomon protesters
Jamie Weinstein
March 9, 2005

Imagine that your parents told you that they would give you an allowance on the condition that you did certain chores. Let's say they would give you 20 dollars . . .

The charitable Hollywood
Jamie Weinstein
March 2, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Last semester, I wrote an article criticizing some celebrities for exhibiting what I termed the "celebrity martyr-complex." Like many . . .

Kyoto never!
Jamie Weinstein
February 23, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Walking through Ho Plaza last week, I was confronted with a startling announcement: The Kyoto Protocol had become International Law. . . .

The Democrats' new Dean
Jamie Weinstein
February 16, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Some think that last November's presidential election proved that the Democrats' supposed strategy of embracing the middle had failed. . . .

The color purple
Jamie Weinstein
February 9, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Ten days ago when millions of Iraqis went to the polls amidst threats of bullets and bombs, regardless of whatever party they cast . . .

W. Churchill -- not Winston
Jamie Weinstein
February 2, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun Ward Churchill is the chair of the Ethnic Studies program at the University of Colorado — Boulder. As a professor at a state . . .

Bomb the eucalyptus trees!
Jamie Weinstein
January 26, 2005

© 2005 Cornell Daily Sun In a pre-dawn raid on Jan. 24, 1965, Eli Cohen was arrested in his Syrian apartment. His capture marked the end of one of the greatest . . .

To Winston, with love
Jamie Weinstein
December 1, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun What inspires you? For me, it's heroic defiance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. It is rising from near-certain defeat to . . .

Thankful to live in America
Jamie Weinstein
November 24, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun At the beginning of this month, John Kerry lost his quest for the Presidency of the United States. I think America made the right . . .

Celebrity martyr complex
Jamie Weinstein
November 17, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun What is it with entertainers that they suddenly feel they have to voice their asinine opinions about world events every opportunity . . .

Not one tear
Jamie Weinstein
November 10, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun For nearly four decades Yasser Arafat has plagued the world as the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). He has . . .

Looking ahead
Jamie Weinstein
November 3, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily SunNow that the election is over — or at least I hope it is, as I write this I have no idea of what happened last night — I think it is . . .

Here's one for Dubya
Jamie Weinstein
October 27, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun Next Tuesday, many throughout the nation will enter an election booth to participate in an American tradition. They will cast their . . .

Embodying America's moral meaning
Jamie Weinstein
October 23, 2004

Streams of immigrants come to America every year — legally and illegally — for the hope of a better life. They come for freedom and opportunity. They come to . . .

Why not Kerry?
Jamie Weinstein
October 20, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun In less than two weeks, Americans across the nation will cast their ballots for the person they think should lead our country for the . . .

Wither Cornell: John Pilger pillages our reputation
Jamie Weinstein
October 13, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun Next week a dark chapter in Cornell history will commence. John Pilger will make his first trip to campus as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class . . .

Rabkin's case for sovereignty
Jamie Weinstein
October 6, 2004

© 2004 Cornell Daily Sun "In the twentieth century, messianists claiming the mantle of secular science promised to end conflict," writes Cornell Government . . .

Keyes to the Senate
Jamie Weinstein
September 29, 2004

He attended Cornell for one year before transferring to Harvard. Ultimately, he would leave that institution with a Ph.D. in government, serve as an ambassador . . .

The folklore of Michael Moore
Jamie Weinstein
September 22, 2004

When I hear Michael Moore talk I want to bang my head against the wall. It is hard for me to fathom that anyone with the remotest understanding of history or . . .

Why we went to war: A re-explanation
Jamie Weinstein
September 15, 2004

After the attacks of Sept. 11, the biggest threat to America was the possibility of terrorists teaming up with weapons of mass destruction — be they chemical, . . .

We must never forget
Jamie Weinstein
September 8, 2004

Three years ago this Saturday nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children were deliberately and maliciously slaughtered in New York City, Washington D.C., . . .

Remembering Reagan: a belated goodbye
Jamie Weinstein
September 1, 2004

It was a time that had to come. The exact date was not certain other than to say "the near future." Whether the near future was to be 10 years, five years, one . . .

My name is what?
Jamie Weinstein
August 25, 2004

My name is Jamie. Over the last two years I have been highly involved in Cornell life. Now, I bring myself, my experience, and my views to the Cornell Daily Sun . . .

An investment to be proud of
Jamie Weinstein
April 1, 2004

Last year at campuses across the nation a number of students and faculty began circulating petitions asking their academic institution to divest all funds from . . .

Demanding a full education
Jamie Weinstein
November 20, 2003

Academia is overwhelmingly liberal. This is undisputed. No one in their right mind — left or right — could, in all seriousness, claim otherwise. They could say, . . .

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