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Robin Marty
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Checked in w/oldest on how college is going. She’s working on her final project (her school does one class for 3 1/2 weeks then a break &then do a different class). The class is data visualization and she’s doing a paper and presentation on a timeline of Covid rates based on various interventions.

Robin Marty
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Sadly, as I sort of expected, they’ve been dealing with some confusion and nastiness from folk who don’t realize there is more than one Cornell. I told her they should sell tshirts that say “not THAT Cornell” and probably it will pay their tuitions. share.google/qpmerQ6Mm5TD...

share.googleIowa’s Cornell College: You’ve got the wrong Cornell“We are aware that there has been some confusion between Cornell College and New York’s Cornell University, which has recently been in the news regarding sexual assault,” Cornell spokeswoman Jill Hawk...
Robin Marty
@robinmarty.com

But apparently it’s also making for some good campus convos. Which, as someone who went there and lived in a house that offered a “safe” room for people who experienced assault, I am happy to see is occurring.

Robin Marty
@robinmarty.com

I went there, too. We spent a lot of time saying “You know we were here first.” When I was there the Ithaca was trying to force the Iowa to change its name. Now apparently there are kids who applied to both and picked Iowa because Ithaca campus rubbed them wrong.