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Cornell Expert Quotes

Cornellians weigh in on current events in the news

"As Trump showed, even negative buzz is good, especially for front runners, because it can suck attention away from challengers (remember during GOP debate when he talked about his ‘hands’)."

Drew Margolin

Associate Professor

Topic	Name	Date
Arts and Sciences , International	Sarah Kreps Professor of Government	05/27/21
	“The European Union has found itself in an awkward position in recent years because it is reliant on cloud storage outside its borders yet values the data sovereignty and privacy that can only come from European-origin cloud storage.” Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: EU lacks leverage in pushing privacy standards on Amazon, Microsoft (05/27/21)
Arts and Sciences	Jerel Ezell Assistant Professor in Africana Studies	04/30/21
	“This bill must be reinforced by earnest public engagement and education campaigns on water consumption, particularly in low-income and racial/ethnic minority communities like those in Flint, Michigan which have routinely been subjected to poor tasting water that has been unsafe to drink or bathe in and at times disastrous for their health.” Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: Water bill must be coupled with education campaigns to achieve faith in public water (04/30/21)
International , Arts and Sciences	Nicholas Mulder Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of History	04/15/21
	“The new sanctions on Russia are relatively mild. Both the sanctions on individuals and the sanctions on new Russian sovereign debt issuance as of this summer are signals, rather than immediate increases in pressure. Russia will probably understand the signal.” Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: ‘Mild’ Russian sanctions signal need for de-escalation (04/15/21)
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship , Arts and Sciences	Lawrence Glickman Professor of History	04/14/21
	“Ever since the New Deal, conservative advocates of ‘free enterprise’ have stressed the absolute centrality of business autonomy, free from government dictates, as the essence of economic and political freedom in the United States. They also encouraged business leaders to become more active in the political arena, consistently decrying their ‘passivity.’” Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: Business-GOP alliance fraying as CEOs oppose voting limits (04/14/21)
Law and Policy , Arts and Sciences	Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Professor of Africana studies	03/23/21
	"The fact that movement in this direction in other parts of the country is growing is, however, a cause for concern. The legacy of anti-Black racism was and is not a local affair; it was a national affair." Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: ‘Not a local affair’: Evanston reparations could harm national movement (03/23/21)
Law and Policy , Arts and Sciences	Noliwe Rooks Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies	03/23/21
	"Land and housing has always been a central aspect of power and wealth and the creation and accumulation of both in the United States, and so it is important that [Evanston's] legislation proposes to take seriously and attempt to provide recompense for what it meant to generations of residents who were forced to accept diluted forms of democracy and citizenship." Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: ‘Not a local affair’: Evanston reparations could harm national movement (03/23/21)
International , Arts and Sciences , Law School	Robert Hockett Professor of Law	03/17/21
	Hockett says: “While this week's summits between the Biden administration and its Asian counterparts are not expected to produce 'breakthroughs,' no such expectation would have made sense in connection with these first-ever, 'getting to know you' sessions in any event. “What should and indeed can reasonably be expected in these meetings are (a) preliminary sharing of concerns and (b) sincere demonstrations of mutual respect. As stage-setting preliminaries, moreover, the importance of these meetings should not be gainsaid. The previous White House's opening salvos, long on uncivilized rhetoric and short on constructive or even concrete proposals, were after all hardly productive. “Our relations with our Asian peers, from China and North Korea through Japan, South Korea, India, Oceania and beyond, will be among the most fateful cross-national collaborations in history. Trade arrangements must be made to cohere with domestic rebuilding and supply chain restoration. Industrialization and re-industrialization must for its part cohere with the imperative of rescuing our planet before it terminally burns. And the world must 'get on one page' both to end COVID-19 and to preempt the later pandemics which are already germinating. “Now is accordingly the time for all leaders to make plain, in respect and good faith, what matters most to their countries. Only on that basis do we begin making this world both just and inhabitable for literally all its inhabitants - each of which has equal claim to our hope and concern.” Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: US-China summit: ‘It's so cold in Alaska’ (03/17/21)
International , Arts and Sciences , Law School	Allen R. Carlson Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Government Department	03/17/21
	“The U.S.-China relationship is broken, perhaps irrevocably so. The meeting set to take place in Alaska over the next two days between high level officials from both countries, while potentially encouraging, is highly unlikely to do much to halt the long, and ongoing, slide between the two superpowers. For years now, China and America have resembled a bitter married couple publicly muscling their way through a fractious divorce battle, rather than one looking for ways to save the relationship." Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: US-China summit: ‘It's so cold in Alaska’ (03/17/21)
Law and Policy , Arts and Sciences , Industrial and Labor Relations , Human Ecology , Law School	Maria Cristina Garcia Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies	02/18/21
	"Biden’s proposal to set up refugee processing in Central America is unusual but has historic precedent." Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: Biden immigration bill brings promise and peril (02/18/21)
Law and Policy , Arts and Sciences , Industrial and Labor Relations , Human Ecology , Law School	Matthew Hall Associate Professor of Policy and Management	02/18/21
	“U.S. labor markets have – for far too long – relied on a system of underpaid, immobile, and vulnerable immigrant workers. Legalizing these workers will not only improve the well-being of millions of immigrants, but will grease the wheels of the economy.” Media: Rachel Rhodes rer252@cornell.edu 202-434-8036 Related Tip Sheet: Biden immigration bill brings promise and peril (02/18/21)

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