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Members of the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association attend the group’s annual Renaissance Ball in 2019. Students, alumni celebrate Black graduate excellence
February 25, 2021
Earning a doctorate involves years of long days and dead ends, but finding a community can smooth the path. For several alumni, joining the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association (BGPSA) helped pave the way to success at Cornell and beyond.
“Celebrating Black Graduate Excellence at Cornell,” a two-day series of alumni-filled panels, honored the contributions of Black graduate students, the BGPSA and its members – including the Renaissance Ball they founded.
Since they couldn’t gather in person for the Renaissance Ball, the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council and the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement celebrated over Zoom with discussions about the BGPSA’s history and legacy and the Black graduate student ex
we re showing it to you so you can see how the chaos unfolded. here is cnn s poppy harlow. reporter: morning rush hour, unexpected gunfire and mayhem led to what s seen here, amateur video obtained by cnn revealing police standing over a man suspected of murdering his co-worker seen shortly before he himself died. all of a sudden there s cops running down. people taping off scenes. it was like a scene out of csi, honestly, but real. reporter: shaken and terrified, rebecca fox watched a deadly shooting unfold in front of the empire state building. when i walked across the street, i saw a woman had been shot in the foot. she was in shock sitting there. i looked down and saw another man was laying on the ground and he wasn t moving. reporter: this woman witnessed the scene from a city bus on the way to work. i heard the gunshots and looked to the left and saw three people fall, three or four people fall. like i said the whole crosswalk emptied and people were runni
here is cnn s poppy harlow. reporter: morning rush hour, unexpected gunfire and mayhem led to what s seen here, amateur video obtained by cnn revealing police standing over a man suspected of murdering his co-worker seen shortly before he himself died. all of a sudden there s cops running down. people taping off scenes. it was like a scene out of csi, honestly, but real. reporter: shaken and terrified, rebec fox watched a deadly shooting unfold in front of the empire state building. when i walked across the street, i saw a woman had been shot in the foot. she was in shock sitting there. i looked down and saw another man was laying on the ground and he wasn t moving. reporter: this woman witnessed the scene from a city bus on the way to work. i heard the gunshots and looked to the left and saw three people fall, three or four people fall. like i said the whole crosswalk emptied and people were running. reporter: witnesses say they saw blood on the sidewalk, cof
right now. welcome, everybody, our starting point, todd akin says he will no go down without a fight. he is facing tremendous pressure from republican leaders to quit his senate race against democratic incumbent claire mccaskill. he says he s staying in. akin s support has all but disappeared as a result of these comments about rape and abortion. if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try that shut that whole thing down. let s assume that maybe that didn t work or somebody. i think there should be some punishment but it ought to be in the rapist and not attacking the child. congressman akin is fighting to salvage his senate campaign. the website politico obtains this new ad this morning from the republicans. the fact is rape could lead from pregnancy. the truth is, rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said, not in the heart i hold. well, congressman akin has under 11 hours to get his name off the ballot if he decides to change
female body has ways to try to shut that down. let s a ae s assume that didn t. i think there ought to be punishment but the punishment ought to be the rapist and not attacking the child. nor did he provide any evidence for the odd notion that the female body has some way to somehow prevent pregnancy occurring from a so-called legitimate rape, whatever that may be. reaction was script and strong from within his own party. senator scott brown of massachusetts called on him to withdraw from the senate race. a major gop campaign group, the national senatorial committee, signaled it would pull funding. the reaction from mitt romney s campaign was somewhat measured yesterday. romney s campaign spokeswoman said this in a statement. quote, governor romney and congressman ryan disagree with mr. akin s statement and a romney/ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape. as we said, sounds pretty measured. that was controversial for not going far enough in its c