President Perkins
President Corson
Race at Cornell
The Wars at Home
Final Jeopardy
100
During this war, James Perkins was president of Cornell University?
What is the Vietnam War?
100
President Corson was the 8th president of this university.
What is Cornell University?
100
Which college at Cornell admitted the most African-American students in 1967?
What is the College of Arts and Sciences?
100
Over 1200 Cornellians traveled by bus and car to this New York City park displaying a banner that read "We won't go. - Cornell" to protest the Vietnam War.
What is Central Park?
100
In 1973, President Corson presided over an innovation in undergraduate admissions that what would remain a permanent feature of Cornell and the admissions process of many colleges and universities?
What is early admissions?
200
President James Perkins served as president when one iconic picture taken at Willard Straight Hall was the recipient of this prize.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
200
Unlike President Perkins, President Corson was a champion of this faction of Cornell employees.
What are the faculty?
200
Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke in this large, centrally located building in 1961 on the Cornell Campus?
What is Bailey Hall?
200
The Kent State "strikes" inspired students to boycott this.
What are classes?
300
President James Perkins was also very similar to Ezra Cornell in that both were what?
What are Quakers?
300
President Corson was admittedly poor at this, which he had to do often and is a common fear of many.
What is public speaking?
300
President Corson had to institute this for several nights with the penalty of contempt of court if this was violated to get control of campus.
What is a curfew?
300
A committee supporting this was established by Telluride students Nathan Tarcov and Paul Wolfowitz.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
These two words in this iconic Cornell phrase often used by UAO staff really took shape during the presidency of James Perkins?
What is "Any person"?
400
Funding for this soared during President Corson's tenure.
What is research?
400
In 1963, President Perkins signaled out his commitment to what during his presidency at Cornell?
What is racial equality?
400
Cornell was one of the central sites for student activism on American campuses because of the moral and strategic leadership of this Cornell religious-based organization.
What is Cornell United Religious Work?
500
During President Perkin's reign this building on campus was taken over by students?
What is Willard Straight Hall?
500
During his tenure, President Corson established this department of sciences?
What is the Department of Biological Sciences?
500
In the summer of 1961, Cornell students made up the single largest collegiate group of these riders in support of desegregation?
What are the Freedom Riders?
500
Protesters that took over Carpenter Hall rigged up a window service to do this while occupying the building.
What is deliver library books to students?