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''The Cornell Review'' is a Conservative Newspaper published by students of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York . It usually adheres to a fortnightly or monthly Tabloid format. While the ideological makeup of its staff shifts over the years, the paper has maintained strident criticism of Cornell's perceived Left-wing Politics and Political Correctness , delivered with a signature (and ironic) anti-establishment insolence—sometimes making the ''Review'' a controversy in itself. MANAGEMENT AND FUNDING The ''Review'' incorporated in 1986 as The Ithaca Review, Inc. The editorial staff is headed by an undergraduate editor-in-chief, while the business staff is headed by an undergraduate president, overseen by a 6-member board of directors, generally ''Review'' alumni, and an advisor who is a member of the Cornell faculty. Primary funding for the ''Review'' comes from alumni donations and the undergraduate student government. It also receives major grants from the Collegiate Network , a syndicate of conservative campus newspapers funded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute . HISTORY The unanticipated success of the '' Dartmouth Review '' at Dartmouth College inspired conservative students at other institutions to found similar newspapers. The Institute For Educational Affairs , founded in 1978 to assist conservative academics, created The Collegiate Network in 1984 to offer these groups technical and financial assistance. Ann Coulter , then an undergraduate in the College Of Arts And Sciences , edited ''The Cornell Review'' in the same year as an outlet for students disaffected by the university's perceived left slant. The paper drew immediate and critical attention for its discordant rhetoric and "shock journalism." During the 1980s the ''Review'' targeted Affirmative Action , Gay Rights , Communist sympathizers, and anti- Apartheid activists, while defending the Reagan Administration , the Greek System , and even the university administration (against Striking workers). It notably criticized university-sponsored Ethnicity -oriented residential communities, known as "program houses," as Segregationist . The ''Review'' was embroiled in several controversies in the 1990s . In 1991 , an editor was accused of inappropriately directing student funds to support the ''Review'', although the allegation was dropped. In 1993 its funding was threatened again after it printed a Cartoon critical of President Bill Clinton 's move to permit gays in the U.S. Military deemed by some to be Homophobic . In 1997 , the ''Review'' printed an anonymous editorial lampooning the Oakland, California school district's move to mainstream so-called Ebonics . Entitled "So U Be Wantin' to Take Dis Class," it presented a mock catalog of courses taught in African-American Vernacular English , but in highly stereotyped language, for instance "Da white man be evil an he tryin' to keep da brotherman down. We's got Sharpton and Farrakhan so who da...man now, white boy." A student protest followed in which a number of copies of the ''Review'' were burned. The editors defended the editorial as satire and criticized the burning as suppression of Free Speech , winning some publicity in conservative circles. The ''Review'' historically prints pieces that bring great debate and controversy. In the autumn of 2002, Cornell Review Online published a column by Elliott Reed, whose '' Good Vibrations '' piece allegedly exposed a coverup of vibrators to be sold at the campus health center; Reed was led to his investigation by an email to a campus listserv which claimed the health center had agreed to sell vibrators and solicited comments. The university has said the email "jumped the gun" as no decision had been made at that time. The ''Review'' was awarded an Campus Outrage nod by the conservative organization Accuracy In Academia for the piece. More recently, the ''Review's'' social conservatism has mellowed; it has run articles in defense of homosexual marriage and abortion as well as articles opposed to those practices. RIVALRY In 1992 , before the ''Review'' had backed down from its more controversial positions, a deliberately unsensational rival publication began printing called '' The Cornell American ''. It became the demesne of social conservatives until it ceased publishing in 1996 . In 2003 and 2004 , successive editors began a controversial revamp of the ''Review'', swinging it from what many considered to be a religiously informed publication toward a more Libertarian conservatism and a more neutral editorial position. In response, former ''Review'' writer and activist Ryan Horn resurrected a new ''"Cornell American"'' to take up the social conservatism from which the ''Review'' had distanced itself. The ''Cornell Review'' and the '' Cornell American '' had switched roles: the ''Review'' had become the calmer and lower profile paper, and the ''American'' the more traditional and "Ann Coulter-esque." In 2000 , a Liberal newspaper named '' Turn Left '' was founded. Turn Left is, unsurprisingly, a constant source of sparring. EXTERNAL LINKS
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