Screenshot of Cornell Ticketing Office webpage for upcoming Ann Coulter Event
On November 9th, the conservative commentator will be speaking at an event in Myron Taylor Hall.
The talk hosted by the Cornell chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women will begin at 5:00pm in Landis Auditorium at Cornell Law School.
While at Cornell, Coulter helped found this very publication and was also a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. She graduated cum laude in 1984 from the College of Arts & Sciences with a Bachelors in History. Coulter then went on to attend Michigan Law School, where she edited the Michigan Law Review. She received her J.D. in 1988.
Coulter has authored 13 books, including her 1998 New York Times bestseller, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and her most recent work, Resistance is Futile, published in 2018. She has been a vocal critic of U.S. immigration policy, slamming then-president Donald Trump’s immigration plan as being the “rube-bait campaign document, not even a serious bill.”
Wednesday’s event comes one day after the midterm elections. Though the subject of her remarks has not yet been announced, Coulter will likely offer her thoughts on the election results.
However, the event has not been without controversy. After the Network of Enlightened Women at Cornell announced the event, many Cornell students expressed their disapproval. One Instagram user commented on a promotional post that the event was “a clear violation of Policy 6.4.” Another asked, “The [f*ck] is wrong with y’all?” Instagram comments have been turned off as of the publication of this piece.
Other events hosted by conservative organizations have elicited disapproval from the leftists on campus. Last semester, students staged a protest outside the law school in response to a Federalist Society chapter event featuring a speaker from the Alliance Defending Freedom. In 2019, students vandalized posters promoting a College Republicans event with former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, according to reporting from the Cornell Daily Sun.
Already security measures have been put in place ahead of this Wednesday’s talk. Tickets will be required for the event, and bags will not be allowed inside the venue, according to the Cornell ticket office. The Cornell Review reached out to the organizers of next Wednesday’s event. As of this Tuesday, 145 people have registered to attend.
