Cornell was named the “New NeW Chapter of the Year” at the Network of Enlightened Women’s two-day national conference hosted at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Notable conference attendees included Marji Ross, Christina Hoff Sommers, Mary Katharine Ham, and Katie Pavlich.
NeW stands for Network of Enlightened Women, and is a national organization for conservative university women. It began in 2004 as a book club at the University of Virginia and has since expanded into a national organization with over 20 chapters at various universities nationwide. In early 2012, a NeW chapter was founded at Cornell University by sophomores Caroline Emberton and Ali Smith.
The Cornell University chapter of New’s motto is “Classy, Conservative, Cornell”, and it has quickly grown in popularity on campus. The club gives young conservative women at Cornell the opportunity to network, discuss issues, listen to conservative speakers, and form new friendships. It provides an alternative to Cornell’s women’s studies classes and feminist groups that are often biased against and unfriendly toward conservative students.
Chapter founder Caroline Emberton described NeW’s success this year by saying “we had a phenomenal year building a community for conservative university women at Cornell through events, dinners, meetings and discussions. NeW is keeping it classy at Cornell!”
You can find out more information and ‘like’ Cornell’s chapter of NeW on facebook. You can also check out NeW’s regular column by Katie Johnson in The Cornell Review.
