Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to visit Ithaca, Cornell
Ithaca College and Cornell University will host New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on April 7th. Kristof will speak at Cornell in the Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium at 4:30 P.M. and at Ithaca in Textor Hall 1o2 at 6:30 P.M.
Kristof and other speakers will talk about how China, as an economic powerhouse, can help to end the atrocities being committed in the Darfur region of Sudan through the country’s role as a weapons provider and major foreign investor.
The visit is sponsored by the IC student group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) and the Cornell group STARS, as part of a weekend of events entitled”Dream for Darfur,” a symposium on this year’s Olympics.
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, according to the New York Times, Kristof has traveled extensively - he’s “lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 120 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island.”
Much of his recent reporting has been on the ethnic conflict genocide taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Read this week’s Ithacan for more information.
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