Willard Straight Hall
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Willard Straight Hall is the student union building on the central campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Conceived as a memorial to Willard Dickerman Straight, its construction was initiat
Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University in June 2007
Murals in the North lobby
Western façade on Libe Slope
Armed protestors leave Willard Straight Hall after negotiating an end to their 1969 takeover of the building; the following year, this photograph of the protesters was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for photography.
Thomas Sowell
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Thomas Sowell is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American cons
Willard Straight Hall
…of Public Order." Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to the Straight Takeover in speeches as an example of the excess of college students. Economist Thomas Sowell would later refer to the takeover as the result of policies intended to "increase minority student enrollment... by admitting students who would not…
Sowell in 1964
Clarence Thomas (last on right) accepting the 2002 National Humanities Medal on Sowell's behalf