“This is an opportunity for the NCAA to really highlight the wonderful product that the women’s game has become, and it just kind of failed on that opportunity.”
— Jen Critchley ’98, a former Colgate basketball player who’s now head coach at Mount Saint Dominic Academy, comments on gender disparities between NCAA tournaments for northjersey.com.
“It’s worth noting, of course, that no president has had the courage to use the proper historical term … because of fear of harming foreign relations with Turkey — ironically, Turkey, a government with one of the worst human rights records in the world over the course of the past several decades.”
— Peter Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities and professor of English, for NPR on President Biden recognizing the Armenian genocide
“There’s nothing at all magical about the number 435 Congress settled on.”
— Associate Professor of History Dan Bouk tells NPR how lawmakers in the 1920s shaped the size of the U.S. House of Representatives today
“I believe true love and connection happens in person, in real life. So I am thrilled and honoured that Hinge had the chance to work with the White House to increase vaccination awareness across the country so our community can start meeting up safely once again.”
— Justin McLeod ’06, founder of the dating app Hinge, on the effect of vaccinations on in-person dating for the Guardian
“Recently the Republican Party has increasingly adopted views, with regards to immigration and race, that are at odds with how Mexican-Americans see themselves. But on average, they are more conservative than the average American. On many social and cultural issues, it’s a group of people who are closer to the positions taken by the Republicans.”
— Assistant Professor of Political Science Juan Fernando Ibarra Del Cueto on lapoliticaonline.com
“If this result is really consistent, I think this may have a very big impact on how we think about what is innate behavior and what is learned behavior.”
— Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Wan-Chun Liu on the impact of animal-embryo response on biological understanding of nature vs. nurture for popsci.com