Thursday, September 4, 2014

Religious Preference

Cornell
Out, loud and proud.

NY Const Art 1, Sec 3 can go to Quatar
just ask Skorton who does not know the difference between the Julian Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar and could not care less?


Jan. 9, 2014

D.C. strategist Joel Malina named VP for university relations

Joel Malina
Joel Malina
Joel Malina, CEO and general manager of Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates in Washington, D.C., has been appointed vice president for university relations, President David J. Skorton announced Jan. 9.
One of Washington’s leading coalition practitioners and a consummate communications strategist with more than 20 years of experience managing integrated lobbying and communications campaigns, Malina will assume his new position March 31. He will report to Skorton and serve on his leadership team.
“Joel brings to Cornell a superb background in government relations and strategic communications at a time when coordinated approaches and strong partnerships locally, across New York state, in Washington and around the world will help define our future,” said Skorton. “After a competitive national search, I look forward to welcoming Joel to the university. I want also to acknowledge and thank Dean Glenn Altschuler for his distinguished service as vice president for university relations, overseeing advocacy and communications at Cornell.”
“I am excited to be joining this prestigious university at such an important time for higher education,” said Malina. “I look forward to working with President Skorton, the senior leadership team at Cornell, and the faculty, staff and students to communicate the university’s unique contributions to New York, the nation and the global community. My wife, Nancy, our two children, Ben and Hallie, and I have found Ithaca to be a welcoming and vibrant community, and we are all excited about making upstate New York our new home.”
“I am thrilled to begin this new year by welcoming Joel to President Skorton’s leadership team,” said Robert S. Harrison, chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees. “On behalf of the board, I look forward to the energy and vision that Joel will bring to the Division of University Relations. As Cornell prepares to celebrate its sesquicentennial, Joel will lead the effort to leverage Cornell’s lasting and positive impacts in New York state and around the world.”
As the administrative leader with overall responsibility for Cornell’s Government and Community Relations and University Communications, Malina will develop strategies for internal and external communications and coordinate federal, state and community advocacy in alignment with strategic priorities across the university including Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell NYC Tech and Cornell’s extended network.
Stephen Philip Johnson, vice president for government and community relations, who announced his retirement last March, and Tracy Vosburgh, assistant vice president for university communications, who has been leading the communications division since Tommy Bruce accepted a position at Dartmouth College in October, will assist Malina with his transition.
Malina began his tenure at Wexler & Walker in 1992 under the mentorship of firm founder and presidential adviser Anne Wexler. Over the ensuing 21 years, Malina has managed numerous successful public policy campaigns on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, trade associations and nonprofits. From 1995-98, Malina built and managed The Science Coalition, an organization of major public and private research universities – including Cornell – to promote the public and societal benefits of basic science research. Before joining Wexler & Walker, Malina, a native of Scarsdale, N.Y., was a political aide to U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), currently the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Appropriations.
Malina graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1986 with a B.A. in political science and has frequently lectured undergraduate and graduate students at American University and Georgetown University on coalition building and advocacy campaigns.


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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012


Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.

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