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Coverage of the Baha'i Faith in the Cornell Daily Sun

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From Bahá'í Period of Historical mentions, the the Cornell Daily Sun, an independent daily newspaper published by students at Cornell University and hired employees, from at least Feb 1910, began to mention the Baha'i Faith. The modern website is at CornellSun.com. There are gaps in the coverage such as most of the year 1909.[1] There are also years of the publication have yet to be digitized - as of Oct 2014 these include Fall 1947–Spring 1950, Fall 1966/Spring 1967, Fall 1974-Spring 1978, Fall 1979-Spring 1980, Fall 1981–Spring 1989.[2]

Sporadic meetings[edit]

Though there is occasional mention of a club speakers are spread out across several years.

Keeping in mind there is a gap in 1909,[1] and the limitations of OCR scans and searching, the first mention of the Baha'i Faith in the Cornell Sun occurred Feb 19, 1910 by Mrs Mary H(Hanford) Ford will gave a talk in Barnes Hall auditorium on campus on Feb 19, 1910.[3] She followed up by making an appearance in another talk afterwards.[4]

  • In 1920 a student of Cornel entered the competition for the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette and had an exhibit at the library.[5]
  • Fazel Mazanderani and Ahmad Schrab(sic) with two talks on 9 Oct, 1920.[6] A quote from his talk was printed the following 11th.[7]
  • Howard Colby Ives gave a talk at an evening meeting coming up of the locall unitarian church about Oct 17, 1926.[8]
  • Baha'i students of Cornell gather at Willard Straight Hall with a talk by R. C. Collison, professor of Agronomy, on the next Sunday after Jan 13, 1928.[9]
  • Ruhi Effendi Afnan travels through March 1928 and gives a talk for the club at Barnes Hall the coming Monday evening.[10] Another talk was the following week before the Mens and Womens Cosmopolitan clubs.[11]

We enter here the first significant cap in what has been digitized.[2] As soon as the record continues so does Baha'i mention in the Fall of 1950 witha notice that Jameson Bond is giving a talk at the Barnes Hall Library Nov 1950.[13]

  • Joy Earle gives a talk Nov 1951 in Barnes Hall.[14]
  • Hamilton Niss presents a talk in the Anabel Taylor Blue rm Nov 1960.[15]
  • A talk reviewing "Hinduism and the Judeo-Christian tradition" is sponsored by the Baha'i World Faith club Feb. 1961.[16]
  • Marguerite McKay Firoozi gave a talk a reinterpritation of Christian teachings in Anabel Taylor hall March 1961.[17]

Increasing pace of meetings[edit]

The period of development in the presence of the religion in the Cornell Sun enters another gap in digitized coverage for the moment in 1967.[2] However from Winter 1968 meetings begin to pick up. While previously years or at least months often passed between events a few meetings a semester occur in 1968 onward.

  • Jan 1968 the club held a meeting in the Anabel Taylor Blue rm.[18]
  • A. K. Kalantar gave a talk in April 1968 in the Straight Art rm.[19]
  • A Baha'i Fireside was held in the Noyes Center rm 308 Oct 1969[20] with another in Dec.[21]
  • The Baha'i club held a meeting in Nov 1970.[22] Another meeting of the Club was held in the Straight North rm the following spring in early[23] and late March 1971 in the Straight International Lounge.[24]
  • Then the club meets that Fall in early[25] and late Sept. in Straight Art Lounge[26] and in Nov in the Straight International Lounge.[27] Peter Smith, grad student in economics, gives a talk early Dec[28] and a meeting next week hosted by Pat Hasson.[29]
  • It is almost a year before the next advertised meeting in Nov 1972 though having several in several days.[30][31][32] and on into Dec.[33] (and discussing Seals and Crofts.)[34] and in January 1973 the club is meeting in Straight Loft II discussing "Christ and Baha'u'llah"[35] and on into February.[36]
  • From March 1973 there are about weekly meetings with two meetings per weekend in various rooms.[37] In April they have a session on chanting and meditation.[38] In May there is a meeting on "Barriers to Human Unity".[39]
  • The pace of meetings slows down after Spring 1973 though there is one per semeseter for some time. In Nov the Baha'is of Ithaca sponsor a panel discussion in the Central Fire Station Community Room on Green Street.[40] Loretta Haynbes speaks at the Women's Community Building in Feb 1974.[41] A brief "Happy Naw Ruz" in March 1974.[42]

Most of the rest of the 1970s enter a current gap of digitized availability of the Cornell Sun[2] and the 1980s and onward, when the awareness of the Faith generally was raised by news of the persecution in Iran, is unavailable. And so far there have been no significant profiles of the religion or even comments from non-Baha'is on the presence of the religion on campus published.

Modern coverage[edit]

After a gap from the 1970s through to an undetermined date in the early 2000s the first mention of the religion is in 2002.[43]

First, Baha'is were lead cosponsors of a "crop-walk" in Oct 2002.[44]

A bit oddly placed was a display about the Baha'i Faith at Straight Memorial rm amidst country-based displays for the International Women's Faith in Nov 2002.[45]

The is a choped off article that briefly mentions the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa in Nov 2004[46] and Baha'is were briefly noted among many at a multi-faith service in later Nov 2004.[47]

The last available mention known is when the Baha'is cosponsored an interfaith dinner in April 2006.[48]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Cornell Daily Sun > Browse by date, Cornell University Library. | Cornell Daily Sun - Current
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Cornell Daily Sun > Years Requiring Funding, Cornell University Library. | Cornell Daily Sun - Current
  3. ↑ "The Bahai Revelation", The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XXX, Number 101, 18 February 1910, p. 1, 4 col
  4. ↑ Both University and Individuality Necessary in Cosmopolitanism, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XXX, Number 103, 21 February 1910, p. 7
  5. ↑ Exhibition of designs at library to close, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 40, Number 88, 23 January 1920, p. 5, 2nd col down from top
  6. ↑ Persian scholars to speak tomorrow, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLI, Number 11, 8 October 1920, p. 5, top of 3rd and 4th col
  7. ↑ Persian scholar related history of Bahai Cause, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLI, Number 13, 11 October 1920, p. 5, 1st col top
  8. ↑ First Unitarian Church, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLVII, Number 23, 16 October 1926, p. 6, 3rd col below mid
  9. ↑ Bahai Cornell students to hold meeting Sunday, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLVIII, Number 80, 13 January 1928, p. 2, 1st col bottom and 2nd col top
  10. ↑ Baha'i student to talk in Barnes Hall Monday, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLVIII, Number 117, 9 March 1928, p. 6, 5th col almost top
  11. ↑ Bahai student talks on social need of religion, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLVIII, Number 123, 16 March 1928, p. 2, 2nd col, mid
  12. ↑ Campus Notices, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 58, Number 161, 10 May 1938, p. 7, 4th col mid
  13. ↑ Human Maturity, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume LXVIII, Number 54, 18 November 1950, p. 5, 1st col
  14. ↑ 'End of chaos', The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 68, Number 45, 7 November 1951, p. 5, 2nd col. bottom
  15. ↑ Religion lecture, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 77, Number 50, 29 November 1960, p. 5, 1st col, mid
  16. ↑ Religion talk, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 77, Number 79, 8 February 1961, p. 5, 1st col, below top
  17. ↑ Speaker to discuss traditional doctrine, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 77, Number 109, 22 March 1961, p. , 2nd col top
  18. ↑ Day Book; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 84, Number 75, 31 January 1968, p. 5, 1st col top
  19. ↑ Daybook; Lectures, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 84, Number 132, 26 April 1968, p. 5, 1st col top
  20. ↑ Daybook, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 86, Number 21, 8 October 1969, p. 6, 1st col top
  21. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 86, Number 61, 5 December 1969, p. 8, far right middle
  22. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 87, Number 38, 11 November 1970, p. 10, 1st col mid
  23. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 87, Number 89, 3 March 1971, p. , middle top
  24. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 87, Number 98, 17 March 1971, p. 5, 1st col mid
  25. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume LXXXVII, Number 10, 15 September 1971, p. 5, 1st col mid
  26. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XLVII, Number 15, 22 September 1971, p. 5, 1st col mid
  27. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume LXXXVII, Number 50, 10 November 1971, p. 5, 1st col mid
  28. ↑ A Spiritual solution to the economic problem, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume LXXXVII, Number 64, 2 December 1971, p. 6,1st col below mid
  29. ↑ "Trying to get yourself together?", The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume LXXXVII, Number 68, 8 December 1971, p. 2, 1st col bottom
  30. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 56, 15 November 1972, p. 6, 1st col mid
  31. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 57, 16 November 1972, p. 16, second col bottom
  32. ↑ Daybook; Lectures, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 58, 17 November 1972, p. 7, 1st col top
  33. ↑ Daybook; Notices, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 66, 1 December 1972, p. 5, 1st col mid
  34. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 71, 8 December 1972, p. 5, 1st col mid
  35. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 76, 26 January 1973, p. 7, 2st col near mid
  36. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 90, 15 February 1973, p. 5, 1st col mid
  37. ↑ * Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 100, 1 March 1973, p. 5, 1st col mid
    • Daybook, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 101, 2 March 1973, p. 5, 1st col, mid
    • Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 105, 8 March 1973, p. 5, 1st col mid
    • Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 106, 9 March 1973, p. 5, 1st col mid
  38. ↑ Daybook; Meetings, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 126, 13 April 1973, p. 5, 1st col
  39. ↑ Daybook; Notices, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 89, Number 140, 3 May 1973, p. 20, 1st col
  40. ↑ Education the realization of potential, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 90, Number 57, 16 November 1973, p. 7, far right down from top
  41. ↑ Independent investigation of truth, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 90, Number 90, 21 February 1974, p. 11, 1st col mid
  42. ↑ Happy Naw R'uz, The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 90, Number 110, 21 March 1974, p. 14, 1st col mid
  43. ↑ Search of current website, 2014 The Cornell Daily Sun.
  44. ↑ Students, residents march to eliminate community poverty, by Erica Temel, Cornell Daily Sun, Oct 20, 2002
  45. ↑ Students explore global gender roles at forum, by Shannon Brescher, Cornell Daily Sun, Nov 12, 2002
  46. ↑ Muslims, Jews, Christians, Druze, Cornell Daily Sun, Nov 1, 2004
  47. ↑ Lehman: Happy Thanksgiving, by Daniel Palmadesso, Cornell Daily Sun, Nov 21, 2004
  48. ↑ Dinner spotlights religion, by Suzy Gustafson, Cornell Daily Sun, April 2, 2006
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