Laurel Conrad of the Cornell Insider reports that not everyone in the student body is happy about the choice of a liberal Democrat to deliver the convocation at Cornell this spring.

Democrat Politician Announced as 2013 Convocation Speaker

Conservative students and alumni may be upset upon hearing the announcement of Cory Booker as 2013 convocation speaker.

Booker is mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Notably, he acted as an Obama campaign surrogate during the 2012 re election. During Booker’s first term in office, he was responsible for one of the city’s largest property tax increases: a 8.3% increase. He has appeared in three documentaries, Street Fight, Brick City, and Miss Representation. Currently, he serves on the board of advisers of the PAC “Democrats for Education Reform”. Booker is also a proponent of gun control. In a policy discussion, when asked if he wants to ban guns, he replied “I would, if I had the power to do so, I would.”

Booker received his B.A. in political science and M.A. in sociology from Stanford University. Afterwards, he went on to become a Rhodes Scholar and studied at the University of Oxford and later, Yale Law School.