Monkey Business -- For students who doubt the validity of evolution, college science class can be daunting. What happens when beliefs and schoolwork collide?

Current magazine (a publication of Newsweek), Dec. 6

Article on the evolution/intelligent design issue quotes President Rawlings and a Cornell student.

Following University of Idaho President Tim White's statement that only evolution theory should be taught in his school's bio-physical science courses, the interim president of Cornell University, Hunter R. Rawlings III, used his October State of the University address to condemn intelligent design for "put[ting] rational thought under attack." He went on to deride it as "a religious belief masquerading as science."

Hannah Maxson, a junior at Cornell University majoring in chemistry and mathematics, disagrees with her school's policy. "I don't think [intelligent design] belongs in a humanities course. I think it does belong in a science course," she says. Maxson is the founder of Cornell's Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club, a new student organization dedicated to discussing the "holes" in evolution and researching other theories of origin.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10297809/site/newsweek/from/ET/&&CM=EmailThis&CE=1

Students join debate on intelligent design -- Campus clubs set up to defend concept

Chicago Tribune, Nov. 25

Dappled with autumn leaves, the manicured campus of an Ivy League university in upstate New York may seem far from the cornfields of Kansas or the rural towns of central Pennsylvania, but it represents the newest of these battlefields in the growing culture war over the teaching of evolution.

The national spotlight recently has focused on school boards in Kansas, Pennsylvania and elsewhere that are grappling with calls for including intelligent design, a concept critical of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, in science curricula. But a significant new front in this cultural conflict is opening in the halls of American higher education, spearheaded by science students skeptical of evolution and intrigued by intelligent design.

One of them is Hannah Maxson. A math and chemistry major at Cornell University, she founded an Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club here this fall.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0511250153nov25,1,7426227.story?ctrack=1&cset=true