"One of my favorite professors at Cornell"

Professor Lowi was my advisor and one of my favorite professors at Cornell. I vividly remember one of his Government 111 lectures in which he chronicled the absurdity of a government bureaucracy that required employees to “erase your initial and then initial your erasure” in editing a government memo. That line has stuck with me since, and the course shaped my perception of our institutions, as both a student and citizen. In my senior year (Spring 2002) receiving an “A” in Lowi’s Public Policy seminar was one of my proudest moments as a Government major. 

Benjamin Bloom

College of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Class of 2002