Inside Higher Ed has more reaction from the IDEA club at Cornell:

Proponents of intelligent design at Cornell attacked Rawlings. A statement released by Intelligent Design Evolution Awareness, a student group, called the president’s speech “unscrupulous” and “unknowledgeable.”

Rachel Staver, vice president of the group and a nutrition major at Cornell, said that the organization has about 50 students on its mailing list and that 10 students participate in weekly discussions. “It’s very hard to get new ideas introduced into science because of the strength of scientific dogma and orthodoxy,” she said. Staver called Rawlings’s criticism of intelligent design censorship, adding that if science professors “were really confident of evolution,” they would accept the teaching of intelligent design as an alternate theory.

The Cornell student group is one of 23 that have been created recently at colleges and universities in the United States.