Andrew Cohen's Home Page

This is my home page.

I'm Andrew Cohen, as you may already know. My philosophy on personal web pages is this: time spent on making them attractive is time better spent making your life attractive. So here 'tis:

I'm done with Binghamton University. Well, mostly. I haven't completed my thesis, but that should happen eventually. In May 2001, I received my dual baccalaureate - BS in Computer Science, and BA in Mathematics. Now I'm enrolled in the MS program in Computer Science.

My plans for the future: I want to spend several months in Australia, working some sort of temp job and traveling around. After that, I want to go to law school. The reason for this is below.

On the Australia front, I've been once already, and I definitely loved it. But two weeks isn't nearly enough to see a whole continent, and I didn't even get to stop at New Zealand. So this time, I'm going to rectify those errors.

The law school aspiration arose from my increased focus on the Supreme Court after they agreed to hear the case of Lawrence v. Texas back in December, 2002. This was the statute under contention. Upon discussion with several friends (including an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York - Special Federal Litigation division) I got curious to see how I'd do on the LSAT. So I took it in February, and by March I knew that Elle Woods and I are more similar than I would have thought. After that, I couldn't fight the urge to use that score and see how I'd do. If the decision in Lawrence is to be upheld, and if future progress is to be made in civil rights (focus: LGBT affairs), there will need to be good lawyers fighting for it. I want to be one of those good lawyers.

Some previous SCotUS decisions regarding homosexuality:
Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale - held that the Boy Scouts can choose not to employ or admit homosexuals.
Romer v. Evans - a good day, as the SC strikes down a Colorado constitutional amendment that would make it illegal to explicitly give equal protection to gays
Bowers v. Hardwick - a bad day, as the SC held that homosexual sodomy is not a fundamental right, and can therefore be legislated against
Griswold v. Connecticut - not really about homosexuality (except for a negative reference) but about privacy. There are, apparently, some situations where an implied right to privacy exists (Justices Stewart and Black aside).

I feel as if I should make my resumé, publications and other stuff available from this web page. However, web page design is not my forte, so I'll leave it to the reader to e-mail me if you're interested in anything like that.

If you think this page sucks, you're not alone. But how many people can say that their personal web page was featured in a national enrollment campaign for a major four-year University? Hm? Beat that, tough guy.