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AAP Cuts Force Program Reevaluation

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As Dragon Day approaches, students and faculty in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning have another proverbial beast breathing down their neck — budget cuts. Like all colleges, AAP faces a 5 percent budget cut and has been steadily slicing away what the AAP administrators deem as unnecessary and spendthrift facets of the college.
“AAP is in a somewhat different budgetary situation than many of the other colleges in that we were already facing a structural deficit at the beginning of this fiscal year,” stated AAP Dean Kent Kleinman in an e-mail. “Our current budget includes a number of reductions over 2008 in central areas such as facilities, maintenance, communications and general expenses.”

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Budget Cuts Force AAP to Close Facility

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Dean Kent Kleinman of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning announced the closing of the Knight Visual Resources Facility yesterday, due to budget cuts within the college.
The facility, containing 35 mm and lantern slides, as well as recently digitized images, is one of the University’s oldest resources. Founded in 1880 to support the AAP, the facility is home to one of the largest image collections on campus. Located in Sibley Hall, the KVRF allows individuals to check out its extensive collection of videos and digital slides, which feature images ranging from classical art to architectural design plans.

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West Point Experts Codify Terrorism

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Representatives from the Combating Terror Center at West Point gave a talk to a small but intellectually stimulated cadre of students and professors in Martha van Rensselaer Hall yesterday. William Braniff and Alex Gallo, both West Point graduates and former service men in the United States Military, hoped to codify and illuminate the nature of a Middle Eastern terrorist threat that, according to their organization, remains obfuscated to the general public.
“[Our goal] is to help you get through the contextual layers in order to understand what Al-Qaeda is,” Braniff said. “The threat derives its legitimacy … from much more than a little bit of 18-year-old angst.”

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Moody-Adams Takes Columbia Post

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Correction Appended
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Michele Moody-Adams said yesterday she will be leaving Cornell to accept a position as Dean of Columbia College. She is the fourth administrator to leave the Office of the Provost in the past year.
“I have just been so fortunate to do all the things I have been able to do at Cornell,” Moody-Adams said. “If it wasn’t for all the experiences here, I wouldn’t be who I am.”

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Cornell Profs Express Views On Obama's Stimulus Plan

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President Obama signed the most sweeping piece of economic legislation in the nation’s history on Feb. 17 in Denver, Col., officially sparking what may prove to be a long road to financial recovery. On campus, students and professors voiced their opinion, highlighting attitudes ranging from cautious optimism to vitriolic critique.

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Ithaca Residents Voice Concern Over Collegetown Urban Plan

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Ithaca residents sounded off on a proposed urban plan for Collegetown at a meeting yesterday of Ithaca Common Council’s Planning and Economic Development Committee, showing growing tensions between Collegetown’s permanent residents and the ever-changing flow of student residents.
The plan, formally called the Collegetown Urban Plan and Design Guidelines, is a sweeping initiative that many citizens criticize as a “notion in search of a plan.”
“What I don’t like is that all the pieces, and the answers to all those questions associated with those pieces, are not worked out,” said Martha Fromett, a Collegetown resident of 22 years. “I don’t want to adopt something that is a notion.”

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Crisis Averted? Congress Agrees on Stimulus

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Congress passed President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package this past Friday. President Obama’s tendentious support for the bill, which he insists is necessary for a nation at the worst economic junction since the Great Depression, was not shared by Republicans. No Republicans supported the legislation in the House of Representatives, while only three affirmed the bill in the Senate. Despite the partisan nature of the passage, Obama expressed great excitement and optimism for the direction the nation is headed, noting the bill’s ground shaking implications for the economy.

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Arts College Divides $6M Cut Differently Across Depts

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This is the first article in a series examining the effects of the University’s budget cuts on individual schools and colleges.

The College of Arts and Sciences offers its 4,200 students 1,800 undergraduate courses, but the University’s largest college will soon have to make cuts in accordance with the University’s policy to adjust its budget to a stagnant economy.
“Every department will be affected to some extent and there will be fewer classes,” said G. Peter LePage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “Budget cuts this year are being distributed uniformly across all administrative and academic units.”