The student who pled guilty to felony hate crime charges after stabbing a visiting Union College student will be sentenced Monday. Nathan Poffenbarger ’08, who is white, admitted to stabbing then-senior Charles Holiday, who is black, after shouting racial epithets.

In his first appearance at Cornell since President David J. Skorton’s September inauguration, former President Jeffrey S. Lehman ’77 lectured on welfare and globalization yesterday as part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs’ colloquium series. Lehman, who will present another lecture today, was the University’s 11th president, serving from July 2003 to July 2005.

At about 11 p.m. last night, the Cornell Democrats — about 60 of them assembled in Chloe McDougal’s ’09 living room — grew hushed. Republican Ray Meier, Oneida County District Attorney Michael Arcuri’s opponent in the race for the 24th N.Y. Congressional district, was conceding the election.

Irene Stein, the little old lady in a purple sweater jumpsuit and black walking shoes, is the chair of the Tompkins County Democratic Committee.

It’s people like her who really run this country. They organize the retail politics that can make or break a candidacy. What begins in living rooms and union halls, bit-by-bit, event-by-event, middle school gym by Elks Lodge, changes the direction of the most powerful nation in the world. That’s why Michael Arcuri is here tonight, in the sagging Victorian building that serves as the community center in Lansing, N.Y., just northwest of campus.

Cornell is on the cusp of a massive wave of faculty retirements, and administrators are scrambling to make up the difference.
A hiring surge 30 years ago means that a group of faculty who came to Cornell around the same time is on its way out.

If activists have their way, bars will stay open an extra hour – but first they’ll have to get through the opposition of local leaders and the indifference of some members of the county legislature.