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‘Friends With Benefits’ Drift Apart

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“Friends with benefits” — the seemingly perfect relationship with no strings attached, may not be all it is cracked up to be according to a recent study titled “Negotiating a Friends with Benefits Relationship.”
The study conducted by Melissa Bisson of Wayne State University and Prof. Michael Levine, communications, Michigan State University, asked 125 young men and women about their relationship experiences. According to the New York Times, the study reported that 60 percent of people surveyed were involved in at least one FWBR. Only 10 percent of the people said that their FWBR became a romantic relationship. One third claimed they stopped having sex and just remained friends, while about 25 percent stopped having sex and called off the friendship.

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Students Find Gyms Crowded

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Cornell, equipped with four gyms on campus, hosts more fitness centers than any other school in the Ivy League. Cornell Fitness Centers has 15,000 square feet of gym space, and even though students have reported overcrowding, it has not deterred then from going to the gym.
Helen Newman Hall, Appel Commons, Teagle Hall and Noyes Fitness Center are the four on-campus facilities. Together, these fitness centers have approximately 348 pieces of equipment including treadmills, steppers, bikes, rowers, elliptical trainers, weight machines, free weights, barbells and dumbbells.

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C.U. Research May Help Farmers Improve Annual Yield

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In a lab already distinguished for excellence, yet another great discovery has been made. At the United States Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, scientists have been able to isolate and clone an aluminum-resistant gene in sorghum plants that allows them to grow in acidic soil, the same acidic soil that covers over half of the world with a heavy concentration in under-developed countries in Africa, Asia and South America.
Leon Kochian, the research leader and supervisory plant physiologist at the United States Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory USDA-ARS and a Cornell adjunct professor in plant mineral nutrition, has been working on isolating this gene for over ten years. According to Kochian, over that time, “a lot of breeding has been done to isolate this gene.”