PCs or Macs? The popularity contest between PCs and Macs has been going on for nearly three decades, starting with the release of the Apple II in 1977 and the IBM PC in 1981.

During the ’80s and early ’90s, Apple pulled ahead with the release of the popular Macintosh line, but its lead quickly eroded during the last decade. In a 2006 estimate by Macworld, Apple only holds a 5.8 percent market share in personal computers.

Freedom of the press has long been a venerated right guaranteed under the First Amendment and protected by the government. This long held sentiment may no longer be as important to the U.S. government, at least according to Reporters Without Borders’ Worldwide Press Freedom Index, which has dropped the U.S. a total of 36 places in the past few years.

America’s oldest independent student-run corporation, Student Agencies Inc., might be hard to notice, but still affects many on campus, from renting apartments in Collegetown to publishing “The Ithaca Gorge” dining guide.

More than a year since the start of construction on the new $163 million Life Science Technology Building, the project is 25 percent complete and on schedule to be completed by the end of January 2008.