With free soap in Ho Plaza and newly installed hand-sanitizer dispensers all over campus, swine flu prevention is in style at Cornell. But, despite the fact that clean-hand vigilance goes a long way in keeping us healthy, it won’t actually prevent us from getting sick if – God forbid – we contract H1N1. Immunization will. And it could be the rage on campus in the foreseeable future.

Like roommate disputes and the stress of the first round of prelims each semester, the hangover ranks among the most painful and prevalent college experiences. It seems to me that everyone has their own, unique morning-after cure when rest and water won’t do the trick. (How I Met Your Mother fans might recall Lily ordering a greasy tuna melt and Ted ordering gravy to ease their hangover woes.) But hold on to your greasy pizza and bagels, Cornellians, because researchers at the Institute of Medical Science and Jeju National University in South Korea have scientifically proven that one food reduces hangover symptoms and decreases liver damage – asparagus.