Election Day is almost a month behind us and a healthy majority of the country has been celebrating the victory of President-Elect Barack Obama. Though a large number of people went to the polls November 4th, many still did not. For those Cornell students who used the excuse "my vote doesn't count in liberal Ithaca, New York" — you were wrong. Alma Aldrich tells us why.

Alma Aldrich, a junior Collegetown resident, talks about her struggle to find parking in Collegetown. Her innocent mistake in parking on a residential street was met with tension and an unpleasant warning from the Orchard Place Association. Situations such as this cause her to call into question certain proposals outlined in the Collegetown Master Plan.