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A Postcard from New Haven
April 5th, 2008NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Greetings from sunny New Haven! Actually, today was overcast, raining, and cold (although not quite as bad as it is in Ithaca, for sure), but after a five-hour trek from the Hill down to Connecticut, we're here nonetheless. Why, you ask? The Yale Daily News hosted a conference this weekend on the web operations of college newspapers, and I came here with a delegation from The Sun, including Assistant Web Editor Mike Wacker '10 and editors emeritus Julie Geng '08 and G. Scott Russ '10, to attend the conference. We're all really excited to be here; every paper does things differently, so everyone had some experience to share with each other. Read More
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It's a Mobile World
January 25th, 2008In my column today, I wrote about Apple's new ultra-mobile notebook, the MacBook Air. This svelte little machine retails for $1799 from Apple's online and retail stores, but if you live on the hill, there's a better option. Read More
Not Just a Hobby
January 7th, 2008Bill Gates, the famous founder of Microsoft, gave his last keynote address to the International Consumer Electronics Show last night in Las Vegas. Gates has now delivered 12 addresses in his many years at the helm of the software behemoth, so the event was marked by a great deal of reminiscing and retrospection. Although the video montages were quite entertaining (perhaps even Oscar-worthy, considering the current strike-induced lack of quality programming) and while the event did give some fitting closure to Gates’ lengthy career, the real meat and potatoes of the Microsoft keynote were presented by Robbie Bach, the company's president of entertainment and devices. Read More
Happy Thanksgiving
November 20th, 2007The Sun has currently stopped printing for the Thanksgiving holiday break. CornellSun.com will continue to update you on breaking news throughout that time. Regular publication will resume on Monday, November 26th. From all of us at The Sun, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving! Read More
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Fall Break
October 5th, 2007The Sun is currently in recess for fall break. Regular publication will resume on Wednesday, Oct. 10. CornellSun.com will continue to keep you updated with the latest news from on campus and around the world during this time. Information on campus activity during the break can be found here. From all of us at The Sun, have a happy and safe fall break! Read More
Labor Day
September 3rd, 2007From the Web Editor: The Sun will not be publishing today, September 3, 2007, in observance of Labor Day. Regular publication will resume tomorrow as usual. We wish everyone a happy holiday, and we’ll see you again tomorrow. Read More
And We're Back!
August 20th, 2007Hello everyone, and welcome to the new CornellSun.com! This summer, we’ve been working very hard at The Sun to improve our site in anticipation of an exciting new semester. The site that sits before you now is the end product of those many weeks of sweat and late-night coding sessions, all wrapped up in one digital bundle of joy. We’ve got a lot in store for CornellSun.com this semester. Over the summer we had several bloggers sending in their thoughts from all over the world. Many of these blogs will continue into the academic year, and new ones will surely join them. Additionally, we will be widely expanding our multimedia content offerings, starting very soon. Watch this space for exciting video coverage of news and events across campus and across town. Read More
C.U. to Remain Open Despite Weather
April 16th, 2007Bad news for those of you hoping for a snow day tomorrow: as of 4:00 a.m., a closing is not anticipated, according to an email sent out by Stephen T. Golding, executive vice president for finance and administration. According to Golding, bus services will be running as usual tomorrow with delays due to the weather. The full text of Golding’s email follows below. -Chris Barnes Sun Web Editor
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Behind the Code: Some Introductions
April 8th, 2007Hey everyone. My name is Chris Barnes; those of you have that have been following The Sun for the last year or two might recognize my name from a few bylines in the news section, but for those of you that don’t, let me properly introduce myself. I am a sophomore majoring in Information Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. I’ve been working at The Sun since arriving at Cornell in August 2005, first as a staff writer then as a senior writer in the news department, and also as a developer in the web department. But, what probably matters most to you is that in March of this year, I was elected as Web Editor on the 125th Editorial Board of the Sun. Read More