Harry DiFrancesco '12 Responds to a recent New York Times article about the 750,000 Somalis currently facing starvation. 

More than a year after the January 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti, Cornell's GHESKIO clinic continues to provide aid to patients with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. 

Now back from Kenya, Sun columnist Steven Zhang '12 argues that Africa must be allowed to be more self-reliant.

“And after I walked out of the movie, all I could think was, where’s my little black boy to adopt? I want one!”

I was getting my nails done, a very irregular occurrence for me, and the woman next to me was giving me bite-sized movie reviews of this season’s Oscar nominees. Avatar was a favorite — the love story between the “cute white crippled boy” and the “exotic blue cat girl” was beautiful, apparently — but The Blind Side took the cake, mainly for Sandra Bullock’s portrayal of that heroic woman, Leigh Ann Tuohy.

The Cornell University Community should be proud of the contributions its members have made — and continue to make — to the relief efforts in Haiti over the past several weeks. The devastation in that country, marked by hundreds of thousands of deaths and a demolished infrastructure, is almost incomprehensible.