Few Cornellians sit in class and pass the time before their professors begin lecturing by reading The Economist. Fewer reach for each weekly edition at the Cornell Store and think, “I could learn a lot about this cover, a lot about geopolitics and energy.” But this is exactly what Chief Energy Economist for Deutsche Bank, Adam E. Sieminski ’71, does. Yesterday, Sieminski came back to his alma mater to give a lecture co-sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, titled “What We Can Learn About Energy and Geopolitics from the Cover of The Economist Magazine.”

Eleven percent of the class of 2009 applied for positions at Teach for America, a non-profit organization in which students teach for two years in underperforming, low-income school districts. Washington, D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee ’92 gave a lecture last night in a crowded Bailey Hall about the challenges of managing a public school district — and one that was “the most troubled public school district in the country” when she took office in 2007.

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Cornell University's Reunion Weekend 2008 took place June 5-8. Alumni, their friends, and their family reunited with classmates and reminisced about their time spent at Cornell.

Four years after his record-breaking 2004-05 season for the men's hockey team, former goalie David McKee has been charged with raping an unconscious, intoxicated woman in California in 2006. On June 5, McKee pleaded not guilty to a one-count charge of rape of an unconscious person and one felony count of rape by intoxication. McKee, now free on $100,000 bail, is due back in court in Santa Ana, Calif., on July 10 for a pretrial hearing. If convicted, McKee faces a maximum of eight years in prison.