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S.A. Uses By-Line Funding to Benefit Cornell Community
November 11th, 2009The Student Assembly’s process of by-line funding has gained recent attention in light of assembly members’ controversial decision to cut Cornell Cinema’s funding. Although by-line funding allocates a portion of students’ tuition, known as Student Activity Fee (SAF), many students seem to know little about the process that has prompted much controversy on campus. Read More
Student Stabbed on 300 Block of Highland Avenue, Suspects Remain at Large
November 10th, 2009Updated 2 a.m. A student was robbed and stabbed in the stomach yesterday at around 10:30 p.m. while he was walking along the 300 block of Highland Road on North Campus, according to Simeon Moss ’73, deputy University spokesperson. As of 1:40 a.m., the suspects were still at large. Read More
University Receives $99M NSF Grant
November 10th, 2009Cornell’s Ithaca campus has received nearly $100 million for research projects from the federal government’s stimulus package as of Nov. 1. Weill Cornell Medical College received an additional $22 million from the program, as of Oct. 8, the most recent date for which figures for the college are available. Read More
Cornell, China Maintain Close Relationship
November 10th, 2009This weekend, Cornell students here in Ithaca enjoyed the few remaining days of sunny weather and prepared for pre-Thanksgiving crunch time. On the other side of the world, President David Skorton was in China delivering a speech for a panel session titled, “Higher Education Under the Financial Crisis: Strategies and Development,” at the 2009 Beijing Forum which aims to promote the study of the humanities and social sciences around the world. Prof. Peter Katzenstein, international studies, delivered a keynote address at the forum. Read More
Students Decry Complexity Of Parking Regulations
November 10th, 2009With multiple parking regulations now in place, Cornell students living in Ithaca, including Collegetown, have complained that they have been ill informed about the odd/even parking restrictions and the 24-hour parking limit that began on Nov. 1. Read More
Africana Studies Program Celebrates 40 Years at C.U.
November 10th, 2009Forty years ago, a group of African-American students deposited hundreds of books at the undergraduate library circulation desk and declared them irrelevant to their historical experience. Read More
Econ Prof Named to Top Indian Gov't Post
November 9th, 2009Prof. Kaushik Basu, economics, has been appointed to the position of chief economic advisor by the Indian government, according to the University. Basu could begin his tenure as early as mid-December — taking a two-year leave of absence from the University while he is working for the Indian government. Read More
Libe Café Employees Protest Uniform Policy
November 9th, 2009Workers at the Libe Café in Olin Library voiced discontent with the new mandate to wear hats in a meeting with Cornell Dining administrators Friday. Objections to the policy, which student employees at the café began fighting last year, coincide with similar concerns vocalized by employees at the Green Dragon Café. Read More
Despite Economy, Low Turnout, Guest Lectures Persist on Campus
November 9th, 2009On any given day during the semester, the University plays host to a handful of visitor lecture events, brown-bag lunch discussions or colloquium series. Read More
Cornellians Discuss Violence-Free World With U.N. Reps
November 9th, 2009UNITED NATIONS — Eighty catatonic Cornellians left Ithaca last Friday morning to learn how to achieve, in the words of the trip’s main organizer and creator Prof. Read More