In the wake of an alleged racial incident at the Sigma Pi fraternity, an estimated 100 protesters marched from the fraternity to Day Hall Wednesday to decry what they called the administration’s lack of action in response to the event.

Prof. Gerard Aching, Romance studies, will be the Africana center's next director, according to an email sent Tuesday obtained by The Sun.

After competitively screening close to 40 of the top architecture firms in the world, the University announced Tuesday that it has selected Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis to design the first academic building for the New York City tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

The Sigma Pi fraternity has been placed on interim suspension following an incident in which people allegedly threw bottles at black students and taunted them from the fraternity’s roof, the University said in a statement Tuesday.

As the investigation continues into an incident in which a group of people allegedly hurled bottles and racial epithets at black students from the roof of the Sigma Pi fraternity house, the fraternity said that the attacker was not a brother of the house.

Allegedly taunting them with references to Trayvon Martin, a group of people on the roof of the Sigma Pi fraternity house reportedly threw bottles and other objects at black students who were walking by the house early Sunday morning, according to several accounts.

On Friday, Collegetown will be teaming with scores of excited, drunken Cornellians eagerly anticipating the festivities on the Slope. Although for businesses, operating in the middle of the tumult could be a nightmare, Collegetown liquor stores said they are ready to face a surge in customers.