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Risley Installs New Lampposts; Former AAP Student Began Project
November 5th, 2009Correction Appended Risley Hall recently shed some light on a piece of its historic architecture — literally. In September, lampposts were installed on the four gates the residential college, a project that was initiated by one of Cornell’s student architects. Read More
To Cut Costs, Library Unloads 95,000 Volume Duplicative Collection
November 4th, 2009In the wake of substantial budget cuts for Cornell’s libraries, the University signed a deal this past weekend to sell a 95,000 volume duplicative collection in Uris Library to Tsinghua University in Beijing, according to Anne Kenney, University librarian for the Carl A. Kroch Library. Read More
Former ILR Employee Gains Trial Against Univ.
November 4th, 2009While the federal judge previously twice dismissed Margaret Leibowitz’s ’73 charges against Cornell without a trial, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided to give Leibowitz the opportunity to make her case in her six-year legal battle against the School of Industrial Labor School on Oct. 23. Read More
Huffington Advocates for ‘Truth in Journalism’ at I.C.
November 4th, 2009Famed columnist, author and political commentator Arianna Huffington posted on her Twitter account just before she took to the stage at Ithaca College last night to address the current state of journalism and the rise of new media. Read More
Cornell Receives $14M For New Cancer Center
November 4th, 2009Despite the recession, Cornell’s cancer research has recently received a boost of $14 million. This funding will enable the establishment of a new Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, in which Cornell researchers in Ithaca will partner with clinicians and scientists at New York City’s Weill Cornell Medical College. Read More
Turnout Low as Democrats Take Uncontested Races
November 4th, 2009Early exit polls from Virginia’s gubernatorial race showed that the percentage of voters who were under 30 shrank significantly from last year. The same seems to be true for the Tompkins County local elections, as most Cornellians did not turn out for what were largely uncontested elections. Read More
Lecture Probes Drug Trade Escalation in Mexico
November 4th, 2009Jose Bladimir Antuna, a Mexican reporter who often reported on violent drug crime, was found dead in the Northern Mexican state of Durango yesterday, shortly after he was kidnapped. Antuna’s strangled body was discovered alongside a note claiming he had been killed for giving information to the Mexican military, according to the Associated Press. Read More
Grad Student Lucas Wooster Dies Unexpectedly
November 3rd, 2009Lucas Wooster, a 32-year-old Ph.D. candidate in horticulture at Cornell, died unexpectedly early Sunday morning in the town of Ithaca, according to the University. Read More
Green Dragon Workers Fight C.U. Dining Uniform Policy
November 3rd, 2009The Green Dragon Café lurks deep in the lower level of Sibley Hall, and has featured one of campus’s most laid-back atmospheres for coffee and chat since 1961. But new administrative measures requiring hats could threaten what has been termed “the Green Dragon brand,” and the staff is refusing to take the dictate without a fight. Read More
Robbery Attempted at Wilson Farms in C-Town
November 3rd, 2009Local grocery vendor Wilson Farms was the subject of an attempted robbery Sunday night, at approximately 10:49 p.m., the Ithaca Police Department said yesterday. Read More