News

Wrestling Team Practice Goes Awry

October 10th, 2008
By Peter Finocchiaro and Elizabeth Manapsal
A woman was struck and injured yesterday by a 45-lb. rubber plate used in a wrestling exercise while walking down Baker Staircase across the street from Libe Slope. Three members of the Cornell wrestling team, supervised by an assistant coach, were doing sprint exercises on Libe Slope when one of the plates rolled across West Avenue and struck the woman in the back. Read More

Other News

Website Weighs Students’ Votes at Home vs. School

October 10th, 2008
By Dani Neuharth-Keusch
CountMore.org, a non-partisan website launched Sept. 22, aims to help students decide whether their vote will make a bigger difference at school or at home.

Study Shows BMI Levels Affect Eating Habits at All-You-Can-Eat Buffets

October 10th, 2008
By Chris Kim
A new Cornell study found that the eating habits of diners at buffets are associated with their waistlines; at a buffet, overweight patrons will sit an average of 16 feet closer than thinner eaters.
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News From The Associated Press

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On your toes.

On your toes.
Dan Salisbury
Quarterback Zak Dentes (11) needs just six pass yards to move into second place in Red history. The Sprint Football squad will be looking for its first conference victory against Princeton this weekend. Read the story. | View Photo

Sports

Red to Battle Harvard On National Television

October 10th, 2008
By Matthew Manacher
It’s one thing to upset a preseason Ancient Eight favorite such as Yale on your home field in front of 11,143 screaming fans for Home­coming. It’s quite another thing to do it in front of a national audience. Tomorrow, that is exactly the challenge Cornell will tackle as it squares off against defending Ivy League champion Harvard. Versus TV will offer live coverage on its “Ivy League Game of the Week” with kickoff slated for noon in Cambridge, Read More

Sun Blogs

Recession, Evangelicals, Abortion, and the LHC

October 11th, 2008
By Tarun Chitra
Recession. Evangelical. Abortion. Large Hadron Collider. What do these words have to do with each other (outside of the triviality the word “real” is spelled using the first letter of each word?) Sure, words have been tossed about in the news of late, but what does the world’s largest (and non-functional at the moment) particle accelerator have to do with “hot button” political buzz-words? Absolutely nothing. And that’s precisely the point. Read More

Sun Blogs

Terrorist By Association

October 10th, 2008
By Donial Dastgir and Elizabeth Manapsal
“Treason!” “Kill Him!” “Terrorist!” Sounds like someone must have betrayed the United States in a horrible way, doesn’t it? Maybe sold secrets to an enemy, put American soldiers in danger on purpose, something like that. Whoever it is must surely deserve those words, right? Otherwise, why say them? Read More

Opinion

Andy and Ezra Escape From The Hill

October 10th, 2008
Editorial It was a day very much like this one in October of 1868. Thursday night, Zinck’s had been shut down by mounted agents of the New York State Division of Alcohol and Beverage Control after a nearly-fatal table dancing incident left hundreds injured. The Cornell Copperhead — a conservative newspaper that remained sympathetic to the Confederacy three years after the end of the Civil War — nearly had “Cornell” removed from its name because of an article it published making light of the death of Abraham Lincoln. And, speaking of presidents, Republican Ulysses S. Grant was in a battle-to-the-electoral-death with Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

Spun Stories, Mixed Tales

October 9th, 2008
By Shuja Haider
Spun Stories, Mixed Tales
This week, Daze gets all close and personal with Adam Vana '09 — deejay, producer, "prosumer," and future legend. Vana isn't just a simple turner of tables, he's also a musical teller of tales. (Don't worry, he's not nearly as corny as we are.) Read More

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Blogs

A U.S.-India Nuclear Deal?

October 7th, 2008
By Rob Coniglio
This past week, amongst the chaos of the bailout and financial crisis, the Senate approved the pending nuclear deal between the United States and India, ending the boycott of India by nuclear nations in response to its refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Read More
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