September 10, 2007 - 12:00am
By Elana Beale
Statler High. Architects in the Green Dragon. English majors in Temple of Zeus. The entire engineering quad. Athletes in Trillium. Greeks at Johnny O’s. Program Houses.
It’s said that Cornell is an incredibly fragmented campus. One explanation is that on a campus of 13,000 undergraduates, students have to find their niche, individual identities that make Cornell a little more manageable, a little less overwhelming. But at what point do those niches detract from the development of a campus-wide, self-identified and networked community of Cornellians?