News

Schedulizer Is Back At C.U. Following Registrar Scuffle

August 29th, 2008
By Ben Eisen
After just over 24 hours without service, the familiar tabs and lists of Schedulizer.com are once again active. Schedulizer CEO Jay Searson ’08 put the site back online around 8:20 p.m. last night, citing the willingness of the Registrar to work with the website and the outpouring of student support as the two main causes. Read More

Other News

Pres. Skorton Refuses to Sign Pledge to Lower Drinking Age

August 29th, 2008
By Nikhita Parandekar
The Amethyst Initiative was created by a group of college presidents in June with the goal of inciting discussion about the effectiveness of the current drinking age. As of Wednesday, 129 presidents of colleges and universities around the country had signed an initiative supporting an investigation to lower the drinking age back to 18. President David Skorton was not one of the signatories.

Study Finds Hormone Makes Dairy Farming More Efficient

August 29th, 2008
By Nikhita Parandekar
A study conducted at Cornell by the D.E. Bauman research group revealed that dairy cows that receive Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST) have a higher milk efficiency, which in turn lowers their carbon footprints. RbST is an FDA approved artificial growth hormone that allows cows to more efficiently use nutrients so that fewer cows are required to produce the same amount of milk.
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Sports

Olympics Put Focus on Gymnastics

Olympics Put Focus on Gymnastics
Ariel Waitz
Junior Brittany Howse performs her floor exercise for the Red.
August 29th, 2008
By Cory Bennett
Though gymnastics is a popular sport in America at the club level, this doesn't necessarily translate to collegiate competition. The Olympics, however, truly brings out the sport's visibility with top athletes such as Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson and Alicia Sacramone, while others struggle to break from the shadows of these superstars. This is the inevitable result, however, of trying to get an audience to relate to athletes they have never seen and might never see again. Read More

Opinion

C.U. Not Anti-Schedulizer, Registrar Says

August 29th, 2008
By David Yeh
I would to like to make clear several facts about Cornell's course schedule system and the business enterprise Schedulizer that may have been obscured in recent news reports. The University has not changed its systems in order to thwart the popular commercial enterprise, Schedulizer — and the university is always working to improve its systems in support of students. Any changes in the systems run by the university have been made to improve the utility and functionality of those systems for the benefit of students. Read More

Sun Blogs

Designing Breaking News

August 28th, 2008
By Munier Salem
Assistant Design Editor Munier Salem ’10 wrote this blog post about what it’s like to work at The Sun on a night with breaking news before Schedulizer.com went back up: Breaking news on State Street! It’s just after 8:00 p.m. down here at The Sun and we’re rearranging the front page to make way for the PeopleSoft debacle. Read More


Opinion

Where Do You Go To School?

August 29th, 2008
By C.J. Slicklen
Where (exactly) do you go to school? Welcome (back) to Cornell University. For those of you who got off the bus thinking this was Cornell College in Iowa (Yes, there is such a place. Google it.), now would be a good time to get back on the bus. “Where the hell are we?” I heard one Freshman say to another as they drunkenly walked through Collegetown in front of CTB this past Orientation Week. “Outside of Mary Donlon, I think,” replied the second. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

Welcome Back to the Show

August 28th, 2008
By Julie Block
As you try to stave off the what-am-I-going-to-do-wihout-Schedulizer panic attack, your eyes alight on these words and you groan inwardly, thinking “Man, I wish it was still summer.” We do too. Here at Daze, we think that if we got money for each time we wrote “Here at Daze” we’d be rich. Also here at Daze, while we sadly say goodbye to our fading suntans, we realize this is a bittersweet sign, if only because well, this semester? Is gonna be rockin’. Read More

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Blogs

What Are We Doing Here at Cornell?

August 27th, 2008
By Ross Brann
The local television access feed of the Lincoln at Gettysburg Book Project panel discussion in Barton Hall on Sunday upset me. Read More
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