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Despite Cancelled Concert, Homecoming Weekend to Feature New Festivities
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Cornell will also open a welcome tent for alumni and parents in a parking lot by Schoellkopf Field.
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Barton Hall Construction Cancels Traditional Homecoming Concert
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Even without a concert, the traditional homecoming festivities, including fireworks and a laser lights show on Friday and the football game on Saturday, will still occur as scheduled this year.
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Million-Dollar Barton Hall Construction Disrupts Student Activities, Athletics
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Barton Hall will be closed for the remainder of the fall semester as a team renovates the building’s floors and equipment, according to Associate Project Manager Chris Davenport. A project team is improving the building’s track floor and athletic equipment, as well as the foundation of the Navy ROTC blockhouse. Davenport said the renovations — which began June 20 and will finish by 2017 — will cost a total of $3.6 million. The project’s main goal is to fix Barton’s floor, according to Davenport. “The wood flooring underneath the track was deteriorating and causing soft spots, which made it unsafe for recreational use and unsafe for collegiate competition,” he said.
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Cornell Holds First Big Red Carnival
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Students enjoy inflatables, games, cotton candy, and more at Cornell Class Councils’ first Big Red Carnival. The event aimed to bring together the Cornell community and promote school pride.
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50 Years Ago Today: A 24-Year-Old Bob Dylan Electrifies Barton Hall
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By SCOTT MARSHALL
Bruce Dancis ’69, a 17-year-old freshman at Cornell, was beside himself: Bob Dylan was coming to town. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter would be playing Barton Hall on Nov. 6, 1965. The now-retired longtime journalist didn’t know it at the time, but he was one year away from making history with an anti-Vietnam War protest. Dancis, who didn’t finish at Cornell — and served a 19-month federal prison sentence for his trouble — managed to procure a Cornell University Press contract for his memoir of last year, Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War.
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“Making the Most of the Night”: Carly Rae Jepsen at Barton Hall
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By MIKE SOSNICK
Nearly every student knew that Carly Rae Jepsen would be playing at Barton Hall on Sunday, but there weren’t many that seemed to be going. There wasn’t a steady stream of them trudging up from Collegetown, and people that I talked to treated the fact that I was going more as a gag than a given. The queue for laughably ineffective pat-downs at the entrance was nonexistent and the slim number of people already in Barton at 7:30 didn’t grow much ahead of the headliner’s set. The few stragglers didn’t miss much, though. The night’s opener was the wholly replaceable St.