President Barack Obama has made health care a top priority in his short tenure. The approval of his health bill by the House of Representatives on Nov. 7 has only intensified the debate that has swept the country concerning how the government should reform the current health care system.

Olamide Williams ’10 told The Sun yesterday that he would be stepping down from his position as executive vice president of the Student Assembly. The decision is a result of a breach of S.A. charter, which mandates that the vice president should not miss more than three meetings consecutively, and that six missed meetings in total result in a removal from office.

The Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Elmira Mangum as Cornell’s vice president for budget and planning on Wednesday.

Caught in the ever-looming presence of global warming, audience members last night in Phillips Hall were treated to a presentation on successful sustainability projects in the Ithaca community.

One morning in 1916, workers were excavating the foundation for a new auto shop on State Street. In addition to rocks and dirt, their plow hit something a bit unexpected.

As they continued digging and removing mud and debris from the strange objects, they became horrified. It was a complete skeleton and two additional skulls.

Retired Prof. Leo Gruenfeld, industrial and labor relations and a Holocaust survivor, was 11 years old and living in Berlin on Nov. 9, 1938 when Kristallnacht, known as the Night of Broken Glass, began.

More than desiring a diverse student body of Americans, Ezra Cornell envisioned a university comprised of foreign students studying alongside Americans.

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Although the crowd was somewhat quieter — there were no boo’s of displeasure or sign-waving supporters — the discussion of byline funding allocations for Cornell Cinema and the Slope Day Programming Board at yesterday’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting was just as heated as the Student Assembly’s recent discussion of the same matters.

Danielle Davis was embedded in First Platoon’s Third Squad for the majority of the Field Training Exercise weekend for Saturday and Sunday events.

Nearly 2,500 students, educators and business leaders from around the world gathered at Cornell this weekend for the 17th annual Net Impact Conference, “Advancing Sustainable Global Enterprise: Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers.”