cornell
Overheard
November 13, 2008 - 12:00am
By Jessica Stitt
State St. Diner Waitress: She’s about as useful as tits on a nun.
— State Diner
Flamboyant Boy on Cell: I need to black out tonight. I totally deserve it.
— Outside Olin Library
Math Lecturer: So I can do orthogonal vectors in 2-D ... I can't do it in 3-D ... Not without being obscene anyways ...
— Engineering Quad
Rebel Freshman: I slept through my first class today ... I feel like a badass ...
— Goldwin Smith
November 4, 2008 - 12:00am
By Kevin Casey McAvey
Kevin Casey McAvey, the new Executive Director of the Upstate Foundation and a grad student here at Cornell, gives us his take on Upstate New York's "brain drain"--the devastating phenomenon that the next generation born in Upstate is simply not sticking around to contribute to its economy, an issue that he has dedicated his life to studying the causes and cure of.
October 29, 2008 - 10:52pm
By Christine Nelson
President Skorton answers your questions
September 30, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Christina Kam
The most important type of science is the kind that “everybody gets,” that students “can go home and discuss with their families,” remarked Prof. Francis DiSalvo, the co-director of the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute. With the Institute’s focus on a deceptively simple technology ultimately capable of solving America’s fuel crisis, the CFCI represents exactly this type of science.
September 24, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Sam Zarnegar
It was move-in day and he was a 30-minute walk from Central Campus. His window opened up into a cement wall. His room was located one floor below ground level. Living in the basement of graduate housing was not what Kyle Doebler ’10 was expecting when he transferred to Cornell from East Stroudsburg University.
Technically, Schuyler House, where Doebler lives, is “on-campus housing” because it is owned by Cornell, although it is located just beyond lower Collegetown. The closest dining hall where he can use his meal plan is on West Campus.
Like most other transfer students, Doebler submitted his housing application in June before the July 1 deadline. But unlike the other transfers, Doebler is living with graduate students.
September 14, 2008 - 9:56pm
By Christine Nelson
Let's Do Greek: Greek Week 2008 Video Report
July 20, 2008 - 2:26pm
By Lindsay Myron
June 12th was an unfortunate reminder of just how dangerous Ithaca's surrounding gorges can be.
