After 17 years at Cornell, Prof. Scott Tucker, music, will succeed Norman Scribner as the artistic director of the Choral Arts Society, a 170-member amateur chorus in Washington, D.C., that regularly performs with the National Symphony Orchestra.
At least four people have been stopped from climbing over the campus fences erected to stop suicides since the University installed the barriers in 2010. While the intentions of the individuals are not known, some administrators said the barriers gave emergency responders time to intervene.