Cornell is once again experiencing an increase in the number of cases of likely H1N1 influenza, according to University health officials.

The Arts and Sciences Reimagining Cornell Task Force Report, released on Nov. 6, outlined potential plans that could alleviate the college’s financial burdens as well as improve the quality and efficiency of its teaching and research.

“Last winter there were too many questions. Now there are clearer things to work on,” Dean Peter Lepage said.

Local farmland alleged to be a Native American burial ground was partially bulldozed to make way for a manure storage tank, but work in the area has been halted thanks in part to the work of a Cornell professor.

The Cornell University Police Department and Ithaca Police Department will start jointly patrolling campus, Collegetown and other nearby areas, the University announced yesterday.

The joint patrols — usually reserved for large events like Orientation Week, Slope Day and Senior Week — are a response to a rash of crimes reported near Cornell’s campus.

Returning to the same room where he once took exams, Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III law ’80 addressed Cornell Law Students about current pressing defense issues such as Guantanamo Bay and the novel threat of cyber warfare, stressing the advantages that his background in law training provides.

At the first in a series of six public forums that address selected strategic planning task force reports, the co-chairs of the student enrollment task force presented their findings yesterday and discussed with the audience how Cornell could host the additional hundreds of students should the University decide to increase enrollment to alleviate its strained budget.

As the economic downturn has forced some colleges to cut jobs, Cornell has used these tough times to concentrate its recruiting agenda. The Dual Career Program, a service created eight years ago in Cornell’s Recruitment and Employment Center, has proved a key recruitment tool, offering job-search assistance and career counseling to the spouses and partners of University employees.

President David Skorton will join Former Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling and Dean Thomas S. Robertson of University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, on the advisory council for the initiative 10,000 Small Businesses.

Nata Saslafski ’12 transferred to Cornell from Miami Dade College. Upon his arrival, Saslafski immediately fell in love with the slopes around Ithaca.

“Florida is all parking garages,” he said. “Now that I’m out here on hills, it’s a dreamland.”

Monday’s release of Vladimir Nabakov’s The Original Laura has generated considerable fanfare, in large part because the famed writer expressly requested in his will that the works be destroyed. Meanwhile, the posthumous publication of another famous former Cornellian has gone largely unnoticed, despite some highly favorable reviews.