Since Vladimir Nabokov’s death in 1977, a Swiss bank vault has guarded 138 pencil-written note cards that the writer of Lolita fame instructed to destroy. Thirty years later, copies of these cards, the unfinished draft of Nabokov’s last novel The Original of Laura, will be available today at the Cornell Store, one day prior to the global release date.

This is the first article in a series that examines the final reports released by the task forces in Cornell’s Strategic Planning process.

The final report for the task force of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was released just 10 days ago, but it has already turned heads for the bold changes it advocates.

The Workers United Union and Cornell Organization for Labor Action were planning to protest as General Electric’s CEO was to give his keynote address in the 2009 Net Impact Conference at Cornell, but the rally was called off after COLA’s secretary Chad Gray ’10 met with General Electric’s global human resources manager and convinced G.E.

University administrators say they will carefully monitor the transformation of the undergraduate biology major and elimination of introductory classes that will go into effect next semester.

Fifty percent of all non-immigrant American children will use food stamps at one point in their lives, according to a Cornell researcher who co-authored a study on childrens’ food stamp use in this month’s issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, a monthly professional journal published by the American Medical Association.

In his lecture “Military History and the American Experience: A Soldier’s Personal Reflection,” Colonel Bart Howard, participant of Operation Desert Storm and the war in Afghanistan, emphasized the need for citizens of a democracy to learn about the history and nature of its military, especially when warfare is constantly in the public eye.

About 15 members of Cornell’s staff, faculty and students gathered in Duffield Hall yesterday afternoon to eat “Brown Bag” lunches as part of a series to facilitate dialogue about the University's strategic planning initiative, “Reimagining Cornell.”

President Barack Obama has frequently commented on the incredible influences he encountered on his road to the White House. One such influence, Prof. Charles Ogletree of Harvard University, spoke yesterday at Ithaca College, commenting on the President’s impact and early years before being elected to the highest position in the country.

Collegetown Candy and Nuts served its last ice cream cone this past Tuesday, shutting its Dryden Road doors after a nine-year run.

“The recession happened, and Starbucks came in,” said Owner Caroline Green Wald ’94, J.D. ’98 of the store’s failing. “I also spent a lot less time here as my family grew. I have three little kids, and when I started [the store], I had none.”

It seems as though the paths to saving the world and making money do not cross, but not according to Josh Tetrick ’04, a social entrepreneur who led a United Nations business initiative in Kenya. In a series of speeches this week, Tetrick provided ways in which people can get the best of both worlds.