While other cities and regions in upstate New York have suffered enormously from the recession, Ithaca and Tompkins County have benefited from the presence of Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College, according to a joint economic statement.

The Student Assembly’s process of by-line funding has gained recent attention in light of assembly members’ controversial decision to cut Cornell Cinema’s funding. Although by-line funding allocates a portion of students’ tuition, known as Student Activity Fee (SAF), many students seem to know little about the process that has prompted much controversy on campus.

By-line funding sets the Student Activity Fee, a relatively small portion of each undergraduate and graduate student’s tuition, and directs it to 30 organizations whose activities “are of direct and primary benefit to the entire Cornell community,” according to the S.A. Charter.

Forty years ago, a group of African-American students deposited hundreds of books at the undergraduate library circulation desk and declared them irrelevant to their historical experience.

This symbolic gesture is only one of many that took shape on Cornell’s campus in the late 1960s. Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, rising racial tensions at Cornell reached a climax when a group of black students occupied Willard Straight Hall during Parents’ Weekend on April 19, 1969, garnering national attention.

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A student was robbed and stabbed in the stomach yesterday at around 10:30 p.m. while he was walking along the 300 block of Highland Road on North Campus, according to Simeon Moss ’73, deputy University spokesperson. As of 1:40 a.m., the suspects were still at large.

The victim, Marc A. Jackson ’10, was “alert and talking” when he was taken to Cayuga Medical Center, according to a staff member at the hospital. At 12:30 a.m. the victim was still at the hospital under observation.

This weekend, Cornell students here in Ithaca enjoyed the few remaining days of sunny weather and prepared for pre-Thanksgiving crunch time. On the other side of the world, President David Skorton was in China delivering a speech for a panel session titled, “Higher Education Under the Financial Crisis: Strategies and Development,” at the 2009 Beijing Forum which aims to promote the study of the humanities and social sciences around the world. Prof. Peter Katzenstein, international studies, delivered a keynote address at the forum.

Cornell’s Ithaca campus has received nearly $100 million for research projects from the federal government’s stimulus package as of Nov. 1. Weill Cornell Medical College received an additional $22 million from the program, as of Oct. 8, the most recent date for which figures for the college are available. The money is funding a wide variety of projects, from tuberculosis research to development of organic semiconductors, and has been responsible for creating or retaining about 194 jobs at Cornell, according to the University.

$100 million is a large addition to Cornell’s research funding. In 2008, the Ithaca campus received a total of about $350 million from external sources, such as the federal government, said Robert Buhrman, senior vice provost for research.

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With multiple parking regulations now in place, Cornell students living in Ithaca, including Collegetown, have complained that they have been ill informed about the odd/even parking restrictions and the 24-hour parking limit that began on Nov. 1.

The odd/even parking regulation states that through April 1, cars cannot be parked on the even side of the street on even-numbered days from 2 a.m. - 6 a.m. Likewise, cars cannot be parked on the odd side of the street on odd-numbered days from 2 a.m. - 6 a.m. Drivers must also be aware of the regulation when parking on the 31st of a month, as the next day is again considered an odd numbered date.

Many Cornell students have been unaware of and angered by these regulations.

UNITED NATIONS — Eighty catatonic Cornellians left Ithaca last Friday morning to learn how to achieve, in the words of the trip’s main organizer and creator Prof. N’dri Assie-Lumumba, Africana studies, “a world free of violence.” Cornellians and students from other universities made the journey to pose their questions about world hunger and global violence to workers at the United Nations’ within New York City.

Disregarding the elements, sleeplessness and classes, a group of students, faculty and community members boarded a 3:30 a.m. bus on Friday with nothing but excitement and good humor.

As of Oct. 4, U-Wire — the college news syndicator that supplied its 850 member colleges and universities with access to one another’s institutional newspaper content — has been “indefinitely suspended,” according to a recent report in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Web requests for U-Wire.com return a “connection timed out” error.

“U-Wire has temporarily suspended its print wire operations,” U-Wire’s General Manager Tom Orr stated in an e-mail. “The company is in the process of trying to get the wire re-launched as quickly as possible and when more information is available it will be made public. We are sorry for the service disruption and for any inconvenience this has caused our members.”

Excavation is underway and ahead of schedule for Weill Cornell Medical College’s new Medical Research Building, scheduled to be completed by July 2013. As part of the college’s “Discoveries that Make a Difference Campaign,” the building will feature a new Cancer Center and will focus on interdisciplinary research and collaboration between the Ithaca and New York campuses.