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Over 175 Cornell students and Ithacans of all ages rocked out to Guitar Hero II yesterday on a stage in Pyramid Mall in front of a big screen TV in order to raise money for Cornell’s third annual Relay for Life. The Relay is an annual overnight event held to benefit the American Cancer Society. Teams from Cornell and Ithaca College gather together at Barton Hall and members take turns walking or running laps throughout the night.

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Question: Who do you think is coming for Slope Day?

Greg Akselrod ’09 said:

“Slope Day? That’s easy: dy/dx.”

Yuri Sylvester ’08 said:

“Once again, not the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

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The Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factor Program at Cornell recently received the 2006 New York State Innovation in Breast Cancer Early Detection and Research Award for its pioneering program of breast cancer research and education as well as its long-term commitment to the New York State community.

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Dartmouth University will host two presidential primary debates on consecutive days next fall in anticipation of next year’s primary election in Dartmouth’s home state of New Hampshire. Both debates will be moderated by Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press and Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News.

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Yesterday, Prof. John Mearsheimer Ph.D ’80 spoke about the failure of the Bush Administration’s policy in Iraq in his speech, “Why the Bush Doctrine Crashed and Burned in Iraq.”

Mearsheimer said that the Bush doctrine was predicated on a neo-conservative vision of foreign policy, one that failed as it discounted the power of nationalism.

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“After four years of this ever-spiraling crisis, we have no idea how many people have died. The evidence has been covered by Sudanese dust,” said John Prendergast, senior advisor of the International Crisis Group, in his lecture yesterday to Cornell students.

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On Tuesday, March 6, The Washington Post published the results of a study co-authored by Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania regarding the increasingly common university practice of bolstering black student enrollment numbers by admitting black immigrant students in place of African-American applicants.

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The members of the Cornell Debate Association, no strangers to public speaking, have lately had to use their discourse skills in an unexpected arena. In light of recent controversy over the submission of their Spring 2007 budget, members of the Debate Association appeared at the meeting of the Student Assembly on March 8 to appeal the decision of the S.A. Financial Committee, and later the Appropriations Committee, to deny them funding from the Student Activity Fee for the current semester.

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“It would be a training manual on what prosecutors should not say,” said Prof. John Blume, law, director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, in reference to the 1987 capital punishment trial of William Weaver.

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During the early 1990s, the number of women enrolled in college in the U.S. surpassed the enrollment rate for men. Since then, the college gender gap has widened, and currently, 57 percent of college students in the U.S. states are women. While the gender gap continues to grow, Cornell undermines the national trend with a nearly equal male to female ratio that has remained steady since 2001.