As Cornell celebrated the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, nearly one hundred students and faculty met in Call Auditorium to hear recommendations from the Cornell community about how to approach the issue of hydraulic fracturing — hydrofracking — on the University’s 11,000 acres of natural gas-rich land in Tompkins County. All but one of the twenty speakers, who included three students, advocated for no drilling on University land at the present time, and a few argued for a permanent ban on leasing the land for drilling.