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Cornell Law — Best at Studying?

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It is no secret that Cornell students are hard workers but in The Princeton Review’s 2008 Best 170 Law Schools book, that fact is numerically proven. Cornell’s Law School was ranked number one in most hours studied per day, with a reported average of 5.97 hours.
Paul Caron, law ’83, published this data on his blog after ranking all the data from the Princeton Review book.
“The data show that students at lower-ranked law schools study harder [a median 5.13 hours per day] than students at higher- ranked schools [a median 3.56 hours per day],” Caron wrote.

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$30 Million Project Fosters Urban Renewal Downtown

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Ithaca continues its effort to revitalize the downtown area with the Cayuga Green project, which will contribute to both commercial and residential growth.
Gary Ferguson, the executive director from Ithaca Downtown Partnership, described the “large downtown redevelopment project, the largest in downtown history at a cost of over $30 million. The project, he said, consists of four parts, the first of which is already in operation. The parking facility across from the Holiday Inn, near the Commons, was the initial site for this initiative.
“The first floor has commercial space with currently one tenant, but 23,000 square feet for commercial development,” Ferguson said.

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Power Plant Aims to Reduce Emissions

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Cornell continues to honor its dedication to the Kyoto Protocol Commitment of 2001 by striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the combined heat and power plant on campus by 30 percent.
Carlos Rymer ’08, president of the Sustainability Hub, explained that “the University will reduce the emissions 30 percent below the levels in 1990.”
Edward Wilson, the head of utilities and energy management on campus, explained that currently Cornell is generating all of the steam needed for the heating on campus, but only 15 percent of the electrical needs.

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Cornell Looks at 'Agricultural Footprint'

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In yet another step toward making the campus more sustainable, the University has begun examining ways to permanently reduce its ‘agricultural footprint,’ or the amount land necessary to support human diets.
Christian Peters, M.S. ’02, Ph.D. ’07, a Cornell postdoctoral associate in crop and soil sciences, is currently working on research about the agricultural footprint. His research is dismissing the formerly held view that a vegetarian diet uses the least amount of land in New York. The benefit of this diet is that the land can sustain more people.

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Study Explores Indian-American Experience With Alcohol at C.U.

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Rites of passage can differ widely among various cultures. For Jewish teenagers, a Bar or Bat Mitzvah can represent a coming of age; for a young Spanish girl, a Quinceañera marks the end of her girlhood. And now more than ever, college drinking has become an important transitional experience for many young Indian-Americans.

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Students Raise Awareness Of Bottled Water’s Harm

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Studies have repeatedly shown that water is good for our body, but what about bottled water and the environment?
Christina Copeland ’11, through her Bottled Water Campaign, is attempting to show the Cornell community that drinking bottled water is not only bad for the environment, but also that the water is no different than tap water.
“My ‘water bottle team’ and I just finished making up five different signs with the key water bottle facts on them,” Copeland said.

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C.U. Researcher Critical of New HIV Treatment

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A Cornell medical researcher has been vindicated in his claim that a recently-released HIV vaccine would be unsuccessful after the drug was pulled last month from the market in South Africa.
Dr. Kendall A. Smith of Cornell Weill Medical College explained that the leading pharmaceutical company Merck’s vaccine went on to Stage II testing in South Africa because “the vaccine had no adverse affects in Stage I.”
Smith described that testing the effectiveness of this and all HIV vaccines is so difficult because there is no animal model for HIV. While doctors do test some vaccines on monkeys, because they have SIV (which affects simians as opposed to humans) it is difficult to find matching cures.

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Student Interest Spawns Sustainable Dining Eateries

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Two new eateries, Manndibles in Mann Library and Moosewood in Anabel Taylor Hall, have opened this semester to answer the demands of Cornell students for increased sustainability on campus.
Moosewood Restaurant, a longstanding Ithaca landmark for vegetarian eating, opened their lunchtime café this semester.
Anthony Kveragas, senior executive chef of Cornell Dining, said that he has “been working with students to get more local and sustainable practices on campus” and that bringing in Moosewood to implement this plan brought in name recognition and helped Moosewood to test pilot the organic interest on college campuses.