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Model U.N. Conference Draws 500 High School Students

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The time was 12:00 a.m. Atlanta was just bombed and Fidel Castro assassinated. You are representing the U.S.S.R. What do you do?
This “midnight crisis” was only one of the many hypothetical diplomatic challenges that faced high school delegates at the 7th Annual Cornell Model United Nations Conference at Cornell this weekend.
Hosted by the Cornell International Affairs Society, the conference drew 500 students from 30 different high schools, including Ithaca High School, Lansing High School, Watkins Glen High School and two international delegations from South Africa and Hong Kong.

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CUPD Helps Staff Combat Emergency Induced Stress

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Crime victims are not the only ones who suffer enduring effects of emergency situations. Law enforcement officers suffer the highest suicide rate compared to that of other professions, second only to dentists, according to Linda Starr, manager of the Employee Assistance Program.
In fact, according to Joe Schwartz, a public information officer from the Cornell Press Relations office, crime victims and law enforcement officers alike struggle against the emotional stress created by emergencies. To help staff cope, the CUPD provided an eight-hour seminar to ensure that their staff “[is] aware of the triggers and effects of stress, and that they are provided with tools for coping with such stress in an effective manner,” Schwartz stated in an e-mail.

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An Office to Some, A Maze to Many

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“You know those M.C. Escher drawings? That’s a lot like Day Hall,” Rachel Jacobs ’10 said, referring to the maze of hallways involved in locating various administrative offices in the building. “I get lost every time.”
Edmund Ezra Day Hall, the central administration building for the University, is one of several buildings on campus that many people consistently have trouble navigating. Designed by architect Frederick L. Ackerman in the style of stripped classicism, Day Hall opened in 1947 to consolidate offices scattered around campus into one central structure.
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AEM Places Fourth in ’08 BusinessWeek Rankings

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After becoming an Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accredited program in 2002, the AEM department has risen in the rankings, from the 14th spot in 2006, to 10th in 2007 and finally to the fourth spot this year.
The AEM department is one of only two accredited undergraduate business programs in the Ivy League.
To rank the 127 programs, BusinessWeek measures student satisfaction, post-graduation outcomes and academic quality.

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C.U. Programming Advances to IBM’s Spring Competition

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The oldest and largest programming contest in the world, IBM’s Battle of the Brains, will include a team of three students from Cornell who will compete with the world’s finest student computer programmers. The Cornell University Computer Whizzes, the University’s delegation to the competition, has beaten 6,600 teams in local and regional competitions to advance to the World Finals.