The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/joshgirsky/)
Data from the University show that financial aid policy has taken several turns in the past decade, and in the past five years, loans have increased significantly, while grant aid has stayed roughly similar relative to the increase in loans.
Collegetown housing has students signing leases almost 16 months before residence. With the number of large houses decreasing, demand has increased, causing students to compete for the few available properties and sign their leases earlier, even for houses not in the best condition.
Cornell’s increase trailed the S&P 500, which increased about 12 percent
Cornell’s early decision applicant pool has increased by 83 percent in the last decade.
The man arrested this week and accused of starting a house fire died in his Tompkins County Jail cell on Friday morning, police said.
Emergency responders arrived at about 1:20 a.m. to find the three story duplex “heavily involved with fire,” according to a press release from Ithaca Fire Department.
When Eli Shanks ’18 got fed up with paying Ithaca rent, he decided on an unconventional solution; he moved to Trumansburg, bought a police bus, and built himself a new home.
The University has already taken some steps to increase inclusivity on campus after several racially charged incidents on campus, but Pollack is delegating possibly the most important decisions to the hands of others.
Dartmouth and Penn posted returns of 14.6 and 14.3 percent, respectively, while Harvard posted a meager 8.1 percent.
Over 300 students, led by Black Students United, occupied Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday after delivering a set of demands to President Martha Pollack. The protesters, the majority of whom were black and most of whom were people of color, were responding in part to the assault on Friday of a black Cornell student, who said a group of white men called him the N-word and repeatedly punched him in the face in Collegetown. Here’s a look at what went on.