The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/marysotiryadis/)
The Sigma Chi fraternity hosted its annual philanthropy event Derby Days throughout the first week of May, raising funds for the Huntsman Cancer Institute and The Matthew Friedman Memorial Foundation for Brain Research in honor of Matthew Friedman ’26.
While many students find themselves away from Ithaca over Winter Break, some students stayed local, exploring the city and preparing for the upcoming spring semester.
As students adjust to changes in the pandemic, most Cornellians are happy to unmask in class and throughout campus.
Pollinate is a service that allows students to buy seats in classes they want but can’t enroll in. The site also promises to help students convince professors to let them into classes they couldn’t get into.
On Saturday, April 23, Flo Milli and special guests Tkay Maidza and Réne Ortiz will perform at a concert in Barton Hall, presented by the Cornell Concert Commission and the Multicultural Funding Advisory Board. The concert will be open to the Cornell community and general public.
The Cornell Concert commission and the Multicultural Funding Advisory Board are responsible for organizing and hosting concerts on campus, working with various artists to provide entertainment for the campus community. Miles Greenblatt ’22, executive director of the Concert Commission, took part in the decision of which artists to attempt to host, described Flo Milli as an exciting young rapper that many students were incredibly interested in seeing perform. Greenblatt said that students from the Concert commission Multicultural Funding Advisory Board, and other organizations across campus have been asking for Flo Milli to come to campus for over a year.
“It is also always important to us to bring artists that represent a wide variety of students,” Greenblatt said. “Early on, all of our in-person hip-hop shows have featured male rappers, [so] this was an excellent opportunity to bring an artist that is exciting to a lot of students, and to have Black women both headlining and opening a CCC hip-hop show for the first time in over a decade.”.
Cornell dining sustainability experts shed light on existing and underway measures aimed at making campus eateries greener.
On March 18, the Cornell University Dairy Science Club welcomed members of the Cornell and greater Ithaca communities to its Dairy Open House in the Livestock Pavilion.
After two years without the historic Cornell tradition, Dragon Day will return to campus in March, featuring a two-headed dragon among other festivities.