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Student Seats Available For Dalai Lama Event

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In a time of war, Ithaca will host a man of peace — his holiness the Dalai Lama, Nobel Prize winner and internationally revered spiritual leader, who will return Oct. 9 to10 after almost two decades for three public speaking events, entitled “Bridging Worlds.”
The three events, at Cornell, Ithaca College and the State Theatre sold out in July, but student tickets are available today, Aug. 20, for the Oct. 9 show at Barton Hall entitled, “A Human Approach to World Peace.” The tickets are available to students in order accommodate the newest members of the Cornell community who arrived on campus this past Friday. The tickets can be purchased for $20 on www.namgyal.org using a Cornell student ID and password and are limited to two tickets per person.

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"Kip Mile" Draws Top Runners to Ithaca

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Olympic track legend gives back to community

Some spent this Sunday attending church, studying for finals or going out for a Mother’s Day brunch. Others enjoyed the Ithaca summer weather watching a handful of Olympians, collegiate champions and Cornell track alumni, as well as nine sub-four minute milers and a track legend come together at Ithaca High School’s track for the inaugural Kip Keino Fun and Fitness Mile.


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Friends, Family Remember Alex Holiat '06

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Saturday in Philadelphia at a service held to celebrate the life of Alex Holiat ’06, his mother described him as “a gentle breeze.” For those that knew Holiat, his family and friends, many of whom are members of the Cornell community, this was a fitting description. Holiat, 22, graduated from Cornell in 2006 with a degree from the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering. He began employment the following July in Phoenix, Ariz., at Intel Corporation, a company with whom he interned as part of an engineering program as an undergraduate, according to friend Jonah Allaben grad. Allaben was a member of Holiat’s pledge class in the Sigma Pi fraternity and lived with Holiat for a majority of his time as an undergraduate. “He was actually one of the first people I met at Cornell,” Allaben said.

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This Week in History

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Slope Day, the beloved Cornell tradition celebrating the end of classes, originated in May of 1901 as Spring Day.

The day was described as “The Hill’s springtime carnival-parade-drag fest” in a Sun article documenting the history of the holiday.


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This Week in History

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On April 29, 2005, eight students, who came to be known as the “Redbud Eight,” shut down Day Hall in protest of a proposed 176-spot parking lot at University Ave., Willard Way and Lake Street, then home to Redbud Woods.


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Greenberg '08 Discusses S.A. Plans

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The Sun sat down yesterday with Student Assembly president-elect Elan Greenberg ’08 to talk about the future of the S.A.

The Sun: First I’d like to know your story. Where are you from, how did you come to Cornell? Elan Greenberg: I’m from Rockaway NJ; I’ve lived there my entire life. I had two cousins that went to Cornell, I used to come up and visit them. And you know it seemed like a college that had everything.

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This Week In History

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On April 19, 1969, a group of roughly 100 black students took over the Straight in what a Sun thirty-year commemoration article described as, “The culmination of a series of efforts to assert their presence at Cornell.” About 50 members of Students for a Democratic Society formed and held a picket line is support of the AAS takeover.


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This Week in History

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The Sun reported on April 4, 1974 that the Ithaca Common Council approved plans for a $1.35 million pedestrian shopping mall. The proposed mall was intended to extend from Aurora St. to Cayuga St. on State St. A section from Seneca St. to State St. on Tioga St. was restricted to pedestrian traffic and was set to include trees and benches.