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Michael Mazza, one of the founders and organizers of the event, said he hopes that “people will take what they get from the experience and take it back to wherever they go.”
“This contest is about building relationships between students, staff, and faculty, and promoting a sense of community,” Gary Creemens told The Sun. “It is also to be more healthy, and have an active mind.”
Eason told The Sun that her education at Cornell — which included significant “breadth and depth [of] requirements” — prepared her for the trivia competition.
In comparison with Rate My Professors’ emphasis on the instructors who teach the class, CU Reviews focuses on more comprehensive reviews of classes.
Lifted, an organization run by anonymous Cornell students, will place balloons attached with thank you notes on the Arts Quad for the third year running to lift the spirits of the community.
Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American studies, Princeton University, joined Prof. Edward E. Baptist, history, in a panel to examine the state of protest politics in the 21st century as a mode of enacting social change.
The famous crystal ball from the Wizard of Oz can now be found in the Kroch Library as part of “The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections” exhibit.
“As time goes on, by the year of 2025, it will be cheaper to produce an electric vehicle than it is going to be to produce an external combustible engine,” Cremeens said on the push for electric vehicles.
“The black community usually come[s] together as a whole during time of crisis,” Alexandria Maloney grad told The Sun. “I want that to extend to celebratory occasions.”
The debate was moderated by S.E. Cupp ’01, CNN conservative political commentator and had three judges — Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, Prof. Sam Nelson, labor relations, law and history and director of the Cornell Speech and Debate Society, and Leah Salgado ’12, former CSDS president.