The multi-million dollar lawsuit filed against Cornell by two former extension employees from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations has moved into the discovery phase, and lawyers for the plaintiffs hope to move to trial by the end of the calendar year. The lawsuit, filed in 2003, accuses Cornell, the ILR School and individuals employed by ILR of discrimination on the basis of age and gender and claims millions of dollars in damages from the University.

Look out the window on a trip up the Interstate, and you’ll begin to understand why Americans are overweight. “McDonald’s: 2 miles” is a familiar sight to most American travelers, a testament to America’s fast food culture and a sign that American health standards are on the decline. Predictably, America’s youth have inherited their parent’s penchant for fast food consumption, ranking among the most overweight juvenile populations in the world. With a McDonald’s on every corner, it indeed seems difficult for American kids to resist the temptation of a highly processed Quarter Pounder.

Robert Kagan had heard the question before. It was midway through his lecture on “Culture, Identity and Conflict” last night in Bailey Hall, and Haoming Qiu ’07 wanted to hear what Kagan had to say about the war in Iraq. Qiu was only interested in Kagan’s response, but by the end of the night, it seemed like everyone in Ithaca had weighed in on the subject.

To kick off tomorrow’s presidential inauguration of David J. Skorton as Cornell’s 12th president, neo-conservative foreign policy expert Robert Kagan will speak tonight in Bailey Hall, in a lecture entitled, “Culture, Identity and Conflict in World Affairs.”