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VIDEO: Columbia officials barred many protesters and other curious parties from entering Columbia’s campus yesterday. Many of these voices were echoed by those inside, as hundreds of Columbia students protested Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech on Low Plaza. Unlike many of the protests on Cornell’s own Ho Plaza, this demonstration included speakers with many different agendas.
NEW YORK — Columbia University Department of Public Safety, New York City police officers and other Columbia officials barred many protesters and other curious parties from entering Columbia’s campus yesterday. Many of these voices who were not able to come through the gates to hear or protest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech, however, were echoed by those inside, as hundreds of Columbia students protested on Low Plaza in front of the library. Unlike many of the protests on Cornell’s own Ho Plaza, this demonstration included speakers with many different agendas.
The Cornell University Police Department found a 350-pound statue that went missing from Sibley Hall over the weekend in an unnamed off-campus fraternity house yesterday morning, the University reported yesterday. The statue – a six foot long, three foot high plaster of paris replica of an original statue of Sleeping Ariadne , a goddess of Greek mythology – was discovered missing Monday morning by a building manager. [img_assist|nid=23550|title=Sleeping Adriane.|desc=Courtesy of Cornell University “Sleeping Adriane,” a 350-pound statue that was discovered missing Monday, has been returned to University property.|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=75]
The statue is part of a large collection acquired by A.D. White, the first president of Cornell, in the 1890s, according to a press release. Cornell estimates the value of the statue to be between $5,000 and $20,000. “It’s a valuable member of the collection,” said Simeon Moss, director of the Cornell Press Office.
Former chief investigative judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Judge Ra’id Juhi Hamadi Al-Saíedi, will be a fellow at the Law School this year, Cornell announced yesterday. The Iraqi High Tribunal was set up to try people accused of crimes against humanity, including genocide, during the rule of Saddam Hussein from 1968 until the United States invaded in 2003. Juhi investigated cases, including those against Saddam and Muqtada al-Sadr, and served as the spokesperson for the High Tribunal. Articles in The New York Times from the time of Saddam’s trial refer to Juhi as “the chief investigative judge of the tribunal.”
The University is undertaking certain security precautions for Juhi in conjunction with Cornell University Police and local, state and federal officials, according to a press release. Juhi will be the Law School’s first Clarke Middle East Fellow.
Interim University Architect Donald Gordon will be replaced Aug. 1 with a new university architect, Gilbert Delgado, Cornell announced recently. The university architect is in charge of the design and plan for all of Cornell’s major capital projects, chooses and manages the architects for each project and presents plans to the Board of Trustees. Current projects at Cornell include the construction of dormitories on West Campus, a new life sciences building for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the proposed Milstein Hall for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Delgado is currently the national director of construction and project management in the Office of the Chief Architect at the General Services Administration in Washington, D.C., according to a University press release.
Cornell will graduate about 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students this weekend at its 139th Commencement.
Soledad O’Brien, a CNN special correspondent, will speak at Convocation at noon today in Schoellkopf Stadium. The Stadium opens at 10 a.m. In case of severe weather, Convocation will take place at Barton Hall.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz ’65 announced yesterday that he would resign at the end of June after becoming the center of controversy again in the last month.
A special bank panel recently found that Wolfowitz “placed himself in a conflict of interest situation” when he became involved with his girlfriend’s, Shaha Riza, pay and work negotiations.
Two famous Cornell alumni and former Sun editors are competing for the honor of having a street named after them, The New York Sun reported today. The street may also be co-named.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ’44, a former Sun associate editor and assistant managing editor, lived on East 48th Street near Second Avenue in Manhattan before dying on April 11. E.B White ’21, a former Sun editor in chief, lived on and wrote about 48th Street in the 1920s and 1930s.
Last spring, the Student Assembly spent nine hours choosing the current executive board; last night, next year's S.A. representatives shortened that process to about three-and-a-half hours. Spring S.A.
The University announced Wednesday that it will form an ad hoc committee to review its inclement weather policy after the Feb. 14 campus closure due to heavy snowfall generated some controversy.
A petition circulated the following day that requested President David Skorton, Provost Biddy Martin and Stephen Golding, executive vice president of finance and administration, reexamine inclement weather closing procedures.