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Structural Deficiencies Cause Big Red Barn’s Closure

By Sarah Singer | January 21, 2008

Due to severe structural deficiencies, the Big Red Barn, a historic landmark that has been on campus since the 1870s, temporarily closed on Dec. 3 to undergo evaluation and repair, according to its website. Originally a carriage house to the Cornell president’s home, and currently a campus dining facility and graduate and professional student center, the BRB’s closure incited a strong reaction from Cornell’s graduate student community.

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Big Red Barn to 'Remain Closed Indefinitely'

By Sarah Singer | December 15, 2007

Due to severe structural deficiencies, the Big Red Barn, a historic landmark that has been on campus since the 1870s, will “remain closed indefinitely” while undergoing evaluation and repair, according to its website. Originally a carriage house to the Cornell president’s home and currently a campus dining facility and graduate and professional student center, the BRB’s closure at 2 p.m. on Dec. 3 incited a strong reaction from Cornell’s graduate student community.

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Trustee Asks University to Assist Uninsured

By Sarah Singer | November 28, 2007

After the University announced its plan to invest $20 million in the Ithaca and Tompkins County communities last month, part of which will be allocated to local healthcare initiatives, student-elected Trustee Mao Ye grad hopes that such attention will also be given to uninsured individuals within the Cornell community.
“Cornell has invested money in Ithaca so that low-cost healthcare can be available to local residents,” he said, noting that many graduate students opt to use local recourses rather than those provided by the University.

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Greeks Elect Exec. Boards

By Sarah Singer | November 26, 2007

November’s slew of elections has not not only involved local politicians but also Cornell’s Interfraternity Council and Multicultural Greek Letter Council, which underwent a change in administrative leadership. The IFC and MGLC, two umbrella organizations that oversee more than fifty campus fraternities and sororities combined, recently elected the members of their 2008 executive boards.
“The new board is full of highly motivated leaders with big goals that they will accomplish as a team,” said Lance Polivy ’08, outgoing IFC executive vice president.
“The MGLC coordinates much of the activism on campus relating to minority groups,” said Diane Wu ’08, outgoing president of MGLC.

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Cornell Changes Design for Milstein Hall

By Sarah Singer | September 15, 2007

Months of negotiations between Cornell University and the City of Ithaca’s Board of Public Works regarding the impending construction of Milstein Hall may have come to an end this Wednesday when Cornell announced a new design for Milstein Hall, one that would not involve construction on both sides University Avenue.

The new plans, similar to the previous ones, include a structure that crosses University Avenue. However, as the building was formerly supported by columns on the opposite side of the street, it now is supported by a cantilever, a structural beam which supports the building from one side.

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C.U. Relocates 4th and 5th-Year Architecture Students

By Sarah Singer | September 12, 2007

About two weeks before the semester started, Cornell’s unsuspecting architecture students received an e-mail that outlined a series of changes, which, for many fourth and fifth-year students, would set a new tone to their final semesters in Ithaca.
They were informed that the architecture department had signed a lease on July 15 for a building at 531 Esty St. in downtown Ithaca, approximately two miles from the Cornell campus, which would house the two studios for fourth and fifth-year students.

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Stephen Colbert Tickets Sell Out, CUPB Offers Second Show

By Sarah Singer | September 11, 2007

Stephen Colbert, political comedian and host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report,” sold out his show scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 26 in Barton Hall, according to the Cornell University Program Board. Tickets were available at 9 a.m. yesterday morning to Cornell students, and 3,000 tickets sold by 9:15 that morning. To accommodate his fans, Colbert has agreed to give a second show at 9 p.m. Tickets for the second show will go on sale Sept. 17 at 9 a.m. They will be available to Cornell students and the general public at the same time. One person can buy four tickets, however, freshmen and transfers may purchase eight in order to accommodate families who are visiting for first-year family weekend.

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Wheels on the Bus Roll to Wegmans and Walmart

By Sarah Singer | August 24, 2007

In addition to making new academic schedules, living in new residence halls and meeting new friends on campus, Cornell students can expect new services from TCAT Buses this semester. Not only did TCAT introduce two new routes to make getting around Ithaca easier for Cornell students and staff, the company also created an ID Card system which will scan Cornell IDs rather than checking for stickers to see if students and staff have a bus pass. The data is stored on a magnetic strip, similar to a credit card. It contains the user’s affiliation (student, faculty or staff) as well as specifying the time and the day of the week the card can be used as a pass. The new routes include Route 28 and Route 34.