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Sarah Skinner is a member of the class of 2021 in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is an assistant news editor on the 136th Editorial Board and can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com.
Two people filed complaints with Big Red Bullet in the last year, one of which resulted in the company terminating a bus driver, according to an email from the company obtained by The Sun.
The driver of the Ithaca-to-New-York-City bus that crashed, killing Rebecca Blanco M.B.A. ’17, told police that he “fell asleep at the wheel,” a Pennsylvania state trooper told The Sun on Wednesday.
A Transportation Department agency opened a compliance investigation into Big Red Bullet, the private charter bus company whose bus veered off a Pennsylvania highway Sunday, killing a Cornell alumna and crashing into several trees.
Rebecca Blanco M.B.A. ’17, of Vacaville, Calif., was killed in the crash, authorities confirmed.
The official University weather service lists a chance of “snow showers” for early Thursday morning after 2 a.m. and before 8 a.m.
In August, the brand-new Equity and Engagement Living-Learning Community quietly opened its doors in the former house of Cornell’s chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity — infamous for sexual and racial assault incidents — at 2 Forest Park Lane in West Campus.
Principal investigator of the Mars rover missions, Prof. Steven Squyres ’78 is “now teaching adults, college students, who cannot remember a time when there wasn’t a rover on Mars.” The rover, Opportunity, who has been on Mars for 14 years became unresponsive in June following a massive dust storm on the planet.
Firefighters rescued a cat and treated it with a pet oxygen resuscitation mask as they drove it to the Cornell Companion Animal Hospital, where the cat died of its injuries.
“Being a leader in renewable energy is not only good for our health but a growing industry that New York needs to be on the ground floor of,” Nixon told a crowd of over 200 supporters at The Space @ GreenStar.
Democratic candidate for New York State governor Cynthia Nixon announced on her Facebook page Wednesday that she will travel to Ithaca on Saturday, Sept. 1 to make a “major environmental announcement.”