Crime
Police Searching for Suspect in Fatal Stabbing at Gun Hill Apartments
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The suspect fled from the scene, and is considered “armed and dangerous.”
aircraft
Alumnus-Run Company Awarded $1 Million Grand Prize in GENIUS NY Competition
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Five teams pitched projects to a panel of judges in Syracuse last month, and Italian firm Sentient Blue — founded by Saïf-Deen Akanni ’90 — emerged with the top bid in the GENIUS NY competition. The state-sponsored award goes to initiatives to up the development of unmanned systems technology within New York in hopes of boosting the economy as well.
Aizuri Quartet
World-Traveled, Grammy-Nominated Professor to Play Carriage House Cafe
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On Tuesday night, Prof. Ariana Kim, music — who has spent time in residence at places from New York to Italy and enjoyed teaching to students of all backgrounds — will serenade an audience in a more familiar location: The Carriage House Cafe.
convocation speaker
Committee Delays Announcement of 2019 Convocation Speaker, Citing Contentious S.A. Divestment Vote
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The Cornell Convocation Committee delayed its announcement of the 2019 convocation speaker Thursday, attributing the last-minute change to a contentious Student Assembly vote earlier in the evening.
the nines
The Nines Property Sells to Local Developers in $3 Million Deal
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Co-owners Mark Kielmann ’72 and Harold Schultz ran the business for almost 40 years, serving up deep-dish pizza and trivia nights to students and local Ithacans alike. Their retirement plans — sale of the property for housing development to Visum, another local developer — were pushed back, however, after the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission filed a proposal to designate the property as a historic landmark in 2017.
bus crash
Last Fall, a Big Red Bullet Bus Crashed, Killing an Alumna. Now, the Driver Faces Homicide Charges and the Company is Out of Service.
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Charles Dwight Dixon was behind the wheel of a Big Red Bullet bus when it veered off a Pennsylvania road last October, killing a Cornell alumna onboard. Dixon — who had traces of cocaine in his system the night of the crash, hospital testing revealed — will go to trial on 26 charges, including homicide by vehicle while under the influence and involuntary manslaughter.
Maggie Haberman
New York Times Correspondent Maggie Haberman Reflects on Media in the Age of Trump
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Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who spends her days covering the tumultuous Trump administration, began her Statler Hall speech on Monday with something she said is rare under this regime: an apology.
cornellian
Cornell Yearbooks Reveal Racist Nicknames, Confederate Flags
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Cornell yearbook fraternity rosters from the 1980s feature altered names such as “Ku,” Klux” and “Klan.”
Anti-semitism
Lecturer Dorian Bell Discusses Discrimination
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Bell argues that a significant force behind growing trends of biases is that of capitalism, and the perceived threat to upper classes of an “other.”
Mars Rover
NASA Declares Death of Cornell-Led Opportunity Rover After 15 Years on Mars
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The rover was meant to last 90 days. Instead, it roamed the surface of Mars looking for signs of past life for over a decade longer.