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President Martha Pollack and Vice President of Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi spoke to the Student Assembly about how Cornell’s initiatives will promote academic excellence and diversity.
Fah Kumdokrub grad proposes the use of circular resource management to make Cornell a more carbon neutral campus.
Cornell’s clocktower will remain under construction until November 2024, closing the 161-step tower to visitors and reducing the Cornell Chimes’ concert schedule.
Like many off campus Cornellians, I began my senior year with the ritual of moving: leaving my home of the previous academic year and relocating to greener pastures. Or at least, I thought they would be greener pastures. In truth, while I love my new house, what I’ve moved into is hardly a home in a neighborhood and more like a waystation on the frontlines of Collegetown’s incessant expansion.
I live in what is essentially a construction site. I share parking with heavy machinery, wake up to the sounds of jack hammering and my neighbors wear hard hats and work vests everyday. I’m not typically one to complain; I get up early anyways and the workers are nice enough neighbors. I usually can even catch a stray “good morning” or two from them (which is more than I can say for some of my actual neighbors). If the minor inconvenience ended here, it would probably be the end of the conversation and I would be out of a topic for this week’s column. But it doesn’t. As I’ve settled in for the year, I’ve noticed the constant, nagging presence of construction all across Collegetown and campus as a whole.
I brace myself everyday for the feeling. Bump bump bump crash.
It’s part of the daily battle that drivers in Collegetown know all too well. It’s the fight down Buffalo Street. Crumbling concrete and constant potholes create a dangerous mix that punishes my car’s suspension on a daily basis.
This scene, unfortunately, is interchangeable with many in Collegetown. Driving in Ithaca can often be a challenge, from the lack of parking in the Commons to the constant uphill climbing. But a lack of maintenance on Collegetown streets, particularly in the area surrounding Stewart Avenue, is a major concern for student drivers.
Local non-profit Second Wind is planning to finish their Dryden construction project this summer, which will bring affordable housing options to homeless women.
As noise levels and dust particles mark the University’s expansion and renovation of campus, so do concerns over the sustainability of these extended projects.
Completion of the new Student Agencies Building this summer will add 56 new luxury apartments to the Collegetown housing market.
Atkinson Hall promises new opportunities for progress in sustainability initiatives and collaboration between various science departments.
Through an atypical semester where most parts of campus were put on hold, Cornell continued its North Campus construction.