Sage Chapel
Sage Chapel Closes Its Doors For Rest and Repair, Awaiting Further Funds
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Sage Chapel goes through an incremental renovation process, still struggling to secure funding for repairs to its 81-year-old Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Off Campus
Women’s Opportunity Center Faces Continual Hardship as New York State Withholds Funding Contract
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Despite hardships caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Women’s Opportunity Center does its best to stay afloat.
News
Student Assembly Resumes Talks on Already Reduced Student Activity Fee
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The Student Assembly has been working to reduce the burden on students while keeping more than 1,000 student organizations afloat by reducing the student activities fee.
Alumni
Hotel School Alumni Pair Launch Fundraising Campaign as COVID-19 Rattles Ithaca Restaurants
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As the take-out only policy is enacted, Collegetown and other local restaurants are struggling. Two Hotel School Alumni have started a GoFundMe to try to support these stops as protective measures become more drastic.
SAFC
After 40 Percent Hike to Student Activity Fee, SAFC Aims to Boost Club Funding
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The Student Assembly recently attempted to loosen those rules by voting to increase the student activity fee — an expense students pay to support on-campus organizations — from $234 to $321 in December 2019.
Campus Activities
New Student Organization Business Office Helps Clubs Secure Funding
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Housed on the first floor of Willard Straight Hall, the office will serve as an all-encompassing place where students can get their questions answered, such as club funding, budgeting, payment requests and purchasing
CHESS
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source Receives $7.1 Million Grant from Air Force
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Underneath Schoellkopf Field, academics from around the world gather to work in one of Cornell’s most unique research facilities — a facility that just received a $7.1 million grant from the United States Air Force.
Cornell Cinema
Cornell Cinema Receives Funding for Next Five Years, Plans Triumphant Return
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Thanks to increased funding from a variety of sources, Cornell Cinema is now poised to expand operations and its impact on campus.
byline year
Moriah Adeghe ’21 Elected Next Vice President of Finance
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Student Assembly minority students liaison Moriah Adeghe ’21 has been elected the next vice president of finance, the Assembly announced in an email Monday.
government shutdown
Government Shutdown Complicates Learning, Travel and Internship Opportunities for Students and Researchers
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As the shutdown affects students’ career plans, it also began to impact scientists, whose ability to do research was hamstrung as government funding vanished.