The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca/)
“I go to Kabul every year and there’s always something happening. I was born there. This is my country. I was kind of used to seeing these kinds of things,” said Sara Baaser ’23. But that moment in August, she recounted, “This is like I’m living history, I’m witnessing it in front of my eyes.”
Coming to Cornell, I believe all students understand that they are choosing to make Cornell one of their homes. What we seem to forget (and what I forgot as a 17-year-old applicant), is that we also have the opportunity to choose Ithaca as our home when we choose Cornell. Whether you arrived as a freshman or transferred as a junior, Ithaca is where we live, eat, work and sleep. Ithaca provides for us, and we in turn provide for Ithaca. It’s our choice to identify as Ithacans or just temporary visitors.
Patrick Mehler ’23, president of Cornell Votes and the director of elections for the Student Assembly, hopes to continue civic engagement work as the newly elected alderperson for Ithaca’s Fourth District.
Students and residents flooded Ithaca Commons this weekend for the 39th Annual Apple Harvest Festival — popularly known as Applefest.
He looked at my other twenty-year-old friend and said “Who are you? Are you fourteen?”
For Cornell specifically, the North Campus expansion project could be a really good opportunity to mitigate some of the damage; though instead of increasing enrollment with the facilities, the University should focus on attracting and housing current students. The requirement to live on campus through sophomore year should help ease the pressure of students in Collegetown, but is it enough?
As Cornellians return to campus and case counts rise, Ithaca residents express their understanding alongside concerns.
After hiring freezes and funding cuts brought on by the pandemic, the TCAT is training new drivers and readjusting bus routes as ridership climbs to near pre-pandemic levels.
It’s about the Odyssey’s Penelope and Odysseus: They’re vacationing for the Summer from the underworld, and instead of going home to Ithaca, Greece, they decide to visit Ithaca, New York. How quirky! They stay at Argos Inn in Room 214. On page 2, Penelope heads out to go work on her poems, which she does every day. “The fifteenth of August,” she thinks. “Our time here is almost done.”
“We need to celebrate more of our Black history — the stuff we’re connected to, the people whose shoulders we stand on. [The ride] was an opportunity to connect with history, to celebrate victories and to affirm the work that still needs to be done.”