The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/washington/)
Ithaca Tompkins International Airport hopes to use a recently awarded $750,000 federal grant from the Department of Transportation to acquire a flight to and from Washington, D.C.
The program intends to go forward with its fall semester, but it will not be able to bring all 30 students that were accepted.
As the shutdown affects students’ career plans, it also began to impact scientists, whose ability to do research was hamstrung as government funding vanished.
By busing participants to various battlefields and including a lecture each day by Prof. David Silbey ’90, the tour aims to bring “understanding [of] the battle at the ground level,” Silbey told The Sun.
United Airlines is offering two nonstop flights daily from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport starting Oct. 4.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An enthusiastic contingent of about 15 Cornell students spread out across dozens of Capitol Hill offices yesterday to lobby members of Congress for more federal financial aid as part of a University-sponsored trip.
The students shared with House, Senate and education-related committee staffers from both sides of the aisle their personal stories about how financial aid and the rising cost of attending higher education have impacted their lives.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasped the reins of power as America’s first black president on Tuesday, declaring the nation must choose “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord” to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
In frigid temperatures, an exuberant crowd of more than a million packed the National Mall and parade route to celebrate Obama’s inauguration in a high-noon ceremony. Waving and cheering in jubilation, they stretched from the inaugural platform at the U.S. Capitol toward the Lincoln Memorial in the distance.