News

University Releases Reports From Academic Task Forces

November 6th, 2009
By Sun Staff
The University is making public the 20 reports from the tasks forces that have recommended ways on how to restructure Cornell’s academic operations to cut costs, Provost Kent Fuchs will announce today. Read More

Other News

S.A. Votes to Reinstate Ken Glover at Ujamaa

November 6th, 2009
By Keri Blakinger
From Vice President Olamide Williams’s ’10 State of the Multicultural Community address to a lengthy debate over Campus Life’s decision to reassign Ujamaa Residential Housing Director Ken Glover, Cornell’s multiculturalism became the focus of yesterday’s S.A. meeting. As a preface to a resolution overturning Campus Life’s decision, Williams provided an address on Cornell’s multicultural community. Read More

Alumni Gifts Increase Despite Poor Economy

November 6th, 2009
By Lucy Li
It seems logical for people to donate less when their wallets are tight. Phillip Lyons, a high school economics teacher in Palo Alto, Calif., has been donating $100 to his alma master, UCLA, every year since graduation. However, things became different after the recession hit. “I haven’t given since the [economic] downturn,” Lyons said. “But in all honesty, I think it’s psychological. I still have a job and the same income but I feel less well off so I haven’t given.” Read More

Big Red Sign Finds Home in Ohio Museum

November 6th, 2009
By Elisabeth Rosen
The Johnny’s Big Red Grill sign will not be illuminating Dryden Road in the near future. Last week, the sign traveled to its new home in the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, where sign enthusiasts and nostalgic Cornell alumni will be able to visit it after a lengthy restoration process. Read More

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Brian Stern

S.A. Votes to Reinstate Ken Glover at Ujamaa

Ola Williams ’10, left, and Ebony Ray ’10 speak about the multicultural community at the S.A. yesterday.

Opinion

We Love Lamp(posts)

November 6th, 2009
Leave it to the University to send us piles upon piles of the long-awaited task force reports on a Thursday night. We thought we had made it through yet another treacherous week of sleepless nights ... and then this hit our desks! The nerve of them VILLAINOUSLY transparent administrators! Down here at the bat cave we’re hard at work as HEROIC minions scour through these top secret documents to bring you, dear readers, some very, very important news you probably won’t bother reading on a Friday afternoon anyway. In any event, a lot else happened this week we’re sure you’re more interested in ... Read More

Red Letter Daze Feature

Red Letter Daze

Nobel Cornellians

November 5th, 2009
By Venus Wu
The ringing of the phone tore through the silence of a small hotel room in Washington D.C. and woke Bob Richardson up from his sleep. It was 5 a.m. Richardson picked up the receiver, only to hear an unfamiliar voice speaking in a Swedish accent. Read More

Sun Blog

Evaluating How Tenure Is Given

November 5th, 2009
By Rachel Rabinowitz
Imagine teaching English as an adjunct professor for five years, working towards becoming a tenured professor. When your time comes consideration, you wait anxiously to see if you are finally to be chosen for tenure … and get passed right on by. You may believe it will be just one more year of waiting, but the truth is, this guaranteed job may never come. Unfortunately, this is an increasingly common occurrence throughout campuses across the nation. Read More

Sports

Sports Weekend Update 11-6-2009: M. Hockey Buries Dartmouth With Three Third-Period Goals

November 7th, 2009
By Sun Staff
Cornell opened its ECAC Hockey season with a convincing statement, piling on three third-period goals to seal the 5-1 victory in a chippy, physical game against Dartmouth. Forwards Blake Gallagher scored twice, Colin Greening had one goal and two assists; and goalie Ben Scrivens made 21 saves. Read More


Opinion

More Order, Less Law

November 6th, 2009
By Benjamin Keep
Inmates have a unique perspective on the criminal justice system. Those I know have been in prison for a long time — some have been in since they were sixteen and one I met entered the prison system in 1985 and will not get out until 2030. All have learned to cope with oppressive architecture, consistent isolation and arbitrary rules. Most have also committed heinous crimes and serious prison infractions. Many speak of political and legal power in near-conspiratorial tones, convinced anonymous moneyed interests — “them” — hold onto power regardless of superficial changes in the power structure. Nearly all seem to feel that the system has failed them. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

What Goes Bump In The Night

November 6th, 2009
By Naushad Kabir
Do you believe in ghosts? It doesn’t matter. The best films on the subject will have you incontrovertibly convinced until the theater lights come on. There have been good and bad films claiming to be “horror,” on slashers, poltergeists, cannibals, plagues, zombies, vampires and even vaginal teeth. None quite spook the soul like an old-fashioned ghost yarn. Ghosts are often felt and not seen, the icy spot in the empty room or the creak of tree branches overhead in a dark wood. Ghosts are: the door that shuts on its own, the piano that plays in the dark, the distant train miles from any tracks. I don’t know about you, but I’ll take a hockey-mask wearing killer. Read More

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Blogs

This Blog Has Been Brought to You by the Letter “B”

November 4th, 2009
By Samantha Hartzband
2009 is a big year for Jim Henson and Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Street” program. On Wednesday, November 4, the series celebrated its 40th Anniversary, and on Tuesday, November 10, the show will premiere its 40th season. Read More
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