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University Elects Five New Members to Board of Trustees

Mike Walsh grad was one of five people elected to the Board of Trustees recently. The University also elected an employee, faculty member and two alumni to the Board. Cornell is the only Ivy League University to have non-alumni as full members on its Board of Trustees. | Read the full story.

May 15th, 2008
By Nikhita Parandekar
Cornell is the only Ivy League University to have students, faculty and staff as full members on the Board of Trustees, in addition to alumni. In its annual process of electing new trustees, the Board recently added five new names to the 64-person list of members, including a faculty member, staff member, graduate student, and two alumni. "I think it's important to have a faculty voice at the Board of Trustees to maintain a connection between the deliberations and decisions of the Board and the activities and priorities of the University from a faculty and student perspective," said new Faculty Trustee Prof. Rosemary Avery, chair of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management Read More

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Provost Biddy Martin Named Finalist in UW-Madison Chancellor Search

May 8th, 2008
By Ben Eisen
Four people are vying to take over for University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jon Wiley at the helm of the nation’s 10th largest university when he steps down in September. One candidate is Cornell’s own Provost Biddy Martin.

Binghamton Student Dies in Alcohol-Related Car Accident

May 4th, 2008
By Ben Eisen and Emily Cohn
A car traveling east on Rt. 79 carrying five SUNY Binghamton students crashed on Friday night, leaving one student dead and another charged with vehicular manslaughter. The students were on their way back to school after attending Cornell's Slope Day festivities.

Alum Files $10 Mil. Lawsuit Against C.U.

May 2nd, 2008
By Michael Stratford
The alumnus who sued Cornell last year for defamation and libel has filed additional litigation against the University.
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News From The Associated Press

John Edwards Endorses Obama at Michigan Rally
May 14 2008 - 7:13pm
Myanmar Cyclone Death Toll Could Reach 128,000
May 14 2008 - 7:01pm
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Sun Blogs

Appeasement: What Does This Mean?

May 15th, 2008
By Mike Wacker
President Bush made waves in the media today, comparing negotiating with "terrorists and radicals" to negotiating with Hitler. The media quickly reacted by declaring this a veiled swipe at Obama and other Democrats. To quote CNN at the time I wrote this blog, "President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor 'appeasement' of terrorists..." Here are some of the highlights of what Bush said. "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along." "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.'" Read More

Sun Blogs

Down the Rabbit Hole

May 15th, 2008
By Rob Coniglio
It is rare that a government would try to block humanitarian supplies from reaching its own people. Even such pariah governments as North Korea eagerly accept aid for its people when faced with famine. Benefits of such aid may not be equitably distributed, but rarely do governments refuse foreign help when their own ability to cope with a crisis has been overloaded. That is, unless we’re discussing the military government of Myanmar, which has placed the paranoid concerns of its leaders over the welfare of the millions affected by the recent cyclone. Myanmar’s leaders have wasted precious time delaying badly-needed foreign aid and placing restrictions on distribution aimed at monopolizing the government’s control of the situation. Read More

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Sports

W. Lax Fights Irish With Playoff Bid on the Line

May 2nd, 2008
By Mitchell Drucker
The fate of Cornell’s season could very well be hanging in the balance tomorrow as No. 15 Cornell faces off against No. 10 Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. The women’s laxers, who finished in second in Ivy League play this year, will be playing the Fighting Irish in what will be both teams’ last regular season game. As runners-up in the Ivy League, Cornell is not guaranteed of a NCAA playoff berth, so the squad’s postseason hopes may be resting on the outcome of tomorrow’s game. Read More

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Opinion

Time to Say Good Bye

May 2nd, 2008
By Mao Ye
Better teaching, better living and better rankings: these were the three campaign promises I made for the student trustee election in 2006. As my term comes to an end, I feel it is my responsibility to compare what I promised to do what I have actually accomplished in the past two years. During my tenure, my understanding of the original platform was deepened and broadened, but I have never, never forgotten my promises to you. Better Teaching My primary instrument to improve teaching was to declassify the course evaluation results. We began our efforts in CALS first, which was considered the most difficult to overcome. Several years ago, the CALS faculty senate passed a resolution prohibiting the dean and associate deans from seeing the evaluations. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

Slope Day Preview: Cranking Up the Hot Hot Heat

May 1st, 2008
By Sammy Perlmutter
I fear the lyrics to Hot Hot Heat’s 2002 hit single will morph into reality following the drunken debauchery that will surely ensue on tomorrow on Slope Day. People will be singing, “Bandages, bandages, bandages / Up and down on my legs my arms from you!” But whether or not these words will simply be the result of a catchy, stick-in-your-head chorus or of a horrible drunken accident … I guess time will only tell. Perhaps best known for “Bandages,” Hot Hot Heat has authored four best selling albums, which together include four top 50 hits. The band’s most recent album, Happiness Ltd., was released last year. Hot Hot Heat will perform second and directly before Gym Class Heroes tomorrow afternoon. Read More

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Blogs

A Response to Arana's Arguments

May 14th, 2008
By Mike Wacker
With the excitement of the Democratic primary coming close to the end after Indiana and North Carolina and a break between finals on my part, I figure I owe Gabriel Arana a response after his last column viciously attacked a column I wrote on science, belief and LGBT issues. Now in my last blog on the Democratic primary, I noted that while the primary looked close since Obama and Clinton took one state each, a closer look revealed that all the signs pointed Obama's way. Likewise, while some of Arana's arguments sound compelling at first, an in depth look reveals that they do not hold up at all under closer scrutiny. Read More

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