News

Quarrel With Univ. Registrar Forces Schedulizer Website to Shut Down

August 28th, 2008
By Ben Eisen
In a surprising and unprecedented move, the popular website Schedulizer.com decided to discontinue its service for Cornell students, causing massive outcry as Cornellians attempted to plan their classes for the semester. At approximately 8:15 last night, the system shut down all class listings and other Schedulizer services, leaving in its stead only an open note to Cornell students. Read More

Other News

Add/Drop Jams PeopleSoft Server

August 28th, 2008
By Elizabeth Krevsky
“It was a nightmare,” Ryan Fan ’10 remarked, referring to yesterday morning’s frustrating and stressful beginning to the fall semester’s Add/Drop period. Just like last April, when Student Center crashed on the first day of CoursEnroll, students were confronted by a faulty program yesterday with extremely slow, and often completely stagnant, performance.

Fence Around Fall Creek Gorge Attempts to Block Access

August 28th, 2008
By Jimmy Crowell
As students flock to the gorges of Fall Creek to enjoy the last days of summer, they will run into a problem that may cut their warm weather fun short: a large wire fence. After the tragic drowning of Douglas Lowe ’11 over the summer, the portion of Fall Creek Gorge located under the suspension bridge has been closed off by a fence.
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Sports

Volleyball Hopes For Share of Spotlight

August 28th, 2008
By Meredith Bennett-Smith
Kerri Walsh. Misty May-Treanor. You’d have to be living under a rock to not know who these names belong to. Walsh and May-Treanor make up one of the best — if not the best — ever beach volleyball duo. The team capped an impressive Olympic tournament with an unprecedented second-straight gold medal, as well as 108 wins in a row. They haven’t lost a match in over a year. Read More

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Editorial

Jumping Fences

August 28th, 2008
Gorge safety. It’s easy to be tongue-in-cheek about what often seems like a common sense issue. That is, until another student dies. This summer, Doug Lowe, a rising Cornell sophomore, drowned in Fall Creek Gorge. Lowe is not the first student to drown on the Cornell campus, but his death has provoked another University-wide discussion about the problems tied to our one of our school’s most prized resources. Read More

Sun Blogs

What Are We Doing Here at Cornell?

August 27th, 2008
By Ross Brann
The local television access feed of the Lincoln at Gettysburg Book Project panel discussion in Barton Hall on Sunday upset me. But when I tuned in to observe the Book Project panel discussion, I saw students asleep, milling about, talking on their cell phones, texting, talking and laughing with others, and what seemed to be a precious few engaged by the presentations. I gather it was uncomfortably hot in Barton. Admittedly the speakers were not rock stars or celebrities, merely highly gifted and marvelously articulate thinkers. Read More

Opinion

Youth Vote '08: McCain's Tone Deaf But Trying Hard

August 28th, 2008
By David Wittenberg
He’s effeminate! He’s dreamy! And he’s only about 15! Is somebody finally going to call the McCain campaign and tell those people that Barack Obama isn’t the fourth member of the Jonas Brothers? I tried my best, but they wouldn’t listen to me. Something about being young and inexperienced. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

Welcome Back to the Show

August 28th, 2008
By Julie Block
As you try to stave off the what-am-I-going-to-do-wihout-Schedulizer panic attack, your eyes alight on these words and you groan inwardly, thinking “Man, I wish it was still summer.” Read More