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Cornellâ��s Student Body Votes to Save Dutch and Swedish, But not Yet the Marcellus Shale

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:04:58 -0500

Cornell's Student Assembly, the voice of the undergraduate student population voted overwhelmingly in favor of voicing its opposition to the university's recent decision to cancel Dutch and Swedish. The Assembly went as far as to say they would be willing to fund the programs should private fundra...Read More

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Leonid Meteor Shower to Light Up Ithaca Sky

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:21:17 -0500

Meteors wills streak across the night sky early Tuesday morning in the annual Leonid meteor shower. Experts estimate that several hundred meteors per hour will be visible, one of the larger displays in recent memory. The most intense part of the meteor shower visible here in eastern North America ...Read More

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Cornell University's Senior Convocation Gets a Major Funding Boost

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:15:09 -0500

Yesterday, Cornell's Student Assembly voted to increase the Cornell senior convocation funding by $1 to $8.50 a student. The increase amounts to tens of thousands of dollars and will allow the convocation committee to lure big name speakers in 2011 and 2012. "The more economic leverage you have w...Read More

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Former Cornell Architecture Student Dies in Cayuga County

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:43:17 -0400

On October 29th, Susan Murphy, Cornell University's Vice President for Student and Academic Services issued a statement regarding the death of a former Cornell architecture student. Her statement reads below. Stay with WVBR News for more on this story: It is with heartfelt regret that I have to a...Read More

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Student Protests During Cornell University's Trustee Weekend

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:41:22 -0400

Student protests during trustee weekend! Dozens of students from various minority groups from around Cornell University demonstrate to the university’s governing body around Bailey Hall. Despite the frigid temperatures, harsh winds, and soaking rain, the protester’s resolve was...Read More

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Cornell Responds to Minority Student's Protests

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:28:54 -0400

Cornell responds to minority student's protests. The University spoke to WVBR News to address the protester's concerns. "Cornell's commitment to diversity and inclusion is fundamental to the University's DNA," said University Spokesperson Claudia Wheatley "we need to try and work together to make...Read More

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Cornell Upholds Decision to Relocate Ken Glover

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:37:21 -0400

The Cornell University administration has stood by its decision to relocate Ken Glover, who has been serving as the Residence Hall Director for Ujamaa, an African and African-American issues focused dorm at Cornell, for over 20 years. After considerable student protest, the University postponed his ...Read More

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Lincoln Exhibit Opens at Cornell

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:22:46 -0400

Tuesday evening marked the opening of the new Abraham Lincoln exhibit at Cornell University’s Kroch Library. Princeton professor James McPherson, arguably the country’s leading Civil War historian, opened the exhibit with a lecture on Cornell’s Campus explaining why ...Read More

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Cornell University Informs Students About H1N1 Influenza Vaccine

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:19:48 -0400

Yesterday, Cornell University sent an e-mail out to students informing them that the H1N1 influenza vaccine had arrived on Friday. There are currently only 1600 doses available, and, following CDC guidelines, Cornell is only able to offer vaccines to students who are at the greatest risk of complic...Read More

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Cornell Freshman Dies in Dorm

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:50:58 -0400

Boon Jim Lim '13, was found dead in his dormitory room early Monday. The Cornell Daily Sun reports that paramedics declared Lim dead at 3:55 A.M. on Monday morning. Lim's resident advisor, Tony Craddock '10, enountered Lim's body after a friend of Lim&#03...Read More

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Cornell Student Assembly Meeting on Twitter

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:12:53 -0400

Follow Mike Beyman as he twitters Cornell University's Student Assembly meeting....Read More

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Burgergate: the media food-fight

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:34:05 -0400

We've got something a little different than the Sports Shot here right now, we bring you instead an early-evening rendition of the soapbox. Now, you might have heard us earlier discussing how certain extremely conservative pundits were mocking President Obama for asking for spicy mustard on his bur...Read More

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