The University’s

current financial difficulties are no secret. From the “Reimagining Cornell”

series to the very visible budget cuts in departments such as Swedish and

Dutch, the University has been working on functioning in a new era. The most

recent large-scale cuts took place as the beginning of last month in the form

Over the past few months, the term “hydrofracking” has appeared all over the Ithaca landscape. Short for hydraulic fracturing, a process that harvests natural gas, the term has been a subject of controversy since it was introduced.