As the campus community seeks to move past the string of recent suicides on campus, Cornell continued to garner national and international headlines Wednesda

The Cornell Law School was back in the blogosphere yesterday, and not for a 52-percent jump in applications.

Last week, Rabia and I took large amounts of joy at taking stabs at Gossip Girl, especially this whole “3SOME” thing we were convinced would never come to fruition. When it did — if you didn’t see the episode, Vanessa, Dan and Olivia decided to act on the “experimentation” aspect of college and get busy — we groaned a little, and puked in our mouths, a lot. This is in part because, as I’ve stated before, I have some allergic reaction to watching Hilary Duff on my TV, and in part because Dan and Vanessa having sex is just too great a combination of all the judgmental superiority complex in one bumping of uglies without the world imploding.

Oh, the Duffster.

Hello, chickadees. Sorry I’ve been so MIA for the past few weeks, but I haven’t been watching as much TV because I (gasp!) have actually been a student.

However, that is all about to change, in part because I need to complain—what in the world has happened to Gossip Girl?

Over the weekend, our development team deployed a much overdue upgrade to our installation of Drupal, the open-source content management system that has been behind CornellSun.com since 2006. Welcome to Drupal 6.

Unfortunately, along with this upgrade came a few technical incompatibilities. One of the biggest issues was with our e-mail edition, "Sunmailer." If you're a subscriber to our newsletter, you may have noticed that there hasn't been an email since last week. We're working hard to rectify the issues, and we look forward to getting it back up and running soon.

It’s always a pleasant surprise to find a student band that doesn’t, well, suck, and it’s even rarer to find one that truly has its sound together. Enter Upstate Escape, a trio comprised of John Norwood grad on vocals and guitar, Chris Bentley ’10 (who also writes for the Daily Sun’s science Section) on bass and Ryan Silvernail, whom his bandmates describe simply as a townie, on drums. Their new album, The Balls Tight LP, features fast-paced, punk-inflected tunes a la Arctic Monkeys and Jet, with a nice dose of Ivy League irony mixed in. On Monday, the Sun sat down for a chat with John and Chris and explored everything from iTunes censorship to fat girls on bikes.

Upstate Escape

TV , I got some bones to pick with you. Since it is break, I am lazy and you don’t deserve full paragraphs, I will deliver them in bullet point form.
The Golden Globes

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Architectural differences.: A squat toilet in China.

Bring your own toilet paper to China — but toilet seat covers are not necessary. With the exception of the bathrooms in the hotels and airports, the women's toilets did not have seats. Even in fancy bathrooms (many with motion-sensor flushing), there are squat toilets — ceramic holes in the floor with foot grids to stop your feet from slipping.

We were confused the first day, but the toilets are easy to use after a few times. There really isn't toilet paper provided in the bathrooms, by the way, so carrying your own around is necessary. Use of the squat toilets is described in detail here.