Ruby Perlmutter '13 tackles The New York Times' paywall and its implications for journalistic ethics, news accessibility and reader interests. 

Cornell officials are looking into obtaining an institutional subscription to The New York Times website after The Times implemented a paywall on March 28. 

Many give up on math at the first sight of long division or a confusing derivative. The New York Times has chosen Prof. Steve Strogatz, applied mathematics, to write a weekly online column about math for just this reason. Intended for a wide-ranging audience, the series will cover everything from the basics to complex conundrums.

A throng of spectators crowded the aisles and blocked the entrances to the Klingenstein Lounge in Egbert Hall at Ithaca College last night to hear A.O. Scott, the famed film critic from The New York Times, lecture about the evolving world of critical journalism. Scott’s lecture, entitled “Criticism as a Way of Life,” focused heavily on the new fad of fast-speed electronic criticism, known to the Internet-savvy as blogging.

Scott opened his lecture by evaluating blogging and questioning the critics who are fading away.

“What happened? Where are the great critics of yesteryear? You look around and you think, ‘Things are so bad now. What happened to the golden age of criticism?’” Scott said.

I feel that anguished sense of desolation that inevitably accompanies news that an aging relative is on her deathbed.

Old, infirm and hopelessly behind the times, the gray lady’s moment has arrived. The stale scent of death has already set in. And yet, I cannot help but resent the loss of so rich a life. Overcome with chagrin, I throw up my arms and plead frantically to the heavens. I dream of miracles.

In my case, the doctor’s prognosis is four months. four months! I should lie down and weep.

You should too.