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Information Deprivation: Cornell’s Online World

Jon Weinberg  —  Nov 11, 2010

Jon Weinberg '13 addresses the disparity in the sites Cornellians visit the most and the sites that offer the most relevant content.

This May Not End Well For Me

Julie Block  —  Sep 30, 2009

When I was a freshman, I had a full-fledged mega-crush on IvyGateBlog.com. I thought it — and its editors — were the funniest and hottest shit ever. I’m talking banana phone levels of hilarious. I didn’t even know Chris Beam and Nick Summers (the founders), but I had these sort of creeper-esque fantasies about going to work for them, and becoming BFFs. And then, maybe one day we would all work at Slate together. In fact, the fame-whore in me would get excited whenever one of my articles made it onto Ragtime, even though it was rarely in a positive light.

No One’s Laughing

Sep 17, 2009

We never intended for the recent news of a student’s death to make it into the opinion pages of this newspaper. While the information was disseminated quite responsibly by the news section — including details about the spread of H1N1 and how the virus may have lead to the student’s untimely death — we felt that any commentary should have been left to those who knew him.

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