Cornell will send three representatives to Clinton Global Initiative University this year, while Harvard, Princeton, Penn and Columbia will each send one.

Hungover fraternity brothers getting out of bed on Saturday morning may see the Keystone Light cans littering the floor as obstacles, but Dawn Potter — a secretary in Cornell’s Department of Neurobiolgy and Behavior for 22 years — sees the cans as an opportunity.

The fifth annual Day of Demeter, a day of service dedicated to the greater Cornell and Ithaca community, kicked off on Saturday.

When asked what they did over winter vacation, very few students can reply: “I went to Africa and climbed is highest peak.” 11 Cornellians chose to forego the comforts of home this January to climb Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro to benefit treatment of Obstetric Fistula.

Whoever said you have to be rich to do good is mistaken. But whoever said you can’t be rich and also do good is mistaken as well. In the face of these two extremes — torn between the desire to accumulate wealth and the passion for social action — our generation has coined the term “social entrepreneurship” as an attempt to find a middle ground. This revolutionary idea that you can do good while still making money, has fueled the trend of applying business models to non-profits.