To address mental health issues on campus, the Academic Calendar Committee is considering shortening senior week in order to add an additional vacation starting Presidents' Day.  

The University has made a major announcement three times over the past four academic breaks, raising questions about its commitment to student and faculty feedback in major decisions.

After the Faculty Senate voted to “strongly discourage” faculty from assigning homework over academic breaks, several professors said they pushed back assignments to reduce students’ workload over spring break. But many students said they still struggled with work over the vacation.

Daveen Koh checks out the latest revue from Second City, a comedy troupe that has trained the likes of Tina Fey, Mike Myers and Steve Carell.

Social laws are like traffic laws. You obey them or you don’t at your own peril. We learned this lesson firsthand a few weeks ago, when we travelled to Fajardo, Puerto Rico for Spring Break.

If it’s not fun, why do it?

Ah Spring is in the air and campus has more fences than the “All the Things She Said” video by t.A.T.u.  I wasn’t intending on writing a Spring Break article — and this really isn’t one … it’s just about a stupid occurrence coinciding with when I was on Spring Break — but some people (a person) from Colby College (who vacationed at IFA Villas Bavaro in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) (during the week of Mar. 21-27) (who I met at the “circle bar”) (not being specific or anything) got me thinking. And I’m thinking I really like parenthesis.

As I write this, I am sitting on a flight from Mexico to the U.S., sad to be on my way home after an amazing Spring Break. For the past week, I’ve snorkeled, sunbathed, sailed and sipped margaritas. But my number one favorite Spring Break pastime? People watching.

Every year, college kids descend on beach locales for little more reason than to get trashed and smoosh up against each other (see: Jersey Shore). They descend on these cities with little more than bikinis and a few dollars, and they return to school sunburned and sporting a whopping new case of gonorrhea.

I may have been one of the very few people that, indeed, stayed in Ithaca over Spring Break. Amongst my silent jealousy of my peers going to Cancun, Puerto Rico or Taiwan, I kept on saying I needed to work (which I did), that I had a million things to get done (I still do) and that staying home would be the best way to get them done soon (yeah, right).

Well, Cornell, I’m stuck with another welcome back article. And while I wish I could give you a cheerier piece of news, I’m afraid that we’re returning to more study, with a chance of sun, oh, I’d say never.

That being said, I do rather like the opportunity to welcome you back to Dreary Ville, USA. Population: wool coats in April and rain boots forever.