A team of Cornell researchers recieved two grants, totaling $4.5 million, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Institute in September to study grape breeding in the New York region.

Cornell was awarded a grant to help develop the local wine industry.

Turkey Day may have passed, but Cristina Stiller '12 is already looking forward to Christmas Day food and drink.

If you think like it's summer and you drink like it's summer — according to Milos — that means it's summer.

Philip Arras ’07 “fell into the wine industry accidentally.” After taking HADM 4430: Introduction to Wines in his senior year at Cornell, Arras developed a passion for viticulture that inspired him to take jobs in various wineries throughout the Finger Lakes region.

Number 38 on the list of 161 things to do during your undergraduate career at Cornell: Go on a wine tour. A prime tourist activity of the Finger Lakes, wine and winemaking is a process has been perfected over the years, culminating in a myriad of colors, textures and flavors that can appease any palette. Ramon Mira de Orduña, viticulture and enology, studies the microbiological aspect of winemaking and how it can improve the winemaking process in light of environmental change.

Hey, it’s Friday. We, the Sun columnists and editors, are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

That means we get to... KVETCH!

Beer for Swine

Dear freshman girls who crashed our party, snuck down to our basement, stole our good booze (in a hidden fridge! In the basement! Who does that?!) and gave me the swine: I will find you, you classless hos. And then I will keeell you.

— J.B.

Pick Me Up

F**k TCAT and its student discrimination! I’ve been ignored at the bus stop for the fourth time at Linn Street. If TAs can’t get to class on time, what’s the point of students being on time? TCAT, we’re not sub-human because we live off campus. I swear. I pay the same that students pay for the bus: So, please, pick me up. Please.

— F.L.U.

Computer Crash

With its sweeping hills and unique architecture, Cornell offers a great deal of beauty for its students. But is that beauty enough to turn Cornell into a tourist destination? In The New York Times Travel Section from Mar. 1, Jane Margolies praised the Ithaca campus as one of five campuses that “have become popular tourist draws for their cultural offerings.”

Ithaca, as the urban capital of the Finger Lakes, is a common stop on journeys to the various vineyards and other local attractions for New York City residents, according to The Times. Cornell, as the largest attraction in the city, draws a large number of those visitors.

Students looking to savor a glass of local vino may not have to travel any farther than Wegmans if the State Legislature approves Governor Paterson’s recent proposal, which allows grocery stores to sell wine for the first time in New York State history. But the liquor store owners affected by the proposal claim that the governor based his decision on drunken logic.

The proposal came about as a means of decreasing the state’s multi-billion dollar budget gap. Supermarkets selling the wine would be required to pay a franchise fee to the state, which Paterson hopes would raise over $100 million.

To what extent is Fall Break actually a break? Sure, there are no classes Monday and Tuesday, but to what extent does the world around us pause, if even for a moment? The economic uncertainty did not cease, the presidential hopefuls continued to campaign, and for many, more prelims were around the corner. Nonetheless, I doubt anyone was complaining, and any day in which I can sleep past 9:00 a.m. is a nice digression from the norm.