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Students Discuss Georgian Conflict

August 29th, 2008
By Therese Lahlouh
Last Saturday, hundreds of Georgians in T-shirts emblazoned with the red crosses of the Georgian flag linked hands along New York City’s Fifth Avenue to protest the Russian attack on Georgia. The five-day conflict in the second week of August was caused by Russia recognizing the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as countries independent of Georgia. The two rebel regions have been autonomous since Georgia declared independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. In clear violation of the U.N. ceasefire over the region, Russian forces pushed deep into Georgia to deter an attack on South Ossetia. According to the Associated Press, this is the first time Russia has sent its forces into combat abroad since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. One Georgian Cornell alumnus believes that the attack was merely an excuse to demonstrate Russian power. Read More

C.U. Population Program Receives Gov’t Grant

August 29th, 2008
By Brian Karlovitz
The Cornell Population Program’s progress toward its goal of becoming a leading center for national and international demographic research has been significantly boosted by a $1.15 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health. Each year, the NIH’s Demographic and Behavioral Science Branch awards one such grant to a new program showing the greatest promise of becoming a top population research center. The grant money, which began to flow on August 15 of this year, will be spread over a five-year period. It will be used to support the development of the CPP’s infrastructure as well as its research, which focuses on three main areas: families and children, health behaviors and disparities, and poverty and inequality. Read More

Meet Peter Kwon '11, Lone Protester

August 29th, 2008
By David Wittenberg
Meet Peter Kwon ’11. Yesterday he got so mad about the death of Schedulizer that he ran into the Cornell Store, bought some poster board and a marker, and began a one-man crusade on Ho Plaza. “Bring Schedulizer back!” he shouted. “PeopleSoft may not need Schedulizer but the students do!” he cried. Again, and again, and again. Read More

Quarrel With Univ. Registrar Forces Schedulizer Website to Shut Down

August 28th, 2008
By Ben Eisen
In a surprising and unprecedented move, the popular website Schedulizer.com decided to discontinue its service for Cornell students, causing massive outcry as Cornellians attempted to plan their classes for the semester. At approximately 8:15 last night, the system shut down all class listings and other Schedulizer services, leaving in its stead only an open note to Cornell students. Read More

Add/Drop Jams PeopleSoft Server

August 28th, 2008
By Elizabeth Krevsky
“It was a nightmare,” Ryan Fan ’10 remarked, referring to yesterday morning’s frustrating and stressful beginning to the fall semester’s Add/Drop period. Just like last April, when Student Center crashed on the first day of CoursEnroll, students were confronted by a faulty program yesterday with extremely slow, and often completely stagnant, performance. Read More

Fence Around Fall Creek Gorge Attempts to Block Access

August 28th, 2008
By Jimmy Crowell
As students flock to the gorges of Fall Creek to enjoy the last days of summer, they will run into a problem that may cut their warm weather fun short: a large wire fence. After the tragic drowning of Douglas Lowe ’11 over the summer, the portion of Fall Creek Gorge located under the suspension bridge has been closed off by a fence. Read More