This week, the Cornell Concert Series instituted a new $2 transaction fee for sales of all single tickets to concerts priced at $10 or more, a move prompted not by financial difficulty but by a longstanding need to streamline CCS operations, according to officials.

The Cornell Police Department cracks down on pedestrian, skateboarding and bicycling violations on Sept. 27 and 28.

Cornell has released the procedure for obtaining 2007-08 men's hockey season tickets on its athletics website. There will be 200 seats for graduate and professional students and 1,400 seats for undergraduates.

Although similar to last year's format, this year's format has some notable changes, including: 100 line numbers will go to undergraduates who have purchased the Big Red Sports Pass prior to Sept. 23 and are not selected for tickets otherwise; and the date and time of the "camp out,"