The results are in. 

The University was wrong to appoint Prof. Grant Farred as chair of Africana's faculty search committee. His appointment reignited student concerns over his controversial comments last year and could prove harmful to the search for prospective faculty.

The meeting between CALS leadership and students, faculty and administrators is a step in the right direction to foster better dialogue on major decisions that should be continued moving forward.

Elisabeth Rosen '12 says that time in college is too short to waste on classes that offer you nothing more than a good grade.

How long have you had that cough? Does the pain get worse when you lie down?

Well, we’re here to help. If not by diagnosing your problem, exactly, then by providing you with some interesting — and I hope valuable — facts, stories and information about your health.

If you’re looking for some free medical advice this fall, look no further. “What’s Up, Doc?” — a new column written by a rotating cast of Weill Cornell medical students — will answer all your medically related questions.

Weill Cornell? Yes, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University’s medical school located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

When people say, “All Asians look alike,” I honestly can’t blame them because, well, all Asians look alike to me too. In fact, freshman year I made my OL group ten times more awkward than it already was by mistakenly thinking I had already met one of the Asian girls in the group.

My OL leader had just picked me up from my dorm and introduced me to everyone. When the girl reached out her hand to shake mine, I waved her hand away and cheerfully said, “Oh, I just met you!”

The group fell into a deeper silence and maybe into a state of shock. Oh, crap. A terrible realization dawned on me — she wasn’t the same Asian girl that I had just met in my dorm building. She frowned and dropped her hand to her side.

“Well,” she said after a pause. “That was awkward.”

Over the past few weeks, almost 20,000 students have descended upon Ithaca, moving into new dorm rooms and apartments, making multiple trips to Target and lugging textbooks from the bookstore. For the most part, we have been greeted by local residents warmly: a bright smile from the clerk at the registrar or a friendly “welcome back” from our favorite barista at CTB. But not all Ithaca residents are as warm or welcoming.

In last year’s “Best of Ithaca” survey by the Ithaca Times, respondents were asked to name the “best thing that should happen to Ithaca.” The second response listed was “get rid of half the college students.”

Cum Laude. Latin translation: with honor. The epitome of scholarly distinction. The acme of a superbly-executed undergraduate career.

With this semester winding down, a select group of seniors are laboring over final theses, fine-tuning lab reports and opening the doors to culminating performances — all with the hopes of securing those two striking Latin words (three if they are lucky: Magna Cum Laude, “with great honor,” or Summa Cum Laude, “with highest honor.”)

Others are sitting tight with the knowledge that, with their 3.5 GPA, they have already nailed it — and that they have done so without having bothered with any of that tiresome thesis / lab / performance work.

How much is an honors distinction worth at Cornell?