Promising DJs blasting beats and mocktails on the house, University administrators are hoping to draw freshmen to the Friday night opening of a $15,000 late-night, alcohol-free dance club inside a newly transformed Robert Purcell Community Center.

Seeing its number of early decision applicants rise 3.3 percent from last year, Cornell accepted almost 33 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2016 — a 2.35 percent decrease from last year.

It’s orientation week and Collegetown is filling to the brim with hordes of all-too-easily identifiable freshmen. To benefit the Class of 2015, we dispatched a Berry Patch reporter to point out the three most common mistakes every freshman makes in his or her first ventures away from the shelter of North Campus.   

The Class of 2015 faced the most competitive admissions cycle yet, but its newly-admitted members can now celebrate their acceptance to the University's sesquicentennial class.

Ruby Perlmutter '13 brainstorms some ways to better incorporate freshmen students into the Cornell residential community.

Definitely ask Sun columnist Elana Dahlager '11 about her post-college plans. Then walk in front of her at a painfully slow pace ... That is if you're interested in getting punched in the face.

Grad student Ben Koffel returns to Cornell a little older, a little wiser and a lot more broke.

Hey freshmen, welcome to the first Berry Patch of your college career. We’re here to sum up everything you might need to know about anything, then force feed it to you with side dishes of mediocre humor and over-done cliches.

Cristina Stiller '12 has some words of wisdom for the Class of 2014, as well as a handful of bizarro 161 lists.

A little over a year ago, I gave a commencement speech to my fellow graduating high school seniors about change — the mysterious force that we’ve been bred to simultaneously fear and crave ever so desperately. I stood pompously at the podium, urging my classmates to conquer their fears, step out of their comfort zones, and take full advantage of the blank slate before them.