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Biden and Palin Face Off: Students gather in Cook House

October 2, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Elizabeth Manapsal

Last night’s vice-presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska covered significant ground as the candidates sparred over the financial crisis, Iraq and Afghanistan and energy policy. A group of around 100 people, filtering in and out of the Alice Cook House Dining Room, witnessed this debate.

Millions of people are projected to have watched the debate featuring the senator, said to be prone to making gaffes, and the newbie, said to have had trouble making a strong appearance on the interview circuit as of late.

The debate was moderated by Gwen Ifill of PBS’s Washington Week and The News Hour.


Last West Campus House Named for Flora Rose

September 14, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Ben Eisen

Seven years and $225 million after construction began, every brick of the West Campus Housing Initiative is in its place. One of the final steps took place on Friday with the announcement that the last house — formally House 5 — will be named in honor of Flora Rose, a nutrition professor and founder of the College of Human Ecology.

In a ceremony on Friday, Edna Dugan, assistant vice president for student and academic affairs and a Becker House fellow, announced the decision to name the house after Rose.

“We have investigated many, many deceased faculty’s biographies,” Dugan stated in a press release. “So it is so fitting that House Five should become Flora Rose House ... to recognize her legendary status in Cornell history.”


A Conspiracy Theorist in Design

Is Cornell planning to move the suspension bridge? A doctored image may provide clues to the answer...

July 27, 2008 - 4:45pm
By Munier Salem
An interesting anomaly was discovered in the pages of Cornell's Comprehensive Master Plan. Has CMYK stumbled upon a new mystery, or just some Photoshopped fooey?

West Campus Has Much to Offer

November 12, 2007 - 12:00am
By Ross Brann

C.U. Accelerates West Campus Construction

Residents Watch New Dorm Rise

October 3, 2007 - 11:00pm
By Willimina Bromer

If like many not-so-early-birds you’ve been snoozing through that 8:40 class, you probably should have dropped your class. Or lived on West Campus.

“It’s like a second alarm,” said Rachel Holloway ’10. “The construction starts at 8 a.m. every morning which is fine because it helps me get up. It’s really no inconvenience at all.”

Since construction on the West Campus Residential Initiative began in 2003, the “Class of” halls have all been demolished and three of the five new residential dorms — Cook, Becker and Bethe — now house students.

Construction on the remaining two houses was originally set to be completed in 2010, but is now scheduled for August 2008.