Emily Farella ’12 was studying in the Africana Library Monday when the two policemen came in around 10:30 p.m., looked around and walked out without saying a word. About 10 minutes later, the policemen returned and continued looking around without addressing the students. At that point, the librarians told Farella that someone had been stabbed and that the library was closing early.

The possibility of using paid tickets to close the Convocation Committee’s funding gap generated a heated debate during yesterday’s Student Assembly meeting.

Faculty members who had been eager to see the University’s strategic planning task force reports got their wish last Friday when Provost Kent Fuchs released the documents to the public. Most faculty members have praised the decision as a giant step towards greater transparency in the “Reimagining Cornell” process. According to the Dean of Faculty’s Office, approximately 27 people have read the reports thus far — at least 13 of whom were University faculty members.

As the debate over horizontal drilling into the Marcellus Shale formation wages on, last night the Faculty Senate tabled a resolution that called for the University to create a committee that would have the ability to make decisions on whether to lease any Cornell-owned land to natural gas drilling companies, among other measures.

The Faculty Senate decided to postpone the vote on the resolution after some members said they believed that the Senate did not have enough information about drilling into the Marcellus Shale to vote on the proposals in the resolution.

Drawing on his myriad experiences with the Arab world, author and former Deputy Regional Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative Ben Orbach urged students to rethink the “Arab Street” in last night’s lecture sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy.

While Cornell is tightening its fiscal belt, thousands of students loosened their belts last week for authentic Thai dishes — everything from green curry with prawns to sticky rice with mangoes — at the Cross Country Gourmet dinners.

While the Collegetown Neighborhood Council discussed updates on the Collegetown Planning Initiative and the installation of a traffic signal on Dryden Road at yesterday’s monthly meeting, the main point of discussion was the student-initiated Collegetown Trash, Recycling and Art Project.

In reaction to the Obama Administration’s recently released policy on Sudan, the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR) hosted a panel of professors last night to analyze the situation in Darfur.

Last night, the Big Red Barn on central campus was bursting with green initiative.

The Sustainability Hub hosted a follow-up event to the Student Leader Sustainability Summit on Sept. 26. The focus of the meeting was to help leaders of student groups — both sustainability-minded and non-sustainability oriented — brainstorm ways to boost awareness about environmental issues on campus.

Jeff Bercuvitz, the president of the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Community (CLIC), led the session. Bercuvitz, who has worked to build creative sustainability strategies in over 40 states, urged the student leaders in attendance to think outside the box.

With the prospect of a large-scale gas drilling project in Ithaca, many residents have voiced concern about such a project’s potential environmental and health impacts. Despite the potential profits from leasing land to gas companies for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation, residents have vocally raised concerns.