Workers at the Libe Café in Olin Library voiced discontent with the new mandate to wear hats in a meeting with Cornell Dining administrators Friday. Objections to the policy, which student employees at the café began fighting last year, coincide with similar concerns vocalized by employees at the Green Dragon Café.

On any given day during the semester, the University plays host to a handful of visitor lecture events, brown-bag lunch discussions or colloquium series.

Prof. Kaushik Basu, economics, has been appointed to the position of chief economic advisor by the Indian government, according to the University. Basu could begin his tenure as early as mid-December — taking a two-year leave of absence from the University while he is working for the Indian government.

It seems logical for people to donate less when their wallets are tight. Phillip Lyons, a high school economics teacher in Palo Alto, Calif., has been donating $100 to his alma master, UCLA, every year since graduation. However, things became different after the recession hit.

“I haven’t given since the [economic] downturn,” Lyons said. “But in all honesty, I think it’s psychological. I still have a job and the same income but I feel less well off so I haven’t given.”

From Vice President Olamide Williams’s ’10 State of the Multicultural Community address to a lengthy debate over Campus Life’s decision to reassign Ujamaa Residential Housing Director Ken Glover, Cornell’s multiculturalism became the focus of yesterday’s S.A. meeting.

As a preface to a resolution overturning Campus Life’s decision, Williams provided an address on Cornell’s multicultural community.

The University is making public the 20 reports from the tasks forces that have recommended ways on how to restructure Cornell’s academic operations to cut costs, Provost Kent Fuchs will announce today.

The Johnny’s Big Red Grill sign will not be illuminating Dryden Road in the near future. Last week, the sign traveled to its new home in the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, where sign enthusiasts and nostalgic Cornell alumni will be able to visit it after a lengthy restoration process.

Operators at the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory are evaluating and replacing the old equipment that led to two small fires in the synchrotron’s main tunnel earlier this semester. The fires occurred in two small power supplies that provide energy for the synchrotron’s vacuum pumps. The damage done was minimal and localized, but it called attention to the aging machinery still used in parts of the synchrotron. The fires also brought up safety concerns about the accessibility of the tunnel in the event of an emergency.

In the face of a $2.5 million budget shortfall, the Common Council passed a $58,431,727 budget for 2010 yesterday.

With consistently stellar performances at regional competitions over the past three years, the University’s Mock Trial Organization was ranked 4th in the nation by the American Mock Trial Association.