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Office for Civil Rights Investigators to Visit Cornell

By Drew Musto · Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017

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Cornell Hires University's Top Lawyer, First Woman to Hold Post

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs · Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017

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Apgar, Former Dean of Students, Sought to End Traditional Greek Pledge System

By Anne Snabes · Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017

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Dean of Students Candidate Touts Campus Involvement

By Zoe Ferguson · Monday, Aug. 29, 2016

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Ithaca College Financier to Serve as Cornell's Vice President for Financial Affairs

By Phoebe Keller · Wednesday, May 25, 2016

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Cornell Appoints New Vice Provost, Fellow for Pedagogical Innovation

By Stephanie Yan · Monday, May 9, 2016

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IMF Director Appointed Cornell's Chief Investment Officer

By Yun Soo Kim · Wednesday, April 20, 2016

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Cornell Grad Students Vote Discontent With College of Business Decision

By Josh Girsky · Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016

Despite all the rumors, there are the occasional rays of sun in Ithaca, although few are as consistent as Sunny Weather. Rarely does a band's name so precisely indicate their sound. Yes, one might accurately guess what Slayer sounds like without hearing them, but there is no better way to describe the music of Sunny Weather than their namesake. Theirs is the music of open fields and children dancing under blue skies. And things are only looking up for the quintet. Sunny Weather rose in 1996 as a trio playing all original music. The band hit a turning point when frontman Trevor MacDonald traveled to Louisiana in 1998 on a musical Odyssey of sorts. "It's a lot different down there," Trevor says. "Music brings everyone together, and everybody dances. The music really is for the dancing." After falling in love with the rural music communities, Trevor picked up the accordion. On returning to Ithaca, he continued to be influenced by the eclectic roots and zydeco scene in Trumansburg, championed by the likes of Donna the Buffalo and fostered at the annual Grassroots Festival. The latter served as a powerful influence on what became the Sunny Weather sound, bringing Cajun and zydeco musicians straight from the holy land of the genres, New Orleans. Accordionist and band leader Preston Frank, one of the Mardi Gras town's most beloved performers, has become a good friend of the band. Trevor's own rhythmic squeeze box quickly become a trademark of the band, as it soon transformed into a 5-piece, with Amy Glicklich on vocals, scrubboard, and percussion. Glicklich remained for about three years, and has since moved on to a solo career, releasing Mosaic- Songs of Many Traditions, showcasing her hypnotic voice. As for their consistency, the band has remarkably appeared yearly at Grassroots since '97, and has put out a studio release perennially since '99, no small feat for a young touring band. This illustrates Trevor's and guitarist/vocalist Corey Small's prolific and adept songwriting, as well as a penchant for combining the spontaneous energy needed for the live setting with the musical chops necessary to produce consistently notable albums. The band has certainly grown since its inception (Greg English had never even played drums before joining the band). MacDonald describes it as going from playing "just as friends and having fun, to playing as musicians." This mutual creative growth has brought the group closer and influenced their approach to music. The band's eponymous debut immediately became a regional favorite. The bright harmonies and funky grooves of "Come On Home" and "Livin' On the Dance Floor" show why the band was topped only by international Celtic stars Sol

Fred Van Sickle Named Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development

By Annie Bui · Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015

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CALS Dean Susan Henry to Step Down Next Year

By wpengine · Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009

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C.U. Sees Endowment Decline by 27 Percent

By Seth Shapiro · Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

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C.U. Names Interim Engineering Dean

By Michael Stratford · Friday, Nov. 14, 2008

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Fuchs Prepares for Term as Provost

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008

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Skorton Responds to Budget Cuts

By Willimina Bromer · Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

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Skorton Promises Job Safety to University Staff

By Brendan Doyle · Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008

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Impending N.Y. State Budget Cuts May Affect University

By Seth Shapiro · Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008

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Skorton Addresses State of C.U.

By Emily Cohn · Monday, Oct. 20, 2008

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Kent Fuchs Replaces Martin as Cornell's 15th Provost

By Ben Eisen · Monday, Oct. 20, 2008

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Administration Confronts Turnover of Top-Level Posts

By Jimmy Crowell and Venus Wu · Monday, Oct. 20, 2008

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After Months of Search, Kent Fuchs Named as University Provost

Friday, Oct. 17, 2008

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