Monday Reading Madness #32
– A Cornell sociologist sheds some light on online gambling.
– Months after causing great inconvenience and personal trauma to students by removing dinner trays from a number of dining halls, Cornell gets some national recognition for its efforts.
– We still have the Ivy League’s only interior design program.
– Here’s the Sun’s article on Clayton DeFisher ’11.
– A former employee allegedly blackmailed the university using information about “unfair admissions policies” that gave acceptances to mediocre students whose parents give loads of money to the school. It’s still not clear to me how this information was going to be used as leverage in his separate case against the university. Isn’t this the dirty little secret… that everyone knows about.. of all prestigious universities?
– Some Ivy League background information on the Leno/O’Brien debacle.
– The WSJ discusses the White House’s continued efforts to delegitimize dissent.
– Bubba and Dubya will team up to spearhead Haiti relief efforts.
– Cornell is to begin working in tandem with Fu Foundation faculty and IBM engineers to develop an extremely energy-efficient computer chip.
