Monday Reading Madness #48

Home Campus Monday Reading Madness #48

An extended Monday Reading Madness to help with your study week procrastination efforts.

http://www.news.cornell.edu

– I think I calculated a similar figure during freshman year: skipping class costs your parents about $145.

-Cornell Football spring update.

– Elie’s post on Cornell hockey standouts playing in the IIHF World Championships.

– Lacrosse lacrosse loses to Princeton 10-9.

– Rebecca Johnston talks about her gold medal victory in Vancouver.

– A former Cornell researcher says that indoor tanning, cellphones, the internet, and video games are just a few of the new addictions of the 21st century.

Slope Day Bingo featured on Ivygate.

– Speaking of Slope Day, only five people were taken to Cayuga Medical Center on Friday!

– Skorton speaks at the Weill Cornell Medical College Commencement in Qatar.

– Cornell releases two new kinds of…apples.

– Cornell bird website wins Best Lifestyle Site Webby.

– In related news, Cornell researchers hunt for lost ladybugs in North Dakota.

– Did this really seem like a good idea at the time?

– Did you know that Tompkins County had 843,000 visitors in 2009?

Obama approval ratings up one point, still under 50%.