MRM #46

Home Campus MRM #46

– Cornellians get screwed over by Volcanic Ash.

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– In related news, is it more dangerous to fly or to drive through ash?

– Cornell Football star Walters signs with the San Diego Chargers. The last Cornell player to sign a rookie contract was Kevin Boothe ’06, who signed with the Oakland Raiders after being drafted in the sixth round.

– Men’s lacrosse loses to Brown.

– Via Elie, Colin Greening is expected to sign with the Ottawa Senators.

– Potentially interesting fact: Cornell’s new basketball coach, Bill Courtney, was Jim Larranaga’s assistant coach at GMU.

– ILR Professor Cletus Daniel died earlier last week.

– I would advise Nancy Pelosi to avoid this kind of graduation speech fiasco.

– More on the potential for connectivity issues and the impending ubiquity of the iPad.

– Cornell study finds that jurors are more likely to convict unattractive people.

– Back in 2004 a Cornell study found that for Google searches, 56.36 percent of the clicks were on the first result. I wonder if this percentage has gone down since people have gotten more experience with Googling.

– Pew Research has some cool stats on texting.

– Great Economist leader on the volcano and what we can learn from it.

– Gallup shows that more people still blame Bush over Obama for the economic recession, but the gap is closing from 2009.