MRM #83
– IC students make a documentary on Ithaca’s Tea Party (via Legal Insurrection).
– As the precognition paper nears publication, criticism grows.
– Study shows NCAA Div. III athletes graduate at the same rate students do.
– Robert Frank blames the rich for increasing housing costs.
– Cornell honored for having a high level of community involvement.
– Big weekend for Big Red – wrestling wins national tournament, hockey, men’s b-ball, and women’s b-ball all victorious.
– Making sense of legacy admissions.
– More professors lured towards retirement as states face budget cuts.
– Other New York cities may move their bar closing times to conform with Ithaca’s super-lame 1 AM standard.
– C2C adds six weekly round trips to its schedule.
– Cornell climatologists say 2010 was a boiler year for the Northeast.
– Court upholds Rhode Island’s policy of placing scarlet orange stickers on the doors of party houses.
– Via MetaEzra, how Alfred Kahn has saved the US government $20 billion per year.
– The strange history of “practice babies” at Cornell – orphans were raised by groups of student “mothers” as part of Home Economics program.
– Prof. Jack Oliver, geophysics, passes away at age 87.
– Excess Four Loko being converted to ethanol after FDA ban.
– MR has an interesting take on unemployment.
– Warning: Philosophy Content – Exposing the death of rhetoric in the mindless “No Labels” movement and in the response to the Tucson shooting.
