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Big Red Football Coach Austin Headed To CFL
A new year will bring with it a new face at the helm of the Big Red football program. The University announced that three-year head coach Kent Austin would be leaving the Big Red for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. Austin accepted a position that makes him the Vice President of Football...
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Big Red Looks to Keep Season Alive Against ECU
After surprising many at the Chapel Hill Regional yesterday afternoon by challenging the #6 UNC Tar Heels through the final out in a 7-4 loss, the Big Red will bring their success against the Tar Heels out to Boshamer Stadium this afternoon against the East Carolina Pirates. For both teams it is a win or go...
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Cornell Law Professor’s Blog Wins CPAC Award
Legal Insurrection is one of the places that politically savvy Cornellians turn to for first-rate news and analysis. The blog – the project of Law Professor William Jacobson – may soon be expanding its reader base. This weekend at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference, for those who don’t know), Legal Insurrection won an award...
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Wisconsin Unions Find Friends at Cornell
Wisconsin’s state legislature was embroiled in controversy when several of its Democratic membership fled the state in an attempt to postpone voting on a bill that would, among other things, limit public employee’s collective bargaining rights– and, as of this week, the scandal has reached Cornell. A group of Ithacans including Cornell and Ithaca College...
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Ithaca Is…Safe
The Daily Beast has released a new set of rankings of the most dangerous Ivy League Schools. This is one instance where Cornell should be happy to be in last place. In order of dangerousness: 1) Harvard 2) Penn 3) Brown 4) Columbia 5) Yale 6) Princeton 7) Dartmouth 8 ) Cornell At least this...
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The Return of Overlap?
Many of you have already heard of Cornell’s new competitive financial aid, which will match parental contribution and loan levels offered to admitted students by the other seven Ivies plus Duke, MIT, and Stanford: Cornell University has an across-the-board aid policy that doesn’t come close to Harvard’s (just as its endowment doesn’t come close). Loans...
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Boston Globe Takes Cheap Shot at Newman Arena, Gets it All Wrong
The Boston Globe has a piece detailing Harvard basketball standout Jeremy Lin’s progress at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. The author, Gary Washburn, wastes no time taking cheap shots at the quality of Ivy League basketball. He’s also obviously never been to Newman Arena: [The NBA executive] turned and found a European scout...
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For Real?
One student’s response to GWU deciding to cut its maid cleaning service from freshman dorms: “It was one of the main perks of GWU that impressed me and semi-convinced me to come here. Our tuition is seriously $54,000. You would think they’d be able to sustain that program — I’m not sure what the issue...
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A Place of Higher Learning (Spending?)
If you already thought that your school was indirectly ripping you off via $2 book buybacks, highly over-priced cafe sandwiches, and dorms similar to living quarters for Chinese factory workers (this is not an exaggeration), you can now feel better that it is likely going out of its way to screw you. Many of the...