The Daily Beast is at it again. After deeming Ithaca stressful, unhappy, tech savvy, and also the best city for recent college grads, they’ve now crowned our wonderful little college town as the 14th gayest city in America: Located in upstate New York—and home to Ithaca College and Cornell University—Ithaca is a young and smart...
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MRM #58
– Great article from the Sens on Colin Greening’s progress at their rookie development camp. – Cornell’s suicide rate over the past 21 years is below the national average. – Sticking around Ithaca for the summer? Don’t miss the world series of weeds. – Former Cornell Lax standout Max Seibald dominates at the Lacrosse World...
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The Inconveniences of Not Owning Your Own Plane
On this slow day for Cornell news, I will explain my recent interaction with Delta Airlines, and advise all those who have to fly into Ithaca in August to avoid this aero-conglomerate. This past weekend, I visited a classified fellow in a classified location (I wouldn’t want Delta to go after him too after reading this). I...
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MRM #57
– Johnson School Professor Robert Frank weighs in on stimulating the economy and simultaneously reducing the deficit. – No more books in the engineering library. – For those psych buffs who are eager to get back to Ithaca a few days early, Cornell will be hosting the first International Jungian Studies Conference. – Ithaca is...
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MRM #56
– Martin Ginsburg, husband of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, passed away at age 78. They met on a blind date as undergraduates at Cornell. – Ithaca area car thieves are persistent. – Ithaca police officer Bryan Bangs will not face criminal charges in the shooting death of Shawn Greenwood. – College towns are one of...
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Details On Prevented Gorge Suicide
The Ithaca Journal has a detailed account of the prevented gorge suicide on May 24. The article attributes the successful rescue of the 31 year old man to quick thinking by an unidentified woman– who was already speaking to the man before police arrived– as well as the police officers who convinced the man to...
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Monday Reading Madness #52
This post marks a small milestone of sorts for the Cornell Insider. MRM #52 marks one year of MRM, and to celebrate, we bring you an extra-long Monday Reading Madness! – We begin with a look back at the first MRM post from June 1, 2009. We’ve come a long way. – Another look back...
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Ithaca Is: Stressful, Unhappy, Tech Savvy, Best City for Recent Grads
Our friends over at the Stanford Review have a post on The Daily Beast’s college rankings, which recently ranked Stanford as the #7 happiest college in America. No big deal there, but a couple of months before they also deemed Stanford as the #1 most stressful college in America! I’ve already poked fun at their most recent edition...
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MRM #51
– Cornell Sun timeline of the past four years at Cornell. – Via METAezra, new lanterns for Willard Straight! – Good news for me, Cornell researchers find that children with airborne allergies are at a reduced risk for certain kinds of cancer. – For those of you staying in Ithaca over the summer, be sure...
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Stewart Avenue Bridge Suicide Prevented
The Ithaca Journal is reporting that emergency responders were able to stop a man from jumping from the Stewart Avenue Bridge on Monday afternoon: Ithaca and Cornell University police officers, Ithaca firefighters, Bangs Ambulance personnel, Tompkins County Mental Health Department workers and the Critical Incident Negotiating Team (CINT) responded to the report of a suicidal...