1) Reimagining Cornell: The financial crisis of 2008 made a significant dent in Cornell’s endowment, prompting an initiative to cut costs and restructure the budgets, faculties, and operations of all seven colleges. This story is still unfinished, and will likely be among our list of top stories for 2010 as well. Here is just a...
Tag: Swine Flu
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MRM #16
– IvyGate has the scoop on Cornell’s severed pig’s head display. -Famous physicist Steven Weinberg reminisces of Cornell and has some advice for new freshmen (link from Bilmes). – Here are two recent back-to-back articles by George Will, about leaving Afghanistan and exiting Iraq. – Former Cornell Professor Thomas Sowell (1965-1969) took multiple stabs at...
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‘Avoid unnecessary contact with live pigs’
Anyone who has watched Happy Gilmore is familiar with a legendary t-shirt which reads, “Guns don’t kill people. I kill people.” This same wise adage can be applied to our on-campus Andromeda, swine flu. The saying would go something like this – “Pigs don’t kill people. People kill people.” I have presented the design to...
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MRM #15!
– The Philosopher Kings, a movie about custodians at the country’s top universities, was shown last week at Bailey Hall. Inside Higher Ed has more. The documentary features two Cornell custodians, Jim Evener and Gary Napieracz. – More on Swine Flu at Cornell, this time in the form of a university statement. More updates will...
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Swine Flu at Cornell
Earlier today, a source informed the Insider that a number of students in the Hans Bethe House had contracted swine flu this past week. Bilmes is now reporting that, according to one of his sources, there have been 60 cases of swine flu at Cornell University since the start of the semester. We’ll try to post...