NEW YORK -- Pouting models -- including a Cornell student -- and live music mixed it up at the W Hotel in Manhattan May 1 as Cornell Design League and Harvard's Veritas Records performed to raise money and awareness for thyroid cancer. The models were showing off original designs by 40 Cornell students before a packed house of 300.
"Things Fall Apart" is bringing people together. Nearly 5,000 students from 59 high schools in 17 New York counties and New York City will read Chinua Achebe's masterful novel "Things Fall Apart" as part of a statewide pilot program coordinated through Cornell Cooperative Extension and the 2005 New Student Reading Project at Cornell. In addition, 24,000 Cornell alumni from 31 class years also will join what has become an annual rite of passage for incoming freshman and transfer students at Cornell.
'Fighting terrorism is a legitimate fight, but it has to be done within the framework of human rights,' Shirin Ebadi told a packed house in Kennedy Hall's Call Auditorium May 4.
Curtis S. Ostrander is the new director of the Cornell University Police Department, Steve Golding, executive vice president for finance and administration, announced May 2, effective immediately. As director of Cornell Police, Ostrander will be responsible for leading the university's broad-based campus law enforcement agency.
NEW YORK -- The man who founded the popular travel Web site Priceline.com, Jay S. Walker, ILR '77, told a standing-room-only New York City audience on April 27 that the "age of the muscle is ending" and is "being replaced by the age of the mind." Walker was addressing more than 225 Cornell alumni and guests at Cornell Theory Center's (CTC) Manhattan offices.
President George Bush wasn't bugged by having a slime-mold beetle named for him. In fact, he was so pleased that he telephoned former Cornell Professor Quentin Wheeler in London on April 29 to thank him.
Fred Rhoades has been driving buses – all kinds of buses, from school and senior citizens' buses to charter coaches – for more than 35 years. But according to Rhoades, the Prevost motor coaches that run eight times a week on Cornell's Campus-to-Campus express charter service beat them all – at least, based on comfort and passenger response from students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Efforts to raise money for charity were on a roll Saturday afternoon, April 30, in Barton Hall: a spring roll, or Southeast Asian-style egg roll, that is. Roll for Relief beat the old Guinness record by more than 200 meters (656 feet), while raising more than $20,000 for tsunami relief in Southeast Asia.
When Gro Harlem Brundtland talks about sustainability, people listen. As head of the World Commission on Environment and Development, she helped coin the term "sustainable development" in the organization's landmark 1987 report, "Our Common Future." She spoke April 28 at Cornell on "The Global Significance of Sustainable Development," presenting the 2005 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectureship.
"We have a moment. A moment to transform the situation. It is not a moment, by the way, to make peace. It is a moment to end the war," said former U.S. Ambassador Dennis B. Ross, speaking April 27 in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell as this year's Bartels World Affairs Fellow. Ross was referring to the decades-old war between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
A team of three MBA students from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management earned $3,000 and the informal title "Wizards of Wall Street" by making stock recommendations that impressed the financial professionals who served as judges. The Cornell students defeated nine other university teams at the third annual MBA Stock Pitch Challenge April 22 at the Johnson School in Sage Hall on Cornell's campus.
