About 55 miles north of I-95's northern-most point, along U.S. Route 1, is Caribou, Maine, where the school system teaches 1,700 students, the public library holds 50,000 volumes, winter sports enthusiasts ride outhouses and canoes downhill at their annual Winter Carnival or buzz across 1,300 miles of groomed snowmobile and cross-country ski trails.
Keith Johnson '56, former editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and longtime writer for Time Inc., made a major gift to Cornell Library last fall to digitize the Sun's first 50 years of publication. (May 8, 2007)
Last year, the Cornell women's lacrosse team achieved its greatest success in years, earning a top 15 ranking in the nation and winning the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship.
Students enrolled in the four statutory colleges at Cornell are receiving good news this week. The elimination of a proposed tuition increase for the State University of New York when the state budget was passed, most students in the statutory colleges will see tuition reductions
Cornell's commitment to accessibility means new and increased efforts to support first-generation students. Throughout Cornell’s history, many of its students have been the first generation in their families to earn a baccalaureate degree.
The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1997-8 season has been awarded to Alisa Solomon. Solomon is a staff writer at the 'Village Voice', where she writes theater criticism as well as news features on a wide range of political and cultural subjects.
Indian battles are still being fought in communities and courtrooms across New York and the nation. Sovereignty, land claims, border rights, taxation and gambling are some of the issues that have resulted in legal battles and, in some cases, even bloodshed as Native Americans attempt to preserve their culture, treaty rights and land.