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| 1 | A ticket to ride... or not by Ariel Glasman · News | Volume 129, Issue 14 Students were invited March 24 to take part in a set up known as the Purple Bike Program. According to an email sent to the student body by John Harp,Vice President of Student Affairs, the Purple Bike Program was coordinated and funded by Student Senate. The intent is to encourage students to have fun and perhaps save on fuel by using these distinctly colored bikes to ride around on campus and into Mount Vernon. According to Harp’s email, “Feel free to ride one if you see it; then return it to a Cornell bike rack so someone else can use it.” Along with this came a list of six expectations that included asking students always to return the bikes to a rack and to treat the bikes with respect. However, beginning April 6, the purple bikes have been recalled pending repairs. |
| 2 | Are you a Facebook addict? by Margaret Behr · Opinions | Volume 129, Issue 14 I don’t care if Facebook changes. Yes, I have a profile and yes, I check it, but I couldn’t care less if the layout changes. Apparently I am one of a very small number, since lately it seems like the majority of my contacts have statuses directly related to the new layout of Facebook that commenced this past month. Accused of being irritatingly similar to Twitter (another online networking site), Facebook must now decide which users’ feedback is constructive and which is simply whining. A poll taken showed that 94 percent of users gave the new layout a “thumbs down” (pretty serious business). Honestly, I think everyone is worked up over nothing. |
| 3 | “Adentureland” offers good ol’ carnival fun by Doug Wagner · AE | Volume 129, Issue 14 As children, we all remember going to those big amusement parks. The lights, the rides and the sounds; all of these things made it seem as if we were going to a fantastic new world. This is the tone that Greg Mottola, the director of “Adventureland,” tried to set with his new film. This film flew surprisingly under the radar. It stars Jesse Eisenberg (“The Squid and the Whale”), Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”), Bill Hader (“Superbad”), Martin Starr (“Freaks and Geeks”), Kristen Wiig (“Knocked Up”) and Ryan Reynolds (“Van Wilder”). This cast has been known as a primarily comedic but this film definitely tests their acting abilities by giving them the opportunity to try more dramatic parts. This movie could be classified as a “dramedy,” a word that has been created to refer to films that are both comedies and dramas. |
| 4 | “Not all weapons are created equally.” by Elizabeth Brown · News | Volume 129, Issue 14 If you dine in Sodexo on Monday evenings, you are almost certainly aware of the presence of boffering at Cornell. You just may not know its name. |
| 5 | Campus reactions to CCC: Paving the path toward tolerance by George Ellerbach · News | Volume 128, Issue 14 The “all-campus” Cornell Coalition for Change (CCC) meeting Mon. March 24 began with an explanation of how the group has been active on campus and how it has created a preliminary proposal to address the issues of hate and intolerance on the Cornell campus. Janah Cook, the president of the coalition, told those in attendance that the coalition had presented proposals to the administration; they and the group scheduled another meeting in April to further discuss the possibility of carrying out the proposals. Cook emphasized that the proposals are only in draft form at this point and that anyone at this meeting or in future meetings can still provide input to modify the proposal. |
| 6 | Friendship, laughter and healing by Danielle Green · News | Volume 128, Issue 14 A lecture by the famed physician and clown Patch Adams began at 7 p.m. in King Chapel on Wed. April 9. He was introduced by Barbara Christie-Pope, Associate Professor of Biology, who spoke about the efforts within the Cornell community to have an undergraduate program whose students are taught the importance of health care through humanities and social sciences. She then presented Adams to the full house of listeners. Adams walked on stage wearing a smile and a colorful set of scrubs. |
| 7 | New R.E.M. album “Accelerate” doesn’t hit on all cylinders by Nathan Sacks · AE | Volume 128, Issue 14 Who could have predicted 20 years ago that R.E.M. would become the venerated institution that it is today, a stadium-rock juggernaut comparable to U2 or the Rolling Stones? Certainly I wouldn’t have, nor would I have predicted that their precipitous (if somewhat unstable) rise to mainstream fame would coincide almost perfectly with a string of albums containing increasingly diminished returns. “Accelerate,” R.E.M.’s 13th album, has already been hailed in some critical circles as a “return to form” (a coded message for fans to stay away if there ever was one) and even as their best album since 1996s “New Adventures in Hi-Fi,” which was the last album to involve their long-standing drummer Bill Berry. |
| 8 | Rechecking facts by Laura Krouse · Opinions | Volume 128, Issue 14 Ariel Glasman wrote an impassioned editorial for the last issue of The Cornellian expressing her thoughts about our food and the system by which it comes to us. While we admire her willingness to speak her mind about a complicated topic, there are some statements in the article that are misleading. The biology department is concerned that readers have factual information about our food system, and so I offer a few corrections. |
| 9 | Students gain professional experience in Vietnam by Mariel Canas · News | Volume 128, Issue 14 Operation Walk is a private, not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization that provides free surgical treatment for patients in developing countries (and occasionally in the U.S.), that do not have access to life-improving care for arthritis or other debilitating bone and joint conditions. Operation Walk also educates in-country orthopedic surgeons, nurses, physical therapists and other health care professionals on the most advanced treatments and surgical techniques for diseases of the hip and knee joints. This is done in conjunction with surgeries to help create a lasting contribution to patient care in developing countries. |
| 10 | The complexities of autism are innumerable by Margaret Behr · Opinions | Volume 128, Issue 14 April is autism awareness month. Somehow I feel like a bit of a failure for not knowing this until now, but it is important nonetheless. Autism is complicated, to put it simply. It is not basic, nor is it easily understood. However, that is not to say it should not be discussed. One of the hardest things regarding autism as of right now is the inconsistency with which it arises and the questions it provokes but does not answer. |
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