Cornell Fellows to be recognized
by Vincent Anderson, News Co-Editor
 Saturday, Dec. 13, the Cornell Fellows program will hold a recognition event for its most recent group of outstanding Fellows. There will be a luncheon at noon which will be followed by student presentations at 1:15 p.m. in Hedges Conference Room and Shaw Lounge. Every year the Fellows program offers a wide range of opportunities for students to explore their career interests, and this year was no different, with fellowships ranging from public policy think tanks to neurological research, and from economics and finance to the arts. Approximately 30-35 students are chosen each year for fellowship opportunities, and this year 20 students will be presenting at the recognition event.
Cornell’s Fellows program was first envisioned by Cornell Trustee Dean Riesen, class of ’79 (the first year of OCAAT). The program came to fruition in 2004, and the first Fellows were selected in 2005. Since its inception, there have been over 100 Cornell Fellows placed into high-level internships around the globe...
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An easy way to help leukemia sufferers
by Brittany Szczepanik, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Cornell sorority Kappa Theta is organizing a bone marrow drive Tuesday, Dec. 16, with the assistance of the college’s Health Professions Society (HPS). This drive will last most of the day, from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., to ensure that every student and faculty member has an opportunity to come. There will be a pre-registration session over lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Commons the week prior to the bone marrow drive, from Dec. 9-12. During this time, students can reserve a packet to ensure they will be able to participate, since only 70 packets are available. Students will also be able to ask questions about donating and receive information on what they will need to know for the consent form and what will be requested of them during the drive.
Kappa Theta was inspired to spearhead this project because of the needs of a family they have adopted for this year. In this family, a 5-year old girl, Rian, was diagnosed with acute leukemia last year when she was only four years old. She currently has no match for bone marrow and, although the chances of Rian’s blood tissue matching a student at Cornell are rare, Kappa Theta felt compelled not only to try to help Rian via this project, but also to increase the chances of a positive bone marrow match with other leukemia patients around the country...
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A high-tech tradition continues
by Braden Gardner, Guest Writer
Lightcycles, beastmen, World War II and zombies are not ordinarily topics that share a common ground. Consoles and Desktops, a group well known on campus for running video game tournaments and console gaming on the OC, found a way to give these mismatched genres and creatures a home while simultaneously giving them a common cause during their seventh annual LAN party, Blackout. Students in need of an opportunity to unwind after exhausting finals happily brought their computers to Cloc Tower Hall’s community room and took up games like “Tron,” “Savage,” “Enemy Territory” and “Warcraft III” in cooperative and competitive gameplay.
Blackout began in 2002 as a somewhat cramped and under-attended event in the Pauley-Rorem lounge. It picked up steam shortly, however, gaining enough interest to utilize the far larger Pfeiffer lounge by the next year. Computer gamers demanded more after this successful event, so Consoles and Desktops ran a second LAN party in the winter of that year known as Whiteout. Both have run annually with high attendance ever since...
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Fourth year Leslie Tweeton (center left) did a fellowship at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS). Here she poses with Steve Anderson, the President and CEO of the NACDS (left); Carol Kelly, the Vice President of the Government and Regulatory Affairs Department (center right); and Paul Kelly, the Vice President of Federal Government Affairs (right). | PHOTO COURTESY OF Reflection Photos, Inc.
In Brief
The Berry Center will sponsor a lecture by Tim Roemer, former Congressman from Indiana, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Ringer Recital Studio at Armstrong Hall. Roemer was recognized for his successful leadership on legislation that helped improve America’s competitiveness by balancing the federal budget, reforming public education, and improving the affordability of higher education. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Roemer used his position on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to support the work of a joint congressional inquiry into the nature of the attacks. Roemer also was the key sponsor of legislation to establish the 9/11 Commission. Roemer is currently the president of the Center for National Policy, a non-partisan public policy organization dedicated to engaging government leaders with practical solutions on global security.
John Rutter’s “Gloria” is the featured work at the annual Cornell College Holiday Concert Saturday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel. “Gloria,” an internationally popular seasonal concert work, features the 70-voice Cornell Concert Choir conducted by associate professor of music Lisa Hearne, and includes an eight-piece brass ensemble, percussion, and college organist Lynda Hakken. The brass ensemble will also join the choir for Giovanni Gabrieli’s double-choir anthem “Come Let Us Sing,” composed for St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Concert Choir will perform two versions of the Russian hymn “Bogoroditse Djevo,” one by Sergei Rachmaninoff, the other by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Another carol, “In the Bleak Mid-Winter,” features soloists Matt Roberts, fourth year, and Lindsay Robinson, second year. The 24-voice Chamber Singers will open the program with a set that includes “There Will Be Rest,” composed by Frank Ticheli, “Walk a Mile,” by Pepper Choplin, and “A Spotless Rose,” by Herbert Howells.
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