In the wake of protests against the development of the Redbud Woods area into the University Avenue parking lot in 2005, then interim President Hunter Rawlings gave his support to an ad hoc committee on transportation and sustainability at Cornell. Daniel Roth was the graduate student representative on that committee, which was charged with “envisioning [...]
Entries from June 26, 2008
Notes on the Great Cornell E-mail Crisis of ’08
June 20, 2008 · No Comments · Technology
Just going over some entries in QB’s personal logbook documenting the Great Cornell E-mail Crisis of 2008 … Scene setter: Cedar Rapids had its flooding, the nation’s stock markets faltered, common folk called their bankers to secure fuel loans and the search for the nine spotted ladybug was launched in earnest. Up on the hill [...]
What’s in a name?
June 7, 2008 · 1 Comment · Campus life
Provost Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, who is leaving Cornell this summer to lead the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gamely answered a question about the origin of her nickname during a telephone press conference May 28, the day her new appointment was announced. “I grew up in the rural south, and in my family all of the women [...]