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Ithaca Police Investigate Report of Death Near Suspension Bridge

March 12th, 2010
By Sun Staff

Updated: 6:15 p.m.

The Ithaca City Police Department temporarily closed the suspension bridge and the Stewart Avenue Bridge this afternoon after a witness reported seeing a man jump off the suspension bridge.

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David Harris Will Leave Cornell to Join Obama Admin.

March 12th, 2010
By Michael Stratford

Deputy Provost David Harris has been appointed to a new position in the Obama Administration and will vacate his Cornell post on Mar. 19, he confirmed to The Sun Friday. Read More

Rescue Crews Recover Body of William Sinclair '12 From Fall Creek Gorge

March 12th, 2010
By Sun Staff

Rescue workers from the Ithaca Fire Department recovered the body of William Sinclair ’12, a student in the College of Engineering, from Fall Creek Gorge near the Thurston Avenue Bridge around midday Thursday, according to the University.

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Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins Discusses His Craft

March 12th, 2010
By Emily Coon

Famed poet Billy Collins had a packed auditorium in Rockefeller Hall last night sitting on his every word with a reading of Ballistics –– his latest poetry collection –– as well as some of his earlier works. Read More

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Diego Olvera

Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins Discusses His Craft

Billy Collins reads his edgy and lively poetry to a very amused Rockefeller Hall Thursday afternoon.

Opinion

The Berry Patch: Goin’ Big, Trustee Style

March 12th, 2010

That pungent old man smell wafting across campus can only mean one thing — the Board of Trustees is in town. And if the volume of Frank Sinatra tunes blaring from the Statler Hotel is any indication, they’re here to party like it’s 2007. Financial crisis? What is this, 2009? That old drag is long gone — it’s a new decade, a new economic climate. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

Simple Success: Disgrace at Cornell Cinema

March 12th, 2010
By Caiden Leavitt

“Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking”. This Moorish proverb could be the tagline for the 2008 movie Disgrace, in which a man discovers just this. Unwilling to repent for his sins in public, the man withdraws into the South African countryside where in his silent musings he tries to redeem himself and discovers his “disgrace.”   Read More

Opinion

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Sued

March 12th, 2010
By Kate Lee

Back in the 1920s, when vaudeville ruled the entertainment scene, each troupe registered their act with the administrative office. If an act accused another act of joke stealing, the parties would go back to the main office, check the records and see who performed the piece first.  

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Sports

Rock and Roll Part 2

March 12th, 2010
By Jill Mendelsohn

The seniors who have yet to complete No. 4 of the 161 things to do before graduation are in luck, because Ivy League rival Harvard is coming to town tonight to play No. 9 Cornell in a two –– possibly three –– game series. With this season marking the 100th anniversary of their first meeting, the Cornell/Harvard hockey game has always been one of the most anticipated games of the year.  Read More


Opinion

You Read Blogz? That’s So Sick!

March 12th, 2010
By Rabia Muqaddam

I’m not really into political “blogs,” those supposed bastions of free thought and the truth. It’s not that I don’t like free-thinking and the truth; I’m going to believe that they are among us if I want to believe that, so there. It’s more that, when it comes to getting the news, blogs really aren’t enough. You take a risk when you read only blogs, or even primarily blogs. Blogs, even the most informative ones, are just opinions. There are many wonderful political blogs. I enjoy checking out the guys and gals on Politico or Talking Points Memo as much as the next person (a fair bit, but not as much as a sandwich). But, don’t forget, bloggers serve a different purpose than reporters. They might give you the truth, their version of it, a made-up version (a lie?), a quarter of it or two eggs, hash browns and a side of it. Read More

Arts & Entertainment

The Wonder in Underland

March 12th, 2010
By Heather McAdams

It has been nearly a century and a half since Lewis Carroll gave us our first glimpse of Wonderland — where we learned to let our imaginations run wild, to dream impossible dreams and to believe in six impossible things all before breakfast. In this year’s adaptation of Carroll’s nonsensical sensation, director Tim Burton takes the story and flips it on its head. Read More

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