It’s Slope Day Eve. Students on East Hill giddily scurry from class to class, Drake steams toward campus in a tricked-out tour bus and professors hopelessly lecture in half-empty halls. And tomorrow afternoon that first note will blare out from the Libe Slope speakers and sweep over the drunken masses, unofficially declaring and end of this school year.

But before the revelry gets underway, it is time to take a look back at tumultuous year on the Hill. On the one hand there was the men’s basketball team’s improbable run to the Sweet 16, Bob Saget’s brief stay at Seal and Serpent and a multitude of awesome academic work (3D printer anyone?). But there were also budget cuts, allegations of discrimination, swine flu and, most tragically, six student suicides.

At the end of their tenure as Sun columnists, Julie Block, Andrew Daines and Munier Salem join Associate Editor Tony Manfred to talk about the stories and controversies that have defined their time in Ithaca. 

Part 1 (The Big Story)

 Read while you listen:

1. Provost Moves Ahead With Strategic Plan 4/2/2010
2. Theatre, Film, and Dance Hit With Cuts 2/2/2010
3. Putting the Arts Cuts in Perspective 2/8/2010 
4. In Two Years, University Debt Nearly Doubles 5/5/2010

Part 2 (What's Good Teaching?)

Read while you listen:

1. Committing to Teaching: An Admirable Strategy 4/8/2010

Part 3 (Going It Alone)

Part 4 (Fenced In, Blue Lights)

Read while you listen:

1. University Installs Fences on Campus Bridges 3/29/2010
2. Bridge Fences: An Unfortunately Necessity 3/30/2010
3. Ithaca Is Fences 4/12/2010
4. Caging Beauty 4/17/2010
5. When the Fences Come Down 5/4/2010

Part 5 (Discriminatin')

Read while you listen:

1. Refining Resolution 44 2/22/2010
2. Double Take: Resolution 44 Edition 3/3/2010
3. Skorton Responds to Student Assembly Resolution on Discrimination 4/6/2010

Part 6 (More R. 44)

Part 7 (Cheater's Paradise)

Read while you listen:

1. Cornell Soft on Academic Integrity 3/31/2010

Part 8 (Seriously, People Cheat A Lot)

Part 9 (Once You Go Frat...)

Read while you listen:

1. My Big Fat Greek Headache 4/13/2010
2. In Defense of the 'Doucheoisie' 4/19/2010
3. Time to Thicken up That Thin Skin 4/15/2010

Part 10 (You Never Go Back)

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