The Cornell Law School was back in the blogosphere yesterday, and not for a 52-percent jump in applications.

Imagine that you are an intelligent college senior and you have been admitted to the ten colleges you applied to. In the past, this may have been great news, but presently your parents may not be able to afford the tuitions of every university you have gotten into.

The University’s

current financial difficulties are no secret. From the “Reimagining Cornell”

series to the very visible budget cuts in departments such as Swedish and

Dutch, the University has been working on functioning in a new era. The most

recent large-scale cuts took place as the beginning of last month in the form

Over the past few months, the term “hydrofracking” has appeared all over the Ithaca landscape. Short for hydraulic fracturing, a process that harvests natural gas, the term has been a subject of controversy since it was introduced.

With the recent economic decline, people have often had to cut back much of their spending that might be considered superfluous. Unfortunately, that tends to include donations to colleges.

When A.D. White and Ezra Cornell founded Cornell University in 1865, coeducation was practically nonexistent. The university was one of the first in the Northeast to admit women, and later one of the first to have a Women’s Studies Program. Still, women have traditionally been discriminated against in the sciences, which many feel is a “gendered” subject.

The State of the Union is much more than a presidential obligation, it's become a right of passage, a test of a president's mettle, a referendum on his successes and failures over the period of 365 days. The defeats that lay behind President Obama are numerous, fresh from a key loss in Massachusetts, not to mention the enormous budget deficit and the looming difficulties of health reform.

Every day, we wake up after snoozing five times, rush out the door, hurry to our classes and zone out. We buy coffee to stay up but end up napping in the Fishbowl. We whine about the amount of work we have each day, yet waste most of our time on Facebook. We count down the days until the weekend, until the next great frat party, until we can finally drown our oh-so-terrible problems in alcohol — the next best thing in our lives on the Hill, really.

In the year 2007, Cornell had one Carnegie Junior fellow, three Goldwater scholars, one Luce scholar, one Marshall scholar, one Rhodes scholar and one Udall scholar. How do students obtain such prestigious awards? It may be through the help of each college’s individual fellowship representatives.

The motto of “any person, any study” at Cornell is meant to be emblematic of the diversity of the student population. Specifically, the Cornell Statement on Diversity and Inclusiveness is “Open Doors, Open Hearts, and Open Minds” for both the student body and for the employees.