Even with the motto “any person, any study”, Cornell has historically ranked as the least diverse university among the Ivies. In 2007, there was a 37.6% enrollment of minorities with 5.1% blacks, 0.5% American Indian or Alaskan Native, 16.5% Asian or Pacific Islander and 5.5% Hispanic.

There are many large lecture classes at Cornell that require a lot of written work as part of the course assignments. Many professors feel that giving feedback on written papers is more constructive than giving multiple exams each semester. With class sizes increasing, this means that a lot of words are written per class section.

Most students at Cornell must take at least one Freshman Writing Seminar. These classes are usually capped at around eighteen students. But what happens when there are too many students to limit the size of every class? Recently, this has been the trend at many colleges. With the economic downfall, there are fewer professors to teach traditionally small classes.

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.