In the aftermath of a racial attack at the Sigma Pi fraternity in May, Sig Pi brothers told law enforcement officials they tried to stop the individual responsible from throwing beer cans at the group of black students passing by the house.

The scent of chocolate syrup wafted through Ho Plaza Thursday as student activists staged a mock oil spill to mark the three-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest accidental marine oil spill in U.S. history.

Dr. Luvelle Brown, the Ithaca City School District Superintendent, said the district must increase its online presence through the use of social media, which he said can be a “tool to engage, empower and educate young people.

The protesters blockaded a company's gas compressor station site at the southwest end of Seneca Lake, keeping the company’s trucks out for an hour before being arrested for refusing to disband, according to Reed Steberger ’13.

Simon Boehme ’14 and Samuel Ritholtz ’14 were among the 62 recipients of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship — a merit-based fund for student leaders interested in government or public sector service — this year. 

A new resolution that could require every student organization to submit plans detailing how they will encourage diversity and inclusion in their group will be discussed, and possibly voted on, at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday.

As the culmination of their research at Cornell, 49 seniors presented projects with topics ranging from pollination to “prep” fashion at the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Senior Expo Wednesday. 

“It was as if Cornell Tech were written for me,” one student said.

Prof. Joel Sanders, architecture, Yale University, encouraged students to address the divide between the fields of landscape and architecture and consider the potential of unifying the two topics at a lecture Wednesday. 

About 100 students participated in an event that celebrated One Day Without Shoes, an international event that aims to raise awareness of children around the world who do not have shoes.