Issue Archive
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September/October 2014
The Sesquicentennial celebrations begin. Also: Altschuler & Kramnick on the demise of in loco parentis, and tasty tips from CU’s ‘Mindless Eating’ guru.
Download the PDF from our digital archives at eCommons.
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Sound Bites
With a new book and hefty portions of user-friendly research, Mindless Eating guru Brian Wansink offers practical tips for stress-free slimming.
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Campus Confrontation, 1958
Cornell University Press recently published Cornell: A History, 1940–2015, which picks up where A History of Cornell (by Morris Bishop 1913, PhD ’26) left off. In an excerpt, its authors describe a seminal event that marked the beginning of the end of in loco parentis and foreshadowed much campus turmoil to come.
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The Big Picture
The Bough Breaks.
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Sports
Sports Shorts.
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From David Skorton
International Cornell: A Conversation with Fredrik Logevall.
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Letter From Ithaca
All in a Day’s Work: Reflecting on the summer jobs of yore.
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From the Hill
News and updates from campus.
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Correspondence
Farewell…and Thank You. Parting words from CAM’s E&P.
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Cornelliana
Golden Oldies: For WVBR alumni, a photographic flashback.
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Authors
New releases.
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Alma Matters
Cornell Perspectives, Through the Generations. The first in a two-part series.
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September / October 2014 Obituaries
Click here for the complete September / October 2014 Alumni Deaths
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Of a Feather
On campus and around the world, bird fans go cuckoo for Cornell’s red-tailed hawks.
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Bricks and Mortar
A freak accident takes two lives, destroys a landmark, and rattles a city.
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Ringing Endorsement
Agent Lowell Taub ’96 plays matchmaker for global brands and the sports stars who pitch them.
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To the Moon, Allan
Meet the man in charge of the Smithsonian’s Apollo trove.
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The Right ‘Stuff’
Having finished her grad degree after a quarter-century gap, environmentalist Annie Leonard, MRP ’13, lands a job at Greenpeace.
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Baby Talk
With terabytes of video and enough toys to fill a daycare center, a Uris lab studies how infants learn language.