Cornell Alumni Magazine - March / April 2009

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FEATURE STORIES
Is There a Doctor in the Woods?Getting It Straight Is There a Doctor in the Woods? Snake attacks, boating accidents, lightning strikes. Those misfortunes, and a host of others, befell the students and faculty visiting the Adirondacks for the Medical college’s wilderness medicine course last fall. Read more... Getting It Straight (21 comments) It’s been four decades since African American students occupied Willard Straight Hall, conducting the first armed occupation of a university building in this country. Read more...

FEATURE STORIES

Is There a Doctor in the Woods?Getting It Straight

Is There a Doctor in the Woods?

Snake attacks, boating accidents, lightning strikes. Those misfortunes, and a host of others, befell the students and faculty visiting the Adirondacks for the Medical college’s wilderness medicine course last fall. Read more...

Getting It Straight (21 comments)

It’s been four decades since African American students occupied Willard Straight Hall, conducting the first armed occupation of a university building in this country. Read more...

March / April 2009

Volume 111 Number 5

CurrentsTough Times (1 comment)

Catching a Lift

Sweet Science

CSI: North Pole

Being Patient

Goldwin Smith: Anti-Semite? (6 comments)

Character Actor

Folk Hero

From David SkortonWhy Strong Public Higher Education Should Be Our Concern

The Big PictureCelebrating 110 Years

CorrespondenceFood for Thought
A taste of life as a ‘piscivegan'

Letter From IthacaChanging the World
Are college students less idealistic than they were in the Sixties?

From The HillArchitecture School's Milstein Hall Moves Ahead (Maybe)
Hydraulic Lab Tumbles; Faculty Slam Engineering Shuffle; Tough Talk on the Cost of Higher Ed; Fig leaf couture; Connie Cook, 89; 200 Candles for Darwin; Architecture School Back in Top Spot; Grad Student Makes Beautiful Music; Let the Sun Shine In; Australia Dreamin'; Two Undergrads Die During Winter Break; Podcast Aids Young Alums in First Job Hunt

SportsBig Red Renovation (1 comment)
Great moments in Cornell athletics, in living color

AuthorsRedeeming the 'Great Engineer'
Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg '43 (Times)

Alma MattersSignificant Accomplishments

Alumni DeathsMarch / April 2009 Obituaries

CornellianaCornellian of the Century (3 comments)
Happy 100th, Mr. Vanneman

Alumni ProfilesMarch / April 2009
Kevinn Matthews '94, David Hughes '04 & Scott Krahn '04

Special Sections and AdvertisingMarch / April 2009 Advertisements

Cornellians in Business;
Wines of the Finger Lakes;
Summer Programs and Sports Campus

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100 YEARS AGO

A look back at one of the top stories in the Cornell Alumni News a century ago.

Goldwin Smith on Athletics.