Cornell Alumni Magazine - January / February 2009

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Listening to 'Silent Cal'Good Eats Listening to 'Silent Cal' (8 comments) In September 1933, Millie Uher made the ten-mile trip from Myers, New York, to the Cornell campus. She was the first in her family to go to college and—despite having excelled academically and athletically at Lansing High School—she enrolled at… Read more... Good Eats (5 comments) For the professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture, diet soft drinks are the epitome of wastefulness. According to Pimentel, it takes 600 calories of energy to produce the drink itself and another 1,600 to make the aluminum can, not to… Read more...

FEATURE STORIES

Listening to 'Silent Cal'Good Eats

Listening to 'Silent Cal' (8 comments)

In September 1933, Millie Uher made the ten-mile trip from Myers, New York, to the Cornell campus. She was the first in her family to go to college and—despite having excelled academically and athletically at Lansing High School—she enrolled at… Read more...

Good Eats (5 comments)

For the professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture, diet soft drinks are the epitome of wastefulness. According to Pimentel, it takes 600 calories of energy to produce the drink itself and another 1,600 to make the aluminum can, not to… Read more...

January / February 2009

VOLUME 111 NUMBER 4

CurrentsLearning the Hard Way

Slow Burn

Order Out of Chaos

Manners Matter

Word Play

Shot in the Arm

War Games

Tunes for Tots

From David SkortonBuilding a Bridge Between Cultures

The Big PictureWinter White

CorrespondenceUnder Water
Article spurs a flood of memories . . . and warnings

Letter From IthacaA Vision Realized (1 comment)
The West Campus house system is transforming student life

From The HillPresidential Pay (1 comment)
Presidential Pay; CU Declares Hiring 'Pause'; Astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter, 83; Debt Relief for Parents; MBA Ranking Rises; Campus Remembers Evan Wade '08; Mozart Goes Retro; Making Cascadilla Gorgeous; Birdwatch for Science; 'Hot Truck Bob,' 77; Cornellians Elected to U.S. House; Memorial Prize and Fund Honor Deceased Alumnus

SportsBack on Track
Two-sport star Jeomi Maduka '09 narrows her focus

AuthorsThe Bustling Town
Ithaca: A Brief History by Carol Kammen (History Press)

Alma MattersNot Just for Freshmen Anymore

Alumni DeathsJan./Feb. '09 Obituaries

Cornelliana'Pop' Goes the Woodpecker
Lab of O's coffee table book mixes sights and sounds in 3-D

Special Sections and AdvertisingJanuary / February 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.