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Café Jennie opened in the Cornell Store Monday, to students’ indifference.
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Sean Doolittle ’17 reviews a series of one-act plays by Chris Durang. | Page 8
The sprint football team won a game and lost a game over the weekend. | Page 16
Skorton’s Salary Ranks Last for Ivy Presidents Half earn more than $1 million By ANNIE BUI Sun Staff Writer
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Too little, too late | Students work in Uris Library on Monday. Students have expressed they have had difficulty relaxing during Fall Break because of work.
Students Say Fall Break Work Gets in Way of Stress Relief By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor
For many students, prelims, papers and projects due the week they returned from Fall Break prevented them from experiencing the stress relief breaks are supposed to bring. Stephanie Chen ’17 had two prelims directly before the break, as well as a computer science project with a part due before and a part due after break. “My last prelim [on Friday before Fall Break] was pretty late — it ended at 9 p.m., and I had to sprint
Amid a climate of rising student tuition and calls for more accountability in University financing, the salaries of university presidents have become a topic of particular scrutiny. In an analysis of university presidents’ compensation for 2010, however, President David Skorton ranked last among the Ivy League. According to a Dec. 2012 article published by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a 2010 analysis revealed that 36 private college presidents earned more than $1 million that year, a figure that represented a 3.1 percent increase over the previous year. The highest-paid president among Ivy League universities was Lee C. Bollinger of Columbia University, who was compensated $1,932,931 in 2010. Meanwhile, Cornell President David J. Skorton ranked last in presidential salaries out of the eight Ivy League schools, with a total compensation of $854,082 that year.
back and start packing so I could catch my bus the next day,” Chen said. “I had to almost pull an allnighter — not to study, but just to pack.” Chen ended up coming back a day early from break to work on her computer science project since she needed University computers to access the software she needed. For Kelly Rambarran ’14, who had a midterm Wednesday morning after break and a “extensive” lab assignment due the next day, the work she had See BREAK page 4
See SKORTON page 5 2010 TOTAL COMPENSATION OF IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS
Columbia $1.93M
Yale $1.61M
University of Pennsylvania $1.46M
Darmouth $1.08M
Princeton $902k
Harvard $875k
Brown $863k
Cornell $854k
DATA COURTESY OF CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Outage Affects Many Parts of Campus Common Council Member Joins By DARA LEVY
plies power to many of the campus buildings funded by New York State. The switch may have failed because an animal possibly entered A power outage that might have been the equipment, according to Carberry. caused by an animal affected many parts of A campus facilities special conditions campus on Sunday night, disrupting students announcement issued at around 6:30 p.m. who were studying on Central Campus, Sunday instructed all staff who had building according to John systems or equipment that Carberry, director of press could be affected by a loss of The power switch may relations for the power to check their facilities have failed Sunday night and notify and building University. Facilities belonging to users and occupants. because an animal Cornell’s three contract Before power could be possibly entered the colleges — the College of restored to the system, the Human Ecology, the cause of failure had to be equipment. School of Industrial and identified, and re-energizing Labor Relations and the the system could have creatCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences — ed additional damage or prolonged the outage, were the primary buildings affected by the according to Carberry. power outage. However, the entire campus By 9:50 p.m. on Sunday, Cornell Utilities experienced a “momentary disturbance,” and crews reported power restoration to most of some non-state buildings lost power, Carberry the affected areas of campus. Beebe Hall, said. Bruckner Lab, Rice Hall and several poultry The outage started at about 5:10 p.m. and was caused by the failure of a switch that supSee OUTAGE page 4 Sun Senior Writer
Cornell Center for Sustainability By EMMA IANNI
The Atkinson Center was founded five years ago to help build a more sustainable world by developing new Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D- knowledge and technologies in energy, 4th Ward), an energy frontier the environment and economic develresearcher, joined the David R. opment, according to the Atkinson Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Center’s website. Future Monday as its new Kerslick said the executive director. Atkinson Center is different Kerslick has been the from other research centers associate director for a numhe has worked at because ber of research centers here at “the funding comes from Cornell since 2001, includdonations and other ing the Nanotechnology sources, and its area of Center, which involved partresearch is much broader.” nerships with five universi“During these five years, ties around the country. the center really focused on KERSLICK More recently, he has been bringing together the faculty the associate director of two research members at Cornell around these very centers at Cornell: the Energy Materials compelling global problems in sustainCenter and the Center of the See KERSLICK page 5 Microenvironment and Metastasis. Sun Contributor