In April 2012, Cornell University found itself in the midst of a bit of controversy. A series of documents released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation showed that Cornell was one of a handful of educational institutions and a larger number of police stations with a Certificate of Authorization from the FAA to fly a drone.
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The question remains: who is really running this massive, confusing circus that is our mid-sized liberal-arts college? Is it Rochon? Is it the Board of Trustees? Or is it the students and teaching staff? Do we have a ringleader who is managing the show behind the curtains? -
The air smelled like burning plastic when Alexa Dragoumis stepped out of a bar in Boston on April 15. She was less than a mile away from the finish line, hoping to see her friend’s family finish running the 2013 Boston Marathon.
“Birdie, it’s time to come home,” Brooke Hansen, associate professor and chair of the anthropology department, said to Huron Clan, Cayuga Nation Mother Birdie Hill in 2005. 
Ithaca’s large LGBTQ community does have a downside, and it’s not a problem that people traditionally associate with minority groups: there are so many resources but no centralized way to access them.