Apples and Peels Un-Cause Cancer: New CU research says it! Believe!

“Sick prank”: So saith an Ithaca Fire Lt. of a mannequin found facedown in the gorge. I say it’s kind of funny, in a horrible way?

Doctors Are Paid More than Presidents: “At Cornell, Dr. Zev Rosenwaks of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility received $3,149,376…” D-Skortz only made around $700k.

Cornell Dots Will Cure Cancer!: What exactly are these “C dots”? “The cluster of dye molecules in a single dot fluoresces under near-infrared light much more brightly than single dye molecules, and the fluorescence will identify malignant cells, showing a surgeon exactly what needs to be cut out and helping ensure that all malignant cells are found.”

Nominate Ur Fwendz: Do u no some1 who iz rly gud at there like orgunizashun? Nom’ them 4 a Student Organization Award or Recognition (SOAR! Far above!). Due Thurz.

“Budget Bondage”: Has the recession been cutting into your plan to one-up Goatse by utilizing expensive state-of-the-art anus-expanding instruments? Then this event is perfect for YOU.

Popular Gay Blog Covers Kiss-In: Towleroad, a supercool popular gay blog has applauded Cornell’s homo kiss-in on Ho(mo) Plaza. Take that, Review!

Hydraulics Lab Collapses: And no administrations even notice, as notes MetaEzra.

CWatch Quoted in a Sun op-ed: Thanks, Miz Witte! Also: I had my estemeed editor Peter Fritch check out my Gaza flags piece, and now it’s 100% error-free. Check it out.

Best Cornell-Related Correction Ever: After pointing out an error about A.D. White’s supposed publication of an article 50 years after his death, Trineesh Biswas further lashes his acid tongue against the author: “We can only hope that Mr. Mandelman’s gloomy prognostications about the futility of debt-fuelled fiscal stimulus will prove to be equally inaccurate.”

Cookbooks Make You Fat: Says Brian Wansink, the professor who loves sending his press releases to the media. Also, foods like these make you fat.

Collegetown Council Proposal: Solid summary and analysis by the Ithacator.

Review blog discovers gay people kiss: And that they believe in this totally crazy idea that heterosexuality is normative. Crazy gays!

A Purposeful Ellipsis’d NYTimes Quotes: “Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees…”

Cotton Candy Cure: It just might help labs grow tissue yay!

A New Low for Sun Blogs: “Allow me to preface this entry by letting the reader know that I am abroad in Scotland for the semester. Without that information, you may find yourself terribly lost. I have stepped outside of the culture I know all too well and revel in all too often, and have embarked on a journey to the birthplace of the bagpipe.”

Least appreciated Cornell alum in hot water over technicality: Ann Coulter voted in Connecticut while living in New York. In other news, no one really cares. Except maybe the person who photoshopped the image at left. [Cornell Insider] P.S. We apologize to any Nazis offended by the image.

Milstein hits new roadblock: The plans for the construction of Architecture building Milstein Hall have already taken 10 years to push through. But no! It must not go forward, claim annoying profs like Vincent Mulcahy, who doth protest the lack of accessibility to differently-abled persons: “A handicap [sic] person who might want to study architecture here, it’s impossible.” [News 10 Now]

The nerve!: Either CornellWatch is too young, too unread, and/or too unfabulous, or we got SNUBBED by USNews.com in their “Best Alternative Media Outlet 2008″ contest. Whatever. IvyGate is in dead last, so we’re going to try to be schadenfreude-y about that. [USNews.com]

MetaEz predictz acceptance rate of 18.6%: The first time it’s ever dipped below 20%! But we still pale in comparison to Harvard’s 7.1% for the Class of 2012…

Location location location: Google Latitude inaugurates the beginning of an era where stalking isn’t just about obsessively reading your stalkee’s status updates on Facebook. CornellWatch inaugurates new style of posting news ticker tidbits…

The original Ticker posts:
Cornell Review blog undercovers the secret lives of frat boys. And DOES NOT APPROVE.
…Cornell has a “University Blog Service”? Curious.
…D-Skortz decides not to divest from either Israel or Gaza because, unlike Darfur, “the situation in and near Israel has been characterized by cyclic difficulties leading to violent acts by both sides.”
…Bad Headlines Continue to Plague the Sun
…Conservative rag Cornell Review enters the blogging fray, and blogrolls me! Adorbs.
…NY Daily News cares about our plight!
…Boston Globesman: “Visiting this city in winter seems crazy.”
…Big Red Hoopsmen Rack Up 15 Consecutive Home Wins
…CU’s First VP Ceases to Live
…Hockey Third in Entire Nation
…Architecture Program Ranked No. 1 by Designintelligence
…Endowment tumbles 27%
…Tracy Mitrano guest-blogs for Chron of Higher Ed