Flickr and Cornell: Free Cornell Campus Photos
If you want to know just what Cornell University looks like, something that an online tour can’t give you, try Flickr. There are thousands of photos tagged “cornell” there for you peruse. To give you a sample:
Photos tagged with cornell:
The Cornell University group pool:
And if you’re interested, there’s also a slopeday tag! Be careful how you use anything you get from Flickr; each photo has an individual license. Some are incredibly free–do anything you want–but others are more specific–you can use this for non commercial work if you give me attribution.
Consistency a big win for Cornell.edu
If there’s on thing that the Cornell redesign team got right, it was their iron-fisted approach to layout. “Thy shalt not bend our banners, colors, and pixels,” said Diane Kubarik. The reason for this is immediately apparent if you happen to visit another educational website, such as www.swarthmore.edu and then move a level deeper to www.swarthmore.edu/visitors/, where you see two completely different presentations:
“Am I still on the swarthmore web page anymore?” you wonder. “Maybe some hackers have hijacked my browser and are trying to get my secret login information.” Then, you leave for cornell.edu and www.cornell.edu/visiting/, where you are amazed to see:
Note that I don’t mean to pick on Swarthmore in particular–I just happened to notice this problem on their site. I’m sure plenty of other .edu sites do the same thing. However, we at Cornell can be proud that our web site presents a unified public image. Something that says “We are Cornell,” rather than, “We might be big-shot university XYZ, but we’re not really sure.”
Colin Powell for President
Well, for Cornell President, that is. Since Jeffery Lehman bailed out on Cornell University, to the frustration of students, staff, and trustees, we need to elect a new president for Cornell University. One name that a dedicated group of students are throwing around is that of Colin Powell. On their blog, Powell for Cornell President, you can read more about their serious efforts to nominate Colin Powell for the open position.
The website is being run by ex-Cornell-sun editor in Chief, Andy Guess, a smart and capable young man. If anyone can get Powell to Cornell, it’s him. If you don’t know much about the 65th secretary of state, you can read more about him on Wikipedia.
Sign the online petition–they only want 1000 signatures!
