We all know today that “Ithaca is Gorges.” It appears, however, that this concept was also evident to early silent film entrepreneurs who chose the city as a filming location for numerous movies. Ithaca’s hilly and ravine-cut topography, while often cursed by tired students walking to the East Hill from downtown, provided the perfect backdrop for early pioneering movies in the early 1900s.

The following article was originally published May 13, 2005.

Michael Ross ’81 was pronounced dead by lethal injection early this morning in New England's first execution in 45 years, at Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, Conn.

DISASTROUS FIRE DESTROYS CHI PSI HOUSE AND RESULTS IN DEATH OF FOUR UNDERGRADUATES AND THREE FIREMEN

FIVE OTHER MEMBERS OF FRATERNITY SEVERELY INJURED, OF WHOM ONE IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE —HEROISM DISPLAYED BY RESCUERS —THE APPALLING THERAPY SHOCKS ENTIRE COMMUNITY

The following is an excerpt from an article originally published Aug. 27, 2004. Church later pled guilty to a total of 10 of counts of second degree unlawful surveillance, class E felonies. He was sentenced May 31, 2005 to 5 1/3 to 16 years in prison.

For over a year, students in Collegetown lived in fear of a man known as the Collegetown Creeper. First given the moniker in an article published May 7, 2004, the Creeper continued to stay in the back — and often the front — of students’ minds until the Ithaca Police Department announced that a man had admitted to being the Creeper in October of that year.

The story of Willard Straight Hall is by no means straightforward.

At its grand opening in 1925, the Straight was located in the far west corner of the campus, but today it lays nestled at the epicenter of Cornell.  In 1925, the Straight was intended to be an open forum for students and faculty to discuss any range of topics over a meal, the embodiment of a concept rarely found in American colleges at the time. Today, it houses the Student Assembly and administrative offices geared toward student activities, among other student organizations, and is arguably one of the most frequently visited buildings by Cornellians.