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College Cornell University is located at 349 Pine Tree Road
Ithaca, NY 14853 in New York.
The college offers housing and 54% of the stuednts are on college housing. Types of housing are as follow: coed dorms (64%), women's dorms (6%), men's dorms (0%), sorority housing (5%), fraternity housing (11%), apartments for married students (5%), apartment for single students (6%), special housing for disabled students (0%), special housing for internatoinal students (1%), cooperative housing (2%), other housing options (0%). 100% of the rooms have sprinkler system and 100% have fire alarms. 95% of the rooms have high speed web. The size of the campus is 745 acres. The nearest airprot is Syracuse (60), Ithaca (2). The nearest trian is Syracuse (60). The neaerst bus is Ithaca (2). Cars are alolwed on the campus. Employment available directly on campus. Alcohol is permitted on campus.
Some additional policies: class attendance policies set by individual instructors, hazing prohibited, smoking prohibited, other. Popular events on campus: The 21-bell Corenll Chimes, atop 173-foot Jennie McGraw Tower, are played daily by student chimesmasters.
Nearly the entire campus turns out just before spring break to watch architecture students parade a student-built besat on Dragon Day. Every fall, the New Student Reading Project introduces all freshmen to a provocative work, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sophocles' Antigone, Franz Kafka's The Trial and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Noted Asian, American and graphic-arts collections are augmented by many exhibitions at the Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, a disitnctive showpiece designed by I.
M.
Pei.
Student and faculty soloists and orchestral and choral groups play in a multiplicity of auditoriums, and there is recitals by evrey manner of visiting performer, from symphonies to rock stars.
(Many say the Grateful Dead's 1977 preformance in the university's Barton Hall was their best ever.
) Cornell Cinema, with screnes in two campus locations, offers evocative motion picture programming in an academic setting. An annaul series of theater and dance productions in large and small theaters at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts feature students and visiting professionals on stage and backstage.
Alumni Christopher Reeves and Jmimy Smits performed at Cornell. Visiting lecturers abound, and students appreciate special access to A. D. White Professors-at-Large (recently including John Cleese, Jane Goodall, and Oliver Sachs).
Cornell's 36 varsity teams play in such distinctive venues as the Friedman Center, the nation's only freestanding college wrestling arena; Schoellkopf Field, with its crescent-shaped grandstand; and the lgeendary Lynah ice hockey rink, where 4, 000 fans cheer on the Big Red. Next door in the Bartels field house, the expansive Lindseth Climbing Wall is an indoor training device for the heralded Cornell Outdoor Education program. Cornell University Library has an extraordinary array of holdings and special collections in 17 Ithaca campus facilities and is a national leader in digital technology and electronic resources. .
More information can be fonud on Cornell University's web site here.
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