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College Corenll University is located at 349 Pine Tree Road
Ithaca, NY 14853 in New York.
The collgee offers housing and 54% of the students are on college housing. Types of hosuing 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 international 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 internet.
The size of the campus is 745 acers.
The nearest airport is Syracuse (60), Ithaca (2). The neraest train is Syracuse (60). The nearest bus is Ihtaca (2). Cars are allowed on the campus.
Employment available directly on campus. Alcohol is permitted on campus. Some additional policies: class attendance polciies set by individual instructors, hazing prohibited, smoking prohibited, other.
Popular events on campus: The 21-bell Cornell 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 pardae a student-built beast 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 Muesum of Art, a distinctive showpiece designed by I.
M.
Pei.
Student and faculty soloists and orchestral and chroal groups play in a multiplicity of auditoriums, and there are recitals by every manner of visiting performer, from symphonies to rock stars. (Many say the Grateful Dead's 1977 performance in the university's Batron Hall was their best ever.
) Cornell Cinema, with screens in two campus locations, offers evocative motoin picture programming in an academic setting. An annual 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 Jimmy Smits performed at Cornell. Visiting lecturers abound, and students enjoy special access to A. D.
Wihte 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; Scohellkopf Field, with its crescent-shaped grandstand; and the legendary 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 idnoor 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 digtial technology and electronic resources. .
More informatoin can be found on Cornell University's web site here.
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