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For deans Michael Kotlikoff and Kathryn Boor, an opening day visit to the 2010 New York State Fair Aug. 26 was a welcome chance to relax, explore and reminisce.

pemSun/em columnist Jacob Friedman '11 will be in Washington, D.C., to cover Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally. /p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/node/43066 target=_blankread more/a/p

ITHACA, N.Y. – Tony Bresky, The Director of Intercollegiate Tennis and the Richard Savitt and Stephen Weiss Men's Tennis Coach at Cornell University, has announced the addition of two new members to his coaching staff as Houston Barrick and Cory Parr will join the Big Red for the 2010-11 season. Barrick has been hired as an assistant coach, while Parr joins Cornell as a volunteer assistant coach.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- It's time to take an in-depth look at the 2010 Big Red football team position group by position group. It's time to look at the tight ends, a position which will have a greater impact this season and will play key rolesi n both the running and passing games. Practice Photo Gallery Day 1 I Day 2 I Day 3 I Day 4 I Day 5 I Day 7 Big Red 101 - Special Teams I Defensive Tackles I Tight Ends

/p pThough swine flu may no longer be a great fear, the staff at Gannett still has their hands full preparing for flu season./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/08/27/gannett-prepares-flu-season target=_blankread more/a/p

pThis summer, incoming freshman and upperclass transfer students weren’t the only ones following the dystopian adventures of android bounty hunters. In addition to students, many other Ithaca residents were also immersed in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” this year’s New Student Reading Project and Ithaca Community Read selection.nbsp;/p /p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/08/27/local-ithacans-share-discussion-%E2%80%98androids%E2%80%99-book target=_blankread more/a/p

/p pUnder the guidance of Prof. Andy Ruina, theoretical and applied mechanics, a group of Cornell students constructed a robot that set the unofficial world record this summer for longest unaided distance traveled./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/08/27/student-built-robot-walks-unofficial-distance-record target=_blankread more/a/p

pG. Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, responds to The Sun's Aug. 26th editorial on the cuts to the math department./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/08/27/letter-editor-editorial-math-cuts-base target=_blankread more/a/p

pFraternity member Jonathan Panter '12 expresses his outrage over the new regulations imposed on the Greek system./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/08/27/end-road target=_blankread more/a/p

pFlorencia Ulloa '11 stuffs an entire summer of opinions into one frantic column./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/08/27/summer-fragments target=_blankread more/a/p

pKate Lee, law, gives us an inside look at the thankless duties of a public defender./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/08/27/how-can-you-defend-those-people target=_blankread more/a/p

pMen's soccer head coach Jaro Zawislan talks about the newest additions to the team.nbsp;/p /p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/sports/content/2010/08/27/men%E2%80%99s-soccer-team-adds-14-players-roster target=_blankread more/a/p

pFollow the levels of conversation between Greg Cohn (G.S.C.) and Graham Corrigan (G.C.) to see if there is any substance to this Summer 2010 blockbuster, or if it better serves as high action and high entertainment popcorn fare./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2010/08/27/get-deep-inception target=_blankread more/a/p

pThe men's and women's soccer teams have added to their respective assistant coaching staffs./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/sports/content/2010/08/27/comfort-and-love-added-soccer-staffs target=_blankread more/a/p

pemEat, Pray, Love/em is the epitome of a sappy, narcissistic self-help chick flick, and if you want to watch it for anything besides spiritual healing or laid-back popcorn entertainment you will probably be very disappointed. You have been forewarned./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2010/08/27/eat-carbs-pray-sanskrit-love-strange-men target=_blankread more/a/p

pFrom the opening moments of Akira Kurosawa’s post-war film noir thriller emStray Dog/em, originally released in 1949, the unrelenting heat of Tokyo’s crowded streets seeps into the audience. The sweat drips off millions of faces that may as well be anonymous — the film’s anxiety oozes off the screen onto the viewer, slowly forcing us to cling obsessively to a hope that seems impossible./p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2010/08/27/gun-lost-noir-found target=_blankread more/a/p

pAfter threatening to not renew their contract with Nike, the apparel giant has agreed to create a relief fund for their laid-off workers in Honduras.nbsp;/p pa href=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/08/27/nike-bows-university-pressure-labor-conditions target=_blankread more/a/p

Research published by a cognitive psychologist finds that children as young as preschoolers use intuitive statistical abilities to learn about people's inner lives, in this case, people's preferences.

Occasional smoking, and even second-hand smoke, create biological changes that may increase the risks of lung disease and cancer, according to a new study Cornell scientists in Ithaca and at Weill Cornell.

A new study by a Cornell sociology doctoral candidate finds that disparities in income lead to higher rates of infidelity.