The Cornell Computer Reuse Association recently collected, refurbished and distributed more than 500 computers to Ithaca’s activities centers. Its next task: sending large shipments of computers to outdated schools in Ghana, Rwanda and Afghanistan.

Today marks the eighth day that the Students for a Democratic Society have been on a hunger strike to convince UF President Bernie Machen that the University of Florida should make its investment portfolio transparent.

The two remaining candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination debated at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Wednesday night as a prelude to the suddenly relevant Pennsylvania primary on April 22. The debate was intended to enable Pennsylvania voters to pick an opponent for John McCain in November, but it may only have proven that for all the talk of change, this election has not moved away from politics as usual.

As 41,000 devout Catholics crowd the new Washington Nationals Stadium this morning for a Holy Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI, animal protection is not likely to be on their minds.

A Duke student’s participation in last Wednesday’s pro-Tibet and pro-China protests has led to retaliation against the student and her family and has attracted international attention.

As international attention on the situation between Tibet and China has increased over the past few weeks while China prepares for the Olympics, a Cornell anthropology professor was the subject of personal attacks posted to two University listservs last week in response to a film screening and discussion she organized on “the prospects for peace in Tibet.”