Cornell Slang

The common vocabulary of the common student.

AAP

College of Architecture,
Art, and Planning

AEM

Applied economics
management, which is the
business major

Arch Sing

When a cappella
groups sing under one of the
many campus arches, usually
near the dorms

Bear Access

CIT's package
of network services

CALS

College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences

CAPS

Counseling and
Psychological Services,
free short-term on-campus
counseling group

Chalkings

Advertisements
for events that are drawn
in chalk on the roads and
sidewalks of Cornell

CIT

Cornell Information
Technologies, computer and
network services

Cocktail lounge

Reading
room that is underground in
Uris Library (A great place to
sleep—I mean, study)

COE

Cornell outdoor education

The Commons

Downtown
Ithaca, containing shops and
restaurants, very hippy-style

DOS

Dean of students

EARS

Empathy, Assistance
and Referral Service, a studentrun
helpline for counseling

FWS

Federal work study
or first-year writing seminar
(required for all freshman)

Gannett

Cornell's health
care center

Haven

Peer support for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender students

Hotelies

Students in the
School of Hotel Administration

IC

Ithaca College
(sometimes called IK)

ILR

School of Industrial
Labor Relations

ISSO

International students
and scholars office

JA

Judicial administrator
(the people who get you in
trouble if you're under 21)

LGBTRC

Lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender
resource center

Libe Slope

The hill between
Uris Library and the west
campus dorms

Louie's Lunch

Truck on north
campus that serves fast food

Midnight Howl

The night
before finals students yell as
loud as they can at midnight to
let out studying aggression

OL

Orientation leader

POST

Pre-orientation
service trips

Prelim

Preliminary exam, any
full-length exam that's not a
final, often scheduled at night
instead of during class

Quarter Cards

Ads handed
out or found in mailbox on a
quarter piece of paper

Program House

Residences
organized around a theme

RA

Residence advisor

RHD

Residence hall director

ROTC

Reserve Officer
Training Corps
(military program)

RPCC

Robert Purcell
Community Center

SA

Student Assembly, the
student government

SAFC

Student Assembly
Finance Commission, gives
funds to student organizations

SAO

Student activities office

SHIP

Student health
insurance plan

The Sun

Cornell Daily Sun,
the student-run newspaper

TCAT

Tompkins Consolidated
Area Transit, public bus system

WSH or The Straight

Willard
Straight Hall, the student union

Zeus

The Temple of Zeus, a
café in Goldwin Smith Hall