It’s a natural human tendency to not value something until it’s gone. Not this time. They were so grateful that a newspaper was there to keep them informed. They saw what journalism, at its best, could do for a community. I hoped the lesson would last in the public’s consciousness.
Prestigious universities like Cornell never have a hard time attracting students. But this year, the admissions office in Ithaca, N.Y., is swimming in 17,000 more applications than it has ever received before, driven mostly by the school’s decision not to require standardized test scores during the coronavirus pandemic. “We saw people that thought ‘I would never get into Cornell’ thinking, ‘Oh, if they’re not looking at a test score, maybe I’ve.