Cornell is leveling its hundred year-old baseball field to begin building a hundred million dollar computer science building later this year. The razing of Hoy Field is about so much more than baseball. “I could catch a ballgame while studying!”This memory strikes me when I walk by Hoy Field. Leaderboard 2A bland new computer science building says that market logic should trump all other considerations. Cornell’s reason for building this unnamed computer science building is the sixfold increase in computer and information science enrollment in the past decade.

Source: Daily Sun March 18, 2023 21:21 UTC