Telluride House The Cornell Branch of Telluride Association

Telluride House is improving its environmental performance. Last year, we switched over to fluorescent bulbs and started composting in a clean, efficient manner. This year, “EnviroCom” is coordinating with a new Green Committee that has the same mission across the Association. We’ll bring in an energy auditor early this week, and we’ll work on material ways to implement recommendations, some of which may involve structural improvements. In the meantime, we’re thinking of smaller things that will be socially, environmentally, and fiscally sound and efficient. The committee kicked a few ideas around last week and will be canvassing Housemembers for their input, as well as encouraging each other to become more mindful about stewardship and habits of use. The energy audit will certainly add new priorities: this is an old house, and despite ongoing renovations, a lot remains to be upgraded.

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Hi, I’m Daniel, a dissertating PhD candidate in Government. I’ve had the privilege of living here at Telluride House for quite some time, and by now, it’s hard for me to think back on my grad school experience at Cornell without also thinking of Telluride. Living here can be intense, and it requires some commitment — but it’s more than worth it, and I wouldn’t give it up for anything. Anyway, I’m co-responsible for organizing the upcoming Open House (on Tuesday, September 16th from 5:00-6:30pm), and I’d like to encourage you to stop by if you think you may be interested in living here. If you can’t make it, or find out about us after the Open House, you can still access the application on this website. Of course, feel free to ask us if you have any questions.

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One of the realities of living in an ongoing democratic experiment is that democracy takes time, which sometimes runs into the need for expediency. Case in point: if you’ve gone to the applications page and not seen the application, it’s because we haven’t finalized it yet. We’re very very close though. It’s going to be there tomorrow. The deadline will either be September 19 or October 3rd for Hill Applicants (that’s what we call Cornell folk, as opposed to applicants who are not at Cornell yet). That’s not a lot of time, but the early deadline ensures that Cornell folks don’t sign leases before we offer them places in the House. Hopefully we’ll do better next year in terms of having the applications ready earlier, which makes me wonder whether there’s such a thing as fast democracy.

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I’m Jim Hayden, 5th-year Ph.D. student in Entomology and 3rd-year student in Telluride. Besides Meredith, I’m the other person on the computers committee this semester. After two years as a House Treasurer, I rotated into this job in part to learn more about IT. It’s also a great opportunity for communication and group decision-making. Even so, I miss keeping the books… that job was the best way to get a comprehensive view of the House’s functioning, which is fairly complex.

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Good almost midnight from your webmistress. I was supposed to do Japanese homework tonight but got sucked in with committee work for both C-Czars (C for Computer) and Outreach. Things are pretty much under control though, at least. It’s only my third week at Telluride and already I’m in the thick of things, which is where I generally like to be. I really love being here, even the parts that I expected to not like, such as having less privacy and being around people significantly younger than me (stodgy grad student that I am). Something about being around incredibly precocious undergrads reminds me that there’s something to be said for the bravado of youth. However, my old body is telling me to go to bed so that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

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All full-time Cornell students are invited to:

The Telluride Open House

Wednesday, September 10
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

217 West Avenue and Campus Road,
the orange house across the Willard Straight parking lot (see map)

Telluride House is a diverse self-governing community of undergrad and grad students that offers full room and board scholarships to all of its residents, in order to foster an atmosphere of intellectual engagement, self-government, and community living.

Come to the Telluride Open House and see what we’re about, have good conversation, enjoy refreshments, and find out how you can join us.

For questions and more information, e-mail Meredith: mrt34@cornell.edu.

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