MOUNT VERNON — All Cornell offices will be closed Dec. 25 to Jan. 1 and reopen Jan. 2. Classes resume Jan. 8. Below are special hours for several areas of the college.

Residence Halls
Residence halls and college-owned apartments close at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, and remain closed until 9 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 7.

Sodexho Dining Services
Brown Bag Bay closes at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 18. If a sack lunch is needed for a college function, contact the Sodexho main office at x4499. The Rathskeller closes at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, and remains closed until regular business hours resume Monday, Jan. 8.

The scramble schedule is:
Dec. 20: lunch regular hours, dinner 5-5:30 p.m.
Dec. 21: breakfast 8-8:30 a.m., and then closed until operations resume Jan. 7 with brunch.

Bookstore
Dec. 18-20: 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Dec. 21-22: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dec. 23 – Jan. 1: Closed
Jan. 2-5: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Jan. 7: 4-7 p.m.
Jan. 8: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Jan. 9: Regular hours resume (8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

The Commons and Fitness Center
Dec. 20: 7:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Dec. 21-22: 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Dec. 23 - Jan. 1: Closed
Jan. 2-5: 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Jan. 6: Closed
Jan. 7: 10 a.m. - midnight

The Commons Information Desk

Dec. 20: 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Dec. 21: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Dec. 22 - Jan. 1: Closed

Jan. 2-5: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Jan. 6: Closed

Jan. 7: 10 a.m. - midnight.

Cole Library
Dec. 20-22: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Dec. 23 – Jan. 1: Closed
Jan. 2: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Jan. 3-5: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Jan. 6: 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Jan. 7: noon – 4:30 p.m.

Hilltop Fitness Club
Dec. 20-21: 6-9 a.m., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30-9 p.m.
Dec. 22: 6-9 a.m., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30-8 p.m.
Dec. 23-26: Closed
Dec. 27-28: 6-9 a.m., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30-9 p.m.
Dec. 29: 6-9 a.m., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30-8 p.m.
Dec. 30 – Jan. 1: Closed
Jan. 2-4: 6-9 a.m., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30-9 p.m.
Jan. 5: 6-9 a.m., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 5:30-8 p.m.

Hilltop Fitness Weight Room
Dec. 20-22: 6:30-8 a.m., 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Dec. 23-26: Closed
Dec. 27-29: 6:30-8 a.m., 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Dec. 30 – Jan. 1: Closed
Jan. 2-4: 6:30-8 a.m., 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Jan. 5: 6:30-8 a.m.

MOUNT VERNON — Award-winning poet Rosanna Warren will give a reading at Cornell College and lead an informal discussion on “The Nature of Poetic Influence,” covering the ancient, modern and contemporary poetry that has influenced her, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, in Hedges Conference Room of The Commons. Admission is free.

Warren, the Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, is the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar to Cornell. Among more than 3,600 U.S. colleges and universities, Cornell is one of only 270 with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most select honorary society in the United States.

Warren has written four poetry collections: “Departure,” “Stained Glass” (Lamont Poetry Selection, American Academy of Poets), “Each Leaf Shines Separate” and “Snow Day”; translated Euripides’ “Suppliant Women”; and edited several books, among them “The Art of Translation.” She received the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize and the Award of Merit for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

During her two-day campus visit, Warren also will visit with students in a creative writing class; meet with the Wordsmiths, Cornell’s student creative writing club; and talk about the life of a poet over pizza and soda pop with English majors and minors.

This is the 51st year of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, which has sent 529 scholars on 4,450 visits to member campuses since the 1956-57 academic year. The purpose of the program is to allow an exchange of ideas between the visiting scholars and the resident faculty and students, contributing to the intellectual life on campus.

Additional sponsors of Warren’s visit are the Cornell College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; the Lecture, Artists, Cultural Events Consortium; the President’s Office; and the English department.