Uncle Ezra Urges Students to Leave Campus

Interesting that DUE used a relatively simple question about finding potting soil as a jump-off point to instruct readers to see more of Ithaca:

Taking a trip to downtown Ithaca is a wonderful thing. I know that it is hard to imagine, but you are surrounded by real people of all different ages, babies and old folks, and people who have nothing to do with Cornell.

This is similar to what I wrote a couple of weeks ago:

With so much to offer on campus, and the relative isolation of North Campus, most freshmen hardly ever venture more than a couple of blocks off-campus, much less to the more economically and racially diverse sections of Ithaca. Perhaps they'll go to the Ithaca Mall, or to the Commons a handful of times, but that's about it. Cornell upperclassmen necessarily interact with Townies to sign leases and things like that, but they're not forming any sort of relationships with the typical Ithaca resident.