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S.A. Guidelines Changed After Controversial Election

ALISHA GUPTA

After a tumultuous and controversial elections season which featured the disqualification of the now-president-elect the Student Assembly officially amended its election guidelines on Monday

After failing to meet quorum during Friday’s special meeting, the Student Assembly voted via email to pass the amended guidelines The motion passed 28-0-0

Many of the changes made to the guidelines were a response to, what S A president Jung Won Kim ’18 described as, the “fiasco” that were the 2018 S A elections

One of the proposed amendments to the guidelines gave the elections committee the power to interpret both an election’s rules and its intent When an amendment was raised to eliminate both of these powers, both Kim and Travis Cabbell ’18, director of elections, pushed back

“The elections committee has to be empowered, in some sense, to interpret the rules that they write every semester that you vote on, ” Cabbell said

“I think that because of what is happening in this

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By BREANNE FLEER

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly held elections for its officers, General Committee representative, standing committee chairs and University Assembly representatives at its meeting on Monday

Ekarina Winarto grad won a second term as president of GPSA, and Andy Barrientos-Gomez grad was elected as executive vice president Winarto told The Sun that her priorities for GPSA for next year are member-

ship and the Graduate and Professional Community Initiative, a strategic plan covering areas of importance to graduate and professional students at Cornell

“Essentially, we need to get more people, more diversity in the room, and also more professional students in the room, and at the same time we need to get the people who are already in the room to be more involved,” Winarto said Winarto added that she thinks two of the four executive committee mem-

GPSA Holds Offcer Elections TedxCornell Features 8 Speakers

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

On Sunday, students and community members gathered at Cornell to experience the first TEDxCornell event in three years, featuring eight speakers, two performances and one pre-recorded TED talk

The speakers talked about a range of issues, focusing on topics within their expertise Prof David Pizarro, philosophy and psychology, discussed how people are perceived based on the decisions they make and the length it takes them to decide and Prof Susan S Fleming, hospitality, spoke about reducing gender bias in the workplace

Fleming herself began working on Wall Street in 1992 and noted the lack of significant change in the amount of women in leadership positions even today

“Back then there were only two women CEOs in fortune 500 companies Today, two and a half decades later, there are still only 23,” Fleming said “Those 23 women represent 4 6 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs ”

Prof T Colin Campbell,the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Emeritus, spoke about nutrition and its role in modern medicine

Dr Renee T Alexander, associate dean of students and senior advisor to the dean, spoke about campus climate and how to “ engage across difference” with her Breaking Bread series, where community members come together for a facilitated discussion and dinner Prof Itai Cohen, physics, followed up with a talk on the flight of flies and how they use

Welcome Center to Open at Renovated Noyes Lodge

By KEVIN LAM

The newly renovated Martin Y Tang Welcome Center at the Noyes Lodge on North Campus, scheduled to open June 1, will be “the first stop ” at Cornell for prospective students, parents and visitors, according to the University

“The creation of a welcome center has been under discussion for many years, even decades long,” said Jason Cole, associate vice president for University relations

The starting point of the general campus tour will also be relocated from Day Hall to the Tang Welcome Center in early June, according to Cole

“The location is very representative It highlights and underscores the natural beauty of our campus there [with the view of ] Beebe Lake,” Cole said “It will provide more

space and it will be more comfortable to our visitors ”

The Great Room on the upper level will be both a space for visitors to gather and an exhibition “highlighting the University’s history and mission,” according to Cole

According to Cole, the exhibition will feature six monoliths with texts and photographs, each with a theme representing an aspect of the University These include Ezra Cornell, Cornell in New York State, humanities, research, “ any person any study,” and “life on the hill ”

A 3-D-printed replica of Ezra Cornell’s telegraph, Rover Athena from the Cornell Mars Rover Project, some Big Red hockey gear and Rich Medina’s ’92 D J equipment from the Cornell Hip Hop Collection will also be displayed, Cole said

The Great Room will connect to the 840-square-foot outdoor Treman Terrace, overlooking Beebe Lake and the western portion of Cornell Botanic Gardens

Risley Hosts Renaissance Fair

By MATTHEW McGOWEN

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There will also be a reception area, a space for the Office of Visitor Relations, the University switchboard and a conference room

The $6 million project was announced in October 2016, after Martin Tang ’70, trustee emeritus, and his sisters, Nadine Tang and Leslie Tang Schilling, donated $3 m i l l i o n

Philanthropies

In June 2016, The Atlantic Philanthropies a foundation created by Charles Feeney ’56 donated $16 25 million in grants to the Center for the Study of Inequality, the International Center on Capital Punishment and a new University welcome center Noyes Lodge previously housed the Language Resource Center, which has now been relocated to Stimson Hall

Event Planning Policies

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planning policies will be implemented starting July 1, according to Joseph Scaffido, director of campus activities and co-chair of the event management planning

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Club Seeks BRB Donations to Reduce Hunger

By WINNY SUN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell Students for Hunger Relief will host the seventh annual Big Red Food Drive, an initiative encouraging Cornellians to spend unused BRBs on non-perishable items to donate to local food pantries, from May 14th to 22nd at Robert Purcell Community Center and Noyes Community Center

“Cornell could try to address that need by encouraging students to spend their leftover BRBs and donate them ” J u l i e t R e m i ’ 2 0

Cornell Students for Hunger Relief is “ a student-run program that works to learn about and educate the Cornell community about the food wastage at Cornell, current local and national hunger issues, and what individuals can do to help,” according to the organization’s Facebook

page According to the president of the club, Juliet Remi ’20, the food drive began with the club’s founding in 2010 Remi said that the fact that Big Red Bucks, a University-run debit plan, does not roll over from the spring into the fall semester motivated the club to channel leftover BRBs “into the local community in need ” “In Tompkins County, one in seven individuals is at risk for hunger,” Remi said “[ The club’s founders] recognized the need and saw how Cornell could try to address that need by encouraging students to spend their leftover BRBs and donate them ”

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required for event planning, an overage assistance up to $1,000 for security costs that exceed pred

enforcement of current rules

The biggest change in policy is a shift in time required to fill out a

according to Mary Beth Grant

J D ’88, senior associate dean of students The new policy will require events to submit an Event Registration Form four weeks in a d va n c

T h e c u r re n t p o l i c y requires three weeks, a policy that Gr a n

a c k n ow l e d g e d w a s enforced leniently

This shift was concerning to Sasha Chanko ’19, president of Cornell Hillel “ The logistical issue of requiring more events to be planned earlier will make it more difficult to provide the same number and same quality programming that Hillel has been doing for the past few years, ” Chanko said

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Chanko said that he was “initially taken aback” when looking at the policy, and that he “did not think that most events at Cornell had issues in their planning, nor in regards to free speech ”

Vijay Pendakur, dean of students, said that nothing specifically instigated these changes, and that event planning policies have been “tweaked” many times in the past

The policy also states that there will be a “ protest space ” where demonstrators can organize According to Grant, these spaces will be picked with consideration to safety As a result, sidewalks and roads must remain clear, and there must be “ space between groups who disagree ” Grant acknowledged that visibility of the demonstrators is important to protest, and noted that this would be taken into consideration

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Facebook, according to Pendakur That information was then used to estimate the number of people expected at a protest Pendakur encouraged students organizing protests to file an ERF so that they could have more input in the process

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$600 to $1,400 High-level security events will range from about $2,300 to $3,900 Many events won ’ t require any security fees, at the discretion of CUPD These costs will be finalized in July, and updated July of the following year

Michael Johns ’20, incoming president of Cornell Republicans, said that the biggest difficulty

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‘heckler’s veto ’ –or, in this case, a ‘heckler’s tax ’ –on student organizations for bringing speakers they don’t like, by showing up and protesting the event The new policy codifies this trend by openly informing student groups that larger-than-expected protests will result in higher fees ”

Pendakur acknowledged this problem, noting the second big policy change: that the University would provide up to $1,000 for security fees that exceeded the original security quote that was provided by CUPD

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$1,000 in security costs exceeding

those costs in the fee rate schedule,” Grant said

Current outdoor protest policy dictates that demonstrations with amplification, like a megaphone, are only permissible outside Day Hall and Willard Straight Hall from noon to 1 p m According to Gr

unchanged

Yahya Abdul-Basser, incoming president for the Muslim E d u c

Association, said he worries that the changes “will severely restrict the ability of students to organize or respond quickly to events on and off campus ”

According to Chanko, “these policies reflect an administration that wants to protect free speech, both in terms of inviting speakers and acknowledging protests as a form of speech Yet, this policy errs on the side of caution and shows an unwillingness to take bigger risks by having the

protests when divisive speakers are brought to campus ”

The changes were suggested by students, faculty and admin-

Grant, who said that they have “received positive feedback for the events that used these procedures ”

A final for um for discussion and clarification of policy will be held on Friday at 3:30 p m in Willard Straight Hall

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun com

Risley Revives Middle Ages With Annual Fair

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On visit to Capitol Hill, senior advocates for increased federal funding for agriculture-related research and education

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

I D o n ’ t E v e n W a n n a Ta l k A b o u t I t

Ireally don’t wanna talk about it, and I shouldn’t even really, so I’m barely going to

The last few weeks have been surprising, disorienting and mainly just sad for anybody who has ever admired Kanye West as a musician, artist, public figure and person who doesn’t befriend alt-right figures and espouse their disgusting revisionist histories The music he has released during this time while it, as usual, sounds pretty good has either been a platform for his new, semi-incoherent ideology (“Ye vs the People”), or a troll so broad that it begs the question of whether he’s taking any of this shit even remotely seriously (“Lift Yourself ”) In the end, it doesn’t really matter all that much, at least to me, whether he actually believes what he’s been saying, or whether he just believes that he is continuing a long career of reactive, disruptive speech regardless of its content, or whether it’s all just a huge joke at the expense of everybody except for Donald Trump, Candace Owens and people who believe that 400 years of slavery were a choice

There has already been a lot written about all of this, and I don’t really feel I have that much to add to it, so I’d particularly recommend these two articles: Brentin Mock’s “ The Miseducation of Kanye West,” which argues for why Kanye’s dream to enter the architecture, design and planning world should not be fulfilled, and Ijeoma Oluo’s “How should white people talk about Kanye West?” the title of which speaks for itself

coherent speech and whose administration is literally a threat to over half of the American population, let alone the populations of other countries People whom I looked up to have been exposed as pathetic, impotent predators And we continue to take so little action towards slowing the changing of our climate, which according to Time magazine may make South Asia unliveable in 80 years In this context, Kanye’s new politics start to seem a bit less reactive and bit more reflective of the general chaos that characterizes this era

For me, this episode has felt representative of a larger trend during my time in college The world has continually revealed itself as an irreparably broken and fucked-up place Old sources of comfort and security have become hideous and threatening We voted in the first president who is truly incapable of saying two minutes of unprepared, on-topic,

It has been a remarkable, and at times remarkably stressful, time to be in college But at the same time, I am profoundly grateful that I was here during this time I had friends who, in contrast to Kanye’s line in “Father Stretch My Hands Pt 1,” very much wanted to talk about “it,” whatever the “it” of that week was And I am particularly grateful for the community that I found through the Arts and Entertainment section of the Cornell Daily Sun I made some of the best, truest, most intelligent, most thoughtful, most perceptive, most provocative and most loyal friends I’ve ever had through this section, and I will always remember this community as one that challenged me to think harder and longer before speaking or writing I have quite a lot of people to thank

Despite all the Amputations

I want to start by saying thank you to a long list of editors who crafted the section: Sean Doolittle ’16, Mike Sosnick ’16, Katie Sims ’20, Andrei Kozyrev ’20, Viri Garcia ’20, Lev Akabas ’19 and Pete Buonanno ’21 Thank you all for your vision, your advice and your patience And thank you particularly to Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15, whom I only met once or twice but whose writing I’ve been inspired (and very amused) by ever since

I’d also like to thank a few people who were not members of the Arts section, but who were deeply involved in my columns Thank you to Evan Czako ’18, whose music provided the inspiration for what I think may have been my best column (“Listen to My Friend Evan”) Thank you to Elie Kirshner ’18 and Amir Patel ’18, whose on-point quips provided the bulk of material for the column that was the most fun to write or more accurately, transcribe (“How Bad Can a Good Time Be?: A Discussion of Three Versions of U2’s New Single”) And thank you to Allison Considine ’17, who was of invaluable help in editing the column that was the most difficult to write, about the film It and the problems with fraternities (“The ‘It’ in Our Community) Finally, thank you to my Arts-section friends Thanks to Sam Bromer ‘16, who wrote one of the bravest and best final Arts columns ever written Sam, you had me at “ you had me at hello ” Thanks to Chris Stanton ’17, whose musical tastes converge so thoroughly with mine that we never run out of stuff to analyze Chris, we still got Frank, at least Thanks to Shay Collins ’18, who has been a good friend for four years and a good roommate for two Shay, it has been profoundly cool to watch you evolve in a year from a nervous kid strumming his guitar in front of twenty people to a full-on emotional-rollercoaster-inducing performer Thanks to Troy Sherman ’18, a fantastic friend and classmate Troy, you once drove me to Brooklyn and back in one night to see Vince Staples perform, and you ’ re the only person I know who would have read all of Finnegans Wake aloud with me; I think that alone says it all Thanks to Jael Goldfine ’17, with whom I’ve had some of the most meaningful conversations I’ve ever had Jael, I always miss you when you ’ re not around I’m leaving this place for good in a few weeks, and I don’t even wanna talk about it Be well, everybody I’ll miss all this

Jack Jones is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun com Despite all the Amputations appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

A C o n v e r s a t i o n W i t h A r t G a r f u n k e l

BY LEV AKABAS Arts & Entertainment Editor

Art Garfunkel, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performed at the Ithaca State Theatre Sunday night Through his solo work and collaborations with Paul Simon in the famous folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, he has earned eight Grammys over the course of his career Garfunkel is also an author, recently publishing What Is It All But Luminous, a book of poems, memoirs and stories In advance of his concert, I had the pleasure of talking to Garfunkel about his love for performing, his relationship with Paul Simon and the list of artists he has on his iPod

TH E SUN : What made you decide to come to Ithaca on this tour?

A G : I’m really interested in making a mark with campus kids I want them to come to my show and go, “There’s nothing dated about Garfunkel What an interesting role model for how a man can turn 76!” I want it to work between my age and your age

SU N: Is there anything different for you about performing now versus performing when you were younger?

A G : It’s very fresh It’s not old for me I’ll do “Sound of Silence” in the concert and I’ll do “Scarborough Fair” and I’ll approach the mic with a vitality that is alive and well in the present tense I say to myself, “Here comes the best Scarborough I ever sang ” It is not a repetitive experience for me The present tense is all we ever have, and I love this work Like never before, I’m into this stuff I lost my voice in

2010 and to have it back is like, “Thanks God ” I’ve never felt so strongly the fun of singing now that I have it back

SU N: How do you balance your career with Paul Simon versus your legacy as a solo singer?

A G : The Paul Simon thing has to be accommodated in the name of reality If I did a concert and I dropped “Homeward

with Right now I’m not particularly good friends with Paul Simon Like the weather, we have sweet days and unsweet days It’s boring It is what it is But I love this guy If you don’t love a deep, old friend, you don’t love your life

S U N : What’s your favorite memor y from your musical career?

Bound” I would feel coy Come on Why not give the audience their expectations? But then the rest is proportioned How much? I choose to go 50 percent Simon and Garfunkel And since I made 12 albums, I love them all And every time I make an album I’m deeply involved I’m a workaholic a perfectionist I love being in the studio because it’s a shy person ’ s pleasure You work when nobody sees you and you fix and polish So the craftwork of record-making is the thing I fell in love

A G : Stepping on stage at the concert in Central Park in 1981 You know, you get very happy by the size of your audience If you put out an album and it sells four million in the first month, that speaks very loud and clear and it makes you very happy When you show up years after you were a team and there you are, Simon and Garfunkel, and you ’ re half of it, and the size of the New York audience is beyond a half of a million, I turned to Paul and said, “I knew we did something right in the 60s I didn’t know it was this right!”

SU N: You asked me before how I think you ’ re seen among people of my generation How do you want to be seen?

A G : I want to be seen as a singer who can do the songs of anybody I had a fabulous run with Paul Simon and those hits are a delight to sing and to share, and they make up about half my show, but I want to be seen as kind of a Renaissance man: a guy who’s cooking I use the rule “ stay interested to yourself,” and that guides me through life, so I became a writer one of those guys who keeps a little notebook in their back pocket and I walk across countries I walked the United States I walked Europe, from Western Ireland to Istanbul Every step of the way I do it with installments I leave home, fly to Europe, do 120 miles, come back a week later Later in the year, I do another one I write For 30 years I’ve been writing And I finally just got the courage to put it into a book and see if it means anything I got an agent, we shopped around my book, I got a great response (I feel like Donald Trump touting myself ) But from that moment on, I thought, “I am a writer,” and I slipped into book world, to my shock and amazement I’m going to serve up about seven or eight of [my writings] during the show, interspersed between the songs

S U N : Any modern ar tists on your playlist?

A G : I made a parting of the ways with modern society

Lev Akabas is a Junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at arts@cornellsun com

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Letters to the Editor

CRPC members explain reasons for recommendation

To th e Ed itor:

Last week an editorial was published in the Cornell Sun criticizing the Consensual Relationship Policy Committee’s recommendation to President Martha Pollack of policy CRP-A that bans relationships between graduate/professional students and faculty who work in the same graduate field or degree program over CRP-B which allows for such relationships “provided there is disclosure and an appropriate recusal plan ” The contention lies over the failure of the policy committee to make it’s recommendation solely based on majority votes from the Student, Employee and University Assemblies, as well as the Faculty Senate as the author(s) of the editorial declares that “both pertinent branches of shared governance (the GPSA and Faculty Senate) voted overwhelmingly against the recommendation ”

While the author(s) of the editorial does take into account that the policy committee was candid in stating that “the votes held by the Student, Employee and University Assemblies, as well as the Faculty Senate, were nonbinding and would only be ‘considered’ by the committee,” the policy committee’s provided rationale, which can be found in the final report is also described in the editorial as not adequate Therefore, members of the Assemblies and Faculty Senate “deserve to know why their opinions were disregarded ”

The policy committee has acknowledged the division among the Cornell Community on CRP-A in the summary portion of the final report provided to President Pollack for consideration Appreciating that CRP-A comes at the cost of limiting people’s freedom of association, the committee has also recommended that the policy be revisited in three years to ensure it is appropriately serving the Cornell Community

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Week! I, for one, am proud to express my gratitude for my educators past and present from the comfort of my

attending class but still! Gratitude!

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Of course, generalizations are tricky In my twelve years of public schooling and subsequent three years at Cornell, I’ve had a variety of teachers I rememb e r m y s e c o n d - g r a d e t e a c h e r, M r s Sanders, loved frogs; although now, thirteen years later, I’m forced to question whether she loved frogs for herself or for her students My AP Language teacher solidified my interest in writing, and you, my loyal readers, are the oh-solucky beneficiaries Mostly, I’m thankful that all the teachers I’ve known have instilled in me the lesson that any sort of learning can be collaborative It’s never a solitar y process

College professors carr y a different sort of weight It’s extremely easy to feel academically inferior through the undergraduate years, and professors have the power to mitigate or exacerbate that I remember visiting a professor’s office hours some days after the class’s first prelim I’d scored a 95 percent on the exam, to which my professor’s reaction was: “that’s ver y low compared to your classmates Have you thought about dropping this class and retaking it next semester?” This came as a blow for obvious reasons, but it indicates to me that sometimes teachers themselves fail to see the influence that their words and opinions hold

There have also been professors at Cornell who have invested so much additional time and energy into my personal development than I would ever deem necessar y They’ve been pivotal not only in shaping my undergraduate career, but also in helping me extend myself to outside industries I imagine teaching is similar to parenting in some

ways the goal is usually identical: to educate but there are a plethora of a p p r o a c h e s To u g h l ov e , l a i d b a c k , unconditionally suppor tive, anywhere on the spectrum

Reflecting on the differences between primar y and higher education, the varied perceptions of K-12 teachers and university professors is understandable, yet discrepancies in the respect we offer the two is not Often, the intricacies of certain subjects or levels of concepts s e e m t o f u e l i n c o n s i s t e n c y i n t h e amount of value we place on the teacher Yet, the elementar y school teachers who taught us phonetics through worksheets and games are just as important as the collegiate professor who’s teaching us astrophysics You can ’ t have one without the other

Many of us don’t take issue with sites like Rate My Professor, where some teachers are praised but others are harshly criticized, but it has the potential to be extremely hurtful to those professors who do peruse it To evaluate a class is reasonable and objective course evaluation emails are sitting in my inbox this

v e r y m o m e n t b u t t o e v a l u a t e a teacher begs for subjectivity This raises the bigger issue are our responses to a c l a s s b a s e d o n t h e a s s i g n m e n t s a n d workload, which are largely arbitrar y and temporar y measures, or the actual passion and command conveyed by the professor? Some of the reviews on Rate My Professor demonstrate a tilt towards the former Often times, I err on the side of trivial factors myself, though it is an ongoing effort to recalibrate myself in favor of the subjects and lecturers themselves

We derive significant chunks of personal security and peace of mind from the knowledge we possess, and so much of this is passed along from teachers We couldn’t get there on our own So, thank you to my teachers Thanks for the easy tests that boost my ego and the impossible tests that show me how much I have to learn Thanks for the advice and the reassurance, and thanks, most of all, for the undying faith, even when my GPA could afford to be shunned

Priya Kankanhalli is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at

The Consensual Relationship Policy Committee, of which is made up of undergrads, graduate/professional students, postdocs, staff and faculty spanning fields across campus, was charged to craft an easy to abide by policy, taking into consideration research on other university policies, cases where consensual relationship policies failed to protect both students and faculty, and look into the broader context of societal change relevant to differentials in power dynamics in relationships, not act as a governing body responding to its constituents Creating a policy that would set into place clear boundaries for the broadest population was a response to this research and became an important mandate in recommending CRP-A

In addition, the policy committee also strived to gain insight from the larger Cornell Community by offering online platforms and the opportunity for anyone to provide feedback on a set of questions surrounding the issues as well as a public rough draft of the policy

Further, members and chairs of the policy committee also convened with many different campus communities to gain feedback from a variety of perspectives These outreach efforts included groups such as, Graduate Women in Science (GWiS), LGBT Studies and Out in STEM (oSTEM), to ensure that the concerns of marginalized and underrepresented groups like women and the LGBTQ community were taken into consideration while crafting the policy

Along with the Assemblies and Faculty Senate votes, and their rationales, all of the concerns and responses from the larger Cornell Community were carefully considered by the policy committee members during the decision process Therefore, the policy committee did not wholly abandon the democratic process but consulted many different parties on campus and recommended a more broadly considered and informed policy that provides bright lines to better serve all of the affected populations, thus maintaining an academic environment where any student has protections in place for their future careers and emotional well-being

Operating over the last 8 months, the policy committee has aimed to be as transparent as possible in its policy and decision making by providing online access to the public rough draft, meeting times, as well as minutes and other procedures All of this information can still be found online, including a “Rationale FAQ” and the statements of policy committee members explaining their reasoning behind recommending a policy Most of this information is also compiled in the “Proceedings of the Consensual Relationship Policy Committee ”

While the policy committee has attempted to provide ample transparency and rationale for its recommendation of CRP-A, arguably this has not been provided to the larger Cornell Community in a concise way Therefore, the rationale for the policy committee's decision to recommend CRP-A to President Pollack is summarized here Having an unambiguous bright line drawn at relationships between graduate/professional students and faculty within the same graduate field or degree program provides clear guidelines thus:

– Safeguarding against accidental violations of the policy or exploitation of vagaries in what constitutes authority providing protection to both faculty and students

– Granting graduate and professional students access to faculty based on their academic merits and ongoing needs While special committees, primary investigators, supervisors, collaborators, experts, and so forth, may not be part of the graduate/professional student’s field or degree program, those roles are significantly more likely to be filled by faculty within their fields Therefore, previous or ongoing relationships with faculty members in a student’s field could very well limit their ability to pursue unforeseen collaborations, mentors or careers

– Ensuring previous or ongoing relationships do not create conflicts of interest due to indirect authority Within their fields, graduate and professional students are subject to formal and informal evaluation by in-field faculty, even when those faculty are not teaching required courses or directly supervising the student The in-field ban effectively mitigates these types of conflict of interest

– Protecting students outside of the relationship that may experience bias due to favoritism of the student within a relationship, actual or perceived

– Considering the rights and protections of LGBTQ individuals by reducing the likelihood that disclosure would lead to unwanted or harmful outing Outing would be difficult to avoid with the required in-field recusal plan under CRP-B Thus, CRP-A grants fairly equal rights and protections to both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ individuals In the rare instances where CRP-A would require disclosure and recusal, a place to confidentially manage this (the 6 X Office) has been recommended

– Maximizing academic freedom while minimally limiting individual freedoms by prohibiting relationships that have the potential to do the most harm while allowing those across different fields or degree programs

Students should have the freedom to pursue their academic endeavors, regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation that is free of unwanted pressures or concerns about educational objectivity from authority figures who have the potential to affect their academic and professional careers CRP-A goes far towards creating this type of learning environment, thus upholding the sentiment of “ any person, any study” that is paramount to Cornell’s academic mission

Letter to the Editor

A call to arms for The Sun

To t h e Ed i t o r :

American newspaperman Philip Leslie Graham (1915–1963) was fond of saying that journalism is the “first rough draft of histor y, ” but sometimes that first draft is a long time coming

Just this month, The New York Times published N R “Sonny” Kleinfield’s thorough account of the April 1967 fire that took the lives of a Cornell assistant professor and eight students: “Never Solved, a College Dorm Fire Has Become One Man’ s Obsession ” Many will read this stor y as the belated search for a suspected arsonist, a miscreant who allegedly attacked and killed Cornellians, including members of the University’s novel Six-year Ph D Program But Kleinfield’s engrossing tale is primarily about alleged public corruption in a town-gown enclave: namely, collusion by Cornell University administrators, local law enforcement officials and the press to stall a criminal investigation

In June of 1967, after a second and third fire again struck the ‘Fud’ students who had been relocated from their damaged Cayuga Heights Residential Club dormitor y, Ithaca Police Chief Herbert L Van Ostrand (1907–1997), Ithaca Fire Chief Charles M Weaver ’39 (1917–1992) and Tompkins County District Attorney Richard Byron Thaler ’53, LLB ’56 (1932–2017) each stated for the record that they suspected the first fatal fire to be arson

But then the stor y died completely The last mentions of any active criminal investigation were in The New York Times (3 June 1967), The Ithaca Journal (17 August 1967), The Cornell Alumni News (October 1967) and The Cornell Daily Sun (5 April and 13 May 1968) Kleinfield reports that one of the last two living police investigators, Harlin R McEwen, doubts that the Res Club fire was arson, insisting that any inquir y is a trip “down a rabbit hole ” Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten appears to be more than a little vague about the homicide question despite his April 2017 admission, “ We do know that the fire was of human origin ”

So, we have gone from official certainty in 1967 that the fatal fire was arson to doubt in 2018 with no evidence of any kind to justify this bureaucratically convenient revision Three questions remain Were these nine deaths murders? Why did the criminal investigation stall without any result? Why did a feckless press corps allow this tragedy to slip into a half-centur y memor y hole?

There is still work to be done This is not a search for the murderer; it is an investigation into why and how that law enforcement search was aborted

The Cornell Daily Sun may have dropped the ball in 1968, but I give this student newspaper credit for reopening a case that the University would like to remain forgotten In 2014, former Managing Editor Tyler Richard Alicea, Cornell ’16, wrote a stor y about the alumni investigation and revealed the existence of a April 17,1967 letter by Steven Muller (1927–2013), Vice President for Public Affairs, complaining to University President James Alfred Perkins (1911–1998) about the policy of “official silence” imposed by Board of Trustees Chairman Arthur Hobson Dean ’21 (18991987) Then last year, Mar y Elizabeth “Meg” Gordon, Cornell ’20, wrote a fine piece on the tragic fire’s 50th anniversar y Finally, I was allowed to slip in a published letter that addressed similarities between the 1894 Cornell Chlorine Banquet (the inadvertent murder of a black cook, Mrs Henrietta Jackson), the 1903 typhoid epidemic (82 deaths, including 29 Cornell students, due to fecal contamination in the Ithaca water supply) and the 1967 Res Club tragedy

This is the quintessential Cornell Tradition: inadvertent murder, befuddled police, never a trial and the miscreants escape careers untroubled, unhindered Then all is forgotten Any memorial to the dead is sanitized; the underlying cause of death manslaughter, chicaner y, malfeasance is purged from the record As Vonnegut said, “And so it goes ”

Speaking for the families of those who died and the sur vivors who escaped some of whom were attacked twice, I call upon The Cornell Daily Sun to finish this inquir y

Another surge of investigative journalism might tell us (1) when the original criminal investigation petered out, (2) if the original assessment by officials that the first lethal fire was an act of arson is correct, (3) when law enforcement authorities first learned that one ‘ person of interest’ had purloined a new identity circa 1968, (4) why that person was sent down (rusticated), and (5) precisely when this occurred Neither the identity of that person nor information that would compromise the case is required to answer those five questions

The answers are in the files of TCDA Matthew Van Houten, the Cayuga Heights Police Department and Cornell’s Office of the University Counsel You can anticipate that all will resist cooperation and access, but the press is not powerless Persistence, carefully worded questions and published reports of ever y refusal encountered will erode the “official silence” that Steven Muller complained of a half-centur y ago

Finally, you have access to some of the best advice going Cornell alumni who ran the Sun back in the 1960s and have since risen to positions of influence in journalism Ask for their help Get them involved Their experience in dealing with recalcitrant officials will be invaluable

And do not forget technical resources The STEM departments at Cornell can help by critically reviewing reports of chemical assay and by modeling fire propagation in the Res Club structure to address the questions about fluid accelerants that were raised in 1967 That appears to be a ver y sensitive matter to both Van Houten and McEwen Let’s find out why

This will be a tough nut to crack and it will take time, but if The Sun does not take up the task, who will?

DongYeon (Margaret)

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Instead, the Red will have to travel up I-81 to the Carrier Dome, where it will face eighthseeded Syracuse in the round of 16 of the national playoffs

Cornell is the team traveling in this matchup, despite having defeated Syracuse head-to-head earlier this season What’s more, the Red won the Ivy tournament, boasted a top-10 RPI and lost only four games all resume pieces that Syracuse is lacking

A c c o rd i n g t o t h e N C A A Division I men ’ s lacrosse selection committee chairman John H a rd t , S y r a c u s e ’ s 3 - 1 r e c o rd against common opponents to C o r n e l l ’ s 2 - 2 record against c o m m o n opponents was enough to outw e i g h Cornell’s other a d v a n t a g e s ov e r t h e Orange “ The committee spent a lot of time looking at this matchup,” Hardt said on the selection show on ESPNU “Cornell had a nice head-to-head win over Syracuse earlier in the season Quite frankly, Cornell had a couple of b a d l o s s e s t o C o l g a t e a n d Princeton We thought the overa l l p r o f i l e g a v e t h e e d g e t o Syracuse ” For its part, the Red feels as though it is ready to travel to

win over the Orange “I would have loved to have another game on Schoellkopf, but we ’ re fired up to go to the D o m e , ” s a i d s e n i o r c a p t a i n Jordan Dowiak “ We can ’ t wait to get after them this weekend ” Dowiak is one of just five current Cornell players to have ever stepped on the field during an NCAA tournament game, with

“Cornell had a couple of bad losses to Colgate and Princeton We thought the overall profile gave the edge to Syracuse

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The game will begin at 7:15 p m next Sunday at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse