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Cornellians Urge Change in Campus Sex Culture

By YUN SOO

Association of American Universities sexual assault study, administrators and students stressed the need for a greater change in campus culture regarding the issues

“As President [Elizabeth] Garrett stated in her message to the community, even one instance of sexual assault is one too many, ” said Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, and Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, in a joint-statement “Sexual harassment and violence have no place in our community ”

The administrators, referring to a campus-wide email sent by Garrett concerning the results of the survey on Monday, stressed that while Cornell has “devoted substantial attention and resources ” to combating sexual assault, more work needs to be done

“We are focused on improving our climate, and see these results as additional information to add to what we already know ”

stand and respond to what our students and others are saying,” they said

and Opperman said the campus “needs to start upstream by fostering a sense of community and challenging traditional student social interactions that create a risky climate ”

“ We will continue to work closely with campus resources including the LGBT Resource Center, Women’s Resource Center, Gannett Health Services and other organizations to clearly identify any and all issues these students, as well as faculty and staff, may be facing,” they said

Despite the low response rate of 19 percent of Cornell students, both Lombardi and Opperman said the results of

the survey still hold importance

“We would have preferred a higher response as it is important that every student voice be heard on this issue But we take these results seriously,” they said, adding that the survey, combined with meetings with Cornellians from across campus, will be considered in future conversations

“We are focused on improving our climate, and see these results as additional information to add to what we already know We also hope that an increasing number of

students will use these surveys, as well as Council on Sexual Violence Prevention and other student organizational meetings, to make their voices heard,” they added

Students Respond

Vrinda Shukla ’17 said she was “surprised by the amount of people who reported witnessing a drunk[en]

Student Wins Humor Prize for Bee Sting Research S.A. Fall Elections

Rates pain of more than 100 stings on 25 different body parts

By ISABEL LING

Many people vividly remember their first bee sting, but Michael Smith grad will be sure to remember the more than 100 stings he experienced all over his body from his skull to his penis, which eventually yielded his Ig Nobel Prize

Last Thursday, Smith received The Ig Nobel Prize, which honors humorous scientific research that “first makes you laugh, then think ” The award presentations are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and often feature real Nobel Laureates awarding Ig Nobels to researchers

insects on a scale of zero to four

“Humor is really important in science, ” Smith said “Nobody should be taking themselves too seriously It’s a good way to get people interested and encourages people to explore ne w stuff ”

Clad in a honeybee costume, Smith received the Entomology and Physiology Prize along with his collaborator Justin Schmidt, the creator of the Schmidt Pain Index, which measures the pain of stings from different

Smith, who is a graduate student in neurobiology and behavior, said his research on honeybee stings intended to study the pain levels of stings in correlation to location on the human body

Working with Schmidt to determine which parts of the body to test, Smith said he had honeybees sting him on 25 body parts three times, rating the pain on a scale from one to 10

According to Smith’s report, the body parts where stings hurt the least were the skull, middle toe tip and upper arm, which all scored a 2 3, whereas the body parts that hurt the most were the nostril, upper lip and the penis shaft,

scoring a 9 0, 8 7 and 7 0 respectively

Smith, who first became interested in honeybees while beekeeping in high school, said, “I’ve been working with honeybees for 10 years, so being stung is just a part of the work As a scientist, when there’s a question, I have to go through with it in order to get an answer ”

In addition, he added that he chose honeybees because they scored in the middle range of Schmidt’s Pain Index “I just fell in love with [the honeybees],” Smith said “They’re a really cool superorganism They’re all individuals, but they’re working as one ”

Through this study, Smith concluded that location is a reliable predictor of pain when it comes to stings

When not working on his research, Smith said he is an active member of the Beekeeping Club and Cornell Garden Plots

By MADELINE COHEN

With the highest voter turnout for Fall Student Assembly elections in the past three years, four freshman Dustin Liu ’19, Varun Devatha ’19, Miranda Kasher ’19 and Paul Russell ’19 and one transfer representative Jordan Chessin ’18 were elected Tuesday

According to the Office of Assemblies, 44 6 percent of the combined freshman and sophomore classes voted in this fall’s SA elections, an increase from last year ’ s 39 7 percent turnout and greater still than the 37 1 percent of 2013

Eighteen candidates ran for these five positions 16 for four freshman representative positions and two ran for one transfer position Liu received 691 votes, the most in the freshman race, followed by Devatha, who received 478, Kasher, who received 366, and Russell, who received 346

Chessin received 86 of the 138 transfer votes

The new representatives expressed a range of goals they hope to achieve as new members of the