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Students enjoy hotel-like living while encountering social isolation in new North Campus dorms. | Page 3
Katherine Yao '23 discusses her favorite breakfast foods for busy students.
Krupa Sekhar travels to India to research asthma adherence treatment.
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CC Arts Hosts Fifth Cornell Biennial “Futurities, Uncertain:" exhibited across campus and Ithaca By JONATHAN WU Sun Contributor
The Cornell Council for the Arts is hosting its fifth Cornell Biennial with a rotating series of exhibitions, installations, performances and artist panels through December. Exhibited across the University campus, Ithaca and surrounding upstate regions, as well as the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, this year’s show centers around the theme: “Futurities, Uncertain.” The featured creators includes invitational artists, affiliates of the Mellon Public Curatorial Expression Program, as well as Cornell faculty and students who participated in the CCA’s open call competition for artwork submissions this past winter. According to Prof. Timothy Murray, comparative literature, curator of the past three biennials and director of the CCA, the arts show aims to reorient traditional thinking about the future that is oftentimes based on preconceived notions. “We asked artists to think about how our relationship with presentness gets impacted by the precarity of the future now as we’ve come to understand it through COVID, global warming, the Black Lives Matter movement, continual pressure put
on Indigenous communities, as well as intensive pressure put on the health of women and people of different sexualities,” Murray said. The biennial features artwork aimed at both educating students and the general public on pressing societal issues, while highlighting and introducing these themes in a new light. For instance, the Circulating Matters outdoor installation touches base on the future of the construction industry in the face of climate change. It was composed of reused materials from the deconstruction of a 1910 residential structure in Collegetown that was originally slated for demolition. Circulating Matters, designed by Prof. Felix Heisel, architecture, in conjunction with the Circular Construction Lab, of which he serves as director, is part of an overarching research project on promoting the circular construction economy and scaling reuse throughout Ithaca and communities across the world. To continue reading this story, please visit www.cornellsun. com.
Jonathan Wu can be reached at jw2452@cornell.edu.
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Hazing awareness | Signs lined up around the Arts
Quad from sororites and fraternities for hazing prevention.
Greek Life Stands Up To Hazing By SOFIA CHIERCHIO Sun Staff Writer
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Show of artistry | Cornell Biennial has a multitude of exhibitions, installations, performances and artist panels.
Hazing is a national issue that has plagued many college campuses, including Cornell. To grapple with the realities of hazing, Monday kicked off National Hazing Prevention Week, an opportunity for universities, specifically Greek Life communities, to come together to stand up against hazing. This year, Cornell hosted Michelle Guobadia, director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, to share her experiences with hazing
and educate others on the dangerous effects of hazing in Greek Life, sports teams and other organizations. Guobadia, a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. at the University of Delaware, explained how, during her time as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, she had not only experienced hazing during her pledging period, but she also became a perpetrator. “No one joined my chapter for two years because people were literally afraid of my organization,” Guobadia said. See HAZING page 3
Ithaca Becomes an Abortion Sanctuary City By RACHEL KODYSH Sun Staff Writer
Ithaca officially became an abortion sanctuary city as a result of a Common Council amendment to the city’s municipal code on July 6. The council passed the amendment following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June. The amendment prevents city employees from disclosing the health information of those who seek abortions in Ithaca with out-of-state law enforcement. If private information is revealed, the amendment explicitly grants citizens the right to sue the city. Robert Cantelmo grad, alderperson of Ithaca’s 5th Ward and chair of Ithaca’s
City Administration Committee, spearheaded the legislation. “I tried to think of ways that we could step up as a community given the failings of the federal government,” Cantelmo said. Cantelmo got the idea for the abortion sanctuary city from an existing article in the municipal code, that similarly prevents city employees from cooperating with immigration control organizations such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “With its unanimous passage, we are signaling that we have a very strong commitment to making sure this is upheld,” Cantelmo said about the unanimous vote from the Common Council.
as End Abortion Stigma and Planned Parenthood, according to Cantelmo. “We need to provide these protections and signal to the community that we are a place that supports their values and their rights to bodily autonomy,” Cantelmo said. Muna Mohammed ’24 believes that there shouldn’t be laws regulating reproductive rights and is in support of Ithaca’s new policy. CAMERON POLLACK / SUN FILE PHOTO
Protest | Ithacans protest for abortion rights on Jan. 21, 2017.
The policy received support from local reproductive health organizations such
To continue reading this story, please visit www.cornellsun.com. Rachel Kodysh can be reached at rkodysh@cornellsun.com.