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Hailing from Newtown, Pa., Drew Musto is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Class of 2019. He is a Senior Editor on the 135th Editorial Board and can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.
At Bailey Hall, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recalled the culture shock of arriving at Princeton as an undergraduate and said she had been determined to “hold on to who I was” when she joined the nation’s highest court. She also said she preferred bourbon over beer.
Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice, will be joined by retired judge Richard C. Wesley J.D. ’74, her former colleague on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, for a conversation moderated by Cornell Law School Dean Eduardo Peñalver ’94.
The professors’ letter said the complaint against Patil is rife with “glaring factual errors” and, even if true, does not amount to a Title IX offense.
The complaint was lodged by a former physics Ph.D. student who previously accused Patil’s advisor Prof. Mukund Vengalattore, physics, of sexual assault.
Chantelle Cleary, incoming Title IX coordinator, told The Sun that she was drawn to Cornell because of the opportunity to work with future leaders on developing meaningful prevention and education efforts surrounding sexual and interpersonal violence.
Sarah Affel has led Cornell’s Title IX Office through a thicket of lawsuits, external investigations and a substantial shift in policy under the Trump administration.
A Cornell sophomore who the University found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman lost a lawsuit against Cornell this month.
A male graduate is suing Cornell in federal court, claiming that he was treated unfairly and unlawfully during a University Title IX investigation.
The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights closed a Title IX probe this Tuesday; now, there are only four on-going probes investigating Cornell, down from an all-time high of six.
The collaboration, which would take place after the S.A. tables the vote scheduled for Thursday, would result in a long-term funding model for the Cinema.