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Students Hunger for Diversity
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On Saturday night, Jewish and Muslim Cornell students gathered at 104West!, the multi-cultural kosher dining hall, to break the fasts of Yom Kippur and Ramadan.
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Cornellians, Ithacans Rally for Jena 6
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Correction appended. See below.
Yesterday afternoon, a large group, most dressed in black, gathered on Ho Plaza under a tree strung with six nooses.
The group, consisting of students, faculty and members of the Ithaca community, was gathered for a demonstration held by the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., in support of the Jena Six, each represented by a noose.
Racial tensions erupted in violence in Jena, Louisiana last August, when a group of black students sat under a tree at Jena High School where white students typically sat.
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U.A. Discusses Code of Conduct
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The University Assembly’s Codes and Judicial Committee held a meeting yesterday to discuss its work on the Campus Code of Conduct.
The CJC’s main order of business was deciding how best to inform the Cornell community of an open forum it is holding Oct. 2 in the Memorial Room of The Straight. At the forum, all community members will be invited to share their comments and concerns regarding what CJC chair Kathleen Rourke calls the CJC’s “revised” Code of Conduct.
The CJC contains 12 voting members who represent undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff. According to Peggy Beach, supervisor of the office of assemblies and director of campus relations, the 12 members are responsible for reviewing and suggesting changes of the Code of Conduct to the U.A.
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Cornell Considers Gender-Neutral Living
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Cornell University has been making an effort in recent years to foster diversity and tolerance, promoting concepts like gender-neutrality to ensure the comfort and safety of students who Gwendolyn Dean, coordinator of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Resource Center called “gender non-conforming.”
One event at Cornell featuring a gender-neutral environment occured last fall in the form of Hillel-sponsored speed dating. Ga’avah, Cornell’s LGBTQ Jewish group, held speed-dating for members of the LGTBQ community upstairs in Trillium. Graduate students also had a speed-dating event on the second floor, so that, according to Nomi Fridman, Ga’avah’s faculty advisor, no one going upstairs would stand out.
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Remembering Hurricane Katrina
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A vigil to commemorate the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was held yesterday in Anabel Taylor Hall. The event was organized by the Cornell students who traveled with Hillel and Black Students United on the trip to help rebuild New Orleans after the disaster. Approximately 40 people attended.
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Acacia Celebrates 100 Years at C.U.
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This weekend, the Cornell chapter of Acacia celebrated its 100th anniversary on campus, commemorating the occasion with a series of events designed to bring together alumni and current students.
The centennial celebration began Friday evening with a reception at Duffield Hall. The highlight of the evening was the presentation of brother Thomas J. Balcerski’s ’05 book, “Acacia Fraternity at Cornell: The First Century.” Balcerski said writing the book gave him the chance to meet older alumni whom he called “men of the highest character.”
James Showacre ’50, who until last year remained a treasurer of Acacia, called the book a “tremendous undertaking.” He also said he was “amazed at the turnout” of the event, which drew over 150 Acacia alumni.
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Profs Design First-of-Kind Telescope
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Astronomers at Cornell and the California Institute of Technology are partnering up with astronomers from universities around the world to build a telescope in Chile. The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope, which will emit waves at sub-millimeter frequencies, will be the largest sub-millimeter telescope in the world once it is completed in 2013. The telescope will use the sub-millimeter technology to view objects far in outer space. Since light takes time to travel, the further one looks away from the earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way, the older the light will be. According to Prof. Gordon Stacey, astronomy, Ph.D. ’85, chair of the project’s instrumentation group, this means that the CCAT will be able to “look for the earliest galaxies,” including those that are approximately 12 billion years old, formed only one billion years after the Big Bang.
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Exploring Culture at C.U. Program Houses
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This article appears in the 2007 edition of The Sun’s annual Freshman Issue. In addition to the numerous dorms on North and West Campuses, apartments in Collegetown and scattered fraternity and sorority houses, there are nine residential program houses in which Cornell students may live. All Cornellians, including freshmen, may apply to live in these houses, the majority of which are located on freshman-dominated North Campus. The program houses are dorms or sections of dorms where students with an interest in the house’s particular theme can choose to live together. Many of the houses also let students pay a programming fee to join the house and have full access to its programs without living in the house.
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Prof Links Childhood Stress to Adult Problems
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Gary Evans, the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, wrote a paper in which he investigated the link between the children’s chronic exposure to risk and their subsequent tendencies to contract diseases later in life. Pilyoung Kim grad, Albert Ting ’98, Harris Tesher ’03 and Dana Sjanis ’03 worked on the paper with Evans. It was published in “Developmental Psychology” in March.
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Cornell Mock Trial Team Finishes Third in National Competition
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The Cornell Mock Trial Organization came in second place in their division and third place of the 64 teams overall at the National Intercollegiate Championship Mock Trial Tournament held April 13 to 15 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Previously, the highest the team had been ranked in the tournament was last year when they finished in 34th place.