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Rachel Whalen

Rachel Whalen is a member of the class of 2019 in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a news editor on the 135th Editorial Board and can be reached at rwhalen@cornellsun.com.

Former Cornell Prof. Richard Thaler wins what many consider to be an overdue Nobel Prize in economics.
Economics

Former Cornell Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

By Rachel Whalen | October 10, 2017

Former Cornell Prof. Richard Thaler took home the prize in what was apparently an overdue win for the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences on Monday.

Nagee Green has been found guilty for second degree murder.
Cornell Murder

Ithaca Man Found Guilty of Murder on Cornell’s Campus

By Rachel Whalen, Anna Delwiche and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | September 28, 2017

The murder happened on Aug. 28, 2016, when Anthony Nazaire — a 19-year-old Ithaca college student — was fatally stabbed in front of Olin Hall.

Khansa Mahum’s ’19 artwork on the Willard Straight Hall walls during the BSU occupation.
Willard Straight Hall

Provocative Art Adorns Willard Straight Hall During Takeover

By Rachel Whalen | September 21, 2017

While students were streaming into Willard Straight for the sit-in, four posters loomed in the entrance, each with one word of Cornell’s “any person, any study” motto. Khansa Mahmun’s ’19 art was a way of reclaiming that phase.

Martha Pollack addresses the SA in April 2017. Pollack issued a letter to President Trump on Friday urging him not to end the DACA program.
DACA

Pollack Tells Trump to ‘Preserve and Defend’ DACA Program

By Rachel Whalen | September 2, 2017

“On behalf of Cornell University, I write to share my deepest concern with news reports indicating that you intend to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program,” Pollack wrote to Trump.

The Ithaca Police Department was leading the search for a person who went missing in the gorges on Saturday.
News

NYS Dive Team Finds Dead Body of Cornell Student in Ithaca Falls Gorge

By Rachel Whalen and Drew Musto | August 5, 2017

Perez Ventura, found dead in the Ithaca Falls gorge on Saturday evening, was an incoming Cornell student born in the Dominican Republic.

The incident took place as many students and parents are on campus during Cornell’s move-in weekend and the beginning of orientation week. The University police will be increasing their patrols in the area.
collegetown

Collegetown Residents Forcibly Touched Through Their Bedroom Windows

By Rachel Whalen | August 3, 2017

The police were not able to find the suspect, who is allegedly a clean-shaven white male in his 30s, according to a media release.

Cornell Tech's Roosevelt Island campus, as depicted in this rendering, will collaborate with Citigroup this fall.
News

Cornell Tech Announces Collaboration with Citigroup

By Rachel Whalen | July 25, 2017

In its partnership with Citi, Cornell Tech students will learn about cyber security, data applications and the use of technological products in professional banking applications, according to a press release.

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Fraternity suspension

Fifth Greek Organization Suspended Since Start of Semester

By Rachel Whalen | April 20, 2017

According to the University’s statement, the interim suspension is “used when details of credible report compel the university to cease activities of the organization for the safety of the members, those joining, or guests.”

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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Award-Winning Poet, Professor Captures ‘Spirit of Caribbean’

By Rachel Whalen | April 18, 2017

“The spirit of Caribbean-ness and those kinds of things, they’re so intertwined in the psyche,” he said. “Yes, you suffer from this wound, this immense desire to want to be there, to be engaging with the physical landscape and so on and so forth — but those things are inside of you.”

Student Assembly
The Student Assembly passes the resolution without dissent.

S.A. Passes Bill Urging University to Oppose Local Pipeline, Cut Ties with Wells Fargo

By Rachel Whalen | April 16, 2017

“Having these local pipelines is … eventually in the long-run, going to hurt [Cornell’s] environmental goals.”

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