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The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 132, No. 85
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016
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ITHACA, NEW YORK
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Opinion
Arts
Sports
Weather
How We See Death
The Mess That Is Kanye
Runing for the Ranks
Snow HIGH: 34º LOW: 13º
The media presents death differently depending on the ethnicity of the victim, writes Columnist Kaby Habr ’18. | Page 7
Kanye’s new album is like the man itself: complex, messy and brilliant, says Jack Jones ’18.
Junior James Growans joined an elite group of runners when he broke a four minute mile this weekend. | Page 15
Projected Tuition Increase Emblematic of Larger Trend By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer
Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced at a Student Assembly meeting last Thursday that Cornellians will see a nearly four percent rise in tuition in the 2016-17 academic year. Kotlikoff said both endowed and contract non-resident tuition would rise 3.75 percent in coming months. Campus housing and dining costs will also increase by two percent, according to the provost. Kotlikoff emphasized that the proposed 20162017 tuition represents the lowest percentage increase for the endowed tuition rate since 1965, adding that the cost of tuition has decreased for
low-income families in recent years. “This is not something you hear in the paper often and is not apparent to many people, but in fact, the price of education has come down dramatically for the lowest three family income quintiles for applying students,” he said. In the past, administrators have cited ncrease for tuition, room, board and mandatory fees for endowed college and out-of-state contract college students to justify tuition increases. In 2015, endowed college and out-of-state contract students experienced a three-percent increase in tuition, room, board and mandatory fees. Undergraduate tuition increased $1,830,
Return of a goddess
See TUITION page 5
Cost of Tution (In Thousands of Dollars)
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History of Cornell’s Tuition Rates
Tuition increases | Data indicates a steady rise in tution rates since 2008.
Composer Prof. Steve Stucky Ph.D.’78 Dies at 66 Founder of Ensemble X called ‘attuned to the human condition’ By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer
Prof. Emeritus Steve Stucky Ph.D. ’78, music, a widely acclaimed composer and Pulitzer Prize winner, died Sunday at his home in Ithaca. He was 66. Stucky taught at Cornell for 34 years, during which he founded Ensemble X — a musical collaboration between Ithaca College and Cornell faculty. He retired last year to teach at the Juilliard School, according to a Department of Music press release. Stucky was born in Kansas and studied at Baylor University in addi-
tion to Cornell. He won the 2005 listened to them and created music Pulitzer Prize in Music for ‘Second that people would want to listen to and Concerto for Orchestra,’ a piece com- would give meaning to them.” Stucky dedicated a great missioned by the Los deal of time to improving Angeles Philharmonic. his work, believing that he Stucky worked with this could not rely on talent group for 21 years, the alone, according to Prof. longest affiliation in Kevin Ernste, music. American orchestral history, according to the University. “His approach re Prof. Steven Pond, quired hard work, persemusic, attributed the sucverance, clarity of purcess of Stucky’s music to its pose and technique, but STUCKY ’78 universality. also a lot of heart,” Ernste “He was finely attuned to the said. “The work resulted from his human condition,” Pond said. “He See STUCKY page 4 believed in people, understood people,
In Ithaca Visit,Schumer Supports Local Road Safety By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer
MICHAELA BREW / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
A plaster cast of the Flying Nike— the Greek goddess of victory — is displayed in the atrium of Klarman Hall. It is the first of a historic series of plaster casts to be displayed in the atrium.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) visited the Ithaca Commons Monday to support the City’s efforts to improve road safety. He announced that $40 million in funding is available to improve highway safety, including projects on Ithaca roads, according to a press release. Schumer held a news conference Monday afternoon outside the Simeon’s On the Commons
restaurant, which is still under construction after a traffic accident, according
Route 79, killing Amanda Bush — a bartender at Simeon’s — and her
to the press release. The incident initiated a traffic safety overhaul, according
Schumer previously called on the Federal Highway Administration to conduct a road safety audit near the Commons. to The Ithaca Journal. On June 20, 2014, a tractor trailer crashed into the restaurant’s entrance at the intersection of Route 96 B and
unborn child, and injuring seven others. Investigators determined that the intersection had previously experienced close calls and accidents, according
to The Journal. Since the collision, the city has made road safety changes that include better signage and brake test stops before trucks enter Ithaca.
Schumer previously called on the Federal Highway Administration to conduct a road safety audit near the Commons, according to the press release. With the audit complete, the city was able to implement these smaller, less costly safety improvements. The City of Ithaca will also apply for funding to redesign traffic flow near and through the intersection, See SCHUMER page 4