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The beloved brunch spot will soon welcome new ownership.
Stephanie Beatriz delivered an insightful and inspiring talk on Friday night.
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Women’s hockey notches two wins en route to a regular season ECAC title.
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Love Is Hot on a Wintry Campus, Survey Finds By KATHRYN STAMM and OLIVIA WEINBERG Sun Staff Writers
Valentine’s Day has descended upon the Hill, bringing with it chocolate, flowers and a hot pink clock tower. Despite the bitter cold and a barrage of snow, Cornellians’ hearts seem to be warm: 45 percent of student respondents reported that they are in love. To find out whether students truly “work hard, play hard,” The Sun conducted a survey asking students all about their relationship statuses, dating in the digital age and their sexual habits. The survey was shared over Facebook posts, Tweets, emails, text messages and GroupMe chats over the course of two weeks in February. While the survey was anonymous, it collected some demographic information, including gender identity and academic year. The majority of the 515 survey respondents self-identified as female — 74.76 percent — with 22.72 percent of respondents being male. The remainder identified as non-binary, genderqueer or something else. The sophomore class represented the most respondents with 33.2 percent. Juniors followed at
26.8 percent, seniors at 26.6 percent, first-years at 9.3 percent and graduate students at 4.1 percent. The second installation of the survey offered the following insights into the more intimate side of student life. Relationships: It’s Complicated
Fourty-eight percent of respondents said they’ve made it official, with 59 percent of those students reporting having been in a relationship for a year or longer. Five students — one first-year, one sophomore, one junior and two graduate students — are married and one sophomore is engaged. The breakdown of relationship status by gender is more balanced this year, with just 47 percent of women reporting being in relationships and 49 percent of men (last year, 45 percent of women and 38 percent of men said they were cuffed). Juniors are the undergraduate class dating the most — the survey found 57 percent of respondents are in a relationship. 62 percent of graduate students, 49 percent of seniors and 40 percent of sophomores are also in committed relationships. First-years are in the fewest relationships, but at 31 percent, they seem to be pretty productive. SABRINA XIE / SUN DESIGN EDITOR
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Stephanie Beatriz Speaks on Race Professors Call On Cornell to Divest And Representation in TV Media From Fossil Fuels The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star headlines Bailey By KATHRYN STAMM Sun Staff Writer
On a blustery cold Valentine’s Day night, Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Stephanie Beatriz warmed a crowded Bailey Hall with conversation about her love for storytelling and the media industry.
answered audience questions, which ranged from her favorite scenes that never made it to the screen to first date advice. Beatriz first found acting through a “fluke” in junior high. She couldn’t afford to pay for art class and the choir teacher “didn’t think the class was for her,” so she ended up in a storytelling and debate class. Acting in school plays through middle and high school, Beatriz described always being drawn to stories, but as she looked toward her future, she didn’t see room for herself in the TV industry. “I had this very clear thought of television isn’t for me, because only beautiful people are on television,” she said. “And really only white people are on television.” But Beatriz said she had a BEN PARKER / “blind faith,” SUN ASSISTANT
Moderated by Prof. Samantha Sheppard, performing and media arts, the talk covered many aspects of Beatriz’s career, from playing “stereotypical” Latina characters that made her uncomfortable to performing as the “complex” Rosa Diaz on NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. During the Cornell University Programming Board event, Beatriz also
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and decided to study theater in college. “I had this faith about my reason for being on the planet,” she told the audience. “[Acting] felt like a vocation.” When she was cast in her first TV roles, which included guest appearances on ABC’s Modern Family and Disney Channel’s Jessie, it was “tricky” to address race. The characters she played were “really full of stereotypes,” so she had to balance needing stable employment with her own comfort and values. After her early TV appearances, Beatriz’s agent asked what kinds of shows she would be most interested in, to which she always replied: “Parks and Rec.” Eventually, she heard about a pilot for a new show, created by Parks and Recreation writer and producer Dan Goor and See BEATRIZ page 3
ANIL OZA Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell Faculty Senate introduced a resolution on Wednesday to support divestment from fossil fuels and will take a final vote at its next meeting on March 11. This vote is taking place alongside similar divestment votes from every governing assembly on campus, including the Employee Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University Assembly and Student Assembly. Prof. Robert Howarth, ecology and environmental biology, introduced the reso“This is morally lution to the Faculty reprehensible, it’s Senate, citing the pressing threat of not like other climate change. divestment “Unlike other issues.” divestment causes, fossil fuels run the Prof. Robert Howarth very high risk of doing serious damage to our planet and thus establishes clear differences from other issues of divestment,” Howarth said at the meeting. The resolution calls for no future investment in fossil fuels, in addition to diverting current assets “in an orderly manner and as rapidly as possible.” If this resolution passes in each governing body, then the Board of Trustees will have to confront fossil fuel divestment again at its March 20 meeting. The Board of Trustees last touched on the issue See DIVEST page 5