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Alum Collection Of Memorabilia Worth Thousands By BECKY HAN Sun Contributor
TAMARA KAMIS / SUN STAFF WRITER
Sitting in the Straight | Protesters meet in Willard Straight Hall to host a teach-in about the relationship between the climate and labor.
Four Activist Groups Stage Teach-In
After march from Bailey Hall to Willard Straight, protesters sit over an hour to condemn climate change effects, labor practices in Qatar By TAMARA KAMIS
to Palantir, a data mining company that has played a role in designing ICE’s software for deportation operations, according to the MIT Technology Review. More than 20 student activists marched and gave speeches on Cintron was also concerned about the possibility of a more Friday to raise awareness of injustices around the world impacting direct association between Cornell and labor practices in Qatar, migrants and refugees and their intersections with climate change. a country recently under scrutiny for labor concerns. Protesters from Climate Justice Cornell, Friends of According to Human Rights Watch’s 2020 report, there are Farmworkers, Cornell Dream Team over 2 million migrant workers in Qatar, and Cornell Welcomes Refugees met at “The fact that Weill is in [Qatar] and protective reforms intended to proBailey Hall at 12:15 p.m. and marched tect them from poor labor conditions to Willard Straight Hall where they held is a pretty big indicator that the have not been enforced by the Qatari a teach-in until 1:30 p.m. They discussed government. same types of exploitation is issues ranging from the adverse effects of Cintron expressed concern over the happening on that campus.” climate change on farmworkers to poor possibility that Cornell’s Weill Medical labor practices in Qatar — the location Campus may be adjacent to or comAngeliki Cintron ’22 of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. plicit in some of these abuses. In CJC members Angeliki Cintron ’22 2014, the International Trade Union and Mira Kudva-Driskell ’23 spoke about Confederation released a report on Qatar that detailed concerns migrant rights issues in which they thought Cornell was indirectly over forced labor, contract substitution and the withholding complicit because it allows companies, like Amazon, that have worked of passports in the University City — which houses Cornell’s with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to recruit on campus. Amazon has been criticized for providing its web servers See PROTEST page 5 Sun Staff Writer
After graduation, many alumni find themselves holding onto their alma mater by keeping up with campus publications, attending college reunions or staying active in online alumni groups. But for Peter Ang ’86, his love and growing interest for Cornell and its history manifests through his collection of school memorabilia overflowing the cabinets in his house. Ang, who currently lives in his hometown of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, realized nearly three decades after leaving the Hill that he had barely any physical items to “I never even honor his time on bought a Cornell campus. “I never even sweatshirt in my bought a Cornell four years there. sweatshirt in my four years there,” I left Cornell with Ang said in an interview with one plastic mug ... The Sun. “I left Cornell with one on sale for $1.99.” plastic mug with Peter Ang ’86 the Cornell seal, which was on sale for $1.99 at the Cornell Campus Store.” For the past five years, Ang, who was the first in his family to attend college, has been collecting various Cornell memorabilia, particularly those that reflect the University’s and the evolution of its seal. Ang’s unique hobby began after a Hong Kong celebration of Cornell’s 150th anniversary in late 2014, when he realized that the University emblem he remembered from the 1980s had changed. “No one knows about the seal, and it’s such an enduring legacy,” Ang said. See MEMORABILIA page 5
Agava Stabbing Critically Injures Two By ALEC GIUFURTA and ARI DUBOW Sun Staff Writer and Sun City Editor
Agava Restaurant’s Salsa Night ended in panic after a stabbing critically injured two, including a Cornell student who intervened late Wednesday night. The Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the scene around 11:50 p.m. on Wednesday, where police officers found two individuals who had been stabbed, a Tompkins County Sheriff’s Department press release said. Nick Hudson ’20, the student
involved, is expected to make a full recovery, Maria Hudson ’78, his mother, told The Sun in a Thursday evening phone call. Maria was at the student’s hospital bedside late Thursday. Maria heard about the incident while in St. Louis –– a friend of Nick riding in the ambulance to the hospital contacted her while “holding pressure on [Nick’s] wound,” she said. Nick did not know either of the individuals involved in the altercation, she said. “[Nick] was fearing for his friends … He stepped in to push [the people fighting] apart,”
Maria said. The other injured individual was Daquan Graves, 26, who is currently in “critical, but stable condition” at another regional hospital, according to the release. Nick underwent one surgery on Thursday, and will undergo a second surgery on Friday, according to his father, William Hudson. The suspect, who fled the scene, was described by the release as male, between 5’8” and 5’10”, in his late 20s to early 30s and wearing a black leather jacket at the time of the incident. In the See AGAVA page 4
BEN PARKER / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Two injured | A personal dispute resulted in a stabbing attack during Agava Restaurant’s Salsa Night late Wednesday night.