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Men’s lacrosse won its sixth straight game, downing another nationally ranked opponent. | Page 16
AJ Stella ’21 takes a look back at The Big Lebowski and the iconic character The Dude.
Students hope to help victims find their voices and openly discuss the concerns around the issue. | Page 3
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U.A. Calls on C.U. To Classify More Majors as STEM By MATTHEW McGOWEN Sun Staff Writer
The University Assembly passed a resolution on April 10 requesting all 12 colleges to review their academic departments to identify majors that might qualify for STEM certification — a certification that would grant international students two additional years of work authorization in the United States. The U.A. resolution specifically named applied economics and management, communications, archaeology and classics as possible majors eligible for STEM certifica“There’s no tion “without any changing the change to their currules, we’re just riculum,” but asked the administrators to looking at how consider all majors for we fit into the recertification. The resolution folrules.” lows a nearly identical document passed by Christopher Schott ’18 the Student Assembly on March 8, which recommended the recertification of the economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences as a STEM major, The Sun previously reported. President Martha E. Pollack said she will be “working with the [economics] department as they investigate the issue further” in her response to the S.A. resolution, but has yet to respond to the U.A. resolution. She must approve the resolution before it takes effect. All majors are classified under See STEM page 13 COURTESY OF SOFIA DA SILVA ’18
Tallied | Varun Devatha ’19 will be the next Student Assembly president after winning the race against Dale Barbaria ’19 by 48 votes. MICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
dents in 2010. About 27 percent of undergraduate stuSun News Editor and Sun City Editor dents voted in the election. The announcement folVarun Devatha ’19, once lows more than two weeks of ejected from the Student squabbling that have drawn Assembly presidential race for — in addition to many jokes a meme posted by a campaign — near-unanimous calls from member, will be the next S.A. S.A. members and the underpresident after winning the graduate community to reform the election popular vote by rules. just 48 ballots. Barbaria — who The Office of was briefly named the Assemblies president last week announced on in a decision that Sunday evening was later overthat during the turned — told The voting period endSun on Sunday ing March 28, night that he was Devatha had DEVATHA ’19 accepting the popreceived 1859 votes and Dale Barbaria ’19, ular vote as the “final results.” the only other presidential Barbaria, who is currently the candidate, had received 1811. S.A. vice president of internal The 48-vote margin is the operations, will serve on the smallest since students began assembly next year as an directly electing S.A. presi- undesignated representative.
S.A. Presidency Decided By Slim Margin in Race Full of Meme Intrigue “I’m glad to have run a really great campaign, and it was a great process to be a part of,” he said. “I think all of us are glad that it is now over.” Devatha, currently the S.A. executive vice president, told The Sun that he was “elated” by the results. He said he was “thankful for the number of people that came out to support me, not only during the actual election but also during the challenge period.” “I’m very thankful for the way Dale ran his campaign,”
Devatha said, praising Barbaria for having the “most integrity” of any S.A. candidate. The disputes following the S.A. Elections Committee’s initial disqualification of Devatha have taken a toll on all S.A. members — in particular, the two presidential candidates and members of the elections committee, which made the initial decision to disqualify Devatha. See ELECTION page 4
Petition to Publicize Legacy Policy to be Handed to Pollack Johnson MBA Program
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Mixed ranking | While the Johnson graduate school received a higher
general ranking, it also sees backsliding in some categories voted by alumni.
By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer
A petition with nearly 400 signatories demanding Cornell and other universities to make public “all internally written admissions policies and data about legacy treatment” will be “handdelivered” to President Martha E. Pollack next
week, according to Mayra Valadez ’18, president of the First Generation Student Union. The original petition letter, signed by the FGSU in February, asks universities to reconsider the role and weight of legacy status in the admission process. See #FULLDISCLOSURE page 11
Biased policy? | Rigo Perez ’17 participated in a photo shoot during First-Gen Week in 2016.
Ranked 17th in the World By MIGUEL SOTO Sun Staff Writer
For the third year straight, Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management received a higher ranking in the Global MBA Ranking by The Financial Times, becoming the 17th
best business school — up from 27th in 2017 and 31th in 2016. The data released by The Financial Times — mostly based on alumni’s replies to surveys and selfreports — also shows increases in categories like See MBA page 12