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Cornell Dining employees and students evaluate Freshtake grab-n-go food items. | Page 3
Sam Bromer ’16 sheds a few tears, has a few beers as the end of four years nears. | Page 7
Women’s track and field plans to dethrone Harvard at the Ivy Championships Saturday. | Page 12
S.A.Supports Faculty Diversity Training Program
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By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer
School of Hotel Administration, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Johnson School. Dutta said in the interview that he believes integrating Cornell’s three business programs will improve their national ranking. “Rankings are driven by three factors: the quality of faculty and their academic reputation, the quality of the students and how well the curriculum prepares them for successful careers, and
The Student Assembly passed a resolution calling for the creation of a diversity and inclusivity training program for all Cornell employees at its final meeting of the semester Thursday, by a vote of 26-1-0. Samari Gilbert ’17, S.A. minority liaison at large and Black Students United co-president, defended the resolution’s necessity by listing anecdotes of racial insensitivity on campus. She cited students’ experiences grathered from an anonymous survey. “One student shared a story about professors calling her a name different than her given one because it was easier to pronounce,” Gilbert said. “Another mentioned that one stopped saying her name altogether and called her ‘black girl in the back’ because it was easier than actually finding out her name.” Gilbert said these examples demonstrate “a
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Ready for business | The College of Business will begin its academic year in 2016-2017. The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in Warren Hall (above) will be one of the schools to merge within the new business college.
Dean Shares Business College Updates By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor
In an interview with the University, Soumitra Dutta — currently the dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the incoming dean of the College of Business — discussed updates on the college’s administrative structure and concerns that Cornellians have expressed about its installment. The new college, which was approved by the Board of Trustees Jan. 30 and will begin operations in the fall, will combine the
New chapter | This drawing shows the Chapter House rebuilding plans the City approved in January.
COLA Protests Nike Labor Practices By BARBARA ESUOSO Sun Staff Writer
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Chapter House Property Sale Follows Rebuilding Approval By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor
The location which once held the Chapter House — until the iconic Collegetown locale was destroyed in a blaze last April — has been sold for $850,000, according to The Ithaca Voice. Sebastian Mascaro, the property’s owner, sold the property to the James L. Goldman, the owner to 406 Stewart Avenue, LLC, The
Voice reported. Mascaro himself had purchased the Chapter House property in October of 2010. The deal was finalized Wednesday after the process of the sale began in February, according to City of Ithaca documents. Although comprehensive plans to rebuild the structure on 400404 Stewart Avenue were unanimously approved by the Ithaca See CHAPTER HOUSE page 5
Cornell Organization for Labor Action protested Nike’s labor practices at a demonstration at the Cornell Store on Thursday. COLA’s action aimed to pressure the administration to take more direct action against Nike, according to COLA member Katy Habr ’18. The group’s members spoke out against Nike’s labor practices and cut the Nike symbol after marching around the Nike apparel section with protest signs and chanting “Nike, step off it, the people over profit.” Nike has failed to comply to an audit instituted by the Workers Rights Consortium for a factory in Vietnam — the factory that produces apparel for many American universities like Cornell, according to a COLA press release. The audit was initi-
ated when a group of employees went on strike against the diminishing quality of the facility’s working conditions, such as unreasonable production quotas and long working hours with little to no pay increase, according to the release. Nike refused to comply, so the WRC contacted American students in United Students Against Sweatshops who then demanded that their college administrations stand against Nike’s unethical labor practices, according to the press release. Cornell’s administration was the first University to contact Nike but has since reached a standstill on reform of the protest, the release said. Nike responded by saying its policy has always prohibited WRC from its production facilities. COLA member Alfi Rayner ’19 said he believes Thursday’s demonstration was an
appropriate stand against the administration’s inaction. “We’ve been meeting with Cornell administration and the licensing oversight committee and they released a recommendation that Nike had to do something by March 1, but that was months ago and still nothing has happened,” Rayner said. The goal of the protest was to highlight the intersection be-
tween student power and worker’s rights, according to Rayner. “This problem directly affects our school so who better to take up the cause than the students,” Habr said. “We [students] are the ones buying the apparel. We have the power and the responsibility to take action.” Barbara Esuoso can be reached at besuoso@cornellsun.com.
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Just say no | Cornell Organization for Labor Action members protest Nike’s labor practices at the Cornell Store on Thursday.