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Mark DiStefano ’16 calls Mad Max: Fury Road a stubborn refusal to cave to the blockbuster formula. | Page 7
Paola Muñoz ’17 discusses her disgust with “this land is your land, this land is my land.” | Page 8
Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams have spent the summer training. | Page 12
Gannett Addition Headed for 2017 Completion Date Officials say construction has caused minimal disruption By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer
Gannett Health Services’ $55 million dollar expansion project, which will more than double the space available for health services from 25,000 square feet to 52,000 square feet, is on track for its scheduled fall 2017 completion, according to Nianne VanFleet, associate director of operations at Gannett. Construction work over the summer reinforced the current Gannett building’s foundation and excavated the expansion’s basement. Currently, workers are building the second of two stairwell towers before beginning work on the addition’s structural skeleton, according to VanFleet. “The project involves two separate phases: a large addition to the back of the current Gannett facility, which will be completed next summer, and then a full
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Bigger and better | An architectural rendering shows the curving Campus Road facade of the Gannett Health Center addition. renovation of the current Gannett building,” he said. The project began after Gannett was pressured to accommodate the needs of a growing student body, an increase in the overall number of visits to Gannett to over 80,000 per year and a nearly three-fold increase in the number of visits to Counseling and Psychological Services since 1996, according to Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Gannett.
“Expanding the health center has been a University priority since 2005, when an independent study showed what we already knew from experience — that our current facility is severely undersized to serve Cornell’s growing student population,” Dittman said. Original plans dating from 2007 called for the demoSee GANNETT page 4
Johnson School to Expand Cornell Names Inclusion Dean Into C-Town Facility by ’17 J.A.Mary Beth Grant to assume position Sept.1 By ANDREW LORD
By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer
A six-story office and classroom building on the 200 block of Dryden Road in Collegetown will house the Johnson Graduate School of Management’s executive MBA programs after its 2017 completion. “Locating this new building in Collegetown [will] enabl[e] the continued growth of the Executive Education
MBA programs and other business education programming at … Johnson,” said Soumitra Dutta, dean of the Johnson School. According to Dutta, the new executive education center will contain classrooms, meeting rooms, offices, multiple auditoriums and a large atrium. The facilities will service two programs — Cornell Executive MBA Metro New York and See JOHNSON page 5
Serious business | This rendering shows the proposed new Johnson School facility at the corner of Dryden Road and Linden Avenue in central Collegetown. COURTESY OF CITY OF ITHACA
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The University recently named Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 — Cornell’s Judicial Administrator — senior associate dean of students for inclusion, engagement and community support, a new position that was announced in March. Grant will assume office Sept. 1. The new associate dean will “work closely with the Division of Student and Academic Services to create cocurricular learning and activities for undergraduate and graduate students” in addition to overseeing organizations such as the Women’s Resource Center and Student Development Diversity Initiatives, according to the Division of Human Resources website. Grant served as Judicial Administrator starting in 1999. Prior to her 16 year tenure at Cornell, she was employed as a civil rights
attorney at the Legal Aid expected to range between Society of Minneapolis and $78,000 and $116,000, as an attorney at a The Sun previously reportMassachusetts law firm, ed. Dean of Students Kent L. Jevan Hutson ’16, forHubbell ’67 said in a state- mer president of Haven: ment. The LGBTQ “Mary Beth Student Union, [Grant] brings denounced the extensive expecreation of the rience to the position in position, havMarch, saying ing worked that he often closely with finds the lack of student affairs funding towards staff throughhis organization GRANT J.D. ’88 out the univer“appalling.” sity in the past 16 years,” “The allocation of funds Hubbell said. “We all are towards this position is very excited to welcome inappropriate and not the Mary Beth on Sept. 1 to current priority for staff the Office of the Dean of and students who directly Students family.” work with and in all of Earlier this year, student these student services orgaleaders of minority organi- nizations,” Hutson said zations spoke out against earlier this year. “[These the creation of the new organizations] are greatly position, saying they underfunded when comthought the position’s costs pared to other Ivy League could be better directed institutions or larger towards programs and schools comparable to minority organizations. Cornell.” The yearly salary for the newly created position is See DEAN page 4