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The Student Assembly called on professors to include mental health information on syllabi. | Page 3
Emily Fournier ’17 calls pop artist Miley Cyrus’ cover of a rock song “impressive.” | Page 9
The men’s soccer team extends its win-streak to three after winning two matches Wednesday. | Page 16
Plan Strives to End Sexual Assault
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Administrators,students voice support for White House campaign
By ZOE FERGUSON
ported.” Student leaders from 233 colleges and universities across the country have committed to bring the It’s On Cornell administrators expressed support for “It’s Us campaign to their schools as of Thursday evening, On Us,” a new campaign to end campus sexual according to the White House. Though students from assault that President Barack other Ivy League schools — “Student support is vital if including Obama launched last Friday, sayColumbia and ing its goals are aligned with Dartmouth — signed the camsuch an initative is to be University initiatives against sexupaign, Cornell is not currently on al violence. successful on campus.” the list of schools. The It’s On Us campaign outStill, Laura Weiss, director of Nina Cummings lines four priorities to help elimithe Cornell Women’s Resource nate sexual assault on college Center, said she has seen an campuses: recognizing sexual assault, identifying sit- increase in action against campus sexual assault at uations in which it may occur, intervention in non- Cornell in recent years. consensual situations and creating an environment See SEXUAL ASSAULT page 4 where “assault is unacceptable and survivors are supSun Senior Writer
Standing together | Vice President Joe Biden and Lilli Jay, who was raped as a freshman at Amherst College, launch the “It’s On Us” campaign at the White House last Friday.
Prof-at-Large,Musician C.U.Broadens Hazing Prevention Efforts Honored by Community
new member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, in 2011. “The goal is to really broaden the scope of our In light of National Hazing Prevention Week this efforts that we have been working on in Greek life to week, University officials and student leaders have the rest of the campus organizations,” Apgar said. “The council is made up of peooutlined efforts to broaden hazing reduction efforts and Eighty-two percent of Cornell ple from organizations that represent a very broad spectrum of involve more student organizastudents agreed with the student experiences, ranging tions in the coming months. ROTC, a cappella groups, The Council on Hazing statement “it’s never okay to from Student Assembly … certainly Prevention — a body made up of faculty, staff and various stuhumiliate or intimidate new we have Greek life and Cornell athletics, but we’re also looking dent representatives — was formed last spring to form edu- members of a group, team or well beyond that.” Cameron Pritchett ’15, prescational strategies and review organization. ident of the Interfraternity University policy on hazing, Council, agreed that hazing can The Sun previously reported. According to Travis Apgar ’82, associate dean of take place in all kinds of organizations, including students, a major purpose of the Council is to expand those outside the Greek system. “Last spring, I co-authored a letter with my predeanti-hazing efforts beyond Greek life, which he said he believes has been the focus of most efforts following the hazing-related death of George Desdunes ’13, a See HAZING page 5 By NOAH RANKIN
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By ANNIE BUI
“The Past Is a Foreign Country: Why Making Music Matters.” During the lecture, he stressed to English conductor and A.D. audience members that underWhite Professor-at-Large Chris- standing the musicality of the topher Hogwood died past may help to enrich music of Wednesday following a months- the present day, according to a long illness. He was 73. University press release. Born in 1941 in Nottingham, During his week-long stay at United Kingdom, Hogwood was Cornell, Hogwood also particia graduate of Cambridge pated in a symposium on collectUniversity, which he ing for performance attended from 1960 as well as coached the to 1964, according to Cornell Chamber NPR. A “leading Orchestra and Les light” in creating prePetits Violons de baroque and baroque Cornell, according to pieces, he went on to Prof. Robert Raguso, found the Academy of neurobiology and Ancient Music — behavior. which he also con“I spoke with him HOGWOOD ducted — in 1973. about my children Hogwood was best known for learning piano, about Balinese his advocacy of the “early music” gamelan, about South African movement, which utilizes period musicians like the jazz pianist instruments and techniques. He Abdullah Ibraham,” said Raguso, created more than 200 record- who is also chair of the A.D. ings with the Academy of White Professors-at-Large proAncient Music, among them the gram. “It was wonderful to speak first complete cycle of Mozart’s about music with a worldsymphonies, according to NPR. famous musician, without feeling He was appointed an A.D. like it was an imposition.” White Professor-at-Large at Raguso added that Cornell in 2012, according to a Hogwood’s work has left people University press release. Along “thinking harder” about the with 16 other individuals, music of composers from the Hogwood was invited to visit Baroque and Classical periods. Cornell at least twice during his “He was an effective advocate six-year term — which was to last of recording and performing clasuntil 2018 — to “enliven the sical music on period instruintellectual and cultural life of ments through the Academy of the university.” Ancient Music,” Raguso said. Hogwood visited Cornell on “He left us thinking harder about his first stay as an A.D. White how Handel’s or [Haydn’s] music Professor-at-Large last October, where he gave a lecture titled See HOGWOOD page 5 Sun News Editor
Talk the talk
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Mexican American writer Luis Urrea talks about his inspirations in Goldwin Smith Hall during the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series Thursday.