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In a survey conducted by The Sun, almost half of respondents said they were sleep deprived. | Page 3
Cornell researcher David Towes discusses the evolutionary relationships between warblers. | Page 9
Cornellians Consider Hot Topics Before Presidential Debate By HENRY KANENGISER Sun Staff Writer
Over 1,000 Cornellians packed into Bailey Hall on Monday night to attend Educate the Vote, an event that aimed to provide students with necessary political information to watch the 2016 election’s first, highly anticipated, presidential debate. The event featured a four-person panel, which debated issues of immigration and incarceration, and was timed to finish just as the presidential debate began. Students were allowed remain in the audience to watch the debate from a large screen on the stage. The panel began with opening remarks from speakers, focusing on their areas of expertise. Reihan Salam, the executive editor of the National Review and a National Review Institute Policy fellow, discussed the way that our historic perspective on immigration may not be valid today. “If you’re thinking about increasing upward mobility of everyone, you may have to think about creating an immigration policy that is very different from immigration policy of the past,” he said, drawing attention to the difficulties second generation citizens face in achieving economic success. Marc Levin, director of the Center for Effective See DEBATE page 5
Columnist Noah Eli describes Jose Fernandez’s impact on and off the baseball field. | Page 14
Rawlings Shares Hope of Connecting‘One Cornell’
Aims to link undergrad curricula, N.Y. campuses
across different campuses at a Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Meeting Monday. In response to questions from graduate students, Rawlings presented the concept of “One Cornell,” which has two aspects — one related to curriculum and another aimed at Cornell’s three New York Campuses. To establish the curricular half of the concept, Rawlings said he intends to “do a curriculum review for all our undergraduate colleges, focused on the College of Arts and Sciences, but involving perhaps the other colleges as well.” MICHAELA BREW / SUN SENIOR EDITOR Besides focusing on curriculum A united university | Interim solely within each of the seven colPresident Hunter Rawlings answers leges, Rawlings’ concept of “One questions about unifying Cornell at a Cornell” aims to connect them all — extending beyond the undergraduate GPSA meeting Monday afternoon. colleges to Weill Cornell Medical By ANNA DELWICHE College and Cornell Tech. Sun Staff Writer “My concern is that we keep those three linked very well together, rather Interim President Hunter than let them just fade apart,” Rawlings shared a plan to unite Rawlings said. “My idea is to put a Cornellians through curriculum and fair amount of emphasis on ‘One
Cornell’ in that sense.” GPSA members also asked for commentary concerning administrative involvement in the unionization of Cornell Graduate Students United, following an Aug. 24 National Labor Relations Board ruling that graduate students are workers with the right to unionize. Over the summer, the administration collaborated with CGSU to come to an agreement designed to ensure a cooperative and successful process, according to Rawlings. “The reason it’s especially important is that this is an issue that could affect all graduate students — all graduate students, not just the ones who decide that they would like to have a union,” he said. “So as we see it, our responsibility is to ensure a really good process in which every possible graduate student votes, if it comes to it.” To read the rest of this story, please visit cornellsun.com. Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOSH LOWER ’05
Going up | This photo sequence documents the construction process of the Collegetown Crossing project, which includes five upper stories of apartments and a TCAT bus stop.
Landlords: Collegetown Housing Hassle Unlikely to Change By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer
Although this August saw the completion of three large apartment buildings and the addition of nearly 200 bedrooms to the supply of housing in Collegetown, the annual rush to sign leases in Collegetown shows no sign of slowing, according to several major landlords in the neighborhood. Leasing for Collegetown apart-
ments has been “comparable to last year” and “in line with what we projected,” according to Josh Lower ’05, the developer of Collegetown Crossing at 307 College Ave. Comparing the student housing process from one year to another is difficult due to annual variations in student taste, Lower emphasized. “Some years three-bedrooms are more popular, some years fourbedrooms are more popular, so
there isn’t an exact date when you clear all of your apartments,” he said. “It really varies from year to year.” George Avramis, of Student Rentals Ithaca, agreed with Lower, saying that “leasing has been generally on par with the past few years.” “Some [of our] buildings are 50 percent leased, some buildings are 100 percent leased, but we’re close to 70 to 75 percent leased overall,”
Avramis said. The addition of the three new buildings to Collegetown — 307 College Ave, 327 Eddy St and 205 Dryden Road — has “maybe [led to] a little bit of a decrease in the market for higher-end apartments,” although the prices students are willing to pay for apartments remains “all over the board,” according to Avramis. Lower said that his company, Urban Ithaca Real Estate, starts
renting apartments in the early fall and usually generally has the vast majority rented by the end of November. The pressure students experience in the process of finding a Collegetown apartment is notorious among the student body — “lose a friend over signing a lease in Collegetown” is one of the on The Sun’s 161 Things Every Cornellian See HOUSING page 5