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The S.A. has appointed one of its members to chair a proposed new office to handle student concerns. | Page 3
The best example of the democratization of art? Washing machine beats, writes Katie Sims ’20. | Page 6
Cornell volleyball won road contests against Ivy rivals Princeton and Penn. | Page 12
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Claims of Vandalized Pro-Hong Kong Posters Bring Overseas Tensions to C.U. Campus Allegations underscore intense political divides
shot a teenage protester with a live round — the first live shot since the protests began — as the People’s Republic of China celebrated 70 years On Sept. 30, Kinen Kao ’22 posted since its founding. Kao hails from Hong Kong himself, and sticky notes on the footbridge between Collegetown and the Engineering Quad, said that pasting the signs, which read “Will taping them over with packaging tape. The You Stand With Hong Kong In The Fight For sticky notes — with one letter emblazoned Freedom,” and “End The Tyranny, Fight For per note — spelled out, “Stand With Hong Autonomy,” were his way of contributing to a protest he wanted to be part of. Kong, Fight For Freedom.” “I feel helpless here,” Kao said. The next day, just the sticky notes that Pasting the messages was a way to inform read “Stand With Hong Kong” were missing. people of the conflicts Another poster, which over 8,000 miles away in Kao had printed and Many pro-Hong Kong posters Hong Kong — the conaffixed on a lamppost across campus — hand-taped to tribution he felt he could on Thurston Avenue, was also partially torn bus stops, lamposts and buildings make, the atmospheric sciences major said. Since — the words refer- — were completely gone, Kao said. June, people have taken ring to Hong Kong to the streets in Hong had been ripped off. Kong — beginning as Many pro-Hong Kong posters across campus peaceful rallies criticizing a proposed bill that — hand-taped to bus stops, lampposts and would allow extraditions to mainland China, but buildings — were completely gone, Kao said. more recently turning intermittently violent as On Oct. 1, Kao returned to the bridge to police have cracked down on the demonstrations, repost his message for the second time. On the The New York Times reported. other side of the globe, police in Hong Kong But where did the posters go? Snapchat screenshots from Oct. 1, later posted BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Removed | Posters supportive of Hong Kong protest- to Reddit, showed a college-aged gaggle, clustered By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun City Editor
ers have been removed or desecrated, students allege.
Flavored E-Cig Ban Blocked by Courts By ALEC GIUFURTA Sun Staff Writer
A New York appellate court halted Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) ban on flavored e-cigarettes on Thursday, temporarily enjoining its enforcement. The ban, originally scheduled to take effect on Oct. 4, is now paused until the
New York State Supreme Court hands down a decision. The New York State ban would outlaw all flavors besides tobacco and menthol. A proposed federal ban would ban menthol nationally. Despite this decision, See JUUL page 4
ALEC GIUFURTA / SUN STAFF WRITER
Ban halted | Some Collegetown retailers said they would continue to wind down flavored Juul pod sales, despite the ban being blocked.
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Scott Walker to Speak at C.U. Former governor of Wisconsin to address past union battles By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON
2018 midterm elections, has emerged in the past decade as one of the most polarizing A former two-term gover- figures in American politics nor of Wisconsin and 2016 — serving as a champion presidential candidate for for small-government conserthe Republican Party, Scott vatives, while drawing the Walker will speak at Cornell intense ire of labor activists University on November for passing a series of bills that stymied public sector unions. “Governor Walker’s tenure in “Governor Madison reflected a serious Walker's tencommitment to conservative ure in Madison principles.” reflected a serious commitment Isaac Schorr ’20 to conservative principles and to the peo4 at the invitation of the ple of Wisconsin,” Cornell Cornell University College Republicans President Isaac Republicans. Schorr ’20 told The Sun. Walker, who narrow- “At a time when bluster perly lost a reelection bid to See WALKER page 4 Tony Evers (D-Wis.) in the Sun News Editor
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Conservative icon | The polarizing Scott Walker has earned both intense praise and criticism for his efforts to curb organized labor in Wisconsin.