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Natalie Tsay ’18 reviews Ithaca Ballet’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin, saying the cast showed a love for performing. | Page 9
Over 1,200 students volunteered in the student-led program Into the Streets last weekend. | Page 3
The volleyball team nabbed its first Ivy win of the season Saturday, besting Columbia 3-2. | Page 16
C.U.Seeks to Increase Female Hires,Retention Women make up 29.2 percent of faculty across Univ.
serve as assistant and associate professors rather than as full professors, according to Levitte. In fall 2013, out Cornell is making efforts to hire of 476 women professors, 22.4 permore women and increase retention cent serve as assistant professors; 35.5 for female professors, according to percent serve as associate professors; Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for and 42 percent serve as full professors. In comparison, out of 1,152 male faculty development and diversity. Last year women made up only professors, 14.8 percent serve as assis29.2 percent of all of Cornell’s tenure tant professors; 24.8 percent serve as track and tenured faculty. However, associate professors; and 60.4 percent women constituted 43.8 percent of serve as full professors. According to Levitte, women serve new faculty hires in the current academic year — which will increase the in assistant and associate professornumber of tenured women going for- ships at higher rates than men do partially because more women are graduward. ating with Ph.D.s “Our efforts to hire women are “In a decade, we’d expect and entering the academic workincreasingly sucthat the proportion of force. In the cessful and in a of decade, we’d women among all faculty College Engineering, 16.6 expect that the ... will increase.” percent of faculty proportion of are women, but women among all Yael Levitte 38 percent of faculty will thereassistant professors fore increase, as they get tenure and get promoted,” are women. “You’d expect to see more women Levitte said. This figure has already been in younger cohorts because there are increasing, albeit steadily. In 2008, also more women in the Ph.D. women made up 26.2 percent and ‘pipeline’ of the more recent hires,” 22.6 percent in 2001, according to Levitte said. However, the ‘pipeline’ of women the Cornell Factbook, which collects and publishes yearly counts about fac- with Ph.D.s to a full professorship is ulty and colleges. The Factbook “leaky” in many places, according to excludes adjunct, visiting and emeri- Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen, chair tus professors and Weill Cornell of the Department of Biomedical Medical College faculty. See FACULTY page 4 A higher proportion of women
By SOFIA HU
Sun Senior Writer
MAIN IMAGE: RILEY YUAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER; INSET PHOTOS COURTESY CITY OF ITHACA
Coming to a halt | Last spring, Ithacans spoke out against a proposal — later withdrawn — for a large student housing complex in the Cornell Heights neighborhood (seen above in multiple views) north of Fall Creek Gorge.
City Revisits Cornell Heights Zoning By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer
In response to a petition signed by more than 900 Cornellians and Ithacans, the City of Ithaca is planning to revise its zoning plan for the Cornell Heights Historical District. The proposal for these revisions — which will likely be drafted by January — will “both protect the historic nature of the neighborhood and preserve its pastoral elements,” according to Alderperson Josephine Martell grad (D-5th). As a result of ongoing discussion with members of the Cornell Heights neighborhood north of Cornell, the Common Council has proposed restricting multi-unit dwellings to every 500 feet, decreasing the maximum story height from four to three and requiring that 50 percent of the developable lot area remain as green space, according to Martell. Preservation of the neighborhood was
called into question last spring, when CA Student Living, a part of Chicago real estate investment and development company CA Ventures, proposed a modern-style student housing complex in the neighborhood. Ithacans spoke out against the proposal at a Planning and Development Board meeting in March, citing a lack of finalized plans and concern for traffic and the character of the historic neighborhood, The Sun previously reported. The CA Student Living case “definitely triggered” this reconsideration of the neighborhood’s zoning, according to Alderperson Seph Murtagh M.A. ’04 Ph.D. ’09 (D-2nd). “Essentially, we’re trying to bring the zoning in line with the neighborhood’s characterization as a historic district,” he said. In a statement to the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission in May, Ithacan Walter Hang wrote that the proposed project See ZONING page 4
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MIDTERM ELECTION 2014
Robertson ’75 Links Republican Reed to ‘War Against Women’ By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Senior Writer
In a Thursday debate, New York Democrat House candidate Martha Robertson ’75 said that republican opponent Tom Reed is a “part of the war against women,” eliciting some laughs from the audience. The televised debate, which took place in Elmira, New York, featured the two candidates battling over New York’s 23rd district’s congressional seat, which represents Chautauqua County to Tioga County and the Finger Lakes region.
The candidates were given the opportunity to ask questions of each other towards the end of the debate. Martha Robertson began her question by asserting, “Tom Reed, it seems to me you’re a part of the war against women.” The audience responded to Robertson’s remarks with groans and laughter, after which Robertson supported her claim with evidence of Reed’s supposed discrimination. “You’ve supported continued wage discrimination against women by See DEBATE page 4
DARIEN KIM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Pictures were placed on the Arts Quad Monday to remember Reyhaneh Jabbari, an Iranian woman executed in Tehran Saturday for killing a man in what she claimed was self-defense.