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The HUMAN anatomy fashion show turned human bodily systems into art on Saturday night. | Page 3
Maggie Gaus ’22 examines Salt Fat Acid Heat, a new documentary analyzing what gives foods their personality. | Page 6
Cornell football faced its worst loss in more than a century to Princeton this weekend. | Page 12
Humanitarian Physics Medal Awarded to Arts College Dean
Jayawardhana receives Medal for Outreach
the former Soviet Union. “The main significance to me of receiving the APS Nicholson Medal in 1995 was the message Ray Jayawardhana, Harold it sent to other physicists ... that Tanner Dean of the College of it is legitimate for a physicist as Arts and Sciences and professor of a physicist—and more broadly astronomy at Cornell, has added as a scientist—to support perseanother accolade to a trophy shelf cuted colleagues, and to fight for that includes being the namefreedom of expression and other sake for an asteroid: the Dwight human rights,” Orlov said in an Nicholson Medal for Outreach. Next to other American DEAN JAYAWARDHANA email to The Sun. “As for our Dean, by honoring Physical Society awards, the Medal for Outreach encompasses a broad realm of his outstanding achievements in the sphere of achievement. Since its beginning in 1994, the ‘high popularization’ of astronomy, the APS is award has sought to “[recognize] the humani- sending the message that such activity is a legittarian aspect of physics,” according to the APS imate activity of a scientist as a scientist. This message needs repeating in the ivory tower, website. Past winners have included popular science from time to time,” Orlov said. Since his undergraduate days writing for figures, educators and political dissidents. Prof. Emeritus Yuri Orlov, physics won the award in 1995 for human rights advocacy in his home in See JAYAWARDHANA page 5 By MATTHEW McGOWEN Sun Senior Editor
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Pulitzer power | Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee and Pulitzer Prize winner, calls for more voices from marginalized communities in literature on Thursday.
Pulitzer Prize Winner Speaks By LUCAS REYES Sun Contributor
Refugee and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke on the need for more marginalized communities’ narrative voices in literature during a reading in Goldwin Smith Hall on Thursday. The reading was part of the Zalaznick Reading Series hosted by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program. Nguyen is a professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Nguyen read passages from his most recent book The Refugees, as well as from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Wizarding Weekend Charms Ithaca
Cornellians, Ithacans enjoy magic of annual downtown event By ROCHELLE LI Sun Staff Writer
Rain didn’t stop the most avid magic fans at Wizarding Weekend this Friday to Sunday, where children and adults alike were decked out in their favorite fantasy costumes while playing games, eating at food trucks and purchasing handcrafted items from vendors.
Wizarding Weekend was first inspired in 2015 by two teenage boys who wanted to celebrate Harry Potter. After the event went viral on social media, the first Wizarding Weekend attracted 8,000 visitors, according to Darlynne Overbaugh, the festival director. This year, Overbaugh expected around 10,000 visitors compared to last year’s 20,000, due to the weather. See WIZARDING page 4
Magical | Left: A green-clad wizard demonstrates his magic before his young apprentice. Below Right: Wooden casks serve wondrous concoctions, including birch beer and butter brew. Right: A man dressed as Hagrid strolls down the Ithaca Commons, perhaps searching for his three-headed dog Fluffy. PHOTOS BY BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The Sympathizer. Throughout the reading, Nguyen also spoke intermittently about his personal experiences as a Vietnamese refugee growing up in the United States, and how this inspired his work. Nguyen and his family were evacuated from Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, and after living in a refugee camp in Pennsylvania, he resided in California. “Narrative scarcity existed all around me in San Jose,” Nguyen said, discussing the absence of voices from different ethnic groups and sexual identities in literature. See NGUYEN page 5