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Back From N. Korea,Times Columnist Speaks at Cornell Times opinion writers. Kristof said he and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn ’81, have witnessed troubling human Fresh off of an assignment in North Korea, rights violations while on assignments around Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas the world. Those trips led them to author two Kristof began a lecture at Cornell on Monday bestselling books — Half the Sky and A Path Appears — proevening with a duce an accomsigh of relief. “Disciplines would have more impact if panying PBS “I’m so glad there were more conservatives in them.” video series and to be here and more. in not Nicholas Kristof Kristof Pyongyang right recounted a now,” said Kristof, who writes a weekly column for The moment in the Hubei province of China in 1990 when he met a girl at the front gate of a New York Times. Kristof had been touring North Korea’s cap- school. The teachers, he said, were giving her ital and interviewing government officials with “scraps of paper and pencils.” That girl, Dai Manju, was the brightest girl three other New York in her school, Kristof said, adding that she was Op-Red | Times forced to drop out due to an outstanding debt columnist Nicholas of $13 in school fees. Kristof said on Readers, after seeing Kristof’s article about Monday night at her in The Times, sent donations that ultimateCornell that there is an ly funded the girl’s education and installed a “empathy gap” in program that funded girls’ education for years. “So many other girls who would’ve been America. working in the rice paddies or attending to goats ended up getting a great education in ways that didn’t just benefit them, but benefitted the entire community,” the columnist said. Kristof said he and his wife observed that investing in girls’ education creates a “virtuous
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Cornell Tech Partners With Universities to Defend Journalism By HNIN WAI LWIN Sun Staff Writer
Cornell Tech announced a partnership on Friday with Columbia University, the City University of New York, New York University and The New School to defend and support independent journalism. The collaboration, in conjunction with NYC Media Lab, will attempt to understand and investigate the vari-
ous threats against modern journalism, the partners said. The program’s lead organizer, Prof. Mor Naaman of the J a c o b s - Te c h n i o n Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, said the partnership will bring graduate students with different expertise from these institutions together for a special course starting Spring 2018. “This is a topic so critical to our democracy that it See MEDIA page 5
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Grads | A coalition of graduate and professional students, some pictured above at a recognition banquet in May, issued a series of demands to Cornell last week.
Graduates Issue Demands Coalition sends letter to President Pollack By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor
A coalition of graduate students has issued a list of demands to Cornell administrators — calling for increased funding, representation, training and more — in the wake of what the group called “several recent
Alumni Purchase‘Wings Over’ Brand By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor
The four Cornell alumni who purchased and revived their favorite Collegetown restaurant, Wings Over Ithaca, now own the entire Wings Over brand after acquiring the franchise. The four friends and Cornellians pur-
chased the Wings Over brand, which has 40 restaurants, this past week, and are hoping to inject a youthful, entrepreneurial spirit into the wing shops, which span 13 states and pay a fee to Wings Over to use the brand’s trademarked menu, logos and concept. Wings Over Ithaca
reopened in March when the four Cornell alumni became franchisees and opened the restaurant on Dryden Road after the previous location, on East Hill, shut down. Less than seven months after See WINGS page 5
Saucy | The four alumni who revived Wings Over Ithaca, front, purchased the entire 40store franchise this past week.
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social injustices on and off the Cornell campus.” The Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement’s Student Leadership Council, in a Sept. 28 letter to President Martha Pollack and other senior leadership at Cornell, called on the University to recruit and retain more graduate and professional students “from underrepresented backgrounds,” restructure the grievance process, increase conference grant funding, include graduate representatives on a proposed task force, uphold Obamaera Title IX guidance and more. The council, a coalition of at least nine graduate and profession- “At some point, al student it becomes groups, began its letter by ridiculous to supporting the continue to demands of articulate Black Students United, an that the sky undergraduate is blue.” group that hand-delivered Theresa Beardall 12 demands to Pollack on Sept. 20, days after a black student said he was assaulted and called the N-word by a group of white men in Collegetown. Three members of the graduate coalition, in an interview on Monday, said the group fully supports BSU’s demands and wants to ensure that the University is also paying to concerns regarding diversity and representation at the graduate level. See DEMANDS page 12