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Emily Hardin ’16 says free college is both “economically feasible and morally imperative.” | Page 7
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GPSA Votes Against Cornell Cinema Funding Increase Recommendation sent to appropriations committee to receive further consideration By DAVID BROTZ Sun Contributor
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Funding frenzy | Members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly vote 2-9-4 against a recommendation to increase funding to Cornell Cinema at a Monday meeting.
dent. With Monday’s vote against the recommendation, the measure will be sent back to the appropriations committee for further deliberation. The proposed funding increase comes shortly after a mandatory upgrade to the
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly debated an appropriations committee recommendation to increase funding to Cornell Cinema M o n d a y evening, ulti“The money that we receive from the GPSA mately voting 2-9-4 against covers just 14 percent of our operating costs.” the allocation. Mary Fessenden Currently, Cornell Cinema receives $10 per student of funding from cinema’s projection system completely the graduate and professional student depleted reserves, according to a presenactivity fee. Although the cinema put tation given by Richard Walroth grad, forth a request to increase allocations to president of the GPSA. $12 per student, the GPSA appropriaHowever, proponents of the cinema tions committee recommended that alloSee GPSA page 4 cations only increase to $10.64 per stu-
Cornell Tech Launches C.U.Responds to Latest‘Veritas’ Video Undercover video shows Title IX investigator shredding Constitution New M.Eng.Program By PHOEBE KELLER
By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer
Applications have already started to roll in for a new master’s of engineering program in operations research and information engineering at Cornell Tech, set to open in fall 2016. The program is a collaborative effort that unites the extensive experience on the Ithaca campus in running an ORIE master’s program with the tech expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of Cornell Tech, according to Prof. Huseyin Topaloglu, operations research and information engineering. Unlike the Ithaca program, which has been offered for over 50 years, the new engineering program is designed specifically with the technology industry in mind, Topaloglu said. “We want to educate data scientists, quantitative analysts that thrive in environments where one needs to design algorithms and systems to make decisions on an ultra-large scale, while tackling the challenges posed by uncertainty,” he said. The program was first discussed when Cornell Tech opened in 2012 and imple-
mented as soon as faculty members were hired, according to Topaloglu. “As soon as we hired ORIE faculty that gave us critical mass to provide the program, we put the plans in action,” Topaloglu said. “We spent the summer intensely working on curriculum design, talking to tech companies exchanging thoughts and talking to prospective and past students.” As a framework for planning the curriculum, the team thought about the work they hoped students would go on to do after graduation, according to Topaloglu. He said they incorporated a combination of courses that would prepare students for the complexity, scale and pace of decision making at large companies such as Amazon, Uber and Facebook. In addition to the fundamentals of operations research, the Cornell Tech program puts “immense emphasis on computational tools that allow our graduates to build systems that provide business intelligence at an ultra-large scale,” he said. There are a number of other unique curricular features. For See CORNELL TECH page 4
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The University issued a statement Thursday responding to a new video from Project Veritas, which shows a Cornell Title IX investigator shredding the Constitution after an undercover reporter posing as a student called it “triggering.” The statement, from Joel Malina, vice president for University relations, said the Cornell employee responded “appropriately” to the reporter
who “misrepresented herself as a student with a mental health crisis.” This most recent video targeted not only Cornell but also Yale University, Syracuse University, Vassar College and Oberlin College, where employees of each University agreed to destroy copies of the Constitution after a reporter posing as a student in crisis called the document “oppressive.” “Is there any way that maybe like we can get rid of it some-
how or I can just see that like maybe it will be like therapy for me, like if you can like shred it or something?” the reporter asks in the video. Responding to the student who claimed to be traumatized by the document, Cornell Title IX investigator Elizabeth McGrath said the Constitution “means different things to different people,” conceding that she believes it is a “flawed document [written by] flawed indiSee PROJECT VERITAS page 4
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Freedom of speech | In a Project Veritas video, Cornell Title IX investigator Elizabeth McGrath is shown shredding the Constitution after an undercover reporter posing as a student called it “triggering.”