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Students share what was going through their heads on Election Day and the days that followed. | Page 3
President-elect Biden’s win will likely mark a dramatic change in government views on climate change. | Page 4
Cornell Reports 3/4 of Students Are on Campus Sun Assistant News Editor
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Morrison M.A.’55 To Join Women’s Hall of Fame
By MADELINE ROSENBERG
Over halfway through Cornell’s in-person semester, filled with daily checks and biweekly nose swabs, the University has finally reported how many students are attending classes from the Hill. About 75 percent of all Many students grumbled enrolled stuat paying full price for a dents are studysemester taking place ing in Ithaca, based on course from their bedrooms. registration information, according to Jonathan Burdick, vice provost for enrollment. Still, around a third of the approximately 17,700 students in Ithaca are enrolled only in online courses — most Cornell classes are online this semester. Nearly half of undergraduates are taking at least one in-person or hybrid class. A higher percentage of the graduate students living in Ithaca are enrolled in some in-person courses or research, but the percentage of students living away from campus is higher for some professional programs in the Johnson College of Business. In a predominantly virtual semester, many students grumbled at paying full price for a semester taking place from their bedrooms. Now, more than 600 undergraduates have taken a leave of absence this semester — avoiding a term defined by Zoom classes and club meetings, filled with health and cost concerns. This number usually falls closer to 500 in a normal year, Burdick said, marking about a 20 percent increase in leaves of absence. For first-year students, a college experience marred by 10-person masked gatherings and virtual classes likely pushed some to postpone their four years on campus. Across the country, enrollments slid as colleges went remote and ended the possibility of a campus college experience.
Women’s ice hockey snags No. 2 spot in USA Hockey preseason poll.
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Cornellian enshrined | Morrison, seen above, who graduated from Cornell with a Masters in Literature, was the author of many famous works and the winner of both a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize. By ALEX HALE
came to Cornell, where she received a Master of Arts in American Literature. After a teaching career at Texas Southern University Cornell grad school alumnus and prolific writer Toni and Howard, Morrison went on to become an editor at Morrison M.A. ’55 has been nominated to the 2020 L.W. Singer, a publication under Random House. She was the first Black woman to become an editor at the class of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. vaunted book publisher. The posthumous nomination From there, she began writing will make Morrison the ninth “She has been her own books, such as The Bluest Cornellian inducted into the hall, Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon. In which is located in Seneca Falls, unapologetic about her 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer New York, the site of the first womfocus on Black people’s Prize in Fiction for her work an’s rights convention. She will Beloved, and in 1993, Morrison enter alongside five others in the experiences.” became the first Black woman to 2020 class, recognizing her life as National Women’s Hall of Fame win a Nobel Prize in Literature. a groundbreaking and inspirational For her revolutionary breaknovelist. throughs, Morrison was also “Morrison indelibly put into the public imagination the image that great literature is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President neither bound to be written by men nor exclusively Barack Obama in 2009. “She has been unapologetic about her focus on Black by people of European descent,” said a press release people’s experiences, and the power with which she has announcing her nomination. Morrison was born in 1931 in Loraine, Ohio. After earning a B.A. in English from Howard University, she See MORRISON page 3 Sun News Editor
TC3 Shuts Down as NYS Sees COVID-19 Spike By MEGHNA MAHARISHI Sun Assistant Managing Editor
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On the list | Since New York State qualified for its own travel advisory list, on Friday it changed the requirements for traveling into the state. Above: NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo.
As COVID-19 cases swell in New York, Tompkins Cortland Community College announced Sunday that its operations will be remote for one week, after the school reported an 11-person cluster. “The move to remote will allow the health departments time to complete on-going contact tracing and contact any parties involved,” TC3 said on its website. “The
college’s goal is to continue in-class instruction on Nov. 16, but only when it can be certain that our campus community is safe and healthy.” The cluster consists of nine commuter students and two students who live on campus; no TC3 faculty or staff have COVID-19, according to the college. In Ithaca, Cornell and TC3 are the only higher education institutions in the area that opted to hold some in-person operations for
the fall semester. As a result of the shutdown, TC3 said it will temporarily close fitness centers and halt recreational activities as well as athletic practices. Due to potential exposure, TC3 said it ordered 11 faculty members and 70 students to quarantine — 17 of the 70 quarantined students live on campus. The college attributed the quarantined students to the influx of COVID-19 cases in the Southern Tier region.
“It is important to note that while they were on our campus, the students followed all of our COVID-19 safety protocols, but given the rise in cases and the connection to a local cluster both Health Departments have mandated these quarantines,” TC3 said. According to its website, neither New York State, SUNY nor Tompkins County ordered TC3 to shift to See TRAVEL page 3