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Two Palestinian students visited Cornell, speaking on the challenges they face attending university. | Page 3
Tyran Grillo grad says Tafelmusik’s performance Saturday night was a “master class in pastiche.” | Page 8
Women’s volleyball fell to Harvard this weekend, ending its season eighth in the Ivy League. | Page 16
Expelled Student Sues University
Cornell revoked aid dollars for alleged fraud By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
A student expelled from Cornell is suing the University, which alleges that she owes over thousands of dollars in “retroactively rescinded grants” for failing to note on her transcript that she attended community college for a semester. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences expelled Hyuna Choi ’14 in October 2013. According to the suit TIMELINE filed on May 29, the University found her • 2012: Hyuna Choi ’14 “guilty of furnishing applies to transfer to false information” to Cornell, failing to note on CALS. She is now her application that she suing Cornell in civil attended community court. college for a semester in In 2003, she attend2003. ed Glendale OCTOBER 2013: The Community College in College of Agriculture California, a fact she and Life Sciences expels failed to note on her Choi. The University application to Cornell found her “guilty of when applying to furnishing false transfer in 2012, information.” according to court docJAN. 29, 2014: Choi uments. After being receives a letter from forced to leave the Cornell saying that she University, Choi and owes more than $60,000 her counsel argue that in “misappropriated Cornell did not profinancial aid.” vide her with the opportunity to appeal MAY 29, 2014: Choi files to the Office of the a lawsuit against Cornell, Judicial Administrator, arguing that she was not among other claims. given the opportunity to “The campus code appeal Cornell’s requires that all violadecisions. S
See LAWSUIT page 5
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Forum on Ferguson | Noelani Gabriel ’16, Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner, Ithaca Police Chief John Barber and Prof. Joe Marguiles, law, discuss race relations in the local and national communities at a panel Monday.
Police Race Relations Talks Continue By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Staff Writer
Representatives from both the University and Ithaca law enforcement communities discussed police race relations on campus, around the city and across the country with members of the local community at a panel discussion Monday. The panel focused on how the Cornell University and Ithaca Police Departments can interact with communities of color, and how local police conduct fits into national themes of police racialization and militarization. CUPD Chief Kathy Zoner and IPD Chief John Barber both emphasized that their forces go through great lengths to prevent discrimination. Barber said his department receives very few written complaints of misconduct, considering the number of citizen interactions it has each year. “I am quite proud of the Ithaca Police Department,” he said. “[Out of an estimate 100,000 citizen interactions,] last year we only had 15 to 20
Olympic Champion Speaks on Path to Success By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer
Olympic swimming champion Mark Spitz — known for winning seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games — spoke about his path to success as an athlete Monday in Willard Straight Hall. In 2000, Spitz was named number 33 on Sports Illustrated’s list of the “Top 100 Athletes of the 20th Century.” He still holds the world record in several events. Spitz first spoke about his development into a swimmer, drawing from his experiences See SPITZ page 4
MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR
Iron man | Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz speaks about his early experiences and subsequent journey to the Olympics at a lecture Monday.
written complaints filed ... and less than half of those turned out to be founded.” Zoner added that her department is constantly seeking to improve police interactions. “We have extensive training,” she said. “We have it from the start of the academy on forward.” However, panelist Prof. Joe Marguiles, law, pointed out that racialized practices are usually not the result of overt, apparent racism — and thus require comprehensive redress. “The type of bias that you’re dealing with is much more insidious [than overt racism] … because it’s implicit bias,” he said. “The real training that must take place … is to root out this implicit bias. This is much more difficult because everyone thinks they’re not biased.” Echoing Marguiles’ claim that bias is pervasive even when it is not apparent, many audience members expressed skepticism concerning aspects of curSee PANEL page 4