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Did Justice League deliver? Nick Smith ’19 has a lot to say about that.
Men’s hockey dropped its first game of the season Saturday vs. Clarkson.
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Incoming Cornell Tech Leader to Step Down From Apple V.P. of Diversity and Inclusion Denise Young Smith to end term after just six months days prior to the news of her stepping down at Apple. In a University press release announcing her position at Cornell, Dan Huttenlocher, dean and vice provost of Apple executive Denise Young Smith — just named Cornell Tech, commended Young Smith for being “an as executive-in-residence at Cornell Tech — will be extremely accomplished executive, and one of the tech industry’s leading voices on inclusion stepping down from her role at Apple diversity.” at the end of this year, the company “I get a little bit frustrated andYoung Smith recently came under announced Friday. when diversity or the fire for a statement she made last Young Smith has been at Apple since 1997, serving in a variety of HR term diversity is tagged month about diversity when she said that a room of “12 white blue-eyed roles. She was Apple’s first Vice to the people of color.” blonde men” could be considered President of Diversity and Inclusion, diverse. reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook. Denise Young Smith At the One Young World Summit However, following Friday’s in Bogotá, Colombia last month, announcement, Young Smith will Young Smith, who is black, was criticized for her statehave only held that position for six months. She is scheduled to assume her position at Cornell ment, some saying that it implied that she would rather Tech in January 2018, the University on Nov. 7 — 10 focus on fostering diversity in thought than on specific By SHRUTI JUNEJA
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initiatives to include traditionally underrepresented minorities. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color or the women or the LGBT or whatever because that means they’re carrying that YOUNG SMITH around … because that means that we are carrying that around on our foreheads,” she said. “There can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” she continued.
Ritter ’83 to Leave Role as Dean After Five-Year Term By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Editor
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Ithacans will now be greeted by a mural, unveiled at a Saturday ceremony, in the Green Street Parking Garage. See story on Page 3.
Stand-Up Comedian Performs at C.U. By MEREDITH LIU Sun Staff Writer
Stand-up comedian Ron Funches, who has performed on Conan and starred in the NBC series
with humor. Funches was not shy in dishing about his wellknown significant weight loss to the audience. He said losing 130 pounds has brought him much confi-
“The Rock can do no wrong. [He] could murder my family and I would just assume they did something to deserve it.” Ron Funches Undateable, entertained his Cornell audience on Sunday with anecdotes from throughout his life, animating serious topics and some of his personal challenges
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dence and has stopped him from being “afraid of the seatbelts on regional flights.” Funches said he has decided to live a real healthy
life — not the American definition of healthiness — and shared obstacles he has had to overcome along the way, such as resisting the temptation of ordering pizza at midnight or having to “chew gummy bears in the mouth and then spit them into a trash can.” Funches began his performance with a story about a fight he got into in Vancouver with a man at a pot shop. The other customer, after the clerk refused to sell him weed because of the lack of an ID, began making racist comments to the clerk, who was Asian. See COMEDIAN page 4
Gretchen Ritter ’83 told students on Friday that she is stepping down as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences with the conclusion of her five-year term at Cornell, slated for the end of June 2018. Ritter is the first female dean of the College and a third-generation Cornellian. Following her leave next fall, Ritter will return to teaching and research as a faculty member in the
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Five-year finish | On Friday, Ritter ’83 announced that she would be stepping down at the conclusion of her five-year term.
Government Department. Ritter managed the transition to the University’s new budget model during her first year and has led Cornell through a period in which colleges were experiencing a significant reduction in funding as the University addressed its structural deficit, Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff wrote to Arts and Sciences faculty. In fiscal year 2017, she secured the second highest level of gifts and commitments in the College’s histoSee RITTER page 4