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Prof. Emeritus Eugene Dynkin, mathematics, dies at age 80, leaving behind a legacy in algebra. | Page 3
Aishwarya Singh ’18 praises the variation present in Nick Jonas’s new self-titled album. | Page 8
The men’s hockey team got back on track with two big wins over Yale and Brown last weekend. | Page 12
Greeks Work Toward LGBT Inclusivity at C.U.
Some students say Greek culture continues to promote bias By SUN STAFF
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Seeds for safety | All new faculty and staff will have to take a course aiming to educate about responding to sexual violence and harrassment, the University announced Thursday.
New Faculty, Staff Will Take Sexual Assualt Response Course By AIMEE CHO Sun Senior Writer
All new faculty and staff will be required to complete an online training course on how to respond to sexual violence, harassment and discrimination, the University announced Thursday. The course — titled “Building a Culture of Respect: Responding to Sexual Violence, Harass-
ment and Discrimination” — is designed to welcome “people of all backgrounds” and make them feel safe, according to a University press release. Some of the topics covered in the course include sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking prevention and how to file complaints, according to the University. While only new faculty
and staff members are required to complete the course, the University “hope[s] and expect[s]” that current faculty and staff members will take it as well, according to the course website. “As members of the Cornell community, we all share the responsibility for creating a safer, more caring campus culture in See COURSE page 4
and constant improvement, and the IFC’s ongoing Fraternity for Everyone campaign has done much to foster that vision while showcasing the system’s endless opportunities for intellectual, social, professional and other growth,” he said.
Though leaders of Cornell’s fraternities and sororities say the Greek system continues to open its doors to members the LGBT community, several Cornellians say they believe chapters ‘A Long Way to Go’ need to further educate their members Philip Titcomb ’17, LGBTQ repreabout issues in the LGBT community and alter some of their long-held tradi- sentative at-large for the Student Assembly, said he believes acceptance tions to be fully inclusive. The Interfrater-nity Council is cur- and inclusion for LGBT people in Greek life is increasing, rently seeking to though he added varyeliminate stereotypes about Greek life — “We still have a long way ing levels of safety exist including biases to go for LGBTQ+ people for LGBT students within the Greek sysagainst members of to be authentically and tem, which “can the LGBT commudepend on individual nity, according to genuinely accepted one houses [and] members James Winebrake of each house.” ’15, vice president of hundred percent.” “Personally, I have recruitment for IFC. been to some fraterniPhilip Titcomb ’17 “Our goal as an ties’ events and have IFC is to help dispel felt very welcomed and any false preconceived notions of what fraternity life may included. I have even been brothers’ or may not entail, especially regarding dates at their fraternities’ formals,” Titcomb said. the attitudes of our members,” he said. According to Titcomb, it is inaccurate Winebrake said he believes there is an understanding within the Greek system to generalize all fraternities as “queerphobic,” though he said he has previously that complacency is “unacceptable.” “Our vision for the future of Cornell’s fraternities is a vision of inclusiveness See GREEK page 5
President of Iceland Stresses Importance of Sustainability By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Staff Writer
The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, told Cornellians about Icelandic sustainability practices and the effects of global climate change on Friday as part of the Einaudi Center’s Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series. Grímsson — Iceland’s fifth president — said the country is constantly working to combat global warming. Grímsson spoke against climate change deniers, saying that evidence of increasing temperatures and melting glaciers is beyond dispute. “Despite the international dialogue and
cause of the issue. “Even eternal optimists like myself do not have great hope that through such international negotiations we will be able to solve the problem in time,” he said. “It makes economic Grímsson sense to save the instead encouraged individual counplanet.” tries to take advantage of clean enerÓlafur Ragnur Grímsson gy resources. Though he said he Greenland, which has supported the use of an ice sheet … half the solar and wind power, size of Western Europe. his speech focused on And it’s melting faster.” the use of geothermal Grímsson also dis- energy — power cussed how environ- derived from the heat mental issues need to be found beneath the addressed beyond inter- earth’s crust. “[One tenth of a] national conferences. While he did not dis- percent of the stored miss all international heat inside our planet environmental sum- would satisfy the global mits, he did say that energy consumption for they often miss the root 10,000 years,” he said. discussion, [Icelanders] don’t need to be convinced that something extraordinary is happening to our planet,” Grímsson said. “If you doubt it, then look at
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Clean energy leader | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the fifth President of Iceland, presents a lecture about sustainability in Rockefeller Hall Friday.
He added that much of the world lacks the resources to store food, and Iceland has started using geothermal energy — which can be utilized utilized without carbon emissions or climate change — to dry
food before it is exported. Grímsson said Iceland is able to dry food relatively quickly, adding that it can then be stored in any condition for up to two years. “I maintain it will be
the single most important contribution to food security in the world if we did this on a global scale,” he said. “About 20 percent of the food produced in the world gets destroyed in a week or
10 days, not because we waste it, but because there is no method of storing it.” Grímsson added that he believes Iceland is an international See ICELAND page 4