CKB Intruder Leaves Students Worried

The email also reminded students to lock their rooms, even when leaving the room momentarily, taking a nap or using the bathroom.

Residents of CKB told The Sun they are taking extra safety precautions following the incident.

Roommates Alena Makheja ’26 and Ellie Butkovich ’26 said that before yesterday, they rarely locked their door.

“I lost my key for a period, so we never really locked it,” Makheja said. “But this made me want to start locking my room.”

In CKB, students need to scan their Cornell ID once to enter the lobby of the dormitory and again to enter either the elevator or the stairwell. The pair said they frequently have friends over at their dorm and that telling them to ‘piggyback’ off of other people who have CKB room cards is convenient and effective.

“It’s pretty easy [to enter CKB],” said CKB resident Jake Kohagura ’26. “All you’ve got to do is follow somebody in, but I imagine that people are [now] on pretty high alert.”

Kohagura said he and his friends rarely think about locking their doors and will leave their rooms unlocked all day. He expects that behavior to change following yesterday’s events.

Sarah Young ’26 said she is a pod-mate of the victim, meaning they share the same bathroom and live adjacent to one another.

“I definitely think I’m not a super scared person,” Young said. “But this has got me locking my door when I go to the bathroom, locking the door when I go to the shower. I think it was really kind of surreal.” g said her floor is shaken up following the incident, and she knows of girls who decided to sleep in other residence halls with friends last night.

Resident Jaidyn Duhon ’26 said she always locks her door but that this incident has heightened her anxiety about the dorm’s safety.

“I’m not feeling safe at all,” Duhon said. “Now I’m looking under my bed, even though I know there’s no way that somebody can be there. And I look at my closet, just to make sure that nobody’s in there.”

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Originally from Poland, Jaeschke earned her diploma from the Architectural Association in London and a Doctor of Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She taught at the Woodbury School of Architecture in Los Angeles prior to teaching at the University of Texas.

Sponsored by Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the Wheelwright Prize is a competition for early-career architects across the globe. The winners receive a $100,000 grant to devote to innovative projects with the goal of advancing architectural research and discourse. Jaeschke was selected as one of three finalists out of more than 145 applicants.

After winning the grant for her proposal, “UNDER WRAPS: Architecture and Culture of Greenhouses,” Jaeschke visited eight countries across three continents over the course of 150 days, exploring the culture and architecture of greenhouses. In her Monday talk, she will reflect on how greenhouse design can inspire her and other architects’ future research.

“Jaeschke was selected as one of three finalists out of more than 145 applicants.”

In addition to the Wheelwright Prize, Jaescke won DigitalFUTURES’s Mark Cousins Theory Award in 2021, which recognizes a leading theorist in architecture and design each year. The award acknowledged Jaeschke’s doctoral dissertation “Green Apparatus: Ecology of the American House According to Building Codes,” in which she delved into how building regulations and sustainable technologies improve environmentally-conscious design and awareness. Jaeschke will speak as part of the Distinguished Speaker in Sustainable Cities series, which the College of Architecture, Art and Planning is co-sponsoring with the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Her talk will take place on Monday in the Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium at 11 a.m.

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Tall Travis originated at the University of Vermont’s folk music club in January 2021. One of its six members is Elliot Walsh ’24, a Cornell student who collaborates with the band from Ithaca during the semester. In an interview with me, Walsh shared, “We started doing [the project] with sort of the intention of doing a slightly more folk-punk thing. Previous records had leaned more heavily on soft indie folk songs, and we wanted to do some faster stuff.”

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