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Guest lecturer Christina Crosby describes her struggle with grief after a cycling accident changed her life . | Page 3
A look back at a successful 21-93 overall record this year for women’s hockey.
When it comes to this classic story, Grant Muller ’21 says that the movie doesn’t live up to the book. | Page 10
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Cornell Grapples With 2 ‘Who Gets to Define Hate Speech?’ Assaults in Collegetown Over the Past Weekend By MARYAM ZAFAR
The conservative millennial | Allie Stuckey
Sun Staff Writer
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor
Four Cornell students were assaulted in two different altercations over the weekend in Collegetown, and both suspects are on the loose, leaving administrators and faculty members to address the emotional effect that the violence has had on students. Administrators held a community support meeting on
“We will stand firm in our resolve to reject and express our disgust at such actions.” Ryan Lombardi Monday in an attempt to offer emotional support to students and provide a place where the campus community can come together. “Those who wish to challenge the dignity of others have again attempted to compromise our community, but we will stand firm in our resolve to
reject and express our disgust at such actions,” Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, and Mary Opperman, vice president and chief human resources officer, said in a joint statement. Prof. Charles Van Loan, dean of faculty, sent an email to faculty on Sunday night “encouraging them to accommodate those students who have been impacted by these events,” Lombardi and Opperman said. The administrators’ response follows the physical assault of three male students early on Saturday morning in which one student said he was harassed using racial slurs, and the sexual assault of a female Cornell student on Sunday night as she tried to get into her home. Suspects in both cases are on the loose, and Ithaca and Cornell police are urging anyone with information to contact the departments. The female student reported to police that she had locked See ASSAULTS page 4
Conservative speaker and Fox News personality Allie compares the “liberal left” Stuckey, who describes herself as “The Conservative to “thought police” Millennial,” spoke against banning hate for trying to speech at an event organized by the Network regulate hate. of Enlightened Women Monday night. Stuckey is a news host who regularly comCOURTESY OF REBECCA FISCO mentates for Fox News and has a regular show on CRTV. Before the event, Stucky tweeted that she planned to speak on “free speech and why the Left hates us so much.” During the event, Stuckey touched on a range of topics, including the University’s recent responses to hate incidents, which includes a proposal to limit hate speech. A campus-wide debate over the potential speech code will take place on April 10, as previously today, according to Stuckey, is not just because of reported by The Sun. According to Stuckey, the idea of implement- disagreement over individual social issues, but because the nation disagrees fundamentally over ing this type of code is “crazy”. “[There are] people saying that hate speech is “what America is and what America should be.” Stuckey explained her idea of what a “liberal” not free speech,” Stuckey said. “Yes, it is. And America would look like, describing a place where there’s no such thing as hate speech.” Stuckey continued, asking, “Who gets to “morality is irrelevant … borders are open … gendefine hate speech? Does President Trump get to der is fluid … a place without guns, without individual liberties, without privacy.” define [it], or Barack Obama?” “It takes so much more moral fortitude to be a According to Stuckey, “what is at stake … is freedom of thought.” She admonished the “liberal conservative millennial than a liberal millennial,” left” for acting, through tech companies, universi- Stuckey said. “[Students should] continue to ties and media, as “thought police,” alluding to speak up … continue to read thoroughly … and George Orwell’s 1984. See FREE SPEECH page 4 The reason that American politics is so divided
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New Relationship Policy Proposed Current policy hasn’t been revised since 1996 By BREANNE FLEER Sun News Editor
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Miloslav Hrbek, center, represents the Czech Republic in a preliminary sled hockey game, against Korea.
“We’ve done a lot of homework,” announced Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan at a GPSA meeting on Monday, referring to the Consensual Relationship Policy Committee’s development of a new policy proposal to better regulate issues surrounding romantic or sexual relationships across power differences. A synopsis of “Policy 6.x” explains that the proposal would prohibit “all romantic or sexual relationships between faculty and undergraduates” as well as those in which one partner has the ability to influence the “academic progress or professional advancement” of the other. Van Loan, co-chair of the committee, said that the policy is now entering a public comment
period. After that, the assemblies, including the Faculty Senate, will vote on the policy in April and present it with comments to President Martha E. Pollack by May 1. Calling the policy a “harassment prevention” strategy, Van Loan emphasized the need for continued feedback and “a really healthy, open discussion across campus” on the proposed policy. “People shouldn’t be afraid — there are well-reasoned, defendable opposition points, and we want to make sure that people aren’t shy about speaking up against some of the things that we may propose,” he said. The proposal comes after 11 committee meetings last semester, where members reviewed the policies of over 50 peer institutions and sought feedback from See GPSA page 4