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Student Protests in Romania
Fallen Fallen Kingdom
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Cornell student who participated in a protest in Romania talks about his experience of getting arrested. | Page 3
Zach Lee ’20 discusses the disappointing summer blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. | Page 14
Take a look at the road ahead for the men’s hockey squad.
Emmy-Winning Activist to Discuss Environment at C.U.
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By SAMANTHA STERN Sun Staff Writer
Learning from the past | Multiple new safety installments exist in front of Statler Hall where a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle last year.
East Ave. Construction Nears Completion
Project aims to improve safety and accessibility for pedestrians By MIGUEL SOTO Sun Staff Writer
The last of the construction on East Avenue between Tower Road and Campus Road that began on April 2 is scheduled to be completed on Monday. The final touches include installing road pavement, placing raised road crosswalks, applying road striping, adding two bus shelters and “landscaping touch up as needed,” said Alex Chevallard, the project manager overseeing the rehabilitation. Chevallard told The Sun the project was undertaken to “improve safety, visibility and accessibility for pedestrians.” Aside from addressing safety concerns, the project also sought to address utilities that “required immediate replacement or modification.” There have been incidents in the past of pedestrians being struck by vehicles on East Avenue. Most recently, The Sun previously reported that a college-aged woman was struck on the crosswalk in front of
the Statler Hotel by a white Honda CR-V last August. She was taken to Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania, for treatment. Other pedestrian accidents occurred in 2011 and 2009 in incidents related to alleged failure of drivers to yield the right of way. Chevallard detailed many of the changes made to East Avenue over the summer. At the intersection of Campus Road and East Avenue, an “improved” turning radius for ease of turning and new traffic signals have been installed. The right-hand turn lane was removed to allow for a bus pull-off. A new traffic control system has been added which “will be monitored and adjusted to provide for safe and efficient movement of people and vehicles,” the website of the University’s Special Conditions Information said. Among the new installments is a new bus pull-off across Statler Hall, which includes a bus shelter with new lighting
Josh Fox, an Oscar nominee and Emmy Awardwinning filmmaker, will bring his discussion of environmental issues to Bailey Hall Friday night with a solo monologue, The Truth Has Changed. The performance, hosted by the Cornell Environmental Collaborative and Climate Justice Cornell, will cover important environmental and political issues ranging from Sept. 11, 2001, to Hurricane Sandy, to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2016. Fox is best known for his 2010 film FOX Gasland , which received an Academy Award nomination in Best Documentary Feature. The movie “made fracking a household word,” according to the Facebook event page for Friday’s event, and launched a worldwide anti-fracking movement. Fox now travels around the country to meet with people and voice his concerns about critical environmental issues such as water quality, climate change and political engagement, according to the CEC in
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Student Aims to Diversify Design eHub Restricts Access to Non-Members rules limit membership Community With Creative Agency New only to students currently By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer
Kelechi Mpamaugo ’20, a fine arts student whose coverage has become a staple at campus events within the black community, recently launched her own creative agency, Kelechi.ca. Through the creative agency,
Taking initiative | Mpamaugo said she wanted to document the black community because “Cornell doesn’t do it for us.”
Mpamaugo will deliver creative services to her clients in the form of video production, photography and graphic design work as well as promotional material and marketing campaigns. “I was creating a space for myself where there wasn’t a space for myself because I didn’t fit in anywhere,” she told The Sun. After interning at a design studio in Bangkok, Thailand See AGENCY page 5 COURTESY OF KELECHI MPAMAUGO ‘20
ing or checking of students’ ID cards even after 6 p.m. as they “trust” the students but added that non-members will not be able re-enter eHub upon leaving during member-only hours. According to Cortle, eHub is also making changes to its membership policy, By KEVIN LAM restricting membership to those who can Sun Staff Writer provide information about a current entrepreneurial project. Starting this fall, eHub will allow only Previously, information about entreits members to enter its Collegetown and preneurial activities was only required if Kennedy Hall locations in the evening members wanted to reserve eHub conand on weekends, in ference spaces. Under an effort to avoid overthe new policy, all who “Largely [the crowding. want to join eHub will Peter Cortle, eHub policy] is going to affect be required complete Director, said any the “Venture/Project students utilizing the Cornell student is welURL” field in the applicome to use the eHub Collegetown space.” cation, Cortle said. spaces from 9 a.m. to He also added that Peter Cortle 6 p.m. every weekday. current eHub memberHowever, access will be ship holders who did limited to eHub memnot share their entrebers after 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day preneurial activities before will be asked to on the weekends, he said. Cortle said that there will be no policSee EHUB page 5
participating in projects