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A new Kroch Library exhibit displays Cornell’s collection of Human Sexuality documents. | Page 3
Zoe Kaplan ’15 reviews the Cults’ Tuesday performance at The Haunt. | Page 8
Four Cornell women’s hockey players helped Canada defeat the U.S. for the gold medal Thursday. | Page 16
Cornell Ukrainian Students ‘Angered’ by Violent Protests By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Senior Writer
SERGEY PONOMAREV / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Taking cover | Anti-government protesters brandish shields near Independence Square in Kiev Thursday, after fighting restarted following a brief truce.
Members of Cornell’s Ukrainian community said they were angered by the Ukrainian government’s violent actions against protesters during the country’s ongoing crisis. The protests began last November when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abruptly refused to sign a treaty with the European Union in favor of accepting aid from Russia, according to Prof. Olena Vatamaniuk, crop and soil sciences, who is Ukrainian. At least 70 were killed and 500 were wounded in the clash between protesters and
Cornellians Part of Wall Street Secret Society Trustees among other alumni on released membership list
By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer
A number of Cornellians — including two University trustees and one trustee emeritus — are among the ranks of Wall Street’s “elite” secret society, according to an analysis conducted by The Sun of a membership list released by New York Magazine Tuesday. University trustees Jessica Bibliowicz ’81 and Howard Milstein ’73 and trustee emeritus Sanford Weill ’55 are members of the Kappa Beta Phi society, a group of high-ranking Wall Street executives. The membership roll of the Kappa Beta Phi society was obtained by Kevin Roose after he attended an induction ceremony in January 2012 and was published Tuesday to coincide with the release of his book Young Money, according
to New York Magazine. The organization, which was created at the start of the Great Depression, had approximately 400 members at the time of the 2012 induction ceremony, according to membership list. Bibliowicz — who joined investment firm Bridge Growth Partners as a senior advisor in September, The Wall Street Journal reported in September — was inducted into the society in 1999, according to the membership list. Milstein, on the other hand, joined the organization in 2006. Milstein is among one of more than a dozen billionaires to graduate from Cornell, joining Chuck Feeney ’56, Irwin Jacobs ’54 and others as individuals who have made significant contributions to Cornell, The Sun previously reported. In addition, Milstein Hall receives its See WALL STREET page 4
HOWARD MILSTEIN ’73 University Trustee Inducted in 2006
JESSICA BIBLIOWICZ ’81 University Trustee Inducted in 1999
SANFORD WEILL ’55 Trustee Emeritus Inducted in 1980
riot police in Kiev yesterday — the bloodiest day of the crisis — according to The Associated Press. “The government responded to peaceful protesters by beating unarmed students and kidnapping activists — torturing, humiliating and killing them. Yesterday and especially today, the situation went out of control,” Vatamaniuk said. Anastasia Melnyk ’16, president of Cornell’s Ukraine Club, said she was concerned because she has close family living in the country. “I actually visited Kiev this past summer, See UKRAINE page 4
Ithaca Police Dept.Will Bring Back K-9 Program Members of the Ithaca community can expect to see a new furry friend at City events in coming months, according to the Ithaca Police Department, which announced Thursday that it will re-establish its K-9 program. The department will choose the dog in March, according to an IPD press release. Officer Pat Kimmich will undergo a training program with the dog where they will learn “basic dog obedience, tracking, suspect apprehension,” and other applicable skills, according to an IPD press release. Later this year, the dog and officer will become certified in explosive detection. The K-9 team will attend Ithaca community events that draw large crowds, and will be responsible for “building searches, suspect apprehension, explosive detection and searches for missing persons,” the release said. “This is another avenue that will help build stronger police-community relations,” IPD Chief of Police John Barber said in the press release. Private donations and a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are providing the program’s initial start-up costs, according to the press release. — Compiled by Dara Levy
Skorton:Financial Aid a‘Top Priority’ By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer
President David Skorton said that ensuring financial aid for undergraduates is his “top priority” at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday. Since the 2008 recession, student financial aid allocations increased by 200 percent, with 59 percent of undergraduate students
receiving financial aid last semester, he said. “The difference between now and what it was before the recession is breathtaking,” Skorton said. Cornell has “done very well” in providing financial aid for students from families making the median income or below, Skorton said. However, he said there is still a gap between the
top and bottom halves of the socioeconomic spectrum, with financial aid still not reaching the “intermediate set of families.” Though allocations for financial aid has increased since the recession, Skorton projected that the percentage of students who receive financial aid would See AID page 4
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Ready to respond | President David Skorton responds to Student Assembly members’ questions during an S.A. meeting Thursday.