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Eric Schulman ’17 talks about how Civilization helped him come to terms with his major choice. | Page 7
The men’s lacrosse team lost to Penn in the semifinals of the Ivy League Tournament Friday. | Page 16
Seminar and a Frozen singalong are some must attend events this week Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15 says. | Page 11
Additional Orgs. Required to Submit Plans for Diversity
Festival of colors
By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer
The Student Assembly updated the United Student Body resolution, which will require additional organizations to submit a Diversity and Inclusion Plan to receive funding, according to Ulysses Smith ’14, president of the Student Assembly. Student reactions to the resolution were mixed, with some saying the University will benefit from additional diversity as a result. Other students, however, called the resolution “racist” and “artificial.” During the 2013-14 academic year, only byline funded organizations were required to submit Diversity and Inclusion Plans under the United Student Body resolution, which was “Diversity should be passed last spring by the created organically, Student Assembly to aid stuthrough a meaningful dent organizations with implementing diversity and cultural change.” inclusion initiatives. Some students have criticized the Enrico Bonatti ’14 resolution for artificially implementing diversity plans in campus organizations. United Student Body was crafted in response to Towards New Directions, a set of University diversity initiatives created in February 2012. On Friday, the Student Assembly expanded the United Student Body resolution to include Student Assembly Finance Commission funded organizations. Under the updated resolution, organizations will need to submit Diversity and Inclusion Plans to the Student Assembly Committee for Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives prior to Fall Break. Before then, the S.A. plans to notify all affected organizaSee RESOLUTION page 5
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Students celebrate the Hindu festival of colors by throwing colored powder at each other on the Arts Quad Saturday.
C.U.Revokes Recognition of Chi Psi By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor
Cornell revoked its recognition of the Chi Psi fraternity for a minimum of three years due to reports of hazing incidents that occurred during the spring semester, the University announced Friday. The decision was made after the fraternity was placed on interim suspension in March and provisional recognition in June 2013 — both for allegations of “serious”
physical and psychological hazing — according to the University. According to the University, some hazing incidents that led to the Chi Psi’s June 2013 probationary status were potentially dangerous to members. Chi Psi was put on interim suspension earlier this semester after reports of additional threats posed to the safety of fraternity members and guests, the University said. Chi Psi is the fifth fraternity to be disbanded within the last two
academic years and the second — after the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity — to be disbanded for incidents involving hazing. Tau Epsilon Phi was disbanded January 2013 following a “sexually humiliating” hazing incident, according to the University. In March 2014, Chi Psi held an Anti-Hazing Symposium, which required attendance from two new members and one new See CHI PSI page 4
Univ.Holds Third Annual Red Ideas Festival Student group Food Recovery Network wins first place award
By SUSHMITHA KRISHNAMOORTHY Sun Staff Writer
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Good ideas| Ethan Keller ’15 presents at the Red Ideas Festival in Willard Straight Hall Saturday.
Food Recovery Network, Dilmun Hill Organic Student Farm and Kreyol Essence were chosen as the winners of the Red Ideas Festival held on Saturday in Willard Straight Hall, with the teams winning financial grants to invest into their companies. Cornell Food Recovery Network, an organization that works to donate the excess food produced in Cornell dining halls to pantries in Tompkins
County, received first place. “Twenty-two pounds of food, which is otherwise composted, can be recovered per meal per dining hall,” said John Lowry ’16, the
“Our vision is to reach every all-youcare-to-eat dining hall on campus.” John Lowry ’16 founder and co-director of the organization. “Our vision is to reach every all-you-care-
to-eat dining hall on campus.” According to Lowry, the prize money from Red Ideas will be used to purchase more containers to store food as well as thermometers and coolers to ensure that the food is at a safe temperature when it is transported. “It takes a community to plant the seeds of a better future and grow that vision into a reality,” Lowry said. He attributed the success of the idea to administrators in Cornell Dining, Chef Tony Kveragas in Carl Becker House, the Friendship Donations Network and pro-
fessors and advisors who supported them. Student run Dilmun Hill Organic Farm’s composting toilet for disaster relief won second place. “Portable toilets become unusable when the equipment needed to empty them is not available in disaster scenarios,” said Phil Duvall ’15, student manager at Dilmun Hill. “The other option, latrines, can contaminate ground water supply with scores of pathogen.” According to Ethan Keller ’15, another student manager See FESTIVAL page 4