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Sophomore Min Shin ’22 is a member of the Korean Women’s National Ice Hockey Team. | Page 3
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Morgan Barron’s three-goal propelled the Red to a 6-2 win over Yale.
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Server Outage Causes Problems Across Campus
Wi-Fi, Student Center, printing interrupted
ing everything from library loans to prelims. In an email to The Sun, one first-year veterinary student described a scene of drama as When the internet goes down, a common downed servers caused a major examination piece of advice is to keep restarting one’s rout- to be delayed amidst the confusion. er until it finally works. “An hour and 15 minutes into our sixThat frustratingly familiar scenario played hour final the servers went down,” Natalie out on a massive scale Thursday, when a Katz wrote. “They’re still not back up and problem in the Cornell servers sparked a we were allowed to go home for two hours cascade of disturbances in an internet infra- and had to come back at 4. We’re all just structure that thousands of students, faculty sitting here, exhausted and frustrated, still not and staff have able to take our come to closefinal.” “There were several students around the ly rely upon to According perform basic printers who were very frustrated because they to performance tasks. This reports, CIT were not even getting the net print forced Cornell’s spent three and login pop-up.” I.T. department a half hours to conduct “a investigating the Alec Farber ’20 series of router mishap, which restarts” in the was deemed a hopes of bringing the network back online. “severity one issue,” before calling the vendor The outage — which arose from a yet to that supplied the routers at 2:30 p.m. in order be determined “issue” in Cornell’s two major to “identify the root cause of the problem.” server farms, located in Rhodes Hall and the In response, CIT temporarily shut down Computing and Communications Center — server farm routers from 3:15 to 3:30 p.m, was first reported at 10:30 a.m., prompting which restored some affected services, but still Cornell’s I.T. department to quickly scramble left others inoperable. for a solution. A series of additional restarts were perThe campus Wi-Fi, eduroam, Cornell formed into the evening, until by 7:30 p.m. Dining, Net-Print, Tableau and Student the same day, CIT reported that all services Essentials came to a screeching halt, disrupt- had finally been restored and were investigatBy JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun News Editor
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Server breakdown | People across campus were affected by the outage of servers located in Rhodes Hall, pictured above.
ing the initial source of the outage. The outage, which lasted for most of the day, caused a slew of key Cornell services to seize up in disarray. Alec Faber ’20, who works in Olin library, said he came in to work at the printer support desk only to be met with scores of frustrated students griping about their inability to leverage on-campus printing resources. “There were several students around the printers who were very frustrated because
they were not even getting the net print login pop-up,” Faber told The Sun. According to Faber, the Cornell’s I.T. Services informed him that the campus-wide service outage had affected “virtually all of Cornell’s online services,” precluding them from even “accessing their own I.T. help database.” After learning of this recent development, See SERVER page 5
Cornell IFC Bans Fall Semester Social Events By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun City Editor
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IFC | The Interfraternity Council has canceled its remaining social events for the fall semester.
Cornell’s Interfraternity Council canceled nearly all regulated fraternity events for the rest of the fall semester Friday night, citing safety concerns. The ban — which will run until Jan. 1, 2020 — said recent events were a catalyst which had made “inherent safety hazards” apparent within the existing Greek life social system. The ban excludes a maximum of three “date nights” or formal events with a memberto-guest ratio of 1:1 hosted at a “licensed, third party venue or the Chapter house while utilizing licensed 3rd party resources,” which included approved bartenders and security personnel. “We have an obligation to protect the safety of both our members, our guests, and the larger Cornell community and we believe that taking this
action allows us to draw back and reassess our shortcomings and enact substantial change,” reads the ban, cosigned by all 29 IFC fraternity presidents except those representing Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Kappa Psi. The Phi Kappa Psi president did not reply to The Sun’s requests for comment. “Everyone was given notice and opportunity to come, voice opinions, vote, and sign,” said IFC President Cristian Gonzalez ’20. However, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity president Dillon Anadkat ’21, in a written statement to The Sun, described the ban as more “symbolic” than capable of affecting real change. “Alpha Delta Phi supports taking action in partnership with the rest of the Greek community. But this measure bans registered events, which are some of the safest on campus and only encourages See IFC page 5
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Veterans | Daughters of Maj. Richard Gannon ’95 and Capt. John Wood ’93 carry a wreath in honor of their fathers at the dedication ceremony on Saturday.
Cornell Honors Alumni Who Died In Iraq Conflict By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun News Editor
On Saturday, President Martha E. Pollack rededicated the War Memorial in Anabel Taylor Hall to include Maj. Richard Gannon ’95 and Capt. George Wood ’93, two alumni who died in the Iraq Conflict.
Gannon attended Cornell on a Navy Scholarship and studied government and history in the College of Arts and Sciences. He later joined the armed forces as a Marine Officer in 1995. He died on April 17, 2004, in Anbar province, See VETERANS page 4