and educate others on the dangerous effects of haz ing in Greek Life, sports teams and other organi zations.Guobadia, a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. at the University of Delaware, explained how, during her time as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, she had not only experi enced hazing during her pledging period, but she also became a perpetra
For instance, the Circulating Matters outdoor installation touches base on the future of the construction industry in the face of climate change. It was composed of reused materials from the deconstruction of a 1910 residential structure in Collegetown that was originally slated for demolition.
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on Indigenous communities, as well as intensive pressure put on the health of women and people of different sexualities,” Murray said.
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The biennial features artwork aimed at both educating stu dents and the general public on pressing societal issues, while highlighting and introducing these themes in a new light.
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“I tried to think of ways that we could step up as a community given the failings of the federal government,” Cantelmo said.Cantelmo got the idea for the abortion sanctuary city from an existing article in the municipal code, that similarly pre vents city employees from cooperating with immigration control organizations such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“Withits unanimous passage, we are signaling that we have a very strong com mitment to making sure this is upheld,” Cantelmo said about the unanimous vote from the Common Council.
“We need to provide these protections and signal to the community that we are a place that supports their values and their rights to bodily autonomy,” Cantelmo said.Muna Mohammed ’24 believes that there shouldn’t be laws regulating repro ductive rights and is in support of Ithaca’s new policy.
Hazing awareness | Signs lined up around the Arts Quad from sororites and fraternities for hazing prevention.
The amendment prevents city employ ees from disclosing the health infor mation of those who seek abortions in Ithaca with out-of-state law enforcement. If private information is revealed, the amendment explicitly grants citizens the right to sue the city.
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“We asked artists to think about how our relationship with presentness gets impacted by the precarity of the future now as we’ve come to understand it through COVID, global warm ing, the Black Lives Matter movement, continual pressure put
The Cornell Council for the Arts is hosting its fifth Cornell Biennial with a rotating series of exhibitions, installations, performances and artist panels through December. Exhibited across the University campus, Ithaca and surrounding upstate regions, as well as the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, this year’s show centers around the theme: “Futurities, Uncertain.”Thefeatured creators includes invitational artists, affiliates of the Mellon Public Curatorial Expression Program, as well as Cornell faculty and students who participated in the CCA’s open call competition for artwork submissions this past winter.
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According to Prof. Timothy Murray, comparative liter ature, curator of the past three biennials and director of the CCA, the arts show aims to reorient traditional thinking about the future that is oftentimes based on preconceived notions.
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Hazing is a nation al issue that has plagued many college campuses, including Cornell. To grapple with the reali ties of hazing, Monday kicked off National Hazing Prevention Week, an opportunity for universities, specifically Greek Life communities, to come together to stand up against hazing.
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This year, Cornell hosted Michelle Guobadia, director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, to share her experiences with hazing
Circulating Matters, designed by Prof. Felix Heisel, archi tecture, in conjunction with the Circular Construction Lab, of which he serves as director, is part of an overarching research project on promoting the circular construction economy and scaling reuse throughout Ithaca and communities across the world.
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tured skull, broken ribs and an alarmingly high blood-al coholOnlylevel.afreshman when he passed away, his death shook the Cornell community. In October 2020, Phi Kappa Psi was banned from Cornell’s campus, however, there were no criminal charges filed.
Cornell University is ranked as the ninth best engineer ing school in the country and has a 45-year long history of biomedical engineering research. Despite this history, the Department of Biomedical Engineering was only formally established in 2004, and in 2015 the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering was created, making Biomedical Engineering a relatively new major in the College of Engineering.Nownearly two decades old, the Biomedical Engineering Department still does not have its own building on campus. This is set to change in 2024 with the $40 million expan sion and renovation of Thurston Hall which, ten years after the establishment of the Department of Biomedical
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The major’s growth has been continuous: The Class of 2024 is the largest class in the department’s history.
van der Meulen, the James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering and Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has used her administrative position to promote the department’s need for new teaching space, which would allow the labo ratories in the basement of Weill Hall to be used exclusively for research.
This year’s National Hazing Prevention Week at Cornell was in honor of Antonio Tsialas, who died during an unofficial rush event for Phi Kappa Psi in 2019. Tsialas was found at the bottom of Fall Creek Gorge with a frac
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“Each fall I am forced to grapple with the reality that hazing in the Cornell com munity killed Antonio Tsialas. This loss is profound and should call Greeks to enact change in our member intake and recruitment processes,” Sand said. “Hazing is never okay. I want women to feel welcomed at Tri Delta from the moment they step in on BidAtDay.”the end of her talk, Guobadia aimed to shock Cornell students by explain ing the legal implications of hazing.“Someone has died from hazing every year for 50 years except for 2020, during the global pandemic,” Guobadia said. “97 million dollars is the largest asking price on record for a hazing lawsuit. No one rises to low standards. If you want them to appreciate your organization, then treat your organization like it should be appreciated.”
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Kappa Alpha Theta President Euna Carpenter ’23, is using Hazing Prevention Week to not only educate her members, but as a way to reflect on their recruitment process and new member pol icies.“Our chapter prides itself on core values of support ing and empowering each other, intellectual curiosity and growth, and pushing each other to become the best peo ple we can be,” Carpenter said. “This week, we are hav ing conversations around what Theta means to each of us individually and how we want to make others in our chapter and community feel.”
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“Hazing doesn’t eliminate the bad apples, it actual ly keeps the bad apples in,” Guobadia said. “When you pit one class against anoth er, you aren’t unifying them, but you’re creating cliques and cracks in your organization.”
Delta Delta Delta President Maddie Sand ’23, believes that National Hazing Prevention Week is a powerful reaction to the losses experienced in the Greek communities national ly, and with Tsialas at Cornell.
However, one resident of Hu Shih Hall explains the downsides of having everything at his disposal within his floor.
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“They made it kind of a home where you don’t have to leave the actual dorm itself,” AJ Nambiar ’26 said. “It’s to your own discretion whether you want to be social or not, while in [other dorms like] Donlon you’re kind of forced [to socialize].”Mostresidents agree and add that the sterilized, hotel-like feel of the hallways separating the small lounges does not facilitate social ization.“[It’s] very much, ‘you go to your room and then you leave’ — there’s less meeting people even within your pod,” Anna Cerosaletti ’26 said who lives in Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall.
Because of how new the halls are, their bare-boned walls and lack of character have left residents doubtful that social traditions will be created by the end of the year.
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“There’s just not as much engagement and I think it comes back to how the dorm is set up,’’ Cerosaletti said. “The whole floor isn’t really close, so I don’t think people would go to [social] events.”
“The research spaces in Weill Hall worked fine for teach ing lab activity when the major was 20 or 30 people, but now my [biomedical circuits signals and systems] class has 60 people alone,” Schaffer said. “With this kind of dramatic growth, having space that is purpose-built and architec turally designed for the purpose of lab-based teaching will make it easier for us to teach and it will make it a better environment for students to learn in.”
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“When we first started out, we were shoving lab-based educational activities into small spaces in the basement of Weill Hall, which is where much of our research infrastruc ture is located,” Schaffer said. “But as the major has grown, we have completely outgrown these spaces, and now a lot of our lab-based teaching is scattered all over the place.”
Engineering, will become the new home of the Meinig School and other departments such as Material Sciences andProfessorEngineering.Chris Schaffer, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, said that a key reason for the expansion was the department’s current lack of teaching space.
In older dorms, like the low rises,
suite-style rooms allow residents to meet each other. In these buildings, the main lounge areas, while not modernized with appliances, are larger and contain activities such as board games and ping-pong for residents to play.
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Three new dorms tower over the low rises after the additions to the North Campus Residential Expansion project this year. Residents of Hu Shih Hall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall and Barbara McClintock Hall voiced how their new homes remind them of grand hotels, but bring social drawbacks with living in an isolated environ ment — a trend for new University housing.The NCRE project aimed to provide not only 2000 additional beds for first-years and sophomores, but also comfortable spaces to study and socialize with friends and other residents. Last year, the University added two new dorms with similar ly modern amenities, but residents reported feeling lonely and isolated as well.Lounges in the new dormito ries include brand new televisions and other amenities, including a mini-kitchen. The actual rooms are no exception to the modern inno vations of the new halls, paved with hardwood floors and lined with ample strips of adjustable overhead lighting. Students have settled into what feels like a five-star hotel room with“Itease.made the transition into col lege a lot easier to move into some where a little bit more comfortable in comparison to other Cornell dorms,” said Hu Shih Hall resident Alexandra Zwiebel ’26.
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“There are only so many labs that can be used in Weill Hall for teaching undergrads as well as the research itself,” said Parker Dean ’22 M.S. ’23. “Weill Hall itself is a building shared with other departments, and the new undergraduate BME program seems to have put everything underProf.stress.”Marjolein
BME students appear to concur that the current shared teaching and research space was insufficient.
“By day, we are the model students, by nights and weekends, we do things we wouldn’t show our parents or peers from Guobadiahome.”alsodiscussed ten myths about hazing, aiming to disprove common misconcep tions many in the Greek com munity have regarding hazing.
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic drew special atten tion to the importance of biomedical engineering, univer sities like Cornell have been investing in the subject for decades. That investment will substantially increase with the creation of new biomedical engineering facilities in Thurston Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
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To my apartment-mates reading this who know all too much about my bread obses sion, yes, of course I had to start off this article with toast. Toast is my favorite breakfast food — I mean, it’s so versatile. I’m a sweet over savory gal, so I like to put on as much pea nut butter (crunchy, always) as I can possibly consume at once, cut up half a banana to go on top and finish it off with dark chocolate chips. If it’s the rare day that I am craving something savory, I’ll spread hummus on my toast, chop up a tomato or bell peppers to go on top, and sprinkle on some Everything but the Bagel seasoning. You can change up your toast toppings however you want — I advise experi menting to find your favorites!
Smoothies are another fun and healthy breakfast food. I like to use orange juice or al mond milk as my base, but I’m also partial to coconut water and oat milk. Next, I’ll add in my fruit. Though fresh fruit works, I prefer frozen fruit because they’re more convenient — I’ll usu ally buy a bulk bag from We gmans and save myself the time it takes to wash and cut all the fruit. I also add in a healthy dose of spinach. You might think this step ruins a perfectly nice sweet smoothie, but trust me when I say that you can’t taste the vegetable. Plus, you will have the added bonus of getting your greens in. Finally, I’ll finish with some peanut butter (can you sense a pattern here?) for those healthy fats before blending everything together. Your roommates might get mad about the ruck us from the blender, but I can guarantee that the first sip of your smoothie on the walk to class will be well worth it.
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need some night-before meal prep — sorry! But I promise, there’s no stove-work necessary. Overnight oats are well worth the 15 minutes you’ll spend on meal prep. As a bonus, you can prepare multiple servings in one fell swoop and have readymade breakfast for multiple days. The recipe I like to use per serving container is ½ cup oats to ½ cup milk. I also like to add in a little bit of honey and a whole lot of cinnamon. Then, I put my overnight oats containers in the fridge over night and wait to enjoy the next morning. If I have a little extra time in the morning, I’ll
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hile everyone has likely heard the man tra, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” a thousand times, college students know the struggle of finding enough time to eat in the morning. If you’re like me, you’ll likely prioritize the ex tra 10 minutes of sleep before
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your 8 a.m. lecture over getting some morning nutrients in yourBut,body.over my three-plus years in college, I’ve found a few simple recipes that work for me when I’m in a rush and have to take breakfast on the go. Here are a few of my fa vorites, partially because they require no actual cooking, par tially because they’re all super customizable, but most impor tantly, because they’re just so delicious.
toss in some nuts, frozen ber ries or chocolate chips, but it’s good enough to eat as is, in my opinion!Hopefully these ideas have inspired you to make breakfast a more common staple in your life. Breakfast doesn’t have to be a complicated affair. Some times it’s as easy as making pea nut butter toast or grabbing an overnight oats cup to eat on your way to class.
You can’t ever go wrong with a twist on yogurt! Parfait bowls are another one of my favorites. I buy the bulk con tainers of Chobani Plain Greek Yogurt and use that; though, of course, any kind of yogurt
works. My favorite parfait toppings are similar to my most used toast toppings — peanut butter, banana and chocolate chips. Most days, I also like to throw some gra nola and almonds in for that added crunch. Other days, I’ll sub in tahini in place of the peanut butter and add some dried cranberries and dates. You do you! The world of yogurt toppings is your oyster.
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This next one may sound obvious — listen to music. I know this is a given for most people, especially when stressed. But take this as a reminder to listen to your favorite song, or create a playlist of relaxing music to get you out of a nega tive mental space. I know from personal
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The first way to mitigate unhealthy stress would be to implement passion into your daily life. Something I’ve been feeling the absence of recently is the ability to pursue passions that aren’t built around academics. To offer more insight, I’ve spent most of my life creating art. When this passion first surfaced in my life, things started to feel like they were making sense. The process of observing, choosing a color palette, layering and creating a piece with intricate details offered me a sense of fulfillment beyond academics. Since college started, I’ve felt the absence of this within my life. I urge you to make room in your life to find a passion, or maybe revisit one that you might’ve lost sight of.
My last piece of advice would be to make time for walks. You’d be surprised how therapeutic the simple act of going on a walk can be for the mind. While going on walks you may even be able to practice journaling and reflecting on your
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Before I get into some ways you can try to remove or lessen stress as a dominating factor in your life, I’m going to preface that not all stress is bad stress. There is
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Though I haven’t mastered the art of sublimating unhealthy stress and replac ing it with a tangible list of actionables to take initiative and get things done, I’d like to share some knowledge on things you can do to find yourself back in a calm state of mind.
This next stress reliever would be to focus on those people that are always there for you. These are the people that are going to give the best advice on how to overcome a shortcoming. Having a foundation of good relationships in your life will help reduce stress tremendously — it’s nice to know that you’re support ed. Make time for the friends that have always been there to help guide you through struggle, and for your family who has shown you the rope.
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Another thing you can do to remove unhealthy stress from your life goes handin-hand with listening to music. Get on your feet and exercise. Something I’ve learned this past year is to never underes timate the power of a workout to remove negative thoughts and mindsets from my life. To maximize a workout, listen to upbeat music that will help you get that adrenaline rush and keep you energized. You may even want to work out with a friend — this is one of the many ways to strengthen those foundational relation ships within your life. Going on a run with a friend may just be the antidote to your stress-dominated life. Healthy rela tionships can act as a support system in your life, keeping you afloat when those unexpected detours present themselves.
mental state. Be honest with yourself. Sometimes the things that stress us out the most are things we don’t like to admit — being honest with yourself can be a driving force in releasing that pressure off yourI’dshoulders.liketobring these pieces of advice to mitigate unhealthy stress in your life back to building a routine. Routine introduces familiarity, something that can be preventative in unhealthy stress.
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CRISPR is a genetic engineering tool that identifies and alters a specific segment of DNA. The most common type of CRISPR system is RNA guided nucleases, which is when a ‘guide RNA’ guides the associated nucleus to the desired segment of the genome to edit the genome through
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Prof. Ailong Ke, molecular biology and genetics, along with the Brouns Lab at Felt University of Technology in the Netherlands, recently discovered a rela tionship between a family of proteases and CRISPR that could change the way we understand gene editing technology.
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This tool can also be programmed to trigger the cell death pathway, slow down growth of a signaling pathway or turn on a signaling pathway. Ke and his team were able to analyze macromolecules with atom ic resolution, allowing for precise analysis and a deeper understanding of how these proteasesAlthoughfunction.CRISPR is still in the clinical trial stage and craspase hasn’t been used in health care yet, Ke is hopeful about the direction that gene editing technolo gy is taking. He is hopeful that one day ‘craspase’ can be used for medical proce dures.“Ithink that biology is entering a new era,” Ke said. “So with those powerful tools, I think we’ll be able to come up with therapeutics and new strategies against disease, aging and other outstanding prob lems. We can get there faster, with more powerful solutions.”
Although there is a lot of potential for RNA guided nuclease CRISPR sys tems the small percentage of error is still substantial enough for researchers to cau tion its application on human subjects. However, Ke and Brouns’ recent discovery of the ‘Craspase,’ a CRISPR guided caspase mediator between protease caspase and CRISPR, is less risky.
unwanted mutation in heritable genes that can then be passed onto future generations.
Caspases are able to trigger cells to go through programmed cell death, safe ly removing them. Craspase is a system which utilizes CRISPR RNA guided RNA activated protease to edit proteins instead of using RNA guide nucleases to edit the genome bases directly.These proteases were once thought to be eukaryotic specific but this has since been debunked by Ke and his collabora tors as they found that bacteria — a type of prokaryote — also have these caspase proteases that mediate cell programmed death, indicating its prim itive
Ke said that mistakes made during pro tein cleaving with ‘Craspase’ have minimal effects on the organism. He also added that CRISPR is inherently more dangerous because it uses enzymes, which cleave the building blocks of RNA and DNA, perma nently changing genetic information.
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“That’s why people are really excit ed when they see RNA guided proteases because we’re cleaving proteins,” Ke said. “If we make a mistake, then it’s not a big deal. So we can, in many cases, achieve the same therapeutic outcome without wor rying about passing mistakes to the next generation.”Theability to cleave proteins instead of editing the genome directly has many implications for the future of gene therapy. This is a safer alternative that allows for a more varied application of the tool.
One of the most dangerous aspects of CRISPR is that it edits directly onto the gene sequence, making permanent edits to the organism’s genome. For example, mistakes in gene editing can cause chro mosome deletions, which typically leads to severe intellectual and physical disabilities.
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base-pairToday,interactions.CRISPRis widely used in agri culture and even in genome editing of mos quitos to decrease the spread of malaria. Although CRISPR is more commonly used in non-human organisms, there are clinical trials to test if CRISPR can fix genetic defects and mutations that cause diseases and illnesses, such as cancer.
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