Fight for Your Rights

THET H U R S DAYI, M ARCHT 22, 2018HACAN • V OLU M E 85, I SSUE 22 THE ART OF SCIENCE SPEAKING OUT THE GLOBAL GAME Art and biology students Free speech policies at The members of the Ithaca collaborate to study their oral the college must have College women’s soccer team microbiomes to gain a deeper precise definitions of spent their spring break understanding of identity. public and private spaces. traveling through Europe. Page 13 Page 9 Page 19 as the degree to which citizens will support the extensions of civil liberties to all, including those who advocate viewpoints that are highly disagreeable. The research BY by Christopher Claassen, lecturer in the Fight for Department of Politics at University of Glasgow, Scotland, pooled data from 4,000 respondents who were asked ques- tions about free speech during 2007–11. His research found that there is a direct your rights correlation between college towns and the degree of political activism and tolerance of an area, he said. Students at the college are familiar IC students are with participating in political action on a number of pressing issues. On campus, students have participated in a number politically active of protests, including protests support- ing the part-time faculty union, rallies for Planned Parenthood and protests against on campus racism on campus and former college BY SAM HAUT culture in the United States. To respond, President Tom Rochon. STAFF WRITER she and some other students creat- After the election of President Don- Junior Anna Gard- ed a protest and information session ald Trump, protests occurred across the ner was originally about guns. country as well as in Ithaca. A week after worried when she “At the event, we had a few students the 2016 election, approximately 100 heard that Larry who were part of the Young Americans campus community members gathered Pratt, former execu- for Liberty, and they came and were at Free Speech Rock to protest Trump’s tive director for Gun very much like, ‘We know that we’re the stance on undocumented immigration. Owners of America, people who are the odd ducks out,’” Students joined the Women’s March would be speaking at Gardner said. “They were very much following Trump’s inauguration and a Ithaca College in like, ‘We’re happy to talk about this — protest on International Women’s Day November 2017, this is how I feel about it versus how on The Commons in conjunction with a she said. you feel about it.’ So ultimately, at the larger protest movement about women’s Gardner said end of that, I felt like it was a very pro- rights, called A Day Without Women. that she feared ductive dialogue and discussion that Students also participated in We Are the right-wing we had.” Seneca Lake protests in 2014 against the speaker This protest is reflective of the polit- fracking near Seneca Lake. Four hundred would stifle ical activity on campus at the college. A people were arrested in total from both a diverse published study written about in The the town and college. There is also a Black conver- Washington Post found that Ithaca, along Lives Matter movement chapter in Ithaca, sation with other college towns like Boulder, with protests in 2015, a hosted lecture from oc- Colorado, is among the 365 most po- in 2016 and a celebratory event in 2017. curring litically tolerant metropolitan areas in Students also participate annually in the about the country. Take Back the Night march, which raises gun The study defines political tolerance See PROTESTS, Page 4 Former Cornell student found with weapons cache BY MADISON FERNANDEZ States Northern District Court of New York on ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR March 16, according to the release. A former Cornell University student was ar- Reynolds is being held without bail pending a rested March 15 for having a supply of weapons hearing, according to the release. stocked in his household. Reynolds can face a maximum of 10 years in The Ithaca Police Department began inves- prison for each of the charges against him, in- tigating the student, 20-year-old Maximilien cluding, for the possession of a firearm and a Reynolds, on March 7, Jamie Williamson, public silencer, a term of supervised release of up to 3 information officer at the Ithaca Police Depart- years and a fine of up to $10,000. For the straw ment, said in a press release. Reynolds lived in purchase of the rifle, he can face a term of su- an apartment on the 100 block of Dryden Road, pervised release of up to 3 years and a fine of up which is 0.4 miles from Cornell and 2.2 miles to $250,000. from Ithaca College. The release stated that the Williamson said the Ithaca Police Depart- officers recovered weapons, including an unas- ment received a tip for the investigation from Former Cornell student Maximilien Reynolds was arrested March 15 for having a weapon in sembled AR-15 rifle, a gas mask, a homemade a local store employee. The criminal complaint his apartment on the 100 block of Dryden Road, which is 0.4 miles from Cornell’s campus. silencer, ammunition to various firearms, equip- document from the United States Northern Dis- RAY VOLKIN/THE ITHACAN ment commonly used to assemble destructive trict Court of New York specified that the tipster devices, high-capacity rifle magazines, medical was a Walmart employee. issues at Cayuga Medical Center, as the court shootings nationwide. Recent attacks have in- trauma supplies, a bulletproof vest, food rations Williamson said the Ithaca Police Department document stated. cluded the March 20 shooting at Great Mills and fireworks. has had previous interactions with Reynolds. Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University High School in Lexington Park, Maryland, as well Reynolds was charged with the possession of The court document also said Reynolds Police Department, said in a statement that her as the shooting on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman a destructive device and a silencer. Additional- was on a leave of absence from Cornell and department is cooperating with the Ithaca Police Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, ly, he was charged with aiding and abetting the was taking classes at Tompkins Cortland Department and the FBI. She said that none of that left 17 dead. There have been 17 school straw purchase of a rifle, meaning he encouraged Community College. the departments believe there is a threat present an individual to purchase the rifle for someone Williamson said he could not confirm if Reyn- to the Cornell campus or to Collegetown. See ARREST, Page 4 else who could not purchase it, in the United olds was receiving treatment for mental health This incident occurred in the midst of school 2 | NEWS BRIEFS THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 NATION & WORLD Six months after Hurricane Maria, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single Puerto Rico still struggles to recover attack targeting the capital. Generators are still humming. Candles are still The government blamed rebels in the east- flickering. Homes are still being repaired. ern suburbs of Damascus for the attack on the Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly Kashkol neighborhood. The capital, seat of six months ago, and the U.S. territory is still strug- President Bashar Assad’s power, has come under gling to recover from the strongest storm to hit the increasing attack as government forces contin- island in nearly a century. ue to pound rebel-held eastern Ghouta, with Some 250 Puerto Ricans formed a line around military backing from Russia. Levid Ortiz, operating director of PR4PR, a local With government forces tied up in the nonprofit that helps impoverished communities monthlong offensive on eastern Ghouta, Islam- across the island, on a recent weekday, stand- ic State militants seized a neighborhood on its ing for more than two hours to receive bottles southern edge, forcing the government to rush of water and a box of food at a public basketball in reinforcements. court in the mountain town of Corozal. Many of IS militants captured the neighborhood of those waiting were still without power, including Qadam late on March 19, a week after rebels 23-year-old Keishla Quiles, a single mother with a had surrendered it to the government. At least Argentinian protesters demand abortion rights 4-year-old son who still buys ice every day to fill 36 soldiers and pro-government militiamen Pro-abortion activists chant slogans outside of Congress while an abortion bill is a cooler to keep milk and other goods cold amid were killed in the clashes, according to the Brit- debated by legislators in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 20. Argentine lawmakers of rising temperatures. ain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. several political parties presented a bill March 20 to legalize elective abortion. Crews already have restored water to 99 It said dozens more were captured or wounded. VICTOR R. CALVANO/ASSOCIATED PRESS percent of clients and power to 93 percent of cus- tomers, but more than 100,000 of them still remain Iraqi authorities found 39 bodies in the dark and there are frequent power outages. of Indian construction workers construction workers abducted shortly after the ically wounded a girl inside a Maryland school Justo Gonzalez, former interim director for Puerto The dirt mound in the dry hills outside the area fell to the extremists. on March 20, and the shooter was killed when Rico’s Electric Power Authority, said he expects the village of Badush was known as a place where Iraqi and Indian authorities said 38 of the a school resource officer confronted him mo- entire island to have power by May, eight months Islamic State fighters had buried some of their bodies had been positively identified through ments after the gunfire erupted.

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