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U.A. Urges Tabling College of Business Plan

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

At its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, the University Assembly passed a resolution asking Cornell’s Board of Trustees to table plans for the proposed College of Business until the Board’s Mar 24 meeting, according to the resolution

The U A which represents and voices the interests of Cornell faculty, staff, graduates and undergraduates passed the resolution with a final vote of 9-0-2

If created, the College of Business would combine the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the

S t o r m J o n a s

Delays Student Return to C.U.

By DEVON GILLIAMS Sun Staff Writer

Cornell students and faculty members scrambled to return to Ithaca in time for the first day of classes in the aftermath of winter storm Jonas, which hit the East Coast last weekend

The storm halted travel in several East Coast states, grounding more than ten thousand flights, freezing and covering roads and crippling mass transportation systems, according to The New York Times

Kevin Kee ’18, a Washington D C resident, remembered that stores were “packed” as people prepared for the storm

“We went to the grocery store to stock up and you should've seen the bread aisle Almost all the bread was gone and the lines were packed,” Kee said “By the third day, our household was almost out of food, and my cousin and I had to go on a food run with our backpacks ” Kee said he was surprised by how his hometown of Washington D C responded to the storm

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management into one college

The Faculty Senate previously approved a motion requesting that the Board of Trustees table the vote at its January meeting on Dec 16 in a unanimous vote Tabling the vote until Mar 24 would allow time for community engagement with the proposal, the Faculty Senate argued in its resolution

In its Tuesday motion, the U A joined the faculty in asking the University to promote community feedback on the proposed college The U A decision stressed that the creation of a new academic unit concerns multiple parties the curriculum of undergraduates and graduates, the research and teaching opportunities of the faculty and the

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consolidation of staffing units and all should provide input

Faculty and alumni have also raised concerns about the funding, administration and potentially lower ranking of the proposed College of Business, The Sun previously reported

In response to the proposal, a number of alumni have threatened to reallocate their future philanthropic contributions decreasing gifts designated for scholarships, named professorships and the University’s general fund

According to the U A resolution, this would have a markedly negative effect on students, faculty and staff if

By JACK WENDLER

Cornell received the highest number of early decision applications in its history for its Class of 2020 a total of 4,882 applications, three hundred more than last year according to Jason Locke, associate vice provost of enrollment

Columbia and Har vard University also received a record number of early decision applicants this year 3,520 and 1,927 respectively Yale College took in 17 percent of its 4662 early decisions, according to The Yale Daily Ne ws Princeton University also admitted the largest early decision class in its recent history, according to the Daily Princetonian

See EARLY DECISION page 4

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

Students and faculty

Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences gathered at a forum Tuesday to discuss the introduction of an environmental studies major The major would span both colleges with

including environmental humanities, ecology and economics, according to Prof Christine Goodale, ecology and evolutionary biology, the chair of the proposal committee The

According to Goodale,

Today Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Daybook

Today

Lunch and Inter viewing Q&A With Lynn Gray 12:15 p m , B1 Sibley Hall

Walking on Wednesday 12:30 - 1 p m , Rusty’s Coffee, Uris Hall

Anna Wallingford: Drosophila Suzukii Behavior And Contributions to its Integrated Pest Management 12:15 - 1:15 p m , 2123 Comstock Hall

The Owego Geothermal Experience 3:30 - 4:30 p m , 2146 Snee Hall

Historic Ice

weather FORECAST

Weird News of the Week

Lizard Found in Salad Gets Second Chance as Classroom Pet

A central New Jersey elementar y school science class has a new pet after a lizard was discovered in a student’s salad after being refrigerated for days

Riverside Elementar y School science teacher Mark Eastburn tells NJ com the three-inch green anole lizard was found in a bundle of tatsoi greens last week by a kindergartner

Tomorrow

Kripalu Yoga

5:00 - 6:15 p m , 215 Willard Straight Hall

Gods and Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University

9 a m - 5 p m , Hirshland Gallery, Kroch Library

Special Seminar Neurology and Behavior 12:30 p m , Morison Room A106, Corson/Mudd Hall

CALS Study Abroad Info Session and Student Panel 4:45 - 5:30 p m , 102 Mann Library

CU Music: Midday Music at Lincoln 12:30 - 1:15 p m , B20 Lincoln Hall

The lizard had been cold and lifeless after being confined in a refrigerator for daysThe lizard has since been warmed and lives in a cage in Eastburn’s class

The lizard, dubbed “Green Fruit Loop,” came from Florida The tatsoi had been bought from Whole Earth Center in Princeton

A store produce manager says greens are cleaned as they’re stocked and that the lizard must ’ ve been tucked away in a leaf

Rodent Tunnels Through Snow

New Yorkers of all shapes and sizes were left shoveling themselves out after being hit with more than two feet of snow over the weekend That included the furry, fourlegged kind as well, as seen in a video posted to Instagram on Saturday

A rat was filmed bounding and burrowing in and out of freshly fallen snow in Brooklyn Heights, at one point

completely vanished in the thick white flakes before reemerging on the surface

Once back up, it’s seen scurrying inside of a parked car ’ s tire

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Asked if the fearless critter could be the infamous “Pizza Rat” a rodent that rose to infamy after being filmed carrying a slice down a flight of subway stairs Instagram user ale rivera, who posted the video, said there was no sign of pizza

Here’s hoping snow-braving rodents don’t become a NYC thing

Nuns Sue Strip Club Neighbor

A convent in suburban Chicago plans to move forward with an effort to close a neighboring strip club even after a legal setback

Cook County Circuit Judge Peter Flynn on Tuesday told the Missionary Sisters of St Charles Borromeo to rework their lawsuit against Club Allure in Stone Park alleging it violates prostitution regulations and is a nuisance But Flynn also dismissed claims that the club violates zoning laws

He asked the nuns ' lawyers to provide specific, detailed examples of nuisances or lewd behavior

After the hearing, Sister Noemia Silva said her order is called to “ protect our values, and we will not change them ”

First Deaf Oscar Winner to Speak at C.U.

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Ass stant News Editor

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U.A. Questions Business College

Asks Board of Trustees to table College of Business proposal RESOLUTION

markedly negative effect on students, faculty and staff if realized and necessitates further consideration about the College of Business

In the resolution, the U A added that the timing of the announcement Dec 14, toward the end of exam period and shortly before the University’s winter shutdown was less than ideal

Gabriel Kaufman ’17, acting Codes and Judicial Committee chair of the U A , said that his concern was with how the administration broke the news

which is not exactly a conducive time to solicit input from students ” Kaufman said he thinks it has become too commonplace for administrative decisions to be made without exhausting the proper mechanisms for community feedback

“I hope that [...] the U.A. can influence the Board to hit the brakes

“No constituencies were consulted before this was announced and no time for feedback was allotted,” Kaufman said “The only time intervening between the announcement of the proposed college in December and and the expected approval of the Board of Trustees this upcoming weekend was during winter break,

“I hope that through passing this resolution, the U A can influence the Board to hit the brakes on such a large administrative decision that impacts the lives of our faculty, staff, and students, and set a clear precedent to the new administration that we don't make unilateral decisions here,” he said

The U A recommended that the University use the time until the Board’s Mar 24 meeting to obtain further community feedback on the proposal and engage shared governance with all University constituencies

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The Dartmouth, Dartm o u t h a l s o a d m i t t e d fewer students than last year

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Trump to Boycott Last Debate

Presidential hopeful will skip debate before Iowa caucuses

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) Donald Trump declared Tuesday he would boycott the last Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses, leading Texas Sen Ted Cruz (R-T X) to challenge him to a one-on-one debate Adding intrigue to the Democratic race, the White House said President Barack Obama would host Bernie Sanders for an Oval Office meeting

The dual developments created new ripple of uncertainty six days before voting in the presidential race begins Both parties were bracing for nailbiting caucuses that will determine which of their two leading candidates will carr y the whiff of victor y into New Hampshire and beyond

Tr ump raised the prospect of skipping the debate as he blasted Fox News Channel for “playing games ” and including anchor Megyn Kelly as a debate moderator Trump’s campaign spokesman later said he definitely will not participate

“I said bye bye, ok?” Trump said Cruz quickly said he would face Trump “ mano a mano ” anytime

The race among Democrats was no more settled six days from the leadoff Iowa caucuses, with Sanders and Hillar y Clinton locked in a close contest and details about their debate plans unclear

But the fireworks Tuesday were on the Republican side

Trump said he would hold his own event in Iowa during the debate to raise money for wounded veterans He dismissed Kelly as a “third-rate reporter ” who is bad at her job and had been “ toying” with him reprising a squabble that erupted after a debate Kelly co-hosted last year

Trump’s pullout came after Fox News Channel tweaked the GOP front-runner for asking his Twitter followers whether he should debate The network, in a sarcastically worded statement, said it had learned from a “ secret back channel” that the leaders of Iran and Russia planned to treat Trump unfairly if elected

“A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings,” read the statement from a Fox News Channel representative

Trump’s declaration was an unexpected, if not unpredictable, twist in the final days of the Iowa campaign The real estate mogul had threatened repeatedly to boycott debates before, only to ultimately acquiesce

Ohio Residents Struggle With Effects of Contaminated Tap Water

SEBRING, Ohio (AP) In a furor with echoes of the crisis in Flint, Michigan, parents in and around Sebring no longer trust the water coming out of their taps or the explanations from community leaders after learning just days ago that high levels of lead were detected in some homes over the summer

Residents in the rural area of about 8,100 people near the Rust Belt city of Youngstown are demanding to know why they were kept in the dark for months

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ly tested showed excessive levels of lead The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said the manager of the small water system that supplies Sebring and two other villages failed to notify the public within the required 60 days and submitted “misleading, inaccurate or false reports ”

Children are being tested for lead poisoning Schools have been closed for three straight days Bottled water is being passed out And state regulators are calling for a criminal investigation of the water plant manager “How long has this been going on and how much did we drink it?” Nina McIlvain asked Tuesday as she loaded bottled water into her car “I’m sure there’s more to it than we know ”

Prosecutor Calls Calif. Prison

Escapee ‘Hannibal Lecter’

SANTA ANA, Calif (AP)

Orange County’s district attorney on Tuesday rebuked one of the prosecutors in his office for referring to one of three escaped Southern California inmates as “Hannibal Lecter ” Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown made the remarks to the Orange County Register, comparing escaped inmate Hossein Nayeri to the famed cannibal villain from “Silence of the Lambs” and other movies, books and TV shows

“My first reaction was: Oh, my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out, ” Brown, who is handling the case against Nayeri, told the newspaper Monday “He is sophisticated, incredibly violent and cunning ” She also called him “diabolical ”

On Tuesday, her boss, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, called the statements “inappro-

priate, uninformed, and rash ” He added that they were not authorized by him or anyone in his office, and they don’t reflect the official position of prosecutors Authorities allege Nayeri and two other people kidnapped a marijuana dispensary owner in 2012 by zip-tying his wrists, beating him and putting him in a van They drove the man to the desert, tortured him by burning him with a blow torch and cutting off his penis, prosecutors said

He is charged with kidnapping for ransom and aggravated mayhem, torture and burglary

Rackauckas’ office has seen a series of public problems in the past year, mostly stemming from what critics, including a commission called by the DA himself, have called its misuse of jailhouse informants in prosecuting cases

Plant manager James Bates denied he falsified reports, calling the allegations an “outright lie ” Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the state EPA accused Bates in 2009 of repeatedly violating state rules over the previous several years and operating the plant in a manner that endangered public health

The records, unrelated to the recent lead testing, say he attempted to ignore poor water readings and submitted misleading, inaccurate or false reports

Village manager Richard Giroux maintained on Tuesday that he was not aware of the elevated lead results until last week But a letter released by the Ohio EPA showed that he was told in December

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SCIENCE

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By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

If you think of a robot, you ’ re probably picturing C-3PO, Ultron or Wall-E But what if robots don’t need to be big, humanoid and upright? What if they aren ’ t even made of metal?

The Organic Robotics Lab in Kimball Hall, headed by Prof Robert Shepherd, mechanical and aerospace engineering, focuses on creating such robots They use soft materials to replicate movement and functions from organisms already found in nature

“We make new types of actuators things that move; and we make new types of sensors things that feel; and new types of manufacturing processes that integrate the two in ways that is not done in traditional robotics,” Shepherd said

After getting some exposure to robotics at Harvard, Shepherd realized that robots could be made from new materials, for him, rubber did the trick Rubber is flexible and moldable, hence offers a world of potential

“If we can use rubbers to make robots, we can use liquid state processing on them,” he said, “So we can cast parts instead of having to machine them, and we can more quickly make robots that can do more things ”

Using organic materials instead of metal to build robots has two advantages

First, they can be processed in the liquid state, and so can be molded as required And second, because they are carbonbased materials, they have mechanical properties of natural organisms

And so now, animals can inspire new robots While replicating complex animals like an octopus is still a challenge,

replicating simpler life forms is a definite possibility, according to Shepherd

“We can start working simply and then once we develop more intricate manufacturing processes and better materials we can move up to more sophisticated life forms,” Shepherd said

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“At this point, our group is staying away from clinical and other things like that, just because there is a lot more to do in the fundamental side,” he said “We’re relying on other people to take up practical usage and start implementing them I think prosthetics could be some place where we can have immediate impact ”

Apart from creating and studying soft robots, the lab also works on introducing

“How animals work is by a complex interplay of organs. We want to work on replicating that synthetically.”

school kids on building fairly simple soft robots

“We go there with 3-D printed molds and then we have them put dough in the molds and assemble their actuators, ” Shepherd said, “Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t depending on how much care the children take in making them When they do work, they really like it ”

The lab has also developed foam-based robots which will make building soft robots more accessible for children This will be like sculpting a robot and wouldn’t require any member of the lab to teach them

In the future, Shepherd said that the lab will focus less on building the actual robots and more on putting the process into place

“Right now, we ’ ve started to move a lot into building actual robots, but I think what we ’ re going to do is go back to the basics and continue working on the materials to simulate natural materials and organs, ” Shepherd said “How animals work is by a complex interplay of organs We want to work on replicating that synthetically, and then hand these new machine and sensors to roboticists to actually build a robot ”

them to children The lab’s website boasts that the conversion of “the iterative design and manufacturing process ” developed in Shepherd's courses and research into an instructional resource, is a primary goal

The lab has a program where members of the team go out and conduct a demonstration to elementary school and middle

Speaking of the future, Shepherd said he is optimistic about the lab and the field of soft robotics in general

“When you take really good students, like you get at Cornell,” Shepherd said, “and you put them in an area where there is a lot of space to move, you can end up going in a lot of different directions ”

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Cinema has crafted a program of fascinating and diverse films for its Spring 2016 season In addition to its selection of Hollywood blockbusters from the past year (missed Creed the first time around? Don’t worry), Cornell Cinema is running curated series on a wide breadth of topics

Cornell Cinema’s series excel in their wide-ranging perspective, and appeal to Cornellians with a variety of interests, from the catlover to the sci-fi aficionado to the up-and-coming Oscars pundit I talked with Cornell Cinema director Mar y Fessenden about her planning process, the Cinema’s collaboration with campus organizations and the Cinema’s role in the Ithaca community

original one when it first came out and I actually became aware that there was a second one when I was contacted by some graduate students I didn’t actually know about the second film, and when I became aware of it I thought, “Oh yes, of course we’ll show this ” I was approached by the Engineering Graduate Student Association and they said that they would love to supplement the film rental cost to make it cheaper for graduate students, so that was fine with us

T HE SU N: Looking through Cornell Cinema’s spring flick sheet, there are a lot of partnerships with different Cornell organizations this term There is, for example, the LGBT Film Festival with the LGBT Studies program, and a number of graduate student associations helping present the Piled Higher and Deeper films Do you reach out to groups to form partnerships, or do organizations often come to the Cinema looking to work together?

MA RY FE SS E NDE N: It works both ways For the Piled Higher and Deeper films that we ’ re showing, we had shown the

We were interested in doing some films around the Chinese New Year so I got in touch with a number of student organizations that might be interested and we heard back from the Chinese Students and Scholars Association and they said, “Sure, that would be great ” We worked with them on scheduling screenings of Ip Man 3 that actually bookend Chinese New Year s

S UN: In some of this term ’ s film series, there seems to be one topical film such as the Internet Cat Video Festival that closes “Cats!!” that the Cinema then helps students connect to other films spanning back years or decades

M F : Both the “Cats!!” series and the “Invaders From Mars” series have a pretty good range The “Invaders From Mars” series really spans a number of decades going from the Soviet silent film [Aelita: Queen of Mars] which has really amazing, incredible, constructivist sets and great costumes and this wild story that parallels what was going on in what was then contemporary Moscow and this notion of Mars So that series spans from 1924 up to the most recent The Martian I

think that makes for a really great series, when you have that kind of range in it

S UN: For the students on campus who are budding cinephiles, what kind of films and materials does Cornell Cinema provide for students who have an interest but perhaps are new to exploring film?

M F : Well, we ’ re one of the only theaters in upstate New York that still has 35mm projection, so right there it’s very unusual that we have that ability to do this, and to do reel-toreel 35mm which is the old-fashioned way in which you go back and forth between two projectors to show the film: 20 minutes on this projector, 20 minutes on this projector, back and forth and hopefully, if all goes well, the audience member is not aware that you re switching between the two projectors

There are still contemporary film distributors who are working in 35mm, so we’ll be showing this great program of shorts by the Quay Brothers, stop-motion animators who do amazing work Apparently Christopher Nolan is a fan of their work and a big fan of 35mm, so he made a documentary about the Quay brothers and then curated a program of their work We’ll be showing that in early March

For cinephiles who are particularly interested in [projection and film], we ’ re always interested in having people ask to take a look at our projection booth so they can actually see these projectors and understand how they work in tandem to present a show As part of our elegant winter party – March 19 –we ’ re showing a great documentary in the background called Dreams Rewired that’s all about old technology: early telephones, early surveillance, early tape recording devices We’ll be showing that and we’ll also display some old technologies for people to look at, as well as some 35mm film reels, an old film strip projector, which we’ll let people run 35mm film through to get a sense of the tactile essence of 35mm film

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com An unabridged version of this interview can be found at cornellsun com

The Walking Dead’s Post-Racial Fantasy: Race Still Matters at End of World

AMC’s zombie apocalypse drama, The Walking Dead, despite experiencing almost freakish popular success (being the fourth-most-watched show on television in 2015), and exploring similar themes to prestige darlings like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Fargo and House of Cards, is a show largely excluded from conversations about the “golden age ” of TV This is potentially because it’s just not as good, but is also likely, at least partly, a result of its science fiction branding However, something else besides its comic book origins distinguishes the show from these similar hit series By its sixth and latest season, The Walking Dead has slowly and quietly assembled one of the most diverse casts ever seen on massviewed, critically acclaimed television

This was not always the case The Walking Dead ’ s current representative cast took four or five seasons to tr uly develop The absence, weak development, and frequent deaths of black characters in the show’s first several seasons brought the show under fire for having “ quotas ” of dispensable characters of color, written with less nuance and significance

However, over the past two seasons, characters of color have been among the show’s most compelling and beloved: fleshed-out individuals with their own anxieties, values and perspectives I am not necessarily praising The Walking Dead for this, or at least I’d rather not The show takes place almost entirely in Atlanta and the surrounding Georgia countryside, an area whose population is upwards of 50 percent black In an ideal world, of course, casts that reflect the demographic realities of their settings would not be something to pat directors on the back for However, in a moment in which television taking place in diverse areas is still usually dominated by white faces, casts particularly casts watched by almost 16 million viewers accurately populated with minority characters are still a somewhat radical feat of representation This is a good thing The Walking Dead exemplifies how having a cast

that actually looks like America is good for TV storytelling and TV business alike

However, midway through season five, something unsettling began to nag at me Despite people of so many different races interacting so intimately on the show, race is almost never addressed, implicitly or explicitly Newly encountered groups and communities look like college brochures Seventyyear-old white, Christian southern farmers have no apprehensions when their daughters fall in love with Asian guys Black and white characters date without seeming to notice their different skin colors No hostilities, discomforts or power differentials exist or emerge between white and black characters on the show

This is with the exception of a couple of somewhat caricatured, clichéd conflicts between the redneck Merle Dixon and one of the show’s most underwritten black characters, T-Dog, in the first season These moments could have had potential, but were quickly dismissed

There is a subtle difference between the ways that white and nonwhite characters’ narratives are developed Notice that viewers are largely in the dark about the backgrounds of most characters of color, and that their past experiences seem to have little to do with their post-collapse lives Alternately, we know quite a lot about white characters’ Rick, Carl, Daryl, Carol and Maggie’s backgrounds Their pre-collapse social identities and positions quite obviously, profoundly determine their narratives during the show Rick is a cop, a white guy comfortable in a position of authority, Daryl was from a poor, emotionally and physically abusive rural family, Carol was beaten by her husband and Maggie grew up sheltered on a farm While I find Michonne, a black woman, and Glenn, a Korean-American 20-something, to be dynamic, intriguing characters, I notice that the depth of their personalities and their defining subjectivities largely emerge from their onscreen experiences, rather than flashbacks or telling their own stories We rarely are led to understand how their specific narratives might have influenced the way they act and behave in revealing situations

onscreen

Ultimately, The Walking Dead neglects to allow its minority characters to have ethnically specific identities or experiences at all Its characters are written as color-blind, and the post-apocalyptic landscape is rendered as post-racial

The easy explanation for this phenomenon, as show creators have said in response to questions about race on the show, is that The Walking Dead is not supposed to be polemic: That at the end of the world when everyone ’ s central concern is survival, racial difference, like wealth or occupation, would fall away with civilization However, racial identities and prejudices are so deeply internalized and natural to us that this seems incredibly unlikely and foolishly idealistic

Popular culture and representation are always polemic, and when the creators of popular culture refuse to admit this, they are going to fuck up I believe this carelessness and neglect of race on The Walking Dead is probably what, in several seasons, lead to issues of problematic and insufficient representation

I am not insisting that the show had to be all about contemporary conversations of race, or that its characters had to be more racist or stereotypically racialized However, I think that The Walking Dead denied a necessary specificity of experience to its characters To write truly convincing and compelling characters, the complexities of racial identities have to be considered and represented We live in a world where race continues to define how we are perceived, and how we perceive ourselves This is why there is a strangeness to watching such a diverse cast talk, eat, sleep, kill for each other, fall in love with each other, do horrific things for and to each other in order to survive, and yet never acknowledge the differences of their experiences or actually, even have different experiences before the end of the world, and after

If we learned anything at all in 2016, it’s that race still matters: that race always matters, even at the end of the world We need to learn how to talk about it, rather than erase it, onscreen and off

Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences Objectivity Bites appears alternate Wednesdays this semester An unabridged version of this column can be found at cornellsun com

NATALIE TSAY ’18

MICHAELA BREW 18

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PHOEBE KELLER ’18

ADAM BRONFIN ’18

EDITORS IN TRAINING

EDITOR IN CHIEF Sofia Hu 17

MANAGING EDITOR Phoebe Keller ’18

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Paulina Glass ’18

NEWS DESKERS Stephanie Yan ’18 Josephine Chu 18

SPORTS DESKER Adam Bronfin 18

ARTS DESKERS Max Van Zile 17 Shay Collins 18

SCIENCE DESKER Divyansha Sehgal 18

COPY EDITOR Joon Lee ’17

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Jonathan Fingado ’11 | Guest Room

More Than a Pitcher

Withmy five-year reunion slated for next year, I’m deciding whether or not to head back and booze with old friends Complicating my decision, however, is the fact that the social fabric of Collegetown has changed It started with Dino’s closing when I was a senior, and now Johnny O’s, The Palms and Dunbar’s have met the same fate

When alumni feel connected to their university, they’re more inclined to donate And because giving potential increases and closeness with the school decreases with time, the challenge for endowment directors is less about whether alumni have the means to give, and more about whether they have the desire to

Next summer, for the first time, scores of

For many undergrads, bars are closely intertwined with college social life and fond memories recalled after graduation While there is little unique about the bars themselves, much is unique in the way they enable alumni to connect with their alma maters post-graduation.

Will this change my decision to return?

No Can I frequent my old haunts? I’ll find others Does that make a difference? Maybe

For many undergrads, bars are closely intertwined with college social life and fond memories recalled after graduation While there is little unique about the bars themselves, much is unique in the way they enable alumni to connect with their alma maters post-graduation After graduating, former students will never again take a course, host a mixer or lead an organization on campus in the company of their friends A bar, however, can be enjoyed in the same way for decades to follow

For colleges, having alumni connect with the fond memories of the past is important

alumni will realize they have lost opportunities to connect While we can all agree that alumni with deep pockets were likely never interested in reconnecting with places like Dunbar’s, they may very well have enjoyed Ruloff ’ s

So Cornell, please, if necessary, prop up the last watering hole where all generations of alumni can come and reminisce about that one pregame that got out of hand If not for me and others who want $1 tacos, do it for Ezra

Jonathan Fingado graduated from Cornell in 2011 Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically this semester

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“When an attempt is made to slip a proposal of this magnitude ‘under the radar’ with an announcement on the last day of classes, it’s pretty hard to trust this administration going forward.”

Joyce Moye Cantor ’67

Re: “Alumni Threaten to Pull Donations Over Proposed College of Business,” News Januar y 24, 2016

Gabrielle Hickmon | Gabbing with Gabby

#CornellSoWhite

So, I went to my student services counselor’s office the other day because I’m a senior and I needed to check my credits to graduate Of course, a visit to OSS is never just an in and out thing We got to talking about how my semester abroad went, what my plans are for after graduation, what has been happening on campus as well as current events I usually always leave these meetings energized and ready to conquer Cornell But this time was a bit different because I realized that in my four years here, not much has changed in spite of countless emails, meetings and endeavors to do something about the problems I’ve seen Cornell, like the film and television industry, loves to tout how much they value diversity But when it comes down to the practice of diversity and inclusion, students who belong to marginalized populations often end up feeling tolerated, not celebrated and trust me, there is a difference I can ’ t tell you how many times I’ve been told I got into Cornell because I could codeswitch (meaning the suppression of colloquialisms to conform to a certain setting, usually full of people who do not look like you) and have been congratulated for speaking well by professors who I guess thought I’d sound a certain way because of the color of my skin I rarely see myself in the people who have taught me over the course of the past four years Don’t get me wrong, I have had some amazing professors, some who have championed me and have been willing to try to understand how navigating Cornell is different for me due to my status as a Black woman But it would have been nice if some of the others had not been surprised that I’m a capable student It would have

been nice to not have been spotlighted and asked to speak about the whole minority experience as if every minority lives through the same thing It would have been nice to be represented to a larger degree among the group of people who control my grades, and are also responsible for educating the next generation of America’s leaders It’s important for everyone at Cornell, not just students of color, to see people of color in positions of authority that demand intelligence and grace Truly representing diver-

Being able to learn from someone who looks like you or can truly identify with you is just as affirming and important as seeing one’s story told on the big screen

sity matters

Speaking of the film industry, for the second year in a row, every person nominated for an Oscar in the actor category is white, as if actors of color do not exist and did not make any movies this year The films and television shows we reward matter because they show what our society values They define our standards of beauty and determine what and who gets to be seen as art All of the Oscar nominees being white is problematic because the world is not all white and Hollywood is supposed to tell everyone ' s stories Just like professors are supposed to truly support and educate everyone who sets foot in their classroom Who Cornell hires and fires shows what we value in practice, not theory alone

Maybe, instead of focusing on creating a new business school, that doesn’t appear to be desired by the respective schools, Cornell alumni or Trustees, President Garrett, V P Lombardi and the deans should focus on hiring, not just recruiting for interviews, a wider breadth of

faculty that represents more of Cornell’s student population I’m a senior and the only classes I’ve taken with non-white professors have been in Africana, Sociology, FGSS and one science course Not that I should be surprised, only 17 percent of Cornell’s faculty were from racial/ethic minority backgrounds during the 2013-2014 school year You mean to tell me professors of color don’t exist outside of fields dedicated to studying the experiences of marginalized peoples? I’d beg to differ especially when Black women are the highest educated demographic group in the United States Representation matters in film and it matters in the classroom too Being able to learn from someone who looks like you or can truly identify with you is just as affirming and important as seeing one ’ s story told on the big screen So, here’s me asking the powers that be to hire or give tenure to some people that look like me so the next group of Cornelians do not go four years without seeing themselves represented in the administration or faculty It is no good to bring students who are members of marginalized groups to the Hill if you ’ re not going to give them all the tools they need to be happy, healthy, whole and at home one of which being professors who get “it,” understand them and understand what being at Cornell is all about for someone who was never really supposed to be here in the first place #OscarsSoWhite and #CornellSoWhite too The saddest part about it is that neither of them have to be

Gabrielle Hickmon is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at ghickmon@cornellsun com Gabbing with Gabby appears alternate Wednesdays this semester WANT

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athlete The focus needs to be shifted from the public’s views to that of the athletes’ Yes, the majority of Americans would support a team with a homosexual athlete, but in no way does this tolerance translate to the players’ themselves Oftentimes, the media serves as a deterrent to gay athletes coming out the scrutiny, pressure and attention may be all too much for an athlete that isn’t used to the hard-pressured sports media We need athletes to do more than come out of the closet, to do more than simply tolerate a gay teammate and to do more than ignore the homophobia LeBron James is more than an athlete he is an ambassador of sports culture in the world, and the much sought after universal tolerance of the sports cosmos rests on his shoulders Sexuality has no place in athletics And the media victimized Collins through its praise, in labeling him as the “ gay athlete ” Sorry Mr Collins, but that is all you will ever be the “ gay athlete” who made no

The brotherhood of mankind calls for unificiation against adversity, and I can’t wait until all sportspersons are considered “athletes” first and foremost

impact in the NBA besides the fact that his personal life eclipsed his professional one Not far behind Collins are the echoes of Jose Canseco, O J Simpson and the dozens of other sportspeople who are more famous for their opinions and actions than their performances

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n a m e p o p u p o n N H L Network, dropped the phone and got a big hug from my dad ”

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I e v e r s a w m y d a d c r y, ” Angello said Being drafted gave Angello

e v e n m o r e m o t i v a t i o n t o develop as a hockey player

Angello said he looks up to NHL players who maybe aren ’ t the most skilled, but achieved

s u c c e s s d u e t o t h e i r s t ro n g work ethic

“Growing up, I always liked w a t c h i n g Ti m C o n n o l l y, ” Angello said “He’s from central New York and is a local hero ” Nonetheless, Angello also

S i d n e y C r o s b y a n d M i l a n Lucic skill guys who are not afraid to get gritty and take pucks to the net

When Angello looks back on his Cornell career, he hopes to have restored the Cornell tradition of hockey

“ C o a c h [ M i k e ] S c h a f e r [’86] always talks about wanting to get back to how things were in the past, ” Angello said “ To me, there would be no better way to go out than winn i n g a n Iv y, E C A C a n d National Championship ”

So long as Angello keeps i m p r ov i n g , h e s e e m s v e r y capable of leading Cornell to the highest level

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun com

Tolerance rests with those who have the power to change their culture Michael Jordan, an athlete who is synonymous with “perfection” has the inherent duty of bettering sports culture For behold Michael, the Kingdom of God is in your midst! The social barriers of society do not define what we think is acceptable, it is the actions and words of those men and women who we look up to the men and women that we aspire to be and follow in their lead As a voice of my generation, I am calling on all those who have the power to make a change and for sports people to take a stand on intolerance stemmed from bigotry, fear and hate Unfortunately, as the most prominent athletes remain silent, or passive, on this issue we will not see any progress As evident by ESPN’s reporting of recently outed NFL draftee Michael Sam’s showering habits in the locker room, American sports culture is not ready for accepting gay athletes The brotherhood of mankind calls for unification against adversity, and I can ’ t wait until all sportspersons are considered “athletes” first and foremost

Ben Denson can be contacted at bdenson@cornellsun com The B D Report appears on Wednesday this semester

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matches),” Flanner y said Dietz also said that improving in the national standings is a key emphasis for the team

“Since our ver y disappointing ending to last season, we set a goal of getting back into the Top-8 in the countr y, ” Dietz said “Last year we dropped out of the Top-8 for the first time since our coach first got here, something like 11 years So obviously we were ver y frustrated We've used it as motivation to work really hard this year We’ve got a couple of really big matches to end the year before nationals that can get us back into the Top-8 ” O n t h e w o m e n ’ s s i d e , t h e team is currently ranked eighth in the countr y Consistency has been an issue for the team, however; they lost to Yale, 0-9, beat Brown, 7-2, lost to Trinity, 1-8, lost a heartbreaker to Columbia, 4-5, and crushed St Lawrence, 9-0

“Because it’s such an individual sport, It’s really hard to keep your cool, so deciding factors

have been showing up to play, getting in the zone and staying f o c u s

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d n e y Francis “ We need to work on g e t t i n g p u m p e d u p b e f o r e matches but remaining dialed in ” A strength of the women ’ s team has been its depth, according to Francis

“Because our team has a lot of depth, which means we ’ re strong at the five spot and down, a lot o f u s a r e i n t e r c h a n g e a b

Francis said “So we have to utilize the depth to our advantage ” That depth is led by sopho-

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standout on a team that is consistently playing the best in the countr y “Emma Uible has been doing an outstanding job at number five,” Francis said “She’s been re

Because it’s an individual sport, it’s really easy to have a bad match but she’s been focused and dedicated ”

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

Freshman Phenom Continues to Shine for Red

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Freshman right wing Anthony Angello has been dominant for the Cornell men ’ s ice hockey team this season, leading the team in scoring with eight goals Angello has the ability to electrify the Lynah Faithful with his rare combination of skill and physicality

When Angello scored an overtime game winner against Colgate earlier this season, the crowd erupted and the student section chanted his name

It wasn ’ t always this way for Angello, who played his first game at Lynah back in high school

“Coming out to play for my first time at Lynah it was about as quiet as it could get for a high school game, ” Angello said “It was still pretty surreal knowing that Lynah was going to be my future home a couple years down the road ”

The game also didn’t go as well as Angello would have liked

“It was a lot fun until I got a hitting from behind penalty,” Angello said “All the coaches were here and I ended up sitting in the box for 12 minutes when I should have been on the ice playing ”

Towards the end of his sophomore year of high school, Angello began to receive interest from colleges, including Cornell

“I took some time to figure out what schools I wanted to look into and that’s when I heard Cornell was interested in me, ”

Angello said Angello was immediately drawn to the Cornell style of play The Red stresses physical, two-way hockey that begins with defense Cornell forwards are expected to contribute both offensively and defensively Angello recognized the opportunity to develop his skills as a two-way player by coming to Cornell

“Watching [Cornell’s] style of play on my visit, it just seemed like a fit,” Angello said Angello, the 6-foot-5 forward who plays as tough as he stands tall, fits very well into

The Rise and Fall Of Jason Collins

Time Magazine is no stranger to controversy At the turn of the century the editors’ original choice for the Time Person of

contract with the Nets, this man has forever broken the mold of what is “acceptable” in the locker room And I’m sorry to say this but who cares?

Century Adolf Hitler was shot down like the man ’ s Luftwaffe planes over London Jason Collins, the famous homosexual 7-foot center, was one of Time’s Top100 most influential people in the world last year

Does a man who would otherwise be completely unnoteworthy in the NBA deserve this kind of attention? Coming out has changed Jason Collins life and the sports world forever Besides being the talking point on ESPN for three months, and getting a heavily scrutinized 10-day

It’s not a big deal that a marginal NBA center has come out Other than extending his career by about a year, Collins has used his fame as a stage to declare his sexual orientation If he weren ’ t an NBA player, albeit one with limited talent, he would just be an ordinary homosexual black man The Huffington Post reported, “79 percent of Democrats, 75 percent of independents and 66 percent of Republicans said they would support a team that signed a gay

the Cornell system “I wanted to use my size to not only strengthen my performance, but the performance of the team, ” Angello said “Looking at it as an outsider, my style of play matched up [with Cornell’s style of play] ” When Angello was younger, it was all about finding the right sport to go along with his gifted size and athletic ability It’s a good thing that Angello, the 5th round pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins, chose to focus on hockey after trying several sports “I tried basketball, but that didn’t turn

out too well,” Angello said “I shot whenever I got open Once I stepped over half court, I would shoot every time and miss by about 25 feet ”

Fortunately for Angello, players are often encouraged to shoot when they find openings in ice hockey Angello also has a very accurate and powerful shot that makes him a scoring threat from anywhere on the ice Growing up, Angello looked up to his father who instilled in him the importance of a strong work ethic

“The biggest role model in my life is my dad,” Angello said “He had to work for absolutely everything he earned and nothing was given to him ” Angello carries over his father’s teachings each and every time he steps onto the ice His father’s hard work and determination was something Angello tried to emulate from an early age

“He told me the harder you work, the luckier you get and I believe that’s extremely true, ” Angello said Angello’s dedication and hard work paid off last year on draft night, when the Pittsburgh Penguins selected him with the 145th pick Angello was unsure whether his name would be called He waited nervously at home with his family surrounding him

“I got a call from my advisor who screamed into the phone ‘ you just got drafted by Pittsburgh,’” Angello said “I saw my

Men and Women Battle Top Opponents

Squash teams prepare for stretch of upcoming difficult matches

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

break, the men ’

and women ’ s squash

including three against Ivy League opponents The men ’ s team went 1-4

Brown and taking losses from Yale, Trinity, Columbia and St Lawrence

Though the losses to Ivy League opponents were tough, the match against Trinity was the real test of the break Trinity is currently ranked No 1, while Cornell currently sits at No 12 Yale, St Lawrence and Columbia are ranked sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively

Cornell’s margin of loss was five or more in each of these matches, losing by scores of 1-8, 1-8, 2-7 and 1-8 over the course of the break Cornell did however find success in the lower ranked spots, with freshman Ben Francis notching the only win for the team against Yale and Trinity

“You usually give freshmen some time to mature into the college game, but Ben Francis hasn't missed a beat,” said senior Graham Dietz “He is leading the team with wins, which is great to see, and hopefully he can keep improving He's got a bright future ”

Against Columbia, Francis and fellow freshman Alex Jung were the only Cornell players to beat their opponents Against St Lawrence, Jung once again proved himself as a rookie to watch, beating the Saints’ number

eight spot in a close match The victory would prove to be the Red’s only point all day

“We've had a solid start to the season and have only lost to teams ranked above us, ” said senior captain Kevin Flannery “St Lawrence was a tough match but was a good opportunity to give some of our younger players a chance to get real match experience

”

Though the team ’ s winter break record might not seem promising, the men ’ s squash team has reason to be confident going forward, according to Dietz

“The last few years St Lawrence has been one of the top teams in the

nation,” Dietz said “It was going to be a very difficult challenge to beat them, but I think we surprised a lot of people by how close our match was with them Even though we couldn't pull out a win, we proved to ourselves that we can compete with the best teams in the country ”

Looking forward, the men have a few key matches which could help define the team ’ s season

“We have a couple of must-win matches coming up against GW and Drexel, and then two huge opportunities to jump up in the rankings against Dartmouth and Harvard (both home