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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TRUSTEES APPROVE BUSINESS COLLEGE

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

Johnson Graduate School of Management Garrett and Kotlikoff called the approval of the controversial ne w school “the beginning of an inclusive and cr ucial process that will more fully define the details of how the College of Business will be str uctured ” “ The plan for the ne w college will

be developed with broad input from faculty, students, staff and alumni,” they wrote “ We wish to underscore our commitment to making this process inclusive and open for all your input will be critical to its success ” In the email, the two administrators also revealed ne w information about the str ucture and implementation of the ne wly approved business school

The College of Business is expected to open in the 2016-17 academic year and will be composed of 145 research faculty and almost 2,900 undergraduate, professional and graduate students, according to the email

Feeney ’56 expresses ‘deep concern’ before vote

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

Donors Sound Off on Announcement Students, Faculty Voice Concerns About New College of Business

“I have always supported a strong and independent Hotel School with an equally strong and independent Dean at its helm,” wrote influential alumnus and top donor Charles Feeney ’56 in a letter to the Board of Trustees and President Elizabeth Garrett Thursday

B o t h p ro m i n e n t a l u m n i Feeney and John Dyson ’65 wrote letters to the Board of Trustees prior to the Saturday vote approving the proposed College of Business

In a letter sent out to the Cornell community Saturday, Garrett described the purpose of the Board of Trustees decision for the merger

“Today’s action by the Board of Trustees marks the beginning of an inclusive and crucial process that will more fully define the details of how the College of Business will be structured,” she said Feeney, a prominent Cornell alumnus and the University’s biggest donor, is the founding chairman

o f t h e n o n p ro f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n T h e At l a n t i c Philanthropies Since 1982, Feeney’s gifts and commitments to Cornell through Atlantic, originally made anonymously, have totaled nearly $1 billion, according to the University

In his letter to administrators, Feeney expressed his “deep concern ” about the College of Business, which the Board of Trustees later approved on Saturday

Feeney concluded that after noting the many negative reactions to the proposed new school including votes by the University Assembly, Student Assembly and Faculty Senate to table plans for the school the merger is not “appropriate at this time ”

“I don’t believe a decision on the merger is appropriate at this time unless and until additional study of the potential outcomes have been carefully reviewed,” Feeney wrote Feeney was only one of many dissenting alumni voices who called for a halt to plans for the new college’s development before its approval on Saturday Many alumni have threatened to pull endowment funding to the University if the plans proceeded unchecked

Dyson, the primary donor to the Charles H D

Management program, also expressed his concern in a letter to a member of the Board of Trustees

“It defies logic and common sense to assert that the University [bylaws] should be changed before

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE

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were eager to explore the possibilities of the new College of Business, others decried a decision that they called a rejection of administrative transparency President Elizabeth Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff

“At their foundation, the concerns raised so far are a healthy expression of a broader issue concern for the reputation and integrity of each of the schools ”

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Monday, February 1, 2016

Asian-Interest Greek Recruitment Begins Cornell Campus

Controlled Synthesis and Study Of Nanoscale Materials for Energy Conversion

9 - 10 a m , 165 Olin Hall

Study Abroad 101 10:30 - 11 a m , 102 Mann Library

Service Center Job Fair

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Thrive, Don’t Just Survive, at Cornell 5 p m , Carl Becker House

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Virologist Named

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Of Vet School’s Baker Institute

Research includes search for antivirals

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Dr Luis M Schang will be the next Director of both the Baker Institute for Animal Health and the Cornell Feline Health Center

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o n t e s t i n g R i g i d A m p h i p a t h i c Fusion Inhibitors (RAFIs) as a potential broad-spectr um antiviral According to Schang, RAFIs not only inhibit the spread of animal vir uses, but also human vir uses like influenza

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By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

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Veterinar y Medicine at Cornell

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Phoebe Keller

pkeller@cornellsun com

Students, Faculty Raise Concerns Over New College Approval

“voices of students, faculty and staff have been ignored ”

“I have believed in the promise of shared governance, ” Kaufman said “But today, my confidence has been shaken ” However, according to Prof Chris Barrett, director of the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and deputy dean and dean of academic affairs designate for the ne w College of Business, the Board made the right decision in approving the new college

“ The president and provost articulated a bold vision,” Barrett said “The Board of Trustees took the necessary step of creating a space for the College of Business to act on that vision ” According to Barrett, the University has already implemented seven committees to make for a smooth transition and allow Cornell community members to actively participate These committees will consist of individuals from each of the three schools and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

“This is intended to be a highly

par ticipator y and transparent process aimed at ensuring we tap the wealth of good ideas and good will across the Cornell community, in Ithaca and throughout the world,” he said “Together, we can build the business [college] of the future ”

Still, many said they find fault with Garrett’s and Kotlikoff ’ s email, citing a lack of transparency, “behind the scene ” actions and the strategic timing of the college’s announcement

Paul Foley ’74, an alumnus of the hotel school, said he believes the process of creating the business school was troubling on several levels

“This lack of collaboration has complicated the process and fueled a palpable erosion in trust, ” Foley said “The fact that it was announced in late December during the winter break makes it look underhanded and sneaky ”

Prof Richard Bensel, government, said Garrett’s email contained “ a number of interesting features ”

“For one thing, she reports that she and the trustees had ‘lengthy and thoughtful discussion’ before the plan was approved we would be justified in suspecting that there were some tense and

changes

contentious moments in this meeting,” Bensel said “ The announcement of ‘ town hall’ type meetings with students and faculty also suggest that the trustees urged and may have required that she mend bridges between the central administration and the Cornell community ”

Bensel also said trustees did not issue a statement independently endorsing the Garrett’s course of action

“It is possible that the president was put on some kind of ‘probation’ by the trustees who, naturally enough, would be very reluctant to replace a president this early in her term, ” he said

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through the Faculty Senate has the right to “consider matters of educational policy,” according to Lieberwitz This legislative body, however, was unable to deliberate

Trustees

Like Lieberwitz, Prof Matthew Evangelista, government, said the administration’s unilateral decision challenged the fabric of shared governance at Cornell

“The Student Assembly, the University Assembly, the Faculty Senate and prominent alumni sought in the first instance simply to have the decision tabled or delayed so that the necessary consultation, required by Cornell's bylaws and norms of governance, could be carried out, ” Evangelista said “That the provost and the president would insist on going forward with the proposal at this time deliberately puts them and the Trustees in opposition to the representatives of the students, faculty and alumni ”

Many Cornellians are taking to social media to voice their concerns over the new business college The Facebook page “Keep Cornell Hotel School Independent” has garnered over 1,200 likes and is constantly updating members, allowing viewers to comment on posts and build a strong defense against the plans

On Saturday, one member posted, “Our team has literally tried everything we could think of This is a very sad day for us all Let’s stay strong together Even though Hotel School will be gone after this semester, we will remain as #hotelies4life ”

Members of the Cornell community also voiced concerns at the S A ’ s weekly meeting on Thursday

“I am pleased that the Student Assembly provided the opportunity to serve as an outlet for student voice and to fully listen to all viewpoints,” S A President Juliana Batista said after the vote “It is unfortunate that the trustee vote on the College of Business appears to disregard the perspective of shared governance including the University Assembly, Student Assembly and faculty Let alone alumni and influential Cornell figures ” Prof Rohit Verma, hotel administration, dean of external relations designate for the College of Business, said he understands

the public response, but emphasizes that each school will remain intact and that this new structure will only foster a stronger business program

“At their foundation, the concerns raised so far are a healthy expression of a broader issue concern for the reputation and integrity of each of the schools,” Verma said “I can assure everyone, as a School of Hotel Administration faculty member and a leader of the future college, that it is the preservation and strengthening of those unique qualities that will distinguish the College of Business from its peers ”

Bensel urges those with any questions or concerns to attend the information session on Tuesday and the town hall meeting on Wednesday

“My own feeling is that everyone who is interested in this deci-

“That the provost and the president would insist on going forward with the proposal at this time deliberately puts them and the Trustees in opposition to the representatives of the students, faculty and alumni ”

sion and relations between the central administration and the Cornell community should attend the Faculty Senate meeting on Feb 10 when we will take up these issues,” Bensel said

As the administration moves for ward with the College of Business, S A undesignated-atlarge Matt Indimine ’18 said he encourages the administration to consult with and inform students, faculty and alumni

“This plan was approved very undemocratically,” Indimine said “I do hope, though, that the administration seeks wide student, faculty, and alumni input in developing the plan As students, we can only hope that this college does not take away from the uniquely individual missions and characteristics of our respective programs and majors ”

Board of Trustees Approves College of Business

Amid concerns from faculty, students and alumni, merger of three schools to proceed

TRUSTEES Continued from page 1

Ga r re t t a n d Ko t l i k o f f s t re s s e d t h e i n t e rd i s c i p l i n a r y

n a t u re o f t h e n e w c o l l e g e , w r i t i n g t h a t t h e y p re d i c t i t w i l l e n h a n c e c o l l a b o r a t i o n b e t we e n d i f f e re n t p rog r a m s “ Fo r a t o p - t i e r u n i v e r s i t y l i k e C o r n e l l , a n o u t s t a n d i n g a n d i n t e g r a t e d b u s i n e s s p r o g r a m i s n e c e s s a r y f o r s u c c e s s , ” t h e y w r o t e “ St u d e n t s a n d f a c u l t y n e e d t o e n g a g e w i t h t h e e c o n o m y a n d b u s i n e s s , a s w e l l a s c o l l a b o r a t e w i t h o t h e r d i s c ip l i n e s ” T h e a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a l s o s o u g h t t o re a ss u re C o r n e l l i a n s t h a t e a c h o f t h e t h re e m e r g e d s c h o o l s w o u l d r e t a i n i t s o w n “ i d e n t i t y a n d m i s s i o n ” w i t h i n t h e C o l l e g e o f Bu s i n e s s “ T h e u n i q u e n a t u re o f o u r a c c re d i t e d b u s i n e s s s c h o o l s i s a m o n g t h e p r i m a r y f a c t o r s t h a t w i l l d i s t i ng u i s h t h e C o l l e g e o f Bu s i n e s s f ro m i t s p e e r s , ” Ga r re t t a n d Ko t l i k o f f w ro t e E a c h o f t h e s c h o o l s w i l l b e g ove r n e d by a d e a n w h o w i l l b e re s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e a c a d e m i c c u r r i c u l u m a n d a d m i s s i o n s o f t h a t

“An oustanding and integrated business program is necessary for success.”

Top Alumni Donors Charles Feeney ’54, John Dyson ’65 Wary of Business Merger

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t h e m e r i t s o f t h e p ro p o s a l a re f u l l y ve t t e d by a l l a f f e c t e d c o ns t i t u e n c i e s , i n c l u d i n g t h e a f f e c t e d s c h o o l s , d e p a r t m e n t s , f a c u l t y, e m p l oye e s , a l u m n i a n d s t u d e n t s , ” D y s o n s a i d

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Rallying for Sanders

Offcials: Ohio Seminarian Accused of Child Molestation Arrested in San Diego

CLEVELAND (AP) A former Ohio seminarian arrested for allegedly seeking to have sex with infants and young girls in Mexico was carrying $2,000 in cash along with baby clothes and a bottle in his luggage, a Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Sunday Joel Wright, who was arrested Friday in San Diego, had previously traveled to Tijuana in an unsuccessful attempt to adopt a child, authorities said

According to the criminal complaint, the former student at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus tried in 2014 to adopt a child in Mexico going so far as to hand over an “adoption fee” in a Tijuana hotel room and more recently spelled out in explicit online messages what he hoped to do with an infant and a 4year-old girl

Asked in an email if he’d previously had sex with infants, Wright allegedly responded: “I have not gone all the way

before but I have made it very close in the past so I do have experance (sic) ” Wright, 23, has been charged with travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and aggravated sexual abuse of a child He is scheduled to appear in court in Monday

Court records do not indicate that Wright has an attorney His mother, Teresa Wright Poquette, told The Associated Press on Sunday that she didn’t believe the allegations Poquette, who lives in Vermont where Wright grew up, said she couldn’t say anything more

Rev John Allen, vice president for advancement at Pontifical College Josephinum, said Wright began attending the school last fall and that he’d undergone a battery of psychological tests, interviews and a background check before being accepted Wright lost his status at the seminary when he left the campus without authorization

“We’re shocked and saddened by the heinous nature of the allegations,” Allen told the AP

After Wright’s arrest, ICE released a statement saying he had arranged to meet a guide to take him to a hotel in Tijuana after flying from Columbus He was instead arrested by Homeland Security agents upon arrival in California

Wright was arrested after communicating multiple times with a single contact, ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack told the AP

According to the complaint, Wright placed an ad on the Tijuana Craigslist site in July 2014 that sought to adopt a child, but didn’t succeed when the person who responded called the “reporting person ” in the complaint took his money and never returned The same person, using a different email address, responded to another Craigslist ad from Wright in July 2015, the complaint said Wright initially said he was interested in marrying a woman and adopting a child, but eventually revealed he wanted to have sex with infants, according to the complaint

Schang Named New Head of Baker Institute For Animal Health

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tion of these discoveries to improve the health and well-being of dogs, horses, cats, and other domestic animals, and to help preser ve endangered species,” said Schang “ There are ver y, ver y, few research and education environments that can compare [in this respect ]”

Interim Dean Lorin Warnick of the College of Veterinar y Medicine expressed his belief that Schang is a good fit for the overall goals of the institution, and said that he looks for ward to seeing advancements in Schang’s research

“I am ver y pleased that Dr Luis M Schang will be the next Director of the Baker Institute in the College of Veterinar y Medicine,” Warnick said “His work is a great fit for the strategic goals of the Baker Institute, and we look for ward to his continued success in his research as well as his leadership as director ”

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p l a n s f o r t h e C o l l e g e o f B u s i n e s s “ m a r k s t h e b e g i n n i n g o f a n i n c l u s i v e a n d c r u -

c i a l p r o c e s s ” T h e m i n d s e t b e h i n d t h i s s e n t i m e n t h i g h l i g h t s t h e p r e c i s e p r o b l e m

t h a t t h e Un i v e r s i t y d i d n o t s t a r t w i d e s p r e a d d i s c u s s i o n o n a m a j o r c h a n g e t o t h e f u n d a m e n t a l s t r u c t u r e o f C o r n e l l u n t i l a f t e r t h e d e c i s i o n w a s a p p r ov e d T h e l e a d u p t o t h e a p p r ov a l o f t h e C o l l e g e o f B u s i n e s s s t i r r e d a g r e a t d e a l o f

c r i t i c i s m a m o n g m a n y C o r n e l l i a n s d u e t o t h e s u r p r i s i n g n a t u r e o f t h e d e c i s i o n t o c o n s o l i d a t e r e s o u r c e s Fo l l o w i n g t h e a n n o u n c e m e n t o f t h e p l a n s f o r t h e C o l l e g e o f B u s i n e s s d u r i n g e x a m s p e r i o d , m a n y e x p r e s s e d l e g i t i m a t e c o n c e r n s , w h i c h w e r e e x e m p l i f i e d b y a l e t t e r p e n n e d b y m e g a d o n o r C h a r l e s Fe e n e y ’ 5 6 , w h i c h r e a d , “ I d o n ’ t b e l i e v e a d e c i s i o n o n t h e m e r g e r i s a p p r o p r i a t e a t t h i s t i m e u n l e s s a n d u n t i l a d d i t i o n a l s t u d y o f t h e p o t e n t i a l o u t c o m e s h a v e b e e n c a r e f u l l y

r e v i e w e d ” I n a d d i t i o n , t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n d e c i d e d t o a p p r ov e a m ov e f o r a

s c h o o l t h a t p r i d e s i t s e l f o n t h e i d e a l s o f s h a r e d g ov e r n a n c e t h a t t h e

Un i v e r s i t y A s s e m b l y, t h e St u d e n t A s s e m b l y a n d t h e Fa c u l t y S e n a t e w a n t e d t o t a b l e T h e d e c i s i o n t o h o l d a f o r u m a f t e r a p p r ov i n g t h e c o l l e g e r e a d s l i k e a r e a ct i o n a r y m ov e m a d e t o r o l l ov e r t h e t i d e o f n e g a t i v e p r e s s f a c i n g t h e Un i v e r s i t y ’ s p o s t - a n n o u n c e m e n t , r a t h e r t h a n a g e n u i n e a t t e m p t t o l i s t e n t o t h e c o n c e r n s o f t h e c o m m u n i t y a t l a r g e W h i l e C o r n e l l i s a n i n s t i t u t i o n t h a t r a n k s i n t h e t o p 2 0 b e n e f i c i a r i e s o f p h i la n t h r o p y i n h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n i n l a r g e p a r t d u e t o g e n e r o u s d o n a t i o n s f r o m a l u m n i , t h e d e c i s i o n t o m ov e f o r w a rd w i t h t h e p l a n s f o r t h e C o l l e g e o f B u s i n e s s w i t h o u t c o m m u n i t y i n p u t a l i e n a t e s a s i g n i f i c a n t n u m b e r o f a l u m n i T h e s e b e n ef a c t o r s , a t t h e e n d o f t h e d a y, a r e a m o n g t h e m o s t c r i t i c a l r e a s o n s C o r n e l l r e m a i n s o n e o f t h e t o p a c a d e m i c i n s t i t u t i o n s o f h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n i n t h e w o r l d , e s p e c i a l l y s i n c e t h e Un i v e r s i t y h a s a m u c h s m a l l e r e n d o w m e n t c o m p a r e d t o p e e r i n s t i t u t i o n s T h e a l i e n a t i o n o f n o t a b l e f i n a n c i a l b e n e f a c t o r s t o t h e Un i v e r s i t y, a s a r e s u l t , h a s t h e p o t e n t i a l t o s i g n i f i c a n t l y a f f e c t C o r n e l l ’ s e n d o w m e n t i n t h e l o n g - t e r m , w i t h m a n y t h r e a t e n i n g t o p u l l d o n a t i o n s f r o m t h e Un i v e r s i t y G a r r e t t a n d Ko t l i k o f f w r i t e t h a t t h e q u e s t i o n s a n d c o n c e r n s r e g a rd i n g t h e d e c i s i o n w i l l b e “ a d d r e s s e d g o i n g f o r w a rd , ” w h e n i n a c t u a l i t y, t h e y s h o u l d h a v e a l r e a d y b e e n a n s w e r e d b e f o r e t h i s ] d e c i s i o n w a s m a d e A l t h o u g h t h e d e c i s i o n t o m ov e f o r w a rd w i t h t h e C o l l e g e o f B u s i n e s s i s l i k e l y f i n a l i z e d , t h e Un i v

Danberg

Instructions for Hoverboard Safety

Ishould say that I don’t know hunger Hungr y, yes, I know that Hungr y like a missed meal; hungr y that’s unpleasant, but whose edge is always cut by the knowledge that it won ’ t last But hunger as a state of being or as a mindset, in which the next meal is defined not by its contents, but by its uncer tainty no, I don’t know anything about that Really though, I just don’t know poor My life hasn’t seen unfilled prescriptions or food pantr y lines I can attest to days when the cost of a broken bone might have been a bit too much for my f a m i l y t o h a n d l e

Those would be the days when you wouldn ’ t mention a hole in the sole of a shoe or a p

s strange sense of filial duty, you feel an obligation to shield them from having to say no to something they could not afford So then the thought of money would hang like humid air, making it just a little more difficult to move

But that’s not poor It was money as a persistent reality, something that mattered on a week-to-week basis, but I largely lived my life blanketed in middle class comfor ts Tr ue, my experience is not quite as universal as I believed it to be prior to migrating to Cornell, a place where “Hoverboard Safety” applies to a wide enough population to merit sending instr uctions to that effect to the entire student body But that’s just to say that as a population, Cornell doesn’t really know poor either

According to the U S Census, there are around 47 million Americans who d o k n o w T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f Agriculture says that 17 million people know hunger, although they describe it as “food insecurity,” an oddly dispassionate and academic term to use when describing a human in need of food Pover ty is not a uniform experience and the populations that experience it are highly varied and impossible to characterize with any meaning ful degree of accuracy I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m tr ying to do so But this is a remarkably large number of people in a countr y of such unbelievable means It is a massive population of people whose lives are bounded and constricted by a financial reality that is constantly building and rebuilding walls around the realm of what is personally possible

So this par ticular presidential campaign is intensely confusing The rhetoric used to discuss nearly ever y issue has been heightened to the point of National E m e r g e n c y Ye t o n e w o u l d b e h a rdpressed to find a mainstream presidential candidate willing to build their campaign on combating what constitutes a constant emergency for 15 percent of the

countr y Nor would one find a president in the last 30 years who was willing to stake the legitimacy of their term on such a fight

In this respect, pover ty as a problem doesn’t much exist in political discourse It exists as an inevitable, yet intensely r

Obama made his a middle class fight He often makes his case for universal health insurance with the claim that for many f a m i l i e s l

n g j u s t above the pover ty line, a medical emergency

below Here, pover ty exists as an abyss, an inescapable black hole that good people fall into When it is dis-

d those who experience

Americans are objects of pity or derision, but never agents in their ow n l i ve

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e y a re rarely granted the benefit of this sor t of humanity

We are a countr y politically defined by a middle-class aspiration Individually, we love to self-identify in that middle 50 percent For the most par t, our sense of belonging is largely tied up with our membership in this cohor t It conjures ideals of self-sufficiency and hard work, the idea that one can care for oneself and is therefore deser ving of respect, but also isn’t a member of the opulent other So just as politicians would rather not talk about poor, so too would we rather not listen

This is why I star ted with my own experience of not knowing It is hard for most Americans to tr uly know what it is to live an impoverished life for any period of time We have our own experiences with financial constraint, all of which we can only approach relative to our own level of privilege (see: hoverboard safety concerns) But when it comes to an experience like hunger, or honest to God, to your core, cold at night, there isn’t much we can do but offer a sympathetic imagination It’s the not knowing that saps what impetus there may be to act, and makes the policy we do have paternalistic and restrictive

It takes an exercise in self-reflection, an honest look at one ’ s own experiences, in order to choose to genuinely help or feel compelled at all to do so It’s saying, I think, that we don’t know hunger or cold It’s seeing the wide gulf between our daily experience and those of millions whose lives are often shaped by the things that aren ’ t there This clearly is not a solution, but it might help

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at red243@cornell edu The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester

Crashing the charts last summer, the most recent rendition of our nation’s favorite song arrived in the form of a landmark SCOTUS decision on samesex marriage That song dominated every medium, as dissenters found themselves drowned out by millions of approving, celebrator y voices In fact, one could argue that Americans hadn’t sung so loudly and proudly since the election of Barack Obama, a moment which was also accompanied by the requisite fanfare and aplomb

Of course, the truth is that being a person of color in 2016 is not a radically different experience from being a person of color in 2007, and identifying as LGBTQ in 2016 still leaves you considerably more susceptible to verbal harassment and economic inequality

Along the same vein, I have reason to believe that the women of 2017, were Hillary to be elected this year, will not be free from the grip of sexism Yet, should Mrs Clinton win, I’m also pretty sure that yet another bout of rapturous praise and optimism will seize our nation, followed swiftly by the sobering reality We’ve been singing the same stale songs ever since the civil rights era “ended” with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 These songs are the cathartic lullabies of racial harmony, crooned by weary parents to innocent children They are the melodies of miseducation and biased histor y They are the grotesque choruses belted by a fallacy-ridden media These songs have

The Brochure Illusion

always been here, and now they’re taking the form of a new tune:

Diversity

Diversity is invading the mainstream People can no longer sequester themselves in a bubble of ignorance quite as easily Insightful articles on social justice awareness constantly flood the average millennial’s social media newsfeed Black Lives Matter protests and #OscarsSoWhite hashtags abound LGBTQ visibility, while still far behind the heteronormative, has begun to slowly make its way into national coverage, institutions and popular culture At first glance, this should all be wonderful and promising But publicity always comes with a cost The era we live in now is one in which merely uttering the words “diversity and inclusion” is the key to appearing progressive and empathetic As a result, when people hear these words, two narratives govern most discourse

fests itself in ways both subtle and overt For example, when I table for Scholars Working Ambitiously to Graduate (SWAG) an organization for black men I can ’ t help but notice as some of my peers ’ eyes glaze over in a look of disinterest or even annoyance, as if to say, “Oh, it’s one of those black things No thanks ”

Diversity and inclusion is not a mu to be flexed, a competitive too corporate entities or an obliga appeasement to minority constituencies.

The first is that of, “Oh no, here we go again ” Thanks to all the exposure, people have already developed their own meanings for words like “safe space, ” “patriarchy” and “white supremacy ” More often than not, distorted interpretation leads individuals to pre-emptive expectations Already agitated, they may assume that anyone who uses this language is over-sensitive, spiteful or simply stoking the flames of antagonism Said agitation mani-

Since 2012, the United Nations has commissioned three publications of The World Happiness Report, a comprehensive annual report published by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, directed by economist Jeffrey Sachs With the advent of internationally comparable data measuring subjective well-being and happiness, the reports propose an approach to public policy that focuses not only on increasing individual wealth, but also on improving other factors that contribute to life satisfaction, such as political freedom, social networks and a lack of corruption People report the highest levels of happiness in Northern European countries like Denmark and Finland, while the countries with the lowest levels of happiness are all in Sub-Saharan Africa These reports fall under the domain of happiness economics, a growing field of study that takes a theoretical as well as a quantitative approach to measure happiness, quality of life and well-being by combining economic concepts with related fields such as psychology and sociology

In the neoliberal era, roughly characterized as a period of relaxed economic regulations in the wake of the 1980s and onward, humans have become actors in the market economy and every action is commoditized Neoliberalism is best understood as the invisible apparatus by which every action is economized as part of the world market, including activities that don’t necessarily generate material wealth, like learning, romantic interactions or happiness As we become more accustomed to assigning value to all aspects of everyday life, human beings transform into human capital, charged with the burden of constantly adding to their present and future value

The Industrial Revolution led to an unprecedented improvement in the standard of living, and for the past 250 years or so

tant, but we can ’ t lower the bar ” What?

People like myself must respond to this absurdity by deftly weaving and bobbing with our words, engaging in a desperate dance to avoid miscommunication On top of this, we must contend with the double-edged sword of trying to inject some “diversity” into the lives of our peers while simult a n e o u s l y desiring to be seen as sources of c

The second response to diversity operates on the opposite end of the sociopolitical spectrum, but is equally insidious These days, people are jumping at any opportunity to align themselves with the proverbial good guys and girls in order to assure themselves of their moral infallibility But saying “Look! I don’t actively champion bigotry” does not absolve the speaker of culpability Failure to realize this results in an inability to critique oneself and a gross misunderstanding of why diversity is needed in the first place The next thing you know, we ’ ve got self-aggrandizement and hypocrisy, such as that exemplified by a Senior Vice President of Twitter recently responding to a question about diversity with, “Diversity is impor-

Emily Hardin | Free Lunch

the following example

Ask any

of my friends and they will tell you that, in addition to having an eclectic music collection, I am an incurable cinephile I’ve seen almost every film that exists, the vast majority of which tell stories about, by, and for people who are nothing like me Still, I love them all the same That being said, I’m willing to bet that I’d have a hard time convincing my fellow cinephile friends to sit down with me and watch a “black” film But even if I could, I would then have to be afraid that any cultural exposure provided by such a film would ser ve as a reminder of my otherness Which brings me to my last point

This one goes out to Cornell Cinema: first and foremost, the leaders of black organizations do not enjoy receiving emails from you

Calculating Happiness

we ’ ve typically accepted that economic growth creates the happiness that accompanies an improved quality of life This is partly true: increased income contributes to an individual’s well-being, at least until a certain point In general, people in developed countries are healthier, live longer and have higher incomes than peope from at any point in human history However, the neoliberal understanding of happiness and well-being as

ket economy, individuals in developing countries have more access than ever to the highquality goods and services that have typically been consumed by only members of wealthier nations In absolute terms, these people are better off But humans tend to measure life satisfaction on a relative scale: over 40 years ago, American economist Richard Easterlin found that humans compare themselves to small groups of their own peers rather than to

The neoliberal understanding of happiness well-being as a linear function of economic gro fails to account for the complexities unprecedented growth in a globalized setting.

linear functions of economic growth fails to account for the complexities of unprecedented growth in a globalized setting In recent decades, many countries have blindly pursued GDP growth at the expense of social and environmental factors As a tool to compare the quality of life across countries, GDP has never really been an accurate gauge of a country ’ s economic well-being Because of widening wealth and income gaps in most countries, an increase in GDP rarely coincides with an increase in the standard of living for the average citizen More importantly, increased GDP can ’ t tell us whether or not economic growth is sustainable

Inseparable from the day to day operations of the market economy, this understanding of well-being that is so dependent on continuous economic growth can only evaluate an individual’s well-being in economic terms Thanks to the globalized mar-

on only the rare occasions when movies like Chi-Raq and Straight Outta Compton are playing (the former was a terrible film, by the way )

Please, please stop Believe it or not, we watch other movies too Last semester, I went to see Persona and Citizen Kane, among others, but SWAG didn’t receive any emails about either of those So, for you and all those who share your perspective, let me be clear

Diversity and inclusion is not a muscle to be flexed, a competitive tool for corporate entities or an obligatory appeasement to minority constituencies Diversity is, quite simply, an overdue response to systemic oppression, which itself is a reality deeply rooted in ideology, policy and history Oppression is painfully, undeniably inherent to the human condition and gets knitted into the neuronal stitches of our brain chemistry from the moment we are born Oppression, imbued into the tapestry of our species’ existence, is omnipresent and all-powerful Indeed, oppression is the way and the truth and the life of the world

And if you don’t know why or how oppression can be all of this, please ask Because unless you do, I don’t want to hear the words diversity or inclusion come out of your mouth and I damn sure don’t want to receive your emails

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun com Honest A B appears alternate Mondays this semester

of other nations (e g China) might soon catch up to our levels of consumption and production reveals the striking inconsistency between reality and the idealized notion that sustained growth will somehow drive us to a point when every human benefits from a decent quality of life Happiness is relative, and as people continue to compare their own well-being to that of people in their immediate vicinity or social circle, it becomes easier to lose sight of the growing wealth inequality on a global scale

some global standard This is the paradox of understanding changes in individual levels of happiness in a globalized market economy: the world becomes smaller with every advance in technology and communication, yet our individual points of reference remain largely unchanged Even as economies and supply chains have become increasingly interdependent, humans have not adapted the same international focus when evaluating their own levels of life satisfaction

It’s tempting to look at increased consumption levels of individuals in developing countries and conclude that people are better off, but life satisfaction is relative in scale Just because people in developing countries now have microwaves and color televisions does not necessarily mean their standard of living has improved On a larger scale, the fact that the richest nation in the world (the United States) fears the possibility that the economies

It should go without saying that happiness isn’t a commodity and shouldn’t be treated as such

Because we evaluate our life satisfaction by observing others in close proximity, happiness begins with community and social trust concepts so necessary for the human experience that they are impossible to assign value

Although happiness is perhaps too complicated a concept to use as a proxy for general wellbeing, the very existence of the World Happiness Reports and other measures of happiness are a cause for optimism as we move away from the belief that wealth and life satisfaction necessarily move in lockstep Any attempt to look beyond income as the only contributing factor to well-being is progress in the right direction However, the objective to quantify happiness must not be confused with attempts to commodify a general form of well-being; we can calculate happiness without trying to reframe it as something with market value that can be bought and sold

Emily Hardin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at enh33@cornell edu Free Lunch appears alternate Mondays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sprawling Memory: Thai Modern Art at the Johnson

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

The fire is gone but we have the light submerges the viewer in the density of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s and Korakrit Arunanondchai’s works Andrea Inselmann curated the exhibition, which is displayed in the Johnson Museum’s Bartels Gallery and presents the viewer with a few works, each staggering in its detail and uniqueness The featured artists are separated by 25 years of age, but linked by collaboration Arunanondchai worked on Tiravanija’s “Untitled 2008-11 (the map of the land of feeling)” and their affinity for intricate works that fill the gallery with information

Both artists pour information at the viewer without worrying if she or he will comprehend everything Rather, the plethora of images in the work matches the intensity and richness of the international world Tiravanija and Arunanondchai are both Thai artists who have traveled widely, and their works reflect their conceptions of both Thai culture and the international world

Tiravanija displays the clutter of information that built up over a period of his travel The three scrolls of “Untitled 2008-11 (the map of the land of feeling)” span three of the Bartels Gallery’s walls and are the product of three years that Tiravanija spent working with over 40 collaborators at Columbia University’s LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies

Tiravanija breaks this temptation with the punctuation of cryptic diagrams and stamped symbols A flurry of arrows, a series of increasingly rigid geometric designs and crisscrossing straight blue lines reminiscent of Sol Lewitt’s “Wall Drawing 51” are superimposed on a background of maps and journal pages across three scrolls

“Untitled 2008-11” is a carefully constructed jumble Maps of São Paulo, Shanghai and other cities blend into each other Sometimes the maps are crisp and complete, sometimes blurred and partial The first of the work’s three scrolls includes a number of Tiravanija’s journal entries His notes range from mundane observations “Canada was bitterly cold” to dispassionate reminders “I C A London, Gavin’s (Brown), first curated exhibit after the summer in Venice ” A row of washedout, pink photocopies of Tiravanija’s passport pages cuts a long line through the middle of the scrolls Upon first look, it is tempting to see the work as a collection of two decades’ worth of travel paraphernalia

A panel from “Untitled 2008-11 (the map of feeling) ”

“Untitled 2008-11” is an addictive work The simple details a carefully itemized recipe or a bureaucratic label (Shipyard, “of Shanghai”) draw in viewers I wanted to stay for hours, to read all of the notes and learn Tiravanija’s fragmented memories Yet much of the work’s meaning is hidden or obscured by the artist’s at-times indecipherable handwriting, unlabeled diagrams and blurred maps Tiravanija’s previous works often repurposed the gallery space to foster interaction; he has converted multiple galleries into temporary eating spaces, serving green curry, tom kha gai and pad thai Tiravanija’s interest in cooking is expressed in “Untitled 2008-11” in the form of recipes and stamps of Thai cookware The work as a whole, however, turns to remembered, not present, experiences Whereas Tiravanija teases the viewer with the promise of entry into his life, Arunanondchai throws the door wide open and broadcasts his fantastical inner monologue Immediately inside the gallery’s entrance, a bleached denim canvas bearing the gallery’s title sits on the floor Two denim pillows lie atop the canvas, providing a seating area to view “Painting with history in a room with people with funny names 3 ” Further into the gallery, a similar canvas presents a charred log and a sculpture of burnt twigs in place of the Samsung flat screen television playing “Painting with history 3 ” “Please take off your shoes and make yourself comfortable on the pillow,” a wall plaque commands Once you are nestled

into one of the pillows, Arunanondchai instantly sends you rocketing over Thailand’s greenery and cityscapes through drone footage “Painting with history 3” is an exposition of the raw, resonant power of the cultural and natural realms

COURTESY OF HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM

A shot from Korakrit Arunanondchai’s “Painting with history 3 ”

A r u n a n o n d c h a i ’ s Thailand is a nation where technology and pop culture take on powerful spiritual connotations The artist focuses the film’s narration and images on the way that drone technology affects our ways of seeing Arunanondchai features a shot of a monkey reaching out to knock down a drone with a stick, but also one of his posse, wearing variations of his signature all-denim outfit, shooting a rap video Arunanondchai has been criticized in the past for his unfocused, over-the-top direction and platitudinous narration The narration of “Painting with history 3” occasionally falls into cliché “There is no such thing as purity” but other moments creatively describe technology’s proliferation “H D helps us come closer to the spiritual beings we long to meet ” At moments, “Untitled 2008-11” and “Painting with history 3” both risk chronicling mundane occurrences In the end, however, The fire is gone but we have the light imbues the viewer with lasting, peculiar images: Arunanondchai prostrated with a drone hovering a few feet above his chest, cartoon minions edited into a temple’s ornate mural In the last few feet of “Untitled 2008-11,” blue lines form little, explosive asterisks as Tiravanija s last journal entry concludes that a group of friends “mistakenly believes that time moved forward in an orderly fashion ” The fire is gone but we have the light is on display until May 29

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at smc377@cornell edu

Tradition and Change in East Asian Art

BY TROY SHERMAN Arts & Entertainment Assistant Editor

To my eye, there is at least one major obstacle to curating an exhibition of non-Western traditional artists: striking a balance between educating viewers about the artistic traditions of a foreign culture and letting the art just speak for itself The Herbert F Johnson Museum’s new exhibition Tradition, Transmission and Transformation in East Asian Art ultimately teeters over to the former side of that conundrum, though it also certainly serves as a thorough exploration of and initiation to East Asian ink painting for a lay audience That is, the works of art which TTT presents regal, sprawling, ascetic or harmonious and almost invariably gorgeous oftentimes seem threatened, in their ability to paint a variegated and brimming East Asian artistic history, by the wall’s expository blurbs which seek to do it for them

The exhibition’s purported goal, as stated on the wall of the Moak Gallery at its immediate entrance, is to explore “how cultural images and artistic styles that originated in China were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan ” By capitalizing on the sheer mass and breadth of the Johnson’s collection, TTT makes impressive strides towards doing just that Spanning three rooms and comprised of what must approach (if not more than) 40 different papers and scrolls, the exhibition certainly serves as an adequate compendium of a region’s shared, almost 600-year artistic tradition

COURTESY OF THE HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM “Winter Landscape”

The infinite array of scrolls, hung behind their protective sheets of glass in an at times claustrophobic manner, dodges monotony purely by virtue of the art ’ s unimpeachability: brushstrokes as tried and scenes as true as those common to East Asian ink painting would be hard to present poorly The paintings, despite their close proximity, speak volumes not only as epitomical tokens of the shared tradition presented, but as individually stunning works even when removed from their context The bold affronts of black flora to the stark faces on Korean canvases; the reserved, metaphoric mastery of a crafted scene from Chinese poetr y; the impeding immediacy of Hirose Daizan’s increasingly sovereign Japanese style all justify the tradition” in the exhibition’s title

COURTESY OF HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM

The Johnson’s basement walls are populated by works ranging in creation date from the 15th to the 20th century, whose subject matter stretches from religious (Buddhist), to philosophical (Confucian), to naturalistic (the Four Gentleman of East Asian botany), to poetic themes Their countries of origin are China, Japan and Korea As such, empty wallspace is rare

TTT’ s trouble begins, however, when its latter “T”s “Transmission” and “Transformation” are brought into question alongside “Tradition ” Though the artwork surely constructs and presents the shared artistic history of these three cultures, it falls short in conveying what exactly the “transmission” and “ transformation from China to Japan and Korea was Yes, TTT does inform its viewer that a complex communication between the art of these three countries did occur, and that each painting in the exhibition is somehow indicative of that trend each gallery’s verbal onslaught made sure of that But, even for its dedication to explicating every last scroll hanging on the Johnson’s walls, TTT fails didactically Not because its instruction is sparse, but because it’s overbearing Each and every work, beneath its title, date, artist, etc , has

a several-hundred-word description And while these blurbs are universally concise, clear and informative, there are simply too many of them As I strolled through the exhibition, the critic in me, for completion’s sake, felt obliged to read every word The dilettante (a persona it is safe to assume most museum-goers favor) felt bogged down to the point that reading even one paragraph amidst the dozens seemed daunting As a result, with each subsequent work seen and essay read, my focus sapped So, when I would finally unearth a sentence which might have enlightened me on one vital aspect of the transmission and the transformation from Chinese to Japanese ink painting, I would already be too listless after having read hundreds more to really absorb what I read As such, the “transmission” and the “transformation” of TTT felt more like tangents, illwrought or, more aptly, overwrought digressions from the exhibition’s ultimate focus: the “tradition ”

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Transformation succeeds For all of its words and all of its art, its nature is not ultimately unendurable, but comprehensive If this article can be of any use, then it will be by recommending how one should go see TTT If you are going to steep yourself in anything there, let it be the art And for your interest’s sake, l

Transformation in East Asian Art is on display until June 12

Troy Sherman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at tfs48@cornell edu

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Marina Watts is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at mcw236@cornell edu

Revisiting Gilmore Girls: A Retrospective

’ s official: Gilmore Girls is coming back for the final season that creator Amy Sherman-Palladino never got to make, Netflix confirmed Friday Inspired by all the recent revival-induced buzz around the series, I took to nostalgically rewatching ever y single season during the past few months Unsurprisingly, the series drew me in just as much as it had the first times I saw it but, also unsurprisingly, I had some different perspectives than my late middle school/early high school self did

As an English major from Connecticut at an Ivy League university who writes for the school paper and wants to be a journalist, it is hard not to identify with Ror y As a ninth grader, I pretty much wanted to be

ditionally loyal and much more emotionally vulnerable than Ror y tends to be Her tumultuous relationship with her own parents often packed more of an emotional punch than any other stor ylines, and, when rewatching, I saw that the core of the show is actually a trio of characters that includes Emily

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Much of Gilmore Girls centers around cultural exchange between mother and daughter, and the audience is invited to be part of this exchange as well I understood a lot more of the pop culture, music and literar y references than I did the first time around (Glad majoring in English hasn’t been a waste!) I felt particularly snobbily gratified when I picked up on rapid-fire references to Mark Twain’s “ T h e C e l e b r a t e d Ju m p i n g Frog of Calaveras County” and Shirley Jackson’s “ The Lotter y ” in the same sentence Also, I totally did not

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her when I grew up, without even realizing how cool it was that Ror y goes on to be a reporter for Barack Obama’s campaign for an online magazine described as “ a mix between Slate and the lifestyle section of The New York Times ”

Yet this time around, I was actually much more invested in Lorelai as a character Ror y ’ s psyche is pretty straightfor ward: s h e s t r i ve s t ow a rd p e r f e c t i o n a n d h a s always been loved and gotten her way This eventually catches up with her, and she has a major meltdown But Lorelai is more interesting in all of her contradictions She is loud and imposing, smart and witty, self absorbed and immature, uncon-

Sebastian Bach playing Gil, or that Carole King made a cameo as Sophie, the owner of the local music store It was incredibly fun to engage with these cultural gems sprinkled throughout in a way that my younger self could not

Another realization I had: pretty much ever y male love interest in Gilmore Girls comes across as possessive and entitled, and I found this much less endearing than my younger self did In the early seasons, Dean “I Left You 14 Voicemails” Forester gets upset that Ror y wanted to have one night to herself to eat Indian food and fold laundr y, and then decides to come over anyway, yelling at Ror y when she was not alone like she had planned Also, when Ror y wants to get back together with him, he almost rejects her because Tristen is carr ying her

books Meanwhile, Jess picks multiple fights with Dean when he decides that he likes Ror y, unconcerned about damaging their relationship It seems like most fans of the show are “ Team Jess,” but once they are finally together, he suddenly moves to California without even breaking up with her first Logan does not really deser ve an explanation, but needless to say, I am glad she doesn’t marr y him

As for Lorelai’s relationships, one of the most hilariously obnoxious moments of the show occurs when Jason waits in the lobby of her inn after she asks him to leave, and tells Luke that he and Lorelai are still together despite her having dumped him Then there is Christopher tr ying to break up Lorelai and Luke just because Emily gave him permission to do so And I love Luke and Lorelai together just as much as the next Gilmore Girls fan, but it strikes me as a problem that Luke damages a car and punches a man in the face in the name of jealousy

But I digress As far as other obser vations go, I think there are a few ways in which Gilmore Girls has not aged perfectly For example, I noticed there are a lot of weird throwaway gay jokes, such as jokes about how people would “ start to wonder” if a man is single for too long It also seems unlikely that there’s not a single openly queer character in all of Stars Hollow, or at Yale The show’s racial diversity may have been better than others of its time, and as someone from a small-ish Connecticut town, the over whelming whiteness of Stars Hollow is probably accurate But you would think Ror y would have encountered more diversity at Yale, and the stereotypical depiction of Mrs Kim might not have flown today I note all this not because I think that Gilmore Girls is homophobic or racist, but it is an interesting study in how

the our mentalities about entertainment have changed in the past ten years (even though there is still a long ways to go)

Gilmore Girls also raises questions about privilege that the show never confronts A major part of Lorelai’s identity is that she rejected her parent ’ s wealthy and lavish lifestyle and that she made it entirely on her own She worked her way up from being a maid at the Independence Inn at 16 to becoming its manager and raising Ror y on her own But someone without Lorelai’s privilege would not have been able to work her way up in the same way and would not have the support system in place that she did to fall back on When Lorelai needs money to pay for Ror y ’ s private school tuition, as much as she hates doing it, she is able to ask her parents for help When Ror y needed to pay for Yale, she had that option as well It would have been interesting to see the show’s writing address the question of privilege in some way, even if the characters did not

Despite the above arguments, Gilmore Girls is still a timelessly lovable and endearing show, and I am more than a little excited for the four new 90-minute episodes that are promised to appear on Netflix sometime in the all-too-distant future The best thing about Gilmore Girls is that it’s a female-centric show about characters that are incredibly complex and flawed It is centered around women going about the ordinar y progression of their lives, not driven by earth-shattering events, but by the mundane This should not be so rare, but if there is another show that matches it in that respect, I would love to know about it

Katie O’Brien is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at kobrien@cornellsun com Mi d n i g h t R a d i o r uns alternate Mondays this

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Jamal Crawford and Clippers’ Bench Powers L.A. to Resounding Victory Over Bulls

L O S A N G E L E S ( A P )

Don’t mess with the Clippers’ bench

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d o m i n a n t i n B l a k e Gr i f f i n ’ s absence, with Jamal Crawford leading the way with 26 points in a 120-93 victor y over the Chicago Bulls on Sunday

I n t h e C l i p p e r s ’ l a s t f o u r games all wins the reser ves have outscored the opponent ’ s bench 184-78 Their winning streak has coincided with Griffin being out at least a month after breaking his right hand while p u n c h i n g t h e t e a m ’ s a s s i s t a n t equipment manager

“Our bench has been better

t h a n f a n t a s t i c , ” L o s A n g e l e s

c o a c h Do c R i ve r s s a i d “ Yo u could see Jamal had it going and they were tr ying to get it to him ever y single time That whole group, they don’t worr y about misses anymore I want them to play free, fast and aggressive ”

J J Redick added 21 points

a n d De A n d re Jo rd a n h a d 1 7 points and 20 rebounds for the Clippers, who improved to 15-3 without Griffin

“It was a collective effor t, but Jamal went on a killing spree, ” said Chris Paul, who had 19 points and seven assists “ That team right there, they don’t go away They just keep on coming and we took all their punches ”

The Clippers had three double-digit scorers off the bench a game after their reser ves scored 56 points in a 105-93 win over the Lakers Austin Rivers added 16 and Wesley Johnson had 11 The Clippers made 17 3-pointers, and Rivers led the way with five

Ji m m y B u t l e r s c o r e d 2 3 points, Derrick Rose added 20 and Pau Gasol had 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Bulls, who never made a r un in the four th They’ve lost four of six and dropped to 10-11 on the road

“ We’re tr ying to play our best ball up until the All-Star break,”

R o s e s a i d “ G i v e o u r s e l v e s a good taste in our mouth and when we come back, we come back with a sense of urgency, giving that effor t ever y game ”

C r a w f o r d s c o r e d t h e Clippers’ first eight points of the four th, pushing their lead to 9275 He had 12 points total in the quar ter

“ We weren ’ t guarding anybody,” Butler said “ When we ’ re not guarding anybody we ’ re not ver y tough ” Rose and Butler were held to four points each in the third Los Angeles pulled away in the third after clinging to a fourpoint lead at the star t of the q u a r t e r L e d b y R e d i c k’s 1 1 points, the Clippers built the game ’ s first double-digit lead In one stretch, they outscored the Bulls 15-9 despite going nearly 2 1/2 minutes without a field goal to take an 84-73 lead During that spur t, the Clippers made 7 of 8 free throws and got defensive stops

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Bulls: Butler’s first basket of the game pushed him over 4,000 career points G Kirk Hinrich was scoreless on two shots in his return after missing six games

with a left quad contusion GF Mike Dunleavy is getting closer to playing after back surger y that has kept him out since the season began He has resumed practicing and will likely return after the All-Star break

C l i p p e r s : Gr i f f i n w a s n ’ t a t

Staples Center for the second straight game and neither was staff member Matias Testi, the team ’ s way of minimizing dist r a c t i o n s s u r r o u n d i n g t h e i r altercation in Toronto last weekend F Jeff Ayres, who has had two points and two blocks in two games since his debut last w e e k e n d , w i l l b e s i g n e d t o another 10-day contract The series is even at 1-1 after the Clippers lost 83-80 on the road Dec 10

HACK-A-DJ

The Bulls employed a familiar tactic, fouling Jordan down the stretch in an attempt to take advantage of his 42 1 percent free-throw shooting Jordan hit 5 of 8 in the game, including 3 of 4 in the third

“ That takes a strategy away at least momentarily,” Rivers said “It’ll be back the next game, don't worr y ”

B u l l s c o a c h Fr e d Ho i b e r g said, “ We did it to tr y and stay in it, but DeAndre was in a pretty good rhythm and really had his stroke going ” PAINT POINTS

About the only area the Bulls d o m i n a t e d w a s i n t h e p a i n t , where they owned a 56-36 edge “ We w e n t i n t o t h e l o c k e r room with a deficit but easily

c o u l d h a v e h a d t h e l e a d , ”

Hoiberg said “In the second half it just snowballed They got comfor table Our shots weren ’ t falling and it affected us at the other end You’ve got to have that grit, that toughness all the way through, and we didn't have it at the end ”

No. 6 Villanova Overcomes Slow First Half To

Escape St. John’s at Madison Square Garden

NEW YORK (AP) Villanova didn’t look like the No 6 team in the countr y in the first half against St John’s on Sunday

The Wildcats, the first place team in the Big East, had a terrible opening 20 minutes but righted themselves in the second half for a 68-53 victor y over the Red Storm at Madison Square Garden

Josh Hart had 16 points and 11 rebounds and Kris Jenkins added 14 points and 11 rebounds for Villanova (18-3, 8-1) which handed St John’s its 12th straight loss

Villanova, which came in third in the conference at 46 4 percent from the field, shot 7 for 30 (23 3 percent), including 2 for 10 from 3-point range in the first half It was the Wildcats’ worst first half shooting this season They shot 26 7 percent (8 of 30) in a 78-55 loss to No 1 Oklahoma in Hawaii

Villanova had 11 turnovers, matching its season average of 10 9 for 40 minutes And yet the Wildcats still managed a 28-27 halftime lead despite not having starting center Daniel Ochefu

“I was happy the second half we kind of got it going,” Wildcats coach Jay Wright said of the 50 percent shooting in the final 20 minutes (14 of

28) “I thought the big key was Kris and Darr yl Reynolds on the boards That was big Josh did a good job too Without Daniel that was big for us ”

Ochefu, a 6-foot-11 senior, was accidentally elbowed in the head at practice Friday and is now undergoing concussion protocol He is averaging 9 7 points and a team-leading 8 3 rebounds

“ We just took the precaution of leaving him home since what’s the sense of traveling knowing hes not playing and the best thing for concussions is just rest, ” Wright said “So they’ll check him today to see if he is symptom free If he is symptom free today then that starts the process of concussion recover y ”

Jenkins’ rebounds were a career high

“Going into ever y game I tr y to focus on rebounding It’s just today I was able to get to a lot more because Daniel usually grabs most of the rebounds,” he said laughing Mikal Bridges added 13 points for Villanova, which finished with a 48-35 rebound advantage

The Wildcats, who had a nine-game winning streak snapped by No 10 Providence in their last game, held at least a 10-point lead over the final 13 minutes The biggest lead was 20 points

Spartans Hit 17 3-Pointers in Win Over Rutgers

EAST L ANSING, Mich (AP) Br yn Forbes scored all 18 of his points in the first half and No 12 Michigan State tied a school record with 17 3pointers in a 96-62 victor y over Rutgers on Sunday night

The Spartans (19-4, 6-4 Big Ten) have won three in a row since a three-game losing streak that dropped them well off the pace in the conference title race They had little trouble with Rutgers (6-16, 0-9) thanks to their torrid outside shooting

Michigan State led 44-33 at halftime after s h o o t i n g 9 o f 1 6 f ro m 3 - p o i n t r a n g e T h e

Spartans finished 17 of 32 from beyond the arc, one game after going 16 of 26 from long distance in a blowout win over Northwestern

Mike Williams scored 18 points for the Scarlet Knights

Michigan State led 6-3 when Eron Harris missed a jumper with 17:24 left in the first half

The Spartans didn’t attempt another field goal from inside the arc until Forbes missed a jumper with 8:02 remaining

In between, Michigan State attempted 13 3pointers and made eight, including six in a row at

one point Two free throws by Matt McQuaid were the only points for the Spartans in that stretch that didn’t come from beyond the arc The Spartans led 29-13 after a 3 by Denzel Valentine T h e s e c

m e Michigan State went on a 20-0 run including a 3 by McQuaid and three of them by Valentine to lead 78-43

Valentine scored 20 points and Harris had 14 Corey Sanders and Omari Grier scored 17 each for Rutgers

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Rutgers: This was the first time the Scarlet Knights had ever faced Michigan State in East Lansing

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Morgan Continues to Impress

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Against Dartmouth, Cornell again fell into an early hole, this time trailing the Big Green, 18-10, seven minutes into the game A quick 9-0 run helped the Red take the lead Going into the half, Cornell opened up a 6-point advantage thanks to two 3-pointers in the final minute from Morgan and senior guard Robert Mischler

“ We d i d n ’ t p l a y g re a t a g a i n s t Da r t m o u t h , ” Courtney said “The first half we played efficiently on offense Defensively, we were okay They got a lot of offensive

re b o u n d s a n d s e c o n d c h a n c e points We kept them in the game with our mistakes, like not boxing out and turnovers ”

The Big Green had eight second chance points in the first half,

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Smith made two free throws with 1:14 left then added two more on the ensuing possession to stretch the lead to three with 27 seconds left Although Smith’s streak of made field goals ended over the weekend, he still added 25 points between the two games

Following Smith’s second set of made free throws, Morgan made a pair of his own The freshman totaled nine points in the final three and a half minutes He ended the game with 32 points, becoming the first Cornell player in team history to score at least 32 points in consecutive games

“[Morgan] took what the defense gave him ... He just saw opportunities and took them ” B i l

s many points in the paint in the first period, outscoring the Red near the basket by 12

In the second half, Dartmouth methodically turned its 6-point deficit into a 10-point lead, holding a 54-44 advantage with 13:29 left to play Dartmouth would maintain its lead for the next 10

m i n u t e s , a l w a y s k e e p i n g C o r n e l l’s h i g h - o c t a n e offense an arm ’ s length away The Big Green led, 7061, with 3:43 left in the game

Yet, just like against Harvard, a late Cornell run pushed the Red past the Big Green

“We got several stops in a row, ” Courtney said “As a result, we were able to get rebounds, Jordan [Abdur-Ra’oof ] and David [Onuorah] got big rebounds We were able to push in transition ”

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Dartmouth with his end-of-game

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fouls He ended the day with the third-most attempted field goals in program history

“He took what the defense gave him,” Courtney said “He really did a great job understanding where he had opportunities He just saw opportunities and took them ”

Dartmouth scored once more a 3-pointer with two seconds left but by then Cornell had completed the comeback and taken down its second consecutive Ivy foe, this time by a score of 77-73

Up next for the Red is another Ivy road trip Cornell travels to Brown on Friday and then Yale on Saturday

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Super Bowl About Much More Than Just Football

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lion chicken wings (that’s more than 100 million pounds of chicken, yikes), 11 2 million pounds of potato chips and order over 11 million Dominos pizzas That’s just Dominos, people Let’s not even pretend like Papa Johns or Buffalo Wild Wings aren ’ t making bank as well

The competition surrounding betting is another huge draw to the event Nearly one third of the American population bets on the game, with men making up the greatest portion of that group It’s the most gambled-on sporting event in the United States Gambling especially surrounding the Super Bowl opens up a whole world world of statistics used to rationalize betting money on burly men

using everything from celebrity cameos to cute animal friendships to catch the viewer ’ s eye Regardless of just how it became a big thing, getting an ad to air during the Super Bowl is a giant achievement; a 30second spot during this year ’ s Super Bowl costs an average of $4 million

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our net and it hit our defensemen and went in ” Schafer is confident the Red can bounce back from the unfortunate end to the game

and an outcome one can ’ t control, with fun stats like 17 out of the last 20 Super Bowls have been won by the team that resides in the city with the lower unemployment rate Do with that what you will Commercials are obviously another major draw Historians have pinned the big boom in Super Bowl-commercialwatching to the Star Wars-inspired Volkswagen commercial in 2011 during the airing of Super Bowl XLV, but no one really knows for sure the exact point when “watching the Super Bowl for the commercials” became a thing Advertisers go above and beyond to make ads stand out,

The last but not least non-football reason to watch the Super Bowl is the infamous halftime show The halftime shows are hit-or-miss They can sometimes be enormous hits and live on as some of the greatest shows of all time (like Beyoncé and that time she knocked out the power at Super Bowl XLVII) but also can become lackluster, straight-up weird performances attempting to make old music legends relevant again The halftime shows have caused some chaos in their day, such as the time M I A flashed the middle finger while per forming with Madonna or the time Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet Jackson’s top No one even remembers what Super Bowls those were because those moments eclipsed everything Regardless of all of these distractions, there will still (hopefully) be a good game to watch The biggest football-related questions regarding the event: will Peyton Manning and the Broncos redeem themselves from their Super Bowl appearance two years ago? Or will Cam Newton finish his season historically by becoming the first-ever quarterback to win the Heisman, National Championship, NFL MVP and Super Bowl? No one can really tell at this point, but most of America will be eating and watching

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“ We’re not happy about it,” he said “But I think it is something we will overcome and gain our confidence back working hard as a team ” Gillam, who had 30 saves against the Golden Knights, ended the weekend with a remarkable 66 saves

“He did a tremendous job over the weekend,” Schafer noted “I thought it was one of the best weekends he’s had this year ” Cornell stayed in Northern New York for Saturday night’s contest against the Saints of St Lawrence (13-11-2, 7-6-1) another 2-1 overtime loss

The first of five power plays against the Saints saw the squad’s one and only goal from junior center Jake Weidner Sophomore forward Trevor Yates and junior for ward Matt Buckles helped work the puck from the end boards to Weidner, who was sitting above the slot Weidner placed the shot above St Lawrence goalie Kyle Hayton’s blocker to make the game 1-0 in

favor of Cornell Gillam and Hayton kept the game quiet until eight minutes left in the third period, when the Saints finally broke through with a goal of their own

“The guys up top lost their defensemen and their

St Lawrence stomped on Cornell in the third, outshooting the Red 19-7 The Saints got their first chance in overtime early on, and it was all they needed The Red turned the puck over in left corner of the rink, when the Saints’ Joe Sullivan came away from the corner with the puck and backhanded it past Gillam to send Cornell packing

kid made a great shot,” Schafer said “Leading up to that point in time there were a lot of turnovers in our own zone ” Schafer immediately called a timeout following the tying goal to try and send the Cornell players a message

“ The message was we were getting away from [our plan],” Schafer said “We were turning pucks over in the neutral zone ”

“[ We needed to be] stronger on our exits and entries,” he said “It’s something we talked a lot about but didn’t execute in the third ”

The team is now left to reassess where to go from here after a particularly tough stretch of losses Cornell has only scored seven goals in its last 6 games

“We are now understanding that when we play well we do certain things, and when we don’t play well we do certain things,” Schafer said “We were very consistent doing those things like not turning pucks over in the neutral zone at the start of the year, ” he continued “Now we have got ourselves in a funk [because] guys are trying to do too much ” After an important week of practice coming up, Cornell will take on the consensus No 1 Quinnipiac Bobcats (20-1-5, 11-0-3) on Friday It is truly an uphill battle for Schafer and the Red going forward

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Basketball Sweeps Ivy League Competition Over Weekend

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Cornell men ’ s basketball picked up its first two Ivy League wins in thrilling fashion over the weekend, topping Harvard, 7765, on Friday and beating Dartmouth, 77-73, on Saturday It is the Red’s first road sweep of Ivy opponents since 2013 The victories came without Ivy League-leading scorer Robert Hatter

Both games had similar stor ylines: Cornell held the lead at the break, the opponent chipped away at the lead and eventually built one of its own and then the Red stormed back in the final minutes to pull off an improbable victory

“It’s a great feeling,” said head coach Bill Courtney “Not only getting the two wins, but the adversity we had to go through in both games to come out with the wins was a true statement for our program ”

On Friday night against 5-time defending Ivy League Champions Har vard, Cornell fell into an early hole, connecting on just one of its first 12 shots of the night

The Crimson took an early 10-2 lead

freshman record for points in a single game

Morgan’s buzzer-beating layup at the end of the half helped the Red finish a 19-5 run, opening up a 15-point halftime lead

And then it all slipped away

In a matter of six and a half minutes, Cornell made just one field goal, while the Crimson scored 18 points Harvard took a 43-42 lead and seemed poised to issue the Red its third consecutive Ivy loss

“Give [Harvard] credit for coming out of the locker room fired up, ” Courtney said “We didn’t score and they did They made some threes and got the ball inside to Zena [Edosomwam], who was ver y effective against our defense ”

After Har vard’s imposing force down low, Zena Edosomwam, was subbed out, the electric freshman duo of Matt Morgan and Troy Whiteside ignited Cornell’s offense, combining for the Red’s next 14 points, bringing the Red to a 16-16 tie with Harvard

Morgan ended the night with 33 points, setting a Cornell

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The Red remained within striking distance of the Crimson, responding to each of Edosomwam’s thunderous dunks and easy layups Morgan hit back-to-back 3-pointers with under four minutes left to give Cornell the lead

The biggest shot of the night came not from Morgan or his high offensive fire power classmates but from junior forward David Onuorah With just under two minutes left and seconds on the shot clock, Whiteside was inbounding the ball underneath the basket Harvard’s defense backed off Onuorah when he moved out beyond the 3-point arc Whiteside hit the wide-open Onuorah with a pass and the 6-foot-9 forward casually drained his first career 3-pointer, giving the Red a 70-65 lead

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Red Suffers Two Overtime Defeats

halftime show, the gambling and of course the food

Food, of course, is key You wouldn’t dare sit down to watch a bunch of professional athletes play their hearts out without stuffing your face The act of eating crap while watching trained athletes

that it’s almost not even about the football anymore It is about the football to some degree, obviously, but the main draw doesn’t seem to be loyalty for the two teams playing

If you ’ re a fan of a team that isn’t even in the game, do you honestly care about which team wins? Not really So what brings mass appeal to this yearly event? Of the top 10 most-watched programs in U S television history, nine of them are Super Bowls It’s not just loyal fandom or the majestic beauty of giant men running into each other, that draws these numbers; it’s the ads, the

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do athletic things is a time-honored American tradition Super Bowl snacks are all over Pinterest boards and grocery store promotions; it’s another huge occasion to incentivize buying more themed food Do you need cupcakes? No But you DO need ones decorated like footballs; it is the Super Bowl after all

Here are some facts to demonstrate the lore around Super Bowl food: the American public will purchase around 51 7 million cases of beer, consume 3 8 million pounds of popcorn, eat 1 23 bilO n e M o r e We e k

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Losses to Clarkson and St. Lawrence extend Cornell’s losing streak

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

A goal 20 seconds into overtime

Saturday evening handed the Cornell men ’ s hockey team its second 2-1 overtime loss on a frustrating road trip

He a d c o a c h Mi k e S c h a f e r ’ 8 6 expressed the team ’ s frustration coming out of Saturday night’s game

“The whole weekend was frustrating in the sense of back-to-back overtime losses on the road,” he said “There’s not much you can say ” The Red (11-7-3, 6-6-2 ECAC) faced off against the Clarkson Golden Knights (13-10-3, 5-6-3) on Friday in Potsdam, N Y The Knights were

fierce out of the gate, dominating Cornell in the first period with 11 shots compared to the Red’s two Nevertheless, both sides were scoreless at the end of the period Cornell got back on track in the second period after Clarkson committed a pair of penalties early in the period At the end of the second-man a d va n

h Vanderlaan were able to link up for Vanderlaan’s sixth goal of the season

This put the Red up 1-0 four minutes into the second quarter C l a rk s o n t o

right back from Cornell right before second intermission Junior James de Haas of the Golden Knights put the

puck past junior goalie Mitch Gillam from the top of the faceoff circle The game remained even at 1-1 until overtime

The officials called Angello for holding a little more than halfway through overtime, which proved costly for Cornell Clarkson’s Terrance Amorosa fired a one-timer from the top of the right circle to give Cornell the loss with less than 30 seconds left in overtime Schafer and the Red left Friday empty handed

“What was frustrating was an absolutely brutal call by the official that led to a powerplay,” Schafer said “[Amorosa] shot the puck in front of

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