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By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Writer

ties and how such partisanship is inhibiting progress in Washington “ We’re here to talk about labels and about dysfunction in Washington,” he said In his speech, Brown said there should be conflict and discourse between the two parties, but that they should be able to

Cornell University Librar y to Celebrate Addition of Eight Millionth Volume

By AIMEE CHO Sun Staff Writer

On Feb 21, Cornell University Library will celebrate the addition of the eight millionth volume to its collection The book, a rare album of Civil War photographs, was donated by Beth and Stephan Lowentheil J D ’75, according to a University press release

photographs and will be housed in the Carl A Kroch Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Materials, Kenney said

“There are camp scenes, images of soldiers preparing for battle, portraits of prisoners-of-war, officers

“It is critical that every generation ensure[s] the continued growth of our great institutions.”

The last time the University library hit a similar milestone was in 2002, when the library acquired its seven millionth volume According to Anne Kenney, Carl A Kroch University Librarian, that volume also happened to be a book of civil war photographs

The “one-of-a-kind” book contains 265 rare

from both the Union and Confederate sides and photos of both Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln,”

See LIBRARY page 5

LGBT Student Org. Boycotts Conference

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

IvyQ, an annual Ivy League conference for LGBT-identified students, has been boycotted by several students in the LGBT community due to its alleged promotion of “hook-up culture” and exclusion of non-Ivy League students

The four-day conference,

which is being held until Sunday at Princeton University, features a series of speakers and seeks to promote intersectionality, according to the IvyQ website IvyQ has attracted over 400 attendees in each of its past four conferences

However, students in Cornell’s Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism, a sub-organization of LGBTQ Student Union Haven, drafted a Facebook post

on Wednesday detailing reasons why they believe IvyQ is not a positive experience for the LGBT community

“We will not support a conference that creates an exclusive environment uninviting to people outside of the privileged Ivy League and which alienates many even within the Ivy League,”

See LGBT page 4

CLASSE Seminar: Steve Wang

1- 2 p m , 3rd Floor Wilson Commons,Wilson Synchrotron Lab

English Department Roundtable

2 - 4 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall Water and Land Panel

3 - 5 p m , 225 Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center

Forks Over Knives Screening

7 - 9 p m , Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Documentary: Prince Among Slaves

8 - 9:30 p m , 245 Olin Hall

Tomorrow

C U Music: New York Young Men Singing 3:30 - 4:30 p m , Sage Hall

Transformations in Diabetes Care: A Team Perspective

4 - 5 p m , Room 100, Savage Hall

C U Music: Percussionist Michael Compitello 8 - 9:45 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall BodyFuel Fitness

6 - 9 p m , TV Lounge 101, Robert Purcell Community Center

Dumpling Throwdown 3 - 8 p m , 116 Oak Ave

C O R NE LL SUN TH E

Z ach Z ahos ’15, Asso ciate Managing Editor, and Sam Bromer ’16, Ar

Sports, “WRESTLING | Red Adds Two More Wins to Undefeated Record,” Tuesday

Speaking about the men ’ s wrestling team’s goals

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People

L et te r t o t he E di tor , “ The Trut h Be hin d Te nur e, ” Thur sday Resp onding to a Sun news ar ticle, “Universit y: Non-Tenured Facult y Bring ‘Dif ferent Skills

American academia is shedding tenurable jobs right and left often making up the difference with faculty describ ed as “adjunct ” or “part-time” or “temp orar y ” many of them sp ot-market hires ”

Prof Stuar t Davis , English

Foundation Lifts Funding Limitations

By GRACE HURLEY Sun Staff Wr ter

Cornell professors are “relieved” that last month Congress repealed restrictions imposed on the National Science Foundation and its ability to fund certain kinds of political science research

The initial restrictions were set last March in the Coburn Amendment, which prohibited the NSF from funding any political science projects that did not promote U S national security and economic interests, according to the Senate’s official website

Prof John Abowd, industrial and labor relations, who conducts research on the U S Census and related topics, expressed his relief at the repeal of these limitations

“I am relieved that the omnibus appropriations bill effectively lifted the restrictions on NSF funding,” he said, noting research contributions that come out of NSF funding transcend the field of political science

Crucial surveys in the field of political science are often funded by the NSF, according to Weeden

“The American National Election Studies and the General Social Survey are major source[s] of high-quality, nationally representative data on American’s social and political attitudes and behaviors and how they have changed over time,” she said

Weeden added that the restrictions took advantage of internal competition within the field of social science

“The bigger issue is that, by cutting federal funding for ‘basic’ research in the social sciences or attaching constraints to its content, the legislature is playing politics with American competitiveness in the social sciences and in higher education,” Weeden said

“The NSF remains a significant place to which we can apply for support.”

“NSF political science sponsors very important data collection activities which are used by social scientists in many disciplines,” he said

Despite the repeal, Prof Kim Weeden, sociology, said the former restrictions will have a lasting effect because the NSF was delayed in collecting data during the restriction period

“You can ’ t ask respondents in 2014 about their beliefs in 2012 and expect to get meaningful answers, ” she said “If you ’ re trying to interview the same people multiple times over many years, the longer the time between surveys, the harder it is to find respondents, and the lower the quality of the data in the longitudinal panel ”

According to Prof Nicolas Van de Walle, government, the recent repeal may help to alleviate some of the negative effects graduate students may have faced from the earlier restrictions

“Many [graduate students] have applied for NSF grants or are likely to in the near future so this is clearly important for them,” he said “Also, some of the NSF’s bigger grants were really threatened and now are likely to be restored But Cornell is not currently a recipient ”

Van de Walle added that, for the Cornell community, the lifting of these limitations “ means that the NSF remains a significant place to which we can apply for support, which is not always easy to get for political science research ”

Prof Robert Buhrman, applied and engineering physics, senior vice provost for research, highlighted the role of President David Skorton and Cornell government affairs representatives as active participants in raising the issue with Congressional leaders during the ban

“Cornell was very much in the forefront of bringing the concerns to the attention of the right people in Congress,” he said “We are certainly pleased that the NSF has been unfettered to now use its best judgment and peer review to determine what science to fund, including within the social and behavioral and political science areas ”

C.U. Partners With Financial Literacy Program

By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Wr ter

t u d e n t s m a n a g e t h e i r m o n e y a n d s t u d e n t l o a n s “ T h ro u g h i n - d e p t h c o u r se s a n d o n e - o n - o n e c o u n s e li n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s , s t u d e n t s w i l l b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d t h e i r l o a n o p t i o n s , g a i n re a l - l i f e f i n a n c i a l s k i l l s , a n d l e a r n h ow t o s t a y o n t r a c k w i t h l o a n p a y m e n t s , ” a c c o rd i n g t o t h e S A LT we b s i t e En ro l l i n g i n S A LT g r a n t s s t u d e n t s a c c e s s t o “ R e p a y m e n t Na v i g a t o r, ” a d i g i t a l t o o l t h a t a l l ow s u s e r s t o q u i c k l y c o n s o l i d a t e t h e i r l o a n i n f o r m a t i o n a s we l l a s f i n d o u t w a y s t o d e c re a s e o r p o s t p o n e t h e i r m o n t h l y p a ym e n t s Me m b e r s c a n a l s o u s e

“I think it’s great that Cornell’s making it really easy for anyone to learn more about things like loan repayment ”

w i t h a S A LT Me m b e r Su p p o r t r e p r e s e n t a t i v e v i a l i ve o n l i n e c h a t “ T h e h u m a n t o u c h m a k e s c o m p l i c a t e d f i n a n c i a l j a r g o n a l o t e a s i e r t o u n d e r s t a n d , ” L i u s a i d “ If yo u h a ve a n y i s s u e s , t h e y h e l p yo u t h ro u g h yo u r p ro b l e m s t e p - by - s t e p ” S A LT m e m b e r s h i p, w h i c h i s f re e f o r s t u d e n t s , a l s o g i ve s a c c e s s t o t h e p ro g r a m ’ s j o b a n d i n t e r n s h i p d a t a b a s e a n d c a n h e l p c o nn e c t m e m b e r s w i t h n e a r l y 2 3 , 0 0 0 e m p l oye r s “A c c e s s t o t h e d a t a b a s e o f e m p l o y e r s i s p r o b a b l y S A L T ’ s b i g g e s t d r a w f o r m e , ” K i m s a i d “ It ’ s p r e t t y d i f f ic u l t t o g e t a n i n t e r n s h i p t o d a y, s o i t ’ s g re a t t o h a ve a c c e s s t o a n e n t i re n e t w o rk o f c o n n e c t i o n s ” Ja s o n L e e ’ 1 6 s a i d t h a t h e a p p r e c i a t e d t h e O f f i c e o f Fi n a n c i a l A i d a n d St u d e n t Em p l oy m e n t ’ s e f f o r t i n m a ki n g f i n a n c i a l l i t e r a c y a c c e s s ib l e “ I t h i n k t h e g e n e r a l i d e a b e h i n d S A LT i s g re

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e ’ s a t t h e Gr a m m y s ” Wo k e Up L i k e T h i s ’ 1 5 “ Sn ow s h o e i n g t o c l a s s ” Di s g r u n t l e d Sl o p e - Wa l k e r ’ 1 6

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For ‘Hook-Up Culture’

of DASH, disagrees about the inclusive nature of the event

DASH said in the post, which was shared by several individuals

DASH wrote that the IvyQ conference’s mission to empower and connect LGBT students is overshadowed by attending students’ desires to engage in sexual activities

“Students at our university have explicitly chosen not to attend because the hook-up culture is uncomfor table and unsafe,” DASH said “The hookup culture marginalizes asexual individuals and privileges certain body types ”

According to DASH, there is notable discrepancy between IvyQ’s stated objective and the “hook-up culture” that they believe dominates it

“This fundamental difference in the perceived purpose of the conference undermines the event and serves as a distraction for those with an honest intent to make use of the resources, ” DASH wrote, adding that the pressure to engage in sexual activities during the conference potentially “ verges on sexually aggressive and may lead to non-consensual sex ”

Despite DASH’s stance, several students from Cornell still traveled to the conference on Thursday, including Cornell IvyQ leader Terence Looi ’15 Looi, who has been involved with IvyQ for three years, said that the conference does in fact aim to create an inclusive and positive community

“We neither encourage nor discourage a ‘hook-up’ culture; we ’ ve always done our best to have a variety of programming to meet the needs of people with diverse interests and identities,” he said Justin Kondrat ’14, president

“I attended talks and co-facilitated at IvyQ last year, and I just felt very uncomfortable,” Kondrat said “I was not really impressed with how things went, and it wasn ’ t very inclusive for many of my friends The elitism and scent of privilege was overbearing and took away from true dialogue ”

According to Kondrat, the Facebook post, which received over 40 replies in one day, was meant to foster communication among the community

“I just want to have more dialogues and conversations based around this issue that many people face within the LGBTQIA+ community and their feelings toward IvyQ The value of conversation of dialogue is very critical within the community,” he said

In opposition to the IvyQ conference, DASH mentioned plans to create its own conference that will share the resources of an Ivy League school with all attendees, and encouraged “others to participate in the same critical self-analysis in order to dismantle this culture and create new spaces that truly serve the queer community ”

According to Haven President Jadey Huray ’14, Haven will be holding an open meeting on Tuesday, Feb 11 to talk about the letter and its responses, which Huray believes devolved into a personal argument

“We want to make sure that we can have a dialogue that’s constructive and productive for IvyQ, DASH and the broader LGBTQQIA+ community,” she said “We just have to make sure that people share their perspectives and opinions without attacking others ”

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act cordially towards one another However, he said that this sense of friendliness has been disappearing recently

“ The one thing we have in common is that we ’ re Americans f i r s t A n d we ’ re i n

, ” Brown said “ We’re 17 3 trillion dollars in debt, and we have a congress that’s so divided they’re not talking in the halls ” Brown said he self-identifies as a “moderate Republican,” who is more fiscally conser vative and socially moderate

In the speech, Brown also disc u s s e d h i s o p p o s i t i o n t o t h e Affordable Care Act, citing the new taxes to fund the Act as deterrents to job creation

Describing himself as “ part of the block in the middle,” Brown said that his, and other moderate politician’s, absence in the Senate is problematic He lost his senate seat to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the 2012 senate race

Additionally, Brown said he believes that the countr y is not properly suited for “the road of big government ” Brown said he believes that e n t re n c h e d p a r t i s a n s h i p i s a result of elected officials increasingly voting in favor of their own parties’ interests

“ We’ve lost a group of about 20 in the middle who could act as swing votes, ” Brown said Brown asked the audience to

e x a m i n e c o n g re s s i o n a l vo t i n g patterns for evidence of partisan politics

“If you remember anything I said tonight: go back tonight and check your elected officials’ voting records to see if they’re voting on both sides,” Brown said

Ad d i t i o n a l l y, h e a s k e d t h e audience to challenge their elected officials to work together with members across party lines

In many cases, members from b o t h s i d e s o f t h e a i s l e a re “putting the personal partisan

i n t e re s t b e f o re t h e c o u n t r y ’ s interest,” he said

Brow n c l o s e d by re ve a l i n g that he had deviated from his intended plans for the speech

“I have a speech, I didn’t even use it It’s good when you have something that you ’ re passionate about ”

Kyle Ezzedine, chairman of the Cornell College Republicans, said the organization wanted to host Brown because of his expe-

r i e n c e d u r i n g a p e r i o d o f “ extreme political polarization ”

“ We wanted to host Scott Brown because he has [a] notable record of bipartisanship [that] can provide a unique insight into American politics,” he said Maxwell Schechter ’14, presid e n t o f C o r n e l l De m o c r a t s , added that the event was “ a great chance to hear from a moderate

Re p u b l i c a n b e c a u s e t h e re aren ’ t many of them in office anymore ”

Sloane

Cornell Law S chool Applications Decline

Applicants face ‘better prospects’ due to less competition, University says LAW

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er y of the American legal market will accompany that of the economy

“As perceptions change and the recover y gains more steam, I think legal employers will certainly look to hire more young, bright minds,” Singer said “I don't think [job demand will] come all the way back before 2015 when I graduate, but luckily I go to Cornell Law School ”

Singer said that formerly many prospective law students were not truly passionate about the field of law

“In the past, undecided students saw law school as a fallback plan if they did not have a job after graduation or a particular goal for postgraduate education,” he said

Singer also said he believes the decrease in applications could be of benefit to prospective law students

“Now, those students are beginning to realize that law school is too hard, too expen-

sive, and potentially too unrewarding to endeavor if they do not really love the law I think in the future, this culling of all but those who really love the law

w i l l s t re n g t h e n l a w school classes and ultimately the profession,”

Singer said

Ac c o rd i n g t o L e v y, many law school applicants are facing better p

competition

said “[Cornell Law] is fortunate to be one of the best law schools in the world, and I feel like I've gotten a legal education that will prepare me to get and keep a job shor tly when I graduate ”

“Law school is too hard, too expensive, and potentially too unrewarding to endeavor if [students] do not really love the law.” D r e w S i n g e r l a w ’ 1 5

“ With such a significant decline in the applicant pool, applicants seem to be faring somewhat better in the admissions process and in receiving scholarships,” she said

Singer added that Cornell Law students have less reason to worr y about securing a job in the future due to the University’s prestige

“If anyone in this market is getting jobs, it is the people at the ver y top schools,” he

decide

pursue law still have plenty of options, according to Levy

“I encourage students who are considering a legal career but haven't confirmed their plans to take time after graduating from Cornell to test their interest by doing lawrelated work and/or by gaining exposure to other fields that might engage their interest,” Levy said

Alisha Foster can be reached at afoster@cornellsun com

University Librar y Celebration to Occur Feb.21

Kenney said “In this age of electronic access to materials, having such a wonderful book as this coming reminds us of the c r i t i c a l i m p o r t a n c e o f s p e c i a l materials ”

Prof Bill Gaskins, art, who will speak at the book ceremony, said that Cornell Librar y ’ s eight millionth volume being a Civil War photograph album is “timely ” “ The Civil War captured all of the issues and the promise

and the potential of the United St a t e s , ” G a s k i n s s a i d “ [ T h e album] reflects the contemporar y tensions over the presence of those defendants of slaver y in the 21st centur y in the United States as well as 21st centur y assertions of the rights of states over the authority of the federal government ” Gaskins said that the photograph on the book’s frontispiece, the page to the left of the openi n g t i t l e p a g e , o f a y o u n g African girl particularly impacted him and is the “ most important ” photo in the volume

human at that time; they were simply property This [photograph] establishes that this was the reason for the Civil War and the conflict,” he said “ To this day, there are many people who will come up with many other reasons for the conflict between the South and the North, other than slaver y ” Loewentheil said in the press release that the gift is his family’s attempt at helping to enhance t h e

recognized as one of the great research libraries in the world It is critical that ever y generation continue to build on the foundation of those who have come before us to ensure the continued growth of our great institutions,” he said in the release

The book welcoming ceremony will take place Feb 21 at Amit Bhatia Libe Café in Olin Librar y and is open to the public

RACHEL ELLICOTT ’15

MARTEN ’14

SHAH 14

REBECCA HARRIS 14

SARAH COHEN 15

BRYAN CHAN 15

SCOTT CHIUSANO 15

ZHOU 15

ARAGON 14

TSENTER 14

G WHITESTONE 15

EDITORS IN TRAINING

the berry patch

Next week, Cornellians will embark on their first-ever February break, a four-day weekend announced last year in an effort to improve student mental health As supporters of the continuing effort to promote student stress-relief, we at The Sun set out to investigate any spaces in the the academic calendar that would lend themselves to additional breaks We sent out our best Berry Patch reporters at least, the ones who hadn’t announced their own personal snow week to interview passer-bys about the most-needed holidays at Cornell

Mid-Easter and Passover Break: For students who celebrate both holidays, the one-two punch of chocolate bunnies and chocolate matzah can be a little overwhelming For students who celebrate neither, the influx of related products into drugstores and Wegmans alike can provoke panic what holiday does the tinsel and brightly colored eggs signify, again? And am I supposed to buy anyone a present? It’s probably best to give students off to contemplate these hard-hitting questions

4/20: Need we say more? While unofficially celebrated by many Cornell students, this date causes unnecessary stress, giggling and munchies (read: clearly total CHAOS) when it conflicts with regularly scheduled classes Not to mention all the firetrucks mistakenly deployed by the Ithaca Fire Department in response to plumes of smoke seeping from dorm room windows In the name of all that is edible, we call on Cornell to legalize this holiday Grover Cleveland’s Birthday: He’s no Howard Taft, but for too long, this special man has unfairly been the subject of snickering upon the first mention of his name We have George Washington’s birthday off now who’s to say Washington is any more important than our boy Grover? It’s just wrong to not allow students a full day to ruminate about Cleveland’s multitude of achievements Or at least, to Google them

October 3: Students need a full day off from school so they can remember to make their Facebook statuses “On October third, he asked me what day it was It's October third ” Scientists have shown that no matter how many prelims, papers and group projects students had due two days ago, this simple act relieves pressure by 200 percent and brings students closer to their inner Mean Girls

The Day After Slope Day: Oh, wait

HEY, IT’S

FRIDAY.

AND WE — THE SUN’S EDITORS AND COLUMNISTS — ARE MAD AS HELL. IT’S COLD, BREAK IS STILL ONE WEEK AWAY, AND IT’S DEFINITELY ABOUT TIME TO

...

ODE TO ITHACA I d o n ’ t u n d e r s t a n d why Cornell has to have terrible hills and terrible we a t h e r C a n ’ t we j u s t pick one or the other? Walking up Libe Slope with a blizzard attacking my eyes is not enjoyable E S

WHERE’S MY HUGH GRANT?

I should really learn from The Mindy Project more Like Mindy says, I am not Sandra Bullock If I get stuck in an elevator with a guy, he won ’ t see how charming I am; he’ll realize how annoying I can be in confined spaces under stressful situations R E

ASPEN DREAMS

I don’t dread going to m y 9 a m c l a s s e s : I dread walking up Libe Slope to get to them

T h e s l u s h m a k e s i t 1 , 0 0 0 t i m e s w o r s e Cornell, please consider i n s t a l l i n g a s k i l i f t already

SPEED RACER

A B

W h y d o p e o p l e a t Cornell walk so damn slowly? Don’t you have

things to do?

CAUGHT THAT JITTERBUG

N Y

He re ’ s t o t h a t a w kward moment when you remove the headphones from your phone, and it begins to blast “Father Figure ” All at once you are outed as a shameless George Michael fanatic to your entire anthropology lecture L B

HORNDOG

Why does my human bonding class spend so much time talking about babies? Let’s talk about sex, baby! E C

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

A s i f i t i s n ’ t h a rd enough to give up drinking, the pain really kicks in when the bar tender looks at you with those sad eyes, knowing full well that you came here excited for the dinosaur in your friend’s fishbowl,

CORRECTION

not for the $2 shots M R

SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERSTARS

This one goes out to ever yone who posted a j o k e a b o u t C o r n e l l’s “ snow day ” The first time I read that your 3 a m class was canceled, I giggled The millionth time I saw it on my Facebook n e w s f e e d , Tw i t t e r a n d Instagram, I realized that you are not original You are just annoying S W

PENIS ENVY

Cornell, get your shit together already I’ve been waiting for a snow penis all winter!

A O

RACHEL BERRY-ED IN THE SNOW

I l i k e t h e s n ow I would even say I love the snow But when I feel like a New Directions member from Glee hit by a cold slushy, all bets are off J P

A byline was omitted from a Feb 5 news stor y, “Reddit Creator Talks Web, Career ” The stor y was written by Sun Staff Writer Helen Donnelly

A Feb 5 news article, “Cornell Launches First MOOC,” and a subsequent Feb 6 editorial, “A Call to Clarify the Intention of MOOCs,” incorrectly stated that hundreds of people are registered for Cornell's first MOOC In fact, more than 17,000 individuals have enrolled in the course

David Fischer | Guest Column

Ea st Ave. Closure: A P roblem of Univ. Tran sparency

Winter break traditionally holds a place in the college experience as a respite from the annoyances associated with attending a pressure cooker of an institution like Cornell The month to month-and-a-half long stretch of freedom pleasantly punctuates the rigor of the academic year with a few much-needed weeks of relaxation During one of my lazy afternoons on Facebook this past winter break, I happened upon an article that had been shared a number of times by my friends The article, from the Cornell Chronicle, was headlined “East Avenue to Close to Through Traffic Jan 8 ”

My initial interpretation of the article’s headline was that East Avenue would be closed until January 8, 2014 I thought, therefore, that most Cornellians would not be affected So I couldn’t understand why my friends had posted such inflammatory comments about the article on Facebook: I decided that more investigation was needed

According to the article, “from Jan 8, 2014 to April 19, 2015, East Avenue will be closed to through traffic from West Avenue to Tower Road due to the construction of Klarman Hall ”

Yes, you read that correctly As I’m sure most of you have obser ved by now, East Avenue is closed for a year and a half Well, the road is open to pedestrians, buses, emergency vehicles and bicycles, but any other vehicular traffic is subject to ticketing by Cornell Police

Personally, as an English major, I am a huge advocate for Klarman Hall, which is the first building for the humanities to be construct-

ncourage the University to mprove its communication rts for similar construction endeavors in the future.

ed at Cornell in more than 100 years I believe that creating a central meeting place for students and faculty and adding more workplaces and classrooms for staff are much-needed additions to the perpetually-under-construction Cornell campus However, I question the need to close an essential arter y of Central Campus for such a long period of time Although I am by no means an engineer of any kind, I believe that some sort of solution could have been devised in order to avoid the inconvenience created by the closure

Ultimately, the shutdown of East Avenue is little more than a minor annoyance In the grand scheme of things, the five-minute driving detour through West Avenue to your destination is not the most difficult or tr ying thing that most of you will experience during a typical Cornell week or even a typical day The largest problem with the closure of this major road, as I see it, was the way in which the University communicated the news to the student body

I can ’ t imagine that a closure of such magnitude was not planned for several months before it began The earliest notification of the closure I can find is a press release on the University’s Special Conditions Information webpage, posted on December 13, 2013

However, I can ’ t help but doubt the efficacy of disseminating important University information through a webpage that is also used to notify students about a “significant reduction in steam service to campus ” (That was posted on Januar y 29, 2014, if you ’ re interested ) Furthermore, the timing of the announcement fell in line with the middle of finals for most students It seems to me like the timing of the announcement was calculated to discourage any criticism of the construction

The University’s poor communication of East Avenue’s closure underscores a greater problem between administration and the student body: transparency Had the University notified us of the shutdown several months before it began and given a brief justification of its necessity, I’m sure that most students wouldn’t have had a problem with it

For the most part, it seems like most Cornellians have accepted the closure as a necessar y side effect of an ever-improving campus –– in the same vein as being unable to use the sidewalk in front of Myron Taylor Hall for a year during the recent Cornell Law School renovation As was the case with Myron Taylor Hall construction, people will adjust They will drive on West Avenue –– granted, complaining the whole way But our days won ’ t change in any significant way That being said, I encourage the University to improve its communication efforts for similar construction endeavors in the future

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“Instructors off the tenure track often are talented and motivated people At the same time, their contingent status places them in an incredibly precarious position It is not unheard of for contingent faculty to know only a week or so before classes start whether they will even be teaching that semester Many walk on egg shells because you wouldn’t want to get on the bad side of some temperamental administrator or tenured professor ” Theo

Re: “University: Non-Tenured Faculty Bring ‘Different’ Skills” News, published Feb. 3, 2014

Tess Keppler | Barely Legal

Reimagining the Law

In the Wake of 3-D Printing

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Heroes or Villains, Doctors or Murderers?

BRIAN GORDON Sun Staff Writer

Americans are more starkly divided between pro-life and pro-choice than they are on virtually any other topic Yet when it comes to the allowance of late-term abortions (abortions during the final trimester of a pregnancy), Americans are largely in agreement 80 percent are against them

Delicately, the documentary After Tiller brings nuance to a topic where nuance often gets engulfed in the flames of feverous rhetoric and vitriol The act of bringing the camera into the clinics of the only four doctors in the country who perform late-term procedures grants the viewer a fuller sense of the moral quandaries and human emotions that deserve to be weighed when discussing late-term abortions Some of the patients at these clinics have recently discovered that their child has a rare multi-syllable abnormality that will render the child’s life short and painful One of the patients was a victim of rape Others have put off an abortion for religious or family reasons and are now panicking over the prospect of parenthood as the fortieth week approaches

Directors Lana Wilson and Martha Shane remain hidden, yielding the spotlight to the four doctors themselves to explain their decisions, indecisions and why they continue to perform procedures that many find abhorrent, even murderous At a time when 58 percent of Americans identify as pro-life, the scenes and situations inside the clinic will shed new light on some under-

standable reasons why some may seek an abortion in the final 15 weeks of pregnancy

After Tiller illustrates that there are no real winners in the business of late-term abortions Because the abortions result in the “delivery” of a stillborn, many of the parents treat the “birth” of their child as a death Several surreal scenes show parents saying hello and goodbye to their child at the same time Memorial services and mementos, such as footprints, from the stillborn’s “life,” are provided by the clinic

There used to be five late-term abortionperforming doctors until the titular Dr George Tiller died by assassination outside his Wichita church on a Sunday in 2009 In spite of, and seemingly inspired by the death of their dear friend Tiller, the four remaining doctors demonstrate their desire to press on despite the constant fear that their lives will end the same way as Tiller’s This fear is made real when the film follows the doctors’ lives outside the clinics We meet their families, see their homes and learn their hobbies The viewer sees these doctors as complete humans, in contrast with the anti-late-term protesters, who remain nameless and seem overzealous and irrational

There is a slightly unfair manipulation of the viewer during these scenes it is easier to view these doctors’ opinions on their professions more sympathetically after watching them pet their puppies, kiss their sweet elderly mothers and ski down pristine mountain slopes Conversely, it is easier to view the anti-late-term abortion argument with more scorn when only the most radical anti-abortionists are seen The film shows the opponents who make hate calls to the doctors’ homes at midnight and who hold signs outside the clinics while verbally guilting young women with charges of sin as they walk in

The film also positions right wing state legislators as ene-

mies, particularly those in the Nebraska State Legislature, which passed one of the strictest antiabortion laws in the country The law criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks, forcing one of the film’s featured doctors on an odyssey across the country in search of a more hospitable state to continue performing procedures The views of these legislators are never explained beyond brief sound bites and their personal lives are never explored

Perhaps then, After Tiller is best experienced as a human interest story, not as an editorialized comment on where the viewer should stand on Roe v Wade

The viewer could remain ardently pro-life yet still gain an appreciation for the four late-term doctors The viewer can appreciate that these are men and women who wear scrubs and tell bad jokes and love their families just like the rest of us

These are four people who antagonize over the impossibly difficult moral decisions that they must confront each day

Whatever your politics, these are not people who desire to be gunned down on their way out of church

Whether you find their defense of late-term abortions moving or not is almost secondary

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun com

That Awkward Boredom: A Bromantic Comedy

That awkward moment when you walk out of the theater wondering, “Did I really just spend $11 watching that?” Writer and director Tom Gormican’s That Awkward Moment was exactly that: an awkward film that explored no new concepts and had very little entertainment value for anyone who has seen a romantic comedy Ever

The movie set the stage in a normal rom-com fashion: three separate storylines of love, loss and friendship are introduced rapidfire Zac Efron, Miles Teller, and Michael B Jordan star as Jason, Daniel and Mikey: three friends in their late twenties navigating their sex and romantic relationships The chemistry between the friends worked well, but their dialogue was contrived and quite boring The highlight of the male humor jokes essentially boil down to Daniel pooping in Jason’s toilet every time he visits and Mikey jacking off with self-tanner These jokes were funny The first time I saw them In twenty other comedies 10 years ago The romantic entanglements and the effect they had on the bromance were the sole focus of the film Unlike other films of the genre, there was no drama centered around characters’ families or work places Going into this film you had better be fully invested in how the three dudes’ love lives will affect their relationship as a bro-trio because there is no evidence that any of them have any other concerns

When Mikey’s wife, Vera ( Jessica Lucas) informs him that she wants a divorce and that she has been sleeping with her lawyer, Jason makes the decision that the three friends will vow to form no lasting relationships, in favor of simply partying and having fun as “bros ” And in a plot that lost all of its surprise possibly as far back as when

Shakespeare used it in Love’s Labor’s Lost, the three manage to fall off the ridin’-solo wagon almost immediately Jason meets a quirky, girl (Imogen Poots) for whom he has to overcome his fear of commitment issues and break the “bro” code in order to woo Daniel hooks up with his longtime wing-woman Chelsea (Mackenzie Davis) and Mikey tries to rekindle things with his wife Within the first 30 minutes of the film, I could have probably told you the entire plot line

Another element of discomfort within the film was the lack of chemistry between each of the couples While each character gave off his or her own spark, keeping you invested in their story, the character partnerships were lacking There was nothing at stake in the plot and it was not only because the endings were apparent from the get-go when the inevitable periods of dissention happened between the characters I felt sympathy only for the individuals and was nowhere near shedding tears over the demise of the relationship The focus of chemistry

That Awkward Moment Directed by Tom Gormican Starring Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan

and plot development moved away from the romantic entanglements and toward the friendship between the men, but not it a way that was coherent The film attempted to engage the viewer in three different romantic plot-lines as well as the story between the friends, and in doing so, created three underdeveloped story lines and no true emotional investment for the viewer I spent the entire film wondering who the film’s creators were attempting to convince to watch the movie The plot lines were the contrived clichés of a romantic comedy, but the film was very obviously a “ man ’ s ” film The humor was directed towards teenage guys and at points I felt the film a bit sexist; the women were only present to further the plots of the men My friends walked out of the theater complaining about how the women were not pretty and it occurred to me that that was essentially the only gauge we had to judge them by Ellie (Poots) was some kind of writer I think Vera was a lawyer who cheated on her husband Chelsea had an apartment? At the major climaxes where the audience should cheer for the couples coming together, I found myself wondering why the guys even wanted to be in relationships with these women

Rom-coms are traditionally directed at women, but a sexist bromance comedy with male humor and romantic plot lines has no real audience it can appeal to The film was a Frankenstein of overdone rom-coms and sex humor, nothing new and nothing interesting If this is your first romantic comedy you may find it funny or sweet If you have ever watched a movie with romantic or comedic plot lines this film is not worth the time

Marissa Tranquilli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun com

Return to Mulholland Drive (Part Five)

ZACH ZAHOS Sun Associate Managing Editor

You can “solve” this film, I know, because Lynch thought of everything, plot-wise and otherwise, while making it I also know that I do not want to piece together every little detail, align every event in chronological order and scrutinize what one blue key means against another blue key The rush one feels watching this film especially returning to it again and again, once the initial shock of the late-act reversal has worn off comes from the act of “working things out ” yet accepting that the fullness of Lynch’s vision remains beyond your grasp

I just revisited Mulholland Drive, this being, I believe, my fifth visit Cornell Cinema screened it on their brand-new screen with updated speakers and projection equipment After watching it on big HDTVs, small screens and 480p projectors, I am now convinced it must be seen, at least once, across as large a canvas as possible, in the darkest and largest room you can find This is a movie about movies, yes, but this is also a movie that downright cherishes the effect watching a movie can have on a person

As far as breaking Mulholland Drive down and grasping for formal, narrative meaning, a little of this effort is necessary to at least ground yourself You can go from there how you please, either pausing the film and taking notes upon every shot, or accepting that things just work out and that you will elect to bask in Mulholland Drive’ s greatness only when watching it which you do again and again, because you cannot stay away

But, as for the film’s construction, I think most veterans accept that the first two-thirds are some sort of projection/fantasy of Diane (Naomi Watts) When she experiences this series of scenes is a good question, as well as whether or not she ever does After the first

Iscene (the bizarre, obviously nostalgia-tinged “Jitterbug”), we catch a quick glimpse of, ostensibly, Diane’s POV on the bed with red sheets She is sobbing, or at least gasping heavily, yet we don’t see her body I don’t know what, exactly, happens during this shot, but I know it provides a tragic bookend for the film This must be a moment, either before or, maybe, after (?) her suicide at the end, and the ambiguity of this one shot serves to remind us that this film works through mood much more than it does through cause and effect, plot-motivated narrative

Picking apart the rest of the movie is a joy to be had in the cinema, while watching it However, I have gleaned much from the film by keeping one thing in mind, regarding the first two-thirds of the film: The characters, prior to the ‘blue box switch-up,’ live how Diane (in “real life”) wants them to live, yet stay at a distance because they also embody Diane’s worst tendencies Like in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Betty (Diane’s innocent, plucky ideal of herself, or of how life should be lived, if it only could) molds Rita (Laura Harring) from a tabula rasa courtesy of an amnesiainflicting car crash into the perfect lover, and not to mention mother, too The line between depiction and voyeurism of lesbian acts that some accuse Abdellatif Keciche of crossing in Blue Is the Warmest Color is not in question here Lynch sort of lingers the camera on Rita’s breasts during that beautiful sex scene, but it’s from Betty’s perspective and connotes some mother attachment Yet Rita lacks an interiority throughout much of the film, and acts like this obsequious doll that just so happens to have this ability for second sight That is not a criticism, but a symptom of the fantasy and a telling sign that this fiction Diane constructs for herself will be short-lived, for Rita is the one that ends it Adam ( Justin Theroux) is having the worst day of his life because he stole Camilla

(or Rita) from Diane, and you can bet Diane subconsciously transfers her awful life onto Adam’s “This is the girl,” Adam says about a girl (named “Camilla Rhodes”) he does not want for his movie (a k a his life), which is a feeling Diane must suffer every day knowing she cannot have the one, the real Camilla, she wants “This is the girl,” Diane says to the hitman who, very likely, kills Camilla sometime off-screen, before the demons (that unforgettable old couple) drive her to suicide She tries to rationalize the murder, of course, by staging the hitman’s daily work as some slapstick farce, where one kill means two collateral deaths, a fire alarm and a whole lot of DNA evidence (I mean, he just t h row s h i s c i g a re t t e b u t t o n t o t h e f i re escape!)

I should catch myself As fun as the process of writing is, I should abstain from s p e n d i n g t o o m u c h t i m e d i s s e c t i n g

Mulholland Drive The gut feeling churning in one ’ s gut while watching this is proof enough that Lynch not only knows what he is doing but, like, knows close to everything,

as in in life The movie makes sense because it works on that subconscious, surreal level, where “ sense ” is more like nonsense but lodges into our brains and bodies cleaner and quicker than the most lucid of narrative prose In that sense, Mulholland Drive is a movie I cherish above so many others because it lets me have it both ways: The visceral experience of music complementing image, camera movement embodying the feeling of dreams and moments of silence swallowing us into the suffocating limbo of nightmares is u n m a t c h e d Ye t Mu l h o l l a n d D r i ve a l s o knows that you are watching it to work it out, so it presents a mountain of clues and somehow reveals their secrets throughout its duration When we finish watching it, we grasp for meaning and catch some of it but not all There is so much more in there, and that is why we return

Zach Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com

The Creativity Gap: Let Your Work Suck

don’t talk much about myself in my column not in any real sense, anyway Personal articles require too much time, which I don’t have, for introspection, which I don’t need But today I am tired of my regular M O , slinging slang and snark in the name of projecting my sometimes ill-formed opinions on the public, so I’m going to be straight-up And in light of the media frenzy about Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death, a quote of his has quickly become relevant again: “For me, acting is tortuous, and it’s torturous because you know it’s a beautiful thing I was young once, and I said, ‘ That’s beautiful and I want that ’ Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great well, that’s absolutely torturous ”

So this is the personal part I’m in a creative field, and I would, in a hopefully non-pretentious way, consider myself a “creative ” Though my Daily Sun tagline has reported that I’ve been undecided in Arts and Sciences for the last two years, in actuality I declared a major over a year ago I study design I’m young, and I design it’s a beautiful thing but I find it otherworldly difficult to practice it and not hate what I create, not hate myself in turn A therapist once told me that that just means I’m suited for the j o b b e c a u s e I h a ve “ a n artist’s temperament ” a strange, nebulous label I’d like to shirk But that doesn ’ t change the fact that it’s still so damn hard to sit down to draft, feeling like I confront all the nasty bits of myself every time I put pen to paper It’s like the cry-your-eyes-out therapy you know you need, but want to eschew to pretend you ’ re already all better It’s tiring, and though it may sound awfully histrionic, it really is that histrionic Hoffman’s sentiments correspond with another poignant point, also again making the rounds on social media Recently revitalized as a stunning typographic visualization by photographer Daniel Sax in the last week, “The Gap” is a video referring to Ira Glass’s PRI series on storytelling As

Glass of “This American Life” initially verbalized in 2009:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste But there is this gap For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer And your taste is why your work disappoints you A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have We all go through this And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met It’s gonna take awhile It’s normal to take awhile You’ve just gotta fight your way through ” Here, Glass so accurately illustrates the taste-ability gap It’s a “duh” revelation for all us creatives, who finally realize the obvious: your taste is the reason why your work disappoints you It’s an easy thing to forget, especially as my neuroses grow impossibly more neurotic with each decidedly notglowing critique I receive (or gift myself ) But it’s still a vital revelation in that it shows us that being bad is normal and, sometimes even, being bad is good As I bang my head on the wall, I know that I should keep plowing through, so that among all the well-intentioned turds I reluctantly crap out,

there may be one shining nugget of brilliance When that rare golden egg slides out, I’ll at least know it when I see it because, out of everything, it is my taste I can trust Miraculously, this also explains why really shit artists are so comfortable sharing their work Do you ever notice that the absolute worst singers are always volunteering to perform? Truly untalented creatives have low standards that are met easily (and often) They become positively flamboyant in their self-promotion Good on them for being uninhibited in all their misplaced confidence, but if I see another white girl who thinks she can draw try to humblebrag a shoddy still-life on Instagram, Imma cut a bitch My technique may not be up there with my taste just yet, but I’ve got enough genuine humility to refine all my nasty bits before I debut them to the world I know that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, so I’ve got to suck a lot more before I may earn the privilege of sucking a little bit less, but I have hope of the gap closing

Alice Wang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at awang@cornellsun com Profanity Prayers appears alternate Fridays

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from last game has simmered down, but something new will always arise ”

The Red is coming off of a big weekend, beating Brown on Friday and Yale in O T on Saturday Both freshman forward Jeff Kubiak and Iles received ECAC honors this week for their performances Cornell has also been climbing the polls and the standings Right now, the Red sits at third in the ECAC, with Colgate just a point behind and Quinnipiac just a point ahead However, it has taken a significant effort to rise to this point in the standings, something that Schafer has not neglected

“ We have to keep plowing ahead here, because we want to see what’s ahead of us and we want to catch those guys [ahead in the standings] and we ’ ve been doing that,” he said “I think at one time we might have been in last place or

11th in the league and so it’s been a gradual climb But these guys, they’re not done climbing They’re not worried about third or fourth or fifth, but we want to try to get to where we want to be, which is [to] try to get to first place in our league ”

As Schafer mentioned, the Red is taking it one step at a time and focusing its attention right now on this weekend’s matchup against Colgate

“They’ve got those big boys, [like] Kyle Baun And just like anyone on the line we face all year, you have to take care of that line and take them off the score sheet throughout the course of the night,” Schafer said

For Iles and the Red, there has been a lot of buildup to this game

“Saturday is going to be a huge game, ” Iles said “And we ’ re all looking forward to it ”

p r i s e d o f u n d e r c l a s s m e n T h i s a l s o b o d e s w e l l f o r t h e f u t u r e , a s a l l s i x w i l l r e t u r n n e x t s e

Koll has been with Cornell for 21 seasons now and has b

r a m With 11 consecutive Ivy titles and seven consecutive EIWA crowns under his belt, Koll heads into this weekend with reason to have confidence in his team He has more wins than any other wrestling coach in

histor y and looks to find another one against the Lions However, Koll attribut-

Cornell wrestling community as a whole “I have not built a dynasty I have been a

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t of our administration, alumni, amazing assistant coaches and friends, we would never [have] realized such success, ” Koll said

Icers Battle Colgate in Tense Regional Rivals Matchup

By DANI ABADA Sun Staff Wr ter

This week, No 8/9 Cornell (12-4-5, 8-34 ECAC) travels to Hamilton, N Y to face Colgate (13-11-9, 9-5-1) for the second

time this season

“It’s a really big game, ” said senior goaltender and assistant captain Andy Iles “They are right behind us in the standings and anytime someone is sitting behind you, they’re looking to climb the ladder They

are obviously a cross town rival; it’s going to be a pretty hostile atmosphere up there ”

This will be the second time the teams have met this season, the first being at Lynah on Dec 7, when the game ended in a 2-2 tie

“The game we had here was kind of a weird game, ” said head coach Mike Schafer ‘86 “They scored two in the second period off of rebounds and another broken play, and then we scored two five-on-three goals in the game ”

The Red currently unbeaten in nine games will only face one opponent this weekend Schafer discussed how this allows for some changes to the team ’ s regular practice schedule

“This is a weird week: with only one game on Saturday, everything is shifted back, so [Tuesday] was like our Monday,” he said “So the guys [who] are banged up sat out [Monday] and [Tuesday] and maybe even [will] sit out [Wednesday] and get ready for practice later in the week To get that extra day, that can go a long, long way ”

Iles added that preparing for only one opponent this week gives the Red a break

Fencers Prepare for Top-Ranked Opponents in Iv y Championship

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Staff Wr ter

The Cornell fencing team will travel to Providence, R I to compete in the Ivy League Championships this weekend

The Red holds a 14-4 record going into the Round-Robins, with three of the four losses accounted for by Top-10 teams

In light of its recent success, the team hopes to capitalize on this positive momentum entering Ivys

Cornell aims to make a name for itself this year among the top contenders for the Ivy championship title Last year, the squad went 2-4 in conference play, tallying three losses on the first day to Princeton, Harvard and Brown, and then rallying the following day to rack up two wins against Penn and Yale The Red could not find the equalizer in its contest against Columbia and lost, 207, to close the weekend This year, the squad hopes to clinch

tight bouts and steal the crown from Princeton, which earned it in 2013

“The Ivy League presents a really strong force in the fencing community Last year at the Ivy League Round-Robins, we had a lot of close matches that ultimately did not go our way, ” said sophomore Angelica Gangemi “This year, our goal is to turn those close matches into victories ”

The tournament will pose a challenge for the Red as the squad matches up against all the Ivy League powerhouses, with the exception of Dartmouth, which does not have a women ’ s team Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, all sitting at the top of the national rankings, will be competing

All five of Harvard’s NCAA national qualifiers will return for the Ivies, led by 2011 national champion Alex Kiefer

The Crimson’s Emma Vaggo is another fencer to watch if her 16-2 epee performance at the Round-Robins last year, earning her All-Ivy status, is any indication of what she has in store for 2014

No 1 Princeton has swept the competition this season and currently holds a perfect 21-0 record after securing 13 wins at the Northwestern Duals this past weekend The Tigers have claimed the last four Ivy titles consecutively and hold a 25match winning streak at the Round-Robin Similarly, Columbia has

from the mental stress of studying up on two different teams

“You only have to worry about one team; every other weekend you have to worr y about two teams [and] you kind of have to allocate your time accordingly as far as preparations are concerned,” he said

The last game between the regional rivals ended with a little tension, so there has been some speculation about whether or not it will carry over into this weekend’s game

“It always gets testy against [Colgate] they compete hard, we compete hard and that’s what happens when two teams leave it all out on the ice,” Iles said “I’m sure some of the stuff

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell wrestling team will take on Ivy League foe Columbia at home with the hopes of winning its 12th straight Ancient Eight Championship

So far this season, the Red has been able to maintain an untarnished record, winning all of its matches in both the Ivy League and against nonconference foes

At this point, the Red is not only looking to take home another title in League play, but has also set its sights on the NCAA Championship in March Five wrestlers who qualified for the NCAAs last year are returning to the mat against Columbia

“We are motivated because our goals are always much higher than just another Ivy title,” said sophomore Nahshon Garrett “We are a young, hard working team and we are gunning for a national title ”

Senior Chris Villalonga said that the Red’s goal at this point in the season is to prepare for the National Championship

“As of now, all we want to do is build on this momentum as we approach some tougher teams in duals and conference tournaments and eventually NCAA’s,” he said

According to head coach Rob Koll, there is a higher level of intensity in practice Furthermore, with such a young team and a sizable group of freshmen playing significant roles, the team has been looking to tidy up its technique going into the postseason

“At this point in the season, we are not trying to teach anything new, just to refine and perfect our techniques Our practices are shorter and more intense,” Koll said Out of the ten men in the starting lineup, four are freshmen and two are sophomores, meaning that more than half of the lineup is com-