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Ballinger ’17 Released on Own Recognizance

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

Wolfgang Ballinger ’17, president of Cornell’s Psi Upsilon fraternity, w a s re l e a s e d o n h i s ow n re c o gnizance at his preliminar y hearing Tuesday The suspect, charged with sexual assault, did not appear in court and his case will proceed to the grand jur y Ba l l

t o appear personally at the hearing, Ballinger’s attorney told the court

Tuesday morning

In proceedings that lasted under five minutes, assistant district attorney Wendy Franklin said no evidence would be presented at the felony hearing

“We will go to the grand jury,” Franklin said Ballinger was then released by the court on his own recognizance promising in writing to appear in court for all following proceedings He had previously been remanded to the Tompkins County Jail awaiting a $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond

On Saturday, Ballinger pled not guilty to first-degree attempted rape, first-degree criminal act and first-degree sexual abuse Police have charged him with one Class D and two Class B felonies

Ballinger was remanded in connection with an incident at Psi Upsilon’s fraternity house, after a female student reported she was sexually assaulted after being led to a bedroom at the house at 2 a m on Jan 31

Ballinger allegedly forced the student to engage in oral sex, sexually violated her with his hands and attempted to have sexual intercourse her, according to court documents

The victim helped investigators identify Ballinger, and he turned himself in Feb 4, according to a police statement

The University placed Psi Upsilon on interim suspension Feb 1, following the sexual assault allegations

Three fraternities vandalized Monday

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

Following sexual assault charges levied against Wolfgang Ballinger ’17, at least two incidents of graffiti linking fraternities with rape allegations appeared on West Campus Monday

Cornell police are currently investigating six incidents of graffiti, all reported since the president of Cornell’s Psi Upsilon fraternity was charged with sexual assault One case of vandalism marked the north wall of the Psi Upsilon fraternity house

Baker War Memorial Flagpole was painted with graffiti that read “All frats rape, ” and a side door at the Delta Upsilon fraternity house was graffitied with the word “Rapist,” according to the Ithaca Voice Both cases of graffiti were removed by Monday afternoon

Other graffiti incidents marred the patio and house sign of the Chi Phi fraternity house, the house sign of the Delta Upsilon fraternity house and the glass of the University Avenue bus stop

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

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laptop in Olin Librar y before r unning from the building at approximately 5:35 p m Tuesday S

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scene at 5:40 p m and escor ted the man from the building at approximately 5:55 p m Police

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By JOSH GIRSKY Sun

Provost Michael Kotlikoff

d e f e n d e d t h e Un i v e r s i t y ’ s refusal to divest from fossil fuels and its decision to abandon a 2035 carbon neutrality goal at a University Assembly meeting Tuesday Kotlikoff began the meeting by reading a statement f r o m Pr e s i d e n t E l i z a b e t h Garrett who could not attend the meeting due to health issues in which she a d d r e s s e d d i v e s t m e n t f r o m fossil fuel companies

“I made clear early in my tenure that I did not believe

d i v e s t i n g f r o m f o s s i l

Garrett said “An impact [on the global climate crisis], the

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Man Allegedly Tosses Alligator Into Wendy’s Drive-Thru Window

A Florida man is facing assault charges after Fish and Wildlife officials said he tossed an 3 5-foot live alligator into the drive-thru window of a Wendy’s

U S Marshals arrested 24-year-old Joshua James on Monday and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession and transportation of an alligator, according to WPTV com

According to the incident report, James pulled up to the window at a Wendy’s in Loxahatchee last fall and placed an order for a drink

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After he got the beverage, investigators said he tossed the alligator, which he had in the back of his truck, into the restaurant ’ s kitchen, according to the Miami Herald

The alligator was eventually removed from the Wendy’s and dropped into a nearby canal

Linda James, the suspect ’ s mother, told WPTV com her son was just joking around

Pingpong Ball Destroys Coke Can

Normally a pingpong ball can ’ t do much damage, no matter how hard it is hit

But with scientific know-how, you can turn the ball into one insanely swift projectile

Zeke Kossover of San Francisco’s Exploratorium blasted

a pingpong ball through a vacuum cannon The ball punched a hole in a Diet Coke can at about 500 miles per hour

Without air resistance, the lightweight pingpong ball can reach jet-like velocity, Kossover explained in a “Simple Feats of Science!” episode

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Lawyer Receives Texts From Chipotle Coupon Seekers

A lawyer in Washington D C has received dozens of accidental texts from people seeking a coupon for a free Chipotle burrito

Hank Levine’s daughter-in-law Dorry Levine shared a photo of several texts from people attempting to acquire a coupon for a free Chipotle burrito

“My father-in-law’s cell is blowing up with people thinking they're getting free Chipotle,” she wrote Chipotle offered a free burrito to anyone who texted “RAINCHECK” to the number 888-222 as compensation after the fast-service Mexican restaurant closed on Monday for a meeting regarding the recent E Coli outbreak

The confusion occurred as some texters accidentally added an extra “2” to the end of the number, causing them to reach Levine instead of the number offering the free burrito coupon

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Staff Writer

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was a preschool and elementar y school teacher, and his father

Lecturer Bryan Duff Expands on Rewards of Life as an Educator

path to realizi n g

n on Jun 4, 1996 the day he graduated from P r i n c e t o n University

D u f f w a s named valedic-

i n g a n d d o i n g s o m e p a r t - t i m e teaching work to realize that I was a teacher ”

D u f f a t t r i buted some of this delay to the fact that many cons i d e r t e a c h i n g “respected, [but] not prestigious ” “I was influ-

u e , ” he said His “kick in t h e p a n t s ” moment, as Duff describes it, was reading a letter t

t h e e d i t o r written by a fell o w Pr i n c e t o n alum, which he said he found on

tar y school even though she had a degree from such a prestigious university “ Well, who else would you want teaching your kids?” she asked in the letter

t o r i a n o f h i s class and only had three minutes to speak at g r a d u a t i o n because he had to share the stage with that year ’ s high-profile guest speaker then President Bill Clinton “ What I talked about in that three-minute speech was how lucky we were to have such great teachers and mentors I should have taken a hint from my speech that my heart was in teaching, but I didn’t,” Duff said “It took me a couple more years of tutor-

“ There is a certain arrogance about that statement I don’t like, but the basic sentiment that we want really bright, ambitious, motivated, kind people to work with kids that I fully buy into,” Duff said

Duff said he started out as a high school math teacher, where he was able to work closely with 80 students a year as the director of the senior class project when seniors research and develop practical uses for something they have learned

“ What a privilege and a pleasure to help guide students in applying academic skills to something they had chosen,” Duff said “ There was great power in that That’s how I got into teaching ”

After that experience, Duff realized he wanted to work with young people in a capacity that would have a similar impact He began teaching education, where he could inspire some of his students to pursue teaching careers as well

At Cornell, Duff ’ s courses focus heavily on the application of knowledge and connecting undergraduates with young children He and his students work together to create after-school learning programs for Ithaca’s local schools and travel as a class to implement them

Duff said he sees the opportunity to work with the younger students as a privilege for both himself and his students

“I think I have the best job in the world at Cornell,” Duff said “As a senior lecturer, I get to focus on teaching and advising On top of that, I have the resources of a university like Cornell I have had so many opportunities to develop courses that give undergraduates really cool opportunities ”

This year, Duff received a grant to develop a course called “Crossing Borders in Education: The Case of Myanmar ” The objective of the course is to explore how the sizable group of Burmese refugees in Ithaca has adjusted to the different education system in the United States, he said

Prof Launches Carbon Neutrality Letter Campaign

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

Prof Bruce Monger, earth and atmospheric sciences, rallied students to protest President Elizabeth’s Garrett’s rejection of Cornell’s 2035 carbon neutrality goal in a letter-writing campaign launched Feb 2

In October, Garrett said she would focus on Cornell’s research and education rather than last year ’ s Climate Action Plan in which President Emeritus David Skorton stated that the University planned to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

The letter-writing campaign was inspired by an end-of-semester assignment that Monger has assigned his oceanography class for the past 10 years, in which his students write letters to their congressional representatives about a threat to the environment

In light of Garrett’s cancer diagnosis, Monger said he plans to deliver the letters numbering

commit the University to the carbon neutrality initiative, he said Kayla Elyse Brooks ’15, one of Monger’s former students, pointed out that there is an immediate need for action towards carbon neutrality

“There is so much potential for how our movement could snowball [to] other universities ”

Garrett has not completely made up her mind and is “equivocating on this issue,” according to Monger

Monger said he immediately emailed students of his Introductory Oceanography class including a listserv of 3,000 former students after reading about Garrett’s decision, asking them to write to the president with their concerns

60 so far to Provost Michael Kotlikoff instead of Garrett Monger said he hopes Kotlikoff will “relay them to Garrett’s senior leadership and to President Garrett herself when she has regained her strength and resumes some of her regular presidential responsibilities ”

Monger’s “ greatest hope” for his campaign is that he and his students will convince Garrett to re-

“Even 2035 is too late to turn back the clock on our impact on the planet,” Brooks said “Change is important now ” Brooks also emphasized that Cornell’s lead could provide an example to other universities “ There is so much potential for how our movement could snowball not only here within our Cornell community, but for other universities, the country and even the world,” she said

Brooks added that the original Climate Action Plan which has already outlined a significant portion of the University’s carbon neutrality plan is only lacking community support

“What we need is for the community at Cornell to really stand up and help make it happen any

way possible,” Brooks said “Investment

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p o l i t i c i a n s t o s u p p o r t c a r b o n n e u t r a l i t y w h i l e h i s ow n u n ive r s i t y d i d n o t s h a re t h a t g o a l “ I u n d e r s t a n d f u l l y t h e d i f f i -

c u l t i e s i n s e t t i n g a t i m e f r a m e I u n d e r s t a n d t h e c o s t s , ”

How a r t h s a i d “ Bu t g i ve n t h e u r g e n c y t o t h e p l a n e t o f re a c hi n g t h i s c l i m a t e t a r g e t , C o r n e l l m u s t d e m o n s t r a t e t h a t we c a n d o i t To s a y t h a t i t ’ s d i f f i c u l t o r t h a t w e n e e d m o r e r e s e a r c h s e n d s t h e w ro n g m e s s a g e ” Ko t l i k o f f re s p o n d e d , s a y i n g t h e i m p l i c a t i o n s o f a l a c k o f i n f o r m a t i o n o n c a r b o n n e u t r a li t y p r e v e n t e d G a r r e t t f r o m e n d o r s i n g t h e g o a l “ Fo r a Un i ve r s i t y t o s e t a g o a l w i t h o u t a c o s t , w i t h o u t k n ow i n g w h a t t h e c o s t o f t h a t i s , i s ve r y d i f f i c u l t , ” h e s a i d “ We d o n ’ t h a ve a p l a n t h a t w i l l g e t u s c a r b o n n e u t r a l by 2 0 3 5 ” Ko t l i k o f f a d d e d t h a t t h e c a rb o n n e u t r a l i t y p l a n h a d a l s o re c e i ve d o p p o s i t i o n f ro m t h e

Un i ve r s i t y ’ s d e a n s

“But given the urgency to the planet of reaching this climate target, Cornell must demonstrate that we can do it.”

P r o f R o b e r t H o w a r t h

“ W h e n t h e g o a l w a s p re s e n t -

e d t o t h e d e a n s , v i r t u a l l y e ve r y d e a n i n t h e r o o m s a i d ‘ Wo n d e r f u l Te l l u s h ow we d o i t w i t h o u t d i s i n ve s t i n g i n a c a de m i c s a t C o r n e l l , ’ ” Ko t l i k o f f s a i d “ I t h i n k t h a t ’ s w h a t

Pre s i d e n t Ga r re t t a n d t h e l e a d -

e r s h i p o f t h e Un i ve r s i t y a re s a yi n g ” Pro f Ma r t i n Ha t c h , m u s i c ,

c o u n t e re d , s a y i n g t h e l a c k o f a

f i n a n c i a l p l a n w a s n o t a s u f f i -

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c o m m i t t o c a r b o n n e u t r a l i t y “ If t h e re ’ s u r g e n c y, i t s h o u l d

b e t o g e t t h a t f i n a n c i a l p l a n , a n d yo u s h o u l d b e p u t t i n g a l o t o f p e o p l e i n t h e f i n a n c e o f f i c e i n t o t h a t r a t h e r t h a n r a i s i n g m

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun com

Fraternities Vandalized After

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In the statement, police acknowledged that some of the other cases of graffiti could have occurred at an earlier date, but said “Each of the six cases is under criminal investigation ” The repor ts of graffiti came after police charged Ballinger, who turned himself in to the police Friday, with sexual assault when investigators identified him with the victim’s assistance Ballinger’s lawyer announced Saturday that he plans to plead not guilty to counts of first-degree attempted rape, first-degree criminal act and first-degree sexual abuse Ballinger was released at his own recognizance at a preliminar y hearing Tuesday morning He did not appear in cour t or present evidence at his hearing, and his case will proceed to the grand jur y

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun com

Trump, Sanders Win Big in N.H.

of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign

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suppor ters Tuesday night that his second-place finish could be an indication that “ we ’ re turning the page on a dark par t of American politics

t h e l i s t o f [ va l u e s c u l t i va t e d a t C o r n e l l ] , w o u l d n ' t t h e w o r l d b e b e t t e r f o r i t ? ” Fe e l y s a i d Pro f Da v i d Sh a l l ow a y, m o le c u l a r b i o l o g y a n d g e n e t i c s , s a i d d o i n g r e s e a r c h o n t h e p ro s p e c t s o f c a r b o n n e u t r a l i t y i s n o t e n o u g h “ We a re l e a v i n g t h e c o n s eq u e n c e s t o yo u r g e n e r a t i o

e ve r y d e l a y i n o u r re s p o n s e i s g o i n g t o c a u s e yo u t o s u f f e r a n d a s k i n g u s t o t a k e a c t i o n ” Bro o k s s a i d s h e b e l i e ve s s t ud e

“We are a strong community; we are revolutionary innovators; we are the leaders of tomorrow; we are Cornell ” K a y l a E l y s e B r o o k s ’ 1 5

Tr ump and Democrat Bernie Sanders rode a wave of voter fr ustration with American politics to commanding victories in Tuesday’s Ne w Hampshire primaries, adding cr ucial credibility to their upstar t candidacies Sanders swept majorities of m e n , w o m e

e n d e n t s and young people in his win over Hillar y Clinton, but faces challenges in the more diverse states that come next on the p

Tr

p , appealing to voters seeking a political outsider, could benefit from the persistent lack of clari t y

stream Republicans str uggling to challenge him “ We are going to do something so good and so fast and so strong and the world is going to respect us again, believe me, ” Tr ump said at a victor y rally O h i o G o

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e r w i t h t h e c u r r e n t p o l i t i c a l a n d e c o n o m i c s y s t e m Eve n i f n e i t h e r c a n d i d a t e u l t im a t e l y b e c o m e s h i s p a r t y ’ s n o m i n e e , w h o e v e r w i n s t h a t n o m i n a t i o n w i l l h a ve t o re c k o n w i t h t h e v o t e r f r u s t r a t i o n t h e y ’ ve t a p p e d i n t o C l i n t o n a p p e a re d t o re c o gn i ze t h a t re a l i t y i n h e r c o n c e ss i o n s p e e c h , e c h o i n g Sa n d e r s ’

c a l l s f o r t a k i n g o n Wa l l St re e t

b a n k s a n d t a c k l i n g i n c o m e i n e q u a l i t y Bu t s h e

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

Pursue Passion, Not Fame

DUFF Continued from page 3

To prepare for the class, Duff traveled to Burma last summer and visited half a dozen schools, where he noted the increased respect students showed teachers According to Duff, the education system needs to grow to allow students to pursue what they are good at and what they are passionate about Duff hopes that “ one day our society will catch up and put the resources and the salaries behind

teaching that it deser ves, ” he said

“If I had a goal, I guess I’d want students at Cornell and I’d want the public, more broadly, to see teaching and that work is incredibly challenging intellectua l l y, ” h e s a i d “ W h a t ’ s m o r e important than helping the next generation do better than we ’ re doing in caring for each other, in caring for the planet, in making the most of their talents, whatever they are?”

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at aeskenazi@cornellsun com

a b b e d s e c o n d i n Ne w Hampshire after pouring nearly all of his campaign resources into the state Jeb Bush and Ma r c o Ru b i o v i e d f o r t h i rd along with Ted Cr uz, the Iowa c a u c u s w i n n e r, e n s u r i n g a l l would press on to the next voting contest in South Carolina Sanders, at his own raucous rally, said his victor y sent a message “that will echo from Wa l l St r e e t t o Wa s h i n g t o n , from Maine to California And that is that the government of our great countr y belongs to all

“People have ever y right to be angr y But they’re also hungr y, they’re hungr y for solutions,” she said after congratulating Sanders on his win

Ne w Hampshire did little to c l a r i f y t h e c r o w d e d c o n t e s t among more mainstream GOP candidates fighting to emerge as a challenger to Tr ump and Texas Sen Cr uz Florida Sen R u b i o , f o r m e r Fl o r i d a G o v Bush and Cr uz battled for third behind Kasich

Throughout the heated prim a r y c a m p a i g n , K a s i c h h a s prided himself on not attacking h i s r i va l s A m o re m o d e r a t e

SCIENCE

C o r n e l l R e s e a r c h e r s E x p l a i n C r e a t i o n O f F i r s t S e l f - A s s e m b l i n g S u p e r

Interdiscplinary research leads to three-dimensional gyroidal superconducting structure

By KATHERINE QUINN

Staff Wr ter

An interdisciplinar y team of Cornell researchers in engineering, physics and chemistr y recently created the first selfassembling superconductor The news of this development came when Science Advances published the group ’ s research, describing their creation of the threedimensional gyroidal superconducting structure

The group, led by Spencer T Olin

Pr o f e s s o r o f E n g i n e e r i n g , U l r i c h Wiesner, engaged the expertise of several C o r n e l l f a c u l t y a n d r e s e a r c h e r s including Prof Sol Gruner and Prof Ja m e s Se t h n a , p h y s i c s , Pro f Fr a n c i s DiSalvo, chemistr y and chemical biology, Bruce van Dover, chair of the materials science and engineering department and graduate students Spencer Robbins and Peter Beaucage All are co-authors to the study

“ We had the perfect storm of collaborators, ” Beaucage said

T h e i n t e g r a t i v e a p p r o a c h t o t h e research was particularly important in the study of this electronic material because it implements the self-assembling nature of organic block copolymers in the traditionally inorganic realm of superconductor nanostructures

Speaking about the interdisciplinar y e s s e n t i a l c o l l a b o r a t i ve n a t u re o f t h i s development, Wiesner said that “it stimulates the imagination because it brings two areas together that typically don’t overlap ”

“For me it’s so fulfilling because I’ve been thinking about it for such a long time, almost 20 years, ” Wiesner said “ The feedback’s been really, really good because it’s a little out of the box ”

Su p e r c o n d u c t o r s r e g u l a r l y a t t r a c t great interest and research due to their vast potential as near self-sufficient nondissipative conduc materials allow for t of electrons with ve no resistance and dissipation of energ

t o h e S u p e r c o n d u c t i n wires in a magnetic field can dismiss

t h e n e e d f o r a constant current supply and their

t e c h n o l o g y i s u s e d i n M a g n e t i c R e s o n a n c e I m a g i n g ( M R I )

s c a n n e r s a n d fusion reactors

T h e m a i n d r a back to supercondu technology is the ne of operating at ver y p e r a t u r e s a n d u n superconducting w temperatures much higher than absolute zero Thus, a large portion of superconductor research focuses on var ying the nanostructuring and materials involved to explore the potential for improved macroscale conducting properties

“ We want to understand the materials and their properties better as we give them different structures What happens when you start to nanostructure these materials on periodic lattices?”

Wiesner said

Wiesner first considered this idea of organic materials in three-dimensional gyroidal structures almost two decades ago, before he began working at Cornell in 1999 The porous gyroidal structure is understood as a complex cubic formation of spirals of superconducting material with 10nm sized pores dispersed throughout Gruner advanced the con-

cept to the use of gyroidal structures in superconductors but the team encountered a challenge in figuring out how to synthesize the structure

After unsuccessful experimentation with other superconducting materials, Wiesner consulted Sethna as to what material could exhibit superconducting properties in this structure Sethna, who was writing a paper on superconductors at the time, recommended Niobium Ni t r i d e , a n

Niobium Oxide While ammonia flowed over the oxide to convert it to Niobium Nitride, the sample was heated in air at 450 degrees Celsius This heating step removed one of the two solvent-induced

y evaporation

“ You can think of it like oil and water: you take chemistries that don’t m i x , ” B

i s ] a l l ow s additives like nanoparticles to mix with only one of the block polymers ”

T h e s u b s e q u e n t h e a t t r e a t m e n t

required more experimentation to find a balance between preser ving structure by reducing processing temperatures and improving material properties by raising processing temperatures When Robbins first heated the sample to 700 degrees then cooled to room temperature it did not exhibit superconducting properties He then heated the same sample to 850 degrees in a second wash Upon cooling, t h i s s a m p l e s h owe d s u p e rc o n d u c t i n g properties When heating the sample directly to 850 degrees in a single nitrid-

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compound that Wiesner’s group was coincidentally working with The process involved the use of a

u n s u c c e s s f u l , t h e ed that the sample h e a t e d t w i c e , a n c t e d re q u i re m e n t the group cannot plain

T h e u s e o f organic materials

a n d p o l y m e r self-assembly in s y n t h e s i s i s a r e v o l u t i o n a r y

copolymer self-assembly in superconductor formation allows for precise tunability of morphology, dimensionality a

Professor Wiesner calls this the “bottomup ” approach to superconductor formation

“[ The] information about final structure is encoded into primar y sequence of polymers,” he explained

The research related to the creation of t h

momentous in light of the lack of studies into the effects of mesostr ucture on

innovative implementation of organic materials is some of the first research into the area of organic material use in superconducting and composite structures

This advancement opens many pathways for future research and collaboration between the inorganic superconductor and organic polymer fields and their scientific communities The group plans to investigate the superconducting properties of this structure to determine the potential for elevated superconducting temperatures, conduction under different applied magnetic field conditions, o r i m p r

y T h

s specific structure prompts further lines of research such as inquir y into the double-heating requirement and the potential to increase conduction at large interfacial areas by filling the pores with a second material to make a composite superconductor

The exciting potential of this development has been well-received by scientific communities and public audiences alike

“ We’ve been working on this for such a long time and think it’s so cool, and it’s really interesting to hear ever yone else say [that] it’s such a neat idea,” Beaucage said

The researchers are excited by the public’s enthusiastic response and are receiving increasing attention from the media, other scientists and researchers looking to collaborate, and even young kids sending in questions about the discover y

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Drake is back and “looking for revenge ” “Summer Sixteen,” the leading single off of his upcoming album Views from the 6, premiered on Jan 30th on his OVO Sound radio show on Apple’s Beats 1Radio If Drake was looking to ruffle some feathers before the drop of his new album, he certainly did From insulting President Obama in retaliation for calling Kendrick Lamar the better rapper to his multiple shots at rival rapper Meek Mill, with whom he has a highly publicized feud about ghost writing Drake is back As a Drake fan, I wasn ’ t disappointed Lacking the R&B-like vibe of some of his older tracks, “Summer Sixteen” comes across as a fast paced, aggressive anthem The musical composition of the song itself is minimalistic, and despite its rhythmic changes throughout, it is easier for the listener to focus on and enjoy the lyrics After listening to “Summer Sixteen,” I am impatiently waiting for Drake to drop Views from the 6

ISo far Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, the duo that comprises the EDM group The Chainsmokers, are the masters of creating yearly hits In 2014, it was the group ’ s song “#Selfie” that garnered them recognition Last year, “Roses” was warbled on dance floors and blasted in cars everywhere It was a song that bonded people with diverse musical inclinations all through summer ending, the leaves changing and our waiting for the snow that never came Perhaps “Don’t Let Me Down” is The Chainsmokers’ triumphant 2016 single The single features the indelible vocals of 17-year-old Daya of “Hide Away ” The lyrics “I need you, I need you, I need you right now/So don’t let me, don’t let me, don’t let me down” are more than a little repeitive But the simplistic pop lyrics are offset by the alchemy of music genres evoked in the song As Daya sings, horns, percussions and claps lead the song away from typical pop categorization and into the relam of trap music “Don’t Let Me Down” is a tranquilizer for your ears a song you can unwind to at the end of the day or dance to as the sun rises With its release is the realization that while people in general may let you down, The Chainsmokers continues not to

n ever y music-happy kid’s upbringing there’s a parent who they learned about music from You know the one you inherited your weird decade taste-quirks, vinyl or (in my case) illegally-downloaded C D collection and general music-related perspectives from You spent car rides exploring albums together, they shed tears of joy when you got really into their favorite old crooner and you showed them how to use Spotify (which they either never really took to, or began furiously tr ying to r uin your reputation as a Person with Pretty Cool taste by jacking your account and playing solely the Bee Gees and Mariah Carey)

gy and conversation unlearning ever ything my Dad ever taught me about music

See, my dad (because he is an English teacher in his 50’s) listens to music like an English teacher in his 50’s listens to music: academically, with tried-and-tr ue and yet totally arbitrar y ideas about what is quality and interesting and desirable in music, and what is not: what music is good and what is “predigested fast food mush” or any str ung-together phrase of the words “ sugar y ” “ c o o k

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that good music is complicated and challenging; and the corollar y, that one should be skeptical of music that is simple and easy to like

But at some point, I realized that I’d grown up tr ying to listen to music like a 50-year-old English teacher, instead of allowing myself to listen to music like a teenage me There’s nothing wrong with how my dad listens to music; he loves and engages with music in a way that brings him a lot of pleasure But in learning about music through his lens, my own subject-position to music; my reactions and gratifications and sweet spots became muted, fuzzy and hard to identify

For me (and probably for most of you, although that’s another column), it was my Dad My dad had a tremendous and hazardous impact, not just on my music taste, but on the way that I thought about music in general Just like he taught me how to walk, parallel park, make stirfr y and fill out a W-2 form from him I picked up the whole business of consuming, savoring, rejecting, adoring, debating, paying attention to and loving music I was, I think, under the impression that my Dad knew just about ever ything about music I imagined him as having intimately experienced the musical 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, accumulating unknowable depths of music wisdom and opinions along the way All music-related queries were referred to him He was my Lester Bangs, my Pitchfork and my Grammy’s: all rolled into one ver y short English teacher

Unfor tunately, the thing about listening and relating to music is that it is more like making stir-fr y than driving a car: ever yone does it differently and there are no r ules I suppose I never consciously considered what r ules I might have been following, as I began to pursue music: which kinds of music I sought out and allowed myself to enjoy, and which kinds I ignored or dismissed But, what is the subconscious but a nasty place where creepy and precarious shit goes down, that, in your 20’s (or 70’s) you realize profoundly affected your entire consciousness, and which you hate yourself for Because of this subconscious mess, I have spent a lot of time, ener-

s ” He thinks in hierarchies, echelons, pecking orders, rankings, superlatives, ceilings and whole-hear tedly in genre He finds “complexity” and the quality of being “difficult to like” to be unduly valuable in music I have a lot of memories of him sermonizing this Tom Waits or Eddie Vedder or Nick Cave album, p r a i s

n g i n g , ” “ c o m p l e x , ” “nuanced” and “intellectual ” Mu s i c h e f i n d s g o o d i s deemed “world class,” music he doesn’t is “intolerable, and that which he likes, but cannot justify by its superiority to other music, like (inexplicably) Br uno Mars is “just totally fun ” “Bob Dylan made five good albums and the rest was mediocre,” “ x or y is one of the greatest blues album of all time,” “jazz and classical just have a higher ceiling than rock, which has a higher ceiling than rap and pop, ” and this song is per fectly fine but it’s just “candy ” He speaks this way about music: loudly, frequently and with a reckless cer tainty that makes whatever he’s saying sound suspiciously like the tr uth

I guess what I’m saying is that my Dad is an establishment music snob An old, happy music snob so comfor table and confident and self-righteous in his snobber y, that, as a burgeoning music-lover, I mistook his for the ideal subject-position to music His mythologies of complexity, unlikeability, realness, challengingness; and his denigrating “comfor t-food” constr uction of popular music were ones I gre w up on, and internalized “Some, like “ rap is bad” (the more glaring products of generational difference) were easier to discard than other, more subtle implications of his jargon and attitudes: like

A O Scott says, “ We all like different things Each of us is blessed with a snowflake-special consciousness, an apparatus of pleasure and perception that is all our own ” I take him at his word I want to worship, not the specters of quality or complexity, but my own apparatus of pleasure and perception; my own weird, changing, neurotic, young female subjectivities without one ounce of guilt or hesitation or the need to justify what it washes up I like the sound of women singing sincerely and vulnerably Leonard Cohen can make me cr y, and so can

Taylor Swift So can Girlpool and god damn it, so can My Chemical Romance I think Avril Lavigne’s Under My Skin is a stunningly candid por trait of human pain

The Avett Brothers, Carly Rae Jepsen and A zealia Banks all make make me want to get on a table and dance

Almost ever ything Radiohead has ever made bores me and it’s not because I don’t get it

At least in the spaces I travel, we are having these conversations more and more; about rejecting hierarchies of taste, and the machine of pop-shaming pretension

However, a musically-passionate parent might be an unlikely source of ill-fitting ideas and pretenses about music a set of r ules you’d been following so long, you mistook them for your own

So, I’m going to have a lifetime of inconclusive and fr ustrating arguments with my Dad and those who think like him That’s okay Just as long as the case I’m making is mine

Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences

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Letter to the Editor

College of Business: where is ILR?

Re: “Provost Kotlikoff: College of Business Aims to Unite Fractured Programs,” News, Feb 2

To th e Edi to r:

As news of the recently proposed College of Business gains further traction, Cornell students, faculty and staff now more than ever are faced with the realization that consolidation outweighs individual identity As students from the Dyson School and the School of Hotel Administration form and publicly state their opinions on the newly-approved College of Business, a group is being left out of the conversation: students from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations

As ILR students, we are taught that our curriculum is based on the idea of “advancing the world of work” by addressing various perspectives such as human resources, organizational behavior, and labor economics We are taught that we can have a profound impact in fields such as law, finance and consulting We are taught that we are an integral part of business education at Cornell

As students ponder the decision to matriculate to the ILR Class of 2020, developing the narrative for future applicants to attend ILR will become increasingly difficult A multitude of students are originally attracted to the ILR undergraduate curriculum because of the flexibility and opportunities provided in a vast array of fields With a designated College of Business, we expect many potential students will be redirected to the programs in the Dyson School and the School of Hotel Administration Will the ILR program simply devolve into a social sciences school funneling students into human resources and law school therefore losing the essence of “ one major, endless possibilities”?

As the decision progresses forward, we must collectively recognize that the isolation of the ILR School forces it into conversations that it no longer belongs in The business world is evolving, and to the credit of the ILR School, not only has it remained at the forefront of the study of employer/employee relations, it has also endured to produce some of Cornell’s most successful business students despite the growing presence of AEM and Hotel Amid all of this, employers attached to “business”-oriented firms have come to embrace students in ILR for their fresh perspectives offered, a perspective cultivated from the ground-up where initial exposure to courses such as organizational behavior develop a foundation for what it takes to be an agent of change in the workplace

With the recent approval of the Cornell College of Business, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations is once again left out of the conversation As approximately 30 percent of ILR students hope to pursue careers in consulting or financial services, one must think how the purposeful exclusion of ILR in the College of Business will impact the value of our degree and, more importantly, our admission application figures This piece is not a call to redact the decision, but rather a call for our key decision-makers to look in the mirror and ask themselves the critical questions needed before altering the landscape of Cornell and, specifically, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations with the introduction of the College of Business We pose the question to the dean, administration, and faculty about the future direction of the ILR School: what does this purposeful exclusion actually mean for the worth of our education?

Ju liana Ba tist a ’ 16, inco mi ng Schw ar zma n Scho lar c oncent rat ing in econo mi cs & bu siness

Zac har y Benfant i ’ 16, inco mi ng grow th equi ty analyst a t Str ipes Gr ou p Kend all Gra nt ’ 16, inco min g pri vate client associ ate, Ber nstei n Global Wealt h Managem ent Catheri ne McAnn ey ’ 16, i ncom ing i nvestm ent ba nki ng analyst a t J P Mor gan

When CAPS Gave Me Medication I Didn’t Need

Ididn’tplan to spend finals week in the mental ward of Cayuga Medical Center

Was it traumatic? That would be an understatement

Was it worth it? Yes

How was it worth it? I found out I was misdiagnosed with a mental illness I did not have and was given sedatives and mood stabilizers from Cornell’s Counseling and Psychological Services that I didn’t need I came to Cornell from a university that had a traumatic experience with gun violence many years ago As a result, there were many taboos and stipulations at my former university on talking about mental illness At my previous university, people didn’t necessarily want to help you out of love, but out of fear that you would take their life a recurring theme in debates on gun violence I remember once having an administrator insist on holding my hand, as if I were a child, to go to the counseling office I am not here to speak about gun violence, but rather my experience with mental health at Cornell and to shed light into how the field of mental health needs an overhaul

Similar to Cornell, the ebb and flow of students having emotional and mental turmoil considerably outpaced the supply of counselors and psychiatrists at my previous university Appointments were hardly guaranteed, the wait list was long and unless there was something seriously wrong, you had to

grateful

In my therapy group I felt like a stranger I was never hospitalized, I never had tried a list of medications and I never experienced psychosis Although I enjoyed the safe space of sharing my insecurities in graduate school, I was encouraged by my peers to accept “bipolar is different for everyone ” My reality could be different from theirs, but we were all “bipolar” in solidarity

“Anyone with a mental illness feels helpless at times ”

“You have to be patient with the meds ”

“Try harder to change your lifestyle, don’t drink, don’t stay up too late, make sure to take your meds, eat better, etc ”

No one thought I was misdiagnosed or needed to be tested I was bipolar, and that was that I believed CAPS, for they were professionals, and I take credit for that being partially my mistake However, I find there must be some malpractice going on, not only for me, when students are shoved pills they don’t need

I shouldn’t have been given any medication at all In essence, if you hear about people taking anti-depressants who don’t need them and get more depressed on them that was me

wait After snagging a few spots with a counselor, I was told I might have a bipolar disorder, depression, some personality disorder traits or just senior year angst and that I should see a specialist Time went by, I stopped going and soon after, I came to Cornell

In contrast to my former university where one would have to lobby for medication, Cornell gave me medication my first visit I didn’t need to send medical records from my old university all I said was “ a counselor once told me ‘I might be bipolar ’” In a day, I was given Seroquel and lithium, a psychiatrist and a therapy group

For those of you not familiar with the various flavors of mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics or antidepressants, like any medication, they can have side effects However, it’s hard to tell if they are effective or not because they are affecting your brain You can tell after taking medication for acne if your face clears up, for your throat if the mucus starts to drain, but with mental illness medication it is a waiting game Often I heard things like “ you have to reach the right level before they work be patient” or “the side effects wear off ”

I started to slip in classes, I couldn’t remember, I couldn’t concentrate and, in essence, I developed a learning disorder Why were my scores so low compared to others? My insecurities started to build I was told I needed this medication, but the ramifications on my academics were horrendous

My cohort was worried My best friend told me “I had no more feelings,” for she observed when I would struggle to have any expression besides a straight line I was going through the motions like a vegetable, but CAPS told me that it was necessary, because I had a mental illness

When I discussed my reluctance to take these medications after how they were affecting my personal life, I was asked, “Do you think men will like you when you ’ re not on these?” I felt helpless, trapped and accepted I was weak I was projected the reality of a mental illness I was getting more “help” than my previous university so I tried to be

So what happened? I stopped taking the medication and soon after found myself in the Behavioral Unit I felt sad, discouraged my grades were so poor and that I couldn’t concentrate My exams were soon and I told a friend I called CAPS asking them about what to do My friend called CAPS and told them I was a danger to myself again, I was trapped Soon I was dropped off at Cayuga Medical Center where I would spend the next few days trapped and disconnected from humanity besides a small window of three hours of visitation Thank god for my friends

At the unit, we were told to eat at certain times We had to ask to get a puzzle from the cupboard There were no locks on the doors and every 15 minutes someone checked up on you to make sure you were still around Everything is round and soft and the windows are plexi glass People listened while you used the restroom sometimes There, I met middle-aged men struggling with addiction I met just turned 18 year old children from broken homes I met fellow Cornellians trapped in abusive relationships seeking a safe haven I met one Cornellian from China who had no idea why she was there I cried a lot, I prayed a lot and I ended up coloring a lot

While there I missed my final exams But also while I was there I found out I actually had no mental illness I shouldn’t have been given any medication at all In essence, if you hear about people taking anti-depressants who don’t need them and get more depressed on them that was me

Mental illness has a stigma where people wish to overmedicate rather than undermedicate I know my story is not unique to CAPS I do not wish to discourage anyone from using their services, but please get a second opinion they are understaffed and (I hypothesize due to historical and legal issues) pressured to medicate I now have an unnecessary hospital bill to pay, exams to take and explanations to give for my grades

I ask my friends to generously be patient with me as I swing back into this semester from last and to relearn who I am for they met a false medicated version This semester is going well only because at the mental ward they realized I did not need to be medicated If I had continued going to CAPS, I don’t know where I would be now

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Comm en t of the day

“It is no wonder why rape cases in universities are underreported Let’s start being a little concerned about the victims here If we are being real, look into what percentage of false accusations of rape is and then tell me if this victim should have to run into perpetrator on campus ”

Janice

Re: “Ballinger '17 Released on Own Recognizance at Preliminar y Hearing,” News Februar y 9, 2016

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Iv i e s h e l d m o re t h a n i t s n o r m a l l e ve l o f s i g n i f i c a n c e ; t h e ro u n d ro b i n w a s t h e f i r s t i n v i t a t i o n a l h e l d a t C o r n e l l i n n i n e ye a r s “ It w a s s o s u r re a l , ” Ga n g e m i s a i d o f c o m p e t i n g a t a h o m e t o u rn a m e n t f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e i n h e r C o r n e l l c a re e r “ I d e f i n i t e l y c h a nn e l e d t h e e n e r g y o f t h e c rowd a n d a l l t h e s u p p o r t e r s t o m o t i va t e m e t o d o we l l ” Up n e x t f o r G a n g e m i a n d C o r n e l l i s t h e P h i l a d e l p h i a In v i t a t i o n a l w h i c h w a s o r i g i n a l l y s c h e d u l e d f o r e a r l i e r i n t h e s e m e st e r b u t w a s p o s t p o n e d d u e t o s n ow Re g i o n a l s a n d t h e n Na t i o n a l s o c c u r i n Ma rc h

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Three Fencers Earn All-Ivy Nods

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Three weeks before the biggest match of her season, senior Angelica Gangemi felt a searing pain in her shin With the Ivy League Championship fast approaching, Gangemi kne w she had to either be healthy or play through the pain

“I asked [my trainer] what we can do to make sure that I can compete, ” Gangemi said “Basically I’ve been in a boot whenever I’m not fencing, just doing rehab to tr y to strengthen it ”

D e s p i t e t h e p re v e n t a t i v e measures, Gangemi was still experiencing some pain as the tournament began Not only w a s s h e b a t t l i n g t h e t o p fencers from some of the best fencing teams in the countr y, she was also battling shin splints

in Cornell fencing histor y to earn the distinction three times

“ The fact that three of us could be All-Ivy at once, made it 10 times as special,” Gangemi said

As a team, the Red took fifth place, defeating Yale and Brown while losing to Penn, Princeton, Columbia and Har vard, the latter three of which all tied for first place in the tournament

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Bulldogs and the Bears was “ no walk in the park ” “ We did challenge Penn in a major way, but were not as

“I didn’t think about being injured. To me, I wasn’t injured I was just a normal competitor doing my thing ”

“I tried not to think about it,” Gangemi said “My gameplan was to be focused completely on the opponent in front of me and even if I got down to just now worr y about it and just always stay in the bout and strive to get the next touch That was my approach, I didn’t think about being injured To me, I wasn ’ t injured, I was just a normal competitor doing my thing ”

And it worked Gangemi finished in four th in foil, the highest finish among all Cornell fencers

She joined junior Victoria Wines and sophomore Gabriella Zusin on the All-Ivy second team, marking the first time in program histor y that multiple fencers earned All-Ivy honors

Zusin placed fifth in foil, right behind Gangemi Wines’ fifth place finish in epee was enough to give her a third All-Ivy nod She became only the second player

Dolgikh said “I would like to note that against each opposing school, our entire team came out fighting in all of our bouts; we took some amazing

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Regionals and Nationals, Gangemi stressed the Red’s cohesion as a major reason for the team ’ s success While fencers compete individually, she noted that teamwork is still of the utmost impor tance to any squad’s success

“If I’m not training with teammates who are pushing me to do better then I’m not going to do better We’re all just going to be in this stagnant pool,” Gangemi said “ We push each other to work harder in practice and that’s how we get better as a team ”

As the captain of the squad, Gangemi said one of her responsibilities is to foster a collaborative atmosphere surrounding the team

Winkler Breaks School Javelin Record; Track Teams Place in Top 3

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Contributor

Hard work, motivation and increasing momentum continue to drive the men ’ s and women ’ s track and field teams to success in the early stages of their seasons This past weekend saw both squads hold their own against stiff competition in State College, PA at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup

The men finished third in a sevenschool field behind host Penn State and UConn Overall, it was another successful showing by the Red with 17 IC4A qualifiers, and junior Rudy Winkler receiving “Athlete of the Meet” honors

Winkler won the 35-pound weight throw with a heave of just under 75 feet, easily breaking the Cornell record and solidifying his ranking of No 2 in the nation

“Rudy’s per formance was amazing,” head coach Adrian Durant said “His throws looked as if they were floating in the air and would never come down ”

Winkler described his own performance as “surprising ”

“Earlier in the week, I was not throwing all that well,” Winkler said “But on that day I just felt really good and finally got everything together Being recognized as the Athlete of the Meet is a huge honor ”

On the track, senior Max Hairston narrowly missed first place and took second in the 60-meter hurdles Sophomore Brailin Paulino finished fifth in the 60-meter dash, and junior Mark Tedder ran the mile in 4:03 47, good enough for second place and sixth all time in Cornell history

In the 5K, senior Zack Israel and sophomore Sam Chauvin both set personal bests and finished in third and fourth, respectively

The Cornell women did especially well, as they finished second with 122 points, trailing only Penn State and ahead of several strong contingents, including Ivy League rival, Princeton Fueled by the runners, the Red won two events, took home five runner-ups, and earned points in 25 different events over the course of the two day meet

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Bowman said he was pleased with his team ’ s performance

“They were fantastic,” Bowman said “We had a number of athletes step up again and do some great things ”

Last week, the coach emphasized the importance of momentum to his team ’ s mentality and success and knows the latest strong showing will do nothing but help keep it going

“We really don’t want to break this

momentum, ” Bowman said “Each week has been a continuation of the last, and that’s ideal ”

The women got off to a great start on Friday night with a win in the distance medley relay, anchored by sophomore Jackie Katzman who overcame a three-second deficit to propel the Red to the victory Saturday featured more success on the track Senior Kristen Niedrach won the mile in under 4:53, and teammate and cocaptain Caroline Kellner finished in third less than two seconds behind her teammate In the 200-meter, the Red took second, third and seventh and senior co-captain Udeme Akpaete took second place in the 400-meter

“Right now we ’ ve got different groups s t e p p i n g u p a n d d o i n g g re a t t h i n g s , ” Bowman said about his team ’ s performance “Hopefully in a few weeks it will all come together ” With Indoor Ivy League Championships approaching at the end of the month, Bowman and the rest of the team are excited for everything to click all at once, and they know they will need it to in order to capture a championship

Both the men and women will compete this weekend in Staten Island, N Y on Friday and back home in Barton Hall on Sunday, looking to build on recent weeks as the Ivy Championships begin to loom

“This is [the] final push to get sharp and to prepare to battle it out for the Ivy

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