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Faculty Say Bylaws Forbid Admins to ‘Circumvent’ Senate

Challenge Provost Kotlikoff on faculty’s involvement in business college creation

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Faculty members asserted that the administration disregarded University bylaws by creating the College of Business without faculty input in a Faculty Senate meeting with Provot Michael Kotlikoff Wednesday

Prof Richard Bensel, government, said that the creation of the business college was in violation of Article XIII of the University’s bylaws

The bylaws state, “The function of the University Faculty shall be to consider questions of educational policy which concern more than one college, school or separate academic

unit, or are general in nature ”

Bensel said that under these bylaws, the president and provost cannot “circumvent the Faculty Senate ”

“Cornell Bylaws do not say that the President and the Provost may circumvent consultation with the Faculty Senate by talking to individuals,” Bensel said in a meeting with the Sun following the senate meeting “The bylaws also do not say that the president and the provost may avoid consultation with the Faculty Senate by creating hand-picked committees The bylaws also do not say that the president and the provost may substitute confidential discussions with the University Faculty Committee or the Dean of the Faculty for consultation with the Faculty Senate ”

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

Provost Michael Kotlikoff addressed Bensel’s concerns at the meeting, saying that there was “ no intention to avoid the Faculty Senate,” and that the reason for constraint in discussing the new school was due to a concern for donors and alumni

Kotlikoff added that he “ went to individual faculty immediately after the announcement [of the business college] ”

Prof Eric Cheyfitz, English, agreeing with Benzel, spelled out how he believed the central administration had bypassed the bylaws

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An increase in revenue from Slope Day ticket sales over the past five years has given the Slope Day Planning Board more options in their artist selection process This year, Walk the Moon and Cash Cash will headline the concert on May 12

Slope Day Budget Analysis

Over the past five years, funds that the SDPB receives from the Studet Assembly has remained relatively consistent However, ticket revenue has increased by almost $30,000 since 2011, according to a SDPB report obtained by The Sun 18,250 attendees were recorded at the 2012 Slope Day event, headlined by Taio Cruz, while attendance dipped to 17,700 the following year and has been slightly decreasing since then, according to the report Even so, the concert of 2013, which featured hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, generated the highest revenue in ticket sales at $119,562 50

Over the past five years, total expenses for the event have seen a net increase of more than $60,000 to $386,271 77 in 2015 The least expensive Slope Day was with Kendrick Lamar in 2013

Attendance at Slope Day headline performances has increased since the founding of the Slope Day Programming Board in 2003, but has dipped slightly since a 2012 peak

Man Arrested for Attempted Laptop Theft

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

According to one witness, he was seen carr ying a knife Po

n from the tower approximately 20 minutes later and he was referred to Ithaca City Cour t, according to the crime log

Greater Ithaca Activities Center She is also the first woman of color to be elected to her execu-

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun com

Artist Selection Process

After input from two Executive Board members, Samantha Batt ’16 and Chloe Chan ’16, the Board decided to hold a forum for the general student body, so that students could “voice their opinions regarding artists and to learn about the restric-

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C.U.Political Groups React to N.H. Primaries

By EMILY FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

While student leaders in Cornell Democrats and Cornell Republicans said they were unsurprised by the results of the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday, the parties agreed that the outcomes reveal “drastic changes to the electorate ”

Donald Trump won 35 1 percent of votes, earning 10 delegates, while Gov John Kasich (R-Ohio) won three and Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Gov Jeb Bush (R-Fla ) took h S B i S d (D V ) h D i

primary with 60 percent of the votes, earning 13 delegates, while Hillary Clinton earned 38 4 percent of the vote, picking up nine delegates

Fernando Quiroz ’16, president of the Cornell Political Union, said he was not expecting the shift in the types of the candidates that voters preferred in this election

“Unlike before, the two outsider and anti-establishment candidates, Trump and Sanders, won New Hampshire by a clear margin,” Quiroz said “In my opinion, this lack of support for ‘establishment’ candidates suggests that the A i l i l di b h D d

Republicans alike, are sick and tired of the standard Washington politics ”

On the other hand, Nathaniel Jara ’16, vice president of the Cornell Democrats, said that he was “glad to see such a healthy, competitive, issues-based race ”

“Hillary Clinton and Bernie are two outstanding candidates and the Cornell Democrats will be proud to work to elect whoever the party chooses to represent us in the general election,” Jara said “I don’t think I can say the same for our friends on the other side The vulgar, disgusting attacks their leading candidates have thrown at each other speaks greatly about the state of the party and its tolerance for rational, experienced candidates ”

Jake Zhu ’18, first vice chair of the Cornell Republicans, said that Sanders’ and Trump’s win in New Hampshire were expected, but he expressed dissatisfaction with both the Democratic and the Republican winner

“The implications are horrendous because our country is being overtaken by an absurd, populist wave that throws away all logic and rationale in favor of fallacious economic idealism,” Zhu said “Wall Street doesn’t give any money to Trump and Bernie because it understands that these two candidates do not have the best economic interests of the country at heart ”

Jara said that he felt Donald Trump’s win “legitimize[s] Donald Trump’s role as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination ”

However, Trump’s win is dangerous, because the candidate “wins votes by appealing to hate and vile personal attacks,” according to William Bristow ’16, president of the Cornell Democrats

“Although New Hampshire was supposed to bring the Republican primary race back to reality, apparently it did not, ” Bristow said “Trump's rhetoric is not only divisive; it is dangerous as well I hope Republican voters will eventually choose reason over reaction ”

Prof Explores Shifting Sides of U.S. Foreign Policy

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

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OpenLoop Project Team Designs New Pods for High Speed Travel

By JONATHAN LEVENFELD Sun Staff Writer

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re a l i t y advanced with 30 other teams past a preliminar y round of a competition at Texas A&M last weekend

In 2013, Elon Musk, founder o f Te s l a Mo t o r s a n d Sp a c e X rolled out his vision for high-

speed travel, called Hyperloop, in which people and goods would be transported in pods that move through low-pressure tubes

T h i s p a s t s u m m e r, Mu s k announced a student competition to build half-scale versions of the pods, which will be tested and raced this summer on a one mile track constructed by SpaceX in California Within hours of the announcement, Nick Parker ’18 formed a Cornell team Given the competition’s press-

ing timeline, it was a nearing the impossible task for just one group at Cornell to prepare for, according to Parker

The team now consists of 85 m e m b e r s f r o m s i x s c h o o l s : Cornell, Har vey Mudd College, Me m o r i a l Un i v e r s i t y o f Ne w f o u n d l

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primar y focus on building the fastest pod Openloop has more

Parker and Business Lead Julian Moraes ’18 “ We want to make the technology work,” said Moraes “ We are tr ying to lay out a model that Hyperloop technology can actually construct –– a model that

they can follow and use to figure out how to scale this technology and really profit from it ” “[Other teams are] really emphasizing going as fast as possible, they’re building very lightweight aerodynamic pods,” Moraes said “The real endgoal is to transport heavy cargo and lots of people, so we want to figure out how we can do that efficiently ” To read the rest of the story please visit www cornellsun com

Faculty Decry New College Formation

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“‘Resolution on Shared Governance in Matters of Educational Policy as Required by Article XIII, Section 2, of the Bylaws of Cornell University,’ which the Faculty Senate passed last spring has effectively been ignored by the administration,” Cheyfitz said “The president and the provost did not bring their plan for a College of Business to the senate for discussion before they and the trustees made the decision to create and fund the new college ”

According to Cheyfitz, both the administration and the Board of Trustees ignored the Faculty Senate when making this policy, by disregarding the senate ’ s recommendation to table the vote on the new college

The trustees denied the senate ’ s request to approve a unanimous resolution they passed on Dec 12, “asking the trustees to table approval of the new College until the senate had time to perform its duty to discuss the effects of the creation of the College of Business on the educational policy of Cornell,” Cheyfitz said Prof Risa L Lieberwitz, labor law and employment, stressed the importance of shared governance in central administration

“To consider [educational policy], there needs to be a deliberative process by which the [faculty] senate can consider the academic ramifications,” she said

Lieber witz also criticized Cornell’s definition of “educational policy” for being too narrow

According to a memorandum written by James Mingle, University counsel and secretary of the corporation, on Jan 15, “the faculty of a CCB [Cornell College of Business] is responsible for matters of educational policy within the college ”

The memorandum also states that “the Board of Trustees is solely responsible for the establ i s h m e n t o f a C C B , w h i c h e n t a i l s a b y l a w s a m e n d m e n t adding the college to the list of m a j o r a c a d e m i c u n i t s o f

h e University ”

Lieber witz described the memorandum as “overly narrow ” and “ very disingenuous” and said saying it “emphasize[d] the trustees ’ ability to make the final decision ”

Faculty involvement in educational policy should take precedent over the issues noted in Mingle’s memorandum, according to Lieberwitz

“It’s a problem because the tradition of shared governance is something that is very special in universities, and to have meaningful shared governance we need to be active participants in issues that affect the University,” Lieberwitz said

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Letter to the Editor

Shared governance is a sham

To the Editor:

Is the broader Cornell community seriously surprised by the decision of the trustees, including elected representative trustees and President Elizabeth Garrett, to approve the new Cornell College of Business and completely ignore Cornell’s representative assemblies? This decision has ample precedent at Cornell in the failed attempt of the provost in summer 2002 to dismantle an entire college without consulting faculty More importantly, though, our campus needs to actually engage in dissent outside of shared governance bodies lacking actual impact on university decision-making: It is time to feeling ashamed of dissenting in ways that circumvent “the usual channels ”

After approving the new college at a meeting in New York City over 200 miles away from the campus which these decisions would actually impact President Garrett emailed to say that the vote “marks the beginning of an inclusive and crucial process ” to “ more fully define” the new college’s structure Given the usual administrative lag for anything at Cornell, it seems likely that the true “beginning” of this process was months ago President Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff still aren ’ t concerned with our collective disapproval of this undemocratic process; rather, they simply wanted to rush their questionable agenda through to approval Cornell’s corporate autocrats can point to shared governance when convenient, but their record demonstrates their actual disdain for it Similar to the imposition of the student health fee last year without the advice and consent of students, this latest and greatest administrative blunder lays bare “shared governance ” at Cornell as a disappointing lie

Even if one rejects the health fee analogy, the direct precedent for the Board’s decision was an administrative initiative to dissolve the College of Architecture, Art and Planning during the 2002 summer recess Two years earlier, the administration had also not consulted faculty governance in recommending the creation of eCornell as a for-profit “online learning subsidiary ” In 2007 the Faculty Senate’s Committee to Review Faculty Governance published a final report that expressed the general sense of faculty, based on two years of investigations: “The Administration and Board of Trustees have not consistently consulted in a timely and adequate manner with the University Faculty and Faculty Senate on important issues ” You don’t say!

Any Cornell affiliate should fume at this publicly available report detailing the administration’s flippant attitude toward “shared governance ” back in 2007! The administration’s record demonstrates that going through the “ proper channels” of shared governance will not save “ a strong and independent” School of Hotel Administration, as Chuck Feeney and other donors wish to preserve Given that departments must now spend restricted donor funds for basic operating expenses, the administration does not actually care about Mr Feeney’s money, either However, the worst Cornellian misconception is still that if they just ask really nicely pass a resolution in one of the assemblies or form yet another committee then some day, the administration will deem them worthy enough to join the true ranks of decisionmaking

The cruel reality of the University’s need to profit from our labor and tuition must crush our wildest dreams that Cornell executives are anything other than enforcers of that profit motive “Non-profit” in name only, Cornell enriches the lives of construction firms, Wall Street bankers and university execs Students pick up the tab with the family savings account, earnings from summer jobs, and a lifetime of debt bondage Union workers have the “privilege” of providing excellent customer service, while their new, part-time colleagues are brought on at precariously low wages And even under the protection of tenure, most faculty on this campus remain immersed in “the proper channels,” passively transforming Cornell into its own “rubble heap of progress ” Alex Brown gr ad

here are plenty of pressing issues at hand the environment, our foreign policy regarding the Middle East and the economy to name a few We hear these topics covered in the presidential candidate debates nonstop and as important as they are, they can draw attention away from other issues important to this countr y, specifically our broken justice system There is plenty to be said on this issue I’d say its most pressing concern is racial bias but I would like to discuss another worr ying trend in our justice system: the increasing privatization of our prison system

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o m i c interest to keep people in jail and keeping recidivism rates high I know that sounds a little conspiracy theor y-ish, but consider that the some of the biggest entities fighting against marijuana legalization are private prison lobbies, along with police unions and drug companies And nonviolent drug offenders are exactly the sort of people private prisons want: the low risk type

And this is all still supposing that private prisons are in fact cheaper, but the evidence suggests other wise In 2011, The New York Times reported that in Arizona private prisons are not only more expensive, but they even cut costs by only taking the prisoners who would be the least amount of work for them Sure, they are helping to deal with the spillover in the justice system, but they’re still leaving the more problematic criminals for the state and federal systems to handle States fund private prisons because they believe they’re cheaper, but prisoners should be a financial obligation of the state, and nothing will influence a politician to make changes more than money particularly money that is being lost If we can just foist our inmates onto a corporate body, they cease being our problem Thus, we don’t have any incentive to take steps to rectify the root cause of crime However, if prisons are entirely our financial responsibility, we ’ re going to

want to make sure we need as few of them as possible We can start really focusing on eliminating the reasons people break the law which is vastly more effective than l o c k i n g u p e v e r y o n e w h o c o m m i t s a crime As it goes, “ an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ” Which is fundamentally what I believe the U S Department of Justice should be working on Sending someone to prison may as well be a death sentence for their careers because ver y few employers are going to hire someone with a past conviction on their record And before you accuse me of being “soft on crime,” I’m not referring to murderers and rapists, simply nonviolent offenders (particularly those concerning drug charges) or even those who made a dumb choice early in their lives, such as thiever y Recidivism rates are still intolerably high; a study released in 2014 reported that 76 6 per-

cent of convicts were arrested again within five years of being let out of jail Having these individuals without jobs, without a chance at making a life for themselves is only putting a drain on our economic resources As of now, most put nothing into the system, but draw plenty out, not only during their stay in prison but over their entire lives Sure, the old maxim applies “if you can ’ t do the time, don’t do the crime,” but that’s not doing anything to alleviate the financial burden being placed on the taxpayer, and private prisons are certainly not helping Both Democratic candidates Hillar y Clinton and Bernie Sanders have pledged to end the privatization of prisons, which is a step for ward However, we should be a little suspicious in the former’s conviction on the matter, considering Clinton h a s a c c e p t

prison lobbies before, to the tune of over $130,000 On the other hand, in past months Sanders has put forth a bill to stop these practices And while I can ’ t tell you who to vote for, please consider this matter alongside the other, more fashionable issues being debated in this election season

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Jared Srinivasan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at js2576@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY REBECCA EVEN Sun Contributor

In an age where “difficult men ” populate many television shows and female characters are often disregarded, the second season of Agent Carter makes feminism its priority

The Marvel show (which premiered Jan 19 on ABC) follows Peggy Carter (Haley Atwell) as she fights misogyny and evil in post-World War II America Peggy, who appeared in Captain America: The First Avenger as an Allied spy and as Captain America’s almost-girlfriend, now works for the fictional Strategic Scientific Reserve, a covert organization that was formed during the war to fight Nazis

Despite gaining respect in the male-dominated SSR in season one by singlehandedly neutralizing a Soviet spy, Peggy must deal with continued discrimination and degrading barbs from her colleagues, who continue to view her as their physical and mental inferior

However, this setback like the numerous other systemic setbacks she experiences due to her gender only strengthens Peggy’s resolve to do everything she can to ensure fairness and justice

At the beginning of season two, Peggy heads to Hollywood at the behest of her superiors to investigate a mysterious, unusual murder She finds herself ensnared in a web of conspiracy, teaming up with old friends and once again fighting a system that has every hope that she will fail

The 1940s sets are unconvincing, the plot can be at times overdramatic and cheesy and the cast lacks diversity However, these issues are mostly made up for by Atwell’s striking, honest portrayal of Peggy, who redefines “feminine” one snarky, angry comeback and unashamedly brutal fight scene at a time

Rebecca Even is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at rke26@cornell edu Pr o u d t o B e aWo m a n: A gent

The opening scene of the season two premiere, “The Lady in the Lake,” features a ruthless battle between Peggy and Dottie Underwood, Peggy’s nemesis from season one The show is not gratuitously violent, but the scene still flawlessly portrays that the fight’s importance is not at all diminished by the fact that not a single man appears in the shot These two women are fighting for their lives, for causes they support and that they deem worth dying for, just as men do

At one point, Dottie punches Peggy in the nose and slams her face into a desk Peggy retaliates by kicking Dottie into the wall There is hair-grabbing and gun-grabbing and a ruthlessness that is decidedly and unapologetically unladylike

Peggy’s fighting style is brutal and efficient Her goal seems to be to get the other person to hit the ground as quickly as possible, and she fights with everything she has Her fighting style lacks frills or flare She simply gives every punch as much power as possible

This epitomizes Agent Carter’ s specialty: treating women not as cogs within a patriarchal society but as people who are proud to be women Agent Carter’ s female characters refuse to let the misogynistic system determine who they are and what they can achieve

Peggy’s fighting principles seem to apply to eating as well She does not delicately bite into sandwiches; she stuffs them into her mouth as quickly as possible In episode four, “Smoke and Mirrors,” she drips mayonnaise on an important document and quickly wipes it off with her finger, licking her finger clean

Peggy takes huge bites and eats enormous quantities of food Not only is this refreshing and relatable (who hasn’t gotten food on a rented textbook?), but it also makes sense Peggy spends her days chasing leads, fighting assassins sent to kill her and speaking out against every injustice she notices, all while

wearing a dress and t-strap heels Of course she’s hungry and tired So why shouldn’t she messily eat after a long day?

Peggy is not the only woman redefining gender roles So far, a main antagonist of season two appears to be Whitney Frost (Wynn Everett), a brilliant woman who has engineered her and her husband’s rise to affluence

While Peggy was empowered to become a spy during the war and realized she could take control of her life, Frost was resigned to the fact that she could never become a scientist and was forced to find another way to succeed However, both have had to stomach many degrading remarks to succeed in a male-dominated society Like Frost, Peggy came close to marrying for the sake of propriety and expectation

Their paths diverge, but both are angry women, determined to leave their mark in a world that is dead set against their success

Marvel has a wealth of superhero movies featuring male leads and one or two token women who play the traditional roles of caregiver or love interest Peggy Carter is a heroine who defies female stereotypes She is brusque, tough, unpolished and irritable, but also kind Agent Carter is a show that stops and thinks about women and takes the time to treat each character with respect and honesty Peggy is both an agent and a woman, but neither identity negates the other

Agent Carter works with many larger themes: racism, sexism, a world haunted by a horrific war and the growing fear of Communism As the show grapples with what it means to be a woman and a human being in many different contexts, it will hopefully continue to diversify its cast and handle these complicated issues with tact and honesty

Max Van Zile

Stoned teenagers are responsible for some of the best hip hop ever made The wise sages of today were the blunt-rolling kids of 10 years ago, and by that logic precocious Chester Watson could have a great album in him someday His new tape, Past Cloaks, is not an album proper, but it’s pretty great nonetheless: woozy and dense, hyperverbal and unintelligible, simple yet complex Watson himself is a terrifically wordy millennial who compiled Past Cloaks from his recent run of mixtapes He hails from Florida, but his music bears little resemblance to the trap music that dominates Southern hip hop This makes sense, because as anyone who’s lived in Florida will tell you, big parts of the state are more or less culture-free, a mishmash of very different people who happen to live in close quarters Accordingly, Past Cloaks is a journey through inner space, not the outside world There’s little to no reference to specific places, people or events This is the Madvillainy approach, the idea that rap music can exist in a Platonic space of abstract wordplay rather than the spatially grounded hip hop of Compton, New York and Toronto

So on Past Cloaks, it’s you and Chester and not much else: no big features, no out-of-nowhere left turns With its muted, dissonant beats, vintage film samples and rainy mood, the whole album seems to be shot in black and white, and Chester’s unchanging voice is another shade of gray This could be from the smoke “Get stoned and see the world in sepia,” he says on “Dead Albatross” but it’s also the mental space in which Watson finds himself, a melancholic young pseudo-philosopher more interested in fucking with words than finding truth

His influences loom large: most obviously MF Doom, from whom Chester co-opted his drawling monotone and taste in beats (he even tries, like the supervillain, to keep his real identity secret) Watson wisely acknowledges

the debt he shouts Doom out on “Purple Leaves” and “Creed ” But Doom’s key advantage is that he deploys his style to create a distinctive persona This is about two steps ahead of Watson, who nails Doom’s cadences but hasn’t built a mythology around himself Instead, he’s one of the first post-Odd Future rappers, a kid who internalized Tyler and Earl’s druggy flows without grabbing the shock-value nihilism He’s also decidedly post-gangsta; a former ballet dancer, Watson is more likely to rap about his mother complaining about his pot use than street violence

But Watson can rap his ass off He already has the precise, controlled flow of a professional, and his thick monotone spreads over the beats like peanut butter A typical verse is packed with internal rhymes: “While the plot’s thickening, liquor shots quickenin’” If he has room to grow as a rapper, it’s in creating memorable images, since he hasn’t yet mastered the balance between displays of technical skill and quotable lines His flow sounds great, but the focus is on the sound of the words themselves, not their meaning He could emulate Bobby Raps, who steals the show on “Spliffs” with a few well-placed one-liners: “Your bars like Rey Mysterio, they on the ropes! / I don’t give a fuck what your man said, I got more bars than a light-skin Xanhead ”

“Wicked” is how Watson sounds at his best On it, he flips a key sample from The Wizard of Oz the tense orchestra build as the tornado touches down in Kansas and loops it into a menacing haze In Oz, the song is the point at which Dorothy breaks from black-and-white Kansas into Technicolor, but Watson is trapped in the gray He lets the strings slide up and down, with no resolution, and tops them with a doomy verse: “I leave my words slurring like the seasons / End of days comin’ soon, check it, that’s my thesis ” It’s a fantastic song, with a dark

undercurrent and a sample so obvious and perfect that it’s surprising it hasn’t been used yet

Past Cloaks is full of gems like this The moments on “Yetti” when the psychedelic, hazy keys behind Watson resolve into shimmering chords are just lovely The twinkly “Phantom” and skewed “Execution” recall the experimental production of the RZA, with Watson casting himself as a bratty young genius On “Dead Albatross,” his images are disjointed but powerful: “That s h i t w a s v i v i d a s t h

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n d a n a l o g / Heroining, fiending off the demons wearing camouflage ” The lyrics and samples on this thing follow their own free-associative, stoned logic that takes a few listens to follow

This is a mixtape, not an album: there’s no real arc, no central theme and little attention paid to sequencing Creating a project that hangs together is one of his next challenges, and another is creating a more distinctive persona in his music Past Cloaks demonstrates raw talent, but you don’t get much about Watson himself The ability to rap well is distinct from the ability to create an onrecord voice that people like and return to, but it’s also a prerequisite to it, and at least Watson has bars Does he have star power? Probably not after all, none of his heroes are stars But this mixtape is a prime cut of alternative hip hop Bratty teenagers are responsible for more than a few hip hop classics; no one is saying Watson’s going to do all that, but no one is saying he couldn’t either Mainstream stardom looks unlikely, but another Operation: Doomsday or Bizarre Ride 2 The Pharcyde is within his reach The guy is going places: get in on the ground floor

Max Van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mvanzile@cornellsun com

R8 My Column Fam: On Sad Boys and Emotional Shawties

Hip hop culture in Sweden is about as bleak as its winters Despite the lack of a club circuit or a network

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Stockholm native Jonatan Håstad has built a n In t e r n e t e m p i re o n s i z z u r p m o t i f s , Japanese text, vapor wave visuals and overwhelming sadness

Better known as Yung Lean with an album called Warlord on its way later this month Håstad is Internet music at its most Internet Having grown up alongside computers, his slack rap seems inspired e x c l u s i v e l y b y o n l i n e c u l t u r e , d r a w i n g more from 4chan than from attending live shows Propelled by a dear th of Swedish hip hop histor y, Yung Lean went straight to the Internet for source material as much as distribution This lack of context lead Lean to his own youth the blips and bloops of early Nintendo, for example paired with abstractions on select elements of American hip hop culture, especially Houston’s affinity for cough syr up in styrofoam cups

Although he leverages today’s platforms to spread his music (SoundCloud, etc ), the Internet of Yung Lean’s muse is that of 2001-2003, which he calls the “ most emotional” years Håstad hearkens back to the time when it was still called the World Wide Web and dial-up modems dominated and he was an elementar y schooler

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to the community’s aesthetic (or, as they would put it in the vapor wave tradition, “ a e s t h e t i c”) Although he uses an abundance of sizzurp imager y himself, Yung Lean says he isn’t a dr ug user He adopted it simply because of its American rap connotations and its similarity to his exceedingly misleading middle name, Leandoer Beyond lean, though, what do Sad Boys consider sad? It mostly comes down to a “know it when I see it” judgment The safe parameters of sad imager y include the early Internet, Pokémon, Fiji water, Arizona iced green tea, Roman statues, bucket hats and Japanese text As impor tant as those images are, par ticularly when made into Microsoft Paint-style collages called “edits,” the Sad Boys aesthetic wouldn’t exist without the squat Normally included in posts captioned “r8 my squat fam,” community members photograph themselves squatting as if they were clad in Adidas tracksuits on a Russian dating website. Replies to these posts range from, “ not enough sadness/10” and “ cut jeans like wrists/10” to “So much

emotion! I rate 1995/2001 ” And God forbid you don’t plant your heels on the ground, because you’ll be met with “0/10 get those fucking heels planted in those god damn slippers” or “Actually trash, and I’m not just tr ying to be a dick ” Oh, and if you ’ re female, you’ll have comments like this to look for ward to: “ cuts in jeans -> stupid fuck whore ” Girls, held up to a higher squat/sadness standard than your average (male) Sadboy, are objectified in the community Rather than their b

, they’re termed “emotional shawties,” the troubled, contemplative girls these hetero Sad Boys claim to dream about Unless, of course, they’re hiding behind the Internet wall that allows misogyny to flourish While misogyny is occasionally challenged, mods allow it to continue This

though; members are frequently thrown out if it seems like they’re tr ying to appropriate the community’s culture of sadness A friend of mine fell victim to a ban early in his SADBOYS 2001 membership, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this column gets me banned too Despite how arbitrar y the group ’ s abstraction of Yung Lean’s aesthetic is, punishment is swift for those who break its even more arbitrar y r ules While not at all protective of the wellbeing of its members, mods are fiercely protective of the community’s sanctity

At times it seems like the group is so sad it comes out the other end: by confronting their unhappiness head on, members can make progress toward combatting it It’s cer tainly no suppor t group, though This theor y of catharsis disintegrates when you consider the rampant dr ug glorification, unrestrained misogyny and downright cr uelty directed at some members who don’t “ get it ”

Tr ying to characterize SADBOYS 2001 by one element be it sadness, white male privilege or even dedicated Yung Lean fans proves futile Rather, SADBOYS 2001 is simply the Internet in a petri dish. Drawing almost exclusively from existing Internet culture, the group devolves into ridiculous memes, hyper-dedicated fans, simultaneous inclusivity and exclusivity, cyber bullying and bigotr y, all spanning international borders For all its impersonality, the Internet and thus SADBOYS 2001 is a spectacular microscope for human nature in all its creative, destr uctive glor y

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com 40 Percent PapierMâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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In Return to Lynah, Icers Face Tough Ivy League Foes

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a 1 51 goals against average and a 941 save percentage Lyon, an extremely decorated netminder, has been selected to the American roster for the I n t e r n a t i o n a l Ic e Ho c k e y Fe d e r a t i o n Wo r l d

Championship He was also First-Team All-ECAC

a n d w a s a w a rd e d t h e K e n Dr yden Award for top ECAC goalie The fans who pack Lynah Rink Saturday night are in store for a brilliant goalie battle

“I love playing against Lyon, he’s a great goalie,” Gillam said “He brings out the best in me and I tr y to elevate my game up to our standards of being elite goalies in the league It’s going to be a battle between him and me ”

absence will, without a doubt, be appreciated by Cornell’s offense

“ We have to take advantage of the opportunities,” Syer said “ They are ver y stingy to play against, so when you get an opportunity, you have to make good on that opportunity because they don’t come often ”

Contrar y to last week’s report, Schafer did not

“I love playing against Lyon. He brings out the best in me and I try to elevate my game.”

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Yet, while the last meeting with the Bulldogs was a defensive battle to the end, resulting in a 0-0 tie, Yale will be without Boston Bruins’ draft pick Rob O’Gara, who will be ser ving a suspension after a game misconduct in last weekend’s game against Har vard

According to USA Hockey’s Rule 404, a player who receives a game misconduct “shall also be suspended for his team ’ s next game (the game already appearing on the schedule of that team at the time of the infraction),” but in the case of O’Gara, the ECAC decided to add an additional game to the one-game mandator y suspension

Last year, O’Gara was named an All-American and the ECAC’s Best Defensive Defenseman His

o Quinnipiac and Princeton, but he remained in contact with the team over the weekend, according to Syer

“He was involved and in constant communication with [the

make the trip with us, ” Syer said

The players noted how there was a clear absence on the trip without Schafer, but his assistants handled the task smoothly

“ It’s

Topher Scott ’08] did a great job taking care of us and getting us ready for the game, but it’s good to see [Schafer] back on the ice ” Luckily for the Red, however, Syer has proved to be more than capable when called upon In his time as acting head coach, Syer has produced an impressive 5-0-1 record Schafer was back on the ice Monday at practice and should be fine for the homestand this coming weekend

NHL Not Up to Par With Others

Despite excitement level of sport, NHL fails to gain popularity

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If you’re Canadian then by all means embrace your national pastime with a Labatt Blue and a slice of Canadian Bacon.

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| As the men’s and women’s squash regular seasons begin to wind down, the teams face crunch time to prepare for matches against Penn and Princeton

Big Squash Weekend Ahead

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

Nationals are approaching fast for the men ’ s and women ’ s squash teams The women have three more games to prepare while the men have four Both teams matched up against Har vard and Dartmouth this past weekend and have two more Ivy League games next week against Penn and Princeton

Overall, the weekend went really well for women ’ s squash ”

Both teams have end-of-season goals to perform well at nationals

At this point, the men are focusing on a B Division title, but an A Division birth is still not out of reach Currently ranked 12th, the men would have to climb four places to compete in the A Division

Foul Play: A Not So Glamorous Lifestyle

It is widely assumed that professional athletes live glamorous lives and make excessive amounts of money This is especially true within baseball, where major league players have inflated salaries because of their strong union representation, guaranteed contracts and that major league teams will have no salary caps The average salary for a major league baseball player is just north of $4 million a season At any time, there are 750 players in the major leagues, making a minimum of $500,000 To put that in perspective, the worst major league baseball player makes almost ten times the median family income in the United States

age A child drops out of school and is sent to a training academy with “buscones” (businessmen who function as coaches and agents and take a portion of a player’s signing bonus and future earnings) and other players training to play baseball They live in poor conditions and their lives revolve around baseball If they are signed, they receive a small signing bonus Minor league baseball players typically earn between $1,000 and $2,000 a month while they are playing Of these Dominican baseball players, only 3 percent make the major leagues Many of these foreign players send a large portion of their paychecks to their families in their home countries This money means a lot to a family in the Dominican, because a college graduate in the Dominican Republic can make the same amount as a minor league baseball player in the United States

The men ’ s team dropped both of its matches this p a s t w e e k e n d , l o s i n g t o H a r v

Dartmouth 5-4

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The Red (3-8) are still ver y much in contention for a B Division title despite the losses and put on a much better effort than what the final scores showed

“I’d say as a team we put out the best effort we could,” said freshman Ben Francis “ We could’ve done better, but I was happy with how we played ” Francis is leading the team with seven victories on the season as a freshman and remarked on the transition from high school to collegiate squash

“ It’s d e f i n i t e l y a l o t d i f f e re n t , ” h e s a i d

“Ever ybody’s fit in college, and ever yone has similar amount of skill, so it really comes down to the fitness ”

The women ’ s team fared similarly against the Crimson, losing 9-0, but was able to hold on and b e a t Da r t m o u t h 8 - 1 T h e t e a m f o l l owe d t h e Har vard loss on Sunday with a 9-0 defeat of William Smith College

Head coach Julie Devoy said she was pleased with how her team ’ s performance

“ They came out working hard, wanting to win, and playing excellent squash,” she said “ That was really pleasing to see ”

Sh e t h o u g h t e ve n t h e t e a m ’ s e f f o r t i n t h e Har vard loss was strong, even though the outcome was not ideal

“Against Har vard our main goal was to make them work for the win, and the rallies were competitive,” she said “ We focused on tr ying to keep the opponent on par with us for as long as possible

“ We want to make the A Division but if not and we make the B Division, our goal is to definitely win the B Division and get a national championship,” Francis said

The College Squash Association has adopted a new electronic ranking system this season, which consists of computer-generated rankings based on match performances and previous rankings

Currently ranked eighth and on the edge of the A Division, it is essential that the women ’ s team perform well in its remaining three games

No 7 Columbia is also playing No 9 Drexel this w e e k e n d , s o t h e Re d i s re a l l y h o p i n g f o r a Columbia victor y to prevent the possibility of Drexel taking its No 8 position The Red also has match this weekend against No 11 Franklin and Marshall College, so a victor y here is essential as well

“[ This match] is critical for us to win as well obviously because they’re ranked behind us, so going into nationals we hope to manage stay in that top eight,” Devoy said

Both teams hit the road for Princeton tomorrow to prepare for their Friday matches against the Tigers Princeton is ranked third on the women ’ s side and 13th on the men ’ s

“ The end off the season is just on the horizon, and we need to make sure we ’ re in good shape and ready for nationals,” Devoy said

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun com

Scoring Proves Problem for Red

Re d , re e l i n g o f f a f i ve g a m e w i nn i n g s t re a k t h a t c a m e t o a c l o s e l a s t we e k e n d In Ya l e , De r r a u g h s e e s a t o u g h o p p o n e n t w i t h a d y n a m i c o f f e n s e “ T h e y ’ ve g o t a l o t o f s t ro n g f o r w a rd s , ” h e s a i d “ T h e y h a ve a l o t o f s p e e d ” B o t h Brow n a n d Bu n t o n f e e l t h a t c o m i n g i n t o t h e Ya l e g a m e w i t h t h e r i g h t a t t i t u d e a n d p re p a r a t i o n w i l l b e a d i f f e re n c e m a k e r i n i t s o u t c o m e “ I t h i n k j u s t c o m i n g i n t o t h e g a m e a n d p l a y i n g d e s p e r a t e f o r t h e w i n , ” Bu n t o n s a i d A n a d d i t i o n a l va r i a b l e i n t h i s w e e k e n d ’ s m a t c h u p i s t h a t C o r n e l l f a c e d t h e s e t w o t e a m s re l a t i ve l y re c e n t l y a n d b o t h s i d e s a r e a c q u a i n t e d w i t h t h e s t re n g t h s a n d s t y l e s o f p l a y o f t h e i r o p p o n e n t Ac c o rd i n g t o De r r a u g h , i t c h a n g e s h ow t h e t e a m w i l l p re p a re f o r t h e g a m e “ It d e c re a s e s t h e p re p a r a t i o n t i m e f o r t h e c o a c h , ” De r r a u g h s a i d “ We’ve g o t s o m e e x p e r ie n c e p l a y i n g t h e m ” C o r n e l l i s m ov i n g o n f ro m a d i s a p p o i n t i n g h o m e s t a n d a n d r e f o c u s i n g o n n e x t w e e k e n d Po u d r i e r s a i d t h e t e a m ’ s s c h e du l e t h i s we e k i s t a i l o re d t o l e t t h e m r e g e n e r a t e f o r t h e t a s k a h e a d “ We h a v e [ Su n d a y ] a n d [ Mo n d a y ] o f f, ” s h e s a i d “ It w i l l b e g

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun com

While this is all true, I’m actually here to tell you how some baseball players are mistreated and underpaid When a casual sports fan thinks of a baseball player, they usually think of someone like Alex Rodriguez or Mike Trout They think of the $30 million salaries that exceed those of CEO’s of companies such as Starbucks and Wells Fargo They don’t think of Jackson Que zada, Griffin Benedict or Tyler Stubblefield These three players never saw time in the major leagues, yet they are considered successes

Jackson Que zada was a Dominican relief pitcher signed to a minor league contract in 2009 He pitched in 119 minor league games over the course of four seasons, before retiring due to injury problems He is currently a minor league coach with the San Diego Padres Tyler Stubblefield was a minor league infielder drafted as a junior in college out of Kennesaw State University He played parts of three seasons before retiring at the age of 25 due to injuries He is currently the regional scout for the Padres covering the Carolinas Griffin Benedict was a minor league catcher for two seasons before retiring due to a lack of advancement opportunities He is currently the Padres bullpen catcher The three make modest salaries but are able to support themselves

These are the success stories of minor league baseball These are players that have successfully transitioned from struggling in the minor leagues, to finding stable careers that draw on their experience There are almost 10 spots in the minor leagues for every spot in the major leagues each season Most players never reach the majors A majority of those are signed from foreign countries or drafted each year to fill minor league teams In the Dominican Republic, the country that supplies the largest amount of foreign baseball players, training typically starts at around 12 or 13 years of

Once players are done playing, they end up cheated out of a formal education, often returning to their home countries with a middle school education and little savings, because what they didn’t send back to their families, they used to survive Minor league players from

the United States have it a little better Players cannot be drafted until they have graduated high school, or are in their junior or senior year of college Players that are drafted out of high school often have to choose between a university education or a chance at their dream Players drafted higher than the 10th round typically receive a six figure signing bonus, but have to endure years of a minimum wage job, long bus trips, and crowded living arrangements

Few players actually make the major leagues, leaving the majority with a limited educational background and little savings after a grueling career as a minor league baseball player

The lucky ones find careers as coaches or scouts, but there are only so many of those positions available Many end up unemployed or in low skill jobs

Baseball has created puppy mills of young men who routinely are thrown back into a society unable to support themselves, while the few who make it to the top are paid excessively Last year, 20 minor league baseball players filed a lawsuit alleging that they did not make the minimum wage and were not compensated for overtime Recently, the lawsuit was expanded to include 10,000 minor league baseball players, a decision that could eventually reshape the financial structure of major and minor league baseball

Noah Elden can be reached at nee5@cornell edu

M E N ’ S I C E H O C K E Y

Cornell to Face Brown, Yale in ECAC Clashes

After snapping out of seven-game winless streak, men return to Lynah as season nears end

By ZACH SILVER Sun Staff Writer

Last week, associate head coach Ben Syer who served as acting head coach while Mike Schafer ’86 recovered from taking a puck to the head during practice mentioned that even though Cornell was in the midst of a rough patch, little things here and there were the difference between walking away with a win or loss in most of those games

Now, with a 1-0-1, streak-snapping weekend in the rear view mirror, Syer said he is happy with how “the group was very resilient and there was no panic at any point ”

Sometimes all it takes is a little momentum, a spark of energy and hope, to get a team going Even though last Friday’s game against No 1 Quinnipiac was a tie, the men walked away with their heads held high, knowing they scraped away a point against the current paragon of college hockey

“We were down too, so it was nice to get a comeback on them and give them a little taste of their own medicine,” junior goalie

Mitch Gillam said “Each point is huge and squeaking that one point out of Quinnipiac was huge ”

Cornell fed off the momentum after freshman forward Mitch Vanderlaan scored the late equalizer against the Bobcats The squad left Saturday’s game against Princeton with a win in the record book, the Red’s first in the last eight attempts

“The win is really big for us, ” Vanderlaan said “We were still pretty confident as a group after that [losing] stretch, so it’s nice get back in the win column and hopefully continue that this weekend ” However, what is imperative for this team is to not let the momentum be short-lived That task does not come easily with Brown (4-16-4, 2-12-3 ECAC) who gave the Red (12-7-4, 76-3) serious trouble at their last meeting and the ever-tough Yale (14-5-4, 9-4-3) on the docket

“Brown is a real hard-working team, so we will have to have a really strong performance on Friday night,” Syer added “Yale is going to be an extremely good defensive team, so it will be hard to generate [shots] ”

continue his lights-out netminding in

While Brown currently sits at the bottom of the ECAC, the standings and stat sheets go out the window once the puck is dropped Last meeting, the Bears held the Red to 16 shots, while racking up 27 of its own Luckily, the Red were able to escape with the 1-0 victory

“Their top two lines are as good as any lines in the league,” Syer said “They are not a team that is indicative by their record They are going to be an extremely tough opponent They battle and always play hard ”

Women Look to Snap Losing Streak

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women ’ s hockey will sweep through southern New England this weekend to take on two Ivy League rivals in their final road games of the regular season The Red (9-12-4, 5-9-4 ECAC) will face Brown (3-19-3, 1-143) Friday at 7 p m and Yale (10-14-1, 9-8-1) Saturday at 7 p m Cornell, which has lost three games in a row, sits at ninth in the ECAC standings and with only four games left in the regular season, time is running out for a big playoff push Going on the road with such high stakes at play would seem to put Cornell at a disad-

vantage, but it is quite the opposite The Red has only one home victor y all season and are over 500 on the road

Four weeks ago, Cornell scored six goals against the Bulldogs and notched 4

Bears in a tie

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y recodred two

Gillam who was just named ECAC Goaltender of the Week for the third time this season was, once again, the main reason Cornell was able to escape Providence with a win earlier His 70 saves on 72 shots this past weekend are indicative of how dominant he has been of late

Opposing Gillam the second game this weekend against Yale will most likely be junior phenom Alex Lyon He is sporting

Doug Derraugh ’91

Br ow n s k a t e d t o a c o m e -

mbehind 2-2 tie against the Red in Ithaca last Januar y despite being heavily outshot in the contest

“[The Bears] an actually hold their own We want to score early and be consistent throughout the whole game ”

team desperately needs to get out of its scoring slump against Yale and Brown “ We need to be able to put the puck in the back of the net, ” said head coach

C o r n e l l senior forw a rd Je s s B

against the Bears, says they are not an easy team to put away

“[ The Bears] can actually hold their own, ” she said “ We want to score early and be consistent throughout the whole game ”

While the Red was able to get 48 shots through to Brown’s junior netminder Elvin Monica last meeting, it is pouncing on those chances that matters most

“ We created a lot of chances [against Brown],” Derraugh said “It’s making the most of our chances ”

The Brown game a few weeks ago was perhaps a foreshadowing of this past weekend, where Cornell could only muster one goal total against two ver y strong opponents in Quinnipiac and Princeton despite even shot totals in both games

“ We are our biggest enemy, ” said

After Brown, Cornell will travel

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NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL, take a look at how refined the MLB is as an historic pastime Relish in the NFL’s glory as the most popular sport And gaze in

at the

ability to pay its players the most of any athletes in the world Then look at the NHL and how it’s um Canadian? The National Hockey League would be the out of place kid s

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sports The NHL has the smallest fan base, least television revenue, least sponsorships and the smallest overall league revenue of the four ESPN’s decision to opt-out of its TV contract with the NHL after the 2005 lockout speaks for itself The U S -based network did not see a high enough demand to justify