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BSU Promises Further Protests, Urges

By EMILY FRIEDMAN

Members of Black Students United expressed disappointment with their progress in implementing a list of demands delivered to the Cornell administration and promised future action on campus at a meeting on Thursday Amber Aspinall ’17, political action chair of BSU, and spoke of the past, present and future of student activism, saying that many of the demands are the

same demands that students have been making for the last 50 years

“This is a history that we ’ ve inherited, and I take that history and that legacy very seriously,” said Aspinall “A lot of the demands unfortunately have been things that people have been talking about for decades The big question is if we ’ re having these conversations over and over again, what conversations aren ’ t we having?”

Demanding change | Dialogue

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legal drinking age makes him feel “ostracized and excluded” from the company of other graduate students

The lawsuit was prompted by an unfortunate experience at a graduate student social at Bi g Re

, according to Uhalde

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threw him out because he was underage “ The manager said it was a l i a b i l

y h a v i n g me there, even if I didn't drink,” Uhalde said “It wasn ' t the first time something l i k e t h a t h a d happened I was feeling excluded and fed up ” M a t t h e w Kibbee grad, said he sympathizes with Uhalde, calling the drinking age in the U S is “absurd ” “I can certainly see how he

The Student Assembly adopted a resolution urging administration to return to its original pledge of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035 at its Thursday meeting

Despite President Emeritus David Skorton’s support for the 2035 carbon neutrality goal, President Elizabeth Garrett has said that the University will not commit to the campaign “President Garrett’s words were that she didn’t want to draw a line in the sand,” said Elizebeth Chi ’18, one of the resolution’s sponsors “By this point, there are 200 universities in the United States that have set target carbon neutrality dates within the next 20 years Cornell

s a i d t h e y a re c o m f o r t a b l e m ovi n g t h e o p e n i n g t o Au g u s t b e c a u s e o f t h e f a i t h t h e y h a ve i n t h e i r t e a m t o m a na g e t h e p r o j e c t ov e r t h e s u m m e r “ We j u s t s e l e c t e d n e w p e o p l e f o r t h e p u rc h a s i n g t e a m , f o r I T , f o r o u r p rog r a m m i n g , a n d i t w i l l a l s o a l l ow u s t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o m a k e s u re t h a t a l l t h e t e c h i s i n p l a c e b e f o re t h e n e w s c h o o l ye a r s t a r t s , ” Jo h n s t o n s a i d “ T h e n e w t e a m i s m a ki n g s u re t h a

doesn’t even make that cut, it’s kind of sad ” Chi stressed that the S A ’ s proposal is not a radical one “ We are just asking President Garrett to com-

mit to a hard deadline of carbon neutrality by 2035 with the original timeline or with an alternate timeline, whatever it takes as long as we can reach that target date,” she said

In response to questions about the costs of carbon neutrality, S A executive vice president Emma Johnston ’16 said Dean discussion

Energy Engineering Seminar Series: Lanny Joyce 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 165 Olin Hall

Second Meeting on Climate Change, Food Security and Nutrition

1:30 - 2:30 p m , 102 Mann Librar y

Anthropology Colloquium: Barbara Mills

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“After a student has enrolled, the student perspective loses importance mainly because of its predictability and singular point of view

Profs Stress Urgency of Paris Climate Summit

Say grassroots efforts will make agreement more successful than 1997 Kyoto Protocol

By YUN SOO KIM

Staff

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Food Science Prof Defends GMOs as Essential to Food Production

By ZACHARY KAPLAN

Sun Staff Writer

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Zachary Kaplan can be reached at zkaplan@cornellsun com

Prospective Master Plan to Guide On-Campus Housing for Next Decade

By DAVID BROTZ Sun Staff Writer

This semester, the Division of Student and Campus Life will join real-estate and economic development consulting group

U3 Advisors in drawing up a “ master plan” to reassess on-campus housing for the next decade

“Our goal is to get an objective assessment of our current housing situation and develop a roadmap to help us plan for the next ten years, a roadmap that is consistent with the University’s campus master plan,” said Marty Rauker, senior director of strategic initiatives for student and campus life Student-elected tr ustee Yamini Bhandari ’17 said that this housing evaluation is neces-

sary because Cornell housing is “disorganized in its current state ”

“Between the shortage of oncampus housing, the increasingly high costs of apar tments in Collegetown and the unstructured nature of finding off campus housing, there are a number of pressing concerns, ” Bhandari said “There are also concerns around the housing system creating social stratification amongst students ”

The entire process is expected to last nine months, according to the University During this time, U3 will hold focus groups and conduct surveys to better understand the housing needs of the Cornell community

“U3 advisors will guide us through the process, help us to be objective in our assessments, and

help us conduct our research intentionally,” Rauker said

“They will also perform benchmarking with other schools, and help us think creatively about financial planning to make the housing master plan a reality ”

Bhandari cited the lack of change in campus housing as a reason for housing issues

“I also think there are issues within the campus housing because some of the original plans for housing like West Campus have not been re-evaluated since their creation,” said Bhandari “The changing social dynamic of Cornell is an important consideration for our campus

”

David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun com

And Disruption After Demands

BSU Continued from page 1

Aspinall said the administration has been receptive to several of their demands, including changing the name of the Cornell Plantations, setting up weekly suppor t groups at Gannett for students of color and dedicating career ser vices staff members to minority recr uiting, according to Aspinall

While she believes these demands can be met quickly, Aspinall said some of the demands will take more time and effor t, specifically instituting a diversity curriculum

One student spoke in favor of a diversity

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l i g h t i n g h e r e x p e r ience in an intergroup dialogue class facilitated by students

Aspinall promised future protests

“I know there are some administrators in the room, and I’ll tell you this right now, we are

Aspinall said “Meetings will not replace the direct disr uption of your offices It is a process ”

Some of BSU’s demands are related to divestment from the private prison system, and the administration’s response to these issues has been less promising, according to Aspinall

“ When we talk about changing campus climate, we can talk to Vice President Lombardi

“I know there are some administrators in the room, and I’ll tell you this right now, we are going to continue to shut things down ”

Amber Aspinall ’17

“I think it is a lot easier for students to tear down those walls and face the challenges or the issues that oftentimes would be ignored in the presence of staff members when they’re discussing it amongst peers, ” the student said “I took the class and it was a process You could feel yourself changing before you even knew that you were actually actively making a difference ”

Attendees also discussed how they hope to achieve change on campus using protests like the takeover of Trillium that occurred earlier this year

“ The idea is to disr upt business as usual,” Aspinall said “ That is the point of a protest, to disr upt It is often interesting when we get backlash saying ‘ you guys were a distraction ’”

because they have con-

with the board of

said “ When we talk about money, old white men ’ s money, that is another whole conversation that is a lot more difficult to get success in ”

Throughout the meeting, members of the audience expressed their appreciation for the Black Students United, and the work that continues to advance the group

“ You are ver y thoughtful, ver y aware of what is happening here on this campus as well as what is happening around the countr y and around the world,” a Gannett staff member present at the meeting said “ You really help to educate people on this campus although I know that at times is exhausting ”

Emily Friedman can be reached at efriedman@cornellsun com

ANABEL’S GROCERY

Continued from page 1

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l e v e l o f b u r e a u c r a c y t h a t e x i s t s w i t h i n t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n p r o c e s s a n d o u r ow n re a d i n e s s t o l a u n c h t h e s t o r e , a n d m a d e a d e t e r m in a t i o n t h a t w e w o u l d

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“We’ll be having cooking classes at least twice a month, and then other large events that aim to address food insecurity in a more holistic way.”

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W h i l e t h e t e a m a i m s t o h a v e a n o f f i c i a l o p e ni n g a t t h e b e g i n n i n g o f t h e n e x t a c a d e m i c s c h o o l y e a r, t h e t e a m p l a n s t o h o l d a n i n f o r m a l o p e ni n g ov e r t h e s u m m e r, a c c o rd i n g t o Is a b e l R i l e y ’ 1 7 , c u r re n t A n a b e l’s Gr o c e r y R i s k Ma n a g e m e n t

Te a m m e m b e r “ T h i s w o u l d a l l ow t h e n e w t e a m t o t e s t

A n a b e l’s Gr o c e r y o u t o n t h e s m a l l e r s t u d e n t b o d y o f s u m m e r s t u d e n t s , s o t h a t i n Au g u s t w h e n e v e r y o n e ’ s b a c k re s t o c k i n g t h e i r a p a r tm e n t s , n o t k n ow i n g h ow t o c o o k a n y t h i n g , w e ’ re

graduate students frequently go to bars,” Kibbee said Uhalde said his lawsuit “isn’t about alcohol at all” but about his right to associate with his peers

“The issue is not that I can ’ t drink, but rather that it’s hard to go out, ” he said “I have a legal right to associate with my classmates ”

Agreeing with Uhalde, Kibbee said he thinks the complaint has more to do with the broad age range of graduate students rather than the drinking age

“Some people start graduate school in their early twenties, others start in their thirties or forties once they’ve gotten married,” he said “In general it can be hard to socialize with people who are significantly older or younger than

you are ” Nathaniel Rogers, grad, said that while he never felt like alcohol consumption was “the foundation of his graduate student social life,” he recognizes that the age limit can be a strong deterrent

“I can sympathize with the fact that at 19-years-old, a grad student might have a lot more in common with the undergrads he or she T A ’ s than with his or her academic peers, ” Rogers said Prof Kevin Clermont, law, said Uhalde is a “fine student,” but “his lawsuit does not have a snowball’s chance ” Uhalde said he never intended for his lawsuit to be publicized nor did he do this for attention

“I’m only doing this for me, ” he said

Student Assembly to Garrett: Reconsider 2035 Carbon Neutrality Pledge

Continued from page 1

The administration’s reluctance to adopting Carbon Neutrality despite faculty par ticipation in the United Nations 2015 Climate Change Summit is “embarrassing,”said S A vice president of internal operations Mitchell McBride ’17

“ We’re sending faculty over to Paris and having people say of our college ‘ Why isn’t Cornell doing this? You’re supposed to be advocating on behalf of this but Cornell doesn’t even do this’” McBride said

Mc Br i d e u r g e d Ga r re t t t o s e e Climate Neutrality as “creating knowledge ”

“President Garrett said, ‘ The purpose of Cornell is to create knowledge ’ We need to be creating the knowledge of how to [reach the 2035 goal ] We

need to show other universities and the entire U S how to do that,” McBride said

In addition to the carbon-neutrality discussion, Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student

a f f a i r s , h e l d a Q&A to provide him with student

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Lombardi said he came to have a conclusive conversation with students about their concerns and that he welcomed comments from anyone present

When asked by Gabriel Kaufman ’18, S A undesignated at large repre-

Turkey Blames Kurdish Militants For Deadly Ankara Bombing

ANKARA, Turkey (AP)

Turkey on Thursday blamed Kurdish militants at home and in neighboring Syria for a deadly bombing in Ankara and it stepped up pressure on the U S to sever ties with the Syrian Kurdish militia that has been a key force against the Islamic State group in the complex Syrian conflict

The blast at rush hour Wednesday killed 28 people and wounded dozens more in a car bombing that targeted buses of military personnel Ankara’s second bombing in four months came as Turkey grappled with an array of serious issues, including renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels, threats from Islamic State militants and the Syria refugee crisis

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a Syrian national with links to Syrian Kurdish militias carried out the attack in concert with Turkey’s own outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency He also blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for allegedly supporting the Syrian Kurdish militia

Turkish leaders vowed to retaliate for the Ankara attack, and the military said its warplanes conducted cross-border raids within hours against PKK positions in the Haftanin region of northern Iraq, striking about 60-70 rebels, including senior leaders The report could not be independently verified

sentative to describe the search process, Lombardi said he would form a search committee “with ver y heavy student involvement ” Lombardi said he supports a ver y open process of looking for n e w c a n d i d a t e s and would entert a i n s u g g e s t i o n s f ro m C o r n e l l’s student body M a t t h e w

St e f a n k o ’ 1 6 , S A v i c e p re s ident of finance, said that the new dean of students should be willing to communicate news of major decisions to students early on before they have already been made He also suggested using the search process as an o p p o r t u n i t y t o re s t r u c t u re c e r t a i n offices

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Assemblies are directly below the vice p re s i d

Stefanko said “ There’s, in my opinion, a huge conflict of interest between a huge group of people that is tr ying to send a certain message from Cornell and students who might frequently disagree with that message ” Lombardi said he expects the new dean to be responsive to students “I would be asking [the new dean] to be ver y engaged with students and be present, be active, be listening, be open a n d b e

regards,” Lombardi said “It’s an expectation of mine and that for me would be a metric of success for this position If we don’t achieve that then we ’ re not doing something right ”

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

The abundance of non-sequiturs and throwaway scenes in Hail, Caesar! is not unusual as these are the trademark characteristics of the Coen brothers’ work As A O Scott put it, a Coen brothers movie is “ a brilliant magpie’s nest of surrealism, period detail and pop-culture scholarship ” While this is true, you must understand before going to Hail, Caesar! that you are basically paying to watch the Coens lovingly recreate all the different styles of Hollywood product from the 1950s westerns, noirs, swimsuit musicals and melodramas Their new film is merely a vehicle for them to outright mimic all the films they have paid homage to previously the Bu s by Be rk e l e y d a n c e n u m b e r f ro m T h e Bi g Lebowski, the non-self conscious roving landscapes of True Grit, the musical numbers from O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis It is a beautifully crafted pastiche without multi-faceted characters, a whimsical whim which is enjoyed, digested and forgotten

The Coens like to make three distinct varieties of movies hardboiled thrillers, goofy screwball comedies and mixtures of the two If Blood Simple or No Country fall to the thriller end of the spectrum then Burn After Reading or Oh, Brother fall to the screwball end They have made masterpieces in all three categories both Fargo and A Serious Man were winning combinations of the two The Coen brothers are masters of deft plotting and subtle tension, as well as absurdism and rat-a-tat joke-telling Hail, Caesar! is clearly intended to be a silly film, but it isn’t as off-the-wall as the trailer would lead you to expect It tickles you, yes, but doesn’t make you laugh uncontrollably For a better, dare I say funnier, Hollywood satire with more teeth in its bite, try David Cronenberg’s underlooked Maps to the Stars from last year

Josh Brolin plays Eddie Mannix, a studio fixer straight out of the Coen playbook He’s the man on-the-go who mops up messes where the stars and talent are concerned The dame from the latest picture is having an affair? Send over Mannix and he’ll sweep it all under the rug, send her home with a pat on the back and reassure her that the work she’s doing churning out studio fare is valid and valuable The professional deceiving takes its toll; he goes to confession every day It is a

subtle point of the movie that everyone who works for the studio system is merely kidding themselves along while putting up the shows that will give false impressions to many, but the Coens don’t embellish on it much

Trouble strikes when Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), star of the studio’s biggest production of the year, a Roman swords-and-sandals epic called “Hail, Caesar” is kidnapped A ransom note appears and Mannix sets to work wrangling

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Whitlock back This plotline is interrupted time and time again for the Coens’ excursions into the ’50s studio system milieu Brolin visits an editor based on Margaret Booth, played by Frances McDormand, who hysterically gets her kerchief stuck in a spooling film reel Alden Ehrenreich plays a western actor modeled after Kirby Grant, who can ’ t for the life of him act melodramatically, much to the chagrin of British director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) Tilda Swinton plays two identical twin muckrakers hunting for a scandal in Mannix’s company Even Alison Pill shows up as Mannix’s ’50s-branded servile wife

The supporting cast is terrific and the reveal of the people behind Whitlock’s kidnaping is quite amusing Once you find out who these people are, you might just sympathize with them Suffice it to say that they are the most incessantly abused people in the movie business

Those excursions take the center stage, and the cast comes to support them All the actors have essentially bit parts, and the film shuffles from Brolin to Clooney to Fiennes to Scarlett Johansson Jonah Hill turns up in one scene and is gone All of this is amusing and pleasant, but much shallower than the fare we are used to from the Coens Where is the sense of foreboding malice and laughable conspiracy that thwarts Barton Fink’s attempt to write his first screenplay? That throwaway film from the Coens had much grander things on its mind mainly the frustrating, masochistic nature of the creative process than this one does If asked what the themes behind Hail, Caesar! were, I believe I would draw a blank I think it functions solely as an expression of one of the Coen’s particular fancies I’m willing to get on board for anything that comes from their minds, but I had hoped for something more to chew on

Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com

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Matthew Pegan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun com

A d d r e s s i n g a C a n o n i c a l C o n s p i r a c y

AndWhen I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead is a documentary about the American Beat poet Bob Kaufman, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Billy Woodberry It was first released in Portugal last fall, but it will start showing at the MoMA this Friday Although I haven’t seen it, what I can glean from reviews is that it is an honest attempt to make a substantial, non-fictional account of Kaufman’s life which was a tough one in many ways This profound aspect of the film is enough to merit approval, or at the very least, foster significant interest Bob Kaufman’s poems are unique They are at various moments prophetic, rapturous, vengeful, ecstatic, psychedelic and revelatory Most of all, though, they’re almost totally unknown

It’s likely that only a few people reading this piece will have heard of Bob Kaufman He often took to composing poems in his head, but he didn’t take well to writing them down And when the pieces were written down, they were transcribed by Kaufman’s wife Eileen He lived for 61 years, yet he only published three volumes of original poetry His last published work, a comprehensive collection of all his writing, was released 20 years ago Kaufman did not seem to care about reputation or attracting audiences American and English literary establishments awarded him no laurels and granted him no recognition Readers of the Beat generation a literary movement still widely read today have almost forgotten him completely, due in no small part to the fact that he was a black man No academic has taken the effort to conduct a thorough, full-length study of his life and work, and no significant

trace of him exists in our popular knowledge of the Beats or of the vital poetry of the ’50s and ’60s The only reason I’ve heard of him is because of a blog post by poet Jericho Brown Meanwhile, Allen Ginsburg has been portrayed on screen by 21 different actors, including James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe; Sylvia Plath has been portrayed by

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eight, including Gwyneth Paltrow I can find “Howl” and “Ariel” at my local Barnes & Noble Bob Kaufman? I can ’ t find him anywhere besides the Internet He’s a ghost

All of this is a reflection of the canons we keep It’s a matter of what becomes a “classic” in any particular culture or subculture Often times our cultural catalogues of good books rarely have anything to do with how good the books actually are When they do, these books become highly selective, even though the criteria for this selectivity never relies 100 percent on merit It is no different among alternative canons and collections, ones which were challenging and risky for their times

The Beats were subversive They pushed progressive ideals into the space of poetry and language But there’s no need for me to tell you about their importance You could read

one of the many academic works that attempt to understand the Beat generation through their literature Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg line the shelves of those histories Pour through the archives Explore treasured letters and facsimile editions, all by a beloved group of experimentalists who refused to compromise themselves Go check out the movies, dig into the myths and rumors of all this edgy literature What you won ’ t find is any case study of Bob Kaufman You will find no letters, no dedicated scholarship and no memories Instead, you will discover a disappearance a vanishing into thin air compounded by the political and social norms the Beats attempted to fight and which we (the cosmopolitan consumers of literature with oh-so-little time on our hands!) have reproduced today

Why do we neglect Kaufman? He was one of the founders of Beatitude magazine alongside other key figures, including Ginsberg There’s a somewhat credible legend that he even coined the term “Beatnik ” He’s one of the best and most singular American poets of the post-war era Why has even the supposed counter-culture forgotten him? His revolutionary work hangs on to the edges of the map It has taken sizable labor from people like Billy Woodberry just to begin its restoration, solely because we as readers have overlooked him, or rather, have never even bothered to look for him in the first place

When time passes, inevitably leaving most works of art behind, what do we take with us? What do we believe speaks for us,

speaks to us? These questions are important, if a bit too romantic I imagine plenty of people consider them in some shape or form

However, what we often fail to think about is how these works of art have reached us in the first place When we do stop to think about how we first encountered certain books or movies or music, we should understand that whoever is handing them to us whether that’s a community, a person, or a canon possesses a direct bearing on whatever art or entertainment they might show us Art may not be inherently political, but the way we digest and consume it certainly is I’m not sure how to adjust the nature of our consumption, so for the time being, I guess we’ll have to rely on artists like Billy Woodberry to make a committed effort for the benefit of (hopefully) all of us

In honor of this incredible poet, I will end with a few lines from Kaufman’s poem “All the Ships That Never Sailed ” This piece was the first thing Kaufman said after a 10 year vow of silence, which began with John F Kennedy’s assassination and ended with the conclusion of the Vietnam War:

“My body once covered with beauty is now a museum of betrayal

This part remembered because of that one ’ s touch

This part remembered for that one ’ s kissToday I bring it back And let you live forever ”

Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun com Ap p e a r a n c e s r uns alternate Fridays this semester

Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling

Barbara Knuth | Guest Room

Full Aid for Every Admitted Student With Need

Following last Thursday’s announcement that starting this fall, Cornell will be need-aware when considering international undergraduate applications, concerns have been raised about the policy change potentially leading to a decrease in the economic diversity of Cornell’s international student population or a decrease in applicants There are misperceptions that this is a budget-cutting move In reality, this change in policy will enable admissions committees to act affirmatively based on more complete information to admit tr uly high-achieving, low-income applicants from around the world Admissions officers will have more accurate and robust information about

decrease the international financial aid budget, which is currently $11 53 million annually This budget typically increases each year to keep pace with increases in tuition, housing, and dining Under the new policies, more of that budget will be

Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals status will move out of that financial aid pool and into the funding pool available for U S citizens and permanent residents

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international student Because they are not eligible for federal and state aid, the current average Cornell grant award for aided international students is $54,900,

Under the current policy, Cornell is not able to offer any financial aid to many admitted international students who have applied for financial aid, creating a great deal of uncertainty for applicants who do not know if they will be selected for aid when admitted to Cornell.

which applicants are low-income This will, therefore, have the ability to act affirmatively with explicit consideration to achieving economic diversity goals for our undergraduate international student population, rather than engaging in practices suggested in Wednesday’s editorial such as inferring “ a student’s financial situation from where one was raised or a parent ’ s level of education” which are questionable indicators of family income status

With the change in policy, Cornell will be able to offer full financial aid to meet the demonstrated financial need of ever y admitted student, domestic or intern a t i o n a l Un d e r t h e c u r r e n t p o l i c y, Cornell is not able to offer any financial aid to many admitted international students who have applied for financial aid, creating a great deal of uncertainty for applicants who do not know if they will be selected for aid when admitted to Cornell Under the new policy, Cornell will award financial aid that meets full n e e d f o r a l l a d m i t t e d s t u d e n t s w i t h demonstrated need and will actively select for admissions students from low-income backgrounds who will enhance the geographic diversity of our student community Rather than waiting until the back end of the admissions process to determine which admitted international students with need will receive financial aid, those decisions will be made at the front end of the admissions process At that stage, admissions officers will have better information to be able to act affirmatively on the applications of truly low-income s t u d e n t s , t h e re b y e n s u r i n g t h a t e v e r y admitted student with need will be awarded financial aid that meets their full demonstrated need Currently, Cornell enrolls aided students from over 50 countries; we do not anticipate that number will decrease In fact, through acting affirmatively, we are aiming to increase the number of countries represented by our aided students

In addition, Cornell has no plans to

compared with the average Cornell grant award for a domestic student of $35,964 When our admissions officers travel

obser ve the following International applicants and their families know that only a small number of elite U S institutions offer substantial amounts of international financial aid, and Cornell is among this group Need-aware, elite institutions that grant substantial financial aid garner significant positive interest from these international students and families Given the difficulty of gaining admission to these elite universities, it is reassuring to families with need that they will receive finan-

Only a ver y small number of international students are admitted to the ver y few institutions that have both need-blind admissions and guarantee financial aid to ever y admitted student with need (e g , Har vard, Yale, Princeton) International students realize that they are vying for admission and aid to a small number of schools in the United States with substantial (more than just a few scholarships) aid budgets, and that most of these schools are need-aware In fact, Cornell’s current policy is difficult to explain (why would we

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harsh reality when students with need are admitted and are faced with the issue of not being selected to receive aid

With our new policy, ever y admitted student international or domestic who has demonstrated financial need will receive financial aid that meets their full need at Cornell That’s the clear message that will attract applicants from all socioeconomic and geographic spheres

Barbara Knuth is the Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Responses may be sent to opinion@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically this semester

Allison Hoppe | Barely Legal

How a Vote Could Change the Climate

Less than two weeks ago, hope for the long term stability of the re c e n t Pa r i s C l

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unprecedented step, the five conser vative justices of the Supreme Cour t issued a stay on Feb 9, 2016, preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan before the U S Cour t of Appeals for the D C Circuit had r uled on the merits of the case challenging the regulation This unexpected decision from the Cour t, overriding the decision of the D C Circuit to deny a stay, dealt a serious blow to the confidence of the major stakeholders of the Paris Agreement The Clean Power Plan is a foundational aspect of the United States’ commitment to greenhouse gas emissions re

Frame work Convention on Climate Change, and it was only the United States’ willingness as a major emitter to make significant reductions that brought other countries to the negotiating table in Paris in the first place

If the United States cannot uphold its commitments under the Paris Agreement, other countries will also begin to treat their commitments as suggestions rather than obligations Environmental policy exper ts

If the United States cannot uphold its commitments under the Paris Agreement, other countries will also begin to treat their commitments as suggestions rather than obligations.

from within India and China have already voiced concerns that their countries’ governments may interpret the stay as an indication that the Supreme Cour t will vote against upholding the regulation when the case eventually reaches the Cour t on appeal However, the recent death of the conser vative Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the five justices to vote to issue the stay, significantly reduces the likelihood of a decision invalidating the Clean Power Plan and may restore other countries’ confidence in the United States’ ability to adhere to its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Because Justice Scalia passed away during an election year, the political stakes regarding who replaces the conser vative justice on the Supreme Cour t are par ticularly high Based on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent statements, along with statements from many Republican presidential candidates, it seems clear that the Republican majority in the Senate is poised to refuse to confirm an Obama nominee through the end of President Obama’s term, regardless of how moderate or experienced that nominee might be

Since the case has not even been argued yet in the D C Circuit, there is still significant time before the full issue might reach the Supreme Cour t It is likely that the Cour t would agree to hear the case on appeal, but even then it would probably not hear arguments on the case until sometime during the first fe w months of 2017 By that time, a ne w president will have taken office, so even if the Senate blocks all Obama nominations, they could confirm a ne w justice nominated by the ne wly elected president in time for this case to be heard

The ideological perspective of the person who eventually replaces Justice Scalia on the Cour t will profoundly impact the Cour t ’ s likely voting pattern on a wide range of issues, but fe w are so grand in scale as the impact on global climate change The Cour t ’ s ultimate decision in the Clean Power Plan case will not just affect the implementation of that regulator y scheme in the United States but has the potential to undermine or reinforce the foundation of the most significant international climate agreement ever reached

There are a fe w possibilities for how the nomination process could work out In the unlikely scenario where the Senate confirms an Obama nomination to the Cour t, that person will almost cer tainly fall at least slightly to the left ideologically from Justice Anthony Kennedy, the current middle of the Cour t This would shift the Cour t ’ s ideological balance to the left, making a 5-4 decision to uphold the Clean Power Plan significantly more likely If the Senate continues to block nominations to the Cour t through the beginning of the next president’s term, the Cour t will likely reach a 4-4 decision, meaning that whatever decision the D C Circuit reaches will stand If the Senate confirms a ne w justice at the beginning of the next president’s term, then ever ything hangs on who that president turns out to be If a Democrat takes the White House, then addressing climate change and appointing a more liberal justice to the Cour t will take priority If, however, a Republican takes office, it is likely that a conser vative justice will be appointed and will over turn the Clean Power Plan, possibly leading to the collapse of the Paris Agreement and a return to the drawing board on how to address climate change at the international level

The ne ws is currently full of analyses of how Justice Scalia’s death will impact the future of American jurispr udence This is just a reminder to consider that a vote for a senator or a president might help determine the next person to join the Supreme Cour t, and that who that person is will impact much more than what happens within our borders

Comm en t of the day

L“Your article makes sense when the university-student relationship is viewed as a parent-child relationship, but although students are often young, they are not to be viewed as children They are informed consumers who choose where to spend their money and how to devote their time ”

Cornell Staff Member

Re: “Letter to the Editor: Cornell Is Not a Democracy,” Opinion published Feb 18

The War We Are Now Seeing

a s t s e m e s t e r, I w r o t e “ The War We Are Not Seeing,” a column looki n g i n t o t h e c o m p l e x a n d u n f o l d i n g s t a n d o f f b e t w e e n t e c h n o l o g y c o m p a n i e s a n d government officials over how to handle encr yption for matters of national security This week, the so-called “ war we are not seeing” became ver y visible to the American public, so I think it’s important to revisit the subject When we left off in the fall, my hope was that technology companies and federal investigators would work together to achieve a satisfactor y balance of privacy rights and national security interests

So much for cooperation

On Tuesday, U S Magistrate

Ju d g e Ju d g e S h e r i P y m ordered Apple to comply with the FBI to help unlock an iPhone involved in the San Bernardino terrorist investigation Apple CEO Tim Cook, w h o h a s n o w i n a d v e r t e n t l y b e c o m e t h e l e a d e r a m o n g s t tech giants and privacy advocates, has since responded by not only reiterating its vehement resistance to creating a “ b a c k d o o r ” o n p r i v a c y g r o u n d s , b u t p r o m i s i n g t o challenge the cour t ’ s decision in response to what it believes to be a dangerous precedent for future government incursions The FBI contends their request is both lawful and simply a one-time aid that does n o t p u t p e o p l e ’ s p r i v a c y a t risk With Apple and the FBI seemingly drawing a line in the sand, the questions to ask are: who is right and where do we go from here?

Perhaps the law can shed some light on these questions The first statute to consider is the All Writs Act of 1789, the chief law referenced in suppor t of the Judge Pym’s r uling The A c t s t a t e s , “ T h e Su p r e m e Cour t and all cour ts established by Act of Congress may i s s u e a l l w r i t s n e c e s s a r y o r a p p r o p r i a t e i n a i d o f t h e i r r e s p e c t i v

j u r i s d i c t i o n s a n d agreeable to the usages and principles of law ” It’s hard to f a t h o m t h a t a s e e m i n g l y i n n o c u o u s a n d u n a s s u m i n g line of text from 1789 is the basis of one of the most comp l e x p r i va c y d e b a t e s o f t h e 21st centur y, yet this is the

reality we ’ re faced with What’s more confusing is t h a t d i f f e r e n t c o u r t s h a v e o f f e r e d d i f f e r e n t i n t e r p r e t ations of whether the statute can be used to compel technology companies to assist the government For example, last year, in a separate case involving Apple, U S District Judge Ja m e s O r e n s t e i n e x p l i c i t l y repudiated using the All Writs Act of 1789 to force the tech g i a n t ’ s h a n d f o r b e i n g t o o vague to be useful in setting standards for this new generation of technology He also asserted that Congress has thus far failed to act to settle this debate, saying “ This case falls in the murkier area in which Congress is plainly aware of the lack of statutor y authority and has thus far failed either to create or reject it ” Is Judge Orenstein right? Has Congress not passed a sin-

over 200 years ago in light of no recent legislative guidance

Returning to the first question of who’s right and who’s wrong, we can surmise that there’s simply no undisputed precedent to guide this answer Privacy advocates will never feel comfor table with government intr usion, while federal investigators may equate a lack of cooperation as a major victor y for the criminals they seek to put to justice

Without an easy answer in mind, where can we go from here? Apple and the FBI both seem to have ver y legitimate interests to protect that in one w a y o r a n o t h e r a f f

l l Americans, so it’s impor tant f o r t h e p

continue The American people must play their role by list

arguments in order to make

Apple and the FBI both seem to have very legitimate interests to protect that in one way or another affect all Americans, so it’s important for the public discourse to continue

gle law to address this issue?

B e f o r e c o n s i d e r i n g

C o n g r e s s i o n a l a c t i o n , i t ’ s important to acknowledge that the Supreme Court did use the All Writs Act to support its ruling in U S v New York (1977), which made it mandator y for a phone company to install calltracing equipment Since then, C o n g r e s s p a s s e d t h e C o m m u n i c a t i o n s A s s i s t a n c e for Law Enforcement Act in 1994 This act required carriers such as Verizon and AT&T to help make intercepting calls in real time a possibility While this act has been amended to apply to new technologies like broadband Internet, it has not been expanded to include techn o l o g y c o m p a n i e s s u c h a s Apple Optimistically, we can hope this was an intentional decision by our legislatures to let this issue play out in the courts, given its complexity (as opposed to political nonsense) Regardless, it’s no wonder that judges have been differing over how to interpret a statute from

achieving consensus From

must also thoroughly discuss these issues in a 21st centur y context rather than, like the Cour ts, depending on an anti-

clearly not designed to address the smar tphone generation Last fall, and still today, the hope was for tech giants and the government to compromise Unfor tunately, given the

from this middle ground than closer Until such a compromise is reached, and with battle lines being drawn between privacy advocates and government advocates, we must take a good hard look at where the American people and our legislatures stand and hope that the opposing sides will be willing to listen

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ified their roles There’s a lot of competition in practice right

have a lot of very talented young men and the depth is helping us ”

On the precipice of the season, Kerwick admitted that team is still “piecing it together ”

“It’s going to take a little time,” Kerwick said “It’s really going to be about developing this group, and preparing for the Ivy League schedule

We’re still finding our way but I’ve really been impressed with the leadership and the effort and that’s all that we can ask at this time of year ”

The team gets its first chance to take the field for real when Penn State comes to Ithaca tomorrow The match against the Nittany Lions will also mark the return of Cornell’s former head coach Jeff Tambroni, who won 109 games with the Red across 10 years

A former teammate of Kerwick’s at Hobart, Tambroni lead Cornell to three NCAA Final Four appearances, before departing for the Nittany Lions in 2010

Penn State (2-0) enters the game “loaded, full of talented young men ” according to Kerwick The Nittany Lions went 5-9 last season, defeating top opponents like Penn and Marist and losing close matches to Ohio State, Johns Hopkins and Denver, a team that would go on to win the National Championship

“It’s going to be a scrap from start to finish,” Kerwick said “At this time of year, it’s just about competing

The game begins on Saturday at 3 p m at Schoellkopf Field

Spor ts

Cornell to Face Penn State in Season Opener

By ADAM BRONFIN

Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell men ’ s lacrosse team doesn’t rebuild It reloads

Following the graduation of a number of critical players from last year ’ s Ivy League Championship squad including Connor Buczek ’15, Jordan Stevens ’15 and Matt Donovan ’15 head coach Matt Kerwick remains confident that this year ’ s team will find players to step up and fill the voids left by the talented members of the class of 2015

“It’s part of being a great program, ” Kerwick said about the departure of last year ’ s seniors “When you have so many seniors who play so many minutes for us over their careers three- and four-year guys it happens and you expect new guys to step in and do the damage for us ”

Senior midfielder John Edmonds acknowledged the importance of instilling Cornell lacrosse’s key tenets to the younger guys

“The thing that we stress to those freshmen is work ethic,” Edmonds said “It’s not necessarily putting up points, it’s working hard ”

Aside from the new faces on the team the Red has 17 freshmen Kerwick said he also expects upperclassmen who did not get much play time in previous years to see time

this season

“A couple of older guys who have really been earning their time will really step up, ” Kerwick said “We’ve got some guys who had been waiting in the wings the past couple of years and now it’s their turn ” Kerwick cited senior midfielder Ryan Mathews as one of such players Mathews, who transferred to Cornell from Johns Hopkins in his junior year played in just six games last season Kerwick also looks to sophomore defensemen Scott Flynn and Jake Pulver as potential breakout players on

defense

Joining Flynn and Pulver on the defensive end will be a couple of returning starters from last year ’ s team, including junior defenseman Marshall Peters Ker wick praised what he has seen from the team ’ s defense so far in the preseason, which consisted of games against Marist and Marquette

“We have a lot of very talented players back there [on defense],” Kerwick said Last year ’ s team ranked second in the league in scoring defense, and with several

returning key players, the defense which Kerwick has always taken pride in will likely continue last season ’ s success

“Our defense is strong right now, we ’ re hoping to rely on that going forward,” said senior midfielder Matt Schattner, another one of the captains of the squad He also underscored the importance of transition offense to the team ’ s success

“A lot of our offense comes from our defense or our rides,” Edmonds said “That’s diving for a ground ball, picking it up and creating opportunities not just by dodging ” Edmonds is one of the team ’ s returning starters A captain this year, Edmonds had 21 goals and nine assists last season With the departure of both of his fellow starting offensive midfielders and two of the three attackmen, Edmonds will likely see an increase in his role on offense Kerwick called Edmonds “ a force” and expects to have more plays run through the senior midfielder

“John Edmonds has been outstanding all year for us, ” Kerwick said “He’s our leader on the offensive end, so he’s going to be the main guy for us ”

Kerwick stressed how in this season, in contrast to other years, there’s a lot more competition within the team for starting roles, including, perhaps most notably, at the goalie position Kerwick stated that senior Brennan Donville and Dan Nemirov were still battling over the starting role against Penn State

“It’s a little bit different for us, ” Kerwick said “It’s not an established group, like in the last few years we ’ ve had seniors that kind of led the way and [we had] guys that solid-

Icers Hope to Improve Standing as Tournament Nears

By TROY BRIDSON

Sun Staff Writer

No 16 Cornell men ’ s ice hockey (12-8-5, 7-7-4 ECAC) will look to bounce back after a disappointing one point weekend with road games coming up against Harvard (14-8-3, 10-5-3) and Dartmouth (13-11-1, 10-8-0)

The team uses relatively the same approach on the road as at home, but the away environment creates some changes during the game, according to junior for ward Jeff Kubiak

“You have to feed off your own energy because you do not have your home crowd,” Kubiak said “Momentum on the ice, big hits and big shifts by certain lines gets the team going and the energy it creates is huge to road success ”

With NCAA tournament selection Sunday approaching, the Red is looking for two quality results to strengthen its resume

Although polls do not

impact the NCAA selection committee’s final decisions, they are a good gauge of what teams will be making the tournament A total of 16 teams are selected, so right now Cornell is on the bubble The Red started the season hot, winning seven of eight games before downing

Nonetheless, Harvard presents numerous challenges, including a bevy of talented forwards led by senior Hobey Baker Award finalist Jimmy Vesey Associate head coach Ben Syer noted the importance of starting the game strong and not giving up an early lead, especially against a team like Harvard with offensive talent

“We know they’re very skilled up front so we need to advance pucks and get into the offensive zone, ” Syer said “Certainly we need discipline and have to stay out of the penalty box because they have a great power play

” In their first meeting of the year, Cornell gave up six goals to Harvard, three of which came on the power play

then-No 1 Providence, 2-1, in overtime Things have gone awry as of late, as the Red has just one win in its last ten contests

A win on the road against a talented Harvard side would certainly go along way in securing a playoff berth

“We’ve been spending a lot of time working on defending the power play,” Syer said “What our guys need to understand is that there isn’t a lot between killing a penalty off and giving up a power play goal ”

A slight breakdown, such

as a player not getting out to the puck in time or not putting a stick in the right lane, can be the difference between success and failure on the penalty kill

“Every detail matters so that’s what we spend a lot of time on, ” Syer said “The last part of it is you have to clear the puck 200 feet ”

On the other side of the ice, Cornell has been creating more scoring chances after recent struggles, according to Syer

“I thought we got pucks to the paint at different times over the past weekend,” Syer said Syer noted that Harvard and Dartmouth each have their own unique styles of play, but it ultimately comes down to consistent pressure and presence in the offensive zone

“We have to make sure we are getting enough pucks down there so that we can go to work in the offensive zone, ” Syer said If the Red can gather two wins this weekend, the team can punch its ticket to the NCAA tournament Conversely, another sluggish couple of games could severely jeopardize the Red’s chances

The Red has the talent to