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Calls for Supervised Heroin Injection Sites

Plan modeled on European success, created to address local drug abuse

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Ma yo r Sva n t e My r i c k ’ 0 9 , announced a proposal to install the nation’s first supervised drug injection facility in Ithaca, according to an official statement released by t h e C

o f It h a c a Monday

Myrick proposed the strategy to address issues of drug abuse and “ineffectiveness of approaches rooted in the criminal justice system, ” he said in a

s t a t e m e n t T h e f a c i l i t y will enable heroin drug users to inject the drug

u n d e r s u p e r v i s i o n o f a n u r s e , w i t h o u t b e i n g arrested

The plan is based on the success of drug facilities implemented in several cities in Europe and Canada, the press release said

Don MacPherson, director of Canadian Drug Policy Coalition an organization that has utilized these injection sites said the facilities provide “people [with] a safe place to inject drugs, where they won ’ t overdose and die, where they won ’ t get HIV, Hepatitis C, or other blood-born diseases ” Ac c o rd i n g t o MacPherson, the “public health facility” provides a s a f e e n v i

activities that are already occurring in the community, such as people injecting heroin

“Municipalities

can create more effective drug policies.”

“While much of drug policy is driven at the state and federal level, there is a great deal that municipalities can do to create more effective drug policies,” Myrick said in a statement

“They take that problem and they surround it with a help context, ” he said “There’s people there to help if you overdose, there’s people there to make sure you inject properly, there’s people there to help you get counseling or better housing ”

Students organized into small groups to discuss sexual assault issues at the campus-wide Greek Tri-Council summit Monday in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall

Garrett Continues Treatment After Surgery As Kotlikoff Assumes Presidential Duties

President Elizabeth Garrett was released from Intensive Care Unit but remains at Weill Cornell Medicine following surger y on Friday, according to Acting President and Provost Michael Kotlikoff

“I remain in touch with her, and she has asked that I convey to you and the entire Cornell

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“The outpouring of support has meant so much to her and Andrei.”

h e r diagnosis of colon cancer on Feb 8 and is pursuing “aggressive treatment ”

“ The senior leadership of the University will be handling many of my commitments, representing me and keping me up

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to date as we continue to move Cornell for ward to meet the challenges of the 21st centur y, ” Garrett said in a Feb 8 statement On Friday, Garrett under went surger y and Kotlikoff assumed the duties and powers of the presidency, Board of Tr ustees c

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Grad Students Vote Discontent With Business College Decision

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Staff Writer

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly passed a resolution on Monday expressing dissatisfaction with the decision process undertaken in approving the College of Business

Alex Brown, grad, who sponsored the resolution, said he did not intend for it to inspire action, but rather to was trying to add something to the record

“I think the important part of this resolution is it doesn’t have teeth I think that’s precisely the point,” Brown said “Our not

being involved or not being listened to in the shared governance system, that is what this resolution is hitting at It was positive to hear other GPSA members’ concern for having a voice in campus governance, and so it’s a good thing that our resolution emphasizes the Board’s years-long pattern of neglecting meaningful student input in critical campus decisions ” Brown stressed that the establishment of the College of Business is indicative of a pattern of Cornell administrative action without regard to non-executive opinions

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Home Plate Program Brings Cornellians, Ithacans to Dinner Table

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

Home Plate a new program organized by the Student Assembly’s City and Local Affairs Committee that arranges dinners between students and members of the Ithaca community held its first dinner Sunday

“What I really hope for this program is that more Cornell students get to form lasting bonds with Ithaca community members, and through their connections become more active community members themselves,” Millicent Kastenbaum ’16, chair of the S A City and Local Affairs Committee, said “It is such a wonderful, informal way for students to expand themselves outside of the Cornell bubble ”

The program embodies the committee’s mission to bridge the gap between the Ithaca and Cornell communities, according to Kastenbaum Kastenbaum said she hopes Home Plate will encourage students to interact more with the Ithaca com-

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This semester is a “pilot round” working with 13 host families and 46 students, according to Zach Praiss ’16, a student organizer of the program and a Sun designer Starting this fall, each group of three to four students will join a host family to eat three to four dinners, according to Praiss

He added that the program was inspired by the Home Plate program at Washington University in St Louis and introduced to the committee at their first meeting last October

Praiss said his family was a host family with the St Louis program, and his successful experience prompted his decision to bring Home Plate to Ithaca He said he sees the program as an opportunity for students to enjoy a home-cooked meal with a local family and for hosts to engage with college students in an informal dinner

“Recognizing that such a program could blossom here in Ithaca, we got in touch with Washington University and have been blown away by their support for us starting essentially the

Exploring inequality | Prof Miles Corak, University of Ottawa, speaks on unequal economic opportunity Monday

same program here,” Praiss said Roberta Walcer ’74, one of the hosts, said she decided to do the program because she loves interacting with the Cornell community and getting to know the students

“We’ve downsized now, and our kids are out of the house It’s nice to have contact with people who are active and doing things,” Walcer said

The “get-to-know-you dinner” – which included a variety of hors d’oeuvres, salad, chicken and chocolate cake –turned out better than expected, according to Walcer

“We shared our backgrounds, how we arrived in Ithaca and what our daily lives involve professionally,” she said “We also compared what the University was like when we were students compared to the current student experience ”

One student attendee of the dinner, Sue Ahn ’18, said she had a wonderful time being in a “home setting ”

University of Ottawa Prof Analyzes Sources of Economic Inequality

By TOM SCHREFFLER Sun Staff Writer

Nearly 100 people attended a lecture on the variables affecting income inequality delivered by Prof Miles Corak, economics, University of Ottawa, in Goldwin Smith Hall Monday Corak began the talk titled ‘Too many children left behind? Inequality, Life Chances, and Public Policy’ by introducing “three facts” related to intergenerational economic mobility and levels of income inequality

He said “generational earnings mobility” – the measure of the extent to which one ’ s parents ’ income determines one ’ s own income – varies from country to country The United States and

United Kingdom are among the highest ranked of the countries in this metric, that is, in those countries, the most inequality from generation to generation is preserved, according to Corak Corak also presented a graph that plotted income inequality against generational earnings mobility Countries that are more unequal have lower levels of mobility, Corak said Corak stressed that income inequality has risen from 1985 to 2008 in most advanced countries He said there are many value judgements involved when determining public policy to address economic inequality

“Most citizens of the rich countries would agree that we don’t want to live in a society in which

the allocation of jobs or access to important sources of human capital like healthcare or education are allocated by nepotism,” he said

Corak also stressed the importance of correct interpretation of the statistics on this topic

“We need to be very careful in translating our statistics into equality of opportunity,” he said “[The] correlation we saw [showing generational earnings mobility] might reflect fundamental differences in the diversity of societies After all, Denmark is a very homogeneous society with particular policies toward immigration that probably don’t match the historical experience in the United

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Student Artists Depict Identity in Group Show

Analog photographs from fall 2015 class to analyze roles of race, gender, geography

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

“Group Show: Identity and the Global Lens” an art exhibition on how contemporary culture is visualized and affected by global interpretations of self opened Monday in the Olive Tjaden Gallery

The exhibit will feature analog photography work by seven students, completed as part of a course in the fall, Art 3601: “Photography: Identity in the Global Lens ”

The photographs present a visual interpretation of how identity in contemporary culture is visualized and affected by global interpretations of self through race, gender and geography, according to the exhibition detail

The students’ use of analog photography is the precursor to today’s digital photography, according to the Prof Jean Locey, art, the class lecturer The photography was shot with manual film cameras, then processed in the dark room

“ They’re shooting with medium format using 120 film and produce large negatives that make beautiful enlargements,” Locey said

Within the class, students

explore of this type of photography as both an art form and a representation of self

“My photography has so far been about unusual or slightly uncanny imager y, so how I decided to deal with identity was to photograph these uncanny representations of the human form in a somewhat deadpan way, ” said Alli Plache ’18, one of the student artists featured in the exhibition “The forms photographed are simultaneously living and nonliving, artifacts of society that signify how people perceive their own forms and identities ”

Working with analog photography, students said they learned about black and white exposure as well as exploring color

“It’s kind of like an Instagram filter,” said Larissa Castellano Pucci ’18, another student from the class “It’s the old way of doing it It really makes you understand color ”

Castellano Pucci, originally from Italy, said her background influenced her work shown in the gallery, for she was not used to the large volume of consumerism here as compared to Italy

“I remember my first experience shopping in America at

Walmart and how I saw an endless row of cereal,” she said “It both amazed me and terrified me In my photo exhibition, I tried to show windows and products, and how it is so ingrained in American life ”

The students said they spent the past two weekends piecing together the exhibit, giving them firsthand experience into the process of preparing for shows

“Each student had to decide which photos to use, how to arrange them, how to curate, ” Locey said “Once they had decided which photographs to use, then, the group had to determine how to install the

work and which images work best next to each other, content wise and color wise ”

Plache pointed out that when piecing together the exhibition, the all-female classroom influenced her resulting ar t work

“Interestingly our class this semester was all female, and that perspective was very present at all of our critiques during the semester, so that probably has something to do with why all my images ended up por traying female forms,” Plache said

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun com

Film photos | All photographs in the exhibition were shot on manual film cameras and developed in a dark room by the students, the project detail says

Home Plate Program Connects Community

Cornell students share home-cooked dinner with Ithacans, exchange stories

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“ When you ’ re at college, you have to kind of learn how to be an adult by yourself, and it’s nice to fall back and sit around a table for dinner,” Ahn said

Natasha Sinha ’18, who also attended the dinner, said she was encouraged with the family’s “ warm and friendly” hospitality

“I was really ner vous to meet the family, but they made us feel so welcome from the minute we stepped into their home,” she said “ They were so happy and excited to see us, and it just made the atmosphere so pleasant I was surprised at how much there was to talk about ”

Sinha added that she had a great experience and is excited for the next dinner

“I think meeting the two families, playing with their dog and eating a delicious home-cooked meal made me much less home-sick,” she said While some details of the program still need to be ironed out, Kastenbaum expressed her optimism about the future of the Home Plate program

“ We obviously have things that we will have to work out when we expand the program to the greater Cornell community, but I'm so proud of what the committee has achieved with Home Plate thus far,” she said

GPSA Calls College of Business Approval Procedure‘Unjust’

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“Based on recently poorly handled decisions, it seems that administrators are still clueless about touchstone values of Cornell and other universities, among them transparency, free academic inquiry and democratic decisionmaking,” Brown said “Just look at the examples from the past three years alone, from their thwarted attempt to cut first-year bus passes, to the unpopular hiring of new deans and the unilateral levying of a new health fee

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who is involved in the College of Business could afford to be engaged in,” said Aravind Natarajan, grad

Jesse Goldberg, grad, agreed that even if those with an interest in the College of Business were not intentionally shut out, the meeting still should not have been held in New York City

“Even if it is not the intention, it is the outcome, ” Goldberg said Members also discussed how

“This is a conversation we’ve been having for years. Some of us are tired of it.”

Brown continued that in order to abolish “unjust” university structures, these kinds of resolutions are only a beginning He emphasized the importance of obtaining the support of tenured faculty and of recording expressed opinions, especially at a place like Cornell

“The important part about this resolution is to get something on the record,” he said “It’s really important [that] in a large institution to make sure that expressions of dissent or expressions of dissatisfactions with the way a process was handled are on the record ”

A common concern voiced at the meeting was the fact that the Board of Trustees voted to approve the College of Business at a meeting in New York City

“I think it’s important to highlight the fact that it was supposed to be a public hearing that nobody

they were disappointed with the administration’s actions and what they demonstrated about the shared governance system

“This is not the first time we ’ ve talked to the University about shared governance, ” said Goldberg

“This is a conversation we ’ ve been having for years Some of us are tired of it ”

After the resolution passed by a vote of 10 to 0, with 2 abstaining, GPSA president Richard Walroth said that he hoped they could now move on

“I do think that this was a good resolution for us to pass, ” Walroth said “Now moving for ward, I hope that we can turn to the College of Business and see it as a good thing ”

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun com

Prof Discusses Causes of National Wealth Disparity

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Tom Schreffler can be reached at tschreffler@cornellsun com

Uber Driver Charged with Murder

Former insurance adjuster guilty of shooting six Uber passengers

KAL AMAZOO, Mich (AP) The Uber ride-hailing ser vice acknowledged Monday that it received complaints about erratic driving by the suspect in the random shootings that killed six people in Kalamazoo, and a prosecutor said the man admitted carr ying out the attacks

As authorities pieced together Jason Dalton’s actions, the prosecutor said he picked up Uber fares after the first shooting and probably got m o

adjuster, appeared briefly in court by video link and was charged with six counts of murder A judge denied him bail

waived his right against self-incrimination and confessed his role in the Saturday night shootings, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting said Dalton admitted “that he took people’s lives,” Kalamazoo police Det Cor y Ghiringhelli told the court The murder charges carr y a mandator y life sentence Michigan does not have the death penalty

An Uber passenger said he called police to report that Dalton was driving erratically more than an hour before the shootings began Matt Me

WWMT that he hailed a ride around 4:30 p m Saturday He said driver Jason Dalton introduced

Mayor of Ithaca Proposes Nation’s

First Supervised Injection Facility

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health problems, according to MacPherson

“It’s a good thing,” MacPherson said “It sends a strong message to people who are using drugs that the community cares that they stay alive and it gives people who use drugs a place to go that is not in someone ’ s backyard or not in a back alley it’s in a clean hygienic help facility It’s a win-win-win ”

MacPherson added that inject i o n f a c i l i t i e s h a d b e n e f i c i a l impacts for people who used them in Vancouver

Enforcement Assisted Diversion program for Ithaca, but I am war y of super vised injection sites,” Barber said The City of Ithaca will also be releasing a report on the super vised injection facility called “ The Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy” at a press conference Wednesday

“It sends a strong message to people who are using drugs that the community cares.” D o

“ There’s no evidence to show that super vised injection facilities increase drug use, ” he said “If you ’ re a drug user who uses Vancouver’s injection room, you are 30 percent more likely to go to drug treatment, so it’s a door into the rest of the system as well as a place to inject your drugs You’re 30 percent less likely to inject using risky behavior ” John Barber, Chief of Ithaca Police Department, said he agrees that the city needs to address a societal drug problem, but voiced concerns over the introduction of the proposed injection sites

N E W YO R K ( A P )

Argentina has reached a settlement with several bondholders for $250 million and 185 mil-

l i o n e u r o s , a c o u r t - a p p o i n t e d mediator said Monday as the countr y continues work toward ending a debt crisis that has damaged its ability to maneuver financially abroad

The latest deals boost to more than $1 5 billion the amount

A r g e n t i n a h a s c o m m i t t e d i n deals since President Mauricio Macri took office on Dec 10

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Daniel Pollack has announced a string of agreements over several

Myrick will hold a live press conference in Ithaca at 9:30 a m and a national teleconference at noon Wednesday to speak with more details on the newly proposed super vised injection facility

“It is common sense to take a method and tr y it If it fails, admit it frankly and tr y another But above all, tr y something,” Myrick tweeted, quoting former president Franklin D Roosevelt, on Monday evening

Alexa Askenazi ’19 contributed reporting to this article

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun com

announced it expected to pay

claims of about $10 billion by

hedge funds

The latest settlements involve b o n d h o

Holdings, VR Capital, Procella Holdings and Capital Ventures International, Pollack said

The bondholders refused to swap their bonds at a steep discount when Argentina offered swaps in 2005 and 2010 to ease its financial crisis after it defaulted on $100 billion in bonds in 2 0 0 1 T h e y w e n t t o c o u r t instead, winning judgments

the exchange offers, trading their

between 25 percent and 29 percent of the original value of the bonds

Pollack announced the latest settlements the day Argentina a s k e d a M a n

a n f e d

l appeals court to drop oral arguments scheduled for Wednesday in one of several cases involving bondholders

Argentina said in court papers filed with the 2nd U S Circuit Court of Appeals that it had decided to drop the appeals since Macri took office

himself as “Me-Me” and had a dog in the backseat Mellen sat in front About a mile into the trip, Dalton got a phone call, and when he hung up, he began driving recklessly, blowing through stop signs and sideswiping cars, Mellen said “ We were driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along, and when we came to a stop, I jumped out of the car and ran away, ” Mellen said He said he called police and that when he got to his friend’s house, his fiancée posted a warning to friends on Facebook

Uber said riders complained Saturday about Dalton’s driving When alerted to unsafe driving, company policy is to contact the driver But Uber officials would not say whether anyone at the company spoke to Dalton, deferring to law enforcement

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driver on Jan 25 He had given about 100 rides, the company said

Since Dalton’s arrest, several people have come for ward to say that he picked them up for Uber in the hours after the first attack The Associated Pr

Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said Uber is cooperating with law enforcement officials, and he believes the company will “help us fill in some timeline gaps ”

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

“The better and better I get at what I do, the younger and younger I am when I made Graduation I was six years old when I made 808s I jumped to five years old then the Taylor Swift thing happened right and I had to grow back up and I delivered what could be considered my most perfected work and I had to turn to like a seven year old I almost reached 10, I almost reached 10 years old when I did Dark Fantasy and then when I went to Yeezus like I kinda got back to under five like four-and-a-half and now I’m mentally, completely, three years old but don’t let me get proper money support backing and put my work out and let the earth speak back to it, I’m going to be two-and-a-half years old, by the time I’m like fifty I’m going to be one, and by the time I’m dead

I’m going to be zero ”

Kanye West said this as a guest on the Bret Easton Ellis podcast back in November 2013

Listening to the full interview, one hears a characteristically exuberant Kanye basking in the glow of his recent critical success, Yeezus

Originally, opinions on Yeezus had been more mixed In the months immediately following its early summer release, a vocal minority of reviewers criticized the lyrics on Yeezus for their sloppiness and their frequent lapses into nonsense and needless offensiveness Indeed Kanye must have been feeling some of this backlash even in November, as later on in the Easton Ellis Interview he used his Peter Pan-ism to justify what are arguably the most odious lyrics on Yeezus: “Eatin’ Asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce ” The criticisms, however, were soon drowned out by the far more abundant praise

est record The Life of Pablo Listening to TLOP, it was impossible for me not to judge it in light of the creative philosophy laid out by its creator on the Bret Easton Ellis podcast Ultimately, I found myself with a deep nagging sense that while TLOP has its excellent moments, it could have been magnitudes better had it been more focused and mature TLOP sounds like maybe 10 good ideas for an album crammed into one, with none of them developed past a track or two As damning as the fact that the album lacks cohesion is the fact that it lacks consistent enjoyability The glorious highs are drawn apart by stifling lows in the form of asinine lyrics (see especially the business about a model at the beginning of “Father Stretch my Hands,” and the hypothetical about what-if-we-

who, it’s worth noting, is partially responsible for some of the most meaningful lyrics in Kanye’s whole catalogue as co-writer of “Jesus Walks,” “Power” and “New Slaves” tweets: “ my brother needs help, in the form of counseling Spiritual & mental He should step away from the public & yesmen & heal ” The Life of Pablo indeed bears the mark of an unhealthy obsession with the public life, and a whole entourage of y e s m e n

Yeezus was lauded highly for its originality and intensity Such praise came from many key sources, including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and alternative-music ubermensch Lou Reed By the end of the summer it seemed that the jury had reached its consensus and that Yeezus had been accepted, at least by the indie crowd, as a work of genius

To get things straight, let me say that I was, and to a large extent still am, as much a proponent of this acceptance of Yeezus-as-genius as anyone else My opinion on the Kanye of the Yeezus and post-Yeezus era, however, has become much more complicated as of late

This all started around the time I first turned on Kanye’s lat-

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right-now on “Freestyle 4”), and patience-trying filler I was far from alone in having both negative and positive things to say about TLOP, but in my overall disappointment, I was in a much smaller group Writing for Pitchfork, Jayson Greene admitted that the album felt “like Kanye ran across town to deliver a half-wrapped gift to a birthday to which he was 10 minutes late,” but nevertheless awarded it a score of nine out of 10 The tone of this review and others was that TLOP was flawed and sloppy, but that this was totally dope: a natural, even inevitable chapter in the Kanye West saga It is precisely this tone I wish to argue against in this column I want to suggest that we cease with the Kanye fanboy and fangirling Kanye is charismatic enough that it is easy to put a positive spin on anything he does, but we should resist doing this The question we must ask is whether the positive spin is having a positive or negative effect, both on Kanye’s music, and it is hard not to add given recent, well-publicized difficulties the man himself

“Name one genius who ain’t crazy?” Kanye asks on TLOP banger “Feedback ” This question seems scarcely charming in light of Kanye’s recent behavior on Twitter, and name-dropping Lexapro, a medication used for the treatment of anxiety and depression, but it seems many of us are all too eager to romanticize Kanye in the roll of the unhinged artistic mastermind Meanwhile, friend and long time collaborator Rhymefest

Listening, I got the sense that its creator believed that no matter what finished product he ultimately delivered, it would be accepted as genius This isn’t to say that TLOP doesn’t also bear the mark of hard work; on the contrary, it seems at least as labored over as anything else Kanye has ever released Rather than a lack of work, the slapdashery of TLOP is owed to an abdication of a control: an embrasure of unchecked creative output at the expense of any sense of linearity and a deeper undercurrent of meaning The line between Kanye’s twitter and Kanye’s music has never seemed more faint: like his twitter, the album is a book of snapshots from his hectic mind Kanye declared himself a god, and we saw that it was good, and now he feels like he can drop anything on us It seems like the yesmen described by Rhymefest on Twitter aren ’ t just Kanye’s business associates, but his entire fanbase Jayson Greene ends his Pitchfork review of TLOP quoting a letter from the album’s namesake, St Paul, to the Corinthians: “if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing ” Greene ties this line in with the sweeter moments on TLOP in which Kanye reflects on his status as a husband and father There is wisdom in another line of St Paul’s letter, however, which is nowhere to be found on the album: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me ”

Matthew Pegan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun com Guest Room appears Tuesdays this semester

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Aishwar ya Singh is a sophomore in the College of Engineering She can be reached at as2539@cornell edu

New York-based nonprofit The Moth treated Ithacans to a Saturday evening of true stories told live, and I was lucky enough to be there, sitting in the orchestra section of The State Theater As a long time listener to The Moth’s highly subscribed-to podcast and someone who has therefore been informed innumerable times during the podcast's opening that “since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide,” it felt great to finally be seeing the spectacle in person

Given the intimate nature of The Moth’s platform, it is not uncommon for stories to inspire tears at one moment and laughter in the next, from tellers and listeners alike The Moth never fails to keep its audience engrossed from start to finish, and Saturday night’s event was no exception Storytellers spoke of experiences ranging from the relatable (being a child and constructing something marvelous in your backyard) to the totally unexpected (being a punk-rocker, and having your heart melted while serving jury duty) Stories ranged, too, from the commonplace (trying to convince your despondent nine-year-old to go to school) to the unimaginably frightening (being kidnapped in wartime Baghdad)

The show was separated into two parts, each composed of two to three roughly ten-minute stories Each part opened with an emotive, mood-setting cello piece from Ithaca College music professor Elizabeth Simkin Along with Simkin’s music, the evening was enhanced by the host, former Moth GrandSLAM champion Peter Aguero, who emceed with skill and genuine hilarity, ribbing Ithacans for their commitment to IPAs, farm-to-plate meals and public radio

During his introduction, Aguero reminded the audience that sitting around and telling each other stories is perhaps the oldest of human pastimes, calling to my mind the image of a group of hunter-gatherers shooting the breeze while cooking meat over an open fire Replace the smell of the meat with the smell of very-buttery popcorn popping behind the State Theater’s concession stand and replace the flicker of the open fire with the shine of an ellipsoidal light glistening on Aguero’s tastefully selected purple-velvet blazer, and you ’ ve established, however crudely, the thread connecting Saturday evenings event with the dawn of humanity

Later in the introduction, Aguero encouraged everyone present to stop worrying about all the issues and stresses of their lives lead outside the State Theater, and to instead simply focus on the stories being told on stage As someone who generally has an extremely hard time letting go of anxiety, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, I found it surprisingly easy to follow Aguero’s advice and slip right into the stories being told in front of me, taking on the perspectives of the story tellers as my own, however briefly The overall experience was like that of reading great literature: cathartic and enriching

It is unlikely that The Moth will be back in Ithaca any time in the near future, but if you regret missing Saturday night’s event, the internet and airwaves are rife with ways to tune in The Moth Radio Hour airs weekly on hundreds of NPR stations including the Ithaca area ’ s own WRVO (92 5 and 90 5 FM) every Saturday night at 8 p m Additionally, The Moth podcast is free and frequently updated on themoth org

Matthe w Pegan in a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun com

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Svante Myrick ’09: The Heroin Hero?

TO CURB HEROIN OVERDOSES IN TOMPKINS COUNTY, Ithaca Mayor

Svante Myrick ’09 announced Monday that he hopes the City of Ithaca will host the first supervised heroin injection facility in the United States According to his proposal, at such a facility, heroin users would be allowed to inject themselves under the supervision of a nurse and be connected with recovery services While Myrick worked to model his plan after similar facilities in Canada, Europe and Australia, the plan’s feasibility given the significant legal and political hurdles to come remains questionable

While we find Myrick’s emphasis on prevention addiction through mental health professionals admirable, we question whether this is the correct solution in regards to heroin usage given the emphasis on creating an injection facility Myrick has not yet identified how the facility will be funded through tax dollars or otherwise Also unexplained is why Myrick places such heavy emphasis on overdose prevention rather than dedicating all resources to preventing addiction in the first place

On principle, giving individuals with long-time addictions a facility to be supervised while injecting, potentially preventing deaths and providing a place for treatment for those in need is backed up by several studies Supervised injection facilities reduce overdose deaths, prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C, increase the chance that users seek drug treatment and generally reduce street crime, according to The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering criminal justice in the United States Myrick based his plan off the Insite Injection Facility in Vancouver, the only place of its kind in North America Vancouver a city of 600,000 people being a significantly larger city than Ithaca a city of 30,000 had a much larger scale heroin issue, with Insite recording 376,149 injections in 2009 by 9,259 users According to data released by the Canadian government, the facility costed $10 21 per visit and over $2 18 million to operate in 2007

The intentions behind Myrick’s proposal are undeniably in the right place: However, given the political and legal firestorm that will likely follow this plan, it is questionable whether Ithaca should be the testing ground for the first injection facility in the United States While similar plans have worked internationally, the current political climate in the United States will likely not prove to be conducive to allowing an extremely radical measure in the war against drugs Given what has been revealed about this plan, the City should reconsider whether such a plan is appropriate at this point in time

Jacob Rubashkin | The Jacobin

Why He Fights

T S Eliot wrote that the world would end “ not with a bang but a whimper” he may have been alluding to the unsuccessful Gunpowder Plot of 1605, but he might as well have been writing the epitaph for Jeb(!) Bush’s star-crossed presidential campaign In what was a far cry from the “Mission Accomplished” days of his older brother, a tired and defeated Jeb appeared on TV late Saturday night and announced the end of his once promising bid for the White House His departure leaves a field of five candidates, winnowed down from a record 17 aspirants just a few months ago

This column, however, is not about Jeb(!) We all knew why Jeb fought The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928, and while neither name brings to mind the proudest moments in American history, the Bush name just edges out Nixon in terms of acceptability As the pundits of early 2015 said, it was Jeb’s destiny to continue the family business No, this is not a column about Jeb, but rather a look at the man who launched a goldplated torpedo at the Bush flagship

Everyone has their own theories as to why Donald Trump fights for the nomination: he’s power-hungry, he’s an egotistical megalomaniac or he’s been driven insane by the chemicals he uses to style that dead fox on his head The list goes on Like him or not, however, the man has successfully built himself an empire He has the money He has the mansions He has the trophy wife Life can only get so much better for the Donald The last thing a man like Trump, who is so accustomed to the unilateral power of a chief executive office, would want or need is the stress, heartache and the measly $400,000 salary that comes with the White House So why do it? Why subject yourself to the rigors and potential fallout from a presidential campaign?

For months, I too struggled with the Donald’s decision to enter the fray Then, a week ago it became all too clear why he fights It’s not for the glory It’s not for the money It’s certainly not for the fame No, it’s for something far more boring: Jeb Bush

Jeb “low-energy” Bush? That guy? Why would such a titan of industry like Trump care about a man who more resembled a frustrated substitute teacher than the leader of the free world? What could Trump possibly have against a man who has to follow up the most passionate lines in his stump speech with a plea for the audience to “please clap?”

The answer can be found in last week’s Republican debate in South Carolina After a slow start, the conversation turned to national security Trump called into question Jeb’s brother George’s decision to invade Iraq, and Jeb responded, in golly-gee indignation, that he wished Trump would stop attacking his family, and that President George W Bush had “kept this country safe ”

And then it happened Seven months after he glided down that escalator like a majestic golden peacock, Donald Trump showed true emotion Yes, the Donald had shown anger, indignation, and spite many times before, but this time was different This time, there was a vulnerability and rawness that doesn’t come in a gold-plated variety

“I lost hundreds of friends ” Donald Trump, proud New Yorker, stood on that stage in South Carolina, and finally let Bush in on why he was running Trump’s campaign wasn ’ t a play for political power The campaign was a revenge killing Trump, by that point practically assured victory in the state, was able to stand over the body of his once-mighty rival and twist the knife, knowing full well that Jeb would not be able to recover from his impending defeat later that week

“How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center came down?” Over the boos of the audience, Trump forcefully and personally

condemned the Bush family This was is not a politically savvy move George Bush is still popular in Republican circles and in South Carolina That said, Trump clearly blames him for the deaths of his colleagues, and Trump’s insistence on making a campaign issue about it speaks volumes about why he was in the race to begin with

Back in the spring of 2015, the media had quickly and unanimously dubbed Jeb as the “presumptive front-runner ” After Team Bush successfully elbowed out Mitt Romney, it looked as if Jeb had a clear shot at the nomination Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was an afterthought, Chris Christie was in disgrace, and everyone assumed Sen Marco Rubio (R-Fla ) would stay on the sidelines in deference to his mentor Jeb’s super PAC was raising money at a feverish pace, and it seemed as if America were headed towards yet another Bush v Clinton showdown Cue the Donald

Nobody builds like Trump and nobody destroys like Trump either (and I’m not just talking about his bankruptcies) This is a man who made a career for himself firing people on national television This campaign, at least at the outset, was no different

The goal was never to win The goal was to beat Bush The goal was to be so outrageous, so overly aggressive and belligerent so as to bully Jeb out of the race Analyses of Trump’s prolific

online commentary in the second half of 2015 indicate that he attacked Jeb three times as much as he attacked the other 15 candidates combined He repeatedly went out of his way to attack and belittle Jeb during the debates, and he relished at seeing the former governor squirm under his relentless teasing

No one will ever be elected president on Trump’s outrageous platform, but that was never the plan The plan was to be the anti-Jeb Where Jeb was soft, Trump would be rock hard Jeb has a Mexican wife? Let’s build a wall to keep the Mexicans out Jeb thinks we need to reach out to the Muslim world? Let’s ban all Muslims from coming into the United States Jeb’s a Catholic? Let’s engage in a fight with the Pope Everything Jeb did, Trump did opposite and ten times louder

Twenty-four years ago, another eccentric billionaire took on the Bush family H Ross Perot structured his third-party campaign in 1992 on his opposition to Bush’s North American Free Trade Act, and he used his populist economic message to win almost 20 percent of the popular vote and deny George H W Bush a second term Some historians allege that Perot too was motivated by a personal vendetta against Bush As vice-president, Bush had cut Perot out of Reagan’s efforts to rescue POWs in Vietnam, and during the campaign, a Perot associate was quoted as saying that “if Perot denies Bush the presidency, he’ll be on top of the world ” Like Perot, Trump poured enormous resources into his campaign and relied heavily on force of personality to further his cause Like Perot, Trump too has succeeded in stopping a Bush from becoming the next president That is why Trump fights Or, at least, that is why Trump fought At the beginning, winning was not the goal, and no one thought it possible Now it is not only possible but also probable This election cycle has been one of the most unpredictable in history, so it doesn’t do much good to try and divine what the future holds for Trump and the gang, but one thing is for sure: it’s gonna be yuuuuuge

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun

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“At least from my perspective, much of the frustration comes when – as with the business school – there is a consensus among groups that the administration claims to consult, but they are repeatedly ignored regardless. When faculty and students are nearly unanimous in their opposition to an administrative action, it would be nice if the response was more than lip service and misdirection ”

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ere hours after Supreme C o u r t Ju s t i c e A n t o n i n Scalia was found dead two w e e k s a g o , t h e Wa s h i n g t o n machine was alight The two parties were mudslinging in the halls o f C o n g r e s s , w i t h R e p u b l i c a n s vowing to reject any Obama-nominated replacement and Democrats excoriating them for such barefaced politics Around the countr y, publ i c s e c t o r u n i o n s a n d w o m e n , among others, rejoiced at their salvation Scalia’s death dissolved the Cour t ’ s conser vative majority As the Su p re m e C o u r t c o nsiders cases involving r e l i g i o u s f r e e d o m ,

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Ninth Circuit’s decision is upheld, would imperil public unions’ funding Despite having r uled on this issue in Abood v Detroit Board of Education (1977), the Cour t ’ s conser vative majority was predicted to over turn Abood and r ule against the union

W h o l e Wo m a n ’ s He a l t h v Hellerstedt, an abor tion regulations case, is also scheduled to be decided this term The Cour t will consider whether Texas law H B 2 places undue burden on women seeking an abor tion If Scalia was still in the picture, a 5-4 decision would most

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today murky As long as Scalia’s seat remains empty, the Cour t is likely to split 4-4 on these cases, an outcome that affirms the decision of the lower cour t within its circuit but does not apply the law nationally, preser ving the legal status quo Until a successor is appointed and confirmed, the legal lockjaw will

their r ulings are an impor tant issue among American conser vatives In the eyes of many on the right, decisions on same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act are an assault on religious freedom and American values Maintaining and reinforcing a conser vative bulwark against progressive presidents and lawmakers is essential to preser ving what they consider the American way of life

Republican ire, combined with existing political organising, has the p o t e n t i a l t o b o o s t c o n s e r v a t i v e electoral turnout in 2016, par ticularly those strong conser vatives who may not have other wise voted for a h y p o t h e t i c a l m o d e r a t e n o m i n e e

Sen Ted Cr uz (R-Texas) arguably stands to benefit the most from this that extra turnout will comprise voters likely to suppor t him and his familiarity with the Supreme Cour t could be a fur ther optics advantage With the tenor of the Cour t ’ s i d e o l o g i c a l b a l a n c e a t p l a y potentially for a ver y long time, par ticularly if other Justices retire or die during the next president’s term candidates should offer clear examples of whom they would nominate to replace Scalia Both Democrats and Republicans should make the contours of their thinking on the next Justice(s) clear to vot-

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v a t i v e ) would be more palatable in a general election than that of Cr uz and Rubio would forge a concrete connection with Cr uz ’ s base Pledging to nominate his rival an experienced Supreme Cour t litigator and frequent writer of smarmy amicus briefs would present a solid proposal to preser ve the conser vative m a j o r i t y a n d r e p l a c e A n t o n i n Scalia with a man of similar intellect, confidence and conviction Removing Cr uz from the gang war fare of the Republican primar y would finally offer Rubio, the single plausible alternative to Donald Tr ump, as the establishment nominee This Cuban-American Batman and Robin team could be what’s needed to finally thwar t Donald “J for Joker” Tr ump Then Cr uz ’ s exile to the Supreme Cour t would keep one of those meddlesome kids away from Congress Poor Teddy, martyred for Marco

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Women’s Hockey Clinches Spot In Playoffs After Pair of Wins

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

Cornell had been ahead for the entire game, and time was running out on the clock Harvard pulled its goalie in a last-chance effort With the Lynah Faithful on their feet and 26 seconds left on the clock, the Crimson knotted the game up at two apiece The rink grew quiet

Maybe it was the hard wooden bleachers, but nobody sat back down Fortyseven seconds into sudden death overtime, Red senior forward Jess Brown scored, and Cornell beat Harvard on Senior Night, clinching a spot in the playoffs

Along with the Crimson, Cornell women ’ s hockey closed out its regular season and home schedule by beating Ivy rival Dartmouth this past weekend The Red (13-12-4, 9-9-4 ECAC) won 1-0 over the Green (6-19-3, 6-13-3) on Friday and 3-2 in overtime against the Crimson (16-10-3, 12-7-3) on Saturday

“Both goalies played well,” he said “I thought we played well defensively as a team ”

In addition to the relatively unusual 1-0 final score, Friday’s game was different in that Cornell had to kill off its first five minute major of the season during the second period Brown said she believes successfully keeping Dartmouth off the board during that penalty kill helped Cornell build momentum

In doing so, Cornell moved from ninth to seventh in the ECAC, earning a playoff spot and clinching second in the Ivy League

The lone goal of Friday’s low-scoring affair was scored by junior forward Kaitlin Doering on a breakaway while shorthanded

“We had a lot of shots and we couldn’t bury them,” said Cornell captain and senior defenseman Cassandra Poudrier

The game was dominated by strong defensive play from both teams, said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91

“I honestly think it gave us more energy, ” she said “We were like a well-oiled machine ”

Between games, Derraugh said he looked at Friday’s other ECAC results to check in on Cornell’s playoff push, as the Red was eighth after Friday’s action Derraugh added that he did not talk with his players about playoff odds and matchups before Saturday’s game Some players looked up the results for themselves, while others, like assistant captain and senior forward Taylor Woods, did not

“I really don’t like paying attention to stats a lot,” Woods said “It just puts on our shoulders extra pressure ”

Saturday’s game between the Red and Crimson was not to be missed Lynah Rink was enveloped in an aura of close, playoff-style hockey between two long-time rivals in front of a large and energetic crowd The Red jumped out early two goal lead, which further enliven the already festive atmosphere

“It’s great to have a lead and to have that extra cushion,” Woods said “You could see the increase in energy The ice

Time to celebrate | Women’s hockey has secured a playoff position after defeating Dartmouth and Harvard

was tilted in our favor ”

Cornell was ahead big, but there were still two periods of hockey to be played

“Especially against Harvard, it’s never over until the buzzer [goes] off,” Poudrier said

Slowly, the Crimson began to drag itself back into the game over the next two periods Crimson junior forward Sydney Daniels scored in the second to make it a one-goal game and also tallied the game ’ s late third period equalizer

“In that moment, my stomach dropped,” Woods said “We were ready to just fire out of a cannon It only took one shift ”

Brown, who got mobbed by teammates after her goal and was the first of Cornell’s six seniors honored in a short ceremony after the game, said she felt “blessed” to have experienced Saturday’s happy ending surrounded by family, teammates and fans “It honestly couldn’t have gone any better,” she said

Red Opens Season With Victory Over Wildcats

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

It was closer than wanted, but the Cornell women ’ s lacrosse team (1-0) held off a late rally and earned a 7-6 victory over the Villanova Wildcats (0-2) at Schoellkopf Field to open up its 2016 campaign

Saturday afternoon

Head coach Jenny Graap ’86 said she was happy with the win, but knows the team has room to improve

“It certainly felt good to secure the victory in our first game of the 2016 season, but

there’s no doubt [we] will take some valuable lessons from our first game, ” Graap noted

The Wildcats, who finished 9-8 last season and made the Big East tournament for the first time in program history, came out strong on both sides of the ball and took a 10 lead just two and a half minutes into the game It took the Red some time, but as the half went on, they began to figure out Villanova’s aggressive zone defense Freshman Tomasina Leska scored her first career goal to tie the game off on an impressive wrap around move, beating Wildcat goaltender Jaclyn

Fraum Just a few minutes later, senior Olivia Mattyasovszky picked up a ball and scored to give Cornell their first lead The Red would score two more goals going into halftime to take a 4-1 lead following their most productive stretch

“It felt amazing to finally be out on Schoellkopf playing someone other than ourselves,” Mattyasovszky said “The win wasn ' t pretty and we have a lot to work on, but it was good to finally get tested against an opponent ”

Early in the second half, Villanova’s Jackie Frocarro beat two Cornell defensemen for her first of three goals on the day to cut the lead to two The Red answered with two goals in under two minutes, including a quick one from just outside the crease by junior Amie Dickson, followed by a left handed shot by classmate Kristy Gilbert At this point, Cornell had built its largest lead of the game of four Villanova got one back, but Mattyasovszky answered by whipping a laser into the net, notching her second goal The senior gave credit to her teammates for her successful day

“I think anyone ’ s success on the field is due to the team around us, ” she said We’re incredibly close and it’s easy to have success when we ' re all playing for each other ”

After regaining the four-goal lead, the Wildcats scored two quick goals The Red lost a step and looked sloppy to close out the game, forcing Graap to call a timeout with six minutes remaining

“Lacrosse is a game of momentum, and we were lucky to have a four goal lead late in

the second half,” Graap said “Conceding three goals to Villanova in the final ten minutes was certainly not the ending we would have liked ” Cornell tightened things up after the timeout and was able to hold off the comeback despite a late Villanova goal with just 13 seconds left in the game Junior goalie Renee Poullott saved six shots in the victory and Cornell controlled an impressive eleven out of fifteen draws The win marks the fifth year in a row the Red won its season opener and drops Villanova to 0-2

The Cornell players were thrilled to finally have some real competition, but they know there is still much to improve upon Next up, Cornell hits the road to face No 20 Albany this Saturday at 3 p m Graap knows that her team will need to work hard in practice to keep up with a very strong squad

“We have a lot to work on before facing Albany on the road next weekend,” Graap said “We need to clean up our skills while continuing to improve the synergy on the field Players need to start gelling in all areas of the field offense, midfield and defense so we can more effectively play as a team ” Still, the players are confident and have lofty goals for the season

“The whole team, especially our senior class, wants to win the Ivy League championship,” Mattyasovszky said “We have a long way to go, but it's going to be a really exciting season ”

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