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U.A. Aims to Centralize ‘Disjointed’ Campus Code

Students say overlap and policy ambiguities inhibit campus awareness of rights

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

If you are a student leaving Uris Library at 3 a m and a Cornell University police officer approaches you and asks for your identification, what are your rights?

If you are a professor and a CUPD officer asks to search your office, what are your rights?

If you are an employee and a CUPD officer asks to search your gym bag, what are your rights?

Members of the Cornell community are subject to a number of University policies and codes that often overlap, which is contributing to a lack of awareness of the rights Cornellians have on campus

Ambiguities and overlap in these codes has led to cases in which Cornellians are unsure or ignorant of how to assert their rights, according to Amanda Minikus grad, a judicial codes councilor Minikus and Student Assembly members are tr ying to address this issue by centralizing these codes and making t h e m w i d e l y a

Cornellians

In a presentation titled “Institu-

Community Members” given to the U A

Tuesday, Minikus said University policy is “located all over the place in a disjointed fashion ” She proposed centralization as a means of raising awareness about what a person ’ s rights are on campus and which administrators are in charge of handling, implementing and revising codes

Co des,

Codes, Codes

These codes deal with many aspects of life on campus, including academic integrity, dorm living and Greek life

Not only are students subject to a number of codes, different administrators handle each one

The Campus Code of Conduct which sets for th “basic principles and important policies” regarding “conduct”

is authorized by the Board of Trustees and

Codes and Judicial Committee, according to the code

The “responsible office[s]” for Policy 6 4 which address sexual assault and violence issues includes the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations, the Office of the Judicial Administrator and the athletics department

C.U. Police Find 250 Bags of Heroin

A t P a r k i n g L o t

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Wr ter

Cornell Police charged a 24-year-old man Tuesday afternoon for the possession of 250 bags, or $4,000 worth, of heroin, according to police

An officer on routine patrol checked on an occupied vehicle in a parking lot owned by the University in the 400 block of Stewart Ave , where they found a hypodermic needle on the floor of the vehicle, according to police

Henry D Roshane a Jamaican citizen was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and arraigned in Ithaca City Court, according to a press release

Roshane is currently held in the Tompkins County Jail on $3,000 bail Cornell Police and U S Customs and Border Protection were able to determine upon further investigation that Roshane entered the United States in 2004, but has since “remained illegally,” according to police

Two other occupants of the vehicle were released at the scene Roshane and the other occupants of the car are not affiliated with Cornell, according to the release Police said one of the occupants was also wanted “ out of Florida for non-extraditable drug warrants ” Roshane is due to appear in Ithaca City Court Friday

The Academic Integrity Code is established by the Faculty Senate

The Residential House Rules w h

University residence halls and program houses must follow can be found on the Living at Cornell website Residents are also subject to the terms and conditions of their housing contract

In addition, policies regarding Greek Life are overseen by the Office of Fraternities, Sororities and Independent Living

However, these codes often overlap, according to Minikus A student living in a residence hall must follow both the campus code and the house rules, though dif-

See CODES page 4

U.A.: No Advance Notice for Free Speech Events

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

The University Assembly declined President David Skorton’s request to include a provision in the Campus Code of Conduct that would recommend event planners to submit advance notice for free speech events Tuesday

In an 8-1 vote approving Resolution 3 titled “Response to the President’s Request for ‘Limited, Voluntary Advance Notice’ the U A decided not to amend the Campus Code of Conduct

Skorton first asked that the U A ’ s Codes and Judicial Committee introduce “ a limited advance-notice procedure to allow staff to adequately prepare and safeguard participants” on June 26, in response to a resolution the U A passed March 11

That resolution proposed several amendments to the campus code to clarify freedom of speech A draft of the resolution included a suggestion that protesters provide advance notice for on-campus demonstrations, but this was removed following lengthy discussion and protest from community members With the vote yesterday, the U A again affirmed the decision not to include recommendations for advance notices

CJC decided against the President’s request, because such notifications are “potentially restrictive to spontaneous expression and contrary to the spirit and purposes ” of the campus code, according to the resolution

“It’s important that we add no additional restrictions that would make expressions of free speech limited on this campus, ” said Joseph Fridman ’17, a CJC member and undesignated atlarge representative for the Student Assembly “ We decided to preserve the fidelity of the code and we decided not to act on President Skorton’s suggestion after discussion with the CJC, which included members of the Employee Assembly and S A [as well as CJC member] Kathy Zoner ” Prof Ronald Booker, neurobiology and behavior, a member of the U A , said he believed President Skorton’s requested addition on an advance notification would have been a “recommendation” to the campus code and not a set principle

“It might give someone pause on the benefits and costs of having a permit,” Booker said “You don’t recognize a difference between a recommendation and a principle We want thoughtful considerate actions [from protesters] ”

However, according to Prof Randy Wayne, plant science, the campus code does not provide recommendations

“It’s not in the code to give recommendations,” said Wayne, who is also a member of CJC “It’s principles ”

The U A has considered issues on freedom of speech in the campus code since 2013, following an Nov 2012 incident where both Students for

Justice in Palestine and Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee protested on Ho Plaza at the same time

A Faculty Senate investigation of the protest during which a Cornell University police officer allegedly pushed faculty members supporting SJP and threatened them with arrest recommended clarifying the campus code The Senate also concluded that the right to protest without having to file a form called the UUP should be preserved

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@corenllsun com

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Prof. David Levitsky speaks about journey to nutrition

By MOLLY KARR Sun Staff Writer

Prof David Levitsky, nutritional sciences, is famous among his students for his interactive teaching style, which includes cooking in class and creating rhymes and songs to help them remember content

“It is hard to guess how long it takes for me to prepare for a class,“ said Levitsky “I can tell you that songs take a week on average ”

Levitsky said he first arrived at Cornell in the fall of 1968 as a postdoctoral fellow, after receiving four degrees from Rutgers University Once Levitsky completed his postdoctoral work, he said he chose to stay at the University in order to conduct research on feeding behaviors and malnutrition, he said For the past 25 years, he has taught courses in obesity, the regulation of body weight, nutritional science, nutrition in society and overal health in the College of Human Ecology

“I get up about 5 [a m ] every morning, work from five o ’clock until 8:30 [a m ], and then I come in and use the rest of the morning preparing, digging into the most recent literature and current events to keep my students interested,” Levitsky said “My downfall is that I always want to put stuff into lecture, but I never want to take any information out ”

Levitsky said “I came from a little farm town in southern New Jersey so when got to Rutgers I just felt very out of place ”

Originally, Levitsky said his life goals did not even include a degree

“My major ambition in life was to be a TV repair man in high school,” Levitsky said “It was fascinating that you could take this big, huge piece of equipment and logically go from one end of that TV to the other

and find that part that didn’t work and can change it to work ”

only one who knew how to fix the equipment if it broke, so that’s why the researchers offered me a research job ”

According to Levitsky, his experiences with these professors helped him learn to work through complex problem solving processes

“What intrigued me was that, every morning, I would go get coffee with these [professors] and hear them argue, ” Levitsky said “They would break down difficult subjects and find out what was wrong and fix it It reminded me of how someone would repair a television set isolate the problem and figure out how to make things work again ”

After Levitsky finished his Ph D at Rutgers, he said Richard Barnes, dean of Cornell’s graduate Department of Nutrition, invited him to give a talk on campus, which led him to a career at the University

“One of the most wonderful things about [Cornell] is that you can find experts in any area I can find programmers, economists and physiologists all working on the same program, ” Levitsky said “It stimulates me ”

Levitsky said one of his favorite experiences at Cornell came during his first year in Ithaca, when he became involved with a South African justice movement going on at the University

In addition to teaching, Levisky said he conducts studies on the effects of self-weighing, co-wrote the book Fed-up! about how obesity is treated in today’s society, is an avid cyclist and loves to cook up a good stir fry

Levitsky said he never planned for a career in academia, and did not enjoy his freshman year at Rutgers University

“I actually hated college I didn’t want to be there,”

Levitsky, whose research centers around the psychology processes that guide nutritional choices, said he found his passion for nutritional psychology through what he called “ pure chance ”

During his second year at Rutgers, Levitsky said he took a job wiring up equipment for a new professor That professor turned out to have worked with psychologist B F Skinner, and Levitsky said he found himself introduced to the field of behavioral psychology

“I was offered the chance to conduct [psychological] research because of the [connections I made through my job] wiring up the Skinner boxes,” he said “I was the

“The best time I had at Cornell was during the apartheid demonstration,” Levitsky said “I got very involved [in the African apartheid issue] It was inspiring to see both the students and faculty working together in trying to get Cornell to divest from corporations in South Africa ”

According to Levitsky, being a teacher has not only been a rewarding experience for him, but has also been pivitol to his research

“No matter how many times I’ve taught nutrition, I learn new stuff by seeing it through my students eyes, ” Levitsky said “The most exciting part of science is when you challenge an idea and you might be right I want to show my students that this is an exciting place to be ”

Ithacans React to Tipped-Worker Minimum Wage Increase

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This change, effective Dec 31, 2015, is projected to affect over 200,000 New York employees, according to the NYSDOL website

Pete Meyers, Tompkins County

Service workers in Tompkins County stand to gain from a new policy announced by the New York State Department of Labor Wednesday regarding a new $7 50-an-hour minimum wage for all tipped workers service employees who derive at least some of their wages from tips statewide

Workers’ Center director, said workers in Tompkins County will have more “ money in their pockets” because of the minimum wage increase

“I can ’ t help but think that this new regulation will act as an economic stimulus for a fair amount of workers,” Meyers said

At an October 2014 State Wage Board hearing, Meyers said he and his TCWC colleagues testified before a panel of state labor officials about the benefits of raising the minimum wage, in which he highlighted the fact that establishments often pocket ser vice workers ’ tips He cited a 2009 DOL investigation of Ithaca restaurants as evidence

according to Meyers He said that restaurant wait-staff earn a baseline of $5

to a

form $7 50

While Meyers said he is happy to hear about the new DOL regulation, he still said this new minimum wage is far from sufficient for the average service worker

“It will put more dollars in the hands of these employees who, in turn, will spend it in their communities to purchase the goods and services they need ”

“The DOL found a range of [compensation] violations, totaling close to $90,000, in 14 of the restaurants that [were] investigated in Ithaca,” Meyers said “Perhaps the restaurant industry has been getting an unfair subsidy all along with this unfair sub-minimum wage ”

As of right now, service workers’ wages vary greatly across different industries,

“Being [part of ] an organization that has, as one of its primary purposes, ensuring that everyone is able to be self-sufficient as a result of their work, I would say that, no, $7 50 is not enough,” Meyers said “One of [TCWC’s] workers a delivery driver for a pizzeria, [still] talks about how he and his wife have to apply every winter for [heating energy assistance] because his wages weren ' t high enough ”

Prof Stephanie Thomas, economics, who is a research associate for the Institute of Compensation Studies, said she believes

’15: ‘De nite Need’ to Address Complexity of Codes

CODES

-ferent administrative units handle each code If a student is found in violation of m u l t i p l e c o d e s , h e or she may have to

f a c e t h e c o n s equences set by sever-

a l a d m i n i s t r a t o r s , i n c l u d i n g j u d i c i a l

a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a n d residence hall directors

“ W h e n s t u d e n t s

“It’s confusing for students and for parents … There is a definite need for a group to address this issue ”

e n d u p i n t h e s e processes, they don’t necessarily know what it’s supposed to look like,” said Sarah Balik ’15, S A president and U A member “It’s confusing for students and for parents There is a definite need for a group to address this issue ”

Privacy

While the codes overlap in several places, they also fail to collectively address other issues, including the right to privacy, Minikus said Neither the house rules nor the Campus Code of Conduct enumerate or clarify a student’s right to privacy in their residence hall or anywhere else on campus

The only mention of privacy in the Campus Code of Conduct states that it is a violation of the code to “intentionally invade privacy or misappropriate property rights ”

According to Minikus, this has led to interactions between students and CUPD officers during which “individual rights may have been violated ”

Minikus said that as a judicial code counselor, she saw several cases during the

fall of 2013 when CUPD officers entered and searched students’ dorm rooms when students were not in the room and in class Residence advisors opened the doors to those rooms, and the students were unaware of and d i d n o t c o n s e n t t o t h e search

“I went to residence hall directors and asked ‘Are R A s authorized to open a door and consent on behalf of a student that is not there?’ And they did not k n ow, ” Mi n i k u s s a i d “ I asked the judicial administrator, and she also did not know ”

Not all of these searches led to students being found in violation of campus code, Minikus said However, for all students who were cited for a violation, Judicial Administrator Mar y Beth Grant J D ’88 did not pursue their cases

“She threw out the cases because it didn ’ t seem like the evidence was obtained in a fair manner, so the process worked,” Minikus said “But the problem is, you can ’ t depend on the right person in that position ever y time to do the right thing ”

Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner said t h

records, she could not recall any such case

“ We’ve never taken that liberty,” Zoner said “If one of my officers did take that liberty, we would have a strong conversation with them and retrain them, because we train to respect a person ’ s privacy

We don’t search rooms without consent or a warrant ”

Minikus said she has never obser ved an incident involving any CUPD officer during which the officer was “being mali-

cious ”

“Have I seen what I believe to be individual rights violated on this campus? Yes, especially in the context of expectation of privacy in your residence hall, but that is not because the officer is a malicious actor, ” Minikus said “It’s because those rights are unclear ” According to Zoner, if the judicial administrator notices a case in which a CUPD officer oversteps the limits of appropriate conduct, the judicial administrator notifies the police chief ’ s office

“Usually what happens in those cases is that the J A would tell me that the officer pushed the limits,” Zoner said “ We make sure to hold the officer accountable and retrain them ”

The issue is further complicated by the fact that, while CUPD officers are deputized in the county and are state actors, they are also Cornell employees operating on private property

“ There is an argument that they should be held to the standard of any regular police officer, unless it’s clear that you have consented away some of y o u r r i g h t s , ” M i n i k u s said “It’s unclear in intera c t i o n s w i t h C U P D , depending on where you are and what you ’ re doing, what your rights are ”

stand their rights

“It’s important for students to educate themselves on what their rights are and to know their housing contract, ” Zoner said “People need to understand where the lines are ”

Tackling the Issue

Minikus said she believes centralizing the various codes which govern University life would enable members of the Cornell community to understand their rights “ This is to make sure that students, staff and ever yone in the Cornell community understand that there are things that they’re allowed to do and there are things that they aren ’ t allowed to do,” Balik said W h e t

formed to undertake the proposed centralization of the codes or whether such a

Codes and Judicial Committee remains undecided

“It’s important for students to educate themselves on what their rights are.”

K a t h y Z o n e r

However, Zoner said that the CUPD officers are “ ver y well trained on boundaries and lines ”

“ While we are private employees, we tend to treat people following constitutional rights,” she said

Though she said CUPD officers are “trained to respect privacy,” Zoner also said students should also work to under-

“ We’re looking to [the U A ] to figure out a good place or a good group of people that could potentially

Balik said

Juliana Batista ’16,

dent for the

and

“ empower the shared governance system ” “ This is a way to start and to put it under the responsibilities of the shared governance system, ” Batista said Rubin Biggs and Gabriella Lee contributed reporting to this stor y

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Ithacans Discuss Potential

Bene ts of Wage Increase

t h i s d e c i s i o n w i l l b e e c o n o m i c a l l y b e n e f i c i a l i n t h e s h o r t t e r m b e c a u s e t h e i n c r e a s e i n

w a g e s w i l l s p u r a n i n c r e a s e i n c o n s u m e r

s p e n d i n g “ I n t h e s h o r t t e r m , t i p p e d w o r k e r s w i l l m o s t l i k e l y f e e l b e t t e r o f f a s a r e s u l t o f t h e i n c r e a s e , ” T h o m a s s a i d “ Mo s t l i k e l y, i t w i l l p u t m o r e d o l l a r s i n t h e h a n d s o f t h e s e e m p l o y e e s w h o , i n t u r n , w i l l s p e n d i t i n t h e i r

c o m m u n i t i e s t o p u r c h a s e t h e g o o d s a n d s e r -

v i c e s t h e y n e e d ”

H o w e v e r, t h e p r o b a b l e e f f e c t s o f t h i s c h a n g e i s l e s s c l e a r i n t h e l o n g t e r m , a c c o r d i n g

t o T h o m a s “ T h e n e t b e n e f i t o f t h e i n c re a s e t o t i p p e d

w o rk e r s d e p e n d s o n h ow t h e p r i c e s o f t h e g o o d s a n d s e r v i c e s t h e y p u rc h a s e a d j u s t ove r t i m e ”

T h o m a s s a i d t h a t i n t h e o r y, a l l t i p p e d

o r k e r s s h o u l d b e e

SEAT TLE (AP) A Seattle missionar y described by friends

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abducted from a school in the violence-torn African nation, her church says

The Free Methodist Church said in a statement on its website that it received a report Monday morning that the Rev Phyllis Sortor was kidnapped from the Hope Academy compound in Emiworo, Kogi state

T h e m e s s a g e f r o m B i s h o p

D a v i d K e n d a l l s a y s t h e U S Embassy has been notified, and the State Department and the F B I a r e w o r k i n g w i t h l o c a l authorities to find and rescue her Kendall didn’t immediately return a call and email from The Associated Press

Nigeria is a countr y marred by violence, from militants and bandits in the oil-rich south, to intra-tribal and religious violence

across the center of the countr y to a five-year-old northeastern Is l a m i c u p r i s i n g , t h e l a s t o f which alone has killed 10,000 people in the past year, according to the U S Council on Foreign Relations

The State Department said it is aware that a U S citizen has b e e n r e p o r t e d m i s s i n g i n Nigeria, where kidnappings for ransom are common An FBI

Dietrich, said the agency is tr ying to confirm the reports

Fr i e n d s a n d c o l l e a g u e s s a y Sortor is a visionar y who gets things done and doesn’t back off “ S

courage, ” Mike Henr y, staff pas-

n Washington state, told the AP Henr y has taken several trips to Nigeria to work with Sortor on p r o j e c t s , i n c l u d i n

, building schools and introducing

Nigeria

herdsmen

Sortor is scheduled to come to the central-Washington city next week to talk about her missionar y work and to help raise money t

, Henr y said If she learned about a village w i t h k i d s , He

would get in a canoe and travel over there, meet the kids, set up s

school ”

Sorto’s parents were missionaries in Mozambique, and she grew up there, Henr y said She graduated in 1964 from Seattle Pacific University, which is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, said Tracy Norlen, a university spokeswoman

“ We are proud of her untiring ser vice to God and the people of Nigeria, and are earnestly praying for her safety and immediate release,” Norlen said in a statement

Referendum Submitted by Trade Group Suspends Calif. Plastic Bag Ban

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP)

A trade group has turned in enough signatures to put a referendum on California’s plastic bag ban on the November 2016 ballot, suspending implementation of the nation’s first statewide ban until voters can weigh in, state elections officials said Tuesday

The plastic bag manufacturi n

t r a d e g r o u p A

B a g A l

555,000 of the roughly 505,000 valid signatures needed to qualify the referendum after a random sample of the signatures, said Bill Mabie, chief deputy for Secretar y of State Alex Padilla The group

h a d s u b m i t t e

800,000 at the end of last year

After one of the fiercest legislative battles of 2014, pitting bag-makers against environmen-

talists, Gov Jerr y Brown signed the bill last fall It was scheduled to be phased in starting in July at large grocer y stores and supermarkets as a way to cut down on litter and protect marine life

But the American Progressive B a g A l l i a n c e s a i d t h e b a n amounts to a cash giveaway to grocers that would lead to job losses

“California voters will now have the chance to vote down a terrible law that, if implemented, would kill 2,000 local manufacturing jobs and funnel obscene profits to big grocers without any money going to a public purpose or environmental initiative,” the group ’ s executive director, Lee Califf, said in a news release

Supporters of the statewide ban criticized manufacturers for

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spending millions on the referendum campaign in order to continue selling single-use plastic bags “ This is a cynical ploy by out-of-state interests desperate to delay a ban already adopted in

spokesman Evan Westrup said Mark Murray, a spokesman for Californians vs Big Plastic, said the coalition of environmental, labor, and business groups is confident that California voters

statewide ban “It’s not surpris-

than $3 2 million, 98 percent of which is from out of state, the plastic bag industr y has bought its way onto the California ballot to protect its profits,” Murray said

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Editorial

Improving the Arts At Cornell (and in Ithaca)

FIVE YEARS AGO, THE UNIVERSITY CUT $1 million from the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, creating the new Department of Performance and Media Arts To this day, the negative cultural and financial effects of these cuts are still costing the Ithaca community, The Sun reported Thursday Such losses include 22 faculty and staff members in the department, a decrease in the number and scale of Schwartz Center productions and a loss of Collegetown patronage We at The Sun urge administrators to help restore the relationship between the arts at Cornell with the greater Ithaca community

The University has made some strides this year to increase productions around campus through PMA’s #150Events, which brought Theatre In A Day and visiting filmmakers as well as master classes to the Schwartz Center in Collegetown to commemorate Cornell’s sesquicentennial Additionally, the department is interviewing candidates for a new assistant professor of performance, according to an email from the performing and media arts department, which will add to the roster of performance-based classes available to undergraduates However, in recent memory we have seen the amount of mainstage performances cut in half from six to three performances a year And despite the efforts of the University and the #150Events programmers, it is unclear whether Cornell will maintain a comparable number of performances and events after the sesquicentennial

While we understand PMA is not a conservatory program, students should have access to the resources needed for performances year-round By reducing the number of productions, Collegetown businesses also experienced a decline in patronage, The Sun previously reported We recognize that Student Assembly Resolution 48, which calls for the creation of a task force to strengthen the relationship between the performing and media arts department and the Ithaca community, is a step in the right direction However, we still urge the University to do more to increase the arts and cultural relationships between the Ithaca community and Cornell

The state of the arts at Cornell is not only important for student expression and those majoring in the performing and media arts, but also to the cultural proliferation to the student body and Ithaca at large To offset the negative impacts of past budget cuts and the lackluster state of PMA, the University must increase the quality of the department by raising the number of productions and quality of resources for student artists

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So, do athletes have an obligation to be academic masterminds, uttering profound thought-provoking monologues during their postgame conferences? No, that would be absurd.

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O u t s i d e i n v e s t i g a t o r s s u c h a s K e n n e t h Wa i n s t e i n a r e n o w p r y i n g i n t o t h e s e f r a u d u l e n t c o u r s e s , w h i l e o p p o r t u n i s t i c e x - a t h l e t e s a r e s u i n g t h e s c h o o l f o r d e p r i v i n g t h e m o f a “ m e a n i n g f u l e d u c at i o n ” Ey e - o p e n i n g n u m b e r s r e f l e c t t h e e x t e n t o f t h e a c a d e m i c

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Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne

Causation, Correlation And Culture

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What makes some types of relationship seem so unattainable today? Why do w constantly criticize the film industry for making us believe every boy will fall in love with [us]?

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m e d i a c re a t e t h e s e f a n t a s t i c l ove s t o r i e s , o r d o we ? A f t e r a l l , e ve r y p l o t l i n e , e ve r y p a g e o f d i a l o g u e , e ve r y k i s s i s w r i t t e n by a re a l l i ve p e r s o n w h o s e e s t h e re a l l i ve w o r l d we a l l i n h a b i t T h e re m u s t b e a g r a i n o f t r u t h b u r i e d s o m e w h e re i n s i d e o f t h e m

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Take It Like It Is: Takeaways From the Chapel Hill Shootings Comment of the day

“Sexual assault should not be handled at the university level It is a criminal matter and should be treated as such. I don't see any advocates for the University handling murder charges, this shouldn't be different ”

Teresa Kim | Her Meneutics

For a university that was established upon the celebration of diversity, we do little to actually celebrate it

And when I mean celebrate, I do not mean that we should o s t e n t a t i o u s l y d i s p l a y o u r appreciation of different cultures through attending cultural junctions or being a connoisseur of ethnic cuisine and foreign arts No To celebrate diversity means to understand your own phobias, fears and misconstr ued perspectives of other ethnic groups to come to peace with the diversity we live around However, we often let that fear dictate the passivity with which we approach topics of race and religion, namely that of Islamophobia

As one of the many who live in this post-9/11 world, I have always had an interest in Islam

a n d i t s r e l at i o n s h i p t o today’s tumultuous political climate (albeit a distant interest, as I never

e n g a g e d w i t h a Mu s l i m community in m y l i f e ) My interests became more tangible as I began to academically pursue the arts of the Middle East and more personal to my own faith as news reports of the pers e c u t i o n o f C h r i s t i a n s i n regions overrun by ISIS insurgents became much more frequent the most recent being the abduction of 90 Christians in Syria

the news of the shootings of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina

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against Muslims has been portrayed other wise in statements released by the wife of Craig Stephen Hicks, the murderer Islamophobia is not merely a n u n f o u

actions of the Western world It also extends itself to the ways American news media outlets distribute news And in the case of the Chapel Hill shootings, the stor y has been unjustl y m a r g i n a l i z e d a n d s t i l l remains on the fringes of public awareness Like Nicholas Asker in his column in the Brown Daily Herald, I hesitate to denounce the murders as a hate crime To

Islamophobia extends itself to th ways American news media outlet distribute news And in the case of the Chapel Hill shootings, the story has been unjustly marginalized.

darity for the many students in need of it

The murders of the students, Deah Barakat, 23, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21 and Razan AbuSalha, 19, attest to the breedi n g o f i g n o r a n c e t h a t g o e s unnoticed most days of the year We focus our attention on the products of ignorance a n d c r i m e , n o t o n h o w i t b r e e d s

avoidance of the discussion of these matters

This statement was found o n Hi c k s ’ Fa c e b o o k p a g e , “ When it comes to insults, your religion started this, not me If your religion kept its big mouth shut, so would I ”

I r e a c h e d o u t t o O m a r Khurshid ’15, a Muslim student who had replied to one of my columns last semester I

a s k e d m y q u e s t i o n s i n t h e hopes that I would shed any ignorant strands of thought I might carr y and discard the ways I can make irrational and generalized deductions about Islam and its ties to extremism Khurshid patiently painted me a picture of his upbringing in both America and Saudi Arabia, his theology and phil o s o p h y a n d h o w h e approached questions related to Islamic extremist groups I was especially shocked to hear

do so would promote a culture o f p re m a t u re l a b e l i n g , e v e n when the murderer in question has verbalized his violent aversion towards religion (on his Facebook and in person to his Muslim neighbors before the s h o o t i n g s ) W h a t w e n e e d instead is a culture of conversation when it comes to heinous crimes related to race and religion to not avoid the subject, but pursue it

In our conversation today, we also both shared our grievances towards the way that both The Sun and Cornell have not fully addressed the shootings, especially the lack of coverage for the vigil on our campus to honor the victims of the shooting From the inability to find funding for a Muslim chaplain on campus to having an indefinite place of worship for other fellowships, the University and its office of jurisdiction, Cornell United Religious Work, has not made a definitive stance to create a space of comfort and soli-

And such is the nature of how we approach belief systems that we know little to nothing about Our intellectual egos like to think other wise, but who are we kidding? We c e l ebrate diversity, but we d e n o u n c e d i s c u s s i n g it A f t e r we l e a v e o u r time on The Hill, the opportunities for civil discussions will only reasona b l y d e c r e

n w h a t e v e r career path we find ourselves The space of the University is where we can come to wrestle with these issues of global pertinence through level-headed conversations The shootings in Ferguson and Paris should not be the only events that direct our attention towards these matters

The clock is ticking, and I regret not extending the invitation to have these conversations earlier There is no syllabus that requires us to discuss these matters outside the classroom But for us, now in this time, it is a matter of principle that we do so Celebrate divers

with others it is silence that we should be most afraid of

By YIFAN ZHU Sun Contr butor

For Prof Jane Wang, physics, nothing is more fascinating than the rapid and coordinated movements of living organisms or more specifically, fruit flies

“Physics is about finding truth and beauty in a confusing world,” she said “It starts with mystery, but once different pieces fall together, then you see beauty ” Wang, a Shanghai native who began working at Cornell in 1999, is currently researching the physical and biological reasoning behind the flight of

flies’ flight, Wang is currently researching the fundamental biology of the mechanism

“Now the real question is, how would an insect make such a computation while flying?” Wang said “Thinking about this led us to conjecture about a connection between the stability of flight with a neural circuitry at the base of the wing

Wang said she is currently trying to locate said neurons by using genetic tools to disable various neural circuitries and observe its effects on flying performance of fruit flies If successfully located, this partic-

“Physics is about finding truth and beauty in a confusing world It starts with mystery, but once different pieces fall together, then you see beauty ”

fruit flies Though the flies can flap their wings as fast as 200 times per second, Wang said the biggest quandary is how they can stay stable at that speed

We start by asking the question, how would an insect balance itself? If it doesn’t have any sensory feedback, it would be unstable and stall,” she said

According to Wang, by calculating the forces and the torques on the wings she discovered that the flies exert force with a periodic input That is, insects need to constantly make tiny adjustments in their stances and wing-flapping angles to maintain balance in the air

“To find exactly how they make the subtle change is the next question,” she said

According to Wang, among the 17 muscles that have been so far discovered in fruit flies to be in control of steering, one particular muscle based at the hinge of the wings is solely evolved toward the end of maintaining balance Part of her research is to develop an algorithm to simulate and stabilize flapping flights, which “is applicable to studies of both natural and man-made fliers,” according to a paper Wang co-wrote in 2014

Beyond the mechanical aspect of the

ular neuron might shed new light on the evolutions of fruit flies or insects in general, according to Wang

‘ Fee li n g o f Ad v en t u re ’

According to Wang, her life-long passion for physics can be traced back to an early stage of her life, especially after being first introduced to the subject in eighth grade

“I always loved physics from the first semester, ” Wang said “I just wanted to figure out what it is ”

Though her school’s library had a relatively limited collection of physics books, she began to study from one called “An Adventure in Physics,” a collection of short stories that incorporate ideas of physics in non-technical sentences A translation of the Mr Tompkins series by George Gomow, it is a collection of short stories that incorporate ideas of physics in nontechnical sentences

“What really draws me is actually these pictures that [Gomow] drew There was this picture of a fireplace with a car coming out of it that’s quantum tunneling,” Wang said “And another picture shows a man on a bike surrounded by buildings that look skinny Well, that’s special relativity I found these pictures absolutely fascinating That was one of the many instances [that drew me to physics] They open our mind ”

When it comes to teaching, Wang who currently teaches a junior course on analytical mechanics and a graduate-level course on physics of living organisms said she enjoys communicating to students and admiring the frequent “light bulbs” coming from them

“In research you tend to be out there, in the dark, exploring new things,” Wang said “In teaching, you have all these materials that others have discovered and you get to see the evolution of science But ultimately, teaching is about human interactions We communicate what we are excited about to our students ”

Despite their differences, Wang says she has no preference between research and teaching, saying they both complement her personality

For me I am more of a spontaneous person, ” Wang said “In teaching and in research I enjoy the feeling of adventure ”

Yifan Zhu can be reached at yz542@cornell edu

Hampton ’15 Explores Potential

Alzheimer’s Treatment in Plants

By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Staff Writer

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d m i t i g a t e s y m pt o m s o f t h e d i s e a s e “ It w a s k i n d o f a l e a p o f f a i t h , b e c a u s e t h e re w a s re s e a rc h t h a t s u p p o r t e d [ t h e p l a n t s ’ ] e f f e c t i ve n e s s , b u t I w a n t e d t o f i n d s o m e t h i n g n ove l a b o u t t h e m , ” Ha m p t o n s a i d Ac c o rd i n g t o Ha m p t o n , A l z h e i m e r ’ s Di s e a s e d e t e r i o -

r a t e s m e n t a l p ro c e s s i n g by a t t a c k i n g t h e b r a i n ’ s n e u ro -

t r a n s m i t t e r s , t h e s m a l l s i g n a l l i n g m o l e c u l e s t h a t a l l ow n e u ro n s t o c o m m u n i c a t e ” “A p ro b l e m A l z h e i m e r ’ s p a t i e n t s h a ve i s t h a t t h e y a re

e x p e r i e n c i n g a

c h o l i n e , ” Ha m p t o n s a i d Ma n y A l z h e

“It was kind of a leap of faith, because there was research that supported [the plants’] effectiveness but I wanted to find something novel about them.”

Reem Khondakar can be reached at rkhondakar@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sufjan Stevens

“No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross”

Sufjan’s last full-length release (not counting his various indulgent Christmas spectacles) came five years ago in the form of the resoundingly okay The Age of Adz In a little over a month, we’ll be treated to its follow-up, Carrie & Lowell, the first single off of which is the beautifully insignificant “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross ” If this song is any indication of what the upcoming LP has in store for us, any physical copies of the record should probably be packaged with a complementary Sufjan Stevens pillow case But that’s not to say that Stevens is dishing out anything that’s necessarily bad, just somnolent

The track sneaks in with some mellow sleep-folk guitar strumming, over which Sufjan whispers a jumbled ode to lost loves, Christianity and drugs (he’s “chasing the dragon too far,” man) As per usual, his arrangement is lush (although nostalgically subdued and reserved), his voice sweet and his lyrics touching in that “I don’t know just what it means but it sure is beautiful” kind of way It s a clear regression to his Seven Swans, pure indie-folk era; It s no Illinoise, but damn if it isn’t just about as pretty as a song can be The best line comes in the last verse, when Sufjan oozes, “There’s blood on that blade / Fuck me I’m falling apart ” Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something tantalizing about a completely innocuous, out of place curse word in a calm folk track If anything, though, “No Shade” foreshadows a record that’ll probably be worth buying, if only for its recumbent indie make-out soundtrack possibilities

Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsu com

Heems ft. Dev Hynes

Heems, of Das Racist fame, has a tender side His irreverent bars for the Wesleyan-spawned group might suggest otherwise, but Himanshu Suri has been getting in touch with both his emotions and his delicately beautiful vocal chops in his newfound solo fame The world was first cued into his haunting falsetto with his surprising cover of Kevin Lyttle’s “Turn Me On,” which transformed the dancehall hit into a sexy electro-R&B groove Heems’s disaffected yet distinctly gorgeous voice again takes center stage on “Home,” a track from his debut L P , Eat, Pray, Thug, to be released March 10 It is complemented by that of the enormously talented Dev Hynes, better known as Blood Orange, and wistfully sparse production Sad coos and yearning echos resonate while the break-up track never reaches a true sonic head, leaving a constantly melancholy air Heems’ clever lyrics are far from absent though, and he even manages to weave in an R Kelly reference without breaking the mood With its smarts and its desolation, “Home” is definitely the break-up song of the week

Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com

Little Women at Ithaca College’s Dillingham Center

BY EMILY FOURNIER Sun Staff Writer

The Department of Theatre Arts at Ithaca College’s production of Little Women, running until Feb 28 at the Dillingham Center’s Main Stage Theatre, retells the tale of the four March sisters through opera Composed by Mark Adamo and based on the original story by Louisa May Alcott, it was an intense and surprising choice for a production but the cast was very much up for the challenge I managed not to realize that the show was an opera rather than a play until the morning of the Feb 22 show that I attended and thus went into the building rather skeptical However, I left extremely impressed with the students’ use and interpretation of an art form that is by no means popular among our generation

The opera centers on the life of Josephine “Jo” March (senior Rachel Ozols, also played by junior Ariana Warren at other performances), her sisters Meg (senior Annie Barrett), Beth (junior Laura McCauley) and Amy (senior Kate Clemons), and her bashful best friend Theodore “Laurie” Laurence (senior Torrance Gricks) Its story focuses on the Marchs’ changing family dynamic through the years and on Jo’s desire for everything to stay the same, often to the point of conflict with the people she loves She disapproves of Meg’s marriage to John Brooke (senior Nathan Haltiwanger) for fear that it will break up the family and leave Meg subordinate to a man, and also of Laurie’s love for her for similar reasons The theme of change manifests itself through songs repeating “ we ’ re perfect as we are ” and through her voice, the importance of recognizing that “things change ” Eventually, Jo’s love for her

family and for Professor Friedrich Bhaer (senior Fred Diengott), a man in whom she finds an equal, helps her to accept that the past is the past

While the plot is based on an existing story, Adamo decided to create additional characters not found in the novel Because Alcott based this story and its characters on herself and her three sisters, the four Alcott girls are represented onstage b a p M s t P

clear that although the Marchs’ story was the main focus, they were not the only performers in the production worth noticing All of the singers were excellent, as every member of the cast was a vocal performance major It was clear that they had received extensive training, as their voices all fit the style perfectly Each singer, especially Ozols and Gricks, had strong vocal control and avoided the common prob-

a unique choice that allowed Adamo to acknowledge the writer’s life, which seems prudent for a semiautobiographical piece To accommodate the Alcott sisters and keep them present but out of the scene, a set with a balcony and two staircases stood behind the floor of the stage This set stood in front of the orchestra, whose members were technically onstage but behind a semi-transparent screen so as not to distract from the action This staging made it

made sure the singers used their upper registers, but there was no one who sounded shrill or strained on the high notes At times, the orchestra began to drown out the singers, which made it harder to understand their words However, all the lead roles maintained great diction throughout, which was crucial to the audience’s understanding, as there is no dialogue and minimal physical action to help explain the plot Through impressive vocal talent and

solid acting, the cast was able to make this somewhat drawn out production quite entertaining Little Women is made a classic by its characters, not by its plot, so it might seem that opera is not the right medium through which to retell the story However, while opera does not have to be incredibly dramatic, it felt that this was Adamo’s goal The vibrato and soaring soprano notes felt a little excessive in some of the production’s mundane scenes, such as a montage of all members of the March family writing to one another Though these techniques were appropriate for Beth’s fits of fever and perhaps for Jo’s confrontations with her sisters, they were used too frequently throughout By exaggerating the importance of simple conversations and by harping so much on the role of change in the Marchs’ lives, Adamo made his production trite However, the performers all managed to capture the emotions of their characters without quite all the drama that Adamo attempted to create, which helped the opera to stay meaningful rather than terribly corny

Although Adamo’s composition itself had a few flaws, Ithaca College’s cast played their roles wonderfully and made the songs enchanting The performers did not lose the original story ’ s charm and helped the relationships between Alcott’s characters to seem genuine and sweet, despite Adamo’s attempts at an exaggerated sense of tragedy It seems that these singers have gotten a lot out of their vocal performance education, as their performances exceptional and certainly worthy of praise

Emily Fournier is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She Can be reached at efournier@cornellsun com

Arts Around Ithaca

Ihave been writing this column in the Arts & Entertainment section of The Sun ever y other week since Januar y 2012, and most of the time when I sit down to write them, I am angr y Whether they’re about annoying people on the Internet or about annoying people in real life, or about the lack of appreciation for Amanda Bynes’ talent, I have a lot of feelings But this week, I am finding it incredibly difficult to muster up any sort of emotion strong enough to get me to 800 words about any one topic I guess I’m just having an apathetic kind of week I didn’t even watch the Oscars (no one else did either though, they had their lowest ratings in six years, so I don’t feel so bad )

Anyway so here are the column ideas I came up with I could easily blather on about any of these (blathering is a skill in which I am quite proficient), but I am instead choosing to spare you those five minutes of your life you will never get back while I bloviate on the topic of something in which I am only halfheartedly interested in or about which I have nothing new to say

1 Harris Wittels

Did An Episode With An Abortion And Talked About It Like The Straightfor ward Medical Procedure That It Is

Obvious Child was my favorite movie of 2014 Why couldn’t that have been nominated?

4. The Red Carpet

I don’t think it’s sexist to ask a woman who designed her dress when the designer paid a lot of money for her to wear it Reporters should absolutely ask more questions than just that, but it’s naïve to pretend that award shows aren ’ t also about fashion in

Something about how he was so wonderful and hilarious I am incredibly sad that he died He was clearly loved by ever yone who knew him Parks and Recreation is over and that is also sad #Knope2016 Podcasts, Comedy Bang Bang, Doug Loves Movies The people behind the scenes on shows we love

2 The Excitement of Live Television Award shows, SNL40, Why I appreciate Kanye West: the ultimate wildcard at any live television event

3. Girls

addition to the work of the people being honored An interest in fashion and an interest in gender equality are not mutually exclusive Lupita Nyong’o won this and ever y red carpet I mean, she wore a dress made of pearls! I miss Joan Rivers

5 Patricia Arquette

Can ever yone please stop yelling at her for flubbing one sentence in an overall extremely well crafted plea to Hollywood for wage equality? I think what she said would have had slightly less gravitas if it had been followed by an in-depth explanation of intersectionality that no one could hear because the play-off orchestra music was drowning her out She didn’t have to say anything, so can ’ t we just be happy that she said something?

She used this platform t

issue that affects 50 percent of the world That is kind of big deal, especially to the people in the Dolby Theater Sunday night lest we forget the Sony hack revelation that Amy Adams and Je

were paid significantly less money

r American Hustle Thanks for cluing us in on that fun tidbit, North Korea! Did anybody watch American Hustle for Jeremy Renner? No Remember when the studios were tr ying to make Jeremy Renner the next Tom Cruise? Hah, good times I’m sure he’s a lovely fellow Moral of the stor y is that Patricia Arquette is a boss, and Mer yl and JLo know it too

6 Togetherness Is A New Show On HBO That I Like Mark Duplass seems like a ver y busy man

7. I Finally Finished Breaking Bad Over February Break And I Was Underwhelmed

Maybe my expectations were just too high Marie is the best character, calling it like it is 100 percent of the time I also like Saul because Bob Odenkirk makes me laugh in ways ver y few people can I was sad that Friday Night Light’ s lovable nerd Landr y will be forever ruined in my eyes by playing a creepy child-murdering Neo-Nazi When does Mad Men come back again?

8 Racially Diverse Emojis Will Be Here Soon Apple has just released a new, more diverse array of emojis to developers and they will be available to the iPhone-using public in about a month Now ever yone will be able to give thumbs up in whatever color they feel represents their thumb best Except for those of us with ver y pale, freckled thumbs There is still no redheaded emoji Gingerism is real (It’s not)

9. Who Is Amber Rose?

Why do I know this woman ’ s name? Why am I now talking about her too? Is there really a feud about if Amber Rose or Kim Kardashian is more promiscuous? What? Why? What? Who is Tyga? Why? WHY?

10. Is America Ready To Stop Talking About 50 Shades of Grey Yet? I sure hope so I’m getting pretty bored So, new topic?

Wrestling Heads to Lehigh to Compete in EIWA Championships

WRESTLING

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there were many standout moments in which he felt especially proud of his men

“One particularly exceptional performance was when [sophomore] Brian Realbuto dominated No 1 Dylan Ness of Minnesota ” Throughout the season, seniors, freshmen and coaches alike change and improve in many ways Koll noted that as a whole, the Red’s performance has evolved and developed since the first match in November

“I don’t believe there is one specific area where we have improved more than another, although our performance has dramatically improved It took

longer than normal for this team to hit it stride because we didn’t have our entire starting lineup on the mat until mid Januar y, ” Koll said

With a season record of only two losses, it is important to note that the team did not boast a full lineup until the second semester The squad’s success despite this handicap is a testament to the strong work ethic, athleticism and coaching skills of the Cornell wrestlers

The men have one week off before they travel to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to face off against Lehigh University (14-6) for the EIWA Championships

Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun com

G Y M N A S T I C S

Red Falls to Last Place at Ivy Classic Meet, Places Fourth

By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer

results coming out of its meets Star ting with its meet against the University of Pennsylvania, Ursinus College and West Chester University, the team came in third out of the four teams Howe ve r, t

week The team came in first place at the Big Red Invitational, but feel back to third in its m

Ur s i n u s College and Mar yland With var ying results, Cornell was uncer tain coming into the Ivy Classic, which took place this past weekend

The Ivy Classic was a meet between four of the Ivy teams from Brown University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Though the Red ended up finishing in last place, the team posted its second highest score of the year, finishing with a total score of 191 175 It also had three Top-Five individual finishers, including freshmen Cour tney Spitzer and Joy Gage, who both placed third in different events Gage earned her third place title on the beam when she finished with a score of 9 675, while Spitzer earned the third place title on bars when she finished with a score of 9 800

Like Spitzer and Gage, various other Red gymnastics also had successful meets Junior Alicia Bair was the team ’ s top finisher on the vault, where she placed sixth with a score of 9 675 Sophomore Alexandria Bourgeois and

Junior Sara Schupp followed closely behind Bair tied for ninth place on the vault Both women earned a score of 9 650 Some of the other Top-10 finishers included junior Kaylee C

Molotsky finished with a 9 725 on floor, earning the eighth place title, while Cronin placed 10th on the beam with a final score of 9 600

Though the Red took last place, the meet was close when it came to overall scores The Red finished closely behind Yale, who ended the meet in third place with a final score of 192 225 Brown placed second, finishing the day with a final score of 193 425 and the Penn finished in first place with a final score of 193 725 The Red was just within three points of the winning team

“ While [Sunday] was not our best per formance, we had some amazing individuals routines As a team this was a solid per formance and puts us in a much better position for nationals,” said junior captain Hannah Clark “A loss is always disappointing, but we are still on the hunt and watch out for later in the season This season ’ s motto is, ‘Be better, be red(er)’ and that's exactly what we plan to do ”

Putting its loss behind them, the Red is looking for ward to its upcoming season Its n

William & Mar y at Teagle Hall in Ithaca, Ne w York

Lynch, Westbrook Don’t Engage in Media Coverage

impulsive anger, but still show the nature of some athletes’ view on overexposing media coverage

me respect him more So much of the sports world these days is dictated by business and press coverage Lynch, who generally likes to promote his own “Beast Mode” brand more than any other major sports brand, does not play along with these games In the modern era of sports, star athletes are quick to try to sign to the biggest commercial brand or to build up an image for fans Lynch doesn’t care about all of that He just seems to care about his own status as one of the best running backs in the league In an interview w i t h f o o t b a l l roy a l t y De i o n Sanders, Lynch actually answered questions about his media image while sporting a hoodie and sunglasses Sanders asked is Lynch was “ a little shy,” and Lynch answered with, “I’m just about that action, boss ”

You have to respect that, especially when that action leads to results Much of Marshawn Lynch’s behavior is rooted in his history

The star back grew up in a broken h o m e i n Oa k l a n d , C a l i f o r n i a

Being great at sports was his way to escape poverty and have a brighter future than the streets of the neighborhood he grew up in This is a common history for many star athletes, but Lynch did not conform as many others did He does not display the vanity that can come with stardom; he just cares about being “about the action ” Marshawn Lynch is not the sole example of an athlete whose media presence is less than friendly In fact, many great players in various professional spor ts leagues have developed reputations as thugs or “bad boys” as a result of their interactions with media during their playing careers

A b e t t e r e x a m p l e i s Ru s s e l l

Westbrook, who has recently started having Marshawn Lynch-like post game interactions with the media After a career night of 17 points, 17 assists and 15 rebounds, Westbrook seemed annoyed when speaking to media in the locker

n e t t e d t h e f i r s t g o a l f o r t h e R e d j u s t 2 1 s e c o n d s i n t o t h e s t a r t o f t h e g a m e S o p h o m o r e m i d f i e l d e r A m i e D i c k s o n h a d a s t r o n g g a m e , e a r n i n g a

t o t a l o f f i v e p o i n t s f o r t h e R e d “ [ D i c k s o n ] i s p l a y i n g a t a w h o l e n e w l e v e l t h i s s p r i n g w h i c h i s s u p e r e x c i t i n g [ S h e ] h a s a l w a y s h a d a t e r r i f i c e y e f o r f i n d i n g h e r t e a m m a t e s i n t h e a t t a c k i n g e n d a n d c r e a t i n g s c o r i n g o p p o r t u n it i e s , ” s a i d Gr a a p “ T h e b i g d i f f e r e n c e a g a i n s t Te m p l e w a s h e r c o n f i d e n c e a t t a c k i n g t h e n e t S h e w a s c o m p o s e d i n s i d e t h e e i g h t a n d f i n i s h e d r e a l l y w e l l o n h e r s h o t s ” S e n i o r g o a l i e C a r l y Gn i e w e k , a l o n g w i t h f e l l o w g o a l t e n d e r, s o p h o m o r e R e n e e Po u l l o t t , s a w p l a y i n g t i m e E a c h a l l o w e d f o u r g o a l s St a y i n g t r u e t o i t s i m p r e s s i v e r e p u t at i o n i n t h e w o r l d o f c o l l e g e s p o r t s , t h e t e a m ’ s 3 0 0 t h a l l - t i m e v i c t o r y i s a f e a t t o b e p r o u d o f “ T h e C o r n e l l l a c r o s s e t r a d i t i o n i s s o s t r o n g a n d w e a r e p r o u d t o c a r r y o n t h e

Some classic examples include tirades from well-known players l i k e De n n i s Ro d m a n o f t h e Chicago Bulls and Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers Both had lows in their careers after attacking cameramen when they pried into the players’ business too much Those incidents were sparked more by

e f f o r t s o f s o m a n y a t h l e t e s a n d c o a c h e s w h o c a m e b e f o r e u s , ” s a i d Gr a a p “ O u r

c u r r e n t p l a y e r s a n d c o a c h i n g s t a f f a r e g r a t e f u l t o t h o s e l a c r o s s e p l a y e r s w h o w o r e t h e ‘ C ’ i n t h e 1 9 7 0 ’ s a n d e a r l y ‘ 8 0 ’ s , w h e n w o m e n ’ s a t h l e t i c s w a s j u s t b e g i n n i n g t o t a k e a f o o t h o l d o n c o l l e g e

room and followed up each question directed at him with, “We did a g o o d j o b e xe c u t i n g ” Ad d i t i o n a l l y, We s t b ro o k h a d another interaction where he was so upset with a question he was asked that he just turned around, said a racial slur and walked away The face of disgust that the star point guard made at that moment has now become a popular internet meme

The actions of Marshawn Lynch and Russell Westbrook may seem childlike and arrogant, but they say something about the role of media in modern sports It may be ironic coming from me as I write this in a popular collegiate media source, but I would side with the players that stand against extreme media presence Players like Lynch and Westbrook just want to show up and do their jobs well, which they always do They do not care for the publicity as much as other stars They don’t have time to answer s t o c k q u e s t i o n s f ro m ro o k i e reporters asking about how they feel about X, Y and Z I do not blame them for their actions The sports world is becoming more and more consumed by paparazzi culture and I would love to see players all across various sports league play because it’s their passions and not for the fame

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun com In the modern era of sports, star athletes are quick to try to sign to the biggest commercial brand

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun com

c a m p u s e s ” S i n c e t h e p a s s a g e o f Ti t l e I X i n t h e s u m m e r o f 1 9 7 2 , t h e C o r n e l l w o m e n ’ s l a c r o s s e t e a m h a s f o s t e r e d a p r o g r a m d e d i c a t e d t o “ h a r d w o r k , d e d i c a t i o n a n d r e s p e c t ” T h e f i r s t I v y L e a g u e w o m e n ’ s l a c r o s s e t e a m , C o r n e l l ’ s c u rr e n t t e a m l o o k s t o m a k e m o r e h i s t o r y t h i s s e a s o n “ We h a v e a v e r y s t r

Men Drop Two Games in Weekend Ivy Series

Red struggles against Brown Bears and Yale Bulldogs on the road

By AMIR PATEL Sun Staff Writer

how we practice,” Courtney said

The Cornell men ’ s basketball team had a tough trip to New England over the weekend The Red dropped games to both Yale and Brown, leaving the squad standing with a 4-6 record in Ivy play and putting the Red in fifth place with just four more league games remaining

The Red took on Yale in a primetime matchup Friday evening The game featured two strong forwards and candidates for the All-Ivy team in Cornell’s senior Shonn Miller and Yale’s Justin Sears Miller scored nine points on 4/10 shooting while Sears racked up 12 points on 4/8 shooting The star front court players fought hard, but ultimately left both teams at an offensive draw, giving way for the guards to dominate the offensive side of the ball Cornell had two players in double figures with seniors guard Devin Cherry’s 17 points and senior guard Galal Cancer’s 19, and Yale saw guard Javier Duren lead the scoring with 13 points The Bulldogs took a seven-point lead going into halftime and ultimately pushed that lead to 11, winning, 62-51

The Red did just that and came out strong against the Bears, taking an 11-point lead into halftime That lead got as big as 17 points before the Bears began a comeback Early on, the Red was able to control the game ’ s pace and get into a solid offensive flow, hitting 46 percent of its shots in the first half That went down to 31 percent in the second half, while Brown had the opposite happen to them The Bears shot 34 percent in the first half and 46 percent in the second

“We weren ’ t able to score from many angles They did a good job of shutting down our game plan We didn’t execute, ” said head coach Bill Courtney

The Red was unable to establish much of a rhythm in the game, something that the squad had been doing well with in recent weeks Going into Saturday’s game against Brown, it was evident that the coaching staff wanted to make a point of controlling the pace of the game

“We wanted to keep playing our game We want to play

The game came down to the wire in the final few minutes, with Miller coming up big for the Red He hit a huge 3pointer with under four minutes to play, and followed that up by drawing a charge with just under a minute to go The Red was up, 56-55, when Brown forward Cedric Kuakumensah hit a runner to give the Bears the lead with 1 8 seconds remaining Shonn Miller’s last chance shot fell short

“It was a disappointing loss We played well for a lot of the time, but they came up when they had to, ” Courtney said

The loss was heartbreaking Not just from the shortterm perspective, but as a result of this loss, the Red haw been eliminated from competing for the Ivy League title and the NCAA tournament spot that comes with it However, the squad still has a chance of making a separate post-season tournament The Red will play host to Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend in its final two home games of the regular season

Men Struggle Against Northwestern,Women Beat Army

By JESSIE BROFSKY

The Cornell men ’ s and women ’ s tennis teams both saw success in their matches

t h i s p a s t w e e k e n d T h e m e n ’ s s q u a d clinched a victor y against Penn State while the women beat Army, 7-0 However, the men fell in their second match of the weekend against Northwestern, 4-2 The women ’ s second game against University of Mar yland was cancelled due to poor weather conditions

The men of the Red played against and beat Penn State on Saturday and lost to Nor thwestern on Sunday Head coach

Silviu Tanasoiu said that he felt that the team was fortunate to be playing against Big-10 caliber schools and that he believes the Red can be ver y competitive with

t h e m , a s t h e y h a v e b e e n i m p r ov i n g tremendously Penn State had just qualified, along with 15 other teams in the c o u n t r y, f o r t h e Na t i o n a l In d o o r

Championships

“ We were able to pull a great win against Penn state and although they are a ver y good team, I can ’ t say we are surprised to beat them we are getting better as well,”

Tanasoiu said

Meanwhile, the women ’ s team defeated Army at West Point on Saturday, making

this its second win of the season The squad now has a record of 2-5

“Our team has been working extremely hard all year, and it was a great feeling to see all of that hard work pay off this past weekend when we won all of our matches against Army,” said sophomore Kristin Quill “ This past weekend, our team did a great job of competing hard and fighting for ever y point while also enjoying ourselves on the court ”

The men ’ s team had a ver y close match against Northwestern, but fell short by two points against the Wildcats Northwestern won four out of the five singles matches and Cornell won two out of the three dou-

bles matches

“It came down [to] the wire and it was a matter of a few points It doesn’t take anything away from how well we are playing and I still think we are far away from where we can be There is still a lot of progress that can be made,” Tanasoiu said

While the women ’ s match scheduled for Sunday against Mar yland was cancelled due to the bad weather conditions, their match on Saturday was strong all around The team won all of its matches, which consisted of six single matches and three double matches

“As the season progresses we ’ ve been coming together more and more and against Army we just went out there with c o n f i d e n c e ,

e g r a Hanlon “ We knew what we wanted and how to get it and I’m proud of our team for just killing it I know we ’ re going to keep improving and hopefully continue to accumulate wins ” The men ’ s squad had four of its players suffer an unfor tunate car accident on Nov 28, 2014 Two of these players participated in the matches this weekend and one has been training Despite the difficulties the team has experienced as a result of the accident, its still has a great dynamic and is grateful to be able to represent Cornell

“ We are the closest team you’ll meet in college tennis and all of my teammates helped me give ever ything I could this past weekend You can ’ t ask for anything better than hearing your best friends battling with and cheering for you, ” said sophomore Dylan Brown

Be i n g a b o u t h a l f w a y t h ro u

respective seasons, both the men ’

and women ’ s squads face exciting prospects in the coming weeks The men will next play Old Dominion University and the women will play East Tennessee State University this coming weekend

Spor ts

Men Fall to Iowa, Finish Third at National Duals

By HANNAH NOYES Sun Staff Writer

This weekend marked a pivotal point in the season for the Cornell wrestling team The Red faced off against some of the most successful teams in the countr y in National Duals Athletes representing the University of

Iowa, the University of Missouri, Ohio State University, the University of Minnesota, Lehigh University, the University of Illinois, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and, of course, Cornell University traveled to the University of Iowa in Iowa City to compete in preparation for the NCAA Finals

The team had a successful weekend, but sadly could

Pressing the Professionals

not claim the first place title Finishing third, the team ended the dual meet season with a total of 17 wins and only two losses, one of which came this weekend against the University of Iowa (17-1) While the men were hoping to leave the season with only one loss on their record, Head Coach Rob Koll said that the performance was overall extremely strong “ We didn’t get the results we desired but it wasn ’ t for a lack of effort We faced a tough team in an incredibly hostile environment The match was excellent preparation for the NCAA tournament, ” Koll said

Consistency is something to be valued for a team with a winning record such as Cornell’s

Fr o m w e e k t o week, Koll insists t h a t e a c h o p p onent, regardless of rank or record, is not to be belittled

“We didn’t get the results we desired but it wasn’t for a lack of effort. We faced a tough team ”

a n d e v e r y m a n must go into the meet with an attitude and motivation for excellence

“Both our prospective opponents, Minnesota, then Iowa if we won, are extremely big and physical teams We tried our best to ready our guys for a fight,” Koll said

On top of keeping an aggressive mentality, it is vastly important to stay uninjured at this point in the season With the championship meet coming up in only a few short weeks, Koll said that he is happy to see no injuries from the weekend

“I am thankful that the squad made it through the weekend without any serious injuries ” Despite knowing that it was a going to be a difficult weekend, Koll said that he understands that the final results were not what the team had hoped for However,

Red Wins Season Opener Against Temple, Earns 300th All-Time Win

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By BEN DENSON Sun Staff Writer

With five goals and one assist, senior co-captain and attacker Lindsay Toppe helped the Cornell women ’ s lacrosse team win its season opener against Temple University (3-1), 17-8 Cornell (1-0) notched the program ’ s 300th all-time victory The game was called with 7:17 left on the clock due to unplayable field conditions

Despite a mound of heavy snow, the Red’s defense was impeccable in the premature victory

pick and roll play in the offensive end, good things are going to happen ” With 18 goals on 32 shots, Cornell’s offensive production overwhelmed the Owls, leading to Temple’s first loss of the season Senior attacker Lindsay Toppe

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“Collectively, we played hard for 53 minutes and were ready to play seven more, ” said senior midfielder Sarah Hefner

“When one of our defenders fell hard battling for a ground ball, the referees decided that the conditions weren ’ t playable ”

Head coach Jenny Graap explained that her squad is prepared to play in these sorts of conditions, and did well as a result

“Typically the slippery [weather] conditions favor the offense and Cornell was fortunate to dominate the draw control which gave us more offensive possessions throughout the contest, ” she said

With control on a wet field, the Red cruised to an easy victory over Temple Cornell was particularly strong on draw control, highlighted by Hefner’s dominance in face offs

“Not only is she a skilled draw taker, she is also one of our most creative attackers and most disciplined defenders,” said Graap “When ‘Hef ’ is involved in a play, whether it’s a double team in the midfield or a