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Humanities Students Take On Additional ‘Practical’ Minors

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

This article is the second in a series about the state of humanities at Cornell, as part of The Daily Sun Dialogues, a new digital project launched this week Read more about the state of humanities at dialogues cornellsun com

This semester, Maris Hansen ’16 is taking six classes astronomy, French, two courses on finance, one on comparative inequality and one on immigration policy But only the last two courses will go toward her government major; the rest, she said, are for her more “practical”

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Some Cornell students

s a i d t h e y a re o p e n t o changing the current three year law school model in favor of a two year-long model that emphasize clinical experiences

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year law student and president of the Cornell Law Students Association, said switching to a two-year model could be beneficial due to the high price of tuition

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could be worthwhile ” Harris, however, said he has benefitted from his third year of law school

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By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Sushmitha Krishnamoothy can be reached at sk2273@cornell edu

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c a re e r s T h i s t re n d i s n o t l i m i t e d t o C o r n e l l , a c c o rd i n g t o Pa u l i n e Yu , p re s i d e n t o f t h e A m e r i c a n C o u n c i l o f L e a r n e d So c i e t i e s , a n o n p ro fi t o r g a n i z a t i o n t h a t s e e k s t o s t re n g t h e n re l a t i o n s a m o n g h u m a n i t i e s s c h o l a r s “ I n m y c o n t a c t w i t h v a r i o u s p r o g r a m s a r o u n d t h e c o u n t r y, I h a v e h e a rd t h a t t h i s p h e n o m e n o n i s v e r y p o p u l a r w i t h s t u d e n t s i n t e r e s t e d i n h u m a n i t i e s w h o w a n t t o h e d g e t h e i r b e t s , ” Yu s a i d Pro f A n n e t t a A l e x a n d r i d i s , d i re c t o r o f u n d e r g r a d u a t e s t u d i e s f o r a r t h i s t o r y, s a i d s h e h a s s e e n m o re s t u d e n t s i n h e r d e p a r t m e n t d o u b l e - m a j o r i n c o m p u t e r s c i e n c e o r e c o n o m i c s i n re c e n t ye a r s So m e c h o o s e t o m a j o r i n t h o s e s u b j e c t s a n d k e e p a r t h i s t o r y a s a m i n o r, w h i c h s h e s a i d i s “ a w a y t o s a t i s f y t h e m s e l ve s a n d t h e i r p a re n t s ” Sh e s a i d , t h o u g h , t h a t a d e g re e i n a r t h i s t o r y c o u l d b e a t t r a c t i ve e ve n t o e m p l oye r s i n s c i e n c e , t e c h n o l o g y, m a t h e m a t i c s a n d e n g in e e r i n g f i e l d s “ T h i s m e n t a l t r a i n i n g w i t h i m a g e s i s s o m e t h i n g yo u n e e d i n t h e m e d i c a l c o m m u n i t y a n d i n t h e s c i e n c e s , a n d a s a n e c o n o m i s t , w h e re yo u ’ re o r g a n i z i n g i m a g e s t o b e u n d e r s t o o d , ” s h e s a i d “ Em p l oye r s w a n t p e o p l e w h o c a n t h i n k o u t s i d e t h e b ox ” Pro f Ab by C o h n , t h e d i re c t o r o f u n d e r g r a d u a t e s t u d i e s f o r l i ng u i s t i c s , s a i d w h i l e t h e n u m b e r o f m a j o r s i n h e r d e p a r t m e n t h a s s t a ye d f a i r l y c o n s t a n t a t a b o u t 1 5 s t u d e n t s , t h e y a re i n c re a s i n g l y a d d i n g c o m p u t e r s c i e n c e a s a s e c o n d m a j o r “ T h a t ’ s o n e o f t h e a re a s r i g h t o u t o f u n d e r g r a d w h e re t h e re a re a

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Calling for a Mental Health Partnership

FOLLOWING A STRING OF RECENT student deaths at the University of Pennsylvania, mental health has once again been catapulted to the forefront of the news at college campuses These tragedies have highlighted the continued need for mental health programs and services to maintain student wellbeing across the country Cornell’s increased focus on mental health programs and services in the last five years has been met with great success We call on the Ivy League universities, including Cornell, to exchange ideas on how to improve and expand mental health resources available to students

Since 2010, when three Cornell students committed suicide, our University has been committed to expanding mental health services With the goal of providing students with a variety of ways to seek help, Gannett has implemented new programs, such as online counseling, to complement existing resources like Counseling and Psychological Services and the Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service Cornell has also been committed to fostering collaboration between students, faculty and staff through the Executive Committee on Campus Health and Safety, which is tasked with deciding on the “best practices” for mental health issues at the University The programs Cornell has adopted are a solid start to combating mental health issues on the Hill If all eight Ivies join together to battle these problems, the collaboration could lead to stronger and more expansive mental health services across the League We imagine that formalizing a conversation on mental health between the Ivy League campuses could provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among the schools to help prevent future losses

We encourage the universities in the Ivy League to provide students with a variety of mental health resources including student-to-student counseling, faculty and student committees and professional counseling In an editorial last month, The Brown Daily Herald criticized its university’s practices The Herald’s editors argued a peer counseling program would benefit those students who may be uncomfortable with the idea of professional counseling Last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian called for the University of Pennsylvania to diversify its new Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare by including students, as well as faculty, in the conversation about mental health support on Penn’s campus We agree with our counterparts at Penn and Brown that peer participation and input are critical to addressing the mental health problems college students currently face We must be proactive, offering a diverse set of support programs created with students, for students before tragedies occur

An Ivy League coalition would serve to advance this goal While all of the institutions in the Ivy League have made strides to improve mental health practices on their campuses, each university still has the potential for continuous growth We call on all eight Ivy League institutions to band together and draw inspiration from one another, evaluating old and new mental health programs to determine what methods work and which should be changed or expanded to best serve students Through such a partnership, we can strive to prevent tragedies at all of our institutions

Humanities: A s Necessar y Today

a s Yesterday

The great writer, literary scholar and Cornell professor, Vladimir Nabokov –– who also happened to be a scientist –– said in a 1962 interview, “During my years of teaching literature at Cornell and elsewhere, I demanded of my students the passion of science and the patience of poetry ” While the debates about STEM versus the humanities continue, I am left thinking about how great it would be if more institutions of higher learning embraced both in the way we always have at Cornell

Upon my return to the College of Arts and Sciences to serve as dean, I was struck by what has remained constant in the thirty years since I graduated from the University

We h a ve a s t ro n g , interdisciplinary academic community that is constantly generati n g n e w i d e a s We have excellent, dedicated teachers who challenge students to expand their imaginations and sharpen their critical and creative responses to all they encounter We enroll impressive, independent and diverse students and scholars who are on their own paths to discovery The College of Arts and Sciences is and has always been a college of ideas, imagination and discovery, whether we are teaching chemistry, physics, government or Romance studies

I am reminded of another legendary Cornell professor, Carl Sagan, who wrote, “It is an exhilarating experience to read poetry and observe its correlation with modern science Profound scientific thought is hardly a rarity among the poets ” That link between imagination and discovery in the humanities and sciences is expressed today in a popular University course, Histor y 1700: The History of Exploration: Land, Sea and Space It is co-taught by Prof Mary

Be t h No r t o n , h i s t o r y, a n d Pro f St e ve Squyres, astronomy

Interdisciplinary collaboration and scholarship is in our DNA as a university, and the humanities and related social sciences have as much relevance in addressing our most pressing challenges as the STEM disciplines do Maybe that’s why we haven’t seen a decline in humanities majors to the extent that other colleges have experienced in this country Though we did see a decrease in

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2011, the number of majors in the humanities is ticking back upward However, we will not know if there has been a longerterm shift towards the STEM disciplines until a few years from now But whether they are English majors, economics majors or physics majors, I remain optimistic that our students come to Cornell for the great liberal arts education they receive here

As society confronts urgent world problems, it is worth remembering that humanists often raise more questions than answers: Asking questions is a powerful way to engage the public in thinking through some of our most pressing issues The great Nobel Prizewinning novelist Toni Morrison M A ’55 once wrote, “There is really nothing more to say except ‘why ’ But since ‘why’ is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how ’”

We often think that our grand challenges of the day rely solely on breakthroughs in science and technology However, many of our greatest challenges are fundamentally human: the erosion of public ethics, the fraying of a shared public discourse, the g row

declining commitment to liberal culture and arts and a crisis of confidence in a shared and improved future These pressing concerns beg for engagement by humanists

Humanities education –– as part of a broader liberal arts education is as necessar y today as it was yesterday and the day before It is the education of the whole person, and a wholly educated public is the foundation for a wholly informed electorate The humanities are necessar y not only for the creation of democracy, but also f o

However, the humanities ser ve more than civic participation The humanities challenge us to see the world through other perspectives That experience fosters empathy, compassion, creativity, clarity of expression and deep understanding qualities that must be in play when working to solve the world's great problems

Gretchen Ritter 83 is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences This column is part of the Daily Sun Dialogues, a new digital project launched this week Read more at dialogues cornellsun com

Opposing minimum wage increases

To the Editor:

Re: “Cornell Divided Over Effects of Potential Minimum Wage Increase,” News, Feb 24

While most economists and businessmen make it clear that raising the minimum wage will impact the economy negatively, their protestations and well-reasoned arguments often fall on deaf ears and closed minds

Perhaps it’s time to approach the argument from a different angle

If the minimum wage is increased as desired, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that 16 5 million jobs will experience pay increases, while 500,000 jobs will be cut by 2016 It is morally repugnant for anyone to use these findings to justify the proposed minimum wage increase The more important point is that a half-million wage earners will experience a 100percent wage decrease and become destitute

Since when is it the government ’ s role to force people out of work in order to win political clout?

Only in a collectivist, utilitarian paradigm is it acceptable to sacrifice one group for the sake of another Would advocates of this interventionist measure support a law that sacrificed one million jobs to employ 33 million people at an even higher wage? Would they support leaving two million people unemployed to raise the economic lots of 66 million others?

They would decry such measures as going too far and hurting too many, even though this would result in the same proportion of jobs being killed to jobs being improved as the proposed wage increases would The difference is only a matter of scale, but each uses the same absurd logic

While utilitarian arithmetic is sometimes tempting, the end result is always misery for some arbitrary group for no other reason than political gain elsewhere In no way is the proposed minimum wage increase compatible with free markets and non-utilitarian morality

Casey Breznick ’17

Sam Ritholtz | Sans Pants

We Do-Gooders May Not Be Doing Good

One random day in July 2012, I sat in an non-governmental organization’s office in Tanzania and stared at a wall, bored This boredom crushed me I had such a strong desire to make an impact in the community, and on that day, in that specific moment, I was doing nothing No one needed my help After reflecting with my program ’ s coordinator on that moment of frustration, I realized how foolish I had been No one needed my help because no one needed me With my Western, privileged notion of working in Africa, I had failed to consider that I had no tangible skills to offer I was an undergraduate with a very minimal skill set, and on that day, those skills were of no use The coordinator reminded me that this organization had functioned without me before I had arrived, and it would continue to function without me once I left My purpose was to listen and learn from my Tanzanian peers and be of assistance when possible: My responsibility was to be conscious of my presence and its repercussions

This formative moment, coupled with other experiences from that trip and others, have completely developed my view of how students from elite, Western institutions should work and behave in Africa In short, students must be aware of how their presence affects the communities they work with, educated on the historical situations that allow them the privileged opportunity to visit and cognizant of the true extent of their abilities to “help ” Students working or volunteering abroad can positively impact the communities they work with, but this positive impact comes from them acting as students ready to learn and understand, not as harbingers of change When visiting a foreign community, we must realize our roles and limitations as guests

In Tuesday’s paper, Daniel Lumonya grad wrote, “Too often the Western academic community has been complicit in reinforcing structures of power that produce depravity ” I agree to the highest extent with Lumonya, and I fundamentally

S t u d e n t s wo r k i n g o r v o l u n t e e r i n g a b r o a d c a n p o s i t i v e l y

i m p a c t t h e c o m m u n i t i e s t h e y wo r k w i t h , b u t t h i s p o s i -

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believe that Cornell University can do more to responsibly channel the altruism of its student body As Cornell makes access to traveling abroad more available, it must also implement protocols that help prevent students from promoting harmful power dynamics when they visit with a skewed sense of mission In Tanzania, the Cornell staff recognized Cornell’s responsibility to educate us to be mindful participants in the program In the past two years, it has become significantly easier for student groups to extend their volunteer work on campus to communities abroad Now, we must think critically about ways to ensure that these students act in an ethical, educated manner

As an institution, Cornell has already established mechanisms to engage in an ethical analysis of the work it sponsors Whenever a researcher at Cornell wishes to conduct a study involving human participants, the proposed study must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board, which is also known as the Independent Ethics Committee The IRB reviews these proposals based on the ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence and justice Should the IRB deem a study to do more harm than good or to unfairly help those in a more privileged position, the IRB will reject the proposal Why is there no institutional organization that ethically questions proposed service-learning initiatives?

The similarities between research with human subjects and service-learning initiatives are evident, since service-learning is based on the fundamental belief that students can learn from service experiences that inherently involve interactions with other human beings Thus, if we can ethically question the effects of educational pursuits in a research setting, we can certainly do the same for educational pursuits in a service setting The three ethical principles followed by the IRB still apply and can certainly serve as a starting point for any new organization If a student’s plan to work in a community fails to respect the members of that community, benefits only the visiting Cornell students or does harm to that community, why should Cornell pay for that program?

I do not wish to punish anyone by adding more bureaucracy to Cornell, but we should have enough foresight by now to recognize that much of the harm inflicted by students from elite, Western institutions in the developing world can be prevented Our work should be monitored, and there are already existing organizations on campus that can provide this necessary review Funding structures that are in place should include a necessary ethical review, and students should be challenged on all funding applications to highlight any potential ethical dilemmas associated with their trip Change on this front will not occur overnight, but that does not mean we should wait until tomorrow

Sam Ritholtz is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at sritholtz@gmail com Sans Pants appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

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Two Cents: Tweeting About Science

By KATHLEEN

Why did you join Twitter? Was it originally for science outreach purposes?

I joined Twitter to be more often in touch with a larger number of scientists in the research community

Prof Alon Keinan biological statistics and computational biolog y Twitter was for purely recreation

Prof David Collum, chair of the chemistr y department

I joined Twitter to help me to reach a broader audience for communicating our research findings and outreach efforts ––– Prof Martin Wiedmann, food science

I originally joined Twitter to follow breaking news it’s much better than traditional news sites despite having a fair amount of junk along with good stories It took a while before I started using it to talk about science Now there seem to be a small number of academic chemists who actively use Twitter (and I suspect a bunch more who follow the discussion but do not post)

I have not yet used Twitter for scientific outreach – that is, promoting science to the general public It certainly could be used effectively for this purpose! – Prof William Dichtel, chemistr y

Based on your interactions on Twitter, do many of your followers seem to be interested in your research and area of expertise?

Yes, almost all of my followers are chemists or people who I know in real life –– Prof Dichtel

My followers mostly span computational biologists, geneticists, as well as scientists from other disciplines Most follow me based on their (presumed) interest in my research –– Prof Keinan

Absolutely, I don’t think anyone follows me to learn about the things going on in my life, or to learn about our obnoxious cat –– Prof Wiedmann

I have chemistr y followers, but if they are there for my chemistr y they are sorely disappointed ––– Prof Collum

How much do you talk about science news and/or your research on Twitter (versus other things going on in your life)? Two percent

I’d say the majority of my Twitter posts relates to science news, my research as well as the outreach and extension efforts of my group and my department as well as Cornell at large

Do you think Twitter is a good tool for science outreach and education? Would you encourage other scientists to start using Twitter?

Twitter is evolving to be a great tool for science outreach as it facilitates quick, daily discussions As always, there is a cost-effectiveness calculation to be performed in deciding whether to use twitter and how often –– Prof Keinan

I think Twitter is a good tool for science outreach and education and I would encourage others to start using Twitter I actually taught a class in 2013 where all students had to join Twitter and post at least one tweet a week as I am convinced that a good scientists should know how to communicate their findings in short form Somehow most students didn’t like it –– Prof Wiedmann

I would imagine Twitter would be great for science Twitter is great for any identifiable community (economics, fantasy football, etc)

Prof Collum

In theor y, yes, although I don’t use it for this purpose For me, it’s a way to browse science news, inject a small amount of my own commentar y, and to promote my work I certainly encourage other scientists to join the conversation and find their own ways to use Twitter within their privacy comfort level and their time constraints –– Prof Dichtel

By SOFIA HU

Sun Staff Writer

Imagine the billions of photos uploaded online onto platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Flickr While many are silly cat photos, all of these photographs can be collected and analyzed for information

Prof Noah Snavely, computer science, is developing algorithms to automatically extract information from large image collections Using a range of computer vision techniques, his research can analyze objects and scenes from photos downloaded from the Internet, from a famous piece of architecture to a taxi cab

Take, for example, the Parthenon in Rome Swarms of tourists visit the temple

Prof. Noah Snavely Uses Your Photos to Model the World

throughout the year, photographing and uploading the images onto the Internet

Collectively, photos shared online “ are an amazing source of visual data,” Snavely said, because even though they represent images taken by millions of different people, the algorithms he designs can incorporate these images together and sew the photographs into a single 3-dimensional model of a building or even a city

Snavely and his colleagues have done exactly that with models of landmarks around the world, including iconic Italian buildings, in his work on matching and reconstructing massive photo collections, including his “Building Rome in a Day” project from 2009

Snavely has also released Bundler, an open

source software that also creates 3D models from 2D photographs, on GitHub

Researchers have used Bundler not only in computer science, but also in ecology and archaeology, Snavely said

Building 3D models from large image collections is only the beginning of the potential applications of computer vision, according to Snavely

“Longer term, we want to build tools that can use all the world’s photos for scientific and forensic applications,” Snavely said “For instance, if you want to do an ecological study of a city like New York, can we use the billions of consumer images of the city to track the health of every tree in the city? If a bridge collapses, can we make tools for quickly digging through the photographic record online

to help find the cause?”

Snavely has also worked on techniques that determine where a photo was taken and on OpenSurfaces, a software that analyzes and annotates the surface properties of consumer products like kitchen countertops and floors The OpenSurfaces project was a collaboration with Prof Kavita Bala, computer science, Sean Bell grad, and Paul Upchurch grad

The algorithms involved in computer vision need to be able to understand how different images overlap, identify outlier images, and recognize the objects in the photos According to Snavely, a key problem in computer vision is object recognition It is a longstanding challenge for algorithms to accurately figure out what objects are in the photograph, and it is harder still when the photo itself is the only source of information

In his NYC3DCars project, Snavely improved the process of object recognition by coupling photos of New York City with information about where and when the photos were taken If the software knows where the image was taken, then it can better recognize which parts of the photograph are roads, and from there where you expect to see cars, and hence put the objects in perspective with each other and with the rest of the world

“Applying this method to millions of online photos, we could start to do things like understand traffic patterns in New York purely from online images,” Snavely said

The wealth of visual data has greatly benefited computer vision researchers, according to Snavely Having more access to photographs and information through the Internet has allowed researchers to develop larger-scale and better computer vision algorithms

“When you talk to vision researchers who have been around for a while, they talk about how in the early days your algorithm was a success if it worked on three images,” Snavely said “Now some computer vision research is running on millions or even billions of images, which has only been possible because of the Internet ”

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Prof. Greg Fuchs Looks

At Magnetic Moments on the Nanoscale

By IAN MACCORMACK

Contributor

T h e p h y s i c a l w o r l d a t t h e nanoscale is full of rich phenomen a Un d

n d t a k i n g advantage of the physics of these tiny systems promises a multitude of advancements in the development of technology, according to Prof Gregor y Fuchs Ph D ’07, applied and engineering physics The only problem is that nanoscale systems are extremely hard to see Fu c h s s e

images of the relative direction of a magnet ’ s north pole to its south

p o l e , k n ow n a s i t s m a g n e t i c moment The magnetic moment

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

m a g n e t i c f i e l d , a c c o rd i n g t o Fuchs

“[ We are] tr ying to find ways to image literally take pictures of magnetization dynamically

So not just a static picture,” Fuchs

said “ We want to take a picture of the magnetic moment on the correct fundamental scale, both in space and in time ” The challenge, according to Fuchs, is rooted in the sheer tiny

s i z e o f i n d i v i d u a l m a g n e t i c moments, and the rate at which they change

This means that the device they use to look at the magnetic moments must be a high enough resolution to focus on extremely small areas

“ Ta k i n g a p i c t u re a t t h e s e scales is really hard, and I can tell you right now that we haven’t done that yet, ” Fuchs said Currently, techniques for this k i n d o f m a g n e t i c i m a g i n g d o exist, using a method involving what is called XMCD, or X-ray

m a g n e t i c c i r c u l a r d i c h r o i s m How e v e r, X M C D t e c h n i q u e s involve the use of ver y high energy X-rays, which can only be produced by a particle accelerator, according to Fuchs

“In order to use that technique, unfortunately, you have to go to a synchrotron It’s a facility-

anchored experiment My hope is to be able to do this with things that you can put on a table,” Fuchs said

Fuchs and his group have been d e v e l o p i n g m e t h o d s f o r s u rmounting this challenge He is e x p l o i t i n g w h a t i s c a l l e d t h e

Anomalous Nernst Effect a phenomenon in which an electricity-conducting material is subjected to a particular set of conditions, notably a high temperature at a small point

This generates a small voltage, w h i c h p r ov i d e s i n f o r m a t i o n about the size and orientation of t h e m a g n e t i c m o m e n t T h i s information corresponds to an image on film, which is laid parallel to the experiment

“ What we do now is use a laser to warm up a region,” Fuchs said, “and then we use electrical pickups to pick up this small voltage If we can figure out ways to heat a smaller region, then we can increase the resolution That’s the b a s i c i d e a o f o u r m a g n e t i c s research ”

O n c e f u l l y d e v e l o

Fuchs group ’ s methods for imagi n g m a g n e t i z a t i o n w i l l b e a n invaluable utility for creating new technology

“ We’re not working towards a really direct application there

i s n ’ t a d e v i c e , ” Fu c h s s a i d

“Instead it’s a tool If you have this tool, you can start to answer questions you couldn’t ask before, which is really useful in the development of technology ”

The ability to view magnetization at a small scale will open new doors in information processing a n d a va r i e t y o f o t h e r f i e l d s , according to Fuchs

For his innovative research in t h e a re a o f m a g n e t i s m , t h e Department of Defense awarded Fu c h s t h e Pre s i d e n t i a l E a r l y Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The awards are given a n n u a l l y a t a c e re m o n y i n Washington D C for outstanding c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o s c i e n t i f i c research

PROF. FUCHS

Either spin or electronic systems – isolated ones, ” Fuchs said His other areas of research

h a v e p o t e n t i a l a p p l i c a t i o n s i n electronic sensing, solar power, information storage, and more

“Ever ything is an interesting p r o b l e m , ” Fu c h s s a i d

“Ever ything that I have actually gotten involved in, I have found exciting It’s the enthusiasm that keeps you going for ward Then things just happen from there ”

Ian MacCormack can be reached at idm8cornell edu

In addition to his work in magnetism, Fuchs has other areas of inquir y “ The theme of my research is i n d i v i d u a l n a n o s c a l e s y s t e m s

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

T h e S u n ’ s O s c a r P re d i ct i o n s

SHOULD WIN: LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Leonardo DiCaprio’s turn as Jordan Belfort in Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is easily his fourth or fifth Oscar-affording performance, and though the Sun can understand why the Academy thinks “there’s always next year ” for Leo he has been playing twenty-something year-olds since the ’90s the injustice we are predicting for 2014 is going to be the impetus of a Daily Sun Arts section communal weeping and Leo Deo drinking game Rules: Watch The Departed, or Blood Diamond, or Revolutionary Road, or Django Unchained; drink every time it’s obvious that if it hasn’t happened yet, it’s not happening now

Kaitlyn

Best Actor WILL WIN: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Tiffany

Best Picture

SHOULD WIN: NEBRASKA

From Bruce Dern’s mysterious silhouette to the monochrome that adorns the entirety of the film, Nebraska is a film with a tenderness that the other films in this category do not possess Alexander Payne makes this road movie as uncomfortable as road trips usually are (car seat butt, anyone?) while wrestling with the motifs of depression, disappointment and death These big thematic “D”s still leave ample room for genuine comedic humdrum and Nebraska should give 12 Years a Slave a run for its money But in the amalgamated opinion of the Sun

WILL WIN: 12 YEARS A SLAVE

12 Years a Slave is a top contender for Best Picture this year that caters more to Oscar voters than the average viewer The film is by far the hardest one to stomach out of the nine nominations this year However, its ending is the most cathartic Although at times resembling too much of a documentary shown in a history class, 12 Years a Slave is riveting, emotional and courageous all at the same time In a year that director Steve McQueen and actors Chiwetel Ejiorfor and Lupita Nyong’o all face stiff competition, this film as a whole is definitely the Oscars’ cup of tea

Charley Du

The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Era Today, we are living through the McConaissance Since 2011’s The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey has redefined his public image from hollow matinee idol to down-and-dirty method thespian They say a pay cut follows, but McConaughey now has trophies aplenty to fill the void that keeps us mere mortals up at night Following wins from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and critics groups across the country, an Oscar sure seems likely, especially with his snub for 2012’s Magic Mike still on the Academy voter ’ s conscience It also just so happens he does incredible work in Dallas Buyers Club, where he plays Ron Woodroof, an early AIDS patient defying the medical industry Too much ink has already been spilled on his 45-pound weight loss at the Globes, Tina Fey joked the loss was “what actresses call ‘being in a movie’” so, instead, note the urgency McConaughey brings to Woodroof ’ s eyes as he thinks up a plan to keep himself, and others, alive It’s a smart, dynamic, embodied performance from a man who we are glad has seen the light Zachary Zahos

Best Supporting Actor

SHOULD WIN: JARED LETO WILL WIN: JARED LETO

Dallas Buyers Club should win an Oscar If it gets stiffed in its other categories it will take home guaranteed gold at least for the real-life glorious mane of ombré hair fitted atop star Jared Leto one that has every Rachel Bilson-wannabe green with envy As a transgender accomplice in smuggling unapproved AIDS treatments, Leto’s acting also proved to be critically acclaimed, garnering him numerous awards, including ones at the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice We are sure that, come Mar 2, Leto will be able to flip his hair and call himself a winner again

Zoe Kaplan

SHOULD WIN: CATE BLANCHETT WILL WIN: CATE BLANCHETT

At this point, Woody Allen has become predictable enough in his penchant for neurotic protagonists, but Cate Blanchett brings a hilarious originality to her role in Blue Jasmine as Jasmine French, a Xanax-popping, vodka-chugging ex-Manhattan socialite recovering from a recent mental breakdown Jasmine is pompous and entitled, yet Blanchett takes us beyond these flaws to show a strikingly compelling and vulnerable woman unable to overcome the loss of her old life Blanchett has already won both a BAFTA and Golden Globe this year for her role in the film, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Martin Scorsese’s 2004 film, The Aviator The Arts section almost unanimously declared that she will follow up these awards with an Oscar Yana Lysenko

Best Supporting Actress

SHOULD WIN: LUPITA N’YONGO

There is no question that this past year ’ s most captivating performance came from Lupita N’yongo A rookie actress fresh out of Yale Drama School, N’yongo had a remarkable acting debut in one of the biggest and best films of the year, 12 Years a Slave While Chiwetel Ejiofor has gained critical acclaim for his performance as the stoic and respectable Solomon Northup, N’yongo was the emotional crux of the film, providing many of the most painful and saddening scenes to watch Critics need to look no further than her “ soap ” scene in 12 Years to see just how impressive her turn as Patsy was N’yongo shows a lot of promise in her ability to completely disappear into a role on the same level as Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet, and I hope to see more from this young starlet

Sean Doolittle

Whoever is advising JLaw on which roles to take is a genius Between Winter’s Bone, Silver Lining’s Playbook, The Hunger Games and now American Hustle, it’s hard to keep the young, outspoken actress out of the public eye While we love JLaw to death, and adore her slightly unhinged American Hustle character Rosalyn, her most recent performance didn’t blow us away like some of her others Critical love and the sleek sexiness of American Hustle will put Lawrence in heavy contention for the Oscar she already took home the Globe for the performance she doesn’t quite top our girl Lupita N’yongo in the category We won ’ t be sad if/when Lawrence wins (so many beautiful GIFs), but we won ’ t be fully satisfied either even if her win would make her just the fifth actor or actress to win an Oscar in two consecutive years

Arielle Cruz

Best Director

The revolutionary auteurism of Cuarón’s space film, in the words of A O Scott, “rewrites the rules of cinema as we have known them ” This is directing on a canvas hitherto unseen by a mainstream audience, and the virtuosity of the way Gravity has been staged, filmed, and assembled shows the Academy members a clear example of a master filmmaker at work Cuarón has an edge in this regard and if he wins, you will hear no complaints from The Sun We’ve been massive fans of his since, well, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (this just in: Alfonso Cuarón the only thing J K Rowling does not regret about the Potter franchise)

Mark DiStefano

S w i n g i n g S i n g l e s

“Le t ’ s G et Hi g h”

By Jael Goldfine

OEdward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

released their third studio album, claimed by frontman Alex Ebert to be “liberated and rambunctious,” late last summer to a lot of criticism The group has traditionally had a very folk-rooted, jangle-pop sound, putting the hippie in hipster, producing sprightly ballads with folky bigband arrangements, but in their new album this image is taken to a new and unfortunate, garishly peppy extreme

The track “Let’s Get High” is so onedimensionally bright and positive that it almost seems like a parody of the 1960’s festival scene: all hare krishna, bare feet and hand-holding The peace-and-love lyrics are cloying, nonsensical (“Don’t you know it don’t make no difference to blood/ it’s all kung-fu in the mud/ When we re high on love ), possibly racist (“Ain t we all just Japanese/ When we ’ re high) and not really about anything at all A bouncing, bubblegum beat backdrops Ebert’s absurd spiritual musings and pleas for universal love, but you have to give the man credit he has infectious energy

However, this track creates a nuanced style of folk music that was about a whole lot more than a good group high; Sharpe & the Zeros ought to have some respect E

R ea l Es t at e “C ri m e”

By Yana Lysenko

By James Rainis

Coldplay may have kickstarted their career by aping the best moments from Radiohead’s The Bends, but they’ve established themselves as pop rock’s top dogs with a sound that is opulent at its best and, at its worst, overstuffed So, when new single “Midnight” begins with icily pulsating synths and Chris Martin’s voice singing in stacked harmonies reminiscent of Bon Iver, you think it’s a matter of time before timpanis and violins introduce the stadium collapsing hook, but it never happens

t s h o u l d

For once, Coldplay shows restraint: the ticking tension resolves itself with a whisper rather than a shout, something they may have learned from collaborator Jon Hopkins and his darkly stunning 2013 ambient techno record Immunity Since it’s Coldplay, the melodies are almost offensively pretty, and Chris Martin beckons someone to “leave the light on ” with his trademark yearning falsetto

It’s a surprising move from a group that rarely strays from their winning formula; here’s to hoping that the next record sees more “Midnight”-style subtleties and less radio-baiting bombast

Taken With Liam Neeson: The Last Action Hero

n Sunday’s 60 Minutes, Liam Neeson opened up about the death of his wife, actress Natasha Richardson, five years after the fact If you do not recall the circumstances, she sustained a traumatic brain injury after falling on a ski slope at Mont Tremblant Among other things, Neeson said, “[Her death] was never real It still kind of isn’t There’re periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I’m going to hear her ”

Shot in tight close-up, the interview stands against the action star persona Neeson has fashioned for himself since 2008, when he sprinted down Parisian alleys, growled about his “ very particular set of skills” and made Taken into an unlikely hit

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p l a n t e d Neeson in the 60 Minutes hot seat to plug NonStop, which looks to be a very typical Neeson-kicking-ass vehicle set aboard a hijacked airplane, opening Friday What they got instead was an emotional confessional about the pain of loss and this rather candid aside about his unusual typecast: “I’m 61 years of age, man, you know? Going around, fighting these guys, yeah, I feel a wee bit embarrassed, you know?” He said something similar to Dublin station 98FM around the time of Taken 2’ s release, downplaying the probability of a third installment because his character’s daughter “ can ’ t get taken again that’s just bad parenting ”There will, of course, be a Taken 3, because you don’t just say no to a $20 million paycheck, but I would like to hone in on those words “bad parenting ” Tragedy foregrounds the important

things, in this case being a parent, both on- and off-screen As CIA agent Bryan Mills in Taken, Neeson turns into a kind of Super-Dad, singlehandedly bucking the human trafficking trade in order to prevent his daughter from becoming another crime statistic In the 2010 A-Team reboot, Neeson chomps a cigar for almost two hours as Hannibal Smith, the papa of a quartet of mercenaries who “loves it when a plan comes together These days, Neeson not only often plays the oldest member of an ensemble but its most assured, intelligent and dexterous one, too It must feel great even consoling, on a deeper level

The Neeson brand of middle-aged wish fulfillment appeals to male Baby Boomers who have children of their own and next to no chances to clock a two-

d i m e n s i o n a l bad guy in the face

More telling is the zeal with which

m i l l e n n i a l s at least, based on the sample pool I know have latched onto Neeson If I could venture a guess as to why I so wanted to see Taken when it came out, I would say irony had something to do with it: Old Oskar Schindler, shooting fools and jumping through windows? Sounds awful Let’s see it! As age and experience teach us, though, one invokes irony to mask feeling, especially feelings we may find embarrassing to share With the exception of Battleship and Wrath of the Titans, I have seen every Liam Neeson action movie since Taken So, why?

I see in Liam Neeson a father figure, one even greater than the individual characters he portrays I approach each new movie of his expecting pretty much the same guy, in that I do not

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much energy scrutinizing, say, what his motives are this time around In exchange for this dumbing down of character and abandonment of realism, I admire Neeson’s ever-growing mythology Old-school Hollywood used to sell movies this way, with a star ’ s name guaranteeing a certain personality in the character he or she played There is a comfort in getting what you expect, and yet there is something more when the expected dispenses evil in such a thorough, pleasurable way that his actions provide comfort on their own While Neeson’s movies sell flattened, superficial lies on how to deal with the problems in the world today, his hero’s familial focus always after those who wronged his family, or after some lost feeling of love channels his violent tactics to a higher, more compassionate purpose This current image of Liam Neeson also leans on his earlier, more spectacular work Schindler’s List tackles too real and devastating a monstrosity to contribute much to Neeson’s persona these days Instead, I think to the Christ-like mentors he played in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace and The Chronicles of Narnia We hardly saw a peek into the inner lives of Qui-Gon Jinn or Aslan, which in turn only reinforced their mythic proportions In the 2008 video game Fallout 3, Neeson voiced the soft-spoken, genius scientist James, known simply as “Dad” for most of the game, for he is the father of the character you play You are tasked with finding your dad for most of the story, so that sprawling open-world game ultimately boils down to an odyssey of child reuniting with his or her father Fallout 3 heralds Neeson’s Taken turn with a saintly and sterile manifestation of the paternal savior he

would soon define

Only in The Grey, an underrated 2012 thriller, does Neeson bridge the resourceful man of action with the tortured soul he surely was following his wife’s death Stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, his character, Ottway, writes letters to his ailing wife, and you can sense that Neeson is mining a core painfully, tragically accessible to him This is the greatest Liam Neeson performance in years, where he refuses to reiterate his valid, if one-note, Super-Dad and chooses, instead, to find meaning in his real-life suffering In The Grey, Neeson embodies the quintessential cinematic father figure of our time: you trust him with your safety, but more than anything else, you feel like he could use a good hug

Zachar y Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com A Lover s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

Red Win s Re g ion, Lo ok s

For ward to Riding at Zones

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Staff Writer

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attempt, I did not care whether the t e a m t h a t t h e p l a ye r a c t u a l l y played for won or lost in real life

This mindset brings to question the true value and effectiveness of fantasy sports in creating loyal fans of a sport

Engaging in fantasy sports is certainly a great way to explore a professional sport outside of your favorite team Putting together a roster of players from the entire l e a g u e g e n e r a l l y c a u s e s a d d e d awareness of what is happening amongst the various teams in a s p o r t Howe ve r, w h i l e f a n t a s y sports may succeed in making fans more attentive, it should not be mistaken for a foolproof educational resource

There is one major flaw in using the game as a method to fully understand a sport and the athletes that engage in it The issue with fantasy sports is that there is a lack of consideration for the true defining characteristics of an athlete or team: teamwork, leadership and success It is easy to like style over substance It is easy to like a player that can hit three home runs a game It is easy to like a team that will put on a show by hitting a ton of three-pointers However, it is harder to follow a team that wins by doing all the little things right

To draw some examples from this year ’ s NBA season, we can compare DeMarcus Cousins and Tim Duncan If you offer a fantasy owner a choice between the two big

men, the choice would be easy Cousins is having a career year with per game averages of 22 4 points, 11 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 6 steals and 1 3 blocks Those numbers are incredible Duncan, on the other hand, is scoring 15 6 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks From a fantasy perspective, the two players cannot compare If you want to win in your league, Cousins will take you to the fantasy championship However, in reality, DeMarcus Cousins has shown immaturity in his play He has topped the NBA charts in technical fouls every year since his ascent

Fantasy sports will not teach you the intrinsic elements that make up a true star athlete.

professional play, following one year at the University of Kentucky Despite his physical prowess in the paint and dominance from all ends of the floor, Cousins’ tantrums have given the big man a reputation for being irresponsible

Conversely, Tim Duncan has had one of the most illustrious careers in NBA history and is certainly on the path to the Hall of Fame Duncan is a symbol of professionalism and dominance His four NBA titles and 14 All-Star game appearances are just material examples Duncan has been the b a c k b o n e o f t h e Sa n A n t o n i o Spurs organization for almost two

decades Off the court, the aging star is known for being introverted and composed, but always doing the right things to support his team ’ s success

Duncan is the type of player that any professional sports franchise hopes to keep on the roster for years Cousins, on the other hand, has yet to demonstrate his leadership and ability to perform in the clutch in his young career

The Sacremento Kings’ big man has the opportunity to turn his career around and lead the franchise to championship success in the future, but for now he is simply a wild card

That is the problem with fantasy sports There is weight given to statistical athletes, rather than true leaders that know how to succeed

Playing fantasy sports can certainly be a great way to explore a new sport It can help you learn about who can perform individually However, fantasy sports will not teach you the intrinsic elements that make up a true star athlete The things that are done to get the team to the next level, i n c l u d i n g p e r f o r m i n g i n t h e clutch, doing the right things off the court and maintaining a sense of professionalism, are important factors in judging the difference between the good and the great These central judgments cannot simply be made through using fantasy sports to facilitate a person ’ s fandom for a sport

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun com

Anna Johnson can be reached at ajohnson@cornellsun com

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Princeton side, wrapping up a strong season in defeat Senior Laura Caty was the sole victor amongst the Cornell line up, winning her game against Tara Harrington over five matches

Devoy said she was proud of the Red’s performance and notes that the final results do not reflect the true grit the squad showed from start to finish

“[The girls] came out yesterday with absolutely nothing to lose [They] gave it their best shot They definitely could not have played any better,” Devoy said of the Princeton result

“ Their opponents were strong and that’s how you get the end result of an 8-1 Again the scores don’t reflect the efforts being put out on courts There were some good long rallies and some tight points You had to be out there to understand,” she added

Devoy was generally upbeat about her team ’ s final position, insisting that maintaining consistency amongst an everchanging line up is never easy Devoy also highlighted some of the disadvantages that teams face within the recruiting pool

“[The final ranking] is positive, definitely It reflects the hard work that the girls are

putting in to maintain the spot ” she said “It doesn’t really reflect on the girls here playing, it reflects on recruiting It’s a known thing that Harvard and Princeton get the pick of the crop and the internationals And I and the other Ivies get the second pick We lost a number three last year and didn ’ t replace her with the same quality player so we did well to hold our six ”

Devoy was also positive about the team ’ s future chances, maintaining that the experience gained this season, coupled with a strong recruiting class, would put the squad in good stead for future years

The women ’ s side has a lot of young talent, with only one senior making an appearance in a competitive game against Princeton on Sunday

“We’re going to have a very young team next year I have five incoming freshmen Even though we ’ ve lost our number two and three, we are going to have a solid core in the middle,” Devoy said “You only have to win five of nine matches and [not] the top And that’s what our recruiting pushes us to do Next season is looking promising ”

Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at halyousefi@cornellsun com

Spor ts

Jorgensen Wins Sec ond Iv y Lea g ue Cl assic on Bars

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell gymnastics team traveled to Providence, R I to compete against Brown, Yale and Penn in the Ivy Classic Despite showing a consistent per formance as a team, the Red could not measure up to the Bears The Ivy foe dominated the meet with a score of 193 375, a full three points higher than second place Yale (190 250) While Cornell finished the meet with the lowest score of the four teams, only a little more than two tenths of a point separated second place and four th place

According to senior Melanie Jorgensen, the standout performer for the Red, the squad’s wavering energy level contributed to the Red’s poor performance in the afternoon

“Going into Ivy Championships ever yone was pumped up and excited

We carried that into our first event, floor, where we had our best team score of the year, ” she said “But we had trouble keeping our energy up after s o m e d i s a p p o i n

mances ”

title as her freshman year, Jorgenson scored a 9 800 to beat all other competitors in the event Additionally, senior captain Elise Kerner and freshman Elana Molotsky tied for fifth place The bar lineup brought the Red back into the competition, and within reach of the eventual winners

The floor lineup was at its best Sunday, as the gymnasts posted one of the highest scores in recent history for the Red, 48 700 They were just shy of matching the 2009 program record of 49 000 Senior floor competitors Mackenzie Sato and captain Lexi Schupp led the scoring for Cornell Schupp earned a third place finish with a 9 850, the fourth best score on floor in program history, while Sato nailed her routine for a 9 775 and sixth place Freshman Krystin Chiellini also performed well in her routine, scoring a 9 725

“We need to put in more numbers on vault and be more agressive as a team on beam.” M e l a n i e J o r g e n s e n

The Red failed to carr y the positive momentum from its strong floor showing onto the vault, re c o rd i n g t w o f a l l s i n t h e e v e n t Ju n i o r Sa m m y VanderPutten started off the event strong, scoring a 9 550 After counting two falls moments later, sophomore Sara Schupp picked up the slack and scored a 9 600 While Schupp finished in fourth and VanderPutten took fifth, the overall team score on vault hurt the Red’s chances in the end

The Red saw more success on bars as a trio of competitors finished in the top five, including Jorgensen, who won her second Ivy Classic bars title Claiming the same

The final rotation saw the Red head to the beam, an event the squad has struggled to find a rhythm in this season Junior Maia Vernacchia started the Red off with a solid routine, posting a 9 625 to take fifth in the event Sophomore Kaylie Cronin was also successful, finishing with a 9 600

After a strong beginning to the final event, the Red had to count two consecutive falls before Jorgensen brought the team back She hit her beam routine for a 9 800, a personal best and second best in the event Although three gymnasts placed in the Top-six spots, including Jorgensen’s second place finish, the Red had to count four falls in total Despite the disappointing results on vault and beam, the Red saw several members place in those events Additionally, the squad excelled on the floor and finished the event on a high note with a solid bars showing Jorgensen remained confident and said the struggles can be mended

Red Maintains Si xth Place at Howe Cup

Cornell nishes its season with an 8-1 loss against No. 5 Princeton

By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s squash team wrapped up its season this weekend after competing in the Women’s National Team Championship, otherwise known as the Howe Cup The tournament took place at Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium, where the Red finished 9-7 on the season, maintaining its sixth place spot in the national-

rankings for the third season running

Cornell took on No 3 Penn on Friday afternoon and, having narrowly lost to them, 6-3, in the regular season, hoped to pull off an upset However, the Red failed to avenge its loss as it fell to the Quakers, 8-1 Senior Jessenia Pacheco gave Cornell its sole point, defeating Yan Xin Tan to put the Red on the board

Head Coach Julee Devoy still applauded the Red for putting forward a strong effort against a challenging team

“I’m not really disappointed with the result mainly because they are a really strong team, they were ranked third going into the event, ” she said “Despite the fact that we took three matches from them in the regular season, they came out with a point to prove on Friday We put up a good fight You can ’ t be disappointed when your team puts everything out there ”

The Red was, however, victorious the next day as it defeated No 7 Stanford, 6-3, in the consolation semifinal The tight match ultimately went in Cornell’s favor as the squad’s bottom order put forth a strong showing The trio of senior Laura Caty and sophomores Olivia Wherry and Reut Odinak won their matches over four and five games respectively

The result guaranteed that the Red would maintain its ranking of No 6 in the nation for the third consecutive year It also meant that Cornell would go on to face No 5 Princeton, whose team had comprehensively defeated the Red, 9-0, only two weeks ago in a consolation final, with the victor claiming the No 5 spot

A fifth place finish would have represented the equaling of a program best for Cornell, matching the 2001 team that placed fifth following victories over Dartmouth and Brown

Unfortunately, it was not to be for the Red Cornell fell, 8-1, on Sunday afternoon against a strong

“For the next couple meets we need to put in more numbers on vault and be more aggressive as a team on beam,”she said

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun com

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