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Police Offcer Sues City, Chief

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

U S District Court that the and Ithaca Police Chief John nated against her based on her sexual orientation and retaliwhen she complained h Crews said in the lawsuit that “discriminatory, heteroexual stereotypical” IPD polito search, transport and monstees because IPD identifies e Crews, in the lawsuit, said y gay female and identifies as forming ” nately searching and transarrestees, Crews said, puts her because women recognize that

Wooten as New Dean

By RACHEL WHALEN and EMMA NEWBURGER

Lynn Perry Wooten will be the newest David J Nolan Dean of The Charles H

D y s o n S c h o o l o f Ap p l i e d Ec o n o m i c s a n d Ma n a g e m e n t , t h e s c h o o l a nnounced on Monday Wooten, senior associate dean for student and academic excellence at the University of Michigan’s business school, will join her colleague Martha Pollack in a

she is openly lesbian and have, multiple times, threatened to falsely claim that Crews sexually abused them

A female detainee harassed and masturbated in front of Crews in 2011, the officer said in the suit, after Crews

arrestee because of IPD’s policies

arrested be searched and supervised by officers of the same sex

“This prisoner harassed Crews, saying Crews’ prisoner checks were sexually motivated in frequency,” Crews said in the lawsuit, using “prisoner” to refer to a woman who had been arrested “At one point, the female prisoner began masturbating in Crews’ presence and said, ‘Hey big gay woman, you want some of this? I’m gonna make it up that you did some-

Crews, represented by Ithaca attorney Ed Kopko, claims that the chief ’ s and the city’s alleged discrimination created a hostile work

New York Human Rights Law, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and Title VII, which protects employees against discrimination based on sex

The officer is requesting $5 million in monetary damages for “ past and future pain and suffering” and loss of past and future income, punitive damages against Barber, a court order that Ithaca prohibit “further illegal and discriminatory conduct” and an award of attorney fees

l i ve t h i s e t h o s by serving a dean of the Dyson School,” she t o l d t h e C o r n e l l Chronicle

She also expressed enthusiasm regarding Dyson’s distinct mission in “solving the world’s most signific a n t b u s i n e s s a n d

D y s o n , e d u c a t i o n and research focus on business as a vehicle for making the world a better place,” she said Wooden recieved her undergraduate degree in 1988 from North Carolina A&T State University and her MBA in 1990 from the Fuqua School Business at Duke University, according to Michigan’s website

Her research currently focuses on positive organizing routines, diversity man-

and crisis leadership

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Behavioral Scientist,

social issues,” a statement posted on the school’s website

“I am looking forward to working with Dyson’s faculty, staff

a n d s t u d e n t s , a n d excited about how at

move from Michigan to Ithaca on July 1, according to the University Wooten who will succeed interim d e a n Ed w a rd McLaughlin, the Robert G Tobin Professor of Ma rk e t i n g s a i d that she is “looking f o r w a rd” t o t h e move “ Fo r a w h i l e , I have been fond of Ezra Cornell’s ethos of ‘ any person any s t u d y, ’ a n d n ow I h a ve t h e h

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

When Ruth Bader Ginsberg ’54 first studied at Cornell, she could not know that her experiences would set her on a legendary career path

namics

She has also coauthored a crisis leadership book Leading Under Pressure: From Sur viving to Thriving

This was the focus of a lecture by Irin Carmon, journalist, feminist and co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth

Ba d e r Gi n s b u r g , h e l d o n Monday night

“I am so happy to be speaking at Cornell in particular, because this is such a Cornell story, ” said

shaped

Ginsburg’s collegiate influence is not limited to Cornell; according to Carmon, she was influenced by the sexism she wit-

School, specifically by the housing policies for women at the two universities

“To her it was an illustration as to how arbitrary sexism could be,” Carmon said “That one campus could have exactly the opposite policy, but justify it as

being as for a woman ’ s own good ”

Ginsburg was also profoundly inspired by a professor, accord-

Make Your Mark Career Fair

11 a m - 4 p m , Mann Library

The Role of Epidermal Keratinocyte In Keloidscarring Noon - 1 p m , Thaw Lecture Hall

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship: What Does It All Mean? Noon - 1:30 p m , G10 Biotechnology Building

Influence Fatigue, or, Why I am No Longer A Street Style Blogger 12:20 - 1:10 p m , G87 Martha Vam Rensselaer Hall

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Employee Assembly | The Employee Assembly will hold its meeting on Wednesday in the Physical Sciences Building

Cosmology With Shadows in the Microwave Sky 4 - 5 p m , 105 Space Sciences Building

Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi 4 - 5 p m , Stern Seminar Room 160 Mann Library

Hassan Melehy Poetry Reading 4:30 p m , Romance Studies Lounge, Klarman Hall

Linguistics Colloquium Speaker: Miloje Despic 4:30 - 6 p m , 106 Morrill Hall

How to Move to New York City With Cooper and Cooper Real Estate 5 p m , 132 Goldwin Smith Hall

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Engaged Leadership Casual Coffee Hour 2 - 3 p m , 202 Kennedy Hall

Cornell Thrift Mending Workshop 4 - 6 p m , Lund Lounge, Mews Hall

Rhodes & Marshall Scholarships Introduction 4:35 p m - 5:30 p m, 103 Barnes Hall

Prof Discusses Fictional Expectations in Market Economy

By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI

Sun Contributer

What do literature and economics have in common?

More than you might think, according to Jens Beckert, director of Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany

Becker argued that the fictional expectations that propagate in the market economy are comparable to aspects of literary fiction in a lecture on Monday

“[Literary] fiction creates a reality of their own the ‘doubling of reality,’” he said “This capacity of humans to imagine a world different from the factual world is one of the fundamental anthropological quality It is also fundamental to the economy ”

Beckert added that fictional expectations about the future are the crucial backbone to an innovative capitalist society

“Nobody can know what the future will bring,” Beckert said “In situations where we cannot rely on facts of the

future, fictional expectations are crucial placeholders that provide confidence and conviction despite the uncertainty of the future They help us to act, coordinate and create in the economy ”

Beckert concluded that the capitalist system is unstoppable as long as there is a steady supply of stories about the future, even if those stories may appear to be anti-capitalist

“Capitalism is able to integrate all these counter-narratives these ‘fictional expectations,’” he said “For capitalism to function, the content of these stories are completely irrelevant If you think the normative perspective that capitalism as a system to be stopped, than the outcome for this is very pessimistic ”

Yet despite this similarity, literary and economic fiction are different since the latter only pretends to be representative of the factual world, according to Beckert

“In literature, there is not even the intention to represent the fact,” he said “[On the other hand,] in economics, it is not possible to represent facts of the future, because

they do not exist yet And yet, these ‘fictional expectations’ [function] as as-if statements that pretend to be certain knowledge of the future ”

Beckert’s view on t h e b r i d g e b e t we e n capitalism and literature were not univers a l l

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tended with Beckert’s m e t h o d o l o g y c o mparing literary and economic fiction

“I think there is a difference between literary fiction as an aesthetic object used as a lens to see reality and fiction that is used specifically to deceive people or keep people hanging on, ” said Brangan “They are related, but they are different ”

Speak Out Panel Hosts

Mental Health Discussion

By MOLLIE CRAMER Sun Staff Writer

Me n t a l i l l n e s s i s a l l t o o o f t e n d i s c u s s e d b e h i n d c l o s e d d o o r s , a n d t h i s i s w h a t C o r n e l l Mi n d s Ma t t e r s o u g h t t o c o m b a t b y h o s t i n g a “ Sp e a k O u t ” p a n e l d i s c u s s i o n t o f a c i l i t a t e c o n v e r s a t i o n s a b o u t m e n t a l i l l n e s s o n Mo n d a y C M M s o c i a l c h a i r a n d re s o u r c e c e n t e r s t a f f m e m b e r K r i s t i n a Wa g n e r ’ 1 7 o r g an i z e d t h e e v e n t a s p a r t o f a p r o j e c t t o s h a re m e n t a l h e a l t h e x p e r i e n c e s t h r o u g h p a n e l d i s c u s s i o n s a n d v i d e o f o o t a g e “ I t ’ s a n o p p o r t u n i t y f o r s t u d e n t s t o s h a re t h e i r p e rs o n a l e x p e r i e n c e w i t h m e n t a l i l l n e s s b e c a u s e s t o r y t e l l i n g i s o n e o f t h e m o s t e f f e c t i v e w a y s t o re d u c e s t i g m a , ” s h e s a i d “ In f a c t , i t m i g h t e v e n b e t h e o n l y p ow e r f u l w a y t o re d u c e s t i

Hotel School to Adopt Technology Into Curriculum

By SICHUN LUI Sun Staff Writer

A s t h e h o s p i t a l i t y i n d u s t r y becomes more technology-oriente d , t h e S c h o o l o f Ho t e l

Ad m i n i s t r a t i o n i s l o o k i n g f o r ways to expand its curriculum to respond to student and employer demands

The hospitality industry has seen remarkable growth in the past 10 years, with the prevalence of online booking agencies, fast food dining and digital hotel check in process, among others Howe ve r, a c c o rd i n g t o Andrew Whitmore, a full-time lecturer in information systems in the Hotel School, “the hospitality industry has lagged behind other industries in their adoption of

technology ”

Whitmore said that the SHA is orienting its curriculum around the fact that more technology companies are recruiting technically-capable hotel graduates on campus

“Although the hotel school, in taking its cues from industry, has been a little bit slow towards adopting technology into its curr i c u l u m , I w o u l d e x p e c t t h e growth and expansion of IT and business analytics related curriculum, not only in the hotel school but also in the college of business, ” he said

T h e s t u d e n t s i n t h e h o t e l school, according to Whitmore, have also shown more interest in the Information System concentration at the hotel school and the Information Science minor

Prof Bart Selman, computer science, who was recently interviewed on this subject in The New York Times, studies how technology affects the workplace and claims to have witnessed a “tripling of enrollment” in his computer science classes over the past few years He also noted that n o t e ve r yo n e s h o u l d b e c o m e computer scientists

“Students need to receive a general college education with their chosen specialization, but should possess some knowledge of

computer science,” he explained With the increasing adoption of technology, the automation process by machines not only makes people more efficient but also decreases the demand for employees

“Companies are driven by efficiency and cost reduction, and they only introduce technology when the cost is lower than the cost of labor,” Selman said “As a result, only certain types of jobs will be replaced, but not very low l e ve l j o b s , s

because robots are costly ” Therefore, Whitmore noted it

whether the automation process in the long term will generate fewer needs for technology-related jobs “ The people with technical skills would be less affected and would have a higher likelihood of retaining their jobs because companies need people to maintain and improve the technological systems, ” Whitmore said “These are the kinds of things that our graduates are positioned to do ”

Ithaca Police Offcer Requests $5 Million in Damages

2007 and is currently working for the department, according to the suit Public records confirm that Crews has been employed by the city of Ithaca for at least the last seven years

Barber, a 23-year veteran of the department, is retiring in less than two weeks and has emphasized transparency and progressive policing in his three years as chief He declined to comment on Crews’ allegations, citing city policy

“IPD values diversity amongst its Officers and works to foster a welcoming environment for all,” Barber said in a statement to The Sun “IPD’s detainee search policies conform to state and federal laws, which limit same sex searches ”

A voicemail message left on Crews’ listed phone number was not returned on Monday evening and Kopko, her attorney, did not respond to a request for comment Crews made dozens of verbal complaints over several years and sent a formal objection to two IPD sergeants by email in May 2015, according to the lawsuit The officer’s complaints, the lawsuit claims, led to retaliation by Crews’ superiors, who she said assigned her to lesspreferred beats more frequently after her emailed complaint

In Crews’ email, quoted in the legal filing, she objected to jailing female prisoners Crews noted that male officers are prohibited from jailing female prisoners and said the policy is discriminatory and protects heterosexual male coworkers but does not protect her “ as an openly, and obviously, gay female ”

“I have been ridiculed and treated with hostility because I expressed my concerns, ” Crews wrote in the 2015 email, according to the lawsuit “I have reached a point where I can no longer tolerate this situation ”

The lawsuit refers to three incidents between 2015 and 2016 for which IPD issued notices of discipline against Crews, the officer said Crews claims IPD issued the discipline notices including one for using “the fword” in a private conversation, the lawsuit said as retaliation for her speaking out against the search and

“I have been ridiculed and treated with hostility because I expressed my concerns.”

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supervision policies

In one of the three incidents described in the lawsuit, Crews said she was called to the IPD headquarters last June to search a woman who had been arrested When she arrived, she saw that there were multiple male, heterosexual officers who she said could have searched the arrestee

“There and then, Crews realized that the IPD was using the stereotypical policies to highlight her gendernonconformity, ostracize her from her peer group, make her uncomfortable, and discriminate against her,” the lawsuit said “Crews started crying ”

A lieutenant saw Crews crying and asked her to come into his office, according to the suit, but did not again

order her to search the arrested woman Crews received a notice of discipline for insubordination seven weeks later, she said

The lawsuit said IPD’s staff is overwhelmingly composed of heterosexual men, in contrast to the more diverse population it serves

Crews’ union attorney proposed to an Ithaca City attorney that IPD create a policy that protects arrestees and arresting officers against sexual orientation, gender and sex discrimination, but the request was ignored, according to the lawsuit A member of the Ithaca City Attorney’s office did not respond to an interview request on Monday

In a 2015 interview with The Ithaca Times, Chief Barber said he would not tolerate any discrimination by employees of the department and said he had directed police staff to report any discrimination by their colleagues

“Complaints will be investigated vigorously and with as much transparency as practical,” he said “I will not tolerate any deviation from this Period The people in our community are our greatest asset and they will not be treated with anything less than dedication, professionalism, and courtesy ”

An initial conference for the case Crews v The City of Ithaca et al is set to take place before Magistrate Judge David E Peebles on June 2 in Binghamton Mae D’Agostino, a U S District Judge for the Northern District of New York, is presiding over the case

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

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Johnson College of Business, a combination initially met with mixed reactions from faculty, alumni and students across all business programs

“Lynn’s deep passion for student success will only enhance

“Lynn’s deep passion for student success will only enhance the quality of the Dyson School experience ” K a t h r y n B o o r

the quality of the Dyson School experience,” Kathryn Boor, dean of the College of Agriculture and L i f e S c i e n c e s , t o l d t h e Chronicle “Her leadership and creativity in the field of underg r a d u a t e b u s i n e s s e d u c a t i o n make her the right choice for this role ”

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun com Rachel Whalen can be reached at rwhalen@cornellsun com

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“What terrible publicity! What a great way to turn the public opinion of city residents against you, Mr. Maguire! You already have a monopoly on car dealerships in Ithaca The council, the mayor, and residents see a waterfront that has been totally misused and we want to see it turned into a beautiful and valuable resource for our community – not more cars!!”

Re: “Maguire Dealerships Owner Sues City of Ithaca, Mayor Over Zoning” News Febr uar y 27, 2017

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The United States Geological Sur vey has attributed the early advent of spring to the result of climate change The Tr ump Administration, however, has no plans of taking this threat seriously President Tr ump has famously tweeted that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese and the recent repor ts of increasing federal budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency have been met with concerns

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“I’m a glass half-full kind of person, ” said Prof Na t a l i e Ma h ow a l d , a t m o s p h e r i c s c i e n c e s , o n t h e effects of the ne w administration on climate science

“I think it is too early to know the implications of the ne w administration on either science funding or climate change progress yet, ” she said “ While this administration returns climate change to a lower emphasis than the previous administration, it is more similar to what we saw previously, with the Bush administration, and we still have a Republican controlled Congress, so it’s not clear it is ne w ground, or just a return to a lower status ”

David Wolfe, plant and soil ecology, agrees, saying that Tr ump has changed his mind about climate change and the Chinese and “all of Tr ump ' s Cabinet picks have acknowledged that something is changing with the climate ”

“Never theless, all indications are that the ne w administration is focused on promoting and expanding fossil fuel use as opposed to exploring rene wables and providing leadership on addressing the impacts of climate change,” Wolfe said Prof Br uce Monger, ear th and atmospheric sciences, is not optimistic about the changes, pointing to the hypocrisy in the nature of the “ war on science ” “ The war on science is selective If it goes against b i g c o r p o r a t e o r r e l i g i o

y [Republicans] are going to discount the science,” he

said “It’s not like they don’t believe in science, I don’t think, it’s that when the science disagrees with their desired outcomes, they’re gonna discount the science ” According to professors, there is a silver lining Mahowald said that the recent republican legislation that proposes a carbon tax is a step in the right direction

Additionally, White House apathy seems unlikely to stop local, corporate or international initiatives towards climate-friendly policies

“Despite what goes on in Washington, local community and business leaders of all political persuasions have had little choice but to tackle the ver y real costs of climate change impacts, such as coastal damage associated with sea level rise and heat stress ” Wolfe said “Many states are taking creative and effective action to not only build resilience to climate change, but also to slow the pace of climate change by promoting energy efficiency and exploring rene wable energy

solutions ” Monger emphasized the impor tance of an international treaty like the G20 Paris Agreement, and said that it was extremely hard to pull out of something of that magnitude

“Ever y leader of ever y nation on this ear th signed [an agreement] that said that we ’ re not going to cross two degrees warming and to do that, we need to take the world to zero carbon emissions It’s not some ecocrazy group mouthing off, it’s the entire planet’s leadership How do you argue with that?” Monger said Wolfe and Monger both talked about the how economic reasons can also push for more climate friendly p o

increase jobs, Monger said that the same people can be put to work creating solar panels

“Many economists have argued that the transition to an energy future with less reliance on fossil fuels will not only reduce the costs of weather-related disasters, but will be a boon to those nations that are at the forefront of ne w technologies that will take the world there,” Wolfe said “ These market forces may eventually win the day and cause a shift in thinking within the Tr ump administration ” There is, however, a sense of urgency “ We don’t have much time now Cornell is going to zero carbon by 2035 for a reason So this four-year delay is a big deal,” Monger said “It really dishear tens me that we have to str uggle through this even though it is exactly the time that we need to turn it up to 11 on getting ourselves to zero carbon [emissions] ” Monger encourages students to take an active role in fighting for their beliefs through protests, voting and calling their congressmen to keep them accountable

“Ever y so often, a generation gets called upon to do something extraordinar y You guys [millennials] didn’t have anything to do with all of the [climate] things that are going wrong but we have 20 to 30 years to get to zero carbon and your generation has to push it because if we cross two [degrees increase] we cross two for 10,000 years ”

can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun com

By SARA RAGI Sun Contributor

In under 60 years, computer programming has gone from excruciately producing punch cards to instantly creating algorithms that can recognize people in photos What lies ahead? At Cornell’s

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Philip Isola, a postdoc in the electrical

department at UC Berkeley, attempted to shed light on that ver y topic

“My goal is to make systems that can understand the visual world and see the same kind of richness and structure that we see So, in the talk I was tr ying to convey one approach to that: learning without having exper t knowledge of what you are tr ying to imitate,” Isola said

“Computer vision is going through a revolution Five years ago, people were w

which is based more on principles that psychologists had developed about how

human vision works How if you look at an image you know where one aspect ends and another one starts In the last five years, the question has become how do the classic theories fit with modern machine learning methods and how relevant the pre-deep learning era is to the new era of machine learning,” said Prof Noah Snavely, computer science, and the event ’ s Cornell host

One of these more conventional techniques super vised object recognition is in widespread use A learner, or computer in this case, is provided with an exhaustive array of images that share the same label By analyzing the patterns that cause images to be associated with such a label, a computer is able to associate a similar unlabeled image with the correct label

The issue with such a technique and indeed all techniques that require handcurated training data and hand-designed tasks is that they are in stark contrast to our natural way of learning, by way of raw sensor y experiences and by generat-

Looks fishy | U C Berkley postdoc, Philips Isola, speaks on the future of computer vision

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In fall of 1991, eight men and women were sent to live in a three-acre glass and steel dome in the middle of Arizona’s scorching desert Referred to as Biosphere II, the complex aimed to model the Earth’s biosphere even containing a field to grow crops The two year experiment was designed to test if humans were capable of surviving in an artificial ecosystem

Less than a year later, the project lay abandoned The level of oxygen dropped drastically to levels seen on Mount Everest Despite significant debate, it was finally determined that the reason for such a drastic change was the soil Scientists wanted to ensure that human occupants would have enough food supply, so they increased the soil’s fertility This seemingly harmless act, though, altered microbial activities and lead to catastrophic failure

According to Prof Daniel H Buckley, soil and crop sciences, the project had a few key lessons and highlighted the significance of soil in our ecosystem

“Knowing what the soil does matters Failing to understand how it works leads to disastrous consequence, ” Buckley said Buckley serves as the principal investigator on a project to investigate soil-microbial interactions Knowing how soil behaves matters even more in the age of climate change The terrestrial biosphere vegetation, soil etc holds a large fraction of global carbon and nearly 70 percent of the organic carbon in terrestrial systems is

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“ We actively learn things without being force-fed. That ability is missing from computers and people are trying to achieve that.”

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machines He does so using a measure

k n ow n a s Po i n t w i s e Mu t u a l Information, which estimates how often things co-occur if they are actually independent In this case, a machine could

c o n t r a s t t h e h i g h P M I a s s o c i a t i o n between white and black with the low P M I a s s o c i a t i o n b e t w e e n b l a c k a n d green to infer that the picture contains two distinct structures “ We assign objects to the same pixel segment if they have high PMI [and] to different object segments if they have low PMI The goal is to design an affinity measure that is adaptive to each image it is applied to and that’s what using PMI enables,” Isola said To complement this ability to process

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found in soil

“The degree to which it stores carbon is good for us The degree to which it respires is not, because it contributes to the amount of carbon found in the atmosphere,” Buckley said

“ Knowing what the soil does matters. Failing to understand how it works leads to disastrous consequences.”

In his lab at Cornell, Buckley and his colleagues shed light on how soil responds to changing environmental conditions brought about by climate change, such as higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, higher temperature and lower precipitation Specifically, they study the connections between microbial activity and carbon-cycle

transformations, which remain poorly described

The project is divided into three main parts First, the team hopes to characterize the functional traits of microorganisms that help mediate the mineralization of organic matter in the soil Second, they aim to determine the degree to which such mineralization depends on variations in microbial traits Finally, Buckley hopes to quantify the variation in the carbon cycle due to variations in microbial-soil interactions

To begin testing their hypothesis, the team aims to label carbon containing molecules in decomposing matter with isotopes Upon feeding on this, microbes imbibe this carbon into their DNA Researchers can then sequence their genome to understand the mechanisms of their interactions with molecules in the soil

One of the greatest challenges facing such research is that microbes do not work alone In fact, the collaborative nature of organisms makes it harder to predict how the system will respond to changes in the environment

“It’s like how the economy works You get a chip from China, software from somewhere else and assemble the whole thing in the U S The job is distributed and done by those that are most efficient at it But that makes it really complex,” Buckley said

While this would be an important first step in understanding how microbe-soil interactions occur, Buckley hopes to predict how these interactions may change, perhaps to even successfully recreate Biosphere II

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY ZOE LINDENFELD Sun Contributor

As a longtime Zadie Smith fan, I began my journey into Swing Time, her latest novel, with a certain degree of expectation I anticipated to be entertained, that there would be points where I laughed and, as a testament to the complexity of her writing, for there also to be moments in the book when I cried I did not however, expect to feel intense irritation, almost to the point of hatred

The plot of Swing Time is effectively split into two The first half revolves around the childhood friendship of two girls tied together by their similar skin tones and mutual love of dance The book is written from the perspective of one of the girls, who remains unnamed throughout the novel and for whom the term ‘unlikable’ is a substantial understatement The narrator is insecure, constantly doubting her own (terrible) decisions, while continuously maintaining harshly critical opinions of others In short, Swing Time is a story about friendship that begs the question: why would anyone want to be friends with this person?

Zadie Smith is no novice at creating contentious characters that elicit a diversity of reactions from readers In White Teeth, the bad-boy character of Millat infuriated me with his womanizing persona, but I secretly wondered whether I had a bit of a crush on him Similarly, while reading On Beauty, the seditious Professor Claire Malcolm frustrated me with her inability to recognize the good in her life (she was tenured, for god’s sake!), but I reserved warm feelings for her, particularly as she advocated for the inclusion of disadvantaged students in her classroom

Yet in Swing Time, I was unable to muster up such compassionate thoughts for the narrator The screen through which she viewed the world was so negative and judgmental that gaining insight into her mind was unpleasant However, this too raised a question for me: why did Smith construct this character to be so thoroughly unredeeming?

The second half of the plot centers on the adult experiences

Sometimes you can judge a garage rock album by its cover Rock duo Japandroids have long opted for short, punchy album titles The duo made their 2009 major label debut with the decisively named PostNothing, followed it up the next year with the similarly bold No Singles, a compilation of their limited-run EPs and then released Celebration Rock in 2012 Japandroids’ titles

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of the narrator, who has grown distant from her childhood friend Tracey and is now working for Aimee, a celebrity of the hybrid pop star/do-gooder variety that has become fairly ubiquitous in contempora d h narrator continues to ical self, though her c now directed towa rather than Tracey A Aimee’s personal assistant, the narrator is involved in all aspect of Aimee’s life and ai her in a plan to buil school for underprivil children in an ( unnamed) country in

Through the len less judgmental ch Aimee might be he generous, even comm her efforts to improv motivated by mos intentions With su voice narrating the Aimee’s approach is a Rather than turn tuous savior, Aimee’s sented as a brand of ism Aimee is portr naive, more concer humanitarian image school This comes to a head when (seemingly on a whim) Aimee “acquires” an African baby, in the eyes of the narrator, as quickly and easily as she would a new designer handbag I began to share the tone of judgment inherent throughout the novel as the narrator described Aimee’s misguided attempt at improving the lives of African people, and considered the motives behind the trips students of my generation

take to less-developed countries abroad with the goal to “help ” Doubtlessly, such trips are well-intended; we come as members of Global Health brigades, charity missions and h h often do we question whether the er want or need our help? Such wn histories and their own distinct learning and teaching On our umptuous to assume that we are and that our form of knowledge hat of the locals, many of whom wiser than us mind wonders what the narrator of such trips and whether she them with Aimee’s ill-founded other part of my mind, which ot like her, tells me to ignore her l quips and remember that most ho embark on such trips do so e best intentions that’s what right?

nfortunately, similar mindsets been used to justify horrific nts for hundreds of years, not least all colonialism Volunteer trips broad are well-intended and not nherently evil, but it is necessary ntinuously reflect on the motives entures and to question the extent ually being done udgmental narrator, Smith is protimes, it helps to view the world through the eyes of the ultra-cynical to take a step back and reconsider actions perceived as objectively ethical Yet in a sense, she is also cautioning against inhabiting the narrator ’ s mindset too often; after all, there’s a reason she’s so unlikeable

Zoe Lindenfeld is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at zll3@cornell edu

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tracks about Vancouver, traveling around and awkward love in your 20-somethings As such, the title of the duo’s 2017 release Near To The Wild Heart Of Life signaled a change to longtime listeners

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a r t e d churning out populist, anthemic tracks about hometown bars, hometown sports teams and, well, really hometown anything

Although Japandroids formed far from the Rust Belt that spawned many of their contemporaries, their motifs weren ’ t all that different: a full-throated singer with a score to settle, throbbing guitar parts in no way

Part of what made the music of this Springsteen-esque resurgence so exciting was its easy translatability When Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles screams about getting ready to “yell like hell for the glory of the Newark Bears,” many listeners can pencil in their favorite hometown team that they loved for few other reasons than the fact that the team was simply there, making something to root for on a weekend night

(For me it was the Tri-City ValleyCats, thanks for asking)

Yet, another critical reason why the subgenre of homegrown, rootsy punk worked was that many groups understood that they had to cut their full-throttle anthems with something else Titus Andronicus’ 2010

The Monitor, for example, provides a master class in weaving in a variety of styles and elements to give the listener something other than pure hometown pride The Monitor opens with two adrenaline-charged tracks A Most Perfect Union” and “Titus Andronicus Forever” that hook the listener and establish the album’s main theme: the U S Civil War Yet after the chants of “the enemy is everywhere” that

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run through “Titus Andronicus Forever” die down, Titus Andronicus makes a complete 180 to “No Future Part Three,” which finds Stickles mewling over a strippeddown and drawn-out guitar track which eventually speeds up and tumbles into a boisterous chant of its own, but the break gives the listener a chance to catch their breath before the next crescendo

Early on in their career, Japandroids also practiced the art of deftly balancing out the raw force of tracks like “The Boys Are Leaving Town” and “Wet Hair ” Coming to the close of Post-Nothing, for example, Japandroids had already charged ahead with a half-hour of crunching rock Yet, the duo pulls the album to a full stop with “I Quit Girls ” For the first 40 seconds, the listener hears nothing but Brian King’s dist o r t e d - t o - d e a t h g u i t a r s l a m m i n g o u t chords A little past the track’s halfway mark, David Prowse enters on drums, but the song has already been solidified as a head-bangin’ meditation of a track “I Quit Girls” constitutes a clever album cadence while still viscerally sludging right up to the end

Yet, in an album that is supposedly getting nearer to the “wild heart of life,”

Japandroids’ latest release feels notably superficial and complacent The rough, mumbling fuzz that distinguished PostNothing and No Singles has been buffed down to a sheen Whereas tracks on the duo’s previous albums flew by, a number of tracks on Near To The Wild Heart Of Life plod by, especially “Nor th East South West” and “I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You So o n e r ) ” T h e l a t t e r t r a c k f e e

s l i k e Japandroids’ attempt to fill out Wild Heart Of Life with another “I Quit Girls”-esque track Yet, whereas “I Quit Girls” thrived on tension and unpredictably, “I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner)” simply feels repetitive and interminable, even though it’s only two-and-a-half minutes long In the end, the raw energy that charact e r i ze d Po s t No t h i n g , No Si n g l e s a n d Celebration Rock has ceded to a malaise that pervades glossed-over, drawn-out tracks in Near To The Wild Heart Of Life Rather than shaking up their modus operandi, Japandroids solidified their style, churning out 36 minutes of decent, but nearly indistinguishable tracks

Shay Collins is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun

Julia Curley

Cloud Nothings’ Life Without Sound e

title Audiences expect recalcitrance and disobedience from the alternative Indie group, but their ne w album carries the irony of its name throughout each raw, mismatched track Ar tists have a long tradition of rejecting their genre Even the first English novel began with, in more complicated language, this is not a novel These writers wanted to create s

d from form and independent of critical expectations The first modern novels told stories of self-invention that lent writers as much individual autonomy as their protagonists Naming an album a mechanism of noises, phrases and harmonies as sans sound has the same effect The first thing Life Without Sound does is deny its instr ument and mute its impact It strips away its validity and then rebuilds with a notion of ne wness and impossibility There is, of course, sound in the world Front man Nathan Williams knows that and shares his own voice and noise in the nine-

track album With his chosen title, he openly frees the band from the expectation of what kind of sound or silence his l

Cloud Nothings labels its album Life Without Sound and then fills a silent void with music

The reinvention begins from track one A mechanically-mesmerizing piano introduces the album as if breaking an infinite silence And like a child learning to walk it happens all at once sound emerges Williams rises from a muted ambiguity: “I came up to the surface/ Released the air/ With no words to remember/ What happened there ” He describes a relatable awakening to the rhythm of his bass guitar and breaks with the anticipated soundlessness to express a mental noise Like listening to music in headphones or getting lost in thoughts, sometimes life takes on a tone other than sound Cloud Nothings’ violent dr um clashes with an electric guitar between Williams’ coherent words The fleeting cacophony walks the line that we repeatedly cross each day between

silence, sound and noise Sound carries a cer tain connotative clarity a cause and effect that noise lacks William’s choice of title plays to this thought Each track fuses ne w, unidentifiable reso

bourine, dr um, technological inter vention meld in a novel, not-all unharmonious noise Cloud Nothings composes noise in a way that defies its displeasing essence yet retains the rowdy tumult Arguably, Life Without Sound evades the qualifications of sound With one contradiction reconciled, however, the album focuses on others The track list progresses from “ Things are Right With You” where Williams repeats “feel right, feel right, feel right” to “Internal World” where he sings “But I’m not the one who’s always right ” His indecision resonates with me and equals the mismatched instr umentals Feelings and thoughts don’t line up in Life Without Sound, just as in our lives The album brings this inner turmoil “Up to the Sur face” with a screaming splash Just like reading an author’s indul-

gent coda, the whole album ends up making sense after a fe w patient listens Life Without Sound signifies an internal e

Soundlessness blankets our reality when the mind’s noise grows too loud Life Without Sound violently splinters the divide between an inner and outer self; amid the chaos, Williams provides flashes of insight and understanding When you let the inner noise become reality’s

know/ Can’t explain where to go/ And you move in a world that moves on its

Williams, that “it’s time for coming out ” that there’s “No use in life without sound” you pull back the blinding men-

earplugs to clear, coherent sonorousness This resur facing and re-invention comes from a thought or a feeling, a sigh or a bang

Julia Curley is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at jmc628@cornell edu

Bruce Springsteen, Chris Christie and Unrequited Love

All your favorite ar tists are problematic It’s an obvious statement, but one that resur faces on social media in the wake of most ever y celebrity scandal, from Kanye’s vocal suppor t of Donald Tr ump to A zaelia Banks’ apparent Twitter cr usade against any and all forms of human decency Of course, with other ar tists the crimes prove more unforgivable, inviting armchair critics ever ywhere to tr y and reconcile good ar t ’ s occasional tendency to come from bad people Skillful deflections and self-justifications on this topic range from “Only a troubled mind could have made this!” to the more nihilistic “Ever ything is terrible; we might as well enjoy the music ” It’s an exhausting debate, and one that seems to affirm the sad tr uth that people will always do what they can to avoid feeling guilty in their indulgences

This sor t of cognitive dissonance, though, finds itself reflected in the more

h u m o r o u s t e n d e n c y o f i n d i v i d u a l s t o w i l l f u l l y m i s i n t e r p r e t t h e i r p r eferred works of ar t, often in an attempt to reconcile

t h e m w i t h t h e i r o w n political beliefs In an era when the President of the Un i t e d St a t e s b a r s “unfriendly” ne ws outlets from press conferences, it should come as no surprise that people hand-select the information that best suits their preferred narratives We followers of Kanye West, for example, interpreted the man ’ s recently deleted tweets as a total repudiation of his prior suppor t for Tr ump It was a narrative too flimsy even to fool ourselves

In a recent piece for The Ne w Yorker, Amanda Petr usich explores conser vative America’s undying fealty to Br uce Springsteen, a phenomenon that seems to befuddle even the ar tist himself Gov Chris Christie (RN J ), famously, has seen the Boss tear up the stage with the E Street Band over 130 times The governor ’ s air dr umming and tantric dance moves have become familiar sights for Springsteen fans For his par t, Christie has repeatedly and publicly attempted to finagle a hear t-tohear t with his idol, inviting him to per form at various

events and tweeting his favorite lyrics at him This outwardly emotional cour tship seems at odds with a man whose appearance and political tactics suggest something closer to “middle school bully ” Br uce, who still lives in Ne w Jersey, has largely ignored Christie’s romantic advances, relenting only for the sake of the Hurricane Sandy relief effor t in 2012

On some level, Christie’s passion for all things Br uce makes sense Springsteenism, after all, is the closest thing that Ne w Jersey has to a state wide religion And, as Petr usich writes, the Boss’ source material tends to draw from a cer tain American mythology, that of “the tough, hardworking white man who, with wit and will, transcends his hardscrabble beginnings to achieve extraordinar y wealth and notoriety (and girls) ” In that sense, one could easily frame Springsteen as a mouthpiece for the same economic disparities that Tr ump says got him elected Of the

l f ( w h o m Christie eagerly suppor ted, only to be ousted by Jared Kushner), Br uce has said, “He’s such a flagrant, toxic narcissist ” Financial hardship and the

he also employs these narratives in order to critique institutions and the mega-rich In one of pop music’s great subversions, “Born in the U S A ” conceals an anti-war anthem under the guise of the same uncritical, flag-waving patriotism that now defines countr y music Between foot-stomping chor uses, Br uce sings of a man drafted to Vietnam to kill strangers, only to return home to nightmares and dwindling job prospects The bait-and-switch worked so well that Ronald Reagan even played the song at campaign rallies or at least until Br uce asked him to stop

Of course, there is a value which should not go u n m

Springsteen On some level, it allows you to imagine that his music taps into a deeper, human longing felt by people across generations, socioeconomic classes and political affiliations At the same time, though, one cannot

help but vie w Christie’s political vie ws as incompatible with the core themes of Br uce ’ s music The man can somehow project himself onto Springsteen’s protagonists while also politically reinforcing the institutions that the songs indict It’s an incredibly blatant act of cherr y picking that allows him to filter out only the ideas that question previously held beliefs

This concept, obviously, is not exclusive to the Springsteen-Christie relationship, nor is the irony in Christie’s idolatr y a recent development But given the apparent relativity of facts in today’s mainstream discourse, I’d say there’s something to be gathered from people’s ability to intentionally misinterpret the ar t that disagrees with them

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By ADAM MASTERS

Sun Contributor

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Adam Masters can be reached at ajm444@cornell edu

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shots in the second half as easily as it had done in the first, the Red found itself unable to put points on the board as its shooting percentage fell from 58 3 percent down to 45 percent on field goals, and from 44 4 to 37 5 from beyond the arc between the first and second halves

Cornell competed with Princeton until around the 3:15 mark of the game when the team started to sink into a deficit As Morgan and senior guard Robert Hatter attempted to take the ball up the court, both were hammered with pressure from the Tiger defense Specifically, senior forward Spencer Weisz who led the Tiger defense with four steals contributed to giving the Red offense plenty of headaches

On Cornell’s sideline, even though Earl attempted to coach Morgan and Hatter in-game regarding tempo and sets to run down the final stretch of the game, the Tigers’ collective defensive effort ultimately proved too strong for the Red

“I wanted them to understand how we were being guarded a little better,” Earl said about Hatter and Morgan in the game ’ s final three minutes

With a little over a minute left in the contest, Earl substituted his three active seniors out of the game and Newman Nation rose to its feet, giving the graduating seniors a final standing ovation for the commitment and time they have contributed to the team

over the past four years Seniors Hatter, Desmond Fleming and Jojo Fallas proudly checked out of the game and walked off the Newman court for their final time

After the game, Earl reflected on what it was like having his four graduating seniors for a couple of years during their careers at Cornell

“It’s difficult when there’s transition on anyone who’s involved particularly for college kids who are 22 and have been coached in a way for three years, ” he said “It speaks volumes with them sticking with ever ything we ’ re trying to do here, and obviously it hasn’t produced results yet, but there's a lot to be said for putting your head down, doing the work and sticking with a program ”

Through what ended up being an agonizing and tension-filled weekend for the Red at Newman losing both games and failing to break either Penn or Princeton’s win streaks Hatter shed light on the positive aspects of the seniors final game at Newman

“I’m speechless,” he said humbly “I love Cornell so much, and I appreciate everybody that supported myself and my other seniors, and it just felt amazing to see everyone appreciate us ” The Red hits the road next weekend as it closes out its final games of the 2016-17 season against Yale and Brown

Bobby Marani can be reached at ram482@cornell edu

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Marshall Breaks Scoring Record; Red Split on Road

By JOSH ZHU Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s basketball team played its final two regular season road games this weekend, splitting the pair of games against Ivy League rivals Penn and Princeton Cornell (15-10, 6-6 Ivy) suffered a tough double-digit loss to Penn on Friday before bouncing back with an impressive 11 point win over Princeton

“We felt pretty good about the split,” said senior Kerri

“We wanted to make the game memorable for Nia and wanted her to remember that moment.”

Moran “[ While] we did not play well at all against Penn, [we] were able to regroup and figure out what we needed to do in order to beat Princeton

Friday’s game at Penn featured poor offensive performances from both teams Cornell had only a single player in double figures senior Megan LeDuc with 13 points while shooting just 26 percent from the field and 18 percent from three-point range Penn did not fare much better, shooting 37 percent from the field and 29 percent from beyond the arc

Both team ’ s totals Penn’s 47 and Cornell’s 34 were season lows in points scored

“Coming off [the] upsetting loss against Penn, we really fueled that frustration against Princeton,” said senior Nicholle Aston “We knew that we came up just short the last time we played them, so we really looked to make key adjustments on the defensive end ”

After the rough shooting night against Penn, the Red refocused its efforts for the following matchup against Princeton a game in which senior Nia Marshall would

have the opportunity to surpass Karen Walker ’91 and become the program ’ s all-time leading scorer

“We also knew it was an important game for Nia, as she had a very high chance of breaking the all-time scoring record in the game against Princeton,” Moran said “We wanted to make the game memorable for Nia and wanted her to remember that moment as a win not just for herself, but for the whole team ”

The Red certainly made the game memorable, improv-

Hoopers Swept at Newman

Home losses eliminate Red, spoil senior night

By BOBBY MARANI Sun Contributor

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ing drastically from its previous outing Cornell had a balanced offensive attack, with four players scoring in double figures, and shot 38 percent from the field and 30 percent from long distance

“We had a lot more rhythm to our offense in the second game and had the confidence to hit open shots,” Aston said

The Red performed equally as well on the other end of the court Cornell held their opponents to a scant 27 percent from the field and 11 percent from three-point range, in addition to forcing 15 turnovers

With the impressive offensive and defensive improvements, Cornell notched a 55-44 win over Princeton, breaking a 17-game losing streak against the Tigers Marshall ended the night as the Red’s all-time leading scorer, with her 12 points bringing her career total to 1,657 points and surpassing the previous 1,650 point mark set by Walker

“As we enter the final weekend of the regular season we know that we still have things to improve upon, [but] our morale is definitely high right now, as we beat Princeton for the first time in seven years, ” Moran said

Cornell now moves into sole possession of fourth place in the Ivy League standings after a previous tie with Brown

The Red will end its regular season this weekend at home, against Yale and Brown Cornell will hope to hold onto the fourth seed in order to gain an invitation to this year ’ s inaugural Ivy League tournament

“We know that the fourth spot is ours for the taking, [and] we just need to finish out this last weekend,” Aston said “[This weekend] is our senior night weekend at home, so using that emotion to get a sweep for our last weekend at Newman Arena will be a great advantage for us ” Cornell plays in its last two regular season games at Newman Arena this weekend against Yale on Friday, Mar 3 at 6 p m and Brown on Saturday, Mar 4 at 5 p m

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