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Myrick ’09 Outlines Plan for Drug Injection Facility

Plans to lobby legislatures, pledges city will not‘arrest our way out of problems’

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

A week after announcing the controversial Ithaca Plan a proposal which would establish the nation’s first supervised drug injection facility in Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 outlined the steps the city’s administration will take to make this plan a reality in an interview with The Sun

because he believes that current “ war on drugs” has been largely ineffective in its reliance on imprisonment rather than rehabilitation “I felt for a long time that America’s drug policies were terrible,” Myrick said “As a child my father was an addict and this cycle of jail, forced rehab, jail, did him and my family no favors ” Myrick said he formed the Mu n i c i p a l Dr u g Po l i c y

C.U. Introduces Masters in Public Health

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Beginning next fall, Cornell will offer a camp u s - w i d e m a s t e r o f p u b l i c h e a l t h d e g re e , according to Gen Meredith associate director of MPH and international health programs

The program is still pending approval from the State University of New York and registrat i o n w i t h t h e Ne w Yo rk De p a r t m e n t o f Education, which could take either weeks or months, according to Meredith Meredith said that although the curriculum of the MPH program is still under development, candidates stand to “benefit from the participation of Cornell’s multiple world-class colleges, schools and departments ” Claudia Wheatley, senior public affairs officer for the College Veterinary Medicine, said her school would take a leading role in the partnership between the academic units

By JOSH GIRSKY

Staff Writer

“The College of Veterinary Medicine alone has world-renowned experts working in epidemiology, population medicine, infectious disease, food systems and human-animal dynamics,” Meredith said “With faculty from across Cornell, our students will learn and apply public health competencies from a multidisciplinary approach ”

The program will look at the connections and overlap between many different health fields, according to Wheatley

“We expect to have a focus on disease of course, but there will also be a focus on land usage, on poverty, on diseases that humans and animals share,” Wheatley said “[The MPH program] is going to be a lot of different disciplines with a focus on public health We’ve all got something to bring to the table when it comes to public health ”

planned to return to Cornell after his trial, he withdrew in advance of a dis-

determined whether he violated the University’s code of

conduct, Tan’s lawyer Brian DeCarolis told the Democrat and Chronicle DeCarolis added that Tan plans to continue his education at a school where people are not as familiar with his case, according to The Ithaca Voice Tan’s case was thrown out in a surprise move by Judge James Piampiano last year Assistant District Attorney William Gargan was especially upset at the jury’s decision,

Committee composed of administrators, healthcare providers and law enforcement officials in April 2014 to investigate and develop new approaches to combating drug addiction in the Ithaca area

The blueprint of The Ithaca Plan, which the MDPC and Myrick published last week, includes the group ’ s findings and policy recommendations

“[The Ithaca Plan] is a new, smarter public health campaign that will save people lives,” Myrick said “We are not going to arrest our way out of these problems anymore ”

The component of the Ithaca Plan that has been deemed most controversial is its proposed supervised injection facility, where people would be able to legally inject heroin under supervised medical care While new to the United States, these operations have successfully prevented overdose deaths, infectious diseases and bacterial infections for heroin users in both Canada and Europe, according to the mayor

Myrick also defended his program from critics who

Professors Weigh In on Super Tuesday Results

After Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump emerged as victors from Su p e r Tu e s d a y, Pro f William Jacobson, law, and Prof M Elizabeth Sa n d e

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e f s about what the results i m p l y f o r t h e 2 0 1 6 presidential election Clinton and Trump were both declared victors in seven primaries Bernie Sanders won the remaining four states in t h e De

i e s , w h i l e Republicans Ted Cruz was victorious in two states and Marco Rubio in one Prof Sanders said that she believes these election results demons

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rk a b l e times ” “ Tr u m p a n d Clinton just swept the p r i m a r i e s Ru

o h a s failed the Republican establishment by winning only one state, ” she said “Cruz, on the basis of winning three states two tonight, plus Iowa is now positioning himself to t h

o f Tr u m p, claiming he is the only true conservative ”

Prof Sanders said she believes that because Clinton is a political candidate, whose principles, like Trump’s, have shown “ great flexibility,” she is

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Homeless Gnomes: Pennsylvania State Park Evicts Tiny Houses

Nearly 40 gnome homes have been evicted from a Pennsylvania state park after a decision change sent them packing

He says the houses were a major attraction for children

Park Manager Jason Baker tells the news site he gave the OK originally, but it was later decided the homes could affect wildlife habitat

Hoke removed the little abodes Monday after being told he had until Feb 29

British Man Uses Girlfriend’s Passport on Plane

A British man who flew to Germany using his girlfriend’s passport only realised the mistake when he had arrived at his destination, having already gone through

security

Josh Reed, who is 6ft3 and has a beard, travelled from London Stansted to Dortmund on a Ryanair flight with petite brunette Sophie’s ID

According to the 21-year-old, security at the gate only checked his boarding pass, meaning he only spotted that he had the wrong travel documents when he landed in Germany

But at no point did anyone else notice that he wasn ’ t girlfriend Sophie Watkins

A spokesman for Ryanair told Mirror Online: “Our handling agent at the boarding gate mistakenly failed to check the passport of this passenger, and Swissport have assured us that appropriate steps will be taken to prevent a recurrence ”

Runaway ‘Unicorn’ Leads Police on Four-Hour Chase

A pony dressed up as the mythical spiral-horned beast escaped from a photoshoot and evaded capture for four hours on Wednesday night

At 5:30 p m , Juliet bolted from a home in the Fresno suburb of Madera Ranchos just as owner Sandra Boos was taking pictures of her with a child

Multiple drivers reported seeing the 400-pound animal, wearing a pink halter and horn, trotting into traffic on different highways

Project Manager Traces Path Toward Cheese Production

By ZACH SILVER Sun Staff Writer

When Robert Ralyea M Sc ’98 walks into work, instead of sitting at his desk and answering emails, he buttons his white coat and pants, puts on his hair net and heads to the processing plant to begins the d a y ’ s b a t c h o f yo g u r t Some days he begins as early as 3 a m R a l ye a i s a s e n

o r e x t e n s i o n a s s o c i a t e a n d pilot project manager in the department of food science and the project manager for the Cornell Dairy’s Big Red Cheddar “What I do is support the number one agricult u r a l i n d u s t r y i n Ne w Yo rk s t a t e [ C o r n e l l Dairy],” Ralyea said “I tr y to keep Ne w York state on the map with dairy I’d like to have New York kick Wisconsin’s ass in cheese production ”

While Ralyea’s career is c u r re n t l y f o c u s e d o n cheese, he said he didn’t a n t i c i p a t e d a i r y a s h i s career of choice when he was a young man

The deciding factor for Ralyea was his 21 years of military service in the veterinary corps, when he realized he might not be cut out for permanent veterinary work, he said

“I wanted to be a veterinarian originally, but that didn’t work out, ” Ralyea said “Probably [in] high school was when I realized I didn’t want to be a vet Growing up on a farm contributed to why I wanted to originally do that ”

“I ran out of money, joined the Army and took part in a program that allowed me to finish a degree at the next level, so I came t o C o r n e l l , ” h e s a i d “ I would have been a good veterinarian I am a big dog-lover ”

Ralyea earned a master ’ s degree in food sciences in 1 9 9 8 A f t e r a s i x - y e a r deployment, he returned to Cornell, where he said he was offered a job in the University’s dair y facility

During his career as a p i l o t p ro j e c t m a n a g e r, Ralyea revitalized Cornell cheese production a program that he said had been d o r m a n t f o r s e ve r a l decades

“ In 2 0 1 3 we s t a r t e d making Big Red Cheddar; that was the first cheese Cornell started making and selling,” Ralyea said “They used to do it many, many, many years ago but it fell off the radar There was a year of figuring out what we want to make it to be, but then we just started making it We’ve tweaked it over the past couple of years, but now we think we have a great product ” Although Big Red Cheddar was initially only sold

on campus, it is now being sold in the Ithaca branch of Wegmans Ralyea said he hopes to expand the product ’ s reach further

“We’ve talked with Murray’s Cheese in New York City,” he said “It’s more about figuring out the logistics of where things need to go from here We have permission to sell off campus We’re looking outside of the box ”

While acknowledging that dairy production and military work are quite different, Ralyea said he believes the skills he gained in the military helped him gain level-headedness and perspective which help him in his current role

“[The Army] taught you that not every day is a sunny day You just dealt with it,” he said “You tend to look at things from a little bit of a different perspective when someone comes to you with a bit of an emergency and you ’ re like, ‘Well I’m not quite sure that’s an emergency so to speak ’”

Along with his passion for cheese, Ralyea labels himself as a “ gear head,” or someone who likes collecting and fixing up old cars He said his pride and joy is an 1984 Mustang

“My father was a mechanic after the farm, so that’s probably where some of the gear-headedness came from,” Ralyea mentioned “We’re building a new garage [for my cars] and [my wife] is not happy about that ”

Ralyea encouraged students to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves, no matter how surprising they appear

“You never close the doors because you never know when that opportunity is actually going to strike for you, ” Ralyea said “I’m always looking for the next vision No matter how rickety the bridge looks, you never kick the bridge down, because one day that could be the bridge you take ”

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun com

Harvard Files Amicus Brief Against Graduate Student Unionization

BOSTON (IVY WIRE) Har vard jointly filed an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday arguing against the unionization of graduate students, joining six other Ivy League universities, Stanford, and MIT in a call for the board to uphold existing rulings that define the relationship between private universities and graduate students as strictly academic

In an email sent to faculty members, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D Smith and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Xiao-Li Meng wrote, “Along with our peer institutions, we share the concern that introducing labor unions into this educational relationship would disrupt academic programs, administration of financial assistance, and infringe upon academic freedom ”

Last April, a group of graduate students at Harvard made public their unionization efforts, and last week leaders of that group indicated that their movement had gained support from the majority of graduate students who work across Harvard as teaching fellows or research assistants

In 2004, the NLRB ruled that graduate students at Brown University were not employees, meaning that federal union protections would not apply to them Currently, two cases brought separately by graduate students at Columbia and The New School are under review by the NLRB and could stand to alter the relationship between private universities and their gradu-

ate students

The brief, filed jointly by nine universities at the solicitation of the NLRB for the Columbia case, comes while graduate students across the nation including at Harvard push for their universities to recognize them as employees with the right to collectively bargain

The brief emphasizes the strong stance Har vard has already taken against unionization, arguing that the formation of a graduate student union would fundamentally change the relationship between graduate students and universities to one based in labor, not in education, and that such a move could “transform the collaborative model of graduate education to one of conflict and tension ” University President Drew G Faust has made clear her opposition to unionization on similar grounds

Auto Workers posted on its Facebook page that members “ are disappointed in the administration’s continued interference with our democratic process and their refusal to recognize or respect the majority of graduate workers who have openly called for a union ”

“We’re not trying to be adversarial or have any animosity towards our employers. We want to come to the table as equals ”

For some students, the filing represents a shift in Harvard’s strategy regarding the unionization effort In October, GSAS administrators issued guidelines on how to respond to the movem e n t w e l c o m i n g discussion but discouraging hostility

said He added that if a Democrat is elected the next U S President in 2016 and the NLRB rules in favor of graduate students, it could be difficult for a future board to reverse that decision

Weil said she disagreed with the brief ’ s claim that collective bargaining is inherently contentious

“Both collective bargaining and arbitration are, by their very nature, adversarial,” the brief states

GSAS administrators sent students an email late Monday afternoon announcing the filing of the amicus brief and reiterating their stance against unionization The Harvard Graduate Student Union-United

“So far, it feels like the administration has been running a pretty dainty, gentle anti-union campaign, and we expected it to get more aggressive and we couldn’t predict the form that it would take exactly,” Ph D student Abigail Weil, a member of the unionization effort, said John T Trumpbour, research director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, said he thought the University’s move was not surprising

“I think that the private universities really feel that they are at a turning point, so a lot of them really want to do as much as they can to stop these victories now, and this they see as a very crucial decision,” Trumpbour

“We’re not trying to be adversarial or have any animosity towards our employers,” Weil said “We want to come to the table as equals ” Chamith Y Fonseka, a Ph D student and a member of the unionization effort, wrote in an email that he is “particularly disappointed in the administration becausecontrary to the University’s claims - efforts like these are exactly what creates an adversarial relationship between the administration and student body ”

Much of the brief focused on the threat a union could pose to academic freedom The brief described a hypothetical situation in which a professor wants to change the format of a final exam from multiple-choice to an essay, and, as a result, a graduate student union files a formal grievance charging that the change could create extra work for teaching fellows

The brief also cites issues that have surfaced at New York University, the only private institution that has voluntarily recognized a graduate student union, such as grievances filed over the selection of teaching assistants

Myrick ’09 Stresses Urgency of New Drug Policy Plan

Myrick said he foresees securing a physical location for the supervised injection sites and 24-hour crisis center as the most difficult part of the plan to execute

argue that the initiative would normalize or encourage heroin use by tempering the dangers inherent in abusing the drug

“People [start using drugs] never imagining that one day they would need to be rescued,” Myrick said “Nobody, who is fifteen years old and at a party, when someone hands them an oxycontin, says I know I shouldn’t take this, but 12 years from now, I can check into a supervising facility and inject myself with heroin while someone else watches They take it because they are feeling something, that they rather not be feeling boredom, isolation, probably anxiety, stress, maybe the beginnings of bipolar disorder or depression ”

He also emphasized that people need assistance rather than deterrents, criticizing the “just say no ” approach to the prevention of drug abuse and insisting that those struggling with addiction need “tools, alternatives and treatment ”

Making the Ithaca Plan a reality will be a gradual process, one which will require several years of planning and hard work, according to Myrick

“We are going to start everything that we are legally allowed to do,” he said “First we will create the [Ithaca] office of drug policy After we’ll seek to build a wet shelter, improve our education around drug use, and build a 24 hour crisis center All of these things will happen in the first three to four years ”

“The committee told me this was going to be the largest hurdle, but there are possible locations There are locations available that are close to services we already provide, like our existing homeless shelters, rescue missions, food pantries and soup kitchens,” he said “There are also places where neighborhoods have adapted to offering harm reduction services, which is what all of these programs are ”

While many of these programs are being strengthened in Ithaca, Myrick plans to lobby the state legislature for funding of the injection centers, and if that fails, he will appeal to the state department of health, urging them to declare a state of emergency

“We start building the programs that we can while lobbying with our right hands at the state level,” he said “If we never get approval for the supervised injection, we’ll still have 95 percent of the plan to fight addiction, all we’ll be lacking is this five percent ”

Myrick said there are several metrics that he will use to analyze the success of the injection center once it is established, including continuing to gauge amount of drug overdoses in the city

“If we can have no people die [from a drug overdose] then we know we are doing something right, because every single death from drug use is preventable,” Myrick said “Our goal is to get that number to zero ”

In response to recent concerns voiced by community members that the supervised injection locations might be

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a target for crime, Myrick countered that most people who would use these shelters are homeless and more vulnerable to crime then they would be in supervised injection facilities

“This population usually has on them their fix and nothing else They are not folks who walk around with $10,000 worth of heroin on them, they are walking around with $10 of heroin, which is usually not worth the trouble and doesn’t attract crime,” he said “It also doesn’t attract dealers for the exact same reason, because these are people without a lot of resources and money ”

The mayor encouraged other cities around the country to consider adopting a similar drug policy plans, calling problems of addiction and rehabilitation both ubiquitous and urgent

“I don’t know how much longer we can wait,” he said “We are losing 115 to 125 people a day People say we should continue the war on drugs, but I say for how long? We have been doing this for 40 years ”

Myrick said he did not aim to be a pioneer in creating the first supervised injection facility in the United States rather he felt that the city within his jurisdiction was suffering too severely for him to justify continuing with an approach to drug abuse that was simply not working

“These people are going to die, while you continue to try something which you know doesn’t work,” he said “So I ran out of patience We have to stop waiting for the federal and state government, we’ll do it ourselves "

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun com

Professors Voice Reactions to Super Tuesday

could face-off against Trump as a single challenger

c u r i o u s i f h e r m o re l e f t i s t l e a n i n g stances would change in the general election

“An important question is whether Clinton, who in her speech Tuesday night clearly channeled Bernie Sanders, would retain her new Sanders-like commitments in the general election and the presidency,” Sanders said “She is a politician whose principles and policy

c o m m i t m e n t s h a ve , l i k e Tr u m p ’ s , shown great flexibility ”

The results of Super Tuesday make Trump the likely Republican nominee, absent the narrowing the field of candidates to a single contender, a strategy which could result in a more united force of opposition countering Trump, according to Jacobson

“After tonight, unless the Republican field narrows to a single main challenger, Donald Trump will be the nominee even though in most states he’s not breaking the 40 percent barrier,” he said

Jacobson also shared his speculations

a b o u t w h i c h Re p u b l i c a n c

“Cruz would seem the logical challenger since he has won three states, but the GOP establishment hates Cruz even more than it hates Trump,” Jacobson said “Rubio could be an establishment alternative, but he seems to hold more promise than performance ”

Although Jacobson said he believes the only way to prevent Trump from gaining the nomination would be to narrow the Republican candidates to a single challenger, he said he believes this option is growing increasingly unlikely

“In the present posture it seems likely [that] both Cruz and Rubio will stay in at least through the mid-March, winner-take-all primaries, and that benefits Trump who may pick up boatloads of delegates without ever winning a majority of the popular vote, ” he said

Unlike Jacobson, Sanders said she believes that the Super Tuesday results reveal that fight for the Republican nomination has narrowed to Cruz and Trump

“So, while Trump may have hoped to keep Cruz in the race to block Rubio,

the stage is now set for a very hostile fight to the finish between Cruz and Trump, one of which will it seems safe to say carry the Republican flag against Hillary Clinton ”

Cruz and Trump’s primary victories re ve a

Americans feel from the Republican elite, according to Sanders

“Much is at stake here,” Sanders said “ Trump and Cruz are both unpredictable candidates outside the center of their party Their strength tells us that there is great unhappiness with the Republican elite, and the solutions they offer their voters could lead to great domestic conflict ” Sanders said she believes a TrumpClinton race could converge on key issues

“A Trump-Clinton election contest would be extremely negative, but they may not be very far apart on major economic or foreign policy issues,” Sanders said “Clinton may even be the more conservative of the two ”

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This interdisciplinar y focus will distinguish Cornell’s MPH degree from the Master of Health Administration degree offered by the College of Human Ecology’s Sloan Program, Meredith said

Although MHA programs cover issues of public health, their primary focus are the business and managerial sides of healthcare, Meredith said

“An MPH program focuses on the health of communities and the conditions that cause or prevent the spread of diseases and other conditions that undermine the health of people, animals and the environment; healthcare systems are covered as one of many factors at play,” she said

“The MHA and MPH should complement each other, and will offer students an expanded choice as they come to Cornell ”

Meredith discussed the fall 2016 launch of this MPH program at the second annual Global Health Gala held on Sunday

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun com

Stalemate Continues on Supreme Court Nominee After Senate Republicans Meet at White House

WA S H I N G TO N ( A P )

After an Oval Office sit-down on Tuesday did nothing to move

Re p u b l i c a n Se n a t e l e a d e r s o f f their hard line against a Supreme Cour t nomination, Democrats pulled out another weapon in the h e a t e d e l e c t i o n - ye a r f i g h t : Donald Trump

In a White House meeting that lasted less than an hour, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky ) and Judiciary

C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n C h u c k Grassley (R-Iowa) told President Barack Obama that any confirmation process during a presidential campaign would politicize the court They offered up no potential candidates that would win their backing and no route to filling the seat

“ T h i s va c a n c y w i l l n o t b e filled this year, ” McConnell told reporters after the meeting

De m o c r a t s a c c u s e d Republicans of trying to hold the seat open so that a Republican president can fill it That president could be Trump, they noted, hoping to needle a GOP establishment uncomfortable with the prospects of Trump presidency

The meeting which also i n c l u d e d Vi c e Pre s i d e n t Jo e Biden, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sen Patrick Leahy (D-Vt ), the ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee was the first time the leaders have met since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month set off a highstakes clash over the Supreme Court vacancy

While the men huddled at the White House, voters in 12 states were preparing to weigh in on a p re s i d e n

s tanked Obama’s chances of filling

t h e s e a t b u t a l s o g i ve n Democrats a new line of attack

As they emerged from the meeting, they quickly linked the GOP strategy to the Republican frontrunner poised to pick up significant momentum Tuesday night “All we want them to do is fulfill their Constitutional duty and do their job, and at this stage, they decided not to do that,” Reid said “They think that they can wait and see what President Trump will do, I guess ”

Reid’s comments were aimed at riling up Democrats, as well as m

Republicans who cringe at the

celebrity candidate controlling the future of the court It was an early sign that with formalities such as awkward White House meetings dispensed with, the fight over the court was largely a battle for public opinion

“ Whether ever ybody in the meeting today wanted to admit it, we all know that considering a nomination in the middle of a heated presidential campaign is bad for the nominee, bad for the court, bad for the process, and ultimately bad for the nation,” Grassley said in his statement about the meeting “It’s time for the people to voice their opinion about the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system of government ” At another time, the gathering might have been a nod to the tradition of at least limited cooperation in naming and confirming justices to the nation’s highest court The president might have f

; Senate opposition might have come armed with their own preferred names

On Tuesday, neither side came with much more than talking points

Justice Clarence Thomas Breaks 10-Year Silence Monday

WA S H I N G TO N ( A P )

Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence

Mo n d a y a n d p o s e d q u e s t i o n s during a Supreme Cour t oral argument, provoking gasps from the audience

And it wasn ’ t just one question; it was a string of them in an exchange that lasted several minutes

It was only the second week the court has heard arguments since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Thomas’ friend and fellow conservative, whom he’d sat next to for seven years Scalia was famous for aggressive and sometimes combative questions from t h e b e n c h Hi s c h a i r i s n ow draped in black in observance of his Feb 13 death

Thomas’ gravelly voice unexpectedly filled the courtroom and e n l i ve n e d a n o t h e r w i s e s l e e p y argument about gun rights He p e p p e re d Ju s t i c e De p a r t m e n t lawyer Ilana Eisenstein, who was trying to wind up her argument, with 10 or so questions that seemed to be a vigorous defense of the constitutional right to own a gun

“ M s Ei s e n s t e i n , o n e q u e s -

tion,” Thomas said “This is a misdemeanor violation It sus-

pends a constitutional right Can you give me another area where a misdemeanor violation suspends a constitutional right?”

Until then, it had been business as usual for the first 50 minutes of the hour-long session in Voisine v United States The court was considering the reach of a federal law that bans people convicted of domestic violence from owning guns

None of the other justices visibly reacted to Thomas’ remarks Eisenstein noted that violating other laws can, in some cases, limit a person ’ s free-speech rights under the First Amendment “OK,” Thomas said “So can you think of a First Amendment suspension or a suspension of a First Amendment right that is permanent?”

It was a topic no other justice had asked about And his comments came after several of the other justices seemed to favor the government ’ s position that the law applies whether the abuse is intentional or reckless Thomas last asked a question in court on Feb 22, 2006, and his unusual silence over the years has become a curiosity Every other justice regularly poses questions from the bench

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Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling

Peaked

In High School

If we were all celebrities, I would probab l y b e t h e w a s h e d - o u t , c h i l d s t a r

Something tells me I wouldn’t be alone, either Many of us achieved small-scale, but early eminence before enrolling at Cornell Never basis to preen about camp u s , a c c o m p l i s h e d p a s t s m a y a c t u a l l y encumber us with misguided aspirations toward grand-scale successes

This time of year, our ambitious inclinations materialize in onerous searches for ready-to-commodify summer experiences Securing highly sought-after internships at venerated professional firms, policy centers and research labs, entails, in part, repeated rounds of interrogation Inter viewing is inherently one-sided, but it also informs us about ourselves Curating an abridged compilation of experiential profundities compels a degree of introspection, and soul-searching can be an utterly stupefying task It might even kindle distaste for the system altogether A common discover y through this process is that our backgrounds are rather ordinar y, and that’s not all bad Ordinariness isn’t just tolerable, but also darkly humorous (see American Beauty, Sam Mendes) Humor of any kind inspires late night television personalities, so it’s no surprise that Jimmy Kimmel aired a s e g m

Hollywood Boulevard with a straightforward, but piercing inquir y, well-known to student inter viewers: “ What is your greatest accomplishment?” Among befuddlement and timid responses, hilarity ensued as one pubescent adolescent claimed to have caught all 649 Pokemon Kudos there, but I reckoned I might discover more meaningful answers by redirecting Kimmel’s question to close friends here Walking among our ivied quads are diverse v i r t u o s o s : c h e s s c h a m p i o n s , re c o rd i n g artists, four-minute milers and startup CEOs With so many years lying ahead the statistics from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention suggest college graduates have an increased life expectancy of nine years one must wonder if we peaked too early Is it possible that our g re a t e s t a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s m a y h a ve already occurred? Without a next big thing, do we lose sense of purpose? Both questions frighten my faded, child star self As I endeavor in the allure of fictitiously typecasting myself a child star, my appreciation for bona-fide whiz kids who are making headlines is genuine Being in the news is cool period Having accomplished something newsworthy is often a source of personal fulfillment, plus it’s a cop-out answer to ever y priming for a fun fact about yourself (e g imagine if you were the youngest person to ascend Mt Everest) Fun facts seem infrequent, but tend to startle me once a month Because I abhor fun facts, a dozen reliefs per year would be bliss I met a former prodigy with this good f o r t u n e t w o s u m m e r s p a s t : a S c r i p p s

National Spelling Bee champion, in the flesh Bee champions lack wall pin-up recognition, but I know he won because his stardom was the third factoid he shared about himself Prompt admission of such rarefied achievement seems haughty in retrospect, but its immediate impact was sim-

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affronted me with the fifth grade memor y (read: shame) of misspelling lavender as if it shared a suffix with calendar No embitterment time healed my wounds but I was intrigued First, youthful accomplishment was deeply intertwined with his identity Instead of depicting oneself as an avid snowboarder studying economics like ever yone else his introduction had cachet Co-workers embraced that and ever y few hours, would insist spell-checking ser vices of his sage wisdom I also empathized with the unlikelihood that he would ever precede his age thirteen feat

Pondering whether a winner-takes-all society could drive us to peak too early, I felt oddly thankful to be an improficient speller Success begets success and many spelling bee champions enjoy fruitful, productive lives, but delayed gratification also protects us from riding on our own coattails Too often we confuse recognition and accomplishment Regardless of whether Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for best actor in a leading role for The Revenant, the public and critics alike would have recognized his career as an accomplished one Trophies collect dust and propagate a system that values ends ahead of means

Returning to the greatest accomplishment inquir y, a tepid, “probably getting into Cornell,” was my friends’ parallel copout answer Getting into Cornell pales in c o m p a r i s o n t o c o r re c t l y s p e l l i n g autochthonous (2004 Bee final word) Attribution bias might be at play too It’s unclear whether our acceptance was a result of hard work or luck, socioeconomic advantages and other arbitrar y factors Simply put, gaining admission to an elite institution is a hollow accomplishment Colleges must be aware of this too To glorify the random event, notification comes in writing: a big, fat red envelope designed to complement the decaying trophy shrine in your childhood bedroom The fundamental problem is attempting to turn an intangible accomplishment into a tangible o n e In t a n g i b l e a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s t h a t expand your moral character and intellectual boundaries can be equally fulfilling to those lionized by trophies, money and fame It is okay to admit that your greatest accomplishment is something that only you appreciate, like talking to your mom ever yday or being the tallest sixth grader in your school There’s silliness to it too, and who cares

Our faded, child stars are not out of luck either Now more than ever is a time for a comeback My first suggestion would be Netflix They’re reprising Full House, Adam Sandler and Pee-Wee Herman If t h a t d o e s n ’ t w o rk , yo u c

ow Donald Trump’s suit and run for president Before doing either, contemplate whether o

undertaking A long list of accolades may lead to no greater happiness than surro

Pokemon cards

David Tauber is a senior in the College of Industrial & Labor Relations He can be reached at dat229@cornell edu Guest Room appears periodically this semester

CORRECTION

IIntro to the World

walked up the stairs to the sixth floor of Balch carrying a box of my belongings A shy and anxious freshman on move-in day, I was eagerly awaiting my first human contact at Cornell I met my first hallmate once I reached my floor and we exchanged nervous smiles and greetings “Where are you from?” I asked “California,” she replied, “what about you?”

“I just moved from Kuwait,” I answered “Oh ” she laughed dismissively, “I don’t know what that is ” I was shocked Gob Bluth’s voice echoed in my head: “I’ve made a huge mistake ” I began to wonder if I had misjudged Cornell After all, what use is a degree, a great GPA or a perfect test score if it does not bring with it knowledge of the world in which we live?

In a world so connected, structuring educational curriculums around providing international perspectives and promoting multiculturalism is crucial Students must learn about the world beyond a useless one-week trip to an African country to build a house or a semester abroad in Paris or London Classes need to engage with international issues and address how the state of the world affects the subjects we learn about in our U S -centric studies It is our responsibility to become more internationally-aware global citizens, not just to gain a competitive advantage in the job market, but also to be able to interact respectfully with those around us and make more informed decisions Learning to understand others is the essence of being human and imperative to humanizing others in the world

Due to increasing economic competition, college has become just as much of a job factory as a place of higher learning Instead of focusing on broadening perspectives and learning about different cultures, college is seen as an opportunity just to advance prospects in the work market

Learning about different cultures is now just another hurdle to jump through: languages are learned to pad resumes and classes about different countries and cultures are taken begrudgingly to fulfill a single “cultural requirement” that encapsulates the whole non-Western world Students learn languages largely without regard for the people who speak them and without respect for the cultures they represent Students learn to conjugate verbs and craft sentences yet they do not humanize what they learn and connect language to the larger heart of a population They learn Arabic, only to join the military and help fuel Western imperialism; they learn Spanish to gain a skill for their resume or to capture Latinos as customers, yet disregard the experiences of Hispanics and Latinos in America and look down upon those that speak English with an accent

More internationally focused classes are often seen as burdensome requirements The Industrial and Labor Relations curriculum, for example, requires one class that fulfills a “cultural perspectives” requirement: three or four credits out of 120 to learn about a country that is not America It is fine that classes are U S -centric; after all, the United States is where most students will live after graduation However, there does seem to be a disparity in the weight given to learning about different areas of the world American high school curriculums focus only on the United States, failing to provide students with adequate knowledge of other countries around the world It is no surprise that United States college students are so U S -centric that is all they know how to be The system reinforces itself, as ignorance breeds indifference and stifles students’ curiosity to learn about the larger world

Living in the United States, it is easy to dismiss things happening in other countries or to feel like we do not need to learn about the world because we are the center of it This attitude is evident in the nonchalant mistakes we make Even professors lecturing about their subjects of specialty are dismissive of geography, providing misinformation or finding humor in not knowing where particular countries are Not knowing what the modern day equivalent of Rhodesia is or mischaracterizing Christian Assyrians as Muslim may not seem like great offenses, but they are a symptom of the disregard for and othering of diverse people from around the world

Misinformation and ignorance matter because they spawn dehumanization Not caring enough to correctly identify the religion of the demographic one is teaching about shows a lack of respect for that group of people These are small symptoms of underlying issues that manifest themselves in large problems such as large-scale violence and imperialism: all fueled by ignorance and lack of respect

Students need to embrace the insight being an international citizen can bring In learning about the world, we access new ways of living and new perspectives that reframe and challenge the ways in which we perceive the world, as well as the notions we take for granted as being normal and true We are challenged to think more critically and engage with issues more deeply, and along the way we learn respect and understanding Curriculums (starting before college) should focus more on integrating knowledge of a subject with its global implications and stimulating students to think more broadly and learn more about the world

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“I was thinking about this the other day. In my hometown, the University of Arizona is churning out these amazing buildings like the Meinel Optical Building and the Environmental and Natural Resources building while we get Klarman Hall It looks nice, but it’s nothing special ”

Re: “GUEST ROOM | Cornell’s Architectural Legacy,” Opinion March 1, 2016

Not Like Them

In a time where “political correctness ” is constantly debated, it’s interesting to see how that affects dynamics within marginalized communities There are all types of actions and rhetoric that create an “ us and them” vibe between people with the same identities They try to distance themselves from a subset of the same community sometimes because they are afraid of how they will be viewed by others A common example is how some women distance themselves from labeling themselves as feminists The word often has a negative connotation because feminists are just seen as annoying, angry women who cannot let anything go This makes it hard for people to identify with the term because they are afraid of the association

There is a similar situation in many other communities, including communities of color, as we try to distance ourselves from stereotypes or any kind of negative view by society

Whenever I witness something like this, I’m just left feeling confused and not really sure how to respond I feel a different kind of pain than when a white person shares their opinion on a lifestyle or political engagement of people of color I expect that, but I don’t ever really expect the critique and tone policing from other people of color It causes harm within our communities as well as allows those with privilege to remain superior ” These sentiments are not always due to politics, but are strongly related Recently, I was talking to a family member about the Latinx community at Cornell and some of the difficulty we sometimes have when communicating They completely misunderstood what I was saying and went on to describe how it is sometimes difficult to relate to other Latinx people because “ we ’ re not like them ” My relative explained that by saying we, as in

they and I, did not grow up with pictures of J-Lo on our walls and how they hated reggaeton

Apparently we were different from the majority of Latinx people because we enjoyed reading classical literature and liked listening to alternative music I was really uncomfortable as they said this because it wasn ’ t just discounting those who shared our identity, but they was also assuming a lot about me that he didn’t know

To them, it seemed like we were better than other Latinx people because we were more intellectual and “cultured” than the stereotypical Latinx person They somehow managed to otherize our own community by making that distinction and making it seem like we were better for straying away from aspects of our culture This isn’t an okay mentality to have because it

phrases used towards people who critique something they find inappropriate or uncomfortable is “why can ’ t you take a joke?” People fail to realize that these “jokes” are indicative of bigger issues Having a person of color say that another person of color is taking something too seriously is feeding into the same disparity that harms them, which is why it always confuses me to witness those types of incidents Like the previous example, they are going against those in their own community while simultaneously acting in a way that instills certain standards for people of color

Distancing yourself from those who are “ too politically correct ” does not make you any better than us or make you any less affected by racism If a fellow person of color finds something wrong and chooses to voice that, it is probably for

Having a person of color say that another person of color is taking something too seriously is feeding into the same disparity th harms them, which is why it always confuses me to witness those types of incidents.

divides our own community by trying to make it seem like we ’ re different I mean, I’m an English major and I actually hate classic literature but I love reggaeton, so does that change their view of me? Do I suddenly become one of those Latinas?

Some pride themselves on how different they are from a good portion of their community without realizing it’s another way to separate and pit us against each other One type is regarded more highly than the other in society because one meets the standards for “good” person of color that the United States has created Speaking in that fashion just adds to the idea that we are only accepted by others if we act a particular way

A similar concern for many people of marginalized identities is that they are being “ too politically correct ” One of the most common

the best to fully consider what they’re saying before completely denouncing them

Ultimately, it’s really hard for me to be critical of other people of color, even when we disagree I know that I want to provide support and educate them more than I want to be angry about whatever they said or did Like I said before, it’s not the same as if a white person does it because these are people from either my own Latinx community or the greater community of people of color Arguing and distancing ourselves from each other is just another example of how systems can manipulate us into trying to act a certain way

Sarah Zumba is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at sez29@cornell edu Zumba Works it Out appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Electrocute Me With Color: S e m e l e at Ithaca College

BY CATHERINE HWANG Sun Staff Wrter

Semele by George Frideric Handel is the tale of the affair between a mortal girl named Semele (Laura McCauley) and the immortal Jupiter ( Joseph Michalczyk-Lupa), and what results when Jupiter’s vengeful wife Juno (Hector Gonzales Smith), the goddess of marriage, finds out about it Based on one of the origin tales of the Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, the story itself is naturally wrought with drama, passion and tragedy I honestly had no idea of what to expect from Semele, as I have never seen an opera before Would I be seeing a fantastically mawkish tale? A complete train wreck of emotions as the three lead characters, fantastically selfish and vain, tromp around the stage? Or just classical white togas and dry lines?

Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts’ production of Semele directed by Ithaca College graduate and professor R B Schlather caught me off-guard in a lot ways, and I was all the more glad for it Vivid, bright and in constant motion, the show was modern, amazingly vibrant and colorful rich in colors, but tasteful and cohesive in its palette Our eyes feasted on pale blue bodies, silver headdresses and purple disco lights On the stage we saw flower wreaths here and there and showers of green, green dollars In some ways, the props for the stage were perhaps not

Iso great in number or complexity overall, but the relative simplicity of say, a single green, patterned couch, was made deeper with small details, an enchanting chorus and clever plays with lighting, designed by Erik Herskowitz ‘16 One of my favorite scenes was when Semele sat enchanted by the television with the chorus surrounding her, the light of the screen brightly illuminating her face in slightly different tones and leaving shadows stretching behind the cast

The set and costume played an important role in how the story itself was portrayed With a stark, clean light wooden box as the main component in which our characters play in, there is an inevitable sort of modern twist to the story It’s in the details, the work of scenic designer Daniel Zimmerman and costume designer Greg Robbins Iris’s bright red, shiny lace-up platform boots, the yellow button-down shirt of Semele’s bespectacled father and Juno’s headphones, cigarettes and magazines

All of these bring quirks to old classical characters and make for vibrant people that we can better understand, more so than an entire cast dressed in white sheets

The actors did an excellent job of breathing life into these additions with playful, dynamic expressions, comically histrionic movements and a flair of bright, humorous drama There was dancing, there was finger-snapping and there was some very impressive singing

Even between the prancing on stage, all the players filled the room

with a full, steady sound that was bolstered by a lovely live orchestral performance overseen by musical director Blaise Bryski The acoustics of the theatre did end up making solos hard to understand at times, but the play’s lines running across the top of the stage made that inconsequential in the end The combination of a contemporary set and lively acting created a new Semele, one that is far more humorous and light-hear ted than one might have expected from such an old classic

From Juno’s crazy sobbing on her wooden throne to Semele’s coy expressions of manipulation, the production was utterly charming with its contemporary elements and eye for detail The opening night was filled with laughter and cheers With its subconscious ability to draw the audience in, I found myself consciously reminding myself to close my mouth and stop gawking If you asked, I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint what drew me or the rest of the audience in so quickly it was simply engaging, shocking and beautiful in its use of color, and fun to watch It’s a show full of whimsy and delight, and it has definitely hooked me into opera and the rest of Ithaca College’s 2015-2016 season Semele will be performed two more times on Thursday and Saturday in the Hoerner Theatre in the Dillingham Center at Ithaca College

Catherine Hwang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at shwang@cornellsun com

have a friend named Evan whose rapper name is Dough Boi and he makes music and you should check it out on SoundCloud

I realize how unappealing that sounds My reaction to people on social media or YouTube hawking their “fire mixtapes” and begging “please just give me a chance” always inspires a mix of disdain and embarrassment in me The only music I ever listen to is either critically lauded or at least signed to a record

label Evan is the only exception

Maybe the reason I like Evan’s music really is just the extra emotional heft of knowing an artist personally I like music that at least appears to be confessional, but in the end I run up against the fact that I really don’t know in the end how authentic or honest Bob Dylan or Kanye are being I know much better how authentic Evan is being, which is pretty goddamn authentic Evan makes brave, honest music He doesn’t lie, exaggerate or self-aggrandize His pain is real, his insights are real and his release is real and is realized through his music

This is, to my knowledge, the first piece of music criticism on the work of the rapper Dough Boi In the pursuit of transparency, I reiterate that Evan/Dough Boi is my friend I’m going to call him Evan for the rest of this article because Dough Boi is a silly name that he will hopefully either outgrow or recast by becoming so influential and ubiquitous that his silly name will come to signify something else altogether, like what happened to the Beatles

Evan has completed three projects since he came to Cornell

The first was released this last summer was titled The Best Mixtape in 5Evar and was credited to the “Street Scholars,” a duo made up of Evan and D J Bailey Smooth, the latter being my freshman year roommate This mixtape is pretty bad, as Evan now admits On the other hand, “Shelbywhatever” is pretty, “Yo Breath” is pretty funny and “The Friend” is pretty sad “My Body is a Thing You Should Touch” features a godly beat created by Bailey out of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body ” Let’s move on Evan released a full-length album called Bad Beginning on Oct 24 He wrote all the lyrics, crafted all the beats and basically did everything except sample Bailey playing acoustic guitar on “Alarms ” Bad Beginning is a concept album about Evan’s freshman year and is, as you might infer from the title, a pretty rough trip It’s one of the most monomaniacally focused breakup albums I’ve ever heard There are moments of joy and beauty the opening promise of “We Can Be Anything,” a layered a cappella cover of Bill Withers’s “Lean on Me” but for the most part, the record fluctuates between bleary depression and white-knuckled determination to persevere It’s a despondent, exhausting and cathartic work “C2H60” is an incredible song about the void of partying that is even more explicit in its criticism than Kendrick’s often-misconstrued “Swimming Pools (Drank) ” “Guardian” is a beautiful ode to Evan’s friends and family Bad Beginning ends with its strongest two moments: “Last Letter,” a moment of closure with the girl who inspired the album, and “Until,” a showcase of Evan’s expert word-spitting so potent that you should actually just listen to it I was very impressed by Bad Beginning Nonetheless, I rarely want to listen to it, because it’s so unrelentingly troubling, particularly for a close friend of Evan’s That’s why I am thrilled

with the direction that Evan has taken his music His most recent project, released a few weeks ago, is Don’t Worry, a 15minute E P (Evan: “Don’t call it a mixtape I realized that when people say they made a mixtape nobody ever wants to listen to that ”) Don’t Worry is quite simply one of my favorite things to listen to at the moment It’s soothing, comforting, playful, amusing, exuberant; essentially, everything that Bad Beginning was not While Bad Beginning consisted of a variety of sounds generally built around synthesizer and keyboard effects, Don’t Worry has a more natural feel, with most of the songs featuring Evan’s mandolin It only consists of four songs Any student struggling under crippling amounts of work can relate to the opening track, “Make It Better ” “Sorry II” contains the wonderful lyric: “I am not coldblooded, you ’ re a squad of chameleons/And I’m sorry for mistaking you for wanting to be my friends My dad described it via text as “ v strong ” and a “ song of hisself ” Then the tape really hits its stride, with Evan’s best two songs ever The first is the titular “Don’t Worry,” a beautiful and dynamic instrumental track featuring mandolin and recorder

The tape ends with “January,” which takes the ubiquitous shout-out track to stratospheric heights of joy and gratitude Evan raps, “Shouts out to my ex, I probably didn’t deserve ya / Sorry ’bout the tape, I ain’t taking it any further,” a line so mature and tasteful after the bitter depths of Bad Beginning that I smile every time I hear it

I’m proud of Evan I think he makes wonderful music

Check it out at: https://soundcloud com/dough-boi-3

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Ar

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SCIENCE

Apple Should Not Follow FBI Request To Unlock iPhone, Says Pr of

By SARAH CROWE Sun Staff Writer

In a time when the boundaries of privacy are becoming unclear in technology, the verdicts from the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI over a terrorist’s locked iPhone will change the field of encryption A key player in this field is Prof Stephen Wicker, electrical and computer engineering, who has spoken to Congress and the White House about privacy in today’s world In this fight, he believes that Apple is correct

On Dec 5, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, before being killed themselves in the ensuing shootout with law enforcement The FBI is now in possession of one of the shooter’s iPhones and believes unlocking it could offer valuable information about the case

When a certain security preference is set and a wrong passcode is entered 10 times in a row, all of the data on the phone is erased The FBI is looking to Apple for to overcome this challenge and gain access to the phone’s data

“What the FBI is asking Apple to do is to create an operating system that can be used on a particular iPhone that will bypass that iPhone’s security features,” Wicker said Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to do so on the grounds that the privacy of all iPhone users would be threatened, according to an Apple customer letter Wicker believes that this refusal is an important moral stance that will protect the rights of smartphone users

according to Wicker

“Even if the software is locked to a particular phone, Apple and most computer scientists can ’ t be sure that the software will stay locked to that p a r t i c u l a r phone,” Wicker said “They can ’ t be sure that the FBI won ’ t misplace it, it won ’ t be misused and let’s not forget that the government itself has been hacked ”

On Feb 16, a California court ruled that Apple must comply with the FBI’s request The ruling cited the All Writs Act, which according to Wicker is a two-sentence statute that dates back to the Judiciary Act of 1789 He is not convinced that the statute justifies the court ’ s decision

“I don’t think there’s a general understanding of what’s been asked for.”

“Smartphones are the personal papers of the 21st century, and cryptography the primary means of keeping our data to ourselves,” Wicker said in a University press release

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If an operating system that can bypass iPhone security features is created and released to the FBI, the security of all iPhones is weakened and dangerous possibilities arise,

“If you read the actual words [of the statute], they’re extraordinarily vague, ” Wicker said “And in a case in the late 1800s, a court said that the collection of personal papers is essentially equivalent to forcing an individual to incriminate themselves No one would have thought that the All Writs Act could have been used to force someone to reveal their private papers ”

Despite his disagreement with this court ruling and with the FBI, Wicker has great respect for prosecutors He

said he understands that the agency needs to access every piece of evidence that it can, as long as they respect the lines of privacy that are drawn by the law

“I think prosecutors are wonderful people,” Wicker said “They do a phenomenal job We have a great justice system, in part because we have prosecutors who work really hard ”

Wicker also understands why some people might feel as though the FBI is justified, especially if breaking into the phone could help prevent future attacks He is not convinced, however, that the public grasps the magnitude of what is being asked of Apple

“I don’t think there’s a general understanding of what’s been asked for, of the nature of cryptography, of the nature of the operating system and how operating systems can be easily replicated and distributed,” Wicker said

Sarah

can be reached at soc22@cornell edu

A ‘Hole’ New World: Improving Efficiency of Water Splitting

By SIDDESH RAMESH Sun Staff Writer

Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms is a simple reaction that holds important implications towards energy and fuel needs Photovoltaics the process that converts solar energy into electricity offers a feasible way to use light energy to split water

Prof Peng Chen, chemistry, and his team aimed to optimize this process by studying the surface of nanorods of semiconductor titanium dioxide with respect to levels of photocatalytic reactivity Their research indicates that the variations in the structure of the surface of the nanorods lead to variable water-splitting activity

Titanium dioxide nanorods can be used as photoanodes in a photochemical cell Water is oxidized into oxygen on the surface of these rod-shaped cr ystals, according to Chen The electrons extracted from water during oxidation is passed through an external circuit to generate a current

Light can excite electrons in titanium dioxides, causing the electrons to jump to a higher energy state This results in the formation of “holes” empty states that acts like a positive charge since it is missing the usual electron that tend to migrate to the surface of the nanorod and then

react with water Chen’s team worked to increase the amount of holes and increase the overall efficiency of this process, believing that applying a co-catalyst called cobalt-borate a type of oxygen evolution catalyst could prove pivotal

Chen and his team observed that the surface of the nanoscale crystal of titanium dioxide has many different types of sites caused by the inherent characteristics of the nanoscale structure used

“ There are always structural defects and because of the shape, different facets

may be

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Chen said

precursors of OEC, generating and depositing OEC on the surface of titanium dioxide,” Chen said

With the use of single molecule fluorescence microscopy, Chen and his team used specific probes to detect where the “hole”-induced reactions occurs on the titanium dioxide, identifying which sites are more or less active

“The probe reacts with the hole or other hole-induced surface-oxidizing species and will generate a f l u o r e s c e n t m o l e c u l e , ” Chen said

“The probe reacts with the hole or other hole-induced surface-oxidizing species and will generate a fluorescent molecule.”

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This begged the question of where to place oxygen evolution catalysts to yield the greatest improvement in efficiency, since certain sites are probably more efficient than others The team investigated this by using a process called photoelectric deposition to precisely apply cobalt-borate at different sites on the crystal

“A potential is applied to titanium dioxide, and a laser is focused at a particular location, exciting electrons and creating charged carriers that react with the

Sites with more holeinduced reactions will exhibit more fluorescence Additionally, the amount of current generated from the hole-induced reactions which is proportional to the number of electrons taken from water during oxidation can be used as a measure of efficiency

Chen and his team found that the areas that were already active did not yield a great improvement when the catalyst was placed there However, there was a big improvement in efficiency when placed in the less active regions on the nanorods

“If one wanted to have the most amount of improvement [in efficiency of oxidizing water], you would want to put the catalyst in the low active regions,” Chen said

In terms of meeting energy and fuel needs, the current generated from the water-splitting activity can be used directly to power electronic devices That current can also be delivered to a cathode and reduce protons to hydrogens, which can be used for fuel

In the future, Chen hopes to further elucidate the mechanism behind the interaction between cobalt-borate and the activity of the holes on the surface of titanium dioxide Testing and improving the efficiency of other semiconductors and oxygen evolution catalysts are also research questions that could be addressed later on

Chen’s research on optimizing the semiconductor titanium dioxide by identifying specific regions for placement of oxygen evolution catalysts to yield the highest amount of water-splitting activity establishes important fundamental knowledge that can be used to engineer more effective photoanodes and improve current photovoltaic cells

Siddesh Ramesh can be reached at sr746@cornell edu

Red Places Fifth in Ivy League Swimming Championship

This weekend, the Cornell men ’ s swim team traveled to Providence, Rhode Island for the Ivy League Swimming Championships In what would be Cornell’s best finish since 2009 in the three-day event, sophomore Alex Evdokimov came in first in the A-final for both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events

In just two short years with the Red, Evdokimov has emerged as one of the powerhouses for Cornell Not only did he sweep the breaststroke events this year, but he also did so at last year ’ s Ivy Championships, earning himself the MVP title for the Red along with junior Dylan Sali Last year, he was the first Cornellian to win multiple events since 2007

Other notable performances came from seniors Victor Luo and Carl St John, as well as sophomore Will Stange Luo had a top-10 finish in the 200 breaststroke, St John came in 10th for the 200 fly and Stange finished in third in the 200 back Overall, the team came in fifth out of eight, coming in ahead of Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth While Harvard came out on top with almost 500 points on the Red, the Cornell squad was still able to place one spot higher than last year ’ s sixth place overall finish

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Western Conference, two and a half games in front of the Rockets, who Spor ts Illustrated ranked sixth in the same rankings How can this be? Por tland’s offseason acquisitions were guys like Al-Farouq Aminu and Mason Plumlee not big-name, high-price free agents In fact, Por tland is currently last in the league in team payroll, paying just $53 million, compared to Houston’s $86 million, and Cleveland’s $107 million It isn’t as though the Blazers’ went out and spent a ton of money to replace Aldridge and the other three star ters So, then, how are the Blazers’ this good?

Por tland’s success can be attributed to a number of factors First, Damian Lillard is criminally underrated, and his team ’ s per formance this season confirms this long-held notion Lillard’s greatness was some what overshadowed by Aldridge the past three seasons This season, Lillard is the clear go-to guy He’s averaging 25 points, seven assists and four boards per game on a winn i n g t e a m Bu t h e d o e s n ’ t w i n g a m e s by h i m s e l f Por tland’s success is also due in par t to the emergence of CJ McCollum, who the Blazers drafted 10th overall out of Lehigh in 2013 McCollum is scoring more than 20 points a night, and is proving to be as consistent a knockdown-shooting two-guard as there is in the league When Lillard missed a couple of games in December, McCollum led the Blazers in his absence, posting a 3511-9 line in a win over Sacramento McCollum was buried behind Wesley Matthe ws and Arron Afflalo on the depth char t in his first two professional seasons

But the Blazers’ developed their 2013 lotter y selection, and while basketball fans wrote Por tland off, the Blazers’ kne w they were about to unleash a stud guard who would have a prime oppor tunity to breakout in the

Association McCollum and Lillard 24 and 25-yearsold, respectively are and should continue to be as dynamic a backcour t as any in seasons to come Blazers’ GM Neil Olshey went in-house to improve the Blazers, handing guys like McCollum, Meyers Leonard and Allen Crabbe significant roles, to which they have responded with effective play But Olshey was also fr ugal in acquiring productive on-cour t value while spending less than all other teams I mentioned that Por tland traded for Mason Plumlee and signed Al-Farouq Aminu, both of whom have been reliable star ters for the Trail Blazers

Now the Sixers must attempt

Olshey also signed an athletic big-man in Ed Davis, and traded for Gerald Henderson, Noah Vonleh and Maurice Harkless, all of whom have contributed to Por tland’s success, whether in a bench role or with the star ting unit When a scoring duo like Lillard and McCollum is surrounded with defensive-minded wing players who can shoot, and big-men who can both rebound and other big-men who can spread the floor, the result will be potent, consistent offensive production Through inhouse development, savvy personnel decisions, and the dependency of Damian Lillard, the Blazers have earned their spot in the Western Conference standings Their success is no fluke

Por tland’s extraordinar y rebuild isn’t something that can be copied to per fection The front office, coaching,

and player personnel must work in harmony for this to b e s u c

rebuilding situation, flubbed big-time in trading for Ty Lawson, who is earning an elite-level salar y to sit on the bench for a team fighting to make the playoffs The Rockets also fired their coach midseason, in par t because their star players are divas So when a team lacks the unity of management, coaches and players, a situation like the one in Houston from Western Conference Finals to eighth seed despite essentially the same team can occur In the NBA, big-name players don’t always equate to wins, as is the case in Houston, as well as Sacramento In Philadelphia’s case, though, a Por tland-like rebuild is obviously out of the question They have no Damian Lillard to surround with production The Sixers traded their only possible Lillards Jr ue Holiday and Nikola Vucevic in order to begin the “ process ” a fe w seasons ago Now the Sixers must attempt to do what the Thunder did: capitalize on top lotter y picks over a string of drafts, ultimately forming a Kevin Durant Russell Westbrook-like foundation to build upon The problem is that the Sixers’ seemingly lack direction, as they have stockpiled big-men with no clear plan for how they will be utilized The lotter y format of the NBA draft that is, that the worst team is not guaranteed the first overall pick is also a negative in relying on the draft to rebuild As other teams improve in far more expedient ways than Philadelphia, Sixers’ fans can only continue to tr ust the process, in hopes that it eventually works out And maybe it will But how long down the road?

A previous version of this column was published on March 1

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“[Scherman] used every ounce of energy in her body and managed to win the match.”

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S o p h o m o r e M i c h e l e G a r c e a u Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsun com

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Women’s Hockey Season Over After First Round

Icers fail to to reach ECAC Championship game for frst time since 2008-09 season

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

A winding season ’ s journey is in the books for Cornell women ’ s hockey The Red (13-14-4, 9-9-4 ECAC) lost the first two games of the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals to Clarkson (28-3-5, 14-3-5 ECAC) On Friday, the Knights won, 2-0, and on Saturday, 5-2 This year is the first since the 2008-09 season that Cornell is n o t re p re s e n t e d i n t h e E C AC Championship game

Facing a formidable foe on Friday, Cornell got off to a strong start, outshooting Clarkson in the first period

“I thought we did start strong, actuall y, ” s a i d C o r n e l l h e a d c o a c h Do u g

Derraugh ’91 “I thought we came ready to play ”

According to senior assistant captain and for ward Taylor Woods, the low-scoring game that evolved over the course of play meant scoring the first goal was going to be important “ Who’s going to get that first goal? And the momentum goes that way, ” she said

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Clarkson that struck first The Red kept it a one-goal game until allowing an empty net tally with 24 seconds left in regulation

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“Our goalie [junior Paula Voorheis]

Woods said “She made some critical saves when we had lapses in our defense ” “ Pa

Cassandra Poudrier

According to Derraugh, the 2-0 final score meant the Red did a good job keeping Clarkson off the board on Friday but failed to generate offense themselves

“Clarkson’s a real strong team, solid defensively,” Derraugh said “ We struggled to get some great opportunities Overall, we were pretty solid defensively We just couldn’t [score] ” Down 1-0 in the series, the Red were playing a must-win game on Saturday Cornell understood the imperative of getting off to a good start

“Our goal for the second game was to get the first goal,” Poudrier said Senior for ward Jess Brown capitalized on an extra attacker opportunity midway through the first to give the Red the game ’ s first lead, and freshman for ward Christian Higham made it 2-0 only three minutes later

“It’s better to protect the lead than come back from one, ” Woods said “ We had a lot of power play time ” Derraugh said had the Red been able to go into the first intermission up by two; it would have accented their first period statement However, the Knights trimmed Cornell’s lead to a single goal in the closing minutes of the first Five minutes into the second, a second Clarkson goal had the game all tied up With most of the game still to play, Woods and Poudrier still believed in Cornell’s chances

“You could feel it could go either

The Irrationality of Fandom

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there, but we cling to, pray, cry, smile and jump in joy at the anticipation of a championship, and the subsequent dreary loss of o u r h o p e Wi t h a t h l e t i c s I ’ ve learned, as poets have written, hope lies to mortals but man ’ s deceiver was never mine This way, when I expect the worse I’m not let down Maybe this is my nature as a depressed yet pleasantly surprised Mets fan I believe it takes a certain type of u n d e r s t a n d i n g t o a c c e p t i r r ationality, and almost to understand it even

The irrationality of fandom allows us to connect to something bigger than us something that we can easily understand and share emotion with those around us Think of it as a never-ending movie, but it is a drama, comedy,

Even if you are a Raiders fan, you are equally as happy as a Patriots fan

horror and everything else The offseason is intermission and preseason is the preview All that you hoped for will happen to a team and all that you ’ ve feared will also happen As a subsection of society, a team allows us to channel our emotions And as we all know, men are not nearly in touch with their emotions as are women Perhaps this why statistically more men follow spor ts because deep down we need it as an emotional tool, while women are inherently smarter and don’t need the emotional crutch Let me drill this word into

your head Catharsis See, even if you are a Raiders fan, you are equally happy as a Patriots fan

Sa m e g o e s f o r B o b c a t ( n ow Hornets) fans and Celtics fans and so on Each and every franchise serves an emotional purpose, and it is this irrational hope that keeps us going Even though I am a pessimistic fan, do not be like me Do as I say, not as I do Because why would you not be a fan when all you need is hope, because really, even if you are a lowly 76ers fan, anything is possible Take what you love and let it become you Let it envelop your psyche, and make it your own That way, when you fail and you will you can look to your cathartic tool for redemption

Ben Denson is a senior sports columnist He can be contacted at bdenson@cornell edu The B D Report appears every week this semester

Cornell Defeats Quakers, Falls to Tigers

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Despite an outstanding performance from Campbell and her teammates, the Tigers took the win, 94-57 Campbell had a career high of 22 points while also tallying three steals, two rebounds, one block and one assist

way, ” Woods said, emphasizing the importance of momentum “A person or even a play creates that for a team ” Woods said the Red did not block as many shots as the team usually does Indeed, Clarkson fired in puck after puck on net, getting 52 total shots on goal to Cornell’s 15 With six minutes left in regulation and the game still tied at 2-2, the Knights finally found the back of the net A second goal a few minutes later made it 4-2, and an empty net formality closed the books on Cornell’s season “ We’re disappointed,” Derraugh said “At the start of the year, our goal was to get to the ECAC Championship ” As seniors, Saturday was Woods’ and Poudrier’s last game in Carnelian and White Poudrier pointed to the strength of team chemistr y and character of her fourth and final Cornell team

“ We never backed down,” Poudrier said “ We had a lot of ups We kept moving for ward ” Woods reflected on the season and her career, saying that while this Cornell team did not go as far into the playoffs as it would have liked, over the course of the season, they achieved positive influence on o t h e r

achieved personal growth “ We’ve accomplished so much,” she s a i d “ I ’ ve re a l l y e n j oye d m y t i m e a t Cornell and I know I’m going to miss it ”

a c h t o o n e a n o t h e r w h e n t h e i r t e a m ’ s 1 5 - p o i n t h a l ft i m e d e f i c i t b a l l o o n s t o 2 5 f i ve m i n u t e s i n t o t h e t h i rd

The difference maker in this game was shooting The Tigers shot 673 from the floor and 444 from beyond the arc, forcing Cornell to choose the lesser of two evils in stretching their defense out or packing it in Despite a 40-minute

“We are thrilled for how [Campbell] showcased her talents for the last time in Newman ” J u n i o r N i c h o l l e A s t o n

effort from the entire home team, Princeton kept up the pace and took home the win

“Maddie’s senior night game did not turn out the way we wanted to but we are thrilled for how she s h o w c a s e d her talents for the last time at N e w m a n , ” Aston said “It was an e m o t i o n a l night for sure but one I am sure none of us will forget ” “It was a really upand-down weekend,”

Campbell said “Beating Penn was probably the highlight of the season Unfortunately, we couldn ’ t repeat the effort the next night But it was still an incredible senior night having so much support from family and friends My teammates couldn’t be better, and I will definitely miss playing in Bartels with this group of girls ”

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky @cornellsun com

q u a r t e r It’s w h a t m y f r i e n d s , n ow s e m i - m o c k i n g l y, t e l l m e a f t e r a Ni k St a u s k a s a i r - b a l l , o r a Ne r l e n s No e l m i s s e d d u n k o r w h e n f o o t a g e o f Jo e l E m b i i d d r a i n i n g t h r e ep o i n t e r s s u r f a c e s o n l i n e : g o o d o r b a d , i t ’ s p a r t o f t h e p ro c e s s Bu t w h a t e x a c t l y i s t h e p ro c e s s ? In 2 0 1 4 , t h e Si xe r s we n t 1 9 - 6 3 To d a y t h e y a re 8 - 5 1 A n d I d o n ’ t m e a n t o s u g g e s t t h a t t h e S i x e r s ’ yo u n g c o re l a c k s p o t e n t i a l , o r t h a t Jo e l Em b i i d’s i n j u r i e s h a ve n ’ t d e l a ye d t h e p ro c e s s s i g n i f i c a n t l y, o r t h a t t h e u p c o m i n g d r a f t i s i r re l e va n t , b u t I t h i n k m o s t f a n s w o u l d a g r e e t h a t t h e p r o c e s s r h e t o r i c t h a t b e g a n a s d e c l a ra t i ve i s n ow f a r m o re i n t e rro g a t i ve : “ Tr u s t t h e p ro c e s s ! ” i s n ow “ t r u s t t h e p ro c e s s ? ”

Dr a f t p i c k s a re c r u c i a l Te a m s t a n k t o g e t t h e e l i t e p ro s p e c t s I g e t i t Bu t t h e re a re o t h e r w a y s t o re b u i l d a t e a m , t o o He a d i n g i n t o t h i s s e a s o n , t h e Po r t l a n d Tr a i l Bl a ze r s e p i t o m i ze d “ re b u i l di n g ” A l l - St a r L a M a r c u s A l d r i d g e l e f t f o r t h e Sp u r s i n f re e a g e n c y We s Ma t t h e w s w e n t t o t h e M a v e r i c k s Ro b i n L o p e z f o r t h e K n i c k s Ni c h o l a s Ba t u m w a s t r a d e d t o C h a r l o t t e Po r t l a n d l o s t f o u r o f i t s f i ve s t a r t e r s f ro m w h a t m a n y b e l i e ve d w a s a c h a m p i o n s h i p - c o n t e n d i n g t e a m D e s p i t e a c q u

Men Place Second in

By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

t t h e i r f i r s t t w o m a t c h e s , t h e y

c o n q u e re d C o l u m b i a t o c l a i m t h e s e ve n t h s p o t i n t h e Howe Cu p “ We d i d b e t t e r a t n a t i o n a l s t h a n w h a t we we re r a n k e d a t t h e e n d o f t h e s e a s o n , ” s a i d s o p h o m o re Mi c h e l e Ga rc e a u “ We f i ni s h e d t h e s e a s o n r a n k e d e i g h t h i n t h e n a t i o n a n d we c a m e i n s e ve n t h a t n a t i o na l s Ou r t e a m d i d b e t t e r t h a n e x p e c t e d o n p a p e r, w h i c h i s f a n t a s t i c , b u t I k n e w

Nationals, Women Seventh

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“Our expectations were to win a national title and we fell just short. It was a frustrating way to end.”

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Falling short | Senior Graham Dietz finished his Cornell squash career Sunday with the Red losing to Drexel in the final round of the Hoehn Cup.

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Red Splits in Final Home Games

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

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u t e d t o t h e f i n a l s c o re o f 5 1 - 4 6 A s t o n h a d a n i n c re d i b l e s i x t e e n p o i n t s w h i l e j u n i o r f o r w a rd Ni a Ma r s h a l l a l m o s t g o t a d o ub l e d o u b l e , t a l l y i n g 1 3 p o i n t s a n d n i n e re b o u n d s S e n i o r g u a r d M a d d i e C a m p b e l l s t a r t e d h e r l a s t h o m e we e k e n d w i t h a b a n g , g r a b b i n g 1 0 re b o u n d s a n d a d d i n g f i ve p o i n t s Sm i t h s a i d s h e w a s i n c r e d i b l y p r o u d o f t h e t e a m e f f o r t “ I ’ m j u s t s o h a p p y a n d p ro u d o f t h e t e a m It w a s a g u t s y p e r f o r m a n c e , ” Da y n a s a i d “ [ Pl a y 4 K a y ] m e a n s a

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The structure of sports inherently i n s p i re s s i t u a t i o n s o f re d e m ption,” said assistant sports editor Joon Lee ‘17 in his column earlier this semester I could not have said it any better myself, Joon, but I’m going to try I admire your

appreciation of the cathartic nature of athletics the primitive emotion of competition brings us in touch with our anxieties, desires, fears and, most impor tantly, aspirations Much like the athletes that play a given sport, we share their emotion on the field

Let me bare my soul in this column as I usually do We find therapy in everyday activities, in the mundane to the extreme, but the lines are blurred with sports Even the mundane athletics bring out the emotion in all of us Herein lies the beauty of it all that sports itself is the catharsis the therapist, or the escape, if you will

Fandom is an irrational concept itself It is something that many have loved in vain, because, as pessimistic as this view might be, the individual needs the team more than the team needs the individual fan Feel free to disagree with me, but attaching emotion to numbers is like hoping that the Cubs will win a World Series Numerically it is unlikely, but still possible There just is not much logic