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M i s s i n g S e x u a l Assault

At Forum, S.A. Candidates

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

At a forum conducted by camp u s m i n o r i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s Tuesday night, candidates running f o r p o s i t i o n s o n t h e St u d e n t

A s s e m b l y a d d re s s e d c o n c e r n s regarding the minority presence at Cornell

T h e t w o - h o u r d i s c u s s i o n i n c l u d e d q u e stions from memb e r s o f t h e A L A N A

By SOFIA HU Sun News Editor

The Office of the Judicial Administrator is taking longer to process sexual assault cases than allowed under Cornell’s discrimination, sexual harassment and violence code Policy 6 4 partially due to “inadequate” staffing and extra

y, according to Judicial Administrator Mar y Beth Grant J D ’88

During the 2013-14 academic year the first complete academic year that Policy 6 4 had been in place the office generally did not meet the timelines required by the policy, Grant said

The current version of Policy 6 4, which was implemented in November 2013, states that investigators of sexual assault and harassment cases must complete their investigations within 60 days Federal guidelines set by the U S Office of Civil Rights state that investigators have 60 days to complete the entire process, which includes conducting the fact-finding investigation, holding a hearing, coming to a decision and imposing sanctions Not one of the approximately dozen Policy 6 4 cases that the Office of Judicial Codes Counselors handled over the last year have met

Parks and Recreation’s

Retta to Perform in Statler

By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

Stand-up comedian and actress Retta best known for her role as Donna Meagle in the hit NBC series Parks and Recreation will perform in Statler Auditorium April 29, the Cornell University Program Board announced Wednesday

Born Marietta Sirleaf, the 44year-old has appeared in several other popular television shows, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Jimmy Kimmel Live!

According to Michael Luzmore ’17, executive chairperson for CUPB, Retta is “wildly hilarious” and brings a “ great sense of enthusiasm to her work ”

“We are extremely excited to

bring Retta to campus, ” L u z m o r e said “ We were told that [she] had began t a k i n g s t a n d - u p dates again, so we obviously wanted to jump on that opportunity this semester ” Luzmore said he hopes Retta will bring a sense of “honesty” to her performance Tickets for Retta’s performance will go on sale next Wednesday for students and the day after for the general public, according to Luzmore

I n t e r c u l t u r a l B o a rd , H a v e n , Bl a c k St u d e n t s Un i t e d a n d o t h e r b o d i e s , and focused on i s s u e s s u c h a s funding for minority initiatives and student-administration relations Candidates for three positions the minority liaison at-large, executive vice president and president participated in the moderated discussion and answered preset questions from the moderators as well as the audience Maria Chak ’18, a candidate for the minority liaison at-large position, expressed her intentions to create more “safe zones ” on campus f o r m i n o r i t i e s , m e n t o r s h i p s f o r f i r s t - g e n e r a t i o n c o

V.P. Murphy:

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

“I don’t see the health fee g o i n g a w a y, ” s a i d Su s a n Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president for student and academic ser vices, at a University Assembly meeting Tuesday Murphy, addressing continu e d c o n c e r n s a b o u t t h e mandator y $350 fee set to take effect next academic year, said that administrators have discussed creating a health fee advisor y committee

“We will continue to track the usage of health services,” Murphy said “Our intent is to create a health fee advisory committee We’ve also been answering many emails and trying to make info available on the caring community website ” Murphy acknowledged that for some students, the $350 fee

and workshops to foster communication between minority groups and the University “ These workshops will help you u

[minorities] face, what you can and cannot say [to minorities] and if you say something insulting, how do you get back from that and m

“People aren’t comfortable enough on campus right now with identifying with any type of background ”

enough on camp

ow with identifying with any type of background, and t

change ” S a i m Chaudhar y ’17, another candidate for the position, said his platform aims to increase funding to minority organizations by working more closely with the Ap

t t e e He added that he wants to make campus spending more transparent and wants a less intrusive bias reporting system “I want to advocate for adding qualitative metrics to when the unfunded organizations are being revie wed by the Appropriations

Fee ‘Not Going Away’

is a significant burden made w o r s e by a n i n i t i a l l a c k

administrative transparency

“I’ve heard from one parent who has three children here, and the second largest categor y o f c o n c e r n w a s a l a c k o f involvement on would we have a fee or not, ” she said Murphy explained that the

including three medical clinicians, seven nurses and fifteen full-time employees, according to Murphy Murphy said the health fee will enable greater access to medical ser vices for all Cornell students, according to Murphy

“Our intent is to create a health fee advisory committee.”

fee will cover unexpected costs incurred during the 2009-10 academic year, which featured an outbreak of H1N1 flu virus combined with a string of suicides The fee will also provide for the continued employment

She also stressed the additional capacity of Gannett for maintaining confidentiality under the new system “ We were seeing students

Today Wednesday, March 11, 2015

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Of the Early Solar System and Earth’s Evolution

3:30 p m - 4:30 p m , 2146 Snee Hall

The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination 4:30 p m , Room 107 Olin Library

João Luís Carriolho da Graça: Architecture and Landscape 5:15 p m , Milstein Hall

XXY Film Screening

7:00 p m , Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

C U Music: Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players 8:00 - 9:15 p m , Barnes Hall Auditorium “Multilingual Literary Reading, in German, Japanese, English and Other Surprises”

Free Coffee Event

10 a m - 12 p m , Ho Plaza

Fostering an Intellectual Environment for Students Through Research

Noon - 1 p m , 2nd Floor Conference Room, Beebe Hall

Coding for Humanists

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Natural Resource Rents, Good Governance and Entrepreneurship

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Police Capture Man Who Stole Woman’s Car On First Date

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, N J (AP)

Authorities say a man who allegedly stole a woman ’ s car during their first date last month has been captured

Waterford Township police say 53-year-old Gerald Tietz was arrested Saturday after the vehicle which had the vanity plate “JSRYGRL” was spotted in Cherry Hill

Tietz and the woman, identified only as a New Jersey resident, became acquainted online and decide to meet on Feb 26

Tietz allegedly told the woman his name was Gennaro Aladena and that he went by the nickname “Gooch ”

At some point that evening, police say Tietz got the woman ’ s car keys and took her vehicle

A telephone number for Tietz could not be located Sunday

It wasn ’ t known if he has retained an attorney, as there is none currently listed for him

New Mexico High Schoolers Vote to Hold Communism-Themed Prom

ALBUQUERQUE, N M (AP)

Seniors at a New Mexico high school have voted to hold a prom with a communism theme, which they’ve dubbed “ prommunism ”

KRQE-TV in Albuquerque (http://goo gl/x2zXLb ) reports that Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School students voted online this week for the theme

Senior Sarah Zachary says many of her classmates are jokesters and they wanted the prom to be funny But she says lots of students also are intense about politics

Cottonwood executive director Sam Obenshain says the school’s students are in the International Baccalaureate program and are very academically focused

Obenshain says he plans to talk to students to make sure that the communism theme is something they want to embrace

Sophomore Cole Page says she didn’t find it funny

The prom is scheduled at the Albuquerque Aquarium on April 25

‘Dave the Zamboni Guy’: The Man Behind the Costumes

By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer

Dave Nulle, more commonly known across campus as “Dave the Zamboni Guy,” said he considers himself a product of Cornell

Nulle said his parents met at the University, where his mother wrote for The Sun and his father played for the hockey team Nulle, a graduate of Ithaca College, continued his family ties to Cornell when he began driving the hockey Zamboni in 1989

“I didn’t star t off with the games, ” Nulle said “ The first times [driving the Zamboni for hockey games] were a little bit difficult You aren ’ t used to the noise and all the people are watching you ” T h o u g h Nu l l e i s w e l l - k n

“Zamboni Guy,” he said he also used to teach ballroom

ment

“Looking back, I think ‘ Wow, I had

i t m a d e b a c k then,’” Nulle said “ Pe o p l e u s e d t o

It h a c a I l o o k e d ver y good dancing and I could take a woman in my arms

a n d f l o a t h e r around the floor so

s h e f e l t l i k e t h e

Queen of Sheba ”

Nulle also said he used to be a seri-

pyramids of Egypt to shaking hands with the mayor of Jer usalem

“It was so interesting to be back where histor y was made,” he said Nulle is perhaps best known for the costumes he wears while driving the Zamboni a tradition that he said began almost by chance

“One of the times I went on the ice I had a sor t of trooper ’ s hat, and the glass was much lower then, so s o m e o n e re

grabbed it off my head, and the whole rink began shouting, ‘Give it back, give it back, give it back!’”

Nulle said “I did get it back, and I think that sor t of inspired this guy from Student Agencies who said, ‘If we got you a tuxedo for the Har vard game, would you wear it?’ And I did wear it, and people enjoyed it ”

Nulle said the diversity of his costumes reflects his

o u s j u g g l e r Though he said he only juggles a little bit nowadays, he still dances a lot

Aside from his many talents, Nulle said he has traveled to approximately 25 countries, from visiting the

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

Since March 2, the usual landscape of the Arts Quad has featured a new addition: an igloolike structure called a “quinzee ” The builder of the quinzee, James Palmer ’16, said he followed through with the project because it felt like God wanted him to

“I was sitting in church two Sundays ago listening to a sermon on solitude, and I got to thinking of where people can

a c t u a l l y f i n d s o m e p e a c e a t Cornell, away from all the hustle and bustle,” Palmer said “At that point I basically thought that it would be nice to have an igloo and I just felt that God wanted me to I ended up making a quinzee which is basically the same thing, but essentially this

travel experiences

“ There’s a Greek hat I got from one of the isles of Greece,” Nulle said “I got my costumes from all over I got my matador costume from Madrid where they

was actually a spiritual act for me, an act of worship and faith that God would do good through it ” Palmer added that he could not have accomplished the task alone

“ Two of my housemates and a good friend of mine chipped in, piling up the snow and digging it out, ” Palmer said The community response to the quinzee has been unanimously positive, according to Palmer

“ That may be because I primarily have been interacting with people who are curious enough to come check it out, ” Palmer said “But a lot of people have

b e e n re a l l y a p p re c i a t i ve o f i t Also, I’ve had a thermos of hot

c h o c o l a t e i n t h e re w i t h m e , which has also elicited positive responses ” Shreya Mathur ’18 said she

agrees, saying that the quinzee is “ great ”

“My first reaction was surprise,” Mathur said “It was unexpected to see an igloo in the month of March, but I guess the cold explains it It’s great to see students making the most of the long winter ”

Pa l m e r a d d e d t h a t h e w a s “excited” to see his work discussed on the popular student

Fa c e b o o k g ro u p O ve r h e a rd a t Cornell

“Although my initial idea was for a place of peace, I also quickly thought of it as a place to extend my hospitality, whether I was there or not, ” Palmer said “I want the quinzee to be a place that blesses people, that brings joy So the more people that know about it the better ”

According to Palmer, many p e o p l e h a v e b e

originally held the bull fights ”

Nulle said he has also made a couple of appearances as Touchdown the Bear during hockey games, including once on Valentine’s Day when he presented a female Touchdown with flowers

“I actually did hit a bear with a Zamboni, but it wasn ’ t my fault,” Nulle said “ This guy was so eager to get on the ice that he came through the center door but he must have had enough protection with the costume ”

Nulle said being a campus celebrity and hearing his name chanted at hockey games is “ pretty nice ” He added that one of his favorite Cornell Hockey traditions is the ‘It’s All Your Fault’ chant

“I can see why emperors and dictators sor t of like their job and want to keep it,” Nulle said, laughing

“On the other hand, I have to behave myself If I do something, people know I have to be on the straight and narrow path, so to speak But it is nice People come up to me I heard some where on the Internet people call me the Zam Man ”

Nulle said he retired from Cornell in 2009, but that he returns each hockey season as a temporar y employee of Lynah Rink to drive the Zamboni He added that the University fires him at the end of each year so that they can rehire him as a temporar y employee when hockey season star ts, upon request by Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic ser vices

“Star t a campaign! ‘Bring him back, bring him back,’” Nulle said

Nulle said working nights at Lynah made him feel like his own boss

“I really felt like I was the host at my own wonderful, wonder ful par ty, ” he said

Additionally, Nulle said he intends to pass down his collection of costumes which includes over 350 hats to “people who would wear them ”

Despite his extensive, museum-quality wardrobe, Nulle said he does not go out on Halloween

“I figure it’s other peoples’ time to shine,” he said

Olivia Lutwak can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun com

quinzee more than he had ever expected “ I ’ v

h around 20 different people, both friends and strangers, ” Palmer said “Also, I know quite a few people who said they went inside And today I actually found a beer bottle in there so there is concrete

evidence that people are using it ” T h e q

p

e d Tuesday one of the warmest days Ithaca has seen in months after remaining stable for over a week

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun

V.P. Susan Murphy

Defends Health Fee

J.A .: Missing Deadlines a ‘Big Concern’

J.A.

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the 60 day requirement, according to Judicial Codes Counselor Amanda Minikus grad

“Since I’ve been in the office, I’m aware of only one case that met Policy 6 4’s requirement for the investigation period,” Minikus said “Based on the information I can access right now, the cases we ’ ve seen last about six months, from the filing of the complaint to the resolution not including appeal Of that time period, an average of four-anda-half months is devoted to the fact-finding process and drafting of the investigation report The other month and a half [is] the period between the release of the report and final resolution ”

In contrast to the Campus Code of Conduct, under Policy 6 4, the complainant and the accused cannot see or directly cross-examine each other, though investigators from the J A office can meet with either party in person The investigators submit a report with recommendations to both parties and a faculty review panel, which has only written communication with either party, according to the policy The panel can accept, modify or reject the report, and parties can appeal the panel’s decision

“We’re still trying to streamline the process and get the timeline more in line with [the requirements of Policy 6 4], but as we evaluate the value of a speedy process versus a thorough process, we ’ re opting for the thorough,” Grant said at a University Assembly meeting Tuesday

However, Minikus said the extended process has affected complaintants and the accused in sexual assault and harassment cases For example, cases filed at the end of the spring semester can stretch into the summer, when issues related to the parties’ absences can further complicate the investigation

“In cases where the accused is a student, Cornell is not in compliance with its own policy, and it’s certainly not in compliance with Title IX ”

“I do believe that J A employees make every effort to resolve these cases as quickly as possible,” Minikus said “However, in cases where the accused is a student, Cornell is not in compliance with its own policy, and it’s certainly not in compliance with Title IX ”

Sexual assault and violence cases which fall under Policy 6 4 take longer to investigate than cases that fall under the Campus Code of Conduct, Grant said in an interview with The Sun

Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun com

“One of the biggest surprises to us is that it takes a lot longer than we thought it would,” Grant said “Not the investigation, which is substantially the same [as an investigation under the code], but the change of having every single case go before a panel, have a detailed [written] report and have the opportunity for people to do everything in writing ”

Due to these differences, using Policy 6 4 has been a “learning experience,” according to an annual report released by the J A office Jan 20

“The most challenging aspect has been the timing,” the report said

According to Grant, not meeting the required timelines is a “ very big concern ” for the office

Last semester, the J A office received temporary one-year funding for an investigator dedicated only to sexual assault and harassment and other Title IX issues According to Grant, the temporary staff completed “in the neighborhood of eight cases ”

Another staff member who worked exclusively on Campus Code of Conduct cases completed around 180 cases in the same time, according to Grant

“It reflects that these cases themselves take a lot of time,” Grant said “We really want to make sure that we ’ re being very careful ”

The University’s Title IX executive committee and coordinators are currently working to address the inadequate staffing level, according to Grant

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Candidates Talk Minority Issues

MINORITIES

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Committee so that the committee looks beyond the cost per student,” Chaudhary said

Samari Gilbert ’17, who is also running for minority liaison atlarge, said she hopes to create a diversity union within each of Cornell’s seven colleges as well as work with the

O r i e n t a t i o n S t e e r i n g Committee to better integrate campus minority organizations into the freshman community She also said she advocates for more transparency within the S A

“This was our chance to bring the lived experiences of minority communities to the forefront.”

responsible for funding issues, uniting the student organizations and creating measures of accountability between the president of the University and the student body As part of his platform, he said he intends to have biweekly meetings with leaders of student organizations and a 48-hour response window during which he will answer emails from members of the student body

“My opinion is that the administration has really hurt students in the past few years

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“If you look at the University as it stands, there are diversity [unions] within some colleges, but there aren ’ t diversity [unions] in other places,” Gilbert said “And I find that having someone there to really advocate you [helps] because they know the issues ”

Emma Johnston ’16, who is running for executive vice president, said she has pushed for affordability at the University, investigating the fees student organizations have to pay and advocating better fundraising for Cornell’s Student and Academic Services department

“My goal is [to create] a more community-based campus, ” Johnston said “A lot of these resources like the Women’s Resource Center are under the Dean of Students so increasing funding there will help [the minority community] ”

Peter Biedenweg ’17, another executive vice president candidate, said training administrators to help minorities and changing the way minorities connect to the student body were two of his main concerns He added that his plan of action involves instating smaller group interactions among minority members in order to promote a sense of community

“Students don’t necessarily feel comfortable all the time in large situations whether it be classrooms or events, ” Biedenweg said “Creating smaller groups where people can identify themselves and gain confidence in their identities is important in building a community where everyone feels comfortable in a holistic group ”

Juliana Batista ’16, presidential candidate for the S A , said her stance towards minorities involves a stronger push on the administration to fund minority initiatives and making the position of president more accessible to the organizations and the student body in general Batista said she sees the president as “ someone who not only speaks for students, but with students ”

“I [will] focus on centering advocacy and making sure [organizations] get the appropriate funding,” Batista said “Dialogue is not an end Dialogue is a means to an end We need to hold administration accountable If they're going to take responsibility for this, we have to make that happen ” Matthew Stefanko ’16, another presidential candidate, said he has focused his campaign around holding the administration

and how “it takes more than one person to make a change ” Breuer added that he wants to rally together the different organizations on campus so the student body has more leverage against administration and wants to work at understanding minority issues

Jevan Hutson ’16, president of Haven and moderator of the discussion, said he would like to see the new S A focus on structuralizing campus advocacy, raising adequate funds for minority initiatives and making Cornell more affordable for all students

Cornell students in general, but also students from the multicultural community and students in the LGBTQ community,” he said “ There’s not enough push for the administration to actually increase funding to the organizations ” Jeff Breuer ’16, who answered questions via email, said his campaign platform focuses on unity

“A lot of us feel that the administration and the University at large has not taken any sort of accountability or responsibility for campus climate issues And I think that lack of responsibility is also applicable to the student assembly,” Hutson said “This was our chance to critically challenge the candidates and bring the lived experiences of minority communities to the forefront ”

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun com

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Independent Since 1880 133RD EDITORIAL BOARD

TYLER ALICEA ’16

Ever y morning, I take a shower (at least that’s what I tell people) Rarely do I ask myself why I set aside ten minutes every day for this activity I take it as a given For all those profoundly curious as to why I make a daily effort to maintain a level of cleanliness here’s the answer: Mainly, it helps avoid the embarrassment of walking around campus smelling like a homeless man, which would likely lead to a lonely existence It also helps me wake up and jump start my day While I don’t exactly need to remind myself of this justification every morning as I stumble to the bathroom while in my half-asleep stupor, it can be refreshing every once and a while to take a step back and think about why we do the things we do

Recently, Jane Hsu, the principal of my alma mater, P S 116, asked herself a question related to daily activities like showering Regarding

t h e r o u t i n e o f countless elementar y school kids across the coun-

t r y, s h e a s k e d : W h y a re w e a s s i g n i n g h o m ework?

This question has been a source o f d e b a t e s i n c e t h e r i s e o f t h e public education system, and the answer and attitudes behind this q u e s t i o n h a s

No More Homework

in the elementar y grades ” Naturally, this disturbance of the status quo annoyed helicopter parents, who will now find themselves soul-searching for the exact activities that will help their kids succeed in the absence of homework In the dogeat-dog, high stakes environment that is the NYC public education system a city where a marathon of schooling and testing bottlenecks into the “test-in” prestigious s p e c i a l i z e d h i g h s c h o o l s t h i s “Kumbaya” approach to the elementar y school years does not exactly align with the general race to the top

Similar to the competitive landscape that defined the Cold War, public school students tutor and over work themselves t ow a rd

Stuyvesant High School (and ultimately a

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Giving elementary-aged students the chance to explore what they find interesting could be the right step toward promoting happy, healthy childhoods.

o f t e n b e e n a n indicator of the general values of the time Originally, homework was vehemently frowned upon by the entire countr y In the 1930s, groups such as the Society for the Abolition of Homework supported the general consensus that homework took away from a child’s freedom outside of the classroom and impeded proper development Pediatricians would prescribe more outdoor play for children they felt to be overburdened by their homework obligations

Attitudes quickly changed in the 1950s with the rise of the Cold War Thanks to the Soviet Union and America’s postSputnik technological inferiority complex, homework and increased pressure to keep up with Russia’s brilliant kids became a part of the “national defense policy ” Then came the hippie movement (homework is bad), followed by pressure to become an economic powerhouse in the 80s (homework is good) Long stor y short, historically, Americans are as indecisive about their attitudes towards homework as they are a b o u t w h e t h e r t h e y s h o u l d b e e a t i n g gluten

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received note of the school’s decision to officially eliminate traditional homework assignments Hsu noted that P S 116’s progressive anti-homework shift will give students the “opportunity to engage in activities that research has proven to benefit academic and social-emotional success

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But is this the change that a city like New York (or t h e c o u n t r y ) n e e d s ? Ma y b e Hsu’s policy will illicit a more systematic re-evaluation of the general stress of being a student in the New York City public school system Maybe it will be a step towards a more well-balanced childhood for many kids

Homework often restricts the intellectual autonomy of students and delegates the act of learning as a chore of sorts Gi v i n g e l e m e n

y - a g e d s t u d e n t s t h e chance to explore what they find interesting could be the right step toward promoting healthy, happy childhoods (assuming they don’t melt their brains in front of their video games and television)

The responsibility will be on parents at P S 116 to monitor the actions of their kids after school and provide them with the resources, whether time or money, to explore their interests While this could be a legitimate difficulty for low-income parents, who don’t have these resources, the school will need to develop and distribute effective methods for these parents to promote positive lifestyle choices for their kids outside the classroom A more holistic approach to a child’s life outside of the classroom will surely motivate better general parenting and a healthier attitude towards learning

Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human Ecology He can be reached at pss226@cornell edu An Ithaca State of Mind appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester

Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne

Lessons for My 22-Year-Old Self

Be y o u r s e l f T h i s i s a p p a r e n t l y e a s i e r s a i d t h a n d o n e T h e

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a n d r e m a i n w h o y o u a r e A b ov e a l l , r e m a i n h u m a n , b e c a u s e

a l i e n p o s s e s s i o n c o m p l e t e l y r u i n s y o u r s k i n

D o t h i n g s y o u ’ r e a f r a i d o f. S e e h o w I j u s t e n d e d a s e n t e n c e

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m ov i n g B u y a w o l f a s a p e t A t t e n d m e e t i n g s o f l o c a l c u l t s ,

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w h e n k i d s i n m a t h c l a s s u s e d t o a l w a y s y e l l o u t t h i n g s l i k e ,

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y o u a r e n o t t h e o n l y p e r s o n l o o k i n g l i k e a n i d i o t s l i d i n g

Don’t Settle Clearly, you need to be reevaluating your life constantly, becau there’s no way you’re making the right decisions if you feel content

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Teresa Kim | Her Meneutics

The Answers

To the Non-Answers

The start of March has brought upon a complex web of thoughts, emotions and retrospection for me

There’s not a single way to describe it except that it very much feels like the start of a bookending process of my time here much like when a film ends with the same scene it began with But of course, the reading of the scene now is different from how it was first read

And the scene is this: A girl’s hand erasing her answer to an arithmetic problem after finding out that her answer is actually not the solution at all

Let me explain Or, as I often do, I’ll let C S Lewis better explain what I mean In Mere Christianity he states, “As in arithmetic there is only one right a n s we r t o a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but s o m e o f t h e w r o n g a n s we r s a re m u

than others

meet and an ineffable need to re m ove o u r s e l ve s f ro m o l d memories of California from home Some similarities were not as apparent but still there: we suffered from fernweh a German term that I use in place of “wanderlust” as it describes a deeper urge to travel to far off places in the hopes of maybe finding an answer, a solution, in these distant places, wherever they may be I also began reading back through the Moleskine journals that I scribbled in my first two years here, full of non-answers to questions of philosophy and theology I hypothesized ways to get over a breakup, forgive people, love people and get in the good graces of a teacher who seemed to hate my prose in my Freshman Writing Seminar

At Cornell, I have substituted vegetable oil when the recipe calle for olive oil many times. whether I knew it or not.

n when I met with a Cornell professor a few weeks back We we re c o n

t e d t h ro u g h a scholarship program that financially aids a small number of students from my high school at t h e i r re s p e c t i ve u n i ve r s i t i e s

The scholarship annually selects a small number of students who have shown academic merit and financial need A decade stood between us I am a fe w months away from obtaining my bachelor’s degree, and he had graduated from the program after he had earned his bachelor’s degree at Berkeley

When recounting his experiences at our alma mater, I recognized that his life strung out a verisimilitude that rung similar to my own recantation of high school and the transition from high school to university life Some details were uncannily similar: the immigrant family u p b r i n g i n g , t h e p re s s u re s t o succeed that are often placed on a child from a family that has always struggled to make ends

stumbled into the wrong major, changed my major twice and finally ended up in two departments I love I temporarily gave up all pursuit of academic and re c re a t i o n a l w r i t i n g w h e n a professor told me that I did not have the hand or temperament for it, forcing me to seriously consider a major in psychology i n s t e a d I p l a n n e d t o s t u d y abroad in Paris but ended up studying in London, a city that I never knew I would fall in love with I have had my own vices lure me out of finding the right answer After I had freed myself from these vices, my p r o b l e m s b e c a m e e a s i e r t o solve

But even if I do have vices, I am quicker to notice them Later on in Mere Christianity, C S Lewis writes:

And to top it all off: I made a visit to the undergraduate a d m i s s i o n s o f f i c e a t C o r n e l l where I took a glance at the application materials that I surrendered in the fall of 2010 Now, I’ve written about my Common App before But this time, with the admissions director seated right in front of me, I had not only my essays, but my t r a n s c r i p t s a n d t e s t s c o re s sprawled out in front of me What stuck out to me the most was a quote that I ended my essay with (a half-baked attempt a s p h i l o s o p h i z i n g e x i s t e n t i a l meaning from my time working at a soup kitchen), “‘If you don’t add the olive oil, you might as well not fry the dough at all,’ Cindy [of the soup kitchen] told me, ‘but if you don’t have olive oil, you can just use the vegetable oil It’ll taste a little different, but it will still work as well ’” At Cornell, I have substituted vegetable oil when the recipe called for olive oil many times, whether I knew it or not I’ve

“ I f y o u a re o n t h e w ro n g ro a d , p r o g r e s s means doing a n a b o u tt u r n a n d walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back the soonest is the most progressive man We have all seen this when doing arithmetic When I have started a sum the wrong way, the sooner I admit this and go back and start again, the faster I shall get on There is nothing progressive about being pigheaded and refusing to admit a mistake ” When I left the admissions office after perusing through my application, the sun was shining (a miraculous feat for Ithaca), and so was I Though I don’t know the answers, I will not pretend to know them anymore I have had and will cont i n

answer, find the solution and f a l

problem But finding the

t take as long as it used to

SCIENCE

By RACHEL YANG Sun Contributor

With the help of nano-sized fluorescent particles called C dots, cancer imaging is becoming clearer than ever For two years, Carlie Mendoza ’16 has worked to optimize the brightness of these particles to better detect cancer cells and possibly even treat them as a safer alternative to radiation and chemotherapy

Mendoza, a biological sciences major, works in the lab of Prof Ulrich Wiesner, materials science and engineering She became involved in research through the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars program

and joined the Wiesner Lab in 2012, where she began work on the use of C dots for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

“I’ve always been interested in becoming an oncologist, so cancer research seemed like a good fit,” she said C dots, short for “Cornell Prime dots,” are the second generation of silica-based core shell nanoparticles produced by the Wiesner Lab, according to Mendoza She said they represent the “first inorganic nanoprobes used in cancer diagnostics,” though they have yet to be tested in clinical trials

The silica shell helps to encapsulate the dye within the C´dot, helping maintain its fluorescence, Mendoza said

The dots are then coated in polyethylene glycol to prevent the body from detecting them

“The C dots are sub 10 nanometers so they can travel around the body without being detected by the immune system, ” Mendoza said

According to Mendoza, the probes are injected into the bloodstream near the tumor site and are attracted to the receptors of cancer cells due to targeting ligands found on the outside of each C´dot This allows them to preferentially target cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed

Though Mendoza’s research has focused on imaging up to this point, she said the C´dots’ specificity may play a key role in its potential for cancer drug delivery as well

“Radiation doesn’t differentiate between cancer cells and healthy cells,” Mendoza said “I think C dots are definitely a better alternative to radiation and chemotherapy

”

Researchers can use PET positron emission tomography and CT computerized tomography scans to locate tumors in the body based on fluorescence from the C´dots, as well as track the movement of the C´dots over time, according to Mendoza

“They are able to travel through the body without being detected and then within a couple of hours they can be excreted through the urinary system, ” Mendoza said

In addition to their specificity, the C´dots are highly fluorescent and dyes such as Cy5 5 typically used for cancer imaging in patients can be attached to their cores to aid the visualization of cancer cells

“This can help when a surgeon wants to excise a tumor; it makes the tumor easier to see, ” Mendoza said For her project, Mendoza investigated different ways

“I think C´ dots are definitely a better alternative to radiation and chemotherapy.”

to increase the brightness of the C dots, since greater fluorescence allows for clearer imaging of tumors According to Mendoza, changing parameters during the synthesis of C´dots, such as the amount of dye, stirring the solution, changing the size of the flask or altering the temperature of the reaction, can produce dots with differences in brightness

After synthesizing the dots, Mendoza characterized them based on size and brightness using methods such as transmission electron microscopy as well as assessed whether or not the dots will remain stable once they enter the human body

“We want to make sure that when [the C´dots] go from the solution to the body, that it will work the way we think it will,” Mendoza said

Mendoza’s work on C dots is currently pending for publication in a scientific journal In the future, Mendoza said she is interested in applying to medical school as well as M D -Ph D programs

“I want to incorporate my passion for research as well as being a doctor,” she said

Pegan ’15 Examines Br eeding Patter ns, Natal Dispersal of Tr ee Swallows

By COREY NG Sun Contributor

People grow up and gain independence in different ways, some returning home after leaving the proverbial nest while others fly off and never look back In her research, Teresa Pegan ’15 has studied this phenomenon not in humans but in tree swallows small, migrator y blue-green birds found across North America

Pegan’s research began in the summer of 2012 and focuses on looking at populations of female birds male swallows are much more difficult to catch, she says at a field site used by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology The site, which includes 150

m a n - m a d e , h e a d - h e i g h t b i rd b o xe s , i s home to hundreds of tree swallows

Pe g a n s p l i t t h e s w a l l ow s i n t o t w o groups “homebodies” that continue to b re e d i n t h e i r n a t a l p o p u l a t i o n a n d “immigrants,” which have come from elsewhere to breed The immigrants’ behavior, known as natal dispersal, is found in “basically all vertebrates” and could affect other life events, according to Pegan

“[Natal dispersal] is the term used to describe when a young animal is born or hatched and it leaves the population it was b o r n i n a n d g o e s s o m e w h e re e l s e t o breed,” Pegan said “My overall hypothesis is that I think this decision about whether or not to recruit into your natal p o p u l a t i o n w i l l h a v e i m p l i c a t i o n s f o r other aspects of life histor y ”

By “life histor y, ” Pegan refers to the series of significant events in each bird’s lifetime Though her initial hypothesis posited that natal dispersal decision could affect aspects of life histor y such as how many chicks the birds have or where they decide to lay their eggs, her results showed that most changes occurred in breeding phe-

n o l o g y, o r t h e biological timing of breeding

“ I f o u n d that homebodies

ferred by high-quality birds, or that they adopt a slower-paced life histor y strategy, optimizing sur vival over reproduction in their first year ”

A

research, Pegan said, there are two basic explanations driving the natal-dispersal decision

First, birds might decide to breed away

inbreeding, a viable explanation given the small population size of between 50 and

100 females per year at the field site

Secondly, natal-dispersal decisions may be driven by individual “hormone-mediated personality traits,” Pegan said

When studying the birds, Pegan said she was especially interested in second-year females, b i rd s t h

“I think this decision about whether or not to recruit into your natal population will have implications for other aspects of life history.”

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t e n d t o i n i t i a t e breeding attempts two days later than immigrants,” Pegan stated in an abstract published by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board “ This may indicate that recruiting to the natal population is not necessarily pre-

hatched the previous year and

than homebodies

“About 10 percent of the population in a given year is made up of these second-year homebodies, and about 20 percent is made up of second-year immigrants,” Pegan said

Data was collected by banding individ-

ual birds so that they could be accounted for in future seasons According to Pegan, she is able to band about 90 percent of the site’s female population in a given season

“[ The swallows] all need to get a little metal band placed on their leg,” she said “It’s light enough that it won ’ t bother them but it allows us to identify them ”

Once the birds are caught, body measurements are made, and if they have

A little bird told me | Clockwise above: Teresa Pegan ’15 dabs a tree swallow chick with nail polish, the standard procedure for tracking until they are old enough to be banded; an adult tree swallow shows its bluegreen plumage and white underbelly; Pegan holds a pair of chicks in front of the pond at the field site Below: the field site used by Pegan, shown here in the morning, features over 150 nest boxes for easy gathering of birds

chicks, they are measured and weighed as well At the lab, Pegan compared these data to historical data, taken ever y year for the last 30 years at the field site to glean any potential trends in physical d i f f e re n c e s b e t w e e n h o m ebodies and immigrants

Pegan said in her abstract that she plans to continue her research at the field site this summer

“I will use the long-term dataset to address questions about whether there are differences in the lifetime strategies of homebodies and immigrants, and whether processes like weather or competition have an affect on homebody return rates, ” she said

Corey Ng can be reached at cjn44@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sweet Sensation: Vistas of Candyland at John Hartell

presence in the composition The peppermint columns cease to be joke str uctures, p a ro d y i n g a n i d e a o f ‘ h o u s e , ’ a n d a re

At first glance, Will Cotton’s paintings

a n d d r a w i n g s a p p e a r w h i m s i c a l B e s t known for creating Katy Perr y ’ s “ Teenage

D r e a m ” a l b u m c o v e r, C o t t o n ’ s w o r k s prominently feature puffy clouds in pink pastels Yet, Cotton’s paintings and drawings of gingerbread str uctures manipulate motifs seen in confectioner y and are almost as prolific. Prof. Mark Mo

c u r a t e d W i l l C o t t o n :

Ca n d y l a n d a t t h e Jo h n Galler y to showcase Co adherence to “[t]he str uct

a l l o g i c o f g i n g e r b r e a

assembly ”

C e r t a i n f o r m s h a v e become ubiquitous in

d e s s e r t d e c o r a t i o n

No t e t h e b l u n t e d

t e a r d r o p o f He r s h e y kisses, the stout cylinder of gumdrops and t h e p o i n t e d d o l l o p o f f r o s t i n g C o t t o n l e a v e s these forms in their decor tive role, but alters his de tion of their setting Thick banks disappear, replaced tive lakes, desolate roads rivers of caramel sauce In inal environment, the expected forms elicit a different effect

instead present as necessar y, integral components of the building Cotton focuses, too, on the gingerbread house as a product, or result of a process

Morris states in his exhibit description that Cotton’s str uctures exist “ as par t of a complete territor y where Candy Land’s locales are

Cotton also notes the technical process

cooking classes to better fabricate these

Fur thermore, Cotton juxtaposes the com-

g e r b r e a d

houses against paintings and drawings of d e c a y a n d c h a o s “ C r e a m ” a n d “ O l d

In “Monument,” Cotton’s sepia depiction of a gingerbread house evokes an a t m o s p h e r e o f o l d - w o r l d d i g n i t y T h e placement of a pretzel above the door way directs attention to its carefully-planned twists A lake mirrors another gingerbread h o u s e i n “ T h e C o n s u m m a t i o n o f a n Empire,” nearly doubling the str ucture ’ s

w i t h deadpan seriousness ” Cotton recognizes the implicit fiction in gingerbread houses: A house supposes a resident Cotton hints a t t h e s

between the human house creators and the (gingerbread) residents Cotton only tangentially approaches the issue and intentionally omits any human form from the works

n ove r 1 4 0 c o u n t r i e s ; i t re l a y s t h e u b i q u i t o u s m e s s a g e t h a t va g i n a s a re g re a t , t h a t w o m e n s h o u l d b e p ro u d o f t h e i r va g i n a s a n d t h a t n o o n e h a s a n y r i g h t t o m a i m , t e a s e o r d i s re s p e c t t h e va g i n a o r i t s h o l de r T h i s ye a r ’ s re n d i t i o n p ro m o t e d t h a t m e s s a g e p owe r f u l l y It w a s a n u p d a t e d ve r s i o n o f t h e p l a y, a n d i t i n c l u d e d a f e w d e t a i l s t h a t we re n o t i n c o r p o r a t e d i n t o t h e o r i g i n a l Pr i o r t o a t t e n d i n g t h e s h ow, I h a d d i s c u s s e d t h e p l a y w i t h a f e w o f m y p e e r s I h a d n e ve r s e e n i t b e f o re , a n d w a s e xc i t e d by t h e p ro s p e c t o f h e a r i n g a n h o u r - l o n g r i f f o n w o m e n , t h e i r va g in a s a n d s e x u a l i t y Howe ve r, a f e w o f m y f r i e n d s t o l d m e n o t t o g e t m y h o p e s u p T h e y h a d s e e n i t b e f o re , t h e y s a i d , a n d t h e y c r i t i c i ze d i t f o r b e i n g a n t i q u a t e d a n d Eu ro c e n t r i c Howe ve r, d i re c t o r A l e k s e j A a r s a e t h e r ’ 1 7 w a s a b l e t o m o r p h t h e p l a y i n t o s o m e t h i n g c o n t e m p o r a r y t h ro u g h h i s s e l e c t i o n o f t h e s c e n e s i n c l u d e d i n t h e p e r f o r m a n c e T h e f i r s t a l t e re d a c t w a s o n e t h a t i n c l u d e d f i ve p a i r s o f p ro j e c t e d l i p s A s c re e n d ro p p e d d ow n f ro m t h e c e i l i n g , t h e s t a g e we n t d a rk a n d t h e c o l o r f u l l i p s we re t h e o n l y o b j e c t s o f f o c u s T h e m o u t h s t o o k t u r n s m ov i n g a s t h e y re c i t e d t h e w o rd s e m a n a ti n g f ro m m o n o l o g u e r s ’ m o u t h s w h i l e t h e y s t o o d o u t o f v i e w T h i s s c e n e p rov i d e d t h e ow n e r s o f t h e m o u t h s c o m p l e t e a m b i g u i t y ; f o c u s w a s d i ve r t e d f ro m t h e a p p e a r a n c e o f t h e p e r f o r m e r s b a c k o n t o t h e w o rd s t h e m s e l ve s T h e m o u t h s o f t h i s a c t s p o k e t h e s t o r y o f a t r a n s g e n d e r i n d i v

Faithful” feature geyser-like bursts of cream spur ting over a landscape of jumbled icing and ice cream Cotton carries his gingerm a purely imagastical land into the table world

o t t o n i n c o r p o r a t e s h a translation into i s c r e a t i v e p r o c e s s , c a p t u r i n g h i s s t r u ctures at various levels of decay Morris

r e p o r t s t h a t , i n C o t t o n ’ s w o r k ,

“[t]he decay of a s i n g l e g i n g e r b re a d house can be read across several paintn g s w h e r e v a n t a g e o i n t s s h i f t a n d f o g s

and “Flood” present uce of the destr uctive esser t world The layin the John Har tell Galler y includes pastel exercise balls, bowls of jellybeans and gumballs (I erred on the side of caution and didn’t tr y to take any) and a vintage copy of Candy Land, a nod to the copy Cotton keeps in his Ne w York City office Morris’s exhibit contrasts the childish decadence of candy with images of lonesome abandonment and destr uction

T h e p a i n t i n g s , i m p o r t a n t l y, d o n o t recast gingerbread houses into an entirely

gloomy or morbid realm Rather, Cotton’s works occupy a purgatorial realm, devoid of residential life and domesticity but neither plunged into complete disarray The paintings exist in a sor t of non-environment to isolate the forms and motifs from their decorative role In a fe w of the works, the thick, cylindrical marshmallows look like water heaters and the chocolate sauce dripping off the roof becomes dilapidated shingles

Cotton’s abstract “Untitled,” however, presented the most compelling image of the exhibit “Untitled” displays pink and white oil paint, textured and segmented to look like freshly-squee zed icing, dripping off of the canvas Removed from a cake or other confection, the ver y idea of the icing becomes non-concrete The painting shows decoration with nothing to decorate, a common form completely divorced from its common function Yet, “Untitled” also

tioner y motifs; even dripping off a canvas, we still see icing as icing and recognize its typical cur ves and spirals

Cotton’s more widely known work “nudes at rest on clouds of cotton candy

sugar y confections,” according to Morris employs many of the motifs and forms that he explores in his gingerbread models

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The aesthetic beauty of cake decoration, or the brand recognition of candy shapes, attests to the perceptivity of Cotton’s work

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com

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h e C o r n e l l w o m e n ’ s t e n n i s t e a m played against West Virginia on Saturday where the Red ended the Mountaineers’s nine match winning streak

“It feels great to beat any opponent but ending a winning streak is even better,” said freshman Priyanka Shah “It gives us a little more confidence and fire power for our next match ”

The Red won their singles matches, 43 Even though they weren ’ t playing on their home court, the Red still felt the energy and support of one another

“I felt really good playing this weekend,” said sophomore Alex D’Ascenzo “It was an away match so there's always the probability that the environment is going to be harder to play in because we ' re the visiting team, but we did a really good job of cheering for each other and made it feel as if it were a home match ”

The Red hadn’t played for two weeks due to match cancellations as a result of poor weather conditions The team, however, has been training hard for these matches and continues to see improvements

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“ We’ve been playing a lot of practice matches to get us in the right mindset for our matches We have all been working really hard both on and off the court and I think it really showed this weekend Our goal for this weekend was to play our best and have a really loud and prominent appearance, which we did We all played ver y well and the match was fun to be in and cheer for ”

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aspects of our games as a team, ” Shah said “And being in pressure situations really shows how much better we have gotten ”

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what we ’ re doing and keep improving individually and as a team, ” D’Ascenzo said “ We only have three more matches before our Ivy season, and we just need to make sure that we keep improving to the point that our peak will be during our Ivy matches ”

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Laxers Drop Early Season Matchup Against Virginia

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Red Rolls Over Yale in First League Win

Poullott saves seven shots en route to Cornell victory

By BEN DENSON Sun Staff Writer

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l i k e w h e n p e o p l e w e re deprived of the luxuries that our current generation gets to experience ever y day What was it like to spend a day without a s m a r t p h o n e i n y o u r p o c k e t ? How could a college student get any work done without their

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laptop? What was it like to play a game of basketball without t h e l a t e s t m o d e l o f a t h l e t i c shoes?

My generation has grown up with social media In the past decade, social networks have come to dominate the world by revolutionizing media, business and personal life One of the most prominent effects of social media has come to the sports world With the introduction of

social networks like Twitter and Instagram, the world now has instant access to the lives of athletes It isn’t all about publicity, it is about engaging with fans and developing a personality through a new avenue of expression

The effects of social media on the sports world have been

mixed A new channel has been open for communication, but that communication has not always been proactive

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