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C.U. Examines Effects

Of High Faculty Size

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

As colleges and schools across the University prepare to tighten their budgets in the next few years in response to reduced provost allocations, questions are being raised by faculty members and administrators on how best to maintain focus on academic priorities

According to data presented at a Faculty Senate meeting last Wednesday, the faculty size reached an all-time high of 1,652 members last fall, with an increasing number of faculty members over 65 years of age In addition, student enrollment concentrated in professional masters programs has grown over 10 percent since the fall of 2002

Facing a likely increase in retiring faculty and a steady trend of increased student enrollment, Paul Streeter, vice president for budget and planning, said that fostering dialogue about the priorities and challenges the University will face would be important in shaping Cornell in the future

“The colleges know most of their budget numbers at this point and they are developing their budget plans,” Streeter said “The conversation that’s going to happen with the provost and the deans coming up is really looking out beyond next year ”

Faculty Size

Despite 2014’s record-breaking faculty size, Dean of Faculty Joseph Burns Ph D ’66, astronomy, said the increase in faculty is “ not an enormous growth ”

Additionally, data from the Faculty Senate Meeting showed that in the fall of 2014, 18 8 percent of the faculty was above 65 years old

N.Y. Secretary of State Argues for Proposed Minimum Wage Hikes

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

Cesar A Perales, Secretary of State of New York, discussed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N Y ) proposal to raise the minimum wage with local business leaders at a roundtable discussion at the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Tuesday Cuomo’s proposal, announced on Jan 18, would raise the minimum wage to $11 50 in New York City and $10 50 around the rest of the state if adopted Perales said he feels “ very strongly” about the need to raise the minimum wage

“We now have an enormous wage and income disparity in our nation, which has probably never been this big or this bad And this is something we can do something about,” Perales said “It’s not going to solve all problems, but addressing the minimum wage is something that is relatively easier to do for the people in the state through their legislators ” The argument for increasing the minimum wage is two-fold, according to Perales Not only would the proposed minimum wage hike help low income individuals earn additional income and address

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Juliana Batista ’16 won the presidential race for the Student Assembly, beating opponents Jeff Breuer ’16 and Matthew Stefanko ’16, according to election results released Tuesday evening

Out of a total 4,581 ballots, Batista received 2,250 votes

Stefanko and Breuer received 1,328 and 355, respectively

However, Stefanko received sufficient votes for the un-designated at-large representative position and will serve in that position alongside Diana Li ’17, Gabe Kaufman ’18 and Maha Ghandour ’17

Additionally, Emma Johnston ’16, current College of Arts and Sciences representative for the S A ,

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson to Speak in April Batista ’16 Wins S. A. Presidential Race

By ANDREW LORD Sun Staff Writer

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won the election for executive vice president She received 2,551 votes, compared to opponent Peter Bidenwig’s ’17 706 votes Saim Chaudhary ’17 and Maria Chak ’18, current freshman representative for the S A , will serve as the two minority at-large representatives They both narrowly beat

neurosurgeon who has said he is currently considering

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Women Charged With Killing Falcon to Save Duck

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho woman faces charges after authorities say she beat a hunter’s falcon to death with a beaded scarf after seeing the bird of prey take down a duck

Patti MacDonald, 60, of Hauser, was charged with a misdemeanor count of beating or harassing an animal, the Coeur d’Alene Press reported

Authorities say MacDonald fractured the skull of the 8year-old falcon named Hornet on Jan 7 The duck also died and was being stored as evidence, Idaho Fish and Game said

Hornet’s owner, Scott Dinger, said MacDonald should be charged with killing a protected species

He said he was about 500 yards away when Hornet made a successful attack and landed with the duck He said he was approaching the spot then he saw a red Jeep Wrangler pull up to the side of the road, and Hornet flew away but appeared injured

Dinger said the woman told him she beat the bird, which had been with humans since the day it was hatched

“So they don’t really know they are falcons,” Dinger said “That was probably a part of his undoing, because you could walk up to him and he wouldn’t fly or try to get

away ”

Craig Walker, a regional conservation officer for Idaho Fish and Game, said he later received an anonymous call from a woman saying she tried to save a duck from a falcon

The phone system identified the caller as MacDonald

Walker wrote in his report that the woman stated “that she had been very upset about the duck being injured, but felt bad about injuring someone ’ s pet ”

Dinger said it was tough to accept what happened because his bird was eight years old, and falcons can live for about 30 years when they’re with humans “I had planned for Hornet to live longer than me, ” Dinger said

Ikea Ends Hide and Seek Games

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Ikea has a message for people wanting to converge on its stores for giant games of hide and seek: Go play someplace else

The phenomenon has taken off online in the Netherlands where a whopping 19,000 people signed up to a Facebook group promoting a game at Ikea’s Amsterdam branch next month Another 13,000 signed up for a game in the Ikea store in the city of Utrecht

But the Swedish retail giant has bad news for folks wanting to hide among its room-like furniture displays: The numbers signing up are getting out of hand and the events have been blocked

Prof. Kramnick Re ects On 50 Years of Teaching

By DAVID ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer

After 50 years of teaching 43 of which were at Cornell Prof Isaac Kramnick, government, will retire after this semester, following the sesquicentennial celebrations During his time at Cornell, Kramnick has been a teacher and advisor and eventually became the first vice provost for undergraduate education

Before coming to Cornell, Kramnick taught at Brandeis, Harvard and Yale However, Kramnick said he “felt much more comfortable” at Cornell than at other universities because “the feel [at Cornell] was much more egalitarian ”

Kramnick said he served as chair for the committee that designed the modern-day West Campus housing, and naming the buildings after famous Cornell faculty was his idea He has also been faculty elected trustee and has been chair of the government department twice

Kramnick has taught also generations of students on topics such as the history of Western political thought and political theory

In 1996, he was named The Sun’s “Favorite Professor of the Year ” However, he said that while growing up, he never saw himself becoming an educator

which is what I have written about,” Kramnick said

He credits the two professors for inspiring him to become a teacher and mentor for his own students

“I guess my love of teaching and helping to open students to the world of ideas was totally shaped by what happened to me when I was a sophomore in college with these two wonderful people,” Kramnick said “Their influence as my teachers is what made me want to be a teacher I still think of them sometimes and the role they played in my life My hope is that out there in my class, there are some people like me, and I am for them what Judith Shklar and Stanley Hoffmann were for me ”

Kendrick said teaching undergraduates and introducing ideas to students is what he “truly loved ”

“I find teaching freshman and sophomores just exhilarating the thought of opening up the minds of young people to great ideas of Plato or Hobbes or Locke or Marx

He attended a small community high school and was the first member of his family to study at a university As a sophomore at Harvard, Kramnick met two professors who he said heavily influenced him The two professors

Prof Judith Shklar and Prof Emeritus Stanley Hoffmann helped him succeed in his undergraduate studies, which he said he felt poorly prepared for

“They turned me on to the world of ideas, and it was their influence that shaped me and my intellectual development, my enduring interest in the history of ideas

or Freud,” Kramnick said

One of his most memorable moments at Cornell took place during the period of the South African apartheid, when students protested the administration’s refusal to divest from corporations that did business with South Africa Kramnick said he remembers students building shanty towns on the Arts Quad and the faculty’s disapproval of the Board of Trustees

“It was a moment of exhilaration here,” Kramnick said “There were sit-ins in Day Hall repeatedly, but it

was a kind of civil disobedience in which the participants knew that if they sat-in they would be arrested It was kind of a disciplined and civilized form of civil disobedience ”

Recently, Kramnick co-authored Cornell A History 1945 - 2015 with Prof Glenn Altschuler, American studies, adding to his list of 20 publications The book’s release coincides with the sesquicentennial, a celebration that Kramnick has helped plan for approximately six years as a member of the steering committees

“My major contribution to that was that I came up with the idea for the Sesquicentennial Grove on Libe Slope,” Kramnick said “There’s nothing on campus no place, no building, no monument, no plaques that indicate the University celebrated its centennial in 1965

Those sort of absences led to the idea that we should have a place on campus that represents the fact of our celebrating a 150th birthday ”

Beyond his work at Cornell, Kramnick also served as an advisor to Ithaca Mayor John Gutenberger from 1983 to 1985 He said his involvement in local government began when he opposed Cornell’s intention to transform houses in his neighborhood into campus buildings

“[Gutenberger] was running for mayor, and I just sort of slowly became his advisor and suggested that he campaign against Cornell,” Kramnick said “I remember the head of the Democratic party of Ithaca said, ‘But, everybody in Ithaca works for Cornell,’ and I said, ‘That’s why you run against Cornell ’”

Though Kramnick said he found the campaigning “incredibly exciting,” he never saw himself as politically minded

“I realized when I was back with the mayor downtown, I’m not great with the demands of electoral politics,” Kramnick said “It a kind of skill that’s different from being a teacher and interacting with students ”

As his retirement approaches, Kramnick said he will miss the “student reactions, [students] coming to see me in office hours, coming to see me after lecture to pursue a particular point ”

“It always seems to me that being a college professor is partly a gift because it’s a kind of work that one enjoys,” Kramnick said “I always thought there’s something quite wonderful about being a professor And, of course, what’s most wonderful about it is being able to influence people’s lives ”

David Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun com

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Secretary of State Supports Wage Hike

economic impact, he said “ There are many people in the state of New York that work full time ever y week and are still living below the poverty line That shouldn’t happen and this is something we can change,” Perales said “But there’s also an economic argument When low income individuals get additional income, they don’t save it or invest in the stock market They spend it Putting that much money into the economy will have an e n o r m

c t o n New York state a ver y positive affect ” Tompkins County is a

wage, ” Perales said

argument is that it is the right thing to do ” W h e n a s k e d , Pe r a l e s s a i d that many people opposed to r a i s i n g t h e m i n i m u m w a g e argue out of emotion and fear, not on the basis of fact “ Sm a l l b u s i n e s s o w n e r s think that if they increase the wage, they’re going to have to let some people go, ” Perales s a i d “ [ S e c

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“There are many people in the state of New York … that work full time every week and are still living below the poverty line. That shouldn’t happen.”

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e , which they say would be at least $12 62 in the county Joseph Wetmore, owner of Autumn Leaves Used Books on the Ithaca Commons, pointed out that increasing the minimum wage might actually save the government some money “ R a i s i n g t h e m i n i m u m wage would be beneficial to New York state not only in t e r m s o f i n c re a s i n g i n c o m e

t a x e s f r o m t h e s e p e o p l e s ’ increased wages, but also in reducing the expenses we have i n s o c i a l s e r v i c e s c o s t s , ” Wetmore said

However, Perales said such an argument should not be the principal reason to advocate for increased wages

hour ” Tristan Coffin of Alternate Fe d e r a l C re d i t Un i o n

d what local businesses could do to support the proposal “ The first thing would be to push $8 75 out of existence as the starting wage for so many p

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employers,” Tavares said “And then we do have members who voice concerns So at this time

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun com

Wednesday, March 18 4:30–6:00pm

Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall

Moderator: Joseph Burns, Dean of the University Faculty Panelists: Kathryn Caggiano, OR&IE Ron Ehrenberg, ILR Francesca Molinari, Economics Paul Streeter, VP for Budget and Planning Charles Van Loan, Computer Science

Reception: 6:00–7:00pm in The History of Art Gallery (ground floor) Goldwin Smith Hall

This event is free and open to the public

Johnston ’16 Elected S.A. Executive V.P.

ELECTIONS

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out the third candidate for the position: Samari Gilbert ’17 Chaudhary, Chak and Gilbert received 1,611, 1,597 and 1,475 votes respectively

The two University Assembly at-large representative positions will be filled by Matthew Battaglia ’16 and Matt Indimine ’18 With 1598 votes, Battaglia who is the current vice chair for the U A earned significantly more votes than the three other opponents for the position, who each received less than 1,000 votes

In addition to these contested races, three other college representative races were contested Agriculture and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences, and Engineering

Chris Li ’18 who ran unsuccessfully for the freshman representative position in the fall and Katie Zhu ’18 won the race for the agriculture college representative

Mitch McBride ’17, who ran unsuccessfully for the transfer representative in the fall, Luke Bushner ’18 and Robert Dunbar ’18 will fill the positions for Arts and Sciences representative

Lastly, both Justin Selig ’17 and Erinn Liu ’18

who currently ser ve on the S A won the Engineering representative positions

Batista said she believes the election results demonstrate that the Cornell community supports a “professional and issue-focused campaign ”

“I am overwhelmed and have my work cut out for me in the coming year, but I am confident I can serve the Cornell student body in the way it deserves,” Batista said

Johnston said she is “humbled” by the results

“I’m incredibly excited to continue to learn from and advocate for the brilliant students at this school,”

Johnston said

There were a total of four challenges for contested positions All challenges were dismissed, and the results are final

According to election results, 648 invalid or empty ballots were submitted for the presidential race Additionally, 1324 invalid or empty ballots were submitted for the executive vice president race

This year ’ s voter turnout numbers indicate an increase in turnout compared to last year, when fewer than 4,000 students voted in the presidential election

Rebecca Blair contributed reporting to this story

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Possible U.S. Presidential Candidate to Visit Cornell

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at the back of the head in 1987

In a d d i t i o n t o p u b l i s h i n g eight books, Carson ser ved on f o r m e r p re s i d e n t G e o r g e W Bush’s Council on Bioethics in 2004 In 2008, Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work

T h e C o r n e l l Re p u b l i c a n s invited Carson to speak because of his “world-class” accomplishments, according to Thompson “ Ver y few people can claim to have been at the top of two highl y c o m p e t i t i ve a n d i n f l u e n t i a l fields, yet Dr Carson has done this in both neurosurger y and politics,” Thompson said “He is an inspiration for tens of thousands of Americans and a powerf u l e x a m p l e o f p e r s e v e r a n c e , overcoming adversity and living the American dream ”

Also, Carson announced in Fe b r u a r y t h a t h e i s f o r m a l l y exploring a run for president

“ Wi t h t h e l a u n c h o f [ m y ] website, I formally establish a presidential explorator y commit-

tee to examine whether I should become a candidate for president of the United States,” Carson said in a video message on his website “All of us are frustrated with the way Washington has done its job I think it’s time that we show them [how much] we care about the job they have done ”

Most recently, Carson made national headlines after he said h o m o s e x u a l i t y i s a “ c h o i c e ” because people “ go into prison straight and when they come out, they’re gay ” during a CNN inter view with television journalist Chris Cuomo Carson later publicly apologized for his comments

“ In a re c e n t i n t e r v i e w o n CNN, I realized that my choice of language does not reflect fully my heart on gay issues,” he said in a Facebook post on March 4 “I do not pretend to know how ever y individual came to their sexual orientation I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive For that I apologize unreser vedly to all that were offended ”

S.A. Election Results

President Juliana Batista ’16

Executive Vice President Emma Johnston ’16

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Diana Li ’17 Gabe Kaufman ’18

Maha Ghandour ’17 Matthew Stefanko ’16

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Shivang Tayal ’16

Minority at-Large

Saim Chaudhar y ’17 Maria Chak ’18

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Philip Titcomb ’17

Women’s Issues at-Large

Radhika Gupta ’18

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Katie Zhu ’18 Chris Li ’18

Architecture, Art and Planning

Sagar Karnavat ’17

Arts and Sciences

Luke Bushner ’18 Robert Dunbar ’18

Mitch McBride ’17

Thompson said he believes attendees will acquire a greater appreciation for their nation after hearing Carson speak “ We hope that the audience leaves with a strong sense of appreciation for what makes this nation great, ” he said “[ We] all have a role to play in securing America’s future ”

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Who Can Trust The Trustees?

Wh i l e e x p l a i n i n g t h e n e w s e t o f a u s t e r i t y c u t s t o t h e Fa c u l t y Se n a t e l a s t we e k , t h e In t e r i m

University admitted that the arrangement could be considered a conflict of interest in the bond prospectus, but decided to do it anyway Tr ustee impropriety far exceeds the realm of Cornell’s finances Stephen B A s h l e y

SOFIA HU ’17

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a c c e s s i n f o r m a t i o n s u c h a s p re l i m i n a r y c o u r s e s y l l a b i , p re v i o u s c l a s s s i ze s a n d c o u r s e m e d i a n g r a d e s i n o n e c e n t r a l i ze d l o c a t i o n T h e d e ve l o p m e n t o f a c o u r s e e va l u a t i o n t o o l s h o u l d b e p u r s u e d by t h e Un i ve r s i t y i n o rd e r t o g i ve s t u d e n t s t h e n e c e s s a r y re s o u rc e s t o b e s t c re a t e a c a d e m i c s c h e d u l e s C o r n e l l p re s e n t s s t u d e n t s w i t h a w i d e a r r a y o f s u b j e c t s a va i l a b l e f o r s t u d y, t h o u g h m a n y s t u d e n t s c a n h o l d re s e r va t i o n s w h e n d e c i d i n g w h e t h e r t o e n ro l l i n c l a s s e s l a c k i n g d e t a i l e d i n f o r m a t i o n b e yo n d t h e i n s t r u c t o r a n d a b r i e f d e s c r i p t i o n o f t h e c o u r s e Re s o u rc e s e x i s t f o r s o m e i n d i v i d u a l c o l l e g e s t h e C o l l e g e o f

A g r i c u l t u re a n d L i f e S c i e n c e s h o s t s i t s ow n re p o s i t o r y o f s y l l a b i a n d e va l u a t i o n s , a n d t h e C o l l e g e o f En g i n e e r i n g m a k e s n u m e r i c a l r a t i n g s f ro m o p t i o n a l s t u d e n t c o u r s e e va l u a t i o n s p u b l i c l y a va i l a b l e b u t n o u n i ve r s i t y - w i d e s y s t e m e x i s t s In s t e a d , s t u d e n t s o f t e n re l y o n t h i rd - p a r t y s i t e s , w h i c h c a n h a ve o u t d a t e d i n f o r m at i o n , t h e i r p e e r s , w h o m i g h t b e l o o k i n g f o r d i f f e re n t c r i t e r i a i n a c l a s s , o r t h e i r a d v i s o r s , w h o d o n o t n e c e s s a r i l y h a ve i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t c l a s s e s o u t s i d e t h e i r ow n d e p a r t m e n t Fi n d i n g s p e c i f i c s a b o u t a c o u r s e ’ s q u a l i t y, d i f f i c u l t y a n d f i t w i t h i n a m a j o r re m a i n s a d i f f i c u l t a n d t i m e - c o n s u m i n g t a s k u n d e r t h e c u r re n t c o u r s e e n ro l l m e n t s y s t e m Pre s i d e n t Da v i d Sk o r t o n s a i d i m p l e m e n t i n g a u n i ve r s i t y - w i d e s y s t e m w o u l d b e d i f f i c u l t t o a d o p t b e c a u s e e a c h c o l l e g e a n d d e p a r t m e n t h o l d s j u r i s d i c t i o n ove r e va l u a t i o n s a n d i m p l e m e n t s t h e m i n d i f f e re n t m a n n e r s A l t h o u g h we s e e a p o t e nt i a l c h a l l e n g e t o t h e s y s t e m ’ s i m p l e m e n t a t i o n , we u r g e a d m i n i s t r a t o r s t o w o rk w i t h e a c h c o l l e g e t o c re a t e a p ro p o s a l t h a t w o u l d b e n e f i t b o t h s t u d e n t s a n d c o l l e g e s by i n c l u d i n g c o re q u e s t i o n s c o m m o n t o a l l c o l l e g e s a s we l l a s m o re s p e c i f i c q u e s t i o n s By c re a t i n g a u n i ve r s i t y - w i d e e va l u a t i o n s y s t e m , t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n c a n e n s u re s t u d e n t s a c ro s s C o r n e l l c a n p ro p e r l y a s s e s s a n d c o m p a re c l a s s e s , w h i l e c o n t i n u i n g t o p rov i d e c o l l e g e s w i t h t h e i n f o r m a t i o n t h e y n e e d A s s t u d e n t s i n ve s t m o re i n t h e i r e d u c a t i o n , t h e y s h o u l d b e a b l e t o m a k e i n f o r m e d d e c i s i o n s a b

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d e c a d e , h a ve b e e n t o l d i t i s t h e i r j o b t o s i t q u i e t l y a n d e n d u re a n o t h e r ro u n d o f c u t s As President Skor ton admitted in his Transparency Town Hall, Cornell’s budget is constrained severely by a series of capital projects (constr uction) loans that Cornell took out in the last fe w decades Ever y single one of these loans was taken o u t w i t h o u t t h e c o n s e n t o f s t u d e n t s , workers or faculty As of 2011, Cornell’s total debt, as a percentage of its endowment, exceeds 35 percent the third highest of any University in the world In

a d d i t i o n t o t h e space that interest payments occupy in t h e b u d g e t , C o rn e l l ’ s p o l i c y o f

l e v e r a g i n g i t s e l f makes it incredibly v u l n e r a b l e i n t h e case of a financial c r i s i s S h o u l d

a n o t h e r r e c e s s i o n o c c u r, C o r n e l l would be forced to implement massive layoffs and skyrocket tuition in order to pay back creditors, as occurred in 2008 In order to convince creditors it can take out more loans, Cornell must pledge the necessar y c o l l a t e r a l W h i l e C o r n e l l m i g h t n o t e x p l i c i t l y o f f e r i t s a b i l i t y t o i n c r e a s e tuition as collateral, it is undeniable that it implicitly ser ves that function At U C Santa Cr uz, administrators were revealed to be explicitly pledging tuition as collateral in an effor t to drive down borrowing costs

simultaneous with his Directorship of Fannie Mae from 2004 until the 2008 Financial Crisis, was sued by investors f o r “ [

u r i t i e s a n d Exchange Act of 1934 by approving false financial statements and directly deceiving investors ” Despite having to leave Fannie Mae, he remained on the Board until last year In 1994, our current Vice Chairman of the Board of Tr ustees, Andre w H Tisch ’71, a tobacco executive, testified under oath before Congress that cigarette smoking does not cause cancer

Throughout Cornell’s history, one continuous truth has been that those excluded from financial decisions end up paying for them.

C o n s e q u e n t l y, C o r n e l l c o m p u l s i ve l y increases enrollments, fees and tuition indefinitely One Moody’s repor t in 2012 cited Cornell’s increasing “ net tuition” tuition minus aid as a “challenge” for its credit rating, not because it was rising faster than students could afford, but because it wasn ’ t rising fast enough This is the reality of the situation: While we might see a tuition free ze as not only reas o n a b l e b u t i m p e r a t i v e , Pr e s i d e n t Skor ton, while he might agree, cannot do so, because to do so would be to sacrifice Cornell’s access to cheap credit (Cornell’s debt outlook was only recently upgraded from negative to stable ) When he says that what makes us a “non-profit” corporation is that we do not have shareholders, he is being disingenuous: With nearly $2 billion in debt, we have investors whose interests routinely tr ump those of students, workers, faculty and the community

The Tr ustees have the power to free ze tuition, abolish the health fee or end the ceaseless accumulation of Cornell’s debt However, many tr ustees have a vested interest in the opposite outcome One capital project’s loan, taken out in 2010 immediately following a round of layoffs and deep budget cuts was underwritten by Goldman Sachs, where, at the time, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Tr u s t e e s w a s

This is not character befitting anyone, let alone those with “ supreme control” over the University When student organizations mism a n a g e f u n d s , t h e y a r e d e n i e d funding; when stud e n t r e p r e s e n t atives deceive us, we are outraged; when Tr u s t e e s p r e s i d e over the mismana g e m e n t o f t h e Un i v e r s i t y, a n d even the countr y ’ s economy, we treat t h e m l i k e w i s e , public statesmen It is no accident t h a t w e a r e s t i l l recovering from the f i n a n c i a l c r i s i s How could we not be? Our school is literally entr usted to the same class of people and in some instances literally the same people who caused the financial crisis When students, workers and faculty are told, year after year, to bear the c o s t s o f u n d e m o c r a t i c d e c i s i o n s t h a t directly affect us, we can only ask ours e l ve s : Do e s u n re s t r a i n e d g row t h a n d risky, unregulated financing leading to a p o p u l a r b a i l o u t s o u n d f a m i l i a r ? C a n “Caring Community,” the self-congratulator y phrase with which “ campus leaders ” so eagerly brand us, be sincerely applied to a University who cuts bus passes on Monday, introduces a Health Fee on Tuesday, raises tuition on Wednesday,

ty on Friday and then invites us just so it can ask for donations?

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continuous tr uth has been that those excluded from financial decisions end up paying for them We ought not be

once they are faced with students occupying their offices, once their attempts to pressure student representatives into withholding information are leaked to the public We are told to sit still while Cornell externalizes all of its costs onto those who had no say in incurring them, and who have the least capacity to pay for them Despite what it persistently tells us, Cornell pays for its debt with student loans, its bureaucracy with academic cuts and its prestige with our disempowerment

Connecting With The‘Any Person’

As Cornell students, we have the words of our school’s motto “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,” pounded into our heads seemingly from the second we first step foot on North Campus in August until we eventually and triumphantly hurl our square caps into the air at Schoellkopf Field 45 months later And although we may grow tired of hearing passing tour guides force feed this Big Red doctrine down the throats of high school students, our good friend Ezra can rest easy knowing his mission has been accomplished

We all know our school is home to an extremely broad spectrum of people If aliens were to put a tractor beam over our campus and abduct all of us in hopes of recreating another earth on some similar planet elsewhere in the universe, the only real difference would be this new world would be slightly more jaded and have on average better calves People here come from all over the globe, and have been molded into individuals by unique experiences and upbringings We may even have a North Dakotan somewhere Moreover, few schools cater to their students’ educational yearnings like Cornell The breadth of academic pursuits at Cornell is astounding We have architects, hotel administrators, engineers and integrated cattle nutritionists This bizarre and diverse collection of people and interests is part of what makes Cornell such a meaningful chapter in all of our lives

Somehow though, in the hectic commotion that is being a student at this school, we lose sight of the inherent beauty that comes with these differences Cornell is plagued by an “ us and them” mentality where “ we ” are the nice normal ones, here for the right reasons, and “they” are the unfriendly ones who are studying too much, partying too much and doing too many drugs, balancing the social and academic aspects of college too effortlessly or any multitude of other factors that make them different Through this, the idea of a greater Cornell community is lost The person sitting next to you in lecture transforms from a classmate and potential friend to someone merely striving to put you on the wrong side of the next exam ’ s mean Why do we do this? Why does our fellow Cornellian become the enemy? I am guilty of it too Perhaps we focus too much on the “ any ” in our University’s motto and not enough on the “ person ”

Why does our fellow Cornellian become enemy? I am guilty of it too Perhaps w focus too much on the “any” in our University’s motto and not enough on t “person.”

A friend of mine at school in Boston was recently riding the T (for those of you who don’t know, the T is basically Boston’s version of New York City’s subway) when a presumably homeless and psychotic man stepped onto the same car, mumbling incoherently to himself The man proceeded to then rip an advertisement poster off the wall of the car and furiously scribble on it over the course of the next three stops My friend assumed he was drafting his next “anything helps” sign and was surprised when the man left it to find a striking pen-drawn portrait lying on the seat The abandonment of this portrait left several questions burning in my friend’s mind Namely, how could this man not realize the talent he possessed in hastily creating a piece like this? And have those in his life not have given him the credit he clearly deserves?

“Cornell is great, but ” This seems to be the campus wide sentiment about our school’s culture There is almost always a “but ” It might be the weather frustration with how Ithaca’s transition to spring always looks a lot like Willy Wonka’s “Pure Imagination” descent down the staircase to the Fudge Room or the challenging coursework making all of your intellectual gains seem insignificant Whatever that “but” is, there seems to be a cloud of unfriendliness and unhappiness hanging over our beautiful campus I typically try and stay away from preachy diatribes in my column (or at least bury it deep in the subtext somewhere), but there is no reason for this unfriendliness to exist One of the most fundamental goals of the human experience is to find happiness a sustainable happiness that stays with us through the good times and the bad, one that does not hinge on external factors like prelim scores, significant others or finding $20 on the street

How can we bring about this type of happiness? I am trying to find the answer myself, but a good start might be in changing the way we look at those around us We should not view the classmate with the pristine notes and an uncanny ability to make it every office hours session as our enemy We should not jump to conclusions too quickly about the homeless man scribbling on the back of a poster in your train car While “Any person, any study” highlights the differences between Cornell students, we must not neglect the fact that no matter where someone comes from, what they choose to study or how questionable their hygiene habits are, we all fall under the umbrella of “ person ”

We are all navigating our academic careers at Cornell and we are doing it together There are a number of studies demonstrating the positive effects random acts of kindness have on both the acts ’ recipients and the persons acting Maybe helping paddle someone else’s proverbial canoe from time to time is not such a bad idea Helping others and practicing compassion breaks down our own myopia and enables us to see the problems we battle with as the specks on the broader horizon they are The word happy’s etymology is rooted in the Icelandic word “happ,” which means luck or chance That said, there is no reason for happiness to be a roll of the dice We can all help each other achieve happiness and foster a sense of a greater Cornell community in the process

A Call for Greek Judicial Transparency Comm en t of the day

“I think it is interesting that you call for increased transparency from the University administration when most of the points you raise were the subject of articles published in The Sun. All you have to do is search your archives. Try the following search string: ‘provost budget ’ ”

Robook

Re: “Scrutinizing Skorton’s Financial Presentation,” Editorial published March 17, 2015

When my fraternity was disbanded more than two years ago, I was astonished by how the process had unfolded in the prior months

Although I was certain that there needed to be a better way to handle Greek allegations and investigations, it has taken me up until very recently to fully understand why

Tau Epsilon Phi was placed on interim suspension on Nov 8, 2012, faced a hearing regarding hazing allegations on Dec 17, 2012 and had its recognition revoked on Jan 9, 2013

The IFC Guidebook of Rights, Responsibilities and Requirements states that the interim suspension status, which effectively puts a halt on all fraternal activities, was to be used as a “ temporary ” solution while the case is pending In other words, for the sake of fairness to the accused fraternity, the University has a limited window in which to proceed with judicial action or to allow the fraternity to resume normal activities For us, Tau Epsilon Phi, this status lasted nearly six weeks from its announcement until a hearing and approximately eight weeks or the larger part of a semester – if you consider the allegation until the hearing Emails from my fraternity members that questioned this “ temporary ” status went unanswered

The aforementioned guidebook also states that “following a hearing, all parties will be notified of the decision within fifteen business days ” In our case, when including Christmas and New Years as non-business days, the IFC released a decision in the late afternoon on the fifteenth day Travis Apgar, Associate Dean of Students for fraternity and sorority affairs, commented directly following the announcement that “the decision to revoke TEP’s recognition was clear,” which raises questions as to why the maximum amount of allowed time was needed for the decision

But “ temporary ” being ambiguous, and the IFC using every last hour in its timeframe, are simply procedural frustrations, not procedural violations The entire process resembled something most juniors and seniors have experienced: Applying for a job with a really poor recruitment process There’s an angst that results from an eight-week wait between an initial email exchange and an eventual interview, but the next part is like a slap in the face:

The company ’ s decision comes at the last possible minute and informs you that not only did you not get the job, but that the decision to reject you was an easy one The analogy isn’t perfect but it drives home the same sort of unnecessary and easily avoidable emotional rollercoaster encountered in both processes Still, these on their own are not offenses There needs to be something more wrong with the process than sheer vexation as a result of inefficiency and lack of communication

The biggest problem, however, is more difficult to articulate even though I felt its pervasiveness throughout my own fraternity’s process Recently, the Psi Upsilon fraternity was put on suspension for “ an incident involving alleged use of alcohol and an illicit substance” on Jan 30, 2015 but was allowed to resume normal activities less than a week later after an investigation “concluded that the initial allegations were not accurate ” A similar process occurred with the Sigma Pi fraternity in late February, with the fraternity again being released from any punishment after just one week of investigation This triggered a moment of clarity for me as I quickly became cognizant of the fact that multiple components in the process were severely flawed, its illogicality finally lucid

In most of these cases, we are given nothing more than a vague 10 word description of the offense and a one sentence conclusion sometime later about the final ruling It is impossible to make any sort of valid judgment with such limited information even if we were willing to parse through all the available materials because, well, there are virtually none There are no details on how an investigation was conducted, what was found, if there were any conflicting reports, how the committee knew they had gathered all the evidence they needed to make a decision, what factors were considered and maybe most importantly, how they then made a final decision The unknown variables being thrown into this “decision equation” are alarmingly unclear as is the equation itself All we can do is to conjecture about what factors truly dictated the eventual decision

And, not so shockingly, we see huge variability and inconsistency in the results from such an inherently flawed decision-making process

TEP had its recognition removed for four years for having pledges “[consume] a large quantity of alcohol, including hard alcohol, before participating in a sexually humiliating, mentally abusive and physically dangerous activity On the other hand, Chi Psi was simply placed on probationary status in the same semester after pledges were “demeaned and exposed to mentally/emotionally abusive treatment ” as well as “ expected to spend a large amount of time in the basement of the house where they sometimes ate meals [and] slept on hard surfaces The fraternity later had its recognition removed for just two years (with the possibility of returning after one year) as a result of another set of hazing incidents during their probation this time without any further details on the nature of the incidents There is even a lack of consistency with the degree to which information is released after the fact; for TEP, all possible case details were revealed and mischaracterized as sexual in nature, but for Chi Psi, exactly two words and no more were used to describe the acts performed: “serious hazing ” Since when are we satisfied with so little information about what goes into a decision and how such a decision is made? This would be considered absolutely intolerable in other areas at Cornell, whether it be information about the budget, the endowment, or more recently, the mandatory health insurance waiver fee Though some information is withheld in these areas, we succumb much more easily when it comes to Greek life by accepting so little; that is, Cornellians are demanding about possessing information about an array of topics when dealing with the University, but when it comes to Greek life, this characteristic falters and we largely accept informational asymmetry I’ll admit that even the clearest of problems don’t always have clear solutions But by accepting inconsistent results, a lack of transparency and a blind faith in Greek system administrators to make correct decisions, I fear that many others will have to traverse the murky and unfair process that currently exists And to me that is completely unacceptable

SCIENCE

Stacy Farina Grad Explor es New Fish Ventilation Model

By TAMAR LAW Sun Contributor

Children and adults alike are familiar with making a fish face lips pursed and hands covering the cheekbones as if they were gills but for Stacy Farina grad, the pose emphasizes key elements in her research on fish ventilation In fact, Farina has created a robotic fish with a 3-D printer to aid her work on modeling how fish pump water through gills and the various bone structures associated with the process

“It used to have eyes on it,” Farina said of the head, which looks more like a sort of suction device “I just taped them on because they orient people to actually looking sort of like a fish But most of what you are seeing is the buccal [mouth] chamber and I have modeled it as a really simple piston ”

Farina said she has had a keen interest in fish ever since watching the saga of predator-prey dynamics in her family’s pond as a child This fascination developed into a deeper appreciation for the functional morphology of fish, after she spent a summer working at the Shoals Marine Lab as an undergraduate

“[The T A at Shoals] got me totally jazzed about comparative fish biomechanics,” she said “I always liked fish, I was a fan, I liked the water and I liked the deep sea, but she got me hooked on this idea of using anatomy to understand organismal function and evolution ” Now in the fifth year of her Ph D program and funded by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation, Farina works at the Bemis Lab within the Department of Ecology and Evolutionar y Biology, primarily studying the

variety of pumps within fish ventilation

Ventilation refers to the process by which an animal transfers its respiratory medium to its respiratory tissues, according to Farina For fish, this is accomplished by the cyclical opening

“Understanding [anatomy] and how an animal interacts with its environment can have some important implications for understanding the animal’s ecology and ultimately conservation.” S t a c y F a r i n a g r a d

and compressing of the mouth and gill chambers, which forces water out over the gills The process varies greatly among fish species, according to Farina

“It is a cyclical process and it is that cyclical nature that makes it really complex and difficult to study,” Farina said “There is a lot of variation in the morphology of both the mouth and the gill chamber morphology I am trying to understand how that variation relates back to differences in function ”

Since the 1950s, researchers have focused their ventilation m o d e l mostly on the mouth and the o p e r c u l u m a bony s t r u c t u r e that acts as a gill cover, p o p u l a r l y represented by the hands of the fish face Farina’s research model, however, also looks at the branchiostegal apparatus, a bone structure located beneath the operculum

“It has long been thought that the movement of the operculum is the primary driver of expansion of the gill chamber and that the morphology of the operculum tells you the most about a fish’s ventilation,” Farina said “What I have found is most of the variation in gill ventilation can be tied back by the size, shape and number of [branchiostegal] structures They are really underappreciated structures in fish biology, and I think they can actually explain a lot of the diversity we see ” According to Farina, there is a rich amount of variation within these structures for instance, some fish have 50 branchiostegal rays while other species such as deep sea gulper eels, have none In addition, deeper dwelling fish have larger branchiostegals than those that live higher in the water column, Farina said Since coming to Cornell, Farina said she has worked closely with the 3-D-printed robotic fish head, allowing her to better account for anatomical variation by manipulating the sizes of its gill chambers, operculum and

branchiostegals It can also measure the limits of gill ventilation, which is impractical to test on real fish

“I can make these motors go really fast or really slow, which you can ’ t do to with fish, because you can ’ t ask a fish to breathe quickly or slowly,” she said “There have been some experiments where they have poked holes in the operculum and stuff like that, which is really cool, but is really limited If you start really doing Frankenstein things to fish, they will not behave normally ” The same 3-D printer that produces most parts of the robotic head also functions to print 3D C T scans of sculpins the type of fish Farina is focused on primarily that she can then hold and manipulate, providing more of a hands on understanding of the morphology of these branchiostegals

Although Farina’s research is rooted in understanding the biomechanics of these structures within a diverse amount of fish species, her research has broader implications for the environment as well By studying shallow dwelling fishes, Farina can begin to model the morphology of deep-sea fishes that cannot be studied in the lab, which can be then used as a conservation tool

“Anatomy is the interface between the animal and the environment and anatomy and function is the field that explores that interaction,” Farina said “Understanding this relationship and how an animal interacts with its environment can have some important implications for understanding the animal’s ecology and ultimately conservation ”

Tamar Law can be reached at tl432@cornell edu

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D i s c u s s T h e o r i e s o f A d u l t A t t a c h m e n t

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Science Editor

Humans are highly social animals, a fact few are more familiar with than Prof Cindy Hazan, human development, and Prof Vivian Zayas ’94, psychology This spring, the two professors published a book they edited and cowrote along with numerous other psychologists called Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior that attempts, among other things to explain differences in relationships based on how the relationships were formed

“The typical approach is to look at how people differ in their relationships,” Zayas said “We’re saying, ‘How did you get attached in the first place? What are the stages that people go through?’”

According to Zayas, these stages vary by person and relationship, but ultimately lead to the form of adult attachment known as a pair bond

“[In a pair bond] a couple now shows synchrony in emotional responses, physiology and behavior,” she said “They’re able to provide support and regulate each other’s emotional response ”

Regulating one ’ s emotions is a “ core feature ” of the attachment relationship, and according to attachment theory remains significant from birth until death, Hazan said

“To form really strong emotional bonds with other people is something we re built to do,” Hazan said “If we don’t do it, it’s hugely costly to our psychological and physical well-being ”

According to Hazan who began her work on adult attachment as the field began gaining traction in the academic community in the 1980s studies have found that people who do not have close relationships are more likely to exhibit “profound negative effects” that range in scope from mood to immune system functioning

“You can predict a shortened lifespan and all kinds of negative outcomes on the basis of a loneliness measure, ” Hazan said “This is a self-report measure about whether

Nice to meet you | According to Prof Cindy Hazan, certain sets of questions that are grouped based on increasing closeness can speed up feelings of intimacy between individuals who have pre-existing compatibility

“The early part of a romantic relationship is extremely disruptive. But once it’s established, it’s very, very conducive for getting good work done.”

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people have a strong attachment relationship, somebody they can count on, somebody’s who’s got their back And people who don’t have a relationship like that don’t sleep as well, they don’t feel as well, they’re more likely to get sick and they’re more likely to die prematurely ”

Hazan said she believes college students also benefit from forming pair bond relationships, despite the notion that such relationships could get in the way of professional goals

“The thing that’s very pronounced is that undergraduates have this sense that they should delay getting attached to someone, ” Hazan said “Somehow they think that getting attached is a bad idea right now and then they wait until they’re older, when the pool of eligibles is small ”

According to Hazan, this mentality may not have much merit, as undergraduates were found to make better progress toward their goals if they had a romantic partner they were attached to, according to one Cornell study

“The early part of a romantic relationship is extremely disruptive,” Hazan said “But once it’s established, it’s very, very conducive to getting good work done ”

Establishing this pair bond takes a lot of

time, as there are multiple levels of connection that must be breached before the full effects can be produced, according to Hazan Some dating strategies attempt to circumvent this, including a set of 36 grouped questions that circulated around the Internet in January

The questions, ranging from “Would you like to be famous?” to “Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing?” claimed to allow any two people to fall in love by gradually increasing vulnerability and intimacy Does it work? According to Hazan, it may but the individuals have to be fundamentally compatible in the first place

“The 36 questions essentially speed up a normal process, ” Hazan said “You don’t start on the first date by telling another person all your deepest, darkest fears, fantasies and whatever else So the four groupings of questions basically take you deeper and deeper and deeper into knowing the other person, so it speeds up the process of developing intimacy It certainly doesn’t work if it reveals you have fundamental incompatibilities ”

True pair bonds can still contain their own problems, however Often, problems in the relationship seem invisible to those who are deeply in love, Hazan said

“If you think of the preponderance of matchmaking around the world and arranged marriage, it’s a relatively new phenomenon that people are choosing their own partners on the basis of their sexual

attractions to them or romantic interest in them,” Hazan said “People often don’t talk about the important stuff when they’re head-over-heels infatuated with each other There are changes in brain chemistry that literally blind you to the other person ’ s shortcomings ”

People are also disposed to entering similar kinds of relationships According to Zayas, people predictably gravitate toward attachments that seem familiar, even if the familiarity stems from an abusive experience and these predispositions represent “ a twoway street ” in every relationship

“[In one study] women who had in the past reported being victims of psychological abuse were three times more likely to prefer a profile of a partner who had characteristics that other women thought were red flags,” Zayas said “On the flipside, men who had engaged in belittling their partner, were controlling [and] had monitored their whereabouts were two times more likely to prefer women with low self-esteem ” According to Hazan, a pair bond’s strength also depends on each partner ’ s attachments with outside individuals That is, a couple is more likely to stay together if they receive support from family and friends contrary to the idea that a “Romeo and Juliet” effect would keep the bond stronger

There are natural fluctuations in people’s satisfaction with their relationships, and during those periods of lower satisfaction it’s important to have those external forces keeping them together, such as families and friends,” Hazan said

And though there are many tools to streamline forming relationships, whether it be a set of 36 questions or filtering results on a dating site, Hazan maintains that the true extent of an adult attachment can only be uncovered with time

“You can get to the point where you ’ re in a painful medical procedure, and you can just think about this person and the pain areas of your brain are not as active,” Hazan said “That’s how powerful the effect is That doesn’t happen overnight ”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

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Muse’s latest single, “Psycho,” is exactly what you’d expect to hear from them except maybe even better All their trademarks are there: Matthew Bellamy’s distinctive vocals, a fantastic beat, killer guitar riffs and powerful lyrics However, the music video gives it an extra edge

“Psycho” is sung from the point of view of an army commander, who opens the video and shouts horrible, intimidating things like “Your ass belongs to me now ” or “I will break you, do you understand?” to a new soldier Bellamy later sings some of the same lines, but the commander’s and soldier’s yelling creates a whole new tone for the song Their call and answer is an eerie depiction of the way soldiers are trained to think and the way it’s shot really captures the essence of the message

The song itself is very catchy, but not like the infectious pop songs that get stuck in your head “Psycho” sticks with you in a good way after all, how could the chorus, “I’m gonna make you / I’m gonna break you / I’m gonna make you / a fucking psycho” not have the powerful impact that Muse intended?

Since they broke into the indie folk rock scene several years ago, Mumford and Sons have become cultural icons for their distinctive folk rock style and frequent banjo jamming However, it seems from their latest single, “Believe,” Mumford and Sons will trade in their banjo for an electric guitar on their upcoming album Wilder Mind, to be released May of this year

“Believe” reinvents Mumford and Sons by bringing them closer to alternative rock than folk rock

The song doesn’t have the usual softness that typically accompanies a Mumford track, though it starts off slow and builds “Believe” gradually begins with Marcus Mumford’s vocals gently singing, “I don’t even know if I believe / Everything you ’ re trying to say to me ” Mumford and Sons sticks with their typical musical formula in “Believe,” except they exchange their usual banjo music break foran electric guitar The intensity of the song continues after the break leading into a verse of Mumford passionately saying “Say something, say something / Something like you love me ” The chorus of “Believe” repeats “I don’t even know if I believe,” with each repetition more passionate than the previous “Believe” makes me want to scream the chorus as the song progresses, making it a jam I don’t want to stop rocking out to

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Cornell’s Critical History: Whitney Balliett

Whateveryou think of The Sun, the neat fact is this paper stands on the shoulders of giants You know about E B White ’21 and Kurt Vonnegut ’44, and how the latter famously said, “The Cornell Sun, thank goodness, showed me what to do with my life, and I did it ” But does it ring a bell when I mention the name Whitney Balliett ’51?

If it does, you must know a thing or two about jazz You’ve heard not just Kind of Blue but Ascension, Speak No Evil and Brilliant Corners, too Your fascination with this sound moved you to read up on its history, to discover what was in the air when Mingus, Miles and Trane sliced through it For this purpose, you turned to Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker’s jazz critic for almost four decades, and heard this music and watched its masters through his prose

When Balliett died in 2007 at the age of 80, his New Yorker colleague Adam Gopnik remembered him as “above all a poet, who pursued poetry by other means ” He had a self-described “impressionist” touch that could translate the totality of this indescribable genre into a blur of detail, metaphor and spot-on pronouncements He ripped into performers when they phoned it in but learned how to appreciate the next challenging sound Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, for instance, “ causes earache the first time through,” but by the “fourth or fifth listening, one swims readily along, about ten feet down, breathing the music like air ”

wrote at a time of great Hollywood cinema, when inevitable classics like All About Eve, The Red Shoes and Sunset Boulevard, screened at long-gone local theaters listed simply in The Sun as “The Ithaca” or “The Temple ”

Being dense and terse in the way only natural-born newspapermen seem to know how, Balliett never wasted a lede When the Temple screened Chaplin’s City Lights in January 1951, his awe-inspired copy opened, “It is very easy to toss caution to the wind and say outright that this is a great film ” His October 5, 1950 review of Destination Moon

This level of writing found its first home in these very pages, but aside from a review of a 1948 Duke Ellington concert at Bailey Hall (bet you didn’t know that happened), its subject was not music Balliett’s primary beat, The Sun’s archives show, was the movies He

matched the absurdity of pre-serious sci-fi with this intricate image: “If you have shared the notion held by many that the moon is a green cheese, this science-fiction number will stun you Not a green cheese at all; it is a cold, barren, dreary place with the possibilities for plumbing very slim ” Balliett was too entertaining a writer to be obsessed with theory, but he spun his own aesthetic philosophy when watching literary adaptations, which were then legion Upon the release of Olivier’s Hamlet, he declared that Shakespeare does not equal good cinema, for to best appreciate his art, his poetry, you must read him, or else listen to his plays on a nearly bare stage ” His ambitious review of Ir ving Rapper’s The Glass Menagerie clinches with a similarly honest and informed

blow: “But to trample the thing to death once and for all, the fact remains that a stationary camera is a dead duck It gives you the awkward feeling that you are staring rudely, in this case at least, at what belongs to Broadway ”

I have more quotes, good ones, and I think the best use of my remaining space today is to share them with you Balliett’s prose on jazz deserves more attention than it currently has, as does jazz as a whole, but it’s safe to say his sharp, unpretentious movie writing is close to unknown Below are some Balliett excerpts from his time at The Sun, ordered in a deliberate manner: American Guerrilla in the Philippines, De cem be r 1 1, 1 95 0

“The most puzzling thing about this film is the pronunciation of the second word in the title Tyrone ‘ Ty’ Power, the picture’s hero and a guerilla to boot, thinks of himself in the beginning of the story as no less than a ‘ greeya ’ As time wears on he comes a ‘ gurreeya ’ But then towards the end, he relaxes, drops his silly inhibitions, and joins the boys in the back room as a plain ‘gorilla ’”

“This small linguistic confusion would pass unnoticed were it not for the fact that it indicates only too well the quality of the film as a whole ”

The Asphalt Jungle, O ct o b er 1 9, 1 95 0

“If there is a director in Hollywood who really gets down on his knees and plays marbles when he is at work it is John Huston Very serious about this business of filmmaking, he devotes a great skill and boundless energy to everything he touches, and the results have been two of the best pictures to come out of the West: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in 1947, and The Maltese Falcon, made in 1942 Remarkable for their excitement, realism, and polish, these pic-

tures are also unmistakable proof that topnotch films have art to spare ” Copper Canyon, O ct o be r 1 2, 1 950

“There is, believe it or not, one durable, dependable thing left in the world, closer to immortality than God or the Himalaya Mountains the Western Of the thousands of Westerns made, “Copper Canyon” ranks somewhere in the first thousand ” The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, De cem be r 1 4, 1 95 0

“Made for emotionally hungry folk who had nothing worse than the NRA and a faroff upstart named Hitler to worry about, it is stuffed with emotion and drama prepared in the grand manner But if there is a n y t h i n g we d o n ’ t n e e d t o d a y,

Hollywood’s variety of spoon-fed hysterics Whoever had the idea that this dismal article should be dragged out of the vaults should be committed ”

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Gymnasts Place Third at West Virginia Meet

Molotsky nishes third in bars, fth in the floor leading urry of Top-10 nishes for Cornell

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“We’re at a point where our skills are consistent, so now we’re directing our attention to perfecting the little things that will really boost our scores ”

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Red Ride Three-Game Winning Streak after Sweep of Marist

By NATHANIEL MARTIN Sun Staff Writer

After a slow start, the Cornell women ’ s tennis team is on the rise The Red posted its third consecutive victory on Saturday with a 7-0 sweep of Marist in which the team did not drop a set The win brings Cornell’s record to 4-5, despite starting the season with three losses

While the Red women were heavy favorites to defeat Marist, the players stressed the match’s importance in allowing everyone to gain valuable playing time, a point that has become especially critical in light of three match cancellations in the last two weeks

“Going into the match, we were definitely feeling good after coming off of a couple wins on the road,” said junior captain Dena Tanenbaum “ We were mainly focusing on getting match-style practice: There are a lot of little things that you develop in matches like mental toughness and the ability to make adjustments that are hard to replicate in regular practice We’ve had so many matches canceled this season and we ’ re heading into Ivies in just over a week so a big focus was on practicing and perfecting the little parts of our games and getting as much repetition as possible before we face Columbia in two weeks ”

The Marist match also provided players with an opportunity to test and incorporate these practice focuses before they must draw on them in big Ivy League matches

“I was impressed by my teammates using this match as a chance

“I was impressed by my teammates using this match as a chance to work on things we’ve been practicing.”

to work on things that we ’ ve been practicing and really implement it into their game plans,” Tanenbaum said “When you are working on something new in practice, it can be difficult to implement it in an actual match because you may not be the most confident in it When matches get tight, you ’ re most likely going to revert back to your most comfortable habits, and may not end up using the new tactics But the only way to make those new tactics comfortable is to go out and use them in a match, which is what the match against Marist gave us a chance to do ” Even though the match was

more of an experience-builder than a test in itself, the team also emphasized that victory was not taken for granted

“It’s really easy to underestimate an opponent, and then be caught off guard and have a tight match or lose to someone because you were just unprepared,” Tanenbaum said Cornell looks to build on this momentum as the most critical part of their season draws near With three home matches this weekend against Binghamton, Niagara and Ithaca, the team can bring its record above 500 for the first time this season While the Red plays matches and tournaments throughout the year, its Ivy League campaign lasts three weeks from March 28 to April 19

The fact that the Red swept all six singles matches and three doubles matches without losing a set indicates that the team did particularly well in keeping focus and motivation according to Tanenbaum

“An important take away from this match is that everyone took care of business decisively,” Tanenbaum said “It takes a lot of focus to maintain a high level of play and to be able to put a match away without giving up games because of stupid mistakes ”

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Softballers Drop Two of Three in Delaware

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

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The large freshman class brings

lot of excitement into each game, seeing what they are capable of and how great they are, ” said junior pitcher Meg Parker

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s t u d d e f e n s e a t s h o r t a n d c a m e

u p h u g e w i t h c l u t c h h i t s w i t h r u nn e r s i n s c o r i n g p o s i t i o n o n b o t h

d a y s ” In t h e we e k l e a d i n g u p t o t h i s i n v i

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

p r a c t i c e t i m e “ We s c r i m m a g e d a g a i n s t e a c h o t h

f e w t i m e s , w h i c h I t h i n k i s t h e

p r e p a r a t i o n , s e e i n g l i v e p i t c h i n g

p i t c h i n g a g a i n s t b a t t e r s , ” Pa rk e r s a i d

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By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

men ’ s Tennis team beat

i n g h a m t o n , 7 - 0 , a t heir match on Saturday the Binghamton Tenis Center Although the ed (6-5) had anticipatd a win, the quality of h

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, ho pushed its record bove 500 for the first me this season

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i n g o i n g i n , B i n gamton is a solid team

o we were anticipating a o s e r m a t c h , ” s a i d nior Sam Fleck

The 7-0 win appeared o be a big confidence ooster for the Red, who as been training consisntly all season Head

o a c h S i l v i u Ta n a s o i u poke to the improvement of the team this

a s o n b e c a u s e o f t h e hletes’ admirable atti-

u d e s a t p r a c t i c e a n d uring matches, allowng the group to make eady progress and grow ith each training seson

“Over the past month

r s,o we have been play-

n g b e t t e r a n d b e t t e r, a i n i n g m o m e n t u m f r o m e v e r y m a t c h , ” Fleck said

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

The Red won its top t w o d o u b l e s m a t c h e s , led by the pairings of s o p h o m o r e s B e r n a rd o Casares Rosa and Chris

Vr a b e l a n d Fl e c k a n d

s o p h o m o re C o l i n Si nclair

“ We p l a y e d a g g r e ssively from the star t in doubles and that helping u s c l i n c h t h e d o u b l e s point,” said Fleck

T h e R e d a l s o w o n f o u r o f s i x i n d i v i d u a l

m a t c h e s S i n c l a i r a n d Vrabel, who lost their first sets, came back to w i n t h e i r m a t c h e s i n

t h e i r f o l l o w i n g s e t s

Fl e c k , j u n i o r St e f a n Vinti, Casares Rosa and s o p h o m o r e D y l a n Brown all won their set

The Red is still work-

i n g o n f i x i n g c e r t a i n

a s p e c t s o f t h e i r g a m e , especially with the Ivy League schedule quickly approaching

“ T h e r e w e r e moments in the match

w e r e w e l o s t f o c u s , ”

Fl e c k s a i d “ O n m y

cour t and on two others there were times where we lost many games in a row that was probably more from a lack of concentration than a lack of execution or ability We

m u s t m a i n t a i n f o c u s throughout our matches in the future ” The team is not one hundred percent healthy

a t t h e m o m e n t A f t e r

Russian Soccer

La Liga, the Spanish soccer league widely considered one of the best in the world, has been dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona for decades

R i g h t n o w, t h e i r t w o

b i g g e s t s t a r s , C r i s t i a n o

Ronaldo and Lionel Messi,

re s p e c t i ve l y, a re t h e t o p two players in assists in La Liga The league’s thirdm o s t p r o d u c t i v e p a s s e r

doesn’t currently play for either of these giants, howe v e r He’s D e n i s Cher yshev, a little-known R u s s i a n p l a y i n g f o r V i l l a r r e a l o n l o a n f r o m

Madrid

Cher yshev is an interesting case; he was born in Russia but trained in Spain

a s a c h i l d b e c a u s e h i s father was playing for a c l u b t h e r e He m ov e d through various youth syst e m s , e v e n t u a l l y j o i n i n g Real Madrid’s youth team

a t a g e t w e l v e T h u s , despite being Russian by birth and eligible for the countr y ’ s national team, he received an education in the “Spanish style” of soccer He has been unable to

b re a k i n t o Re a l’s s e n i o r team, but has impressed on loan at other La Liga c l u b s l i k e S e v i l l a a n d Villarreal, and will reportedly compete for a place in Real Madrid’s lineup next year

As an attacking midfielder, Cher yshev is the kind of player who can make his teammates better, and it’s no surprise that

R

Capello has called him up to the Russian side several t i m e s s i n c e t h

Wo r l d Cu p He i s a t

youngster with the ability to make a real difference for Russia’s team on the field T

players in other European leagues is a relevant issue now because of the devel-