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By LIZ CAMUTI Sun Senior Writer
Actor and comedian, Ed Helms best known for his role as passionate Cornell alumnus Andy Bernard ’95 on NBC’s The Office will address graduating seniors at convocation this year, the Class of 2014 Convocation Committee announced Tuesday
During his run on The Office, Helms made a name for himself as Andy Bernard, a paper s a l e s m a n a t t h e Du n d e r Mi f f l i n Pa p e r Company, who frequently references his time
at Cornell With lines such as “I graduated from anger management the same way I graduated from Cornell: On time,” Bernard is, perhaps, Cornell’s most famous fictional alumnus In addition to his role on The Office, Helms, a graduate of Oberlin College, has also starred in the Hangover trilogy and ser ved as a correspondent on The Daily Show
Jennifer Lee ’14, chair of this year ’ s convocation ceremony and committee said she is thrilled with the selection of Helms as convocation
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Cornellian s Create Petition Calling for Return of Course
By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
Students and alumni alike had mixed emotions upon learning that American Studies 2001: The First American University will not be offered during the 2014-15 academic year
The course taught for four years by Corey Earle ’07, associate director of student programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs will be replaced with a one-time, four-credit course taught by Prof Isaac Kramnick, government, and Glenn Altschuler Ph D ’76, dean of the School of Continuing Education The new course will focus on the last 75 years of Cornell’s history and will be offered in honor of the sesquicentennial, The Sun previously reported
500 signatures as of Tuesday night calling for the University to continue offering American Studies 2001, according to Boehme, who is currently a teaching assistant for the class
“ This is disappointing news for the Cornell community,” Boehme said “AMST 2001 has established itself as a very popular class among students, staff and faculty to understand the rich culture, traditions and histor y of Cornell I invite anyone to go on Twitter on a Monday night and follow the hashtag #AMST2001 ”
“This is disappointing news for the Cornell community.” S i m o n B o e h m e ’ 1 4
In response, Simon Boehme ’14, Andrew Levine ’14 and Jon Weinberg ’13 created an online petition which has garnered over
Weinberg said he hopes that the American Studies Department offers an explanation for why the course will not be offered and reconsiders offering it for the Class of 2015 He said, however, that if American Studies 2001 is not able to be offered, he hopes an “adequate substitute” is created so that Cornellians do not miss out on a year of Earle’s class
“This class has touched so many
Cornellians and so many different kinds of Cornellians,” Weinberg said “It’s a remarkable cross-section of the Cornell community ”
Both Weinberg and Boehme said that they respect both Altschuler and Kramnick and the course that they will be offering in the fall Both of them, however, said that they think the courses serve different purposes
“I think both [classes] reach different audiences [AMST 2001] is a class for students who don’t have time to take a four credit class,” Boehme said
Weinberg agreed, adding that Earle’s class is unique and does not have a parallel to other academic experiences on campus
“It’s a very different animal and a different manifestation,” Weinberg said “To insinuate that one replaces the other is completely, in my mind, false ” In response, Earle took to Twitter Tuesday to offer his support for the sesquicentennial course
Susie Bright: How to Read a Dirty Movie 5:30 - 7:30 p m , Uris Hall Auditorium
Interfraternity Council Sports Trivia Night 7 p m , The Bear’s Den, Willard Straight Halll
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Lenore Coral Memorial Lecture With Emily Dolan: Music as an Object of Natural History 4:30 - 6:00 p m , 124 Lincoln Hall
Salsa Dance Lessons With Graduate Resident Fellows Jose and Madina 8 p m , 140 Jansen’s Dining Room, Hans Bethe House
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (AP) There appears to be another arcane world record in Grand Rapids, this time for the most people wearing sunglasses at night
Gilda’s LaughFest organizers in the past three years have overseen record-setting attempts for donning false mustaches, wearing chicken beaks and tossing rubber chickens
The fourth annual festival of laughter kicked off Thursday, March 6, with an effort to break the sunglasses record Participants received official bright yellow LaughFest sunglasses
Guinness World Records says the current mark was set in July 2012 by 1,642 people at Chicago’s Wrigley Field LaughFest spokesman Tyler Lecceadone said the group ’ s count shows that 1,675 people wore sunglasses March 6
“We had a seriously fun time at this year ’ s world record attempt, ” said Wendy Wigger, president of LaughFest
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By DAVID JANECZEK Sun Staff Wr ter
Cornell has recently been granted state approval for tax-free zones to house start-up companies in areas aligned with the University’s academic mission, according to University officials
Businesses eligible for the program include companies involved in research collaborations with a Cornell department, firms commercializing research done at the University or companies that offer co-ops or internships to Cornell students, according to Tom Schryver ’95 MBA ’02, executive director of new venture advancement
Cornell students will be able to benefit from the program through more experiential learning and research opportunities, according to Schryver
“Having a diverse and robust economy around the University is a great thing for students,” he said
Prospective tenants including Cornell alumni have indicated interest in the approved properties, according to Caitlin Schickel, a regional economic development specialist for the University
“We’ve been fielding calls from over two dozen companies, some more viable than others,” Schickel said
The approved sites include office and lab space in the Kevin M McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences in Weill Hall, unused dairy barns in Harford and office space and developable land in Cornell’s Business and Technology Park in Lansing, according to the plan submitted by Cornell to the state
Businesses eligible for the program are generally involved in research or high-tech manufacturing and cannot be focused on hospitality, financial services or consumer services, according to Schickel
The grant comes is part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s START-UP N Y program an economic development initiative that allows new businesses to avoid paying state taxes for up to 10 years if they locate close to a community college or a public or private university, according to the START-UP N Y website
“We’re finding that some [out-of-state] businesses are interested in coming to New York, or there are other businesses that are in New York thinking about where they want to put new divisions and expand,” Schryver said
The benefits to companies accepted into the program are significant, according to Schickel
“All new employees get the benefit of no state income tax, there is no state corporate tax and no sales tax for the start-ups, ” Schickel said
Some of the properties made available by Cornell are also property tax-exempt, meaning that companies located on these properties will have the added benefit of no property taxes, according to Schickel
The University’s participation in the START-UP N Y program is just one initiative in a series of Cornell’s attempts to help grow the surrounding economy, according to Schryver Other programs include the Downtown Ithaca Business Incubator, headed by a partnership involving Cornell, Ithaca
College and Tompkins Cortland Community College through the Southern Tier Innovation Hot Spot, a state plan meant to fund economic development in the region, The Sun previously reported
“We’re looking to create structures from business incubation to mentoring and support as well as this START-UP N Y oppor-
tunity,” Schryver said “So that if anybody wants to start and grow a business in the region, including students here at Cornell or at one of the other colleges in the region, they have the support structures to do it ”
David Janeczek can be reached at janeczek@cornellsun com
P rof: Academic Boycott of Israel Would ‘Hurt’ Students
By CHRISTOPHER STANTON Sun Staff Wr ter
Prof William Johnson, law, said during a lecture Tuesday that he opposed the recent American Studies Association movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign in both its tactics and motivations
“Bad things start small,” Johnson said in his opening statement “And academic boycotts are a bad thing ”
The event titled “The Case for Israel and Academic Freedom” and sponsored by the Cornell
Israel Public Affairs Committee followed months of debate in the academic world regarding Israel’s alleged “apartheid state ” imposed upon Palestine, according to Johnson He said over 250 representatives from American universities including Cornell President David Skorton have expressed opposition to the boycott tactic
“Even if you ’ re against Israel, you should want to increase academic interaction,” Johnson said “You should want to foster that cooperation Anyone who knows about Israel knows that the academics there are some of the harshest critics of Israeli policies ”
Johnson compared the situation to his personal experiences studying abroad in Moscow under Soviet rule and said the lack of an academic boycott against the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin could have contributed to the its eventual downfall
However, The American Studies Association an organization “committed to social justice” does not aim to reduce dialogue between American and Israeli scholars, according to the organization’s website
“The resolution does not prevent the ASA from working with or inviting Israeli scholars or
Palestinian scholars at Israeli institutions to participate in ASA activities as individuals,” the website said
Johnson, who says he is proIsrael and runs a conservative blog called “Legal Insurrection,” spent the majority of the talk arguing against using academic boycotts as a tactic
“It hurts the students,” he said “By what right do the faculty take the choice away from students? It’s them trying to enforce their will on students Academic boycotts are not a victimless crime, and the victim is the academic community ”
According to the ASA website, the boycott is a non-violent campaign similar those against South Africa during the apartheid era
The site added that “Israel’s legalized system of racial discrimination against the Palestinian peo-
ple meets the apartheid criteria as defined in the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid ” Johnson said that the vote passed the ASA, though only a third of its constituents showed up for the vote The ASA website, however, said the voter turnout was the highest in the organization’s history with 1252 voters present and 66 05 percent of them endorsing the resolution
During the lecture, Johnson called on students to participate in debates on the topic
“You’ve got to show up, you ’ ve got to participate and you ’ ve got to learn your stuff,” he said in his closing statement
Harassment at Robert Purcell Community Center Investigation is pending on a student report of aggravated harassment on Sunday at Robert Purcell Community Center, CUPD said
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Poet Jessica Care Moore and Cornell faculty members commemorate the life of African Writer Amiri Baraka at the Africana Studies and Research Center
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speaker because he is someone “ everyone in the Cornell community can connect to ”
“Ed Helms is great for our convocation because every time alumni or students watch The Office or see Andy Bernard, they are reminded of Cornell,” Lee said
Helms who gave the Convocation address at Knox College last year is the first ever comedian to speak at Cornell’s Convocation ceremony Since 2001, 10 politicians, including last year ’ s speaker Senator Cory Booker (D-N J ), have spoken at Convocation Lee said the Convocation Committee is excited to break this trend
“If you look at all of the Ivies all of the schools we academically compete with they’ve all started getting comedians and other pop culture figures, and we haven’t been able to compete with them in that way yet, ” Lee said “We’ve had some awesome, big name speakers for sure, but this year the Convocation Committee felt destined to do something different ”
Corey Earle ’07, associate director of student programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs, said he believes Ed Helms was “ an appropriate choice” for this year ’ s Convocation ceremony
“An entire generation of Cornellians, when they think of Ed Helms, think of a Cornellian in pop culture,” Earle said “I’m also definitely happy to see the committee pick someone who’s not a politician as those speakers tend to be more polarizing among the Cornell community ”
The University will hold its 146th convocation ceremony on May 24 from 12 to 1 p m at Schoellkopf Stadium
Liz Camuti can be reached at lcamuti@cornellsun com
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“Thank you for the kind words [and] support of #AMST2001 I hope the 1,250 students who took it better appreciate what it means to be Cornellians,” Earle posted on Twitter “The new course will be a great opportunity for students to get in-depth Cornell history from two legendary professors ”
Students who planned to take the course said they were disappointed to learn that American Studies 2001 will not be offered in spring 2015
Bridgette Aumand ’15 said she thinks it is a shame that the class will not be offered and said she
hopes the University will reconsider whether or not it offers the course “I was really looking forward to taking the course, but I just don’t have four credits to devote to it,” she said
Sarah Cochran ’15 echoed Aumand’s sentiments about the number of credits she is able to fit in her senior schedule
“This class is extremely important to me since I’m a legacy,” she said “It’s not just the ‘History of Cornell,’ as they call it, it’s the histor y of my family’s time at Cornell ”
Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com
C.U.: Assault Education Initiatives Successful
statistics suggest, if every student who was sexually assaulted reported his or her attack to campus authorities, the University would handle thousands of more cases every year
But there are nowhere near thousands of cases being reported to Cornell police in a given year What the discrepancy shows is that “there are a lot of people who are experiencing sexual assault during their college years, whether on campus or elsewhere, that could be receiving support who aren ’ t because we don’t know about it,” Grant said
A Perception That ‘It’s Not Happening in Our Backyard’
Since a high-profile string of sexual assaults were reported in fall 2012, the University has ramped up efforts to educate students, faculty and staff about sexual violence New students learn about sexual assault and consent during orientation; fraternity brothers train to intervene in risky situations; and faculty and staff are completing a program on eliminating harassment and discrimination in the workplace
The University has also made controversial changes to its policy on handling sexual assault cases
“We’re starting to pay a great deal more attention to sexual assault this year than we have in recent years, ” said Nina Cummings M S ’92, health educator and victim advocate at Gannett Health Services
Yet in some ways, these efforts while palpable signs of change in the campus ’ rules and culture are not enough, students say
“There’s still a perception that [sexual assault] doesn’t happen here that it’s not happening in our backyard,” said Juliana Batista ’16, women ’ s issues representative for the Student Assembly “There are tons of situations where people who have been assaulted won ’ t go to the J A or police because they don’t want to talk about what happened ”
Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14 went further, saying although she thinks Cornell has made strides in educating the community about sexual assaults, the campus culture seems to remain “ one that perpetuates the acceptance of sexual violence and may even encourage it ”
“It’s a culture in which rape and sexual assault, often against women or gender diverse people, are common It's a culture in which prevalent attitudes condone, normalize, excuse and encourage sexualized violence,” said Lukasiewicz
Students’ hesitation to report cases may be exacerbated by the lack of medical professionals on campus who can collect evidence in the aftermath of a sexual assault, said E E Hou ’15, president and creative director of the Ever y1 Campaign, which organizes educational photoshoots about consensual sex
While Gannett offers counseling, referrals and medical services to students who have been assaulted, students who want to collect evidence to bring their attacker to court have no choice but to go to
Cayuga Medical Center within 72 hours of the attack Because the hospital is miles away from campus and not easily accessible for students without a car, there is an “undue burden on students to get evidence,” Hou said
All three students interviewed are hoping to make reporting sexual assaults easier by convincing the University to hire its own Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, a medical professional specialized in caring for and collecting evidence from victims of sexual assault and abuse
If students can walk into Gannett to have forensic samples taken, they may stand a better chance of bringing their attacker to court or providing evidence to the J A
“Because evidence in the wake of a sexual assault is so rare, and the burden of proof has recently been lowered due to [Policy] 6 4, a SANE nurse could strengthen the new investigative process by providing an avenue for more evidence,” Hou said “Allowing survivors to go forward with cases when they wouldn’t be allowed to otherwise can allow them to psychologically cope ”
Students: Bottom-Up Approach Needed to Fight Sexual Assault
The University’s Council on Sexual Violence and Prevention formed in fall 2013 by President David Skorton to collaboratively address sexual assault at Cornell has 48 members on its roster Just five of those members are students
The poor student representation on the council is perhaps a symptom of what Hou sees as a significant issue on campus: student leaders not being knowledgeable enough about sexual assault to effect meaningful change
Even the administrators at the forefront of sexual assault prevention and adjudication efforts say they can only do so much Students also need to help each other in their day-to-day lives, Grant said
“Those of us who are in bed at 10 at night don’t have as strong a pulse on these issues like party life, academic life and extracurricular activities and don’t see firsthand what’s going on in students’ lives just day to day,” Grant said “The more students who get involved, who say ‘ we want people to be respected,’ who expect sexual activities to be safe, fun and sober enough to be consensual the better ”
It may not take radical steps to get more students actively involved in primary prevention
Research shows that perpetrators of sexual assault are often a small minority of the population who, in a White House report, were found to admit to committing an average of six rapes each Perpetrators “offend multiple times, sometimes because we don’t have systems in place that can easily hold them accountable,”
Cummings said
“If in fact that’s true, we have a large critical mass of students who, by learning about and paying attention to risk factors and watching out for their friends, can make a difference,” Cummings said
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Re: “New Course Will Honor Cornell’s Sesquicentennial,” News, March 18
We are writing in response to The Sun story announcing the course American Studies 2001: The First American University will not be offered in the Spring 2015 due to a special, one-time four-credit course being taught by Prof Glenn Altschuler, American studies and Prof Isaac Kramnick, government in the fall of 2014 on the history of Cornell from 1940 to the present We are only three concerned Cornellians, but no means the only ones compelled to call question to this decision Over 500 Cornellians from different colleges, classes and areas of involvement have voiced their opinion thus far on SaveAMST2001 com We are united solely by the fact that we took, are taking or wish to take the course
Although we have the utmost respect for the professors teaching that course and for the administrators tasked with making decisions on course offerings, we are very disconcerted by the prospect of Cornell not offering American Studies 2001 next spring and question the logic leading to its cancellation
We are very happy that Altschuler and Kramnick have chosen to offer their course this coming fall and believe that those who choose to deeply immerse themselves in the modern history of Cornell will find it particularly rewarding Having said that, we are frustrated, disappointed and baffled that the American Studies department have determined the offering of a four-credit intensive course in the fall necessitates the cancellation of a onecredit, elective course the following spring To us, it is clear that the courses serve different ends for different students, and to not offer American Studies 2001 only works against engendering the passion Cornell is trying to promote for the coming sesquicentennial
As anyone with even the most basic familiarity with American Studies 2001 can tell you, it is not a purely academic endeavor The course is intended to provide a large cross-section of Cornellians with a unifying, cathartic experience that ignites a passion for and a continuing, unyielding and persistent connection to our Alma Mater, far Above Cayuga’s waters Corey Earle ’07, who teaches the course, loves Cornell perhaps more than anyone we know and uniquely conveys appreciation for Cornell and how we can learn from the good and the bad in our history
Cornell is a very big place, and thus there are few communal experiences we share both academically and extracurricularly while on The Hill American Studies 2001 is unique in that it is accessible to all students, appeals to almost everyone and allows us to see learn about the Cornell experience via a consistent, historical narrative To say that the course is an irreplaceable opportunity for all Cornell students, faculty and staff to gain an appreciation for our University would be an understatement
We hope that the American Studies Department will take this opportunity to reconsider its decision to cancel American Studies 2001, especially if the new course reaches sufficient enrollment we have no doubt it will Students are at the very least owed an explanation of what went into the cancellation decision
One of the first things one learns in American Studies 2001 is our University’s motto: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study ” How ironic is it, then, that the University is precluding the best opportunity for students to find instruction in the history of Cornell? The First American University has, should and hopefully will continue to allow for any person to learn about The First American University
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Christo Eliot | The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight
A Call to D isconnect
One day last week I saw a young man presumably another Cornell undergrad not paying attention to where we was going, walking straight into a tree The tree was not a particularly old tree I was on my way to class, so I didn’t get the chance to chop it down and count the rings but would estimate (probably wrongly) that it was an adolescent tree because it seemed angsty I once fell badly enough to tear a massive hole in my jeans and chin while running down Ho Plaza and slipping on some ice, but nothing (except a basic knowledge of gravity) could have prepared me for what happened next: Apparently one of the branches was in a state of unstable equilibrium, so when the man ’ s cranium perturbed the trunk, the branch decided it was a good time to get rid of the snow it was holding Gravity took over, and covered this guy in snow
Did I laugh? Bet your sweet bippy I laughed The main reason for laughter though was not that this fender bender with an oak tree was caused by some miscalculation in an awesome parkour route or chasing down an errant frisbee No the guy was simply looking at his phone, veered off course a little bit and got covered in snow He probably, but not definitely, would have avoided the situation if he had put his phone away for the walk I notice this trend all over campus I am sure that I’m not the only one dodging people who are present in the world I live in, but their world is mostly just a screen as they pass between classes Or maybe you have walked into a lecture hall or discussion (where conversation, called “discussion,” is encouraged) a few minutes before class starts Chances are high that a good chunk of the rest of the students are buried in their cellular devices and not talking to anyone
I wouldn’t consider myself a Luddite but would consider myself a non-practicing Luddite They saw in the industrial revolution what
With the advent of social network and constant communication with somewhere we aren’t, our genera has definitely become the most connected but perhaps one of the worst at actually connecting
they thought to be the dangers of technological advancement (and many of them had a wild rumpus where they would destroy then-modern farm equipment) It is easy to look at people’s reliance on devices for everything from address book, to calendar, to personal secretary and see something of the machines replacing humans that they feared
W h i l e I m a y n o t h a ve b e e n a ro u n d d u r i n g t h e In d u s t r i a l Revolution, I was somewhat sentient towards the end of the 90’s and remember that even then there were no people walking around texting or sitting in class playing Flappy Bird Imagine what being a student here must have been like What did the kids do before class? Talk to each other? I know, it sounds crazy But just think at one point in history people had to tweet by candlelight
I’m not suggesting you throw your phone into the gorge I would but I am too deep into Clash of Clans to give up in the near future (it’s called commitment ladies) Perhaps today calls for a modern Luddism, because with the advent of social networking and constant communication with somewhere we aren ’ t, our generation has definitely become the most connected but perhaps one of the worst at actually connecting I closed my last column by paraphrasing Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his thoughts on unconditional friendliness to oneself It seems fitting that I reward anyone who actually makes it this far with something of similar merit American Buddhist nun, Pema Chödrön, when talking about the practice of mediation says, “it is just as if we had looked around to find out what would be the greatest wealth that we could possibly possess in order to lead a decent, good, completely fulfilling, energetic [and] inspired life, and found it all [in ourselves] ” Bear in mind that I am 21 years old and know next to nothing about Buddhism and meditation, but this sentiment sums up quite well how I feel about our generation’s use of cellphones It is easy to go into the world in your phone and try and find any number of things that will make you happy or happier Maybe it is the score of a basketball game, maybe it is a text message from a friend back home, maybe it is sitting on the toilet and playing Tetris for three minutes That’s fine, but if you have spent enough time with me you ’ ve probably heard me snarkily tell someone on their phone, “Everyone you need is here ” Sometimes, I think we get caught up in our digital worlds and forget that the greatest wealth that we could possibly possess exists in the real world you can touch not the world on your touchscreen Also, your GPA will go up if you pay attention to the class and not to your Facebook feed
Comm en t of the day
“[President] Obama and his European counterparts discuss the situation, seek clarity from Putin and issue dire warnings of the terrible response of limited economic sanctions and NATO consultations with Ukraine. ... Obama seeks an aid package of MRE’s while the Ukraine seeks arms, the ver y arms [Obama] played a major role in encouraging them to surrender with the promise of Budepest Memo based protection.”
GetOutOfMyLife Re: “GLICK | The War Mentality, Revisited” Opinion, published March 18, 2014
Five Times It’s Ea sy
To Be an A sshole
Some of my favorite people in the world are assholes, both in my actual life and in the world of pop cul-
t u re : L o u i s C K , m y grandpa, Beyoncé (she is, if you saw the docu-
m e n t a r y yo u’d k n ow ) , Bo Burnham, my best friend, the list goes on and on Overall, I pretty much don’t trust a person if they’re not a jerk a t l e
must be a limit to all
ity to fix all of your pers o n a l i s s u e s , s o r r y I f only there were someone who could just foll ow y o u a r o u n d a n d make sure you ’ re less of a klutz Until then, it is not the genii’s fault
2 Re v o l u t i o n a r y War Heroes: For those of you who may not h a v e a t t e n d e d a n American histor y class in middle school, here’s a little secret: the founding fathers were whiny and demanding Sure, t h e e n d re s u l t t u r n e d out relatively okay (for now), but really it could
even have to be anonymous; pretty much anyo n e w h o c o m m e n t s more than one or two l i g h t s e n t e n c e s o n l i n e needs to rethink their priorities Couldn’t you b e d o i n g s o m e t h i n g m o r e p r o d u c t i v e , l i k e voicing your opinion to s o m e o n e ’ s f a c e ? It i s entirely too easy to type s o m e t h i n g a n d p r e s s enter and never see the consequences of it, thus entirely too many perf e c t l y n o r m a l p e o p l e become complete idiots in the comments section of YouTube Also, no
o p p o r t u n ities one does
o r d o e s n o t take to insult
e v e r y o n e a r o u n d them If it’s t o o e a s y t o c r i t i c i z e someone, too m e a n o r t o o m a i nstream, it is considerably less enjoyable to do so Here are some such situations where I just can ’ t take the side of the jerk
Overall, I pretty much don’t trust a person if they’re not jerk at least some of the tim However, there must be a li to all this
have gone either way Not only did they hate Britain for reasons that were not always justified (just don’t buy the tea, g u y s ) , b u t t h e y a l s o mostly hated each other
1. Customers at the Ge n i u s Ba r a t Ap p l e s t o re s : I ’ v e n e v e r w o r k e d a t a n Ap p l e store, or any place that s e l l s e l e c t r o n i c s , b u t having been to some of them, I can definitively say that I never want to I saw a woman bring in a Macbook Pro that had
b e e n d e s t r oy e d b y water, and then complain that it wasn ’ t covered under her software
w a r r a n t y I t h i n k i t might be because Apple uses the name “Genius ” Those people are smart at computer-y stuff, but they are not endowed with some mystical abil-
A l e x a n d e r H a m i l t o n
d i e d i n a d u e l w i t h
A a r o n Bu r r ; T h o m a s
Je f f e r s o n a n d Jo h n Adams died on the same day but each one died
a n g r y b e c a u s e h e thought that the other guy had outlived him
T h e y g o t s o m e s t u f f done, but mostly they just harbored a lot of unnecessar y antagonism towards men who were w o r k i n g t ow a rd s t h e same goal
3 A n o n y m o u s C o m m e n t e r s o n t h e In t e rn e t : I’ve definitely heard this before, but it’s too relevant to leave out In fact, they don’t
one who’s watching covers of “Let It Go” cares about your self-promotion for your vlog (just a hypothetical example) 4. Middle-schoolers o n My s p a c e : Do e s Myspace still exist? Just did a little research, and f o r y o u r i n f o r m a t i o n , yes, it does But this is a throwback complaint to when we were in middle s c h o o l , a n d e v e r y o n e used to get in fights over hard-hitting issues like who was in your top ten friends The tweens of today definitely do the s a m e t h i n g o n Fa c e b o o k : I ’ m p r e t t y s i c k o f p r e - t e e n g i r l s posting statuses attacking each other and then having full-blown fights in the comments What ever happened to good old-fashioned fistfights? I bet that without the
Internet, there would be fewer conflicts in general It’s one thing to call someone ugly on their profile picture, but it takes a whole other level of stupidity to punch that girl in the face 5 Twilight Haters: First of all, I do not like Tw i l i g h t How e v e r, I really and truly cannot understand why it has become the go-to thing to make fun of If you ’ re ever in a conversation with someone who is not a 12-year-old girl and there’s an awkward silence, it’s 99 percent s a f e t o b r i n g u p how much Twilight s u c k s Bu t w h a t ’ s so bad about it? It’s j u s t a l ov e s t
that hardly anyone amongst its critics will ever be as successful as Stephenie Meyer So, as silly as the franchise is, she’s doing something right, and I think we should all just let her and her c
heart live in peace As usual, this is an a
many types of people I hold issue with; clearly, not even historical figures are exempt from my contempt Consider this a sarcastic, annoy-
c e announcement: If you c
rude Unless you write an opinion column for The Sun, in which case I think that just grants me immunity
Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne
SCIENCE
Proud professor | Prof Peng Chen, the Peter J W Debye Professor of Chemistry (far right), and his lab group study how reactions are sped up by certain chemicals, called catalysts, at the molecular level. Chen has received multiple awards for his research.
P r o f. C h e n S t u d i e s R e a c t i o n s o n N a n o s c a l e
By EMILY HAGEN Sun Contr butor
According to his list of awards and accomplishments, Prof Peng Chen, the Pe t e r J W D e b y e Pr o f e s s o r o f
Chemistr y, is good at what he does He h a s b e e n re c o g n i ze d w i t h 1 2 m a j o r awards and honors in the past 15 years, two of which Chen received in 2014 for his research examining the development and application of microscopy techniques that look at single molecules to conquer physical, bioinorganic and biophysical scientific problems
O n e m a i n p r o j e c t w i t h i n C h e n ’ s research group focuses on single-molecule nanocatalysis, which is how chemic a l r e a c t i o n s a r e s p e d u p o n t h e nanoscale
Chen and his colleagues study how nanoscale materials affect the rate of chemical reactions and create methods to understand the properties that allow single molecules to speed up a chemical reaction
To study nanoparticle catalysis at the s i n g l e - n a n o p a r t i c l e l e v e l , t h e C h e n group recently developed a single-molecule fluorescence approach This imaging technique allows the researchers to obser ve individual molecules and their interactions, according to Chen
“ We established new directions and broke new grounds for both the research field of nanoscale catalysis and the application of single-molecule microscopy,”
Chen said
Chen said that all the success he has had with his research did not come easily He said he was confronted with multiple challenges throughout the research process, with the first being how to figure out how to actually execute the vision of the project
“It took a while to actually get the research going, and finally, we obtained high-quality results,” Chen said Once the data was obtained, Chen said he needed to devise a new way to analyze this unprecedented data, which
had been collected in a different way than other data in the field of nanoparticle catalysis
According to Chen, a review of the literature shows that researchers have used other techniques to study catalytic properties, but no one had yet examined single nanoparticle catalysis using the s i n g l e - m o l e c u l e
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n c e microscopy method Chen said it took him years to solve each of these problems
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The other research focus of the Chen group is on single-molecule bioinorganic chemistr y, which focuses on finding ways to study individual molecules in order to examine how metal-based proteins act both inside and outside the cell
The group is exploring the protein machineries involved in the regulation of levels of metals within cells
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Cornell in 2005, energy research was becoming a prominent research area
Chen concluded that he could contribute to the field of energy research by studying individual particles, he said
According to Chen, his research is important because he discovered heterogeneous reaction pathways and complex spatial activity patterns of catalyst particles that will help further understanding and research of how catalysts work and can be used
“I think the immediate impact of my research is really fundamental knowledge of the properties of the catalysts
The long-term impact is on how to improve catalysts and how to design
C h e n ’ s r e s e a r c h i n n
catalysis has caught the attention of the s c i e n t
c c o m m unity Chen received t h e Pa u l D Saltman Memorial
Aw a rd f o r h i s research in singlem
ganic chemistr y in 2010
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b y t h e P h y s i c a l Chemistr y Division of the American Chemical Society
T h e P h y s i c a l C h e m i s t r y Di v i s i o n
Award annually recognizes senior and early-career awards in theoretical and experimental physical chemistr y Chen received his award for his research in fluorescence imaging of single nanopartic l e s , a c c o rd i n g t o t h e A m e r i c a n Chemical Society
The Coblentz Award is presented annually to a scientist who studies the absorption of light by molecules
Chen’s former postdoctoral advisor received this same award, which Chen said made him feel especially proud
T h e C o b l e n t z s o c i e t y r e c o g n i z e d
Chen’s ability to make significant find-
ings about the unique proper ties of nanoparticles
“I am ver y happy about these awards, of course I feel honored and appreciated by the community,” Chen said “I also think the awards provide stimulations for fur ther scientific pursuits ” Other awards that Chen has received include the Camille and Henr y Dr e y f u s Ne w Fa c u l t y Aw a rd , t h e Na t i o n a l S c i e n c e Fo u n d a t i o n C a re e
Memorial Fellowship
Chen said he will give two lectures for the two awards he received this year
He will deliver an award plenar y lecture
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Molecular Spectroscopy in ChampaignUrbana, Illinois and an award lecture during the American Chemical Society
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both occurring over the summer “ The lectures provide an excellent opportunity to communicate our work and get future students excited, as well as to inform other people about it,” Chen said
In addition to research, Chen has
Chemistr y 2090, Introductor y Physical Chemistr y 2880, and an honors seminar for graduating senior chemistr y majors
When he is not in the lab, Chen said he also enjoys reading, traveling, and running The majority of his spare time is spent with his four year-old son
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working in his lab who have made his research feasible
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aspect of my job that I find ver y rewarding,” Chen said “ Without the contributions of my students and postdocs, comp l e
Emily Hagen can be reached at esh73@cornell edu
Pr ofessor Finds Bacteria in Cow’s Milk Indicates Specific Causes of Infection
By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Science Ed tor
A glass of milk may seem fairly straightforward and simple, but a Cornell professor ’ s research reveals that the contents of that cow ’ s milk are dynamic and complex
Prof Rodrigo Bicalho, dairy production medicine, found that the microorganisms present in a cow ’ s milk can tell a lot about the health of the cow itself
“We apply cutting-edge technology that is usually used to study other things to study the cow, ” Bicalho said “We basically take diseases that we thought that we understood fully, like mastitis, and we use a new technology to describe the microbial population that is present in those samples and we make new discoveries ”
Mastitis is a common condition in dairy cows where a cow ’ s udder will become inflamed due to a viral or bacterial infection, according to Bicalho
The conventional thought was that mastitis was caused by a single microorganism
like E coli or Streptococcus, and that before the infection a cow ’ s milk was completely sterile and devoid of any microbes, according to Bicalho
Bicalho studied the bacterial content of the milk of healthy cows, as well as cows with different mastitis infections and found that not only do cows with mastitis have a thriving population of microbes living in their milk, the species makeup of these bacteria differs depending on the primary cause of the infection The microbial population will also look different in healthy cows, according to Bicalho All cow milk, healthy or not, is filled with microorganisms
“Normal milk also has a bacterial population It has a complex, diverse microbiome, ” Bicalho said “That’s a completely different population of microbes than we find in the diseased milk ”
Bicalho and his colleagues studied the bacteria in milk by growing cell culture samples taken from cows with and without mastitis and then sequenced the genetic material of the bacteria present in the samples This allowed them to identify the different
types of bacteria present in each milk sample and compare between cows
Bicalho said he thinks that the microbe that is the main cause of an infection, or
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change in the rest of the milk’s bacteria by changing the environment of the mammar y gland “ You have a primar y pathogen that might initiate the process of infection, but all these other pathogens will join the party after the inflammation has started,” Bicalho said
According to Bicalho, this technology could lead to earlier diagnoses for cows that may not be showing symptoms of mastitis yet Cows tend to have the highest risk of getting mastitis in the first 10 days after giving birth, Bicalho said
If farmers can look at the microbiota of milk samples taken from cows who have just given birth, they may be able to separate cows that are going to get sick from the rest of the herd
For future studies, Bicalho said his lab is starting a United States Department of
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Agriculture-funded study where they will induce mastitis in healthy cows in order to track the changes in the microbiota of their milk over the course of an infection and recovery
“We’re going to see if the pre-infection microbiome is re-established once the milk is back to normal,” Bicalho said
The research has other potential applications besides diagnostics, according to Bicalho
“There is definitely a potential to discover beneficial bacteria that could help inhibit the presence of pathogens,” Bicalho said Bacteria that are shown to prevent infections in the cow could be used as a treatment in the future to avoid conditions like mastitis altogether
According to Bicalho, there is a lot of variation in mastitis infections among cows Some cows will get repeated infections over the course of their life while others never get the disease, he said There are a number of factors that could contribute to this variation
“It could be the genetics of the cow, it could be the microbiome of the cow, it could be conformation, or it could be a combination of all of those,” Bicalho said By looking at the microbiome of cows and how it is affected by disease and the environment, Bicalho’s research will provide a better understanding of why some cows get sick more than others and how to keep them healthy
Many questions remain unanswered and provide avenues for future research, Bicalho said
Cornellians Gather to Watch and Discuss Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Science Ed tor
On Sunday night in a lecture hall in the Plant Sciences Building, Cornellians and science lovers alike gathered to watch the second episode of Fox’s revival of the Cosmos series, hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and discussed the biology in the episode with Binghamton University graduate student Ben Eisenkop, better known to many as Reddit com user
“Unidan ” Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a follow-up to the 1980 t v series
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage hosted by former Prof Carl Sagan, astronomy The orginal series was written
by Sagan, Steven Soter Ph D ’71, and Ithacan Ann Druyan, who was Sagan’s wife when he died in 1996
“[The original Cosmos] brought high production values and good stor ytelling to science and explained, in a compact format, many of the important discoveries brought about using the scientific method,” Jay Worley, a researcher at the Boyce Thompson Institute said “The new series updates this historic program for a new generation, telling the story of science through its discoveries and the people that study it ” The event was the first in a series of gatherings to watch and discuss Cosmos episodes with local experts and was organized by Worley and
Ithaca’s Science Cabaret, a science outreach and education group The series will continue for the 11 remaining episodes of Cosmos every Sunday evening, according to Worley
Each episode covers a different area of science and scientific discovery The most recent episode talked about biology and evolution, so Eisenkop, a biologist, was able to offer insight and commentary on the episode as it progressed
“The speakers will generally be graduate students and postdocs from the area mainly [those from] Cornell who have an interest in outreach,” Worley said “We were very grateful for Ben to be our first guest speaker on such short
notice, and are excited about our upcoming guests ” Worley said he hopes the speakers series will increase people’s enthusiasm for science and scientific progress, as well as highlighting Cornell’s ties to the original Cosmos series
“Honestly, I was a little surprised that there were no Cosmos events that I could find on or around campus, ” Worley said “Given the deep ties that Ithaca and Cornell have to the original series and its updated remake, it seemed like something that we should be celebrating ” According to Worley, guest speakers will both provide an opportunity for viewers to ask questions not answered in the episode
and highlight the stories of local scientists in the tradition of the original Cosmos series
Worley said his favorite moment of the original Cosmos was the sequence at the beginning of the ninth episode where an apple pie is made and then sliced by Sagan, who uses the slice of pie to talk about the relative size of atoms
According to Sagan, if one cuts a slice of apple pie exactly in half 90 times, they will have a slice of pie the size of a single atom
The series will continue next Sunday at 8:45 p m in the Big Red Barn, Worley said
Kathleen Bitter can be reached
IVAN P ERRE AGUIRRE / THE NEW YORK TIMES
COURTESY OF PROF RIDR GO B CALHO
Kathleen Bitter can be reached at scienceeditor@cornellsun com
Bovine bacteria | According to Bicalho, all cows’ milk contains a variety of bacteria, but healthy cows will have a different set of bacterial species than cows that are sick By looking at what bacteria are present in milk, researchers can tell what is causing a cow’s illness
Ruminant researcher
Prof Rodrigo Bicalho, dairy production science, studies the microbiota of cows’ milk
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A Dog a n d H i s Boy
Why is Hollywood so obsessed with reboots? I mean, don t get me wrong; I’m still going to throw my money at the umpteenth Godzilla incarnation when it drops this summer, if only to see Heisenberg take on some kaiju It’s just that there is something fundamentally boring about seeing the same stories played out every decade with little improvement Movie studios latch on to their safety blanket of sequels, remakes and recognizable properties every time we feel a dip in the economy because they are sure-things everyone seems to love more of the same Why else would we have two sets of Superman and Spider-Man film continuities in the past decade? These films have audiences that absolutely guarantee some fanboy fervor and a nice boxoffice take That’s why I was astonished that Mr Peabody & Sherman was even produced for the big screen
To be frank, nobody was exactly chomping at the bit to see a small-time character from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show get his own movie In fact, I’d wager the only people who are familiar
with the character would be eligible for the senior discount at the theater From what I had seen of the film in trailers, I had it pegged for an unnecessary, arcane reboot from the minds of Hollywood execs who were obviously out-of-touch with today’s youth And I was correct in that assessment, by my measure That’s not to say it doesn’t have its merits; I was pleasantly surprised by the formulaic but often clever film It’s not The Lego Movie, but in a year chock-full of stellar animated features, it gets the job done
kids and pop culture references and innuendo for the adults At times, these jokes come off as awkward, untimely or just plain unfunny, and sometimes a combination of the three (are we seriously still making “Don’t taze me, bro!” jokes?) When the jokes succeed, though, they really shine One particular sequence paid clear homage to not one, not two, but all three of the original (and only, am I right?) Indiana Jones movies that had me gleefully and embarrassingly dancing in my seat, even as the usher stared
M r Peabody & Sherman
Directed by Rob Minkoff
Starring Ty Burrell, Max Charles
For the most part (and probably, for the best) Mr Peabody & Sherman does not pay too much attention to its source material, making use of the short’s basic essence and not much else: a dog genius and his precocious, adopted human son travel through time Yes, it follows the Dreamworks formula pretty closely think Shrek but with historical figures instead of fairy tale creatures and yes, it essentially copies Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure or Time Squad, tearing prominent figures from our past and dropping them into modern situations, albeit with less success To reduce the film to a formula is disingenuous, however I mean, come on, Bill & Ted meets Shrek sounds most excellent to me, dudes Like any good animated film, Mr Peabody & Sherman is just as much fun for a child as it is for a college student with no better way to spend a Monday night than alone in a movie theater The film is equal parts body humor and sight gags for the
The voice acting in the film is easily one of its strongest and most charming features Ty Burrell of Modern Family fame lends his cords to the flick, bringing the eccentric Peabody to life with charm and flair, even as he rattles off scientific knowledge and premeditation a la RDJ’s Sherlock Holmes Peabody as a character is very much a Mary Sue of sorts a titan of industry, Nobel Laureate, Olympic-medalist and master mixologist Sure, he knows he’s good, but he never comes off as aloof or condescending, always self-deprecating himself with god-awful history puns that Burrell delivers to perfection Also of note is Patrick Warburton, a veteran voice actor, who steals the show as the enthusiastic but dim-witted Mycenaean king Agamemnon Warburton evokes the same iconic cadence that he lends to Joe Swanson, toeing the line with a subdued rage that flares up for hilarious and somewhat disturbing results Other characters, such as Stanley Tucci’s Leonardo Da Vinci, fall hopelessly flat, not so much because of the actor ’ s work (which is fine) but because of poor writing, reducing the entire character to a series of Italian stereotypes, complete with wild gesticulating Mr Peabody & Sherman is a fun movie that I’m sure kids will enjoy The eye-popping, colorful visuals and Mad Men-esque modernist aesthetic are fun to look at, and it has that patented Disney heart to tug the heartstrings It could have been great, but it falls back on some tired tropes, hit-and-miss humor and mildly sexist undertones I can ’ t help but feel a little sorry for animated films like this: In the past, Peabody may have dazzled, but in a post-Frozen, post-Lego world, the standards are just a little higher
Sean Doolittle is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com
Love Letter to a Riot Grrrl: The Punk Singer
TIFFANY Arts & Entertainment Editor
“It’s all about speaking what’s unspoken, screaming what’s unspoken, and that’s what Kathleen was unafraid to do ”
Directed by Sini Anderson, 2013’s The Punk Singer is essentially an hour and a half of hero worship dedicated to riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna It’d be annoying if it weren ’ t so deserved And while it is not meant to be a salve for the bitter backlash that Hanna received in her riot grrrl days from death threats to falsified newspaper claims to the infamous Courtney Love suckerpunch it does take strides to remind all third-wave feminists exactly how much they owe the woman who flipped burgers and danced on poles to finance what she considered to be her duty to us When it debuted at last year ’ s South by Southwest in Austin, it was seen as a love letter to a legend and excitingly, a promise that she was coming back
Hanna best known as the frontwoman for Bikini Kill in the ’90s, feminist party-band Le Tigre in the early 2000s and a new project modeled and named after her 1999 solo album, The Julie Ruin had inexplicably vanished from the spotlight in 2005, and uses Anderson’s documentary as a platform to reveal her decade-long battle with Lyme disease, as well as her renewed resolve to start recording again
Anderson seems to have full access to Hanna, providing photos from her days at The Evergreen State College, unseen handicam footage of her day-to-day relationship with husband Adam Horovitz (The Beastie Boys), many intimate interviews with Hanna and great bonus spots with Joan Jett, Kim Gordon, Carrie Brownstein and members of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre
Hanna states that she first identified as a feminist when she was nine years old her mother took her to see Gloria Steinem speak at a feminist rally in Washington, D C and secretly read to her from The Feminine Mystique, despite her father’s disapproval Hanna openly discusses the sexual and emotional abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father and the abortion that she paid
for with McDonald’s wages, proudly calling it “One of the first things I did on my own ” These events are listed as a crash course in Hanna’s feminist origin story, but they’re well-known enough that Anderson chooses smartly to focus on Hanna as a movement rather than Hanna as a human spectacle
The film speeds through the formation of Bikini Kill, with a handful of sound bites from drummer Tobi Vail (whom Hanna lovingly refers to as “the only person writing about feminism and punk rock in the same sentence, ” at the time) and focuses on the early years of the band “Somebody had to be Bikini Kill,” says an interviewed professor, “it had to happen, or we would have starved to death, culturally ” Bikini Kill made a space for women in the punk rock scene, quite literally, by taking it upon themselves to regulate the mosh culture at their shows in a way that made them more safe for women They started the “girls to the front” movement and invited women who were being pushed around in the mosh pit to sit on stage
The concert footage is arresting Hanna’s undeniable energy and vocal power make it obvious how she became such a hero for two consecutive generations of women Her political views are crystallized into an accessible artistic format, her charisma is cult-like in its irresistibility and as one fan comments, her shows were “ an empowering and surreal experience because [women] weren ’ t really used to being talked to from the stage ”
Special attention is paid to Hanna’s post-Bikini-Kill solo project, Julie Ruin, which was recorded exclusively in her bedroom using a $40 drum machine and exclusively her own production skills “In Bikini Kill,” Hanna explains, “I was singing to an elusive asshole male and allowing other women to see me do that, but I really wanted to sing directly to other women ” This record is praised by various commenters in the film, who note that it differs from Hanna’s louder, anthemic work in that “A human being’s fingerprints are all over it it sounds like it was made in a girl’s bedroom ” Hanna comments on the creative space that is a girl’s bedroom, and the tragedy that all these individual spaces are cut off from each other: “I wanted it to sound like it was
made in a bedroom, but she didn’t just throw it away It wasn ’ t just in her diary she shared it ”
In the intimate closing scenes of the documentary, it is clear that behind the showmanship and the radicalism and even behind the Valley Girl accent that she sports secretly, Hanna is now a source of wisdom more matured and worldly than ever: “There’s a certain assumption that when a man tells the truth it’s the truth,” she says “But when I go before the jury to tell the truth, I have to negotiate how I’m going to be perceived There’s a suspicion around a woman ’ s truth ” The brand of feminism touted in Hanna’s music, and in the film that documents it, is at once inclusionary and aggressive, grass roots and mainstream, doctrinal and home-grown, nurturing and loud: “My story, ” says Hanna in one of the last scenes of the film, “it’s so big, it sounded like too big a can of worms, and I was like, who would believe me? But then I realized, other women would believe me ” Cornell Cinema will give two showings of The Punk Singer: Mar 26 at 7:15 p m and on Mar 28 at 9:30 p m
Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com
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Radio Free San Francisco
“It ’ s getting hot in here, so hot ” So hot So Damn Hot After three incessant days of Nelly’s 2002 smash hit, San Francisco’s 105 7 FM Latino Mix finally switched formats to Hot 105 7 When the former Spanish language station started playing “Hot in Herre” at three o ’clock on Friday afternoon, the song choice was a bit unorthodox As the track continued to repeat through Monday, interrupted only by ads, the station got an absurd amount of internet publicity and publicity is exactly what it was looking for
Sometime this weekend, the interwebs figured out this wasn ’ t a malfunction or a D J gone AWOL; rather, this was an outstanding example of stunting Stunting, when a station plays something uncharacteristic for its format on repeat, is a publicity stunt often used before a change in format Never has this move been as successful as in this age of information overload From USA Today to the front page of Reddit, it seemed like it was impossible to miss the mystery of the station playing nothing but “Hot in Herre ” Naturally, netizens from around the world took to Twitter with the trending hashtag #Nelly1057 As news was trickling out that this Nelly marathon was in fact a publicity grab for 105 7’s format change, Twitter users felt like they were experiencing a momentous historical moment Since the station managed to garner buzz from places well beyond the Bay Area, at least the first few hours of Hot 105 7’s broadcast were probably wildly successful
“Hot in Herre” seems like an apt choice for the station’s stunting because it is catchy, references the brand’s new name and at the very least inspires plenty of nostalgia (This should make you feel old “Hot in Herre” came out 12 years ago ) Beyond that, it’s nothing more than a mindless turn-of-the-millenium pop hit, so the internet’s reactions varied greatly Some responders, such as yours truly, naturally found the song grating after just a little more than one listen Others, though, left it as background music to their lives, jamming to the song endlessly Some likened it to
while
bunch
enough Nelly As I struggled
being told to take off all my clothes enough times to disrobe a large city, I realized that over 72 hours of “Hot in Herre” may have a bit to say about pop radio
In the spirit of journalistic research, I had the distinct displeasure of listening to the new Hot 105 7 As a modern hip-hop/R&B format, the station is no different from the Power 105 1s and Hot 97s of the world Whenever you tune in, there’s a 50-50 chance you’ll be in the middle of “Started from the Bottom,” hopefully interrupted by less than four airhorn interludes generously added by the D J , who will probably shout out his own Instagram at least as many times In a way, “Hot in Herre” on repeat was this predictability phenomenon under a microscope: people apparently like songs because they become scarily familiar Personally, when a song I like comes on pop radio in full force, it’s just a matter of time until it loses my interest (e g “Team,” “Mirrors,” “Happy,”
etc ) This isn’t an indie aversion to liking things other people like; it’s simply that there exists too much of a good thing The real pop and modern hip-hop radio fanatics seem to be just the opposite they need a song to grow on them endlessly until it’s completely drilled into their skulls San Francisco’s new Hot 105 7 delivers repetitiveness in spades, and “Hot in Herre” should have been our clue The station today isn’t too different than it was this weekend The songs are a decade newer and there is a handful of artists to choose from, but the playlists are still predictable, constant and overplayed If you need to listen to one song exclusively 40 times before you enjoy it, more power to you I’ll stick to a healthy variety, thank you very much
Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com New Cult Ever y Day appears alternate Wednesdays
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Red Concedes Season-Low Ten Turnovers
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The Red’s defense had been clicking in its previous three games, giving up only 17 goals over that span However, senior co-captain Amanda D’Amico knew that this game would be a more difficult task than the Red’s recent competition Albany entered the weekend averaging more than 16 goals per game, and had a convincing win at Ivy League contender Dartmouth just over a week ago
“We knew it was going to be a tough game I guess we really saw it as a test to see how far we ’ ve come this season, ” she said “Although we lost and had a little breakdown on defense, I think we learned where our weaknesses are, which is good to learn earlier rather than later, and before we get into the more difficult Ivy League play ”
“The score didn’t reflect exactly how we played ”
Amanda D’Amico
Despite the Red’s deficiencies on defense, the team took care of the ball well on the offensive end, conceding a season-low 10 turnovers However, Albany’s senior goalkeeper Anna Berman stonewalled the Red’s offense in her best game of the season She stopped nine shots, five of which came in the Great Dane’s big first half D’Amico, who had one of her shots turned away by Berman, was disappointed that the offense did not get enough good looks at goal
“I think the combination of our shots was just a little off,” she said “She played pretty far out in the goal, so we just need[ed] to take that extra second before every shot and we didn’t really feel that happened for us ”
Nevertheless, there were bright spots for the Red, as junior co-cap-
tain Lindsay Toppe, senior Rachel Moody and freshman Catherine Ellis all finished with multi-goal games Toppe’s 20th and 21st goals of the season helped her maintain her record-setting pace of 3 5 goals per game, while Ellis’ ninth and 10th goals reaffirmed that she is a legitimate scoring threat coming off the bench, even in just her first season
Elsewhere on the field, junior Sarah Hefner again contributed in every statistical category by recording a goal, assist, three ground balls and two forced turnovers Freshman Amie Dickson also chipped in a goal, three forced turnovers and two draw controls D’Amico, who had a goal in the first half, did not think the score was necessarily indicative of how the team played, but focused on the lessons to take away from the game
“The score didn’t reflect exactly how we played I thought we had some good moments, ” she said “We were definitely disappointed right after, but like I said, it was good to happen earlier rather than later, like during Ivy play when it can affect the post-season ”
Moving forward, the Red will have nearly a full week of practice before taking on Rutgers (4-4) on Saturday After a hectic five games in just a 15-day span, D’Amico is looking forward to a full week of preparation before the schedule begins to get tougher After hosting the Scarlet Knights over the weekend, the Red will face No 15 Stanford (5-1) next Tuesday at Schoellkopf While Rutgers has struggled on offense so far and only averages just over six goals per game, Stanford has two wins over Top-15 opponents and has won three straight D’Amico said that the team will look to its upcoming games as an opportunity to bounce back
“I think everyone ’ s going to be a lot more focused at practice this week,” D’Amico added “We’re ready to work hard to come back from that Albany game ”
Ryan Quinn can be reached at rquinn@cornellsun com
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son
“All of the hard work comes down to this tournament, so I plan to put on my best performance of the year, ” Realbuto said “I mentally prepare by focusing entirely on the things that I can control and not worry about the things that I can ' t If I do the things that I know I can, I should reach my goal ”
While the freshmen look forward to their first NCAA tournament as Cornell wrestlers, senior veteran Mike Nevinger said he hopes to succeed in, and ultimately win, his last tournament competing for the Red
“My goal ever since I was a little kid was to win an NCAA National Championship Nothing has changed, and that is what I hope to do this weekend,” he said “Our team goal is the same We say it after every practice every day: ‘National Champs ’ And that is what we are going out there to do ”
Nevinger has suffered through injuries throughout the season, most recently hurting his knee at the EIWA championships Nonetheless, he is still looking to become Cornell’s eighth threetime All-American wrestler
While both the players and coaches acknowledge that NCAAs can be somewhat unpredictable never knowing who you will wrestle next and constantly seeing upsets in the seedings Coach Koll was nonetheless optimistic about the Red’s chances this weekend
“ We have seven seeded wrestlers and the only person not seeded is a two-time AllAmerican This means we don't have anyone who doesn't have the potential to place,” he said “I've brought more higher-ranked kids in the past, but never so many competitive wrestlers ”
The first session of the tournament is scheduled to take place at 12 p m on Thursday and the championship round is set for 8 p m on Saturday night
Red D efeats Akron in Fir st Match Sweep of S eason
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On Saturday, the Cornell women ’ s tennis team earned its third consecutive win against Akron University The women took to their home cour t at the Reis Tennis Center, where they made quick work of Akron’s doubles teams
The Red star ted off with a for feit victor y at the No 3 spot, followed by an 8-3 win by junior Lauren Frazier and senior Shannon Comolli at the No 2 position to claim the doubles point Freshman Alex
D ’ A s c e n z o a n d s o p h o m o r e Dena Tanenbaum were leading
i n t h e i r u n f i n i s h e d d o u b l e s match
In singles, Akron also forf e i t e d a t t h e No 6 s p o t Cornell won the remainder of its singles matches in straight sets at the one through five positions, with no one on the Re d l o s i n g m o re t h a n f o u r games total in any individual match
Although a for feit can take the pressure off cer tain matches, the Red did not let the advantage impact its mentality on the cour t
“[A for feit] really shouldn’t [ i m p a c t o u r m e n t a l i t y ] It’s definitely a little bit more of a guarantee But it’s not helpful to think about it,” said junior Lauren Frazier “It puts more
pressure on [our opponent]; they have to win more But our mentality should still be the same ” A for feited match doesn’t have “ too much of an impact,”
c o n f i r m e d f r e s h m a n A l e x
D’Ascenzo
“But it definitely takes off t h e p r e s s u r e b e c a u s e t h a t ’ s another win for us You can just focus on your match a little more and not worr y that you ’ re holding up the whole team, ” she said
One thing the women will continue to improve upon is their energy on the cour t, even i n m a t c h e s w h e r e t h e y a
leading their opponents
“I think we just have to work [on] being louder as a t e a m T h
s s o m e t h
u r coach told us, that we have to be as loud as we can between ever y point,” D’Ascenzo said “It’s kind of hard when there’s a for feit, because you think y o u d o n ’ t h a v e t o [ d o ] a s m u c h , b u t
dynamic
This match also marked the Red’s first 7-0 win this season
Sw e e p i n g a m a t c h i s a n impressive feat, but according to Frazier, the team won ’ t focus too much on the score as the season progresses
“I think we played well as a team, but we probably won ’ t dwell on it too much,” she
Homers Bolster Of fense
Red’s order Cruz blasted a threerun shot to start it off, and senior designated hitter Spencer Scorza and junior left-fielder Ryan Karl followed suit with solo shots of their own
“There is something to be said about hitting being contagious,” Cruz said “Ryan Karl and Spencer Souza really hit their stride this weekend Each time they got up, you expected them to get on base or have productive outs, and they did just that With those two guys producing in the middle of the lineup, we are going to be dangerous ”
T h e Du k e s f o u g h t b a c k , though, plating five runs in the b o t t o m o f t h e s e c o n d a g a i n s t j u n i o r s t a r t e r Ni c k Bu s t o However, the Red combined for 11 runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth, and the freshmen duo of Tiger Smith and Paul Balestrieri blanked the Dukes in the final three innings Smith gave up just t w o h i t s i n h i s d e b u t a n d Balestrieri struck out the side in the final frame
“It just speaks to how truly deep our staff is,” Cruz said “We have confidence in whoever is out there on the mound, and seeing the younger guys compete gives us even more confidence moving forward ” With the series tied heading into game three, the Red’s bats did
said “It was definitely good, especially since we ’ re so close to Ivies, but not something we’ll probably think about In terms of tennis, I think we ’ re all playing well We just need to keep ourselves injur y free for the next week or so ” The team played at home this weekend, a situation that t h e Re d b e l i e v e s g i v
a notable advantage “ We’r
c o m f o r t a b
cour ts We’re better prepared too; we don’t have to have ridden in a bus for ‘ x ’ number of hours, or slept in a hotel,” Frazier said “It helps to have o
[there’s] definitely more suppor t, more fun ”
D’Ascenzo added that the suppor t from the Cornell community can be even more critical in a tight match “I think it’s a big advantage Our guys team, some of them came this weekend to watch,” D’Ascenzo said “It definitely makes a difference in a close match if you have a little bit more suppor t behind you ” Next weekend, the Red will
not simmer down The offense put up another 14 runs in the finale, turning a five-run deficit going into the top of the eighth into a six-run advantage in extra innings
Karl came to the plate with two outs in the ninth and the bases loaded, with the Red trailing by four The junior transfer did not fail to disappoint once again, blasting a game-tying homerun to send the game to extra innings Karl had five RBIs on the day, while Cruz and freshman infielder Tommy Wagner chipped in two apiece as well After struggling in the first two series, Cruz’s bat came alive this weekend for eight hits and eight RBIs on the weekend
“Getting a few hits early in the weekend did help my confidence going forward and I am starting to feel like myself again,” Cruz said “My approach is back and I am getting closer to executing what I intend on doing ” T h e Re d’s b u l l p e n c a m e through again in the final innings of game three, blanking the Dukes through the last three and handing the Red the series victory, its third straight
“We knew that JMU was a good offensive team, but having our bullpen guys come in and be a b l e t o h a ve a f e w s h u t d ow n innings here and there was huge,” Cruz said
Home court | Junior Lauren Frazier said playing in front of a familiar crowd this weekend gave the Red an advantage
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Wrestlers
To Compet e in NCAA Champs
By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Starting on Thursday, the Cornell men ’ s wrestling team will compete in the NCAA championships in Oklahoma City The Red has eight players lined up to compete in the tournament, with seven of them seeded in the Top-16 spots
“I mentally prepare myself by just trusting myself and what the coaches have taught me ” Mark Grey
Coming into this weekend, the eight competing wrestlers have worked on form and technique, as well as on keeping a level head during their matches With four of the eight wrestlers competing for the first time as freshmen, head coach Rob Koll said it is sure to be a tournament filled with upsets and surprises on the mat
“Freshmen are consistently inconsistent so I'm sure, for better and worse, we will have many surprises The only thing you can count on while dealing with freshman is unbridled enthusiasm,” Koll said
One such freshman, No 15 seeded Mark Grey, has
watched his brother Mike Grey ’11 now an assistant coach for the team for years now, itching to take his own place on the mat for the Red Going into his first tournament, he has been preparing both physically and mentally, looking to score points and wrestle as best he can
“I mentally prepare by just trusting myself and what the coaches have taught me, and just knowing that I have prepared the best I could for this weekend There is nothing else I could [have] done to better prepare myself,” Grey said “I think the biggest challenge is just proving to everyone that we can win that national title and proving that seeds do not
By RYAN QUINN Sun Staff Writer
While Cornell may have boasted the Ivy League’s best scoring defense going into its contest against Albany on Su n d a y, t h e Re d h a d n o answer for the Great Dane’s potent offense, conceding 11 first half goals in a 17-10 defeat After Cornell (4-2, 1-1 Ivy) scored the game ’ s first two goals within the first five minutes, Albany (5-0, 0-0 America East) rattled off an 11-2 run to close out the
str uck first in the second half, but another offensive
spurt by the Great Danes left
deficit with only 13 minutes left, all but sealing the victo-
freshman Dakotah Savitcheff were two of the main catalysts of the Red’s defensive collapse, tallying a combined five goals and two assists in the first half alone Bowles,
Conference’s leading scorer, ended up with five points, which is the most the Red has given up to any player yet this season
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matter; all that matters is who shows up for these three days, and I feel our guys are ready to come together and feed off each other ” Grey’s teammate and classmate Brian Realbuto, seeded at No 7, is both excited and prepared for this weekend as well He too has attended the tournament the last couple of years as a spectator, and is looking forward to finally stepping onto the mat himself He explained that for him, the tournament is really a culmination of his preparation throughout the
Bats Explode in Wins O ver JMU
Red takes two games over weekend, scoring 46 runs in series
By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor
A six-run tenth inning powered the baseball team over James Madison University in extra innings in the final matchup of a three-game series The win capped off a 2-1 weekend for the Red, in which the offense put up gaudy numbers, scoring 46 runs in three games
“Ever y hitter in the lineup was able to perform out there on Saturday and get some big hits,” said senior outfielder Chris Cruz “ When we have offensive performances like that, we are going to be successful ”
The explosive offense began in the opener on Saturday in a 16-15 loss for the Red The two teams combined for 38 hits in nine innings, with James Madison putting up a five-spot in the bottom of the seventh to retake the lead
Junior starter Brent Jones struggled in the early innings, allowing seven hits and six earned runs while walking three in an inning and a third of work Though the Dukes jumped out to a 6-0 lead, the Red chipped away in the next few innings as senior Connor Kaufmann came out and threw three and two thirds scoreless innings
Heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Red held an 11-7 lead, but some defensive miscues behind senior pitcher Zach McCulley allowed the Dukes to regain the lead Going into the ninth, the Red clung to a 15-14 lead, but three walks in the final frame plagued sophomore reliever Matt Horton, and the Dukes were able to score two for the eventual walkoff win
The Red is 7-3 on the season through its first three series, but each weekend the squad has dropped the opening game
“I think that we are coming out and performing in all of those games, ” Cruz said “In each of the losses, we just couldn’t hold a lead due to defensive issues Walks and errors are going to lose us games, and have done so early in the year We just need to keep away
from those and we will be fine ”
The Red stormed back in game two, topping its impressive offensive performance in the opener by scoring 17 runs in nine innings The lineup got going early, putting up six runs in the opening frame and knocking James Madison’s starter out of the game before he recorded an out
The six-run inning was in large part thanks to back-to-back-to-back homeruns from the heart of the
ball | Senior outfielder Chris Cruz had eight hits and eight RBIs against James Madison this weekend
