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C.U. Student Arrested on Rape Charge

By KERRY CLOSE Sun Senior Writer

A Cornell student was arrested and charged with rape in the first degree, Ithaca Police said Tuesday Peter Mesko ’13 was arrested by IPD and the Cornell University Police Depar tment after a female repor ted to IPD that she was raped at about 5 a m on Saturday The woman told police that an unfamiliar individual entered her bedroom and had sex with her “without her knowledge or consent, as she was soundly sleeping at the time,” according to a repor t from IPD

Mesko was taken into custody at his residence

near Cornell’s campus “after an extensive investigation ” He was arraigned in Ithaca City Cour t and remanded to the Tompkins County Jail in lieu of bail, according to IPD Mesko is a member of Cornell’s wrestling team University officials declined to comment on the investigation, and representatives of the athletics depar tment, as well as Mesko, did not respond to requests for comment Mesko is due back in cour t on April 5, according to IPD

Anonymity ‘Cathartic’

In ‘C.U. Confessions,’ Univ. Of cials S ay

By EMMA COURT

Cornell University Confessions, a Facebook page that asks students to share their secrets online and promises “100%” anonymity, has become wildly popular at Cornell drawing more than 7,263 submissions this year The confessions page may meet the emotional needs of students who feel disconnected from their peers, according to Cornell’s mental health resource staff

The founder and one of the moderators of the page –– who The Sun is referring to by a pseudonym, “Zach,” because of his desire to keep the page ’ s moderators anonymous said he saw a disproportionate number of posts by people who sounded depressed when he founded the Cornell Confessions page

“I was actually pretty alarmed when I first started There were a ton of depressing confessions submitted.”

“I was actually pretty alarmed when I first started,” Zach said “There were a ton of depressing confessions submitted ” Greg Eells, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Gannett Health Services, called Cornell Confessions “compelling” and said “it obviously meets an emotional need for students ”

“Part of its appeal is it’s really touching upon in an honest way people’s feelings of loneliness, disconnection and psychological

Tompkins County Legislature Supports NY SAFE

Legi slature approves resolution in 10 -5 vote

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer

On Tuesday, Tompkins County became one of a handful of counties in New York State supporting NY SAFE, an act Gov Andrew Cuomo (D-N Y ) describes as the “toughest” gun control law in the nation

The Tompkins County Legislature, which heard hours of debate on the act, passed a resolution in a 10 to 5 vote supporting NY SAFE at a m e e t i n g

olution calling for the repeal of the NY SAFE Act failed to pass in a vote of 3 to 12 NY SAFE, which was enacted by Gov Andrew Cuomo (D-N Y ) on Jan 15 after an elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn , expands restrictions on the sale, transportation and possession of firearms in New York State Although Cuomo said the law will help protect citizens from gun violence, critics say NY SAFE was rushed through the state legislature without addressing concerns raised by mental health experts, gun-owners and police officers

At the meeting, City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 voiced his support for the NY SAFE Act, saying the law protects people while respecting citizens’ Second Amendment right to possess a gun

Echoing Myrick’s sentiments, Prof Fred Wilcox, writing, Ithaca College, said the act ’ s expansion of an assault weapons ban will help protect innocent citizens from gun violence

Others, however, were in opposition to the to gun control law, describing it as a violation of Second Amendment rights

Calling for the state to repeal the act, Henry Kramer, a resident of Dryden, said, “New York State has infringed constitutional rights ”

Kramer also criticized the state, saying it passed the law without garnering input from constituents

“Law first, input later? That doesn’t seem to make sense, ” he added

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Businessman Stages Fake Plane Crash on April Fool’s Day

YUCAIPA, Calif (AP) It’s the plane crash that wasn ’ t in Southern California

The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports a Yucaipa businessman staged an elaborate April Fool’s joke on Monday

Billy Cheesman Jr used a forklift to arrange a small aircraft on the fence that runs in front of his equipment rental business, as if it had nosedived there

He also strung yellow caution tape around to make it resemble a crash scene

Cheesman says someone gave him the two-seat experimental plane and he’s been trying to figure out what to do with it

He notified the San Bernardino County Sheriff ’ s Department before he set up the prank at Redlands Yucaipa Rentals

Easter Egg Hunt At Seattle Zoo Turns Violent

SEATTLE (AP) One of usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood the Easter egg hunt turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle

Blame the moms

A statement on the Seattle Police Department blotter Monday says the “hard-boiled tale” began Sunday afternoon, “when one woman reportedly pushed a child aside as her own child was scrambling toward some brightly

colored eggs ”

Police say the two mothers began fighting and had to be separated three or four times

The fisticuffs ended with one woman suffering a bloody nose

Only one mother was still there when officers arrived She said she wasn ' t interested in pursuing charges against her attacker

Flea Circus in Germany Wiped Out By Freezing Temperatures

BERLIN (AP) An entire troupe of per forming fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany

shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transpor t box Wednesday morning

The circus immediately scrambled to find and train a new batch so it could fulfill its engagements at an open-air fair in the western town of MechernichKommern

Michael Faber, who organizes the fair, told The Associated Press that an insect exper t at a nearby university was able to provide 50 fleas in time for the first show Sunday

Faber says he hopes they’ll “ get through this without any more fatalities ”

Birk said it was the first time his circus had lost all of its fleas to the cold in one

C.U. Physics Prof Creates TCAT App

Creating app was new experience for Kornreich, a prof and licensed pilot

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

David Kornreich Ph D ’01, visiting professor in astronomy

a n d p h y s i c s a t C o r n e l l

University, is the man behind

t h e R i d e 1 4 8 5 0 a p p a n iPhone application that identifies TCAT bus routes and bus stops for users

Although his application has become popular among Cornell students, Kornreich said he had no experience with app

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Ithaca College, created the

u n o f f i c i a l TC AT a p p i n 2008 in response to the lack of information about bus routes

“I made the app five years ago just for my own use I was without a car, and I was teaching here ever y summer at Cornell Back then, I had to read the paper schedule, and that was just not working,” he said

Though the app is similar to TCAT ’ s Trip Planner, a feature on TCAT ’ s website that displays routes available for selected destinations, Kornreich said his app i s m o r e u s e r - f r i e n d l y t h a n TCAT ’ s Trip Planner

“ What [the app] does is it tells you how to get from point A to point B The website is pretty clunky and difficult to use, especially some where where t h e r e ’ s n o w i r e l e s s I n t e r n e t , ”

Kornreich said “ What I wrote is a different version of that web-

site ” Students rely on the app to find bus routes when they are away from a computer, according to Kornreich

“My favorite feature is the GPS that locates the nearest bus stop for you I use that all the t i m e , ” Mi c h a e l Fox ’ 1 5 s a i d “ W i t h o u t t h e a p p, I w o u l d never have figured out how to take the bus to places off campus ”

“Without the app, I would never have figured out how to take the bus to places off campus.” M i c h a e l F o x ’ 1 5

Kornreich said initial reactions from TCAT to the app were not enthusiastic, because the company had issues regardi n g c o p y r i g h t s ov e r t h e b u s routes The app downloaded the original maps of routes and bus schedules from the TCAT website

“I’m not copying their information; I’m just relaying it,” Kornreich said “For a couple of years, they opposed it and didn’t want to make it public It took a couple of years to go from private issue to public app “

Doug Swar ts, ser vice development manager of the TCAT, e x p re s s e d i n t e re s t i n w o r k i n g with Kornreich after the current i n f o r m a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y s t u d y on the bus system is complete

“A s s o o n a s we h a ve t h a t

database, we’d be interested in working with him and other app d e v e l o p e r s We a r e n o t o n l y interested in working with app developers; we want them to take charge in the long r un, ” Swar ts said

Creating the app was a ne w experience for Kornreich who said his experience in programming astrophysical simulations

w a s u s e f u l i n p r o g r a m m i n g routes for the app

“ My j o b i s t o c r a s h galaxies together for a living I had to teach myself I s p e n t a c o u p l e o f hours ever yday for about a summer creating the app, ” he said

C r e a t e d o n a n A p p l e App template, the applicat i o n d i s p l a y s a d v e r t i s e m e n t s which Kornreich said covers the a n n u a l a p p d e v e l o p e r f e e h e must pay The app has a stand a r d l o o k , a c c o r d i n g t o Kornreich

“As I considered it, it’s just a utility I won ’ t give up fur ther time to it for aesthetics; [I will devote time] only to make it m o r e f u n c t i o n a l , ” Ko r n r e i c h said Kornreich added that he had ideas for other apps, but did not have enough time to develop them

“I had an idea for a social network, like OkCupid, where you create a profile and put what you want in a person, and if the two phones get close, they say ‘Hey, John B is in your area and he’s compatible,’” he said

Aside from teaching and creating the TCAT app, Kornreich is also a licensed pilot who flies airplanes and gliders and teaches piloting at the East Hill Flying Club

Kornreich has flown as far as Alaska, San Diego, Guadalupe i n t h e C a r i b b e a n a n d e v e r ywhere in between, he said He added that he was once interest-

ed in creating an application for airplane navigation

“I was going to write an airplane navigation app, but someone else made it, so now I don’t h a ve t o Go o g l e Ma p s w o rk s great up in the air,” Kornreich said

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com

After Cheating Scandal , Har vard Proposes Honor Code

The day before a proposed five-point honor code was expected to be unveiled at the Tuesday faculty meeting, students generally welcomed the prospect of an honor code, but cautioned that such a policy may not succeed unless there is a shift in the community’s attitude toward academic integrity

The proposed honor code, prepared by the Committee on Academic Integrity and laid out in a repor t obtained by The Crimson late Sunday night, comes in the wake of Har vard’s largest cheating scandal

in recent memor y The proposal would institute a Student/Faculty Judicial Board populated by both students and faculty to hear exclusively cases of academic dishonesty Among other points, the proposal calls for students to write a “declaration of integrity” on assignments, final exams, and projects as par t of an effor t to build a “culture of tr ust ” on campus

Sebastian M Chiu ’13, a Statistics 104 teaching fellow, said that before an honor code can succeed, “ you have to reach a point where academic integrity is valued and shared in the community ”

“I feel like in order to be really effec-

tive with an honor code, you need to have a sor t of culture shift on campus, ” Chiu said

While voicing suppor t of the proposals, other students echoed the sentiment that an honor code must be accompanied by student suppor t in order to change the climate of integrity at Har vard Tara Raghuveer ’14, president of the Undergraduate Council, said she believes the honor code is “ a good star ting point to have continued discussions about academic integrity and about what the culture looks like on campus ”

“Something like the honor code really doesn’t hold any weight without any buyin from the student body,” Raghuveer said The proposed studentpopulated board, she said, would be key to creating that buy-in among undergraduates

Another student, Mariana Gudino Castanon ’14,

e x p r e s s e d m i x e d f e e l i n g s about the five-point proposal Gudino Castanon said she thinks the introduction of an honor code might encourage students to discuss issues of academic integrity more openly than they do now She also expressed suppor t of the proposal that would give students a voice in hearing academic dishonesty cases, but said she was not sure that simply signing a statement when turning in assignments would necessarily change much

stitutes cheating Singer, drawing on her experiences as an Applied Math teaching fellow, added that it was essential that the a d m i n

ences in the ways that different depar tments str ucture assignments

“I think there ought to be a ver y clearly defined, explicitly written policy about what constitutes cheating and what academic integrity is,” Singer said T h e C

m i c Integrity first began discussing Har vard’s honesty policies in fall 2010, but its work took on new significance for many this academic year after 125 academic dishonesty cases in Government 1310 sparked a

attention G

Integrity is looking to solicit student feedback about the proposal Terah E Lyons ’14 and Samuel F Himel ’13,

have been leading the student effor t to help draft proposals for the student-populated disciplinar y board and the integrity statement, said the timeline for finalizing the honor code is not definite

Himel said the committee plans to solicit feedback through the U C , in the Houses, and among student groups “ This is the beginning of a conversation, and now we ’ re going to draw literally thousands of voices into it,” Lyons said

What would be most effective in promoting academic integrity, according to Hillar y B Singer ’14, is a clear definition from the administration about what con-

Tompkins County Legislator : ‘ Ey e s We r e O p e n e d ’ b y P u b l i c

Lane (D-14th District) who introduced a resolution asking the state legislature to gather more feedback from the public said that, after listening to people across the county, he thinks NY SAFE should be revised

“There are problems in this law, particularly in the way it was rushed through the legislature,” he said County Legislator Nate Shinagawa (D-4th District) echoed Lane’s concerns about the act Although he said he supports the act, Shinagawa said he is troubled by other parts of it: the act expands the definition of assault weapons and requires that therapists who believe a patient has threatened to use a gun illegally report the patient to a mental health director

Other representatives expressed skepticism about the ability of Tompkins County to sway state legislators to modify NY SAFE

“Anything we do tonight will not change anything that will happen in Albany,” County Legislator Will

Burbank (D-12th District) said

Regardless of their position on the issue, many of the legislators expressed their support of the public, which turned out in the dozens to express their views on the act, according to Legislator Brian Robinson (R-9th District)

Legislator Peter Stein (D-11th District) lauded the public for coming out to discuss their thoughts on the NY SAFE Act and said his “ eyes were opened ”

“I have learned so much,” he said “I’ve spent many hours thinking about what has been said ”

A total of nine proposed resolutions were made public at Tuesday’s meeting, each differing in the degree to which the Tompkins County legislature would support the NY SAFE Act Two of the resolutions pushed forward by conservatives opposed the act, saying they would urge the state to repeal NY SAFE, according to the packet of resolutions

Tex as Inmat es Escape

SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) Two inmates with long criminal histories including one awaiting trial for capital murder escaped an East Texas jail, dumped their black-and-white scrubs and were fleeing a manhunt Tuesday, authorities said Brian Allen Tucker of Sulphur Springs and John Marlin King of Cumby slipped past a fence around a recreation yard at the Hopkins County Jail around 8 a m Tuesday, officials with the Hopkins County Sheriff ’ s Office said

The two men dumped their jail uniforms on rail tracks near the jail, Deputy Alvin Jordan said They had white T-shirts and boxer shorts on underneath, and Sheriff Butch Adams said it was possible they had clothes stashed on the outside

“Certainly, we ’ re going to do our best to get them back,” Adams told reporters “We have a lot of help here from other counties and jurisdictions ”

Dispatcher Beth Renfro said a maintenance person noticed a problem with the fence around a recreation yard used by female inmates at the jail in Sulphur Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Dallas Jordan said the men either slipped through a gap in the fence or they scaled it Hours later, deputies and other law enforcement were searching the woods and area east and northeast of the jail

Tucker was being held on $1 million bond in the 2011 death of Bobby Riley of Mahoney Riley was found strangled in his home and some music instruments and firearms had been stolen Jury selection in his murder trial was set to begin June 3

New York State Democratic Lawmaker

Arrested for Allegedly Plotting Bribes

NEW YORK (AP) A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to GOP bosses to let

Republican

U S Attorney Preet Bharara called it an “ unappetizing smorgasbord of graft and greed” that reveals a Ne w York political culture defined by a single r ule: “Show me the money ” Malcolm Smith, 56, who has ser ved at times as the state Senate’s majority and minority leader since becoming a senator in March 2000, was arrested along with Republican Ne w York City Councilman Dan Halloran, 42, and four other political figures

Smith, who was removed Tuesday from his leadership post in Albany, had not yet officially launched a campaign for mayor the first Ne w York City mayoral race in twelve years without Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Smith “tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion,” Bharara said, referring to the official mayor ' s residence “Smith dre w up the game plan

backed that drive by finding par ty chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes ”

A criminal complaint said that in meetings with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer, Sm

Republican Par ty county committees in the five boroughs of Ne w York City so he could r un for mayor as a Republican, even though he was a registered Democrat

Bharara said $80,000 in cash was promised or paid to Bronx County Republican Par ty Chairman

Republican Par ty Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, 46, who were both arrested Tuesday The government said Halloran told the undercover agent that he wanted to get his “ mor tgage situation resolved” and to be named deputy police commissioner if Smith were elected mayor

Smith said in a statement that he’ll be vindicated His lawyer, Gerald L Shargel, said his client denies wrongdoing

“Malcolm Smith is a dedicated public ser vant who has ser ved both the state of Ne w York and his constituents in an exemplar y fashion,” Shargel said “He steadfastly denies the allegations that are contained in the complaint ”

Outside federal cour t in White Plains, N Y , Shargel said the allegations in the criminal complaint “do not tell the full stor y ”

Halloran's attorney, Dennis Ring, said: “ The councilman denies all allegations and looks forward to clearing his name and returning to cour t ” Representatives for Savino and Tabone did not immediately respond to requests for comment

On Tuesday evening, Halloran was stripped of

his committee assignments and money-allocating authority in the City Council Earlier in the day, Smith was removed from his committee assignments and leadership post in the breakaway group of five senators that formed a majority coalition with Senate Republicans

Running as a Republican in the Ne w York City mayoral race is an attractive path for candidates because it is easier to get on the GOP primar y ballot in a city crowded with Democratic politicians The tactic was popularized by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who switched from the Democratic to Republican par ties shor tly before his first successful r un for mayor in 2001 At least three current candidates for mayor switched their par ty affiliation to get on the GOP ballot

In Smith’s case, authorities say, he wanted to get on the Republican ballot but keep his Democratic par ty affiliation, a move that would require written consent of three of the city's five Republican Par ty county chairmen

In cour t papers, the FBI detailed numerous meetings over the last year among the defendants, the undercover FBI agent and the cooperating witness, who pleaded guilty to federal charges last month in a deal aimed at winning leniency at sentencing

In a Jan 25 meeting in Smith’s car in Rockland County, the cooperating witness told Smith that buying the help of Republican county committee leaders would cost “ a pretty penny ” and asked if it’s “ wor th any price,” the complaint said The FBI said Smith responded: “Look, talk to me before you close it But it’s wor th it Because you know how big a deal it is ”

Democratic Gov Andre w Cuomo, speaking Tuesday at an event in Buffalo, called the arrests “ ver y, ver y troubling ”

“ We have zero tolerance for any violation of the public integrity and the public tr ust, ” Cuomo said

Ne w York Republican Chairman Ed Cox said the arrests were “deeply concerning ”

“ The integrity of the electoral process for the voters of Ne w York City must be preser ved,” Cox said in a statement

One candidate for mayor, billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis, said the arrests “point to a culture of corr uption that permeates our city and state, corr uption fueled by career politicians who put personal advancement before public ser vice ” Tabone is a lawyer for Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Group, which owns the Gristedes supermarket chain and other businesses, and Tabone also is a c

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i g n Campaign finance records show Tabone has been paid $3,000 so far

Catsimatidis’ campaign said on Tuesday that Tabone has been suspended from the business and his association with the campaign has been terminated

Eells: ‘Confessions’ Meet ‘ Emotional Need ’

CONFESSIONS Continued from page 1

and emotional pain,” Eells said “I think there’s a certain sense of universality people feel, which can be really powerful If I’m suffering and think I’m the only person feeling this way, and I put something out there and now I know that you ’ re feeling in a very similar way, that has a lot of power for both of us ”

Janet Shortall, assistant dean of students and advisor to Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service a student-run organization offering counseling, training and outreach programs said anonymity can often be reassuring for students She said EARS training includes a game that groups play where, much like Cornell Confessions, students anonymously write down a secret and trainers read the comments aloud

“We recognize that it can be quite cathartic to reveal parts of ourselves anonymously,” Shortall said in an email “Occasionally, however, someone will reveal something that is distressing and saying it out loud has begun a conversation of a sort ”

The “confessions” posted on the page range from the lighthearted including professions of admiration for other students and complaints about a lack of toiletries at locations on campus to serious issues such as stress, depression and loneliness

Zach said he sees Cornell Confessions as a resource for students who are struggling

“The pretty alarming ones [I’ll submit] just so people can get advice [Cornell University Confessions is] kind of an outlet for people to tell people their troubles anonymously and for people to get advice a sort of social care network,” Zach said Eells said that despite the sense of community Cornell Confessions content can help provide to students, it is important when reading posts to remember that confessions have a “filtered” nature

“Social networks serve a certain purpose, ” Eells said “I

think of my own Facebook page; [the] stuff that’s up there is what I choose to put up there Everything we do on social media is filtered, it’s created, so it’s not factual in that sense It may convey a certain truth, a certain purpose, [but I] don't want to push it to be something it’s not, [to be] some factual statement on what people are actually experiencing ”

Eells added that it is possible that some posts are not generated by students

“The reality is that some of those posts could be [from] a 50year-old in his boxers in South Carolina putting things on there because it’s entertaining to do that,” Eells said “There’s no way to know one way or another It is something that is a combination of real experiences with artistic expressions People are confessing what they want to confess and responding to what they want to respond to in ways that are selective ”

Both Eells and Shortall expressed hope that students in need will continue to take advantage of on-campus mental health resources like CAPS and EARS

Eells noted that some posts on Cornell Confessions that appeared troubling elicited comments from students recommending Gannett services, which he said he thinks “is great and speaks to some of the [mental health services] information that’s out there ”

Still, Zach said he was inspired to create confessions pages because he thought they would prompt people to reveal their innermost feelings He referenced an Oscar Wilde quotation, which reads, “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth ”

“With anonymity, you get the real person, ” Zach said “Now, I moderate that and edit it to make it not so explicit, but for the most part, you get more to the core of the person under the cloak of anonymity ”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun com

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REBECCA HARRIS 14 Editor

EBreathing Room

For C-Town Lea ses

xactly six months ago, a headline in the Daily Sun read, as “Collegetown Housing Rush Intensifies, Students Sleep Outside Rental Agency ” The cause, of course, was not trying to relive the glory days of camping for hockey tickets, a practice that the administration ended because of student health concerns Perhaps ironically, students feared that if they slept in their own beds, ever y desirable bedroom in Collegetown would be leased to someone else by the time they woke up

Over the past few years, it seems that Cornellians have felt pressured to sign leases earlier and earlier This past fall, some students ended up signing leases nearly 12 months before the leases would start This process excludes younger Cornellians from living in Collegetown and leads to lessinformed housing choices Even some landlords are beginning to complain arguing that rushed, ill-formed decisions lead to more students trying to get out of leases early

notice would not be allowed until the lease starts, guaranteeing tenants time to evaluate the quality of their residence and their landlord before deciding to renew If adopted, this policy will slow the rush to snatch up all of the units in Collegetown before students are ready to commit However, it will do so in a way that is very fair to property owners The requirement for 60 days written notice will be waived for leases that are less than nine months long In addition, the landlord and tenant can mutually agree to waive that period, as long as that agreement is in writing

While some owners see the benefit in giving everyone time to make an informed decision, others are sure to fight what they see as increased government regulation of their affairs As I have previously detailed, Being an Ithaca landlord is not as cushy of a job as it may appear Landlords often deal with unruly tenants, property damage and legal liability They have property taxes that eat away at their profits and their ability to

The rental market in Ithaca affects every resident, as 74 percent of Ithaca’s housing units are renter-occupied It is also an incredibly tight market The vacancy rate is only 2 4 percent, nearly a third of the average New York state rate This can leave renters with little bargaining power Unfortunately, the Cornell administration does not have the power to ban landlords from leasing properties early But the Common Council of Ithaca does, and they may soon be debating doing just that Last week, thanks to fantastic work by Collegetown Student Council President Eric Silverberg ’14 and GPSA President (and Rental Housing Advisory Commission co-chair) Mitch Paine grad, the RHAC passed a proposed motion on to the Planning and Economic Development Committee of the Common Council The resolution calls for an amendment to the Ithaca City Code which would require 60 days written notice before “(i) renewing current lease, (ii) showing property to prospective new tenants or (iii) signing a lease with new tenants ” Additionally, that written

invest in capital improvements Yet this amendment should be mutually beneficial If landlords know that their competitors are not showing their properties in the early fall, then they can take time to ensure that the students they are leasing to are responsible parties

This is an issue that will have strong opinions on either side Yet I see it as a modest change that will improve Collegetown for both landlords and renters If you agree, the PEDC will be allowing public comments at its next meeting on at 6 p m on April 10, in City Hall Decisions are made by those that show up, and hearing from passionate students is sure to help give Common Council members context for understanding the student experience Luckily, unlike the current process for securing a lease, you will not need to camp out on the street to have your voice heard

Self-Control

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Recently, on a grey, wintery day sequestered in Mann librar y, I was browsing through Facebook, Twitter and even The Sun’s website in an attempt to elongate my requisite pre-work procrastination period After 20 minutes of aimless browsing through the Twitter bios of various friends, I decided that it was finally time to start studying for the prelim at hand As I scrolled through the lecture slides, my mind and mouse quickly began to wander I found myself ogling pictures of red pandas seriously recommended for a good “study break ”

Such is the modern process of productivity We seem to study in quick bursts punctuated by studying different designs for Slope Day shirts; we write by seeking “inspiration” in YouTube videos; and read websites completely unrelated to our school work, or really anything of note like this column, for example

While I was contemplating this universal tactic of academic deferment, I saw that one of my friends was using an application called “Self Control ” An application for Mac OS X sorry Windows users Self Control forces an ironclad sense of self-control on its user This control stems from that fact that the user cannot go on any website that he or she blacklists before activating the external control Even if you type www facebook com, it will simply not load Then (and this is the best part), Self Control stays active for a preset amount of time (anywhere from 15 minutes to 24

I believe in th importance of reevaluating o of social med and cellular technology.

hours) so when your own self-control wavers, Self Control steps in

Now I wish that I could say the fact that I need a computer application to impose a strong work ethic on myself from time to time is a sick joke, planned a few days too late for the first of April (April Fool’s day, for those who still have not figured out why the number of pranks went up drastically two days ago) Unfortunately, I am being serious; technology’s alluring potential for procrastination ensnares me from time to time

Occasionally I am disappointed with my reliance on technology, both because of my propensity for postponement of assignments and for my reliance on texting and other means of digital communication In fact, when one of my good friends and a fellow Sun columnist, Rudy Gerson, recently told me about an initiative that he is involved with called CU [dis]connect, I started to think about my involvement with digital communication and social media

I do not plan on participating in the initiative, mainly because I would feel uncomfortable being disconnected from my cell phone and from social media for so long However, the existence of such an initiative has caused me to question my reliance on social media and cellular technology Although I do not need the irony of this fact pointed out to me, I believe in the importance of reevaluating our use of social media and our connectedness in the digital age The ever-increasing proliferation of social network use has inexorably changed the way we interact with each other

Sometimes when I go out to dinner with friends, we will play a game that forces us to interact with each other We stack our cellphones facedown on top of each other in the center of the table and each pledge to not check them for the meal The penalty for just so much as looking at the screen? Any perpetrator must pay for the entire cost of the meal We impose selfcontrol upon ourselves and each other and reap the rewards of an enjoyable dinner time conversation Perhaps, in this same vein, I will start periodically using Self Control even when not preventing procrastination Then, who knows? Maybe I will even regain some semblance of self-control

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Quantifying a Cornell Education

Last week, the University completed revie wing applications for the Class of 2017 A record-low 15 2 percent of students were accepted, and ne ws of Cornell’s increased selectivity inspired much joy, pride and validation across campus Such sentiments are derived from a seemingly national consensus that the selectivity of an institution of higher education directly reflects its prestige, quality and character

However, instead of overvaluing selectivity and lay prestige, Cornellians should take pride in the historic accessibility of a Cornell education to “ any person ” to pursue “ any study ” In light of both empirical and anecdotal evidence that elite universities are still inaccessible to many poor and minority students, Cornell must act proactively to ensure that increased selectivity does not come at the expense of reduced accessibility

The Sun’s coverage of last week’s regular decision admission results noted the increased competitiveness for admission into Cornell A record high 40,006 people applied this year, a 9 9 percent increase since 2011 The median SAT scores of accepted students increased, as did the representation of international students The Class of 2017 was said to be our brightest, one that would improve our reputation and improve our US News rank

Yet the comments on The Sun article also expose a campus inferiority complex inherent in Cornell’s higher acceptance rate relative to our Ivy peers Our reputation as “the easiest Ivy to get in and the hardest to stay in” predicates the validity of our Ivy

status on the rigor of our academics compared to our entrance standards The other Ivy League schools also repor ted lower acceptance rates this year, and Cornell still emerged as the least selective – only Penn and Dartmouth reported acceptance rates over 10 percent Commenters lamented that Cornell is less prestigious than our peers and that a Cornell education is thus less desirable In particular, commenters targeted the ILR School and Hotel School for having what they see as laxer admissions standards

Cornell has a distincy purpose that necessitates larger undergraduate population.

Both those celebrating the difficulty of gaining admission to Cornell and those dissatisfied with our admissions standards must remind themselves of Cornell’s unique mission and founding principles The Ivy League is an athletics conference first and foremost, like the Big Ten or Big East The other seven members of the “ancient eight” were Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution to train ministers and other elite leaders Many of these universities were bound by traditional curriculums designed to train wealthy white men for traditionally elite careers Cornell, on the other hand, was founded as an “institution where any person [could] find instruction in any study ” From its earliest days, the University admitted students of different genders, races, locations, classes and

religions to pursue various courses of study ranging from classical to technical Our unique relationship with New York State was born out of both our land grant status and our commitment to meet cer tain needs of the state through contract colleges Our mission is different from the other Ivy schools, and should be celebrated Cornell has historically committed itself to educating more students in unique disciplines Cornell has a distinct purpose that necessitates a larger undergraduate population, and thus

has a higher acceptance rate than its peers The colleges aforementioned by commenters aren ’ t laxer; their uniqueness leads to fe wer applicants who are qualified and identify with their purposes Of course, I will be the first to rejoice if Cornell is finding more applicants that represent “ any person ” and who want to pursue “ any study ” Recent evidence, however, suggests that accessibility to a Cornell education could be called into question In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Bucknell professor Claire Vaye Watkins shared her powerful story in describing the profound difficulties rural and poor students face applying to top colleges Professor Watkins cited a study released last week by professors at Har vard and Stanford, which found “only 34 percent of high-achieving

high school seniors in the bottom fourth of income distribution attended any one of the country ’ s 238 most selective colleges Among top students in the highest income quartile, that figure was 78 percent ” With Cornell’s tuition increasing $1,945 next year and the University eliminating loanfree financial aid for students whose families make under $75,000 a year, it remains to be seen how this clear gap can be overcome Cornell would be best heeded by following an approach suggested by David Leonhardt in this past Sunday’s New York Times and directly providing lowincome and minority students with information about standards and financial aid policies The University must make it abundantly clear that financial aid policies exist to substantially lower cost of attendance, and that Cornell offers unique academic programs Cornell students, for our part, should recognize that our acceptance rate will never rival those of the other Ivy League peers nor should it We shouldn’t define ourselves by a metric that fails to account for what makes Cornell special Members of the Class of 2017 should absolutely be congratulated, but not merely for being the most selective class of applicants Instead, they should be congratulated on having the unique opportunity to study at the best Ivy League school, for reasons not revealed by numbers alone

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SCIENCE

3-D printing technology is evolving and expanding each day, and its uses are becoming more revolutionary with each new discovery in processing plastics, metals, food and body parts.

The origin of 3-D printing can be traced back to 1984, when Charles Hull, co-founder of 3-D Systems, invented stereolithography, an additive manufacturing process by which digital data can be used to form three-dimensional objects.

This process, colloquially known as 3-D printing, works by laying down successive layers of material in different configurations. 3-D printers read digital blueprints from animation modeling software and print the model as a series of cross sections. The layers are then fused together to create the final object.

3-D printing has a great deal of flexibility, allowing the user to print almost any shape or geometric feature. Advanced 3-D printers can even use a wide variety of materials in a single print, giving users more complex possibilities for production.

Pl as t i cs a nd M e ta l s

3-D printing technology is often used for the printing of models, tools, and machine parts. However, the printing of plastics and metals is not limited to the fabrication of production parts. Prof. Jeff Clune, computer science, University of Wyoming, worked as a postdoctorate researcher in Cornell’s Creative Machines Laboratory with others to create Endlessforms.com, a website where the principles of 3-D printing are used to investigate the mechanisms of evolutionary biology. Endlessforms.com is a website that allows anyone in the world to design their own shapes that they can then 3-D print.

“We’ve had many different kinds of users, from college professors using it to teach evolution to 10-year-olds designing toys,” Clune said. “Just like you might breed dogs, you can breed shapes.”

At the core of the website is an evolutionary process that produces similar shapes to the ones selected. The “offspring” shapes resemble the “parent” shapes, but are not the same.

“You can guide evolution in a matter of minutes,” Clune said. “Evolution is the best engineer we know.”

Objects can also be 3-D printed in bronze, silver, or sandstone. When a user has finished designing a shape, the design is sent to Shapeways, a company specializing in 3-D printing, to be produced. Metal objects are constructed layer-by-layer with metallic dust, then hit with a laser to melt the object together in the desired places. Plastic objects are also printed in layers with droplets of liquid plastic, then hit with ultraviolet light to harden the object.

Since the website’s founding, over four million objects have been evaluated by users around the world. The website has been used by 50 to 60 thousand users from over 150 countries.

“It has been an international exploration,” Clune said. “Everything on the site was created by people from many different cultures.”.

F o o d

“One of the first uses of the open-source 3-D printer was printing chocolate,” said Prof. Hod Lipson, mechanical and aerospace engineering, co-founder of the Fab@Home proj-

ect.

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Fab@Home is an open-source 3-D printing project with the aim to produce a 3-D printer that anyone could build, experiment with and improve. Prior to this project, 3-D printers were used primarily in industrial settings and did not allow users to experiment with new materials or processes. Believing that this held back the potential of the industry, the Fab@Home project was started to make 3-D printing technology accessible to the public.

The 3-D printing of food was an outcome of opensourcing the project. Instead of printing with plastics or metals, users could print with food materials such as chocolate, peanut butter, cheese, cookie dough, or any other substance that could fit through the print nozzle. The idea was to form these food materials into new, complex shapes and combinations that are difficult to achieve using conventional cooking methods.

For example, researchers were able to print a cake with a letter C baked inside of it, a challenging task for even experienced pastry chefs. 3-D printing also allows for the control of nutrition, such as easier control of sugar levels for diabetic users.

“3-D printed foods taste just like the real thing,” said Lipson. “Familiarity is very important with food. Using conventional food materials allows us to focus on new shapes and combinations of traditional recipes.”

According to Lipson, most processed foods can be 3-D printed. Foods that are unlikely to be successful in 3-D printing are unprocessed foods in their raw state, such as meat, fruits and vegetables.

Engineers in the Cornell Creative Machines Lab have nonetheless been able to use 3-D printing to print a variety of “lab meats,” such as scallop nuggets shaped like miniature buildings and space shuttles. These synthetic meats have the same texture as conventional meat, but do not come from living animals.

The 3-D printing of foods has a wide variety of practical applications. It is considered a possible remedy for menu fatigue, the loss of interest in eating that occurs when people are on a restricted diet. 3-D printing could also allow astronauts to take fairly small amounts of basic ingredients with them to outer space and combine them in many different ways.

“Having a large digital pantry can alleviate some of these challenges of food variety,” Lipson said.

3-D printing of food can also potentially be used in economically deprived areas where people may have access to only a few basic food materials. Using a 3-D printer would allow them to make the food more interesting and appetizing.

“A 3-D printer could turn a few alternative protein sources into a large variety of other foods,” Lipson said.

3-D printers in the home would be used for printing toys and printing food.

“3-D printing is slow, but compared to ordering something online, it’s very fast,” Lipson said. The use of 3-D printing technology would allow users to prepare complex foods without the expertise needed to prepare them through conventional cooking methods.

“It’s not just about cookies,” Lipson said. “The opportunities are endless.”

E ar s

Deformation of the ear is not an uncommon injury or birth defect, but the current standard of surgical reconstruction often leaves patients dissatisfied with the finished

product. Replacement ears are made from cartilage taken from the rib cage and shaped into an ear. This is then implanted on the side of the head, which just isn’t the same as a bona fide human ear.

“It’s a classic challenge in the tissue engineering field,” said Prof. Lawrence Bonassar, biomedical engineering.

Bonassar, along with a team of scientists and doctors from both Weill Medical School and the Department of Biomedical Engineering recently published a paper in PLOS ONE detailing their creation of a replica human ear using a 3-D printer and live cartilage and collagen cells.

It starts with a high-resolution image of an existing human ear, accurate to within 15 microns. From there, 3-D imaging software is used to design a seven- or eight-piece mold. The printing material used to make the mold in this case is collagen, the main structural protein in the body. The mold is then injected with cartilage cells and allowed to develop into a solid, substantial ear.

While the project used cartilage from cow ears, future applications of the technique would ideally use the patient’s own cells to grow a new organ.

“Cartilage cells tend to be easier to grow outside the body,” said Bonassar. This fact makes ears a good starting point for engineering replacement organs.

According to Bonassar, cartilage cells can survive for a longer period of time without a blood supply than many other cell types, and cartilaginous structures tend to be simple, biologically speaking. The same technique used to create an ear could easily be applied to any number of other cartilage-based structures within the body, including joints and spinal cartilage. Bones would also be a fairly straightforward creation.

Internal organs such as livers and kidneys present a “different class of problems,” said Bonassar. These organs tend to have many different types of cells working together and would be more difficult to create artificially. But when it comes down to it “the printer works the same, the process works the same,” he said.

The potential benefits of an implant manufactured to a precise anatomic correctness using a patient’s own cells are immense. A 3-D printed ear would look completely natural and be accepted by the patient’s body and immune system.

The technique has yet to be perfected, however, and it could be several years before these ears are on the market.

“There are lots of very discreet hurdles that one has to overcome [before the treatment can get FDA approval],” Bonassar said. Once that happens, however, it could easily take off.

A 3-D printer is the ideal tool for tissue engineering thanks to its ability to “rapidly create complicated geometries” and easy customizability, Bonassar said.

A three dimensional, high resolution image of any human ear can be taken, modified and edited in image software, and given to the 3-D printer to create. The printer can take the complex shapes that are present in a human ear and use whatever material it is given to turn an image into a tangible object. According to Bonassar, what began as a living human ear could eventually develop into hearts, livers, kidneys, and many other organs in the future, making organ transplants more effective for generations to come.

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Two Cents

How is 3-D printing different from traditional manufacturing?

“Additive manufacturing techniques allow manufacturers to produce parts without the capital investment of tooling/mold design; however, each part takes more time to produce (it is a low volume technique). Additionally, the available materials are limited (though metals, plastics, and ceramics are available – there are few examples from each class), and the print resolution of the parts in commercially available 3-D printers is less than the finish from most mass manufacturing techniques (e.g., injection molding).

For high volume production, 3-D printing is not cost effective; but, for the design process, it makes a lot of sense.

For low volume production of high-value-added items like prosthetic limbs and medical implants, or custom disposables like toothbrushes, or cell phone cases, it may also make sense.”

Prof. Robert Shepherd, mechanical and aerospace engineering

What are the limits?

“The material formulations are the first limitation as they are required to be a liquid during extrusion but a solid soon after. Second, the width of the print path is limited to the available diameters of the extrusion nozzle. Third, non-self supporting structures require co-printing a sacrificial mold structure.”

–– Prof. Jonathon Butcher, biomedical engineering

“Bioprinting can currently only create ‘tissue’ that does not have an inherent vascularity or blood supply. Thus the reason we can use it for cartilage tissue engineering (cartilage does not have an intrinsic blood supply) and currently no other tissue types. Once this major obstacle is overcome, then we could theoretically be able to print any tissue type, although that step is certainly far off.”

––Prof. Jason Spector, biomedical engineering

What ethical questions do biomedical advances in 3-D printing pose?

“Since it is really just a better controlled means for depositing material, it is not clear to me that there are any additional ethical questions over those normally posed by tissue engineering because 3-D printing has the potential to dramatically improve anatomical, biomechanical, and biological accuracy over current standard techniques. While it might be possible to create ‘designer/enhanced’ tissues and organs, the biology still lags far behind to make this a reality in the near/intermediate term. Just restoring lost function is likely to be the major effort. Issues to watch will be the regulatory landscape (is it a drug, device, or both) and economic model for such a technology (e.g. do you sell the device or the tissues that are printed from it? Who is the buyer?)

I think it will be up to the entrepreneurs to develop the best business model to work within the regulatory landscape. In that regard, developing an acellular tissue to implant is the easiest route and would maintain control of production and quality assurance within a company, but may not work well for some tissues. Selling a product requiring cells is most difficult, but could be done if the actual material the cells would be extruded within were the technology to be sold. Then surgeons would just acquire the cells at some point prior to surgery. Providing the printer for others to use is also very safe, but lower overall revenue since you are selling fishing rods instead of fish.

––Prof. Jonathon Butcher, biomedical engineering

As 3-D printing becomes easier and cheaper, what fields or areas could it affect?

“It can impact any field for which fabrication with a scarce material is required. Instead of machining away material and creating scrap, this technique ‘adds’ material in a controlled manner to produce the 3-D object without waste. Both hard and soft materials can be fabricated by 3-D printing, including metals, plastics, even biological derivatives and food components. This technology already is impacting manufacturing as a rapid-prototyping system, but will likely impact biomedical engineering. Its unclear where the impact will be biggest, because so many things can be 3-D printed at so many different scales.”

––Prof. Jonathon Butcher, biomedical engineering

“3-D printing will certainly affect many more areas than I can predict; however, I see it having the biggest impact for product designers. The ability to make and test prototypes fast and establish a brand before a competitor is a huge advantage. For this reason, I believe 3-D printing will become industry standard where mechanical design is involved. It should be a key component in ‘mass customization’ a new trend in manufacturing – where personal touches are added to mass consumables at the end stages of production.”

––Prof. Robert Shepherd, mechanical and aerospace engineering

“3-D printing is a universal technology that will have an effect on every field and every discipline – just like computers. It is already affecting traditional manufacturing, but it will also create entirely new business models, new design possibilities, and new designers.”

––Prof. Hod Lipson, mechanical and aerospace engineering

What is open-source 3-D printing?

“A simple explanation is making instructions for building 3-D printers open to the public.”

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Prof. Robert Shepherd, mechanical and aerospace engineering

“3-D printers that can be built and modified from freelyaccessible blueprints and open software.”

––Prof. Hod Lipson, mechanical and aerospace engineering

What issues are associated with current intellectual property law and open source

printing?

“As people can rip, mix and burn physical objects, there will be similar issues as were with the music industry, but on a larger scale.”

Prof. Hod Lipson, mechanical and aerospace engineering

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Memories of childhood bring us back to a realm of innocence: We acted on instinct, allowing creativity to steer our still-developing minds Artist Andy Goldsworthy embodies the essence of this notion by using nature to intuitively construct art

The film,“Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time, ” directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, opened in San Francisco in mid-2002, eventually making its way around the film-festival circuit The movie guides its audience through Goldsworthy’s art-making process, revealing how personal connections to nature, family and life are interwoven in his creations

Although the focus is on art, this film is really about living in the moment a concept that Andy gracefully embraces through his acceptance of failure: “Ideas must be put to the test, ” he says “That’s why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas ” His concept of art is rooted in a deep connection to nature, one that can only be made through patience and time spent acquainting oneself to its beauties

There cannot exist a word, style, or phrase that describes his art Instead, one can peer into the past in order to understand the feelings that go into his work At some point in our lives, we have made art as Andy does, whether it be shaping sticks and stones to create an architectural object, or sculpting a sandcastle on the beach

His creations come straight from the heart; it is magnificent to watch as a man of his age takes absolute joy in the simplest aspects of life, as only a child would He offers an alternative way of life through his work one in which our connection to nature takes precedence over anything else

Andy relishes solitude, for it provides him the opportuni-

ty to truly focus in on the landscape that will ultimately behold his impending creations “For me, looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work It is difficult to say where one stops and one begins ” Though an artist in every sense, Goldsworthy recognizes the exploration of his surroundings as a crucial part of the artistic process, thus producing a world in which reality and art are one in the same

This reality is deeply rooted in the cycle of life Andy fabricates his creations as a gift to the Earth, acknowledging that “the very thing that brought the thing to be is the thing that will cause its death ” He appreciates the flow of life and death, respecting the destruction of his art as a natural, and nonetheless beautiful, inevitability

Thus, it is not necessary to separate art and life, for Andy’s imagination propels his yearning to re-define our planet as a realm for creation His work serves as an inspiration, not only to create, but also to keep a sense of awareness of how fortunate we are to live on a planet so beautiful and majestic: “I know that the world does not need me, but I certainly need it ” For Andy, art and earth are intertwined

In perusing art galleries, it is difficult to make interpretations of art without having a solid idea of its context Yet Andy embraces the challenge of make something out of seemingly nothing that is all that we need to know in order to relate to him The film documents his experimentations, following his implementation of colors, shapes and the textures of natural objects like sticks, leaves and stones in order to see what works and what doesn’t On numerous occasions, Andy fails, yielding a visible sense of frustration Yet, he demonstrates resilience upon failure, recognizing that success comes as a result of an eagerness to push the limits of what seems improbable

It would be a disservice to attempt to explain the marvel of his creations, so I will instead suggest checking out this film In the film, director, photographer and editor of Rivers and Tides, German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer, accompanies Goldsworthy to his home in Penpont, Scotland, where he provides a glimpse into quality time Goldsworthy spends with his family The two, Riedelsheimer and Goldsworthy, also venture to a museum in the south of France and to an old stonewall in Canada, which Goldsworthy wants to recreate in his own fashion Though a traveler, Andy recognizes Penpont as his favorite place to work, stating: “It is impossible to truly understand a place without having spent years there ”

The result is beautiful Through shots of rolling hills and gorgeous forestry, Riedelsheimer does a magnificent job of bringing the landscapes to life and presenting a vision of the breathtaking platform for Andy’s art Goldsworthy is a truly happy man; someone who is at peace with himself, and with nature We could all learn a little something from Andy Goldsworthy

Scott Goldberg is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at smg292@cornell edu

Squandered Potential: Ginger & Rosa at Cinemapolis

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Contributor

Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa is, at its core, an exploration of the doldrums which pervaded pre-Beatlemania England at the height of the nuclear scare It is a film steeped in melancholia and muted gray tones This is not the optimal fare for those seeking an uplift at the movies

The year is 1962, the Soviets are threatening to launch nuclear missiles at the US from Cuba and, in Britain, many citizens are angered at the government ’ s unresponsive behavior Ginger (Elle Fanning) is a girl born to a pair of teenagers totally unfit for parenting Her mother is Natalie (Christina Hendricks), her father is Roland (Alessandro Nivola) and her best friend is Rosa (Alice Englert) The icy distance between Ginger and her parents, particularly her father, is exacerbated by the threat of nuclear annihilation Since the world could end at any given moment, more or less every character in the

film has decided to hang up their boots and allow themselves to do very regrettable things It’s hard for them to care about the finer details of right and wrong when the imminent threat of a worldwide holocaust looms

Ginger and Rosa attend peace rallies, get into fights with their parents teenage angst is established and play hooky from school Ginger is a bookish, spirited girl who is misunderstood by her mother, and somehow feels the burden of the world’s end resting on her shoulders Rosa, also born to irresponsible teenage parents, feels no such encumbrance in her life, and is attracted to makeup, music, boys and beatnik culture Rosa hooks up with blokes from the pub, while Ginger stays buried in her T S Eliot book and her growing fear about the end of the world worsens Ginger’s father is a pacifist who was jailed for his unwillingness to fight during World War II It is revealed that he is a derelict whose disillusionment with humanity has morphed into a nihilistic outlook on everything, including his daughter For reasons the film doesn’t explain thoroughly, Rosa recognizes a kindred spirit in Roland, and Ginger’s world begins to shatter

The film’s first half remains stubbornly in limbo, refusing to take flight Potter’s camera finds nothing of any particular profundity to focus on, and is obsessed with closeups of Fanning’s face and the cold, dreary light that permeates most of the film’s scenes For its first half, the film’s muddled

focus is jarringly noticeable It’s also a shame that Potter wastes actors as good as Annette Benning and Oliver Platt by giving them far too little screen time The movie ensnares itself in a waxwork structure, and though its characters are fully embodied, they are given far too little to do Fanning dons a flawless British accent, but we don’t get to see any of her acting chops I prayed for the film to achieve lift off into some state of profundity, which it finally did when Rosa began sleeping with Ginger’s father

The stakes are raised at last, the movie finds its focus and the characters come alive The strength of Fanning’s performance is hauntingly palpable as she tries to muffle the inexorable end of the world while her father beds her best friend in the room next door The film hits its strongest point here, using the destruction of Ginger’s relationships with her father and beloved best friend as a microcosm for the possibility of the world annihilated by nuclear missiles

in her first leading film role Englert’s subtle transformation from rebellious teenager into a woman mature enough to play wife to Ginger’s father, delivers a much-needed sucker punch Rosa can grow up, but Ginger is trapped, and that’s a theme that hits where it hurts

Elle Fanning is a marvel as Ginger graceful, nuanced and, in the film’s best scenes, she’s harrowingly powerful Equally good is Timothy Spall as her godfather, the film’s lone cast member who has refused to let the overhanging nuclear threat send him tumbling into promiscuity Alessandro Nivola is bleakly unsympathetic as Ginger’s jaded father, crying to Schubert on his record player as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and living the unaffected life of a bohemian As Rosa, Alice Englert is a major find

The movie itself longs to be a brilliant, bleak tragedy At times it evokes Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road, set during the same period, on the opposite side of the Atlantic It longs to hone in on the way two young girls fall desperately in love when they are misunderstood by the end the world around them In this regard, it evokes Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, a film that is dedicated to the bond between murderous teenage girls Sadly, this film is not dedicated to that bond its main loyalty lies with the overwhelming sadness and fear shrouding Great Britain and Ginger’s private world Fanning and and Englert are excellent in their own right, but the movie doesn’t properly emphasize the vital lifeline it asks us to believe Ginger has with Rosa; it is presented as a constant We are never allowed to see how the friendship was formed, how much Rosa means to Ginger or just how devastating Rosa’s betrayal could have been Although the movie deftly evokes an atmosphere of depression and anxiety, its most pronounced feature is its wasted potential and the disappointment at what it could have been

Mark DiStefano is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msd97@cornell edu

STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT : Lulu Mu-Park ’13

DANYOUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

This week, The Sun examines the work of Lulu Mu-Park ’13, a fiber science & apparel design student During her senior year she has been concentrating on menswear, which will be the focus of her show She has hopes to get an MBA and follow the route of an entrepreneur in the future, but for now, she is focused on the upcoming Fashion Show on April 27 Park’s line will feature sneakers from Dekline, a skate shoe company that sponsors her Park’s excitement for the show is clear; she promises “the most amazing talent that Cornell has to offer, and the next generation of superstars

The Sun: Can you tell me about your senior collection?

Lulu Mu-Park: The name of my collection is COINTELPRO, which is an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program It was a covert operation by the U S government to kill people they thought were rabble-rousing or causing trouble politically and socially around the 1960s The influences [of my collection] are a lot of ideas about conspiracy, criminality and

Wthe line between outright criminality and misbehavior Fashion itself is always subversive I’m a very commercial designer, so part of that is being interesting or subversive in ways that are almost undetectable, like freemasonry, secret societies, cults, conspiracies all those things, but in a mischievous way, not in like a paranoid way It’s in kind of like a joke way, because you always think people who believe in conspiracy theories or who are a part of these things are kind of a joke

Sun: How did you start to get interested in fashion?

L M P: Well, actually, when I was like 13, I hung out with a bunch of really dirty skater kids and kind of dressed like them My dad thought I dressed really badly, so he got me subscriptions to a ton of different fashion magazines like Vogue, Elle, all the big ones Initially, I was [insulted] I was like, “No, that’s so mean!” But I got really into it; I totally loved it

Sun: So you were a tomboy?

L.M.P.: Oh definitely; I still am Maybe that’s why I love boys’ clothes so much [They’re] very understated

Sun: I was a tomboy too when I was younger, and people would always ask me if I was a boy or girl Did you ever have that problem?

L M P : No, I think I was a very lady-like tomboy My aesthetic and the way I like to approach fashion is it’s a little bit uptight It’s very fresh, it’s very clean a lot of sets; I’m really big into matching things

Sun: Who are your most prominent influences?

L M P : Bebe was, I think, the first streetwear brand that I felt really spoke to me I remember I got [this] hoodie when I was a teenager, and it was like this very mundane thing, but everything about it felt so special [In 2011,] I interned for Patrik Ervell, an amazing menswear designer That was a really formative experience That was kind of my masterclass

[Then in 2012,] I worked for Proenza Schouler and then I worked for The Row That was like ultimate luxury goods There’s no other way to experience people making luxury goods in America at that level What they showed me was how to do it right Everything was perfect and they hardly ever made any compromises I think that’s what luxury is I think as a designer, you want to put forth your vision without compromising the clarity of your vision; you always have to make compromises on material, on production, on quality, [and] on prices, but all great designers stay true to what sets them apart

Sun: There are many different schools of design throughout the world Do you identify your work with one region exclusively?

L M P : I think there’s so much diversity in the industry and those boundaries are being blurred a lot It used to be that if you ’ re from a certain country or you went to a certain school, you were expected to be a certain way The popular media I can especially point to Project Runway [has] totally opened up the industry [The industry] used to be such a mystery to people and I think, all of a sudden, especially in America, a lot of young boys and girls saw that show, saw a career for themselves, and made their way to New York In terms of information, it’s so much more accessible now The world is getting a lot more design-conscious, not just fashion But to bring it back to your question, I think I’m such an American I’m a good ol’ American Most of my inspirations come from television I think television is America’s gift and curse to the world As an overarching concept, my inspirations are from TV shows All the TV shows [that inspire me] are very very different, but what they all have in common is that they are part of this great tradition of American popular culture Definitely my number one inspiration for this collection was South Park, The X-Files and Lost

Danyoung Kim is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at dkim@cornellsun com

Four Criminally Underrated Artists

ith new and upcoming releases from big name bands like My Bloody Valentine and Daft Punk, it’s hard not to be fixated on the future But we also shouldn’t forget about those forgotten artists that nevertheless shaped what we hear today Here are four

THE SOUND

While Joy Division gets a lot of credit for shaping post-punk, Unknown Pleasures was an exception to the genre Its melancholic disquiet was a gigantic jump from the in-yourface grit of bands like The Fall, early Siouxsie and the Banshees The Sound’s music, however, is much more indicative of a slow trend from grit to texture In its debut album, Jeopardy (1980), tracks range from uptempo punk to brooding basslines of existential angst and bridge everything in between

The band’s lack of commercial success, despite rave reviews, is frustrating After a second excellent album, From the Lions Mouth (1981), failed to break into the mainstream, the band’s record label pressured the group to make pop-ish songs The band responded with the bizarre All Fall Down and soon changed labels Even with the change, The Sound still saw little success, and the group broke up in 1988 Failure, along with the depression he alluded constantly to in lyrics, pushed frontman Adrian Borland to suicide, and he jumped in front of a train in 1999

Ceremony, NBC cut out the entire dance choreographed to Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) ” While Bush is resurging in the United States with the stunning 50 Words for Snow (2011), much of her earlier work is absent from the American music conversation She was the first, and still the best, weird lady of pop, blending a quirkiness that Zooey Deschanel could only dream of with a subtle flair no one has convincingly copied

Hounds of Love (1985) is still one of the best pop albums ever made, though it really is two albums The eponymous first side of the vinyl has gems with a conventional pop structure, but the second side, “The Ninth Wave,”

contains mind-blowing experimental art pop that still sounds fresh 30 years later This album is definitely her most ambitious, but it is also a triumph of an already exceptional musical career that seamlessly blended Celtic jigs, liturgical chants, synth pop and lush ambience into beautiful digestible ballads

Notable tracks: “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” “Suspended In Gaffa,” “Jig of Life ” Delius (Song of Summer) ”

Notable tracks: “Fatal Flaw, “Night Versus Day,” “Heartland,” “New Dark Age ”

KATE BUSH

I’m cheating here, because Kate Bush is big in the UK just, not in America During the 2012 London Olympics Closing

BASIC CHANNEL

It’s easy to draw the connection between techno music and European EDM after all, Germany’s Kraftwerk pioneered electronic music But while Kraftwerk undoubtedly helped to popularize electronic music, African American musicians in Detroit are

the ones who independently created techno, melding disco synth experiments with funk, jazz and house European EDM was precise and sterile then, but Detroit Techno was a messy, futurist take on personal dreams of escapism not surprising given the Detroit’s state in the ’80s Germany’s response to techno in the ’90s was to strip away disco’s color leading to rave acts like Scooter and Dune but some went one step further, generating cold Kafkaesque dances that transcend into trances The mysterious Basic Channel is among the best, quietly releasing hypnotic 15-minute singles with stark minimalism influences far beyond the reach of techno today The band’s songs may sound better conceptually and, admittedly, it’s not for everyone But if you make it past the 3-minute mark, Basic Channel’s mesmeric rhythms will suck you in; you’ll notice every subtle evolution of texture as 80 minutes fly by Notable tracks: “Phylyps Trak II/II,” Enforcement ” Quadrant Dub I Edit ” BAUHAUS

and orange, while Bauhaus would sound bleakly gray Bauhaus is remarkably consistent every genre it touched from punk, disco and glam rock turned into gaunt industrial decay Masterpiece “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” single-handedly defined the genre, just as actor Bela Lugosi himself defined the cinematic vampire By compiling such disparate working material into one coherent aesthetic, Bauhaus made sure that all “gothic rockers” that followed decades afterward are still copying their sound

Notable tracks: “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” “Dark Entries,” “Stigmata Martyr,” “ The Passion of Lovers ”

No, “goth” is not the exclusive musical jurisdiction of The Cure As the first gothic rock band, Bauhaus developed a much more industrial (but dark) sound compared to The Cure’s lush (but dark) synths If we were synesthetic, The Cure would sound dark red

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations He can be reached at kng@cornellsun com You ve Got To Be Kitsching Me appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

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Sharp Shooting Freshman Finds His Stroke for Michigan, Carries Wolverines to Final Four

ANN ARBOR, Mich (AP) Nik Stauskas took the pass in transition only to find himself caught under the basket with a defender next to him

No problem: He dropped a nifty no-look bounce pass to a teammate for a dunk

On Michigan’s next offensive possession, the freshman from Canada made an open 3-pointer from the left wing Later, he moved to the left corner for a 3 and followed that with a driving layup Then it was back to that same corner for another 3 And another And another

The Wolverines were playing a regional final, and Stauskas was making it look like a pregame shooting drill

“My shot felt good,” Stauskas said “So I was just letting them fly " Michigan is heading to its first Final Four since 1993, and it was that 3-point barrage by Stauskas on Sunday that sealed a spot for the Wolverines Stauskas made all six of his attempts from beyond the arc, scoring 22 points in a 79-59 win over Florida The 6-foot-6 guard is shooting 45 percent from long range this season and his performance against the Gators was a reminder of how good Michigan can be when everybody is contributing

Stauskas is part of a talented class of freshmen that also includes forward Glenn Robinson III and emerging big man Mitch McGary The other two probably arrived with more fanfare, but it was Stauskas who turned heads immediately

A month into the season, Stauskas was 27 of 46 from 3-point range, fitting seamlessly into Michigan’s perimeter-oriented offense He wasn ’ t going to maintain that torrid shooting, but he needed only seven games to work his way into the starting lineup

By the time the NCAA tournament arrived, opponents were aware of Stauskas He shot a more normal-looking 36 percent from beyond the arc against Big Ten opponents and went 2 for 12 in Michigan's first three NCAA tournament games And when Stauskas isn’t contributing with his outside shooting, Michigan looks a lot more beatable

Cano Dumps Agent Boras, Joins Jay-Z’s Roc Nation CAA Sports as Client

NEW YORK(AP) Rapper and recording producer Jay-Z is expanding into sports representation and has signed New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano away from Scott Boras to be a client

Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, and his Roc Nation company have partnered with CAA Sports to form Roc Nation Sports Cano changed his listed agent with the Major League Baseball Players Association on Tuesday from Boras to CAA Sports' Brodie Van Wagenen

Cano can become a free agent at the end of the World Series Boras usually prefers that his clients become free agents to increase bidders and maximize their values, so the change could increase the chance Cano will reach a new agreement with the Yankees during the season

“CAA is built on a culture of collaboration and this relationship is no different,” Van Wagenen said “Jay and I will both be involved in all aspects of Robinson's representation on and off the field ”

Juan Perez is president of Roc Nation Sports Jay-Z, a part owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, is friendly with injured Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, a former Boras client

“Because of my love of sports, it was a natural progression to form a company where we can help top athletes in various sports the same way we have been helping artists in the music industry for years, ” Carter said in a statement

Cano was represented by Bobby Barad before switching to Boras early in 2011

“At this point in my career, I am ready to take a more active role in my endeavors both on and off the field,” Cano said in a statement

It remains to be seen whether the players' association will have an issue with Roc Nation's personnel because of Jay-Z’s role in NBA team management and his agreements to perform concerts in venues owned by major league teams and their owners

“The Roc Nation personnel who will be working in baseball must become certified as either general or limited agents, ” union special adviser Rick Shapiro said “These people have applied for, and been granted, temporary limited certification His ownership in the Nets is an issue we will look into when we receive the full application package ”

While the Yankees usually wait for contracts to expire before negotiating new agreements with players, they have said they hope to reach a deal with the 30-year-old Cano while he remains under their control

“I have yet to speak to Robinson, so I’m not going to comment until I talk with him,” said Boras, who had represented Cano since 2011

Cano is making $15 million in the final season of what became a $57 million, six-year deal and is eligible for free agency after the World Series Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Feb 28 that the team had made a significant offer to Cano for a new deal

“We’ve consistently said Robinson Cano has been a great Yankee, and we hope is a Yankee for many years to come, ” team president Randy Levine said

CAA Sports has negotiated $100 million-plus packages for San Francisco’s Matt Cain and Buster Posey, Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun and Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman The agent fees for Cano's next contract could become subject to litigation between Boras and the new company

Taylor Anxious for Team’s Response at Home

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After a trip to California, many Cornell track and field athletes had the opportunity to take the weekend off, while others who had yet to compete raced either at

Stanford or at Ithaca College this past weekend

Men’s head coach Nathan Taylor said that it was a chance for those athletes to finally compete in the outdoor scene

“The Ithaca College meet was a chance for guys who haven’t competed to get out and run, ” he said

Both the men and women posted some s trong individu al pe r formance s in the meets this weekend On the women ’ s side at Stanford, the distance runners were especially solid Junior Rachel Sorna placed second overall in the 3000 meter steeplechase with a time of 9:52 58 In the same event, senior Genna Hartung ran an 18-second seasonal best to finish in 11th place

In the men ’ s 10K, senior Brett Kelly set a 10-second personal best, finishing in 17th with a time of 29:14 85 This strong finish moves him into No 4 all-time at Cornell in the event, sliding him past Cornell Hall of Famers Grant Whitney ’86 and Pete Pfitzinger ’79

Up next for the Red on Apr 6 is a meet that is traditionally held once every four years In the spirit of international competition, the Red will combine with Penn to compete against a team made up of Oxford and Cambridge Next time, Cornell will return the favor by visiting the UK, allowing for intermingling of the various squads involved, according to women ’ s head coach Rich Bowman

“It’s only done once every four years, ” he said “We combine with [Penn] against a combined Oxford/Cambridge meet It’s a scored meet in which the only athletes who

score are the winners of the events It’s a g re a t c h a n c e t o m e e t t h e Oxford/Cambridge kids because we get to go over [to England] next year, so we can renew acquaintances ” Taylor said it is an interesting meet for his team, considering the Red is paired up with a team that is normally considered a rival

“It’s a unique meet to compete with one of the teams you usually compete against,” he said “I think Penn is the most similar Ivy League school to Cornell It’s unique to be able to go against Universities from other countries There are a lot of international athletes in track and field in the United States This is a long storied match between the four schools that dates back to the formation of the Heptagonal league ” Taylor added that one of the highlights of this exchange is the traditional sit down dinner that occurs between the teams

“We have a big sit down dinner to commemorate the exchange and the length of the exchange,” he said “We’re coming up on 80 years, and I hope to be around to see the 100th anniversary of the exchange ” With only four more weekends to compete before the outdoor Heps finals hosted

After splitting its first four games against Ivy league competition, the softball team will be facing Dartmouth and Harvard on the road this weekend The Red (12-14, 2-2 Ivy League) will first take on Dartmouth on Friday, Apr 5 in Hanover, NH and then move on to battle Harvard on Saturday in Cambridge, Mass

The upcoming games against Dartmouth and Harvard will be a challenge, but senior Erin Belles is confident that the Red will come ready

to play

“So far, we opened with two losses that were kind of disappointing in Ivy League play against Yale, but we were able to rebound and beat Brown and now we are in a little bit of a better position,” Belles said

The squad is coming off of successful back-toback wins against Brown this past Sunday and Monday The Red defeated the Bears at home 85 on Monday night when junior Jenny Edwards

went 3-for-3 with two homeruns, helping Cornell pick up its first Ivy League win of 2013 Senior Erin Belles and freshman Meg Parker also went deep Junior pitcher Alyson Onyon allowed five hits in six innings, only giving up one run

The next day, looking for a second win against Brown, the Red took an early lead off of a two run homerun by Belles Junior Christina Villalon added on to the team ’ s big first inning with a grand slam, helping the Red jump out to a 7-0 lead and an eventual 9-6 victory over the Bears

“We performed better against Brown than we did against Yale, so that will be good looking forward,” Belles said

Last season, the Red swept Dartmouth and split its series with Harvard In a 4-2 win over the Green last year, Edwards was once again the hero, smacking a three-run homerun to left field in the fifth inning, propelling her team to victory

According to Belles, it will be important for the Red to take each game on its own if it hopes to continue the success it had against Brown earlier in the week

“Every win, no matter which team it’s against, only counts for one win in the standings, so [we] need to do our best in every single situation,” she said

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