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Ithacans Open Doors to Airbnb Visitors

By ISABEL LING Sun Staff Writer

“There are lot of issues with housing in Ithaca, and this helps Ithacans stay in their homes ”

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Ithaca Police Arrest Armed Man

After W. State Street Blockade

Police have arrested Nicholas Monaco, 38, for allegedly threatening another man with a gun on the Commons Tuesday afternoon, according to an Ithaca Police Department press release

After making the threat, Monaco fled into a building with multiple apartments, the release said

Officers arrived on the scene at approximately 4:11 p m and blocked off a section of West State Street extending from North Geneva Street to North Cayuga Street with police tape as they investigated

The blockaded area included the Capital Corner restaurant, the State Theatre of Ithaca and The Cornell Daily Sun’s office At least three officers with high-powered rifles and one police dog were on the scene

Officers took Monaco into custody at the Ithaca Police lock-up, according to the release He has been charged with menacing in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree two class A misdemeanors and was arraigned at the Ithaca City Court yesterday

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Cornellians Praise Contributions of Dean Hubbell ’69 at Farewell Event

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

Over 100 Cornell alumni, administrators, faculty and stu-

Straight Hall Memorial Room Tuesday to celebrate Dean of Students Kent L Hubbell’s ’69 final semester in that role Hubbell an architecture professor who will continue to t

Architecture, Art and Planning has served as dean for 15 years In that time, Hubbell has left an indelible mark on both the University and the people w

director of residential and student life programs “

spirit and kindness is as real as any bridge or building ever constructed, and it is certainly more

enduring,” Burke said

Several speakers testified to Hubbell’s unreser ved commitment to serving students

“At the core of his work has always been the students not himself, not the staff and administrators, but rather, the students,” Burke said Vice President for Student

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International Symposium 12:15 - 3:30 p m , 441 Warren Hall

Cornell Abroad Student Photo Exhibit Reception 4 - 5:30 p m , Galler y, Willard Straight Hall

Mapping the Online World: Social Connectedness in the Digital Age 4:30 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Putting Action Into Climate Action 4:30 - 5:45 p m , G10 Biotechnology Building

Procrastinate at the Straight 8 p m , Lobby, Willard Straight Hall

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From Statecraft to Social Science in Seventeenth-Centur y English Political Economy

5:30 - 7 p m , 142 Goldwin Smith Hall

Graduate and Professional Student Elected Trustee Debate

7 - 8 p m , Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

Weird News of the Week

Man Turns Himself In on Charge Of Stealing Television in 1989

NORWALK, Conn (AP) Police say a man charged with stealing a television in Connecticut 27 years ago flew from his Florida home and voluntarily turned himself in last weekend after recently learning there was a warrant out for this arrest

Police in Nor walk, Connecticut, tell The Hour newspaper that 60-year-old Randy Iannacone, of Port St Lucie, Florida, arrived at headquarters Sunday with the letter notifying him of the warrant

Iannacone was arrested and charged with thirddegree larceny He was released with a promise to appear in court next week The charge stemmed from the 1989 theft of a television from the Nor walk Jewish Center, where Iannacone worked as a custodian

Lieutenant Paul Resnick says it was “ pretty cool” that Iannacone turned himself in

Maine Police on Lookout For Missing Porcupine Sculpture

PORTL AND, Maine (AP) Maine police are on the lookout for a prickly piece of art

Officials said Tuesday that a porcupine sculpture was

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International Jetport It’s one of 10 individual animal sculptures that are part of a work called Glimpse by artist Wendy Klemperer

Animals include a deer and wolf The porcupine that was stolen is nearly three feet long and is made from steel and repurposed nails

A police report has been filed but the sculpture has not been recovered Police are asking anyone with information about the missing sculpture to contact them

Hamburglar Breaks Into Five Guys Restaurant

WASHINGTON (AP) Authorities say a man got hungry while he was burglarizing a District of Columbia hamburger restaurant and began cooking himself some food

The Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release that security footage from March 18 shows the suspect putting food on the grill after breaking into a Five Guys restaurant

The video appears to show the man cooking two cheeseburgers while talking on a cellphone, but a police spokesman tells The Washington Post he couldn’t confirm the nature of the food

Officer Sean Hickman says the man sneaked inside the restaurant after a delivery person left, and eventually stole a bottle of water Today Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Architecture Career Forum 9 a m , Sibley Hall Demo Day 4:15 - 6:15 p m , Alice Statler Auditorium

Multidisciplinary Prof Details Pioneering Work With Biotextiles

By JONATHAN LEVENFIELD Sun Staff Writer

When Prof Chih-Chang Chu, fiber science and apparel design, arrived at Cornell in 1978, his approach to textiles was unlike anyone else’s in his department “When we think about textile fibers, we think about clothes only –– outside the human body,” Chu said “Nobody related textile fibers for human body repair and reconstruction inside the human body ” Chu combined his background knowledge in chemistr y and polymers to use synthetic fibers for human body repair and reconstruction

As a Ph D student at Florida State University, Chu said he became engrossed in the study of polymers and saw a practical use for them He first used polymers for tissue and body repair for his postdoctoral work at the University of Alabama, where he focused on maxillofacial prostheses ––reconstr ucting facial structure due to radical surgery, defects or accidents

Afterward, Chu said he secured a position in Cornell’s Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, an outcome he attributed to the department’s appreciation of his novel work

inside the human body, as I started this frontier program in 1978,” Chu said “No other university in this planet had that foresight 37 years ago We were the first Now a lot of traditional textile design-related schools are jumping onto this wagon, about 20 to 30 years later ”

“We at Cornell were the pioneers in using biotextiles

Chu is currently the only FSAD faculty member who focuses on the inside of the human body, making him the self-proclaimed “ugly duckling” of the department

While he may be alone in this field, Chu said his work has paid off

Chu has received 68 patents and earned a spot in the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, whose members comprise “the top two percent of the medical and bioengineering community,” according to the AIMBE website

His most successful invention was the development of “pseudo-proteins” that attach drugs to stent implants mesh tubes used in surgery to open blocked arteries The European Medicines Agency has approved the pseudoproteins, and Chu said he hopes the Food and Drug Administration will follow suit eventually

Chu summarized his work by discussing “the three

P’s: publications, patents and partnership ” He said publications enable him to share his work with the academic world, while patents allow for the commercial-

ization of his inventions

He added that graduate and undergraduate students in his lab have the rare opportunity of becoming copatent holders, since he “always gives students the proper credit they deserve ”

However, Chu emphasized partnership above all else

“We need partners because our field is multidisciplinary in nature, ” he said “I’m only good in material chemistry I’m not a biologist, I’m not a clinician and I’m not an immunologist We have to partner with other expertises using multidisciplinary strategies to advance this field ”

This concept also applies to the classroom Chu said he prides himself on creating courses that attract students from nearly every college on campus, and even requires students to work with peers from different academic backgrounds for some of his group projects

“[My classes] have a unique characteristic of training students to think [in a] multidisciplinary [way], to open their minds,” Chu said “If you have an open mind, you’ll have some unconventional and creative thinking ”

In addition to his teaching and research at Cornell, Chu also serves on the editorial board of four science and medical-related journals and has held visiting appointments in Taiwan, England, Philadelphia and Maryland

Chu said these experiences have given him a “global perspective,” which he called necessary for expanding the reach of his field

“My basic philosophy is that there is no border for human body repair or reconstruction –– global vision regardless of race, ethnic groups and countries,” Chu said “We want to broaden the impact of our research outcomes as much as we can for human beings and for the well-being of the whole world ”

Jonathan Levenfield can be reached at jlevenfield@cornellsun com

Speaker Seeks to Challenge Misconceptions About Rape

By JUSTIN PARK Sun Staff Writer

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Hosts Advocate for Occupancy Tax Law

AIRBNB Continued from page 1

the state to collect and remit taxes on behalf of hosts, and to create sensible laws that would allow our community to legally share their primary homes for less than 30 days,” Meltzer said

Taylor said these self-organized communities within the region are “essential to the relationship of trust built between guests, hosts and Airbnb ”

“It isn’t really one memorable moment of being a host, but rather a series of serendipitous meetings that have led us to make long-lasting friendships with visitors and people throughout Ithaca,” Taylor said Meltzer added that he hopes Ithaca residents will continue to work with Airbnb in the future

“We are thrilled that there are so many hosts in the Southern Tier, as New Yorkers in all corners of the state are discovering that hosting is a great way to help make ends meet, ” Meltzer said

Isabel Ling can be reached at iling@cornellsun com

Students, Faculty

Dean to teach architecture after vacating position

HUBBELL

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Lombardi a former dean of students at Ohio University pointed out the selflessness required to perform Hubbell’s job

“Every day, you are acting as an advocate for others, and Kent really embodied that notion of being an advocate for students,” Lombardi said “I think it’s important for us to take the time out to thank him for those 15 years of advocacy ”

Hu b b e l l s a i d h e e n j oye d h i s w o rk a s dean, joking that “it’s just wonderful to work with students when you d o n ’ t h a ve t o g i ve grades ”

his deanship ”

Lombardi confirmed that Hubbell’s focus on student health endured throughout his tenure

“Kent is a very genuine man, a very sincere man, who cares deeply about students and their wellbeing,” Lombardi said “He has always seemed very focused on that and very committed to student advocacy on that front ”

In his time as dean, Hubbell also supported the creation of Cornell’s Asian and Asian American Center and made renovations to Willard Straight Hall that include the

“Kent is a very genuine man, a very sincere man, who cares deeply about students and their well-being ” R y a n L o m

“The most wonderful thing about Cornell is its students, so it has been a great pleasure dedicating m

Hubbell said “The Cornell student experience is much more than the simple sum of courses and credit hours a student takes for a degree That’s a ver y important concept that ever ybody in the Cornell community needs to understand ”

Former Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy ’73, who hired Hubbell as dean in 2001, said Hubbell’s commitment to students was apparent from his application to the position

“He wrote about the importance of student health, especially mental health, and the work that we on a college campus had to do to learn more about mental health and especially how to identify students who may have par ticular challenges,” Murphy said “He wanted that to be a centerpiece of

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Stefanko ’16, Student Assembly Vice President of Finance

“It is a complicated building, and being able to understand it the way he did to be able to work on renovations and to be able to passionately advocate for the changes that were so badly needed is certainly a legacy,” Stefanko said “Anyone who has either used a resource in Willard Straight Hall or appreciated its aesthetic probably has Hubbell to thank ”

Hubbell said he plans to “rekindle [his] role as mild-mannered university professor of architecture” when he leaves his position as dean He plans to teach one semester per year for the next four years

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun com

Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee,

Capitol in Washington D C on Tuesday

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Obama’s Comments on Clinton Email Raise Concerns of Bias

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President Barack Obama says he believes his former secretary of state did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information

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Clinton was not an attempt to meddle in an ongoing probe and that federal investigators will not be swayed by the boss’ views

“The president is committed to ensuring that individuals who are conducting criminal prosecutions do their work without influence from politicians or anybody that’s involved in politics,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said

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n that flowed through Clinton’s email server was mishandled

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records related to Clinton's time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013

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Skiers Stuck on Alaska Glacier Rescued in Good Condition

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)

Rescuers on Tuesday picked up two skiers who were stranded on an Alaska glacier for four days

T h e e x p e r i e n c e d o u t d o o r enthusiasts were in good condition after braving fierce winds and snow by digging a snow cave for shelter

A b re a k i n t h e w e a t h e r allowed an Alaska Air National Guard helicopter to land on Bear Glacier to reach Jennifer Neyman

a n d C h r i s t o p h e r H a n n a

Rescuers assessed the health of Neyman and Hanna before they were flown to Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna

Ho s p i t a l s p o k e s w o m a n Camile Sorenson said Hanna felt

s o g o o d , h e d i d n ’ t c h e c k i n Neyman was being evaluated, she said

“ They had to dig out four feet of snow around the sur vivors to get to them,” said Guard Lt Col Matt Calabro, 38, the director of operations for the 210th Rescue Squadron, which flies the helicopters

He said they were in good spirits and uninjured

“Being on the mountain that long, in the cold, in the snow, isolated, we are going to take them to the hospital,” Calabro said “ We just want to make sure they are safe ”

An airplane had dropped off Neyman, 36, and Hanna, 45, on Friday but could not return that night because of bad weather

Though planning to spend just one day on the glacier, they carried a light tent and two days of provisions, plus communication devices important to their rescue

Strong wind and snow shredded their tent Saturday They dug snow shelters but were run-

ning out of fuel for their cook stove

Ne y m a n a n d H a n n a u s e d cellphone calls and satellite text messages to communicate with

coordinates indicated the duo were at the 4,300-foot level of the 13-mile-long glacier, one of more than 30 in the Harding Ice Field, the largest ice field entirely within U S boundaries

Strong winds and low clouds hampered rescue efforts

“ The terrain there is pretty gnarly,” said Calabro, 38, who also was the helicopter pilot on Monday’s attempt to rescue the two skiers

“ Hi g h m o u n t

clouds, snow, icing and the glaciers, so ever ything is white-onwhite,” he said “It's like what we call flying in a pingpong ball ” Besides the white-out conditions, there were 30 mph winds

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only go as far as you can see, so it’s a really dangerous environment to fly in,” he said

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h e skiers, was aborted because of huge crevasses on the glacier, which would have made for dangerous overland conditions

The rescue team was eventually lowered to a nearby glacier that doesn’t have many crevasses

T h e t e a m w a s m a k i n g t h e approximate 15-mile hike to the sur vivors when weather cleared Tuesday

A Guard helicopter pinpointed the skiers’ location Tuesday, and crew members spotted skis believed to mark the entrance of a snow cave they dug

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I am left wondering if any of the work I’ve done (or we all do) actually ever moves this place forward and makes a difference. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love Cornell But, to love something is to criticize it and soon I won’t have this column anymore so, I’m going to get all of my opinions out now

s i o n a l a n d a c a d e m i c g r o u p s , a n d t h e g r o w t h o f e n g a g e m e n t a t C o r n e l l w o u l d b e s t u d e n t f o c u s e d a n d f a c u l t y o r s t a f f f a c i l i t a t e d Fi n a n c e s w o u l d n o t b e a b a r r i e r t o s t u d e n t p a r t i c ip a t i o n i n i n t e r n s h i p s , s t u d y a b r o a d , w i n t e r b r e a k t r i p s , e t c We w o u l d n ’ t n e e d t o h a v e a s e x u a l a s s a u l t a w a r e n e s s w e e k , b e c a u s e p e o p l e w i l l u n d e rs t a n d t h a t n o m e a n s n o C o r n e l l w o u l d b e l e s s s i l o e d Pe o p l e c o u l d s t i l l o p e ra t e w i t h i n t h e i r o w n c o m m un i t y b u t t h e r e w o u l d b e m o r e c r o s s - p o l l i n a t i o n o f i d e a s a n d p o p u l a t i o n s s o t h a t i n f o r m at i o n r e a c h e d u s a l l a t t h e s a m e t i m e T h e r e w o u l d b e a d i v e rs i t y r e q u i r e m e n t f o r a l l o f C o r n e l l t h a t w a s t a i l o r e d t o e a c h c o l l e g e , b u t s t i l l m e t U n i v e r s i t y - w i d e s t a n d a r d s T h e r e w o u l d b e m o r e t r a n sp a r e n c y f r o m t h e a d m i n i s t r at i o n t o s t u d e n t s , f a c u l t y a n d s t a f f s o t h a t p e o p l e a f f e c t e d b y d e c i s i o n s a c t u a l l y h a v e a s e a t a t t h e t a b l e a n d c a n w o r k W I T H t h e p o w e r s t h a t b e t o m a k e d e c i s i o n s i n s t e a d o f h a vi n g t h e m m a d e F O R u s T h e r e w o u l d b e l e s s s n o w a n d g r a y s k i e s a n d m o r e s u n ( I k n o w t h i s p r o b a b l y w i l l n e v e r h a pp e n ) M G L C o r g a n i z a t i o n s w o u l d h a v e t h e s a m e r e s o u r c e s a s I F C a n d Pa n H e l o r g a n i z at i o n s St u d e n t s o f c o l o r a n d C U P D w o u l d h a v e a p o s i t i v e r e l a t i o n s h i p M e n t a l h e a l t h w o u l d b e s o m e t h i n g w e s t o p p e d s i m p l y t a l ki n g a b o u t a n d s o m et h i n g w e a c t u a l l y b e g a n t o t a k e c a r e o f A n d , C o r n e l l w o u l d b e a b i t l e s s c o mp e t i t i v e , o r a t l e a s t b a s e d i n h e a l t h i e r c o m p e t i t i o n I a m s u r e t h a t I a m f o r g e tt i n g t h i n g s , b u t t h a t i s m y v i s i o n f o r a b e t t e r, m o r e p e r f e c t C o r n e l l To t h o s e o f y o u t h a t s t i l l h a v e t i m e l e f t o n t h i s b e l o v e d H i l l , I w o u l d e n c o u ra g e y o u t o t h i n k

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R e s e a r c h e r s A s s e s s P o t e n t i a l O f N e w G e n e E d i t i n g To o l

Study unveils detection mechanism, features for Type I Cascade

By MARY NATTAKOM

Sun Staff Writer

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b e c o m e a t h i n g o f t h e p a s t ; t h i s a b i l i t y w o u l d c h a n g e t h e f a c e o f m e d i c i n e T h e p o t e n t

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“The crystal structure gives us the necessary information to potentially engineer new Cascade variants.”

p ro t e i n , C a s 9 , c o m b i n e d w i t h a g u i d e R N A t o t a r g e t a 2 0 n u c l e o t i d e l o n g D N A s e q u e n c e Re s e a rc h d o n e i n t h e Ke L a b i n ve s t i g a t e s Ty p e I C R I S P R s y s t e m s , a l s o k n ow n a s C a s c a d e : C R I S P R a s s o c i a t e d c o m p l e x f o r a n t i v i r a l d e f e n s e Fo r t h e f i r s t t i m e , t h e y we re a b l e t o u n c ove r t h e m e c h a n i s m o f Ty p e I C a s c a d e In t h e i r re c e n t p a p e r p u b l i s h e d i n Na t u re , Ro b e r t Ha ye s a p o s t d o c t o r a l f e l l ow i n t h e Ke L a b a n d f i r s t a

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n u c l e o t i d e s e q u e n c e “ T h e l o n g e r R N A s e q u e n c e i n C a s c a d e c o u l d p o t e n t i a l l y l e a d t o h i g h e r s p e c i f i c i t y i n t a r g e t i n g , ” Ha ye s s a i d T h e r e s e a r c h e r s a l s o d i s c o v e r e d t h a t Ty p e I

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N A i n i t s n o r m a l s t a t e f o r m s a d o u b l e h e l i x , o f t e n c o m p a re d t o a s p i r a l i n g l a d d e r Be c a u s e o f t h e n a t ur a l l y u n e ve n s p a c i n g b e t we e n D N A s t r a n d s , t h e D N A h a s m a j o r a n d m i n o r g ro ove s W h e n v i e we d f ro m t h e s i d e , m a j o r g ro ove s a re l o c a t e d w h e re D N A

b a c k b o n e s a re f a r t h e r a p a r t , w h i l e m i n o r g ro ove s a re t h e s p a c e s w h e re t h e y a re c l o s e r t o g e t h e r Ty p e I a n d

Ty p e I I s y s t e m s m u s t f i r s t c h e c k a s h o r t n u c l e o t i d e s e q u e n c e b e f o re f u l l y u n w i n d i n g t h e D N A t o s e e i f i t i s a m a t c h f o r t h e R N A To d o t h i s , t h e y re a d s e q u e n c e s f ro m t h e g ro ove s o f t h e D N A Ac c o rd i n g t o Ha ye s , m o s t Ty p e I I s y s t e m s re c o gn i ze t h e m a j o r g ro ove , w h i l e Ty p e I s y s t e m s re a d t h e s e q u e n c e f ro m t h e m i n o r g ro ove , a f a r l e s s s t r i n g e n t f o r m o f re c o g n i t i o n “ [ T h i s c o u l d ] p o t e n t i a l l y i n c re a s e t h e n u m b e r o f t a r g e t s t h a t C a s c a d e c o u l d b e p ro g r a m m e d t o i n t e rro g a t e ” Ha ye s s a i d . Us i n g X - r a y c r y s t a l l o g r a p h y, t h e t e a m w a s a b l e t o c a p t u re a s n a p s h o t o f Ty p e I C a s c a d e i n a c t i o n Fro m t h i s , t h e y d e t e r m i n e d t h e t h re e - d i m e n s i o n a l a t o m i c s t r u c t u re o f t h e p ro t e i n c o m p l e x a t

By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Staff Wr ter

Two of college students’ favorite pastimes social media and arguing were topics of a recent Cornell

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Good-faith Online Discussions” was published on arXiv an online e-print ser vice owned by Cornell

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exchange of ideas Grad Vlad Niculae, one of the paper ’ s authors explained why CMV was a great platform to study

“CMV offers a combination of conditions that are ver y for tunate for our research purposes, ” Niculae said “It [CMV ] is a well-moderated community where interactions consist of attempts at persuasion and openminded discussion, all in one place ”

Social media platforms like Facebook, on the other hand, are notorious for unreasoned, inflammator y comments and as such are not ideal for studying how people’s minds are changed during debate, Niculae said

“An attempt to find successful acts of persuasion in the wild Internet is like looking for a needle in a h a y s t a c k ; f i n d i n g m u l t i p l e c o m p a r a b l e a r g u m e n t s against the same vie w is near impossible,” Niculae said CMV, then, was a godsend

The cre w found that cer tain linguistic strategies correlated with higher success at persuasion For example, word count is positively associated with persuasive success the longer your response, the greater your chances at convincing someone On the flip side, bulleted lists seem to do little in terms of one ’ s ability to make a convincing argument

Niculae said that the team found some surprising results most of which related to word usage

“One surprising finding to us is that within two comparable arguments, the effective one turns out to be less similar to the original opinion in terms of word usage, ” Niculae said “ This may indicate that offering a ne w perspective using different words makes one less

Sam Kitterman can be reached at skitterman@cornellsun com M a k e a M a r k : S t u d y D e v e l o p s S t r a t e g i e s f o r O n l

defensive ”

Fur thermore, exciting words were found at the end of a sentence

“ We were intrigued by the trajectories that cer tain factors take over the course of an argumentative Reddit message, ” Niculae said “For instance, all messages used more arousing, exciting words towards the end than at the beginning But the successful ones star t off much calmer than those that failed ”

“Within two comparable arguments the effective one turns out to be less similar to the original opinion in terms of word usage. This may indicate that offering a new perspective using different words makes one less defensive.”

Of course, not all arguments prove successful in persuading others, so the researchers examined how arguments fail in addition to how they succeed Thanks to a CMV requirement that par ticipants state their beliefs and reasons for holding them clearly, Niculae and Cre w were able to glean differences in the sor ts of opinions subject to change and those resistant to it

They found, for example, that some beliefs are sim-

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ply less susceptible to change than others

“ The language used can reveal interesting aspects about the relationship between a person and their opinion For instance, do they identify it deeply with their individual world vie w eg ‘I, for one, believe that’ or do they diffuse responsibility within a larger group eg ‘ we believe that’?”

In that vein, the research team found that personal pronoun usage is indicative of a malleable belief, while the use of first person plural pronouns is linked with ideas resistant to change

The paper pinpoints a variety of manners in which individuals can succeed at persuading argument par tners These include the use of hyperlinks to substantiate statements which correlates with persuasion success Interestingly, the researchers found that com links seem to be more convincing than PDFs or edu domains

Beyond that, employing examples –– signified with introductor y phrases like “for example” or “ e g ” –– is another lucrative method for formulating a power ful argument

The paper ’ s authors also discovered that some muchused techniques are not as convincing as one may believe The use of quotations to quote an argument par tner, for one, was not found to be a persuasive approach Nor, according to the data collected, are question marks advantageous to persuasion While questions can be helpful in clarification, question marks are at best ineffective in terms of correlation with persuasive success

Never theless, questions remain In the paper, the authors recommend more research into the effects a debate experience can have on an individual’s persuasive success, better semantic models for studying online content and how sequences of connecting words (but, now, then, etc) add or detract from persuasiveness

The paper may indeed give insight into composing victorious arguments, but an equally large takeaway is the ability to have calm, reasoned, and convincing arguments over the Internet

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Jael Goldfine

The universe of NYU student Greta Kline’s DIY indie rock project Frankie Cosmos is a warm, velvety one, in which a healthy suspicion of adulthood and reality, and a relentless concern (as playful as it is pulsing) with the personal, the intimate and the female, reigns artistically Next Thing is the latest installment of the narrative exploration of the love, intimacy, anxiety, dreams and desires that come with being a young person in the world, which Kline first excavated on 2014’s Zentropy as well as with her massive portfolio of Bandcamp-released music My knee-jerk thought, 30 seconds in, was that the album sounded identical to Zentropy

However, after a full listen of Next Thing, noting the album’s fundamental sonic and sensual similarity to much of Kline’s previous work seems about as productive as noting that the chapters of a novel, or stanzas of a poem, are written in the same style, follow the same story or are of the same deeply compelling character

This reaction reframed as a curious observation arguably reveals the greatest strengths (and potentially the titular inspiration) of Next Thing The album has all of the poetic wit and wisdom, aerial emotionality (heart-shredding/melting disclosures disguised by their cute rhyming quality), particular relatability and intimacy for young women listeners and formidable vocal and instrumental skill of Kline’s previous work

However, this record is so clearly a next thing; an unfolding, a thickening: the songs bear a wider lens, new emotional bulk, self-awareness and confidence in what Kline has to say

This praise might sound patronizing coming from someone in the exact same set of years, but I, perhaps more than anyone, have the perspective to recognize that Kline is artistically naming and giving meaning to experiences that I often only have the emotional clarity to resonate with and point to in art, saying, “Yes, that I feel that ” To do this is her immense gift, and she does it more thoughtfully and eloquently than ever over the 15 tracks of Next Thing

Whatever this quality of Next Thing is that I am trying to get at, I’m resisting calling it “growth” or “maturity,” because to call it that would be to assume that Kline needs to “ grow up ” to make good music This kind of “ new maturity” praise that often litters sophomore album reviews (I at least, am guilty of it) seems backwards to me, given that it is Kline’s particular youthful vulnerability and perspective that give her empathetic and emotional access to the kind of truths she is telling and the confessions she is making The readiness with which she opens herself, her artistic humility, her uncensored candidness, her bold sincerity and the colorful, daydreaming imagination and sense of reverie which she imbues her music

with, are all because of her young femaleness not in spite of it Frankie Cosmos’ narrative power and emotional depth is not wisdom beyond her years, but rather of her years And so, I think Cosmos has perfectly titled this piece of music with her signature, marvelous anti-grandeur the next thing in her career, in her life, in this story

This chapter of her work is a series of fragmented vignettes, with each song less than three minutes and the whole album clocking in at 28 In the brief empty space on almost every track, Kline rapidly renders a vivid emotional experience or observation: always affecting, sometimes frank and crisply naked, other times cosmic, elusive and abstract The brevity of each track makes the album one that requires a somewhat keen ear and relative concentration Treated as background music, and without attention to the stories she tells, the tracks instrumentally blend together, using similar acoustic structures, while each is lyrically and emotionally distinct

Next Thing is extremely external, visual and sincere, flipping the respectability politics of indie rock coolness in apathy, distance, austerity and metaphorical grandeur, ever-sorefreshingly, on their head The details and richness of her lyrics utilize the small, quotidian, idiosyncratic details: bad coffee, subway transfers, a bug on one ’ s ear, backseats in New Mexico, boots kicked off, chips at a rest stop, reading Sappho, watching David Blaine, bug bites on vacation, free corporate pens The weight of each track on Next Thing usually falls all at once, with the seemingly lackadaisical drop of a particularly arresting image, confession or observation, which explodes the song into animated reality She is not afraid to express herself in casual terms, from the hip, almost childlike in their clarity: “Once I was happy / I found it intriguing You make me feel like a fool / Waiting for you ” (“Fool”); “is it possible that I really miss you / or am I pissed at you ” (“Sleep Song / Is It Possible”); “I drink bad coffee / hope that you’ll call me ” (“Too Dark”) ”

However, her lyrics can be just as intricate, esoteric and dreamlike, as they can be grounded and self-evident On “Floated In,” she dreams of a lover or a friend whom she would love to “ rummage through / your pink silky space cap, ” while on “Sappho” she muses about existential disappearance and instability “Under the crack in the door / can you tell I have no floor / I’m not ground in nothing / nothing” and attests to her own perversity on “Sinister”: “My soul is not like a waterpark / It’s big but surprisingly dark ”

Although almost all the tracks have a light, airy quality,

there is often an internal sadness, bitterness or brutal selfhonesty weighing them down Next Thing is deeply honest about romantic humiliation, disappointment and failure “Too Dark” bludgeons with the line “If your love was as strong as my shame / I’d marry you and take your name ” externalizing the agony of even quasi-unrequited love Much more subtle but just as cutting amidst all the velvet and clouds, Kline evokes the smaller, stranger discomforts of frustrated romantic ambitions on “Fool,” “Sappho” and “On The Lips” and messy romantic apathy on “O Dreaded C Town ”

Another motif on the album, endemic to Frankie Cosmos as a creator, is her quiet resistance of the pressure to participate in the project of growing up: to give up or “ get over ” particular emotional tendencies like being sad and mad on “If I Had A Do,” (“Am I still so sad? / I guess that’s pretty lame”), feeling out of control or crying when it feels like there are no answers She lets herself be sad and confused, and seems to both challenge and reflect on expectations surrounding youth, observing skeptically, “when you ’ re young / you ’ re too young / when you ’ re old / you ’ re too old” (“What If ”)

On a lighter side of an album which quietly covers an astonishing emotional range from depressive and dark to giddy and playful it is fun to mine Next Thing for familiar characters from Kline’s cohort and the scene she travels in “Embody” is an ode to the “ grace and lightness” she admires in women around her, in which she lists Gabby Smith of Eskimeaux, Emily Sprague of Florist and an anonymous Sarah “We’ll all embody all the grace and lightness,” she says, making me feel admittedly a deep shade of warm and fuzzy inside to hear this celebration of the rad group of women amidst which she is creating Next Thing listens just a little bit like a road narrative; perpetually offering hints of travel and transience: hers are the reflections of a girl sitting in a van, with her hand out the window, wandering around rest stops, weird neighborhoods and cities she doesn’t know These imagined environments of displacement are the perfect scenery of Next Thing’ s blurry intensities; Kline’s trains of thought go in and out of focus, just like the ephemeral picture outside her window As she takes in this adventure, and reckons to the new intimacies and experiences it brings, Kline feels it all with the magnified intensity of a young person To her, everything means something, no matter how quiet, small or simple

Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun com

On the March 11 Grande released “Dangerous Woman ” No, it’s not breaking the borders of a single genre No, it’s not even trying to cover up how half of pop music is only sold because it either advertises an “all girls want to be like that, bad girls underneath” aesthetic (direct quote from this single) or a guy who can say “fuck bitches get money, ” but look The recycled riff that starts out this single has a funked-out guitar and it just sounds simple The instrumentals are happy to be there, and they don’t feel the need to tell you directly in front of your face that they feel that way Grande’s voice is still the entire foreground of the music, but it balances so much more naturally with an environment that allows her to showcase what she does best, which is stun with that pure sound she can pump out at just about any part of the scale And the real difference is that, listening to this song, you feel a rush hearing “something ’bout you makes me feel like a dangerous woman ” with the escalation of the rhythm trailing behind her It’s a pretty simple message; she’s got a partner who’s got her feeling sexy, she’s empowered, she likes sleeping with him and she likes to like it all And it’s not hard to realize that that’s a pretty good feeling when you ’ re listening to it I don’t know if this is supposed to indicate a new era of Ariana, or even that she’s looking to diversify her sound a bit I do know, though, that this is the only single she’s released that I’ve wanted to play over, and over, and over again

Jesse Weber

G e t L o s t : N a k e d N o i s e # 7

BY LINDSAY VINARCSIK Sun Contributor

My boyfriend knew never to discuss with me the possibility that “noise” music could take any talent to create; he knew I’d say there was no kind of artistic value in a bunch of sounds that I could easily reproduce He knew that I equated noise to contemporary art that consists of a blank canvas or an empty room or a single red dot painted with a shaky hand And he knew very well that I was absolutely determined to stay ignorant

So I understood his shock when I notified him that I would be going to Ithaca Underground’s Naked Noise #7 on Saturday night

What changed my mind was basement duty It was late last Monday night, and I exhaustedly slumped down the basement stairs with my broom, only to find Beau Mahadev ’18 playing around on their new synthesizer I began sweeping without even giving Beau’s sounds a second thought My mind hadn’t shifted into the frame of music listening; it hadn’t applied the listening lens that my experiences have created I wasn ’ t searching for a pleasant beat, wasn ’ t evaluating lyrics, wasn ’ t passively listening to a background noise My brain firmly decided that I was not listening to music, but that I was sweeping Caught off guard, vulnerable and stripped of its usual pre-conditioned music-listening garb, my brain got tricked by the sounds that Beau was making into feeling far, far away from the broom I don’t know how Beau did it, but I was not sweeping anymore; the wooden dowel was not moving through my hands, piles of dirt and glitter were not being collected and I certainly wasn ’ t in that crumbly basement of drinking games and laundry days which I know and love

I find myself continually shocked at the power of the social conditioning to which our brains have been subjected I never liked noise music before this because I had never been capable of listening to it without my preconceived notions of what is good and what is bad I had thought I was “open-minded,” but I was unable to grasp the concept that there was a specific space which society had created in the messy background of my brain in which all music-listening thoughts took place, where all the rules of good and bad were to be strictly followed The sounds that Beau created entered my brain without going straight to the music-listening thought-space; they floated in places that they had never been before and were not meant to be, confusing my habituated, structure-ridden mind more than it could handle

After the show on Saturday, some of my friends argued that Naked Noise wasn ’ t “adequately transporting,” that they were unable to get lost in the venue and that the magic of the noise didn’t work The fact that they were looking for the venue to be the catalyst for their experience was almost ironic to me, considering that the point of noise (as I now see it) is that it should be listened to and looked at without any forethought of not only the venue, but the experience as a whole It is rare to be as caught off guard as I was in the basement the other day, rare to find something that enters your cortex before the subconscious window falls in place, before the societal laws that have been nailed in since birth are allowed to bring order to our messy perception

Although I was expecting it the second time around, and although I had maybe even started to construct an “experimental noise-listening space ” in my brain, Naked Noise managed to give me another experience different from anything in my life thus far I was able to absorb the noise even though my defenses weren ’ t lowered and even though I wasn ’ t caught off guard I think that’s the point I think that experimental music is meant to constantly stretch the limits of what is and is not expected, so that no laws can fit it into a standard box that our simply-governed minds can understand Naked Noise did exactly that The setup was perfect and the musicians must have been telepathically communicating, as the sound culminated into a swarm of experience in the center of the room, with individual, distinguishable roads on the edges

Now, I can ’ t believe I didn’t think that noise requires talent; the aura that the musicians created on Saturday night was nothing I could ever reproduce Thank you to all of the musicians at Naked Noise for making me question the very basis of my own simple mind

Lindsay Vinarcsik is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at lkv8@cornell edu

Heavyweight Readies For Syracuse and Navy

The heavyweight men ’ s team is preparing for a nonconference matchup steeped in history, according to head coach Todd Kennett ’91

“The Goes Cup goes back forever,” he said “There’s a lot of traditions at these places I like to think it’s a friendly, fierce competition ”

According to Kennett, Navy and Syracuse are both potent rivals

“Syracuse is sort of the dark horse,” he said “They just went and rattled off a good race against [nationally ranked] Wisconsin in [Skokie, Ill ] ”

Kennett pointed out that Naval Academy as an institution attracts rowers with a never-give-up attitude in races

“Navy is always good,” he said “They always pull hard, they never stop ”

The Red have been working on correcting some of the “big mistakes” they made two weeks ago against Harvard Kennett said sicknesses and bad weather has dampened the opportunity the week off from competition could have offered For example, with an exposed and potentially windy course this weekend, Kennett was hoping to have his team practice in Cayuga Lake proper more often

“I would have liked to have used [the week off ] more wisely,” Kennett said “I was hoping to get some good fundamentals [in] ”

While he always wants his team to be faster, Kennett is happy with their effort He is confident that the quality of his team as suggested by national polls will be validated this weekend

“I think we stack up well,” Kennett said, stipulating, “We have to execute a really good race plan ”

Continued from page 16 Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun com

Men and Women to Finish

Against Penn, Princeton

Jays Can Win Division

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about the effectiveness of short pitchers (Pedro Martinez as the exception), Stroman started four games last season And as much as I love R A Dickey after his magical Cy-Young winning season with the Mets, his numbers have slipped since leaving New York Toronto is banking on the power of Bautista, Donaldson and Encarnacion to carry the team To guarantee an AL East win this season, the team desperately needs reliable starting pitching Expect the Blue Jays to be on the hunt around the trade deadline

Baltimore Orioles

The most underwhelming of teams in the MLB, the Orioles increased their payroll by $150 million last season to go 81-81 and finish in third place The team ’ s saving grace, third baseman Manny Machado, is oozing with potential, and the team has reliable batters in Trumbo, Chris Davis, and Adam Jones Like the Blue Jays, however, Baltimore’s pitching is severely lacking Yovanni Gallardo is good for at least 13

wins or so, but the limited upside ends there I’m predicting a fifth place finish for Baltimore this season

New York Yankees

New York is a peculiar case in 2016 On one hand, the team is full of elderly players far from their prime But on the other hand, the team still has enough talent to win 90 games With A-Rod unexpectedly being one of the AL’s better players last season, it will be great to see him join the 700 home run club while, hopefully, providing a productive bat in the middle of the lineup Injuries have already plagued New York often-injured Mark Teixeira’s backup, 23-yearold Greg Bird is missing the entire season due to shoulder surgery Pitchers Tanaka and Pineada have been injury prone in recent years and C C Sabathia, coming off a stint in rehab for alcoholism, is far from his old self Besides a few shines of light in young talented batters and pitchers such as Castro and Luis Severino, I just can ’ t help but look at New York’s roster and see the 2007 All-Star team To read the rest of this column please visit cornellsun com

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C.U.Women to Compete With 20 Teams at Clemson

Men’s lightweight team sweeps Penn and Harvard, keeping Matthews Trophy and Leonard Cup

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

All three Cornell rowing teams are competing this weekend Coming off of wins in every race in a matchup against Harvard and Penn, the men ’ s lightweight team is set to face Princeton on Saturday for the Platt Cup and Yale on Sunday The women ’ s team won two of six races in the Class of 1975 Cup, but Princeton won overall They are one of 20 teams competing at the Clemson Invitational on Saturday and Sunday in South Carolina Meanwhile, after a weekend with no races, the men ’ s heavyweight team is racing on Saturday against Navy and Syracuse in Annapolis for the Goes Cup

with the Class of 1975 Cup However, according to women ’ s head coach Liz Dennison, her entire team took steps forward last weekend against Harvard-Radcliffe and Princeton

country right now, and it will be great to see crossover with other conferences to get a measure of our speed outside of the league ”

According to Dennison, support from Cornell Rowing alumni has made going to South Carolina in the middle of the semester less of an ordeal

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“All the Cornell crews raced hard and aggressively, and all the boats made progress from where we were over the previous race weekend,” Dennison said “The 3V8 and C4 winning their races was great especially with many of those athletes being younger and predominantly freshmen That really speaks to the depth we have on our team right now ”

Dennison said that looking ahead to this weekend, Cornell will be facing ranked teams from different parts of the country

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“In the past, we have traveled to this race via bus,” she said “Now we fly the student-athletes down for this race That has made a huge difference in our ability to perform at a high level The reduced travel time helps enormously with athletic performance and also academics ”

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or the first time in over a decade the American League East division is wide open Long gone are the days of Yankee dominance and a ruthless Boston-New York rivalr y The trinity of mediocrity among Baltimore, Toronto and Tampa Bay has ended, as even the Orioles can win the division Let’s take a closer look at this hodge-

podge of talent I predict Toronto will win the division, and Baltimore will finish in last Toronto Blue Jays

With the best offense in baseball, it’s easy to see why Toronto may be the most lopsided team in baseball Like last year, Toronto is my pick to win the division this season Of course their glaring hole is the lack of pitching, especially after the loss of David Price Pitching is their Achilles heel, and it will be their downfall this season I have little-to-no faith in number one starter, twenty four year old, 5’8” Marcus Stroman Besides my skepticism