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Classes Cancelled After Rockefeller Blackout

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Rockefeller Hall was closed for several hours on Tuesday after the building lost power due to a transformer failure, according to Rebecca Valli, Media Relations Specialist

The closure was announced at 8 a m in an email sent to the Cornell community Classes were initially canceled until 10 a m , but later cancellations were extended until 4 p m No occupants were allowed in the building while it was closed, according to the University

guilt-free vacation but one that, like all vacations, we’ll have to pay for later,” said Prof Robert Thorne, physics

Matthew Lehman ’19 agreed, saying that one of his canceled classes has a test coming up later this week

“For me and for my students, it was an unexpected and

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Store Price Model

By JONATHAN LEVENFELD Sun Staff Writer

The University Assembly passed a resolution by a vote of 9-2-1 recommending that the Cornell Store shift its financial model to reduce the cost of academic materials at its meeting Tuesday Gabriel Kaufman ’18, U A undergraduate representative, and the resolution’s sponsor, explained that the current revenue generating

“It was really bad timing to have classes cancelled during

prelim season, ” he said Power was restored by 3:30 p m All classes after 4 and evening activities were held as scheduled, announced the University

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun com

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Understanding and Responding to Dementia-Related Behavior

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The Role of Fluids in Triggered and Induced Earthquakes 3:30 - 4:30 p m , 2146 Snee Hall

Kélina Gotman, Translatio: Movement, Migration, Dance 4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

In a Word: Featuring Alice Fulton & Roger Gilbert, In Conversation 5 p m , Auditorium, Klarman Hall

Yvonne Farrell: Place, Precedent and Invention 5:15 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

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Workplace Bullying's Impact on Engagement and Inclusion 10 - 11 a m , 700 Clark Hall

Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Critical Perspectives on ‘ Technological’ Solutions 2:30 - 4:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

The Bar yon Content of Dark Matter Halos 4 - 5 p m , 105 Space Sciences Building

Negotiating Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of the San Juan Airport 4:45 - 6 p m , B25 Warren Hall

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12-Year-Old Runs N.Y. Half-Marathon by Mistake

ROCHESTER, N Y (AP) A 12-year-old western New York girl has wound up running 10 extra miles after she got into the wrong road race

LeeAdianez Rodriguez had registered for the 5K race that was part of last Sunday’s Rochester Regional Health Flower City Challenge She thought she was arriving late at the starting line when the race started, so she began running with the rest of the runners

marathoners on the 13 1-mile course and not in the 5K, or 3 1 miles

Rodriguez says she realized about halfway through that she was in the wrong race but decided to finish She completed the half-marathon in 2:43:31

Her mother became worried when she wasn ’ t among the finishers of the 5K, but they were reunited when she finished the half-marathon

Police Warn Against Selfies With Suburban Atlanta Gator

PEACHTREE CIT Y, Ga (AP) Fearing Snapchat could take an ugly turn toward “ snap chomp,” police are warning people not to take selfies with an alligator in suburban Atlanta

Peachtree City police also advise residents not to feed the six-foot gator known as “Flat Creek Floyd” as he soaks in the sun on Flat Creek, about 30 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta Peachtree City police Lt Mark Brown tells WSB-TV that the gator ’ s presence has “ gone a little crazy ” on social media

Police say that when Floyd was spotted earlier this month, it was the first alligator sighting in the area in five years Gators are common in parts of south Georgia, but are not usually seen in metro Atlanta

Upstate N.Y. Mayor Stole 111 Road Signs From the DOT

FRANKFORT, N Y (AP) State police say an upstate New York mayor illegally provided his village with 111 road signs belonging to the state Department of Transportation

Sixty-year-old Frank Moracco was charged Monday with official misconduct and petit larceny Investigators say Moracco works as a sign shop foreman for the DOT He's accused of stealing the signs and giving them to the Herkimer County village of Frankfort Village clerk Karlee Tamburro tells The ObserverDispatch of Utica that Moracco will continue to serve as mayor and the Mohawk Valley village isn’t commenting on the charges Moracco couldn’t be reached at his office He’s due in court on May 3

Prof Calls Life a Balancing Act of Teaching, Learning and Art

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

“I don’t think in terms of unfulfilled dreams,” said Prof Paul Velleman, social statistics and statistical sciences Velleman described his life as a balancing act, saying he can often be found working well

ove r f o r t y h o u r s a week at his office

Hi s m a i n p r o j e c t currently involves a major revision of his

f u n d a m e n t a l i n t r oductor y text, a task he said takes two to three nights a week and weekends

“ I h a v e t h re e careers, ” he said “I have my career here

a s a p r o f e s s o r a t

C o r n e l l , a n d t h a t ’ s my principal career I have a small software firm in town And

I w r i t e t e x t b o o k s which are published

b y Pe a r s o n T h o s e overlap because the

t e x t b o o k s a re t h e subjects I teach and incorporate the software I’ve developed ” W h e n h e i s n ’ t

w o r k i n g , Ve l l e m a n said he ser ves on the board of the State Theatre of Ithaca and is a member of a barber shop quartet and The Community Chorus in Ithaca

“I am now culturally illiterate in television,” Velleman said “I don’t spend my evenings in front of the tube Name any major important television series that ever yone has watched, and I haven’t ” Velleman said he started working with the State

Theatre when it was about to be shut down “ We saved [The State Theatre],” Velleman said “It was within a week or so of being torn down We formed a nonprofit to take it over, got the necessar y loans and are running it as a nonprofit now ” Velleman said he also ser ves on the board for a foundation that raises money for the theatre in addition to ser ving on the board of the C o m m u n i t y

Fo u n d a t i o n o f Tompkins County part of a nationwide movement that provides small grants

t o h e l p l o c a l organizations “

am I doing here? I’m a fraud,’” Velleman said “Somehow you figure out that, yes, you can help them You know how to lead people through thinking about their problem, even if it’s not statistics ”

Velleman said he uses this attitude with his students constantly, and he has found that they often come back to him years later

“I tell my students that they should consider me to be their statistician from now on, ” Velleman said “I mean not for the rest of their time at Cornell; I mean from now on ”

In his introduction to statistics class, Velleman said many of his students are only taking the course to fulfill a requirement but gain valuable life skills

“It’s a nice life I walk across campus and just pinch myself that I get to live and work in a place like this ”

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a w a rd w i n n e r, Velleman said he has wanted to teach at the university level since high school

“ The fun part of statistics is that ever yone who brings me a consulting question has to teach me something so that I can understand how to help them,” he said

After teaching for over 40 years, Velleman said he has finally overcome the “ scar y part ” “People come into your office and they start telling you their problem, and you think to yourself, ‘ What

“I think knowing statistics makes you a

many presentations of

honest as they should be You should have a healthy skepticism ” Velleman called his students the reason he continues to enjoy his job His role as their professor ranges from helping them with homework to providing them with consulting information on a project

“I’m constantly learning about ever ything, and that’s what I love about the job,” he said “Ever y time someone brings me a consulting question, I learn something That’s the sense in which I’m an academic I want to continue to learn all my life ”

Velleman said his love of academics will not cease If he ever retires, he said he hopes to take classes possibly in art histor y, music or law

“It’s a nice life,” Velleman said “You don’t get rich but that’s why I stayed here I walk across campus and just pinch myself that I get to live and work in a place like this It’s just beautiful ”

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun com

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Says information would allow community to deliberate carbon fnancials

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model gives the University approximately five to 10 percent of the profit from each purchase The resolution proposes a cost-recover y model instead, in which this cost is eliminated so Cornellians can benefit from a slight price reduction

“It would be like converting the Cornell store from a profit to a nonprofit store for academic materials,” Kaufman said

The resolution recommends t h a t t h e re v e n u e g e n e r a t i n g model remain in place for nonacademic materials As part of the proposal, the U A will follow the Cornell Store’s guidelines for the distinction between academic and nonacademic materials

“ I t h i n k i t’l l s a v e s t u d e n t s money, ” Kaufman said “It’s not a huge number, but if you have a textbook that costs $200 and you buy five of them, it does make a difference ”

Ulysses Smith, employee ranking member, expressed concern over factors that contribute to costs, particularly the cost of actually acquiring

sumers

“If the cost of procuring these academic materials increases, then

the savings that the working group suggests would be present for consumers would be diminished,” he said “My concern was that it is unclear if The Cornell Store is also going to be the party to bear the cost of procuring modified materials for different groups, such as individuals

“It would be like converting the Cornell store from a profit to a nonprofit store for academic materials ”

The resolution asks for a final cost determination from the University by Januar y 2017 along with an initial report next fall

with disabilities who may require some modified materials ” Kaufman insisted that “the only thing that would change is that textbooks would become less costly,” and recommended that a standing committee be formed to evaluate the practices of this shift going for ward

“I think that it makes sense to get the costs down now for textbooks and then perhaps next year ensure the Cornell Store is as accessible as possible,” Kaufman said

The U A also passed a resolution with a vote of 11-1-2 requesting that the University administration prov i d e t h e U A w i t h t h e c o s t o f

Cornell reaching carbon neutrality by 2035

The proposal requests information on how reaching carbon neut r a l i t y w o u l d b e f u n d e d Pr o f Martin Hatch, music, faculty representative, called it an important first step in moving the process along and addressing the costs that will be incurred for the great benefits that will be gained “ The value of this resolution is that it enables the various constituencies on the campus to deliberate about how the money required for carbon neutrality will be raised and spent, ” Hatch said Hatch reiterated the importance of passing the resolution, noting that the importance of carbon neutrality has been discussed and affirmed by Cornell’s senior administration for more than seven years without the proposal of a comprehensive plan for its achievements

“[Carbon neutrality is] an urgent thing,” Hatch said “It’s urgent in society as a whole, and if we ’ re going to live up to Cornell being a ‘living laborator y ’ we have to develop this comprehensive approach ”

Congressional Democrats Combat Republican Claims

Arguing Protecting Bird Will Hamstring U.S. Military

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Heavy Thunderstorms Hit Great Plains States

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Thunderstorms bearing hail as big as grapefruit and winds

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b a d we a t h e r f ro m Te x a s t o Nebraska to West Virginia, but none of them deadly

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t o r n a d o e s , ” m e t e o r o l o g i s t Matt Mosier said as the forecast was taking shape

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week in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

Ahead of Tuesday’s storms, businesses set out to protect their goods ahead of storms while school districts sent children home early, hoping to keep them safe

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“We’ve never been hit by a tornado here in town, amazingly. But yeah, we’ve had hail.”

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Hail four inches in diameter fell in nor thern Kansas, northwest of Mar ysville, and winds hit 70 mph in Missouri and Texas while storms went through Residents of Topeka, Kansas, eyed the sky ner vously during rush hour after forecasters warned that a supercell thunderstorm could produce a tornado at any moment

Forecasters posted a tornado watch for Oklahoma and Texas until midnight, saying the atmosphere could still be unsettled enough for tornadoes to develop

“ This is a particularly dangerous situation,” the Storm Prediction Center alerted in red type in an afternoon advisor y It uses such language on only about seven percent of its tornado watches Forecasters had predicted a 90 percent chance of tornadoes and said 80 percent could have winds above 111 mph in much of Ok l a h o m a a n d n o r t h e r n Texas

“The fact remains that listing the sagegrouse under the Endangered Species Act comes at a high cost.”

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“ We’ve never been hit by a tornado here in town, amazingly,” Eischen said “But yeah, we ’ ve had hail And that’s the real enemy of the car dealer ”

Workers scrambled to protect planes at the Spirit of St Louis Airport in Chesterfield, Mi s s o u r i , w h e n t h e w i n d s picked up and the sky turned green

“And I mean green green, ” aviation director John Bales said “It was pretty violent but luckily we didn’t have any subs t a n t i a l d a m a g e We s a w i t coming and we were able to get most of the airplanes into hangars, so we didn’t have too much hail damage ”

Mid-Del Public Schools, in the Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City, said in a statement that the safety of students and staff is a priority, noting that it reworked its tornado safety plan three years ago after a twister killed seven schoolchildren in the neighboring suburb of Moore

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Donald Trump Gains Momentum With Five Primary Wins

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Tuesday, giving the Republican

in his push for the nomination even if his pathway has little room for error

Delaware and Rhode Island all five states that held GOP primar y contests on Tuesday “ This is really something special It’s

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and worries about his electability in the general election Exit polls found that about six in 10 Republican voters in Pennsylvania say the GOP campaign this year has divided the p a r t y W h i l e s e v e n i n 1 0

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Cr uz will do the same for Kasich in Oregon and Ne w Mexico

Tu e s d a y ’ s v i c t o r i e s h e l p Tr ump expand his big lead in the race for delegates If he keeps it up, he can stay on track to win the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7

Tr ump will win at least half of the 118 delegates up for grabs Tuesday And he has a chance to win a lot more

In Pennsylvania, Tr ump collected 17 delegates for winning the state An additiona

“I’ve got good news for you Tonight this campaign moves back to more favorable terrain ” T e d C r u z

f rival Ted Cr uz retreated to next-up Indiana days ago The Texas senator and Ohio Gov John Kasich are fighting to deny Tr ump the delegate majority and force a contested national convention this summer

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i n g I k n o w e v e r y o n e i n t h e C l a s s o f 2 0 1 6 w i l l b e e x t r e m e l y p r o u d o f c o m e M a y 2 9 t h , i f t h a t d a y e v e r c o m e s o f c o u r s e I s a y a s p e c i a l k i n d o f t o rt u r e b e c a u s e I ’ m s u r e t h a t w e ’ v e a l l b e e n t h r o u g h s o m e s t u f f o v e r t h e c o u r s e o f o u r C o r n e l l c a r e e r s W h e t h e r i t w a s f a i l i n g a c l a s s , t h e d e a t h o f a l o v e d o n e , n o t b e i n g a b l e t o s t u d y a b r o a d , a b i a s i n c i d e n t o r a m i l l i o n o t h e r p o s s i b i l i t i e s , s o m e t i m e s I f e e l l i k e t h i s p l a c e w a s n ’ t b u i l t f o r u s t o s u c c e e d E i t h e r w a y, w e ’ v e a l m o s t m a d e i t a n d I g u e s s I ’d l i k e t o t a l k t o u s s e n i o r s f o r a l i t t l e b i t R e m e m b e r w h e n w e f i r s t a r r i v e d o n c a m p u s f o r o r i e n t at i o n f o u r y e a r s a g o ? We w e r e s o e x c i t e d , n e r v o u s , h a p p y, a n xi o u s , o v e r j o y e d a n d a f r a i d O u r m i n d s w e r e o v e r w h e l m e d b y h o w b i g t h i s c a m p u s f e l t , w i t h a n x i e t y a b o u t m a k i n g f r i e n d s a n d d o i n g w e l l i n o u r c l a s s e s ( a t l e a s t m y m i n d w a s ) E a r l y o n , y o u’d t a l k t o a n y o n e y o u

But for those of who didn’t and still don’t [have post-graduation plans], being asked “so what are you doing after graduation” might have been worse than anything else Cornell threw at us I always wondered, why are people asking me that? Don’t they realize that if I knew, they probably would know too?

s a w b e c a u s e w h a t d i d y o u h a v e t o l o s e ? We w e r e a l l i n t h e s a m e b o a t a l l t r y i n g t o f i g u r e o u t h o w t h e h e l l w e w e r e g o i n g t o f i g u r e t h i s p l a c e o u t A n d a s t h e s e m e s t e r w e n t o n , w e s e tt l e d i n , d e v e l o p e d s o m e s e mb l a n c e o f a r o u t i n e , m a y b e g o t i n v o l v e d i n a n o r g a n i z a t i o n o r t w o o n c a m p u s , a n d f o u n d a g r o u p o f p e o p l e t o c o n s i d e r f r i e n d s t h a t w e m i g h t s t i l l b e c l o s e w i t h t o d a y Fr e s h m a n y e a r e n d e d a n d w e s p e n t t h e s u m m e r i n t e r ni n g , r e g r o u p i n g , t r a v e l i n g o r h a n g i n g o u t a t h o m e b e f o r e c o m i n g b a c k a n d t a k i n g a n o t he r s t a b a t C o r n e l l o u r s o p h om o r e y e a r M a y b e , f o r y o u , t h i s w a s w h e n t h i n g s s t a r t e d t o l o o k u p , I k n o w i t i s w h e n t h i n g s d i d f o r m e L o o k u p s u r e , b u t n o t g e t 1 0 0 p e r c e n t b e t t e r We h a d a b e t t e r i d e a o f w h a t w e w e r e d o i n g , b u t h o ne s t l y, w e w e r e s t i l l k i n d o f w a nd e r i n g a r o u n d l i k e d e e r i n h e a d l i g h t s I g u e s s t h a t ’ s w h y t h e y c a l l e d u s u n d e r c l a s s m e n , b e c a u s e w e j u s t d i d n ’ t h a v e o u r s h i t t o g e t h e r S o p h o m o r e y e a r w a s h a r d It’s o n e o f t h e h a r de s t a t C o r n e l l , b u t w e s u r v i v e d a n d e n t e r e d o u r j u n i o r y e a r o v e rj o y e d a t t h e p r o s p e c t t h a t w e w e r e o n e y e a r a w a y f r o m g r a d u at i o n J u n i o r y e a r c a m e a n d w e n t w i t h a l l t h e w h a t t h e h e l l a m I g o i n g t o d o t h i s s u m m e r a n d h o w a m I g o i n g t o g e t a j o b a f t e r g r a d u a t i o n s t r e s s t h a t i t b r i n g s A n d t h e n , s e n i o r y e a r a r r i v e d I f y o u a l r e a d y h a d y o u r p o s t - g r a d p l a n s t o g e t h e r t h e n i t w a s l i t B u t f o r t h o s e o f w h o d i d n ’ t a n d s t i l l d o n ’ t , b e i n g a s k e d “ s o w h a t a r e y

SCIENCE

By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Staff Wr ter

Study finds genetic basis for vegetarianism

was more common in Indians; it could be, for instance, purely random,” Ye said “Our exper tise is that we were

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explanations for the higher frequency of the allele in par ticular populations ”

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You might want to be careful if you ’ re tr ying to switch to a vegetarian diet According to a recent study, publ i s h e d i n M o l e c u l a r B i o

Evolution, your genes could play an impor tant role in deciding whether a plant based diet is good for you

Fatty acids such as omega-3 and o m e g a - 6

n t a n d function. While red meats and seafood are full of these nutrients, plants are not Veggies contain the necessar y precursors for the production of fatty a c i d

So, to tr y and discern the reasoning behind the variation, Ye and his fellow

y sequenced genomes of about 2,500 individuals from 26 different populations on file, the research cre w was able to take a closer look at the presence of

have more offspring As such, the propor tion of individuals with the allele gre w In fur ther suppor t of their conclus i o n s , Ye a n d h i s t e a m d i s c ov e r e d something fascinating and unexpected when searching for the vegetarian allele

a m o n g s t t h e Gr e e n l a n d i c I n u i t

Subsisting on a diet almost completely w i t h o u t v e g e t a b l e s , t h e I n u i t i n Greenland would have little need for the vegetarian allele; and indeed, their population was found to be nearly

fied that the study says nothing about whether a vegetarian diet is good or bad

“ The major take-away message of our study is that the diet that is right for you depends on your genetic background,” he said, “[If Europeans] rely purely on a plant-based diet it may not b e s u f f i c i e n t f o

Europeans lack the vegetarian allele ” Much of it, he pointed out, is about o m e g a - 3 a n d o m e g a - 6 Id e a l l y, w e would maintain a dietar y ratio of one to one, with anything at o

then, can str uggle to acquire a suffic i e n t a m o u n t o f t h e

omega - 3 fatty acids

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Kaixong Ye postdoc, one of the lead authors of the paper and a member of Keinan Lab, collaborated with Prof To m B r e n n a , n u t r i t i o n a l s c i e n c e s , whose research pinpointed a mutation that affects the breaking down of fatty acid The mutation is typically found in a large supply in meat and seafood and is responsible for the extraction of necessar y nutrients from plants.

The study also found that while many individuals of European decent lacked the veggie-processing allele the majority of South Asians do not In fact, around 70 percent of South Asian have not one, but two copies of the necessar y allele for plant-based extraction of the necessar y nutrients often found within fatty acids.

“ With their study [Brenna’s study on mutation], there were several possible explanations for why the inser tion

the vegetarian allele in various populations around the globe

“ We looked at the region with the inser tion in question and ran a bunch of statistical analyses on it,” Ye said “ What we found is that in India, the reason there is such a high frequency of this inser tion is because of local adaptation ”

In many ways, it is basic evolution:

m a n y t h o u s a n d s o f y e a r s a g o , a s Indians slowly adopted a vegetarian diet, those individuals with the insertion were healthier and were able to

“The major take-away of our study is that the diet that is right for you depends on your genetic background. [If Europeans] rely purely on a plant-based diet it may not be sufficient for them.”

completely absent it

“It is as if nature did some experiment for us; several thousand years ago, there was a group of individuals some of them had the vegetarian allele, some did not Some were placed in India, some in Greenland, which are places with different diets Over the next several thousand years the Indian p o p u l a t i o n a l o n g w i t h s o

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s t Asian populations because of their vegetarian diets, saw an increase in frequency of the vegetarian allele For the Greenlandic Inuit, they had a different diet, and over time the vegetarian allele was removed from their population,” Ye eagerly illustrated

The stor y of the Greenland Inuit was probably the discover y that most surprised the research team, Ye said With the vegetarian allele missing in their population, he said “the other a l l e l

n amongst the Inuit

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“ This is something quite uncommon during human evolution, that one allele is adaptive in one environment and maladaptive in another,” he said “ To my knowledge, I am not aware of any other study showing this sor t of phenomenon ”

S i n c e Ye a n d h i s r e s e a r c h t e a m demonstrated that there is indeed an evolutionar y component to individuals’ ability to extract impor tant fattyacid nutrients from vegetables, many in the media hopped to with dire warnings about the unhealthy nature of vegetarian diets However, Ye clari-

(omega - 6 to omega - 3) sufficient for our health By eating too much meat and seafood, those with the vegetarian allele are

since they already derive quite a bit from vegetab

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i d e , those without the allele require more meat and seafood and yes, oils to maintain a proper a m o u n t o f f a t t y a c i d s ; and since they are unable to extract those nutrients f r o m g r e e n s , a p u r e l y vegetarian diet probably will not do the trick Ye sees much room for s u c h , a n d e v e n m o r e , precise dietar y advice in the future

“ The key point [of our study] is that there is no one diet that is good for all people, and now, the idea in nutrition and human health research is that we need precision medicine and a personalized nutrition,” he said “Now, we have the capacity to do it We can do a sequencing and ask, do you have the vegetarian allele?”

What advice does Ye foresee nutritionist giving those with the allele?

“If you have the vegetarian allele, stick to the traditional vegetarian diet; if you eat a lot of meat and seafood something bad could happen,” he said “ We aren ’ t exactly sure what, but our argument is, look at the Greenlandic Inuit those that had the vegetarian allele are gone ”

He Ye discerns a bright future ahead for nutrition

“Each person can get their genome sequenced just once in their lifetime, and then have all of their genetic information Theoretically, we can make inferences based on this information as to what sor t of diet is best for us and what sor t of lifestyle we need to adapt in order to lead a healthy life,” he said “I think that’s the future ”

Still, Ye admits work remains to be done

“ We know the mutations, but we first need to connect those mutations to the trait And our study is just one example of this type of research ”

Sam Kitterman can be reached at skitterman@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Incertain intellectual spaces, social and academic alike, it often feels like it’s been decided that talking about misogyny in art and literature is a moot point an extraneous, distracting, overly orthodox and immature interruption to the real conversation It feels like it’s been decided that the only inquiries there are to be made about artistic misogyny will inevitably be reductive, simplifying and short-sighted, and that whatever conversation there is to be had about misogyny in art and literature will be a short, perfunctory one; something to be gotten out of the way so that we can get at the real meaning

So, the female student who is preoccupied with, disturbed by, skeptical of or, at the very least, who finds herself unmoved by the aestheticized, unchallenged objectification of a Brian Jones sculpture, the sexual politics of a Woody Allen film or the gratuitous violence against women in American Psycho and who wishes to engage with and speak aloud about the way she feels takes a risk of not being heard As it is with the reactions to many particular realities of being a woman, feeling discomfort and alienation from art is often met with gaslighting or, perhaps no less toxically, a “well maybe, but that’s not the point ”

To voice disgust or reservation; to externalize one ’ s grappling with gratuitous and unchallenged depictions of female exploitation, violence, abuse, manipulation or subservience in a painting, novel or film or god forbid, to claim that something is misogynistic often seems to translate to failure of artistic literacy; an inability to “ see past the obvious”: placing critical women on the same intellectual level of the parent who looks at a Jackson Pollack and says, “ my kid could do that ”

To be clear, I’m making no claims that any particular art is misogynistic (the examples above are simply art that has been contested on these grounds) and I’m especially not making any claims about what women should read as misogynistic or be troubled by I’m only saying that, in a patriarchal society, particularly considering that the art and literary worlds have and continue to be extraordinarily male-dominated spaces, women will experience art differently than men in different ways, many of which might involve the discomforts of never really having been the intended viewers and readers of the art, at all

This dynamic that I want to get out, however, plays out on another crucial level, which involves women ’ s perceived credibility and lived self-doubt as viewers and readers A few weeks ago, I was flipping through a book filled with the works of visual artist George Condo (creator of the commissioned cover art for Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) with a male friend Condo’s art frequently portrays monstrous people and bodies Halfway into the anthology of pastel, cubist cyclopses, growling, screaming, hysterical wideopen fanged mouths, deformed faces, misplaced teeth and inflated or deformed body parts, I noticed that more of the

paintings, most of the nudes and most of the grotesquely perverted bodies, in the most compromised poses, with the ugliest expressions, were female I had an internal, intense reaction to these images, imagining and internally shuddering at the disdain Condo seemed to hold for the female body, imagining his potential, unrealized scorn for my own body, and internalizing an animosity between me and this art My friend, on the other hand, was enthralled with the art, provoked by its disturbingness which he certainly recognized, but didn’t seem to be bothered by I felt distracted and uncomfortable, and on an entirely different wavelength from my friend Maybe it sounds petty, but I felt excluded but from his experience with the art we were examining together; like he was free to savor and explore it, and that my own subject-position and my taste was somehow limiting However, I felt equally aggravated about this fact: that my “grappling” made it appear that I was less interested in or able to understand or appreciate the art I could understand how the art was “working” in the ways my friend described, that simply wasn ’ t what was most salient or relevant to me as a viewer This dynamic made me doubt my own credibility as a viewer, and simultaneously become frustrated with my own ambivalence about the art, my “failure” to share my friend’s enthusiasm and the bizarre, all-around gross wish to be a “cool-girl” who didn’t mind (for lack of a better term) the destroyed female bodies in front of me

that, what it really is, is a failure to see what a man sees (or colloquially, “what is really happening”), rather than a unique and necessary capacity to see and understand what they do see And thus, that the correct way for women to engage with art is to compartmentalize, “ get past ” or overlook the violence and hostility towards women that they see; for them to intellectually and emotionally circumvent their own unfortunate, “flawed” reactions to the painting of a woman being raped, and instead develop a more “nuanced and balanced” reading of it

This is the notion that underpins the widespread reluctance to truly engage with and fully explore criticisms of misogyny within art and culture particularly art and literature, which it has already been decided is Great and Important

Objectivity Bites

I’m not someone who is particularly hesitant to speak about experiences with misogyny or sexism my own or anyone else’s or to try to nudge a conversation towards what I find relevant And yet, in this context, I felt both the need to self-censor and the strange, lurking, uncomfortable desire to vacate my own subjectivity, and step into a male one, in order to somehow “better” appreciate art It seems to me that this dynamic of hostility towards and devaluation of female experiences with art can be both an internalized and socially reaffirmed one, one which I’ve found in classrooms, among friends and within my own consciousness

We need to address the way that women ’ s credibility as listeners, viewers and readers is undermined by the notion that what women see in art is somehow limited by their identity;

Y o n i a n d G e t i “ W a s s u p ( U h H u h ) ” J o y f u l N o i s e

Shay Collins

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Da v i d C o h n a k a Se re n g e t i t r a n s f o r m e d t h e i r f r i e n ds h i p i n t o m u s i c a l c o l l a b o r a t i o n Tr u e , Se re n g e t i’s

2 0 1 1 Fa m i l y & Fr i e n d s s a w Wo l f t a k e t h e p ro d u ct i o n re i g n s , a n d h i s i n f l u e n c e c o u l d b e h e a rd o n

On an emotional and intellectual level, misogynistic art excludes and scorns the female viewer or reader This is not a conclusion that condemns misogynistic art or means that we should ignore art that alienates women misogynistic art or art that contains misogynistic dynamics has varying levels of value and use, which will always depend on its effect However, the role of the female reader or viewer, and the way that women feel when they experience art that alienates them, needs to be accounted for in our interpretations and discussions We need to make space for women to speak these kinds of considerations and awarenesses, not tell them that these feelings are some kind of failure of objectivity However, I don’t believe that making space for the female reader and viewer will be a project of charity Because, right now, the people who are, perhaps the most apt to fully appreciate the moral ambiguities of a novel like Lolita or a film like American Psycho, or the art of George Condo, are the ones who have been repeatedly told that their feelings and thoughts are childish and counterproductive And so, this space-making and redistribution of credibility might actually be the key to many of our most contested intellectual quandaries Maybe it is the scorned female reader and viewer who has the answer

Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences Objectivity Bites appears alternate Wednesdays this semester She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun com

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Se re n g e t i t r a c k s l i k e “ Go d d a m n i t ” t h a t c h a n n e l h i s k i t s c h - a s - l o n e l i n e s s a p p ro a c h A n a g g i n g f e e l i n g , h owe ve r, re m a i n e d t h a t Se re n g e t i a n d Wo l f s t i l l h a dn ’ t t r u l y p u s h e d t h e i r c o l l a b o r a t i o n i n t o e xc i t i n g t e rr i t o r y t h a t m a x i m i ze d e a c h w o rd s m i t h’s s t a g g e r i n g p o t e n t i a l T h e t i m e h a s c o m e T h e d u o h a s a m a t c h - m a t c h y n a m e ( Yo n i & Ge t i ) , a n a l b u m t i t l e ( Te s t a ro s s a ) a n d a re l e a s e d a t e ( Ma y 6 ) O ve r t h e p a s t f e w we e k s , Yo n i & Ge t i h a ve b e e n s l i p p i n g o u t s i n g l e s o n e a t a t i m e , a l l ow i n g l i s t e n e r s t o g u e s s w h i c h p a r t o f b o t h a r t i s t s ’ e x p a n s i v e a n d e v e r - c h a n g i n g c a r e e r s Te s t a ro s s a w i l l a p p rox i m a t e Fi r s t c a m e “ Lu n c h l i n e , ” w h i c h s e e m e d t o h a rk e n b a c k t o Fa m i l y & Fr i e n d se r a Se re n g e t i , w i t h s we e p i n g s y n t h s a n d l y r i c s t h a t s w a b a t we e p a t i n a o n t o d e e p s a d n e s s “ Ou t s i d e , i n s i d e , i n t h e l u n c h l i n e / I s e e m y k i d s o n l y s o m et i m e s , ” Se re n g e t i r a p s ove r a t r a c k t h a t e v i d e n c e s Wo l f ’ s Al o p e c i a - s t y l e p ro d u c t i o n “ Ma d e l i n e , ” t h e s e c o n d s i n g l e f e l l i n l i n e w i t h W H Y ? ’ s m o s t re c e n t a l b u m s 2 0 1 3 ’ s Go l d e n Ti c k e t s a n d 2 0 1 2 ’ s Mu m p s , e t c a n d g re w f ro m

Wo l f ’ s c o m f o r t zo n e a s o f l a t e : a s i m p l e a r r a n g e m e n t o f h i s n a s a l l y vo c a l s ove r a m b l i n g , m e l a n c h o l y k e yb o a rd s Howe ve r, l i s t e n e r s a l s o g e t t o h e a r Se re n g e t i s i n g s a n s s a rc a s m o r g i m m i c k It’s a re ve l a t o r y m o m e n t ; Se re n g e t i’s l owe r, u n d e r s t a t e d vo i c e f i l l s i n p rov i d e s a n e a r n e s t s o m b e r n e s s t h a t a l w a y s s e e m e d o u t o f re a c h f o r Wo l f T h e d u o ’ s t h i rd s i n g l e , “ Wa s s u p ( U h Hu h ) ” e v id e n c e s t h e m o s t c o m p l e t e s y n t h e s i s o f t h e t w o a r t i s t s ’ s t y l e s t h u s f a r T h e t r a c k’s re p e t i t i ve , c o n s t a n t s t r u c t u re d r a w s o n m a n y o f Se re n g e t i’s r a p a r r a n g em e n t s , b u t t h e b e l l s a n d a c o u s t i c g u i t a r u s e d t o c o ns t r u c t t h e b e a t c o m e s t r a i g h t f ro m t h e e a r l y - W H Y ? p l a y b o o k L i k e “ L u n c h l i n e ” a n d “ M a d e l i n e , ” “ Wa s s u p ( U h Hu h ) ” i s m o re o f a q u i c k t a s t e o f w h a t ’ s t o c o m e o n Te s t a ro s s a t h a n a f u l l - f l e d g e d d e m o n s t r a t i o n o f Yo n i o r ’ Ge t i’s t a l e n t , b u t i f Te s t a ro s s a i s e ve n c l o s e t o a s i n t e re s t i n g a s t h e s i n g l e s i n d i c a t e , i t ’ s g o i n g t o b e a g e m o f a n a l b u m

B e y o n c é

“ H o l d U p ”

C o l u m b i a R e c o r d s

Troy Sherman

About halfway through this track, Beyoncé straight up and outright calls herself the baddest woman in the game For all the braggadocio that’s been pumped into the rap game for the past, well, it’s entire history, has there ever been an artist of either gender who deserves to claim such a title more than her?

Of course not

And goddammit, does she deserve it

What makes that line even more badass is that Queen Bey uses it to position herself as the source of Jay’s philandering power: had he never gotten famous, had he never made the money, had he never had the baddest woman in the game up in his shee-ee-eets, would any other woman have been “down to ride?”

If Beyoncé is to be believed, of course not

And while all of that, in one way or another, is what this song is about, it’s not all that’s there What we get is a lot more: namely, a bizarre backstory involving Twitter, Ezra Koenig and Maps, a surprising amount of genre-bending and dynamism for a three-and-a-half minute pop cut, perhaps the only tasteful use of an air horn, like, ever and, probably most importantly in the end, a dry-throated, confessional vituperation equal parts liberated from and trapped inside of the bitter doldrums that are that bottomlessly shitty feeling of getting cheated on

B r i a n E n o “ F i c k l e S u n

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Deflation Charge On Brady Reinstated

NEW YORK (AP) Tom Brady won Round 1 The NFL won Round 2 Round 3, anyone?

The “Deflategate” saga will continue if Brady insists on fighting his four-game suspension

There's no reason to think he's

“The league wanted to negotiate a settlement with Brady from the start, but he was adamant he did nothing wrong.”

willing to accept it despite long odds to win another court battle and the possibility that more litigation can drag on into next year

Manhattan Judge Richard Berman overturned the suspension last September, allowing Brady to play the 2015 season A threejudge panel of a federal appeals court ruled 2-to-1 on Monday in favor of the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, reinstating the suspension

But that doesn’t mean the New England Patriots definitely won ' t have their four-time Super Bowl champion quarterback the first month of the season

Here’s what can happen next:

The NFL Players Association has two weeks to ask the 2nd U S Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to rehear the case or the union can request the entire 2nd Circuit hears it If either agreed to do so, then the NFLPA could ask for a stay of Monday’s ruling and the court could agree or could turn down the request

The union could appeal directly to the U S Supreme Court, though it’s unlikely the court would consider it Brady and the NFL could reach a compromise, change the terms of the punishment and reduce the suspension The league wanted to negotiate a settlement with Brady from the start, but he was adamant he did nothing wrong and wanted to clear his name A reduced suspension probably means Brady would have to agree to some wrongdoing and apologize for his failure to cooperate fully with the investigation by not turning over his cellphone So far, Brady has refused to take this path If the courts aren ' t willing to hear his appeal, he may have no other choice than to sit down with Goodell and work out a solution

New York Rangers to Face Consequence of Failing in Stanley Cup, Despite High Expectations

GREENBURGH, N Y (AP) Change is coming to the New York Rangers, and it probably will hit the core group that carried the team deep into the Stanley Cup playoffs the past two seasons

It’s the price of failing miserably when expectations are high

After reaching the Stanley Cup Final in 2014 and making the Eastern Conference Final last year, coach Alain Vigneault felt Ryan McDonagh, Henrik Lundqvist, Dan Girardi, Rick Nash, Marc Staal, Derek Stepan, Derick Brassard and Mats Zuccarello had one more chance to grab the Cup His hopes were buoyed by the addition of Eric Staal at the trading deadline

While the group got 101 points in an up-and-down regular season, the postseason was a flop The Pittsburgh Penguins dispatched the Rangers in five games in the first round, with the last two games blowouts

“Now, obviously, there is going to be some changes,” Vigneault said Tuesday after meeting with players at the team ' s practice facility “There are still some very good pieces We have to decide in which direction we ’ re going to take ”

Vigneault said he and general manager Jeff Gorton will take their time before making any moves with a team that had the NHL’s best regular-season record a year ago

“Being so close the last couple of years, you don't get that close without thesense of missed opportunity,” defenseman Marc Staal said “As far as windows closing, I believe when you have a group in here like this, and you are talented enough and are working in the right direction, and you get

in the playoffs, you always have a chance ”

The Rangers didn’t have any chance after losing Game 3 The Penguins were a faster, more prolific team that made Lundqvist look ordinary in goal

Lundqvist took the blame for a porous defense, saying he just didn't make the plays As for the team, he warned against overreacting

“This game is about determination and how much you want it,” the 34-year-old goalie said “You talk about age, I want it as bad now as 10 years ago, maybe even more That

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will be my biggest motivation moving forward I look around this room, we have a lot of young players, skilled players who can play a big part for this club ”

Stepan said cleaning out the lockers early is not fun

“We certainly went out the way we didn’t want to, ” he said “It stinks the way we went out I have full belief in this group This group has proven we like to win hockey games, especially late in the year We just weren ’ t able to do it this year It will make us hungrier next year ”

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SUSPECT DEFENSE: Too many times the Rangers relied on Lundqvist to save them, and more often than not he did, expect in the playoffs This was a group that gave up too many odd-man rushes, left opponents uncovered in front of the net or simply had miscommunications Girardi ($5 5 million next season) and Marc Staal ($5 7 million) didn't have their best seasons and McDonagh hurt his hand before the playoffs and wasn ’ t himself The bright spot was the play of rookie Brady Skjei, who was outstanding as a late call-up for the postseason He’ll be around a long time

INCONSISTENCY: If there was a constant in the season, it was the ups and downs While they had 101 points, the Rangers never looked like the dominating team from the year before New York was a Cup contender the previous two season because it was good more often than not That didn’t happen this season, and the team heads home in April

FREE AGENCY: Defensemen Keith Yandle and Dan Boyle, forwards Eric Staal, Dominic Moore and Viktor Stalberg and goaltender Antti Raanta are all free agents The Rangers probably don't have enough money to keep Yandle or Staal Boyle, 39, is considering retirement but won ' t be back even if he decides to play Moore, Stalberg and Raanta can be back if the price is right

REST: For the first time in a while, the Rangers are going to have nearly four months to rest for next season In the previous four seasons, the team had played 76 playoffs games There were some people who felt the extended playoff runs caught up with New York this year

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Mattyasovszky Poullot is currently allowing the lowest amount of goals per game in the Ivy League (6 63) and is third in save percentage (49 2) She had two 10-save performances last week against Syracuse on Tuesday and Har vard on Saturday Mattyasovszky is leading the Red with 24 goals Senior attack Emily Tripodi is also having an excellent season and ranks second in the league for most assists with 23

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Loss to No. 2 Brown Ends Postseason Hopes

Pride | This weekend’s game between the Red and Princeton both tied for fifth in the Ivy League is a matter of pride A loss to Brown this past weekend ended postseason hopes

Th e Cornell men ’ s lacrosse team ’ s postseason hopes were cr ushed this past weekend with a 22-5 loss to No 2 Brown (12-1, 5-0 Ivy) m a k i n g

Princeton (4-8, 1-4 Ivy) this weekend mostly about pride The Bears’ only loss this season came against No 20 Br yant, and they currently sit atop the Ivy League

No 6 Yale’s (10-2, 4-1 Ivy) first two losses of the season came in its last two games against Brown and No 5 Albany and they currently sit in second in Ivy standings Penn (8-5, 4-2 Ivy) and Har vard (7-6, 3-2 Ivy) have also both had solid seasons and are third and four th, respectively The Red (6-6, 1-4 Ivy) is tied with Princeton for fifth, which means this weekend’s game will also decide who finishes alone at fifth in the standings t o e n d t h

Dar tmouth (1-12, 0-5) finishes play today at Brown

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Track and Field to Compete in Prestigious Penn Relays

Both men ’ s and women ’ s teams to send contingent of runners to compete alongside world’s best

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Journeymen Are the Unrecognized Heroes in Sports

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that are able to perform but never really achieve the individual fame that stars do So when a journeyman does succeed think Marreese Speights of the Warriors

Most players in each league are journeymen So when a journeyman does succeed ... it’s our responsibility as devoted fans to recognize and cherish them

u rneymen goes on and on, as most players in each league are journeymen team players

or Mike Carp of the 2013 Boston Red Sox it’s our responsibility as devoted fans to recognize and cherish them Pitcher R A Dickey and goaltender Tim Thomas are a class unto themselves, as both were journeymen who found enormous success late in their careers I think part of the excitement with all j o u r n e y m e n i s s e e i n g t h

o rd i n a r y become extraordinar y We see a player like R A Dickey who has struggled so much, worked so hard, and finally

after years of disappointment joins sports immortality with the Cy-Young award It’s a pseudo rag to riches stor y and it reminds us that anything is possible Once in awhile we ’ re lucky enough to see a team made up of

2004 Detroit Pistons As the New York Mets’ season rolls on, we ’ re reminded of how lucky we are to see stars and journeymen mesh to find success And we realize that it’s the unexpected success of these journeymen that give us the most fulfillment So let’s bank on the success of Lucas Duda, Alejandro de Aza, and Bartolo Colon All those journeymen who are lost wanderers without a home come to New York and help us win And just like that we see the unexpected become expected