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Students Criticize New Economics Department Policy

Say loss of CPT authorization harms international students’ job prospects

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

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“We international students rely a lot on the CPT to get work experience [and] find a job after we graduate ” A k h i l e

By MADELINE COHEN

Assistant News Editor

While less than a third of Cornellians sur veyed in a poll conducted by The Sun last week

Sun Survey of Cornell Students Shows Clinton Crushing Trump

s a i d t h a t t h e y vo t e d i n t h e Democratic and Republican primaries, approximately three quarters of those students say they plan to vote in the general election Fi f t y - f o u r w o m e n , 4 4 m e n and one gender-nonconforming respondent including approximately 20 students from each

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T h e C o r n e l l C o n c e r t Commission has announced that it plans to bring rock group Por tugal The Man to Bailey Hall on Nov 6

The band was formed in A l a s k a i n 2 0 0 1 a n d h a s released seven studio albums on its way to becoming an “essential par t of the indie rock genre, ” according to a CCC press release

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s w a g g e r, ” c o m p a r i n g i t s sound to ar tists like David Bowie and the Beatles

C C C Pr e s i d e n t S a r a h Dellett ’18 said the organizat i o n b e l i e v e s Po r t u g a l T h e Man’s different musical style will “ attract both Cornell students and the Ithaca community ”

“ This is my favorite band t h a t C o r n e l l C o n c e r t Commission has brought in during my three years here,” D e l l e t t s a i d “ We l o v e t o bring all different genres to campus, and I’m happy to be bringing indie rock after the more upbeat Louis the Child, Yo u n g T h u g a n d Wa v v e s shows ” Andrei Talaba ’18 said he s h a re d De l l e t t ’ s e xc i t e m e n t a b o u t C C

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Cornellians Run to Support Children’s Hospital

First Big Red Thon 5K fundraises, spreads awareness for dance marathon

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William Bai can be reached at hb388@cornell edu

The National Science Foundation has granted Cornell scientists $4 2 million to improve the marketability of tomatoes that have been plagued with a bacterium called Pseudomonas syingae pv tomato, according to the University This bacterium has been studied at Cornell for more than 20 years

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Economics Profs ‘Highly Uncomfortable’ With Current CPT

the start of students’ internships

The renewal process can also be complicated and narrow the win-

dow when international students can search for jobs in the United States after graduation

“It would reduce [international students’] chances of getting a job after graduation and make it

impossible in several cases, because most jobs require a one year contract before taking on the lead of sponsoring international students,” Issur said in an email to the economics director of under-

graduate studies

Economics major Imtisal Qadir ’18 agreed, stressing that discontinuing CPT would have severe consequences for international students striving to find employment in the United States after they graduate Cornell, jeapordizing their ability to secure work

“The economics department is very knowingly disregarding the career aspirations and prospects of its international students and making them practically unemployable within the United States after they graduate,” he said

Issur added that several international students are currently considering switching majors or declaring a second major that still provides CPT

In an email to Issur from Prof Stephen Coate, the director of undergraduate studies for economics, the professor cited multiple reasons for discontinuing CPT, saying the department’s faculty were “highly uncomfortable” with the fact that students were using the program to complete internships unrelated to their studies at Cornell

“The fact of the matter is that these summer internships are not integral to our major or part of our program, ” Coate said in the email “We are simply inventing a course and claiming that the internship is required for it We feel that this is abusing the system and we are highly uncomfortable facilitating this abuse ”

Addressing concerns that CPT

provides international students with an unfair advantage over domestic students, Schaffer proposed that the department create a full course, “rather than an ad hoc independent study,” to compensate for the fact that the program is not available to U S citizens

“A real course might better handle awarding academic credit for a kind of reflection on the concepts of your field as they were applied in the internship," he said, referring to a proposal mentioned in the S A resolution

This solution could be “ a nice, one-credit, pass or fail class that can be available to domestic or international students,” he added “International students would have to do it in order to be eligible for CPT, and other students could do it if they would like ”

The S A is expected to address the tabled resolution again at its meeting this Thursday, inviting economics faculty members to attend

Shaikh Talha Khurram ’19 contributed reporting to this story

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun com

than half say they plan to vote for former Secretar y of State Hillar y Clinton Only two students sur veyed plan to vote for

Re p u b l i c a n n o m i n e e Do n a l d Tr ump, five plan to vote for third-par ty candidates and 13 are still undecided

The two Tr ump suppor ters are students in the School of Hu m a n E c o l o g y a n d

Fourteen of those primar y voters identified as Democrats and had voted for Sanders; two Sanders supporters are voting third party and the remaining 12 reported

Clinton

The three remaining primar y voters whose candidate did not win a party nomination were Republican voters who voted for candidates besides Tr ump Of these three voters, one chose to vote for Gar y Johnson and the

Architecture, Ar t and Planning; both said they suppor ted the candidate in the primar y and identify as Republicans

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v e t h i r d - p a r t y v o t e r s s a i d t h e y plan to vote for Gar y Johnson, while two plan to vote for Jill Stein These two Stein suppor ters identified as Democrats and voted for Sen Bernie Sanders (I-Vt ) in the primaries, whereas the three Johnson suppor ters said they did not vote in the Republican primar y

The vast majority of the 17 students who do not plan to vote in the general election said they have decided not to participate because they are not politically involved

However, not all of the stud e n t s s u r v e y e d h a v e d e c i d e d whether or not they will vote, and some are still deciding which candidate to vote for Of the 74 students who said they plan to vote, 13 specified that they are not sure which candidate to vote for and eight said they have not decided whether to vote or stay home on election day

T h e Pr i m a r y

Less than a third of students sur veyed voted in the primar y election; 26 students said they did not vote in the primar y due t o d i f f i c u l t i e s s u b m

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Sixteen of these students said they did not vote in the primar y b

seemed “ too complicated,” while 10 said they “tried but were ultimately unable to submit their absentee ballots ”

New WSH Director Promises

will remain ‘by students, for students’

to ease the transition to new leadership

The majority of student primar y voters 17 of the 26 cast their bids

others remain unsure who they plan to vote for

With many speculating that undecided voters may decide this election, The Sun plans to conduct several follow-up sur veys in the next six weeks to see if and how the percentage of undecided votes changes

Rebecca Even ’18 and Henr y Kanengiser ’18 contributed reporting to this stor y

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com

d m i n i s t r a t o r s a n d s t u d e n t s were productive and augmented understanding between the two groups “ We had a positive reaction to the statement and a ver y prod u c t i v e m e e t i n g w i t h Vi c e President Lombardi,” Patel said “ We will be happy to share more information as we have it, but this is an ongoing process ” Speaking of the change in

a d v i s o r s , Bu r k e s a i d t h e straight’s former advisors will still work closely with the SUB

“ The SUB has had a strong relationship with their former

“The transition should have no direct impact on the SUB’s ability to operate.”

advisors, and in the meeting with VP Lombardi it was noted that such a transition can be difficult,” he said “ The transition

[should] have no direct impact on the SUB's ability to operate as a successful student organization and per form their daily functions and ser vices to the student body ” Burke maintained that his goal was to continue supporting the SUB and their efforts in u p h o l d i n g t h e v a l u e s o f Willard Straight Hall “[Lombardi and the CCE] share mutual goals of helping the student union remain a vibrant and exciting place ‘by students, for students,’” he said

Justin Park can be reached at jpark@cornellsun com

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DESIGN DESKERS Brian LaPlaca 18 PHOTO NIGHT EDITOR Michaela Brew 18 NEWS DESKERS Josephine Chu 18 Stephanie Yan 19

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Statement in support of fellow grad worker

As members of Cornell Graduate Students United, we stand in solidarity with fellow student and colleague Marsha Jean-Charles grad as she navigates the graduate school grievance process in an effort to reverse the unfair revocation of her funding and “good standing” in her program

Marsha’s funding and good academic standing have been jeopardized by the poor review of a single faculty member within her department Marsha’s funding and good academic standing were revoked due to a single bad review without the input of her special committee Marsha’s funding and good academic standing were revoked despite a detailed letter from her dissertation chair indicating that the behavior catalogued in the review was anomalous and the processes that led to the funding revocation were problematic

It is illogical and unfair that Marsha’s good academic standing was judged based on a poor review from a single faculty member, who is not part of Marsha’s special committee and therefore has no direct connection to Marsha’s academic progress These inconsistencies highlight the unjust nature of the decision, as well as a lack of respect for Marsha’s labor and scholarship

Marsha filed a grievance against this decision, which has escalated up to the Graduate Grievance Review Board No other case has made it to Graduate Grievance Review Board (GGRB) in nearly twenty years at Cornell This is not because Marsha’s case is an exception It is because Cornell’s grievance process is long, arduous, and ineffective; it lacks transparency and tends to favor faculty and administrators over students Graduate students are actively discouraged from escalating grievances by administrators who assure the students who come to them for help that little can be gained from the process This process is particularly daunting to those marginalized by oppressive cultural and institutional biases, especially when experienced at the intersection of multiple identities Instead of giving graduate students an avenue for action, it merely supplies language for the administration in their advertising of Cornell as a “Caring Community ”

Facing this grievance process alone, Marsha could be powerless as her future is decided by biased authorities who care more about preser ving Cornell’s image and pacifying faculty than they do about their students’ fates She is expected to silently accept whatever judgment is handed to her

But Marsha is not silent She is not powerless She is not alone Her voice and struggle are our collective voice and struggle as graduate students We, her fellow workers and scholars, stand with her

Marsha should not pay the price of others’ lack of responsibility and abuse of power She deser ves respect as a worker and as a scholar

We have the right to fair, just and functioning channels for grievance resolution that are not single-handedly created and decided by the administration There is no real “Caring Community” unless the voices of graduate students are included, listened to, and impact how we shape our learning environment

Each of us know that Marsha could have been me, could have been my best friend, my office mate or my fellow grad colleague in a seminar room I stand in alliance and solidarity with her in her fight for her rights at her hearing before the GGRB We, together, demand the reinstatement of her funding and her good academic standing

This Wednesday (Sept 21) we will be gathering on the 3rd floor of Caldwell Hall at noon to show support for our fellow colleague and worker, and we sincerely hope you stand with us, as we stand with Marsha

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his year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Beastie Boys debut album Licensed to Ill, and in commemoration, the work will be reissued on vinyl, which is set for release on October 14 Licensed to Ill was wildly popular when it was initially released in 1986, and has since been certified diamond by the Recording Industr y Association of America (RIAA) A quote by Chuck D of Public Enemy is included in Def Jam's press release for the reissue: “The breakthrough of Licensed To Ill in 1986 paved the road legitimizing Rap to its USA masses This record also expanded HipHop diversity allowing Public Enemy's Takes A Nation to be its antithesis ”

Chuck D's words here pose an interesting question: what exactly does it mean to “legitimize” an art form to the “ masses ” of fans in America and the western world? The answer to that questions seems to vary and possess its own degree of complexity However, the case of Licensed to Ill is relatively simple At the time of its release, the rap genre was still in a state of infancy; if the somewhat arbitrary founding date of rap is assumed to be September 1979 with the

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Trip Hastings is a freshman in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at gh357@cornell edu

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release of Rapper's Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang, then the genre had not aged even a full decade In the time preceding Licensed, rap flourished in primarily African-American cultural communities Artists like RUN-DMC and Kurtis Blow perfected the musical and production aspects of rap, while individuals like Grandmaster Flash explored the social commentary that can be achieved with the genre “ The Message,” a song by Grandmaster Flash that represents the tribulations of city life as a black American, is perhaps the best example of early “reality” rap

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d e v e l o p , three white guys from New York City created and released an album that is entirely devoid of potent racial commentary, instead opting for themes of partying and misogynistic sexual pursuits Nevertheless, Licensed to Ill is musically captivating and millions of people embraced the Beastie Boys and their music As Chuck D mentioned, Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back can be thought of as a type

of antithesis to the Beastie Boys' work; it is highly political and a unique product of black discontentment In this sense, Licensed to Ill is indeed a case of cultural appropriation as it plucked the best parts from rap music and left behind the components of the AfricanAmerican experience This is not to say that Licensed was entirely palatable; its themes and the Beastie Boys' subsequent tour were offensive to many However, with Licensed to Ill, the Beastie Boys did manage to convert an artform that was inconceivable to American masses into something that was more tangible and only tastefully offensive

Perhaps this is the general algorithm when it comes to “legitimizing” an art form to any larger group of people An emerging creative medium often holds a great deal of personal significance to its pioneers, one that is rooted in a discontentment with the status quo When another party emulates this new sound, the original affinity can be replaced with less polarizing notions in order to gain a broader fan base Yet, does this process always have to specifically entail cultural appropriation? Not necessarily “Legitimization” can simply occur when a genre stops being unfamiliar and assumes some stability The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's is often lauded as one of the greatest rock albums of all time because, like Licensed, it finally allowed its genre to become widely accepted, and thus

harmless as an art form (The borrowing” by the Beatles of Indian musical elements on songs like “Within You Without You” is certainly noted ) Likewise, The Clash's London Calling served to integrate punk rock into the musical palates of the masses, and represents a clear departure from the alienating grittiness of other bands like the Sex Pistols or the Damned A more recent example might be the ever increasing popularization of EDM music; originally of a more underground notoriety, the genre gained a massive following only when artists incorporated it into their own forms of popular music

Maybe it would be wrong to assume that the mass popularization of a new genre entirely annuls its artistic potency In the case of Licensed to Ill and Takes a Nation, it is important to note that the latter was released two years after the former Thus it is completely possible to assert that the Beastie Boys' initial success allowed later groups like Public Enemy or N W A to gain their own platforms and fame In every case, the additional diversity allows for an influx of different nuances, spawning ever more artists and music

Nick Swan is a sophomore in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun com Sw a n ’ s So n g r uns alternate Thursdays this semester

By JOSH EIBELMAN Sun Contributor

Have you ever found yourself with friends, in need of a stereo system to play music, but with none in sight? Problem solved A group of University of Buffalo students took up their weekend to design Goofy, an app which creates a loudspeaker system from your phones, syncing the same song across a number of devices and thus amplifying the sound All you have to do is take a picture, wait for the system to randomly choose a song based on your mood, and sync it across your friends’ phones

Where was this and so many other cool apps and websites designed?

You guessed right: BigRed Hacks, the student-r un hackathon right here at Cornell

While most regular students were out Friday night at 8 PM, a group of several hundred undergraduates from all over the countr y gathered at Call Auditorium for the opening ceremony of the annual BigRed Hacks Hackathon, getting ready for 36 sleepless hours of designing, coding, building, testing, and re-working

BigRed Hacks was organized as par t of the student hackathon league, Major League Hacking, and was sponsored by companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Bloomberg, and Wayfair These companies presented their Application Program Inter faces pieces of code their companies developed which hackathon par ticipants can use in their own code Capital One, for example, offered a wide array of APIs related to online banking and shopping Microsoft provided APIs related to facial emotion detection

Most sponsors also offered prizes for the team that best uses their API which were sure to leave par ticipants drooling Microsoft, for one, promised to give each winning team member a Sur face Pro 4 Tablet

The opening ceremony featured Prof Carla Gomes, computer science and director of the Institute of Computational Sustainability Gomes’ presentation, c a l l e d “ C o m p u t a t i o n a l Me t h o d s f o r B a l a n c i n g Environmental, Economic, and Societal Needs,” related to the overall theme of hacking for sustainability at this year ’ s event

However exciting Gomes’ talk was, it was evident that the par ticipants, many of whom travelled a long way to par ticipate, were eager to begin coding Chatter, shuffling of suitcases, and laptop clicking prevalent during most of the opening ceremony were

By SAM KITTERMAN

Sun Staff Wr ter

Cornell has been chosen to play a leading role in the push to update America’s cr umbling infrastr ucture

Patricia A Hoffman, the Assistant Secretar y at the Office of Electricity Deliver y and Energy Reliability

a b r a n c h o f t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f E n e r g y announced in late August that Cornell was one of five universities chosen to receive a grant for research into how to mend America’s beleaguered power systems

An aspect of the Depar tment of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative which, on top of striving to make baseline improvements to the nation’s energy grid also seeks to make the system more open to rene wable energy sources and energy efficient str uctures the grant totals $1 8 million to be split between the schools

Alison Kennedy, senior advisor at the Office of Electricity Deliver y and Energy Reliability, summed up the GMI as “ a comprehensive DOE effor t to help shape the future of our nation's electric grid and solve the challenges of integrating conventional and rene wable sources with energy storage and smar t buildings, while ensuring that the grid is resilient and secure to withstand growing cyber security and climate challenges ” A s s t

Revie w a repor t on the nation’s energy needs produced by the DOE recent natural disasters like

all silenced in sleep mode, however, when aspiring computer science rapper Jared Wong ’18 per formed lines like, “It all looks better in the tech,” “Most rappers use base 10; I speak base 2” and “took bits of a sandwich because I needed a byte ” Wong, known as JWong and FloCaml, received the most rambunctious and enthusiastic applause of the night, leaving the crowd buzzing and even more jitter y than before

The hackathon itself took place at the Physical Sciences Building Laptops, Oculus Rifts, monitors, backpacks, and water bottles were stre wn across the tables in the lobby of the building, company booths packed to the brim with people gathering tech swag company t-shir ts, selfie sticks, yoyos, and other goodies and there was a hardware rental station where one could find all sor ts of devices to use Most of all, there was an evident air of excitement and not just the sor t of buzz that surrounds cool technology: it was the creative energy, the endless possibilities that coding and design provide which electrified the air

Despite 36 hours without sleep, not a single team member gave any sign of weariness Adrenaline flowing, eyes glowing, par ticipants r ushed to tell me about their products, already planning out fur ther improvements and changes they can make

The creators of Goofy Parag Jayant Datar, Me l v i n P h i l i p s , Ku s h a l B h a n d a r i ,

Ravichandran, all second year graduate students in the Computer Science and Engineering Depar tments at the University at Buffalo said their biggest challenge in developing the app was reducing the syncing latency, or delay, across devices to a minimum They say they managed to get the latency down to 60-70 milliseconds

O n e C o r n e l l t e a m – S o p h i a Ya

1 7 , Jo h n Draikiwicz ‘17, and James Cassell ‘17 – developed a product called Life Aler t for Tur tles, envisioning a safer environment for tur tles and better tracking of the reptiles Their plan attached electrodes to the tur tle’s shell, which aler t a devoted tur tle rescue team in a given area when a tur tle flips over onto its shell and is helpless The system also involves a tracking system, detailing where the tur tle is and which direction it is heading at any given time, which the team suggested could be useful for tur tle tracking in wildlife refuges

Another Cornell team developed a sustainabilitythemed product called Fridge Buddy Fridge Buddy tracks the expiration dates for food in your fridge, marking food that needs to be urgently eaten in red

Hurricane Sandy have made the need for an updated, more reliable and more responsive energy grid all the more prescience

Kennedy pointed to this need and numerous other problems currently facing America’s power systems

“Factors include a changing generation mix, evolv-

expectations for a resilient and responsive grid in face of natural, or man-made, events, ” he said

He also mentioned other issues pointed out in the QTR, including the need for ne w manners of detecting failures in the system, as well as the adoption of smar t grid technologies

OE oversees many of the DOE’s ongoing powerrelated projects with a host of par tners “ D O E i

s , industr y and other stakeholders is helping to shape the future of the power system, ” Kennedy said “ The Office of Electricity Deliver y and Energy Reliability has primar y responsibility within DOE for this effor t ” Cornell’s project, which was chosen after submitting a proposal in the OE’s competitive selection process, is entitled “Management of risk and uncertainty through optimized co-operation of transmission systems and microgrids with responsive loads ” The t e a m , w h i c h r e c e i v e d $ 3 6

, 0 0 0 o f a n e s t i m

t e d $450,680 project cost, will be working on microgrids and transmission, with a specific focus on storage, r

response

and the other food in green

“Did you know that 35 million tons of food waste is produced each year?” Amanda Chen Cornell ‘19 asked

The app also suggests recipes for food already in your fridge, weighing food with more urgent expiration dates more heavily Chen, and her teammates

Michael Velez ‘19 Swathi Chakrapani ‘19, Michelle O’Br yan ‘19 hope that Fridge Buddy will cut household grocer y costs and reduce food waste

Nikhil Verma and Alvin Lin, a second year graduate student and a freshman, respectively, at Rochester Institute of Technology, along with Cindy Wang ‘19, developed a phone game called Recycle Rampage, which is meant to educate people about which items are recyclable and which are not Its simple, intuitive design won the team the Best UI/UX, meaning user inter face and user experience design

SwearJar, which listens for profanity in speech and charges the user after a cer tain amount of times it hears profanities, won the Goofiest prize The app was developed by Hope Jin (Columbia University senior), Arian Moslem (Rutgers sophomore), Darpan Tanna (Purdue Un

University junior)

The prize for the best business prospect went to Jonathan Grant, Maia Mirchandani ‘19, and Eric St

Cornell University, and Liber ty University, respectively Their product, Add me, allows a user to follow another person on multiple social media platforms at once, simply by scanning a QR code

A lone Binghamton student named Jack Fischer took on the challenge of making a web browser in 36 hours, and succeeded Named Andreesen after Marc Andreesen the author of the ver y early Mosaic web browser which popularized the internet this project’s creator won Fischer the Best Technical Feat prize

Other projects included intElect, which generates candidates for senate when a user enters a zip code, and Kalories, which splits pictures of food into their individual components, such as identifying the ingredients in a soup, and lists the ingredients’ nutritional value

The list of amazing projects goes on It was cer tainly inspirational to see so much accomplished in just 36 hours

Josh Eibelman can be reached at je332@cornell edu

Rene wable sources of energy are less cer tain than conventional sources, like oil, and as such require updated systems that can respond to disr uptions in production This aim, too, will be a focus of Cornell’s project, as will the relationship between micro and macro-grids, helping make improvements to the energy system on both a large and small scale

The project also seeks to address the concerns that helped spur the OE into action and produce the grant contest, in the first place The devastating effects natural disasters can have on an ill equipped energy system are a primar y focus of the project Specifically, the Cornell team plans to analyze how low-voltage systems can smoothly react to response demands

Research into power grid systems is nothing ne w to Cornell the recent DOE grant is a small par t in a long histor y of research into power systems Home to the Cornell Energy Institute, Cornell’s engineering d e p a r t m

Powe r System Engineering Research Center, which, since its founding in 1996, has sought to modernize electric grids through research like that now being aided by the DOE grant

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California, Riverside, Iowa State University of Science a n d Te c h

University of Texas at Austin

Sam Kitterman can be reached at skitterman@cornellsun com

R e s e a r c h e r s M e a s u r e 3 - D F o r c e I n M a t t e r a t S i n g l e - P a r t i c l e S c a l e

By KELLY ZHOU Sun Contributor

What started as a question to the A-exam turned into a revolutionar y discover y in the material science field Neil Y C Lin, a graduate student from Cornell University in pursuit of a physics Ph D , was asked if it was possible to measure forces at the single particle scale, given that the current methods can only measure said forces at bulk scale (in groups) on his A-exam Aexam is an exam where Ph D candidates must take crack at questions not even the professors know th answers to This question led Lin to work with Prof It Cohen, physics, Prof James Sethna, physics, Matthe Bierbaum, grad, and Prof Peter Schall from th Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam

After three years of research, this team of theorists, computer calibrators, and cr ystal specialists found their answer in SALSA no, not the tasty dip, but Stress Assessment from Local Structure Anisotropy

Most materials have complex force distributions within them that determine their overall mechanical properties The force distributions are complex, because almost all materials have defects In the case of cr ystals, even though there is a periodic arrangement of particles, chances are sometimes yo will find some areas that have a broken symmetr y any other imperfection Thus, measuring such force though made difficult by methods currently available, crucial to understanding how the bulk mechanics emerge

the stress or the force within the suspension,” Lin said This challenge stems from the fact that you need to know first, how the particles interact, and second where the particles are located in order to determine the force Conventional methods can measure how the particles interact, but measuring where the particles are located is far from simple Lin explained that since the forces between particles are often strong, a slight shift in their locations by the dis-

generate

probability

“ This gives us a much more robust way of approximating the stresses between particles,” Lin said SALSA essentially transforms the microscope into a pressure gauge The microscope is typically used to image the colloidal suspension structure, but now, with SALSA, image can indicate how the forces are distributed

A major advancement in the field, SALSA, allows researchers to measure 3-D force fields in a colloidal suspension system Colloids act like atoms, but are 106 times larger than atoms, making them easier to see than actual atoms For comparison, if an atom was the size of a dodo bird, a colloid would be about the size of Italy! Therefore, a colloidal suspension system provides a model for how atoms behave

“ The challenge in the field is yes, we can see atomlike particles, but we still don’t know how to measure

tainties, and those uncertainties lead to major errors in the final calculations of force

SALSA provides a solution to this dilemma Instead of calculating the exact moment the particles interact, according to Lin SALSA looks at how many times the particles collide over a given time, known as collision

Before SALSA, a mechanical probe such as a spring was used to gauge stress, pressure, or any other force robes fail to resolve individual particles without causng a disturbance SALSA, on the other hand, is a nonnvasive way of measuring the force of a system, and so ooks at the system as is, with no disturbances to the ystem that a probe introduces This provides a look at the true, instantaneous state of the system, which is important to determining the true source of a mater

SALSA, the resolution of the force is not limited by probe size, or is the resolution limited to the surface of the material

“As long as you can resolve individual particles, you can measure the force at the single-particle scale,” Lin said

Not only can SALSA resolve particles and the stress at the single-particle scale, but it can also resolve he distribution in three dimensions

“ This is actually the first time you can see a stress istribution in 3-D in any kind of material,” Lin said SALSA opens the door to answering all of the fundamental material science questions By measuring the force evolution, SALSA has the potential to answer questions such as: What mechanisms underlie cracking and fatigue? How do cr ystals flow and when do they break down? With SALSA, researchers can identify the driving force behind a phenomenon at a single-particle scale

“ The ultimate hope is that these forces give you the precursor or help you to predict the behavior of materials,” Lin said

Kelly Zhou can be reached at kz86@cornell edu

C o r n e l l S c i e n t i s t P r e d i c t s C l i m a t e C h a n g e W i l l P r o m p t E a

By

In an astronomical sense, the first day of spring occurs on the vernal equinox, when the hours of the day are almost exactly evenly split between daylight and night For the past six years, this exact time has fallen on various hours of March 20th Conventionally, this is the date the Gregorian calendar on your refrigerator will call the first day of spring

But how does a climate scientist define spring? An article published last month in Climate Dynamics, coauthored by Zachar y Labe, UC Ir vine, Professor Toby Ault of Cornell earth and atmospheric sciences, and Raul Zurita-Milla, University of Twente, highlighted the importance of this definition to understanding the phenomena of early onset springs The purpose of the study was to simulate both historical and future spring onset dates and better understand the extent to which natural variability and climate change impact these dates

Spring is popularly defined by the senses – the bustling and buzzing of renewed insect activity, shrill and gurgling bird song, and the shockingly iridescent greens, purples and yellows that symphonically burst from the landscape

“It’s one of those things, you know it when you see it, right?” Ault said “There’s a host of changes that you can really detect, just subjectively, in the middle to end of April, early part of May ”

The study, “Identifying anomalously early spring onsets in the CESM large ensemble project,” is partially unique for its use of what Ault defines as an objective and quantitative metric of what defines the onset of spring

“What actually was originally a model of lilac bud burst and first blooms but has been repurposed as a more generalized indicator of spring onsets, ” Ault said “What

we ’ ve done is we ’ ve taken a model that was once tied to plant phenology and adapted it to be more tuned to the atmospheric component so that we can isolate the part that’s driven by the climate system or is driven by the atmosphere ”

Ault and his colleagues used this index in combination with global climate models to create long term predictions of how spring onset dates will change in the coming decades The results were staggering

“The average spring in a future less than half a cen-

path of burning a lot of fossil fuel and using the atmosphere as a dumping ground for excess CO2 when we make energy, ” said Ault “It’s hard to believe that we ’ re going to just let this happen to the planet without doing something about it,” Alut said

If 2012 is any indicator, these increasingly normal early springs will have a large toll on agriculture According to the Senate testimony of Joseph Glauber, the chief economist of the United States Department of Agriculture, flowering trees which had an early response to warm temperatures in March were negatively impacted by subfreezing temperatures that continued into April In particular, tart cherry production was cut nationally by 68 percent, including over 80 percent losses in Michigan

“Now is the time to take a different path if we think maybe it would be better not to have all of the increased risks and consequences and impacts from rising global temperatures”

tury in the future looks like the earliest spring on record over the last century, ” Ault said

The earliest spring on record was the spring of 2012 In that year, Ault explained, the indicators of spring onset changed by around two months In other words, according to the most recent models, within four or five decades one might begin to regularly expect typical April weather beginning around February

“This is the outcome we get if we continue down this

When spring comes early, the date of the last frost often does not shift along with temperature averages and trends of a n i m a l a n d p l a n t l i f e c yc l e events or phenological events

As a consequence, the less hardy plants begin to suffer, leaving farmers to either suffer crop losses or find a way around the late freezes

Despite the gravity of these consequences, Ault points out that the predictions of this study are hardly set in stone

“It doesn’t have to be that way, ” said Ault “Now is the time to take a different path if we think maybe it would be better not to have all of the increased risks and potential consequences and impacts from rising global temperatures ”

Annie Taylor can be reached at amt259@cornell edu

Red Avoids Shutout Vs. Navy

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“It just brings a little bit of a new element to our offense ”

Coming out of the half down 28-7, the Red needed to put up points quickly to stay in the fight with the feisty Midshipmen However, three of the four drives for Cornell in the third quarter resulted in punts, and the other was an interception in the red zone

Navy capitalized on the Red’s inability to keep possession of the ball, scoring twice more in the third quarter, extending their lead to 40-7

As the rain began to fall at Schoellkopf, so did any possibility of a comeback by Cornell In the final period, both teams put in backups, hoping to avoid injuries to key starters, giving underclassmen and less experienced players opportunities to play

“I have all the confidence in our team and our ability,” said senior running back Kevin Nathanson “I think that we can do a lot of great things this season We just have to execute ”

Navy quarterback Nick Deterding, who not only passed for 191 yards and four touchdowns, but also rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns, led Navy Clements ended the first sprint football game of his career with 133 all-purpose yards and a touch-

down

“Navy is a really exceptional team, ” Cullen said “ Their quarterback made one mistake the entire game Nearly ever y single pass he threw was right on the button We had someone there all the time, we were just out executed ”

For Cornell, Nathanson finished the afternoon with a team-high 81 rushing yards, and scored the only touchdown of the day for the Red Conrad Mc C

defense with seven tackles apiece

“We only had 15 practices to prepare for our first game, ” Cullen said “Navy, on the other hand, had spring practice along with a scrimmage; so at this point, they were just way ahead of us in terms of preparation, and installation of offense and defense ”

Next week, Cornell will look to improve to 1-1, when the men travel to Mansfield for a showdown at Karl Van Norman Field next Saturday The Mountaineers were defeated by Penn, 31-7 in both teams ’ season openers

“After today’s loss, all I am thinking about is moving on to the next game, ” Nathanson said “ The only thing we can do at this point is focus on beating Mansfield ”

Bennett Gross can be reached at bmg83@cornell edu

Men’s Hockey Ranked Fifth, Sixth in Preseason Polls

Cornell men ’ s hockey has been picked to finish fifth and sixth in the ECAC for the 201617 season in the media and coaches’ poll, respectively The Red enters the season with most of its key players returning, including all of last season ’ s top-five scorers and AllIvy League goalie Mitch Gillam

Cornell finished last season with a record of 16-11-7

Cornell was ranked seventh by the coaches, and ninth by the media in last year ’ s preseason poll 2015-16 saw the emergence of a strong offensive line with senior Jeff Kubiak in the middle, and sophomores Mitch Vanderlaan and Anthony

Angello on the wings

On defense, Cornell retains strongholds sophomore Alec McCrea and seniors Patrick McCarron and Holden Anderson

Top names ahead of Cornell include perennial favorites Quinnipiac, Harvard, Yale and St Lawrenc

Padres’ G.M. Scandal Conficting for Admiring ILR Student

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was lauded as one of the most intelligent hires in the game

h o l d i n g a v e r y a g g r e s s i v e approach that allowed him to skyrocket to relevance Within the next month, I decided that I wanted to apply to Cornell early decision I visited and fell in love with the campus, I kne w the school was where I wanted to be The night before the application was due, I changed my mind about what program I wanted to a p p l y t o I h a d w r i t t e n t h e majority of my essay for AEM, but I had the epiphany that ILR was a better fit for me

I had to star t my essay from scratch, because I was applying

t o a d i f f e re n t c o l l e g e ( w i t h i n Cornell) This upset my parents, but I finished in under eight hours and submitted it before the deadline Miraculously, I was admitted to the ILR program at Cornell In hindsight, I don’t believe that I would have been admitted to the AEM program (and therefore Cornell in general) if that’s what I had applied for A J Preller and his position with the Padres is the seed that was planted in my head that brought me to the idea to apply to ILR Arguably, A J Preller is the reason that I ended up at Cornell, heavily shaping the last two years of my life

Pr e l l e r f o l l o w e d h i s h i r i n g with two massive overhauls of a c o n s i s t e n t l y m e d i o c r e Pa d r e s team, first acquiring and signing many experienced and expensive players to tr y to win immediately This approach failed in a way But in another way, it rene wed fan interest in the sense that the owners spent enough money to build a sense of tr ust that had eluded ownership for almost two decades He flipped the veterans for prospects, building a reser ve that far exceeded the talent that h e i n h e r i t e d He b e c a m e m y idol, in terms of how I wanted to shape my career For the first time as a Padres fan, I felt that the front office was extremely competent

Preller’s aggressive approach has r uffled some feathers in the past he ser ved a different one month suspension in the late 2000’s because he attempted to negotiate with an international free agent ser ving a suspension

f o r l y i n g a b o u t h i s a g e T h e

Pa d r e s h i r e d h i m w i t h f u l l knowledge of the situation This brings us to today A J Preller was suspended for 30 days for c o n c e r n s s u r r o u n d i n

t r a d e with the Red Sox that sent pitcher Dre w Pomeranz to Boston

This is what we know about the situation: T

teams in trades

The Padres and Marlins • made a six-player trade at the trade deadline, but par t of the deal was reversed after pitcher Colin Rea came out of his first star t with the Marlins with an arm injur y Rea was sent back to San Diego in exchange for justt r a d e d p i t c h i n g p ro s p

c t Lu i s Castillo

The Padres fired long- • t i m e t r a i n e r To d d Hu t c h e s o n before the season, and hired for-

mer minor league trainer and spor ts medicine director for the San Diego Navy SEALS Mark Rogow as a replacement

After hiring Rogow, the • way that the Padres recorded injuries changed Allegedly, they were keeping two logs of player injuries an internal log in which minor treatments (such as massages, over-the-counter pain relievers, or acupuncture) were recorded along with the more s

repor ted in the external log A repor t by Buster Olney stated that “front office people” from San Diego instr ucted Rogow to do this

S

repor t to Boston that pitcher Dre w Pomeranz was taking an oral medication before the trade, likely Tylenol The Red Sox (and a fe w other teams that made

office

The result of this scandal was that A J Preller was suspended for 30 days without pay He has taken at least some of the blame for this, although it is unclear his direct involvement in the situation It has personally been hard to stomach, regardless

Preller had, that the man I have

involved in a scandal that has

The man I have modelled my entire academic and career focus after is involved in a scandal

dragged his reputation through the mud

Indirectly, I owe so much to A J Preller he inspired me to spend these last two years at

Cornell University I still aim to emulate many qualities of his in my professional career, but I sit here, hoping that his involvement in these possibly under-

not intentional or nonexistent

It is ver y possible that I am wear-

dedicated Padres fan, a fan of Preller and a student at Cornell It is my opinion that there currently is not enough information to realistically know where to place the blame at this point

Noah Elden can be reached at nelden@cornellsun com If I Were G M appears on Tuesdays this semester

Red Bounces Back Strongly With Win at Lock Haven

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Back to back goals in the second half from junior forwards Katie Carlson and Krysten Mayers blew open Sunday’s game against Lock Haven (3-3, 0-1 A10) for Cornell field hockey (4-2, 0-0 Ivy) The 4-0 win was an important step for the team as it looks to carry its momentum into Ivy League play

“It was good to get the [win] under our belt,” said head Coach Donna Hornibrook said of the game “We scored some goals and got the shut out so there were a lot of positives in that game ”

After a close one to zero defeat at the hands of Stanford (2-4, 0-0 America East), it was important for the Red to get back on track offensively The team ’ s offense was certainly in a groove on Sunday, with Carlson and Mayers leading the way Carlson added two goals to continue her impressive 2016 campaign; she now leads the Red in scoring with five goals on the season

“Katie has definitely had the potential all along to become a solid goal scorer, ” Hornibrook said “She has found a knack around net and has a good sense of timing ” Mayers scored one goal and assisted on another against Lock Haven While Mayers is a pure goalscorer, she has found other ways to contribute this season, setting up numerous goals with her brilliant passing

“[Mayers] has become a player who can really create opportunities for us, ” Hornibrook said “She has a wellrounded approach ” Senior midfielder Katy Weeks also put in some very solid minutes for the Red, facilitating play through both ends of the field and notching two assists Weeks set up junior forward Gaby DePetro for her first goal of the season

One strength for the Red this season has been the team ’ s fitness Cornell has been able to outwork opponents in the second half because of the team ’ s top-notch conditioning

“Our fitness has been a benefit for us, ” Hornibrook said Fitness could also be one of the factors that has helped

the Red defensively Cornell is holding opponents to an average of just one goal per game so far this season

Junior goalkeeper Kelly Johnson has been lights out as well Although she has not been forced to defend a lot of shots so far this season, Johnson has made several key saves for the Red Cornell will open up its Ivy League season against a talented Penn (4-1, 0-0 Ivy) team at home on Saturday The Red is well prepared for the match and understands what it will take to get the win

“[Penn] has shown in the past that they have the ability to put goals in net, ” Hornibrook said “They are a consistent

team and certainly one of the more talented teams in the Ivy League ” Cornell will only focus on what it can control however, and that means executing on both sides of the ball If Carlson and Mayers can continue to produce as they have in recent games, Cornell will be in a solid position for to earn a victory

The Red will take on the Quakers on Dodson Field at noon on Saturday

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun com

Cornell Drops First Game to Navy

Midshipmen overwhelm Cornell in home opener; Red loses by 33 points

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Contributor

Coming off of a 4-3 season, with several important players returning for the Red, C o r n e l l w a s s l a t e d f o r a strong finish in the CSFL However, in the squad’s first game of the 2016 campaign, the team was defeated by Navy, 40-7, at Schoellkopf Field Saturday

T h e v i s i t o r s b e g a n t h e game by scoring on their first drive, capped off by a 49yard touchdown pass After forcing the Red to punt, the Midshipmen quickly put up seven more points, on a 16yard screen pass to running b a c k Bre n d o n C

n t s , who previously started 33 games on the Navy football team Cornell responded with a methodical scoring drive of its own, engineered by the read option running attack of senior quarterback Rob Pannullo At the end of the quarter, the Red trailed 14-7

T h e Mi d s h i p m e n we re a b l e t o s c o re t w o m o re touchdowns before the half,

Could not keep close | Cornell was able to mount a scoring drive towards the end of the first quarter, trailing 14-7, but could not keep the gap closed

one of which was on a 41yard scamper by Deterding In t h e s e c

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Connor Ostrander for two series prior to the break The substitution did not go as

Ostrander fumbled on the Navy 42-yard line, leading to a Midshipmen touchdown

“We have known all preseason that Connor and I were going to split time at quarterback, and when I am not at quarterback, I will be at receiver,” Pannullo said

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When I began the college search

sophomore year, I started to look for schools in big cities I have always had an affinity for cities, and I decided that I wanted to find somewhere urban to spend my college years My poor knowledge of New York geography combined with my urge to go to an academically elite school brought me to Cornell University which at the time I thought was in New York City Soon after, I realized it was

not where I thought it was, but the school stayed on the list The Applied Economics and Management (AEM) program at Cornell struck my interest The youngest person ever hired to my dream job the general manager of a Major League Baseball team was AEM alumnus Jon Daniels ’99 Eventually, I compiled my list of universities, and narrowed it down to 20 schools by the end of my junior year

Days before my senior year started, my hometown baseball team, the San Diego Padres, hired a graduate of Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) program to be their next general manager A J Preller ’99 With Cornell producing several top baseball executives, my desire to attend strengthened Preller