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Pollack Defends Denial

Of Mental Health Review

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

President Martha E Pollack outlined steps the University is taking to address mental health issues, diversity and inclusion on campus at a GPSA meeting on Monday

more “comprehensive approach to support student well-being”

healthcare professionals, particularly underrepresented minorities

These efforts, Pollack noted, are part of a continuing focus on mental health

By MEGHAN FLANIGEN and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Sun Staff Writer and Sun City Editor

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Pollack defended her decision to r e j e c t t h e e s t a bl i s h m e n t o f a n independent ment a l h e a l t h t a s k force, noting that the University is c u r re n t l y p a r t i c ipating in an external review conducted by the JED Foundation, a nonprofit aimed towards youth suicide prevention

The JED Foundation, Pollack said, visited campus over the s u m m e r a n d i s p r o d u c i n g a report that will be finalized this spring Pollack offered to share the outcomes of this review with the public

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B r e a n n e Kisselstein grad, cochair of the GPSA Student Advocacy Committee, told The Sun that she was excited Pollack discussed the issue of mental health policy at the meeting

“It’s been an issue that people have been bringing up and it’s something that we ’ ve been tr ying to figure out how to work on, ” s h e s a i d “ Pe o p l e w a n t m o r e mental health initiatives for the graduate and professional students, so I’m glad she brought it up but I also hope we see real solutions soon ” At the meeting, Pollack also

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TED Founder to Speak at Cornell About Innovation

Author and architect to refect on his Jewish heritage while sharing his life story and new ideas

By STACEY BLANSKY Sun Staff Writer

TED founder and American author

R i c h a rd Sa u l Wu r m a n w i l l s p e a k o n

Febr uar y 5 in Call Auditorium, as the first speaker of the semester for the Major Speaker Series hosted by Cornell Hillel

Founded by Wurman in 1984, the

“[Speakers] usually talk about their story but oftentimes their experience with Judaism is interwined with that story.”

Julia Katz ’19

Technology, Enter tainment, Design conferences bring together speakers from various disciplines to give 18-minute talks on ne w and innovative ideas, according to TED’s website

Julia Katz ’19, student chair of the Major Speaker Series at Cornell Hillel, said Wurman was “ an obvious choice ”

“ We saw Wurman as this creator of the i n s t a n t l y r e c o g n i z a b l e T E D Ta l k s , a worldwide phenomenon,” Katz said “ We thought that students at Cornell would be interested in hearing the stor y behind that creation ”

Katz said that Wurman might also speak about his personal experiences with Judaism and how they led him to discover these commonalities between technology, enter tainment and design

“[Speakers] usually talk about their stor y but oftentimes you see that their experience with Judaism is inter twined w i t h t h a t s t o r y, ” K a t z s a i d “ We a re

Cornell Hillel, so we are tr ying to bring in these Je wish speakers and hear both their stor y, through whatever field they a

o Judaism ”

After receiving both a M Arch and B A r c h f r o m t h e Un

Pennsylvania, Wurman chaired the TED conference from 1984 through 2002 and the TEDMED conference, dealing with the health and medical profession, from 1995 to 2010

He has been awarded several honorar y doctorates, fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Ar ts and w

Professor of the Practice at Nor theastern University

Although hosted by Cornell Hillel, the event will be open to the public “I really encourage anyone and ever y-

“I really encourage anyone and everyone ... to understand and pick the brain of this incredible, innovative mind ” J u l i a K a t z ’ 1 9

one to come to this event and have the ability to understand and pick the brain of this incredible, innovative mind,” Katz said “I think he has done so much for the world in terms of these conferences, and it would be incredibly inspiring to really understand his thought process ”

Stacey Blansky can be reached at sblansky@cornellsun com

Burst Pipes Delayed Opening of Anabel’s

Store opening this week after store was fooded, soaking merchandise

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g ro c e r y w a s “f u l l y re p a i re d” a n d re a d y t o re o p e n We d n e s d a y C o r n e l l p a i d f o r t h e re p a i r s a s t h e

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p e e c h , o p e n n e s s , d e m o c r a c y, f e a r f u l o f w h a t h a d h a p p e n e d i n Ru s s i a w h e re s o c i a l i s m f e l l i n t o a o n e p a r t y ro u t e , “ Ba s u s a i d Ba s u e x p l a i n e d t h a t In d i a ’ s d e m o c r a c y h i n d e r e d s h o r t - t e r m e c o n o m i c g r o w t h , e s p e c i a l l y w h e n c o m p a re d t o c o u n t r i e s w i t h m o r e a u t h o r i t a r i a n r e g i m e s l i k e C h i n a De m o c r a c y re d u c e d In d i a ’ s f l e x i b i l i t y i n e x p e r i m e n t i n g w i t h n e w m a c ro e c o n o m i c p o l i c i e s No n e t h e l e s s , Ba s u a d vo c a t e d f o r a d e m oc r a t i c a p p ro a c h r a t h e r t h a n a s o c i a l i s t o n e , b e c a u s e a c o e r c i v e s t r u c t u r e s i m i l a r t o C h i n a ’ s m a rk e t e c o n o m y “ m a y w o rk f o r s o m e t i m e b u t , i n t h e l o n g r u n , i t b a c k l a s he s ” A l t h o u g h In d i a ’ s g ro s s d o m e s t i c p ro d u c t d i d i n c re a s e d u r i n g h i s t e n u re i n o f f i c e , Ba s u e x p re s s

Pollack Defends Rejection of Mental Health Review

Ongoing diversity and inclusion directives making progress, some committee members say

discussed the progress of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate, which was implemented to address diversity and inclusion on campus after several raciallycharged incidents last fall

Kisselstein, who is a member of the campus experience subcommittee, told The Sun that the task force is making progress Each subcommittee, she said, has already dis-

“She wants ideas And they don’t need to be

cussed how it will be run, when it will meet and which issues it will work on

“[Pollack] told us [that] we ’ re on a timeline, we ’ re on a very tight timeline, it’s going to be really hard work, but she wants ideas,” she said “And they don’t need to be perfect we just need to be really creative and think of real solutions and then report them by May ”

In addition to the task force, Pollack listed three steps the University is taking in the area of diversity and inclusion

The Inter fraternity Council and Panhellenic Council both implemented a new diversity program before spring recruitment began, the Usniversity created a new diversity website and the Center for Teaching Innovation is assembling an online course to equip faculty with skills to

teach in multicultural classrooms, Pollack said Additionally, Pollack emphasized the need for a clear consensual relationships policy, praised graduate and professional

students for opposing a part of the recentlypassed Congressional tax bill and informed GPSA of a 40 percent funding increase and expanded eligibility requirements for the Student Child Care Grant program, which

a h u g e i n t e r ve n t i o n w i t h o u t e n o u g h p rof e s s i o n a l i n p u t Ba s u a l s o s a i d t h a t i

provides financial assistance for students’ childcare expenses

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun com

n c h i n g a n o - c o s t “ S h o p p e r ’ s C l u b, ” w h i c h a n y s t ud e n t c a n r e g i s t e r f o r o n l i n e T h e c l u b w i l l p r o v i d e m e m b e r s w i t h a c c e s s t o f r e e c o o k i n g c l a s s e s , p ro m o t i o n s a n d g i ve a w a y s , a c c o rd i n g t o t h e A n a b e l ’ s Gr o c e r y we b s i t e Ad d i t i o n a l l y, s t u d e n t s c a n f i l l o u t a we b s u r ve y t o d e t e r m i n e i f t h e y q u a l i f y a s “f o o d i n s ec u re ” If t h e y d o , t h e y w i l l re c e i ve a 1 0 p e rc e n t f o o d s u b s i d y, w h i c h w i

“There was flooding due to pipes that had burst throughout Anabel Taylor Hall and there were damages done to the ceiling and some store product.”

Former V.P. Cheney to Lecture in March

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A Sun analysis last year found that Cornell Republicans had paid nearly $6,000 in security fees to Cornell over two years for conser vative speakers, including $5,000 to former Sen Rick Santorum, a Republican who was repeatedly interrupted during his lecture in November 2016 The Cornell Political Union also chose to make a Tea Party leader’s lecture private rather than pay a $1,700 security fee

Left-leaning lecturers, meanwhile, rarely bring protests from C

Democrats’ president at the time, Kevin Kowalewski ’17, said the group had never needed to hire Cornell Police during his time with the organization

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Gingrich’s lecture at Cornell last March

under President George H W Bush

Cheney has written several books, including a memoir with his daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, who is a U S representative from Wyoming

While Cornell sponsored Biden’s address in May, Cheney’s visit is funded by Cornell Republicans, its donors and the Young America’s Foundation, a conser vative youth organization, McLaughlin said He declined to say how much Cheney charged to speak at Cornell A Politico report in 2010, citing a person familiar with Cheney’s speaking fees, said the former vice president charged $75,000 in 2009

Cheney does not appear to have any direct connection to Cornell, although two Cornellians once named a slime-mold beetle after the vice president while he was still in office

“He’s old and wise, as they say, so I think it’ll be great to hear his perspective ” A u s t i n M c L a u g h l i n ’ 1 8

“Most of it is out of our control, but we are ver y well prepared for whatever happens,” McLaughlin said

The event will be free and open to the public, but attendees will need tickets to get in Tickets will be available for pickup in Willard Straight Hall beginning sometime in March

McLaughlin said Cheney is a “fresh” choice for the annual Cornell Republicans event, noting that Cheney has largely been out of the news since 2009 A movie portraying Cheney’s life starring Christian Bale as the vice president is expected to be released in 2018

“It will be exciting to get him,” McLaughlin said “He’s old and wise, as they say, so I think it’ll be great to hear his perspective ”

Before he ser ved as vice president under Bush, Cheney, 76, was the CEO of Halliburton, an energy industr y company Wyoming voters elected Cheney to the U S House of Representatives in 1978, where he ser ved until 1989, when he was appointed secretar y of defense

In 2005, Cornell Prof Quentin Wheeler, entomology and plant science, and Kelly B Miller, Ph D ’01, labeled 65 new species of beetles and named three in honor of Cheney, the younger Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, the former secretar y of defense Wheeler was cr yptic in an inter view with The Sun at the time, saying his and Miller’s naming of the 65 beetles one of which they called A cheneyi Miller was neither a political decision nor based on the beetles’ features

“ When leaders do what they believe is the right thing and it is popular we owe them our thanks,” he wrote in an e-mail at the time “ When they do what they believe is right and it is unpopular, they deser ve our admiration ”

Wheeler, now the president of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestr y in Syracuse, said at the time that he named the beetles after citizens that showed great “character and resolve sticking to their principles in the face of stiff opposition ” Neither Wheeler nor Miller immediately responded to emails on Monday night

Asked about the beetle connection, McLaughlin said, “Is that worthy of comment? I don't think so ”

Cheney grew up in Nebraska and Wyoming and studied at Yale before earning a B A and M A at the University of Wyoming

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Willow Hubsher | This is Not a Sex Column

A Scathing Condemnation Of College Boys

Say what you will about Taylor Swift, but the girl knows a thing or two about writing a revenge song

O n h e r m o s t r e c e n t a l b u m , Reputation, the song “I Did Something Bad,” contains the lines: “If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing / I don't regret it one bit, ' cause he had it coming ” Well ladies and gentlemen, some men talked some shit

My first ever column for The Sun was called “It’s Not You, It’s Me (But Also, Maybe It’s You)” about how I’ve never experienced an orgasm, and the cultural implications that the conversation surrounding this issue represents

Sometimes people think that because I speak so openly about my sex life, they can too.

It can be hard when ever yone knows you ’ ve never had an orgasm and I understand I brought that upon myself And mostly I love all attention, so it isn’t that big of a deal However, as I oh-toeasily forgot, “slut shaming” is still ver y m u c h a t h i n g a n d s o m e t i m e s p e o p l e think that because I speak so openly about my sex life, they can to Last semester, after a n at one of Ithaca’s lovely ba went home with a guy happened to be on an ath team We slept together and obviously I didn’t o r g a s m b u t I h a d a good time I woke up to find that he had left t h e c o n d o m o n t h e floor which is RUDE but other than that it was pretty uneventful We exchanged a fe w dr unk texts over the course of the semester but never met up again

all felt comfor table using intimate knowledge of my sex life, even if I had published it myself, and that is quite irksome I decided to go to the par ty anyway Upon introducing myself to some guy in the basement, he said “Oh, you ’ re Willow Want me to make you cum right now?”

As shocked and grossed out as I was, I’m great under pressure so I snarled and scoffed and said “ you couldn’t possibly” and walked away

The concept that guys can be shitty is not groundbreaking And yeah, people kiss and tell, I get that Actually, ver y fe w people were surprised by the first par t of this stor y Mine was not the first and won ’ t be the last name dropped in that GroupMe, not to mention all of the names spoken about by all the other fraternities and athletic teams on this campus I want to use this stor y not just to highlight the ownership and entitlement that men feel over women entitlement to our bodies and our information and our adoration but also the culture that organizations like these, that are built on toxic masculinity, allow to fester

Yes, men can be assholes individually, but groups like these should provide some kind of social accountability Only one guy needs to say “ not cool man, ” but of c o u r s e t h e g r o u p - t h i n k d y n a m i c

leave ethics by the wayside, and the entire bunch can be poisoned by a fe w bad apples who normalize this behavior

Obviously we cannot ban gatherings of men believe me, I’ve thought about it and it just isn’t feasible However, it is exactly this the normalization of sexist,

Only one guy needs to say “not cool man.”

My last night in Ithaca before leaving for Winter Break, on my way to a par ty at the house of the aforementioned athletic team, I found out that this boy had written “I fucked Willow Hubsner” in the team ’ s GroupMe

This announcement prompted someone to bring up my “I can ’ t orgasm ” column and then the team fined him like made him pay money for failing to break the curse That was pretty funny, but as funny as it was, it was a hundred times more fucked up This group of guys

racist, idiotic behavior that has landed our entire countr y on this flaming steamboat headed to hell on a river of shit I’m not blaming the Cornell men ’ s lacrosse team (whoops) for r uining ever ything, but I am blaming ever y single one of them for accepting this kind of behavior I know you aren ’ t supposed to complain when you step in pig shit after you walk into a pig sty, but maybe we should be holding our peers in higher esteem than pigs

Willow Hubsher is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at wrh73@cor nell edu T h i s i s No t a Se x C o l u m n appears alter nate Tuesdays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Grammys at a Crossroads

The Grammys have become, in some ways, less and less meaningful with each passing year As the music industry has moved from records to C Ds to digital ownership to streaming, it has become easier and easier for listeners to sample large swathes of music without committing to, for instance, a certain album as the year ’ s best Online music platforms like Bandcamp and DatPiff have also undermined the monopoly of popular music by record companies, but it is difficult to qualify for a nomination if an artist is not signed to a record label, which disqualifies many indie artists and rappers who self-release albums or mixtapes

At the same time, the Grammys have become more discussed and anticipated than ever in the past few years, because just like the Academy Awards they have become a measure of seismic changes in cultural conversations As racial and gender inequity have become more publicly debated, nights like the Grammys offer a chance for aging societies run by white men to show that they “ get it” with some necessary prodding, like the #OscarsSoWhite online movement

The Grammys have not received the same degree of scrutiny as the Oscars have, but they have had their share of controversies Two particular standouts both involved Kendrick Lamar his loss to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis in 2014 for Best Rap Album and his loss to Taylor Swift in 2016 for Album of the Year Both of these decisions caused commotion among critics who argued that Kendrick, the most vital and incisive artist of his time, was being snubbed in favor of safe, pop-radio choices that could only deserve the award if “best” meant “biggest-selling ” Kendrick used his early performance slot on Sunday night to deliver a shock to the award show’s system: a high-concept and visually stunning piece that was announced via a screen over his head as a “Satire by Kendrick Lamar ” Men in combat fatigues and hoodies marched in place around Kendrick, then returned in red hoodies and were methodically shot dead onstage as Kendrick stood in the eye of the storm, rapping Dave Chappelle operated as something between a hype-man

and a host, reminding the audience during the performance that “the only thing more frightening than watching a black man be honest in America is being an honest black man in America ”

But while the Grammys flirted with making politics central to the show, they smothered it with a whole lot of sugary frosting James Corden was a cloyingly saccharine host, and standards like “Tears in Heaven, Patti LuPone’s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” and “Tiny Dancer” were familiar and boring (to be fair, Elton John killed it, as usual)

The mix of relevant and vital commentary with tone-deaf, cringeworthy sloganeering was most irritating in the transition from Kesha’s performance to U2’s Kesha sang “Praying” after a speech by Janelle Monae about the #MeToo movement and gender inequity in the music industry Kesha’s performance became a kind of symbolic exorcism of her years-long struggle to escape a contract with Dr Luke, a producer who she claims serially abused her during their longrunning business partnership After Kesha had finished her wrenching performance, the show switched immediately to a pre-recorded performance by U2, staged in front of the Statue of Liberty, which quickly degenerated into Bono crowing something about the American Dream into a flag-decorated megaphone Apparently he said,“blessed are the shithole countries” in reference to Donald Trump’s recent derogatory language However, not only was this censored for live TV, but my friends and I couldn’t understand a damn thing he was saying into that megaphone in the first place, which really encapsulates the “ appearance over content ” nature of the Grammys in general The Grammys made somewhat of a good-faith effort to make time for performances and speeches about serious and topical issues, but the most remarkable thing about the night was that the committee chose to give all of its top three awards to Bruno Mars Record of the Year (for performance/production), Song of the Year (for songwriting) and Album of the Year

In every single one of these categories, Bruno Mars was the safest, most anodyne choice the one who wasn ’ t doing anything provocative, just doing it goddamn well enough Jay-Z’s and Kendrick’s meditations on race and fame, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” perhaps the most inescapable song in America in 2017 despite none of the lyrics (until the Justin Bieber remix) being in English Logic/Alessa Cara/Khalid’s “1-800-273-8255,” a song named after the National Suicide Prevention Hotline that addresses timely mental health problems, and Lorde s Melodrama, a gorgeous album about emotional crises, were all snubbed in favor of an artist who relentlessly mines nostalgia Bono and the Edge introduced the Album of the Year award, and Bono offered a bizarrely halting and defensive assertion of the value of the award which only underscores how little Bruno Mars’s win means More than ever, the Grammys want to allow for and support radical speech, but they haven’t yet figured out how to actually honor any of it

Jack Jones is a senior in the college of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun com His column Despite all the Amputations runs alternate Tuesdays this semester

Vladimir Kara-Murza Is Not Backing Down

BY JACOB RUBASHKIN Associate Editor

Someone is trying to kill Vladimir KaraMurza

Someone is failing

The Russian journalist and democratic activist, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, is soft-spoken but full of life as we sit chatting about politics in the lobby of Gates Hall Kara-Murza is in town for a screening of his documentary Nemtsov, which tells the story of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, and in an interview with The Sun he explained the story behind the film, and what he hopes to impart on his audience

“Boris was the best of us so they killed the strongest, ” Kara-Murza says when asked about the brazen 2015 assassination of Nemtsov, just steps away from the Kremlin

Just who “they” are is left unsaid, but it doesn’t take a Kremlinologist to see a pattern emerge when studying the fates of Putin’s most outspoken opponents Before Nemtsov were Alexander Litvinenko, a defector who wrote about Putin’s rise to power and subsequently died of polonium poisoning, Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist murdered in her driveway, and Ukrainian president and Putin enemy Viktor Yuschenko, who in 2004 survived a dioxin poisoning

If “they” targeted Nemtsov because he was the strongest, then they must also fear Kara-Murza, who has survived two attempts on his life in the past three years

It is easy to see why “they” are worried

Over the past year, Kara-Murza, who currently serves as the vice president of the prodemocracy NGO Open Russia, has showcased his documentary on Nemtsov across Europe and North America Before he was poisoned, Kara-Murza screened the film in 11 Russian cities, and as he made his recovery his colleagues and friends continued the tour, eventually visiting 36 cities across the country

“It was most important for me to show it to the Russian audience,” he explains, “because that’s obviously where the main reach of the Kremlin propaganda is ”

Putin, Kara-Murza says, was quick to consolidate control over the country after coming to power in 1999, and in a few short years effectively shuttered the independent media and neutralized legitimate parliamentary opposition The institutional supports of democracy crippled as such, it fell to singular men like Boris Nemtsov to carry forward the fight

Had Nemtsov not been killed, he very well might have been the man to take down Putin There is more than a hint of sadness in his voice as Kara-Murza outlines the political path his friend would have potentially taken, from the Yaroslavl Oblast regional legislature in which he served at the time of his death, to the Duma (parliament) in Moscow, to the presidency in 2018 But more than that, Kara-Murza says, “Nemtsov was family for me ” Without Nemtsov or any other serious opposition candidate participating, the jour-

nalist laments, the outcome of the upcoming presidential election is clear “It is not difficult to win an election when your opponents are not on the ballot ”

Still, Kara-Murza remains positive about the future of his country Against all odds, he explains, the “Putin Generation,” young people who have known no leader but the steely-eyed former KGB officer, are among the most politically active and outspoken of Russians He pointed to the protests in recent years that have rocked the Putin regime, including last weekend’s rallies in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny

“It’s certainly a very worrying sign for the Kremlin,” he says of the recent protests, “and a very hopeful sign for Russia ” He points to the work his organization, Open Russia, does in the eastern regions of the country, far from the kleptocrats in Moscow and he remains adamant that one day, Russia will have free and fair elections for a responsible, democratic government

And on the international stage, KaraMurza sees improvement as well Already, four nations have passed versions of the Magnitsky Act, named after the anti-corruption activist and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died while in Russian government custody The targeted sanctions in that legislation, Kara-Murza explains, are the most effective tools against a ruling class that “doesn’t care about Russia,” but only their own wealth

He raises his voice for the first time during our conversation as he decries the “ulti-

mate hypocrisy” of the current regime, where the ruling elite rob Russians of their rights, savings and well-being, all the while preaching the necessity of their rule and vacationing on the French Riviera

He stresses that the Russian people are not to blame for the actions of their government, and that any sanctions should be designed so as not to harm the general populace

By taking Nemtsov to American and European audiences, and in particular universities, Kara-Murza says he hopes to show the next generation of Western leaders that “Russia is not just about Vladimir Putin and the corrupt kleptocratic thugs that are currently in charge ”

He pauses, and then calls out the Western political discourse for conflating Russia with Putin “No, it’s not Russia! Name it for what it is Talk about the Putin regime ” Boris Nemtsov, he concludes, exemplifies what is “honorable, decent, and principled” about Russia

Despite all the trials through which he and his movement have gone, Kara-Murza shows no sign of stopping

“People,” he says, smiling, “ are finally starting to pay attention about what’s actually happening in Russia ”

Jacob Rubashkin is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun com Andrei Kozyrev is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at akozyrev@cornellsun com

SCIENCE

Monkey Cloning Sparks

Ethical Concerns, Pr ofs Say

By JOSH EIBELMAN Sun Staff Writer

Meet Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two cloned macaque monkeys Chinese scientists first unveiled these monkeys several weeks ago, marking the first time primates have been successfully cloned with the same method that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 Just as it did then, the science research com-

m u n i t y i n s t a n t l y r a i s e d ethical questions and con-

c e r n s a b o u t h u m a n cloning

T h e o r e t i c a l l y, h u m a n cloning could be achieved in two ways Reproductive

h u m a n c l o n i n g w o u l d

e n t a i l c r e a t i n g a l i v i n g human, identical to another person previously or cur-

may be possible to clone humans from e x i s t i n g a d u l t s Ev o l u t i o n a r y h i s t o r y demonstrates the enormous advantages of sexual reproduction for populations

o f c o m p l e x o r g a n i s m s , ” Fo x s a i d

“Cloning on a large scale would be a perilous step backwards ”

Fox added that the scientists were only able to clone cells from a monkey fetus and not a living monkey, but that “ t h e m e t h o d s w i l l p r o

the embr yo develops and a clone is born

“Personally, I feel it’s too bad that it may be possible to clone humans from existing adults

Evolutionary history demonstrates the enormous advantages of sexual reproduction for populations of complex organisms ” P r o f T h o m a s F o x

r e n t l y a l i v e T h e r a p e u t i c cloning would employ stem cells from a human embr yo to treat diseases

Prof Thomas Fox, molecular biology

a n d g e n e t i c s , u n d e r s c o re s t h a t t h e s e results could be “ ver y useful” in understanding genetic diseases in people He does, however, agree with Prof Marcos Simoes-Costa, molecular biology and genetics, that there are ethical concerns about human cloning which need to be thoroughly debated

“Personally, I feel it’s too bad that it

improved so that they eventually will be able to clone existing adults, as is possible with several other mammals ”

Zhen Liu and his colleagues at the

C h i n e s e A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c

Shanghai used a method called Somatic

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clone the monkeys Using this process, scientists take out the nucleus from a healthy egg and replace it with a nucleus from another animal The egg is then inser ted into a surrogate mother, where

“ You can produce cloned monkeys w i t h t h e s a m e g e n e t i c b a c k g r o u n d except the gene you manipulated This will generate real models not just for genetically based brain diseases, but also cancer, immune or metabolic disorders and allow us to test the efficacy of the dr ugs for these conditions before clinical use, ” Qiang Sun, a senior author of the study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said R e p r o d u c t i v e c l o n i n g aside, the arguments for and a g a i n s t t h e r a p e u t i c c l o n i n g recall the case for and against abor tion While both involve destroying an embr yo, therapeutic cloning would entail creating an embr yo marked at the outset for destr uction Critics of human therapeutic cloning believe that would undermine human dignity and respect for human life

According to the Center for Genetics and Society, about 46 countries have banned human cloning, including more than a dozen members of the European Union In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution calling for “[the] ban of all f o r m s o f h u m a n c l o n i n g , i n c l u

incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life ” Although the United States has no such restrictions, the federal govern-

from human clones

Scientists like Simoes-Costa believe that it is imperative to star t preparing for the possibility of human cloning

“ W h i l e r e p r o d u c t i v e c l o n i n g o f humans could be technically feasible in the shor t term, it does not mean that this experiment should be per formed,” Simoes-Costa said

He explained that it is not possible to guarantee “developmental abnormalities” will not occur in the process of cloning nor the welfare of potentially cloned children

“It is impor tant to foster discussion on the ethical implications of the procedure, so that the appropriate policies are in place when the time comes, ” SimoesCosta said

Despite the breakthrough in geneti c s , Fo x a r g u e s t h a t r e p r o d u c t i v e cloning will not become common-place anytime soon

“It’s hard to imagine human cloning becoming more than a hobby for a fe w wealthy narcissists,” he said

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Students Say Solicitors Are Overly Aggressive

CJF seems to have little opera t i n g h i s t o r

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I don’t carr y my wallet with me, ” Matthe w Burke ’20 told The Sun “After that she r ubbed my shoulder and continued on to the next student ” “ Sh

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n o f Tompkins County, a hub organization for local philanthropy, said they have “ no histor y at all” of working with the charity “ I

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Executive Officer Cornell Police deputy chief

“She just wouldn’t leave I ended up giving them $10 because I didn’t know what to do.”

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“ S h e j u s t wouldn’t leave I ended up giving them $10 because I didn’t know what to do ” C J F v o l u n t e e r s s o m e t i m e s neglected to identify themselves while asking for donations

“ When they approached me [ o n t w o s e p a r a t e o c c a s i o n s ] , they didn’t tell me [what] organization [they work for],” said M i c h a e l We n y e L i ’ 2 0 , T h e Sun’s assistant photography edit o r “ B u t t h e s e c o n d t i m e I looked carefully at the binder she was holding and I saw the name ” R e g i s t e r e d i n t h e I n t e r n a l Revenue Ser vice database as a public charity, CJF aims to assist “the many marginal, poor and less privileged children in the P h i l i p p i n e s a n d i n A s i a , ” according to their website The c h a r i t y r e p o r t e d l y a s k e d f o r donations at other universities as well, in some cases allegedly

f o r g i n g d o n a t i o n a m o u n t s t o p r e s s u r e s t u d e n t s t o d o n a t e more

David M Honan said that the fundraisers have not yet been repor ted to the police

“If members of our commun

unauthorized activity, they are welcome to give us a call and we will have an officer respond to

said

organization’s fundraising activity at Cornell, she said that all volunteers should have proper authorization for their activities

“I know that [if fundraisers] do anything, they have to have

Diana Locano said via phone call

Locano then told The Sun she would return the call when a super visor was available At the time of the publication of this ar ticle, this had yet to happen

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun com

Red Fall To Lions Saturday

from page 15

While the Lion’s top player, Camille Zimmerman, poured in another characteristically outstanding performance with 23 points, four other Columbia players were able to record double-digit nights on Saturday a far cry from the previous weekend in which the Red was able to limit any player not named Zimmerman

“[Zimmerman] is a tremendous player and I think the key is to limit her to maybe her average and really try to shut the others down,” Smith said “We just did a really good job [during the last game, but] this game I thought their supporting players really stepped up ” The Red will have two more Ivy tilts this weekend on the road against Dartmouth on Friday at 7 p m and Harvard this Saturday at 5 p m

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Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun com

Red Looks to Maintain Recent Success at Drexel

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

A f t e r s l ow s t a r t s t o Iv y L e a g u e p l a y, t h e C o r n e l l m e n s ’ a n d w o m e n s ’ s q u a s h t e a m s a re h o p e f u l t h e y c a n g e t b a c k i n t o t i t l e c o n t e n t i o n i n t h e s e c o n d h a l ve s o f t h e i r s e a s o n s T h e m e n ( 5 - 6 , 0 - 3 Iv y ) s t a r t e d t h e s e a s o n s t ro n g

w i t h t w o w i n s a t t h e Wi l l i a m s Ro u n d Ro b i n d e s p i t e l o si n g a m u l t i t u d e o f k e y c o n t r i b u t o r s To p p l a ye r Ha r r y Fre e m a n ‘ 1 7 g r a d u a t e d d u r i n g t h e o f f s e a s o n w h i l e

s h m a n Yo h a n n Su r t i w i l l b e o u t u n t i l Fe b r u a r y

j e c t e d t o p - t h re e p l a ye r Jo h n Gre e n w o o d ’ 2 0 i s a l s o c u r re n t l y o n l e a ve a f t e r b e i n g c h a r g e d w i t h a h a t e c r i m e e a r l i e r t h i s a c a d e m i c ye a r Gre e n w o o d w a s c u t f ro m t h e t e a m p r i o r t o h i s a r re s t f o r n o t p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n

t e a m t r a i n i n g o n a re g u l a r b a s i s , a c c o rd i n g t o t h e t e a m ' s

c o a c h Howe ve r, d e s p i t e a s o l i d s t a r t , t h e o d d s t o o k a t u r n f o

b o t h o f w h i c h w o u l d h a ve b e e n t o p p l a ye r s f o r o u r t e a m , s o i t h a s n ’ t b e e n e a s y, ” s a i d h e a d c o a c h Da v i d

Pa l m e r “ We’ve j u s t h a d t o a d j u s t ”

Bu t a s t h e s e a s o n h a s p ro g re s s e d , t h e s q u a d h a s re d ef i n e d ro l e s a n d t h e Re d a re i n t h e m i d s t o f a m i n i re s u r -

g e n c e w i t h t h re e w i n s i n i t s l a s t f o u r m a t c h e s Ju n i o r

A n d y Mu r a n h a s c l e a r l y e s t a b l i s h e d h i m s e l f a s t h e t o p p l a ye r o n t h e t e a m , g o i n g 3 - 4 a t f i r s t s i n g l e s t h i s ye a r

Ju n i o r Pe r r y Ha n s o n h a s a l s o p u t i n s o l i d w o rk a t b o t h f i r s t a n d s e c o n d s i n g l e s w i t h a n ove r a l l 5 - 3 re c o rd o n t h e ye a r “ [ Mu r a n ] a n d Pe r r y Ha n s o n h a ve re a l l y s t e p p e d u p f o r u s s o f a r t h i s s e a s o n , ” Pa l m e r s a i d “ T h e y h a ve t a k e n ove r t h e t o p o f t h e l i n e u p q u i t e n i c e l y, a n d w h i l e i t

“I feel that now we have a group of about 16 guys who want to work hard, and I think that, come nationals, we can finish high in the main draw.”

[ w a s ] d i f f i c u l t t o l o s e [ Fre e m a n ] , t h o s e t w o h a ve d o n e a

g re a t j o b f o r u s ” “ I f e e l t h a t n ow we h a ve a g ro u p o f a b o u t 1 6 g u y s

w h o re a l l y w a n t t o w o rk h a rd , a n d I t h i n k t h a t , c o m e

n a t i o n a l s , we c a n f i n i s h h i g h u p i n t h e m a i n d r a w, ”

Pa l m e r s a i d “ I ’ m h o p i n g t h a t we c a n f i n i s h s o m e w h e re

b e t we e n t e n t h a n d 1 2 t h d e p e n d i n g o n h ow t h a t we e k -

Stepping up | Despite losing a multitude of key contributors, the Red has been

In particular, Hanson and Muran have spent majority of their time at the top two spots this year

e n d s h a k e s o u t ” T h e w o m e n ( 8 - 3 , 1 - 2 ) h a ve a l s o f a c e d a s i m i l a r u p a n d d ow n t r a j e c t o r y t h i s s e a s o n A f t e r w i n n i n g i t s f i r s t t w o m a t c h e s o f t h e s e a s o n a t t h e Wi l l i a m s Ro u n d Ro b i n , t h e s q u a d we n t o n t o l o s e t w o o f i t s f i r s t t h re e Iv y L e a g u e m a t c h e s , b e f o re a re c e n t s t re a k o f f o u r w i n s i n t h e p a s t f i ve m a t c h e s L a s t ye a r ’ s t o p p l a ye r R a c h e l S c h e r m a n ’ 1 7 g r a d u a t e d i n t h e s u m m e r, b u t t h e t r i o o f s e n i o r s Mi c h e l e Ga rc e a u , E m m a Ui b l e a n d M a r g a u x L o s t y h a v e p e r f o r m e d a d m i r a b l y i n h e r a b s e n c e De s p i t e a m i n o r d i s k i n j u r y t o b e g i n t h e ye a r, Ga rc e a u i s 5 - 1 , i n c l u d i n g t w o w i n s a t f i r s t s i n g l e s Ui b l e h a s g o n e 3 - 3 , s p l i t t i n g t i m e b e t we e n f i r s t a n d t h i rd s i n g l e s a n d L o s t y h a s g o n e 4 - 2 , s p l i t t i n g t i m e b e t we e n s e c o n d a n d t h i rd s i n g l e s “A l l t h re e o f o u r t o p s e n i o r s a re n e a r l y i d e n t i c a l t a le n t - w i s e , s o t h a t g i ve s u s g o o d o p t i o n s g o i n g i n t o m a t c h e s , ” Pa l m e r s

Hoopers Unable to Overcome Turnovers Against Columbia

By CAITLIN STANTON Sun Staff Wr ter

After accumulating an impressive eight consecutive wins over Columbia across multiple seasons, the Cornell women ’ s basketball team was unable to maintain its streak during last Saturday’s 72-54 home loss

“I thought our defensive execution wasn ’ t as good,” said head coach Dayna S m i t h “Columbia came in with a much m o r e

n I thought they did a nice job of set-

Samantha Clement each recording double-digit point totals Clement had a team-high 15 points, while Widdman had her second straight double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds Jorgensen also added 14 points and handled four assists while playing the entire 40 minutes The trio followed up note wor thy numbers from last weekend’s win against Columbia i

Jorgensen were once again the top scorers with 22, 15 and 9 p

“I thought they did a nice job of setting the tone early with the speed and aggressiveness of their offensive transition and we didn’t respond quick enough.”

their offensive transition and we didn’t respond quick enough ” Columbia (7-12, 1-3 Ivy) maintained its lead over the Red (5-12, 1-3) for the entirety of the game ’ s 40 minutes, bringing its lead to a height of 22 points for the last five minutes of the game

Despite the loss, the Red put up a fight, with the squad’s top three scorers in sophomore guards Samantha Widdman and Danielle Jorgensen and junior guard

turned the ball over 22 times, leading to 22 chance points for the Lions

“Our league is ver y good and teams take advantage of turnovers and turn them into points pretty quickly,” Smith said “It’s definitely a key to the game, something we were ver y disappointed in that we had done and have to work to correct quickly ”

Spor ts

“Red”- hot | With its recent weekend sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth, the Red has extended its unbeaten streak to ten games – a major reason why the squad tops the key USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls this week.

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W O M E N ’ S H O C K E Y

Women Split Tough Weekend To Finish Home Stand

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

In front of boisterous home crowds, Cornell women ’ s hockey dropped a tough 4-3 contest against the Clarkson Golden Knights in overtime on Friday, but rallied back to handily defeat the St Lawrence Saints 4-1 on Saturday

of an early error by the Red just 22 seconds into the overtime period period to seal the win for the Golden Knights

“Going into overtime we knew we would have to have good puck management and play within our system.”

J u n i o r P i p p y G e r a c e

The Red (13-7-2, 10-5-1 ECAC) faced a daunting opponent in the Golden Knights (22-31, 13-2-0) in its first match, but was able to remain unfazed by the challenge The squad managed to stay even with Clarkson for much of the game, ending regulation tied at 3-3

However, Clarkson’s Loren Gabel was able to take advantage

“Going into overtime we knew we would have to have good puck management and play within our system, ” said junior forward Pippy Gerace “Clarkson has many dangerous offensive players and they were able to capitalize early off of one of our mistakes ” H i g h l i g h t s from the game include goals from freshmen f o r w a r d s Maddie Mills and Willow Slobodzian, two assists from senior defender Sarah Knee, and a goal and an assist from sophomore forward Kristin O’Neill

On the defensive end, junior goalkeeper Marlene Boissonnault recorded 21 saves for Cornell The loss to the Golden Knights knocked the Red out of conCrucial goaltending |

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on Saturday