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Tuition Crowdfunding Prompts Call for Solutions

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer

Recent student-run crowdfunding campaigns to finance University tuition have attracted the attention of many in the Cornell community and raised questions about the necessity of change in the school’s financial aid system

Most recently, following the success of Jonah Hephzibah ’16, Nikolai Lumpkins ’18 took to the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe in hopes of raising $25,000 for tuition in order to remain enrolled at Cornell As of Tuesday night, Lumpkins’ campaign has raised nearly $6,000

Originally anticipating “ average ” reactions, Lumpkins said he was surprised at the strength of the responses he received, both positive and negative, when he made his online page

“There’s so much animosity and so much support, ” he said “I guess both extremes happen when you put some-

Cayea Faces Trial

r J o n e s ’15 Murder Friday

By SOFIA HU Sun News Editor

Jury selection for the trial of Benjamin Cayea a 32-year old accused of murdering his girlfriend Shannon Jones ’15 in her home last Thanksgiving began

If convicted of seconddegree murder, Cayea faces a minimum sentence of 15 years.

Tuesday in Tompkins County Court His trial is expected to begin Friday Benjamin Cayea allegedly strangled Jones, an independent major in the College of Engineering, in her Cayuga Heights home on Nov 27 He was indicted with one count of second-degree murder on Dec 23 and pled not guilty on Jan 2 Since his arrest, he has been kept in Tompkins County Jail without bail

Jury selection is expected to last two days until Wednesday If convicted of second-degree murder, Cayea faces a minimum sentence of 15 years

Jones was involved in the Violet student satellite project team of Prof Mason Peck, mechanical and aerospace engineering She was also part of the Teszia Belly Dance Troupe on campus, and her friends and mentor described her as an independent and creative thinker In an interview with law enforcement

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‘So Dodgy’

Lumpkins said his father and mother divorced when he was one year old, and that his father did not respond to him when he requested his father’s tax information for his financial aid application

Lumpkins said he reached out to the Office of Financial Aid prior to the start of the semester to discuss the removal of a noncustodial parent from his financial records at school

“Financial Aid was so dodgy,” he said about the response he received at the time

Later, after the start of the semester, he learned about a noncustodial waiver petition form of which his counselors over the summer did not mention, he said By that time, the deadline for the waiver’s approval had since passed

“[ This] is definitely an issue within the system, ” Lumpkins said “I don’t feel any animosity towards the

school, however I do believe the financial aid system needs to be revised ”

Movement for Change

Juliana Batista ’16, president of the Student Assembly, described recent crowdfunding efforts as the result of “ an issue that needs to be taken up at the University level ”

“Not that it’s the job of the financial aid to ‘hand-hold,’ but [the University] needs to be cognizant about the mental pressures on students and to have an understanding of what students need in order to help them with their situations,” Batista said

Batista said this issue is also occurring at the national level in colleges across the country, adding that she and John Lowry ’16, the president of the Class of 2016, are working on initiatives to tackle this problem

Garrett Defends Freedom of Speech

By SOFIA HU Sun News Editor

Cornell Police issued two consecutive crime alerts on Thursday regarding two incidents of criminal trespass one in the Young Israel House at 106 West Ave and another on the 700 block of Stewart Avenue

Two female victims living on West Avenue reported that an unknown male entered their room at approximately 5:15 a m Thursday The male allegedly stood at the foot of their beds until they woke up and when confronted, said “ sorry, ” and left the room, according to CUPD

The students described the trespasser as a “white male, approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds with shorter light colored hair and a clean shaven face ” He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with “CORNELL” written across the front

In a separate incident, another Cornell student woke up at 7:30 a m Thursday to find an unknown male in her room

The trespasser also said “ sorry ” and abruptly left the room, according to CUPD The victim described the trespasser as a “white male,

President Elizabeth Garrett garnered several media headlines after meeting reporters over breakfast at the Cornell Club in New York City on Thursday

In the meeting, Garrett delineated her stance on trigger warnings

“With respect to trigger warnings, first and foremost I am an absolute defender of academic freedom,” Garrett said, according to Politico New York

“And there are some professors, that before they teach a particular topic or book, want to talk to the students about

that and put it in some context And if they wish to do that, they have that right,” she said “If they wish not to do that, they also, in my view, have that right So I would never require any kind of particular warning be given ” Additionally, Garrett said she does not believe there should be any limits on freedom of speech at universities “ We’re about reason, rationality, debate So if you disagree with someone, the answer isn’t to shut them down,” Garrett said, according to The New York Post Compiled by

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Student Apologizes For Mac and Cheese Meltdown

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Connecticut student who went on an obscenity-laced tirade against food service workers when they refused to sell him jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese has apologized

Luke Gatti acknowledged in a 2 1/2-minute video posted online that he was drunk and said he was ashamed of his behavior

Gatti, a 19-year-old freshman from Bayville, New York, was due in court Tuesday on charges of breach of peace and criminal trespass stemming from his Oct 4 outburst at the university’s student union food court in Storrs, where the university is based His mac and cheese meltdown was captured on video and has been widely viewed online

Police and food service supervisor Dave Robinson said Gatti was refused service because he was carrying an open alcohol container Gatti was shown on video arguing with and shoving Robinson

“Nobody deserves to be treated that way, ever, ” Gatti says of Robinson in his apology video “At the time I was, to say the least, very intoxicated ” He says he was shocked when he first saw the video of his tantrum

“I was just watching it and saying ‘Oh, my God, like

what the hell is wrong with me?’” he says

He says he has personal problems he’s addressing and what happened at the student union was a “wakeup call ”

Gatti shot the apology video, titled “Drunk UConn Student Apology Mac and Cheese,” and uploaded it to YouTube on Sunday, his father, Vincent Gatti, told the Hartford Courant

“He’s a kid that made a bad mistake,” Vincent Gatti said “My son was wrong and feels terrible about this ”

Woman Sues Nephew, Says His Exuberant Greeting Led to Fall

BRIDGEPORT, Conn (AP) A woman is suing her 12-year-old nephew in Connecticut for $127,000 for injuries she says she suffered from his exuberant greeting at his birthday party four years ago

The Connecticut Post reports that New York City resident Jennifer Connell says the Westport boy acted unreasonably when he leaped into her arms at his eighthbirthday party

She says he caused her to fall to the ground and break her wrist She is asking a six-member Superior Court jury to find the boy liable

A listed phone number couldn’t be found for the youngster ’ s father

The 54-year-old Connell testified she loves her nephew but thinks he should be held accountable

Prof. August Explores Societal Impact of Immunology Research

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

“As scientists, we need to think about how our work impacts society We need to be able to engage with society more, ” said Prof Avery August, immunology, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Sciences

A Belizean-born scientist, August immigrated to the United States and obtained a B S in medical technology from the California State University at Los Angeles He then acquired his Ph D in immunology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Outside of Cornell, August has also been a department director at Pennsylvania State University and a postdoctoral research fellow at R o c k e f e l l e r University

mice may also be applicable to humans, according to August

“The research that we do is mostly on mice, [but] the thing about the immune system is that [it] works the same way in all vertebrates, in essence, ” he said “So now we ’ re trying to see if we can get more information about how [BTP’s] target works, and also if we can use derivatives of [BTP] to block allergies [in humans and other animals] ”

August’s research deals primarily with the immune system in vertebrates and the various biochemical compounds present in the immune system cells He and his team have managed to halt the allergic response in mice using a small molecule called BTP, which was an abandoned project of a pharmaceutical company

“The work that we ’ re doing in allergies we started with a small molecule that a company had made that they weren ’ t interested in, and we tried to figure out how this small molecule works,” August said “We discovered that this small molecule can block allergies and we discovered the target of the small molecule ”

The results that his lab has achieved with BTP in

Another major facet of August’s research is his work with Interleukin-2 Inducible T-cell Kinases, called ITKs, which he has devoted most of his professional life to

“Each time we look in the immune system we look at a different cell,” August said “The immune system is made up of all these cell types

People have heard of T-cells, and B-cells that make antibodies But in each type of cell we look at, [ITK] has a different function That’s really fascinating for us ”

According to August, gaining a better understanding of ITK can allow people to create drugs to target certain immune cell functions during certain diseases

“In different types of cells this protein has a different function So that tells us something about how the immune system works, and it also tells us that we can balance out those functions if we want to target [those cells] pharmaceutically in the form of a drug,” he said “And a lot of companies are actually very interested in this protein and they’re making compounds to try and manipulate those [cell] functions in certain types of diseases ”

As an undergraduate studying at CSULA, August said he developed an enthusiasm for research and scientific investigation

“I started doing research as an undergrad, and for me, the first time I did the experiment, it worked But

the other ten times [I had to do it], it didn’t But I kept coming back to that first time because that first time gave you that rush,” August said “And that rush is that perhaps, you ’ re the first person in the world to see this thing, to discover this thing And then from there, you can [share] it with other people ”

Though he acknowledges that sometimes his experiments do not go according to plan, August said failures are simply a byproduct of innovation

“If you do experiments and they’re always working, then you ’ re not being innovative enough You’re not challenging the dogma enough I would say that most experiments don’t work, and then we have a few that work Those are the ones that keep us going,” he said

Outside of his research, August also puts a lot of effort into mentoring his students and recruiting students into the science field, especially students of minority heritage He often attends many recruitment events and likes to work with students one-on-one

“One of the things that I do is training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates, and also trying to recruit students from a diverse population to go into science,” August said “I talk with students, I serve on panels I spend a lot of time thinking about this issue, the pipeline how do we keep our pipeline going in [and make sure] that people are getting scientific training and going on to make the sort of discoveries they want to make?”

August said he believes that scientists should look for ways to use their knowledge to make a tangible impact on the world

“A goal I’d like to [accomplish] is to try and take the expertise that I have and use it for broader societal issues,” he said “One of the things I just finished is the ‘Op-Ed Project,’ [a series of ] workshops that [allowed me] to use [my] expertise to step out of [my] academic role and affect the world ”

August also said a scientist’s success should not be measured by the success of his research alone

“[Writing op-eds] has been a satisfying experience, because it allows you to get feedback not from other scientists, but from the community who reads your pieces,” August said “And [this] is the type of thing I’d like to do more of ”

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun com

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“We’re looking for solutions to alleviate the cost of financial aid and also to make going through f i n a n c i a l a i d l e s s e m o t i o n a l l y tolling on students,” Batista said Lowry described his impression of the crowdfunding pages as “ a final cry for help ”

“GoFundMe only helps people who sign up for it,” Lowry said “It is not a long-term solution, and it is not equitable in the sense that people who also may need it may not feel comfortable reaching out for it ”

Toward a More Flexible System

Lowry said there needs to be m o re s u s t a i n a b l e s o l u t i o n s designed to alleviate the stress placed on students

“I think there is a logic behind the way financial aid works, but what we ’ re finding is that it is not adjusting to specific issues,” he said “It could be more flexible ” The initiatives underway will attempt to adjust the financial aid system to cater more directly to students, according to Lowry

“It is not a matter of payment, but more a matter of how smooth the process is,” he said “A large portion of that is helping students understand how they can pay in a more simplified manner in layman ’ s terms, outside of a counselor’s office ”

He also emphasized the emotional components of the financial aid process, describing money as just one of the items of baggage that handicaps students

“There needs to be a more organized and structured manner [so] people who need it can get it,” he said “Within the larger context, these students [require]

emotional support, so there [has] to be more understanding within t h e s y s t e m i t s e l f f o r s p e c i f i c cases ”

Lowry suggested making more digestible resources available to students, so they know what to e x p e c t b e f o re g o i n g i n t o t h e financial aid office

“There are three simultaneous p ro j e c t s we a re w o rk i n g o n , ” Lowry said about the initiatives “Out of respect for the administrators with whom we wish to discuss these plans, we will release more information about [the initiatives] after administrators have received a first courtesy notice, as they will be instrumental in this process ”

Grants From the University In response to the growing debate about the school’s financial aid system, Gretchen Ryan ’97, associate director of financial a i d , s a i d , “ C o r n e l l Un i ve r s i t y makes admissions decisions without regard to the ability of students or parents to pay educational costs ”

In her statement, she said the University prioritizes need-based financial aid to U S citizens and permanent residents, and provides a limited amount of aid for international and undocumented students

“Cornell spends about $235 m i l l i o n e a c h ye a r o n C o r n e l l grant aid for undergraduates that d i re c t l y b e n e f i t s s t u d e n t s a n d provides access to a Cornell education,” Ryan said Ryan’s response was the only statement the University will provide on the issue, according to Un i ve r s i t y s p o k e s p e r s o n Jo h n Carberry

Kimberly Lee can be reached at kimberlylee@cornellsun com

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” In both incidents, no property was missing from the room and nothing appeared out of place, according to CUPD

On Tuesday afternoon, the Ithaca Police Department reported that it is attempting to identify a subject in a photograph “regarding suspicious activity in the Collegetown area, ” though police

did not release information as to whether the subject was directly involved or related to the trespasses The photo, which appears to have been taken from a security camera, has a time-stamp of 6:49 a m on Thursday morning

“No other details are being released People can remain anonymous if they so desire,” said Public Information Officer Jamie Williamson, regarding IPD’s attempt to identify the subject

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Cayea to Face Murder Trial

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in December, Cayea admitted to strangling Jones following an argument, according to police records

“During a digitally recorded interview the defendant admitted that he killed Shannon S Jones by squee zing her neck with his

hands,” court records state

At approximately 6:30 p m on Nov 27, Cayea allegedly strangled to death Jones following a “domestic dispute ” Police arrived at Jones’ residence at 400 Triphammer Rd where they found her dead

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

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Jeb Bush Says He Will Repeal, Replace Obama’s Health Care Law

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush touted on Tuesday his plan to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with one that would increase tax credits for individuals, allowing them to buy coverage protection against “high-cost medical events ” “I won ’ t accept the straw man argument that the opposite of Obamacare is no care, ” Bush said during a speech in New Hampshire

Bush’s proposal would give more power to the states to regulate health insurance and repeal insurance mandates contained in the law He told reporters his proposal would result in roughly the

same number of insured Americans as the Affordable Care Act He said he expects more people will drop their plans under the president’s health care law as premiums increase His plan does guarantee coverage for people with pre-existing health conditions, which is a key component of Obama’s landmark overhaul of the nation's health care system

Bush said his plan, in broad terms, would accomplish three goals: promote innovation, lower costs and return power to states And he slammed Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillar y Rodham Clinton for supporting the Affordable Care Act

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LAST WEEK, CORNELL CINEMA WAS UNABLE to secure the number of votes needed from the Student Assembly to raise the amount of byline funding the organizations receives each year The vote follows a recommendation from the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee that urged the S A not increase the Cinema’s funding While the committee suggested that Cornell Cinema further reduce its costs, additional cuts adversely affect the programming and benefits the organization provides for the campus community We urge the members of the S A to reconsider their decisions to ensure the vitality of Cornell Cinema for future Cornellians

In its recommendation, the Appropriations Committee argued that Cornell Cinema should not be granted an additional $1 40 per student increase, raising its byline funding amount from its current $10 60 to $12 per student Yet while Cornell Cinema has continuously reduced its costs since having its budget cut in 2009, the costs of running a theater have increased As movie studios across the country also face higher costs and lower revenues, they are seeking new ways to increase revenue through film rental costs, as outlined in Cornell Cinema’s funding proposal Additionally, the minimum wage in New York State will rise to $9 00 per hour in 2016, which will provide an extra cost for the already cash-strapped theater These increased costs, in addition to fewer grants and reduced contributions from the College of Arts and Sciences, will force Cornell Cinema to make additional cuts that would prove detrimental to its programming and the cultural benefit the theater brings to Cornellians and Ithacans alike

A full page of The Sun’s Arts & Entertainment section in 2009 bemoans the S A ’s decision to cut Cornell Cinema’s funding

Cornell Cinema, which is experiencing increased undergraduate attendance, also provides additional late-night opportunities for students seeking alcohol-free alternatives Keeping the current level of funding will likely result in fewer showtimes throughout the academic year (Cornell Cinema already reduced its Summer Sessions showings), providing Cornellians with fewer options for inexpensive stress relief With the S A -sponsored Mental Health Awareness Week beginning later this week, we find it hypocritical for representatives to vote against supporting an entertainment venue that can help to reduce stress among Cornellians across campus

After the Student Assembly voted to slash Cornell Cinema’s budget in 2009, a full page of The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment section read “S A BETRAYS CULTURE LONG LIVE CORNELL CINEMA!” We continue to stand behind the Cinema for all it provides the Cornell community To maintain the diversity of programming and the benefits that additional late night programming provides for students’ well-being, the S A must vote on Thursday to support Cornell Cinema through increased byline funding

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Many of the displaced residents have become par t of Ne w York City’s enormous homeless population In 2013, an average of 60,000 people slept in the Ne w Yo rk C i t y s h e l t e r s y s t e m each night, a figure that does not i n c l u d e t h e a d d i t i o n a l p e o p l e who spent the night curled up in a subway station or on a bench some where in the city I remember being str uck by this upon returning to Cornell a place where housing is essentially guaranteed for ever ybody from my first visit to Ne w York City in the fall of 2011 I had obviously seen

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h o m e l e s s p e o p l e b e f o re , b u t I remember thinking about how small the overlapping sliver of the ‘ Ho m e l e s s p o p u l a t i o n - C o r n e l l student’ Venn Diagram was This p e r c o l a t i n g t h o u g h t c o m b i n e d with another case of the Sunday scaries late in Donlon Hall one n i g h t

n g a friend and I to ask, “ Would be possible to be a Cornell student without paying for housing?”

The easy and obvious answer to this question is no Without housing, how would a student find a place to get enough sleep and store the sufficient number of layers to

within 100 feet of you is sleeping right now We slept in the cocktail lounge in Uris, the couches on the top floor of Duffield, in class and wherever else our eyelids star ted drooping If anything, the challenge of finding some where to sleep was that so many of the spots would already be taken by someone snoozing between problem sets or thesis statements We saw two real options for showering Shower in Teagle Hall, or don’t shower at all We opted for the former, even though so many Cornell students decide upon the l a t t e r E i t h e r o p t i o n t h o u g h

The epigraph I wanted to use this week is a quote from Ernest Hemingway: “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.”... The lyrics of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” echo Hemingway’s words.

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According to the “Cost to Attend” page on Cornell’s website, housing for a year at Cornell costs about $8,100 dollars Even if this figure seems a bit low (it definitely does), that amount of money is insignificant only for the smallest tax brackets We felt like this question needed to be tested before we could confirm it is indeed impossible Late the next Sunday we set out from Mar y Donlon Hall, our book bags packed to the brim with all of our items for class, changes of under wear, toothbrushes and toothpaste

The experiment was meant to last for just one academic week We would be able to return to our rooms after class ended on Friday Until then, however, we would not allow ourselves to go back to Nor th Campus, sur viving exclusively on on-campus amenities When I tell this stor y to potential employers during job inter vie ws or as the focal point of my Personal ads in various ne wspapers around the countr y, the question I am most frequently asked is “Did you make it?” Well, a week is a long time to stay away from the comfor ts of the four th floor of Donlon, but when you a r e l i v i n g a l m o s t 2 , 0 0 0 m i l e s from home for the first time, you kind of feel homeless anyway So does it really matter if we made it? Of course we did if there is one thing I have in spades, it is commitment ladies

S l e e p i n g a n d s h o w e r i n g a t Cornell without housing is easier than one might expect It might not be the greatest night of sleep you have in your entire life, but t h e r e a r e p l e n t y o f d i m l y l i t buildings open 24 hours a day a r o u n d c a m p u s S l e e p i n g o n campus is nothing out of the ordinar y If you are in a public place on campus reading this, o d d s a r e s o m e o n e s o m e w h e r e

would still fly under the radar of most of our classmates People are expected to shower in the gym, and plenty of people here are convinced showering is an unnecessar y social convention Other than our friends, nobody kne w we were “homeless ” We sur vived because our friends who kne w about the experiment were willing to help us with clean t-shir ts and ne w socks from our drawers up nor th Not ever yone is so upfront with what they are dealing with all the time and as a result may not get the suppor t they need and deser ve The epigraph I wanted to use this week is a quote from

nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man Tr ue nobility is being superior to your former self ” I couldn’t use it because Ernest Hemingway is not a rapper, but that doesn’t necessarily make its message less valuable

hard to elevate himself to superstar level from destitution He brought himself and his friends to the point where his “whole cre w is lounging ” Look around at Cornell and there are thousands of people all coping with issues big and small of their own There is nothing to be proud of by not having those same problems instead, one should be proud of the way he or she helps others overcome their problems and become better himself or herself Biggie liked the life he lived because he and ever yone around him “ went from negative to positive And it's all good ” So for those who didn't know, now you know

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s a m p l e h o l d e r s , f i x i n g m a l f u n c t i o n i n g e q u i p m e n t a n d t r a i ni n g u s e r s On e s c i e n t i s t i s a s s i g n e d t o e a c h o f t h e m a c h i n e ’ s 1 1 i n s t r u m e n t s ; d u e t o t h e n a t u re o f t h e w o rk o n e m a y b e c a l l e d i n t h e m i d d l e o f t h e n i g h t t o f i x m a c h i n e r y “ T h a t ’ s a re a l s t re n g t h , b e c a u s e i f yo u h a ve t h e p e o p l e i n yo u r l a b w h o d e s i g n e d i t a n d b u i l t i t t h e y u n d e r s t a n d i t b e t t e r, t h e y c a n t r a i n p e o p l e b e t t e r a n d t h e y c a n e x p l a i n i t b e t t e r, ” Fo n t e s s a i d Pro f Me re d i t h Si l b e r s t e i n , m e c h a n i c a l a n d a e ro s p a c e e n g in e e r i n g , a l s o c o m m e n t e d o n t h e u t i l i t y o f C H E S S “ [ T h e s y n c h ro t ro n h a s ] a l o t o f p e r s o n n e l a n d p h y s i c a l re s o u rc e s i n o n e p l a c e It’s we l l m a n a g e d a n d i t ’ s d e s i g n e d t o h e l p p e o p l e c r e a t e n e w e x p e r i m e n t s , ” S i l b e r s t e i n s a i d “ T h e y’l l w o rk w i t h yo u f o r a l o n g t i m e b e f o re a n d a f t e r yo u r r u n T h a t ’ s w h a t I l ove ” Ac c o rd i n g t o Si l b e r s t e i n , h e r re s e a rc h g ro u p w i l l b e s p e n di n g s i x d a y s i n t h e u p c o m i n g r u n , a i m i n g t o u n d e r s t a n d b o n d s t re n g t h o f n o n w ove n f a b r i c s t h ro u g h c o n t ro l l e d d e f o r m a t i o n a n d c a re f u l m o n i t o r i n g Wi t h h i g h e r - p owe re d b e a m s , s c i e n t i s t s c a n t a k e d a t a a t ove r a m i l l i o n f r a m e s p e r s e c o n d w h i c h p rov i d e s g re a t e r a c c ur a c y i n i m a g i n g m o l e c u l a r d y n a m i c s a s a v i d e o , i n s t e a d o f m e re l y a s n a p s h o t , a c c o rd i n g t o Bro c k At t h e s a m e t i m e , w i t h t e c h n o l o g i c a l s u c c e s s c o m e n e w l i m i t a t i o n s : h ow t o e f f e c t i ve l y a n a l y ze t h e m i l l

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BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

In his book Creativity Inc , which details the founding of Pixar, Ed Catmull likens the presence of fellow co-founder Steve Jobs to the famous 1980s Maxwell tape commercial, with the dude in the suit being blown back full force tie, cocktail, lampshade and all by the sheer power of his stereo system According to Catmull, everyone else was always the dude in the suit, and the stereo system was always Jobs Steve Jobs does nothing to disprove Catmull’s analogy of Jobs as an intense, driven, borderline psychotic individual whose life had controversy, ambivalence and intrigue to spare Written by Aaron Sorkin, one of the few auteurist screenwriters of today, the film invites much comparison to his masterful script for The Social Network five years back, which likewise focused on an ambivalent, controversial, intensely driven individual who ended up forever changing the world as we know it Social Network was helmed by David Fincher, a director of notoriously misanthropic and exquisitely dark films, who was originally slated to do Jobs before Danny Boyle stepped in

The movie’s structure is an ambitious somersault off the diving board It takes place backstage at three different launches of new Apple products in 1984, 1988 and 1998 In each segment, a different Jobs appears: hard-charging, young and cold at first, wizened, bespectacled and softer by the last In all three incarnations, Michael Fassbender’s mastery of Sorkin’s language is sensational, and although he looks not much like the Apple co-founder, his command of the man ’ s psyche is never in doubt Fassbender is backed by strong support from Katherine Waterston as the mother of Jobs’ child, Seth Rogen as his closest techie colleague, Jeff Daniels as his boss and pseudo-father figure and a curiously inconsequential Kate Winslet as his Polish-accented staffer, whose role is to basically natter at him during her every scene in the movie

trademark restraint and detached, clinical observation Boyle’s credits include the Oscarsweeping Slumdog Millionaire and the British indie gems Trainspotting and Shallow Grave

Sorkin’s screenplay is a three-act play transposed to celluloid with minimal-to-no scripted visual flourishes and a mammoth spread of back-and-forth rat-a-tat exchanges It’s clear at once that pairing Boyle’s hyperkinetic camera with Sorkin-speak makes for a somewhat uneven marriage Sorkin’s speedy, whip-smart dialogue does not flow seamlessly with the visual pyrotechnics Boyle conjures

Boyle, a virtuoso director in his own right, is much more of an exuberant presence behind the camera, a foil to Fincher’s

This column is the second of two on the subject of authenticity in popular music Last week’s focused on rock and genres that influenced it while this column focuses on rap

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“ Ta k e ov e r ” f r o m 2 0 0 1 ’ s s e m i n a l T h e Blueprint, he attacks his rival Nas, claiming that Nas embellished and fictionalized his past: “ You ain’t lived it, you witnessed it from your folks’ pad / You scribbled in your notepad, and created your life ” Then in his 2010 memoir Decoded, Jay Z writes, “ The rapper ’ s character is essentially a conceit, a first-person literar y creation The core of that character has to match the core of the rapper himself But then that core gets amplified by the rapper ’ s creativity and imagination ” In the second quote, Jay Z essentially acknowledges that he, and in fact all rappers, do precisely the thing that he accuses Nas of in the first While this might be read as blatant hypocrisy, it may be more nuanced than that It might help to attribute the “ Takeover” lines to Jay Z, while attributing the Decoded comments to the man himself, Shawn Car ter Car ter is acknowledging that the person speaking in “ Takeover” is the character Jay Z, a character that he can assume but that is not himself exactly

Sorkin’s version of Jobs is a fusion of the intellect-speak Sorkin has perfected on shows like The West Wing and The Newsroom Sorkin knows exactly what genius sounds like, and his lines thrum with cerebral vigor There is brain candy in every sentence, which fits the persona of one of the 20th century ’ s brightest, swiftest and sometimes most cunning minds like a suit “We’re not a pit crew at Daytona,” a beleaguered engineer complains, “This can ’ t be fixed in seconds ” “You didn’t have seconds,” Jobs fires back, “You had three weeks the universe was created in a third of that time!” As played by Fassbender, Jobs is a whirlwind that sometimes threatens to suck the audience into midair, leaving them no clue what argument he’s having, or what the topic of conversation is The film occasionally threatens to get caught up in the winds of its own tornado However, there is an ace in the hole in Sorkin’s plot, a heart which the humanistic Boyle underlines, and that is Jobs’ relationship with his little girl, Lisa Brennan-Jobs While Steve Jobs may not deliver quite the emotional payload that Social Network did, the film lands its strongest punches during its scenes of the reluctant father relationship between Jobs and Lisa “She’s not my daughter!” Jobs insists flatly in 1984, but by 1998 he says “Come on in, honey,” when he thinks it’s her knocking outside the door The most moving scenes come at the end and enable the film

ishment and Car ter to admit that Jay Z is an embellishment It is simply each operating within the spheres in which they exist Jay Z, a “literar y creation,” does not have the same histor y as Car ter, his creator, and thus his attack on Nas’s credibility is not dependent on the credibility of Car ter; it’s dependent on the credibility of Jay Z, the fictional creation Of course, the paradox is that Jay Z’s attack on Nas is based on a perceived disparity between Nas the character and Nasir Jones, the real person

Rap is the genre where “realness” is prized most, where fidelity between the

per former’s onstage and on-record persona and their real self is most demanded Simultaneously, and perhaps because of this demand, it is also the genre with the most flagrant fictionalization and myth-making

In this interpretation, it is not hypocritical for Jay Z to attack Nas for embell-

In my previous column, I wrote about how the rise of singer-songwriters in popular music created a greater demand for emotional authenticity; listeners wanted to believe that the singer was expressing real, personal emotions, not merely imi-

to finish strong, when Jobs refuses to unveil the iMac until he gets to read one of Lisa’s college newspaper articles Lisa first draws an abstract painting on the Macintosh when she is five years old and her father bursts her balloon, telling her the logic board in the machine being named “Lisa” is merely a coincidence Fourteen years later, Boyle and Sorkin have turned the tables dramatically and it is Jobs who is desperate to win his daughter over For once in his life, nothing is more important to him than letting his daughter know he loves her perhaps the only empathetic struggle a character like him undergoes This is ultimately the secret to the biopic’s success Towards the end, Seth Rogen’s Steve Wozniak tells Jobs, “The difference between you and me is, you ’ re an asshole and I’m not ” The film makes no bones about that, but contends that there was more to Jobs as he grew humbled and older before passing away from cancer in 2011, than met the eye

Steve Jobs plays for free at Cornell Cinema on Wednesday, October 14 at 9 p m

Mark Distefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com

tating them for the sake of per formance Rap’s demand for authenticity can be seen as an extension of this demand for

singer-songwriter music is expected to be emotionally real but not necessarily factually tr ue, any claims a rapper makes about their life or past in their music are interpreted as the actual person behind the persona making a statement about their real life, rather than par t of the rapper-character fiction

Two clichés in rap rise out of this problem: first, variations on Jay Z’s own “Unless you was me, how could you judge me?” and second, variations on “I’m not a rapper, I’m a hustler ” The first satisfies a need to establish the rapper-character’s experience as too authentic for the audience to comprehend or analyze; the second addresses the problem of the rappercharacter by denying it and defining the rapper ’ s identity as something else entirely Ultimately, both attempt to excuse discrepancies between the rapper as creator and the rapper as creation by evading the issue

All of these evasions and excuses grow from a need that rappers of a cer tain era had to establish themselves as more than simply ar tists They wanted to be recogn i z e d l a r g e r - t h a n - l i f e c h a r a c t e r s , w i t h

mythic stories of backgrounds in crime and rags-to-riches rises to power

However, today’s biggest stars do not

rely on this formula like previous rap legends did 2pac, Biggie, Jay Z and Nas all relied, to some degree, on accounts of involvement in crime, while Kanye and Drake rely on emotional authenticity, m

social commentar y with gritty recollections of his youth that make no attempt to build himself up as a mythic character, is not necessarily pioneering this style, but he is cer tainly the first “King of Rap” contestant whose intricate rhymes don’t hinge on accounts of his own violent actions

Of course, with Drake, authenticity is dubious because of the recent revelation t h a t h e

ar tists like Dr Dre, whose laurels don’t rest on authentic rapping, but for Drake, who claims to present lyrical and emotional authenticity, it ver y much does Mo

Kanye’s, Drake’s and Kendrick’s credibilities rest solely on their status as ar tists rather than characters There is no “I’m not a rapper, I’m a hustler” or stor y outside of the music with them; there is only their music It seems that rap is beginning to believe again that the music is enough

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun com Despite All the Amputations runs alternate Wednesdays this semester

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Fraser Builds NFL-Worthy Resume Against Harvard

Cornell punter eyes opportunity at next level

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

There’s a certain feeling for junior punter Chris Fraser that comes over him when he is backed up in his own end zone and the Red are forced to punt The fate of Cornell defensive success oftentimes falls heavily on his right foot and how far back he is able to pin down the opposing team ’ s offense

“When you ’ re backed up, they’re going to want to try and get a block on you, ” Fraser said “It’s a mix of adrenaline and knowing that I really have to flip the field is the mentality that I have when I approach that ”

Despite the Red’s blowout 40-3 loss against Harvard on Saturday at Schoellkopf, Fraser shined on national television as one of the players to look out for at the next level Twice backed into his own end zone, Fraser managed to get off kicks of 67 and 65 yards, distances that would place him among the top-10 punters in the NFL and top-20 among all NCAA punters in the FBS

“He’s clearly the best punter in the league,” said head coach David Archer ’05 “One of the tops in the country ”

Fraser, who plays a position that any football team hopes to see on the field as infrequently as possible, manages to draw a reaction from Archer that only one player has brought out before

“ There’s sometimes where that ball jumps off his football and I’m like, ‘Wow,’” Archer said “It reminds me watching [ Jeff Mathews ‘13] throw it ”

On a team full of players that will likely finish their football careers after their final snap as a senior, Fraser stands out in more

ways than one Fraser often practices his punts by himself on the sidelines during practice, plays a position that is often overlooked by the average spectator at Schoellkopf and, yet, represents the player who holds the highest chance of playing at the next level

What sticks out most about Fraser the first Cornellian to earn first-team AllIvy honors in consecutive seasons since Kevin Boothe ‘05 and the first to do so as freshman and sophomore to Archer is the punter ’ s continued commitment to improvement

“He’s got aspirations beyond Saturday, so it’ll be fun to work with him the next year and a half,” Archer said Against Harvard, Fraser averaged 52 4 yards per punt, a number that would place him atop all punters in college football and 0 3 yards shy of Andy Lee, who is the top net-average punter in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns Fraser, who plans to graduate a semester early during his senior year in order to move to California to train for a potential shot at the NFL, spreads around credit for the success he brings to the Red special teams unit

“It’s obviously a testament to the coaching and the blocking,” Fraser said “I know they don’t talk about the linebacker much, but [sophomore long snapper] Mac Pope has been really solid this year and has been really helping me out I tried to help the team as best as I can and put us in a situation to win and make stops and that’s what I try to do my best ”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun com

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Crimson Kills Cornell in Battle of Reds

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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