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Labor Policies

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

Jurors found Benjamin Cayea guilty Wednesday of second-degree murder for the strangling of his girlfriend Shannon Jones ’15 He will face a sentence of 15 years to life and will be sentenced in December

The verdict, which came before 10 a m Wednesday and after hours of deliberation from the jur y Tuesday, follows a four-day trial, in which the jur y heard testimonials from 15 witnesses

Today’s verdict meant that the jurors unanimously concluded that there was intent behind Cayea’s actions last November.

Cayea had initially confessed to the murder of Jones in an interview with law enforcement hours after Jones’ death on Thanksgiving Day in 2014 However, Cayea presented a different story when he took to the stand Tuesday, testifying that the death was accidental and a result of a sexual encounter where Jones had asked him to choke her

While Cayea’s attorney Matthew Van Houten argued in his closing statement t h a t t h e j

Cayea’s state of mind and could not be proven beyond a reasonable double, today’s verdict meant that the jurors unanimously concluded that there was intent behind Cayea’s actions last November, according to The Ithaca Journal

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse following the verdict, Van Houten said that he will appeal the verdict after the Dec 7 sentencing

Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun com

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Wr ter

The Board of Tr ustees defended the University’s financial involvement with the fossil fuel industr y and rejected calls for an independent investigation of possible labor abuses at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar at a p a n e l w i t h s t u d e n t s o n We

evening

The discussion, hosted by the Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional

Student Assembly, was intended to be an oppor tunity for students to engage with

University’s policies Students were able to submit their questions online as well as directly address the trustees during the event Robert Harrison ’76, chair of the Board of Trustees, responded to concerns over the University’s refusal to divest from fossil fuel companies and private prisons by stating that

Facing the music | The Board of Trustees respond to student concerns at a panel hosted by the Student Assembly and GPSA Wednesday

Police Make Arrest in Risley Chemical Case

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

Cornell Police arrested Sean Lee a former Cornell student on Thursday, concluding a 10-month-long investigation into the discovery of suspicious chemicals in Risley Hall in January Lee, who is currently a New York City resident, appeared in Ithaca City Court Wednesday and was

degree reckless endangerment and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class A misdemeanors, according to a University press release Lee was released without any posted bail and his case was adjourned until December

The investigation began on Jan 20 when police responded to a report of a suspicious backpack which appeared

tigation revealed that the chemicals in the backpack were commonly associated with the manufacture of methamphetamine, according to the release

Cornell Environmental Health and Safety and the New York State Police also responded, and the contents of the backpack were confiscated by the state police, the release said Lee came forward the same day

was manufacturing dimethyltr yptamine, also known as “DMT” and a Schedule I hallucinogenic substance under NYS Public Health law

The University attributed the lengthy leg between finding the substances and Lee’s arrest to a need to test and process all the confiscated materials so that accurate charges could be filed in court

Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@ cornellsun com

Relations Committee

Confronts Funding Needs

By BRIAN ENG Sun Staff Writer

The University Relations Committee of the Board of Trustees discussed how cooperation with policy makers could increase the University’s state and federal funding in a committee meeting Thursday

Charles Kruzansky, director of state government relations, and Zoe Nelson ’04, associate director of state government relat

University’s financial goals and potential sources of funding this year

“Our capital needs are really quite serious, as you might remember [from our meeting] last year, ” Kruzansky said “ The [State Universities of New York] overall got about $200 million in capital Our share was just about $10 million of that We need much more than that Martha Van Rensselaer Hall is a big priority for us [Cornell’s campus in] Geneva still needs more money ”

Kruzansky also said there is a “critical need” to rebuild and modernize the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, a highenergy physics lab Modernizing the lab through state funding could convince the federal government to invest in the lab, he added “ We really need something in the order of $10 million from the state for a big upgrade just to get the

attention,”

Winslow Briggs: “Mind the Gap Between Guard Cells” 11:15 a m , 404 Plant Science Building

“Skawennati: Reconfiguring Reality” 11:15 a m - 1:10 p m , 400 Caldwell Hall

Cognitive Science at Cornell Colloquium Series 3:15 p m , 202 Uris Hall

Racial Justice, Revival and the Refounding of America 3:30 - 4:30 p m , Alice Statler Auditorium

C U Music: Organist Thiemo Janssen 8 - 9:45 p m , Anabel Taylor Hall Chapel

Friday, October 23, 2015 Tomorrow

Celebrating Society at 50: “Time, on the Critical Edge” 9:30 a m - 6 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

C U Music: Scriabin Centenary Master Class 12:30 - 2:30 p m , Barnes Hall Auditorium

Professor Arthur Groos: Mapping the Medieval in German Culture and Beyond 2:15 - 7 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Nightmare at Edgemoor Lane 7 - 9:30 p m , 112 Edgemoor Lane

weather FORECAST

News , “Stu den

Speaking about using vaporizers in place of smoking cigarettes “It’s kind of

Ne ws, “Ga rr et t : Col l e ge En dowme nt Bi l l ‘M i sc onc e ive d,’” Tue sday

Explaining the reason for drafting an affordable college education bill

Maëlle Piepenburg ’18

“I care about ensuring [that] anyone with the desire to educate themselves can receive a fair chance at making that happen without being prevented because of the cost ”

Tom Reed, N Y 23rd district representative

Op in ion, “Blac k Br uins M atte r, ” W e dne sday

Speaking about a ‘racist’ thematic party hosted by Greek organizations at UCLA

“We can try to pretend that this is an isolated incident and that just because these chapters of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Phi are racist does not mean every chapter or the entirety of the Greek system is racist; but that would take a lot of imagination ”

Sarah Zumba ’18

Speaking about the financial difference between estimated need and actual need

“Need is not an objective issue, it is a subjective issue People make decisions based on their alternatives ”

Barton Winokur ’61, emeritus trustee

Boies Speaks on Law’s Ability to Create Social Change

Cites public opinion, constitutionality as causes for victory in landmark California marriage equality case

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

David Boies, a lawyer who helped achieve a Supreme Court victor y for same-sex marriage in California in 2013, lectured on law’s potential to shape societal change

Law and society |

Thursday The lecture was this year ’ s keynote address for the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting

President Elizabeth Garrett introduced Boies, who is the chairman of his own law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, with clients including American Express, Apple and Nascar He was also named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine in 2010

Boies spoke about his involvement in the famous marriage equality case, where he teamed up with Ted Olsen to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2013

He said the decision was justified by both the constitution and public opinion

“It happened because it was the right thing under the constitution,” he said “It also happened because people’s hearts and minds changed about this issue over a ver y brief period of time The court cases focused people’s attention on this issue and made people stop and think about w

meant ”

Finally, Boies urged the audience to celebrate what people can do with law and to celebrate its ability to change society

“Celebrate our ability to make our society a better, more inclusive place by changing the rules and regulations and use the law to bring the kinds of cases that changes people’s hearts and minds,” Boies said

In an inter view with The Sun, Boies said as a young boy he was inspired by his favorite childhood TV character, criminal defense lawyer Perr y Mason Later in his life, he said he realized how law greatly influences society, determining ever ything from wages and working conditions to who can run for public office

“To use law as an element of social change was something I thought was really important and a great opportunity ” D a v i d B

Boies and Olsen were opponents in Bush vs Gore, the Supreme Court case that decided the presidential election in 2000, but the two became good friends during that case, according to Boies

“ The only one who’s as interested in the case as you are is the person on the other side,” Boies said “ We respected the commitment each of us had to the justice system as a way of resolving issues ”

While reflecting on the challenges of the legal system, Boies cited the strikingly low salar y allocations for judges as detrimental to the quality of our judicial system

“If we are not prepared to spend the money we need to have the ver y best people as judges, we are not going to have the kind of legal system we want, ” Boies said

Students Share Research at SPARK Event

Series of ‘jargon free’ talks cover topics from food security to climate change

By ANNE SNABES Sun Contributor

Cornell graduate students and postdoctoral fellows delivered five-minute speeches about their research during the University’s inaugural SPARK or “students presenting about research and knowledge” Talks in Olin Librar y Thursday

The talks featured eight presenters, who spoke on topics that ranged from food security to climate change, according to Kelly LaVoice, a business

Administration

The SPARK Talks were inspired by a University of Washington event series called Scholars’ Studio, in which graduate students spoke in the librar y about

University of Washington, the talks had a different theme each time they occurred For Cornell’s inaugural event, the theme was “intersections,” according to LaVoice

“ They’re broad themes to hopefully attract people in humanities and sciences, who are doing really different types of research, but can come together to find commonalities,” LaVoice said

The SPARK Talks are also a way for graduate students to participate in a conference without the travel and expenses normally associated with academic

resources librarian

To participate in the talks, interested presenters wrote 150-word proposals laying out the thesis of their research and what they aimed to talk about in their five minutes

In determining the presenters, a committee of six Cornell librarians looked for people who did not use overly complicated language and who would be able to summarize their research in a short amount of time In addition, the committee also aimed to put together a diverse range of speakers

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LaVoice said

Following the end of the presentations, students and audience members had the opportunity to network with each other

“Hopefully all of these different topics will inspire people to talk about them,” LaVoice said “Since they’re jargon-free, you don’t need to be in that department to understand and ask questions ”

Following the completion of Thursday’s talks, LaVoice said the committee would like to host a SPARK Talks event each semester in a different library Spark your interest | At the inaugural SPARK Talks event Thursday, Vikram Gadagkar discusses the clues given by songbirds in the environment

Anne Snabes can be reached at acs328@cornell edu

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weapon most people react better when you treat them decently ”

Boies added that he believes education is currently the most pressing civil right in the United States

“Education is a basic civil right that many people in our society do not enjoy today,” Boies said “ The people who most need access to primar y and secondar y school education get the worst education we ’ re giving our best education to those who already have a headstart in life, and depriving people just some help to get to the starting gate ”

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

Cornell Employees Vote For Union Representation

Environmental Health and Safety voted to be represented by Teamster Local 317 a union based in Syracuse Thursday

Starting next week, the union will officially represent all of the University’s emergency service and fire protection specialists

Teamster is a union that negotiates labor contracts on behalf of employees that it represents, said Mark May, secretar y treasurer and principal executive officer of Teamster Local 317

“Once a labor contract is negotiated and approved by the affected members, the Union enforces its terms and conditions,” May said “Labor contracts set forth the pay, benefits, hours of work, vacation and many other conditions associated with a member’s employment with the employer ”

Teamster Local 317 has collective bargaining relationship with other educational entities, May said However, the union currently does not represent any other Cornell employees, according to Politico New York

The University declined to comment on the vote

Compiled by Stephany Kim

Trustees Discuss Student Concerns

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University has no direct ownership interests in such companies and institutions Harrison acknowledged that the University did rely on such organizations to finance its goals of education, research, affordability and access

“We don’t directly select any stocks That’s not what the Investment Committee of the Board or the Investment Office of the University does,” Harrison said “What they do is try to maximize risk adjustment returns for the long term and try to generate as much income and return as possible in order to accomplish the objectives of the University ”

Harrison said important parts of the University’s budget such as faculty salaries, laboratories and financial aid require feasible paths from the endowment in order to be realized He said that the University must maximize its investment opportunities by selecting some of the best investment managers in the United States and the world

“So far what we have chosen to do is open up the opportunities as widely as possible and not restrict the managers on what they can invest in, and as a result of that, try to outperform our peers and try to generate returns which will have the goal of providing faculty salaries, financial aid and teaching and research facilities,” Harrison said

“We have values to protect. We have missions to accomplish that are consistent with those values.” R o b e r t H a r r i s o n ’ 7 6

Cole Norgaarden ’17, an officer of the student-run sustainability organization KyotoNOW, asked the panel if Cornell’s investments in fossil fuels represent a conflict with the University’s Climate Action Plan of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035 President Emeritus David Skorton accelerated the University’s previous deadline from 2050 to 2035 in January 2015

Harrison said the University has successfully and substantially reduced its carbon footprint over the last decade and is currently doing, independently of its investment portfolio, exactly what Norgaarden and KyotoNOW want it to do He said the University is currently caught between maintaining its current course or symbolically divesting from the fossil fuel industry without actually addressing carbon neutrality

“There are about $4 trillion in market capitalizations in the [200 largest fossil fuel companies by size of reserves] The entire Ivy League endowment portfolio is about $100 billion By divesting from all 200 of those companies, if we got out of every single one of those managers, there would be zero impact on those companies,” Harrison said “Do we do something which is symbolic? Or do we try to maximize our returns to generate financial aid, fund faculty salaries and build new research buildings?”

The panel also addressed concerns that the University is refusing to acknowledge alleged labor abuses at WCM Qatar Harrison said the University takes seriously the health, safety and well-being of its employees and contracted employees on all its campuses He also said President Elizabeth Garrett would be traveling to Qatar to address these issues at its May 2016 commencement

“We treat our staff in Doha, Qatar exactly the same way we treat our staff in New York City and in Ithaca, New York,” Harrison said “We have values to protect We have missions to accomplish that are consistent with those values We believe that the very best way of doing that non-discrimination, academic freedom and improving healthcare in the Middle East is to be there ”

Allison Considine ’17, a member of Cornell Organization for Labor Action, pointed out that although Harrison’s response addressed contracted employees of the University, the support staff at WCM Qatar are not directly employed by the University

“Cornell must hire these [ WCM Qatar] workers through a subcontracting company because most of them are migrant laborers,” Considine said “Although I commend you for taking care of the contracted staff, what is Cornell doing to ensure the safety of the subcontracted workers at the campus at Doha, Qatar?”

Harrison said that if that is not the case in Qatar then it is something that ought to be addressed, rejecting Considine’s suggestion that the University allocate funds for a third-party labor investigation into conditions at WCM Qatar

“What [the Board] can do, because I have not observed this personally, is set the overall policy direction and then leave it to the administration and the University to execute that policy,” Harrison said “My understanding, having looked into this issue with our administration, is that we are confident that we apply the exact same standards at Qatar that we apply at New York City and at Ithaca, New York ”

When asked about her thoughts on the panel, Considine told The Sun that she while thought it was “ a step in the right direction” for trustees to take audience with students she did not think that the panelists adequately answered her questions or addressed COLA’s concerns

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun com

Committee Examines C.U. Financial Goals

Urges Univ. to adopt new initiatives

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Kruzansky said

The committee also reviewed a list of policymakers who visited campus this year Kruzansky emphasized that it was important to convince policymakers that the University’s initiatives help stimulate economic development in the state and that this could lead to more financial support

“Our capital needs are really quite serious, as you might remember [from] last year.”

C h a r l e s K r u z a n s k y

“ That’s why some of these visitors we ’ ve been getting to campus we ’ re showing them some of our critical needs,” Kruzansky said Ne w York Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-2nd), Ne w Yo r k A s s e m b l y Sp e a k e r Carl Heastie (D) and Assembly m e m b e r Ba r b a r a L i f t o n ( D125th) are a few of the legislators who have shown suppor t for higher education and the board’s initiatives, according to Kruzansky Steve Israel (D-N Y ), a member of the House of Representatives, also visited and was impressed by Weill Cornell Medicine, trustee Martin Scheinman ’75 MS ’76 added

Kruzansky said this year ’ s legislative climate is “ an opportunity, frankly, for Cornell to get the legislature more engaged in helping us than it has been in the past five or 10 years ”

Trustee Bruce Raynor ’72 agreed and said that it is time for Cornell to capitalize on the current political climate and begin taking new initiatives

“It’s an election year, let’s not forget,” Kruzansky said “ The governor isn’t up for reelection, but ever y legislator is New leadership, election year we think it’s a recipe for more action than we have had recently ”

Brian Eng can be reached at beng@cornellsun com

Ryan Will Run for House Speaker

WASHINGTON (AP)

Rep Paul Ryan formally declared his candidacy for speaker of the U S House Thursday evening, pledging in a letter to GOP colleagues, “We have an opportunity to turn the page ”

“Instead of rising to the occasion, Washington is falling short including the House of Representatives We are not solving the country ’ s problems; we are only adding to them,” he wrote It is time, he said, “ to start with a clean slate, and to rebuild what has been lost ”

Ryan will face elections next week in a closeddoor House GOP meeting on Wednesday and then on the House floor Thursday His success is assured

Awaiting him will be a mess of trouble: a Nov 3 deadline to raise the federal borrowing limit or face unprecedented default, and a Dec 11 deadline to act on must-pass spending legislation or court a government shutdown

Despite initial reluctance, Ryan told colleagues he was excited for the opportunity at hand “I know you ’ re willing to work hard and get it done, and I think this moment is ripe for real reform,” he wrote “I believe we are ready to move forward as a one, united team And I am ready and eager to be our speaker ”

Ryan, 45, the Republicans’ 2012 vice presidential nominee, was an unwilling candidate for speaker, dragged into the contest under pressure from GOP leaders who saw him as their only hope of bringing order to a House GOP careening out of control Speaker John Boehner announced his surprise resignation last month under pressure from conser vatives, and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy abruptly dropped his bid to replace him

Ryan, the only House Republican with national stature and broad appeal, finally agreed to seek the post, with conditions He wanted to emerge as House Republicans’ unity candidate, endorsed by the three major factions of House Republicans, to guarantee he could lead with a mandate not risk becoming the latest victim of the intraparty unrest

roiling Capitol Hill and the presidential campaign If such support was not forthcoming, Ryan said, he would return happily to his chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, his dream job The speaker’s job is second in line to the presidency, but the rigors of the job would be unlikely to help Ryan if he harbors future ambitions to run for president

But Ryan succeeded over the past 48 hours in wringing pledges of support from every major faction of the divided House GOP, including the hardline Freedom Caucus, whose support was far from assured given its rebellious members were responsible for forcing Boehner to the exits and cowing McCarthy, his most likely successor Ryan’s announcement offers the fratricidal House GOP a chance to chart a new course after years of chaos, and may allow Republicans to refocus away from fighting each other and onto the race for the White House It was immediately welcomed fellow Republicans

Ryan “is a man of action and a conservative that can unite our caucus, ” said Rep Ed Royce of California, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee “I also admire Paul’s passion for advancing pro-growth policies to create economic opportunity for all Americans, especially at a time when the Republican Party needs to expand its appeal to a broader audience ” In addition to seeking united support from the caucus as a condition for his candidacy, Ryan made clear he wanted to cut back on the fundraising that traditionally comes with the job so he could have enough flexibility to spend time with his wife and kids in Wisconsin Younger than most past speakers and rare in having young kids Boehner is a grandfather Ryan will bring generational change to the speaker’s chair

And coming votes on the debt limit and budget might be cases where Republican leaders would have to rely largely on Democratic votes to achieve their goals, a practice the Freedom Caucus strongly opposes and wants to see Ryan avoid

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

i x ’s B e a s t s o f N o N a t i o n

BY LEV AKABAS Sun Staff Writer

Sometimes, in an art museum, you’ll come to a beautiful but conventional painting, perhaps a portrait or a still life You’ll stand in front of it for a minute, marveling at the brushstrokes that bring it to life, but by the time you leave the museum, you won ’ t remember much

a b o u t t h e p i e c e A w o rk l i k e Pablo Picasso’s Guer nica, for example, which depicts the destruction caused by war in a unique and thought-provoking way, will stick with you much more than paintings that simply portray their subjects accurately Netflix original Beasts of No Nation based on a novel of the same name, is a devastating por trayal of child war-

f a r e T h e

yo u n g b oy, A g u ( Ab

a h a m Attah), who escapes into the jungle when a violent civil war reaches his home village in an unnamed African countr y Agu is found by a group

Elba) trains him to be a soldier for his army It is a harrowing depiction of the atrocities that human beings are capable of committing against one another, and a well-done realistic por trait of war

capturing the beast that war turns Agu into, while reminding us of his humanity

Elba is especially fantastic in his role as the unnamed, muscular, sunglasses-wearing commandant Most of the time we ’ re terrified of him, but during some moments we respect him as a father figure, and at others we ’ re sickened by his depravity Elba goes above and beyond a script that would reduce him to a caricature, creating a believable, multi-dimensional character that demands

complex psychological journey that Agu undergoes by focusing more on what’s going on around him, than what’s going on in his mind Given that much of the film is narrated by Agu, it’s surprisingly hard for us to understand how Agu feels about committing immoral actions and his relationship with the commander Agu is more a vehicle for the audience to see what war is like than a fully fleshed-out character, and, as a result, the less gorily tragic scenes don’t hold much weight

Director Car y Fukunaga doesn’t shy away from brutal, disturbing scenes that give the movie a gritty, authentic feeling He forces us to watch people die on screen, and there are plenty of moments that made me cringe When the commander orders Agu to kill an innocent man with a machete, I wanted to look away, but I had to keep watching in order to see what Agu would do

The movie’s realism, however, is solidified by the acting Whenever characters are at risk of dying, they look flat out terrified The cast is mostly composed of unknowns, and this helps us feel as if we ’ re not watching actors at all Attah is strong in his debut performance,

attention

Despite its firm grounding in realism, the movie has a mythical quality This is in part because the countr y in which the events takes place and the ideologies of the fighting groups are never specified This ambiguity allows the film to tell a universal stor y, but leaves us with little to latch onto and draw meaning from This puts pressure on the dialogue to give the movie a unifying direction However, the film is unable to break away from many war movie cliches, and fails to rise to the occasion

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n f u l l i n e s a b o u t p o l i c e b r u t a l i t y, m u rd e r s o f Bl a c k A m e r i c a n s a n d t h e p r i s o n - i n d u s t r i a l c o m p l e x f i l l e ve r y ve r s e a n d c h o r u s “ I a m n o p r i s o n c o m m o d it y, n o t j u s t a b o d y yo u t h row i n a c e l l , ” Na s r a p s , “ Ju s t f o r y o u r q u o t a , s o i t ’ s re s t i n p e a c e t o S e a n B e l l / S l e e p i n p e a c e E r i c G a r n e r ( S a n d r a ) ” E a r l i e r, Us h e r a n d B i b i B o u r e l l y s i n g , “ Mo m e n t o f s i l e n c e / A m e ri c a n s c h o o l a n d we i n c h u rc h t o o ( Do n ’ t s h o o t ) ” It f e e l s va s t l y u n c o m f o r t a b l e a n d i n a p p ro p r i a t e t o t a k e a n y l i n e o u t o f c o n t e x t , t o l i s t e n t o “ C h a i n s ” w i t h a p a s s i ve e a r Us h e r m a k e s a c t i v e e n g a g e m e n t w i t h “ C h a i n s ”

The movie’s lack of thematic focus also makes it difficult for it to conclude in a satisfying w a y To w a rd s t h e e n d , I hoped I’d be left to ponder questions of war and trauma, Agu’s innocence or what drives people to engage in war in t h e f i r s t p l a c e T h e m ov i e shows you the horrors of war, but it doesn’t have anything new to say about them It forces you to feel, but doesn’t force you to consider how you feel

That being said, Beasts of No Nation is in impressive t e c h n i c a l a c c o m p l i s h m e n t , and it's a shame that most audiences will be watching it on laptops due to its release on Netflix The cinematography makes effective use of l i g h t a n d s h a d ow, t r a c k i n g shots that show you what the characters are seeing, and beautiful establishing shots of landscapes A still at just about any moment during the movie would render a beautiful image worthy of being in a photography exhibition

It’s an important film that forces us to face the terrifying chaos that is taking place in our world Beasts of No Nation has the potential to be a masterpiece due to its engrossing style and talented cast, it just doesn’t present its subject in a way that resonates Like that beautiful painting in an art museum, the technique catches my attention; I look at it in amazement, and feel emotion, but ultimately, it’s no Guernica

Lev Akabas is a freshman in the college of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at la26@cornell edu

Arts Around Ithaca

Fanclub Collective Presents: Juliana Huxtable Tonight at 8:30 p m at The Big Red Barn

Nels Cline and Julian Lage

Saturday at 6:30 p m at The Dock

i v a t i n g g u i t a r i s t , Ne l s C l i n e , w h o i f n o t h i n g e l s e , k n ow s h ow t o f i l l a r o o m w i

Waxahatchee, Izzy True, Misses Bitches And Modern Hut

7:00 p m at The Haunt

A powerhouse indie line-up takes The Haunt this Monday night; diverse in notoriety and genre alike Beloved local, DIY cartoonist and singer-songwriter, Izzy True will take the stage at 7:00, followed by a generous dose of folk punk psychedelia delivered to us by the women of Finger Lakes-based sextet, Misses Bitches In case their tones are a bit energetic for you, happy-sad loner folk punker, Modern Hut will calm things down Finally, headlining will be Wa x a h

Crutchfield Heavily influenced by Sleater-Kinney and their peers, Waxahatchee makes melancholy, vulnerable music that is

dabbled in the indie rock tradition, Monday night offers a

of

rock; there’ll be something for you Jael Goldfine

W h a t A r e We F i g h t i n g ( R e n o i r ) For?

For readers who have not yet received their daily reminder of the intense strangeness of our modern world: a gang of protesters recently traveled to three museums to protest Renoir’s paintings No, as Sebastian Smee notes in The Boston Globe, they’re not decrying Renoir’s antiSemitism or any other related political

i s s u e T h e “ p ro t e s t s ” f o c u s p u re l y o n

Renoir’s aesthetic, and the group ’ s name says it all: “Renoir Sucks At Painting ”

However, I struggle to call Renoir Sucks At Painting (R S A P ) an activist group It is, most simply, the material of an activist group, the elements of protesting deployed simply for the sake of deploying them

R S A P ’ s most impressive quality is the group ’ s ability to access every enraging, sophomoric, God-they’re-so-smug archetype that you would expect from aestheticfocused protesters

Describing Renoir Sucks At Painting lends itself to what I’ll call “the fact that” statements There’s the fact that the group refers to Renoir’s work as “treacle” with such consis-

t e n c y t h a t w o rd shows up in nearly every article about

t h e p ro t e s t s T h e re ’ s R S A P ’ s p r i m a r y o n l i n e social media platf o r m : @ re n o i r s u c k s a t p a i t i n g o n Instagram Their feed primarily features smarmy hipsters flipping off Renoirs in museums There’s the fact that their protest signs are usually far too meme-based to be unironic (“Renoir was an Inside Job”) or o u t r i g h t s t u p i d ( “ Re n b a r f ” ) T h e re ’ s R S A P organizer Max Geller’s response to a counter-protester ’ s criticism, as recorded

by Brian Boucher for Artnet News: “As soon as they try to engage with me they’ve already lost ” There’s this Huffington Post headline alone: “Leader of ‘Renoir Sucks’ Movement Challenges Critic To a Duel To The Death ” Despite R S A P ’ s coverage in publicat i o n s f ro m T h e Ne w Yo rk e r t o

Hyperallergic, commentators have attempted to remain restrained in criticizing the movement The presiding tone of responses can be summarized as: We get what you ’ re doing, everyone gets what you ’ re doing, it’s just not that cool As Geller noted, if you damn R S A P for being sophomoric, you have to admit that you ’ re now wasting time criticizing them If nothing else, R S A P has allowed a number of commentators to flex their “I’m going to call you an idiot without acting like I care at all” muscles

Here’s Sebastian Smee concluding his piece for The Boston Globe: “If you want to stage a protest about Renoir, you clearly have other motives Or no meaningful

“Even if

itself is the direct subject of the protest, w

protest? Removal? Censorship?” Even The New Yorker’s art critic, Peter Schjeldahl weighed in with the witheringly titled “Hating Renoir Is Just a Phase ” “If you must hate yourself a little for loving Renoir, do so, ” Schjeldahl concludes, “You’ll get over it And, when you think about it, who’s

k e e p i n g score?”

S c h j e l d a h l is commenting directly on the act of loving or hating Renoir, but his comm e n t a p p l i e s e a s i l y t o protesting over a e s t h e t i c s a s we l l Eve n now, I have a h a rd t i m e c h a s t i s i n g R S A P To damn R S A P for caring enough to protest Renoir, I have to admit that I am someone who cares enough about people holding self-serving, p o s t u r i n g p ro t e s t s a g a i n s t Re n o i r Bu t there’s that backhanded rebuke showing up again

I also have to question how much of my dislike for R S A P grows out of the sad realization that protesting Renoir as “aesthetic terrorism” is something that I would find hilarious if I had thought of it R S A P has accessed the weird, polarizing act of taking a recognizable framework and just beating the hell out of it @renoir sucks at painting on Instagram’s description still includes a link to a now-defunct WhiteHouse org petition: “Remove all of the literally awful Renoir paintings in the National Galler y in Washington, D C ” Of course, the petition calls not for the removal of Renoir’s paintings, but for their “de-hanging ” The petition condemns the detrimental effect that the “treacly [there’s that word again], puerile paintings have had on our nation ” And I get that, if my friends and I had written that

petition, I would still be boasting to people about how hilarious my idea was, and how ridiculous and cool and uncaring of a person I am

have mustered a weak defense that perhaps we can all appreciate that people are still discussing art in the public sphere, even if they’re doing so in a ver y attention-seeking and simplistic manner But in the end, R S A P is obviously not a protest about art, and it is certainly not a protest about Renoir if it’s even a protest at all In the most generous treatment, R S A P expertly exposes the potential for absurdity in the way some form opinions about art At least, that treatment would make sense if the art-world insiders and people-on-thes t

respond: Like what you like, and don’t protest over aesthetics

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Jessi Silverman & Sarah Paez | Guest Room

Don’t Read This

Unless You Eat Food

You are what you eat You’ve heard it before, but you might not realize how literally we mean it The cells and substances in your body are genuinely re c o n s t i t u t e d f r o m t h e c a r b o h y d r a t e s , amino acids, lipids, vitamins and minerals that you absorb from the food you consume So if you think you don’t have a stake in how food is produced, you ’ re simply wrong None of us can avoid participating in the food system; therefore, if we have a food system that conflicts directly with our values, we have a responsibility as consumers and citizens to seek reform And whether you realize it or not, our world food system in its current form is undeniably exploitative and unsustainable Don’t believe us? Keep reading

Did you know that the amount of water it takes to produce one hamburger is equivalent to two months of showers? While the drought rages on in California, the government encourages its citizens to take shorter showers, but never to eat fewer hamburgers Di

picking your fruits and

pesticides that cause hor-

?

Even worse, these farmworkers are often undocumented migrants with little legal recourse

the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling

are paying for our cheap food in lives, natural resources and viable years left on this planet for the human race

Even if you are in denial or selfish enough not to care about how any of your food choices affect other people, animals or the environment, you as an individual cannot avoid the consequences of a food system only concerned with corporate profit You pay with your tax dollars to treat the preventable cases of heart disease and diabetes that result from the default diet with which America has presented us

You pay when you contract a foodborne i l

ground beef as a result of industr y neglect You pay a few decades down the road when you can no longer buy that beef to which you feel so attached because we simply do not have the resources on earth to sustain the growing rate of meat consumption

Real Food Cornell is a new student

None of us can avoid participating in the food system; therefore, if we have a food system that conflicts directly with our values, we have a responsibility as consumers and citizens to seek reform

Did you know that 40 percent of the world’s grain is fed to livestock that feeds the relatively wealthy, while 795 million people in the world do not have access to enough food to live a healthy active life? Did you know that if all the grain fed to livestock in just the U S were diverted to human consumption, we could feed 800 million people?

Did you know that Hispanic children see 49 percent more ads for sugar y drinks than their white counterparts, and that Black children see 80 to 90 percent more of such ads than white children? Not surprisingly, obesity and nutrition-related chronic diseases are substantially more prevalent among these minority groups than their white counterparts

Did you know that most of the chicken that ends up on your plate came from a farm where the birds spend their miserable days indoors, so crowded that they can ’ t turn around, standing in their own excrement, often pecking each other half to death?

We could go on and on, but we hope you would agree that any single one of those injustices would be reason enough to demand reform While we as U S citizens spend the lowest percentage of our income on food of any countr y in the world, we

issues of food affecting us all We exist in part to demonstrate

choices are inherently

politicized; we cannot m

regarding food with-

support a food system that is truly fair and sustainable, here on campus and beyond To that end, our first official project has been to bring you Food Day 2015, which is a celebration of and an opportunity to advocate for better food policies within and beyond Cornell If this message has affected you, we urge you to reach out to various student groups across campus that are working towards a more sustainable food system In the meantime you can start by attending the Food Day festivities on campus Grab a bite at Okenshields this coming Tuesday and learn about the best diet for your health and for the planet Get your hands dirty at Dilmun Hill Student Farm on Wednesday while learning how to waste less in the kitchen Learn h ow t o e a t b e

t e r o n a b u d g e t w i t h Anabel’s Grocer y on Thursday Just by showing up, you can affirm the identity of our generation as one that cares where our food comes from We are calling on you to start the dialogue and start turning the tide towards a healthy, affordable, sustainable and just food system

Jessi Silverman and Sarah Paez are juniors at Cornell Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically this semester

Liyuan Xiao | Barely Legal

Space Debris Mitigation and Potential Dif culties

In 1978, the Russian Cosmos 954 fell from the outer space and entered into Canadian territory Its nuclear-powered engine fell apart and caused great potential environmental danger to Canada Although damages arising from space activities had been stressed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and at the 1972 Liability Convention, the Russian Cosmos incident was the first time that people realized how residual debris from space activities may actually influence the environment on earth The threats of space debris are not restricted to Earth’s environment, but also pose great danger to the exploration of outer space itself

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This is important because outer space provides us with a unique environment for collecting scientific data and unrivalled possibilities for research and exploitation, both scientifically and commercially Thousands of satellites operating in orbit around Earth are contributing to essential services including telecommunications, weather forecasting, banking, navigation, mapping, earth resources monitoring, search-and-rescue, Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, space science, meteorology and human space exploration

All the international guidelines on space debris are recommendations, instead of international conventions, and therefore have no binding force on governments.

The space industry has changed the way we live

Far more attention is paid to space debris than you might have thought Space-faring countries and the United Nations have developed a set of guidelines to deal with the space debris problem Efforts to address them fall into three categories: debris tracking, growth mitigation and removal For example, the U S realized the debris problem and brought the discussion up onto a policy level in 1981, when it proposed a ten-year plan to deal with the problem In 1995, NASA was the first space agency in the world to issue a comprehensive set of orbital debris mitigation guidelines Two years later, the U S Government developed a set of Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices based on the NASA guidelines Currently, NASA has set up an Orbital Debris Program Office to be the lead NASA center for orbital debris research The research is divided into five aspects, including modeling, measurements, protection, mitigation and reentry

When it comes to the UN, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) published its Technical Report on Space Debris in 1999, recognizing that space debris has become a commonly realized environmental problem UNCOPUOS, at its fiftieth session, adopted Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space These Guidelines are based on the IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines adopted in October 2002, which were presented to the Scientific and Technical Sub-Committee of the UNCOPUOS in February 2003

Several inter-governmental organizations have also been set up to do both technical and policy research concerning space debris The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) is one of the most influential organizations joined by 13 national and regional space agencies The work of IADC has been a good basis for the adoption of the UN debris guideline and other national guidelines on debris mitigation The UN, in turn, may make requests to IADC about issues politically or technically related to space debris

Despite the efforts made by national space agencies and international organizations, the solutions to the problem remain temporary Firstly, one of the difficulties faced by nations is technical problem Although space-faring countries are exchanging information on space debris management, due to the sensitive characteristic of the space industry, totally transparent sharing of the technical database and debris monitoring, shielding, and mitigation is impractical, if not impossible

Secondly, legal regulations in this area remain insufficient The 1967 Outer Space Treaty and 1972 Liability Convention have never been amended so as to adjust to the development of the space industry, rendering them “ unenforceable ” All the international guidelines on space debris are recommendations, instead of international conventions, and therefore have no binding force on governments In the UN’s February 2008 resolution, the General Assembly discussed the need for the Legal Subcommittee to “ reconvene its working group designed to ascertain whether the UN treaties on outer space apply to space debris, or whether a new agreement on space debris is necessary ” Also, since the space environment is different from that on Earth, existing environmental law cannot be directly transferred to outer space

Thirdly, although there are many technical analyses of space debris, the liability regime is not established One of the reasons might be that compared to other accidents, accidents happening in outer space are relatively fewer than the accidents happening on Earth Many space debris-related accidents happened under the circumstance that the debris was unidentifiable Therefore, nations tend to use intergovernmental negotiation to deal with the liability problem Even with the Cosmos 954 case, the Russian government never admitted its “liability” under any conventions except for extending certain compensations to the Canadian government Finally, the lack of attention paid in the academic field also contributes to the insufficiency of solutions, but that can be fixed

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By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Edior

Star ting 0-5 can weigh on a team It can cause athletes to lose faith and give up It can demoralize players But sophom o r e s a f e t y Ni c k G e s u a l d i believes that has not happened to the Cornell football team

“ We’re d o i n g o u r b e s t t o block the record out, ” Gesualdi said “ We still have a ver y posi-

t i v e a t t i t u d e We’r e l o o k i n g ahead to the next five weeks; we ’ ve got all Ivy games coming up, so we ’ re definitely keeping ver y positive minds and doing our best to per form at our top notch ”

In the Red’s first five games of the season, Cornell (0-5, 0-2 Ivy) has been outscored, 30-14, and outgained by almost 700 yards The Red has turned the ball over 10 times, while forcing just two turnovers Perhaps most alarmingly, Cornell has yet to score in the third quar ter Yet the players maintain that

t h e s q u a d c a n s t i l l c o m p e t e with other teams

“ T h e r e c o r d d e f i n i t e l y hur ts, ” said junior tight end

M a t t Su l l i v a n “ R e c o r d s a r e black and white If you weren ’ t there, if you ’ re not in the locker

r o o m , t h e n y o u d o n ’ t re a l l y understand what’s going on It’s easy to the see the record and say, ‘Oh, they suck,’ but we don’t We’re a good team and we know that ” The Red will get another chance to show how good the team really is when Brown (32, 1-1) takes on Cornell tomorrow The Bears enter the game

o n a t h r e e - g a m e w i n n i n g

streak, including a victor y over previously unbeaten Princeton (4-1, 1-1) last weekend

Brown’s offense, ranked second in the Ivy League, is powe r e d b y q u a r t e r b a c k M a r c u s Fuller Despite missing most of t h e B e a r s ’ m a t c h u p a g a i n s t Har vard, he currently leads the league in passing yards Fuller has passed for over 400 yards in three games so far this season, i n c l u d i n g a f o u r - t o u c h d o w n g a m e i n a w i n ov e r R h o d e Island earlier in the season

For Gesualdi and the rest of Cornell’s secondar y, a big performance will be necessar y to keep the Bears’ aerial offense in check

“It’s going to be a nice challenge,” Gesualdi said “ We’re going to have to go up to get s o m e b a l l s a n d m a k e s o m e plays There’s definitely going to be oppor tunities for us to m a k e p l a y s a n d c o m e d ow n with a fe w 50-50 balls some of them just have to become ours ” While Brown’s offense is one of the best in the league, its defense is one of the worst, ranking last in the league in points scored against However, the banged-up Cornell offense may still str uggle against the B e a r s W i t h s e n i o r r u n n i n g back Luke Hagy possibly still sidelined with a concussion suffered last week against Sacred Hear t, the r ushing duties will again fall to sophomore Josh Sweet and perhaps also to freshman Chris Walker, depending on his status following a concussion of his own

“[Luke Hagy’s] an incredibly playmaker,” Sullivan said “ We

have great confidence in some of the younger guys They’re excited to step up and they’re ready to step up We’d love to have Luke on Saturday and he’d definitely help our offense be productive, but we know we can be productive with other guys too ”

junior Rober t Somborn began the season as the star ter, sophomore Jake Jatis has continued to see more and more playing time as the season has pro-

d Archer ’05 said that’s unlikely to change against Brown

“ We used them both against Sacred Hear t and they played off each other,” Archer said “ Ja

things and Rober t did some nice things I expect both of them to play ”

Against a porous Brown secondar y, the Red’s passing attack may be able to get back on track after a number of poor showings in recent weeks

With half the season done, Cornell has an oppor tunity to get back on track with a win

team has been able to forget about the previous losses and concentrate fully on the Bears

“ The past is the past, I can

Gesualdi said “I just look forward to the next week Prepare to the best of my ability and control what I can control ”

Volleyball to Take On Seventh Place Columbia

Looks to avenge early season loss against Lions

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

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