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Sun Survey Shows Sanders Supporters’ Embrace of Clinton

Two weeks before election, far fewer students undecided

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Ed tor

While Sen Bernie Sanders (D-Vt ) received the largest number of primary votes in last week’s student survey conducted by The Sun, the majority of students said they will now vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the general election

Less than half the students surveyed in a second poll conducted last week said they voted in the primaries, but nearly 85 percent of those students said they plan to vote in the general election

F i f t y - s e v e n women and 61 men including approximately 25 students from each undergraduate class, 10 graduate students and one staff member participated in this second round of election polling Participants were asked to fill out anonymous surveys at several locations around campus, including Statler Hall, Mann Library and the Green Dragon

Democrat, 14 as Republican, 17 as Independent and 30 as unaffiliated This voter distribution differs slightly from last month’s survey, in which 49 of the 99 students identified as Democrat, 8 as Republican, 11 as Independent and 13 as undecided

Primary Voters

Democratic primary as in the Republican primary, but the majority of students said they did not vote at all in the primary

Thirty of the 45 students who voted in the Dem-

ders, 14 for Clinton and one for former Gov Martin O’Mally (D-Md )

Of the 13 republicans who cast ballots in the primary election, Trump and Gov John Kasich (ROhio) tied for the most votes

Of the students who said they did not vote in the primary, 21 said they were not registered for either

Students’ Voting Intentions

Of the 118 students surveyed, 57 identified as

City of Ithaca Received Month’s Worth of Rainfall on Friday

If Friday’s downpour in Ithaca felt like a month’s worth of rain, that’s because it was The 3 44 inches of rain that drenched the campus Friday edged the average historical rainfall for all of October in Ithaca by 02 inches, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell

Following booming thunder and frequent flashes of lightning the night before, Friday’s rain was the 13th greatest single-day precipitation in Ithaca since 1893, according to Samantha Borisoff, a climatologist at Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

The last time Ithaca experienced a one-day rainfall rivaling Friday’s was on Sept 8, 2011, when 4 43 inches of rain closed roads, downed trees and flooded basements at Ithaca High School, according to The Ithaca Journal

“Rainfall of this magnitude is only expected to occur on average once in a 10 year period,” Borisoff said While Tompkins County continues to struggle with a Stage Two drought that does not show signs of relenting, the

heavy rain on Friday brough this month’s total rainfall now pegged at 6 17 inches to more than two times th average precipitation historical ly recorded through Oct 24 according to Borisoff It wa also the third-greatest one-da precipitation total in Octobe in more than 120 years in Ithaca

Borisoff said Friday’s storm “likely helped improve drough conditions” but warned tha “there are still longer-term pre cipitation deficits ”

Despite the deluge, Ithaca is still 4 28 inches behind normal rainfall at this point in the year, according to Borisoff The heavy rain on Friday will help, but Mar Wysocki, a senior lecturer in th Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences explained that the ground can not absorb large amounts o water over short periods o time

Steady rainfall over a period of weeks and months, in addi tion to snowfall, will most help to dispel the drought, Wysock said

Compiled by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

GPSA Evaluates Options for Achieving Carbon Neutrality

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Graduate and ofessional Student Assembly disssed options for achieving a caron neutral campus by 2035 with members of the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group at its meeting Monday

As of this fall, the University has provided a substantive report outlining new solutions to reducing energy demands and cutting net carbon emissions to zero The Student Assembly and the Employee Assembly also discussed the report at r meetings last week f we are going to look at ns for achieving climate neutralihave to consider both the costs he benefits of different paths to neutrality,” said Sarah Brylinsky, tainability communications and ion manager of SLCAG updated report provides three achieve climate neutrality: an of the social cost of carbon, a new

measurement of upstream impact from natural gas and an outline for a quadruple bottom line, according to Brylinsky

Brylinsky explained that the quadruple bottom line, a qualitative analysis of the potential effects of climate neutrality on “prosperity, people and the planet,” has been updated to include an analysis of its “ purpose ”

“We have the opportunity to share, research and create new ways of thinking and to share these with the world.”

Sarah Brylinsky

“To reach climate neutrality is important to our higher education mandate,” Brylinsky said “We have the opportunity to share, research and create new ways of thinking and to share these with the world, to both learn and demonstrate on campus ”

Brylinsky added that engagement from the entire community is critical from a conservation standpoint, encouraging sustainable behaviors that reinforce investments in energy efficiency on campus

“I could build the greenest building in the world, but if you occupy it and do not know how to use it, or you do not have sustainable behaviors, then we are not using that building to its maximum capacity,” she said “We are not being smart about our investment ”

SLCAG encouraged members of the Cornell

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Phillip Berke: Resilience and Climate Change Cooperative

4:30 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Poster Design

4:30 - 6 p m , Stone Classroom, Mann Library

3rd Annual

Okenshields Food Day Dinner

4:30 - 7:30 p m , Okenshields, Willard Straight Hall

Documentation Workshop: Architectural Models

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Biophysics Colloquium With Peter Unrau

4 - 5 p m , 700 Clark Hall

Reproductive Physiology And Endocrinology Seminar Series: Deion M Burks

4 - 5 p m , 348 Morrison Hall

Veterinary Senior Seminars

Certificate in Engaged Leadership Information Session 5 - 6 p m , 282 Caldwell Hall To m o r r o w

Enterprise Engineering Colloquium: Medical Devices For Humanity Fund and Profit 4:30 p m , B11 Kimball Hall

4:30 - 5:45 p m , Lecture Hall 3, College of Veterinary Medicine

Info Session: Fulbright U S Student Program for Undergraduates 4:30 - 6 p m , G08 Uris Hall

All Graduate LGBTQ+ Student Meet Up 4:30 - 6:30 p m , Bid Red Barn

NLRB Chair: Board Gives Employees Voice in Workplace

By MOLLIE CRAMER

Sun Staff Writer

Mark Pearce ’75, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cited the development of the “modern worker” and the ambiguity of new technology to explain how the NLRB’s role has increased in the last few years at a lecture Monday evening

“The average person commonly assumes that the workplace is where they have the same rights as they have under the constitution,” Pearce said “The reality is that workers rights are statutory and emanate from a recognition of inequities that congress sought to address ”

The central role of the NLRB has been to enforce the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 an act which guarantees employees a critical “ seat at the table,” according to Pearce

“The act guarantees private sector workers the right to engage with each other to improve wages and other terms

and conditions of employment,” he said “It affords employers and employees certain protections ”

The NLRB has been taking an active role in labor regulations, Pearce said He described the organization as an impartial forum that has just recently stepped “ out of the attic and into the kitchen” to help the modern laborer

Pearce described two types of modern workers who could benefit from the act, saying both “need our help” to have a “voice in the workplace ”

Pearce said the main objective of the act is to determine whether an employee’s actions should be protected as concerted activity He said determining concerted activity can become blurred when technology is involved in a workplace dispute

“The water cooler is no longer the classic place to congregate and discuss worker issues ” M a r k P e a r c e ’ 7 5

“We have the modern worker those that are struggling to make ends meet they often work in an environment that has little of their best interests at heart knowing little about their rights,” he said “Then there’s this other group of workers who are a little bit more educated and self-assured they may want to talk about things like salaries or maternity leave ”

Peking Univ. Dir. Blames

Limited Land, High Prices

By MATT ORMSETH

Sun Staff Writer

Mu n i c i p a l g ove r n m e n t s i n

China have been selling land to industrialists and investors at artificially low prices for the past 10 years, leaving little land for

re s i d e n t i a l d e ve l o p m e n t a n d causing home prices to skyrocket, said Zhi Liu, director of

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In s t i t u t e C e n t e r f o r Ur b a n Development and Land Policy, at a lecture Monday

“ The price-income ratio in China is reaching a ver y dangerous point,” Liu said “In Beijing, it’s over 30, which means if you work for 30 years and you don’t spend a penny of your salar y you save all of it for 30 years you ’ re able to buy a reasonablysized house ”

Liu compared this ratio to that of the United States, where he said the average American can earn enough money to buy a median-priced home in less than 10 years

The lecturer attributed the high cost of h o m e ow n e r s h i p t o policies that encouraged

l o c a l g ove r n m e n t s t o sell off tracts of stateowned land to outside investors at low prices

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s i n place, you’ll get the business, yo u’l l g

t i n ve s t m e n t ] , yo u’l l g e t t h e employment, you’ll get people coming to the city,” Liu said “A n d t h e n yo u’l l h a ve t h e demand for real estate ”

Se l l i n g o r g i v i n g l a n d t o industrialists gobbles up land that is already in short supply

“Facebook and other social media cases presented new issues for which the board has needed to use traditional labor doctrine,” he said “The water cooler in the break room is no longer the classic place to congregate to discuss working matters ”

Pearce presented the example of a “disgruntled employee,” who posted a complaint about their employers’ problematic bookkeeping on Facebook, which resulted in “employees having to pay tax liabilities ”

designated 1 8 billion mu roughly 300,000 square acres to be kept as farmland, leaving little land available for residential purposes

“Farmers lose their land, lose their livelihoods, and their compensation is not enough.”

In China, taxes are set by the central government, even though municipal governments are tasked with building and maintaining infrastructure, mitigating unemployment and providing social ser vices to their

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thanks to what Liu called one of the strictest farmland preser vation policies in the world Liu said food scarcity has always been a problem in China, and the central government has

Unlike land sold by municipal governments for industrial purposes, residential land is purchased by real estate developers, who then sell it to homebuyers at m a rk e t p r i c e s , L i u explained In China, real estate is considered one of the countr y ’ s few stable i n ve

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“ The houses are empty, ” he said “ They have no other way to park their money ” This practice has led to other s o c i e

resentment among China’s rural population, many of whom were displaced when their land was sold to industrialists, according to Liu

“Farmers lose their land, lose their livelihoods, and their compensation is not enough,” he said

To alleviate these tensions, the central government has begun scaling back the hukuo system, which allotted people from cities certain ser vices and amenities their rural counterparts did not receive Liu added that migrant

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The Ithaca Coffee Company held its annual open house Saturday, where it debuted new coffee roasts, The Ithaca Voice reported One new roast introduced was the House Espresso, which is made of four different coffees from Ethiopia, Sumatra and Colombia

ICC Manager Chris Ganger said he looks forward to the open houses as a chance to show locals more about the process of brewing premium coffee

New York Justice Department Replaces Investigators On Eric Garner Case

The long-stalled investigation of the death of Eric Garner took an unusual twist when the Justice Department replaced the New York agents and lawyers in charge of the case, The New York Times reported Garner’s famous last words, “I can ’ t breathe,” were heard all around the country; Garner was accused by two police officers in Staten Island of selling untaxed cigarettes, when one officer was caught on video using a prohibited chokehold to subdue Garner In recent weeks, the F B I agents on the case were replaced with agents from outside New York, according to The Times

NLRB Chair: Workers M u s t K n o w ‘ R i g h t s And Obligations’

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For example, the board declined to assert jurisdiction in the

“We can’t independently investigate violations or facilitate collective bargaining without the public first initiating the process ”

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Northwestern University football players case in 2015, in which the NLRB decided not to represent the players in their effort to unionize and be recognized by the University as employees Pearce said the board’s decision was based on the University’s status as a private school in a public school sports league, meaning the board did not have jurisdiction

“Asserting jurisdiction in that dynamic where the overwhelming majority of the sports division consists of public sector schools outside of the Boards, would probably make that structure more unstable, so we decided to not assume jurisdiction,” Pearce said “But we left open the question of whether or not a student could be an employee of the university, a question that was addressed in the Columbia case ” Pearce concluded by citing “outreach and education” as his vision for “these modern times ”

“ We can ’ t independently investigate violations or facilitate collective bargaining without the public first initiating the process, ” Pearce said “ That means the public needs to know their r i g h

Mollie Cramer can be reached at mcramer@cornellsun com

Lecturer Says Chinese Gov’t Lacks Social Service Funds

workers from the countryside who moved to the cities are now being offered certain ser vices and amenities their rural counterparts did not receive Liu added that migrant workers from the countryside who moved to the cities are now being offered some services once reserved for urban-dwellers However, phasing out of the hukuo system has also caused financial problems for municipal governments

“In Beijing, we have estimated that if you have hukuo in the district where Peking University is located, your hukuo can be as valuable as 3 million RMB [roughly $443,000],” Liu explained “If you have that hukuo, you can send your kids to the best school, and your housing unit has a very high price ” With the Chinese economy

Continued from page 3 Matt Ormseth can be reached at mormseth@cornellsun com

cooling down in recent years, municipal governments have collected fewer and fewer taxes from industrial and commercial use of their land, according to Liu There is even less money to pay for the social ser vices offered by the hukuo system now, even as more and more people qualify for its benefits

The state government has said it plans to introduce a property tax on residential real estate to raise money for municipal services, but Liu said the tax would be difficult for many Chinese homeowners to swallow

“You ask them to pay property taxes, when they invested in their homes? In their minds, they did not have the concept of a property tax, ” he said “Today, if you asked them to pay, it would be very difficult ”

Sun Survey: Clinton Claims 70 Percent of Student Votes

Poll of 118 Cornellians reveals voter migration

ELECTION

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major party and 13 said they had little interest in voting Seven students said they were not 18 at the time of their state primar y

Nineteen students said they did not vote in the primar y due to the complicated process of acquiring an absentee ballot Nine of those students said they tried to submit absentee ballots but were “ultimately unable to ”

General Election

Of the 98 students who intend to vote in the general election, 71 percent said they will cast ballots for Clinton, eight percent for Trump, 11 percent for a third party, eight percent undecided and two percent for a write-in candidate

Last week’s sur vey revealed a decrease in the number of undecided students since the first election poll, with the number of voters who will vote in the general election increasing from 10 to 17 percent

Of the 30 students who indicated that they had voted for Sanders in the primar y, 21 said they intend to vote for Clinton, six for Green

Clinton clinches Sanders’ voters | A majority of C U voters who supported Sanders in the primaries intend to vote for Clinton, a Sun survey shows

Party candidate, Jill Stein, and three remain undecided

Of the nine students who voted in the Republican primar y for candidates other than Trump, only three said they intend to vote for Trump in the general election Two former Kasich supporters and one former Rubio supporter said they will vote for Libertarian candidate Gar y Johnson, one Rubio supporter is undecided and one intends to vote for a write-in candidate

Additionally, 40 students who did not vote in the primar y said they intend to vote in the general election Most of them plan to vote for Clinton

Twelve students indicated that the candidate they intend to vote for has changed since the beginning of the presidential debates last month A former Trump supporter said he has since realized that “ Trump is not a viable presidential model ”

As a result of the debates, two students indicated they will no longer vote for either Trump or Clinton due to a “lack of trust in either party candidate ” Meanwhile, several others have switched their stance to support the two major party candidates

The Sun intends to conduct a sur vey to see if the number of undecided voters decreases over the next two weeks, as the general election approaches, and one final sur vey after the election has concluded

Barbara Esuoso ’19, Rebecca Even ’18, Drew Musto ’19, Henr y Kanengiser ’18 contributed reporting

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com

GPSA Addresses Carbon Neutrality

GPSA Continued from page 1

community to attend an open forum on Oct 31 in Goldwin Smith Hall to discuss future developments of the carbon neutrality initiative

“I think the University community strongly feels that there is a real opportunity for this initiative to work,” Brylinsky said “To work not only for us, but as a solution that has global warming impact potential for other institutes who can implement similar energy technology ”

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun com

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Answers Still Missing In Stabbing Investigation

THIS SUNDAY MARKED THE EIGHTH WEEK after the Aug 28 stabbings of two Ithaca College students during a large fight near Olin Hall One student, Anthony Nazaire was fatally stabbed, while the second student was also injured, but sur vived

The Ithaca Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation of this incident, but nearly two months since the stabbing, no suspects have been publicly identified IPD’s last public communication about the investigation occurred on Sept 12, in a press release that solicited video evidence of the stabbing In this same release, IPD states that it has obtained “crucial video evidence,” none of which has been released to the public More than five weeks have passed since the last public update about the investigation In correspondence with Sun reporters, IPD has repeatedly declined to provide further updates or to supply a timeline for the investigation

A case of this magnitude requires thorough and methodical scrutiny, but the lack of public communication is concerning The perpetrator remains at large, possibly in this ver y community As long as the investigation continues without any publicly identified suspects, this case remains an unresolved safety issue Both the public and the family and friends of Nazaire deser ve closure, and assurances of increased safety on campus ring hollow when the police remain silent about the investigation’s progress Just as the police have a responsibility to communicate with the community, the public must also contribute to securing a swift resolution to this investigation: anyone with videos of this incident has an obligation to submit the video evidence to IPD

This is an investigation that absolutely cannot slip from the minds of this community As the police grow quiet about the issue, the Ithaca and Cornell communities must continue to demand justice and closure

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away a substantial amount of his voters and government suppor ters

The next week, I was with a friend and looked over his shoulder to see messages from his fraternity’s group chat referring to women with the sentiment: “if you ’ re not going to fuck them, what’s the point?” When I expressed my concern, someone else replied, “I didn’t say you should look ” My friend looked away and smiled awkwardly, uncomfor table enough for me to assume he kne w

s o m e t h i n g w a s w r o n g , b u t n o t uncomfor table enough to do anything about it “Just locker room talk, right?” I wanted to ask sarcastically, but I held my tongue

What I saw was just a small incident, though one of many; but this ar ticle isn’t about frats We all know the statistics, but limiting the conversation to the ways in which fraternities perpetuate rape culture is exactly what I don’t want to do Often fraternities are made a scapegoat to avoid meaning ful reflection on our own behavior We write off a group of people on whose shoulders the we assign the blame (I know I am guilty of this), but the conversation stops there By placing the blame on an easily defined group, we stop ourselves from having to think about the ways in which we perpetuate rape culture and violence against women ourselves

Rape culture can be perpetuated in many ways, some obvious and h o r r i f y i n g ,

insidious Rape jokes, sexist comments and exclusion of women happen frequently, and often remain unnoticed Men don’t have to talk about blatantly assaulting women to be perpetuating rape culture

i n g s e x i n e x c h a n g e f o r friendship or basic decency is a symptom of male entitlement that fuels rape culture, one that happens f r e q u e n t l y We a l l p e r p e t u a t e misogyny and rape culture in the l

down the trauma of assault, and, when repeated, make those around

subconsciously downplay ver y real consequences We let it slide when our well-intentioned friends make sexist statements and they do the same for us However these incidents, though small, build up Rape culture is perpetuated by ever yone, and just like those text messages, won ’ t magically disappear if we just don’t look

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awareness and social consciousness, yet do not stop to reflect on their own behaviors and the under tones of their words and actions We shift the blame to easy targets like frat boys, leaving the rest of us with a clear conscience because, of course, we aren ’ t like them not par t of the problem We call out sexism when we see it happen but are oblivious to when we or our friends

lives to provide all the emotional labor in all of their relationships ( w h e t h e r t h e y a r e p l a t o n i c o r romantic), without recognizing and a c k n

labor and the toll it takes Instead of f o c u s i n g l e g i t i m a t e c r i t i c i s m o f problematic women to policies and

looks in the most painfully

Additionally, many people will condemn harassment against women, yet the ways in which they do so reveal their subconscious misogynistic beliefs Women should not h

daughter?” for men to listen to us We should be free from harassment because we are humans, not because of our relation to men There seems to be a belief that identifying as

Many people in “progressive” circles pride themselves on self awareness and social consciousness, yet do not stop to reflect on their own behaviors and the undertones of their words and actions

perpetuate it

The cases are endless and we all know them: there are the mactivists (men who engage in activism to get c l o s e r t o w o m e n ) w h o w a x o n about justice, equality and radicalism, yet brag about their ability to and habit of emotionally abusing women There are the men who emphasize the impor tance of femin i s m , c o n s e n t a n d r e s p e c t i n g women ’ s choices, and yet continue to periodically check up, just in case women who said no have changed their mind and want to sleep with them The men who like to express racial solidarity by fetishizing and only dating women of color And of course, the men who proudly call themselves feminists, but feel it is okay to grope others after a fe w drinks

Many men in leftist circles talk at length about class and race str uggles, but expect the women in their

progressive is enough, and deeper reflection and change is therefore not needed

The purpose of this ar ticle is not to complain about men, it is a reminder that no one is off the hook It is all of our responsibilities to realize that sexism is perpetuated in all circles, no matter how progressive they seem We all must do o

actions are problematic, and understandingly call out our friends when they are too We must think hard about where our attitudes come from and by what forces they are shaped Ever yone is capable of perpetuating rape culture and we must not give ourselves a free pass

SCIENCE

Use molecular simulations to make discovery

By KELLY ZHOU Sun Contributor

Summer is the perfect season Who can forget those long hours of sunshine or tiring laps in Taughannock falls? However, that last experience is not guaranteed, especially if the water has plenty of toxin-producing algae in it Thankfully, Prof Ludmilla Aristilde’s, biological and environmental engineering, research could help us understand how to neutralize them

Aristilde, along with Amy L Pochodylo grad and Thalia G Aoki ’15, published a paper in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science in August that sheds light on the behavior of microcystin, a toxin produced by cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae

Studying the behavior of microcystins is important because of the prevalence of algal blooms in lakes and water ways during the summer Algal blooms arise when algae which are naturally found in water ways receive too many nutrients from runoff water In the summer, high temperatures and sufficient sunlight support this excess growth

The proliferation of microcystins is thus, a natural consequence of these blooms Consequently, exposure to microcystins is a major public concern If ingested, microcystins are toxic to the liver and their presence can render lakes and ponds unsuitable for swimming

“I work at the interface of environmental chemistr y a n d e n v i ro n m e n t a l b i o c h e m i s t r y I a m c o n c e r n e d about the chemical behavior of contaminants because the behavior of these molecules in the environment is connected to their biological exposure, ” Aristilde said Using molecular simulations, Aristilde and her team looked at two different types of microcystins, microcystin-LR (MC-LR) and microcystin-L A (MC-L A), to understand how the molecule’s chemistr y affects its behavior

A microcystin molecule is composed of a cyclic peptide a series of amino acids linked together to make a closed circle All microcystin molecules have two amino acid residues, aspartate and methyl-aspartate that confer two negative charges to the molecule However, microcystins differ at two positions in the cyclic peptide chain, giving them their unique identities

Both the studied microcystins have leucine, a type of amino acid, at one of the positions However, MC-LR

has arginine, a positively charged amino acid, while MC-L A has alanine, a neutral amino acid at the other position Thus, MC-LR carries a positively charged component that MC-L A lacks Aristilde found that these amino acids adopted different shapes when placed in two different solutions One contained excess sodium ions while the other, calcium ions both nutrients available in fresh water

Because a calcium ion carries two positive charges, its solution can effectively neutralize the two negative charges from aspartate and methyl-aspartate, leaving MC-LR’s positively charged arginine residue to react with negatively charged mineral surfaces However, because a sodium ion carries only one positive charge, MC-LR’s arginine residue is used to help balance the two negative charges, preventing it from interacting

“ The ultimate goal is to have better predictions of how microcystins behave in the environment and why they behave the way they do.”

with any minerals

As for MC-L A, which lacks this positively charged residue, Aristilde found that calcium ions acted as a bridge between negatively charged amino acid residues and negatively charged mineral surfaces to allow them to interact

From their findings, Aristilde’s team developed theoretical models that shed light on what happens to microcystins in specific aquatic environments, demon-

Sedimentary l Clay mineral capture of microcystin: water molecules (light blue), microcystin (dark purple), calcium (orange), clay layer (orange), negative charges (yellow)

strating how these interactions allow clay particles to trap these toxins “ The ultimate goal is to have better predictions of how microcystins behave in the environment and why they behave the way they do,” Aristilde said Going for ward, Aristilde said she hopes to investigate the interactions of even more minerals with microcystins and use their ability to capture these toxins to engineer a wide range of materials that can trap various contaminants

Kelly Zhou can be reached at kz86@cornell edu

By WILLIAM BAI Sun Contributor

The opening scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight represents the quintessential bank heist Joker and crew, armed with guns, break into a bank and manage to whisk away gunny bags full of cash However, not all robberies are this dramatic As cr yptocurrencies become more popular, millions of dollars can be swindled with just the click of a button

In May, Prof Emin Gun Sirer, computer science, and his colleagues discovered a bug that left DAO, a smart contract that crowdsources investment proposals, vulnerable to such heists DAO operates like an online venture capital firm it gathers the virtual currency ‘Ethereum’ from investors, uses a tally system to vote on investment proposals and funds projects with high enough votes

“Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum are a new class of distributed systems that are part peer to peer, part bank, part Janet Yellen, part consumers and part merchants,” Sirer said “They bring together these actors and govern the creation of money to make sure people who earn cash, earn it for good reasons ”

Bitcoin is the most prevalent cryptocurrency today,

with around six billion dollars to $10 billion worth in circulation Ethereum is a relatively new form of cryptocurrency and was designed with a different purpose

“While Ethereum has the same core operations as Bitcoin, Ethereum is designed to implement programs that direct money flow automatically; Bitcoin is for value transfer alone,” Sirer said

Essentially, Ethereum allows algorithms to automatically make payments, eliminating the need for “middlemen ” to handle monetary transactions By reducing the chances of human error, Ethereum should have made investing safer

Unfortunately, a hacker stole $52 million worth of Ethereum from DAO, using a bug that Sirer had discovered

“The attacker took advantage of a bug related to reentrant calls [that allows programs to pause and restart execution as necessary],” Sirer said “Reentrancy was part of the language design, but its implications for software design were not well-understood People missed it because it wasn ' t immediately visible in the code ”

Though DAO’s code was eventually replaced, restoring the lost funds required the transaction to be forcefully reverted However, some Ethereum hardliners felt that any artificial manipulation violated the integrity of the

cryptocurrency and so, this was never done

Instead, a separate currency known as Ethereum Classic was created while Ethereum continues to exist Furthermore, as no laws governing cryptocurrencies exist, some users of the currency argue that the transaction was legal because the hacker simply used a feature of the smart contract that no one else foresaw

Despite these challenges, Sirer continues to believe in the potential of cryptocurrencies and argues for their reform Though safety is of the utmost importance, Sirer argues that the biggest challenge is in implementing cryptocurrencies so that they conform to certain universal principles

“We need to be certain of how a program will behave, so that we can catch the problems that are otherwise easily overlooked,” Sirer said “There are many protocols out there, some with very interesting features This is an exciting field, and it would be best for us to see a thousand flowers, each targeting different feature sets, bloom I'd urge the cryptocurrency community to avoid infighting -- the bigger fight to be had is for external adoption, not between cryptocurrencies, especially between systems targeting different use cases ”

By TRANG DAU Sun Contributor

Grim statistics reveal just how debilitating breast cancer can be According to the American Cancer Society, over 230,000 women were diagnosed with the disease in the United States in 2013 Forty thousand of these cases were incurable

There is good news, however Over the past 20 years, advancements in the disease’s treatment have been consistent In fact, according to the

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t y, breast cancer mortality rates have fallen by over 32 percent in the same time period And yet, the mechanisms behind b re a s t c a n c e

i t s i n i t i a l development, progression and therapy resistance still confound scientists because the disease manifests itself differently in different people

That could soon change R

ing them together, we are able to learn from each other,

approached and treated in some ver y traditional ways and, ultimately, treat it more effectively,” FischbachTeschl said

Indeed, this multidisciplinar y approach is reflected

m We i l l Cornell Medicine and the college of engineering hope to investigate the variations of breast cancer, especially its currently incurable subtype, Triple Negative Breast Cancer ( TNBC), through a new multi-institutional research unit called the Center on the Physics of Cancer Metabolism

Led by Prof Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, biomedical engineering, the center is one in 10 that are a part of theNetwork of Physical Sciences Oncology Centers

The program was launched in 2009 by the National Cancer Institute to tackle challenging questions in cancer research from a multidisciplinar y perspective

“Engineers and biologists address questions in biology from completely different perspectives By bring-

“Once

you understand the mechanism well and know what enables cancer to develop, it becomes possible to interfere with pretty much everything that you could have imagined ... and potentially even prevent the disease.”

investigate the effects of the physical microenvironment on metabolism Specifically, they hope to uncover the connections between tumor metabolism and the physical variations caused by TNBC and obesity Biomedical researchers will prepare patient-derived grafts and in-vitro organ-buds with realistic microanatomy whereas engineers will focus on their microfabrication and the generation of computational models

Fischbach-Teschl then hopes to investigate the formation of micro-vesicles, or fragments of plasma, from the surface of tumor cells and their metabolism-mediated changes Another project that the team will be working on will answer a number of questions concerning the invasion of cancer cells from primar y tumours into surrounding tissue

Although the center does not aim to d e

believes that existing drugs might be seen in a new light due to this new, more interdisciplinar y approach In fact, as research will be conducted using patient samples from Weill Cornell Medicine, any findings may directly benefit their clinical treatment

in the experts that make up the team FischbachTeschl, with a background in pharmaceutical technology, is well known for utilizing engineering principles to uncover the mechanisms that drive breast cancer Codirector, Prof Lewis Cantley, Weill Cornell Medicine, specializes in biochemistr y and cancer biology and has made critical discoveries on the enzymes underpinning cancer metabolism

Combined with their colleagues’ experience in advanced optical techniques, computational modelling and clinical activities, they hope to address major barriers in monitoring, predicting and manipulating cells in conditions similar to those in the human body

As part of the center ’ s first project, the team will

“Prevention is a part of the project In the end, once you understand the mechanism well and know what enables cancer to develop, it becomes possible to interfere with pretty much ever ything that you could have imagined about these mechanisms early on and potentially to even prevent the disease,” Fischbach-Teschl said

Other partner institutions include Memorial Sloan K

Center and the University of California, San Francisco The center has received $1 9 million in first-year funding from the NCI

Study finds that posting events to social media facilitates effective recall

By AQUINNAH WONG Sun Contributor

You probably remember that embarrassing photo you posted on Facebook last summer or the one in your family photo album with your two front teeth missing Ever wonder why?

It might have something to do with the way these memories were shared A recent study by Prof Qi Wang, human development, reveals that posting personal events on social media make those events significantly easier to recall Wang is interested in studying social cognition, specifically how memories and personal experiences help shape an individual’s identity As social media has become an integral par t of our daily lives, Wang has been interested in finding its larger implications, including its role in selective memor y

The study, titled “Externalizing the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memor y retention” published in the journal, Memor y, is one of the first to examine social media’s effect on memor y

“ When we share our experiences, we’re frequently expressing who we are as individuals and receiving advice from peers.”

In the study, Prof Wang and her co-authors, Dasom Lee ’13 and Yubo Hou, Peking University, asked 66 Cornell undergraduate students to recall and record their daily experiences These events document each student’s experiences in college, such as “ an argument with a roommate ” , in a journal for a week

The students were also asked to record whether they posted the event on social media For the purpose of the study, social media includes platforms such as Fa

Additionally, the par ticipants were also asked to rate their daily experiences on a scale of impor tance based on emotional and personal relevance Finally, Wang gave the research pool a surprise memor y test on what they could recall

At the end of the week, Wang found the results to be fascinating The recollection of events was found to

be independent of the personal impor tance of the event for a par ticipant

“Events that were repor ted to be posted online were much more likely to be recalled than those not posted online,” Wang said “ This is also independent of whether the par ticipant vie wed the event to be important ”

Based on the results, Wang concluded that, “ as long as the events were posted online, they were much more likely to be recalled ”

Wang also noticed that the par ticipants’ age determines how frequently they share their experiences on social media

“In terms of sharing experiences, it is a phenomenon in all age groups, ” Wang said “But of course, age also determines how technologically savvy you are ” Wang concluded that social media is a “ power ful” tool for scientists to study human behavior

“ When we share our experiences, we ’ re frequently expressing who we are as individuals and receiving advice from peers, ” Wang said

Based on previous memor y research, she explained, “pictures leave a more lasting impression on people’s ability to recall the event ” This means that social media posts with images could enhance memor y recall

“One picture is wor th a thousand words after all,” Wang said

In recent times, not only are we doing this in realtime by confiding in our peers, but also publishing these stories on a platform that is much more accessible to a wider public Hence, Wang and her team were motivated to discover the consequences and benefits from modern-day stor ytelling on social media, when the user is simultaneously engaged, yet disengaged In the future, Wang and her team hope to replicate this study in a more controlled environment, to obser ve whether a more subtle manipulation of online versus offline posts could influence memor y recall

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Iowe DreamWorks Animation an apology Since February, I have been criticizing its upcoming movie Trolls Between a strange visual style, a bland-looking synopsis and, worst of all, twerking trolls shouting “YOLO!” I have not been looking forward to its release, and I still dread the day I have to review it But I have been consistently framing it as a low point for mainstream American animation

Recently I’ve seen the error of my ways Twerking trolls are not the worst the industry can offer

Emojimovie: Express Yourself is the worst the industry can offer

An emoji themed movie has been teased by Sony Pictures Animation for a little while now, and I paid little attention When the image in this column was recently released to kick off their advertising campaign, though, the point drove home for me: this is real This is an actual film being made Top level executives green-lighted this production After Aug 11, 2017, we will live in a world where Emojimovie actually exists Now, I don’t fear this movie just because it’s related to emojis I fear it because of what we ’ ve seen so far with plot synopses and this early promotional material According to

CartoonBrew, the plot focuses on Gene, a “multi-expression emoji” because he was “born without a filter ” He’s joined by Hi-5 (to the right) and Jailbreak (to the left) But wait, you ask, who is that little guy sneaking in the corner? That character is named Poop Daddy I can hardly bring myself to say that name, and I apologize to Cornell University and this paper that it ever had to acknowledge a character named Poop Daddy This already fatal blow aside, I have several reservations about this film

Not even looking at the image, I want to focus on the title Emojimovie: Express Yourself Sony apparently decided that subtlety was overrated; Kristine Belson, president of Sony Animation, has explicitly stated that the movie is about self expression,” for those who don’t bother to read the two extra words Her full statement goes, “Over six billion emojis are texted every day, and emojis have become a universal language that transcends age and culture The power of emojis is that they allow you to express yourself in a fast and very fun way, and that is what our movie is about ” First of all, I find it laughable that they’re trying to salvage the movie’s premise by talking up the

use of emojis, making them sound like this grand social salvation THEY ARE EMOJIS They’re not going to end world hunger We’re not going to get Daesh to lay down their arms by texting them little winky faces If anything, ISIS is going to see Poop Daddy and hold it up as an example of how terrible our culture is Secondly, the subtitle “Express Yourself ” already insults our intelligence They are so desperate for us to get the message, and have so little faith in our mental

capacity to do so, that they need to give the moral of the film in the title Imagine watching A Bug’s Life: Work Together, or Shrek: Beauty Comes In All Forms or Coraline: Stranger Danger I fully support a film having a moral or a message, but it has to organically grow out of the story Going moral-first into a production leads to a weak plot, which makes the message feel forced and ultimately leads to its failure

Now, let’s look past the title for a moment After all, what’s in a name? Let’s play Sony’s game, let’s imagine a world of emojis never an exercise I thought I’d try, but let’s do it If they can actually establish a universe with clear rules, maybe they can pull this off But right away, I’m confused by the main character, and I wouldn t be surprised if you are too A “multiexpression” emoji? What does that even mean? I’m not well-connected to pop culture trends, and I don’t even have a smartphone, but I’m pretty sure multi-expression emojis are not a thing The fact that Sony has to so blatantly break the idea of emojis to get at a plot worries me

the funding is coming from now!

I also want to touch on a controversy that I’ve heard distant rumblings on Apparently, some people are upset by Jailbreak’s character design On one level, it’s a blatant rip-off of Wyldstyle from The Lego Movie (and it’s pretty clear that Sony is trying to copy that film’s success) However, a number of people are crying foul that Jailbreak is the only emoji wearing clothes, while the male characters are not I do have to admit that it disturbs me that she’s the only character who has an actual body Gene and Hi-5 are simply their respective emojis with legs, but Jailbreak has a torso, a skirt, a beanie it just smells rotten in my opinion I’ll leave this issue to the more knowledgeable feminists, because I can t articulate this issue too well myself But I do believe something foul is afoot in this character design

To end my column this week, I do want to leave on a positive note On Oct 13, we got the online release of Borrowed Time, a short directed by Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj They are both ani-

Animation Analysis David Gouldthorpe

For all the flak I give DreamWorks’ upcoming Trolls, they at least demonstrate they know what a troll is An emoji-based plot may work better like this: let’s take Mr Smiley, a happy face emoticon who lives his life in a smartphone with all his other friends But one day he accidentally gets trapped in an email and sent to another person ’ s phone There, he meets his doppelganger, and has an identity crisis as he realizes he is just one of many happy face emojis in the world Yes, it’s a silly plot that took me all of a minute to conjure, but it at least it doesn’t break the concept of emoticons as we know them If I can do it, surely professional screenwriters can do better! Instead we ’ re getting what’s described as an “ app-venture, ” which means that they’re going to be hopping around different real-world smartphone apps, which means rampant product placement At least we know where

mators for Pixar, and they push their skills to the limit in this production The animation looks gorgeous, taking place in the American Southwest, and the visual storytelling is of course expertly executed What makes Borrowed Time stand out to me, though, is how it grapples with a delicate and important topic During the seven-minute long segment, a man returns to the scene of an accident that has haunted him all his life, and the short deals heavily in the themes of loss and suicide Coats and HamouLhadj handle the issue in a very poignant and heart-moving way which had me choking up The two directors may be Pixar veterans, but Borrowed Time is definitely not for children It’s haunting in the best possible way, and I consider it one of the best animated productions I’ve ever seen Frames have been stuck in my mind all day I hope that more animations dare to be as mature and heartfelt as Borrowed Time, and if you have time you can watch it right now on Vimeo If you don’t have the time, make the time After all, it’s free to watch

So why pay 10 dollars to go see Poop Daddy in theaters?

This column previously ran online at cornellsun com on Oct 21

David Gouldthorpe is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at djg284@cornell edu Animation Analysis will appear alternate Wednesdays this semester

BY REBEKAH JONES Sun Contributor

The phrase “ you only live once ” started with Drake’s song “ The Motto,” and within the span of a couple weeks, it became the slogan of 2011 The basic concept was “do what you want today because life is short ” It’s an exciting concept suddenly all those papers and midterms seemed a little less impor tant and living life to the fullest seemed like a better use of one ’ s time It appears the CW has taken on Drake’s philosophy in their new series, No Tomorrow, which aired on Oct 4 The show revolves around the sweet but safe Evie Covington, played by Toni Anderson Evie’s life is great, but relatively boring as she spends the majority of it “playing it safe ” In other words, she’s too afraid to sing in public, too afraid to stand up to her terrible boss and too afraid to spend her life doing what she actually wants This all changes however when she meets the exciting and spontaneous Xavier, played by Joshua Sasse, who appears to have no obligations or responsibilities in his life of luxur y He spends his days going to farmer’s markets, playing arcade basketball and tr ying to find ways to free his cousin from prison Why? It’s because he is fully convinced that the entirety of the human race has exactly eight months to live As a result, he has made it his goal to spend the last few months of his life crossing off goals of his from his bucket list When the two meet, they complement each other wonderfully and hilariously Although no one else in the show has any knowledge of Xavier’s supposed apocalypse, his influence on Evie is a positive one, as she is encouraged to step out of her comfort zone and tr y all the things that she never thought she

“PRebekah Jones is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at rj252@cornell edu N

would In fact, the majority of the show is not even focused on Xavier’s insane philosophy; no one even checks his apocalypse math Xavier’s free spirit and happiness that convinces Evie to open up a little bit In reality, we understand that a man in his 30s with no job or goals who is convinced the world is going to end is entirely insane

However, so does Evie She calls him out on his absurd way of living but he responds with what the writers of the show want the viewers to hear: “Some risks are worth taking, Evie, we all get to decide what is important to us, end of the world or not ” Evie certainly does as the series progresses She has the courage to break the ties and a marriage proposal with her humdrum ex-boyfriend, Timothy, played by Jesse Rath And in examining Evie’s attraction to Xavier, even Timothy steps out of his comfort zone, piercing his ears and tr ying a new look The show is about exploration, no matter how silly it may seem

Another pro to the Xavier-Evie connection is that she influences him as well, encouraging him to choose a less dangerous lifestyle For example, when he breaks his cousin out of prison (so he doesn’t have to spend his last eight months in jail), she points out that his recklessness affects her too, because he matters to her At this point we see Xavier actually realize that his actions affect more people than himself But then we also see his side of things He explains his relationship with his daring mother For example, when he was little, she would always take him to a cliff to dive, but he never had the courage to jump with her Now after she’s gone, he makes the jump, this time with Evie by his side Evie is supported by her two friends played by Jonathan Langdon and Sarayu Blue They are the perfect humorous complement to her, because in many ways, they seem as reckless as Xavier, highlighting Evie’s tendency to play it safe If the Xavier-Evie stor yline is not enough for you, these two keep the show light and hilarious, as Evie’s awkward and irritating boss is completely infatuated with Langdon’s character, Hank As far as romantic-comedies go, the show has an interesting plot line, giving ever y episode the opportunity to bring excitement and humor If television is supposed to allow us to step out of our own realities and step into another, this is an interesting one to experience For an hour we can see what it’s like to live with no responsibilities and no obligations, something worth looking for ward to The show non-debatably has a lot of potential, and I for one am excited to see what’s next

arental Advisory: Explicit Content ” It’s a phrase that has embedded itself deep down in the consciousness of modern music audiences, loudly asserting itself in that black-and-white rectangle of moralism on the bottom right-hand corner of all your favorite albums These days, that little box garners about as much attention as the signature at the bottom of a painting, but its early years sparked a fair share of heated debate regarding freedom of expression, the role of censorship in art and good ol’ family values

Our story begins in 1985, when one Mary “Tipper” Gore purchased Prince’s Purple Rain for her 11 year-old daughter, only to be taken aback by explicit references to sex and female masturbation on the song “Darling Nikki” (“I met her in a hotel lobby/Masturbating with a magazine”) Bewildered by her failure to protect young Karenna from the Purple One’s ode to consensual S&M, Gore (married, at the time, to future Vice President Al Gore) took it upon herself to co-found the Parents Music Resource Center, which aimed to lobby for industry regulations that would increase parents ’ control over their children’s access to music

Founded almost entirely by women, the 22-person group became known colloquially and in the media as the “Washington wives” a reference to the fact that their spouses included 10 U S Senators, 6 U S Representatives and a Cabinet Secretar y Sexist nicknames aside, this undeniable clout brought instant attention to the cause, resulting in a Senate hearing for the PMRC just five months after its formation In the months building up to that, the group released its hit-list of the top fifteen pop songs they found most offensive with “Darling Nikki” perched right at the top

Determined not to accept any of the compromises extended to them by the Recording Industry Association of America, the PMRC demanded that retailers hold albums with vulgar content behind sales counters, and that record companies print explicit lyrics visibly on album sleeves and “ reassess ” their contracts with musicians whose live shows hint at violence or sex Above all, the PMRC wanted to establish a ratings system (similar to that used by the Motion

Pictures Association of America) based on their own criteria

Bizarre moments populated the ensuing five-hour hearing, as the most significant opposing testimony came from the unlikely team of John Denver, Frank Zappa and Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister fame) In an impassioned speech on freedom of expression, Denver referred to his own experience with censorship, recalling radio stations that refused to play “Rocky Mountain High” because they misinterpreted it as drug-related (which, if we ’ re honest, it is) Ever the outdoorsman, Denver testified: “This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains and also had never experienced the elation, celebration of life or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseides meteor shower ” Zappa, meanwhile, took the opportunity to chastise the PMRC for employing sensationalist “ protect the kids” rhetoric, claiming that the group ’ s methods would result in “the reduction of all American music to the intellectual level of a Saturday morning cartoon show ” This reactionary moralism, he argued, would do little to benefit the kids and would prove impractical in implementation

That last bit proved the nail in the PMRC proposal’s coffin, as the sheer magnitude of a complex rating system would prove nearly impossible to administer In the end, the RIAA agreed of their own accord to develop a “Parental Advisory” label, leaving it up to record companies and their artists to

determine whether or not an album warrants it Wal-Mart seized the opportunity to prove its status as a “family-friendly” retailer, and refuse even now to stock their shelves with any records bearing Satan’s black-and-white rectangle Musicians ranging from the Ramones to Ice T, on the other hand, decided to wear the label as a badge of pride an affirmation of their music’s revolutionary capacity

Today, PAL marks can be found on everything from folk to rap albums, and have little impact on record sales or distribution Still, the debate that started it all remains a relevant one, with its most obvious modern analogue being the MPAA Hollywood’s self-administered ratings system purports to tell audiences which films are appropriate for different age groups, yet the divide between PG-13 and R has long delineated a troubling passivity to violence and a close-minded reproach toward anything sexual particularly when it’s not between a man and a woman In other words, we ’ re overdue for a cultural dialogue when Hollywood promotes highbody count movies like Suicide Squad to kids while labeling 2010’s Blue Valentine as “pornographic” and unfit for wider audiences because it briefly depicts a woman receiving oral sex

Perhaps more controversially, this history of censorship debates could help to explain a generational disconnect on the topic of trigger warnings in the college classroom Even the older guard of The New York Times readers (many of whom consider themselves proponents of social change) seems baffled by anything resembling a content label, as evidenced by the recent rash of articles concerning campus culture In one of the more nuanced pieces on the topic, the New Yorker’s Nathan Heller conducted a series of interviews at Oberlin College, speaking with both students and faculty alike

At one point, an English professor mentions that she and her colleagues had protested Tipper Gore’s PMRC initiatives back in the day As a teacher, she strongly promotes the use of trigger warnings but also stresses the need for discourse on the topic “My students want warning labels on class content, and I feel I don’t even know how to articulate it,” she said “Part of me feels that my leftist students are doing the right wing’s job for it ” While that may or may not be true, there’s clearly some nuance here that’ll remain unresolved without a little discourse

Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at cms459@cornell edu Really Terrible! And Such Small Portions appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

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