Ithaca resident Nagee Green has been arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of Ithaca College student, Anthony Nazaire, the Ithaca Police Department announced at a press conference Monday night Nazaire was fatally stabbed in a large fight outside Olin Hall on Aug 28, after leaving a party held by Omega Psi Phi in Willard Straight Hall Green was also charged with seconddegree assault of a second victim who was also stabbed on the scene, but has recovered The name of the second victim was not released Green pled not guilty to all charges Police said it does not appear that Green knew either of the two victims and confirmed that he was not enrolled at any local university Green, 23, was detained while boarding a transit bus in
Freeville, N Y , where he also sometimes resides, at 1:30 p m today The case is expected to proceed to a grand jury on Nov 10, and no evidence will be presented until that date, the acting District Attorney Andre w Bonavia said
When asked why it took the Ithaca police over two months to publicly charge a suspect, officers said they spent the time sifting through “hundreds” of leads, reiterating their belief that no time is too long to deliver justice to the community
“This isn’t like TV where you can watch an episode and you see the crime and the conclusion all within a one hour period,” he said “It takes time to gather the evidence and put together a good solid case that you can bring to court So that’s what we ’ ve done here ”
When Chief John Barber was asked why a murder witnessed by hundreds required such a
By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor
Reacting to the Ithaca Police Department’s Monday arrest of Nagee Green for the murder of Anthony Nazaire, the victim’s family said they are “ not satisfied” with the charges levied against the alleged murderer Nazaire’s mother, Katie Toussaint, said that, while the family is grateful to the IPD for arresting Green, they feel the suspect deserves to serve a life sentence The victim’s sister, Kiara Nazaire, called Green “ an animal” that “needs to be caged
up like an animal ”
“[Green] is not an innocent person, ” Nazaire said “I feel like it was something that he had in his heart to just do He is a murderer ”
The Nazaire family plans to “ go public” and speak to many different news organizations, Kiara Nazaire said She added that the whole family will be present through all court proceedings
“We are going to be there,” she said “The whole family will be there There’s going to be a lot
Poll: Students Choose Clinton in Droves Janet Reno ’60, First Female U.S. Attorney General, Dies
The overwhelming majority of students who participated in The Sun’s 2016 election polling said they intend to vote for the Democratic candidate, Former Sec of State Hillary Clinton
In total, 167 women, 154 men, and four gender
n o n c o n f o r m i n g people were polled in the three rounds of surveys
conducted during the weeks Sept 21, Oct 17 and 31 comprising of approximately 80 students from each undergraduate class Participants were asked to fill out anonymous surveys at several locations around campus, including Statler Hall, Mann Library and the Green Dragon cafe Of the 325 students voting, 173 identified as Democrats, 26 as Republicans and 126 as unaffiliated
A total of 233 students surveyed said they have already or intend to vote in the general election A much higher percentage of students surveyed nearly 70 percent plan to vote in the general election, or have
already done so via absentee ballot, than the 40 percent that said they voted in the primary Primary Trends
Of the students surveyed, 88 said they voted in the democratic primary 49 of the democratic primary voters said they voted for Sen Bernie Sanders (D-Vt ), 37 said they voted for Clinton, and two said they voted for former Gov Martin O’Malley (D-Md )
Of the 15 students who said they voted in the Republican party, six voted for Trump, five for Gov John Kasich (R-Ohio), three for Sen Marco Rubio (RFla ) and one voted for Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) General Election
With 195 students of the 325 students pledging support to Clinton, only 13 said they intend to vote for Donald Trump Additionally, 17 students intend to vote for a third party eight for Green Party candidate Jill
By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor
The first female U S attorney general, Janet Reno ’60, died at her home today in Miami-Dade County, Fla after battling Parkinson’s disease for over 20 years, according to her sister Maggy Hurchalla Reno was 78 Reno studied chemistr y as an undergraduate at Cornell, where she also led Cornell’s Women’s Student Government Association at a time when dorms and dining halls were segregated by gender She then attended Harvard University and earned her J D in 1963
speaker and was appointed a Frank H T Rhodes Class of 1956 professor at Cornell for a three-year term
The oldest of four siblings, Reno served for 14 years as the Dade County state attorney before becoming attorney general, The New York Times reported Working with President Bill Clinton’s administration, Reno directed the world’s largest justice and federal l a w
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Students, Faculty Evaluate Arts Requirements at Forum
By MARIN LANGLIEB Sun Staff Writer
In order to earn a degree from Arts and Sciences, students must complete distribution requirements that encourage them to explore a wide array of subjects, including foreign languages, and courses that help students learn from a historical and global perspective
Laura Brown, senior vice provost for undergraduate education, said that this distribution of required courses “enable
students to experiment in an organized way ”
These requirements allow students to take advantage of the academic breadth that Cornell offers, according to Micaela Gelman ’17 Students can take this diversity of learning one step further by becoming a part of the college scholar major a program that, essentially allows students to make their own major if they cannot find one that fits them perfectly
Brown further explained that it is integral of the goal of a liberal arts education to “maintain [this] flexibility, but control the opportunities so that it’s not so open-ended that you ’ re lost ”
After some students indicated that the number of requirements were too narrow and burdensome, Julie Gokhman ’17 said that it is unrealistic to aim to create requirements that reflect all students’ preferences
“You’re not going to be able to create something that 4,000 people agree with,” Gokhman said
Students said imposing so many requirements can compel students to sign up for classes just to tick them off their requirements, instead of taking courses that they are genuinely interested in
To address this problem, the CAS curriculum committee created three possible scenarios for changes, according to the University
The first would be to adjust the current distribution credits to redefine the college’s overall goal and the second would
GPSA Explores Creating Cornell Legal Service Center
Service would provide legal assistance to students with non-Cornell conficts
paying tuition Because this Student Legal
be restrictions ”
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly unanimously voted to create an ad hoc committee to explore the feasibility of creating a Cornell Student Legal Services center at its meeting Monday
The proposed center would offer free legal advice to Cornell students in disputes against parties not affiliated with the University
R i c h a rd Wa l ro t h , g r a d , G P S A C o u n s e l Representative, said that the new Student Legal Services center began as an idea in the undergraduate Student Assembly several years ago, before graduate student trustee Annie O’Toole grad fleshed out a formal proposal last year He said a majority of cases handled by the legal center would be landlord-tenant disputes
“The motion was to create an ad hoc committee to explore the creation of Student Legal
Se r v i c e s u s i n g t h e t e m p l a t e t h a t A n n i e O’Toole worked on, ” said GPSA President Nathaniel Rogers grad
Walroth said the center would largely help students with legal issues unrelated to the University
“Primarily, it will probably address landlord-tenant issues,” he said “If you have a lease that you feel has been violated by your landlord they could help with that, or if your landlord tried to hold onto your security deposit and you feel they are doing so illegally ”
Walroth said that many other universities have similar legal centers, dedicated exclusively to students He cited his own alma mater, University of Florida, as an example of a school with full-time attorneys on staff to render legal aid to students when their schools could not provide such aid
Walroth said that Cornell’s Student Legal Services center as outlined in O’Toole’s proposal would be funded by an optional $10 fee students could pay if they wish to use the center He said the proposed center would be a legal clinic with day to day services provided by Cornell Law students and a local attorney kept on retainer
“It is a $10 fee you will automatically pay but can opt out of,” Walroth said “If you have to use the legal services but had opted out of the fee, there would be some kind of hugely expensive fee for you to still access the service to discourage people from opting out and then trying to use the service ”
Walroth said the $10 dollar fee would be a “student fee” placed into a pool with undergraduate student fees and would be similar to
University, students would only be able to use those funds to find local lawyers who could help take action against parties not affiliated with the University as long as there was no conflict of interest
Walroth said that some Cornell employees and faculty did lease property to students and that potential conflicts from these arrangements would be “ an interesting situation ”
“The standard practice is that you can ’ t use the University’s services to represent yourself against the University,” Rogers said
“If we all got together and paid $10 dollars outside the University to get a lawyer that would obviously be different,” Walroth said “If we want to pay this fee to the University to provide this service, then there would have to
Walroth said that, while creating a legal insurance company for students completely independently from the University was possible, there would be no way to enforce payment collection from members
“You’d have to go to ever y student on campus and ask them for ten dollars There’s no way we could ever enforce that,” Walroth said “If I were to create a legal insurance company where ever yone pays in and gets legal insurance whenever it’s needed, I could only imagine how that might go Really this is only meant to address issues with Cornell students and the outside world, not Cornell itself ”
Cornellians’ cases | GPSA President Nathaniel Rogers grad discusses the details of the services a Legal Center could provide
Cornell Dems, Repubs Debate Policy Positions
By ADITYA BHARDWAJ Sun Contributor
As Hillar y Clinton and Donald Trump conclude their presidential campaigns and election day looms, the Cornell Democrats and Republicans staged their second bi-annual debate discussing key issues including immigration, welfare, and national security in Ives Hall, Monday
The debate followed the conventional presidential format, with the parties fielding two speakers each to answer the moderator’s questions
As expected, there were clear disagreements on many issues, beginning with the a question on immigration
Kevin Kowalewski ’17, president of the Cornell Democrats, declared the current immigration system “broken,” and emphasized the need to maintain immigrants’ fundamental rights in any discussion of policy reforms
“ While we are absolutely against tearing communities apart, we must not encourage the creation of an entire community of illegal citizens,” Kowalewski said “Hence, we
believe in creating a strong pathway to legal citizenship for undocumented immigrants in America ”
The Republicans disagreed, saying awarding pathways to citizenship could have a detrimental effect on efforts to promote legal immigration in the future
Olivia Corn ’19, chair of Cornell Republicans, argued instead for incentivizing legal immigration
“Policies such as work permit distribution greatly increase the incentive for an immigrant to obtain official status, ” Corn said
Corn advocated a tough stance on illegal immigrants, calling a crackdown on border control violations necessary
“We can ’ t allow people to keep entering the country illegally,” Corn said “We definitely need more border control than we have today ”
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While both parties agreed that the current version of the
Students and faculty discussed possible changes and improvements to the College of Arts and Science curriculum at a forum Monday evening
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saw high-profile convictions of criminals like Ted Kaczynski, the infamous “unabomber ” In 2000, she played a significant role in the government ’ s seizing of Elián González, a six-year-old Cuban refugee “ at the center of an international custody battle and political tug of war, ” according to The New York Times
Under Reno’s leadership, the U S Justice Department prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing and sued the tobacco industry “ to reclaim federal health care dollars spent on treating illnesses caused by smoking,” The Times reported
Reno also strongly advocated for “guaranteeing federal protection to women seeking abortions and safeguarding abortion clinics that were under threat,” according to The Times
“Janet Reno was an inspiration and trailblazer for so many women in law enforcement and government including me She will be dearly missed,” said current U S Attorney General Loretta E Lynch on Twitter today
According to CNN, Clinton said he and his wife
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were “deeply saddened” by Reno’s passing, calling her “ an extraordinary public servant who dedicated her life to advancing justice, equality and innovations in criminal justice that would save and lift lives ”
“As attorney general for all eight years of my presidency, Janet worked tirelessly to make our communities safer, protect the vulnerable and to strike the right balance between seeking justice and avoiding abuse of power, ” Clinton said
Interim President Hunter Rawlings also praised Reno’s life of accomplishments, saying she distinguished herself “by remaining true to her principles and to herself ”
“Janet’s integrity, intelligence and toughness quelled critics’ calls for her resignation in times of roiling controversy that threatened to engulf her,” he said “She leaves an extraordinary legacy of achievement under duress and unshakable dignity in the face of enormous challenge We take great pride that this singularly accomplished woman of ‘firsts,’ this Cornellian who commanded the world stage, was one of us ”
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of people from [Anthony’s] school his classmates, his friends from Ithaca College We have different students from different colleges who are going to be there, too ”
After looking through Green’s Facebook page, Nazaire said she found several messages that “really were not ver y comfortable to even read ”
“[Green] was sending threatening messages to college students in Ithaca both male and female,” she said “He was just doing so many things that would actually scare you as a human being to actually be around him ”
Green was active on Facebook both before and after the murder of Anthony Nazaire
“I swear to GOD ima smack flames outta ever y female and male in Ithaca that got my name in they mouth, friends and all, let’s see who not pussy I’m waiting,” Green said on Facebook two days before the Aug 28 murder
Green posted a status on Oct 7 calling Ithaca the “only place where snitches can roam around freely ” Two days later, he wrote on Facebook that “these niggas snitching” and “I’m putting names on BLAST as soon as I find out more info and whopping ass ”
On Oct 16, Green wrote on Facebook that he would “have to confront ever y single person in Ithaca with my name in they mouth,” and last Thursday, Green posted saying “the devil in me
I can feel him ”
The Nazaire family said they are creating a scholarship that aims to help “ young kids” pursuing a college education and career who are limited by financial resources “ We would like to honor them and help them go to college under the Anthony Nazaire scholarship,” Nazaire said
Both family members were adamant that they will continue to demand that Green ser ve life in jail
“ What I want for [Green] is life in jail because my son will never be able to see the sun shine,” Toussaint said “He will never be able to walk this earth anymore, but this criminal, he gets to live, he gets to be sleeping in a comfortable bed, he gets food, you understand? He gets to speak to his loved ones ”
Toussaint said Green just “wanted to show his power ” and “how much of a devil he is” the night he decided to murder her son
“[Anthony] was an innocent kid,” she said “[Green] just wanted to kill that night, that’s what he did He killed my son and I’m not going to sit and just accept any sentence I want life for him, just like my son cannot walk this earth no more I don’t want him to see the other side of the fence Plain and simple That’s all I’m asking for ”
Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com
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Students and Profs Consider Changes to Arts Requirements
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REQUIREMENTS Continued from page 3 Marin Langlieb can be reached at mel276@cornell edu
Stein and nine for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson
Thirty seven of the students who said they voted for Sanders in the primary stated that they intend to vote for Clinton Of the remaining 12, six are voting for Stein, one for Johnson, two are not going to vote, and two are
Sixty nine percent of female voters interviewed said they intend to vote for Clinton, while a slightly lower percentage of 53 percent of men plan to vote for her A significantly larger percentage of men said they intend to vote third party than women while eight percent of male students said they intend to vote third party, only about 2 5 percent of female students interviewed support a third party candidate
While the number of voters surveyed who are unsure who they intend to vote for, or if they intend to vote, is similar at 17 percent for both genders, almost double the number of men surveyed said h d i d h men, with 15 percent of men men not voting
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Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com
POLLING LOCATIONS NEAR CORNELL’S CAMPUS
City of Ithaca
Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St
Titus Towers II 798 S Plain St
South Hill School, 520 Hudson St
GIAC, 301 W Court St
TC Public Library, 101 E Green St
RPCC, North Campus, Jessup Rd
Belle Sherman Annex, Cornell St
Alice Cook House, West Campus, Stewart & University Ave
St Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave
Fall Creek School, King & Aurora St
Town of Ithaca
Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd
Town of Ithaca Public Works, 106 Seven Mile Dr
College Circle Community Center, 1033 Danby Rd
Ellis Hollow Apartments 1028 Ellis Hollow Rd East entrance
Hasbrouck Apartments, Community Center, 121 Pleasant Grove Rd
BOCES, 555 Warren Rd
First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd
Linderman Creek II Community Building, 201 Cypress Ct Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd
Polling will be open today from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
LOCAL ELECTIONS
Running for the U S House of Representatives to represent the 23rd District of New York are Capt. John Plumb (D) and incumbent Tom Reed ( R ) C o n g re s s m a n Re e d i s p o l l i n g ahead of his challenger, but has faced backlash in the liberal areas of his district after endorsing Donald Trump in March Plumb has never been elected to public office, but served as a Navy officer and on the National Security Council Ba r b a
against Ernfield resident He rb M
( R ) for reelection to the New York State Assembly, representing District 125 Lifton has represented District 125, w h i c h i n c l u d e s a l l o f To m p k i n s County, since 2002 In the 1980s, before running for public office, Lifton was a teacher in the Ithaca public school system Masser lost to Lifton in the 2014 race, but says he learned from this contest how to appeal more broadly to voters Ithaca lawyer L e s l ie D an ks Bu rk e (
SCIENCE DESKER Arnav Ghosh ’18 ARTS DESKER Shay Collins ’18
Letter to the Editor
For some of us, this isn’t ideological
To th e Edi to r:
Yesterday, The Cornell Daily Sun published an article titled, “‘Disenchanted’ Students Seek Alternative to Clinton and Trump ” Cornell Political Union member Nate Baker ’17, states that, “Growing up in the era of gridlock has disenchanted many young voters from tradition party affiliation, We don’t feel loyal to a party, but rather to values, to candidates and to ideology ”
While Mr Baker offers an interesting perspective, he fails to acknowledge another reason why many young voters are disenchanted with the current state of politics:
For many of us, this election is not a matter of values, appealing candidates, or ideologies in abstraction, but rather, a matter of survival Though values and ideologies are highly important, we also must fully consider the perspective of those who are not just disenchanted by the political system, but also disenfranchised by the system as a whole
As an undocumented student my life changed drastically in 2012, when President Obama issued an executive action that created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which I was able to get a work permit and driver’s license DACA has given me the ability to attend Cornell and have bright job prospects upon graduation; however, since the primary days, Donald Trump has vowed to end DACA, something he could easily do given that it is under executive power
For me, a Donald Trump victory means that everything I will have worked for will be taken away from me My Cornell degree will mean little when I am no longer legally allowed to work or to even have a driver’s licence My 10-year-old brother, a United States citizen by birth, will live in fear that his mother and sister will be deported My future, and the future of my family, will be ripped out of my hands I will again live in fear of being deported to a country that, though I love, I hardly know
I hope that the matters of survival that face many of us are part of the consideration that voters have when going out to vote, not just for presidential candidates, but for all elections down the ballot These aren ’ t just ideological choices, these are choices that affect the very existence of millions of people in our country
Many of us, for whom this election determines our future, can ’ t vote, but to those of you who can, I ask you to consider the effect this election will have on ALL people living in this country
Letter to the Editor
ILRfaculty respond to Rawling’s statement on graduate assistant labor union representation
To t h e Ed i t o r :
In his “ statement on graduate assistant labor union representation” (October 27), Interim President Hunter Rawlings cites the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School) as being “the leader in the field of labor education ” We write here as faculty of the ILR School, drawing on our expertise and experience in the field of labor law, labor relations and labor rights We agree with President Rawlings that it is essential that the University respect the graduate assistants’ choice of whether they wish to be represented by a union We also agree that it is important that graduate assistants have access to information relevant to making their choice Unfortunately, however, President Rawlings’ statement presents a negative view of unionization based on speculation and unsubstantiated assertions In responding to these speculative claims, our letter seeks to provide useful information about the reality of unionization in universities
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) recognizes that employees have collective interests in joining together to improve their working conditions for employees’ “mutual aid or protection ” Whereas an individual employee, acting alone, usually lacks power to negotiate effectively with an employer, unionizing gives employees a collective voice that levels the playing field for negotiations President Rawlings’ statement, however, is a drumbeat asserting that collective and individual interests are in opposition This assertion mischaracterizes the purposes of unionization and the way collective bargaining works Through negotiations with the employer for a collective bargaining agreement, unions attempt to achieve improvements that benefit all the individual employees in the bargaining unit, including higher wages, workload, health insurance, safe working conditions and grievance procedures Collective bargaining also enhances individual employees’ ability to express their priorities about needed improvements The union negotiating team, which includes employees, creates bargaining proposals based on the priorities of the employees in the bargaining unit
President Rawlings’ statement further relies on speculative and unsubstantiated fears that unionization of graduate assistants will interfere with graduate education, the faculty-graduate student academic relationship, and shared governance These assertions are belied by the evidence and the best available empirical research on higher education practice As the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) obser ved in its recent Columbia University decision upholding the right of teaching and research assistants to unionize and collectively bargain in private universities: “‘Collective bargaining by graduate student employees is increasingly a fact of American university life ’” The NLRB summarizes the extensive experience of collective bargaining in public universities: “Recent data show that more than 64,000 graduate student employees are organized at 28 institutions of higher education, a development that began at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1969 and that now encompasses universities in California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington ” The NLRB concludes that close to 50 years of graduate assistant unions in public universities provides relevant and useful evidence that collective bargaining can extend to private universities Additionally, as the NLRB obser ves, “Both the original and successor agreements at NYU addressed such matters as stipends, pay periods, discipline and discharge, job posting, a grievance-and-arbitration procedure, and health insurance nearly all familiar mandator y subjects of bargaining across the private sector, which appear to have been successfully adapted to a university setting ”
The NLRB relied, as well, on academic research findings that unionization does not negatively affect faculty-student relationships This research includes a recent sur vey-based study comparing unionized and nonunionized campuses, which confirmed the findings of prior sur veys that unionization does not interfere with faculty-student relationships or harm the education or training of graduate students (See, Sean E Rogers, Adrienne E Eaton, & Paula B Voos, Effects of Unionization on Graduate Student Employees: Student Relations, Academic Freedom, and Pay, 66 ILR Review 487-510 [2013]) Moreover, this 2013 study found positive effects of unionization on faculty-student relationships, specifically, that unionized graduate students “had higher mean ratings on their advisors accepting them as competent professionals, ser ving as a role model to them, being someone they wanted to become like, and being effective in his or her role ” (p 505)
Finally, unionization and shared governance have long coexisted Faculty unions and graduate assistants unions in public universities engage in collective bargaining over terms and conditions of employment at the same time that faculty senates and graduate student assemblies engage in shared governance This is the typical model in universities that the Cornell Graduate Students United and the Cornell Graduate and Professional Student Assembly can follow
The information and analysis we present here differ significantly from the perspective offered by President Rawlings One point on which we do agree is that this is an important decision for the Cornell graduate assistants Most importantly, the choice of whether to unionize belongs solely to the graduate assistants, not to President Rawlings and other university administrators, or to the faculty We should ensure that the graduate assistants are able to freely and fully exercise their rights and their choices
Prof Ileen A DeVault
Prof Risa Lieberwitz
Jeff Grabelsky
Lara Skinner
Prof Beth A Livingston
Prof William Sonnenstuhl
Prof Rachel Aleks
Prof Eli Friedman
Gene Carroll
Prof Maria Lorena Cook
Sam Nelson
Aliqae Geraci
K C Wagner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Prof James A Gross
Prof John McCarthy
Jim DelRosso
Prof Adam Seth Litwin
Barb Morley,
Allison Weiner Heinemann
Prof Harry C Katz
Ron Applegate
Ian Greer
Cheryl Beredo
Nellie Brown
Maria Figueroa
Prof Veronica Martínez-Matsuda
Lance Compa
Linda Donahue
Prof Richard Hurd
Prof Lowell Turner
Sally Alvarez
Prof Kate Griffith
Prof Emerita
Lou Jean Fleron
Prof Ben A Rissing
Prof Emily M Zitek
Prof Lois S Gray
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Art Wheaton
Esta R Bigler
D S Lamb
Dania Rajendra
Kimberly Cook
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Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Iamproud to cast my vote for our first female president, Hillary Rodham Clinton I respect her, I admire her, and I cannot wait for her to represent our country Hillary has comprehensive and feasible goals She intends to bolster our gun control policies, preventing those who are a danger to themselves and others from owning lethal weapons She envisions welcoming 65,000 persecuted Syrian refugees who need our help Hillary wants everyone to prosper from the American Dream This includes creating a fair tax system, improving education for all children, ending campus sexual assault, making college affordable, confronting climate change, reforming our criminal justice system and immigration policies, increasing the minimum wage and enacting many more policies to advance our country
Secretary Clinton is a champion for Americans from all walks of life She worked tirelessly as a young lawyer at the Children’s Defense Fund advocating for low income and disabled children President Carter appointed Clinton to the Legal Services Corporation board, an organization that defends low income families and fights for equality in the justice system During Bill Clinton’s presidency, Hillary fought for affordable health care and proceeded to create the bipartisan Children’s Health Insurance Program, which successfully insured 8 million low income children She firmly believes that love is love and that families come in all shapes and sizes She fights for paid family leave, never surrendering to gender norms
In 2008, when she lost to her fellow democratic presidential candidate, she put our country first and stepped up as Secretary of State under the Obama Administration In this role, Hillary visited 112 countries, fostered the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in 2012, enacted sanctions on Iran which led to the Iran deal, successfully killed Osama bin Laden and always maintained and advanced our relations overseas
I am not going to tell you to vote for Hillary because our country will combust if her opponent wins; rather, I think you should vote for Hillary because she truly is qualified and prepared for the job, and will work tirelessly to improve the lives of all Americans
Hillary is a born leader who never gives up She apologizes for her mistakes and admits when she is wrong No, Hillary is not perfect But anyone who has been working for the American public for as many years as she has is bound to have made some mistakes along the way A president who can acknowledge her own imperfections is human Hillary stands up for what she believes, and when society changes, she too reflects on her previously-held stances and alters them accordingly Hillary has a lifetime of experience solving problems and implementing policies We want a president who will build bridges and fight for us We want someone who has overcome many obstacles and faced a plethora of challenges with grace and dignity
As a young girl, my parents told me I could do anything Rather than simply saying it, my parents showed me that women are just as powerful and important as men They are complete equals Through example, my balanced family taught me to be a proud feminist Hillary did just this for so many other little girls; she taught us how to be strong women by example
Hillary is a trailblazer She is a pioneer and role model for women everywhere Hillary was the first ever student speaker at Wellesley in 1969, an accomplishment that earned her a spread in LIFE Magazine She was one of twenty-seven women in her graduating class at Yale Law, the first female associate and then first female partner at Rose Law Firm in Arkansas In 1995, Hillary proclaimed to a patriarchal world that “human rights are women ’ s rights, and women ’ s rights are human rights” catapulting female equality into the governmental sphere (this same year she also won a Grammy!) In 2000, Hillary was the first female New York Senator, and in 2016 she will be the first female president
I am not voting for Hillary because she is a woman, but because that quality makes her that much more qualified I am voting for her because she has proven that she is ready for the awesome responsibility and power that comes with being a United States President She has had to work ten times harder than any man to get to where she is today I am voting for Hillary because she has the perseverance, stamina and grit to succeed in a man ’ s world while helping Americans every step of the way Hillary is brilliant, brave, resilient, caring and inspiring; it is about time she serve as our president Be on the right side of history
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SCIENCE
Use radar ranging to observe liquid methane canyons
By DARREN CHOW
With its wealth of hills, lakes and water falls, Ithaca cer tainly is “ gorges ” But so is Saturn’s moon, Titan In fact, Prof Alexander Hayes, astronomy, and his team have discovered that Titan too features deep canyons
The resemblance is so striking that these Ear th-like features can provide cr ucial information on the evolution of our own planet The only difference though is that Titan’s canyons are filled with liquid methane
Hayes traces the team ’ s success to NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn and correspondingly, Titan, for 13 years
“Even though people have been working on Cassini for twenty years or more, they still welcome early career scientists, be it graduate students or faculty, to come in and work on the mission with them,” Hayes said “Because of that adaptability and willingness to bring in the next generation, we have come up with new ways to use Cassini’s instr uments to make discoveries on Titan ”
One such method used Cassini’s radar for ranging, which works by sending out a pulse of energy and measuring the time it takes to come back, thus giving astronomers an estimate of how distant a sur face is Coincidently, the data recovered is ver y sensitive to the sur face’s roughness
“ You have a ver y accurate measure of how smooth the sur face is by seeing whether or not the radar reflects like a mirror or like a rough sur face,” Hayes said “So if you ’ re looking for waves, one way to do it is to shine the radar, look at the reflected light and see if the returned intensity suggests a sur face that is perfectly smooth or one with waves on it “
Hayes acknowledges the contribution of Valerio Poggiali, a visiting student from Sapienza University in Rome By looking over Cassini optometr y data for dr y land, Poggiali obser ved mirror-like reflections from Titan’s channel beds and was thus, the first to directly obser ve that they contained liquid
“Poggiali was able to say that these were not just channels, but liquid-filled canyons with a width equivalent to the Mississippi River,” Hayes said “However,
the Mississippi has a ver y gradual slope to it, while these channels [on Titan] are like the gorges of Ithaca that go straight down by 100 to 300 meters with slopes of 45 degrees or larger What this means is that Titan’s river channels are much more ver tically eroded than
we thought ” However, unanswered questions still remain, such as where all this eroded material goes
“ That’s the million dollar question,” Hayes said “ That’s the question we don’t have the answer to where is all this material going? Not simply with the gorges, but also with the depressions that make up small lakes, since the latter appear to have no obvious outflow channels ”
However, Hayes believes that there are a number of theories astronomers could explore
“Could it be that they form sediment plumes that uniformly fall on the seafloor so you don’t actually see concentrated deposits? Maybe Another option is that
the material dissolves in the liquid and the liquid flows somewhere else and there’s a subsur face storage of saturated liquid that has dissolved all the material of all these solid par ticles,” Hayes said “I think this question requires a follow up mission - to actually get down there and measure the composition of the lakes and seas and makeup of Titan’s solid sur face ” Titan’s methane based hydrologic system seems similar to our own water cycle and determines how these canyons are filled Thus, besides helping scientists build a comprehensive view of our solar system, Hayes believes that such similarities sufficiently justify its continual study
“On Titan, we can study processes affecting its surface that are ver y similar to the ones that we have here on Ear th People say we want to study Venus because Venus is Ear th's greenhouse effect taken to extreme measures, ” Hayes said “ You can say the same thing for Titan but instead of the greenhouse effect you would be talking about the hydrologic system Titan is Ear th's hydrologic system taken to extreme measures If you want to understand Ear th's hydrologic system and how our sur face evolved, studying Titan will give you an example with ver y different conditions that you can use to test your models ”
But missions that allow us to do this could be in jeopardy Due to budget cuts, many NASA missions in the pipeline are extremely targeted Haye’s discoveries, on the other hand, were the result of a much more open-ended mission that gave astronomers the opportunity to explore Saturn without too many constraints
Hayes refuses to give up and is working on future m i s s i o n s t h a t m a y g i v e a
astronomers the oppor tunity to learn even more about this icy world
“One concept I’m working on is an orbiter: to go to Titan, to get a complete view of the sur face and understand things in much greater detail than Cassini was able to, ” Hayes said “ The other mission is a lander that could land on the sur face to do in-situ measurements and see what Titan’s sur face is made of ”
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Canyons galore l (1) Computer generated graphic of radar ranging in process (2) Liquid methane fills canyons on Titan’s surface
PHOTO COURTESY OF PROF ALEXANDER HAYES
By JOSHUA EIBELMAN Sun Contributor
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Facebook or text a friend at the end of the day, only to find your phone out of batter y? Or ended up staring at a blank, black laptop screen in the middle of that all important presentation? Well, for all of you, recent research published in Nature by Prof Darrell Schlom, materials science, could soon make this frustration a thing of the past Schlom and team have synthesized a magnetoelectric multiferroic material that works at room temperatures Such materials allow one to control magnetic fields by manipulating electric fields Thus far, scientists have only created multiferroics that work at cr yog
What makes these materials important is their ability to improve energy efficiency A 2013 report by the Digital Power Group asserts that information and communication technology ecosystems worldwide use as much energy as Japan and Germany combined Wide adoption of these magnetoelectric materials would allow devices to use considerably less energy and thus, reduce this footprint
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Attempts at creating materials that work at higher temperatures, like bismuth iron oxide, have been futile because of their weak performance and challenges in putting them to practical use
Efficiently Layered | (1) Electron micrograph of the first room temperature multiferroic. (2) Internal multiferroic structure
By JACK NOVAK Sun Contributor
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in 68 children have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Yet, despite extensive research, the reason for the disorder’s development remains unclear But that could soon change, thanks to research conducted by Yiqin Wang grad and Prof Zhenglong Gu, nutritional sciences
The duo studied the link between certain states of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and ASD mtDNA, unlike nuclear DNA, is inherited from the mother and while there are over three billion base pairs of nuclear DNA, there are about 16,500 base pairs of mtDNA The difference has meant that research in genetics and pathology has primarily been focused on nuclear DNA
“The research of mtDNA is falling behind that of nuclear DNA in many diseases,” Gu said “One of the major reasons is that we lack the tool for accurately manipulating mtDNA in cells, which largely limits our understanding of the downstream consequences of mtDNA mutations ”
Published in PLOS Genetics’ october edition, the study, ‘Genetic Evidence for Elevated Pathogenicity of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Autism Spectrum Disorder,’ analyzed DNA in 903 families The DNA of a child diagnosed with ASD, their mother and an unaffected sibling was compared, with researchers focusing on identifying heteroplasmies: a state in which different copies of mtDNA coexist in a cell
“Heteroplasmy is a unique feature of mtDNA
Different from nuclear DNA, which only has two copies in human cells, a cell can have hundreds, even thousands
“ This was a four-year odyssey in understanding what’s going on and there were some perplexing results early on, ” Schlom said Schlom and his team synthesized their multiferroic material from a ferromagnet and ferroelectric materials (materials that can be magnetically and electrically polarised externally respectively) Ferromagnetic materials have areas of uniform magnetization, known as magnetic domains, that can be shifted using magnetic fields
P r o f D a r r e l l S c h l o m
The team used a ferromagnet, consisting of an atomic layer of lutetium oxide, followed by two layers of iron oxide Ferroelectric materials are similar except, its electric domains can be moved using electric fields Instead of two layers of iron oxide, the ferroelectric contained a single such layer
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domains that can be moved in several ways In our case, we are interested in being able to move magnetic domains using electric fields,” Schlom said
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team noticed a wrinkle-like puckering of the lutetium oxide atomic layers
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of copies of mtDNA Both mutant mtDNA molecules and wild-type mtDNA molecules can coexist in a single cell That state is called a heteroplasmy,” Wang said
The group was then able to identify pathogenic, or disease-related, heteroplasmies Specifically, they uncov-
r e a s o n i s t h a t w e l a c k t h e t o o l s f o r a c c u r a t e l y m a n i p u l a t i n g m t D N A . ” P r o f Z h e n g l o n g G u “ T h i s w a s a f o u r - y e a r o d y s s e y i n u n d e r s t a n d i n g w h a t w a s g o i n g o n a n d t h e r e w e r e s o m e p e r p l e x i n g r e s u l t s e a r l y o n . ”
ered that children affected by ASD had twice as many harmful mtDNA mutations According to Gu and Wang, this crucial connection between mtDNA and ASD may help guide future diagnostic and treatment procedures
“The current testing of mitochondrial function usu-
these films under powerful electron microscopes This puckering was associated with higher temperature magnetism when these puckered layers were next to the double iron oxide atomic layers Collaboration between researchers at many labs at both Cornell and elsewhere paved the way to understanding what was happening Schlom and his team deduced that the puckering allowed the internal magnetization to be in a single direction, thus, making it a powerful magnet, even at high temperatures Consequently, combining these layers with ferroelectric materials would allow allow for this magnetization to be controlled by electric fields
The team used a process known as Molecular Beam Epitaxy, or as Schlom refers to it, “atomic spray painting” to intersperse the ferroelectric material with an extra atomic layer of iron oxide
They synthesized 15 such materials, adding the extra iron oxide layer at various positions in each structure The first had an extra iron oxide layer after each ferroelectric layer whereas the fifteenth had one after ever y 15 layers
After numerous tests, the team found that the ninth m
However, the reason for this remains a myster y, especially because even powerful supercomputers cannot yet calculate the properties of a system with extra atomic layers spaced so far apart
Schlom hopes future research will focus on answering this question and applying new knowledge to create materials that work at 100 degrees Celsius or higher
Such is its promise that Intel has begun funding the next phase of the lab’s research
ally includes blood tests and biopsies, which can be laborious and is an unpleasant process for patients,” Wang said “If mtDNA mutations underlie the mitochondrial defects obser ved in autism, then you do mtDNA sequencing in the affected children, his or her mom and also siblings to see if they have pathogenic mtDNA mutations, which can then be used to infer the disease risk ”
It is unclear whether the increased prevalence of ASD is due to better diagnostic tools or changes in environmental conditions, but Gu explains another potential reason, which is linked with mtDNA
“A fascinating process occurs during mother lineage for egg production It can limit the number of mother’s mtDNA copies transmitted to the egg, so bad mutations cannot survive, but some of the bad mutations can still leak to the next generation,” Gu said “This cleanup process may be affected by the mother’s physiology, like obesity, diabetes, etc So one of our future research goals is to figure out what factors can make this cleanup process less efficient ”
The relationship between mtDNA and disease may not just be limited to ASD but may exist for age-related diseases as well
“Our lab has been focusing on age-related disease, but because of this particular finding, we have started to look at childhood diseases,” Gu said “Now, we are also trying to develop tools to manipulate mtDNA to have a mechanistic understanding of the impact of mtDNA mutations ”
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According to Wikipedia, approximately 11 percent of the U S population experiences them, putting Europeans to shame at their measly 3 percent and inviting any n u m b e r o f c u l t u r a l c r i t i q u e s In t h e absence of a Nate Silver-esque trend line documenting day-to-day stress levels of the average American, one need only consult their Facebook feed to identify Election Day 2016 as a stress point of apocalyptic magnitude – the moment in which we collectively confront the bed we ’ ve made for ourselves
Suppressing my personal nightmare of waking up next to the GOP’s spraytanned Frankenstein monster has proven itself a time-consuming effor t, and one that shirks the comfor ting assurance of h i s t o r i c a l p re c e d e n c e W h o m c a n w e consult to contextualize the first tr ue reality TV election? By repeatedly identifying Ci t i z e n K a n e as his all-time favorite film, Donald Tr ump seems to have done the work for us
Plenty of journalists and academics have noted parallels between Donald J Tr ump and Charles Foster Kane in recent months, but on the eve of the election, the compari s o n s e e m s m o r e a p t than ever
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Welles’ directorial debut is perhaps best known (alongside T h e Go d f a t h e r ) as that classic film you pretend to have seen without ever making any real effor t to do so Critics often list the film amongst the best that Hollywood has to offer, citing i t s n o
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from their favorite movies Tr ump gives surprisingly academic if obvious insight into the tale of Charlie Kane, admitting that “Rosebud” signifies a sad, lonely figure’s attempt at returning to the innocence of his childhood And yet, much like his ow n n a m e , Tr
“Rosebud” in its marketing potential a simple, legacy-preser ving word that has colloquially transcended the confines of Ci t i z e n K a n e while remaining tied to it “Rosebud” works
It’s not a stretch to assume that Tr ump envisions Mr Kane as a fictional counterpar t to that great American tradition
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Andre w Carnegie, John Rockefeller or Andre w Mellon or to assume that he would add his own name to that list In Kane, Tr ump sees only a man ’ s rise into the ranks of histor y, while ironically (and I w o u l d n ’ t d o u b t , p u r p o s e f u l l y ) ove rl o o k i n g t h e p o i n t o f t h e f i l m i t s e l f
“[ Ci t i z e n K a n e ] was an attack on property, ” Welles said in a 1960 inter vie w “And on acquisition of proper ty And on the c o r r u p t i o n o f a n a c q u i s i t i v e s o c i e t y where a man of real gifts, and real charm, and real humanity destroys himself and ever ything near him ”
Following Welles’ lead, most vie wers have interpreted the images of Charles Kane alone in his extravagant estate as critical of material pursuits, and also re m i n i s c e n t o f Wi l l i a m He a r s t ’ s ow n retreat behind castle walls Tr ump, mean-
while, sees the grandeur of Greek tragedy in the film but plays down the significance of the fall “ There is a great rise in Ci t i z e n K a n e , and there was a modest fall,” he said “ The fall wasn ’ t a financial fall, it was a personal fall But it was a fall, never theless ” This coping mechan i s m m a y p
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In the end, Hearst and Kane’s political careers failed spectacularly, imploding in scandal and landslide defeats To his credit, Tr ump ’ s toxic vacuum of narcissism has carried him far ther than either of those men went, and he currently sits within reach of the countr y ’ s highest office If and when he loses, the real estate mogul seems likely to retain the limelight rather than retreat behind the walls of Mar-a-Lago The “fall,” after all, is only a matter of perspective When asked what advice he would give to Charlie Kane, Tr ump had a simple answer: “Get yourself a different woman ”
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ogize to them, and to all those who trusted us, supported us and believed in us ” While this apology is necessar y and seemingly sincere, this conduct is still unacceptable on any athletic team and extremely out of place on an Ivy League squad The Ivy League sets the academic and moral standards for the rest of the college athletic world While scandals are sadly still present in college sports look at Joe Paterno’s downfall at Penn State or North Carolina players’ phony exams for examples one would not expect this sort of behavior at an Ivy League institution The behavior of Har vard’s men ’ s soccer team in such a sexually explicit manner has tarnished the Ivy League athletic brand as a whole
It is highly unlikely that this inappropriate “ report ” is the only element of a worrisome culture at Har vard men ’ s soccer Since
this stor y is so recent, surely more information will be leaked in the coming weeks Har vard’s initial punishment suspending them for the season is an excellent start Yet, because the team ’ s culture is also likely a problem, this suspension alone w i l l n o t f i x t h e b e h a v i o r Har vard and the Ivy League need to implement a program to fix the culture at Har vard men ’ s soccer It needs to start with education, about how conduct of this sort will never be tolerated Once the program is established, ever y Ivy sports team needs to participate, because if it has happened on one Ivy team, it might be happening else where The Ivy League needs to take a strong stance on Har vard men ’ s soccer ’ s misconduct to ensure that Ivy League athletics remain a hallm
With Two Games Left, Crimson Moves to 5-0
By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor
over Penn on Saturday leaves Har vard the only team in the l e a g u e w i t h a n u n d e f e a t e d record The Crimson triumphed over Columbia to move to 5-0 in t h e c
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x t week’s clash against Har vard A win over the Crimson would create a three-way tie for first place entering the final week of the season In addition to Har vard a n d Pr i n c e t o n , B r o w n a n d Dartmouth also came away with victories this past weekend the Bears over Yale and t h e Gr e e n over Cornell F l y i n g high off a 567 t h r a s h i n g o f C o r n e l l last Saturday, t h e Ti g e r s w e l c o m e d Penn to Princeton, hoping to stay alive in the race for the conference crown With a consistent offensive presence Princeton
end, and the Red and Blue will play Har vard Brown held off a late rally from Yale to send the Bulldogs to a 27-22 defeat The Bears led 205 in the third quarter, but 10 straight points from Yale got the Bulldogs back in striking distance Brown scored once more in the fourth to keep Yale at bay and secure its second conference win of the season At 2-3 in the league, Brown sits in a tie for fourth place in the league with the Bulldogs Brown will face D a r t m o u t h n
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s c o r e d a t o u c h d o w n i n e a c h quarter and a truly dominant defense, the Tigers downed the Quakers, 28-0, to move into a tie
f o r s e c o n d i n t h e l e a g u e Princeton’s do-it-all quarterback John Lovett, who torched the Red for seven touchdowns last week, scored twice for the Tigers, as Princeton shut out Penn for the first time since 1978 The Tigers will face Yale next week-
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Har vard would go on to win, 2821 Columbia will play Cornell next week in the teams ’ annual Empire State Bowl
Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com
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Cornell Triumphs Over Dartmouth in Final Game
Red’s three seniors play their season ’ s best in feld hockey’s dominant 9-1 win over Ivy League rival
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On Oct 25, the Harvard Crimson broke a story that will have lasting effects on Ivy League sports for years to come The student newspaper at Cornell’s Ivy peer reported that Harvard’s men ’ s soccer team compiled a grossly inappropriate “scouting report ” of their fellow athletes on Harvard’s women ’ s soccer team, judging the women on their perceived attractiveness
Simply put, these actions have no place in the world of college athletics Harvard has suspended the team for the remainder of its season, and the team has published a formal apology
That said, Harvard and the Ivy League should work together to ensure incidents like this never happen again on any Ivy sports team
The details of the team ’ s conduct further show it to be simply unacceptable The Crimson has noted that this nine-page “ report ” was written every year from 2012 to 2016, which means it has occurred under the team ’ s current coaching staff The report made a number of sexually offensive remarks about each female athlete, including assigning them sex positions and crude nicknames There is evidence that the entire team was involved in creating this atrocity of a document The team has since apologized, writing last week in an editorial in the Harvard Crimson, “No woman deserves to be treated in this manner; not our mothers, our sisters, nor our peers We apol-
