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GPSA Votes Against Cornell Cinema Funding Increase

Cornell Tech Launches

Program

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

Applications have already started to roll in for a new master ’ s of engineering program in operations research and information engineering at Cornell Tech, set to open in fall 2016

The program is a collaborative effort that unites the extensive experience on the Ithaca campus in running an ORIE master ’ s program with the tech expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of Cornell Tech, according to Prof Huseyin Topaloglu, operations research and information engineering

Unlike the Ithaca program, which has been offered for over 50 years, the new engineering program is designed specifically with the technology industry in mind, Topaloglu said

“We want to educate data scientists, quantitative analysts that thrive in environments where one needs to design algorithms and systems to make decisions on an ultra-large scale, while tackling the challenges posed by uncertainty,” he said

The program was first discussed when Cornell Tech opened in 2012 and imple-

mented as soon as faculty members were hired, according to Topaloglu

“As soon as we hired ORIE faculty that gave us critical mass to provide the program, we put the plans in action,” Topaloglu said “We spent the summer intensely working on curriculum design, talking to tech companies exchanging thoughts and talking to prospective and past students ”

As a framework for planning the curriculum, the team thought about the work they hoped students would go on to do after graduation, according to Topaloglu He said they incorporated a combination of courses that would prepare students for the complexity, scale and pace of decision making at large companies such as Amazon, Uber and Facebook

In addition to the fundamentals of operations research, the Cornell Tech program puts “immense emphasis on computational tools that allow our graduates to build systems that provide business intelligence at an ultra-large scale,” he said

There are a number of other unique curricular features For

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University of Missouri President Resigns Following Racial Incidents

Yesterday, following hours

o f s t u d e n t a n d f a c u l t y protests over racial tensions at the University of Missouri, the university’s president and c a m p u s c h a n c e l l o r announced their resignations, according to The Ne w York

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including a diversity officer and diversity task forces “I take full responsibility for this

according to The Times,

Big Red Fueling Station Raises

Gear

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Staff Writer

The Big Red Fueling Station campaign a Cornell crowdfunding effort to maintain a booth for athletes to pick up snacks ended Saturday after successfully raising $25,000 in three months

The money from the campaign will go toward equipment including iPads and IDScan hardware that the booth will use to track athletes’ eating habits as well as start-up costs The booth, located in Bartels Hall, provides athletes healthy snacks such as apples, energy bars and high-protein milk on the go, according to the campaign’s page

The refueling station began operating in August According to Clint Wattenberg, the University’s coordinator of sports nutrition, the fundraising campaign marks the first step in an effort to improve the nutrition of student athletes

“[The campaign] represents a starting budget, ” Wattenberg said “Moving forward, the budget is quite a bit more substantial than the crowdfunding represented But effectively [the crowdfunding campaign] allows us to get more

and more teams involved We’re going to have all 37 teams here throughout the year as they are in season ”

With both fall and winter sports in season now, the refueling station is particularly crowded this time of year, according to Wattenberg “We’re running through about 350 studentathletes a day in our busier days right now with our fall and winter teams both being in season, ” Wattenberg said “It’s been incredibly positive, very successful and a blast to be able to help provide nutrition for our student athletes pre and post-workout and help educate them as to what’s going to best meet their needs during those time periods ”

Student-athletes have also found the refueling station which aims to provide snacks

that replenish athletes’ nutrients after practices and helps keep their diets more balanced to be very helpful

“A lot of people don’t get a chance to eat before practice,” said football player Geno DeMarco ’18 “For an athlete that has a lot of class during the day, it’s a nice way to get a little something in you before practice ”

Other athletes also mentioned that the accessibility of the refueling station makes it helpful

“When you come to the locker rooms and you ’ re rushing after class, the line is usually not that long,” said Gillian McIlroy ’18, who is on the cross-country and track teams “Sometimes

C.U. Students for Hunger Relief Will Donate 500 Turkeys

Organization raises $7,000 for local food pantries in annual donation drive

By CHLOE RIPPE Sun Contributor

Cornell Students for Hunger Relief raised $7,000 for its annual Thanksgiving Turkey Donation Drive Friday, meeting its goal after a 40-day drive The funds will provide local food pantries with 500 turkeys

This year, the organization saw an increase in demand from the food pantries it serves, with Groton Food Providers requesting 180 instead of 150 turkeys and Feed Elmira requesting 320

turkeys, an increase from last year ’ s 150, according to Matthew Cohen ’16, president of Cornell Students for Hunger Relief

As a result, the organization an extension of the Cornell Public Service Center that aims to battle and increase awareness of local food insecurity commenced the drive earlier than previous years, according to co-publicity chair Cathy Zhang ’18

Cornell Students for Hunger Relief also employed a variety of fundraising methods and worked with a number of organizations

on campus including social fraternity Acacia and service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, according to Zhang “Some of the funds come from p ro c e e d s f ro m o u r

called the ‘Big Red Cookbook,’ which sells in The Cornell Store,” Zhang said “Most of the funding comes from community donations, donations from Cornell students, family members and volunteers collecting donations throughout campus ”

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donation system “ was the key” to

the drive’s success, according to Cohen He added that after meeting the fundraising goal, the organization plans to continue to c o o rd i n a t e w i t h t h e i n vo l ve d f o o d p a n t r i e s by d i s t r i b u t i n g funds accordingly and enlisting vo l u n t e e r s t o d i s t r i b u t e t h e turkeys to families

“Later this week, cheques will be distributed to Groton Food Providers for $2,520, which is equivalent to 180 turkeys, and another cheque will be made p a y a b l e t o Fe e d El m i r a f o r $4,480, which is equivalent to 320 turkeys,” Cohen said “There will also be an opportunity for students to be directly involved in the distribution of the turkeys ” Zhang said she is looking forward to attending the turkey dist r i b u t i o n b e c a u s e t h e Pu b l i c Service Center received so many positive responses last year

“It’s really cool to see how the process gets carried out, from raising the money to actually being able to give turkeys to the families,” she said

Cohen said he is grateful for the Cornell community’s enthusiastic involvement in achieving this year ’ s goal

“By donating the turkeys, our goal is to also provide the Cornell community the opportunity to reflect on the fact that when you sit down to enjoy your turkey dinner, another family in our community has the same opportunity an opportunity they may not have without the help of the Cornell community,” he said

Malina: Cornell Employee Responded ‘Appropriately’

viduals ” Under the repor ter ’ s urging, the video then shows her shredding a copy of the Constitution

“Using a shredder, scissors and bare hands to destroy the U S Constitution makes you stop and think: where did we go wrong?” said James O’Keefe, president of Project Veritas, in a Thursday statement “In this latest investigative series, we have been to five schools so far and the

Malina said the video falsely por trays a Cornell employee as “denigrating” the Constitution and making a political statement, when in fact McGrath was only attempting to assist a student in crisis

have shared in order to connect with a ‘student’ who appeared to be in crisis, as an employee of Cornell University she was appropriately focused on addressing the apparently urgent need of the person

Cornell Tech Creates New M.Eng. Program in ORIE

example, students will work in interdisciplinary groups to “ nurture an entrepreneurial idea from inception to maturity,” according to Topaloglu

Interdisciplinary collaboration is a critical element of the project; by working together, master ’ s students from different backgrounds will be able to comprehensively address the factors that are involved in an entrepreneurial venture, he said

Beyond preparing students for business at a digital pace, Topaloglu said he hopes the program will harness the entrepre-

neurial spirit and technical capabilities of the New York City campus and direct them toward the common good On a local level, this will involve community engagement and outreach activities, such as hackathons and educational events

However, the program ’ s ambitions are global in scale

“We want to put students and the faculty in the same entrepreneurial environment to turn years of faculty research into products that could benefit the world,” Topaloglu said

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun com

Big Red Fueling Station Reaches Fundraising Goal

it’s hard if you have a long practice and class later because the dining halls close early ”

T h e B i g R e d R e f u e l i n g Station is utilizing many Cornell

r e s o u r c e s t o p r ov i d e w h a t i t offers to athletes

“ We have all the dair y coming from Cornell Dair y, from cows that are a mile down the road,”

Wattenberg said “All of our produce is from Cornell Orchards, which is grown a mile down the ro a d i n a d i f f e re n t d i re c t i o n Cherri-Buni is a product that was developed here at Cornell

a n d n ow i s p ro d u c e d o u t o f Geneva We have Trill-Yum Trail

M i x t h a t ’ s p r o d u c e d t h r o u g h Cornell Dining ” Big Red Refueling Station is also employing environmentallyfriendly recycling techniques

“ We have developed an upcy-

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cling recycling campaign where we ’ re recycling all the energy bar w r a p p e r s , ” Wa t t e n b e r g s a i d “ We’re tr ying to make this as much of a local product of our Cornell environment as possible ”

Wattenberg said he hopes the refueling station will help athletes balance their nutrition

“Our student-athletes are not different from any other Cornell students where they’re struggling to balance all of their commitm e n t s , ” Wa t t e n b e r g s a i d “ Nu

thought quite often as they are pursuing excellence in the classroom By proactively fueling their body and their brain while they need their energy, it better supports training and essentially performance ”

before her and not on any larger political context, ” Malina said The video was the second released by t

showed Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean for students, agreeing that a club could send care packages to “freedom fighters” and would allow would a “freedom fighter” to conduct a “training camp ” on campus “ You would be allowed to do something like that It’s just like bringing in a

coach, to do a training on a spor ts team or something,” Scaffido said in the video So m e p

d this meant Cornell would suppor t an “ISIS club ” In a statement, President Emeritus David Skor ton called the video “shoddy journalism” and said the idea that an ISIS club could exist at Cornell was “ludicrous” and “offensive ”

GPSA Rejects Cinema Funding Increase

Recommendation will be sent back to appropriations committee

to be viable Attendees also quest

model, which relies on Cornell subsidies Gr

p approximately 20 percent of the C o r n

according to Walroth Graduate and professional students make up over one-third of the Cornell student body

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about increasing funding for the organization, citing worries that not enough students attended film screenings for a funding increase

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e r s argued that increasing funding was vital to raising awareness about different cultures, ethnicities and ways of life through the medium of film, other attendees opposing the funding increase argued that Cornellians have many other outlets on campus to be exposed to culture

“This is a discussion that we

need to have outside of the funding cycle cr unch,” Fessenden said in response to the objection

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received an increase in funding

which voted to increase the student activity fee allocation to the cinema by $0 30 per student last month, increasing the activity fee allocation to $10 90 per student, The Sun previously reported

The decision came after the St u d e n t A s s e m b l y Fi n a n c e Commission recommended that the cinema not receive a funding increase after they applied for an increased allocation of $1 40 per student

David Brotz can be reached at dmb454@cornell edu

Fraternity Files Defamation Suit Against Rolling Stone

RICHMOND, Va (AP)

The fraternity that was the focus of a debunked Rolling Stone article about a gang rape filed a $25 million lawsuit against the magazine Monday, saying the piece made the frat and its members “the object of an avalanche of condemnation worldwide ” T h e c o m p l a i n t , f i l e d i n Charlottesville Circuit Cour t, a

n Erdely as a defendant It is the third filed in response to the November 2014 article entitled “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal

Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA ” Three individual fra-

graduates of the University of Virginia are suing for at least $225,000 each, and a university associate dean who claims she was portrayed as the “chief villain” is suing the magazine for more than $7 5 million Rolling Stone spokeswoman Kathr yn Brenner said the magazine has no comment on the lawsuit

The article described in chilling detail a student’s account of

being raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in September 2012 It por trayed university officials as insensitive and unresponsive to the plight of the student, who was identified only as Jackie, and suggested that the attack was emblematic of a culture of sexual violence at the elite public university

The stor y horrified university leaders, sparked protests at the school and prompted a new round of national discussions about sexual assault on U S campuses

Investigators: Cruise Ship Passenger Threatened to Jump Overboard

MIAMI (AP) A cruise passenger who was captured on video clinging to a lifeboat and falling into the ocean had a fight with his partner just moments before and had threatened to jump overboard, authorities said Monday

Bernardo Garcia Teixeira, 31, was presumed dead after he fell into the water early Friday Police and the cruise line say he intentionally jumped off a balcony An attorney for Garcia Teixeira’s family said he fell over the railing

Garcia Teixeira and his partner, Erik Elbaz, 34, were on Royal Caribbean Cruises’ Oasis of the Seas when the ship’s security responded to their cabin regarding a domestic disturbance between the two men, the Broward Sheriff ’ s Office said Security reported evidence of a fight in the couple’s room

Homicide detectives reviewed video taken from Garcia Teixeira’s cellphone of the couple’s interactions with the ship’s security, the sheriff ’ s office said Garcia Teixeira can be heard declaring that he was planning to jump overboard

In the recording, Garcia Teixeira can be seen running toward the balcony of his room on the seventh-level deck The video also shows Elbaz run after Garcia Teixeira, followed by the ship’s security staff Garcia Teixeira jumped from the balcony and landed on a lifeboat hanging next to the fifth deck, authorities said

Fellow passengers watched in horror as Garcia Teixeira held on for more than a minute as staff members tried to rescue him Garcia Teixeira eventually fell into the ocean A short video clip was briefly posted to YouTube but then taken down

Michael Winkleman, an attorney for Garcia Teixeira’s family, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the incident was preceded by homophobic comments by the ship’s crew toward Garcia Teixeira and Elbaz, who have been married for about a year Winkleman said the balcony door was open during a fight with about a half-dozen crew members, and Garcia Teixeira fell over the railing

“Royal Caribbean has said from the get-go that this was a domestic dispute and a suicide, and what I’ve come to learn is in fact almost the opposite of that,” Winkleman told ABC News

“From the video I have seen, it’s very clear they were arguing about the anti-gay remarks that were being made against the couple ”

Royal Caribbean has not responded to those accusations but said security acted professionally and appropriately The company added that crew members risked their own lives in an attempt to rescue Garcia Teixeira

“Our ship’s security officers responded to reports of domestic dispute loud enough to be heard from several staterooms away, ” Royal Caribbean said in a statement “The room was in a state of disarray, and both lamps in the room had been broken Our officers interviewed the guests separately about their dispute, as is standard procedure The officers were not in the room when the guest chose to jump off his balcony ”

U. of Missouri President, Chancellor Resign Over Racial Tensions

COLUMBIA, Mo (AP)

The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school

President Tim Wolfe, a former business executive with no previous experience in academic leadership, took “full responsibility for the frustration” students expressed and said their complaints were “clear” and “real ”

For months, black student groups had complained that Wolfe was unresponsive to racial slurs and other slights on the overwhelmingly white main campus of the state ’ s four-college system

The complaints came to a head two days ago, when at least 30 black football players announced that they would not play until the president left A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike

Wolfe’s announcement came at the start of what had been expected to be a lengthy closed-door meeting of the school’s governing board

“This is not the way change comes about,” he said, alluding to recent protests, in a halting statement that was simultaneously apologetic, clumsy and defiant “We stopped listening to each other ” He urged students, faculty and staff to use the resignation “ to heal and start talking again to

SeaWorld Says It Will End Orca Shows

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In San Diego by 2017

SeaWorld will end orca shows at its San Diego park after visitors at the tourist attraction made it clear they prefer seeing k i l l e r w h a l

y rather than doing tricks, the company ’ s top executive said Monday

C E O Jo e l M a n b y t o l d investors the park where the iconic “Shamu” show featuring killer whales doing flips and other stunts debuted decades ago will offer a different kind of orca experience focusing on the animal’s natural setting and behaviors, star ting in 2017

Animal rights activists called the move a marketing gimmick and want the company to phase out holding any whales in captivity

“A

inevitable and necessar y, but it’s captivity that denies these farranging orcas ever ything that is n

them,” said Jared Goodman of

Tackling the issues

Treatment of Animals “ This move is like no longer whipping lions in a circus act but

cages for life ”

The Orlando, Florida-based company has seen revenue drop since the 2013 release of the documentar y “Blackfish” that examined how orcas respond to captivity It chronicles the case of Tilikum, a killer whale that c

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t SeaWorld Orlando

Attendance has dropped the most at the San Diego location, and the decision to end orca shows will be limited for now to that park, the original home of Shamu, its first orca

The shows will continue at the other two SeaWorld parks in San Antonio and Orlando

The killer whale shows at t h e S h a m u s t a d i u m i n S a n Di e g

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k’s m a i n draw in the 1970s and helped build SeaWorld as a top tourist

attraction Trainers would ride the whales in the giant pool before getting out and signaling for the orca to slap its tail in the water to splash spectators in a “splash zone ” A

trainers stopped going in the water during the shows, but they continue to swim with the

them M

tomers want to

attraction will have a strong conser vation message

“ They want the orca experience to be activities the whales do in the wild,” Manby said “ Things they perceive as tricks, they don’t like as well ”

However, that’s not “universal across our proper ties,” he added

The ne ws came days after SeaWorld Enter tainment Inc repor ted its third-quar ter earnings missed Wall Street expectations

make the changes necessary ” Hours later, the top administrator of the Columbia campus, Chancellor R Bowen Loftin, announced that he would step down at the end of the year and shift to leading research efforts

The school’s undergraduate population is 79 percent white and 8 percent black The state is about 83 percent white and nearly 12 percent black The Columbia campus is about 120 miles west of Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed last year in a fatal shooting that helped spawn the national “Black Lives Matter” movement rebuking police treatment of minorities

In response to the race complaints, Wolfe had taken little public action and made few statements As students leveled more grievances this fall, he was increasingly seen as aloof, out of touch and insensitive to their concerns He soon became the protesters ’ main target

In a statement issued Sunday, Wolfe acknowledged that “change is needed” and said the university was working to draw up a plan by April to promote diversity and tolerance But by the end of that day, a campus sit-in had grown in size, graduate student groups planned walkouts and politicians began to weigh in

After the resignation announcement, students and teachers in Columbia hugged and chanted

Police: Three People Shot, One Fatally In Midtown Manhattan Subway Entrance

NEW YORK (AP) An argument that began inside

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y erupted in gunfire at the steps of a nearby subway entrance when a gunman shot three men, one f a t a l

, authorities said

The three victims, all men in their 40s, were drinking coffee when a heavy-set man in a black h o o d e d

d them in a brief conversation, left the restaurant and then waited for them to exit, following the group into a subway station, where he fired four times, New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said “ The nature of the dispute is being investigated now, ” he told re

n d Eighth Avenue, where a wooden cane could be seen resting on

the subway entrance ’ s top steps

Later, Boyce said narcotics may have been a motive for the shooting, saying that police have made 52 arrests so far this year i n f r o n t o f a n d i n s i d e t h e McDonald’s at 35th Street

The shooting occurred in the entrance to the subway, not in the transit system itself, in an area where there are no security cameras, Boyce said It occurred at about 6 a m just two blocks north of Penn Station, one of the nation’s busiest transit hubs, as the morning rush was getting under way

A 43-year-old man shot in the neck was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said A 45year-old shot in the neck and stomach and a 48-year-old man shot in the thigh were taken to Bellevue Hospital, they said

No arrests had been made and investigators were searching

for the gunman and possibly two others who may have fled north on Eighth Avenue in a dark-colored car, officials said A law enforcement official, speaking to The Associated Press o

t y because the official wasn ’ t permitted to discuss an ongoing

man who was killed as Angel Quinones The official identified a man who was shot in the neck and stomach as William Lamboy and the other victim as Eddy Torres

All three men had lengthy arrest records for mostly drug charges, the official said Torres, who was speaking to detectives, provided much of the narrative to investigators, Boyce said The other victim, Lamboy, was taken to the hospital in critical condition, officials said

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On November 12, 2015, hundreds of college and high school campuses across the country will participate in the Million Student March, a national day of action led by students, alumni, campus workers and families as a response to the urgent higher education crisis Over the past decade, public in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges have increased at an average rate of 3 4 percent per year, controlling for inflation The average college graduate in the Class of 2015 has over $35,000 in debt Even worse, this debt is not distributed equally; of the $1 2 trillion in total student debt held by over 40 million Americans, 58 percent of it is held by the lowest-income quartile The demands of the Million Student March are simple: tuition-free public college, cancellation of all student debt and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers Organizers at Cornell have added immediate divestment from fossil fuel corporations as a fourth point

But what exactly does free college mean? Currently, there are three categories of benefits that students at public colleges receive: public loans, tuition subsidies and living grants Many supporters of the free college movement point out that public loans are currently occupying too large of a portion of this benefit package For presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, free college means only complete subsidization of tuition For others, free college must also cover living costs Many even believe that free college requires that students must be able to graduate with little or no debt

If we focus just on eliminating tuition, the economic argument in favor of free college is straightforward making four-year public colleges free is stunningly inexpensive According to the Department of Education, American public colleges collected $62 6 billion in undergraduate tuition in 2012 This is less than 0 5 percent of the GDP Data from the following year suggests that direct federal funding on financial aid (including various tax benefits and numerous grant programs) was notably higher than this at around $69 billion, even before accounting for student loan funding

Over at least the past 45 years, the cost of Cornell’s tuition has increased much faster than the rate of inflation In Germany, the UK, Canada, Chile and most European countries, post-secondary education is either free or provided at a very low cost The strength of our workforce, both domestically and in an international context, depends the economic security of our workers We cannot allow these rising cost trends to continue

On the most basic level, a democratic society requires the participation of educated and informed citizens So if free college is affordable, why haven’t we done it? The social benefits are harder to quantify, and it is often easier to think in terms of what will happen if these rising cost trends are allowed to continue If nothing changes, post-secondary education may soon become an inherited privilege College graduates, on average, earn higher incomes than non-graduates and also enjoy the benefits of expanded social networks and increased cultural skills that can act as predictors for future job market success Since college graduates represent a disproportionately wealthier percentage of the population, gains are concentrated towards the top and this system will continue to perpetuate inequality

The caveat to all this is that free college does not necessarily equate to college for all The initial transfers will be to college students who are already disproportionately well-off compared to college-age people who are not currently enrolled The class disparities in matriculation, college selection and current public benefit levels will not disappear if tuition disappears It is obvious that eliminating tuition will mean giving more money to students from richer families who already benefit from the structural inequities of the American higher education system It may also advance the false meritocracy narrative that students who have graduated from high school or obtained a GED are necessarily more qualified or more deserving than underperforming students who have faced more obstacles in their secondary education through no fault of their own

Eliminating public tuition will not address the cost of room and board, textbook costs, food costs, relocation costs or the opportunity cost of not working Cancellation of student debt will not benefit students and families who were subject to initial credit constraints and could not take out loans in the first place A greater diversity of the class backgrounds of students attending college will not address the issue that four-year colleges are structurally designed so that the majority of benefits accrue to the most affluent, at least in the early stages of the policy change

But the fundamental idea is that education should be a civic right, not a product Students deserve free higher education not because they have worked hard and have somehow earned it through a successful navigation of an already-flawed education system, but because education is a public good that benefits us all The commoditization of our education will not be tolerated Rising income inequality cannot be combatted by increased access to education alone, but the benefits of a more-educated population clearly outweigh the costs Free college is both economically feasible and morally imperative

Cornell’s Million Student March will take place this Thursday at 3 p m on Ho Plaza

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Ben Carson has come under heavy fire from the media this week Such an occurrence is to be expected, given the neurosurgeon ’ s ascendency to frontrunner status in the circus that is the Republican primary process The vetting process is a standard step in the coverage of relatively unknown candidates Less standard are the actions for which Dr Carson has had to defend himself In the past several days, the good doctor clarified multiple times that he indeed does believe that the Great Pyramids were constructed not by the Pharaohs as tombs, but by the biblical Joseph as grain silos It goes without saying that conniving pranksters (most likely the same “scientists” who perpetuate the myth of global warming) planted those troublesome mummies centuries later He also had to defend his assertion that he had been offered a full scholarship to West Point, when in reality he had not even applied to the school That is not all Over the weekend, Ben Carson found himself trying to convince the world that he did indeed stab or attempt to stab his friend as a teenager Carson has used this incident to counter circus ringmaster Donald Tr ump ’ s accusation that he is “low energy ” Whether or not this is an effective strategy is an open question, but it ran into some trouble when CNN reported that the stabbing claim was unsubstantiated and quite possibly fabricated Hence, we have the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination on national TV assuring the public that he did, indeed, violently attack his friend as a selfconfessed unhinged teenager

Carson’s stor y, coupled with Donald Tr ump ’ s repeated reminders that he has a concealed carry license and Chris Christie’s propensity to challenge ever y heckler to a sumo-wrestling match highlight the Republican Party’s violent inclinations Considering all of this, I have a modest proposal Instead of hosting any more debates, we implement Hunger Games-style events Let’s face it: The debates have become useless There are too many candidates to have any sort of substantive discussion, and all the candidates do is beat up on the media and dodge hard questions Some of the candidates (looking at you, Ted Cruz) don’t even want to engage their opponents, despite the fact that the nomination process is inherently adversarial in nature Bear with me on this one

Though this might seem ridiculous on the surface, I believe a series of Hunger Games-style contests would be far more illuminating than a series of meaningless debates where the candidates practically write the questions they want to be asked Instead of placing the candidates behind lecterns in air conditioned auditoriums, throw them out into the wilderness Sure, Rand Paul preaches pacifist foreign policy when he has a box of energy bars stashed behind his lectern, but what would he do when Chris Christie attempts to raid his forest hideout to steal his last remaining provisions in the presidential Hunger Games?

It’s safe to assume Senator Paul would not last very long in the games His opposition to intelligence collection would put him at a distinct disadvantage and his aversion to military power would leave him quite defenseless Eventually he would stumble on some wild cannabis sativa and take himself out commission

And what about Jeb “Bob the Builder, Can We Fix It?” Bush? Though he is already accustomed to restricted dieting, having spent the last year or so on the Paleo diet,

would relentlessly threaten and attack his opponents Soon enough, they would realize that the Donald is full of hot air, and with a little pushback he would be easily popped

Perhaps the most dangerous of the candidates would be Dr Carson himself He appears so unassuming He’s a doctor! He saves lives! He talks so slowly he could be delivering a speech at one of Treebeard’s Entmoots No one would ever expect the innocent doctor to be capable of ruthlessly dispatching his opponents But this is a man who a) may or may not have stabbed his friend in a fit of rage on the streets of Detroit and b) who is specially trained to cut people's heads open This is a dangerous man Once you hear his quiet monotone lulling you to sleep, it’s already over for you, and if you somehow manage to block out his chloroform-like voice, you may very well find yourself lying on the ground with a perfectlyplaced scalpel in your cranium

All jokes aside, I believe there is a very strong argument for placing the candidates outside of their comfort zones If being president were easy, elections wouldn’t be a big deal Presidents don’t get to

the former Florida governor would find that his apathetic approach to campaigning does him no favors in the Arena No one would ever accuse Katniss Everdeen of being “low energy ” That being said, he would keep competitive by using his extensive sponsor network The packages sent by his wealthy benefactors would allow him to continue to hide meekly in a tree and occasionally throw bananas at Marco Rubio whenever he passed by Eventually his lackluster performance would bore those very same benefactors, and after they abandoned him one by one, it would become clear his total lack of charisma and drive makes him entirely unsuitable to be president

But what of the candidates who really matter? Donald Trump is no stranger to reality TV, but these games would be far different from the manufactured boardrooms he is used to occupying He is by trade a real estate man, so no doubt he would find the best piece of the Arena to establish his base From the moment he arrived, he

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make a list of demands regarding global and domestic conditions before they take office If they want to do something, they actually have to do it; they can ’ t just say that they’re going to It’s a jungle out there in the real world, a jungle that bears little to no resemblance to the tightly controlled universe that the debates exist in People can say anything when they feel in control and at ease, but it is what they do when they are nervous, surprised or uncertain that shows their true natures I don’t want a president who can “win a debate” by attacking a moderator I want a president that I can trust to remain calm, decisive and effective when all hell breaks loose So goodbye Wolf Blitzer and hello Caesar Flickerman I’ll take Hunger Games over “Town Hall Forum” any day of the week

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun com The Jacobin appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

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BY LEV AKABAS Sun Staff Writer

If you ’ ve ever lamented that you can never listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing live or go back a century and listen to original New Orleans jazz, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) has you covered The band takes everything from current pop songs to rock classics and transforms them into vintage styles

As emcee LaVance Colley said at the Ithaca State Theatre on Sunday, Oct 8, PMJ’s goal is to “take you back to a time when texts were sent by telegraph and autotune meant actually singing on key ”

Some members of the audience took this promise of time travel quite literally, showing up in 1920s clothing and swing dancing in the aisles during the show Since PMJ has a somewhat niche appeal, almost everyone in attendance for their concerts is either a die-hard fan of the group or of jazz music in general This created an incredible excitement in the theatre, and nearly every time a musician walked onto the stage, a roar from the crowd followed

The performers wasted no time getting started and barely took breathers between songs, either Within seconds of the lights dimming, the whole band was on stage and musical director Todd Schroeder was slamming away at the keyboard, playing the introduction to Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” as it would have sounded if sung by a flapper in the Roaring Twenties One by one, five of PMJ’s vocalists came out onto the stage to sing parts of the verses, before they all joined together in harmony for the chorus, accompanied by tap dancer Sarah Reich Their recorded songs typically feature just one soloist, but when they play live, these same songs are performed by multiple singers or a soloist alongside Reich, adding a twist for followers familiar with their music

The talent showcased by PMJ is so remarkable that, despite my initial disappointment that arranger and pianist Scott Bradlee wasn ’ t playing at the concert, the fact didn’t cross my mind at all after the show started The versatile cast of vocalists topped themselves song after song When Von Smith, whose vocal range spans more than four octaves, took on a ’20s cover of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses, I texted my friend that it was one of the most impressive vocal displays I had ever heard The very next song, though a 50s soul rendition of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” featured Colley, whose voice is like that of former American Idol star Adam Lambert on steroids, singing notes higher than most people could reach singing falsetto Immediately following that was a New Orleans version of The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” sung by Haley Reinhart, whose combination of stage presence and a voice that must have been plucked from a time capsule brought the audience to their feet, although not for the first or last time of the night It was like watching a baseball team hit back-to-back-to-back home runs; not a single song lacked energy or ingenuity

PMJ boasts not only great musicians, but also fun, creative performers During Reich’s tap solo, drummer Chip Thomas knelt down next to the tap floor with his sticks and challenged her to a percussion competition A minute later, bassist Adam Kubota started playing the Star Wars theme, and in no time, the band had launched into an impromptu two-minute Star Wars medley that included the rarely seen “Imperial March” tap dance Equally impressive, though, was Joey Cook and Aubrey Logan playing the accordion and trumpet, respectively, between verses of their own songs

There was almost too much talent to fit on the stage at once Luckily, for those in the audience who were overwhelmed trying to soak it all in, the band members each performed final solos during the finale, a Motown version of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off ” What made this such an enjoyable concert, however, was that the performers looked like they were actually having a blast The musicians on their first tour with PMJ were especially enthusiastic; they often spontaneously started jumping or dancing while singing I couldn’t help but remain on my feet for the last 20 minutes of the show

After their show on Sunday night The Sun got a chance to chat with some of the members of Postmodern Jukebox about their tour, the process of covering songs and each of their picks for favorite PMJ song:

L AVANCE COLLEY, VOCALS

THE SUN: What’s your favorite part of touring with Postmodern Jukebox?

LAVA NCE C O LLEY: You guys! This is my first tour, so I’ve

never experienced people going crazy for me like I was Beyoncé It’s a wonderful feeling to know that people receive us well, and you guys give us so much energy

S UN: What has been your favorite place on tour so far?

L C : This one has been the best, and I’m not even saying that because I’m doing the interview So far we ’ ve done five shows, and this has literally been the best show You guys came up to the stage, we had people waving their hands, I felt like a star!

S UN: What’s the process of creating a Postmodern Jukebox song?

L C : Specifically with the “Halo” video that I did, I came up with the arrangement of the melody Actually, when we first picked “Halo,” I didn’t want to sing it, because all the other songs I had picked Postmodern Jukebox had already done, and I was like “Damn, I’m not going to do ‘Halo ’” But we arranged it, we lowered the key, and it turned out well, so I’m happy we made that decision

S UN: How do you decide what style to do each song in?

L C : Scott kind of decides that We literally go to his house, and he sits at the piano, we find a song, say you want to do Justin Bieber, and then he’ll be like, “Okay, Justin Bieber,” and he’ll just start plunking out and playing in a certain way, and then the singer will start singing in a certain way

S UN: How long does the whole process take?

L C : About an hour to get the arrangement, then we pick the arrangement that we have and set it, and then in a few days or a week later, we record it Scott teaches the band and charts it out, and then I come in, we’ll practice it a few times, and then we’ll do a couple of takes live, and whichever ones we think are the best takes we keep it and put on YouTube

S UN: How long do you spend rehearsing for one of these shows?

L C : We spent two days rehearsing for this show It’s a lot, but we ’ ve all worked in this industry before, so we kind of know how it works, and we all learn our stuff before we get to the rehearsal, so when we get to the rehearsal it’ll be cohesive

S UN: What’s your favorite Postmodern Jukebox song?

L C : “Halo ” I mean, duh!

VON SMITH, VOCALS

S UN: What’s your favorite part of touring with Postmodern Jukebox?

VON S MITH : This is going to be really nerdy, but my favorite part is after the show every night looking up all the food that’s going to be at the next location, because I like to wake up excited to eat the local food and drink the local coffee I’m a food-nerd I just want to get out and search tomorrow I mean, aside from obviously getting to play with a great band and sing everyday I’m very fortunate It’s a great job

S UN: If you could pick the next song to cover, what would you sing?

V S : It might be cool to do something really drastically different with the new Adele song I mean, it’s all over the place right now, but that’s a challenge for me to take that song and do something really different with it

S UN: What is your favorite Postmodern Jukebox song?

V S : Oh goodness My favorite one to do live is “Sweet Child of Mine ” It was originally Miche Braden in the video Miche Braden is amazing and no one can do it like she can do it, but it’s cool that we all get to try different versions of things Of the ones that I’ve done personally, probably “Shake it Off,” because I feel like it sticks with people the most It’s the most fun one, it’s not so much about singing, and it’s a moment in culture to me, because of Taylor Swift

S UN: What about Rude? That’s your most popular video on YouTube

V S : I probably wouldn’t pick it myself, but I’m glad everyone likes it, and I ll keep doing it if people like it I still get joy out of the response I get, it doesn’t matter what it is

HALEY REINHART, VOCALS

S UN: What’s your favorite part of touring with Postmodern Jukebox?

HA LEY RE INHART: Getting to travel, and getting a taste of all these different cities It’s pretty unique and special for us We get to see what we like, and maybe come back and explore even further It’s one of my favorite parts, and the theatres themselves are really historic and beautiful

S UN: Have any artists specifically influenced you in creating your distinct singing style?

H R : I have a lot of older influences, but I also grew up singing in my parents ’ band since I was a really young child They ve done everything: Rock and roll, blues, jazz, funk, kind

of everything, so I kind of grew up in a world of music

S UN: What’s the process of recording a Postmodern Jukebox song?

H R : I do a lot of the one-takes I think that there’s such a magic to the first take you do, and a lot of the time that’s the one we end up keeping And I like to also work with Scott on the arrangements, and just talk to each other about what we can do to make it as good as it can be and as true to myself as it can be, so he’s very wonderful that way, having it be a collaboration

SUN : What’s your favorite Postmodern Jukebox song?

H R : At the moment, I enjoy doing “Seven Nation Army” a lot I just think it’s really slick and cool and fun

BEN GOLDER-NOVICK, SAXOPHONE

SUN : What’s your favorite part of touring with Postmodern Jukebox?

BEN GO LDER-N OVIC K: Number one, being able to see all the different cities and towns all over the country and the world That’s honestly my favorite, but the second part is the energy of playing on stage

SUN : Do you have a favorite place that you ’ ve played?

B G N : Honestly, this is my first time playing in Ithaca, so I was very excited to play here tonight because my uncle lives here, and we ’ ve never gotten to do this! We’ve been talking about this for years, and now it happened, so that’s awesome We also played in Singapore, and that was a once in a lifetime opportunity

S U N : What’s something special about playing with Postmodern Jukebox that’s different from from usual performances?

B G N : For one, they’re my longtime friends Adam Kubota and Scott Bradlee, we all went to music school together, the Hartt School of Music So I think the friendships is one, but just the fact that we ’ re simultaneously improvising the parts, but also that there’s such a big plan that we ’ re doing The combination of improvisation and structure is different from anything else

SUN : How much of what you play is improvised?

B G N : For instance, the first song we did, “Fancy,” we always follow the same exact form, probably the same exact three minutes and 44 seconds, but in the first and second verses, we ’ re always improvising the horns section, so it’s always different So the form is always the same, but the improvising is always different I’d say half the songs are like that

SUN : What’s your favorite Postmodern Jukebox song?

B G N : We didn’t actually play it tonight, but “The Greatest Love of All ” That’s with Michael Kilgore in the video As far as what we did tonight, my favorite was “Burn ” That’s the one where I play between my legs

ADAM KUBOTA, BASS

SUN : What’s your favorite part of touring with Postmodern Jukebox?

A DAM KUBOTA : Playing the shows in different places is nice It’s really nice to go to a place where you ’ ve never been before but people know you, so you get to see it in a different capacity then you would if I just rolled into Ithaca on a camping trip You get to meet people

SUN : What’s the process of creating a Postmodern Jukebox song?

A K : This is really in the domain of Scott Bradlee He’s really the mastermind, but there’s a variety of processes Some of them Scott has an idea to do a song because it’s doing really well in the charts, it’s hot, or sometimes you want to pick what’s called an evergreen song, a song that’s always popular, like “Sweet Child of Mine ” So maybe you have a good idea, or you collaborate with the singer, and they’re like “Well I’m thinking this song, what kind of spin would you put on this song? So there’s not really one way to do it, like sometimes Scott will hear one thing and then lift an idea from a jazz standard, for example in “Bad Blood,” he’s never told me this, but it’s pretty clear that at the end, he borrowed from a Duke Ellington song called “Rockin in Rhythm SUN : What’s your favorite Postmodern Jukebox song?

A K : I can ’ t really pick a favorite, but I do enjoy playing “Bad Blood,” because we haven’t played it very much, and it’s really got some stuff to play in it It feels like playing a nice, modern big band chart I think it s a very creative, very fleshedout arrangement of a song, and I also like that album, and I like the Ryan Adams version of that album

Lev Akabas is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at la286@cornell edu

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h a l f The Lakers wouldn’t make the playoffs this season no matter Br yant ’ s role on the team The Western Conference is loaded, and the Lakers aren ’ t on the same level as the teams that will be competing for the 8th seed But Br yant ’ s impact extends beyond wins and losses His onc o u r t p r e s e n c e i s inhibiting the development of talented young players who watch Kobe force fadeaway jumpers despite minimal success Plus-minus is a statistic that measures a player’s impact on the cour t It reveals whether the team is better or worse when a specific player is on the cour t Br yant has had a negative plus-minus in each of the first seven games of the season The Lakers are worse when Br yant is on the cour

Dartmouth’s Top Defense Too Much for Cornell

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

For the second time this season, Cornell jumped to an early lead against a nationally-ranked opponent But just like the matchup against No 13 Harvard, the Red couldn’t hang on against No 24 Dartmouth

Coming in as a 35-point underdog, Cornell (0-8, 0-5 Ivy) held a 3-0 lead after the first quarter, but Dartmouth (71, 4-1) scored 21 unanswered points to send the Red to its eighth straight loss to start the season Ivy League Player of the Year frontrunner, Dalyn Williams, completed 20 of 32 passes for 203 yards and touchdown

Against the No 1 defense in the country, Cornell’s offense began the game looking polished and efficient Head coach David Archer ’05 said he was proud of the physical play of the offense to start the game

“You can’t just show up and give your best, you have to make the plays to earn the win.”

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“It’s all 11 doing their jobs,” Archer said about the success of the offensive “It’s [sophomore quarterback] Robert Somborn making the right check at the line of scrimmage It’s the offensive line giving a big push, getting great combination blocks It’s [senior running back] Luke [Hagy] making people miss and being physical with his stiff arm And it’s great downfield blocking by the receivers ”

On the Red’s first drive of the game, Hagy rushed for 34 yards, including an impressive 16-yard spinning run that brought the Red into Dartmouth territory But, as has been a recurring theme for the Red, Cornell reached the red zone and lost all momentum The Red turned the ball over on downs

Later in the first quarter, after another strong drive that fizzled out deep in Dartmouth territory, Cornell was able to come away with points, when freshman Zach Mays made a 30-yard field goal

Dartmouth’s offense started sluggish thanks to strong defensive pressure from senior linebacker J J Fives and the rest of the defense Fives finished with two sacks, the defense as a whole knocked down Williams a number of times

“What I saw from J J Fives was the way a captain is supposed to play,” Archer said “I saw him set the tone verbally, I saw him set the tone physically, I saw him set the tone by making plays There were times he looked downright

dominant ”

“I was watching how their tackles would set, ” Fives said “They’d turn their shoulders perpendicular to the line of scrimmage so I knew I was going to have to use a lot of power rushes I worked and played around with that the first couple drives, and it started working Fortunately Dalyn stepped up in the pocket a lot, so I just kept rushing and I was able to get a couple hits on him ”

The pressure paid off and after Mays kicked the field goal, Cornell had as many first downs as Dartmouth had total yards of offense

But as the game progressed, the Big Green began to click and scored its first touchdown five minutes in the second period

Later in the second, Somborn connected with sophomore receiver James Hubbard for a 41-yard pass to bring Cornell to the 1-yard line, but a chop block negated it and the Red took a 15-yard penalty instead Later in the drive

Somborn was picked off and Dartmouth took over The Red was able to pressure Dalyn Williams a couple times, but again penalties hurt Cornell

On third-and-10, Williams threw an incompletion but Cornell was flagged for a personal flag Instead of punting, the Big Green’s drive was extended Eventually, Williams completed a touchdown pass to give Dartmouth a 14-3 lead going into halftime Archer pointed to those penalties as a huge reason why the momentum swung toward Dartmouth

Penalties kept hurting Cornell in the second half and the Red punted on its first drive of the third quarter Cornell was penalized 11 times for 106 yards

Dartmouth added another score in the third quarter when Williams ran into the end zone from four yards out As the second half progressed, Cornell’s offense began to

Red Wins Every Event Against Binghamton

In rst meet of season, Cornell also takes four full podium sweeps

By JEFF ASIEDU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell men ’ s swimming and diving is on a roll The Red opened its season at home this past weekend against Binghamton, and the men posted several blazing fast times in the pool to beat Binghamton en route to a 165 5-117 5 victory

In the two men ’ s diving events, the 1meter and 3-meter dives, the Red was represented by sophomore Noah Sterling and junior Deyon Godbay, and the two divers

Wet ’n’ Wild | Against Binghamton, Cornell swimmers set a new pool record for the 400 meter relay

performed well, with Godbay earning first place in the 1-meter and Sterling doing the same in the 3-meter dive

“Our men dove solidly in this meet, their scores have risen since the Buffalo scrimmage,” said diving head coach Veronica Ribot-Canales The only previous competition the Red have had this season was an unscored scrimmage against Buffalo

Sterling and Godbay are currently the only men ’ s divers able to compete for Cornell, as two other men on the team have had injury troubles early this season that have kept them from competing in compe-

titions

On the swimming side, Cornell’s men excelled as well The Red began the meet with a blistering fast 3:21 71 time in the 400 medley relay swam by junior Dylan Sali, senior Victor Luo, junior Luke Reisch and sophomore Kevin Ma This relay time posted by the quartet was quick enough to beat the Cornell B team relay by almost eight full seconds and Binghamton’s best team in the event by ten seconds The time was a new pool record for the 400 medley for Cornell

The 400 medley has been one of the men ’ s swimming team ’ s most impressive events so far this season, and will be a big contributor when it comes to more competitive Ivy League meets, according to head coach Wes Newman ’09

“We knew going into the meet that we could have a strong Medley Relay,” Newman said “We have talented swimmers in each of the four strokes, so [there’s] no real weak leg It should be an exciting event for us all season ”

Cornell’s swimmers dominated the rest of the 16 swimming events throughout the meet as well, posting at least the fastest time in each event including twelve 1-2 finishes and three full podium sweeps

The meet was simply another display of all the hard work Newman and his swimming team have been putting in since the

Women’s Ice Splits Games Against Tigers, Bobcats

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By JESSICA BROFSKY

Sun Staff Writer

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