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The newest complaint, filed on Tuesday in U S District Court for the Northern District of New York, accuses Cornell’s Title IX coordinator, Sarah Affel, of discriminating against a former student, “John Doe,” based on his sex, religion and ethnicity
The man, who is Muslim and a citizen of a South Asian country, was accused of and found to have committed sexual assault, according the complaint The male stu-
The investigation and the oneyear suspension handed to Doe gave him severe mental health problems, he says in the suit problems that resulted in his contemplating suicide and his being admitted to a psychiatric ward “for several days,” he says Doe also alleges that the inves-
Cornell and Affel failed to consider the results of a polygraph test he voluntarily took and reportedly passed Doe graduated from Cornell in May 2017, but only after serving his suspension, which remains marked on his transcript, he says
The graduate’s encounter with his accuser, “Jane Roe,” was on the final Friday of the fall semester of 2014, the complaint says Doe and Roe were at the same party, both drinking, Doe says in court, adding that most witnesses who saw Roe that night said she was severely intoxicated
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Grad Claims Title IX Investigator Discriminated Against Him
back to her West Campus dorm room, the suit says Another witness inside the dorm said Roe was being physically dragged back to her room, and other witnesses added that Roe was vomiting and slurring speech
Only the R A ’ s account suggests that Roe’s level of intoxication was mild, according to the complaint The R A took Roe back to her room and stayed with her for about an hour and a half to make sure she would be okay, the complaint states
Doe, a trained EMT, later entered the room and offered to relieve the R A of her duties and to watch over Roe himself, the complaint says The R A accepted his offer, Doe says in the suit
This is where stories diverge Doe says nothing significant happened beyond this point: He slept on Doe’s floor until about 6 a m and then left But Roe says she awoke to find Doe in her bed and that he then kissed her, touched her and forced her to perform oral sex
Roe reported a sexual assault to the Cornell Police Department about four and a half months after the December 2014 night, the complaint says, and during those months, Doe says he and Roe had a normal friendship and that Roe called him an “ awesome friend” at one point
Doe claims the allegations made by a “close friend” took him by surprise
The police investigation into Roe’s report lasted only a few days
After Doe denied the allegations both in a two-hour interrogation and in a “controlled phone call” a recorded phone call between Roe and Doe in which Roe tried to get Doe to incriminate himself, the complaint says and after Doe agreed to take a polygraph test, which he passed, CUPD closed its investigation and Doe was not charged with a crime
The University’s Title IX Office, at that time still under the Office of the Judicial Administrator, then conducted its own investigation and found Doe responsible for sexually assaulting Roe
Doe says Cornell and its investigator, Affel, conducted a biased, arbitrary, capricious, unfair and harmful investigation
Doe says Affel declined to consider the results of what Doe says was an exculpatory polygraph test because the tests are “generally not admissible in court, ” the suit says Doe says in the suit that this was an arbitrary and capricious decision, because Affel relied in part on hearsay to come to her finding that he was responsible
He said Affel arbitrarily ignored evidence, pointing out that it was Cornell Police who urged him to take the polygraph test in the first place
Affel also declined to provide the results of the test to Doe, he says, during or after the investigation
Unable to secure the results from Affel, Doe asked the Cortland Police Department, which administered the test, for them, but Doe says Affel dissuaded the police from turning over the results, telling the department that the results were part of an ongoing investigation at Cornell
Doe was later able to secure his results from the Cortland police, he says
Doe further accuses Affel of relying on anti-male, antiMuslim and anti-South Asian stereotypes to find him responsible
Affel wrote in her report that Doe’s behavior specifically calling Roe a “sweetheart” and joking that she was his child was “unusually paternal to the point of being patronizing or demeaning,” according to the complaint
Doe claims that Affel treated female witnesses differently, saying the female R A said Roe “is cute ” and “like a little sister” to her, comments Doe says were not flagged by Affel
Doe also claims that Affel sought more aggressively to discredit Doe and another male witness while applying less scrutiny to Roe and female witnesses, despite what Doe says is their admittedly higher levels of intoxication on the night in question
Affel dismissed the potential impact of intoxication on witness memory in this case, saying “the investigation did not give rise to concern that the witnesses or parties were so intoxicated that they could not remember the events of the evening,” the complaint says
But, the suit claims, Affel called Doe’s credibility into question because “astronomical data” contradicted his estimate that the sun was up at 6 a m when he says he left Roe’s room In fact, Affel found, on that day “civil twilight began at 6:49 a m and sunrise began at 7:21 a m ”
Doe said: “Common sense dictates that a person who
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U S Sen Chuck Schumer, who ser ved with Hinchey in the s t a t e a s s e m b l y d u r i n g t h e 1970s, praised Hinchey’s passion for environmental preservation
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is so intoxicated that she cannot walk on her own, so intoxicated that she is vomiting, and so intoxicated that she is incoherent and apparently unaware of her surroundings, and so intoxicated that she passes out, is not likely to give a reliable account of events that transpired while she was so heavily under the influence of alcohol ”
Doe also claimed Affel failed to consider the influence of alcohol on another female witness who Doe claims said she had consumed at least 10 alcoholic drinks
“The only possible explanation for Affel’s willful blindness to the acute influence alcohol had on certain witnesses’ recollections of events is that she was determined to find Doe responsible for sexual violence,” Doe says, adding that Affel had an anti-male bias
Doe also says Affel employed anti-Muslim bias when one of the witnesses brought up Doe’s Muslim faith, at which point Affel began to question the witness about Doe’s level of respect for women, Doe claims in the suit
Affel finished the investigative report in July 2015 This was when the Title IX investigator’s determinations and case facts were not reviewed or aired at a hearing, but rather by a panel that based its decision on the investigator’s report
That review panel found in September 2015 that a preponderance of the evidence suggested Doe had committed sexual misconduct, and it recommended a two-year suspension with mandatory counseling and psychological care After an appeal, the suspension was reduced to one year Doe’s suspension is noted on his transcript, according to the complaint
Doe is demanding a jury trial and is asking the University for damages
His attorney, Andrew Miltenberg, is the same lawyer who represented Paul Nungesser in a suit against Columbia University
Nungesser is the Columbia student who was accused of sexual assault by Emma Sulkowicz, who famously carried a mattress around campus her senior year at Columbia after the University found Nungesser not responsible
Miltenberg is currently representing another anonymous Cornellian in a federal court case that is now in mediation
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He w a s o n e o f t h re e i n i t i a l sponsors of legislation to regulate fracking, which was banned in New York in 2014
ProPublica reported Hinchey a n d t w o o t h e r m e m b e r s o f Congress, in a letter urging the interior secretar y to pass fracking regulations in 2011, said “the public has a right to know what toxins might be going into the ground near their communities, and what might be leaking into their drinking water ”
Hinchey was also the primar y sponsor of an acid rain prevention bill in New York the first of its kind in the United States, The New York Times reported
To bring attention to the issue, Hinchey sent a gallon of acid rain water and a spruce s a p l i n g t o Pr e s i d e n t R o n a l d Reagan in 1984
“Mr Reagan can water the sapling with New York rainwater and see for himself how its growth will be stunned over a period of time,” Hinchey said at a news conference that year, the Associated Press reported “ We can supply him with all the acid rain he needs for the experiment because New York is one of the most seriously affected states in the nation
“ We want Mr Reagan to understand it’s not trees which p o l l u t e t h e a t m o s p h e r e , ” Hi n c h e y c o n t i n u e d “ M r R e a g a n d o e s n ’ t u n d
r s t a n d environmental pollution ” A n o t h e r i n v e s
g a t i o n Hinchey took on while he was an assemblyman was the control
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RESILIENCY
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Cornell came away with a victory, it took a four-goal third-period effort to do so
“We came in with the wrong mindset in both of those games, ” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 “Against Clarkson we thought, ‘Man this is a big game, ’ and
a g a i n s t Ni a g a r a we t h o u g h t , ‘Man we can ’ t lose this game ’
“It’s the exact opposite of what we ’ ve been talking about [to] just focus on things we can control and just follow that process ”
So the question on the team ’ s mind following Niagara was how this young squad will respond to adversity in an environment like MSG and against a ranked team in Boston University that, before Saturday, Cornell had never beaten in the Red Hot Hockey series dating back to 2007
For the first two periods in Ma n h a t t a n , i t s e e m e d l i k e
Cornell had the mindset that
S c h a f e r w a s l o o k i n g f o r a n d brought with it the momentum from the third period of the Niagara game Cornell built itself a commanding 3-0 lead over BU heading into the final 20 minutes
But the Terriers would not go down without a fight, storming back with a three-goal third period to cut Cornell’s seemingly comfortable lead to just a single goal and once again test the Red’s resiliency as a team especially for freshman goaltender Matthew Galajda
Like the rest of the team, Galajda had a rough two games heading into Saturday’s matchup in New York
A player who had to step in perhaps before his time given the injury to senior Hayden Stewart, Galajda has been the backbone of the Red During the Red’s sevengame winning streak, Galajda only let eight goals get past him and posted two shutouts But in the two games to Clarkson and Niagara alone, Galajda gave up a combined eight goals
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straight saves until BU came in
with its first goal with just under 45 minutes played on Saturday BU then came back with two more, including a goal that any goalie would like to have back With less than five minutes
Galajda secured a shot to his left side, but Boston’s Patrick Harper was there to gather the rebound and sneak the puck into the Red net, cutting the once three-goal Red lead down to one
But in the final minute, when
Galajda who came back to make crucial saves for the team
“Even in a situation like today when that third goal went in, he bounced right back and made a huge save, and that’s what he’s done,” Schafer said about his goalie “He doesn’t let things bother him, and he shows good maturity for that ”
Galajda’s bounce-back mentality is one that extends to the rest of this team, as was showcased in Saturday’s performance
“[ We] did a great job in this venue tonight with all the young guys we had,” Schafer said “To just focus in on playing the game was a tremendous testament to their mental preparation coming in ”
While Cornell acknowledges that there are things it needs to focus and refocus on, especially after recent performances, this team has shown one thing: It has character The team has 10 freshmen mixed in with a squad that has had to face a blowout, come f ro m b e h i n
i e s , a n d staving off of opposing comebacks
And with all of this, the Red only has one tick in the loss column “ Obv i o u s l y we h a d s o m e rough patches in the [past few] games, but overall we found the way to get the job done,” freshm a n f o r w a rd Mo r g a n Ba r ro n said “I think that’s going to be characteristic of our team this year ”
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Does Coco Live Up to the Hype?
BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE
It’s been a long year for animation While we ’ ve had a couple good hits here and there, there’s been a lack of quality in many titles
So I really needed Coco
T h e f i l m o p e n e d i n Me x i c o l a s t month, unusual since American studios tend to release their films domestically first Coco ended up becoming the highest grossing movie of all time in Mexico, and rave revie ws heralded an upcoming splendor Now that it’s actually hit theaters, I can confirm: Coco is a wonder ful treat that gives us an affecting stor y that celebrates Día de los Muer tos in a sincere and wonder ful way
Coco is directed by Lee Unkrich and Andre w Molina The movie opens with some exposition by Miguel, played by Anthony Gonzalez He talks about his family’s histor y, focusing on the moment they banned music The family’s now been in the shoe business for generations, but Miguel wants to play music His passion leads him to follow the footsteps of his idol Ernesto de la Cr uz (Benjamin Bratt) On Día de los Muer tos though, tensions flare between Miguel and his family, and he ends up getting himself lost in the Land of the Dead He now has to
find a way back home before he becomes permanently dead, and find a way to follow his dream of being a musician
The film brims with delightful characters, star ting with our protagonist Miguel He’s a kid who wants more than his life has to offer familiar for Disney, of course, but it’s executed ver y well Coco walks a fine line with Miguel: he makes a fe w choices that are selfish from a mature perspective, but you can still understand h i s m o t i va t i o n s He n e ve r i n t e n d s t
harm anyone As the way home becomes m
depending on him for his journey to succeed Miguel has to navigate through thornier choices to tr y and balance their wants and needs with his own Plus, he’s still a kid, and it’s reasonable for him to make some poor choices It ends up making him feel more realistic, he learns from his mistakes, and we keep rooting for him
In the Land of the Dead, Miguel meets a skeleton named Hector, voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal Miguel first sees Hector attempting to r ush past security to get to the Land of the Living, and he’s presented ver y much as a rapscallion character As one might expect, he ends up bonding with Miguel As the film digs more and more into his character though, we find a ver y complex man, harboring deep-root-
ed fears and concerns By the end of the movie he is not at all the same character as in the beginning, and I love it Hector is my favorite character in the movie and, the more I consider it, one of my favorite characters Pixar has created He’s funny, he’s emotional, and Gael Garcia Bernal brings him to life in the best way
The other characters are also all great M i g u e l e n d s u p m e e t i n g h i s M a m á
Imelda, voiced by Alanna Ubach She was the great-great-grandmother who banned music In death she remains the matriarch of the family, and offers to send Miguel home on the condition he never play music again Obviously he denies that condition, and she ends up pursuing him As the film unfolds though, she ends up becoming more complex as a character, and definitely goes through her own arc Ernesto de la Cr uz also ends up being quite interesting He’s still popular in the Land of the Dead, and lives the high life or, well, their “high life” equivalent As Miguel’s musical idol, he ends up going along a familiar “fallen idol” trope
An extra twist gets added, though, which heightens the drama and left me genuinely shocked
So far I’ve mentioned a lot of the major players in Coco, but I’ve not touched upon the titular character herself That would be Mamá Coco, Miguel’s great-
Imelda Her screen time may be limited, but Coco definitely deser ves to be the title of the movie She links ever ything together by the end, and had me shedding tears However, the stor y delivers not one, but several emotional moments that left me cr ying in the theater The plot also takes a clever and meaning ful twist, that will have me looking out for little details upon my second vie wing
Unfor tunately, no movie is flawless, and for the sake of honesty I have to point out a couple of things I noticed Near the beginning of the movie, Miguel explains how his great-great-grandfather turned his back on the family to become a music a l s t a r Me a n w h i l e , t h e m u s i c a l s t a r Ernesto de la Cr uz came from the same town at about the same time It seems an obvious connection, and while Miguel makes it early on, I was still surprised he hadn’t made it before Second, near the e n d o f t h e m ov i e a c h a r a c t e r re ve a l s they’ve been hiding something for years I’m being deliberately vague on details for the sake of spoilers, but after the fact I began to question how they managed to keep the item hidden for so long Of course these are nitpicks, and I’m glad when a movie leaves me nitpicking for problems
Honestly, there’s little else to say It’s P i x a r, s
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and simple song, that takes on different meanings as the movie progresses Coco’ s a visual treat, nice to listen to it’s a success all the way around Coco is exactly the movie I needed to see It’s sweet, affecting, funny, somber, all at the right times and at the right beats All cast and cre w should feel proud for
Molina This is Molina’s first time directing, and only his second writing position It’s satisfying to see Pixar branching out beyond their initial brain tr ust I look forward to seeing more excellent work in the future from Molina, and the studio as a whole
David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun com
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Letter to the Editor
Opinion of an old person
To t he Edi t or :
I am an old alumnus Class of 1955 Graduated in 1956
Back then, when I walked around the Quad on Homecoming Day, I would see these old people Doddering along
Now I am one Fortunately, not yet doddering
In those days it took five years to get your BEE In his address to the entering class, the electrical engineering Dean said, “Look around Only a third of you will graduate as electrical engineers ” He was right Tough school
Being Jewish, I pledged a Jewish Fraternity as a freshman Made sense Then I got pneumonia and also was attacked by Physics 101 Never took Physics in high school Struggled big-time Had little time for fraternity stuff De-pledged So for the first year and a half I was an independent
My two best friends in the E E School were Lou Nosenzo and Carmen Palermo Members of Alpha Phi Delta, Mu chapter An all-Italian fraternity Went there a lot to study with them 515 Stewart Avenue (I was told the house burned down much later, but that’s irrelevant ) Was there so often that one of them said to me, “You’re here so often, why don’t you join?
Seemed logical, so I did Never considered that everyone at Alpha Phi Delta was Italian and Catholic Everyone Nothing in common with my ethnic and religious upbringing Jewish and non-Italian Just never thought about it So I moved in Roomed with Bobby Guasta and Armand Martini Fifth year with Ed Galli in upper Collegetown
Was told sometime later that that APD’s national chapter wasn ’ t happy about Mu chapter accepting a non-Italian, non-Catholic Put Mu chapter on suspension whatever that meant As I look back, I like to think of myself as having challenged the establishment (albeit without realizing it)
Anyway, the point of all this ancient (and somewhat mundane) history is that in the three-and-one-half years that I was a member of APD, never once did I experience any sense of unease because everyone else had a different background that me Never Never
And when I graduated, Alpha Phi Delta had about a dozen non-Italian members I guess that meets the definition of integration and acceptance Remember, this was in 1952
So why, fellow Cornellians, is so much anti-everything crap happening on campus today in 2017?
What’s with all this anti-Semitism, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Asian, anti-LGBT, neo-nazi, Alt-right and Union of White Cornell Students bullshit? Do Cornellians who identify with this rubbish really believe that they’re superior in some profound way? That America really belongs to them? Or are they actually compensating for some mental, social, or moral deficiency? Or do they just have an inferiority complex?
But I can hear them thinking he’s a doddering old man what does he know?
A lot more now than I did when I was measuring the McGraw Tower Yeah, electrical engineers had to take courses in civil engineering Or mechanical engineering’s Strength of Materials (We called it Busting Lab ) Or PSYCH 101 (EEs taking psychology?)
In the years since I graduated, I’ve spent time in many places from Thule, Greenland to the southern tip of Tasmania From the Great Wall, Taipei and Osaka to Cairo and the Blue Mosque of Istanbul From Stonehenge to the Masai Mara I learned to say hello, goodbye, thank you and two beers, please, in about twenty different languages
And I’ve helped found a hi-tech company and succeeded as an executive in a number of others Managed and interfaced with lots of people
But the most important thing that I’ve learned wherever I’ve been and whatever I’ve done, is that all people are just about the same White, black, brown, yellow, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, gay, straight, female, male, bi, Red Sox fan, Yankees fan (well, almost) They all have the same basic hopes, fears, ambitions, desires and capabilities Strengths and weaknesses Some are much better than others, some not nearly as good Some might make it as president, some I wouldn’t let pour me a drink
So for any of you who believe that your shameful group or attitude makes you better in intellect, honesty, morality, courage, caring, loyalty, dependability etc etc etc than people who are different from you you just don’t know what the hell you ’ re talking about So stop dumping on them!
Can it! Shut up! Zip it! Tais-toi! Halt die Klappe! Stai zitto! Bì Tzui! Zamolchi! Shtok! Start acting as intelligent individuals instead of racists and bigots and xenophobes which is in fact what you are And rejoin the human race
But that’s just my opinion
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What, Exactly, Is ‘Utility’?
Regardless of whether you ’ ve taken a philosophy class, you ’ re likely already familiar with the trolley problem
While the exact terms of the problem may vary, its ultimate question remains constant: should you kill one person to save many and, if so, would you? As a helpful thought experiment, the trolley problem allows us to weigh the relative utility of either option by framing the number of lives saved as the only relevant gauge of either outcome To save
son conducts a cost-benefit analysis after being asked if they want to go out that night After deciding that going out would constitute a net benefit, the person resolves to do so This meme likely derives its humor from the dissonance between the formal reasoning of a cost-benefit analysis and the hurried, informal circumstances in which we must actually make them Indeed, during the split-second in which we make decisions like the one presented in that meme, a whole
s became clear when I recently joked that m at a school I don’t really like, studying a major I don’t fully enjoy, so as to get a job I don’t actually want.
five lives, you must kill one Any subsequent tension one feels when confronted by the problem is therefore because of an intuition to not kill rather than a reasoned cost-benefit analysis, as the latter always favors sacrificing one life for the benefit of five
While the trolley problem is most often used to introduce utilitarianism to those who are yet to conceptualize it, the problem’s straightforwardness, maintained by there being literally just one metric of its consequences, perhaps obscures the most interesting question a utilitarian must continue to grapple with What exactly is “utility”?
Synonyms offered by economics include “welfare,” “ net surplus” and “profit ” The formal study of applied philosophy offers terms such as “satisfaction,” “happiness” and “contentedness ” Yet even then, the disciplines betray a reluctance to define precisely what is a profoundly elusive term Despite a contemporary tendency toward reductionism whether it be within the physical sciences (“We’re nothing but atoms”) or linguistics (“This signifier represents A, B and C”) we must ultimately recognize the shortcomings of a catch-all term like “utility” considered fundamental
The Facebook page Economics Memes for UtilityMaximizing Teens publicized a funny meme in which a per-
storm of variables inform what “utility” is at that precise moment This meme pokes fun of how we seldom ever calculate our output with perfect consistency Our desired “ output ” is a spectral answer, and is perhaps why the universal struggle of young adulthood is figuring out precisely what we want from our finite lives
This insight may not be the most striking or profound, and has hopefully been reached by many others before me However, I only recently realized the extent to which approaching life itself as an optimization problem minimizing inputs to maximize output has altered my worldview for the worse
As a hedonist-utilitarian, I’m out to maximize everyone ’ s happiness, including my own While my goals and mechanisms for maximizing social happiness haven’t changed, those maximizing my personal happiness have To this day, I measure the consequences of my actions with a hedonistic lens, but no longer do I consider myself a “hedonist,” as the term is more colloquially understood For instance, up until now, I mistook the exclusive variables maximizing my life’s utility as being achievement distinguishing oneself through productive contributions to society and pleasure Consequently, for a while you could find me on a Wednesday, with great accuracy, either by scouring Uris
Last Thursday at Thanksgiving dinner, a few of my cousins and I spent a solid 30 minutes tr ying to explain the evolution of the meaning of the word “ extra ” to one of our aunts Traditionally, the word just means “ more than is due, usual or necessar y ” But recently, we meaning mostly young people have a d o p t e d i t t o d e s c r i b e s o m e t h i n g ( o r someone) that is over-the-top, excessive and usually kind of annoying Uses of the word can be benign; the other day I was shopping with a friend, and she asked me if the skirt she was tr ying on was “ too extra to wear to class ”
“It means more, but more often it means too much.”
But other times, the word, and the sentiment behind it, is used to criticize effort and sincerity, like the girl who raises her hand “ too often” in class or the guy who
Library during the day or Level B at night
But at some recent point, I began to realize that the inputs I’ve been throwing at my life run student council in high school, get into an Ivy League university, preserve a certain GPA are not actually providing the utility-maximizing output I personally seek As I ready myself for the next great input of my life full-time employment I can ’ t help but behold its promised reward with skepticism considering the weak correlation between past inputs along the same, pre-professional trajectory, and the anticipated hedonist output This became clear when I recently joked that I’m at a school I don’t really like, studying a major I don’t fully enjoy, so as to get a job I don’t actually want The naked truth of that self-deprecating statement was surprisingly impactful, to say the least
After some reflection, I now understand how the “utility” I seek has shifted away from the sub-categories of “achievement ” and “pleasure” I formerly pursued and more toward “contentedness” I once thought incompatible with my mercurial extroversion I also recognize that this continued tendency to express what I’m looking for in life as an “ output ” constituted of “sub-categories” and produced by “inputs” is an overly-intellectual, emotionally-sterile attitude I need to continue working on However, recognizing that “utility” is amorphous, complex and in constant flux has allowed me to make conscious decisions more in concert with my fundamental identity
Ultimately, as interesting as the trolley problem is, utilitarianism as a personal, applied philosophy poses far more interesting challenges that just overcoming instinctive intuition Accounting for the relative utility of different outcomes measurable by the exact same metric isn’t the hardest part of living as a utilitarian It’s when different outcomes share few common metrics by which they can be compared when it’s not just lives-against-lives, but, say, pleasureagainst-contentedness that a utilitarian must confront harder questions that aren ’ t just theoretical, but potentially deeply personal Indeed, utility is not the same thing as pleasure, and neither is it the same thing as contentedness However, reflecting on each of our own personal understandings of “utility” at this given time can help direct us toward the lives we really want to live
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Doing the Most
Facebook While we tried to explain this to our aunt, she kept getting caught up on what she perceived to be the neutral nature of the word “Doesn’t extra just mean more?” Well, yes and no
“It means more, ” my cousin chimed in, “but more often it means too much ”
Etymology of that specific word aside, it’s interesting that we young people have assembled an arsenal of words and phrases with almost uniformly negative connotations to describe the same behavior: loud deviations from the norm
If you ’ re overdressed for a function, you ’ re being extra If you do more work for a class than you absolutely need to, you ’ re “doing the most ” If you ’ re really loud in a group of people, you ’ re “ a lot ”
These are all pretty harmless phrases on their own, but in aggregate they show that somewhere along the line we decided that it’s cool to be calm, removed and chill This isn’t necessarily anything new, and I don’t think it poses a great threat to society, but it is something that can be hard to navigate, especially in spaces like
Cornell
There’s a lot of pressure here not only to succeed, but to be exceptional and eventually do something great And I think that’s pretty standard at Cornell, at other colleges, and in all kinds of spaces I recently read through student newspapers from Columbia, Ithaca College, Har vard and others, and was able to find at least one column in each paper that described an “intense pressure ” to succeed
But when the expectation of success is coupled with a culture that punishes and pokes fun at effort, we ’ re nudged into a catch-22 where we can either be disingenuous about how hard we tr y, or be made to feel like our effort is embarrassing I can ’ t count the amount of times that I’ve qualified a subpar column by reminding people that I wrote it the morning it was due, or acted like I studied less for a test than I actually did A lot of people here are naturally quite smart, but nobody intuitively knows organic chemistr y or Roman histor y We have to put in effort to learn things, to do well and to eventually satisfy whatever goals we ’ re setting for
between smart-person and tr y-hard, there is an unspoken pressure to make it look easy, to not be “ extra ” We should do our best to ignore this
being labeled a
y-hard are practically non-existent, but the consequences of muting or changing pieces of your personality can be huge The nonchalant, withdrawn persona that’s been deemed cool has a pretty short shelf-life Tr y, fail, be extra, look stupid It’s easy to sit back and be critical of others What isn’t
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Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences Not a Cop appears alter nating Mondays this semester Lorenzo can be reached at lbenitez@cor nellsun com
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By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor
NEW YORK When he scored, Tristan Mullin knew he did something special a kid from small-town Canada notched his first collegiate goal at Madison Square Garden, the world’s most famous arena
Only what the Cartwright, Manitoba native didn’t know is that his tally would later prove to be the game-winner for his squad Cornell men ’ s hockey had to fend off a furious third-period rally from Boston University to come out victorious over the Terriers for the Kelley-Harkness Cup and its first win in the biennial Red Hot Hockey series, 4-3
“Unbelievable experience with such history here,” Mullin said “Some major events, some major players and all that played here just such heritage here Unbelievable feeling ”
“I talked to him after the game about being able to sit around with the boys in summer and [asking,] ‘How many guys have scored a game winner at Madison Square Garden?’” added head coach Mike Schafer ’86
shoulders to get the first goal ”
At the time, it was insurance Cornell entered the third period with a comfortable three-goal lead But the Red saw its lead cut to two just five minutes into the final frame on a BU power play goal And the goals kept coming for the Terriers
It was not the prettiest of tallies, but Mullin, snake-bitten and pointless after appearing in every game but three entering Saturday night, won a puck at the bottom of the circles in the BU zone with under 10 to play in the third period Fighting for every inch toward the goalmouth, Mullin just barely got a shot off while being pummeled to the ice But it was enough to send the puck top corner past the right shoulder of BU netminder Jake Oettinger, ballooning his team ’ s lead back to three
“You try to play your best and don’t look at statistics You just play the game the right way to get shots just do everything right,” Mullin said of the time to get goal No 1 “[But] it’s definitely some weight off your
After Mullin’s tally with 8:09 left to play, BU responded under two minutes later, and again less than two minutes after that to turn what was once a threegoal Cornell lead into a single-goal game Then, it was Mullin’s classmate Matthew Galajda’s turn to step up in net Galajda was unshakable early on in his debut at the world’s most famous arena, carrying a shutout into the first five minutes of the third period
But after the first BU goal, the freshman began to show some signs from his two previous games, a pair of starts where he let up
By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
NEW YORK Any team will tell you that every season is full of its ups and downs, and Cornell men ’ s hockey seemingly untouchable in its first seven games appears to be facing a slope as of
late, again evident in Saturday’s 4-3 win over Boston University at Madison Square Garden
It started with a 4-0 crushing loss to Clarkson at home Then Niagara came to town just three days later, and while
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