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Weirdly: Tales from the Edge of Science Journalism

10 - 11 a m , Racker Room, Biotechnology Building

All-Community meeting Re: Presidential Task Force Nominations Process Noon - 1 p m , Ballroom, Statler

Growth, Employment and Poverty in Latin American 12:15 - 1:10 p m , 153 Uris Hall

North Korea and Iran: Critical Challenges for the Trump Administration 12:20 - 1:15 p m , 182 Myron Taylor Hall

Science and Technology Studies Seminar: Heidi Voskuhl 3:30 - 5 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Predicting the Impact of Rare Regulatory Variaton

4 - 5 p m , G10 Biotechnology Building

Beauty Behind Barbed Wire 4:30 - 6:30 p m , KG42 Klarman Hall

Musicology Colloquium 4:30 p m , 316 Lincoln Hall

Peer Panel: Careers in Government 4:45 p m , 217 Ives Hall

Floating Citizens: Puerto Rico’s Place in Today’s Political Climate

5:30 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

C U Music: Keyboardist David Catalunya 8 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall

Monday, November 6, 2017

| During her photo-based lecture “Beauty Behind Barbed Wire,” Elena Tajima Creef will discuss how the women interned during World War II showed wartime patriotism through beauty and feminity

Baker Seminar Series: Praveen Sethupathy, Ph D Noon - 1 p m , Thaw Lecture Theatre, Baker Institute

Stanley Bergman, Chairman and CEO, Henry Schein, Inc 3 - 4 p m , B09 Sage Hall

The Impact of Selection and Inbreeding on Canine Genetic Diversity and Health 4 - 5 p m , T1003 Vet Research Tower

Culler Lectury in Critical Theory: Stefanos Geroulanos, A Deconstruction of Transparency 4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

Visual Culture Colloquium: Naked and Nude in Renaissance Italy 4:30 p m , History of Art Gallery, Goldwin Smith Hall

Scheinman Institute Student Mediation Scrimmage 6 - 9 p m , Fourth Floor, ILR Research Building

Parade Celebrates Veterans in Advance of Holiday

By MOLLIE CRAMER

Sun Staff Writer

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City Establishes South Hill Overlay District

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun Staff Writer

Responding to an outcry from Ithaca residents who say the South Hill neighborhood is losing green space and that Ithaca College students are rowdier than ever before, Common Council voted 9-1 to establish a South Hill overlay district and restrict development in the area

The amendment to the city code alters the zoning map to include a South Hill Overlay District Restrictions for the district are intended to reduce infill development, multiple buildings built largely for students on single plots that are increasing the density of the area

“I would like to see Ithaca College take a more responsible role in the behavior of their students ”

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Some South Hill residents told Common Council members that they wanted the overlay district because they are concerned about their neighborhood’s future, both in terms of its atmosphere and visual aesthetic

Many South Hill residents have been concerned with the number of properties being built solely for students and how by building these properties, the neighborhood is getting more crowded

South Hill resident Pam Mackesey spoke on behalf of a group and emphasized that South Hill residents have consistently been some of the “ most consistently and persistently active” in the city

much South HIll residents care about where they live ”

John Graves, another South Hill resident, said there is not a need for additional housing for students because there are already vacancies in the college’s student housing

“Designing buildings for students when not needed is not a good reason to destroy a residential neighborhood,” Graves said The alderpersons who voted in favor of the overlay district said it would positively impact the neighborhood and give them time to analyze the current development situation Many of the alderpersons said they were concerned that most of the developments were geared toward student residents

“Typically, we all agree that infill development is beneficial, and it is in the comprehensive plan, but what we ’ re seeing in South HIll is negative infill development, and this overlay district will essentially put a pause on that until we can do a study and figure out a longer term solution for the neighborhood,” said Alderperson Seph Murtagh, who represents the Second Ward

Alderperson Cynthia Brock, who represents the First Ward, agreed with Murtagh and further expanded on the cause of the problems and long-term solutions the council could seek for South Hill

“I would like to see Ithaca College take a more responsible role in the behavior of their students,” Brock said “I would like to see their peace officers support our local law enforcement the way Cornell’s does, coming off campus and helping to monitor the behavior of the students ”

“A number of us have been coming here for years, ” Mackesey said “We fought for that traffic light on Hillview [Place] and Aurora [Street] so kids could walk to South Hill School, and now you can ’ t even get past that intersection without that light

“You have hundreds of students walking to and from bars, and they have an impact on the neighborhoods in between,” Brock said “There’s a lot of things we need to consider before we lift this overlay ”

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the University can “also confirm that the Office of the University Registrar has never received a request to make private any records related to Ms Langley ”

When the Mercer Island Reporter, which has endorsed Langley, told the candidate that the University confirmed there were no records of her attending the school, she said she was “ ver y confused,” “shocked,” and that it “ seems like I disappeared ”

“ The only thing I can chalk it up to is the university must have lost my materials,” she said

There is a Joy Esther Langley listed as an alumna in Cornell’s people search, The Sun found, although her NetID is no longer active Cornell did not respond to a list of questions, including why she is listed in the people search if she did not attend the University

Langley does not appear in the 2004 Cornell yearbook

“That’s the reason why the records are sealed so tightly, that’s the reason why I’m not entirely eager to crack them open again.”

The picture Langley posted, which she purports is her degree and was a small image in a collage of her academic accolades, appears to be a bachelor of arts bearing her name The image appears to bear a Cornell seal and says it was issued in Ithaca on May 30, 2004, the day of commencement that year

In the current iteration of the Cornell-Ithaca College exchange program, students at Ithaca College can only take a maximum of 12 credits at Cornell and the credits and transcripts are transferred back to Ithaca College They are required to sign up for a Cornell NetID

Langley says in one section of her website that she completed her undergraduate studies in philosophy and political science at Cornell, but, in another section, says she received dual degrees from Cornell and Ithaca College in philosophy and political science

Pamela Hanna, the undergraduate coordinator for the philosophy department, referred a request for comment to media relations

In a statement on her website last week, Langley said that she has put all of her academic credentials on her website and called her opponents ’ questioning of her credentials “attacks” on her character that have changed the tone of the race

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Lewis, a board member of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, said she is ready for the position after volunteering for local events, such as the Ithaca women ’ s march, and chairing the democratic committees of both the Fifth Ward and the City of Ithaca

“We want to make sure an affordable home remains an affordable home in perpetuity.”

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As Hall juggled transitioning to a single-parent household while trying to remain in the Fall Creek Elementary School district, she faced the Ithaca housing crisis first hand, she said, adding that this experience makes her unique-

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ly qualified to represent Fall Creek on matters of housing affordability

“I don't believe the people who represent us on Common Council are experiencing these personal struggles,” Hall said in an email “What better advocate for these issues than someone who is experiencing them?

Someone who has seen the perspective of the very poor on a professional capacity to her own perspective as a single mom earning what some would consider a good income ”

Jackson said that in order to get to the root of what many believe is a housing crisis in Ithaca, there needs to be a common understanding of what constitutes affordable housing

The definition is “ not consistent for anybody,” she said

“Are you talking about single mothers like me, who are well below the poverty line but still have an education? Are you talking about students, are you talk-

ing about section 8,” Jackson said Jackson said she prefers to use a term she first heard from JoAnn Cornish, director of planning and economic development for the City of Ithaca: “workforce housing ”

“I thought that was much better, because there is a dynamic aspect to that,” she said

Lewis said her role on the INHS board, where she helped people get affordable housing in Ithaca, will help her thoughtfully approach the issue on Common Council

On the INHS board, “ we want to make sure an affordable home remains an affordable home in perpetuity, so affordable houses don’t get flipped,” she said, adding that they had worked to preserve homeownership in the affordable market Polls will be open from 6 a m to 9 p m on Tuesday, Nov 7

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com

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Charlie Liao ’18 | Guest Room

Let’s Get Down To Business

The Cornell College of Business (henceforth referred to as “the College”) is the academic manifestation of what a New York dumpster fire looks like Everyone knows it’s burning, no one ’ s doing anything about it, but there’s still a group of students using it for warmth because they were rejected from The Wharton School (which for the viability of this analogy, will be represented as a space heater situated in the lobby of a marble corporate building on Park Ave) The basis for this radical imagery is simple: two years after its feeble announcement, the College has failed to both produce results and a coherent path forward Instead of giving us crossschool collaborations and world-class opportunities, the administration has sent us meaningless update emails, built a business center virtually inaccessible to undergrads and approved a logo that is depressingly unaesthetic The consequences from the lack of change should be lucid for the administration: without passionate graduates, it will be troublesome to ensure a steady pipeline of donations to revive the moribund endowment For students, the consequences are worse: we have been wasting tuition on a program that doesn’t deliver on its promises

Pulse checks color in the flaccid narrative: students and faculty alike are unable to explain the mission or vision of the College, let alone name any actual benefits from its implementation This is truly shocking; with an unending plethora of issues of to solve, even a slightly effective administration would have been able to produce some quick wins Yet, we are still left empty handed The College website claims that our program uses a “reimagined model for business education” that “take[s] on real global challenges ” These long-term goals are certainly unattainable if even the short-term benefits are non-existent, how could anyone expect the administration to reconcile for these blatant long-term lies?

Everyone knows it’s burning, no one’s doing anything about it, but there’s still a group of students using it for warmth because they were rejected from The Wharton School.

website brags that the College has united The Dyson School, The School of Hotel Administration and The Johnson Graduate School for Management for the purpose of collaboration and innovation, all while miraculously preserving each school’s individual excellence and, by extension, identity and autonomy This paradoxical unity is likely a result of the hotelies’ incessant whining during the transition, and it is also why the College will, at its present state, continue to be carried by the Cornell brand as opposed to its own By maintaining the independence of each school and segmenting the departments, the administration has misaligned incentives between the three schools The School of Hotel Administration will maintain its perceived superiority, The Dyson School will continue with its identity crisis and The Johnson Graduate School of Management will still function parallel to the other two schools To achieve collaboration and success, these schools must work together on common ground for common goals to fulfill common ambitions Instead, the administration has given too much leeway for independence, preventing full cooperation between all involved Therefore, the future of the College is exposed to risks of inefficiency and dissent

Now assume for a moment that the administration has been making progress Even if the College has moved the needle forward, the opacity from the top has thorny implications Either: one, the administration is making controversial decisions that it wants to conceal; two, the administration did not thoroughly think of a way to communicate its decisions (indicating a lack of preparedness for the transition); or three, the administration has no cohesive way to represent its progress (revealing a scattered future roadmap) It is difficult to believe that the new college is making positive leaps and bounds If this were the case, wouldn’t the administration want to signal this information? Instead, the most positive message we received was from Soumitra Dutta, founding dean of the College, who reminded us about riveting information like class sizes and administrative hires The failure to communicate, regardless of the behind-the-scenes reality, furthers the exasperating public narrative that The College is at best, benign, and at worst, detrimental to the student experience

The present problems in the College are upsetting, and, more frustratingly, they can be viewed as symptomatic of a deeper problem: the program ’ s long-term strategy is the result of wishful and juvenile thinking The

Even if flawlessly implemented, the College will still remain at a disadvantage There are not many factors differentiating the College from other similar umbrella organizations, nor are there many factors differentiating the component schools from their respective competitors Storied institutions such as The Wharton School, the luxurious space heater to our displeasing dumpster fire, easily maintain the upper hand when it comes to traditional business education Wharton, alongside many other business programs, has been around in a far more cohesive manner for much longer Thus, it has a first mover advantage in wealth, prestige and connections These advantages are a positive feedback loop; each factor amplifies the other factors until infinity The College will have trouble catching up and the administration seems to have missed this point Instead of pursuing “blue oceans, ” which are unexplored opportunities that lead to competitive advantages (e g orthogonal curriculums or extra-curricular enhancements), we are steering straight into “red oceans ” stained with the blood of overcrowded markets

There is an intimidating but necessary bulk of corrective work to be done While a complete restructure or shift in the College’s trajectory may resemble short-term failure, stopping and rethinking the purpose, direction and execution of the program is critical to prevent a future rife with descriptive verbs like “languish” and harsh adjectives like “unremarkable ” The program is undoubtedly headed by some accomplished and decorated academic leaders For the sake of Cornell’s business future, the administration must successfully turnaround and revive an initiative that has since failed to capture the hearts and minds of its constituents

Charlie Liao is a senior in the Dyson School at Cornell University He currently writes for The Sun s “ Su n

throughout the semester

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

What Kevin Spacey Can Teach Us

Let me begin this article the right way by saying that pedophilia is an unarguable wrong It should not be normalized, defended or addressed in any way that does not distinctly paint it as such No discussion of a situation involving victims should become so abstract that it neglects to mention the victims’ names: Anthony Rapp, Robert Cavazos, Tony Montana and Daniel Beal My heart goes out to them and to anyone else who suffered abuse at the hands of Kevin Spacey In a perfect world, these horrible incidents would never have taken place In a world slightly better than our current world,

c o m p a s s i o n a n d s u p p o r t f o r Anthony Rapp, Robert Cavazos, Tony Montana and Daniel Beal would be all that anyone needed to express in the wake of such injustice But because some people think that all gay people are

pedophiles, there is more that needs to be said I can only implore my fellow pundits to re m e m b e r t h a t d i s c u s s i o n o f tragedy should always be victimcentric

First of all, it should go without saying that homosexual relations between consenting adults of different ages is in no way

a n a l o g o u s t o t h e b e h a v i o r o f Spacey Youth, or appearance of youth, is a universally attractive trait Many women alter their b o d i e s t o l o o k y o u n g e r, a n d nobody faults old straight men for wanting these younger-looking partners

I was recently researching age of consent laws in France for a p r o j e c t I d i d o n E m m a n u e l Macron’s wife Brigitte I discovered that in 1942, the French age of consent for homosexual acts was set at 21, while the age of consent for heterosexual acts was still just 13 The phenomenon of pedophilia was formally named and defined in the late 19th centur y, and it has been used ever since to unfairly impugn the gay community Some scholars even argue that pedophilia as a discourse emerged specifically to s u p p re s s h o m o s e x u a l i t y, c i t i n g England’s removal of the death sentence for “bugger y ” in 1861 and other events of that era that brought the topic to the forefront That is not to say that sex with minors should be legal, but it ought to give you some idea as to the depth and complexity of the issue

The conflation of pedophilia and homosexuality is indicative of a larger problem People hear

about a murderer or a terrorist or a child molester on the news, and they see it as a green light to let loose all of the anger and hatred that they’ve been bottling up inside It is true that these feelings often come in the form of r a c i s m a n d h o m o p h o b i a a n d other forms of bigotr y, but focusing on that alone would be missing the forest for the trees

Nobody who revels in calling someone a “ monster ” or jokes that they should be “sorted out with a bullet” is ever in the right Even though I do not believe in the death penalty, I know there must be some people who are so far gone psychologically that they are beyond rehabilitation But I’m not happy that such individuals exist, and I certainly would not be happy if such a person were condemned to die I can ’ t imagine anything sadder than a society being forced to give up on

nflation of pedophilia and homosexuality is indicative of a larger problem.

one of its members

So m e e q u a t e s y m p a t h y f o r perpetrators with being “soft on crime ” I would reply that empathy and justice are not mutually exclusive, they are tied together If you can ’ t find empathy in your heart for the sake of the terrorists and child molesters of the world, do it for the sake of their future victims Or rather, do it for the sake of the people who need not become future victims if preventative measures are taken And p re v e n t a t i v e m e a s u re s re q u i re understanding, and understanding requires putting oneself in the shoes of another Jezebel recently published the stor y of Adam, an 18-year-old who runs an online support group for non-offending pedophiles (That is, people who feel attraction towards children but do not act on that attraction ) The idea of such a support group may fill you with revulsion, but the evidence suggests that it allows these individuals to get help and ultimately lowers their likelihood of acting on their desires Here we see the difference between true justice and America’s fetishization of punishment If children are being spared from traumatic experience, then surely taking the time to understand these potential pedophiles was time well spent Humanity has always begotten humanity, it is suppression and marginalization that propagates violence

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun com The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester

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zra ’ s Oracle welcomes inquiries from all members of the Cornell community about anything and ever ything related to the University We seek out answers to campus mysteries, research rumors and investigate issues of relevance to Cornellians

Q: Rumor has it that Cascadilla Hall was a psychiatric ward before it was transformed into a dorm Is that true?

In Need of Help ’15

A: Despite the rumors, Cascadilla Hall was never used as a psychiatric ward or insane asylum The confusion likely stems from its initial intended purpose as a water cure “sanitarium,” or medical facility for the chronically ill The effort to construct the building was led by Samantha Nivison, the first woman to practice medicine in Tompkins County, who hoped to use Cascadilla as an educational facility for women doctors Ezra Cornell invested in the project, but when funding ran out, he bought out the other investors and completed the construction so that Cascadilla could become the first building at Cornell University (while Morrill Hall was still under construction) Many faculty and students lived there in the early years, although President Andrew Dickson White described it as “ an ill-ventilated, ill-smelling, uncomfortable, ill-looking alms house ”

Narayan Reddy | Reddy, Set, Go!

Peacock

My friends would be concerned that I'm still hung up on a boy who said he'd go on a date with me just to play me But I can ' t help it We all agreed that I would move on, but I still check to see if he texted back It’s been a month I know I talked a big game about selflove, but that doesn't mean flipping my hair until I break my neck That means being unashamed of admitting it when I don't I looked in the mirror to see myself through his eyes I had on ill-fitting jeans and a crumpled graphic tee, both bought years ago My hair was unkempt to no end and could have used a cut My stomach could be more cut too Gigantic nose, jutting ears, bushy brows I noticed I was ugliest when I smiled, and thought maintaining a constant pout was my best bet Bug eyes through filthy glasses vacantly stared back I gutted everything human about me in that moment It’s worth mentioning that the idea that he played me, or that he thinks I’m ugly, are completely made up I don’t know him or his life What’s telling is that I thought I did My last column was about how an individual can flesh out their identity by defining it in relation to others

come out since I couldn’t deny my feelings for him He was straight and brown At that time, I wanted to express my sexuality by only acknowledging it through him It made me feel nostalgic for the past and a future that should have been built on it I wrote about how I stopped being delusional out of newfound self-respect, but I’m back This next one is openly queer and filthy gorgeous I didn’t go to Rocky Horror this year because I feel like my presentation will always be read as a bold political statement The prospect of getting attention

I was gay when I denied I was gay, when I cried over being gay, when I felt like I wasn ’ t gay enough, when I felt like I was too gay, when I sought out boys to realize my gayness, when I understood my gayness was already real and I'll be gay when I write another column about how I was wrong about this one I'll be gay throughout whatever else happens to me I'll be gay when I die

There is a difference between embracing a dimension of yourself defined by someone who loves and cares about you, and an imagined one defined by someone you wish would.

Clarification: not everyone There is a difference between embracing a dimension of yourself defined by someone who loves and cares about you, and an imagined one defined by someone you wish would Even my explosive gay brown identity is atomic intersections have intersections and romance has been the means to those ends The first one helped me

from him made me feel like I might actually be beautiful Who I fall for is consistently dictated by my insecurities It's always been a boy that I thought could drag me away from them In both cases, I just dragged myself closer to them My self-destr uctiveness has forced me to reckon with the toxic phrase “just happens to be gay ” The animal implication is that being gay is a transient condition that only presents when one ' s having sex or trying to get it Not for me It’s a fundamental part of who I am It has fundamentally affected my life, and the way in which I engage with the outside and personal worlds I have known this Yet, from the pattern I describe, it's clear that I have internalized the phrase to some extent

To this end, the extremes of my gay brown identity aren ’ t imaginary symbols They’re real people Someone in Mumbai married a woman and had children with her He died old with all of them around him and with love for each of them Someone in Chennai identified themselves, or was identified, as a hijra, the third gender They applied kohl to their eyelids, hiked a green and blue saree between their thighs and kne w what obscene really meant They were butchered at an age younger than mine They both are, as well as countless others, as part of the queer human condition as that white couple covered in rainbow feathers, leading the parade in San Francisco I haven't started, but I'm done with dating for now The fact that I'm already wrecked probably means that I should get my own shit together first I'll try again later because I believe in soulmates, and don't want to miss out on the one He'll come to the edge with me and we'll explode into nirvana The only part off limits would be my feather

Narayan Reddy is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun com Reddy, Set, Go! appears alternate Mondays this semester

Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

Cornell and ‘Diversity’

Nearly ever y year, the front page of Cornell’s website is blazoned with some variation of the headline, “Cornell Admits Most Diverse Class Ever ”

The University boasts that its goal of increasing the number of students of color on campus is working, as more and more minority students enroll at Cornell each year

These numbers are, quite frankly, egregious. Cornell continually parad itself as a beacon of diversity, yet is as economically diverse as a Westchester country club.

Yet the claim that Cornell is becoming more “diverse” is misleading Yes, the University is the most racially heterogeneous it has ever been And yes, the University has one of the most ethnically diverse campuses in the countr y However, skin color is not the sole measure of diversity; in fact, it is only a component of a much larger puzzle

The purpose of diversity is to include people of different backgrounds to create a more enriched cross-cultural experience for students To create this experience for students, university officials must look beyond race ––specifically, they must also look to socio-economic status And when it comes to socioeconomics, Cornell fails miserably

Currently, the average household income of a Cornell student’s family is $151,600 –– nearly three times the national average of $57,600 Half of all Cornell students come from the top 10 percent of income earners in the countr y, and a third come from the top 5 percent On the other hand, less than 4 percent of Cornellians come from families in the bottom 20 percent of income earnings

Among the nation’s 2,395 colleges, Cornell is ranked

Thomas Edward Lawrence was always going somewhere As a peculiar 15year-old boy, he and his schoolyard friend Cyril Beeson rode around burial sites in his hometown of Oxford, England, voraciously studying whatever they could and presenting their findings to the local museum Two years later, he would ride on bike throughout France, completing sur vey studies and observations of medieval castles throughout the land with that same friend A few months later, he would enroll at Oxford University to begin his studies in history

There was something weirdly contradictory about the young man A quiet student who rarely lifted his eyes from his books, he was a loner that lacked many friends Yet, at the same time, he possessed a brashness that was unbecoming of most recluses When it was time for him to prepare for his senior thesis in history, he proposed a preposterous plan that left his adviser aghast Bored with the medieval landmarks that Europe had to offer, he suggested undergoing a survey of the crusader castles in Syria the following summer to better discern the influence Near Eastern culture had on Medieval European innovations

But that was insanity Syrian summers reached a blistering 120 degrees, and to complete a proper survey of the crusader castles there, he had to travel across a thousand miles of rugged mountain and desert terrain Furthermore, lacking any money for a proper travel party to accommodate him, he simply offered to walk to cut down costs

“Europeans don’t walk in Syria”, snorted his advisor

“Well,” he said curtly, “I do ”

A few decades later, moviegoing audi-

2,142 in its representation of students from the bottom 20 percent

These numbers are, quite frankly, egregious Cornell continually parades itself as a beacon of diversity, yet is as economically diverse as a Westchester countr y club This self-promoted “diversity” is but a fallaciously concocted ll these numbers do the ver y real strugnon-upper class stue on a daily basis on In my experience, re are two types of

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dents: Cornellians from low income families, and upper middle class students

The struggles faced by low-income Cornellians are apparent ever ywhere The ridiculously bloated on-campus food prices, the endless array of fees (I’m looking at you, printing fee), and the eye-popping cost of textbooks are just some of the problems that continually plague the poorest of students

But one of the greatest struggles faced by low-income students is the abysmal failure that is Cornell housing Currently, the university only guarantees on-campus housing for two years After their sophomore year, students from disadvantaged backgrounds are shoved off to Collegetown where they are forced to pay the astronomical rental rates of Ithaca’s slumlords With the average apartment running in the $900-$1,000 range, these prices are simply impossible for low-income Cornellians to pay And what has Cornell done to alleviate this problem? Hardly anything So much for diversity

In addition, students that live outside the Northeast often find it impossible to travel home Those who live in

William Wang | Willpower

California or Texas often find that they are forced to spend Thanksgiving on campus, as they are unable to afford a plane ticket back home

While the struggles faced by low-income students are quite obvious to anyone who even remotely pays attent

Cornellians are less apparent Unlike their wealthier peers, these students do not have the resources to pay full sticker price for a Cornell education And unlike their lower income peers, the parents of these students make enough money so that financial aid packages are quite limited Upper middle class Cornellians are thus thrust into a sad financial purgator y, where they do not receive the necessar y economic resources to pay for Cornell from neither the university, nor their families As a result, students in this group are often saddled with exceedingly h

$100,000 in student loans, I can personally attest to this depressing situation

Cornell is, without question, a school for wealthy students And while students from low income and upper middle class backgrounds are particularly affected, all non-wealthy Cornellians are impacted in some capacity by the university’s policies If Cornell aims to truly be a diverse campus, it must begin to ameliorate the absurdity of its socio-economic condition Financial aid programs must be expanded, burdensome fees must be reduced and affordable housing must be constructed

The fiscal hawk in me recognizes that the above policies are, of course, hard to implement in light of budgetary restraints However, the university seems to enjoy spending money on unnecessary projects all the time –– just look at the number of new buildings that are constructed each year Instead of embarking on a new construction project every five seconds, perhaps the administration should take a look at the financial security of its students

Michael Glanzel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun com Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Mondays this semester

Nothing Is Written

ences would be introduced to the enigmatic Lawrence as a changed man, who had not only completed his trek across Syria, but had joined the British military service after the outbreak of WWI to serve as an intelligence officer in the British Arab Bureau in Cairo The film, Lawrence of Arabia, remains a monumental achievement in modern cinematic history, detailing in an almost tongue-in-cheek account of Lawrence’s role in the Arab revolt, as the Br i t i s h -

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o n s ro s e u p against the Ottomans who who ruled their land Lawrence, loner that he was, was suddenly a household name, a symbol of intercultural conflict, an idiosyncratic leading man that followed his own whims to a foreign entity that grew to both love and despise him

Admittedly, I haven’t given Lawrence much thought in recent years, until I stumbled up a column from a fellow Sun columnist that reminded me of clean deserts and shadows of a prophet Titled “I Don’t Want to Be a Suburban Mom,” the author groused about the inevitable clamp society would put on her that came in the form of a suburban mom who attended “school board meetings” and shopped for “side tables at Pottery Barn ” To her, settling down was an inevitable concession that she didn’t want to make She wanted to travel the world, to live on her own terms Cliches were her phobia, and stability was her destabilizer

It’s a topic that’s weighed heavily on my mind We live in a world where we fear the unknown more than we love the mystery Throughout our lives, we ’ re taught there’s a certain path to take, but we ’ re never given the chance ask why, and perhaps more startlingly, why we give in anyways to the path

Perhaps, in the end, we figure it’s more pleasant to live that way It’s easier write what we know than to write what we don’t; it’s simpler to finish a novel than to begin one

It’s also why her column evoked Lawrence smirking at his commander when he remarks that he has a “funny sense of fun ” His lonesome pursuit of his ambition

Lawrence doesn’t even sigh

“Then, you ' re a big noble fellow ” He remarks, with a bit of annoyance

When the room begins to fill up with other British officers, Lawrence makes to leave, but not before lighting up an officer’s cigarette with a match as a sign of good faith Then, with the match still alight and the whole room aghast, he rolls up his

Admittedly, I haven’t given Lawrence much thought in recent years, until I stumbled up a column from a fellow columnist that reminded me of clean deserts and shadows of a prophet.

is unsettling at times, curious in others, and maddeningly perplexing in all He circumvents, zigs while others zags, never giving you the cleanest answer He’s aloof, but very well aware that he is

In our first introduction to Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, he’s unhappily scribbling on a piece of parchment He longs for the front lines in Arabia, where the war is being waged, but instead, he rots in staff position at Cairo, in a rowdy basement with poor ventilation He vents to the man who is seated next to him:

“Michael George Hartley This is a nasty, dark little room ”

“That’s right” says Hartley

“We are not happy in it ”

“I am It's better than a nasty, dark little trench ”

sleeves and snuffs the flame out with his fingers

Perhaps inspired by Lawrence’s show, his fellow officer William Potter tries the same trick But instead of Lawrence’s nonchalant reaction, he yelps; the flame has seared his fingers

“It damn well hurts!”

“Certainty, it hurts!” says Lawrence, amused

“Well, what’s the trick then?”

“The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts ”

And with a simple nod, he walks out of the room

William Wang is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at wwang@cornellsun com Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Two Takes on Thor: Ragnarok

Just what the doctor ordered

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

I’ve diagnosed myself with the flu I don’t have a cough or a runny nose but I did skip class yesterday morning and I’m pretty sure that means I’m deathly ill In my defense, I did have a fever and I’m ready to forward my doctor’s note from Gannett (I’m not calling it Cornell Health) to any unconvinced readers (Mom)

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While watching Thor: Ragnarok, I wondered if anyone at Marvel Studios said “ no ” to an idea that director Taika Waititi proposed during filming In a montage of scenes, a literally electrified Thor decimates swaths of zombified soldiers while his comrade Valkyrie shoots a gatling gun at a giant wolf whilst another Asgardian soldier, Skurge, fires machine guns at a spiked-headdress wearing Cate Blanchett who herself is hurling swords the size of mountains towards a towering fire demon (all of this set of course, to the backdrop of Led Zeppelin's “Immigrant Song ”)

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But this lack of restraint is the type of film that Thor: Ragnarok aspires to be, one that glorifies in its excess and insanity The past two films, while far from atrocious, suffered from a lack of originality and a tendency to take themselves too seriously Yet for this third-outing, Thor: Ragnarok feels far more like a riff on Guardians of the Galaxy; it embraces

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its absurdity and is a colorful, entertaining, and hilarious film, one the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s best, whose only fault is that in its excess of humor, its story is left emotionally hollow

The script is a Frankenstein’s monster of different famed comic book storylines, the most notable inclusion being Planet Hulk, but writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost make the plot comprehensible if not narcotizing

Taking place two years after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ragnarok sees Thor, oblivious to the cataclysmic events occurring on Earth (see: Captain America: Civil War) is continuing his galaxy-wide search for the Infinity Stones After he realizes that his presumed dead half-brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), has been masquerading as their father Odin (Anthony Hopkins), Thor exposes his trickery Hela (Cate Blanchett) the goddess of Death then arrives, destroys Thor’s hammer, and strands the brothers on Sakaar, a junk

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Eight Weeks in, Yale Emerges as League Title Frontrunner

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

A two-loss team has not won the Ivy League crown since 1982, but that could very well change this year given the way things have played out through eight weeks

A wild week in the Ancient Eight leaves the conference standings up in the air and the title up for grabs heading into the final two weeks of play Every team but one can still capture a share of the league title, which promises an exciting final two games for Cornell football and its league foes

After a slow start to league play, Harvard finds itself back in striking distance of first place, while Dartmouth and Columbia, who both began the year hot, have recently dropped tough games and lost their holds on the league lead All three, in addition to Cornell, sit at 3-2 on the season and a game back of first place Yale Princeton, and its high-flying offense, has lost two straight nailbiters in the final minute to Cornell and Penn, leaving the preseason favorite lagging behind at 2-3 The defending champion Quakers opened Ivy play 0-3 but have fought to win two straight Brown remains the only winless team in league play with a 0-4 Ivy record

two scores, increasing his leagueleading rushing touchdown total to 11, while wide receiver J P Shohfi added 107 yards and two touchdowns on just three receptions The Bulldogs scored 20 first-quarter points and coasted to victory, holding the Bears scoreless until the final two minutes Yale heads to Princeton next weekend, while Brown will host Dartmouth, still looking for its first win

Harvard 21, Columbia 14

The Crimson staved off a late Columbia rally to improve to 32 in conference play The Lions had the ball inside the Harvard 10-yard line with under a minute remaining, but the Crimson defense locked down and preser ved a seven-point victor y behind quar terback Joseph Viviano III’s two touchdown passes and touchdown r un Viviano, who split time with freshman Jake Smith to start the season, was given back the reigns to the offense after Smith chucked four interceptions before the 10-minute mark of the first quarter

But Yale, alone in first place at 4-1, does not have an easy path to its first league title since 2006 The Bulldogs have two tough games against Princeton and Harvard to end the season

Cornell, meanwhile, now finds itself bounced off the top rung after a 10-0 loss to Dartmouth in Hanover this weekend With the loss, the Red no longer controls its own destiny in the hunt for the crown

To capture an Ivy League title, Cornell will most likely need to be perfect to close out the season, as well as get some help from its opponents in taking down the Bulldogs Cornell plays Columbia in a key home game next week before traveling to Philadelphia for its season finale against Penn All that in mind, here’s what went down this past weekend in the Ivy League

Yale 34, Brown 7

The first-place Bulldogs trounced the winless Bears Friday night under the lights at the Yale Bowl Freshman running back Zane Dudek ran for 165 yards and

Columbia took an early 7-0 lead, but Harvard scored 21 unanswered to take a lead it would not relinquish Harvard hosts Penn next week, and the Lions will take on Cornell at Schoellkopf

Penn 38, Princeton 35

In a back-and-forth affair, Penn quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie led an 80-yard scoring drive, culminating in a touchdown pass to Justin Watson with 1:12 remaining to give the Quakers a threepoint lead Princeton then marched down the field, but Tavish Rice missed a 31-yard field goal a week after missing a potential game-winner against Cornell allowing Penn to survive the Tigers

The Quakers took a 24-7 lead early in the second half, but the powerful Princeton offense responded with four touchdowns to take a late lead After the Red beat the Tigers 29-28 last week, Princeton, the victim of two consecutive last-minute winning drives, falls to 2-3 Penn plays Harvard next week, and Princeton hosts first-place Yale

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun com

Football Knocked Out of 1st Place, No Longer Controls Destiny

run game get off the ground and it hurt ”

In all, Cornell had 12 first downs, barely more than half its average through the first six games of the season Facing several 3rd-and-long situations, the Red was forced to punt 12 times

After an ugly first-half showing, the Red’s offense appeared to reignite when senior wide receiver Collin Shaw snagged a deep pass from Banks on 3rd and 11 and tiptoed down the sidelines to the Dartmouth 28yard line for a 46-yard gain Yet that momentum was squashed when Banks tossed two incompletions on the ensuing plays Any hope for at least tacking on a field goal was deflated when Banks scrambled past the line of scrimmage and tried a for-

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It w a s a we l c o m e s i g h t f o r C o r n e l l t o c o m e o u t w i t h a g o o d e f f o r t o n t h e s e c o n d d a y o f t h e we e k e n d , e s p e c i a l l y a f t e r l a s t Sa t u rd a y ’ s 6 - 0 t h r a s h i n g a t t h e h a n d s o f C l a rk s o n “ We w a n t e d t o f o c u s o n g e tt i n g a b e t t e r s t a r t i n [ Sa t u rd a y ’ s ] g a m e a n d p l a y i n g m o re c o n s i st e n t i n o u r s e c o n d g a m e o f t h e we e k e n d , ” De r r a u g h s a i d “ P l a y i n g a g g r e s s i v e a n d b e i n g re s i l i e n t re a l l y h e l p e d u s d u r i n g b o t h g a m e s , e s p e c i a l l y w h e n t h i n g s d i d n ’ t w o rk o u r w a y, ” K n e e a d d e d

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ward pass The team was hit with a five-yard penalty and a loss of a down, making a field goal, and a chance to get on the scoreboard, just out of reach

Following that drive, Cornell totaled just 23 yards on its next seven offensive drives, five of which were three-and-outs Each time the Red’s drive stalled out, Nickolas Null, the hero of the Princeton upset, did an excellent job pinning Dartmouth deep in its own territory On the day, Null had seven punts that placed the Green inside its own 20-yard line Once Dartmouth’s offense took over, Cornell’s defense came on and dominated, issuing the Green six three-andouts in the second half

“If you ’ re a defensive fan you would have wished that game went nine quarters the way both defenses were playing,” Archer said

The head coach praised his defense, saying they played “well enough to win ” He specifically lauded the secondary, which is currently ranked first in the Ivy League for passing yards against On Saturday, the defensive backs had 10 pass breakups and limited Dartmouth quarterback Jack Heneghan to 141 yards on 16-of-30 passing Sophomore cornerback David Jones picked off Heneghan on an underthrown pass in the second quarter, but the Red offense squandered the opportunity to tie up the game at seven and punted away Following the punting ping pong, Cornell had a chance to put pressure on Dartmouth and march into Green territory to even up the game midway through the fourth quarter But Shaw could not corral a hard-thrown Banks pass and the ball fell into

the hands of Dartmouth’s Isiah Swann The Green marched down the field, burning up time, and the squad eventually converted a field goal to extend the lead to 10, putting the game out of reach with 1:19 left to play

At 3-2 in the Ivy League, Cornell is now tied with Har vard, Dartmouth and Columbia for second place in the Ancient Eight all of which sit a game back of Yale Looking to remain in contention for an Ivy title, the Red welcomes the Lions next weekend for the Empire State Bowl With the loss, however, Cornell no longer controls its own destiny in the championship race, and can only capture the crown if Yale drops one of its next two games

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Cornell junior defenseman Brendan Smith opened the scoring 8:34 into the second period on the r ush just moments after the Red killed an inter ference minor Junior captain and for ward

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h e Quinnipiac end, saucing a backhand pass to classmate Beau Starrett, who then found Smith in a golden position to score on the far side

In ever y game so far this season for Cornell, a defenseman has opened the scoring a sign that Schafer’s strategy to get the blueliners more involved is paying off

“He jumps into the play nonstop with his feet and we talk about that all year long,” Schafer said of Smith’s goal “ That was outstanding ”

The penalty kill that just preceded the opening score was one of four power plays the Red

Huntsville last weekend, Cornell did not give anything up when a man down

Cornell was a per fect 16-16 on penalty kills by the end of the win over Quinnipiac and was the last per fect penalty killing corps in the countr y until giving up a power play goal to Princeton Saturday night After successfully killing one penalty against the Tigers before allowing the man-advantage goal, the streak of 17 was the longest per fect streak to open up the season for the Red since it achieved 19-straight in the beginning of the 2008-09 campaign

“Blocked shots, good clears, good goaltending and a commitment to keeping it out of our net, ” is what Schafer attributed to a strong penalty kill unit “ We hope to keep that going ”

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St e w a r t , w h o s a t o u t i n j u re d i n t h e f i r s t p a i r o f g a m e s a g a i n s t A l a b a m a - Hu n t s v i l l e t h i s s e a s o n , t o o k ove r i n g o a l t o s t a r t t h e s e c o n d p e r i o d f o r h i s f i r s t a p p e a r a n c e o f t h e ye a r “ It w a s a g o o d l e s s o n f o r Ma t t l i k e t h e re s t o f t h e t e a m I d o n ’ t t h i n k h e w a s ve r y s h a r p t o n i g h t , ” S c h a f e r s a i d o f Ga l a j d a “ [ T h e re we re ] a l o t o f r e b o u n d s t h a t h e l e f t l a y i n g a ro u n d [ Pr i n c e t o n ] i s h u n g r y a ro u n d t h e n e t , a n d I d i d n ’ t t h i n k h e f o u g h t t h ro u g h t r a f f i c t o f i n d s h o t s ” St e w a r t ’ s n i g h t w o u l d n o t b e g i n w e l l , h o w e v e r, a s Pr i n c e t o n n e t t e d i t s t h i rd u n a ns we re d g o a l t o s t a r t o f f t h e s e co n d p e r i o d f o r a 4 - 2 l e a d Bu t t h e s e n i o r i n n e t w o u l d s e t t l e i n f ro m t h e re , s h u t t i n g Pr i n c e t o n o u t f o r t h e re m a i n d e r o f t h e g a m e a n d f i n i s h i n g w i t h 1 3

“It really sets the standard that they know ever y game is going to be a battle,” Schafer said of the bout with Princeton

“[Our team has] to come ready to get after it and they didn’t do that They have confidence that they can come back but they also know and heed the warning signs that they have to come ready to play, and play hard

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Tim Morales can be reached at tmorales@cornellsun com

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A week after a thrilling win over preseason favorite Princeton, Cornell football fell flat against Dartmouth, limping to a 10-0 loss in Hanover, New Hampshire Coming into the game in a three-way tie for first in the Ivy League, Cornell was shutout for the first time since 2009 on Saturday Dartmouth scored on its second drive of the game and kept Cornell at bay throughout the rest of the contest Led by running back Ryder Stone’s 119 rushing yards, the Green snapped a two-game losing streak after its 5-0 start to the season

cent of his passes for 184 yards, about a third of those coming on the final drive when the game was already out of reach Dartmouth’s defense intercepted Banks once and broke up 13 of his passes, several times at the line of scrimmage

“They made more plays than we did,” head coach David Archer ’05 said simply

With the aerial attack sputtering, the ground game, which the Red had relied so heavily on in its previous Ivy wins, similarly struggled, accumulating just 51 yards its lowest total since a week one loss at Delaware In the victories over Harvard, Brown and Princeton, Cornell averaged 224 yards on the ground, including a 276-yard outburst against the Bears

The Red’s offense, anemic and mistakeprone, failed to top 250 yards and never seriously threatened the Green’s defense Junior quarterback Dalton Banks completed 41 per-

“They did a great job stopping the run game, ” Archer said “They just did not let our