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Man Sentenced for Murder of I.C. Student on Cornell Campus

Nagee Green receives 20-year sentence for murder, and assault of 2 Ithaca College students, after fraternity party

By ANNA DELWICHE and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun News Editor and Sun C ty Ed tor

Nagee Green, the man convicted of murder in the stabbing death of an Ithaca College student at Cornell, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday

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Williams, an Ithaca College student who

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court before sentencing

“On Aug 28, 2016, I was introduced to what true pain feels like,” Williams said in the statement, according to The Ithaca Voice “Pain that is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and ver y unbearable This traumatic experience that I went through brought me and is still bringing me through a phase in life in which no other word can describe as purgator y ”

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Grads Recommend Allocating Funds to Cornell

Cinema Despite Potential Defunding From S.A.

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

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described the verdict as “bittersweet ” “It’s painful,” he said “It’s not satisfying in the sense that you can never bring Anthony back and this life that had so much promise and so much good In that sense, you can never feel good, but we feel that the verdicts were justice and that’s significant ”

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By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

A Cornell alumnus has been indicted by the U S Depar tment of Justice for allegedly rigging online propert y f o r e c l o s u r e a u ctions T h e U S D O J i n d i c t e d r e a l e s t a t e i n v e s t o r St u a r t H a n k i n ’ 0 7 f o r re s

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Lecture: Stanley M Bergman, Chairman and CEO, Henry Schein Inc

3 - 4 p m , B09 Sage Hall

Navigating Your Future: Best Careers in Industry, Entrepreneurship and Management

3 - 4:30 p m , 102 Mann Library

Nature’s Climate Solution: Linking Science, Policy and Action

3:30 - 4:30 p m , 120 Physical Sciences Building

Henry Berlin: Repetition: The Cantigas de Amigo and The Rewriting of the Portuguese Empire 4:30 p m , K155 Klarman Hall

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

Einaudi Center Roundtable: The Root of the Rohingya Crisis - The Eradication of a Myanmar Ethnic Group 4:30 - 6 p m , Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall

The Incredible Wealth of Genetic Variation in Cucurbita: Impressions from 50 years of Plant Building 12:20 p m , 404 Plant Science Building

LEPP Theory Seminar: Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Nearby Galaxy Groups 2 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Seismological Evidence for Dehydration - Modulated Small-scale Convection Beneath Oceans 3:30 p m , 2146 Snee Hall

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Information Session 4:30 - 6 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Roundtable on China’s 19th Party Congress: It’s Xi’s World Now 4:45 - 6 p m , 106 White Hall

Author Appearance: Nasty Women - Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump’s America 6:30 - 8 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

What Works in Development: Lessons from the Field 6:30 - 8 p m , G73 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Peter Katzenstein: America Confronts the World 7:15 - 8:15 p m , G70 William T Keeton House

Trump Announces Intent to Nominate

Law School Alum to Inspector General

By SAMUEL NOLAN Sun Staff Writer

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Alum Critiques Trump’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy

By MEGHAN FLANIGEN

President Donald Trump may think that “threatening little rocket man with fire and fury and total destruction will intimidate Kim Jong Un and compel him to give up his nuclear weapons, but it's more likely to have the opposite effect,” Robert Einhorn ’69, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former sports editor for The Sun said

Einhorn, who was chief negotiator with North Korea on missile issues from 1996 to 2000 and deputy head of the U S delegation to the Iran nuclear talks from 2009 to 2013, discussed the challenges of North Korea and Iran with respect to the Trump administration at a lecture on Monday

He highlighted what the presidential strategies mean for the future of the United States

“How the Trump administration handles these challenges will have far reaching implications for stability and prospects of war in Northeast Asia and implications for U S alliances in relation to potential adversaries all over the world, for efforts to prevent further proliferation of nuclear weapons capability and for the credibility and leadership of the United States in the world,” he said

Einhorn also evaluated the current strategies Trump appears to be favoring or employing in regard to the aforementioned nations, and proposed some alternatives

In the case of North Korea, Einhorn said that Trump’s strategy is to “place irresistible economic, diplomatic and military pressures on North Korea to the point where it decides to abandon its nuclear and missile programs and to do so completely, and in the near future ”

“We need to be realistic about what can be achieved and we need to compromise ”

However, Einhorn believes that this strategy is unlikely to succeed, as Trump does not have multilateral support, particularly from China

Instead, Einhorn proposed that the U S begin to tackle the problem with what he calls “ an interim freeze ” Under an interim freeze, nuclear tests and production of bomb making will be suspended In exchange, North Korea will be able to keep the nuclear materials they have already produced if they agree to begin to denuclearize

“Sooner or later the Trump administration will come around to the conclusion that the current goal [complete and immediate denuclearization] is

unachievable and that lashing out militarily is reckless,” he said

Einhorn also found issues with Trump’s Iran strategy He argued that Trump wishes to back out of the existing nuclear deal with Iran, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action Since the beginning of his campaign, backing out of JCPOA has been embedded in Trump’s initial campaign pledge and subsequent rhetoric

However, Einhorn said he feels that the president should make an effort to “keep JCPOA in place and build upon it If Washington wants Iran to address its concerns seriously, it will have to offer positive inducements, such as further relaxations of U S sanctions on Iran ”

He also noted that Trump’s threat to end the deal will definitely not fare well with Iranians Overall, he advised Trump to understand the limitations of the political world and to embrace multilateralism

“We need to build international coalitions We need to be realistic about what can be achieved and we need to compromise,” he said “These realities will be difficult for President Trump to swallow but unless he does, the challenges posed by North Korea and Iran will only grow more acute ”

Panel Debates Puerto Rico Relations

By SAMANTHA STERN Sun Staff Writer

While the University is expecting to welcome up to 58 Universidad de Puerto Rico students for a free semester at Cornell in the wake of Hurricane Maria, faculty and students on campus hosted a panel to debate the very question of Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States

“We need to begin by problematizing the whole issue of being ‘American citizens,’” said native Puerto Rican Prof Vilma SantiagoIrizarry, anthropology and Latino/a studies “Because we ’ re not The basis for our citizenship is not constitutional ”

The panel, hosted by the Puerto Rican Student Association, aimed to leave audience members with “ a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding our status as a commonwealth, as well as what independence and statehood would mean for the island and the United States,” according to the event ’ s Facebook page

When asked what he wants audience members to take away from the event, PRSA chapter president Christopher Arce ’19 stressed that it is not a theoretical debate, but rather one that affects many lives daily

“It is more than just a status question,” Arce said “It has day-today consequences on how you treat human dignity ” Arce also stressed that Puerto Ricans also give to the United States, including serving in the military

Prof Aziz Rana, law, began the panel by examining Puerto Rico’s status as an unincorporated territory, which has been a recent topic of discussion in the wake of Hurricane Maria Rana noted that in wake of the hurricane, a common response was that Puerto Rico’s status seems “aberrational ”

Rana then delved into the history of Puerto Rico and the United States, including the 1901 Supreme Court case Downes v Bidwell Rana said in that case, Justice Edward Douglass White concurred that not all places in which the U S exerts power should be considered as part of the “American family ”

“We need to begin by problematizing the whole issue of being ‘American citizens ’ Because we’re not.” P r o f V i l m a S a n t i a g o - I r i z a r r y

Rana further discussed legislation in the early 20th century that had a broad impact on Puerto Rico, including the 1920 Jones Act

“[The Jones Act] has essentially transformed the Puerto Rican economy into an adjunct of American economic interest,” Rana said “It has facilitated American business growth But at the cost of a set of exploitative measures and practices that has been deeply extractive for the local Puerto Rican economy ”

Rana said the United States has continuously “economically immiserated the island while denying them political participation ”

Prof Jamila Michener, government, then discussed Puerto Rico’s extreme poverty rate, unemployment rate and lower labor force participation rate Michener said U S social policies do not adequately aid Puerto Ricans

“Our social policies are not designed with Puerto Ricans in mind,” Michener said “They are not tailored to their particular economic and social positioning ”

In addition, Michener said that U S social policies do not offer the same level of benefits to Puerto Ricans These policies also take a long time to be effective in Puerto Rico

For Santiago-Irizarry, who is pro-Puerto Rican independence, the citizenship of Puerto Ricans is something she views as purely “ symbolic ”

But for Arce, who indicated the lack of awareness among mainland Americans of Puerto Rican rights as U S citizens, the recognition of Puerto Ricans as citizens is a crucial one with significant consequences

“This doesn’t occur in a theoretical vacuum, ” he said

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goal of changing the Cinema’s funding source from student activity fees to the University itself, she said

While Fessenden said she hopes the University will offer help in the case of S A defunding, she said that if University funding is currently unavailable, another option would be working with Alumni Affairs and Development

"We have a lot of Cornell alums who are ver y devoted to the organization, and so even if the University says there’s currently no funding here, working with Development is a path we might take,” she said “But this would, of course, take time "

The S A is expected to vote on its appropriat

Thursday’s meeting Fessenden noted that the the Cinema is still processing what S A defunding would mean

"We received word of the S A Appropriations Committee's proposed defunding less than one week ago, so we haven't had any time to think about what we will do if the proposal does go through,” she told The Sun

The GPSA’s recommendation passed with a vote of 15-0-3 and will be included in the final resolution

for the overall graduate and professional student activity fee Tyler McCann, grad, GPSA appropriations chair, told the Sun that he felt good about the vote and the work that had been done to address the Cinema’s funding

“I think this is the culmination of a lot of work that was going on and a lot of discussions that were had by members of the Appropriations Committee, but then also with Cornell Cinema, but with all the byline organizations too, ” he said “So I think all of us probably feel very accomplished ”

Additionally, Jan Allen, associate dean for academic and student affairs for the Graduate School, announced during the meeting that the U S House of Representatives’ new tax proposal that could make tuition taxable would not apply to Cornell graduate and professional students

“If you have concerns that your tuition might become taxable, which could be a six to 10 thousand dollar hit, at 3:30 this afternoon we got information from Legal Counsels Office that the new tax proposal should not affect you, ” she said

The reason, Allen said, is that the University follows Section 117(a) and not affected Section 117(d) in determining the taxability of tuition paid to students by the University

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun com

DOJ Indicts Alum for Collusion

because the auctions were online, his client could not have rigged the market

“[Hankin] bought properties through an online auction like eBay in which anyone in the country could bid,” he said “No one controlled the market, nor could they These properties were sold at fair prices ”

However, the indictment claims that among the three investors, there was a “continuing agreement, understanding and concert of action ” The indictment accuses the defendants of conspiring in meetings, telephone conversations, emails and text messages

Hankin founded Prodigy Capital Inc in Palm Beach Gardens in 2010 with accused coconspirator Christopher Graeve Hankin and Graeve engineered a real estate investment fund “ specializing in the fix-and-flip model,” according to the firm’s

“I am proud of the company that I helped to build.”

marketing material The third accused investor, Avi Stern, was associated with Florida’s Best Realty Services in Boca Raton, but no longer works there

“I am proud of the company that I helped to build, which has done good and ethical work,” Hankin told The Sun

However, Friday’s indictment questions Prodigy Capital promise of “ a rapid turnover rate with an exceptional return on investment, exceeding industr y performance standards,” according to the company ’ s website

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division wrote in the DOJ release that the division will prosecute “regardless of whether their conduct is carried out in person, or in texts, online chats or through other electronic means ”

Delrahim also promised in the DOJ release that he will prosecute all those responsible Markus, who has prevailed in at least three similar DOJ cases in his district, said that “despite the inflammator y language in the prosecution’s press release this case has been brought to bolster the Antitrust Division’s statistics ”

“It is not about justice,” Markus said

The accusations hold Hankin in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act the 1890 legislation barring trusts and preserving commercial competition because he agreed to lower bid rates with his competitors in order to allocate proper ties among group members

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Willow Hubsher | This is Not a Sex Column

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Birth control is a human right Period

I will fight you on this It is proven to fight poverty and increase female educational attainment I don’t normally traffic in hypotheticals but if men could get pregnant, birth control would be sold next to the gum at every 7/11 And it would probably come in fun flavors BUT, that is not the argument of this column I would like to instead point out that, while I believe birth control should be a right, taking birth control should not be a requirement

I understand my privilege in being able to say this, but: stop forcing me to take birth control!

Disclaimer: no one is actually forcing me to take birth control However, I do take issue with the fact that so many young educated women accept birth control and the weird, frightening and at times disgusting side effects that come with it as almost an obligation Many of my friends think of it as a necessary evil However, just because we face the larger battle of ensuring access to birth control for everyone, we should not be complacent with the problems and side effects of birth control: side effects like weight gain, nausea, spotting and mood changes

I have always assumed that the pill was the only option for me I’ve been on the pill since eighth grade not because I was a promiscuous little middle schooler but because I have a condition called endometriosis Endometriosis is a disorder that causes the tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus to grow on the outside of your uterus It can manifest in a lot of different ways For me, and for many other sufferers, it came in the form of super-duper painful cramps Not “skip a class to lie in the nurse ’ s office” painful, but “miss two days of school because you are crying on the bathroom floor” painful

Hormonal contraceptives are one of the only viable treatment options

I’ve pretty much always thought that these pills were magic, and in many ways, they are I rarely get cramps and my period is almost non-existent As awesome as that sounds, the older I get and the more I learn about the topic, the scarier it seems For one, birth control is one of the possible causes of my anorgasmia Not to mention the increased risk of breast and cervical cancers

Taking birth control pins me between two great fears: the first being the memo-

ries of the “stabbed in the stomach” pain I used to feel every month, and the second being the mysterious hormone science that scrambles my insides and confuses my uterus every time I pop a pill Not every girl is in the same unique position as me, but I believe this “stuck between a rock and a hard place” phenomenon is common among girls taking all different kinds of birth control

For example, my best friend has an IUD I drove her to Gannett to get it put in and she said it hurt like a bitch Everything had been fine for a while until her boyfriend came up to visit and she started randomly bleeding during sex I was ready to strap on my head-lamp, pull out my surgical gloves and look up in there but she wisely suggested she see a doctor instead Apparently, this can be a side effect that just comes with an IUD even when it is working correctly

It is a little fucked up that we as women have to chose between the autonomy and peace of mind afforded by birth control and side effects that men would never put up with! (Not to mention the fact that I wouldn’t trust a man to take his pill every day I can barely remember and I’m the one that would have to lug that baby around for 9 months ) Yes, birth control is amazing and yes, everyone should be able to get it if they want it, but just because it provides us with this invaluable service, does not mean we should settle for the nonsense that comes with it

Essentially, my point is that it is not enough that we have birth control, but rather that we should not be satisfied until the responsibility of contraception is shared and birth control becomes less of a physical burden forced upon women

Maybe if you got a tax break every time you used a condom they would be more popular I don’t care as long as I never have to hear that “ sex with a condom is like getting a massage with a winter coat ” again

You might be tired of me ending my columns with “I don’t have a solution” but once again, I don’t However, I encourage you all to explore your options, and if you are anything like me, go take that pill you forgot to take yesterday!

Willow Hubsher is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at wrh73@cor nell edu T h i s i s No t a Se x C o l u m n appears alter nate Tuesdays this semester

Letter to the Editor

In support of Cornell Cinema

We are writing as the undergradua t e s t u d e n t s t a f f o f C o r n e l l Cinema and members of the Cornell Cinema Student Advisor y Board This past week, the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee voted against Cornell Cinema’s requested allocation of $ 8 5 0 p e r s t u d e n t f r o m t h e St u d e n t

Activity Fee a 22 percent decrease from its current allocation of $10 90 per student and instead recommended $0 00 for the next byline cycle, effective beginning next fall This would be a cut of about $150,000, or 30 percent of Cornell Cinema’s budget

The Appropriations Committee based their recommendation on the fact that a portion of Cornell Cinema’s allocation of the SAF goes toward professional staff wages, and claimed this to be a misuse of funds The Student Assembly’s governing documents, however, do not stipulate that a byline-funded organization cannot use its allocation to pay wages

Furthermore, the 2015-2016 Student A s s e m b l y a p p rove d t h a t a p o r t i o n o f Cornell Cinema’s allocation from the SAF be used for professional staff wages for the 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 8 c yc l e T

Appropriations Committee raised concerns regarding the usage of the SAF to p a y f o r s t a f f w

g e s , b u t re s t r i c t i o n s imposed by the SA on diverting these funds to other spending categories prevented Cornell Cinema from adjusting or cutting its spending mid-cycle The earliest Cornell Cinema can cease its usage of SAF funds for professional staff wages is at the start of the next byline cycle, beginning Fall 2018 The Cinema’s commitment to doing so is reflected in the 22 percent reduction requested in its 2018-2020 byline funding application

Performing a cost-per-attendee analysis on a non-profit student resource denies the unquantifiable value that such a resource provides.

The SA website reports that 70 5 percent of the budget for Cornell Cinema goes toward professional staff wages These wages are paid mostly through subsidies from the College of Arts & Sciences and outside grants In fiscal year 2017-2018, Cornell Cinema charged its activity fee account $37,495 for wages, or 10 6 percent of total staff wages Thus, the bulk of the $150,000 that the Cinema would lose a s a re s u l t o f t h e Ap p r o p r i a t i o n s Committee’s recommendation would be from funds spent on programming, not staff wages

The members of the Appropriations Committee have stated numerous times, in their written recommendation, as well as during last Thursday’s meeting, that their decision to defund Cornell Cinema i s b a s e d o n t h e a s s u m p t i o n t h a t t h e University will cover the deficit The Appropriations Committee has not specified a source within the University that they expect to provide this aid Cutting 30 percent of the Cinema’s funding immediately, without the time to find replacement funds, would likely mean the end of

Cornell Cinema Without any comment from the University, the SA will make an extremely significant and permanent decision in the absence of vital information

During last week’s Student Assembly m

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Representative At-Large, stated, “Students should not have to pay an annual fee regardless of whether or not they watch movies at the Cornell Cinema, and then have to pay an additional $6 50 [sic] ticket fee to use their ser vices ” Such a reckless approach to funding student organizations sets a dangerous precedent Like other

needs SAF funding to subsidize affordable ticket prices in order to be accessible to ever y student Many ser vices that are funded by the SAF, such as those that promote mental health and/or support identity-based communities, are used by only a portion of the student body But it is critically important that these resources are available and accessible to all students

Performing a cost-per-attendee analysis on a non-profit student resource denies the unquantifiable value that such a resource provides

If students pay for only the organizations that they use, many crucial student organizations on campus will become available only to those who can pay By attending Cornell, students are always paying for resources they will never use, classes they will never take, and professors who will never teach them But doing so is essential, because universities thrive when they have vast offerings academic and extracurricular that are open to all That said, a significant portion of the s

Cinema Last year, 18,743 people attended Cornell Cinema, 10,212 of whom were undergraduates Of these 10,212 undergraduate admissions, 5,800 were unique, meaning 40 percent of Cornell undergraduates attended at least one show at Cornell Cinema that year (clearly, many students attended far more than one)

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Gabriel Kaufman ’18, Vice President of Finance, acknowledges that with a significant decrease in or complete cut to SAF funding, Cornell Cinema would be projected to run a sizeable yearly deficit The Cinema could not continue to operate in this state It would be short-sighted and irresponsible to eliminate SAF funding without guaranteed replacement funding and without a specific plan to find this funding in the immediate future We call upon the Student Assembly to consider the repercussions of defunding a beloved cultural institution that has been valued by the Cornell community for almost fifty years If you support the arts, vote like it

The (Rigged) Pursuit of Happiness

It was one of those crap days It might have been the gloomy Ithacan weather or Monday or maybe it was just me Procrastination hit its terminal stage, and the Google Scholar search cursor was silently blinking at me with poorly concealed condemnation, as if anticipating when I finally collect myself and make a productive quer y Instead, I typed in “happiness” to see what science has to say on the matter, and started climbing the shoulders of giants

genetic make-up (with estimates ranging from 50 to 80 percent) With the exception of clinical depression, how you feel is in the long run more or less constant (a socalled set point), and all one can do is temporarily depart from the set point and slide back into it a few days or months later The never-ending race for a better condition is nothing but a fruitless effort, as ever y improvement you win with years of hard labor you quickly adapt to, a phenomenon researches aptly dubbed “the hedonic

Research on subjective wellbeing ... has ex for decades and produced a line of insightf extremely counter-intuitive results which relate directly to our daily experiences and lives overall.

In contrast to many of my colleagues, I am not a big supporter of popularizing all science and I fail to see how knowing the inner workings of a black hole is useful for anything but better appreciation of some scenes in Interstellar But if there’s any work that currently languishes in undeser ved obscurity it’s the research on subjective wellbeing, a branch of psychology and sociology that has existed for decades and produced a line of insightful and extremely counter-intuitive results which relate directly to our daily experiences and lives overall The rosy self-help books that promise fulfillment and joy upon completion are fully detached from its findings, and for a good reason: these findings are a publisher’s nightmare

Ever ything you think will make you happy, the science says be that having a successful career, finding love, staying healthy, creating a family or becoming rich all t h o s e b l e s s i n g s c o m b i n e d a c c o u n t f o r s o m e w h e r e between 8 and 15 percent of people’s subjective wellbeing The rest seems to be mostly determined by our

Iam blank I have been renting this space in The Sun since freshman year, ever y other Tuesday, with the same punny title my editor picked out for me on the second day of freshman year And I’m out of things to say I’ve gone back and forth on sending off an email that officially ends it dear Jacob, I’m too old for this, find a freshman too scared to send in a column late to replace me and we’ll both be better off but I’ve held back each time Unsure why, but maybe by the end of this column, I’ll flip in favor of just calling it quits and you’ll never see me again

For now though, here I am Full on Larr y David attitude, complete with the scowling face and “eh” expression I feel cranky, like I’m being forced to do this (I am, it’s 3 a m and if I had it my way, I’d sent this in five minutes before it’s supposed to run tomorrow) and I feel irrelevant At a certain point, you have to admit that you ’ re writing for the sake of writing, and if you had to ask me now, that point was two semester ago I wish I could tell you I did something inspirational lately that had me #recommitted to this column I didn’t I thought that Nicholas Kristof talk might do it for me, but all I realized at the end of that is that if I could somehow scheme my way into having people pay for me to travel and then also pay me to write about my travels, I know that I would a) start meeting (or even paying attention to) deadlines with more gusto, and b) write better

In a way this attitude is liberating I literally don’t care I care slightly that this goes up on the internet until the end of

treadmill”: you end up covering a lot of distance without getting anywhere This seems to be especially true for wealth, as countless unlucky lotter y ticket winners have testified

The good news is, if you ’ re a happy person right now independent of how you do in life chances, you will likely continue to enjoy the ride years and decades later If you ’ re not, well, brace yourself

The patterns get even more disturbing when you look at the society at large instead of an individual An improving economy, for example, has been shown to not affect national happiness (with the exception of countries suffering from extreme poverty), and sometimes even hurt it Bhutan is one of the happiest countries in the world, but my considerably wealthier homeland, Russia, is one of the most miserable War, at least under some circumstances, seems to make people happier, and so does religion Famously, when London was being bombed during WWII the number of suicides decreased; people reported a stronger sense of unity and purpose and later

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time (or at the ver y least, the foreseeable future that I am alive and kicking and looking for a job) so I should probably refrain from spouting too much trash But beyond maybe engaging in hate speech, I can ’ t say that I have too much skin in the game here

So why do this at all? Well first of all, I barely am And second, there is something important about learning to care less or not at all I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again the best (possibly only) thing I’ve taken away from Cornell is learning how to deal with when ever y single thing you were scared would happen does I hate this place because I have found myself in situations I thought I had done ever ything in my power to avoid being in, I hate it because it makes me face failures I didn’t know I was capable of committing I love this place for the same reasons

I don’t mean “don’t care about anything,” and I also don’t mean “pretend like you don’t care about things you care deeply about ” There is power in honesty, and being honest with yourself about the things that matter to you and the things that don’t is perhaps the best thing you can do for yourself in college There was a point in time that this column was the most important thing I did on campus I sent ever y piece in (almost) on time, I researched and put thought into the concrete national issues I was going to address with the space I had been afforded, I shared each one on social media I cared That point has since come and gone Today, I’m a senior and frankly, if I told you the most important thing I did on campus was write a 900-word column

would remember those times with nostalgia I always got mad at Grandpa whenever he would say life was better during Stalin’s rule (in Russia, this view is surprisingly common in his generation and beyond) But maybe all he meant to say is that life felt better, even though in pretty much ever y objective metric we use as proxy for happiness it wasn ’ t Stripped of wealth and many freedoms, with goal of building communism slowly being replaced with what was essentially a religion around worshipping the nation’s leader, the Soviets at the time might have been psychologically healthier than the purposeless and disillusioned population of modern Russia Alternatively, they may have been absolutely miserable and later just adjusted their recollections through some bizarre coping mechanism

How is one to decide policy in the light of all these findings? If you think about it, the documents we hold sacred in the modern liberal society, like the constitution or U N conventions, are adopted with an implicit assumption that the rights they demand promote wellbeing Sometimes that is undoubtedly the case, but other times it may not be

If we set our goal to be happiness of the nation, then it would follow that it might be a good idea to stop worr ying about the economy, proclaim a Buddhist theocracy and start a war on somebody (so, basically, appoint Myanmar as a role model), but all these suggestions sound like madness On the other hand, declaring happiness meaningless and instead pursuing GDP growth and ultimate freedom for their own sakes seems equally insane

I don’t have any answers to these societal dilemmas, but there seems to be some hope for us individuals Supportive community, a romantic partner, fulfilling job and exercise are not as powerful as the tyranny of DNA but have robustly demonstrated to improve happiness somewhat So did the mindset of gratitude and helping others Finally, people have shown to grow happier as they age, so if none of the things above work for you, maybe just wait

Artur Gorokh is a graduate student studying applied mathematics at Cornell University He can be reached at ag2282@cornell edu Radically Moderate appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

ever y two weeks that internet trolls could comment on under a pseudonym and with no accountability, I would need to s e r i

s l y re c o n s i d e r m y p r i o r i t i e s a n d what they say about me

So why am I here? I was supposed to come to a conclusion about my presence

here for my own sake, and for your reading pleasure’s sake I’ve been told a good column develops a greater argument and reaches a gradual conclusion, one that isn’t crammed into the last paragraph of the piece Good thing I’m not here to write a good column or I would actually have to worr y about that one

I am here because writing this column is a reminder that you do not always need to apologize for a change in your priorities In fact, I would argue that it’s almost always better to revel in the change Two weeks ago, I wrote a column on immigration policy, an issue freshman year Hebani would not have dared touch It felt so good I sent it in, shared it, and was proud of it I reveled in the nitpicking com-

ments, the blatantly racist emails and the positivity that comes along with people relating to your experience It was the first column I’d written in a long time that had me picking a side I wasn ’ t hedging because I was afraid what people would think, I wasn ’ t pulling facts to support

arguments that I knew I didn’t believe in I was just writing Some people come into college with this mindset props to them For those of us, however, that need time and experiences to grow up and be honest with ourselves about the things that matter and why, there are always indicators to help you recognize your shifting priorities, if you choose to look for them Mine was the exponentially increasing amount of time I was handing in columns past my deadline I hope yours mess with fewer people’s sleep schedules

Hebani Duggal is a senior in the College of Arts and S c i e n c e s Sh e c a n b e re a c h e d a t hduggal@cornellsun com Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester Artur Gorokh | Radically Moderate

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Arnav Ghosh can be reached at aghosh@cornellsun com

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Arnav Ghosh can be reached at aghosh@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Girlpool at The Haunt

BY VIRI GARCIA Sun Staff Writer

If there is one word that is overused when describing concert experiences, it’s “magical ” Experiences and emotions are subjective, yet everyone seems to come back to that word I agree that there is a certain atmosphere to be found at concerts that can ’ t be found anywhere else, but I believe that the affects found in a Girlpool concert are in a category of their own Girlpool’s music takes emotions that are difficult to describe and puts them in an accurate, concise form of music that makes one think, “Wow Why couldn’t I think of that when it’s so straightfor ward?” Taking those sentiments to a small venue like The Haunt makes the experience personal by forcing one to address neglected, bottled up feelings, creating a truly magical experience

Girlpool opened their show with “123,” the first track off their newest album Powerplant While the song is already gentle, guitarist Cleo Tucker started off the song more delicately, creating a powerful start Bassist Harmony Tividad joined Tucker in a way so unnoticeable that the song ’ s tenderness was not lost, even at the more powerful parts of the chorus The lyrics “Looking pretty at the wall is my mistake in love installed” carry enough impact in the album, but when it comes to a live setting, Girlpool has deciphered a way to not only carry those same emotions, but amplify them Throughout all of the songs they played, Tucker and Tividad constantly looked to and followed each other, making it obvious that as musicians they were used to each other and had no trouble playing together However, in between songs, Harmony would constantly say playfully pointless things to Cleo, such as “hey Cleo, what’s up? so what’s up?” Cleo, on the other

hand, asked the audience for a ride to New York City and continued to interact with the audience in similar ways The duo’s dynamic proves that in addition to their bond as musicians, Harmony and Cleo share a strong bond with each other This combination is what enables them to so easily deliver difficult emotions in their rawest form

After playing “123,” Girlpool went on to play most of Powerplant, but in all of the

songs, and considering it was their last track, I was slightly disappointed that most of the songs they had played were from Powerplant, with only two from Before the World Was Big “Static Somewhere” delivered, but it was obvious that the crowd was not expecting that song to be the last of the night After Girlpool left the stage, the audience chanted “ one more song!” along with “do ‘Chinatown’!” and “do ‘Cherry Picking’!”

track that Girlpool has packed the most emotions into, and when played live, those emotions go from being felt by one listener to a whole venue, creating an unmatched, beautiful atmosphere After they finished playing “Chinatown,” Girlpool went on to play their ver y last song “Cherr y Picking ”

songs they added a keyboard/saxophone player Powerplant is different from Girlpool’s other albums in that it was the first to introduce a drummer, and taking it to the stage with another addition would seem to stray from their signature simplicity, but, surprisingly, this bold addition fit in perfectly with the album At times, Cleo played saxophone solos, but none of this ever interfered with the sentiments and atmosphere that had been originally envisioned by Harmony and Cleo when they wrote Powerplant

As the concert continued with Harmony and Cleo poking jokes at each other and the audience, the two announced that they were about to play their last song, which was “Static Somewhere ” They played song as carefully and emotively as the rest of their

BY AMY LIN Sun Contributor

On my five-hour bus ride home, I watched Sunao Katabuchi’s latest animated film, In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni), which had been recommended by my Japanese language professor Captivated by the candor of Katabuchi’s resonant storytelling, everything around me melted away, and the world was reduced to my phone’s sixby-three-inch screen The wistful soundtrack and clean animation throughout instantly swept me away to simpler times

Set during World War II, this award-winning film is an expressive story about Suzu, a woman who leaves her family in Hiroshima to join her husband in Kure, a naval port city A daydreamer and storyteller, Suzu has a bashful disposition and inclination to capture the changing world through illustration When she gets married, she cheerfully and diligently devotes herself to her husband’s family She is not depicted as a particularly exceptional, and many of the events that occur in the film are out of her control Instead, she floats through life with a backbone of quiet fidelity, continuously working on chores to keep the collective harmony in her household Her narrative is a glimpse into a simple life that is full of all of

life’s regular ups and downs, dreams and tragedies

Suzu’s unique experience is of a civilian’s perspective from the losing side of the war; though she remains far removed from politics,

After some suspenseful moments, Harmony and Cleo returned to the stage

As soon as the audience heard the opening chords to “Chinatown,” ever yone cheered The melancholy and nostalgia carried by the track are enough to bring one to tears sometimes As the pair sang “Do you feel restless when you realize you ’ re alive?” I looked around and noticed that a handful of people in the audience had begun to cry At the line “I am nervous for tomorrow and today,” I looked around once more to see that the number of crying audience members had increased There are certain lines in “Chinatown” that hit home for different people “If I told you I loved you, would you take it the wrong way?” does it for some, and “If I loved myself, would I take it the wrong way?” does it for others “Chinatown” is the

ments let the viewer fill in the blanks Suzu and her family are not primarily portrayed as helpless victims of the war; rather, they stoically continue their daily lives: mending the roof, collecting rations, inventing new ways to cook

she experiences all the effects of wartime as she and her family do their best to support their homeland

Heart-wrenching scenes are followed by quotidian ones; In This Corner of the World reminds us that life goes on Exemplifying the Japanese way of courage in the face of adversity, the film’s muted and subdued story ele-

with fewer ingredients, hanging their clothes to dry even as debris rains down from above

Like many survivors of World War II, Suzu’s is a family that endures hardship and takes life as it comes

Though the entire film is from the protagonist’s perspective, it is difficult to tell exactly how Suzu feels in each of her interactions

Just like “Chinatown,” “Cherry Picking” is filled with emotions As they played the opening chords, the audience cheered for the track they were hoping to hear “Cherry Picking” did not get more people to cry, but rather to sing along It lifted everyone, though the song is not about anything happy I never thought I’d see a room so happily singing

“’Cause lovers turn to strangers/ everyone always has to go, ” but I think there is something positive to be felt in knowing not only that others share these thoughts and emotions, but that a song exists as a monument to all of these normal, but hidden, sentiments

Girlpool has never lacked raw, unfiltered emotions, but I did not think it possible to take them and make them have an even greater impact on people In a venue full of crying people, it was normal to simply feel It was normal to feel sad, it was normal to feel happy, it was normal to feel lonely, nervous, anxious, or anything else I don’t know whether I cried, but I definitely felt something I hadn’t felt in a long time, and that was full: full of not only my own emotions, but reassurance that other people also felt a whole spectrum of emotions If anything, in their albums Girlpool teaches one how to feel, and in playing live, causes everyone to take in each other’s unspoken experiences, which is magical

Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun com

Mistakes are made, and funny stories are told, but the film does not explicitly announce each impactful encounter with a bang Katabuchi masterfully choreographs the events to flow independently of each other, weaving together to influence future emotion and shape personal narrative, as real life does

The ambiguity of the scenes in In This Corner of the World make it difficult to see the divide between dreams and reality, letting the viewer’s mind wander and wonder about the possibilities One particular scene caught my attention: Suzu, in a flashback, remembers an important detail that saves her life But there is nothing flashy or cliché about the moment; her realization isn’t the keystone discovery in a Sherlock Holmes mystery, nor is it Wonder Woman’s dawning realization of Ares’ identity It is as fleeting and serendipitous as déjà vu, exemplifying the beauty of the film’s ordinariness In This Corner of the World presents anguish, simple joy and sentimentality without the overdone theatricality of Hollywood films

Amy Lin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at al887@cornell edu

As Season Nears Close, Road Woes Continue

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

With the hopes of continuing a solid winning streak from last weekend, Cornell volleyball made the trek east this weekend but won just one set en route to losses in both contests

The Red fell to both Penn (12-9, 7-5 Ivy) and Princeton (16-6, 9-3) this weekend by scores of 3-1 and 3-0, respectively a stark contrast to Cornell’s 3-1 sweep of the same squads at home just three weeks prior

“We started off pretty slow against Penn and took a while to find our rhythm,” said head coach Trudy Vande Berg “By then Penn was on a roll ”

“I knew we had to come out firing on all cylinders against [Princeton] and we just couldn’t get a string of points going against them,” she added

Sophomore hitter Samanta Arenas looked to the team ’ s mental approach on the road as an Achilles heel in dropping the matches this past weekend Including the losses to Penn and Princeton, Cornell is 18 playing on the road as opposed to 7-1 playing at home

“[Both teams] played exactly as we expected them too, ” she said “I don’t think we had the confidence to start off against these teams because we had it stuck in our heads that we normally do poorly on the road ”

Despite the losses, the Red did not give up without a fight In both Philadelphia and Princeton, Cornell started off slow before bouncing back toward the end of each game

At Penn, Cornell lost the first set by a score of 25-12 but then came back to the second set with renewed energy, only losing 25-22

The Red then won the third set by the same margin as Penn won the second, but ultimately dropped a hard-fought final set, 26-24, and thereby the match

A similar situation occurred at Princeton, with Cornell losing the first set, 25-16, before holding slightly tougher for the second and third sets, 25-21 and 25-17, respectively

“Once the game[s] continued on, we realized that there wasn ’ t anything to be afraid and that the teams were not doing anything we haven’t seen before, so we started to pick up our fight,” Arenas said

Arenas also pointed to two of her teammates in particular who led the charge in the marginal comeback efforts

“Kiley McPeek and Chelsea Sincox both poured their heart outs in these two matches this past weekend,” Arenas said “Especially since it was their last away games before they graduate, I think they exuded their passion and positivity really well this weekend ”

This upcoming weekend marks the end of the season for Cornell, with Yale and Brown venturing to Ithaca to battle against the Red in Newman Arena Cornell beat Brown 3-1, and lost to Yale by the same score when the team traveled to New England in October

“We will prepare for them as we prepare for all of the teams we play,” Vande Berg said Brown is “playing with confidence right now Yale is tied for first with Princeton right now so [they] have a lot on the line this weekend and will be ready to go ”

With plenty to play for both emotionally and to play spoiler five Cornell seniors will have the chance to finish their collegiate careers on a high note on Senior Day

“It’s our last weekend and we want to send our seniors out with a bang so we will be ready to battle,” Vande Berg said

Zora Hahn can be reached at zhahn@cornellsun com

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Red Finishes Season; Coach Wins No. 300

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

Not only did Cornell field hockey’s 2-1 win over Dartmouth this weekend give head coach Donna Hornibrook win No 300 in her career, but it also handed the senior class its 42nd victory as a group, leaving the band of five women tied with the classes of 2011 and 2017 as the all-time leaders in wins for a class

“I was a little emotional in the locker room before the game, knowing I was about to walk onto the field for my last game, ” said senior captain Isabel Josephs “But you have to put those emotions aside and get the job done, especially because I wanted to end my career on a high note with a win ”

“As a group, this senior class was just phenomenal,” Hornibrook added “During their time here, we achieved national rankings, and as a whole, they just always came to practice ready to compete Definitely one of the best classes that we have ever had at Cornell ”

After Dartmouth knotted the game at one at the end of the first half, junior Gabby DePetro clinched the victory for the Red with a goal late in the second Senior Kelly Johnson, who leaves the program as the alltime winningest goaltender in program history, got the start and was replaced by sophomore Maddie Henry in the second half

A combination of their efforts in goal helped secure a major career milestone for their head coach

“I honestly didn’t even realize that I was one win away from 300 entering the game Saturday,” Hornibrook said “I was just focused on us getting one last Ivy League win to end the season ”

Looking at the season in general, this year also marks the fifth consecutive winning campaign for Hornibrook and the Red, who finish with a 10-6 record, 3-4 in the Ivy League

The Red began the year with four-straight one-goal victories, but sputtered down the stretch, as the squad was unable to find a rhythm in the second half of its season

“I felt like we weren ’ t that consistent this year, ” Hornibrook said “There were some really close games that we lost that we probably should have won, and those ultimately tilted the season for us ”

The loss that most haunts Hornibrook was an overtime defeat at the hands of Ivy rival Harvard, a team ranked No 13 at the time The head coach felt that despite the loss, it was the team ’ s best performance of the season and that the setback had negative ramifications for the rest of the year

A theme throughout the year was the team ’ s inability to create shots on goal, and its reliance on the goaltending tandem of Johnson and Henry

The dynamic duo, hailed by their head coach as the best in the country, combined to save over 79 percent of shots faced, holding opponents to just 1 43 goals per game and notching three shutouts

But the team ’ s weakness came in lack of shots, predominantly stemming from the squad’s failure to generate corner opportunities Opponents attempted 17 more corner attempts than the Red this season

The Red was led in goals with six from the program ’ s all-time leading points scorer in senior Krysten Mayers Two-time captain senior Sam McILwrick followed behind with five of her own

Next season, Cornell will have to replace Mayers, McILwrick and Johnson, as well as the versatile Isabel Josephs and year ’ s third-leading goal scorer in Katie Carlson

“I felt lucky to be a part of this team, ” Josephs said “I would not have been totally satisfied unless we had won the Ivy League and made it to the NCAA tournament, and I’m sure most of the team feels this way because we are competitors But with all that aside, I think everybody brought their best every day, and I wouldn't trade my relationships with my teammates for anything ”

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun com

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