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University maintains silence over Dean Dutta’s resignation

The myster y surrounding Soumitra Dutta’s abrupt resignation from his role atop Cornell University’s business college continued to grow on Wednesday as Dutta and Cornell refused for a second day to provide any reason for his sudden exit

Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in an email to SC Johnson College of Business employees on Tuesday afternoon that he had accepted Dutta’s resignation letter, effective immediately, and had named an interim dean to lead the business college Kotlikoff ’ s brief statement blind-

sided all but a select handful of Cornellians, including many business faculty members and some employees in Dutta’s Statler Hall office, who were surprised when they read the news for the first time in The Sun

Even L Joseph Thomas, whom Kotlikoff named to replace Dutta as interim dean while Cornell searches for a permanent successor, only learned about the situation on Monday

“I was asked to do this interim job two days ago, and it was a surprise,”

Thomas said in an email to The Sun on Wednesday night

Dutta, 54, has not responded to multiple requests for comment since he resigned, but has said in recent

days that he expects to remain on the faculty, according to a Cornell alumnus briefed on the conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information

Cornell’s spokesman, John Carberry, has declined to answer any questions about what led to Dutta’s resignation and had no information by press time late on Wednesday on whether Dutta would remain on the faculty

Thomas met with campus leaders and spoke several times with Kotlikoff on Wednesday, his first full day serving in a position he likely never expected to take after retiring

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business students were bewildered by the unexpected resignation this week of their college’s top official

The University has not offered any explanation for why Soumitra Dutta, the dean of the Business College since its launch in 2016, left so abruptly

In the absence of any information, business students have been left to speculate on the reasons for the dean’s departure

“People were talking about it in class“ said Zach Baer ’21 “The secrecy shows that definitely something is happening the question is, just how

TCAT Adds 11 Buses to Fleet, Struggles To Find Depot Space for Housing Them

By TOBA STERN Sun Staff Writer

Tompkins Consolidated Area

Transit hopes to improve the service it provides to Cornell and the Ithaca community by incorporating 11 new buses to its fleet this February However, the organization still needs to build a space to house its newly modernised fleet Frank P Proto, who took over

as the new chairman of the TCAT Board of Directors last Thursday, believes the replacement buses will play an essential role in improving the quality of service that TCAT provides

“These 11 new replacement buses will go a long way to help us provide on-time service and avoid missed trips,” he said “If you can ’ t be there with the bus to pick up passengers then you don’t have

quality service ” TCAT ’ s current facility at 737 Willow Avenue is not large enough to accommodate these new buses, TCAT informed the county legislature’s Planning Committee In the submitted proposal, TCAT cited a commissioned Facility Assessment and Planning Study that showed that the current

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College of Business Faculty Panel: S hareholder Value and Social Values - Friends or Foes 10:30 a m - Noon, 401 Warren Hall

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration 11:40 a m - 1:10 p m , 111 Ives Hall

SEAP Gatty Lecture Series: “Religious Like Us” Noon - 1:30 p m , Kahin Center

Soup and Hope with Laura Lewis Noon, Sage Chapel

Libertarian Noir: Dark Histories of Exit and Enclosure, 1950 to the Present 12:15 - 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Additive Manufacturing of Wearable Robots 12:20 - 1:10 p m , G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Energy Engineering Seminar: Hydropower Potentials - Still Going Strong! 2:30 - 4 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Experience in Kenya with the System of Rice Intensification 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 100 Mann Library

Protecting LGBTQ Employees in the Trump Era: What’s Next?

1:30 - 2:30 p m , G85 Myron Taylor Hall

IAD Seminar: The African Infrastructure Deficit and Private/Public Financing 2:30 - 4 p m , G08 Uris Hall

MannUfactory Makerspace Open House 2:30 - 4 p m , 112 Mann Library

Queer Belongings, New Desires: Media and Performance of Citizenship in Turkey 4:30 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Reading by Poet Julie Sheehan: The Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series 4:30 p m , 132 Goldwin Smith Hall

Privacy in Bargaining: The Case of Endogenous Entry 11:40 a m - 1:10 p m , 115 Ives Hall

Understanding and Reducing Gender Gaps in Engineering Team Participation 12:15 p m , 253 Rhodes Hall

Event Comprehension Across the Lifespan 12:20 p m , 202 Uris Hall

Climate Change, Land Use and the Contradictions of Forestry Development in Chile and Sweden 1:30 - 3 p m , B73 Warren Hall

Event Comprehension Across the Lifespan 3:30 p m , 655 Rhodes Hall

Addressing the Recognition Gap - Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality 3:30 - 5 p m , 132 Goldwin Smith Hall

Seeing the Unseen in the Iliad 4:30 p m , 122 Goldwin Smith Hall

C U Music: Malcom Bilson, Piano, with Ariana Kim, Violin, and Shin Hwang, Piano 8 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall

Proceeds From Fundraiser Donated to Mental Health Efforts

Local collaboration raises over eight hundred dollars for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services of Ithaca

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The late Sophie Hack MacLeod ’14, who died by suicide in 2016, loved to bake

In her honor, Cornell’s Alpha Phi Omega, along with Active Minds at Ithaca College and The Sophie Fund, sold five-dollar button pins emblazoned with a cupcake icon in several loca-

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the money raised to

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In total, the three organizations donated a check of $829 50 to SPCS after fundraising in their respective campuses, two GreenStar Natural Food Market store locations and at the Apple Festival in the Commons in September

The Sophie Fund chose to donate the funds to the Ithaca SPCS because of its work in mental health education, crisis counseling and its establishment of a suicide hotline ser vice

“All the funds raised in the button campaign were given to SPCS with no strings attached, for them to use as needed,” said Scott MacLeod, Sophie’s father and an officer of The Sophie Fund

“ We sincerely thank Alpha Phi Omega and Active Minds, as well as all the many people who made generous donations, for suppor ting the cause of suicide pre-

vention in Tompkins County,” MacLeod added

Winnie Ho ’19, president of APO, said she was moved by the community's reaction to the cause and was proud of how the organizations worked together

“It was incredible to see how Ithaca came together to suppor t the mental health of college students and incredibly touching to have a chance to talk to so many people who cared,” she said

The cupcake button campaign aimed to not only raise money but also to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health challenges faced by college

students “ We recognize how impor tant mental health is to us, as a organization dedicated to public ser vice, but also as college students who often find ourselves and our peers in stressful circumstances on this campus, ” Ho said “ Through volunteering for these issues we are also fur ther breaking stigmas of addressing mental health topics and that we are connecting students who care to the causes they are passionate about,” she added

New Diversity and Inclusion Director

Jennifer Majka to lead diversity initiatives for business college

Jennifer Majka, assistant dean of Alice C o o k Ho u s e , r e c e n t l y a n n o u n c e d h e r depar ture from the West Campus community to pursue her “passion for diversity and inclusion work in higher education” with a joint appointment as the founding director of diversity and inclusion at the Charles H D y s o n S c h o o l o f A p p l i e d Economics and Management and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

The ne w position was created to address the idea that “ p r i n c i p l e s o f s o c i a l j u s t i c e such as equity, recognition and i n c l u s i o n a r e i m p o r t a n t t o consider as they relate to campus life,” Majka said Majka said that the position i s p a r t i c u l a r l y i m p o r t a n t i n terms of understanding the causes of injust i c e a n d t h e m a r g i n a l i z a t i o n o f c e r t a i n groups of people

House, then assumed the position of assistant dean of Alice Cook House “A day in the life entailed many different moving par ts and no day was like another, which is why I have enjoyed the assistant dean position for the past eight and a half years, said Majka ” Barnaby Knoll, graduate residence manager, will be taking over as the temporar y assistant dean of Cook House for the spring

“ The ne wly formed Office of Diversity and Inclusion is an integral component to fostering student development and helping to achieve Dyson’s mission of ‘Our business is a better world,’” she said “I believe the director of diversity and inclusion position provides the unique oppor tunity to fur ther the university’s goal of creating a more inclusive campus climate ” In order to achieve the goal of diversity and inclusion, Majka said that she will d r a w u p o n h e r r e s e a r c h e x p e r i e n c e i n “ t r a n s f o r m a t i ve ” s o c i a l j u s t i c e e d u c a t i o n practices as well as her time as a Ph D candidate at Cornell in education and social justice

Majka’s believes her future work is cr ucial to not just maintaining, but bettering t h e C o r n e l l c o m m u n i t y a s a w h o l e However, she said it is a bittersweet transition because she will cer tainly miss the West Campus community

Majka ser ved the West Campus community for over eight years She began as the

director of Risley from 2011 to 2012 and the graduate residence manager of Maple wood from 2012 to 2015 before leaving Cornell to star t an academic coaching business, according to Majka

Majka said he “will ser ve the Cook community well” while Cornell searches for the next permanent Cook House assistant dean

As assistant dean, Majka fostered acade-

initiatives, as well as directed student services and house operations

While living and working at Rose and Cook House, she connected students and alumni that might not have other wise met

“Learning about the impact I may have had on students is hear twarming,” said Majka “Also, the thoughtful going-away cards and letters I’ve received from students are so touching; I will miss them dearly!”

Nonetheless, Majka is looking for ward to the next chapter of her life as the director of diversity and inclusion

Driven by students with greater understanding, sharpened leadership skills and deeper empathy, Cornell will tr uly be in the words of Majka “ a place where diversity and inclusion, student success and academic excellence are at the center of what we do ”

E.A. Voices Frustration About Communication

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Faculty, Students Baffled by Dean’s Unexpected Resignation

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s t a t e m e n t o n Tu e s d a y m a d e n o m e n t i o n o f Du t t a ’ s m o re t h a n f i ve ye a r s w i t

TCAT Plans to Expand Into Bigger Facility

Transportation, and also with the federal transportation bill that the president has been talking about ”

Students Curious About Dean Resignation

The new controversy, they said, “reflects poorly on how that organization has been brought about ”

ity is “completely maxedout [sic] ”

“TCAT ’ s goals this year are to initiate a strategic plan that will give us a road map on how to go forward for both the short-and long-term future,” Proto said

To remedy the facility deficit, Proto said that they plan to find a new site for the TCAT facility in order to house the 11 new Gillig buses TCAT will be obtaining to replace some of its older buses

“ The Federal Transit Administration has established the useful life of a bus as 12 years, ” he explained “The average age of TCAT ’ s fleet of approximately 50 buses is nine years We have some buses that have been in service in excess of 16 years ”

According to the study, it would cost over $3 million dollars to keep the current facility functioning In comparison, the report says that it would cost approximately $50 million to build a new facility that allows for the acquisition of the new buses

In terms of funding this massive project, Proto said that “besides working with our local funders, we are staying abreast of the state government and what changes they are proposing through the Department of

“We are hoping that our elected representatives at all levels are going to recognize and support our needs because, once again, there is continuous clamor for expanded and quality ser vice throughout the county, ” he said

Proto has served on the TCAT board and its previous operating committee since the 1990s, and even served as head of the board multiple times He also has experience as a Tompkins County legislator

He is replacing former chairman David Howe, assistant dean of finance and administration at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine Howe left the board at the end of last year, after over five years of dedicated service

Proto anticipates that the biggest challenge he will face is “dealing with the state and federal governments with regards to transportation needs ”

“It is a major challenge to deliver quality service to our riders while we try to address geographic changes in our community,” he said

To achieve this goal, assemblies should maintain close contact with their constituents when working on resolutions, according to Giambattista

“Being the proactive partner [with constituents] in whatever the issue really will go a long way toward institutionalizing the results,” Giambattista said “We can help, but the more you can probably put into the resolution itself is helpful ”

Other E A members called for the U A to send update emails to staff members to bridge the information gap

“[The email should include] ‘here’s what we ’ ve done, this is what impacts you, here are the resolutions and how we made progress on them,’” said Hei Hei Depew, less than 5 years of service representative at-large

bad is it?”

Others milling about Statler Hall and Statler Hotel were more cautious

Linna Li ’18 said that if Dutta had left for “ a personal reason ” or because of health issues, “then obviously we respect his privacy ” But, no matter the reason, she warned, it would likely be revealed eventually

Daniel Abaraoha ’17 said he was curious about what could lead to such a hasty exit for Dutta, who had been a dean at the University since 2012 and at the College of Business since it opened in summer 2016

“I’m definitely curious,” Abaraoha said “I’m sure that’s the echo of many people in the business school: curiosity and a little bit of suspicion ” “Students have a right to know what’s going on, ” he continued “We are talking about the dean of this school People don’t know what’s going on That’s a problem

Isaac Greenwood ’18, an economics major who said he takes classes in the College of Business, and Matthew Federici ’20 both noted the controversies surrounding the creation of the business college in December 2015 and much of 2016

“I still think that there are growing pains within the school and that it’s not easy to merge three distinct colleges,” Greenwood said

Like others, Federici was frustrated that there were no answers supplied by the University in the email sent to College of Business students and faculty

“I think we should know about this because we pay, we come here, we are pretty much employing all of these people and without us, they wouldn’t have a job,” he said “So we do have the right to know ”

Others had an out of sight, out of mind approach to the change in the College of Business’ leadership

“I didn’t even know that person existed until I got the email,” Casey Doherty ’20 said of Dutta Unless Dutta’s resignation results in undergraduates saving money on tuition, Doherty said, his departure is unlikely to have any effect on his time at Cornell

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Aziz Ansari and Hookup Culture

Cornell defines sexual assault as “ sexual intercourse or sexual contact without affirmative consent ” It defines affirmative consent as “clear permission regarding willingness to engage in the sexual activity” from an individual who is neither incapacitated nor subjected to “coercion, intimidation, force or threat of harm ” However, it doesn’t protect against being pressured, implicitly, into consenting

CAMERON POLLACK ’18 Photography Editor Women comply because they have no desire to find out what happens when they deprive men.

This month, Babe net published one woman ’ s account of a sexual experience with comedian Aziz Ansari in which she never said no, but she never said yes, either

to bolster or bash the woman ’ s reputation, while women have no recourse This, coupled with society’s disdain for disobedient women, fosters an environment where reluctant compliance is unfortunately the logical choice

The Aziz Ansari stor y does not depict a rape He did not physically force or threaten his accuser She chose to stay; and, ultimately, he accepted a verbal “ no ” To label it as rape is to diminish the ver y serious

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Editorial

FOR TWO YEARS, ALL CORNELL COULD TALK ABOUT was the College of Business

Why, then, is the administration so tight-lipped following the sudden departure of Soumitra Dutta, the college’s dean, on Tuesday?

Dutta, who had ser ved as the dean and public face of the controversial SC Johnson College of Business since its launch in 2016, resigned yesterday without explanation A University spokesman declined to comment because Cornell “does not comment on private personnel matters, ” and in an email to colleagues, Joe Lyons ’98, executive director of leadership gifts, communications and donor engagement, said that “ no further comment will be coming ”

The college Dutta led is integral to the University’s plan for the 21st centur y, and Cornell’s lack of transparency is unacceptable

Endowed by the single largest donation to Cornell’s Ithaca campus, housed in the $25-million state-of-the-art Breazzano Family Center, built to catapult the Johnson name into the ranks of Wharton, Sloan, Kellogg and Haas and yet, not a whisper about why its founding dean has made such an unceremonious exit

We encourage any administrators, faculty, staff or students with information regarding Dutta’s departure to contact The Sun Assistant news editor Girisha Arora is reachable at garora@cornellsun com and securely on the Signal app at 607-6973615; city editor Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs is reachable at nickbogel@gmail com and on WhatsApp and Signal at 315-730-8907

If the College of Business is to be successful, it must be accountable Dutta oversaw about 200 faculty members and over 3,000 students in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York They deser ve to know why he left

Moreover, Cornell owes answers to the entire faculty, student body, Cornell staff and all others who have been affected by the creation of the College of Business

The University’s insistence that it uniformly does “ not comment on private personnel matters, ” and its further plea to staff to refrain from commenting or speculating is confounding

In previous years, administrators and faculty members have spoken far more extensively on personnel matters; such was the case with the resignation of Prof Grant Farred, Africana studies and English, from the Africana Studies faculty search committee in 2011; the arrest of a former ILR administrator for the theft of over $360,000 worth of equipment; and the University’s civil suit against former head football coach Richard Kent Austin in 2017

What spurred today’s ruling of radio silence?

Furthermore, where is Dutta in all of this?

Provost Michael Kotlikoff ’ s brief statement did not include any message from the outgoing dean, and when reached for comment, Dutta’s wife, Prof Lourdes Casanova, business, told The Sun that she and her husband “ cannot say anything ” Students from the College of Business have the right to hear directly and candidly from their (now former) dean

The College of Business is still in its infancy Its creation was rife with contention, drawing criticism from faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, alumni and this paper ’ s editorial page We had hoped the University had learned from the confusion and frustration it caused two years ago, but Dutta’s departure and the University’s handling of it shows that our hope has been misplaced

If the University wants to regain the trust of its students, faculty, staff, alumni and patrons, it must immediately and comprehensively explain the circumstances of Dutta’s exit Anything less will not suffice

During that encounter, an exchange occurred that epitomizes a sexual gray area I like to call “necessity consent ” Necessity, as defined in criminal law, is a defense for a choice made in an emergency situation to prevent the greater of two evils Necessity consent is compliance in the face of such a choice

The accuser voiced to Ansari her feelings about being forced, and he initially responded respectfully

He then immediately proceeded to request an act she had a l re a d y re p e a t e d l y re f u s e d Feeling she had already pushed back as much as she could witho u t m a k i n g t h e s i t u a t i o n uncomfortable, she complied

This was not sexual assault, nor was it consensual It was a choice made out of necessity In the wake of the Ansari allegations, I found myself in dozens of discussions with my female peers about this genre of hookup Ever y time, without fail, each woman present shared similar experiences, claiming not only was this frequent, but it was expected

Countless op-eds and social media conversations on the subject in recent weeks support their claim Women, rather than risk creating an awkward or embarrassing situation, grin and bear sexual experiences that push past their boundaries Necessity consent appears to be par for the course in modern hookup culture

Author of American Hookup Lisa Wade came to campus last fall to speak about her book, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of relationships on today’s college camp u s e s T h e b o o k’s n u

y describe hookups as exchanges of social capital, in which, female students note, men determine the terms In other words, after hooking up, the man has the power

Individuals who believe genuine consent can be coaxed believe so because they feel entitled to impose their choices on others, and further, to exercise ownership over them Women comply because they have no desire to find out what happens when they deprive men of what they feel they are owed

Last year, men recognized the importance of policing other men to create a f

#MeToo Many were shocked by the reve-

lation that they had been ignorant to womens ’ reality Rape culture is like any other system of oppression; its beneficiaries are blind to its existence and to their role in preser ving it

Consequently, Aziz Ansari seems to genuinely believe his encounter was consensual Instead of shaming other wisefeminist men like Aziz for behavior they believe to be normal, we should seize the opportunity to dismantle that normalcy The conversation of sexual assault broke into popular discourse because women were brave enough to share their stories of disempowerment

Hopefully, in the next stage of the conversation, men will be brave enough to reflect on their role in taking away that power

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Ipeaked when I was 10 years old I know that sounds ridiculous And whenever I mention it out loud to someone my friends, parents, professors they roll their eyes and laugh it off To be quite honest, I don’t blame them How many times have we heard this clichéd stor y before? A straight-A student who has always been at the top of their class goes off to an Ivy League, quickly reali ze s t h a t t h i n g s a re m u c h t o u g h e r when they’re a little fish in a big pond, and ends up developing an inferiority c o m p l e x a n d w a i l i n g “ I PE A K E D WHEN I WAS 10!”

A classic tale Boohoo

But that’s not what I mean when I say that I peaked at 10 years old I don’t think my life is all downhill from here, and I don’t doubt that I’ll have achievements in the future that I’m proud of This is a different kind of “peak” that I’m referring to

When I was 10 years old, I used to adore writing I star ted keeping journals when I was as young as 7, and I w o u l d w r i t e s h o r t s t o r i e s , p o e m s , prose the whole shebang I would tell anyone who would listen that one day I’d become a journalist, or at least an author I couldn’t wait to go to coll e g e , w h e r e I w o u l d u n d o u b t e d l y major in creative writing, or comparative literature or maybe, if I played my cards right, I could do both! For my entire childhood, that was what I genuinely believed So how did I end up here: a premed student majoring in psychology with nothing but a measly minor in English?

I don’t believe that this is an isolat-

Ei g h t d a y s b e f o re I l e f t f o r m y f re s h m a n ye a r a t C o r n e l l , m y b e s t f r i e n d d i e d by s u i c i d e T h i s l o s s c h a n g e d m e i n w a y s t h a t I c a n ’ t e x p l a i n i n w a y s t h a t m a k e m y s t o m a c h s i c k a s I t y p e t h i s I a r r i ve d a t C o r n e l l w i t h a h e a v y s a d n e s s a n d s w o l l e n e ye s T h e n e t s u n d e r t h e b r i d g e s we re a c o n s t a n t c o n ve r s a t i o n p o i n t T h e i d e a o f n e e d i n g t o p r e v e n t s t ud e n t s f r o m t h row i n g t h e ms e l v e s o f f t h e e d g e s e e m e d f u n n y t o s o m e p e o p l e I d o n ’ t w a n t t o e v e r r e m e m b e r t h e w a y t h a t m a d e m e f e e l I w a s m o r e g r i e f t h a n p e rs o n m y f re s h m a n ye a r A n d , s o , b e c a u s e m y p a re n t s i n s i s t e d , I c a l l e d C o u n s e l i n g a n d Ps yc h o l o g i c a l Se r v i c e s , a n d I h a d a p h o n

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t a k e s o m u c h e f f o r t a n d d i s c o m f o r t ? Ma y b e a n e x t e r n a l re v i e w w o u l d w a n t t o a s k t h o s e q u e s t i o n s , t o o So , Pre s i d e n t Po l l a c k , w h y d o n ’ t yo u w a n t t h e a n s we r s ?

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ed incident, or that I am alone in this experience I have friends that I’ve known since elementar y and middle school who, when we were kids, used to love dance, or were phenomenal ar tists, or spent all their time playing music But now, when I ask them why they don’t do those things anymore, their answers are always “I don’t know, I just stopped ”

They just stopped

But, why? You don’t “just stop ” doing something you love doing, and you especially don’t “just stop ” doing something you ’ re good at doing

For the longest time, I blamed myself for not keepi n g u p w i t h w r i t i n g I regretted how my writing dwindled down to just a fe w

Sarah Lieberman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at slieberman@cornellsun com Blueberries for Sal appears alternate Thursdays this semester

t h a t i s n ow s h i n y a n d n e w b u t s t i l l d o e s n ’ t t a k e s u i c i d e s e r i o u s l y e n o u g h a n d I s a t d ow n w i t h a c o u n s e l o r w h o j u s t k e p t re p e a t i n g , “ t h a t m u s t b e h a rd f o r yo u ” He w a s r i g h t , i t w a s h a rd f o r m e At o n e p o i n t d u r i n g t h a t f i r s t s e m e s t e r, I a s k e d t h e f ro n t d e s k i f I c o u l d s e e s o m e o n e d i f f e re n t T h e y s u gg e s t e d t h a t I w o rk t h a t o u t w i t h m y c u r re n t p rov i d e r, w h i c h w a s t e r r i f y i n g a n d f e l t c o n f ro n t a t i o n a l I d e c l i n e d a n d c o n t i n u e d t o f e e l u n s u p p o r t e d a n d u n w a n t e d by t h e t h e r a p i s t C A P S h a d a s s i g n e d m e Qu i c k l y, t h e a p p o i n t m e n t s we n t f ro m e ve r y we e k t o e ve r y t w o we e k s Eve n t u a l l y, I g o t t h e q u e s t i o n , “ So , s h o u l d we k e e p s e e i n g e a c h o t h e r ? ” It f e l t l i k e g e t t i n g d u m p e d My g r i e f h a d n ’ t g o n e a w a y, b u t e ve n m y c o u ns e l o r d i d n ’ t w a n t t o h e a r a b o u t i t a n y m o re We d e c i d e d we w o u l d c h e c k b a c k i n n e x t s e m e s t e r, b u t I n e ve r h e a rd f ro m h i m a g a i n My e x p e r i e n c e w a s n ’ t s o l e l y n e g a t i ve I p a r t i c i p a t e d i n a C o r n e l l b e re a ve m e n t g ro u p t h ro u g h C A P S , w h i c h h e l p e d , b u t I o n l y f o u n d i t a f t e r s i g n i f i c a n t d i g g i n g Mo s t s t u d e n t s d o n ’ t k n ow s u c h t h i n g s e x i s t I ’ ve h e a rd s t o r i e s s i m i l a r t o m i n e Ph o n e c o n s u l t at i o n s t h a t n e ve r t u r n e d i n t o a p p o i n t m e n t s C a n c e l l e d a p p o i n t m e n t s t h a t n e ve r g o t re s c h e d u l e d T h e f e e l i n g t h a t C A P S i s j u s t t r y i n g t o c l e a r yo u o f “ r i s k” s o t h a t s o m e o n e e l s e c a n t a k e yo u r p l a c e , a n d t h e y c a n h a ve p l a u s i b l e d e n i a b i l i t y i f s o m e t h i n g re a l l y b a d h a p p e n s t o yo u W h e n o u r m e n t a l h e a l t h i s t re a t e d l i k e a b a c kro o m d e a l , i t ’ s h a rd n o t t o f e e l a s h a m e d f o r n e e d i n g h e l p i n t h e f i r s t p l a c e On e c o u l d c l a i m t h a t I d i d n ’ t t r y h a rd e n o u g h t h a t I s h o u l d h a ve f o rc e f u l l y a d vo c a t e

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just had to find something you liked doing, get a job in it and go about your life Simple!

Only, it wasn ’ t

Now, it’s not unheard of that many s t u d e n t s a r e r e l e n t l e s s l y p u s h e d towards STEM fields, both by society and by our parents (I fall into that categor y, as I’m sure many do ) But, I

place, I think that some where along the line we lost the passion we once had

When you are told that your childhood hobbies cannot become your lifetime job, you star t to see them as a waste of time They become a guilty pleasure that you might get to indulge in ever y once in a while, but only if

Y o u d o n ’ t “ j u s t s t o p ” d o i n g s o m e t h i n g

y o u l o v e d o i n g , a n d y o u e s p e c i a l l y d o n ’ t “ j u s t s t o p ” d o i n g s o m e t h i n g y o u ’ r e g o o d a t d o i n g .

I entered high school I went into a fit of rage when my mom reminded me that my four th grade teacher had once said I had a lot of potential as an author Mostly, though, I hated myself for not continuing the one thing that I was really passionate about

However, when I began talking to my friends and found out that they t o o h a d a l o n g - a b a n d o n e d p a s s i o n that they wished they had continued, I realized that maybe this wasn ’ t completely my fault

You see, when I was 10 years old, I didn’t know that there was a such thing as a “pointless career ” I had no concept of a “useless degree” or a job that “ wasn ’ t real ” I thought that you

think what we don’t realize is how much we sacrifice along the way

As you grow up, you gain responsibilities You have less free time and more stress You’re told to focus on your future What do you want to do with your life? What field do you want to go into? You need to star t planning! You need to have a goal! Figure it out! You’re introduced to the idea of having a substantial career Then, you are told what does and what does not qualify as a substantial career You are conditioned to get on a one-track path to success No ifs, ands or buts

And while you can argue that this m i n d s e t m a y h a v e b e e n w h a t g o t many of us to Cornell in the first

you have ever ything else figured out Any time you pick up your guitar to str um or your pencil to draw, you star t to think about the more productive things you could be doing instead And that takes the fun out of it It’s no wonder so many of us end up abandoning our passions

So, when I say I peaked at 10 years old, I don’t mean that I was at my smar test, or my most successful, or my most determined But I do believe that I was at my most passionate

Faiza Ahmad is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at fahmad@cornellsun com The Fifth Column runs online alternate Wednesdays this semester

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Kendrick Lamar’s Satire

The 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday evening and it opened with an appearance by Kendrick Lamar He performed a medley of songs like “DNA ” and “XXX ” from Damn and “King’s Dead” from the Black Panther soundtrack To a c c u r a t e l y d e s c r i b e h i s p e r f o rmance in words would ultimately be futile, though I will briefly attempt to do it anyway I encourage you check it out Seriously “ Vicious” is the first word that c o m e s t o m i n d f o l l ow i n g Kendrick’s act In one of Spike Lee’s production journals for Do the Right Thing, the director uses t h e s a m e w o rd t o d e s c r i b e a Public Enemy track that was newly released in 1988, “Bring the Noise ” Like that of Public Enemy, Kendrick’s music and particularly his work from Damn is relentless in its honesty as it brings the more frank aspects of urban, African-American identity to the forefront of our attention

Obviously, he does this primarily through his lyrics, such as those in “XXX , ” and through the samples in his productions, like the soundbite of Geraldo Rivera’s aggressive misunderstanding of Lamar’s thoughts on police in “BLOOD ” and “DNA ” Yet, in Lamar’s Grammy appearance, it was the choreography of his fellow performers that perhaps most viciously drove home the weight of the rapper ’ s verses

At the beginning of his performance, a number of dancers dressed in militar y gear marched in a square formation as an American flag one so large as to possibly be considered gaudy flies on a screen in the back-

Igot to review The Last Jedi when it came out, along with some other Arts & Entertainment writers To sum it up, we all pretty much said the same thing: it was a film of highs and lows The overarching theme of balance the movie sought to explore shone through in its quality: good balanced against bad But this isn’t a movie review

This is a “rewrite” of sorts, in which I will attempt to suggest a few small tweaks that had the potential to improve a movie

I’m a Star Wars guy I’ve always been a Star Wars guy, but I’m not nearly nostalgia-blind enough to say I hated the new movie I’d be out of my mind to sit here and tell you The Last Jedi wasn ’ t stunningly beautiful or the acting wasn ’ t good That’s what we ’ ve largely come to expect of projects with budgets in the hundreds of millions, especially those from the House of Mouse However, my acknowledgement of the film’s general decency certainly doesn’t mean I loved it

The Last Jedi, in an almost Dunkirk-esque fashion, follows three distinct but eventually converging stor ylines Aboard the Resistance flag ship, we see that our heroes aren ’ t just desperate, but fractured, as they run for dear life from the baddies’ overwhelming might On a remote world, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) delve into the untold, hard truths behind the Jedi mythos, shedding new light on the celebrated order Finally, on a voyage to an opulent casino city, Finn ( John Boyega) and Rose (Kelly

ground Lamar launched into “XXX , ” and at the end of his first verse, a gunshot sounded, then the stage became dark On the screen behind him appeared the words “ This is a satire by Kendrick Lamar ” Bono and The Edge come onstage to play their feature, and Lamar and the soldiers suddenly broke into a portion of “DNA ” remixed to sound rawer and more percussive The soldiers danced in a raucous way to match the remixed music At the end of this segment, Lamar simulated being shot in the head by one of the soldiers At this point, to add to the surreal nature of what happenned, Dave Chappelle interrupted the performance to remind the audience “that the only thing more frightening than watching a black man be honest in America, is being an honest black man in America ” Lamar then went into “King’s Dead” from the Black Panther soundtrack, and after another sequence and interruption by Chappelle, the performance ended as each of the dancers was gunned down to the sequence of Lamar’s cadence in the epic finality of his verse

The performance and its choreography was indeed vicious, but I also can ’ t help but to feel quietly horrified after I watch it Its poignancy lies in all of the military gear, simulated gunshots and erratic dance-stomping as all of these factors synthesize to show that the black body itself is (and has always been) the actual setting of race relations in the United States Though all of the violence occurs in streets, storefronts, patrol cars and centers of detainment, it is ultimately the family that becomes war-torn, as sons

and daughters and fathers and mothers are literally gunned down Kendrick’s performance was vicious and perhaps even inspirational in its honesty, but the truth which it conveys is an abomination: a tragic story of failed race relations and subsequent violence and death

What is the “satire” that Lamar references? One might assert that the satire comes about from the mock patriotism inspired by the American flag that waived just prior to the message Of course, to say that figures like Lamar or Chappelle are proud of the state of the union is indeed laughable

However, I don’t think that Lamar is letting the audience off the hook so easily, and to be honest, I don’t think that he’s tr ying to side with us on this matter There is something a little awkward and uncomfortable in watching the performance take place at a mainstream awards ceremony broadcasted by a major network, and I believe that this is the satire which Lamar seeks to highlight

His performance deals with tragedy, and yet we all gawk and cheer at the end anyway, like in some future dystopian universe Chappelle’s comments make sense: watching Lamar is indeed terrifying, and being Lamar is even more terrifying, so why do we cheer? What do we really do about any of it?

While it may appear trite or oversimplifying to interpret his satire as an attack on white liberalism, I don’t think it is grossly harmful or erroneous Lamar has dedicated his life to moving people spiritually through his music, so to take his message as a call for greater responsibility is certainly not unproductive

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun com His column Swan’s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester

The Last Jedi Reimagined

Marie Tran) discover that the war isn’t as black and white as they thought On paper, those stories all sound promising, but if you ve seen The Last Jedi I’ll bet that last one was your least favorite

Just about everyone I’ve talked to seems to think the Finn and Rose segments fell flat, which is a real shame because I do believe Boyega

and Tran have the acting chops to make divergent storylines interesting However, the clumsy manner in which the film’s writers tried to shoehorn in the handful of themes the arc explores made the whole thing miss the mark

On subsequent viewings of the film, I’d let out a little sigh whenever the film cut away from the more engrossing other two portions to show more of Finn and Rose Their egress from the Resistance’s fleet could have served to further the notion that the group lacked cohesion, but devoting serious time to their off-site journey was a serious misstep Without Finn and Rose’s little misadventure, the film

could revolve more tightly around two intertwining and compelling storylines

The whole point of Finn and Rose s storyline was that they needed to travel to the casino to track down a “codebreaker” capable of cracking the First Order’s shield, which could’ve been avoided entirely if the writers had made Rose the tech wiz instead Obviously, stomaching any Star Wars movie requires a hefty suspension of disbelief, so why would it be any more unbelievable if Rose, a technician on a borderline magical spacecraft, had some knowledge of how the bad guy ’ s magical spacecraft worked? Maybe “they both run on basically the same tech” or she was trained on the kind of ship they were attacking There are endless little one-liners that would’ve perfectly

sufficed to convince the audience she could do it

Not only would dropping the whole outward venture remove an unnecessary storyline and free up some time to further explore the more well-developed arcs, it would also give a little more agency to Tran’s underwritten character As it stands now, Rose’s potential is almost entirely wasted Sure, she’s got a spunky little scene near the start of the film, but following that she merely serves to accent Finn and cram in an awkward animal abuse message

Right now, The Last Jedi is sitting at a 48 percent from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, which is just absurd For reference, The Boss Baby has a slick 52 percent This movie is better than that as is, but removing the Finn and Rose stuff that everyone just seemed to hate so much could’ve turned it into one of the franchise’s best entries Apart from the portion I’d “ cut, ” the story is actually pretty well written and, like I said earlier, the visuals and acting are solid

The Last Jedi is a truly good even great film derailed by a single errant train of thought Rian Johnson breathed exciting new life into the franchise with his writing and directing, but just one misstep kept him from apotheosis in the Star Wars fandom I hope that for Episode IX, J J Abrams has got someone with fresh eyes in the writing room

Nick Smith is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at nsmith@cornellsun com Gu e s t Ro o m r uns periodically this semester

Dean’s Departure

Schenectady in 1990

business students on the Ithaca campus, Thomas, as dean of all undergraduate and graduate business programs, will also manage the Cornell Tech MBA program at Cornell’s campus on Roosevelt Island, which had 53 students in its 2017 class

Dutta has been widely published over several decades his CV is 30 pages long and he has held many jobs in at least four countries over more than three decades while remaining on dozens of boards

From 1989 to 2012, he served as an administrator and professor in various roles at INSEAD in France, a leading international business school that also has campuses in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore He also worked briefly as a visiting researcher at the General Electric company in

Dutta also says on his CV, which was most recently updated this month, that he has been invited to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for more than 10 years He co-edits a frequentlycited innovation report each year and ser ves on the boards of Sodexo, Dassault Systemes and Tower Learning Solutions, which is a subsidiary of Cornell

Dutta has received $1 65 million in research grants and gifts since 2012, according to the CV, and is currently chair of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, which says on its website that it is the world’s largest business education alliance

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Freshmen Lead

Red to Second Place Finish at Temple Quad

Shen earns individual title in bars, Herczeg wins on beam

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

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Setting the bar | As the Red finished in second at the

“[Shen and Herczeg] were huge standouts [but] everyone else that competed did a great job.”

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Red Takes on Dartmouth and Harvard After First League Win

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“Defensively, [Harvard is] one of the best in the country. It’ll be a fight for 40 minutes ”

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itself on its ability to keep its opponents from finding the back of the net But even so, this year ’ s unit is not your typical Cornell defense

“I think we are an even better defensive team this year because the positions all can skate,” Schafer said “ We can pressure teams more in all three zones, all night long, for 60 minutes When you ’ ve got a team that can really skate, which this team can, it allows us to be a lot more consistent ”

The type of consistency that Schafer describes has been present all season long, and the Red will look to maintain its winnings ways on Friday against a third-place

Un i o n ( 1 5 - 1 2 - 1 , 1 0 - 4 ) t e a m T h e Dutchmen will come into Lynah riding a four-game winning streak following a 4-3 victor y over RPI (4-19-4, 3-10-2) last weekend

The following night, Cornell will host the second-to-last-place Engineers, but is by no means overlooking the struggling group from the Capital Region

“RPI is a pretty good hockey team, ” Schafer noted “[In] the game they had

against Union I thought RPI played great I think it goes back to our players trust in the coaching staff When we tell them we think a team is pretty good, we are not just saying it for the sake of trying to get them fired up about it ”

Regardless of how long Cornell keeps its place atop the national rankings, the players know that there is only one time that

“Every team wants to be No. 1 in the country But our goal is to be number one at the end of the year.” S

being on top means that the work is over

“Every team wants to be No 1 in the country, ” Yates said “But our goal is to be number one at the end of the year ”

The ambitious Yates and his squad welcome Union to Lynah Rink for a 7 p m faceoff Friday night, followed by another 7 p m start on Saturday against RPI

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun com Tim Morales can be reached at tmorales@cornellsun com

No. 1 Icers Look to Extend Unbeaten Streak

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The work is far from over for the men ’ s hockey team newly crowned best in the nation

The team may be ranked No 1, but Cornell still has eight conference games to play –– plenty of hockey before the postseason If the Red fails to take care of ECAC opponents Union and Rensselaer at home this weekend, its time at the top will have been short-lived

“We just have to focus on continuing to play hockey,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 “And as arduous as the climb to get to No 1 [is], the descent will be really quick if you don’t continue to win That’s the way the polls work ”

On Monday, Cornell (18-2-1, 12-1-1 ECAC) was ranked No 1 in the USCHO com poll for the first time in nearly 15 years The Red was also selected as the nation’s top squad in the USA USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll for the first time since 2005

The ranking comes with good reason This team has not lost a game since Dec 1 and holds a 10-game unbeaten streak, the best in the nation

The Red refuses to slow down now Even at the top of the polls, Schafer and his players know there is plenty of room for improvement

“There are a few areas in our game [where] we have so much growth left, that we have to get better at, that we want to get better at, ” Schafer said “But [we] also can ’ t forget our building blocks that’s what got us to this point ”

Senior alternate captain Trevor Yates and his teammates share a sentiment similar to Schafer’s

“We know we are number one, but we are not resting on our laurels,” Yates added “We don’t really care about [the ranking], we just care about Union Friday night and getting better in practice this week, and focusing on ourselves rather than focusing on our national ranking ”

Junior forward Anthony Angello and Yates lead the Red in points with 20 and 19, respectively While their individual successes have put them in the spotlight, it is their focus on the group ’ s success that has brought about the results

“Within our team, the guys are not hanging their hat on whether they are scoring goals,” Schafer said “They are

hanging their hat on how they perform and how they can get better the next day, and [Yates and Angello] are prime examples of not worrying whether they score or not ”

Angello, who earned his first ECAC Hockey Player of the Week honor Tuesday, has been on fire, posting seven goals in the last five games and leading the nation with nine goals in January But for the team ’ s points leader, continued success as a unit is all that matters right now

“I think I have been lucky in the recent past to have things go my way, ” Angello said “But it really wouldn’t make a difference if another guy scores As long as we get two points at the end of the night, that’s what I care about ”

While Angello has been in a groove lately and Yates

By BENNETT GROSS and TIM MORALES Sun Staff Writers

started the season hot, one constant on this team has been its defense the nation’s best

Cornell has kept its opponents starving, averaging 1 43 goals allowed per game

“Our biggest thing is our depth and how committed we are to the smallest details,” said junior defenseman Matt Nuttle “Even though maybe the result turns out the way we wanted to, we don’t always have the details perfectly correct As a [defensive] core, we keep each other accountable; we just work really well together ”

Having held teams to 2 31 goals per game last season ninth-best in the nation the program has long prided

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