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Assaults in Collegetown

Over the Past Weekend

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

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“We will stand firm in our resolve to reject and express our disgust at such actions.”

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‘Who

Gets to Defne Hate Speech?’

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Wr ter

Conservative speaker an Stuckey, who describes her Millennial,” spoke again speech at an event organize of Enlightened Women Mo Stuckey is a news host mentates for Fox News an on CRTV Before the event she planned to speak on “ speech and why the Left hates us so much ” During the event, Stuckey touched on a range of topics, including the University’s recent responses to hate incidents, which includes a proposal to limit hate speech A campus-wide debate over the potential speech code will take place on April 10, as previously

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reported by The Sun

According to Stuckey, the idea of implementing this type of code is “ crazy ”

“[There are] people saying that hate speech is not free speech,” Stuckey said “Yes, it is And there’s no such thing as hate speech ” Stuckey continued, asking, “Who gets to define hate speech? Does President Trump get to define [it], or Barack Obama?”

According to Stuckey, “what is at stake is freedom of thought ” She admonished the “liberal left” for acting, through tech companies, universities and media, as “thought police,” alluding to George Orwell’s 1984

The reason that American politics is so divided

today, according to Stuckey, is not just because of disagreement over individual social issues, but because the nation disagrees fundamentally over “what America is and what America should be ”

Stuckey explained her idea of what a “liberal” America would look like, describing a place where “morality is irrelevant borders are open gender is fluid a place without guns, without individual liberties, without privacy ”

“It takes so much more moral fortitude to be a conservative millennial than a liberal millennial,” Stuckey said “[Students should] continue to speak up continue to read thoroughly and

See FREE SPEECH page 4

By BREANNE FLEER Sun News Ed tor

“We’ve done a lot of homework,” announced Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan at a GPSA meeting on Monday, referring to the Consensual Relationship Policy Committee’s development of a new policy proposal to better regulate issues surrounding romantic or sexual relationships across power differences A synopsis of “Policy 6 x ” explains that the proposal would prohibit “all romantic or sexual relationships between faculty and undergraduates” as well as those in which one partner has the ability to influence the “academic progress or professional advancement ” of the other Van Loan, co-chair of the committee, said that the policy is now entering a public comment

period After that, the assemblies, including the Faculty Senate, will vote on the policy in April and present it with comments to President Martha E Pollack by May 1

Calling the policy a “harassment prevention” strategy, Van Loan emphasized the need for continued feedback and “ a really healthy, open discussion across campus ” on the proposed policy

“People shouldn’t be afraid there are well-reasoned, defendable opposition points, and we want to make sure that people aren ’ t shy about speaking up against some of the things that we may propose, ” he said

The proposal comes after 11 committee meetings last semester, where members reviewed the policies of over 50 peer institutions and sought feedback from

See GPSA page 4

Daybook

Future of Work, Peace and Justice: Is It Two Minutes to Midnight? 4:30 p m , 105 Ives Hall

Cornell Student Topical Sermon Contest: “How Can We Find a Modern Sexual Ethics? How Shall We Treat Each Other?

Can Employment Be Affliction Free?” 4:30 - 6:30 p m , 114 Anabel Taylor Hall

Multispecies Justice: Against Extinction and Extraction 4:30 - 6:30 p m , KG70 Klarman Hall

REM Film Screening and Director Q&A 5 p m , Milstein Hall Auditorium

Burial, Landscape, and Memory in Early Iron Age Crete 6 p m , Goldwin Smith Hall

To m o r r o w

When Women Unite: Self-Help Groups in India and Development Versus The Gender Question 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Anderson Localization in Theory Space 2 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation 3:30 - 4:30 p m , Uris Classroom, Uris Library

The International Food Fight Around Genetically Modified Crops and Animals 4:15 - 5:15 p m , G65 Myron Taylor Hall

American Archeology As Social Action 4:30 p m , G22 Goldwin Smith Hall

The Social Construction of Disasters 4:30 p m , B11 Kimball Hall

Home Truth: A Film Screening and Discussion on Domestic Violence and Human Rights 5 p m , 186 Myron Taylor Hall

Spanish Debate Team Presents: How Should the Venezualan Crisis Be Solved? 5:30 p m , 115 Ives Hall

‘Bad Singers’ Sing for Charity

‘Average’ a capella group to perform

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer

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Luncheon Celebrates Women

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“Hopefully ... more organizations will begin to incorporate these discussions of global feminism ”

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‘Time Does Not Heal All Wounds’ Says Guest Lecturer

Christina Crosby condemned the idea of the ‘redemptive narrative’ after loss

By MIGUEL SOTO and HELEN IANG Sun Staff Writer and Sun Contributor

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“I was not destined to break my neck. Necessity is not the consort of history.”

Police Still Searching For Assault Suspects

ASSAULTS

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herself out of her house on Linden Avenue and was trying to get in through a ground floor window when a man grabbed her at about 10:15 p m , threw her to the ground and groped her beneath her clothing The unidentified student fought off her attacker and called for help

The student described the suspect as a white man with an average build and short, light brown hair Cornell Police said the suspect was college-aged and Ithaca Police said he was between 20 and 30 He is approximately 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and was wearing jeans with a belt and a black heavy jacket, the victim reported

On Saturday at about 1:30 a m , students reported to police that a white man began harassing a student using unspecified racial slurs beside a food truck on the corner of Eddy Street and Dryden Road

The white man assaulted the student, police said, at which point two additional students intervened to try and fend off the suspect All three students were injured in the altercation, and two were treated at Cayuga Medical Center and later released

Police described the suspect as a college-aged white man,

about 5 feet 9 inches tall with blond-brown hair and wearing a windbreaker with a full-length zipper and a Ne w England Patriots logo The man fled the scene with two other men headed south on Eddy Street toward East Buffalo Street

The Ithaca Police Department can be contacted by calling 607-272-3245 for police dispatch, 607-272-9973 for police administration or by using the online tip form, through which tips may be submitted anonymously

The Cornell Police Department’s investigations unit can be contacted by email at cup-inv@cornell edu, by phone at 607-255-1111, or anonymously through the Cornell Police Silent Witness Program online

Cornell said students can consult with counselors from Cornell Health by calling 607255-5155 and can speak with a peer counselor by calling EARS at 607-255-3277 Employees can call the Faculty Staff Assistance Program at 607-2552673

The Ithaca-based Crisisline is available at 607-272-1616

Additional resources are available at caringcommunity cornell edu

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

Allie Stuckey says that ‘there’s no such thing as hate speech’

“Our goal was to bring someone who represents ideas that aren't always heard on campus.”

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Women’s Day Lunch Honors 14 Women

The event recognized the efforts of women from both the student and faculty bodies

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“The collective support of the people I know is what has led me to to do any meaningful work.”

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It f e e l s e m p owe r i n g t o b e re c o g n i ze d f o r t h e w o rk t h a t I d o a n d i t w a s re a l l y i n s p i r i n g t o s e e t h e o t h e r w o rk t h a t ’ s b e i n g d o n e o n c a m p u s , ” s h e s a i d “ It w a s n i c e t o s e e p e o p l e w h o a re i n v o l v e d i n [ o t h e r o r g a n i z at i o n s ] d o i n g re a l l y g o o d w o rk a s we l l ”

Andrea Valdes can be reached at avv5@cornell edu

Disabled Professor Condemns Idea of ‘Redemptive Narrative’

There is not always a ‘happy ending’ after a traumatic event, according to Crosby

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n s f o rmative future,” she said

Miguel Soto can be reached at msoto@cornellsun com Helen Liang can be reached at hl973@cornell edu

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They call it salami slicing Imagine one day inspiration strikes and you set out to prove that sushi can improve academic performance You assemble the lucky volunteers and month after month make sure the rolls are delivered to their doorsteps Come winter, all giddy with anticipation, you inquire about the performance of your subjects during the finals Alas, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between rolls consumed and grades earned Sweating, you begin to realize the months of your time and the grant money have been wasted, as no journal cares about a negative result

The story isn’t that Brian Wansink is a horribly unethi and ruthless scientist, it’s th social sciences are in trouble.

describing in detail how, after a failed experiment, he encouraged his graduate student to keep scavenging the collected data for a result: to commit the sin of salami slicing This post raised outrage in some of the readers, so much so that an investigation into Wansink’s body of work began

Only wait! Maybe there’s hope You suddenly notice that if you restrict your data to just freshmen, the correlation emerges, moreover, if you narrow it down to caucasian freshmen from states that start with a consonant, the cognitive enhancing power of sushi becomes undeniable! Thank goodness, you think, and sit down to start working on what in a year or two is going to be a peer-reviewed journal article that contains a blatant falsehood

Salami slicing and a few other statistical shenanigans are called p-hacking, and p-hacking is the prime suspect in the replication crisis: the recent discovery that many prominent experiments in social sciences do not hold up when replication is attempted Studies that have resulted in Nobel Prizes are called into question The careers of celebrity scientists lay in ruins Some professors are unsure whether half of their psychology curriculum is even worth teaching

It is in the backdrop of this maelstrom of doubt that the story of Prof Brian Wansink, the John S Dyson Professor of Marketing, takes place In 2016, he published a blog post

Iwas a bully in elementar y school I can be very judgemental and cutting In high school, I won the “Class Gossip” superlative If I die young, anyone who says I was “really nice” will be lying So the rest of this column might come as a shock to some Nay, many

Although I was raised to be and have always identified as a feminist, that label never really had any significant bearing on my personality or actions Feminism can take many forms but, over the past year, I have grown into my personal brand of feminism that has not only made me a happier person but also a better woman In light of Women’s History Month, I encourage you (boys and girls alike) to try it It is very simple I love all women I love all women Or at least I try to It is hard because normally I hate everyone Since I started writing this column in August, I have been more routinely forced to think about how the male dominated culture in America affects not just me, but all women I appreciate the fact that every story is unique but reminding myself of the common struggle that we as women share has proven to be a powerful force in the continued development of my character The phrase “ common struggle” can be a little misleading I know that I, as a wealthy, cisgender, educated, straight, white woman do not face even a

At first glance, this is good news: when the evidence emerged that Wansink's work might not be statistically sound, the scientific community took it upon itself to investigate the offender Yet, after observing this story unravel in the course of the last year, I no longer believe this to be the underlying narrative What started as a ponse to the problem of p-hackme a distraction from it, as the inst Brian Wansink grew to a cannot be explained by a ratiot to better the system f all, you have to understand the scrutiny we are talking about ere People went as far as 15 years back scrupulously scanning hundreds of Wansink's papers and writing up repor ts listing all found inconsistencies They wrote letters to journals announcing their findings, and to Cornell urging the administration to launch an investigation With time, instead of dying down, this movement only strengthened, going as far as publishing and analyzing Wansink's emails Just a few days ago, the authors of a cookbook announced themselves a victim of Wansink's work

This is in contrast to all of Wansink's colleagues whose work remained untouched by any scrutiny during this period A great illustration here is the case of Prof Daryl Bem, psychology, who has published research on psychic powers of premonition (I kid you not) and yet wasn ' t subjected to even remotely similar level of critique

What is problematic here is not the unfair treatment of Brian Wansink It's that because of this concentration on a single researcher the overall narrative gets warped The story isn't that Brian Wansink is a horribly unethical and ruthless scientist, it's that social sciences are in trouble P-hacking is virtually undetectable, which makes it hard to provide hard

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fraction of the hardships that my sisters in other walks of life do I also know that just “loving all women ” is not a tangible solution to the violence and abuse and discrimination that so many women face, but in my daily life, it has become a small way that I have been able to feel connected with the women I know and new ones I meet Loving and in turn, supporting ALL women has become a mantra and lifestyle Even girls who have wronged me in the past, annoying girls from class and ex-friends, even Republican women, share so many uniquely female characteristics and experiences Reminding myself of that has helped me let go of years of gr udges and approach my world with a new understanding and drive to be better

To my freshman year friends with whom I haven't talked in years, I love you To the girl who beat me in that election I really wanted to win, I support you To all the girls I’ve talked about behind their backs, I want to be there for you To all the girls I developed an unfounded hatred for because of my own jealousy, I am proud of you I, too, know the the feeling of being talked down to because I am a woman I too know the uncomfor table touch of an unwelcome hand on the small of your back I know the pain of period cramps and the pain of a love unrequited I too have been slut shamed and talked about I too have been harassed and assaulted I too have felt like I wasn ’ t good enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or

evidence, and yet there are enough signs that I am confident the practice is widespread and destructive

What are these signs? First of all, remember that we now have empirical evidence showing suspiciously high unreliability of results in both psychology and food science Second, Brian Wansink is a prominent figure in his field with about 25,000 citations spanning 250-plus published works This means that the practices he adopted, good or bad, are highly rewarded by the publication system and academia Third, it is surprising how direct and careless Wansink is when he originally confesses to salami slicing his data in the original blog post Even when faced with critique in the comment section, he couldn’t quite grasp why salami slicing is an issue I find it hard to believe that he could sustain such a level of naive ignorance if he were working in a community of responsible and rigorous scientists

Another fear I have is that the signal this purge sends out may be detrimental to an already-flawed system One of the things that separated Wansink from many of his colleagues was having a blog in which he openly discussed his research process, and his subsequent willingness to cooperate with the inquiry and learn from it Thus the message from this public bashing, especially as it becomes progressively more severe, might not be that bad science gets punished but rather that being open about your research does And, when you couple that signal with the one you recieve from academia publish or perish your choice is going to be to salami slice your data and keep your mouth shut

A couple of weeks ago The Sun published an editorial urging Cornell administration to launch an investigation into Wansink For the reasons I tried to explain above, I believe this step would be counterproductive Such an investigation would only further concentrate the public attention on the Wansink scandal instead of the systemic issues that have caused it, and it would potentially further scare researches away from engaging in open discussions of their work

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

smart enough I ask for your patience while I go on this journey of feminine discovery and I ask your forgiveness for the ways I have acted in the past My entire life I have felt as though other girls were my competition, not my teammates Loving women has caused me to think about and make everyday choices that support and benefit women, like supporting femaleowned businesses or donating business attire to help local lowincome women prepare for job inter views Loving women is about treating ever yone better and judging everyone less Saying, “hey I love your jacket,” or even just not saying “ wow I hate that girl’s jacket” to someone else It may seem as though I’ve had rose-colored glasses forcefully taped to my head, but I know

there are some women that are bad (Tomi Lahren) and some women that seem to hate other women (Ann Coulter) However, this new attitude is more of an everyday effort than a hard and fast rule

The concept of women hating other women is nothing new Women have been pitted against each other and conditioned by society to feel competitive with other women Growing up in this society, it is impossible to survive without a smattering of internalized misogyny which can manifest in women being more critical of other women and feeling competitive

Being a feminist is more than believing in equality and voting for women; it is about striving every day to lift other women up and understanding that, although it affects us to different degrees, we are all forced to operate in a sexist and racist society So I hope after you read this, you can go say something nice to some girl in your class Or do the dishes for your roommate Or even just smile at that girl who ignored you at a party that one time Men tear women down enough and it is time we lift each other back up

SCIENCE

Online Courses Turn Profs From ‘Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side’

By ELEANOR BENT Sun Contributor

“Any person, any study”: it is the phrase heard resounding across the Arts Quad as a backwards-walking tour guide shouts to a shuffling clump of wide-eyed high school students about Cornell’s histor y of inclusiveness For Cornellians, the phrase is cliched, but beloved seen running across the front of ever y brochure, ever y banner and ever y statue across campus Ezra Cornell was progressive for his time and aimed to promote his institution’s role as a nondiscriminator y place of learning that is open to any student, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender

Unbeknownst to Ezra Cornell, the age of the computer would take this i n c l u s i v e n e s s t o a n o t h e r l e v e l

Geographical location is no longer a barrier to a Cornell education With the onset of online learning at the start of the millenium, it soon became possible for anyone with access to a computer and the internet to participate in h i g h e r e d u c ation, whether by getting a degree

f ro m a n o n l i n e u n i v e r s i t y, o r simply watching f i l m e d l e c t u r e s o r o t h e r i n f o rmational videos

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That being said, many professors who had helped make the MOOCS think the age of the MOOC is not necessarily over While the online courses might not be able to outright replace formal education and are perhaps not the philan-

es as pre-lecture content This learning style is often referred to as “just-in-time learning” which has students learn and apply concepts on their own the night before they are taught about the topic in class This technique is thought to help students grasp topics before they attend lecture the next day, therefore reducing the amount of brand-ne w material that they have to learn in the span of one lecture

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h B h a s k a r a n , mechanical and aerospace engineering, affirmed that MOOCs are well-suited for what is popularly called “active learning,” or learning a concept and immediately being asked to apply that concept,

According to Bhaskaran, this style of learning is extremely effective for teaching concepts that involve the application of formulas or the use of any mathematical model techniques often used in the s c i e n c e s R e s e a r c h h a s s h o w n t h i s method to be an extremely effective way

MOOCs goes above and beyond educating students Prof Marianne E Krasny, natural resources, believes that MOOCs may ver y well be the future of educating educators Her course, which she created with help from Keith Tidball, associate d

directed towards future environmental educators Titled “Reclaiming Broken Places: Introduction to Civic Ecology,” Krasny’s MOOC is unique in that it combines the disciplines of psychology, political science, ecology and sociology with an emphasis on education and outr e a c

sharks and the MOOC about engineering simulation in that there is no directly applied “hard science,” it aims to get

improvements and help educators communicate the importance of environmental issues to those who may not have access to learning about them other wise Additionally, Krasny said that one of the greatest outcomes of her MOOC was

r e v o l u t i o n i z e d t h e w o r l d o f online learning with the ultimate goal of making education more accessible

T h e f i r s t p o p u l a r i z e d M O O C , released by Stanford in 2011, burst onto the education scene and quickly paved the way for countless other universities to participate in “MOOC fever ” They range along a broad variety of subjects in both humanities and STEM subjects, enabling people from countries across the globe to take part in the specialized knowledge without having to pay for the cost of an undergraduate education While they looked good on paper, t h e y s o o n r e c e i v e d h e a v y c r i t i c i s m Many critics argued that MOOCs were not as accessible as claimed and were not an adequate replacement for what is c o n s i d e r e d “ t r a d i t i o n a l l e a r n i n g , ” i n o t h e r w o rd s , a g e

online classes at a much higher percenta g e t h a n

leading critics to accuse the students of lacking academic integrity Additionally, they were often more successful for students who were either already in good academic standing at an undergraduate institution, or had already completed t

thropic achievement originally advertised, they are still valuable for numerous reasons particularly for the future of education in science and technology

Cornell has made 12 MOOCs ranging a variety of subjects Some of the most successful have been in the sci-

William E Bemis, ecology and evolut i o n a r y b

g course, which uses a combination of brief informational videos and interactive exercises to apply ne w concepts, aims to give par ticipants an introduction to shark biology and conser vation

The course has attracted “ more than 25,000 learners to date from more than 180 countries,” according to Bemis and has an extremely high completion rate, something many MOOCs have failed to achieve While the course stands alone as a way to learn ne w material, Bemis explained that his course, as well as MOOCs in general, can be ver y helpful when it comes to supplementing on-

c a m p u s c o u r s e s He u s e s t h e s h o r t , informational videos produced for the MOOC on sharks in several of his class-

o f l e a r n i n g a n y s u b j e c t ; h owe ve r, i t applies particularly well to the sciences as the subject often emphasizes applied learning and requires repetition both features that are possible through online learning

While this method of learning STEM subjects certainly sounds feasible, the prevailing criticism of this form of education is that it leads to a loss of human interaction Learning from a live person is commonly accepted as the most effective way of learning; however, Bhaskaran says the opposite often happens with the introduction of online learning In his experience, students learn the concepts on their own through active learning and when they happen upon something they don’t understand as well, they come talk to him in his office

“I am able to have more office hours t h a n I n o r m a l l y w o u l d , ” Bh a s k a r a n

explained “I go from being the sage on the stage to the guide by the side ”

That being said, this arrangement requires that students have in-person access to a professor, something that is not possible for a large number of the people who participate in MOOCs

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world, nor is it completely obsolete

Many professors, when asked whether Cornell should continue offering them, felt as though these courses should continue to be a resource for Cornell and non-Cornell students alike Bemis, for example, said that “they should stay in the mix for a global institution like Cornell,” a statement that seems to correspond with the vie w many people hold of what Cornell represents: an institution that ser ves as a source of knowledge for the entire world, not just a select por tion

“Cornell should be the land-grant to the world and offering MOOCs is one

Davidson Evanega, plant breeding and genetics, co-creator of a MOOC entitled “ The Science and Politics of the GMO,” said “ The fact that you can make the science accessible to a person despite their location or life constraints is ver y satisfying and really fulfills the Cornell motto, ‘ any person, any study ’”

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Love in Free Fall: A Review of Bright Half Life

BY ANDREA YANG Senior Staff Writer

“Falling in love” is a fascinating expression In my native language, Chinese, the two most-used equivalents of the phrase compare love to things one could physically fall into, such as a river or a net, but English expression might just be superior because of its ambiguity Do we fall into love, or are we falling when we ’ re in love?

The Kitchen Theater’s Bright Half Life seems to say it’s both Written by Tanya Barfield and directed by Sara Lampert Hoover, Bright Half Life is a two-women play that follows the stor y of Vicky (Shannon Tyo) and Erica ( Jennifer Bareilles) through the decades In a fragmented non-linear narrative, a complex relationship arc slowly comes together as the puzzle pieces fall into place The two women meet, date, get married, start a family, grow apart and ultimately find their way back to each other again

Vicky and Erica’s stor y is remarkably ordinar y, yet that might be exactly what makes it remarkable We see them go through an awkward courtship phase, go on a quite disastrous first date, propose marriage at the worst time possible, fight about plans for the future, witness their children’s first steps and watch them grow up and start families of their own It sounds like something that you might read on Humans of New York: some stor y of a couple you know from real life or maybe even your own relationship

While I love works like Angels in America, The Normal Heart and Rent, and fully believe that discussion of LGBTQ+ histor y and politics is ever more relevant today, it is incredibly refreshing to see Barfield take a step back from the politics and just focus on the relationship the laughter, the tears, the struggles and of course love itself

But to leave out politics completely would be too much of an idealization, perhaps even an impossibility for a same-sex couple in New York City in the 2000s Erica is an out-and-proud white woman, an activist who attends protests regularly and volunteers at an LGBTQ+ crisis hotline in her spare time Vicky’s the cautious one with a plan

for ever ything, the typical Asian-American girl who cares a lot (too much) about what her family thinks, who dares not to be anything but perfect If being a same-sex couple is hard, being an interracial same-sex couple is even harder Erica doesn’t understand why Vicky couldn’t tell her family about them, while Vicky doesn’t see the point in making her sexuality political The two clash over their differing views on race and privilege and how they factor into sexual identities

I learned from Shannon Tyo that Barfield had originally written Vicky as a black woman, but put in two alternative scenes for whether she was cast as Asian or Latina While I haven’t seen or read the other two versions, I truly appreciated the effort that went into crafting a nuanced discussion about race

The one major flaw in the script was the non-linear

narrative The fragmented structure is refreshing and fun for the first fifteen minutes, but as the play went on and the audience becomes more invested in the stor y emotionally, the structure required too much work to figure out and distracted from the emotional involvement The dramaturgs did a great job putting up a timeline display in the lobby, but I wonder how much more time I would’ve spent on piecing together the narrative if I hadn’t read the timeline beforehand

However, the production dealt with this challenge amazingly well Tyo and Bareilles not only have great chemistr y, but the acting chops for this difficult piece The set doesn’t give them much other than two chairs and a blue rug in the middle of a wooden platform Ever ything from office cubicle to a Ferris wheel ride had to be acted out They transitioned seamlessly between stages of the relationship whenever time skips in the script, often only aided by a shift in lighting But most importantly, they brilliantly depicted the layered and sometimes conflicting emotions in this love stor y that spans decades

The penultimate scene, which echoes an earlier scene that takes place when couple first met, is arguably the most emotionally rich and difficult one in the whole play It would’ve been incredibly easy to go overboard and overdramatize, and given the plot development (which I won ’ t spoil) it seemed like the obvious choice, yet the Tyo and Bareilles’ controlled and restrained deliver y of the scene made it more affecting and realistic than I had expected

“ Take me to all the places you want to go, ” Erica says to Vicky early on, and fulfills her promise when she goes skydiving with her despite being afraid of heights The scene in which they hold onto each other by the plane’s open door right before jumping out is a recurring image throughout the play Are they glad they took the leap? I’m inclined to believe so They fall in love, fall out of love and fall back to each other But in falling, they catch each other, too

Andrea Yang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at ayang@cornellsun com

A Wrinkle in Time Leaves Audiences With Frown L i n e s

When my third grade teacher read A Wrinkle in Time to the class, there wasn ’ t a dry eye in the room In my local theater, the cinematic rendition of Madeleine L’Engle’s book failed to evoke the same emotional response: there was not a single tear shed, but rather the occasional yawn

The first act follows the typical coming of age narrative that we ’ ve all seen hundreds of times, even featuring the classic bully scene where the mean girls gang up to taunt the protagonist in the school hallway The head mean girl, Rowan Blanchard from Girl Meets World, just so happens to live next door to the protagonist and spends the majority of her screen time scowling from her bedroom window The story was written before the various tropes such as this one even existed, but when adapted to the screen, seems like a poorly executed rip-off of other movie franchises like Divergent and The Hunger Games

Ever since Meg’s (Storm Reid) scientist father went missing, she and her family have been left in shambles Her brother (Deric McCabe), who is annoyingly referred to as Charles Wallace throughout the entire movie, is a brilliant but bizarre child We are quickly introduced to three women who seek to guide Meg, her brother and her crush on a quest to find her father Mrs Whatsit is played by Reese Witherspoon, who overdoes the role at times, while Mrs

Who is played by Mindy Kaling, who seems to be trying to steal every scene Perhaps the greatest waste of talent is Mrs Which, played by Oprah, who does her best with the lines she is given but can ’ t salvage the overexplanatory dialogue The group “ tessers ” around the universe, folding space and time to get around instantly

The only relevant part of the quest is a refreshingly chuckle-worthy scene with Zach Galifianakis Before that, the group frolics through flowers and flies atop an oddly animated, vegetable-looking Reese Witherspoon, which is all just an unnecessary sequence to establish the antagonist The film features various landscapes that once would’ve seemed vibrant and exciting but are now dull rip-offs of set pieces from movies like Maleficent

Screenwriter Jennifer Lee of Frozen opts to have Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which explain ever ything as they go Whenever there is a message that the creators want the audience to understand, it is repeated numerous times and overexplained to the point where even the youngest of children will be ready to move on When the trio isn’t narrating, the father (Chris Pine) is explaining the science behind tessering in a PowerPoint presentation to a group of scientists If only the story had been presented more visually and subtly, perhaps the themes would have had greater emotional resonance

One saving grace was the featured music, with songs like Kehlani’s “Let Me Live” and Sia’s “Magic” bringing life to otherwise bor-

ing scenes There were also some impressive action sequences, such as when Meg cleverly hides in a tree trunk to get thrown over a wall by a tornado However, following every action scene is a sequence where the characters are in a perfectly manicured neighborhood with people who seem hypnotized, a clip reminiscent of Get Out

The child actors are not the same caliber as recent movies like It, with Reid sometimes failing at anchoring the movie and McCabe often overplaying his roles and not adequately portraying his emotions However, the diversity of the cast is refreshing, with this being one of the first fantasy movies to be

anchored by an African American female lead This representation is a step in the right direction and functions to empower a young generation of kids who often can ’ t find characters like them on the screen

While this movie succeeds in portraying its empowering themes, it fails to truly capture the magic of L’Engle’s story There are remnants of a great movie here, with a talented cast and production group, but the pieces simply did not come together

Grant Muller is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reahed at gm524@cornell edu

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Schafer ’86 Named Coach of the Year

Red coach wins ECAC honor for 4th time

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The winningest coach in Ivy League histor y added another award to his resume on Monday

In his 23rd season at the helm of the program, head coach Mike S

C AC Hockey’s Tim Taylor Coach of the Year award after guiding his squad to one of the best regular seasons of his tenure

With 437 career wins, Schafer is the winningest coach in program histor y and has previously won Coach of the Year honors in

games since 1996, his first year at the helm, to claim his ninth Ivy championship as coach

The Red’s 23-4-2 regular sea-

Schafer since the 2002-03 season, when the team advanced to the Frozen Four Cornell is on its way to its 11th NCAA tournament appearance under Schafer

The former defenseman and captain led the Red to a league title his senior year and immediately took on an assistant coach role with Cornell After working as an assistant coach at Western Michigan for five years, Schafer returned to his alma mater for the 1995-96 season

In typical Cornell and Schafer fashion, the trademark of this year ’ s team was defense Led by the emergence of freshman goaltender Matt Galajda, the Red sports college hockey’s best goals

Offensively, Cornell scores 3 23 goals per game, 10th-best in the countr y With 10 freshmen on the roster, Schafer’s squad has far surpassed expectations this season, d o m

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r being picked to place third in the conference in media and coaches’ preseason polls

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ECAC championship as his team takes the ice at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid this weekend for the ECAC semifinals

Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun com

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Laxers Top Columbia

By CAITLIN STANTON Sun Staff Writer

Last week, securing a victory required a late effort from the Red in a tough overtime victor y Against Columbia, it was a different story

Coming off a hard-fought overtime win against Colgate last week, Cornell women ’ s lacrosse (32, 1-1 Ivy) took down Columbia (2-5, 0-2 Ivy) in a 17-5 decision

While last Wednesday saw the Red push past the Raiders in the last 13 seconds of double overtime to secure the win and end their two-game losing streak, Cornell’s victory against Columbia was a completely different story with the Red definitively ahead after the first 15 minutes of the game

“It was really good, especially to have that first big win in the Ivy League,” said senior captain Taylor Reed “It was a game where we really felt the energy ”

Since 1997, the Lions and the Red have faced off 22 times, and all 22 have chalked up wins for Cornell This game was the largest win margin for the Red since it beat Binghamton by 14 last April

A recurring theme in previous games was the Red’s difficulty in taking advantage of scoring opportunities and putting up a strong offensive position However, this match saw Cornell ramping up its effort with a total of 40 attempted shots, nearly 75 percent of which were on goal, compared to Colgate’s 22 attempted shots

“We’ve really been focusing on getting our offense going as well, which is something we ’ ve been missing in the first couple games, ” Reed said

The first half of the game began in a deadlock, with both teams vying for the lead at three goals apiece until the 15th minute It was then that Cornell started a 10goal streak, bringing the score to 13-3 and running away with the game Columbia didn’t back down easily and answered with two more goals, but Cornell had the answer and closed the game with four more tallies

Sophomore Caroline Allen led the offensive attack with four goals, followed closely by junior captain Sarah Phillips and senior Joey Coffy, who had three goals each

“Coming off of our two-overtime win against Colgate, the team was really into it and it [brought] the energy We started vibing at practice,” Reed said “[ The Columbia game] really showed that we ’ re definitely a good force and we figured out how to play

together and put the goals in the back of the net ”

Corne ll travels to Sparks, Maryland on March 17 for a noon contest against the University of Massachusetts

Caitlin Stanton can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun com

‘This

season was definitely one to remember’

Icers Close Out Successful 2017-18 Campaign

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

For Cornell women ’ s hockey, the 2017-2018 season was one that saw the team consistently ranked in the top 10 nationally rounding out the season at No 6

Though the end to the season was not what was w a n t e d , h e a d c o a c h Do u g D e r r a u g h’s ’ 9 1 s q u a d demonstrated resiliency and determination to finish with a 21-9-3 overall record and a 15-5-2 conference record

“Although it was a heartbreaker, our last game against Colgate [in the ECAC semifinals] was a ver y memorable game, ” said sophomore captain Kristin O’Neill “Coming back from a three-goal deficit was something I will always remember ”

Aside from its impressive record, the Red also earned five top-10 wins over the course of the season, beating St Lawrence twice and earning victories over Providence and Colgate

Heading into the postseason, Cornell also held the nation’s longest unbeaten streak at eight games

Although Princeton forced a third game in the ECAC quarterfinals, the Red showcased its poise and perseverance to handily defeat the Tigers to advance to the semifinals for the second year in a row

“My favorite performance of the season was probably the series against Princeton,” O’Neill said “[Game three] showed our character the determination and

confidence that we showed in this game really represents us as a team ”

O’Neill said she credits much of the success of the team to the complementar y nature of the players

“ We have a lot of different strengths that go well together and each individual brings something different to our team, ” O’Neill said “ The freshmen fit in to our team as soon as they got to campus at the beginning of the year and our coaching staff consistently showed confidence in us as a group, which made it even more fun to come to the rink ”

Though the Red has consistently proven itself a force to be reckoned with over the years, each year ’ s team is unique in its own way and this year ’ s group is no different

“ The group of girls that we had this year was unlike any other teams that I had,” said junior goaltender Marlene Boissonnault “Going to the rink ever y day was by far the highlight of my day The group that we had was so genuine, appreciative, open-minded, happy, and on and on with the qualities The team quickly became family ”

“ This was a ver y special season and the team chemistr y and dynamic was ver y rare, ” said junior for ward Pippy Gerace “Ever y year the team is always a little different, but I think I will always remember this group of girls as ‘ my team ’ ”

One of the deepest teams in the nation, the Red had each of its skaters tally at least one point over the course

of the season

Cornell was also the top team in the nation on the penalty kill, with a 92 9% kill rate

Individually, Cornell placed four athletes on ECAC All-League teams O’Neill was named to the first team, sophomore defender Jamie Bourbonnais earned second-team honors, senior captain defender Sarah Knee was placed on the third-team and freshman forward Maddie Mills earned all-rookie accolades

The young squad looks poised to replicate its national prowess again next season as it graduates just three seniors Knee, defender and captain Erin O’Connor and for ward Brianna Veerman

“Our senior class made a huge impact on the ice and were phenomenal leaders off of the ice,” Gerace said “ We were lucky to have three seniors to look up to that carr y themselves with such grace on and off of the ice ”

Despite coming up just short of an NCAA tournament bid, the Red continued to cement its legacy as one of the top programs in the countr y and is hungr y for its next opportunity to prove itself

“ This season was definitely one to remember,” O’Neill said “Our team ’ s performance got consistently better as the season went on thanks to the commitment, grit and character of each and ever y individual As sad as were when the season came to an end, we are looking for ward for next season ”

Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun com