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Student’s Lawyer Urges Dismissal of Hate Crime Charge

By NICHOLAS B0GEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The lawyer representing John P A Greenwood ’20 argued in a court filing that the judge should dismiss hate crime and other charges against his client, claiming that Greenwood was arrested unlawfully and has already been severely punished for an assault he did not commit

Ronald P Fischetti, the lawyer, who also made the first public acknowledgement that Greenwood was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, said the victim barged into Greenwood’s house before the altercation, warned that his client would be deported to Canada if found guilty and contended that he cannot get a fair trial in Ithaca

The arguments constitute a 101-page omnibus motion filed in court on Thursday that lists his squash accolades, quotes online comments from Jezebel com and includes a letter of support from the director of Greenwood’s kindergarten school In asking Ithaca City Court Judge Richard M Wallace to dismiss the case in the interest of justice, Fischetti said Greenwood has been “severely punished for crimes he did not commit” by being “decried in the press as a hate-crime offender” and being forced to take leave from Cornell Police arrested Greenwood, who is 20, on Sept 15 of last year, and prosecutors later charged him with attempted assault in the third degree as a hate crime, aggravated harassment in the second degree and criminal mischief, all Class A misdemeanors Matthew Van Houten, the Tompkins County

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Greenwood, who is white, singled out Solomon Shewit ’19, who is black, and punched him in the face, bloodying his nose early in the morning in Collegetown

A video of an argument shortly before the alter-

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By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The Cornell University stud e n

with a hate crime l a s t s e m e s t e r could be permanently deported from the United St a t e s i f h e i s convicted, and a federal immigration agency has a l re a d y s h ow n interest in the case

lawyer, Ronald P Fischetti, said a

John P A Greenwood ’20, who is facing three charges after being accused of a race-motivated assault, is a Canadian citizen studying at Cornell on a student visa, his lawyer confirmed in court documents last week The

d from the U S and being forbidden from re-entering “He would thus be exiled from the United States, an extraordinarily harsh consequence, preve n t i n

m , among other things, ever pursuing an education at a college or University in

motion arguing that all charges against Greenwood should be dismissed A U S Im

Customs Enforcement official contacted the City of Ithaca

Wansink Sinks Deeper New

scandals damage reputation

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Senior Writer

Another week, another scandal for Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab and its founder, Prof Brian Wansink

In the last 10 days: A cookbook company roasted Wansink’s research on Twitter, donors to an online fundraiser created by Wansink said he never followed through on the project after raising more than $10,000 and a journal retracted another Wansink study his sixth retracted paper Six former members

use frowned-upon research methods to produce findings that would bring media exposure to the lab

Some former members told The Sun they are embarrassed to have worked in Wansink’s lab and said their research at Cornell is now stained by the public reckoning and negative media exposure of the lab

In a lecture in the fall of 2017, Wansink told students that the slew of retractions was one of the “biggest lows” in his career, recalled Candace Choe ’18, a former social media

By KATIE SIMS Sun Associate Editor

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suit jacket, so by all indications he is a capable businessperson With a single look, Gir is h a A r o ra ’2 0 can make anyone in the newsroom change their mind She keeps everyone in check, and d o e s i t w h i l e s i m u l t a n e o u s

being the single best person in the o

e d assistant managing editor A l is h a Gu p ta ’ 2 0 refuses to drink Ithaca water because it will never live up to the splendid water of Overland Park, Kansas Associate Editor Ka tie Sim s

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’ 2 0 is still trying to make up for disappointing her dad by joining the arts section instead of news

Are you proud yet, Dad?

He i d i My u n g ’ 1 9 , incoming advertising manager, enjoys long treks, uphill both ways, in the snow, to The Sun’s office, which she considers her weekly workout Evidently, she’s the strongest person on the staff

Web editor Var u n I y e n g a r ’ 2 1 is not only doing a killer job resuscitating the Web team, but also is actually making headway in making a tiny ponytail chic Sp o

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Chemical Engineering Seminar: Sijin Lin 9 a m , 165 Olin Hall

Leadership for Social Change Noon - 1:30 p m , 700 Clark Hall

TV, Film & Theatre Internship/Career Panel

Noon, 125 Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Infrastructure, Colonialism and the State in Puerto Rico After Maria

3:30 p m , 423 Morrill Hall

Microeconomic Theory Workshop

4:15 p m , 498 Uris Hall

Monday, March 5, 2018

Big Science with Chinese Characteristics 4:30 - 6 p m , G64 Goldwin Smith Hall

Intro to 3D Modeling and Printing 5 p m , Makerspace, Mann Library

Study Skills Peer Consultation 7 p m , 3330 Tatkon Center

Strategy & Business Economics Workshop 11:15 a m - 12:45 p m , 333 Sage Hall

Wikipedia: Art + Feminism Editing Noon, 106G Classroom, Olin Library

Toward Understanding the Genetic and Psysiological Complexities of Grapevine Winter Survival 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Digital Privacy I: Everyday Privacy Protection 3:30 p m , Digital CoLab, 701 Olin Library

Cornell Student Topical Sermon Contest 4:30 p m , Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall

Sustainable Futures Lecture 4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

Visual Culture Colloquim: An-Yi Pan 4:30 p m , History of Art Gallery, Goldwin Smith Hall

Students Enjoy Three Day Weekend Thanks To Cornell Snow Day

By BREANNE FLEER and GIRISHA ARORA Sun News Editor and Sun Managing Editor

Almost a year after a winter storm closed Cornell’s campus for its first full snow day since 1993, the University cancelled all classes on Friday in anticipation of another storm

Compared to last year ’ s storm, which left Cornell buried under 12 inches of snow, Friday’s winter storm brought only four inches of snow, as per preliminary reports on the NOAA website While this left several students underwhelmed, they were glad for the day off

“I’ve walked to classes in this kind of weather, but I’d obviously take a snow day over that if I can, ” said Arianne Seenauth ’21

The National Weather Service predicted about six inches of snow for the Ithaca area and, from 9 p m on Thursday to 1 a m on Saturday, issued a winter storm warning The service also said there was a 10 percent chance that Ithaca will receive 16 inches of snow by Saturday morning

Marc Alessi ’18, co-president of the Cornell chapter of

S(NO)w school | An empty Arts Quad on Friday, as students take advantage of a full day of cancelled classes

the American Meteorological Society, explained in an interview with The Sun why Friday’s snowstorm was not of the intensity that had been predicted

“The snowfall an area experiences is dependent on its elevation, when the temperature is close to 32 degrees Ithaca is at a low elevation so we got lucky there’s a place just to our west near Seneca lake which is on a higher elevation that is reporting 16 inches of snow, ” Alessi said

Asian-American Students Explore

‘Power and Perspective’ at Conference

Over 600 students and faculty from East Coast universities traveled to Cornell for a day of workshops and talks exploring challenges central to AsianAmerican identity at the annual East Coast Asian-American Student Union conference on Saturday

This year ’ s conference had the mission statement

“Continuum: Power Through Perspective” and aimed to educate and inspire students on longstanding racial dilemmas in their communities

“We don’t necessarily need someone with some lofty degree to tell us ‘ this is what you need to know to be good at your job, help support your community or be an actually decent person, ’” said Jeremiah Kim ’19, ECAASU conference director and Sun blogs editor

Shortened from two days to

one because of the University’s snow day on Friday, ECAASU still welcomed students interested in Asian-American issues through various talks including one by Buzzfeed video producer Steven Lim, known for his “Worth It” series, a performance by poet Paul Tran and workshops on topics such as using media as a platform for activism

Attendants from several schools traveled for hours on the road to make it to the conference due to weather impediments A group from Duke University even pushed their travel plans a day forward in order to make it to the event

“It goes to show that there’s a real need for an event like this because people are actively going out of their way to make sure that they can come here,” said Helen Yang ’19, a Duke student and communications coordinator for ECAASU's national board

Vinh Dang ’19, Stockton University, led a workshop titled

“Yolk inside an Eggshell” that discussed ways Asians have been stereotyped in media from having white actors playing Asian characters to making Asians appear more white

“It is also important to be able to learn these things and learn from other people who come to these conferences and then be able to share these messages to their own community,” Dang said

For many students, the event was a networking opportunity for students and activists who share a mutual interest in topics frequently encountered by Asian-Americans

“I heard this was a great place to network and talk about social issues related to Asians in general,” said Calvin Xie ’18, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, adding that his main takeaway from the event was meeting new people “It’s good to realize there’s a community

Alessi described other factors too, such as the warmer south wind that Ithaca was exposed to and the fact that the low-pressure in Ohio that was supposed to bring Ithaca the bulk of the snow dissipated quickly

“All the models were saying that there would be a lot of snow on Friday, with the heaviest snow coming in the

Black Panther is a ‘Deeply Politicized’ Film, According To University Professors

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In light of the huge success and heated discussion around the recent Marvel blockbuster “Black Pa n t h e r, ” s e ve r a l s c h o l a r s o f Africana Studies examined its cultural significance in the current political environment and dissected the historical and political elements behind the movie

Pro f N ’ Dr i T h é r è s e A s s i éLumumba, African and diaspora

e d u c a t i o n , c o m m e n d e d t h e movie for its representation of Africans and those of African descent by comparing it with the inauguration of former president Barack Obama in 2009

“Experiencing Black Panther a s [ i t i s ] i n t h e c e n t e r o f Hollywood is like [experiencing] the inauguration again in 2009,”

A s s i é - Lu m u m b a s a i d “ I o n c e

said, ‘Obama will not change the institutions or the system, ’ but what we can gain from him and the movie is shattering the idea that there are barriers for African people ” Despite the “understandable d e f e n s i ve n e s s ” o f m a n y s o c i a l media users against politicizing the movie, Prof Russell Rickford,

history, said that Black Panther is “ a l re a d y d e e p l y p o l i t i c i ze d” because of its indirect connection to current events “ T h i s m ov i e i s

t h o l e countries ’” Rickford said “[It] really draws on the idea of imagining Africa as this sanctuary, a s

supremacy ”

The panelists also praised the movie for its representation of African women Rickford appreciated that the movie portrayed the women as as “ strong and independent minded” rather than as a sexual object ”

Prof Kevin Gaines, Africana studies, described how people tend to remember figures like Queen Elizabeth I when thinking about female rulers in history, often forgetting about powerful

Njinga of Angola

“Queen Njinga was

military

skilled in diplomacy [she is] a notable figure who doesn’t get

women in the film, such as Shuri,

Students Take Advantage of Underwhelming Snow Day

morning But it’s ver y hard to forecast accurately for locations influenced by differing microclimates,” Alessi said

The Ithaca campus will reopen at 5 a m on Saturday morning, according to an alert message sent out on Friday evening

During the storm, Cornell’s dining ser vices were placed on “limited eater y hours,” with a select few dining halls open for breakfast and lunch ser vice After evaluating the number of available staff, the University opened several North and West campus eateries for dinner at their regular times

All TCAT routes operated on their regular weekday schedule, but “frequent Cornell routes ” like the 10 and 82 were “slightly reduced” due to the large amount of closures, according to a press release

Friday’s closure marks only the third time in a quarter of a centur y that Cornell’s Ithaca campus has declared a full snow day Last year, the campus closed its doors for a

full 28 hours beginning on March 14 at noon Exactly 24 years earlier, on that date in 1993, the Ithaca region had received over 30 inches of snow in the “ storm of the centur y, ” also forcing a shutdown, as reported by The Sun

Throughout the day, students flocked to Libe slope to sled down the hill during the snowstorm an item ranked fifth on the list of 161 Things Ever y Cornellian Should Do From pizza boxes to professional sleds, they made use of what they had to partake in the snowy revelr y Kevin Ngo ’21 told The Sun that since his normallyscheduled snowboarding class had been cancelled, he came to the slope to snowboard instead

Some students had to finish their work before hitting the hill to celebrate the rare campus weather closure

Will Smith ’21, who played a game of frisbee on the slope, said his Spanish 2090 course still held its prelim during class time, but that he was able to take the exam from his dorm His classmate, Eshan Mehrotra ’21, said the experience was not so bad

“It was kind of nice we ate cereal, did it around a

Scholars Analyze Politics Behind Black Panther

BLACK PANTHER

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Okoye and Nakia reflected powerful female figures like Queen Njinga

All three panelists brought up the idea that Wakanda, the fictional countr y depicted as a wealthy technological powerhouse in the movie, is the realization of African sovereignty and African people’s hope for development

He explained how PanAfricanism has two branches, racial Pan-Africanism and revolutionar y Pan-Africanism He said that the former calls for the union and restoration of

claim his inheritance when he finally made it home, and also was portrayed as a “demented sociopath,” which ruined the vision of unity and liberation

“Africa cannot advance while forgetting its representation across the globe. Africa can lead, and must lead ”

“[African sovereignty] is a beacon and inspiration to black people everywhere,” Gaines said “Images of African sovereignty and power are extremely inspiring for Africans and African-Americans ”

However, despite the movie’s reputation for being what Vanity Fair called a “worldwide phenomenon, ” Rickford also discussed the parts of the movie he believed “ not satisfying,” especially in terms of its PanAfricanism representation

Africans and their descendants, while the latter thinks that the ties between Africans and their descendants do not lie in racial identity or culture, but rather in the existing political, social and economic realities that connect black people around the world

According to Rickford, the movie portrayed a “unfulfilled” representation of both types of Pan-Africanism because the character of Killmonger was unable to

By comparing Vibranium the fictional Wakandan metal with extreme value and scarcity taken by white smugglers to the “stolen objects” of Africa, AssiéLumumba used the movie to remind the audience of the importance of remembering Africa’s history

“Africa cannot advance while forgetting its representation across the globe,” Assié-Lumumba said “Africa can lead, and must lead Africa has a lot to offer ”

Meredith Liu can be reached at meredithliu@cornellsun com

Grace Yuan can be reached at gyy2@cornell edu

little table,” he told The Sun “It was just cute ”

Lucy Ding ’21, who went sledding on the slope in the early evening, said she had to spend the entire morning doing her homework in the architecture studio before she could have fun

“Man, architects never rest, even on a snow day,” she laughed

With the fun and revelr y that usually comes with snow days, there is also plenty of trash littered on the slope Cardboard boxes are often used by those who do not have professional sleds and more often than not they get left behind Dora Penavic ’18 and Evlyn Samuel ’18 decided to change that this year

“ We had come to sled and when we were walking back we were quite appalled Usually you walk by and just do nothing We were hoping that once people see some people picking up the boxes they would feel like they should too, ” Penavic said

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun com Girisha Arora can be reached at garora@cornellsun com

Asian-American Students Connect Over Identity

ECAASU

Continued from page 3

out there for you despite sometimes feeling nobody out there can necessarily connect as well with you " Xie also expressed the responsibility of Asian-Americans’ to speak up about political activity a n d “ e n g a g e [ t h e m s e l ve s

look to other minority groups

action

At the closing ceremony, performers such as Paul Tran and r

poems and messages about how embracing their identities and d

helped shaped their futures

Steven Lim, video producer

at Buzzfeed, also told the audience how he was called racial slurs in middle school and has s

t a k e n p r i d e i n t h o s e names

The first ECAASU conference at Cornell was held in 1988 and the conference is traditionally held at Cornell ever y ten years so the event was also of historical significance to AsianAmerican Cornellians, according to Kim Kim hoped that the par ticipants could takeaway the notion that “ we can look to each other, we can educate ourselves, we can do this together ”

Paris Ghazi can be reached at pghazi@cornellsun com

Tiamen Montgomery can be reached at tdm75@cornell edu

New Editorial Board Elected, Ready to Run The Sun

read, write, report and edit objective articles in the past month and a half, all while under the influence of gallons and gallons of Diet Pepsi Joining him as assistant sports editors are Jac k Kan to r ’ 18, who skipped the entirety of our “ compet ” trial period but was still elected; Rap hy Ge n dl e r ’2 1, who wears a different piece of Minnesota athletic team apparel every day; and “New York City native” Joh n athan Stim ps on ’2 1, who’s actually from suburban Connecticut

Me g an Ro ch e ’1 9 invented the role of projects editor for herself, and she dramatically presents approximately 17 proposals per day, so I guess she’s working hard

E mm a Wil l iams ’1 9, not to be confused with Megan Roche ’19, is often confused with Roche despite being and looking very different She’s a ruthless bee killer in the lab but brings life to the pages of The Cornell Daily Sun

When photography editor Mic h ael Li ’2 0 isn’t juggling assignments for The Sun, you can find him pointing a camera at mundane scenes and somehow turning them into works of art E d e m

D zo z om en yo ’ 2 0 and Bori s “I C an

C ove r Th at ” Ts an g ’2 1 are the assistant photo editors

This year, The Sun will be graced with two blogs editors Jere m iah Kim ’1 9 may initially seem intimidating and to be a brooding artist type, but his smile is so warm it could melt away a winter’s worth of Cornell snow Grif fin Sm ith -Nic ho ls ’1 9 has superb flexibility both in spoken language and dance moves

There are four lede-editing, headlinewriting, fact-checking, Oxford-commaremoving news editors for the next year

Bre A n n e Fl e e r ’2 0 created an underground YouTube channel to criticize her high school’s administration, Yuic h iro Kak u tan i ’1 9 introduced himself to everyone at The Sun with a different name, Sh r u ti Ju n e j a ’2 0 has taken approximately 600 Buzzfeed quizzes in the past six months, and A n u Su b raman iam ’2 0 has become 50 percent Greek life and 50 percent Sun They’re joined by assistant news editors

A n n e Sn ab e s ’1 9 , Me re dith Li u ’2 0 , Paris Ghaz i ’2 1 and Sarah Skin n e r ’2 1

Reprising his role as city editor is Ni c h o l a s Ju l i a n Fr a n k B o g e l -

Bu rrou gh s ’1 9 , who has bylines in nearly every Ithaca newspaper under his belt Science editor A m ol R aj es h ’2 0 is encouraging reporting on the business side of science to find out where he can make the big bucks after graduation

C he n ab K hakh ’ 2 0, assistant science editor, frequently disturbs her roommate ’ s peaceful slumber to talking loving-

ly about the science section

Jus tin Park ’1 9, video editor, is now accepting donations of any video production equipment or Adobe Premiere licenses Liz C an tl e b err y ’2 1, The Sun’s first Snapchat editor, can tell you exactly which major at Cornell matches with literally anything Arts Editor Le v A kab as ’1 9 ditched Sunspots for the glamour of hunching over a computer for hours making the Arts section for print He’s joined by assistant arts editors Viri Garc ia ’2 0, internet culture expert; and Pe t e r “Podc as t Pete” Buon an n o ’2 1

As the Design Department at The Sun continues to grow and fracture, there are three new Design subsection editors

A lic ia Wan g ’2 1, sketch editor, and Hel e n Hu ’2 1, graphics editor, basically brought their departments into existence in the last six weeks, and Ju lian Rob is on ’2 0 ran for layout editor so he could organize a design department movie night to watch Shrek 2

Dining editor Jac q ue lin e Quac h ’1 9 keeps a tiny notebook of hilarious jokes so she’s always ready when opportunity strikes She’ll be dishing out criticism and praise about Ithaca restaurants with assistant dining editor C athe rin e Ho rn g ’2 1

Katie Sims can be reached at ksims@cornellsun com

Independent Since 1880

136TH EDITORIAL BOARD

JACOB S KARASIK RUBASHKIN ’19

Chevy Chase, Md

Editor in Chief

JOHN MCKIM MILLER ’20

Minneapolis Minn Business Manager

KATIE SIMS ’20

Greenburgh, N Y

Associate Editor

VARUN IYENGAR 21

Herndon, Va Web Editor

MEGAN ROCHE ’19

Hillsborough, Calif Projects Editor

EMMA WILLIAMS ’19

Sacramento, Calif. Design Editor

JEREMIAH KIM ’19

Dallas, Texas Blogs Editor

BREANNE FLEER 20

Crystal Lake, Ill News Editor

YUICHIRO KAKUTANI ’19

New York N Y News Editor

NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS ’19

Ithaca, N Y City Editor

LEV AKABAS ’19

New York, N Y Arts and Entertainment Editor

SARAH SKINNER ’21

Kitty Hawk, N C Assistant News Editor

ANNE SNABES ’19

Ann Arbor Mich

Assistant News Editor

JOHNATHAN STIMPSON ’21

Darien, Conn

Assistant Sports Editor

EDEM DZODZOMENYO 20

Columbus, Ohio

Assistant Photography Editor

PETER BUONANNO ’21

Charlotte, N C

Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor

CHENABH KHAKH ’20

Hewlitt, N.Y.

Assistant Science Editor

JULIAN ROBISON ’20

Clarence, N Y Layout Editor

HELEN HU ’21

Pittsburg, Pa Graphics Editor

From the Editor

GIRISHA ARORA ’20

Bhubaneswar India

Managing Editor

HEIDI MYUNG ’19

Fort Lee, N J

Advertising Manager

ALISHA GUPTA 20

Overland Park, Kan

Assistant Managing Editor

DYLAN MCDEVITT ’19

Huntington, N Y Sports Editor

MICHAEL LI ’20

Zhengzhou, China Photography Editor

GRIFFIN SMITH-NICHOLS ’19

Bethlehem, Pa Blogs Editor

SHRUTI JUNEJA 20

Mountain View, Calif News Editor

ANU SUBRAMANIAM ’20

Grosse Pointe Mich News Editor

JUSTIN J PARK ’19

Forest Hills, N Y Multimedia Editor

PARIS GHAZI ’21

Boston, Mass

Assistant News Editor

MEREDITH LIU ’20

Shanghai, China

Assistant News Editor

JACK KANTOR ’19

Edgemont N Y

Assistant Sports Editor

RAPHY GENDLER ’21

Minneapolis, Minn

Assistant Sports Editor

BORIS TSANG 18

Plano, Texas

Assistant Photography Editor

VIRI GARCIA ’20

Los Fresnos, Texas

Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor

LIZ CANTLEBERRY ’19

Park City, Utah

Snapchat Editor

ALICIA WANG ’21

Fayetteville, N C Sketch Editor

KATHLEEN JOO ’18

DUSTIN LIU ’19

Seoul, South Korea

Marketing Manager

New Hyde Park N Y Human Resources Manager

LAST SATURDAY, THE STAFF OF THE CORNELL DAILY SUN met to elect its 136th Editorial Board As it was with the thousands of editors whose names graced this page before us, our mission is to provide the most comprehensive coverage, detailed analysis, and thoughtful commentary on the events and issues that matter most to Cornell and her community It is an honor to play a small role in continuing this tradition of journalistic excellence, and I am elated to do so with the amazing group that is the 136th board

In 1981, at the dawn of The Sun’s second century, Editor in Chief Steven Billmyer ’83 wrote that the yearly changing of the boards was “The Sun’s most powerful asset allowing the editors a flexibility one commercial papers cannot match to produce a paper that better reflects this dynamic community ”

As The Sun continues to confront the challenges of 21st century journalism, Billmyer’s words ring more true than ever Each successive generation of editors reinvigorates The Sun, ensuring that we always remain intimately connected to our audience and our environment The creation of the projects editor position, the continued growth of our web team, the expansion of our design department and a pipeline full of digital developments (stay tuned) are testaments to that continual growth

The coming year will see obstacles both expected and surprising, and we intend to meet them with the same guiding principles as in 1880: “liberty of thought, liberty of speech and liberty of action ” The Sun continues to serve as the paper of record for Cornell and for Ithaca, and even though we may let an errant Oxford comma slip through from time to time (The Sun regrets those errors), we hope you remain with us on our ongoing journey Thank you, reader, for being The Sun’s most invaluable partner

When I decided to put on the h i j a b, I w a s 1 8 y e a r s o l d It was the summer of 2015, right before I left for college It also just happened to be before Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, before Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest, before the hashtag “Stop Islam” trended, before the Muslim Ban made headlines, before countless anti-Islam protests and hate crimes, and certainly before I overheard a professor saying, “it’s a bad time to be a Muslim ”

And even before all of that, I had prepared myself for the worst

Needless to say, it wasn ’ t long before wearing a hijab began to feel like I was voluntarily putting a target on my forehead Walking around campus my first few weeks at Cornell was intimidating to say the least I remember simultaneously feeling like ever yone ’ s eyes were on me and like nobody wanted to look at me

All of a sudden, I became hyperaware of the way people interacted with me

When a bus driver looked at me a second l o n g e r t h a n e ve r yo n e else as I swiped my I D card, I noticed When a T A averted eye contact when I raised my hand, I noticed When t h e c a s h i e r ’ s t o n e changed as I stepped up the register, I noticed I didn’t get a cheer y “hi, how are you today?” or “did you find ever ything alright?” like the girl before me did I got a quick glance and a mumbled “that’ll be $4 50 ”

But perhaps the most striking memor y I have is that of when I interned at one of Ithaca’s independent newspaper offices and my senior editor asked me to write a piece about my experience as a hijabwearing Muslim at Cornell I eagerly agreed to do it In the first draft, I included all of the unpleasant interactions I had ever experienced since putting the hijab on ever ything from slurs to stares I will never forget my editor’s response to it She finished reading the paper, turned to me and said “It’s well written, but its really negative Maybe you should tr y giving it a positive spin Are you sure those people weren ’ t just having a bad day?”

Now, I’m not implying that ever y single person I interact with on a daily basis i s Is l a m o p h o b i c o r i g n o r a n t I d o n ’ t believe that, and I would go insane if I began to think that way In fact, I know that most people like that editor are well meaning Perhaps they have never met a Muslim before Perhaps they’re confused or scared Honestly, with the way Muslims are portrayed in the media,

sometimes I don’t blame them However, there is undoubtedly a sense of tension, of hesitance and, above all, a sense of uneasiness that should not exist

We pride ourselves in being citizens of America; we wave flags, shoot fireworks, pledge our allegiance, sing anthems and say “it’s a free countr y ” to justify our opinions and actions Indeed, this is a free countr y But I’ve found that being free does not guarantee tolerance, and it certainly doesn’t excuse intolerance

While myself and thousands of other Muslim girls have trained ourselves to b l o c k o u t s n

s , s t

n d scowls, I wish we didn’t have to Despite our discomfort with the topic, we have to acknowledge that there is a problem with the way Muslims are treated Yes, even here at Cornell College campuses are meant to cultivate thought and intelligent discussion, but when Muslim students are hesitant to do so much as raise a hand, we cannot keep denying that there is some sort of barrier, conscious or other wise, holding them back As much as we’d like

to blindly uphold the flower y statements about diversity plastered across the university’s homepage, the reality of the situation is that there is a conversation that needs to be had One that is long overdue

So the question persists: Is it a bad time to be a Muslim?

To me, the inherent implication in that question is that the problem lies with being Muslim In reality, the problem lies in our media, in our politics, and in our societal mindset In saying that it is a bad time to be a Muslim, we are consequently saying that it’s a good time to be ignorant

So, I leave you with some words of wisdom: there is no need to be war y of your Muslim roommate and nothing bad will happen if you make eye contact with a girl in a hijab We are not asking to be treated as exceptional; in fact, it’s quite the contrar y: we are just asking to be treated like ever ybody else

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h e D i a s p o r a , Y o u C o m e o f A g e T w i c e

My visit to Iran over winter break was like catching up with your b e s t f r

a r y school years later, as an adult: awkward, albeit familiar

My journal entries from the last time I visited five years ago, when I was 15 pounds lighter and had recently rapped all of “ Thrift Shop” in a live acoustic performance in front of my peers and

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a y i n g Su p e r Mario flash games with my cousins until it was cool enough outside to go stroll through historic Shiraz and all its stunning mosques and mausoleums

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though, the entries have s

And it’s not just us Many so-called “hyphenated Americans” in our generation can viscerally sense the gap between them and their family abroad widen as they evolve into young adulthood As one first-generation Cornell student tells me, “ When I was a child, I would happily play with my cousins even if I couldn’t exactly

and jump out through my ear

Long periods of stasis or gradual change when you ’ re living your life in one home, interrupted by bursts of rapid development on the visits to the home abroad What makes this coming-of-age period particularly tough is that the expectations and responsibilities of adults both

divorced” and “apparently depression runs in my family ” Trips to Iran used to be a welcomed hiatus from East Coast cynicism and a rare chance to have fun with some of my favorite people in the world who I missed so, so dearly; instead, this visit got really real, really fast

My best friend from back home just landed in India last week She makes similar obser vations: “It feels harder to hang o u t n o w t h a t e v e r y o n e ’ s g r o w n u p, because we don't talk about kid stuff ” Questions like “How’s school?” or “ What movies do you watch?” no longer suffice

“Now I’m like, ‘So, uh, are you happy?’ or ‘ What do you think of cousin X ’ s wife?’”

As i n t e l l i g e n t , yo u n g Iv y League students, we seem to know it all We know how to tackle complicated economic models, apply thermodynamic analysis and develop successful medical practices And where our classes lack, our countl e s s p re - p r o f e s s i o n a l o r g a n i z ations fill in the gaps to teach us how to capitalize on our assets, develop our career goals, and move up in this world

But when it comes to filling our lives with meaning, finding fulfillment and happiness in the real world, we don’t have a clue We view happiness as a byproduct of success, rather than the m e a n s t h ro u g h w h i c h we g e t there We assume that we’ll be happy once we get a 4 0, gain membership to the most elite organizations, cop a Goldman internship and can finally fit into our skinny jeans

When I first entered Cornell, I reveled in the newfound freedom of college life After 18 years I had finally shed the constraints

a n d e x p e c t a t i o n s o f a n A s i a n household and walked through my first few weeks wide eyed and

speak with them Now that I’ve matured, I’ve become more closed off to the idea of interacting with my relatives I have no motivation or interest to keep in touch, because I don’t know them personally ” Or, take it from Varun Iyengar ’21, The Sun’s web editor, who points out that the discomfort of growing up between two cultures goes beyond just relating to your family “I didn’t dress like other people my age, couldn’t speak the language, didn’t know how to cross super busy streets, etc I felt ver y lost and incapable It’s a really strange feeling, being an adult but not knowing how to do or say anything ” This “ strange feeling” is what it’s like growing up between two nations, like p

social and intellectual are so vastly diff e r e n t f r o m

teenagers, and the freshly minted young adult hasn’t had a chance to ease their way in I felt Varun’s obser vations first-hand: I’m fluent in Farsi, but I couldn’t seem to string a sentence together when it came time to chat with the merchants in the b a z a a r s I l o o k e d r i d i c u l o u s l y d o r k y because I didn’t realize open-front manteaus were legal, let alone in fashion I couldn’t explain my studies or talk politics b e c a u s e I c o u l d n ’ t t r a n s l a t e a c a d e m i c lingo It felt like the little version of me that sits in my brain and usually runs the c o d e - s w i t c h i n g m a c h i n e h a d i n s t e a d decided to just light the machine on fire

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This awkward, stumbling growth exists both on the mundane, interpersonal level that Varun describes, as well as on a higher, more unsettling level In Iran, I still saw tremendous love, compassion and humor, but I also finally noticed the upsetting realities that I had ignored as a k i d D i v o r c e rates are on the r i s

Iranians are

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now psychiatr y I cringed as my cousins in college told me stories of drug

and abusive

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in a long-term drought that is only projected to worsen with climate change T

punctuated equilibrium effect is clumsy conversation and fashion faux pas on one side, and learning about some of the darker, heavier parts of this world on the other

Growing up means dismantling your perception of the “motherland” as a source solely of wholesome childhood naiveté

The sterile, kind nation from your memories becomes a fantasy

But who knows? Maybe we’ll grow out of it

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun com All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays

On Happiness and Success

open hearted I woke up ever y morning excited for intellectual g r ow t h , n e w p e o p l e a n d t h e oppor tunity to find myself I looked upon my first Ithaca fall with wonder and lay under the Jo h n s o n s

how lucky I was to be there Bu t h

m y fourth semester, I find myself bound by the self-imposed expectations that come with integration into this preprofessional culture of competition and hunger for success I’ve fallen into line in this corporate campus, following t h e a s

s from class to club meeting to l i b r a r y, b o l s

u m e virtues and setting myself up for assimilation into the professional world I hurr y across the suspension bridge in the morning; I busy myself throughout the day; I forget to mar vel under the Johnson stars at night Whether I like to admit it or not, I buy in to the same belief that dominates our campus: that good grades, leadership positions, internships and jobs breed success which, in turn, breeds happiness This mindset does not func-

tion independently at Cornell; it underlies the way we run our s c h o o l s , c o m p a n i e s a n d l i v e s And it’s fallacious H a r v a rd re s e a r c h e r s f o u n d that, 90 percent of long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world but by the way our brains processes it Treating happiness as if it’s dependent on success makes it impossible to achieve Ever y time we are successful, we just change the goalpost of what success looks like We can always get better grades, take harder classes, do more extracurriculars The same holds for the rest of our lives: we could always get better internships, higher salaries, better jobs Not that these aren ’ t valuable endeavors, but to stake our happiness on it is to resign ourselves to the rat-race of life

It is not success that drives happiness, but happiness that drives success Our brains are 30 percent more productive when we think positively than when we t h i n k n e g a t i v e l y o r n

only makes us happy, it turns on

the learning centers in our brains

If we can reverse the formula, if we can find a way to be happier and more positive in the present, we can increase intelligence, creativity and energy levels in our brains and, in turn, we’ll be more successful

This is not meant to be some finger-wagging harangue about what we ascribe meaning to But for the first time in our lives, we get to call the shots: we get to

d decide how we want to spend our time We get to craft our own meaning, choose what to worship and determine who we want to be

As I near the halfway mark of my college experience, I’ve come to the realization that I still have no idea how I want to contribute t o t h i s w o r l d I f i n d m y s e l f bound ever yday by the stressors o f p re l i m s , o r g a n i z a t i o n s a n d internships unsure what exactly I’m chasing I fear that if I don’t break free from these standard paths of success and seek meaning and fulfilment outside this realm, I may end up living out someone else’s dream I’m not tr ying to decr y our pre-professionalism or endless quest for success, I just want us to make sure t h a t w e a re d e t e r m i n i n g what we want and that happiness should not be some faroff goal It should be something we work toward ever y day and I’m not talking about short term pleasure I’m talking real, deepseated meaning in our interactions and satisfaction with our contributions

Sarah Park is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at sarahpark@cornellsun com S*Park Notes appears alternating Mondays this semester

Buried amidst last year ’ s dumpster fire of headlines are harrowing threats to our species’ long-term existence In 2017, we learned that the “slow down” in climate change between 1998 to 2012 was actually because we lacked Arctic data revealing otherwise In “resistance” to this, the environmental goals of the world’s governments have grown increasingly pessimistic: what was once described as the point of no return has already been breached While there are billionaires making earnest attempts to reduce our technologies’ footprint and send lifeboats to Mars, the ambitiousness of their proposals is enough to provoke skepticism in even the most fervent optimist

Empirical evidence of our planet’s increasing degradation might prompt a sense of nihilism even greater than that felt by the early postmodernists After all, we aren ’ t just confronted by the Cold War possibility of atomic annihilation, but also that of irreversible, existentially-consequential climate change While life on this planet will likely persist past the death of the last human either through a post-apocalyptic restructuring of the animal kingdom, or at least through the cockroaches it is perhaps worth psychologically preparing ourselves for the likelihood that we may be among the last great-great-grandparents

Many of us would argue that it is morally wrong to bring a child into existence faced with a high likelihood for an unhealthy, unhappy life, which means our pre-determined, inevitable extinction at least saves us from the challenge of having to consciously end our species If our species’ run is ultimately finite, at least we have an expiration date already slapped on us, instead of having to choose one for ourselves The global displacement and thinning of populations caused by rising ocean levels and deteriorating crop yields will cause unparalleled suffering in the relative short-run But, as painful as the inevitable may be, at least it will reduce the number of future lives that’d have to endure the dystopia awaiting thereafter

After all, almost all of us intuit it’s wrong to bring a child into a miserable life: an intuition on full display by either end of the political spectrum We can expectedly see it, for example, invoked in defense abortion, but also, more surprisingly, in the conservative belief that it’s better to raise a child under the framework of a traditional relationship A socially conservative person would likely argue against a teen pregnancy in favor of an adult one because the prospects for the child are much dimmer under an unprepared teen than under a prepared adult And, holding all else fixed, the child born to an adult parent is intrinsically different to the one born to that

There’s a column out there, if someone can find it in them to write it, that rails against Cornell for increasing tuition by another 3 75 percent It calls out the total absence of moral leadership in American universities that allows skyrocketing costs to be an immutable reality, and implores the student body to take a stand Hopefully it points out that the $10 million increase in financial aid promised for next year is accompanied by about a $13 million increase in sum tuition for the nearly 50 percent of students who rely on financial aid And if we ’ re lucky, it will mock Provost Michael Kotlikoff ’ s absurd posturing that claimed to have “augment[ed] Cornell’s commitment to increasing the socio-economic diversity of its student body ” The generations who paid for debt-free school with loose change and a summer lifeguard job will quickly comment that the author is ungrateful and foolish, and the cycle will repeat That column should be written, but I don’t have it in me this week I’m just trying to take out a loan

Each semester I’ve had at Cornell has begun with a trip to Day Hall, and a unique sort of anxiety that I don’t really find anywhere else I go for the semi-annual conversation in which we sort out if, and how, I will be able to pay for another a semester I walk in certain of how much my family has to offer this time, and weighed down by the knowledge that, truthfully, I would accept whatever interest rate they offer to cover the rest of it From there we cobble together a semester out of aid, loans and payment plans

This week, though, I’ve realized that our original plan won ’ t quite cut it Occasionally

same parent as a teen: the two possible children are entirely distinct beings Applying this intuition societally, this morality implies the end of our species might therefore be the most morally responsible outcome, especially accounting for climate change’s devastating irreversibility

Philosopher David Benatar argues life is much less enjoyable than we believe In Better to Have Never Been, he argues we spend most of our fleeting lives with unfulfilled wants, and the periodic satisfactions we ’ re limited to aren ’ t enough to outweigh our prolonged unfulfillment The only reason we continue to accept this quandary is, according to him, due to a positivity bias that compelled our ancestors ’ sur vival The mildly dissatisfied were the ones most keenly-attentive to the needs of survival Pain, to more severely describe dissatisfaction, teaches us what to pay attention to and be careful of And the relationship between our attitudes and specific bodily reactions reveals how unfulfillment can have direct, material con-

dependent on drugs and spectacle as leisurely respites from a world in which our foremost purpose is to serve as labor inputs, often mischanneling the productive energy of our one life and surrendering our unfulfilled wants to constant postponement If human extinction is promised by climate change, at least we can take solace in knowing that so too must end the boundless possibilities for suffering Almost all of us would regard our species’ longevity as perhaps the most fundamental societal priority, but in addition to being derived from a positivity bias, it might also be derived from a subjectivity bias

sequences Stepping away from this survivalist intuition, an objective analysis would see life as not something worth inflicting on anyone Even without climate change, Benatar argues that human life may still not be worth continuing Indeed, from Eastern philosophy, we recognize the inevitability of dukkha, or suffering The poor suffer because of their poverty, while the rich suffer because of their riches People without worldly pleasures suffer from their lack, and those who can access them soon discover the emptiness of the hedonic treadmill This is not to say that all suffering is equal some is more visceral and fundamental to the Maslowsian hierarchy but we all suffer in diverse ways over the course of our lives And, as the world rushes toward a future of total work, we find our disposable time, which German philosopher Josef Pieper highlights as the basis of culture, increasingly disappearing Left in its wake is a population ever more

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this will happen expenses arise unexpectedly, and suddenly there are several months of rent, food and tuition that aren ’ t quite accounted for And so, I march back into Day Hall to try to borrow a bit more

These meetings don’t bring the standard order stress that comes from a crowded schedule or an important exam That anxiety is rooted in the manageable worry that I won ’ t be able to do something that is expected of me Instead, my visits to Cornell’s Financial Aid and Bursar offices bring the overwhelming feeling that I’m losing control

By this I mean two things First, when you add to your debt, it carries the undeniable sense that you ’ re sacrificing some piece of your future self At some unknown moment in the future, whether it’s when you search for a job or buy a home, you will have your choices bound by a debt incurred years earlier Student loans are unlike other types of debt Business, home and auto loans are often incurred through a rational choice weighing the benefits of immediate capital against the costs of future constraints In the case of student debt, however, no such calculus meaningfully exists I opted into my first loan package when, at 17, I was presented with a handful of schools that all required similar amount of borrowing Since then I have reupped these loans every year, in ever-increasing amounts, because opting into the second, third and fourth years at a school is not nearly as free a choice as the first Nor is opting out of college, given our unforgiving, rapidlyevolving economy

This first anxiety can hollow out my dayto-day Accolades and achievements feel half-

Like how each of us thinks we are the most important individual in the world due to our personal subjectivity, we could think we ’ re the most important species out of a similar inability to envision a universe unmediated by our macro-subjectivity Growing secularism implies humanity is not made special by some divine mandate, and so maybe our social intuitions ought to shift accordingly The universe, the earth and probably other terrestrial organisms will persist longer than us And so, while the survival of our species remains a fundamental axiom in ethics, perhaps we should reconsider whether human survival, in-and-of-itself, is actually supported by logical truth

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun com Not a Cop appears alternate Mondays this semester

earned and ultimately inconsequential because they seem like a borrowed success Whatever I might do today won ’ t matter tomorrow when someone comes back to collect I’m suddenly weighed down by a grating sense of forced pragmatism, that dangerous idea that there’s no room for risk and creativity when repayment is waiting just around the corner

The second part of this anxiety is a creeping sense of lost agency Maybe the greatest gift that comes with being a student is that so much of our successes and failures are determined by the work we do From coursework to extracurriculars, we are handed the rare space to structure our lives around a set of passion projects, to drive towards outcomes that are largely governed by our own actions That illusion dissipates very quickly when I am confronted with a demand for money that I don’t have

It’s in these moments when Cornell is thoroughly ordinary Rather than being a refuge from a world in which ambition is secondary to circumstance, the University is exposed to be just another place where wealth structures permeate Money once again builds walls around my perception of what’s possible The grade I got the day before, and the hours of studying over the weekend, won ’ t be counted against my outstanding balance

It’s in these moments, too, that my life feels absolutely fraudulent I go to school surrounded by some of the wealthiest people in the country, a group insulated by financial security and endowed with a phenomenal array of life choices After four years, I should say that this includes some of my closest

friends Yet sitting in a cubicle in the Bursar’s office, again across from a woman whose name I wish I did not know, I am reminded of the distance between us

The result is that during weeks like this, I walk around with an unfair and unpleasant resentment of much of the school around me I hurl stones at Cornell’s unflinching bureaucratic facade, wishing that it would show some creativity and courage; I disengage from classes that now feel insignificant; and I’m truly ashamed to say, I feel angry with my friends and classmates whose financial privilege allows them to simply attend and not worry

I don’t say any of this because I believe it is the right way to feel There is, of course, not a single person on this campus who deserves any kind of antipathy solely because of their parents ’ wealth But in this country, we expect education to be a great equalizer As the narrative goes, our universities carve out corners of society where only skill and ambition matter, and all else gets to be momentarily equal Yet even with the vast privilege that my identity affords, my tenure has involved periods of acute isolation from a University that I really do love In so many ways, from race to gender to class, universities like Cornell foster an unequal and alienating studenthood This week, I don’t have solutions; I did have a meeting yesterday, though, and it looks like I’ll get the money I need to graduate That’s good, I guess

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun com The Common Table appears alternate Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Which 2017 Film Would Win A Hypothetical Best Scene Oscar?

BY LEV AKABAS Arts and Entertainment Editor

When you consider what the Oscars are about ranking our favorite movies of the year they should really be a lot more fun So let’s drop some boring categories (I’m sure ever yone would be absolutely devastated if we got rid of Best Song and Best Makeup and Hairstyling) and add some fun ones, like Best Practical Effects, Best Ensemble Cast and Is Your Picture A

Wi l d l y En t e r t a i n i n g Ho r ro r / T h r i l l e r / C o m e d y T h a t

Doubles As A Nuanced, Thought-Provoking Metaphor Fo r T h e H a rd s h i p s Fa c e d By Minorities In America?

A n o t h e r s u c h f u n a w a rd would be Best Scene It’s the perfect way to both reflect on the standout sequences from some of the Best Picture front-r unners as well as reward moments of brilliance in flawed films that would other wise go unacknowledged at the Oscars For reference, here

a r e t h e s c e n e s I w o u l d h a v e picked each year for the past decade:

2016 – Moonlight –“ What’s a Faggot?”

2015 – Furious 7 – Double Skyscraper Jump

2 0 1 4 – W h i p l a s h – Fi n a l Concer t 2013 – Gravity – Opening Debris Sequence

2012 – Django Unchained –Dinner Monologue

2 0 1 1 – Mi s s i o n Im p o s s i b l e :

Gh o s t Pr o t o c o l – To m C r u i s e

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impressively well-made The Last Jedi, including the final action set-piece and Yoda’s coming back from the dead to diss literature Ask anyone for their thoughts on the movie, though, and chances are that the first words out of their mouth are, “ That hyperjump scene was so cool!” In terms of the awe and wonder of Star Wars, those 10 seconds during which ever ything goes silent after Admiral Holdo sacrifices herself is perhaps a peak for the entire franchise

Korg is basically my favorite character in any movie

its audience and doesn’t interr upt the emotional swell of the sequence Director Patty Jenkins crafts epic and soon-to-be-iconic images, like Diana deflecting bullets with her wrist-guard thingies in slo-mo Seeing a woman leading a group of men into battle (along with Ruper t Gregson-Williams’s score) was so genuinely inspiring that I was nearly moved to tears in the theater T

Not surprisingly, a movie scene detailing the creation of the funniest movie scene ever is also one of the funniest movie scenes ever

2010 – Inception – Rotating Hallway Fight

2009 – Up – Married Life Montage

2008 – The Dark Knight – Literally Any Scene

2007 – No Countr y For Old Men – Coin Toss

We’re looking for instantly memorable scenes that are essential to their film’s success and have the chance to become iconic years down the road With apologies to Lady Bird’ s opening car ride, Holly Hunter exploding at a comedy show in The Big Sick, the gut-wrenching penultimate scene of The Florida Project and fight scenes from John Wick: Chapter 2 and Atomic Blonde fights, here are this years ’ nominees (Spoilers for all films mentioned):

ever He joins the Iron Giant, Wall-E and Rafiki on the Mount Rushmore of movie characters I’m sad aren ’ t real He’s what happens when Mar vel Studios throws nearly $200 million at director Taika Waititi to let his zany mind r un wild C

It would honestly pretty hard for me to write a paragraph about this scene without cr ying, so you can imagine the puddle of tears I was sitting in when I saw it in theaters Screw you, Pixar Can’t you just give us a break ever y once in a while?

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There were several notewor thy scenes from the

Watch this movie and prepare hear the word “billboards” more times than you will for the entire rest of your life Mar tin McDonagh's script tries to touch on nearly ever y hot topic affecting modern America, and has ver y little to say about any of them, but does manage an

drama A prime example: Dixon reading the dead Chief Willoughby’s letter in the police

Mildred is burning it down The look that Frances McDormand gives when her character realizes what she’s done is Oscar wor thy Wo

I almost chose the beach fight displaying the Amazonians at full strength, but Wonder Woman’s first heroic moment carried more weight When Steve tells her, “It’s no man ’ s land No man can cross it,” a less mature film might have had Diana respond, “But I’m a woman ” Wonder Woman tr usts

What a twist! Super simple, and yet nobody sees it coming Ever y teenage boy’s worst nightmare is meeting their cr ush’s parents, even if their cr ush’s dad isn’t a mur-

front door to when Peter gets out of his car is tense, and a little funny Michael Keaton kills it as Toomes, realistically putting it together that the ner vous boy in his car is actually Spiderman

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It w o u l d n ’ t b e a Christopher Nolan film if it didn’t end with a monologue delivered by the main character over a montage wrapping up all the different stor ylines, ending with a beautiful shot as the Hans Zimmer score swells B a b y D r i v e r - O p e n i n g C h a s e

This is an elite car chase scene, filled with stunts that you can ’ t even believe are practical, but it also displays great visual stor ytelling The first two shots of the movie, the wheel of a car and an iPod, respectively, clue us in to the two most impor tant elements of the film In the ensuing six minutes, the audience learns so much about Baby despite getting zero lines of dialogue This scene is so meticulously shot and edited that it made fans completely ignore the somewhat weak character development over the following hour and 47 minutes

The Winner:

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When Lil Rel Hower y ’ s Rod Williams stepped out of that police car, I literally cheered in the movie theater, and that’s not something I ever do In fact, I haven’t viscerally reacted that strongly to something I was seeing on a screen since Plaxico Burress’s Super Bowl 42 touchdown There’s a depressing alternate ending to film in which the same police car approaches the scene, but it’s not Rod it’s an actual cop and Chris, an innocent, young black man, is taken away and put in prison The genius of the ending that Jordan Peele thankfully decided on is that it implies the harrowing alternate ending while still giving us the immensely satisfying conclusion that the audience, and Chris, deser ves

Lev Akabas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at lakabas@cornellsun com

Red Sparrow ’s Promise Goes Unfulfilled

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

I had high hopes for Red Sparrow when I saw the trailer It looked stylish and sharp, and I’m a sucker for a good thriller

At the same time, I had some reser vations A spy using their sexuality as a weapon to seduce targets is a tired trope that never c l i c k e d w i t h

Nonetheless, I went in with some strong

e x p e c t a t i o n s Di re c t e d b y Fr a n c i s

Lawrence, Red Sparrow has some points of brilliance, but unfortunately falls into a lot of traps I foresaw Red Sparrow opens with two threads r unning parallel The first focuses on Dominika Egorova, played by Jennifer Lawrence, preparing for her starring ballet role in Moscow The second focuses on agent Nate Nash meeting his contact in the same city Unfortunately they both run

n t o m i s f o r t u n e ; Do m i n i k a ’ s p a r t n e r breaks her leg on stage and Nash’s rendezvous gets blown wide open Fast forward several months and Dominika is increasingly desperate to pay her mother’s m e d i c a l b i l l s T h a t ’ s w h e n h e r u n c l e (Matthias Schoenaerts) begins to offer her a series of deals In return for her mother’s care, Dominika has to conduct a series of espionage missions, which ultimately lead her to confront Nash in Budapest What follows is a web of lies and uncertain loyalties as Dominika tries to navigate her way to a free life again

Richardson, who plays Dominika’s mother, quickly cements them as a potential stronghold for the movie’s heart Their relationship opened the doors for a lot of e m o t i o n a

film

From the movie’s opening, however, things begin to fall apart Red Sparrow has

Dominika and her mother: recurring but dull, or engaging but shor t-lived For example, Nate Nash just isn’t that engaging he’s a CIA agent who’s not in it for patriotism, but for excitement There’s a subplot about one of Dominika’s fellow Sparrows elite agents that use their sexuality to seduce targets seducing a U S senator ’ s chief of staff, but both characters involved aren ’ t allowed to become interesting Part of the problem is that so many people are introduced, and they look so similar, that it becomes difficult to tell them apart The other part of the problem is that most of them aren ’ t developed at all

Speaking of the plot though, this is w h e re m y s t ro n g e s t c

n ’ t see that coming!” it’s not clever After enough opaque stor ytelling, the audience just disengages, and I found myself bored

The film is pure shock value, and it can ’ t even get that right! All the most grotesque scenes occur before the movie’s midpoint, so by the second half, ever ything seems so quiet and tame in comparison

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Now on paper, this plot sounds amazing and there are in fact several points where this greatness shines through First, I have to recognize Jennifer Lawrence for excelling in her role (despite her Russian accent slipping once or twice) She manages to deliver the emotions needed at just the right times, and stays enigmatic when n e e d b e He r c h e m i

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l i e Re d Sparrow deals heavily with sexual violence, and ver y gratuitous sexual violence at that There are not one but two rape scenes, Lawrence’s superior in Budapest keeps demanding sexual favors for resources and so on Even between Dominika and Nash, the moment they secure each other’s trust? Sex scene on the couch It reeks of an excuse to have Jennifer Lawrence naked on set It feels especially awkward in light of recent developments in Hollywood, and Lawrence revealing her “degrading and humiliating” experience with nude casting lineups Of course, the director of Red Sparrow has tried to argue that he intentionally tried to NOT make an erotic thriller He may want to explain that to other critics on Rotten Tomatoes, who have described it as “sexed-up,” “ powerfantasy” and yes, “erotic ”

Okay, so take out the sexual stuff, and what do you have left? Ver y little From our initial setup, the stor y spirals into a mess It feels like a pendulum of “Oh, she’s loyal to Russia! No, she’s loyal to the Americans! No, she’s loyal to Russia!” ad nauseum for the latter half of the movie The greatest problem comes from the film’s direction It’s often left unclear what we ’ re looking at, so the visual stor ytelling leaves us baffled I don’t mean baffled in a “Oh, I’m intrigued now ” manner, more of a “ What am I supposed to get from this?” way Post-production only made matters worse with its manic cutting Scenes end with such abrupt cuts and characters begin talking before they’re on screen it feels like we ’ re mentally sprinting from one part to the next Of course, the sexual scenes take their time nice and slow I noticed that The best metaphor I can think of is a puzzle A good spy thriller lets you see the pieces as they get assembled You may not know where they go yet, and some pieces might yet be missing As the stor y goes on though, you can see ever ything take shape In Red Sparrow, you ’ re not allowed to see the pieces So at the end, when the movie takes a twist and tries to say, “Ha, you did-

bored Once I left the theater they simmered into a cold, unpleasant bleakness

The rampant sexual violence churns the stomach without any kind of message or

Meanwhile, the plot isn’t clever enough to keep the audience engaged After wards, I couldn’t remember most of what had actually happened, and left the theater feeling

Lawrence did well with the material she got, but if they had spent more time showing the audience clues and less time showing off sexual content, Red Sparrow could have easily been great

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun com

What’s Your Rule of Thumb? World Premiere of Thematically Rich Play

BY LISA MCCULLOUGH Sun Contributor

What’s our debt to other people? How do we measure it, and how do we pay it? Rule of Thumb, a new play by Serbian playwright Iva Brdar, tackles the questions we all secretly ask and too often, avoid answering

The world premiere of this fabulous play was staged on Feb 22 at The Cherry Artspace in Ithaca

Director Prof Beth Milles, performing and media arts, and assistant director Bryan Hagelin ‘20 both hail from Cornel University

A vivacious tale written in vivid verse, Rule of Thumb follows the travels of two young women, Ana and Monica, who embark on a hitchhiking contest across Eastern Europe Structurally with this play, Brdar paints a surrealist twist on the road movie tradition, with the 1991 film Thelma and Louise being her most explicit influence

Though grown from stories with Eastern European roots (the play is loosely based on Brdar’s memories of Serbia and her encounters with hitchhikers in Europe), Rule of Thumb elaborates on universal themes of trust, indebtedness and social justice that strike a chord

with any audience

A play about a road trip poses a clear challenge: showing vehicles in motion on a static stage To have life-sized vehicles in a small space like The Cherry would look obtuse and cumbersome Thankfully, this production opts for a minimalist interpretation: three wooden chairs implying the car ’ s interior This choice of set permits the actors to move outside the physical “limits” of a vehicle, which comes in handy while they negotiate with their drivers every one of whom asks a favor of the women At first contained and reticent, the breadth of the actors ’ movements intensify as deliberations reach a breaking point Thus, the flexibili-

ty of the set allows depictions of both mental claustrophobia and expansive passion

The episodic and surrealist depiction of Ana and Monica’s encounters with their drivers further dislodges their journey from the physical to the metaphysical

The script, written in verse, evokes the rise and fall of a parable or fable in each passage; in fact, the flow of the play is almost biblical

The breathtaking light displays and ethereal soundtrack also give it an ancient feeling

Overall, the effect is to universalize the women ' s conflicts be it arguments over the quality of pans or the casualness of a green card marriage in order to com-

ment on the broader themes of one ’ s value and indebtedness to others

Note that “universal” and “ancient” do not mean trite or irrelevant In fact, though the narration read during scene transitions aligns with the parabolic inclination towards moral instruction, the humor and irony of the script subverts trajectories towards moral ultimatum

While on the road, it seems the women are the ones being taken advantage of At the end, however, we see them, Monica in particular, relax into a self-interested stasis Having finally reached their destination, the meadow at Strezimirovci, this idyllic setting operates as a haven Swathed in bucollic lights and sound, the women are sheltered from the demands and trials of the outside world Yet, with their presumed victory comes complacency and self-righteousness The production asks: are the women entitled to this quiescence?

In an ominous finale, flocks of people disrupt the women ’ s peaceful camp These people, cloaked and road-weary, pace the runway bordering the stage not quite part of the women ’ s world, but flanking it Three times they make

this march, driven by unseen forces that lock them in this apocalyptic carousel on the periphery of society Monica watches, transfixed, while Ana futilely tries to get their attention

The women follow the train of migrants offstage

In the final moments of the play, bird song plays over softly lit scener y The meadow is abandoned just as the women left it, in a moment that reminds us of the natural world’s indifference to human affairs Though this play may be magical and mystical, it offers no promises that some greater power or natural force will right our wrongs or pay our debts When it comes to deciding the fate of those road-weary people, it’s up to us to make the difference

When faced with fights for social justice, how can we balance our duty to power forward and push through with our need to retreat and recharge? Ana and Monica followed the migrants off stage but to where?

Where would you go, and what would you do?

Lisa McCullough is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at lmm347@cornell edu

Students Express Frustration at Unethical Practices of Cornell Prof

WANSINK

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sumer behavior and a food and brand workshop in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Interviews with students and emails obtained by BuzzFeed indicate that Wansink would ask students to run a regression analysis on data and, if they didn’t find anything significant, encouraged them to form a new hypothesis, a practice scientists say is inappropriate and sometimes call data HARKing, or hypothesizing after the results are known

Arianna Ulloa ’16, who worked as an intern in the lab in 2014, said she left the lab before her internship ended because she was appalled by what she said were Wansink’s unethical research methods

“I remember him saying it so clearly: ‘Just keep messing with the data until you find something,’” she recalled in an interview

“All his methods are so unethical that I can ’ t understand how an institution like Cornell could keep him on as a professor and keep paying him,” Ulloa said “It’s quite a bummer that he’s still employed by the University at all ”

Cornell conducted an internal review of Wansink’s research in 2017 and found “ numerous instances of inappropriate data handling and statistical analysis” but the errors “did not constitute scientific misconduct,” John Carberry, a spokesperson, said on April 5 of last year

Cornell opened another investigation in October and Carberr y has declined to answer any questions about Wansink or the ongoing investigation

Choe said she is concerned that Wansink will not face harsh enough consequences because of the “ money and attention” that the lab brings to Cornell “But they’re promoting shams and nonscientific methods,” she said

Carter Broad ’18, who enrolled in a year-long seminar in Wansink’s lab starting in 2017, attributed many of the lab’s research errors to Wansink’s desire for “ wow factor” results, which would bring positive media coverage

“It’s embarrassing,” Broad said in an interview “Professor Wansink’s reputation has delegitimized my research experience here ”

“This was the first time I was immersed in any research like that,” he continued “I didn’t know how blurry the lines could be I wasn ’ t sure if this was normal, if this is how research should be conducted in consumer behavior research field ”

Ellen Ransley ’19 previously told The Sun that she left the laboratory after a year of working as a research assistant because she “didn't want to be associated with” the laboratory once researchers, and then journalists, began questioning its research

Another alumna, who worked in the lab

as an undergraduate in 2013 and spoke on the condition of anonymity, previously told The Sun that lab members “already had the result that we wanted in our minds” and that they aimed to draw conclusions that were “quite the jump ”

Ulloa, the former intern, said she was working in the lab when Wansink launched an online fundraiser through Kickstarter to create a weight-loss program using a Wansink-created method called Slim by Design

Wansink racked up more than $10,000 in donations from 76 donors during the 2014 fundraiser, first reported by BuzzFeed, but the program has not materialized

In an email to The Sun, Wansink said that “the program ’ s still bubbling along, but not ready yet ”

On the fundraiser website in 2014, he wrote that “We believe in transparency and communication, so our backers will be the first to know about any unplanned hurdles or delays ”

Multiple donors told The Sun that Wansink failed to answer emails requesting updates since 2014 When BuzzFeed first inquired about the fundraiser, Wansink apologized to donors in an email for never delivering the online program

“I was a bit too optimistic about both the timeline and the costs of working with professional programmers, ” he said in the email to all donors He said he put the project “ on the backburner” after some hurdles and developed a website and app, both of which he said were launched in testing form and then taken down

One donor, Kantha Shelke, a lecturer and food science researcher, said she has known Wansink professionally for over a decade and that he personally asked her to donate to the 2014 campaign Shelke sent three emails to Wansink over a year requesting updates but never heard back until February of this year, she said

“This is one of those things that sort of grew out of control,” Wansink said of the campaign in an email directly to Shelke “A former student thought they could get this figured out and up on line, but it proved to be beyond their ability ”

The whole experience

“left a bad taste in my mouth,” Shelke said

Ulloa said she helped with the beginning stages of building the Slim by Design Method website in 2014, meeting with other interns in the basement of Wansink’s home to discuss the project, which she said lacked direction She said Wansink had hired a computer scientist to build the website

The largest sponsor of the Kickstarter, which raised $10,681, was behavioral economist Dan Ariely, who pledged $5,000, according to a tweet from Wansink in 2014 Ariely told The Sun that he was not surprised that the program never launched, noting that Kickstarter is a platform for amateurs just starting out

Ulloa said she worked with Wansink on a manuscript for a paper called “Fighting the Freshman Fifteen: A Qualitative Analysis of Changes that Higher Institutions can make to Prevent Student Weight Gain” and submitted it to the Journal of American College Health

The journal rejected the paper, and an executive editor said it lacked adequate scientific evidence and suffered from “methodological and structural issues,” according to an email from Kevin Swanson, who worked in the journal’s editorial office, to Wansink, which was obtained by The Sun

In the email, a journal editor questioned whether Wansink’s findings in the paper were innovative

“Is it a novel finding that the two primary themes associated with weight maintenance/loss relate to exercise and physical activity?” an unidentified executive editor said in comments on the paper “Moreover, much of the novel strategies proffered have been utilized or leveraged in programs instituted in K-12 schools – a literature base that is ignored by the author(s) ”

One journal, Preventive Medicine, retracted a sixth Wansink paper last month, which had focused on children’s eating habits in school cafeterias

The 2012 paper, to which editors had already issued a correction, concluded that elementary school children were more likely to choose vegetables at lunchtime when they were given attractive names, such as “X-ray Vision Carrots ”

The original study said participants were children from between 8 and 11 years old

from five elementary schools, but the corrected study said the participants were actually between 3 and 5

Wansink and his co-authors, in response to the correction, said “these mistakes and omissions do not change the general conclusion of the paper that attractive names increase vegetable intake in schools across a wide age-range of children ”

Nonetheless, the journal retracted the study on Feb 26

Collin Payne, a New Mexico State University professor who co-authored the retracted paper and wrote about two dozen other studies about healthy eating with Wansink, is no longer employed by the school, BuzzFeed News reported

Cookbook brand Joy of Cooking added to the public outrage surrounding Wansink’s research, tweeting from the company ’ s official account on Feb 27 that Wansink is a “bad researcher” and that his lab is a “buzz-maximizing factory ”

The cookbook company said that Wansink cherry picked recipes and made up portion sizes in a 2009 study, “The Joy of Cooking Too Much: 70 Years of Calorie Increases in Classic Recipes,” that the cookbook company said smeared its name

The 2009 study concluded that calorie density and serving sizes in recipes from The Joy of Cooking have increased since 1936 and suggests that the cookbook is contributing to the obesity epidemic in America The study analyzed 7 editions of The Joy of Cooking to determine how serving sizes and calorie density have changed over the past 70 years

“Regardless of their agenda (raising awareness of over-eating, calorie intake), Wansink is a bad researcher, and the rote repetition of his work needs to stop, ” Joy of Cooking wrote in a series of tweets

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If Convicted of Hate Crime, Student Could Be Deported to Canada

DEPORTATION

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after police arrested Greenwood in September, a city official with direct knowledge of the communication told The Sun

ICE requested the date and location of Greenwood’s arraignment before the information was publicly available, according to the city official, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of antagonizing the immigration agency Ithaca officials did not provide the information to the agency, abiding by the city’s sanctuary city legislation, the official said

Under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigrants convicted of a “crime of moral turpitude” are deportable if they were admitted by the U S within five years and the crime carries a sentence of at least one year

Prosecutors said last semester said Greenwood, who is 20 and white, punched a black student, Solomon Shewit ’19, in the face, causing Shewit’s nose to bleed and face to swell Shewit later spoke to The Sun from the hospital, where he said a concussion screening came back negative

Tompkins County’s district attorney, Matthew Van

attempted assault in the third degree as a hate crime and aggravated harassment in the second degree, stemming from the altercation

Van Houten also charged Greenwood with criminal mischief in the fourth degree, saying the student had knocked a phone out of a witness’s hand and stomped on it after she recorded him following the altercation with Shewit

All three charges are misdemeanors and each carries a maximum penalty of up to one year in jail

“As a citizen of Canada, studying in the United States on a student visa, a conviction for either attempted assault as a hate crime or aggravated harassment would

Greenwood,” Fischetti wrote in the motion

The attempted assault and aggravated harassment charges, Fischetti wrote, both count as crimes of “moral turpitude” under federal immigration law and a convict

deportable and inadmissible, meaning he would not be able to re-enter the U S in the immediate future

Greenwood grew up in Toronto, according to a nowdeleted profile on the Cornell athletics website, and may have first received his student visa to study at Deerfield

Academy in Massachusetts, from which he graduated in May 2016

The prestigious private school has since been reckoning with the arrest of its alumnus, according to the high school newspaper, The Deerfield Scroll Fischetti noted the possible deportation in a 101-page omnibus motion arguing, among other things, that the charges against Greenwood should be dismissed

If Greenwood is convicted, he will likely be expelled from Cornell University, “ not only forfeiting his right to a Cornell degree,” Fischetti wrote, “but branding him as someone that has been expelled, and greatly limiting his chances of enrolling in another quality academic institution ”

Fischetti previously confirmed that Greenwood is on leave from Cornell and that the University’s judicial case against him is on hold until the criminal case concludes Greenwood “plans to stay ” at the University, Fischetti said in November

“A four-year degree from Cornell was a lifelong dream for Mr Greenwood,” Fischetti said in the motion “A conviction here would erase that opportunity ”

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‘Voluminous’ Motion Raises Questions About Hate Crime Charge

Lawyer for Greenwood ’20 confirms he was a member of Psi Upsilon; argues dispute took place inside

outside the Psi Upsilon fraternity house, Mr Greenwood’s fraternity, was defaced ”

cation shows a man appearing to be Greenwood telling another student not Shewit “ come fight us, nigger,” and Greenwood later apologized for “abhorrent language”

Van Houten said the “voluminous nature ” of Fischetti’s motion “speaks to the resources that the defendant is willing to throw at defending himself and going on the offensive ” He declined to discuss Fischetti’s specific arguments, saying he would answer them with his responding motion, which is due in court on March 14

BLOOD DROPS

Fischetti argued in the court filing that Shewit “had trespassed into Mr Greenwood's home in anger ” before the altercation, citing a New York State Police bloodstain analysis that found traces of Shewit’s blood in the “interior entry area ” of Greenwood’s apartment

Shewit told the police that Greenwood punched him on the walkway near Greenwood’s front porch after Shewit had run after him and others he said had called him the slur But Fischetti argues otherwise

“If there was a physical encounter, it occurred inside the home where Mr Greenwood and the others were permitted to defend themselves with no duty to retreat against an angr y trespassing intruder,” Fischetti said, noting that none of the prosecutor ’ s witnesses report witnessing the assault

“Shewit began bleeding inside the home, not on the pathway as he has repeatedly sworn, ” Fischetti wrote

PSI UPSILON

Students have said Greenwood’s home at 306 Eddy St , near where the whole encounter occurred, was the unofficial Psi Upsilon annex, and the most immediate effect of Greenwood’s arrest was the permanent shuttering, four days later, of the Chi Chapter of Psi Upsilon at Cornell

Fischetti made the first public acknowledgement of Greenwood’s connection to the fraternity, saying in the motion that the incident “ so inflamed the community that a wall

The executive director of the international Psi Upsilon office has said that no initiated members of the fraternity, which was suspended in spring of 2016, were involved in the September altercation, but that some members were recruiting members while Psi Upsilon was suspended

UNLAWFUL ARREST?

Fischetti argued that Ithaca Police unlawfully arrested Greenwood The lawyer cites unreleased police body camera video that he says shows Greenwood backed into his home after Shewit pointed him out to police

“If there was a physical encounter, it occurred inside the home against an ... intruder.”

R o n a l d P F i s c h e t t i

At that point, Fischetti argued, police needed a warrant to enter Greenwood’s home and arrest him, because the underlying offense was a misdemeanor and there was “ no reason to believe he would flee, destroy evidence, or presented a danger to others ”

The arrest was a “brazen violation” of the U S and state constitutions, Fischetti said, and “added one more unjustified humiliation to those he has suffered ”

FAIR TRIAL

If the case does go to trial, Fischetti requested that the trial take place in a neighboring county, arguing that the media attention has been intense and unfair, that Tompkins County residents have “ strong negative views of fraternities at Cornell,” and that Greenwood’s wealth and use of slurs are likely to bias jurors against him

Fischetti’s law firm, Fischetti & Malgieri LLP, hired several polling companies to conduct an online and telephone survey of 433 jury-eligible citizens in Tompkins County A jury in the city court trial would be comprised of City of Ithaca residents, who make up about 30 percent of the county popula-

tion

The survey found that more than a third of county residents had heard or read about a white Cornell student accused of calling a black student a slur and physically assaulting him and, of those, that about 46 percent felt the charged student was “ most likely guilty of a crime ”

About 77 5 percent of those surveyed had a negative opinion of Cornell fraternities and about 78 percent said they agreed that “wealthy people seem to be treated more favorably than others by the criminal justice system ”

The motion to transfer the trial also notes that the case “has been covered in more than 135 news stories published and televised by national and local media outlets, with a concentration in Tompkins County, especially from The Cornell Daily Sun and Ithaca Voice ”

“Apart from the taint caused by media coverage, Mr Greenwood’s race and/or his alleged use of racial slurs are likely to bias the residents of Tompkins County against him,” Fischetti wrote

Fischetti also said quotations from Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 in The Sun in September in which he said, before the hate crime charge was added, that he believed the assault was a hate crime are “especially damaging ”

‘LOVES

CORNELL’

Greenwood, who has been studying business at the European School of Economics in Italy while on leave from Cornell, would likely be expelled from the University if he is convicted, his lawyer said The lawyer also said Greenwood, a Canadian citizen, would be deported and “exiled” from the U S following a conviction

Fischetti had previously confirmed that Greenwood is on leave and that the University’s case against Greenwood, handled by the Office of the Judicial Administrator, is on hold until the criminal case concludes Greenwood “loves Cornell” and plans to stay at the University, Fischetti said

The criminal mischief charge against Greenwood stems from the prosecutor ’ s claim that Greenwood knocked an iPhone out of a witness’s hand and stomped on it

Fischetti responded in the motion that Greenwood “could reasonably have believed he had a right to take reasonable self-help measure to eject complainant from the property, as well as stop her from making a video recording while on private property ”

Fischetti also revealed a few more details about Greenwood, a 2016 graduate of Deerfield Academy who was studying in the SC Johnson College of Business until his arrest and was, according to his lawyer, a captain of the men ’ s varsity squash club at Cornell during his freshman year The team ’ s coach said earlier this year that Greenwood would have been a “ top player ”

Fischetti said Greenwood co-founded Busta Sports in the summer of 2014 a sports blog that Fischetti said received a buyout offer from Grantland but the site stopped posting in December of 2013 Fischetti did not respond to an email requesting an interview over the weekend

The motion also includes letters of support from family friends, a soccer coach, a squash coach and the director of his kindergarten, who said that Greenwood “ was a high achiever (even at this early stage of development) ”

Fischetti attached a copy of a polygraph examination the likes of which are not allowed to be presented to a jury in New York courts to the motion that reports Greenwood was being truthful when he told the proctor that Shewit was inside his house when he was assaulted and that he had not caused injuries to Shewit’s nose or face

Fischetti is an elite New York lawyer probably most widely known for defending a New York police officer implicated in the 1997 sexual assault of Abner Louima, an episode of police brutality that commanded national attention

Fischetti also represented Gene Gotti in a racketeering case, and The New York Times said in 2002 that Fischetti prospers “by helping white-collar defendants, errant politicians and affluent thugs ”

The lawyer grew up in Brooklyn and is the son of a mailman and a telephone operator, according to that interview with The Times

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Albany

By DYLAN McDEVITT and RAPHY GENDLER Sun Sports Editor and Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With a little over three minutes on the clock Sunday, it looked as though unranked Cornell men ’ s lacrosse was about to pull off the impossible, but a late-game rally by No 1 Albany sunk the Red in the game ’ s waning minutes to squash the upset bid

“We threw different things at [Ierlan], and four different guys took faceoffs and we didn’t have success with any of it ”

Cornell (1-2) took a 9-7 lead over the Great Danes (30) with 7:28 to play on a goal from senior midfielder Jordan Dowiak The Red’s defense held steady for a few minutes thereafter, but was ultimately unable to keep the nation’s best offense at bay in crunch time, surrendering four goals in the game ’ s final 3:18 and losing, 11-9

“It started with a man-up that they got a call and that was the one that bounced off a guy ’ s foot or something and went in,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman “ That gave them some new life on offense ”

Senior goaltender Christian Knight finished the game with 19 saves, tied for his career-high, for a 633 percentage

“ We did a good part of executing most of our game plan,” Milliman said “Obviously we wanted to win some more faceoffs and make some more shots, but I think in general on defense we forced them into places where [Knight] was going to be able to see the ball best ”

After its worst two-year stretch in more than a decade, the Red (1-2) was looking to pick up its second win of the season to secure a record above 500 for the first time in nearly two years A win against top-ranked Albany would have been Cornell’s first against a national No 1 since beating Syracuse in April 2011

Albany’s JD Ierlan trounced Cornell on faceoffs, allowing the Great Danes to control play in the middle of the field Albany won all 24 faceoffs

“I thought our guys did a good job of preparing, and then we went out today and just got beat by a position,”

Almost | The Red led late in its contest against Albany on Sunday, but the Great Danes rattled off four goals in the game’s final 3:18 to claim an 11-9 victory

Milliman said “ We threw different things at [Ierlan], and four different guys took faceoffs and we didn’t have success with any of it ” Ierlan won all 24 faceoffs for the Great Danes Milliman said the team will focus on faceoffs in upcoming practices to improve control in the middle of the field

“I don’t know if I’ve seen a guy who’s that hard to game plan against at that position, because he’s just faster than ever ybody else at it,” Milliman said of the Albany faceoff man “ We had a really hard time keeping up with his quickness ”

Dowiak got Cornell on the board in the first quarter when he made an alley dodge and buried one unassisted

Red Downs Dartmouth in Final Regular Season Game

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push extended the squad’s lead back to double digits with just over two minutes remaining, and safely secured a victor y In clinching a postseason berth, the R e d s e c u r e s a d a t e w i t h t o p - s e e d e d Har vard in the first round of the conference tournament In its two previous two matchups, Cornell fell to the Crimson by close margins of 76-73 and 98-88

“ We know Har vard’s ver y good, we ’ ve

already played them tight twice now, so we just have to figure out a couple things to get across the finish line,” Earl said “ We’re excited that we won and that we ’ re in, but we ’ re also ver y excited to get to w o r k a n d g e t a n o t h e r s h o t a t Har vard ”

The Red faces off against the Crimson at the Palestra in Philadelphia on March 10 at 12:30 p m

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Morgan Ties Career-High in Loss

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with that deep three, but sometimes they just don’t fall,” Earl said “He’s a special talent with what he can do on and off the ball, and what he did tonight was impressive ”

Junior Stone Gettings had 23 points and six rebounds to bear some of the offensive burden, but the for ward fouled out with three minutes in overtime to make it the Matt Morgan show the rest of the way Junior Steven Julian was the third Red player in double figures and continued to showcase his recent increased offensive role with 10 points and 12 rebounds

“Stone has the ball a lot for a guy his size and for him to go out down the stretch, it really [hurt] us at the ver y end,” Earl said

Whereas Cornell was able to redress its first-half shooting woes at the free throw line, the narrative reversed in the final minutes of the game The Red gave up seven free throws in the final minute to allow the Crimson to seal the game at the charity stripe

behind Albany goaltender JD Colarusso Dowiak would add three more on the day, leading the offensive charge for his team as it tried to topple the national No 1 squad

Junior midfielder Jake McCulloch added two goals and one assist of his own and freshman attack John Piatelli notched his first collegiate goal en route to a three-point performance

The Red is back in action early this week when it takes on Binghamton at Schoellkopf Field at 5 p m Tuesday

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Baseball Swept by Duke

Cornell allows 22 runs in three games, falls to 0-6

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Hoopers Punch Ticket to Ivy League Tournament

Cornell downs Dartmouth and gets help from rivals Harvard and Yale

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Senior Writer

Lady Luck certainly shined upon Cornell men ’ s basketball tonight

Following Friday’s overtime loss in a crucial game to Harvard, the Red (12-15, 6-8 Ivy) headed into its season closer against Dartmouth (7-20, 3-11) without control of its own destiny on the final day of conference play

Yet, fate smiled upon Cornell as all the chips fell into place the squad downed Dartmouth in an 86-75 decision, while rivals Princeton and Columbia lost their final matches to Yale and Harvard respectively to clinch its first-ever Ivy postseason tournament berth

“It was such a strange way to get into the tournament with the help of our friends [Harvard and Yale ]”

“We’re obviously excited to get into the tournament, and it was such a strange way to get into the tournament with the help of our friends [Harvard and Yale],” said head coach Brian Earl “We played well today and I can ’ t imagine what the guys are feeling right now ”

With a Harvard win against Columbia earlier in the night, the Red was forced to wait for Yale to squeeze out a 94-90 overtime victory over Princeton following its own game before it could officially punch its ticket to the Ivy postseason

“We had the game on the TV in overtime and cheering for a Yale jersey was a surreal moment that I had never imagined,” said senior captain Jordan Abdur-Ra’oof “It still seems unreal and I’m just really hoping I’ll still be able to wear my Cornell jersey for the next few weeks ”

A dominant all-around performance helped the Red pull out the win against a Dartmouth team that refused to go away despite several Cornell runs Five players scored in double figures as Cornell ran its classic Princeton-style

offense to perfection down the stretch As a whole, the squad shot an efficient 63 percent from the field and hit nine 3-pointers

“It was definitely the team effort and huge stops that helped us down the stretch,” said senior captain Kyle Brown “We’ve also been working on cutting, screening and passing at the right times, and today it all came together at the right times ” Juniors Matt Morgan and Jack Gordon led the Red each with 16 points apiece Junior Steven Julian and sophomore Josh Warren each added another 11 points, and junior Stone Gettings rounded out scoring with 10

The Cornell reserves also played a key role, as the Red had 43 bench points in the high-scoring affair A final late-game

Playoff hopes remain alive despite O.T. loss to Harvard

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Senior Wr ter

Junior Matt Morgan had a sensational performance for the Cornell men ’ s basketball team in a must-win against Har vard on Friday

Unfortunately, it just wasn ’ t enough

The guard willed the game into overtime with a traditional three-point play at the end of regulation and tied his career-high with 34 points, but the Red faltered down the stretch against a Harvard squad which has now tied with Penn as the top-seeded team in the conference with its 98-88 win

“It was a tough game, and our guys gave a great effort, but we ran out of gas there at the end,” said head coach Brian Earl “It was a difficult loss, but when guys are playing 50 minutes and still giving the effort they gave, there’s a lot to be proud of ”

Cornell staged its defense well for much of the extra time, but the squad struggled to find enough offense down the stretch as Harvard outscored the Red, 10-1, in in the second overtime period

“The guys were definitely tired, Harvard jumped into a zone, and we had to make and take a couple shots that we passing up earlier, so we felt it a little bit down the stretch,” Earl said

Morgan was sensational throughout the game and matched a previous career high of 34 points to lead the offense The guard shot an efficient 54 percent from the field and hit six 3-pointers on a 43 percent clip, but rimmed out a long potential game winning three at the end of the first overtime

“We leaned on [Morgan] a lot tonight on the offensive end, and he almost won it for us

Red Loses Heartbreaker in ECAC Semis

ck, scoring than four to tie the aken comst and secconsecutive the Red’s termission, mmanding

nds waned, ornell had

comeback furious enough to send the game to overtime, but Eldridge had other ideas With just one second on the clock, the for ward snuck one past j

n e Boissonnault on a power play to ice the game for Colgate

The Red is eliminated from the conference playoffs and will await the fate of its season Sunday evening, when the NCAA announces the teams selected to play in the NCAA tournament

Colgate advanced to the conference final on Sunday, where it fell to No 2 Clarkson, 3-0

Without a conference title, the Red needs an at-large bid to make the national playoffs other wise its season is over

Clarkson in the ECAC championship

Knights in the NCAA tournament

The eight-team field is expected to be announced at 9 p m Sunday on NCAA com