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S.A., U.A. Agree: Table College of Business Community members also vote against college plan

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Following intense debate at the Student Assembly meeting Thursday, the S.A. voted 200-3 to officially recommend that the Board of Trustees delay approval of the newly proposed College of Business.

The S.A.’s vote comes after the University Assembly passed a resolution earlier this week and the Faculty Senate passed a resolution in December that also asked trustees to reconsider the College of Business plans.

The meeting, which opened with an open forum, saw many students split in their views toward the proposed establishment of the new college. Kelly McDarby ’16 said after transfer-

ring from the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management to the School of Hotel Administration her junior year she recognized the value of its highly specialized programs.

“Once I transferred I realized how strong the hotel program and its alumni network is,” McDarby said. “All the classes are focused specifically on hospitality.”

She also said she feared the academic quality of programs would suffer if schools were merged “The hotel school really is high value and this might be diluted substantially by combining it with [Dyson and the Johnson Graduate See COLLEGE OF BUSINESS page 4

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

Divestment discussions | Prof. David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, urges trustees to divest last October.

After all five of Cornell’s shared governance assemblies urged Cornell’s Board of Trustees to divest the University’s endowment from fossil fuel and oil and gas companies last October, the trustees will discuss the possibility of divestment again during their meetings in New York City this weekend, according to John Carberry, senior director of University media relations.

In an interview with The Sun in November, President Elizabeth Garrett said she anticipated the trustees would come to a decision on the issue of divestment during their first meeting in 2016.

“The trustees are now putting in place a method through which they would think about these issues of divestment, because we anticipate that this is not going to

ing a College of Business in the Willard Straight Memorial Room Thursday.

Garrett, Kotlikoff host phone conference to hear concerns

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Open forum | Cornell community students and the S.A. debate the merits of establish-

Students,Alumni Fear Business College Merger Will Lower Rankings

Divestment On Trustee’s Weekend Agenda

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be the last request for divestment stemming from a policy concern that will become before the board,” Garrett said. “So they want to put in place a way for people to understand how to present these issues to the board and a way to consider them.”

Garrett also said she believed the trustees took the views and concerns of Cornell students, faculty and staff seriously.

During the open session of their full board meeting on campus last October, the trustees heard a presentation from Prof.

David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, who spoke on behalf of sponsors from the Student Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Employee Assembly, the Faculty Senate and the University Assembly, See DIVESTMENT page 4

Ahead of the Board of Trustee’s vote on the creation of the College of Business this Saturday, 15 hand-picked students and alumni aired their concerns regarding the College of Business over a phone conference with President Elizabeth Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff last Saturday.

The phone conference — originally slated to be an in-person meeting during the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Philadelphia that was canceled during the East Coast blizzard Jonas — was meant to be a

Numerous shared governance forum for dialogue between administrators and students and assemblies, which include the alumni that objected to the cre- Faculty Senate, the Student Assembly, and the ation of the college.

University Since the Assembly, have also announcement of the passed resolutions or proposed College of recommendations Business last urging the tabling of December, many the College of Cornellians have Business plans. expressed concern over Multiple alumni or outright opposed have joined the the plans to merge the KOTLIKOFF movement, threatSchool of Hotel ening to pull money Administration, the Charles H. Dyson School of from Cornell’s endowment and Applied Economics and the criticizing the administration’s Samuel Curtis Johnson lack of consultation with Graduate School of See CONFERENCE page 5 Management.

C.U.Data Allowance Rises to 150GB Per User

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Users of Cornell’s wi-fi network now have an extra 50 gigabytes per month after Cornell Information Technology Services increased its free monthly data allocation to 150 GB per user this semester.

Students who use the network will incur charges only after exceeding this initial 150 GB, and can monitor their monthly usage through Cornell’s Network Usage-Based Billing.

The University aims to have

90 to 95 percent of the users of the network covered by the allocation, according to Beth Lyons, associate chief information officer of Cornell I.T. Services. After seeing that the percentage of users covered start to dip below 90 percent, she said Cornell I.T. made the decision to increase the data allocation.

“Most of the usage comes from students, so our goal there is to balance what their allocation is against what the network can support,” Lyons said.

She added that the University only covers 90 to 95 percent and

not 100 percent of users through the data allocation, to ensure that the additional five to 10 percent of users that exceed the usage allocation are not subsidized by the rest of the users.

“We cannot overbuild the network [to] meet 100 percent of the needs and it would not be fair to do so, because then everyone else would be subsidizing the highest users,” Lyons said.

To put the current data allocation into perspective, according to the online data usage calSee DATA page 5

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Quotes of the Week News, “Cornell to Create College of Business” Monday Speaking about the union of departments from three different schools “Cornell intends to establish a single, unified College of Business, with the goal of cementing the University’s position as a world-class center of teaching, research and engagement for business management and entrepreneurship..”

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Opinion, “A Lack of Transparency,” Wednesday Speaking about the Faculty Senate’s recommendation to table plans for the College of Business “The purpose of involving the faculty in major decisions is to improve the quality of those decisions by engaging knowledgeable people whose interests are affected..”

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University Counsel to Retire Three Cornellians During his tenure, Mingle oversaw over 1,000 litigation cases on the University’s behalf, with over 98 percent of the cases resolved in Cornell’s favor either in court or in settleJames Mingle, University counsel and secretary of the ments outside of court, Mingle said in the release.

President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings III praised Cornell Board of Trustees, will retire on June 30 after more Mingle’s skill in litigation, commending than 20 years at Cornell, the University Mingle’s efforts to strengthen University copyannounced Wednesday. rights and to unify policy among the Cornell “It has been a privilege to be surrounded by a campuses. superb group of professionals [at Cornell] … “[Mingle] led several important efforts to who bring dedication and competence to everyprotect faculty members’ intellectual property, thing they do,” Mingle said in a University and he helped to draw the Weill Cornell release.

Medical College and the Ithaca campus closer While working as University counsel, Mingle together,” Rawlings said. “[His tenure] is … was responsible for directing and coordinating marked by first-rate achievements.” the University’s legal affairs in all facets of its MINGLE President Elizabeth Garrett, who said she was operation, ranging from its academic programs grateful for Mingle’s assistance during her tranto its research and medical efforts.

One of Mingle’s recent achievements, was establishing sition into her new position at Cornell, also said that the legal means for Cornell to acquire its Cornell Tech Mingle was of “extraordinary service to Cornell.”

“Mingle has provided … invaluable guidance to its prescampus in New York City, which the University won the bid for in December 2011, according to President idents and members of the Board of Trustees,” Garrett said.

Before arriving at Cornell, Mingle had been an assistant Emeritus David J. Skorton. Skorton said, Mingle was a “consummate counsel and colleague” who had a hand in attorney general who headed the educational affairs division of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. He came many of Cornell’s major advancements.

Peter C. Meinig ’62, chair emeritus of the Board of to Cornell in 1995 from a legal counseling position for the University of Virginia, and now also holds an adjunct posiTrustees, echoed Skorton’s sentiments.

“Through careful guidance of Cornell’s policies, opera- tion at the Cornell Law School in addition to his counseltions and governance, [Mingle] helped broaden the ing and secretarial positions.

University’s reach and academic influence in the United States and abroad,” Meinig said.

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

By JEANETTE SI

Sun Staff Writer

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C.U. Robotics Startup Revolutionizes Hospitality

By ISABEL LING Sun Staff Writer

Maidbot is to win in the semi-final round, the startup will be able to pitch to investors in Austin, Texas, in March.

Inspired by the television show The Jetsons, Maidbot is a robot created to assist hotel room attendants with housekeeping tasks.

Micah Green ’18, a co-founder of the company, had previously worked as a

Maidbot, an Ithaca-based startup run

by Cornell students that combines hospitality and robotics, has gained attention in several competitions around the country, most recently competing against 14 other college startups in the RECESS Pitch Competition earlier this month.

“With this new automated system we Maidbot also took home the top spot in the LaunchNY were really excited to revolutionize and Startup Pitch Competition last transform the hospitality industry.”

July. The startup is also currently competing in the Micah Green ’18 Cornell’s annual Hospitality Business Plan Competition, which was sponsored by the Leland C. room attendant at a hotel. After recogand Mary M. Pillsbury Institute this past nizing flaws in the room attendant syswinter. Competing against seven other tem, he said he saw an opportunity for teams, Maidbot will pitch their final robots in the industry.

“Hospitality as a whole is very tradiconcept in March this year to judges during the Hotel Ezra Cornell confer- tional and old fashioned,” Green said.

“With this new automated system we ence.

Additionally, Maidbot was were really excited to revolutionize and announced as one of 32 semi-finalists in transform the hospitality industry.”

Maidbot sets out to improve efficienthe Student Startup Madness competition — a collegiate startup tournament cy in hospitality by lowering the cost of at SXSW — earlier this month. If cleaning rooms and the injury rates of

room attendants while increasing consistency of cleanliness in hotel rooms, according to the startup’s website.

The current prototype was created to clean hotel room floors autonomously, however, Green said he hoped Maidbot will eventually be able to accomplish bigger tasks, including making hotel beds.

Green said the founders of Maidbot used their understanding of the hospitality industry to create a commercial product for everyday use in hotels.

“We’re designing this for a particular use, we specifically want to create a commercial robot,” Green said. “A Roomba burns out, batteries melt, the time efficiency isn’t there, it doesn’t clean fast enough or well enough. … We know what [hotels] need.”

The company has worked closely with Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, and is based out of REV Accelerator Program — a startup incubator located in Ithaca. Maidbot was also supported by Life Changing Lab’s summer incubator program last summer.

Isabel Ling can be reached at iling@cornellsun.com.

Receive Schwarzman Scholarship Awards

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

Three Cornellians — Juliana Batista ’16, Atticus DeProspo ’15 and Andrew Schoen ’12 — were named 2016 Schwarzman Scholars, the University announced Jan. 11. This fall, they will live and study at the new Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China’s most prestigious universities.

These scholars will pursue a one-year master’s DEPROSPO ’15 degree in public policy, economics and business or studies, international according to the University.

The 111-member inaugural class was selected from a pool of over 3,000 applicants from 135 countries. Cornell is among five Ivy League universities to BATISTA ’16 have more than two Schwarzman Scholars, the University said.

Batista, an industrial and labor relations major and Student Assembly president, said she believed what distinguished the winners was a strong personal narrative and an abilSCHOEN ’12 ity to conect their narrative to “the escalating presence of China on an international stage.”

“I hope that a year at Tsinghua University through Schwarzman College will allow the exploration of the world's complex intertwining economies from a Chinese perspective,” Batista said. “I also anticipate shedding my normative assumptions to engage in a positive understanding-driven involvement there.”

After the program, she said she hopes to pursue a career in international investing at the World Bank.

“I will bring my previous knowledge about financial markets, corporate social investing and macroeconomics to Schwarzman but build upon them to develop a global perspective,” she said.

“Ultimately, I would like to alternate between the public and private sectors and utilize my soft skills to impact both communities.”

Deprospo is an ILR alumnus, who was a member of the Cornell varsity men’s soccer team and the president and founder of Cornell Athlete Ally — an LGBT organization that aims to make the “I met over 123 Cornell athletic people who ... community a challenged me to be more inclusive environment. a better person.”

DeProspo credits his time at Atticus Deprospo ’15 Cornell as a major factor in his decision to apply for a Schwarzman Scholarship.

“I met over 123 people who inspired me and challenged me to become a better person and leader,” DeProspo said. “The combination of my educational and extracurricular experiences provided me with the motivation and foundation to pursue the Schwarzman Scholarship.”

He added that he is excited to immerse himself in the intellectually stimulating community of scholars and to apply his new knowledge at the program’s completion.

“I look forward to returning to the United States after my year in China and using the experience to continue to advocate for social justice issues,” DeProspo said.

Deprospo also said he hopes to learn how young leaders can help shape global policies that See SCHWARZMAN page 5

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S.A. Says No to College of Business COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Regardless, continued support from additional representatives prompted a unanimous 22-0-0 decision to vote on the recommendation. The Student School of Management] as far as education and Assembly then voted 18-0-3 to adopt the recommenalumni networking and loyalty,” McDarby said. dation. Additionally, members of the community Casey McClaran ’17 was one of several students to were allowed to take part in the vote. After polling support the creation of a combined business college, the audience, the community largely supported the arguing the unification will allow for new opportuni- recommendation, which resulted in two additional ties such as expertise exchange and career explo- votes for a total of 20-0-3 in favor of the recommenration. dation.

“All undergraduate students will have more access S.A. members expressed varying levels of support to Johnson M.B.A. candidates who are enthusiastic for the recommendation especially as students in about sharing their expertise and skills,” she said. attendance remained divided on the topic. Matthew “The combination of career resources, research Stefanko ’16, S.A. vice president for finance, said that opportunities and a few, though certainly not all he preferred that the S.A. not adopt a stance that courses, will benefit all undergraduates giving us large numbers of Cornell students were potentially more flexibility.” against.

After a lengthy discussion, Gabriel Kaufman ’18, “We only have 15 to 20 students in front of us S.A. undesignated at large representative, said that here,” Stefanko said. “There are clearly students who regardless of whether or not the new College of are very comfortable with [the decision] going to the Business is appropriate, Board of Trustees.” the Cornell community Diana Li ’17, S.A. “We all can agree that this appears to undesignated had not been allowed at large enough time to provide be more or less strategically done to not representative, said that feedback for the issue. merging the Dyson and promote community feedback.”

“I think that whether hotel schools into a sinyou think this is a good gle business school Gabriel Kaufman ’18 idea or a bad idea we all would take away from can agree that this “the intrinsic value that appears to be more or less strategically done to not draws a lot of people to the specific things that make promote community feedback,” Kaufman said. Cornell what it is,” adding that prestigious programs “When [Provost Michael Kotlikoff] announced this such as the hotel school are “part of our identity” and on Dec. 14, half of the students were gone and for that incorporating them into a single business school the next six weeks everyone was gone.” would reduce what makes them special.

Kaufman then motioned for the S.A. to adopt a She continued that more information is needed recommendation that the Board of Trustees “table before a final decision is made. She also compared the the proposal for the College of Business to allow new business school to the Wharton School of the more time for community feedback.”

University of Pennsylvania, warning that separation S.A. President Juliana Batista ’16 raised concerns within the student community could result. about the recommendation as the original purpose “Wharton’s campus is very much cult-like and is for the meeting was to gather feedback from students very polarized from the rest of the student body to to present to the Board and not to take an official the extent that you are basically not allowed into stance on the matter.

Wharton groups unless you have a Wharton email “The Student Assembly isn’t necessarily the deci- address,” Li said of her prior experience as a summer sion maker here,” Batista said. “[We will say to the research assistant at the Wharton School of Business.

Board,] ‘Here are the common threads of the conver- “That is not the not the example I want for this camsation, these are specific quotes students in the com- pus. munity and S.A. said and we would like you to represent that student voice.’ That’s specifically why we Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun.com. tried to have this meeting today.”

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C.U.Divestment Debate Upcoming DIVESTMENT

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which had all passed resolutions supporting the University’s divestment from the fossil fuel industry.

“This unanimity of campus constituencies, as voiced through their elected representatives, is unprecedented in Cornell’s history,” Shalloway said during the October meeting. “If shared governance is to have any real meaning, this unanimous decision should be respected.”

Following the presentation, the trustees spoke seriously about divestment acknowledging the large number of Cornellians that have supported the movement.

Ahead of last October’s trustee meetings, a letter calling for divestment that was addressed to Garrett and the trustees gained over 1,200 signatures in just over a week of circulation, The Sun previously reported.

However, despite the trustees’ serious consideration of divestment, Garrett said that she “oppose[s] divestment in fossil fuel companies” due to the University’s need to ensure that its endowment continues to earn sufficient returns to continue to fund programs, scholarships and professorships.

“I share a lot of the concerns that those who support divestment do,” she said. “I just don’t

think divestment is the right way to go about addressing those concerns.”

Additionally, Garrett said that due to Cornell’s marginal weight in the total value of the oil and gas companies, divestment is “very unlikely to have any impact on any decision by an oil and gas company or fossil fuels company.”

“The 100 oil and gas companies with the largest carbon reserves have a combined value of three trillion dollars,” she said.

“Our share of them is 0.00001 percent, or 24 million.”

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

Orange County Jail English Teacher Arrested for Helping Three Escape SANTA ANA, Calif.

(AP) — A woman who taught English classes at a Southern California jail was arrested Thursday on suspicion of helping three inmates — including an alleged killer — escape the lockup, and the men are believed to be

riding around in a stolen van.

Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, of Lake Forest, was arrested nearly a week after the men — one an alleged killer — cut their way through steel bars, climbed through plumbing tunnels,

made their way to the roof, cut razor wire and, using rope made of braided bedsheets, rappelled four stories to freedom from the roof of the Orange County Central Men’s Jail. The escape on Jan. 22 wasn’t noticed for 16 hours.

It was the first escape

from the maximumsecurity lockup in more than 20 years.

Ravaghi was taken into custody about an hour before the arrest was announced Thursday afternoon and remained jailed. It was unclear whether she had an attorney.

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Students, Alumni Fear Monthly Data Limit Expanded Hotel School, Dyson University to increase data cap to 150 GB per month School Rankings Drop DATA

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Cornellians before their decision. They have also found fault with the lack of information available on the funding and structure of the proposed college.

Additionally, alumni expressed concerns during the phone conference that while theJohnson School’s ranking would improve with the creation of the new college, the hotel school and the Dyson school rankings would suffer as a result, according to William Eaton ’61, who participated in the conversation and was a former member of the Board of Trustees from 2007-2011.

“There were all these references [from administrators] on how [the College of Business] would improve the hotel and Dyson School,” Eaton stated. “It’s tough to improve on number one. You can get better, there’s no doubt there, but improve sounds like you’re going to get a better ranking, and along the way, Johnson gets to be top tier.”

Most recently, the Johnson Graduate School of Management was ranked the 16th best graduate business school by Bloomberg Business, while the Dyson School was ranked the third best undergraduate business school.

“If we [the hotel school] lose our number one rating ... everything disappears,” Eaton said. “Nowhere has the placing of a hospitality school within a school or college of business been successful.”

While administrators hope that trustees will vote to change the University charter Saturday and approve the creation of the College of Business, Eaton said he had hoped the phone conversation would buy time before the trustees made their decision.

“We want to at least get it on the side where we can slow it down and have some time to negotiate,” Eaton added.

Kotlikoff will also host an open forum on Feb. 2 to allow students to raise concerns or ask questions about the College of Business.

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun.com.

culator cableone.net, the 150 GB would allow students up to 140 hours per month of high definition video streaming or four and a half hours of HD video streaming per day.

The University has seen data usage on the network grow dramatically over time with the rise of numerous video streaming services and smartphone devices. Cornell I.T. has been using the current allocation method since 2003, at which point each user was allocated only 2 GB, according to Lyons.

To set the data allocation cap, the University tracks, monitors and projects data usage, Lyons said. Typically the University does not change the data allocation more than “once a year” because it takes usually a year to track the data usage patterns that are established, she said.

“We cannot tune it precisely month to month,

but some of it comes down to what the network infrastructure changes need to be,” Lyons said. “In this case we just changed the allocation and the billing cap, and we already had a plan underway to change the four routers, so all of this is a constant effort to keep the network to what the University demands are.”

Some students have reacted positively to the University’s attention to student complaints.

Danny Qiu ’19, who works as a service desk consultant with Cornell I.T., said the changes will help reduce the number of students who exceed the cap.

“Students frequently complain about how easy it is to use up all 100 GB of data,” Qiu said.

“Seeing this data cap increase leads me to believe that Cornell is certainly listening to the voices and concerns of the students.”

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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young leaders can help shape global policies that benefit the U.S.-China relationship.

“I believe the Schwarzman Scholars program can create a network of future leaders from countries all around the world, where we can learn from one another and create lifelong relationships,” DeProspo

said.

Schoen, the third Cornell recipient, studied economics and engineering and also created the Cornell Venture Capital club during his time as an undergraduate. He currently works as a venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates.

Schoen said he hopes to use the Schwarzman scholarship to get to know the leaders of influential Chinese technology companies and

understand the Chinese technology business ecosystem while in Beijing.

After Cornell, he worked as an analyst at Blackstone — an asset management and advisory firm — where he met Stephen Schwarzman, the founder and CEO of Blackstone Group and the founder of the Schwarzman Scholarship program.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

Obama Promises Party Trump Says He Wanted to Attend Faithful Democrats Will Republican Debate,But Had to Skip It Win November Election BALTIMORE (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday promised his most fervent supporters on Capitol Hill the “Democrats will win in November” and said it’s going to take more than “phony tough talk and bluster” to defeat Islamic militants.

Appearing before House Democrats at a retreat in Baltimore, Obama said the country is “doing a lot better” than when he took office, citing progress against Islamic State forces and curbing Iran’s nuclear program — as well as lower gas prices, 18 million people gaining health insurance and 5 percent unemployment.

In a not-so-veiled shot at GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said the U.S. won’t strengthen itself “by allowing politicians to insult Muslims or pit groups of Americans against each other.”

Obama defended his global leadership against a chorus of GOP attacks from Trump and other presidential candidates. He said the U.S. and a coalition of more than 60 countries continues “to hunt down and destroy ISIL, including with nearly 10,000 air strikes.”

“We’re not going to build progress with a bunch of phony tough talk and bluster and overthe-top claims that just play into ISIL’s hands,” Obama said.

“That’s not keeping America safe.”

Obama chided Republicans for opposing him at every turn.

“Sometimes I get a little frustrated that we don’t run back the tapes to what Republicans said back then” when predicting his policies wouldn’t work, Obama said. He noted that his 2012 presidential opponent, Mitt Romney, promised 6 percent unemployment but it has already dropped to 5 percent.

“At each juncture, every single one of the steps we took, they said the opposite. Wanted to go in a different direction, claimed that our policies would crush jobs and destroy the economy,” Obama said. “Do people remember that?”

On the upcoming elections, Obama promised that “we will have a Democratic president succeeding me. ... And the reason I can say that with confidence is because we focus on the things that matter in the lives of the American people.”

During the closed-door back and forth with lawmakers, according to an aide in the room, Obama defended his administration’s deportations of migrants from Central America and said bipartisan action was possible on criminal justice reform and in combating opioid abuse. He promised action on Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump opened a Thursday rally coinciding with the final GOP debate before Monday’s Iowa caucuses by telling supporters he would have preferred to be at the debate, but had no choice but to skip it after promising a boycott.

Angry over an escalating feud with debate host Fox News, Trump bowed out of the debate and held what his team called a “Special Event to Benefit Veterans Organizations” at a packed 775-seat auditorium at nearby Drake University instead.

“You have to stick up for your rights.

When you’re treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights,” Trump told the crowd. “We have to stick up for ourselves as people and we have to stick up for our country if we’re being mistreated.”

Speaking from the stage at what felt like a cross between a televised fundraising

telethon and a typical Trump campaign rally, Trump said his foundation already had raised between $5 million and $6 million for veterans since announcing the event.

He said he’s putting up $1 million of his own money and read off the names of wealthy friends he said had

Fox News says Chairman Roger Ailes, in conversations with Trump, “acknowledged his concerns” about a statement the network had made in the days leading up to the debate.

Trump has said he’s not worried about turning off voters who may be disappointed

“You have to stick up for your rights.

When you’re treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights.”

Donald J. Trump pledged major contributions.

Trump repeated earlier statements that Fox “very much” wanted him to attend the debate and said he’d fielded repeated phone calls from the network during the day.

Fox News Channel issued a statement saying Trump had offered to appear at the debate upon the condition that Fox contribute $5 million to his charities, which the network said was not possible.

by his decision to skip Thursday’s contest.

“We’ve had other voters that love what I’m doing because they don’t want to be pushed around by the establishment,” said Trump, who is planning to participate in the next debate in New Hampshire.

It was unclear exactly which groups would receive money raised from the event and new website Trump launched for collecting donations: donaldtrumpforvets.co m. Contributions to

the site will go to The Donald J. Trump Foundation, Trump’s nonprofit charitable organization. The page says: “100 percent of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs.”

Trump representatives had been reaching out to various groups, in some cases inquiring about their programs and finances. Among those contacted were the Green Beret Foundation, which provides care to veterans, and Fisher House, which provides free or low cost housing to veterans and military families receiving treatment at military medical centers.

K9s for Warriors, which trains rescue dogs to be service animals for veterans, received a call from a Trump campaign representative asking if the group was interested in accepting funds from the event, according to executive director Rory Diamond. Diamond said the group is nonpartisan but would be happy to accept any contributions.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Reverence for The Revenant

by the Arikara.

The sequence of this ambush is one of the most memorable, hugely spectacular action sequences ever put to film, right up there with Saving Private Ryan’s Omaha beach landing. Iñárritu I really, really wanted to love Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The and Lubezki refuse to stop the camera, filming everything in Revenant — and I did to an extent — but it does not have the long, evolving, gorgeous shots of bloodshed and mayhem as one emotional heft to match the operatic grandeur of its settings and poor unsuspecting devil is speared through the chest with an cinematography. Rumors drifted back all throughout last year arrow and the Americans flee for their lives to their boat. This about the painstaking shoot in subzero Canadian wilderness, Leo scene also sets the tone for the rest of the film — we know we’re DiCaprio’s flea-bitten beard (not true) and Iñárritu’s insistence on in for a harrowing, tough but thrilling ride of crashes over waterphotographing the film strictly with natural light, the last of falls and horses ridden clear off cliffs.

Sorry, lost my place there describing how awesome those which lends the film a magical glow perhaps only seen in the films of Stanley Kubrick or Terrence Malick. The master director sequences are! No sooner has the fur-trapping party regrouped of photography Emmanuel Lubezki has shot several films for then is Glass attacked by a bear. This, again, is another stretch of Malick, won the Oscar the past two years for Birdman and unthinkably brutal yet mesmerizing filmmaking. Glass doesn’t look like he’ll last the night, and Fitzgerald is eager to dispose of Gravity and will win again this year: bet on it.

Thus, the primary star of The Revenant is the film’s stark nat- him. The party’s second in command (Domhnall Gleeson) ural beauty. It overwhelms the senses with images and experiences makes the mistake of leaving the mortally wounded Glass in the as disgusting as consumption of a raw buffalo liver, refuge taken care of Fitzgerald and youngster Jim Bridger (Will Poulter). As the threat of another Native inside the innards of a hollowed-out attack looms, Fitzgerald gets horse and, of course, a gruesome, ferorestless. Glass’ son ends up The Revenant cious bear mauling. This film aesthetidead and Fitzgerald dumps cizes the violence of the untamed fronDirected by Alejandro G. Iñárritu Glass in a hole and buries him tier and the fury of nature in the way alive. From then on, it’s war.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Francisco Goya’s paintings brought a Glass now has nothing to live stylized perspective to the horrors of Gleeson, Will Poulter for except seeing the blood of warfare. his son avenged. He rises from The storyline is bare and mythic, the hole, claws his way the kind of tale told ‘round the campthrough the rocky wilds and fire as the wind howls outside the cave. blistering temperature and The year is 1823, an unthinkable time becomes in and of himself, a without iPads, TV, Spotify, lightbulbs force of nature. or central heating systems. The place is Leonardo DiCaprio has long been campaigning for an Oscar, unsettled territory from the Louisiana Purchase (likely somewhere in North Dakota) during the dead of winter. French and the man is long overdue (take your pick: Aviator, Wolf of Wall traders have settled the land and maintain relatively nonviolent Street, Gilbert Grape, Revolutionary Road), but as thoroughly relations with the Native Americans, primarily the Arikara tribe. committed and relentlessly focused as he clearly is, this is not his Neither party takes kindly to the encroaching Americans making best performance. No, this movie makes a fine testament to one their way up there to trap fur. One such expedition is led by actor’s capability to hold attention for hours in the middle of Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), father to a half-Native son (Forrest nowhere (see Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Robert Redford in All is Goodluck), and husband to a Native wife killed during genocide. Lost), but unfortunately Hugh Glass is not particularly deep or A surly fellow trapper named Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) has it in for complex. It is that lack of complexity that works in the film’s Glass from the start when the band is ridden upon and attacked favor, making it a simple and elemental tale of vengeance and surMARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

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vival, but DiCaprio personally has done better. His penance served in the wilderness will probably convince the Academy to vote in his favor, but to me it would seem something of a consolation prize.

The deal is, Leo is at his best when playing obsessives; characters drifting back and forth across the line between charismatic and psychopathic have an emotional landscape DiCaprio has mastered. Hugh Glass, as compared to the neurotic enigma Howard Hughes, the cowardly depressive Frank Wheeler or the snake oil salesman-party boy Jordan Belfort, is relatively cleancut. His son’s been killed, he himself has been left for dead and now he’s gonna hunt down the bastards who are responsible until he has their blood or they have his. The plot is relatively straightforward, and there’s not enough darkness for Leo to tread in; it’s only in the murk where he really gets to show his acting chops.

Still, it’s a hell of a ride watching him stave off death and wander through the mountains like a specter risen from the grave, haunting the trail of his enemies.

This story is an undoubtedly immersive experience, full of bold choices by cast and crew. It demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible, with the best sound available, and if possible with a large audience. Appreciate its impact as you watch your fellow moviegoers twist and writhe in their seats.

Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msd97@cornell.edu.

With No Language, Boy Speaks Volumes In his novel What Maisie Knew, Henry James instructs us that “small children have many more perceptions than they have terms to translate them; their vision is at any moment much richer, their apprehension even constantly stronger than their at all producible vocabulary.”

Perhaps this is why our protagonist is clamped silent; he can’t possibly describe his adventures traveling from familial, rural hills to a bustling metropolis in Brazil.

From the cotton fields in the country through the cranes and construction of the city, not a single word is uttered.

To be sure, Boy and the World is not a silent film, but rather a film that uses unconventional, non-linguistic methods to characterize. Directed, animated and written

by Alê Abreu, this 80 minute movie astounds viewers with its ability to communicate a young boy’s feelings about his father’s departure from their family home without featuring any coherent language system. Viewers can only glean understanding of the allegory by focusing on the sharp, fleeting images and by gauging the dynamics of the movie’s instrumental score. At first, the form is jarring. Are the characters going to speak at all? Who even are these characters to begin with? We are never officially introduced to them, just invited to their narrative in media res, and thereby we become disoriented.

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Even more jolting is the nonlinear advancement of plot. When we first meet the titular boy, he is playing in a field. He then says goodbye to his father and goes to sleep. Once he awakens, we find him in a cart that resembles a train boxcar, led by a random man we have never seen before. Is he dreaming at this point? Abreu’s fascination with blending surrealism and realism sometimes makes it difficult to discern what is actually occurring. Who is this man leading the boy? His uncle? A stranger? Is he hitchhiking a boxcar ride? Why is his mom letting him wander off with a bizarre man?

Questions abound and the one answer we’re left with is that Boy and the World is meant to evoke a visceral, physical reaction, maybe even more so than a logical, intellectual one. I didn’t feel as though I was watching this movie; I felt like I was in it.

This is in part due to Abreu’s animation, which is at once comprised of kaleidoscopic computer-generated images and hand-drawn pictures reminiscent of kids’ scribbles. Abreu attempts and succeeds at getting us to see the world through the boy’s eyes with the accelerated pace and rushed, childlike dimensions of his drawings. Find a macaroni and cheese or burnt sienna Crayola crayon and you can likely recreate the majority of the animation in Boy and the World. Most of the images are so rudimentary that anyone who attempts to draw them will deceptively believe they too can be animators with their newfound talent.

The main character, for instance, is nothing more than a stick figure. With black ovals for eyes, three tufts of hair and a striped Tshirt, he is startlingly easy to construct, even for those of us who were once yelled at for

not coloring inside the lines. Think Harold and the Purple Crayon.

However primitive the animation may be, it is formidable that a whole political saga can be told through these visuals. According to Abreu, he was in the midst of working on a documentary about the colonial history of Latin America when the idea for Boy and the World struck. He found a scribble of the boy in one of his sketchbooks and was inspired to tell Gwendolyn Aviles his story using his naivete as a lens to view Cornell the issues of globalization in Brazil. The boy Cinema sees his story as narrow; for him there is only one goal: finding his father. For viewers, the story acquires cautionary connotations about inequality, fractionalized political and economic states and violence. Abreu criticizes a consumerist society that is focused on expensive shoes and Brazilian soccer when there are sick migrant workers begging their bosses to work for measly wages. When the animation is interrupted by a minute-long live-action sequence with photographs from calamitous areas of Brazil, the warnings of this modern day fable are only reaffirmed.

A contender for the 2016 Academy Awards, Boy and the World is an exercise in the power of selective minimalism and in the evolution of art forms. Not only does it allay our fears that the technology of the big animation companies will overtake human animation, it shows us that a dearth of dialogue can be more revelatory than an outpouring of speech.

Gwendolyn Aviles is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gfa28@cornell.edu. Boy and the World will be playing Saturday, January 30 and Sunday, January 31 at Cornell Cinema. More information can be found at http://www.cinema.cornell.edu.

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‘You Don’t Belong Anymore’: An ode to the greatest musician / critic feud

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riting music criticism all too often feels like shouting into the void.

When musicians remark on criticism, they often do so cautiously. Consider St. Vincent’s answer to Jessica Hopper’s question about her public image in a 2011 Village Voice article: “I have one answer for you if the tape recorder is on, and another if it’s off.”

Thus, when musicians openly engage their critical counterparts, it is a rare and valuable occurrence. As such, alt-country artist Ryan Adams’ rage-filled voicemail to concert reviewer Jim DeRogatis is an irreplaceable resource on music criticism, just as important as any Lester Bangs masterpiece.

In December 2003, DeRogatis — at this point a longtime critic of Adams — published a denigrating review of Adams’ latest show in the Chicago SunTimes. Adams responded by leaving a whiny, but eloquent, voicemail on DeRogatis’ answering machine. The recording is immortalized online; you should listen to it. Adams drops the f-bomb 12 times. He sneers the words “old man.” He fluctuates between arrogance — “you can’t refute the music, obviously, it’s too fucking good” — and sorrow — “What’s your problem? You just have to come after me.” In the voicemail, however, music fans also hear a performer directly challenge, at points line-by-line, a critic’s

complaints.

I definitely enjoy replaying the voicemail just to hear Adams’ lackluster, meandering attacks, but they are more than empty insults. Towards the end of the voicemail he jabs, “You’re obviously one of these guys that comes to gigs that just bums people out, that just stands around with your fucking notepad.” After reading DeRogatis drag Adams for numerous perceived offenses — goofy singing, making fun of Wilco, being a “poseur” — it is satisfying to hear Adams go on the offensive. DeRogatis describes Ryan Adams, the conceited, annoying frontman, and so Adams turns the mirror on Jim DeRogatis: a nitpicking buzzkill with a notepad.

But when you peel away all of the indignation and c o c k i n e ss, Morning Bowl Adams raises of Surreal important criticisms of, well, criticism.

Adams complains that, despite trashing his past shows, “you [DeRogatis] write about me every chance you can get,” concluding, “So get somebody else that gets it.”

DeRogatis’ review bespeaks a lingering distaste for Adams and his “whole tired ‘troubled artist’ routine.” Adams accordingly asks a crucial question: Should critics continue to slam artists against whom they are clearly biased? As a writer, I want to defend

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DeRogatis’ right to cover whatever he desires (and DeRogatis, to his credit, is a clever and observant reviewer). Yet, Adams fairly points out that DeRogatis is either jaded or missing something if he still feels the need to rail against a performer’s act after three reviews.

Similarly, I felt a stab of shame when Adams calls out DeRogatis for putting himself on a pedestal. “You mention in the end that the fans eat it up,” Adams notes, “but you’re different, you’re, like, the voice of reason.” This point is the core of Adams’ grievances: Who ever declared that a notepad and a couple of Replacements references makes your taste superior?

Adams does not, however, completely prove DeRogatis to be an out-of-touch, nettlesome critic. In DeRogatis’ defense, if concert reviewers always deferred to the crowd’s preferences, it would be pointless to have someone cover concerts at all. Similarly, in an April 2015 Washington Post article, Chris Richards complains about modern poptimism — a tendency of (some) music critics to pile praise on to the most commercially successful artists — writing, “Worst of all, it asks everyone to agree on the winners and then cheer louder.” So let us not condemn DeRogatis, along with his rock canon references and disdain for shtick. Even without crowning winners and shaming losers, DeRogatis and Adams’ interaction broadens how to think about why and how critics write.

The exchange between the two parties is even more interesting because both sides seemingly want nothing out of it aside from

personal vindication. The same cannot be said for many higher-profile music industry feuds. Note, for example, how the Brand New/Taking Back Sunday beef resurfaces whenever either band has a new release to promote. Conversely, if not for DeRogatis’ decision to broadcast the voicemail on his radio show — Sound Opinions — Adams’ words would never have gained notoriety.

DeRogatis may have collected a paycheck for his disparaging review and garnered some attention for his radio show, but I doubt that either opponent recruited many fans due to the fight. If anything, Adams sounds remarkably vulnerable when he sighs, “You do this to me every single time.” It is a delicate counterpoint to DeRogatis’ accusations of his bravado and inauthenticity.

In the end, when performers and readers scream at answering machines and type furiously in comment sections, it means that they are still reading the criticism. I would rather wake up to a voicemail from every artist I have ever panned than write in a world where every music fan shrugs, mumbles “to each their own” and never challenges anything. Towards his message’s end, Adams lays out a promise to DeRogatis: “You directly talk to me … in your reviews, and I will call you, and you can be as much of an asshole as you like.” All I can say is: Ryan, yes please.

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com. Morning Bowl of Surreal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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WHAT ’ S LIVING I N KLARMAN HALL?

Two years of construction and $61 million later, Klarman Hall finally opened its doors to eager Cornellians on Jan. 19. The new building has been called “iconic,” “uplifting” and “light-filled.” The sapid scent of Temple of Zeus’ Creamy Zucchini and Minestrone soup wafts through the glass-enclosed atrium, delighting the noses of humanities students who feel giddily at home in Klarman and occasional engineering kids who are just there to fulfill a distribution requirement. But they are not the only ones wandering in Klarman — we’ve heard rumors that some sketchy characters have also taken up residence in Cornell’s newest building. To figure it out, we asked our best Berry Patch reporters to investigate who, or what, is living in Klarman Hall.

Ghost of Goldwin Smith Past: The namesake of the ‘uglier sister’ humanities building got lost and wandered into the wrong building. He was confused by modern technology — like windows — and hasn’t managed to escape Klarman Hall since. If you see him, lend a ghost a hand and point him in the right direction.

Hoverboards: Banned from campus residences and with nowhere else to wheel to, the hoverboards you got on Christmas have collected in Klarman Hall. They were planning a rebellion against the fire marshall, but are now embroiled in an existential debate on whether they actually are hoverboards even though they don’t hover. We’ll update you when they’ve sorted out their identity crisis.

President Emeritus David Skorton: SIKE, guys! The guy never had a job at the Smithsonian. Despite his jazz flute skills and impressive bow tie collection, the job market has been tough for Skorton too, so he’s been rooming in Klarman to avoid the Collegetown prices ever since he stepped down.

Hobby Shop The first time I notice that I am no learning to generate their own joy conlonger taller than my youngest brother, tinuously. It’s an effort; a daily exercise we are lying on our backs on his twin in understanding fulfillment. For some bed. His feet dangle off; mine do not. I people, happiness depends on constant am leaving for a six-month sojourn in change: travel, a carousel of significant Europe the next morning and I’ve others, new workouts. For others, agreed to tuck him in as a goodbye. My namely my mother, routine is the cormiddle brother, 17, is spending his nerstone of fulfillment. Me, I get stuck junior year of high school in Poland. By on happiness a lot. My current plan this time tomorrow, both of this broth- involves finding something I can pracer’s siblings will live abroad, and the tice enduringly. Often, that’s writing. house will be twice as hollow.

Regardless of whether I am any good at He’s 13. He doesn’t realize that many my hobby of choice, it does the trick. college students spend time studying On the plane, I watch as people pracabroad. He doesn’t understand why I tice happiness in their own way. An want to leave our modest suburbia, just Asian man and his wife do the crossan hour from Cornell, and travel to the word puzzle together from the day’s other side of the world for a semester of Times. A child is mesmerized by an wining, dining and train riding – a episode of The Berenstain Bears. The place where I know neither the language man in the seat across the aisle works his nor the people. He tells me, tearful, that way through four beers. Even over the he doesn’t think he’ll be happy until deafening drone of the engines, there is we’re home again. so much noise around us. There is I ponder how to always noise. In the best comfort my brothmorning, I listen to er, to find a way to fill my Spotify as I We’ve become so him up even as our choose my outfit. accustomed to the house empties.

I The radio plays in explain to him that his car. My phone chaos we don’t know the happiness does not live flashes with notifihow to think without cations, people talk inside other people; it’s generated internally. I and chew and laugh distraction.There’s tell him he doesn’t need around me, a footto cling to us like life nothing wrong with ball game is on in rafts. I tell him that we the background. I enjoying the bustle of am afraid of spendmake our own fairy tales, and we write our ing too much time life. But I think what indulging own happy endings. in the He doesn’t like that we enjoy most is what noise of social answer — as a middle media; it’s too easy we do when the noise to schooler, it’s hard for watch other peohim to see an abstract ple living and forget goes away. picture. It’s hard for that you are. We him to see how short humans seem to this time apart will be, compared to the have a gift for creating this loudness span of life. But then again, do we ever around us. We’ve become so accustomed really understand something until we to the chaos we don’t know how to learn it firsthand? think without distraction. There’s nothNot to be deterred, I try to illustrate ing wrong with enjoying the bustle of this idea in language that he’ll relate to. life. But I think what we enjoy most is “Do you feel happy when you play the what we do when the noise goes away. drums?” I ask. I know how I feel when Dragging my luggage through my he plays (can the Martians hear him?) Amsterdam layover, I am on high alert, but I’m hoping the question inspires a paying attention to every poster and different reaction from him. passerby. We spend most of our lives in “Sometimes,” he tells me, “but not the familiar, but sometimes I think we always.” I reply that lots of people don’t live more in the foreign. In this foreign always know how to create their own land, I will be consumed with the noise happiness, and that it takes a long time of a new place – there will be a city to to figure out. I tell my brother that if explore and lots of beautiful things at you don’t know how to make yourself which to look. But I will still rely on the happy, you spend lots of time trying ways I’ve taught myself to be happy on new things until you find it. my own, far away from the people “That’s what you can do until we’re whose company I cherish. The things I home,” I propose. do for myself and not for my self-image.

This seems like a basic idea, but The things I love. here’s why it bears repeating: it’s easy only on paper. Many people spend their Ruth Weissmann is a junior in the College of Agriculture Life Sciences. She can be reached at whole lives bouncing from one tempo- and raw287@cornell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears rary source of light to the next, never alternate Fridays this semester.

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What Do Scientists Know That We Don’t?

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eople love talking about the gap in scientific beliefs between Democrats and Republicans. For example, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center, 71 percent of Democrats believe that climate change is occurring because of human activity, versus 27 percent of Republicans. This degree of difference in opinions on science is a major roadblock to forming vital political policies, whether on genetic modification of food, climate change mitigation or vaccines. There is another gap, though, that is just as telling when it comes to America’s division on science issues: the one between the public and the average scientist.

Scientists’ views on science may be even farther from laypeople’s than Democrats’ views are from Republicans’. Eighty-eight percent of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — representing all scientific fields, and from here on referred to simply as “scientists” — think that it is safe to eat genetically modified foods, compared to only 37 percent of U.S. adults. 87 percent of scientists believe that the earth is getting warmer due to human activity, versus 50 percent of U.S. adults and 86 percent of scientists believe that childhood vaccines should be required versus 68 percent of U.S. adults.

A 50 percent gap in opinion on genetically modified food can’t be ignored: clearly the average scientist knows something that the average member of the public doesn’t. The historical view has been that if only people were better educated, their views would come in line with the scientific consensus. Smack a layperson around a few times with enough scientific facts, and they’ll become a true believer in GMOs. Unfortunately, research has shown that simply giving people information is not enough to change their attitudes towards science. In fact, being more scientifically literate can make people more polarized in their views on science. As you learn more about a topic, you can appreciate it more, but you can also find new grounds on which to criticize it.

This raises a major question: if having more facts doesn’t lead people to the same answer on scientific issues, then why do scientists have such homogenous views — always closer to 100 percent agreement with each other — compared to laypeople?

And why would scientists, in all their diverse expertise, be in agreement about specific fields like genetically modified food or climate change, about which most have no special knowledge? 89 percent of earth scientists agreed that climate change was occurring due to human activity – virtually the same as the 87 percent of all scientists who agreed. A microbiologist or astrophysicist likely has no more knowledge of climate science than a layperson, but they hold the same views as earth scientists anyway.

So what do they know that other people don’t, if not scientific facts?

Scientists know that science is competitive. Labs are generally competing with one another in a zero-sum game for limited funds from a predetermined budget, whether granted by the government or other organizations. If a climate lab in Berkeley could show that a climate lab in London is wrong and they are right, it

is to their benefit to do so. Scientists are happy to refute each other’s research in order to make their own mark on the field and win respect and funding — far from being the uniform cabal the media likes to portray.

Scientists know that science rewards novelty. Research will get more prestige by countering the popular narrative, as opposed to adding to a chorus supporting it. Albert Einstein, for example, became the most respected scientist of all time by toppling the principles established by Isaac Newton, not by going along with consensus. If there were credible research against the scientific consensus on vaccines, climate change or evolution, the person who published it would change the world and could clear a little space on their shelves for their future Nobel Prize.

Scientists know that science is selfcorrecting. Unfortunately, incorrect results do get published, whether through honest error or fraud. This would be disastrous if scientists treated results like many newspaper editors do: “Scientists prove donuts cure cancer!” What newspapers don’t publish is the follow-up over the course of decades as competing labs from around the world validate or refute each other’s results. It is a slow process, but in the end the truth does win out over errors and falsehoods.

Scientists know that scientific fraud means the end of a career. The public sees politicians and advocates regularly misleading them and logically assumes that every public figure blatantly lies to suit their own ends.

However, while a politician may lie twice before putting their pants on in the morning, a scientist need only lie about their results once to be out of a job and a profession. The researcher who published false data linking vaccines to autism was barred from practicing medicine when his fraud was inevitably discovered. This year, an assistant professor was not only forced to resign from Iowa State University for scientific fraud, but was also convicted of multiple felonies and sentenced to five years in prison. Political commentators and online commenters casually accuse scientists of lying about their data, but scientists know that the consequences of scientific fraud are drastic and final.

This specialist knowledge — not about facts, but about process — is absent in public discussions of science.

While talking heads yell about ice ages and solar cycles, they ignore the more salient point that it is impossible for a global conspiracy of scientists to manufacture climate change. While alarmed parents cite rising rates of autism, they fail to understand that the research linking vaccination to autism was retracted years ago for being completely fraudulent.

What scientists know is that facts are not enough if we do not understand the scientific process. As the last centuries of tremendous human progress have shown (you read, on your iPhone, without polio), the scientific process works. Even though each one of us can’t have all of the facts, we can point political policy and human progress in the right direction by trusting the process.

Andre Pineda is a second-year Ph.D. candidate at Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York City. He may be reached at anp2050@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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very winter, spring and the term ‘inequality’ takes into ities of their life down to single summer break, Cornel- account the inter-relational his- sentences? How must it feel to lians can be found tories of multiple people when try to share richness of one’s around the world volunteering worlds collide. Using the term heritage and national history their time to communities is necessary because it chal- into a simple, digestible stateabroad. Most students perform lenges the speaker to recognize ment?

Cross-cultural service begs marvelous achievements, acts and admit that the actions of of good and return to campus the past have undeniably affect- for the realization that counrefreshed to take on the next ed the current status of the tries are not their news headsemester. Yet, at the moment of country she/he visits. It consid- lines. It requires us to not take return, the coming home to ers colonization, plundering of things at face value and to chalIthaca, we are forced to ask resources, brain drain, separa- lenge the simple headlines and ourselves if our work was truly tion of families, mass geno- simple explanations of history. in the spirit of service and cross cides, cultural uprooting of Learning the language skills to cultural exchange. This winter individuals, language imposi- communicate with the membreak my co-writer, a Cornell tion, sexism, classism and bers of the community you Traditions Fellow in the school racism. The term ‘inequality’ work in is critically important, of Hotel Administration, ex- takes a complete historical yes. However, are we simplifyplored the complexity of cross- framework in understanding ing people’s histories to only cultural volunteerism with the the mechanisms that under- after the imposition of the organization Unearth the develop the economies, human Spanish? The history of World, a nonprofit that prides capital and natural resources of romance languages in the itself on its mission to provide nations. In other words, the Americas is younger than the both opportunities for service term ‘equality’ should not be history of indigenous languages. Peru and and authentic culNicaragua are tural immersion. home to those who In the spirit of serThe term ‘equality’ should not be a speak Spanish in vice-based learnaddition to those ing, we had been blinder to the realities of other who speak other sent articles to prepeople. We cannot let it persuade languages such as pare us for our Quechua and Ayexcursions, ranging us to believe that all nations mara to name only from country a paltry few. ‘quick facts’ to the compete on an even playing field Search ‘Nicarimportance of ethto meet developmental goals. agua’ on the Inical photography. ternet, and details We were trained to of the construction reflect and journal our experiences, to think on used as an excuse to simplify of a canal pop up; search ‘Peru,’ global issues and our roles in people’s identities and histories and a slew of Machu Picchu pictures litter the screen. We the world around us and to into a convenient blurb.

Imagine your identity as a cannot look at Nicaragua and understand how we define our own identities. book; the reams of paper are confine our minds to the conOne of these pre-departure filled with the details of your struction of canals. We cannot pieces was Rachel Naomi ancestry, sociological imagina- look at Peru and confine our Remen’s “In the Service of tion, moral practices, likes, dis- imaginations to the great archiLife”. Remen asserts that the likes and self-identity. However, tecture of Machu Picchu. main concern of the interna- there is an interesting simplifi- When we visit places such as tional volunteer should be dis- cation of identity when it comes Nicaragua and Peru, we must tinguishing between servicing to international volunteerism be aware of the full histories and helping. Remen writes, and having to speak a language and diversities of the people “Helping is based on inequality; that is not their native tongue. with whom we interact. We it is not a relationship between Perhaps it’s the feeling of vul- must understand the complexiequals... Service is a relationship nerability, or the presence of ties of inequalities that face the between equals… Helping barriers that limit communica- people around the world with incurs debt.” Remen philoso- tion. We are tempted to give the whom we work. We must learn phizes an ideal world where Sparknotes version of ourselves the languages of the communievery person sees every other when an exchange becomes ties we interact with, in addition person as equal. Remen’s world cross-cultural. Is this interpreta- to learning their histories. We is one where, regardless of tan- tion a bad thing? The unique must journey, not because we gible possessions, socioeconom- scriptures of your life soon dis- wish to bring our textbooks to ic class, occupation or connec- solved into a shallower shadow life, lest we rely on the biases and tions, everyone boils down to for comprehension’s sake. prejudices of certain educational being a human. Stripped down “I love listening to music (I textbooks written by conquerors to our core, we are all equal. It’s don’t know how to say ‘I love oppressing its subjects under a in our Declaration of when rappers use old samples banner of simplification. We Independence, right? Despite in their music’ in Spanish).” must not take information at the this, as international volunteers “I study business (Hotel surface level, smiling at the grass we must also be aware that rec- Administration with a concen- and ignoring the dirt and skeleognizing equality means we do tration in Hospitality tons underneath. We must not close our eyes to the Leadership is a very confusing, grasp the shovel of truth to inequality we see in the com- Westernized concept).” unearth the world, dig deep munities we serve.

The core of our identities is within ourselves and be vulneraThe term ‘equality’ should shortened to the words we ble enough to share our gems of not be a blinder to the realities memorized in an AP Spanish life with others in the hopes of truly meaningful cross-cultural of other people. We cannot let course. it persuade us to believe that all If cultural differences force exchange. nations compete on an even us to adapt our stories, how We must serve to be serplaying field to meet develop- impactful is cross-cultural vants, not saviors. mental goals. It should not be exchange? If we as English used as a paint brush over the speakers feel this way, how Jeremiah Grant is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Alana Fallon is a stories of people and simplify it might other people feel when sophomore in the School of Hotel to one story where we believe foreign students come into Administration. Jeremiah can be reached that everyone has an equal shot their land and they are forced at jg856@cornell.edu. Gates & Ladders at certain opportunities. Using to distill the beautiful complex- appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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out like a Manchester City fan in the Stretford End. Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool team will finish eighth. In recent weeks, his team has improved, but I expect more growing pains in the German’s first season managing on Merseyside. In ninth, expect Guus Hiddink to resurrect a horrendous Chelsea side from the season’s first half and make them a force in the second half of the season. In 10th, I pick Stoke City, who has continued to evolve into an attacking juggernaut. Quique Sanchez Flores has impressed in his first year in charge of newly promoted Watford, and he will lead one of the Premier League’s least talented clubs on paper to a stunning 11th place finish.

Francesco Guidolin was recently appointed manager at Swansea City, and I expect the talented Italian to lead a bounce-back in the second half. They have the talent to finish 12th in the division. In thirteenth will be Everton, who really should be doing much better with the players they have, such as Romelu Lukaku and John Stones. If they finish this low, it is tough to see Roberto Martinez keeping his managerial job. Finishing 14th and free of relegation worry is Crystal Palace. Their forwards have struggled, which will lead to the team falling several places before the campaign concludes.

As we approach the lower end of the table, I will add an important reminder that this is perhaps the most important season in Premier League history. Next season, a humongous new TV rights deal kicks in, which will make all 20 English clubs among the 40 richest soccer teams in the world. Expect an incredibly spirited battle to remain in the league this year, for the barely safe and relegated teams will be affected by this season for years to come.

That said, I expect West Bromwich Albion, Newcastle, and Bournemouth to be the last three teams to survive. West Brom and Newcastle have Premier League pedigree and thus will be able to avoid the disaster of relegation. Bournemouth has an incredible team spirit and can avoid the drop. However, I have worse news for fans of Norwich City, Sunderland, or Aston Villa, as these three teams are most likely to be relegated to the second division (which is confusingly known as the English Championship). Norwich failed in their last battle against relegation and might suffer the same fate this time around. Sunderland and Villa have slightly different stories. These historic English clubs have suffered in recent years after poor player decisions over the past decade. They need a relegation in order to get fresh management, players and ideas. Both teams, given the size of their fan bases, will eventually return to the top division after a restart.

So there you have it — my predictions for the standings at season’s end. Given the unpredictability of this season so far, though, anything can happen. Here in the Beautiful Game, I will cover all the action every two weeks. Hang on; it will be a wild ride.

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Edosomwan is from the free throw line.

“He’s had a terrific year so far, he’s hard to cover one-on-one,” Courtney said of Edosomwam. “We’ll Without Hatter, freshman guard Troy Whiteside have to do a great job of getting it out of his hands earned a pair of starts, combining for 19 points in and do a great job of helping when he does get it. the two games.

But at the same time he can get pass the ball out to “It’s been really good for me, it really helped my three point shooters. It’s a balanced offensive team, confidence,” Whiteside said about starting in you have to do a great job of containing him and Hatter’s place. “It’s helped me grow as a player, also a great job of not letting the others get free.” knowing I can step up and help fill that role.”

Limiting 3-point shooting has been a focus for Whiteside and fellow freshthe team since allowing the man Matt Morgan were both Lions to shoot 54 percent “We know we want to speed instrumental in the team’s from deep last game. games against the Lions. Even [Harvard and Dartmouth] up ... just According to Morgan, Cornell though Morgan led Cornell in to do a better job of playing fast like we always do.” wants scoring both nights, he said he closing out Harvard and still has areas of his game to Dartmouth’s shooters with Troy Whiteside work on as Ivy League play intensity. heats up.

As has been the case since “[I’m] working on getting my shot off a little Courtney arrived to the team six years ago, he has quicker, looking at some things to get teammates placed an emphasis on pushing the tempo and getbetter shots off of my drives,” Morgan said. “I’m ting opponents out of their comfort zone. also trying to kick it back to our shooters like Stone “We’ve been practicing continuing to play our [Gettings] and Jordan [Abdur-Ra’oof ], getting game as much as we can,” Whiteside said. “We them better opportunities and better looks at the know we want to speed [Harvard and Dartmouth] rim.” up, pressure the ball like we normally do with all Last Saturday, 6-foot-10 forward Luke Petrasek teams, just playing fast like we always do.” helped power the Lions to a 79-68 over Cornell.

Courtney said that while he has stressed the same Tonight, the Red battles another big man in mentality all year, it all comes down to in-game exeHarvard’s Zena Edosomwan, who plays a complete- cution this week. ly different style than Petrasek. While Columbia’s “It’s not really what you do,” Courtney said. “It’s forward tended to drift out beyond the 3-point arc, how you do it.”

Harvard’s big man prefers to bang around down low.

In fact, Columbia’s Petrasek is shooting a better per- Adam Bronfin can be reached at centage from 3-point land then Harvard’s abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Cornell Seeks First Ivy League Win

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Following back-to-back losses to Columbia to open Ivy League play, Cornell men’s basketball will Cornell search for its first in-conference win when the team takes on Harvard tonight and vs.

Dartmouth tomorrow.

Despite the pair of defeats at the hands of the Harvard Lions, head coach Bill Courtney said Today, 7 p.m. he’s proud of the Cambridge, Mass. way the Red (7-9, 0-2 Ivy) played against Columbia (13-6, 2-0). Even still, he’s quick to point out the ways in which the team could have played better, particularly in limiting turnovers and upholding the team’s defensive pressure.

“I was proud of the way we competed, how hard we played in particularly down there,” Courtney said. “We had a few more breakdowns here defensively. I thought we dictated tempo when we were at Columbia Cornell and did a good job of that for about 30 minutes here.”

Cornell comvs. peted in both games against the Lions without current Ivy League scoring Dartmouth leader Robert Hatter, who Tomorrow, 7 p.m. missed the games Hanover, N.H. due to an ankle injury. While he did limitedly participate in practice this week, his status is still up in the air for tonight’s game against the Crimson.

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Bounce back | The Red will rely on junior forward David Onuorah to bolster its defense.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Hopes to Continue Winning Streak

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a two-win weekend over Columbia, the Cornell women’s basketball team looks to keep the momentum going against Harvard and Dartmouth this coming weekend. The two wins over the Lions have Cornell perched atop the Ivy League standings alongside rival Yale.

“We had two great wins against Columbia,” said senior guard Maddie Campbell.

“The first we fought back from being 17 points down at their place.”

The task begins on Friday night, when Cornell hosts the Harvard Crimson. Harvard

has managed to remain third in the Ivy with a 1-1 record, but Harvard has historically been one of the best in the league. The Red has not won a game against their Cambridge rival in the last eighteen meetings. Last year, Cornell lost to Harvard twice, 61-57 and 6054.

“We're fired up from some great wins against Columbia and can't wait to move forward, making the necessary adjustments and learning from our mistakes in those games to keep it rolling this weekend,” said sophomore forward Christine Ehland.

This year however, there are some new factors at play.

Cornell has been greatly helped this season by two play-

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Streak snappers | Megan LeDuc will attempt to lead Red to its first win over Harvard in nine straight years on Friday.

ers in particular. Freshman post presence and look to push Caroline Shelquist is the reign- the tempo through transition ing Ivy League Rookie of the baskets - similar to many of Week and junior Megan the teams we faced in the nonLeDuc was named Ivy League conference.”

The second Player of the Week game of the weekon Jan. 18.

Cornell end will be on Shelquist Saturday against the notched a personal Dartmouth Big record of fifteen Green, who are in points in the second an identical position game against vs. as Harvard in the Columbia.

She standings. The Big went 5-8 from Green has a 6-12 behind the 3-point overall record, but line, forcing the the Red is not going Lions to pressure Harvard to take them lightly. her to the outside.

Last year the two She also put in work Today, 7 p.m. teams split the on the defensive Ithaca, N.Y. series, but team won end, recording two their game in a steals against the blowout, with a Lions. final margin of 20 In the first game points both times.

LeDuc played the Cornell Players to watch full 40 minutes, for the Big Green scoring a game-high will be guard Katie 19 points and manLetkewiecz and foraging zero vs. ward Lakin turnovers.

R o w l a n d .

Despite Cornell’s Letkewiecz put up incredible strength an incredible 26 in the backcourt, points against the focus against Dartmouth Harvard last week, Harvard will be on and Rowland scored the post. Harvard’s Tomorrow, 6 p.m.

18 alongside 11 Shilpa Tummala Ithaca, N.Y. boards. and AnnMarie “If we focus on Healy put up 16 the game plan and and 19 points last week, respectively. shut people down defensively, Undoubtedly, Cornell’s post our offense usually comes easy players, Nia Marshall and to us. Campbell added. “So far Nicholle Aston, will have their we have shown we are going to keep fighting until the final hands full.

“We're very excited about buzzer goes off, even if we are the upcoming weekend and down double digits.” the opportunity to face new opponents,” Ehland said. Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached “Both teams have some strong at omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com.

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Premier League Predictions A

grueling 38-game season from August to May determines the Premier League champion. The teams play most weekends, with several additional games squeezed in over the holidays. Therefore, a good chunk of the season happens between early December and late January, which is inconveniently overlapped with winter break, devoid of Daily Sun soccer articles. As a result, I could have written this week’s article as a laundry list of everything that happened in the soccer world in the last seven weeks.

Yet, dear reader, this week I am going to look to the future instead of looking back. I am going to predict the final standings for this season after the final fifteen games. The top four teams at the end of the season qualify for the UEFA Champions League, the most prestigious European competition, and earn the prize money that comes with Champions League qualification. So let’s begin with

Kevin Linsey The Beautiful Game that most critical of standings sections, the top four.

At the moment, Leicester shockingly leads the Premier League. The Foxes sit three points clear of Manchester City and Arsenal. I’ve covered their rise here in the Beautiful Game, but will they keep it up?

In the end, I think Claudio Ranieri’s team will be able to pull it off and finish in first place. Sergio Aguero’s return will boost Manchester City to second place, and a resurgent Tottenham Hotspur team looks a good bet to finish in third. Arsenal has a penchant for finishing fourth in recent seasons, and late-season fatigue for stars like Mesut Ozil might be on the cards.

In fifth, I place West Ham United, which would represent a career year for the East London club. The summer addition of French maestro Dimitri Payet has completely galvanized the side, unlike any transfer in recent memory. Another traditionally average team, Southampton, should continue to overachieve and finish in sixth. They pulled off the signing of Charlie Austin a few days ago, when the Queens Park Rangers striker had been linked with much more industrious and rich clubs. Less than 10 minutes after making his debut off the bench, Austin scored the late winning goal against Manchester United last weekend. United themselves will slink down to seventh, which would tie their worst finish in the Premier League era. Their fans are tired of the sideways and backwards passing that coach Louis van Gaal mandates in order to maintain ball possession. In a season where counter-attacking and direct play has tended to be dominant, van Gaal’s mantra has made his team’s dullness stick See LINSEY page 11