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Red haze | On the heels of rush week, Cornell put Sigma Phi Epsilon on interim suspension due to an unspecified violation of University policy that allegedly put fraternity members at risk.

Sigma Phi Epsilon Placed on Interim Suspension Unspecified violations limit fraternity activities to operation of residence

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been placed on interim suspension status by the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life.

The suspension status was enacted on Feb. 2 due to a violation of the University Recognition policy, according to a University statement.

Interim suspension status means that the fraternity “may not engage in any activities other than operation of its residence” the statement said.

The statement added that the status is used when the University receives credible reports that the safety of the members of the fraternity may be at risk, compelling it to cease activities of the organization. However it did not give any details on the report it received or any incidents.

Interfraternity Council President Drew Lord ’18 said that although they do not comment on active investigations, the IFC has full confidence in the staff of the Office of Fraternity, Sorority and Independent Living, as they conduct their investigation.

The new suspension marks the first disciplinary action for a fraternity this year after the University opened inquirires into several fraternities last year.

In addition to investigating seven fraternities for hazing allegations, the University placed two fraternities — Pi Kappa Phi and Phi Gamma Delta — on interim suspension nearly a year ago following hazing incidents.

The University also revoked recognition of the Psi Upsilon fraternity last May when it allegedly violated its suspension after its then-president Wolfgang Ballinger ’17 was accused of sexual assault.

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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Mingle, whom Wessel is replacing, also has connections to UVA. Prior to starting at Madelyn F. Wessel will become the first Cornell in 1995, he served as university genwoman to assume the role of Cornell’s top eral counsel at the Virginia flagship universilawyer this spring, succeeding ty.

James Mingle, who worked with “I want to thank Jim Mingle the University for more than 20 for his long, dedicated and excelyears. lent service to Cornell for so Wessel, currently the universimany years — even staying on ty counsel at Virginia Comthis past year at the [U]niversity’s monwealth University, will take request,” Interim President on the post at Cornell on May 8, Hunter R. Rawlings III told the the University announced this Cornell Chronicle. “Madelyn week. She will also assume the Wessel is a fitting choice to WESSEL position of secretary of the corbecome Cornell’s next chief legal poration, serving as the secretary of Cornell’s officer. I am confident that she will serve Board of Trustees.

Cornell’s many diverse legal interests extremeWessel previously served as associate gener- ly well.” al counsel at University of Virginia and, from Wessel declined a request for interview, but 1989 to 2001, worked as deputy and chief welcomed an interview when she arrives on deputy city attorney in Portland, Ore. She campus in May. earned her bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in 1976 and her J.D. at Boston See COUNSEL page 4

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All of the lights | Students finish their meals by daylight in RPCC.

Power Outage Hits Over 7,000

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

The lights are back on at Cornell and in the City of Ithaca after a power outage on Saturday night left more than 7,000 people without power in Tompkins County, momentarily trapped people in elevators, turned traffic lights dark and postponed a Big Red basketball game.

About 7,218 NYSEG customers — including 4,485 people in the City of Ithaca — were without power for more than two hours beginning shortly after 5 p.m., according to the electric company's website. A NYSEG spokesman could not immediately be reached to discuss the cause of the outage.

Emergency services set up several See OUTAGE page 4

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Departing Dean Oversaw Drop in Hazing Cornell

CALS Scientists Launch New High-Pressure Food Processor

Cornell food scientists established the nation’s first high-pressure validation facility for foodborne pathogens Feb. 1, according to the University. The facility, unlike the more common processes that use heat treatment, extends the shelf life of fresh, ready-to-eat foods without changing the food’s texture, flavor, and nutritional components. Scientists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences involved with the processor will set the food safety standards that companies will use to bring foods in the market.

Local Land Trust Limits Development on 470-Acre West Hill Farm

The Finger Lakes Land Trust will conserve a 470-acre farm with the help of a recent donation for perpetual conservation easements, it announced in a press release Friday. This donation serves as a starting point for the West Hill Wildway, a greenbelt that will be established with the Land Trust.

Used for equestrian and agricultural activities, the property will continue to thrive, thanks to the donation.

Aimed to supplant old Greek pledging system with ‘orientaion model’ Apgar said that Cornell today uses a different model of “welcoming” new students.

“Through orientation, we are making sure that they are comfortable, that they Travis Apgar, fortransition to the academic rigors, as well as mer senior associate the social structure, and the opportunities, dean of students, left so that we retain as many students as possiCornell in January to ble and help them be successful,” he said. become Dean of “So I think that using that foundation is Students at Rensselear what we’re trying to do with fraternities Polytechnic Institute and sororities.”

— but he also left The new system requires that fraternibehind a legacy in ties and sororities complete a report every hazing prevention.

APGAR semester that must be approved by alumni, Apgar worked to the national or international organization end the pledge system that fraternities and and the Office of Fraternity, Sorority sororities used in recruitment and to and Independent Living, according to replace it with an orientation system that is based on the first-year orienta- “Dean Apgar played an instrumental role Apgar. The organizations also have to tion program. in helping to re-shape the experience of plan out their orientation events ahead of time.

“The orientation model is really students joining the Greek system.”

Frederick Tamarkin ’19, president of expected that it is a neutral platform Phi Kappa Phi fraternity, said he built on mutual respect, that this is not Tim Marchell believes the orientation method was “a about new members proving themselves step in the right direction.” worthy to become members,” Apgar “The model, when effectively commuOver those two years, the University said. “There may be some information that they certainly need to know about the carried out strategies to combat hazing nicated, sets clear expectations and modes organization, to demonstrate their com- after George DesDunes ’13 died from haz- to implement a successful member educamitment to the organization’s activities and ing in 2011 and President Skorton called tion process,” Tamarkin said.

Kara Miller, Apgar’s successor as for an end to hazing in Greek life through values, but in very positive ways.”

Apgar said that hazing has decreased on “ending pledging as we know it,” which Director of Greek Life and Associate prompted Greek life’s shift to the orienta- Director of Student and Organization Cornell’s campus in recent years.

Development, remarked that Apgar “We’ve seen a significant decrease, tion model, according to Marchell.

“Dean Apgar played an instrumental “brought a breadth of experience in stuwhich I’m not aware of any other campus being able to report such a significant role in helping to re-shape the experience dent affairs” to his position.

“He was genuinely interested in student decrease, not just in Greek life, but athlet- of students joining the Greek system durdevelopment and in helping the fraternity ics has done a great job as well there,” said ing that time,” Marchell said.

In contrast to the University’s past and sorority experience be a positive and Apgar, who wrote on his LinkedIn page that he is “[c]onsidered an authority on where “first-year students were often hazed See APGAR page 4 just because they were first-year students,” hazing prevention.

By ANNE SNABES

Sun Staff Writer

Tim Marchell, director of the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives, said a University hazing survey found that in 2013, 39 percent of Cornell undergraduate students had taken part in at least one hazing activity, according the University’s definition of the word. The number was even higher for social sorority and fraternity members: 48 percent.

But those numbers dropped by 2015.

Thirty-one percent of all undergraduates said they had been involved in hazing, and only 35 percent of students in social sororities and fraternities said the same, according to Marchell.

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National Standing Rock Sioux Urge Protesters to Leave Peacefully

After asking activists op posed to the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to leave, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials said this weekend that they were working with federal authorities to stabilize the situation at the protest site, according to a Facebook post. As a few hundred activists remain following months of protests, the Army Corps of Engineers has continued the environmental review required to complete the pipeline project.

GOP Aims to Confirm Gorsuch for Supreme Court

Last Tuesday, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch of the Tenth Circuit to the Supreme Court. Senate Republicans are aiming to confirm Gorsuch by early April, a move that would allow Gorsuch to cast votes in the final cases of the Court’s October 2016 term.

Senate Democrats have approached the nomination differently. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Gorsuch must demonstrate that he is in the “legal mainstream,” while others, like Sen. Jeff Merkley (DOre.), plan to mount a filibuster to prevent Gorsuch from assuming a “stolen seat” on the Court, according to The Washington Post.

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Commuters navigate John F. Kennedy International Airport one day after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s travel order.

C.U.Students Promote STEM to Local Kids

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

Cornell students involved with the Inspiring Chemical Engineers club taught and conducted an experiment with polymers Saturday at the Ithaca Sciencenter, building awareness in science among children.

Inside the auditorium, dozens of children and their parents gathered to listen to Akash Vaidya ’18 explain how sodium alginate and calcium can be combined to produce squishy “snakes.”

Daniel Decorla ’18 said that

the snake experiment was inspired by on-campus research.

“We got this idea from the work we do in the Alabi research group at Cornell which focuses on the creation of synthetic polymers,” he said.

After the lecture the event became more hands-on, as the children actively engaged in the experiment and produced “snakes” of all different sizes, shapes and colors.

This is not the first time the group has sought to educate a young audience. Vaidya, ICE’s founder, recalled a similar

demo that the group did at the New York State Fair last year.

“It was really fun, the kids had a great time. ... I thought that it was a fun way to teach science and get kids interested at a young age,” he said.

Vaidya, a chemical engineering major, said he was inspired to start ICE because of his lack of knowledge about chemical engineering in high school.

“Looking back to when I was in high school, I had no idea what chemical engineering was,” he said. “If my friends didn’t convince me to take intro to chemical engineering, I

would have missed out on the opportunity to learn, only because of bias and lack of exposure. That is why we want to bridge that gap.”

Vaidya said that his own experience in learning about chemical engineering informs one of the club’s central goals.

“It is not only chemical engineering outreach per se, it really is outreach for all STEM fields,” he said. “We have to make sure that we are not losing talent in the sciences.”

Amol Rajesh can be reached at arajesh@cornellsun.com.

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Incoming C.U.Lawyer Worked With Title IX,FOIA

As lawyer at VCU,Wessel settled Title IX complaints,brought university into compliance WESSEL

In 2012, when Wessel was at UVA, she argued for the University that an exemption in the state’s Freedom of Information Act protecting proprietary data, records and information collected or produced by faculty “had no time limit,” according to “I am excited and eager to join what is obviously an incredibly strong team at the The Washington Post.

University Counsel’s Office at Cornell,” Wessel told the Cornell Chronicle, which is “[T]hus our position that we can protect this material permanently was, I believe, managed by Cornell University Relations. “I am looking forward to working with validated,” Wessel said at the time, when a Circuit Court judge ruled that a profesthe president and board of trustees and representing Cornell’s legal interests across sor’s emails were exempt from disclosure under the public records law. its numerous campuses and advancing its academic and When the case was appealed to the Virginia Supreme public missions, and truly honored to have been selected “I am excited and eager to join what Court, Wessel and another university lawyer argued that for this role.” proprietary data or records collected by faculty or staff After VCU agreed with the Department of Education’s should be defined simply as, “a thing or property owned or is obviously an incredibly strong Office of Civil Rights to settle two Title IX complaints, in the possession of one who manages and controls them,” team ... at Cornell.”

Wessel and others worked to bring the University into and thus the professor’s emails should be exempt, accordcompliance. ing to the Post.

Madelyn Wessel VCU instituted new procedures to investigate sexual The Virginia Supreme Court defined the term similarly assault complaints in 2015. At the time, Wessel said bringin its decision affirming the lower court’s ruling in favor of ing VCU into compliance took “an extraordinary amount of time and institutional UVA and its professor, a prominent climate change researcher. resources,” and estimated the cost at $1 million, according to the Richmond Times“Unpublished research by university scientists is exempt from the Virginia Dispatch.

Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled [...], rejecting an The Office of Civil Rights currently has more active investigations into Cornell’s attempt by skeptics of global warming to view the work of a prominent climate Title IX practices — six — than any other college in the country, The Sun reported researcher during his years at the University of Virginia,” the Post reported in last week. Investigations do not necessarily imply wrongdoing, and Wessel said in 2014.

2015 that the Office of Civil Rights opens investigations based on “just a single Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com. complaint,” without letting a university respond first.

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Former Dean Leaves Legacy Of Hazing Prevention In Greek Life

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meaningful opportunity for Cornellians,” she said.

Apgar has worked directly with fraternities facing hazing-induced sanctions.

When Phi Kappa Phi was placed on interim suspension in Spring 2016, Apgar “led the dialogue between the University and the fraternity” during the suspension process, according to Tamarkin.

“[Travis’] expertise on this issue had a major impact on our campus and the lives of our students.”

Tim Marchell “I believe that OFSIL and the IFC handled the process professionally,” Tamarkin said. “Additional improvements, if any, should focus on transparent communication throughout all levels of University administration.”

Apgar was also co-chair of the Council on Hazing Prevention, a group that “focused on expanding hazing prevention beyond the Greek system,” according to Marchell, who was the other co-chair.

“Travis was outspoken and steadfast in his commitment to preventing hazing, and his expertise on this issue had a major impact on our campus and the lives of our students,” he said. “We’re going to miss him.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

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Judge Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court nominee, meets with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Capitol Hill, in Washington.

No Reported Injuries During Power Outage Blackout interrupted traffic, dining hall operations, C.U.basketball game OUTAGE

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flares around several intersections in Collegetown and in Ithaca, and traffic was backed up at many other intersections around Ithaca that began functioning as four-way stops.

The Cornell men's basketball game against Yale — scheduled for tip-off at 6 p.m. — was delayed for about two hours due to the power outage. After Yale scored one basket, however, Newman

Arena went dark again.

The game has been postponed until Sunday at noon, and will resume with Yale leading 2-0 and 18:37 left in the first half.

The NYSEG website showed that more than 1,000 customers were without power on four Collegetown streets alone: University Avenue, Stewart Avenue, Eddy Street and College Avenue.

A Tompkins County dispatcher said there were multiple people stuck in sev-

eral different elevators due to the power outage, but they had all been rescued by 6:30 p.m. He said he is not aware of any injuries that occurred as a result of the outage.

Cornell sent an alert to the campus community saying the power outage was impacting the entire Ithaca campus and parts of the Ithaca area.

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

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Falling for Fake News

don’t think I really understood the insidiousness of “fake news” until I read and believed a piece of it myself. Last weekend, I was in Montreal with other Cornell students for a conference when Trump’s executive order on immigration was signed and confusion turned into logistical panic. The people running the conference went from committee to committee and addressed the ban, explained that some people might have difficulty getting back into the United States and offered their support if anyone found themselves stuck at the border. It wasn’t dramatic or political, it was to-the-point.

And still, for obvious reasons, people were freaked out.

Then a post about the impact of the ban on conference attendees went viral on Facebook. Someone from the conference described his experience and stated that ten participating students would be unable to return to the U.S. I was pretty shocked, but it seemed believable enough. There were hundreds of students at the conference, dozens of American schools, and there was a reasonable likelihood that those schools would include students from the seven countries which were subject to the travel ban. I believed the post because I didn’t have any reason not to believe the post, but it ended up being textbook “fake news,” in that it was factually incorrect.

To my knowledge, everyone from the

secretariat at our conference did go from committee to committee to tell us about possible issues with re-entry and there were people from all over the world at the conference. It was perfectly plausible that the post could have been true and, for this reason, it settled naturally as fact for many of us when we read it. I’d like to think that sometimes the acceptance of misinformation doesn’t come from a place of stupidity or naivety, but rather from a tendency to trust and an inability to vet every single thing one hears.

Of course, this isn’t a perfect example of fake news because it was a Facebook post, not a falsity from a reputable news organization or from an official advisor like Kellyanne Conway. This isn’t meant to stand as an example of rampant fake news in the world, but to highlight how we, as consumers, are susceptible to the acceptance of fake news and misinformation. I have no explanation for this larger-scale phenomenon and the alternate realities that different factions of Americans seem to be living in. What I can speak to, however, is how the trusting nature of the public puts a microphone to fake news. We expect journalists to have fact-checked information before reporting on it, so when we receive that information, we often assume that it is correct. If we don’t have the impulse to say “prove it” every time we hear something, we are at risk of consum-

Reporting that is factually incorrect or intentionally misleading, is an issue on both sides of the political spectrum and presents an obvious danger to society. It’s going to be a lot harder, over the next four years and maybe in the age of new media more generally, to distinguish fact from fiction. conference was able to return to the United States. I don’t know where the “10 students” figure came from, nor do I know if the person who originally wrote the post intended to spread fake information or if he was simply as confused as everyone else.

Either way, the post got more than 300 “shares” on Facebook. Reporters flocked to the conference and started reaching out to some of us. I saw and wholly believed false news in action, in part because it was rooted in a kernel of truth reinforced by confusion.

The truth came from the fact that we all were spoken to about the executive order, and that the people running the conference implied the possibility of being denied reentry into the United States. That was something all of us delegates experienced firsthand, with no middleman and no reporters giving us information. The confusion came from the executive order itself; nobody had gone through it line-for-line and the Wall Street Journal’s abridged version didn’t really do justice in explaining whether or not people with student visas would be allowed back into the United States.

I think one problem with fake news is that, in some cases, it contains crumbs of truth. The executive order did bar certain people from re-entering the country, the

ing fake news or getting fake information.

And of course, it’s impossible to thoroughly fact-check all of your own news unless you attend press conferences, visit war zones and sit in on phone calls with foreign leaders. So how are we supposed to restore confidence in the validity of information?

Many of the things happening in the world right now are so crazy that they habituate news consumers to accept them as the new normal. Public policy can be confusing, quotes can be taken out of context and differing opinions are sometimes reported as fact. Reporting that which is factually incorrect or intentionally misleading is an issue on both sides of the political spectrum and presents an obvious danger to society. It’s going to be a lot harder, over the next four years and maybe in the age of new media more generally, to distinguish fact from fiction. The media is essential because it connects us with the vast majority of the world that takes place beyond our immediate experiences. We should all still tune in and pay attention, but we should do so with skepticism and resist the temptation to go on autopilot.

Jacquline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

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y mother has a way of using gifts to assign required reading. She marks the inside sleeve with the month and year in which the task was handed down, and a little note reminding me who gave it. There’s a small mountain of these books out there, if you can find them. It’s really not an unreasonable tactic, and certainly not one that I resent. Coercion is, after all, the most direct thruway to the part of my brain with buttons and levers for doing things.

Recently, she dispatched me to read a little book that talked about our people in the way she would like them to be talked about. The assignment was a small, white book, and I hoped it would make me appear an eclectic sort of enigma were I to read it in a cramped coffee shop or on a subway platform. I settled instead for the look of a man having trouble holding a tiny book. There’s a fine line between the two.

Isaac Babel wrote this little white book, a collection of short stories, in the early 20th century.

It centers on Moldavanka in Odessa, a Jewish ghetto that bloomed chaotic on the Ukrainian coast. This, I think, is what the Jews who raised me talk about when you ask them where they came from.

The value of the book is not as a history but as a transcript of

Speak to God in Public identity. It’s really the way in which Babel wrote of Jews or to put a finer point on it, the way he wrote Jewish, that’s so remarkable. When Babel talked about Jews, they were strong, cowardly and altogether ordinary people; they were mythical gangsters better suited for Scorsese and quiet fathers carving out little pieces of childhood for their kids. When he wrote Jewish it was something that he lifted from the mouths and movements of the people

there must have been excruciating for someone who took such care to illuminate the Jewish identity. With very few exceptions, the world Babel lived in had waged a dedicated war on what it meant to be Jewish.

Vandals superimposed their own grotesque fear onto the image of his people and then ingrained that distortion in the minds of a generation. Even by the most benevolent of outsiders, Jews were handed the two-dimension-

best case, it is the gentle suggestion of a little white book given as a gift. The flip side, however, is how easily that suggestion can be hijacked.

To assault an identity does not require extremism — in fact, such attacks are often quite mundane. The people who shot Babel, who killed his people, were evil and extreme. But his killer’s corruption of what it meant to be Jewish required the complicity of countless very

In a moment when identity, which is so easy to vandalize but so hard to rehabilitate, is under direct attack, the communities being shut out require our full-throated and direct defense. who embodied it every day.

When he wrote Jewish, it was absolutely everything.

Sitting in the airport in which I ended up reading most of this book, I felt a certain sense of understanding that I now have trouble putting into words. It isn’t that the experiences Babel described were familiar. Instead, I suppose, it was more like I had finally tasted something after someone had spent years trying to describe to me.

They shot Babel in a Soviet prison camp in 1940. I know nothing about his inner life, the way we saw himself and his people, but the decades that led him

al identity of the victim. They were the photonegative of their own oppression.

I don’t really know what makes identity. That is, I don’t know what it is about community membership that makes a person more than just the sum of their individual intentions. What does seem clear, though, is that it is both intensely personal and highly subject to outside input.

In general, people are often susceptible to suggestions about who they are. So although I may want to find some significance in being Jewish purely on my own terms, the reality is that I often need it pointed out to me. In the

good people. Political banalities like quotas, visa restrictions and arguments about economics that identified the outsider as the source of hardship offered the subtle suggestion that being Jewish was not Babel’s everything, but a one very particular thing. It was not a careful transcript, but a crude caricature.

That is precisely why Babel’s stories were required reading. A century of outside voices chiming in on what “Jewish” means has made it very difficult to understand what it meant to the people that lived it. When the world collaborates on a vision of what a community is and articu-

lates it in an especially loud voice, what might have been before is easily washed out. And it is supremely difficult to reclaim — it takes a Baldwin, an Alexie or a Kendrick.

The moment in which we are now caught is very similar to the decades in which Babel lived. The president’s immigration policies are nothing like the fascist persecution of the Jews. However, what is evident in both these policies and our national willingness to support them,is the same complicity of those very good people who suggested to Babel who his people were. “Criminal outsider” is the image that this strain of nativism seeks impose on the identities of the communities it hopes to exclude.

As a political opposition, how we respond matters. There are cynical calls to avoid the issue, to gain support through arguments about economics or national defense. But in a moment when identity, which is so easy to vandalize but so hard to rehabilitate, is under direct attack, the communities being shut out require our full-throated and direct defense. Otherwise we make that same subtle suggestion that hid Moldavanka for nearly a century.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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as nothing real?”“You were where they can assert their dominance will they make sure to walk near so they real. That’s what made you and be seen by the wannabes and the can wave? It’s all about showing face and one day being able to start a conversation ordinaries. They go to the gym. so good to watch.”

Don’t get me wrong, I’m no regular at with “Hey I think I’ve seen you before at If you’ve ever seen The Truman Show, you likely remember the film’s final the Helen Newman hardo-hub. But as a the gym!”

Another staple of the Bowflex Brigade scene, when Truman and Christof, the former gym employee back home and a creator of the counterfeit world in which person who has at least set foot in more is the prototypical grunter. The grunter is Truman lives, finally meet, partaking in than one of Cornell’s workout facilities, always male, and although far rarer than I’ve gotten a good idea of the types of the fashionista, displays even more the exchange above.

The film is part social commentary characters who lurk amidst the thicket of extreme attention-seeking behavior. He knows he’s put too much weight in his and part absurd apologue, all centered on weight machines and treadmills.

The bench bums who think they’re on hands, but he can’t help himself. He tells the story of an everyday man whose life, unbeknownst to him, is actually a popu- TV come in many forms. Some are the himself that the grunts are an embarrasslar TV show. As evidenced by sporadic fitness fashionistas (and fashionistos) ing habit, but deep down he enjoys every cuts to images of various friend groups watching from their couches, the outside Truman didn’t know he was on TV, which was the film’s most world loved the show and tuned in because important narrative conceit. In my own life, however, I’ve it felt so genuine: encountered a breed of individuals who seem to wholeheartedly Truman's experiences and reactions were all believe that they, like Truman, live their lives under the real.

Truman didn’t attentive eye of the population at large. know he was on TV, which was the film’s most important narrative conceit. In my own life, however, who wear the most stylish get-up on the second of them. At least it reminds the I’ve encountered a breed of individuals workout market. Many of them don’t other gym regulars that he too is often who seem to wholeheartedly believe that play any sports and only workout on inclined to hang around the weight they, like Truman, live their lives under occasion, but to them, it doesn’t matter. room.

The final, and frankly most annoying, the attentive eye of the population at It is of paramount importance that they large. They assume the TV cameras aren’t are doused in swooshes and limited edi- type of gym fiends are the folks who are far away, so they make sure to pose con- tion Adidas gear all five of the times they unassuming in the weight-room, yet loudmouthed about their regimen once sistently and draw as much attention to come out to lift.

When these people arrive, they don’t they leave. They don’t talk or grunt or themselves as possible, lest viewers ever go straight for any particular machine or wave in Helen Newman or Noyes, likely forget who the real star of the show is.

These folks all seem to congregate in section; they instead look around. Do because they are deep in thought, imagone area. They go where they thrive, they know anybody exercising here? Who ining how they will work their lift sched-

ule into casual conversation in the outside world.

They know both “leg day” and “gainz” are now only trite utterances, but they still say them on a regular basis. Some try to make it sound ironic or lighthearted whenever they talk about calisthenics, but the thought of abandoning even mildly sarcastic mentions of the gym from their vocabulary shakes them to their well-toned cores.

As much as I love to make fun of narcissistic meatheads, I understand where they’re coming from. Some of them have fulfilled their New Year’s resolutions and others have proven to themselves that they have discipline. To a certain extent, we all want the world to know that we’re reliable and trustworthy and unlikely to be plump and saggy when middle age rolls around. If talking about exercise accomplishes those goals, it makes a lot of sense.

But here’s my word of advice: don’t go overboard. You aren’t on TV, and even if you were, the protein-filled, boastful, always-performing version of yourself wouldn’t be what they’d tune in to see. I have a feeling they’d want something a bit more real.

Paul Russell is a sophomore in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at prussell@cornellsun.com. Russelling Feathers appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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oday at noon, many of you will head out to Ho Plaza and protest Donald Trump’s immigration ban and border wall. Many of you will Snapchat it. Many of you will take photos, and many of you will Instagram them. I mean, that’s exactly what I did in November, when thousands of us walked out of class and marched across campus in solidarity and in protest. There were thousands of bodies standing, hugging, resisting; but above them were countless wriggling hands tightly wrapped around iPhones. Many, I’m sure, were tryna get the ’gram.

Last week, my Snapchat feed — usually made up of blurry photos of red cups and aggressively geo-filtered travel photos — was almost entirely videos of marches. For one day, the IvyLeague Snapchat story (the most obnoxious phrase I think I’ve ever typed out) was mostly videos from students protesting, interspersed with people trying unsuccessfully to find love and a clip of Cornell students dancing dressed as vegetables. My friends’ stories were of massive marches at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary, where radical political activity is familiar but certainly not routine.

Tapping through, I felt overwhelmingly pleased, for lack of a better word. That sounds pretty creepy, actually. There’s definitely a better word. Gracious? Sure. I felt extraordinarily gracious. These weren’t snaps from my radical leftist friends who had been marching since they could walk; these were from friends who were generally apolitical and notably apathetic.

Yeah, I felt gracious: gracious that even the most passive people had mobilized, and that there were so many bodies fighting for my existence and my livelihood.

My friend messaged me the night of these protests: “i am v annoyed at like how its cool now to be at protests,” she wrote, “and how like ppl are just repeating things they don’t understand.” I got a little upset. Not only because these were the same images that filled me with a light, floating sense of glee and support, but because she was right. I highly doubt Apathy Adam and his pals shouting “Fuck Donald Trump” knew much about radical leftist sociopolitics or why there was an “x” appended to “Latin” or what “misogynoir” was. I truly don’t mean this in a condescending way; in order to find items for that list, I had to google “radical feminist glossary.” These ideas definitely aren’t mainstream, yet the protests around them absolutely are.

Protesting has become Cool and Good, partly because our political climate is a mess, but also because social media makes it easy to see who’s speaking out and who’s not. Of course, this isn’t new: “Slacktivism” has helped us make this distinction through hashtags (remember #BringBackOurGirls?), copypasta (“To the students of color at Mizzou…”) and angry posts accompanied by links to news articles (“This isn’t the America I believe in!!:(” my mom posted alongside a New York Times article about the visa ban). There’s been a transition, though, that’s kind of amazing. The same instruments of social media that made slacktivism commonplace have now made actual, physical activism a social norm. You want to go to a march to protest an unjust policy, but also a little bit because you want to Snapchat it. You make a poster not just because your friend recently lost the ability to re-enter the country, but also a teeny tiny bit because, well, it would make a cool Insta.

This is definitely a sort of vapid mob mentality, but I don’t find it particularly heinous. Most people don’t have the time or energy to stay up-to-date with radical feminist theory or to think deeply about the sociopolitical implications of their actions, and many individuals who radicals believe will benefit most from this ideology (those disadvantaged and disenfranchised) especially don’t. To envision a world in which everyone is passionate about intellectualized social justice is a fantasy. In reality, most people make decisions based on basic heuristics — like “protesting is Cool and Good.”

So, yeah, it does feel yucky that many of the people at mainstream protests are blindly chanting radical ideas without much thought. And, yeah, for those who have been doing this work for years without recognition or mainstream support, it hurts deeply that so many of these new marchers are ignorant of their prior absence. But still, damn. Hundreds of thousands of white women hit the streets a few weeks ago to protest the disgusting actions of President Trump. When my parents recounted their experience protesting the visa ban in front of the White House last week, my dad made sure to mention that there were “thousands of people, and a lot of white people, very young too. It was very good, I think.”

So long as you’re not subverting a movement, I don’t care if you’re a radical or not. I don’t care if you’re here to get the ’gram. I just care that you’re helping, that you’re chanting, that your body is being productive and present. Above all, I just care that you’re here.

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

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Music on the Big Screen: An Interview With Joby Talbot

BY NICHOLAS SMITH Sun Staff Writer

I want you to imagine your favorite movie without music. You have dialogue. I’ll even give you sound effects. But no music.

Imagine James Bond slinking around corners without his ever-present surf-guitar riff.

Imagine Psycho without that single screeching violin highlighting the violence. Imagine Indiana Jones jumping from ledge to ledge without his iconic theme rising in the background.

If a movie is a house, it’s music isn’t just the window dressing. It’s part of the foundation.

I’d call myself a “movie person.” I love to watch movies. I love to talk about movies. I love to write about movies. So why is it that so often I take the music in movies for granted? Maybe sometimes I’ll throw out a “yeah, that music was pretty good” if asked about it but that’s usually as far as my appreciation ever goes.

I’d venture to guess I’m not alone here.

Aside from a couple months during awards season, I barely hear anyone talking about composers. More often than not, directors and actors get all the buzz. Maybe that’s not how it should be.

There’s an old saying that says the best film score is the one you don’t notice. I’ve got a feeling I know of someone who would disagree.

Joby Talbot just finished scoring Illumination Entertainment’s affable musical comedy Sing, and I was given the chance to ask him a few questions about his career in music composition for film.

Talbot was born in Wimbledon, England in 1971 and fell in love with music at a young age. Although he was playing piano by age six, Talbot’s access to music was limited until his teens and 20s. He remembers listening to his mother’s record collection, which he described as a “motley collection of light classical music.”

Later in life, Talbot came into his own in the musical world. He played keyboard and bass guitar in various bands and remembers liking all different kinds of music — from folk to pop to rock. He went on to earn his master of music degree in composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Talbot’s public career began after he meet then-music-video-director Garth Jennings, who at the time was hired to make a 90-second television ad. Talbot, who was then in his eighth year with a rock band, was asked to

write the music for the spot.

Talbot was later commissioned to compose the music for BBC Two’s show The League of Gentlemen. For that project, Talbot remarked that the studio wanted to focus on real music made by real musicians — not “normal television music.” He described the music he composed as cinematic and gothic.

I found it funny that a composer with his masters degree would find his first big shot on a TV show; it seems far more logical to me that he’d have gone to the orchestra pit instead of the screen.

After he forayed into other areas, Jennings came calling again, this time with a film: 2005’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Not only was this Talbot’s first opportunity to compose for the big screen, but the first time Jennings had someone compose for him on a feature-length project. Talbot, a selfprofessed Hitchhiker’s geek, said these songs weren’t just noise in the movie’s background, but an integral part of the film’s overall imagery going past the screen.

Two years later, Jennings and Talbot were at it again with Son of Rambow, which Talbot called a “labor of love” for the director. Talbot said this film got “lost in Hollywood” and didn’t receive as much success as it deserved. It’s hard to say he doesn’t have a point. Despite good reviews and various award nominations, Son of Rambow barely grossed 10 million dollars worldwide (for reference, Iron Man, released on the same day in the U.S., made almost nine times that in its opening weekend).

Obviously, the pair worked well together, and Talbot himself is a “fan” of Jennings. After even more ventures on the stage and in the pit, the duo would reunite to bring audiences an animated work, Sing. Since we’ve already reviewed it (see David Gouldthorpe’s review online), I won’t focus on the film’s particulars but will say I enjoyed it. Talbot thinks Sing will be the piece to finally put Jennings’s work in the spotlight.

One of my burning questions for Talbot

was whether or not he got any face time with the absurdly star-heavy cast of the movie which includes Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly and so many more.

Blatantly deviating from our conversation about his music, I groveled for any stories about the big stars he would divulge.

Surprisingly, to me at least, he had none.

My somewhat-silly question actually turned into an enlightening experience about the production of animated movies.

Talbot met McConaughey for the very first time at the premiere of the movie they both worked on! He described the process of making an animated film as a bunch of amazing people “all hidden away.” He, and I, always

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assumed all the voice actors would be recording in the same room at the same time. Because of this, Talbot remarked, “nothing is real.”

Additionally, Talbot added that the music he composed plays into making the animated movie look like a real movie. It works with how the imaginary camera is placed to “shoot” the scenes.

Because of all this, Talbot found himself more constrained in what he could write for the score. In a simple scene with a real actor walking across a room, he could write 100 different pieces of music to ever so slightly change the moment’s tone. However, he explained, for that very same scene in an animated film, there may be only 1 way to write the music that’s appropriate. He described the process as trying “not to derail a fine balancing act.”

Not only was writing for animation new to Talbot, but he had to venture into some new styles of music. He was familiar with the deeper, emotional moments, but was challenged by

the more contemporary and upbeat pieces that the movie demanded.

Talbot said that his workload was lightened by the people he had the opportunity to work with. He recalls writing a piece for the first time and having his musicians be able to play it seamlessly on first read.

“These people are machines,” Talbot said.

Talbot said that writing an animated movie was very different than writing for an opera or ballet. “Music [in movies these days] is more about sonics than musical grammar. Music school is useless [now]!” he joked.

Especially in some blockbuster films, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, scores are ritualistically simplistic. In many cases, movie music has become so well done that it can exist without ever being noticed by the average audience member.

To demonstrate, I could ask you to whistle both the Star Wars theme and the Avengers theme. The latter isn’t so easy, right?

Even in Sing, which had audiences more tuned in to the music than usual, Talbot said he felt less pressure than he would composing for a more intimate setting like the stage. For a concert or something similar, the composer often receives the greatest praise or worst scrutiny, whereas in cinema that’s rarely the case.

When asked if he prefers one medium or the other on that account he responded that “he’s quite happy to take a back seat or a step forward.”

This type of content flexibility is characteristic of Talbot’s career. One week he’s rotting away in solitude in his studio and the next he finds himself ready to snap at the flurry of people on a movie set.

He’s scored commercials, shows and movies and composed ballets, operas and concerts across a multitude of countries and continents.

He’s worked with Paul McCartney and Tom Jones and even arranged an album by The White Stripes for a chamber orchestra.

As a bastion of “real” music in movies, we’re sure to be lucky enough to hear more of his work in the coming years. Talbot is a relentlessly dedicated worker with seemingly little regard for outside commendation. Cinema could use a couple more composers like Mr. Talbot.

Nick Smith is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nks53@cornell.edu.

The Purest Form of Adulation: ‘Carolina’

BY VIRI GARCIA SUN STAFF WRITER

The Mexican music scene is highly underrated, especially when it comes to anything that isn’t bachata, reggaeton, cumbia or other mainstream genres. Right now, one type of music that truly represents art is a hybrid of acoustic and indie with a splash an indescribable psychedelic element, which not many Mexican artists have mastered. It’s the type of music that you don’t have to understand in order to sway along to it or have it end up stuck in your head like a sweet daydream playing over and over again.

I’m talking about music by artists like Siddhartha, León Larregui, Zoé and now Salvador y el Unicornio. However, if you do understand the lyrics, the experience is much more lucid and indulging.

Salvador y el Unicornio belongs to Panoram, the same record label as León Larregui and Zoé, which explains why his style seems to parallel theirs. He has just debuted, and “Carolina” is his second single so far, and it sounds promising. Perhaps he can bring Mexican music to a broader audience. However, since his first single, “Agua de Coco,” has not received much attention, we’re obliged to give him more time to see whether he’s really what the Mexican music scene needs to reach a broader audience and gain the appreciation it deserves.

“Carolina” may sound and seem like your standard love song, but the lyrics go beyond that and relay a sweet poem to a girl named Carolina, described by the lines “Ella es pelo rizo ojos de

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miel miel. Su lado oscuro me hace ver su delicadez,” which translates to “She has curly hair and eyes of honey. Her dark side reveals how delicate she is.” As we see the rise of this genre, most of their songs are love songs, but what truly sets them apart is the description of their muse. Of course, to someone who doesn’t know Spanish, the beauty of these lyrics would not be fully appreciated, not only due to the language barrier, but because of the different connotations words have in Spanish. To a native Spanish-speaker, these are the types of words you fall in love with or you wish you could write to someone you love deeply. They’re more genuine than when they’re translated properly to English.

Regardless, these types of songs themselves actually speak clearly enough and are enjoyable, just as “Carolina” is.

“Carolina” starts off with a quick guitar riff and jumps straight into the lyrics as acoustic guitar strums can be heard in the background along with a rhythmic guiro, which adds a Latin American flavor to the song. Additionally, Salvador Sahagún has a unique voice, much different from most American and

Mexican artists, which is another reason to give the song a listen.

After listening to it for the first time, I found myself singing the name Carolina along with Salvador Sahagún and realized just how lighthearted and genuine it was. Additionally, not only did Sahagún release a single, but the music video to go along with it.

The music video features him and his beloved Carolina on that romantic carnival date everyone has dreamt of at some point. The video alternates between scenes of the date and of Sahagún immersed in a bathtub. However, the scenes of the date mainly focus on Carolina, showing just how beautiful, mesmerizing and dear she is to Salvador. As the video progresses, so does the date, all while Sahagún continues to lay in the bathtub. In the ending of the video, Carolina is seen on her phone trying to reach Sahagún, which wakes him from his bathtub trance. Even if the music video alternated between both Salvador and Carolina, its focus remained mostly on Carolina to emphasize just how much he has idolized her in the purest way possible.

Overall, “Carolina” was like cherry soda: fizzy and maybe a bit too sweet, but not so it doesn’t make you want to stop drinking it. Artists like Salvador y el Unicornio are definitely worth listening to even if their songs are in Spanish, as they contain not only beautiful, loving messages, but a unique array of sounds that are getting harder and harder to find in both American and Mexican music.

Viri Garcia is a freshman in the College of Agriculture an Life Sciences. She can be reached at vg235@cornell.edu.

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Holy Split

Signs of M. Night Shyamalan’s Return Are Happening

BY LEV AKABAS Sun Contributor

Director M. Night Shyamalan gets a lot of crap, and rightfully so. Until his most recent outing, Split, he hadn’t made a good movie in more than a decade.

After Earth was bad. The Happening was so bad that it was funny. The Last Airbender was so far down the scale of bad-ness that it was no longer eligible to be funny. Watching any of those films, though, you can tell that Shyamalan’s heart wasn’t really in it.

When he actually tries, Shyamalan is a superb director. His best films (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and the first two-thirds of Signs) are littered with symbolism and themes, crafted with remarkable attention to detail and deeply rooted in the emotions of the characters and the hardships through which they’ve been.

They also look and sound great. Split is a long-awaited return to form that showcases all of Shyamalan’s strengths.

I was sold on the film’s premise alone.

Three girls are kidnapped by a man (James McAvoy) with dissociative identity disorder — the presence of multiple distinct personality states within the same body. In this case, 23. The man, Kevin, seems to be holding them hostage in preparation for some ritual. The movie shifts us back and forth between the girls attempting to escape by taking advantage of Kevin’s different personalities and Kevin visiting his therapist, Dr. Fletcher, as she begins to realize that he is on the verge of a breakdown. One of the most entertaining aspects of the viewing experience was getting introduced to Kevin’s eccentric personalities, one by one, so I

won’t spoil any of them for you.

If Split is the Houston Rockets, then McAvoy is James Harden. The premise is unique and the supporting cast is strong, but the whole film would fall apart without his performance. He is nothing short of brilliant in every scene. His portrayals of Kevin’s different personalities are so distinct that we’re never confused which one takes center stage in a scene, even if his clothing doesn’t match the personality. At times he is creepy, at times he is flat-out terrifying, at times he is laughout-loud hysterical and, at just the right moments, he evokes sympathy for his character. It’s early in the calendar year to make this claim, but McAvoy is Oscarworthy.

Fans of Shyamalan’s early work will feel giddy watching Split. He maintains near-constant tension throughout, and does so without the use of gore or cheap jump scares. While McAvoy alone can make the movie entertaining, the combination of claustrophobic close-ups, eerie lighting, perfect sound design and a solid score from Dylan West Thornton keep the proceedings engrossing, even when the pacing slightly falters.

Split also makes effective use of Shyamalan’s ability to reveal information gradually over the course of the film.

He's good at this — in The Sixth Sense, we don’t learn Cole’s secret until the 50minute mark. One of the three kidnapped girls (Anya Taylor-Joy), has a backstory that informs her character’s decisions and it is effectively told through regular flashbacks. During the second act, we also learn what two of Kevin’s personalities are conspiring to accomplish, adding another layer of

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anticipation. The film keeps us guessing and patient viewers will be rewarded in the third act, when the themes and storylines come together nicely.

Speaking of the third act, Shyamalan is famous (or infamous, depending on how you look at it) for ending all of his movies with twists. To call the surprise at the end of Split merely a “twist” would actually be diminishing the cleverness of what Shyamalan does. Rather than introducing a new plot point or changing any of the previously established ones, he simply swaps out the lense through which we view these plot points. It pisses me off that I can’t talk about it more here, but it’s genius. Oh, and don’t go looking for it as you watch the movie, because it’s not the kind of thing you can figure out ahead of time. Trust me.

Split boasts the well-earned suspense,

technical-mastery and thought-provoking ideas that marked Shyamalan’s early career come in a packaged deal with the typical Shyamalan mishaps: some sloppily-written dialogue, illogical decisionmaking by characters and not-so-subtle delivery of themes. But you take the good with the bad, because the good is really freaking good. That’s true of Shyamalan’s career as a whole. Sure, make fun of the guy for his several misguided efforts, but would you prefer a director who makes nine mediocre movies or one who makes five piles of garbage and four films that you can’t stop thinking about long after you’ve watched them?

Lev Akabas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at la286@cornell.edu.

New Sherlock Had More Than One Final Problem

BY BRYNN RICHTER Sun Contributor

storylines fell short in their lack of resolutions. A good twist, once you know it, can be retraced through the previous episodes. Yes, the lead up to someone causing havoc in Sherlock and John’s lives was there as Sherlock’s sister showed up in the two previous episodes as different people. The whole idea that Sherlock has a sister he doesn’t know about, however, has far fewer logical connections. The writers explain Sherlock’s lapse of memory as Sherlock “rewriting” a happier version of his childhood that did not include his sister and turned his best friend into a dog.

Sherlock’s reconstruction of his memories is supposed to be a cop-

Sherlock’s fourth season was a whirlwind of twists, turns and excitement. While this season was extremely entertaining and watchable, many of the emotional stakes felt forced and it lacked Sherlock’s addictive spirit that made previous seasons so great.

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE NEXT TWO PARAGRAPHS. Throughout this season Sherlock takes a more personal look at the characters as their pasts catch up with them and they are forced to finally face their demons.

Mary’s mysterious former life comes to light as an COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES old teammate surfaces to kill her after thinking that she betrayed their team, and while she escapes his threat, she ultimately dies saving Sherlock after he’s provoked the woman who betrayed Mary with his cockiness. Episode two shows that Mary’s death results in the spiral of both Sherlock and John with John blaming Sherlock for her death.

Sherlock “goes to Hell” through drugs and reckless behavior at the request of a video Mary sent him before her death in order to save John by letting John save him, which brings us to the twist, as if there weren’t enough prior to this. Sherlock and Mycroft have a younger sister who Mycroft has kept locked in a secure facility and Sherlock has rewritten out of his memories to better cope with the trauma she caused. “The Final Problem” shows how she’s “reprogrammed” the prison workers so that she now runs the prison, allowing her to trap Sherlock, John and Mycroft and torture them with ing system to deal with his sister killing his best friend at a young age, but with the supposed power of Sherlock’s memory and clips of herself she had Moriarty record.

The actors’ performances were fantastic as ever, but the writ- brain, this explanation feels like a lazy way to introduce this plot ers failed to provide satisfying solutions, making their twists less point. Like this twist, most of the drama of this season felt forced well-conceived and more reminiscent of Scandal. Ironically, the and implausible, and existed only for the purpose of making writers suffered from the same fault as Sherlock. There was too Sherlock, John and Mycroft face their emotions. large a focus on proving their cleverness through complex, interBy intertwining each case so deeply with Sherlock’s personal woven, emotionally-charged cases. As entertaining as it was to fol- life and forcing emotional development, Sherlock’s fourth season low as Sherlock manically flip through deductions and traps, these fell short in capturing the spirit of the first two seasons, which

made it so engaging and unique. The show became much heavier, and not in a good way. A key aspect of the first two seasons was Sherlock’s motivation for solving the cases. Even when the stakes were high and lives were at risk, Sherlock took the cases primarily because he was an addict.

The lack of choice Sherlock had in taking the case again exemplified the forced drama under which Sherlock had to work and grow. “The Lying Detective” presented the most interesting and true-to-form case as well as provided the case most removed from the personal dealings of Sherlock and his friends. Even though Sherlock took the case at Mary’s request in order to “save John Watson,” this case showed Sherlock in his truest form of the season. Sherlock is at his best not when he’s trying to figure out who committed the crime, but rather how they did it. In the case of Culverton Smith, Sherlock knows who the culprit is from the beginning, allowing him to spend the episode figuring out how and why. He nearly dies to hear why Culverton Smith committed his crimes, only to be saved by John, mirroring the conclusion of “A Study in Pink.”

Even though this season hasn’t been announced as the show’s final — and the creators and cast insist that if logistically possible, the show will go on — the season had a very distinctive sense of finality to it. It wrapped up loose ends with Lestrade declaring that Sherlock was a good man, a thread left from the first episode of the series, and didn’t leave us with a single cliff hanger (except the emotional fallout of Sherlock and Molly’s exchange which unfortunately was likely never intended as more than a dramatic prop). Even if the show continues, this season marked the end of a chapter in the show. This sense of ending may be for the best and hopefully is the reset the show needs to get back on track, should it continue.

Brynn Richter is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ber65@cornell.edu.

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Red Builds Momentum Heading Into Final Stretch Women defeat Union, then hold off late-game rally from RPI to notch two consecutive victories W.HOCKEY

are one of the best teams in the ECAC right now,” Buckley added. you make, but when you make One area of doubt for the Red them,” said head coach Doug this season has been offensive Derraugh ’91. “We needed a few production. Cornell has been big ones especially in those last able to generate pressure and four or five minutes.” shots on goal, but the team has The four total points over the failed to convert on several cruweekend further established cial scoring chances at reoccuring Cornell’s playoff positioning. times this year.

“We need every point we can “We can’t continue to rely get because we want to solidify completely on our defense,” home ice in the playoffs,” said Derraugh said. “We’re not going sophomore forward Diane to go very far in the playoffs if we Buckley. can’t find ways to score goals.”

Freshman forward Amy This weekend, Cornell’s Curlew got things going for the offense came alive — an encourRed early, as she scored a first aging sign for a team which is period goal off a pass from fresh- already dominant on the defenman forward sive end.

Paige Lewis, In Friday’s UNION @ CORNELL who set the game, Cornell play up with a outshot Union pass in front of 47 to 11, with Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL net. senior forward 1 0 0 1 “We put a Union H a n n a 2 2 1 5 lot of empha- Cornell Bunton consis on getting tinuing her pucks to the net and driving to impressive season with two goals. the net,” Derraugh said.

Senior captain Kaitlin Doering Moments later, RPI tied the and Hart both added a goal and score on a power play goal. The an assist, while freshman forward tie lasted until the end of the Kristin O’Neill continued her first period, when sophomore hot stretch of play with yet defender and team captain another goal.

Micah Hart scored the go-ahead “We need everybody to step goal for the Red. Hart produced up offensively,” Derraugh said. a tremendous performance on “We’re not a team that has one Saturday: scoring a goal, assist- big line.” ing another and contributing Not only did the Red come quality minutes on defense. Hart away with two important victoalso added a goal and an assist ries this weekend, but the team against Union also showed its on Friday. ability to find RPI @ CORNELL “Micah has multiple ways always been of scoring. solid on the Game: “This week 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL defensive side RPI we put a net in 1 0 1 2 of things,” Cornell our locker 2 0 1 3 Derraugh said. room for some “Both goals this weekend came visualization,” Buckley said. from her getting her eyes up and “That is kind of the trick right getting shots through on the now.” power play.”

For Cornell, hopefully that Sophomore Diane Buckley net stays in the locker room, as it increased the Red’s lead to two in locked the team in offensively the third period, a goal that this weekend. would later prove to be crucial for Troy Bridson can be reached at the Cornell victory.

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drew a five minute major less than one minute into the Kaldis minor after receiving a dangerous hit into the board delivered

by RPI’s Riley Bourbonnais.

Throughout the game, any time one team scored, the other came back with an answer.

Shortly after Kaldis exited the box for his minor, he got number one and provided the only goal of the night that had no answer.

As recently as last weekend, Cornell was one of the topranked teams in the country when it came to its penalty unit.

nation’s leading goal scorer and points getter, would steal the Dutchmen one back before first intermission with a shorthanded effort. But goals from sophomore forward Anthony Angello and junior forward Dwyer Tschantz — his first of the year — gave Cornell the lead heading into the break.

The Dutchmen went on to score the game's next two, seemingly sending Cornell back into the same lead-losing narrative it had fallen victim to against both Harvard and Dartmouth last “I was waiting for it. weekend. After Union tied it up, Thankfully it’s over now it was clear whoever scored the and I can hopefully chip next goal would be telling for the Cornell squad: resilience if it in a few more.” came from a Cornell player, déjà vu if it came from Union.

Yanni Kaldis And it was the captain who bailed his team out, sending a sharply-angled power play goal But since then, the Red has given past Kupsky for the eventual- up nine goals in four games game winner. Angello would add while shorthanded, slipping to a another in the game’s final five No. 25-ranked penalty kill. minutes, and Cornell got that But the Red’s power play bounce back win it needed over a should not go unnoticed either. top-five ranked team.

Cornell was granted 13 power “What happened last week- plays across the two-game weekend — similar things happened end, scoring on five of them, to us in the [Union] game where including three times against RPI. I struggling to find out where we With so many opportunities took some calls,” said head coach on the power play, Kaldis — a Mike Schafer ’86. “Our guys staple on the top power play didn't respond very unit for his puck-movwell [last weekend], I ing abilities — said it didn't respond very was just that which Colgate well. I thought our woke up Cornell’s team handled it very power play unit this well tonight.” weekend.

As opposed to “We thought we vs.

Friday, where Cornell would move around a never trailed through little more,” Kaldis 60 minutes, the Red said. “We started movonly managed to lead ing around and things for 22.6 seconds opened up for us.”

Cornell against RPI, but that Now, Cornell will was all that was necesface short rest yet again Tomorrow, 7 p.m. sary to secure the win. when it takes on its Ithaca, N.Y. Kaldis’ first career travel partner Colgate goal finished off a two(6-16-5, 4-9-2) on goal third period, Tuesday — this time at where the Red outshot home. the Engineers a whopping 14-3 Colgate is also coming off a in the 20-minute frame. weekend against both RPI and Cornell’s 45 shots on the night Union, dropping both games 5-2 was an uncharacteristically high and 3-1, respectively. The total for a team that tends to Raiders have only secured two enjoy mild games in that depart- wins — over Clarkson and ment.

Dartmouth — in their last 10 “I was waiting for it,” Kalids attempts. said of number one. “Thankfully The Red last met the Raiders it’s over now and I can hopefully in a chewing-gum affair — as chip in a few more.”

Colgate throws Big Red chewing RPI scored just 25 seconds gum at Cornell upon player into the contest, but Patrick entry — and Cornell defeated its McCarron knotted things up just Hamilton opponents, 3-2, about four minutes later with a behind two goals from shot from the point. The teams McCarron. continued to trade goals, and “We’ll get back at it on Kaldis took a penalty late in Tuesday against Colgate and order to keep a breakaway from hopefully our fans are ready to cleanly getting to senior goalie roll and [we] come back in town Mitch Gillam. and do a better job than last It looked as if the freshman week in terms of finishing off had just handed RPI a clear teams,” Schafer said. opportunity to walk away with the upset win, but senior Zach Silver can be reached at defenseman Holden Anderson zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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From Underestimated to NCAA Division I Star By transitioning from 3-point shooting to inside game, sophomore guard hopes to make leap to NBA MORGAN

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1990s.

“Lamont is great,” Barbee said.

“If I could pick two parents, they’d be my two parents. Lamont was involved in Matt’s basketball, but he stayed in the background. On the ride home he gave Matt the choice [to] talk about the game now or talk about it later. Lamont was a parent who understood. I never heard a word from him in the stands. Kids are always looking in the stands to see if their parents approved, while Matt could play

“He was very underrecruited. How he got out of the state of North Carolina was beyond me.”

Jody Barbee with freedom.”

Morgan echoed Barbee’s praise of his father, recalling when he walked into the locker room for his first varsity basketball game and being pleasantly shocked to see his name etched into the starting lineup.

“We all knew I was going to play varsity, but we didn’t know I was going to start,” Morgan said. “My dad just gave me this speech. He said, ‘If you do play, just go out there and produce, don’t do anything out of the the ordinary. If you’re on the bench make sure you cheer for your teammates and be supportive.’”

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And so Morgan was on the court for a major match against North Mecklenburg — a top-25 high school in the state at the time — and was instrumental in defeating the heavyweights in overtime. It was at that moment that Morgan

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realized that he had the potential to play at the highest level, and so he transformed from the soft-spoken kid of slight stature to a player who led by example in his junior year, when the majority of his junior varsity teammates and coach made the full-time jump to varsity. Led by Morgan and his class, that team would go on to sweep the all-state and all-league accolades in their final two seasons.

But despite scoring a near-county record 760 points during his junior year, Morgan was not picked up by a college basketball powerhouse.

“He was very under-recruited,” Barbee said. “How he got out of the state of North Carolina was beyond me. One school told me he didn't move well without the ball, and I couldn't understand that. Isn’t he’s the leading rebounder [at Cornell]?

Show me a guard who has got that many rebounds who isn’t moving well without the ball.”

One can imagine what Morgan must have felt when Cornell offered him the chance to play in a Division I program at a school that also prides itself on academic excellence. After facing early challenges due to his stature, a new opportunity now awaits him as the leader of the young Cornell basketball team with a fighting chance to make the inaugural Ivy League postseason tournament.

game against North Mecklenburg where he cemented his starting spot on the varsity team.

When Morgan tells the story of that special day, he remembers it with clarity and fondness. But rather than focusing on his performance that day, he highlights Barbee’s faith, and his father’s guidance.

Barbee and Morgan continue to text, telling each other about the status of their respective teams. His former coach remains his coach to this date, just of the life variety, not as much basketball.

“When he’s here back home in the summer, we open up the gym.”

Barbee said. “He comes and plays with some of our guys, and they love it. I love that kid. He’s like one of my own.”

Siddharth Srinvasan can be reached at ss2969@cornell.edu.

Attacking the paint | Matt Morgan has moved away from spot-up 3-point shooting and has developed his inside game.

A Budding Leader

Classmates who saw limited minutes for the Red last season, such as Stone Gettings, are having a significant influence on proceedings alongside Morgan this year. In addition to maintaining a consistent output of 18 to 19 points a game, Earl has asked Morgan to improve his leadership and have an active role in team huddles and pep talks.

Barbee has full confidence that Morgan can continue to take these hurdles with stride, just as with the

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MEN’S AND WOMEN’S HOCKEY

RED SKATES TO EIGHT-POINT WEEKEND Men regain footing visiting Capital Region foes

By ZACH SILVER

from last weekend, defeating a top-ranked opponent in Union, 5-3, on Friday, and squeaking out a 4-3 win over RPI after Last week was not the rivalry weekend freshman Yanni Kaldis scored his first career Cornell men’s hockey team would have goal with 22.6 remaining in regulation for liked. Getting outscored 7-0 across two Cornell’s only lead of the game. third periods to give away It was Cornell first road sweep over both two wins could have killed Union and RPI in over eight years. the momentum for any “Last week was frustrating. We had leads team going forward. in both games but didn’t come away with So when Cornell (14any points,” said senior forward Jake 6-2, 9-4-2 ECAC) went Weidner after the win against the back on the road to the Dutchmen. “So we were really Capital Region to take on looking forward to getting back No. 4/5 Union (19-7-2, on the ice against Union here.”

12-3-1) — owners of only Cornell struck first against two ECAC losses entering the Union exactly halfway into weekend — and RPI (6-23-1, the first period, when junior 4-13), the Red had the chance forward Alex Rauter, in on a to show the nation that last breakaway, deked to his backweekend was a fluke, and the hand to open the pads of team from Ithaca was built Union’s Jake Kupsky — with resilience. playing in place of the With that opportunity on the usual starter Alex platter, Cornell flipped the script Sakellaropoulos — and sent it five-hole to open the scoring.

BRITTANY CHEW / SUN ASSISTANT Union’s Mike Weekend wins over Union and PHOTOGRAPHY Vecchione — the EDITOR RPI lead to Cornell’s first road

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sweep over the two schools in over eight years.

See M. HOCKEY page 14

Hanging tough | Despite being undermanned, Cornell keeps its unbeaten streak at four.

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Women take care of business for two straight wins, sweep Union and RPI at Lynah Rink

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

With only over a minute remaining in the third period and having just scored a goal to cut the lead to one, RPI searched for the tying score against the Cornell women’s hockey team. Playing with an extra skater, RPI pestered the Red with a series of shots, but sophomore goalie Marlene Boissonnault came up huge in the net as she made several key saves with

the game on the line.

Boissonnault’s late game heroics were enough to cap off a tremendous weekend for Cornell (16-6-3, 12-3-3 ECAC). The Red took care of business against Union (4-24-1, 1-14-1) in a 5-1 win on Friday night at Lynah, before battling in a high intensity game against RPI (9-19-2, 611-1) for a 3-2 win.

“Sometimes it’s not how many saves See W. HOCKEY page 13

Always Overlooked: A Budding Star’s Journey

By SIDDHARTH SRINIVASAN Sun Staff Writer

With 19 seconds remaining, sophomore Matt Morgan stood at the 3-point line, his prolific deep-ball shooting drawing the close attention of Northeastern’s defensive man.

Morgan was blocked off from a direct path to the basket.

With precious seconds ticking away in a nip-and-tuck match against the Huskies, failing to make it to the basket would result in Cornell’s sixth loss in seven games and reverse any momentum which the team would hope to build upon with its sole win against Lafayette a few weeks before.

The difficulty of the task did not faze Morgan, who has enjoyed a remarkable stretch of play since making his collegiate debut last season. Fashioning a disguised pass, Morgan cut left of his man, sashaying inward before sending in the gamewinning layup.

Despite being a game-winner, the play was simply another display of Morgan’s growth and evolution from a spot up 3-point shooter to a guard with the ability to drive to the hoop.

“Last year I got most of my development of his game as of season, Morgan began to draw late. Standing at six-foot-three notice and respect from oppo- threes off driving kicks,” — slight of stature in the bas- nents, drastically decreasing Morgan said. “A lot of defenses ketball world — Morgan has the amount of clear shots he would overcommit to the ball, always dealt with being on the was accustomed to taking his and I was left open. I was able to knock down shots shorter side, giving driving to the hoop a “The football coach that was there at without guys in my face. This year it is much higher degree the time ... said Matt couldn’t become more me getting of difficulty. other people open, “I was 10 playing a Division I basketball player. ” and shoot off moveon a U-12 team and ment.” my coach just told Jody Barbee Morgan often me, ‘Stand in the corunderstates his dream ner and shoot,’” Morgan said. “I was so short freshman year. Under the guid- to play professionally, but one and little that every time I got ance of newly instated head can sense his underlying confithe ball he told me, ‘Don’t pass coach Brian Earl, Morgan was dence in realizing his aspirathe ball. Just shoot.’” forced to adapt his style of play tions. However, as with any journey, Morgan’s path feaAfter last year’s stellar debut for the better.

‘Don’t Pass the Ball.

Just Shoot.’

Still a more-than-capable 3point shooter, Morgan has placed a focus on the physical

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Changing Roles | In addition to anchoring the offense, Morgan has played a bigger off-court leadership role this year.

tured a series of ups and downs. When Morgan first stepped onto the court at Cox Mill High School in Concord, N.C., his short stature funneled him down to the junior varsity squad.

Basketball In His Genes

Morgan’s coach at the time, Jody Barbee, recalls his former player’s high school days, entrusting Morgan’s abilities from the get-go.

“I remember the moment,” Barbee said. “The football coach that was there at the time, he and I argued probably 15 minutes one day when Matt decided to play basketball. He said Matt couldn’t become a Division I basketball player.”

Barbee always believed in the player who he ended up coaching all four years. In Morgan’s sophomore year, Barbee was promoted to the varsity coaching gig and Morgan earned a promotion to the school’s top squad.

Barbee described Morgan as a willing learner and a true joy to coach, and he made no small mention of the fact that Morgan’s father is Lamont Morgan, a former Georgetown star who led the Hoyas to a Big East title and three NCAA finals appearances in the early See MORGAN page 15