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Cornell Mum on Police Chief Search First Cohort of 14 Officials unclear on who will have say in hunt for Kathy Zoner’s successor

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

the most apparent candidate for Cornell’s next top cop.

Honan demurred this week when asked if he was planning to throw his hat into the ring.

“Our department will continue to operate seamlessly through the leadership transition,” Honan said in an email to The Sun. “I will defer to [Executive Vice President] DeStefano to comment on her plans moving forward.”

Ithaca Police Chief Peter Tyler, who announced last week that he will retire in May, said he is not seeking the Cornell job.

The next Cornell Police chief will lead a department of about 43 sworn officers who are deputized by the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office and, like municipal police departments, allowed to carry weapons, make arrests and use physical force — including deadly force — when permitted by law.

Unlike many municipalities, there has historically been no period of public comment between when a chief candidate is nominated and confirmed.

Zoner was sworn in as chief in 2009 mere hours after Cornell appointed her to the position, The Sun reported at the time.

The next chief will also be in charge of about 25 additional staff members and oversee a constituency of about 33,000 students, facCOURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY ulty and staff, in addition

As Cornell looks to hire its first new police chief in nearly a decade, administrators have been tight-lipped about what the search process will entail and who will be involved.

Cornell’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Joanne DeStefano, to whom the police chief reports, said in a brief statement Monday that she hopes to share more about Cornell’s plans to pick the next police chief “within the coming week or so.”

DeStefano has declined multiple interview requests since Chief Kathy Zoner’s announcement last week that she would leave Cornell on March 4 for a safety consulting firm.

She did not answer questions about which campus stakeholders will be involved in the search for Zoner’s successor or what Cornell’s timeline is for finding and interviewing potential replacements.

“We are taking this opportunity to engage with Cornell Police officers and local law enforcement agencies to understand the leadership qualities that are needed to fill this important role,” DeStefano said.

Even then, the Ithaca Police chief said he hadn’t heard a peep from Cornell about its search.

Members of the Cornell Police Union said they are hoping to meet with administrators soon.

Both Zoner and her predecessor, Curtis S. Ostrander, were hired to lead the department after serving in the force’s No. 2 spot, making current Zoning out | It remains unclear how Cornell plans to search for a Deputy Chief David Honan successor to Chief Kathy Zoner, who will leave the University in March.

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Nasties: A Freshman Eatery— and Sometimes a ‘Zoo’

By OLIVIA WEINBERG Sun Staff Writer

The smell of fried food and greasy burgers almost masks the stench of sweaty partygoers. A place of reconvening and rendezvous, campus staple Nasties has been a long-time late-night favorite for Cornell students.

Nasties, whose rarely-used official name is Bear Necessities, sits on the first

floor of the Robert Purcell Community Center and is one of two late-night food establishments on North Campus.

Expectedly, freshmen and nostalgia-seeking upperclassmen flock to the site for food fixes.

As a result of its location and convenient hours — open until 2 a.m. every day — students come to the popular spot in various states of inebriation throughout the night.

“It was definitely super duper crazy late at night, especially on Fridays and Saturdays when everyone was getting back from their parties,” said Ariel Roldan ’21, who worked the cash register at Nasties during her freshman year.

Karelia Jaramillo ’22 described one particularly unruly night at Nasties earlier this school year.

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Late-night bites | A student orders at Bear Necessities convenience store and grill on North Campus. Nicknamed “Nasties,” the store has become a staple at Cornell and a fixture in first-year students’ experiences.

Students Enroll in Milstein Program

By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This academic year marks the inauguration of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, an initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences aiming to provide students with an education that combines the University’s liberal arts offerings and exposure to front-end technology provided by Cornell Tech.

Although the program was announced in 2017, the first class of 14 students entered Cornell in the fall according to Maja Anderson, Milstein’s program manager.

The vision for the program began five years ago with Gretchen Ritter ’83, the former dean of the arts college and Dan Huttenlocher, the current dean of Cornell Tech, who both sought to build greater academic ties between the education of technology — algorithms, data “Our goal is to and design — and the take in a kid ... diverse, broad-based passionate about curriculum available to liberal arts students. literature and help The program is a create a more unique mix of engiliterate tech neering, design, humanities and ethworld.” ics training that is Prof. Amy Villarejo difficult to achieve elsewhere within Cornell, according to Anderson.

Students enrolled in the program will complete special technology and project-based coursework in addition to completing any of the 40 majors offered in the College of Arts and Sciences, according to Anderson.

The program also features two summers of study at the Cornell Tech campus, where students will have the opportunity to conduct research and participate in internships alongside leaders in both academia and industry.

“Fundamentally, our goal is to take in a kid who is really passionate about literature, and help create a more literate tech world,” said Prof.

Amy Villarejo, director of the program. “Or the reverse — produce a journalist who has a far better understanding of how tech actually works.”

Villarejo specifically cited Prof. Rick Johnson, electrical and computer engineering, as an example of the sort of interdisciplinary type of thinking that the Milstein Program aims to instill in its students.

For most of his 37-year career at Cornell, Johnson specialized in the study of advanced algorithms and signal processing, but also long See MILSTEIN page 4

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Jessica Martinez Named Director of Johnson Museum

By VALE LEWIS Sun Staff Writer

Cornell has named Jessica Martinez, the current director of Academic and Public Programs at Harvard University, as the new director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Johnson Museum’s former director Stephanie Wiles left for Yale in July. After her departure, the role has been temporarily filled by Peter Gould and Ellen Avril, who also serves the museum’s chief curator and curator of Asian art.

The director of the Museum is in charge of overseeing all museum operations. Martinez will be responsible for fundraising, personnel-management, acquisition of objects and conservation efforts, for example. She will also work to engage students through exhibition-planning and program development.

Avril said Martinez’s “enthusiasm and energy” contributed to her appointment as director.

“Her commitment to the Johnson’s mission of providing great experiences with art to the campus and the community, her ability to connect with people and her creative ideas for engaging students with the museum really im-

pressed the search committee,” Avril told The Sun in an email.

In her role at Harvard, Martinez worked to engage undergraduate students by creating the Art Study Center, which made artifacts in storage more accessible to the Harvard c o m m u n i t y.

She also helped faculty incorporate museum pieces and artifacts into their curriculum, according to an article in The Harvard Crimson.

In a Cornell press release, Martinez expressed a similar interest in making the Johnson “a place where MARTINEZ people can test ideas.”

“Nearly 400 classes are already visiting the Johnson Museum each academic year, and that constant flow of opportunity with new students, fresh eyes and bold questions is exciting to me,” she said in the same press release.

Courses from over 50 Cornell departments hold classes in the museum as part of their curriculum and each

year, the Johnson hosts students from nearby elementary schools as part of the Kids Discover the Trail program, a series of field trips to local educational sites, including the Sciencenter and the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

Martinez earned her B.A. in fine arts and Ph.D. in history of art and architecture from Harvard University.

She then worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art before returning to Harvard to serve as the Research Curator of African Art Initiatives, in addition to her role as Director of Academic and Public Programs.

With this experience in her resume, Avril said Martinez will help enrich Johnson Museum’s African collection.

“Jessica’s area of expertise will bring greater visibility to our important African collection and her depth of experience as a museum educator will carry our already rich and robust educational programs forward,” Avril said.

Martinez is only the fourth director since the museum’s founding in 1973 and will officially start her term on July 15. Avril said she believes the Johnson Museum has a “bright future ahead” under Martinez’s leadership.

Vale Lewis can be reached at vlewis@cornellsun.com.

Political Belief Shapes Readers’ Trust, Study Says

By SAMANTHA STERN Sun Staff Writer

In the age where “fake news” has become a catchphrase, the general public still trusts the headlines they read — but only if these headlines align with their political affiliations.

A recent study by researchers at Cornell Tech suggests that people “overwhelmingly report believing headlines that align with their political views, regardless of the source of the report.”

The researchers, headed by Prof.

Mor Naaman, information science, conducted an online experiment with 400 participants to see if they trusted headlines such as “Trump lashes out at Vanity Fair, one day after it lambastes his restaurant.”

The study also collected their political leaning to evaluate whether

the source of the story — such as Fox News or The New York Times — influenced the participants’ trust in the headlines. The results show that the general public does not believe every headline they read, but are more likely to claim that a headline is accurate if it aligns with their world views.

However, there was a nuance in this finding. When some participants were offered payment for getting the “correct” answer — whether the headline was actually true or false — their political beliefs play less of a role in their answers.

Naaman believes that these findings show that “the source of news might be less polarizing than previously thought.” However, people are likely to discredit accurate headlines if they do not support their views.

“We thought that recent reports

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about trust in news did not dig far enough into the determinants of trust, and that understanding this in more detail can help us design better news platforms and social media platforms where news is shared,” Naaman said in an email to The Sun. The team of researchers are planning to use these findings to dig further into this topic. They are hoping to expand their study to use more headlines, more news sources and more participants.

“We definitely intend to dig in including extending the research to make our results more robust and examining these dynamics in more realistic settings,” Naaman said.

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Extra extra | Depending on the source and political leanSamantha Stern can be reached at sstern@cornellsun.com.

ing of a headline, readers experience different levels of trust, according to a Cornell Tech study.

U.C. Santa Barbara Prof Calls For Humanities Reconstruction Monetization of degrees devalues liberal arts, he says

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

SARAH SILBIGER / THE NEW YORK TIMES

At President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, many female Democrat representatives wore white at the United States Capitol in recognition of the women’s suffrage movement.

Expressing a need for more funding for the humanities to reap benefits beyond economic value, Prof. Christopher Newfield M.A. ’84 Ph.D. ’88, literature and American studies, University of California, Santa Barbara gave a lecture titled “What the Humanities are for: Two Responses to Vulnerability” on Wednesday.

The lecture focused on the teaching of humanities in higher education, and how the economy and social situations can be shaped by such a curriculum.

Newfield’s presentation referenced several other writers and thinkers engaging with the value of the humanities. He quoted author Mark Edmundson in saying that humanities majors “engage in the activity that Plato commends — seeking to understand themselves and how they ought to lead their lives.”

He first presented how some people idealize universities as embodying “the principle of equality for all” and “the democratization of intelligence.” These ideals, Newfield said, result in “non-market benefits that have enormous value to outside society.”

Newfield also argued that when the value of a college degree rests on its eco-

nomic value, it makes universities “emphasize the monetizable skills” of a degree, resulting in liberal arts degrees being put in a “subordinate position.”

The advocacy for humanities funding “is not an anti-STEM comment, rather a pro-humanities stance where we cannot do our research without money that is currently being removed for other highcost departments,” Newfield said.

He identified the lack of emphasis on humanities as partially motivated by money, where researchers in the field “cannot fund what would be needed to gain systematic knowledge to critically solve problems.”

Newfield advocated a “massive humanities research program, in which we argue for a scale of funding which we were not able to argue for before.” He elaborated, “What I would like for us to think about is how to set up an international research agenda in which these projects are pursued in groups.”

“We want to be able to render this on a scale that is visible to the outside world, with national organizations involved that would take this up,” Newfield said.

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at aehtasham@cornellsun.com.

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Milstein Inaugurates New Interdisciplinary Program MILSTEIN

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held a deep love for 17th-century Dutch painting. In what Villarejo called an “epiphany moment,” Johnson realized he could merge the science of imaging with art — a novel combination that spawned an entirely new field called “computational art history,” which has made significant strides in dating paintings and analyzing their composition.

“That kind of capacity to recognize and integrate two entirely different areas is what produces true innovation,” Villarejo said. “And that’s exactly what the program is striving for.”

The program is funded by a $20 million grant gifted by the Milstein family — a prolific University benefactor who has previously helped to fund the Milstein Hospital Building and Milstein Hall in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

However, large donations earmarked to a single program have sparked concerns that wealthy alumni may be unduly influencing the university’s priorities, Villarejo said. Much of Cornell’s endowment is considered “donor-restricted,” according to the University’s most recent financial statements, which means they can only be used in ways the donor has deemed fit.

While empathizing with such feelings, Villarejo said “they weren’t accurate” as it was the deans of both schools that are really behind the planning of the initiative.

“The program isn’t just for the enrolled students,” Villarejo added.

“It’s about facilitating events, programming, coursework, and other interdisciplinary initiatives that will … spill over … and benefit everyone at Cornell.”

For instance, the program will sponsor a speaker’s series on the Ithaca campus this semester that includes appearances by Oskar Eustice, artistic director of the New York City public theater and Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of Mozilla, according to Villarejo.

Moreover, by more closely linking the arts — which Villarejo called an often overlooked, but a “crucial part of the design and technology process” — to STEM fields, she hopes that the Milstein program will ultimately help ward off the trend of “Cornell consistently decreasing funding to the arts.”

A cohort of 25 new students will be enrolled every year in the College of Arts and Sciences. The program will reach a total of 100 students by 2021, according to Villarejo.

Of the 25 enrollees, half will be selected from accepted high school students who have expressed interest in the program on the Common Application, while the other half will be drawn from Cornell freshmen who elect to apply in their second semester.

Given small class sizes, competition for the limited number of spots is expected to be fierce.

Over 100 students admitted to Cornell through early decision applied to the Milstein Program in the current admissions cycle; another several hundred are likely to do the same in the regular decision pool, according to Villarejo.

Through a process of faculty review and potential interviews among finalists, that number will have to be winnowed down to less than 15, Villarejo said.

The ideal student will be one who exhibits aptitude and passion for both liberal arts and technology, or, as Villarejo put, “students who genuinely have feet in both worlds.”

“I’ve always been really interested in Asian studies,” said Reza Madhavan ’22, one of the 14 students currently enrolled in the program. “And this was the only thing I could find that would allow me to continue fully studying that alongside computer science.”

Bliss Zheng ’22, another member of Milstein’s inaugural class, hoped that the program would allow her “to find ways to introduce biology’s unique perspectives and applications to technology.”

The Milstein program’s push to create tighter bonds between liberal arts and STEM is timely, Villarejo said.

“Everyday, the headlines show why we need to do a better job combining liberal arts with technology,” Villarejo explained. “One of the main goals of the program is to introduce into the tech industry questions regarding ethics and values...questions broader than what the industry has been able to deal with so far.”

Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at jstimpson@cornellsun.com.

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“I remember coming back and it was like 1:30 in the morning and it was insane,” Jaramillo said.

“There were so many people. It was literally a zoo.”

“I asked the lady at the counter if it was like this normally and she said, ‘This is a good night,’” Jaramillo recalled, laughing.

The snack spot can be zoo-like, with large groups of rowdy students gesturing wildly behind large glass walls, inadvertently entertaining freshmen walking to and from dorm buildings.

The Cornell Daily Sun freshman issue in 1985 described Bear Necessities as “stocked with such essentials as comic books and pantyhose.” These days, Nasties

serves the standard munchies fare — chips, candy, burgers, calzones — and boasts the Bear Sampler, a plate that includes just about everything: onion rings, fries, mozzarella sticks and chicken tenders.

Roldan estimated that she interacted with about 30 customers per three-hour shift, some of whom she suspected were following their stomachs’ beckoning after smoking weed.

“The funniest thing would be when kids who were really high walked into Nasties and they’d just grab a bunch of snacks and come up to you and try to focus really hard when they’re paying,” Roldan said. “I’d always make a comment or a joke about it.”

Olivia Weinberg can be reached at oweinberg@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Quiet On Who Takes Part In Chief Search

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to those who pass through the campus.

MEGAN ROCHE / SUN PROJECTS EDITOR In 2017, the most recent year for which data is available, On-campus crimes reported to police | According to crime data Cornell is required to report, 44 percent of the there were 21 rapes, three aggravated assaults, 10 fondlings, one robbery and 13 burglaries that were reported to police as on-campus crimes reported to police were rapes, 27 percent were burglaries and 6 percent were aggravated assaults in 2017. occurring on campus. Police received four additional reports Light newsletter she emails to students most weeks. and commitment to the personnel and to the department. of rapes that occurred in off-campus buildings that are fre“I think they’re doing a pretty fine job,” Michael Zhao ’21 She will be missed,” Officers William Carpenter and Ray quently used by students or for educational purposes. said of Cornell Police as he walked along Ho Plaza. “They Schweiger, the union president and vice president, said in a Cornell police have also responded with local agencies to mostly stay out of the way, but they chip in when people need statement. “We also offer whatever assistance they desire to high-profile crimes in the last few years, including the murder help. That’s pretty solid.” the University in finding a replacement and look forward to of one Ithaca College student and stabbing of another near “I have no idea,” said Jessica Piggott ’20 when asked what working with the University in whatever process they decide.”

Ho Plaza in August 2016, a man who barricaded himself in she wants to see in the next chief. “I honestly just delete all Haven, Cornell’s LGBTQ student union, said LGBTQ his home on Dryden Road after fatally shooting a UPS driver the Blue Light emails.” people, particularly those of color, have historically faced near Walmart in December 2016 and the arrest of a Cornell Several student representatives, on the other hand, are ask- violence or humiliation from police departments and the student in September 2017 on a hate crime assault charge that ing that administrators seek input from students and engage next Cornell chief should work to understand and address was later dropped. with historically marginalized groups before and after select- that fact.

“We’ve worked large cases together — Yahya Abdul-Basser ’20, president of the Muslim ing Zoner’s successor. homicides, politically or racially charged Educational and Cultural Association, said the chief search “I do think it’s important to have “Something that the incidents — and those all take a delicate student engagement on this because stu- presents “a great opportunity to improve the relationship balance of leadership, a delicate balance administrators want might dents are the people who are going to between students and CUPD.” Abdul-Basser and Gabriel of understanding each other and what the be interfaced with most when it comes Vergara ’21, treasurer of Amnesty International, both said be very different from object for each particular entity is,” Tyler to the police department on campus,” they hope the next chief communicates effectively with a what students need.” said. “Sometimes those differ, and if you said Student Assembly President Varun diverse campus and promotes equality. don’t have those close ties, that’s someDevatha, the Student Assembly president, said late Devatha ’19. “I think it’d be beneficial Varun Devatha ’19 thing that can blow up.” to have students engaged sort of from the Wednesday that he had reached out to administrators to The announcements within three days discuss how to ensure students were involved in the process beginning.” by the city’s first black police chief and Devatha recommended that adminis- in some way.

Cornell’s first female chief leave both town and gown residents trators hold a forum at which students could tell DeStefano “Something that the administrators want might be very clueless about who will next lead their police departments. and others what values they want in a police chief, and for the different from what students need,” he said.

“It’s a unique situation where you have two fairly large University to also allow a small number of students to advise departments where you have two chiefs leaving” so near to during the search itself.

Maryam Zafar ’21 contributed reporting to this article. one another, Tyler said.

Members of the Cornell Police Union also said they were But many students said they were not bothered by the lack eager to provide any assistance Cornell desires in its search.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached of information and only knew Zoner, if at all, by the Blue “We would like to thank Chief Zoner for her time at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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A Relationship Isn’t Happiness

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he first time my boyfriend and I could I ask for anything more, if I had the talked about the definition of love, person I loved by my side?

But two nights ago, I opened my back we were in a New York City apartment. The summer was humid and scented window and thought of jumping the long with moss, and in a crowded kitchen, we way down to the snow. The lingering sensatalked about what love means — argued tion — defeat, hopelessness, solitude — had about it, really. We quickly realized this never changed. Looking out the dirty glass word required a definition neither of us panels, the Ithaca snow drowning the grass could grasp — a concept simultaneously as white, I came to the realization: Yes, it is expansive as the city awake around us, yet still possible to feel lonely even when you as narrow as the mortar between brick walls. have a significant other. It is still possible We haven’t talked about that definition to feel as if you are a pinpoint in a world in a while, but I hear it discussed all the time that is incomprehensibly wide, even when around me, in cafes, in classrooms, in librar- someone you love is next to you. And even when someone staies. And as Valentine’s Day comes around, there emerges a widening rift between those ble is by your side, who are lonely it is possible to be and those who are utterly in fear of not, those who are Being in a the future. cuffed and those As much as I who are eating ice relationship did cherish my relacream alone in not rid me of all tionship, their bed, those I’ve come who are happy of my problems. to realize and those who are everything heartbroken. we believe But if being in a relationship has taught about fixing unhappiness is more or less me anything, it’s that most of these dis- untrue. My boyfriend cannot heal me. He tinctions are fallacies: The existence of a is, simply put, another person who has significant other runs on a line completely entered my life. Beautiful and sensational, separate from the scale of our happiness. I’ve but only a person. He moves my life with learned someone can enter your life and fill full force, but that’s the point. He moves it, up space — they can shave away the lonely and no more. My narratives belong wholly hours of the day, can fill up a square foot or to me at the end of the day — how they two of your empty room, can occupy the play out, devolve, escalate are up to me. The chair across the dining table — but they can loneliness will persist, unless I learn how to almost never be a substitute for what was fix it for myself.

I like to picture that finding someone already missing.

I used to think if I found a significant you love is simply the encounter of two other, I would be a happier person. In the oscillating streaks of life with one anothplainest, purest sense, happier. I thought er — passing, fleeting and still moving on if I just stabilized that part of my life, I their own terms. It is a blip of time when would finally feel balanced in an enormous two people meet on a path. And as much as uncertainty in my life. We all wonder if that life can be illuminated by this new person, crush will text back, if we’ll leave a party they are just like anyone else whose path we with someone, if we’ll be “forever alone.” cross. They are a person who cannot substiI did too. It seemed if this one constant tute what was void in our own lives. They uncertainty was finally settled, I would will not be the answer to those questions have much less to worry about. A signifi- that keep us awake at night. If it is “better cant other meant reliability — a constant to have loved and lost than to never have reminder someone cares about you, a sure- never loved at all,” then it is best to have fire way of remembering we are cherished loved yourself.

To my boyfriend, I am grateful to you and valued.

But being in a relationship did not rid for allowing me to tell our story in bits and me of all of my problems. Not even a frac- pieces over the weeks, and to tell this one. tion of them, actually. It might be a naive Hopefully, we can reach someone who is concept — of course, we can’t expect one feeling lonely during this season I hope they person to fix everything — but I find not know we are not an ideal, not the dream to nearly enough people know this, or truly chase after, nor are any of the other couples believe this. That includes even people in on campus. We may represent some sort relationships, confused why they are not of ideal, some stroke of luck, some whatfully happy. We still persist, ruthlessly, in ever-the-stories-say starstruck lovers, but search for some way to mend ourselves we are not the answer to achieving, in the through someone else. complete sense, happiness. We are far from My boyfriend has made several appear- that. We are just two individuals struggling ances in my columns this year, and contrary to chart our path through the expanse that to the one or two sentences he occupies, his is the world, side by side. role in my life is not insignificant. Falling Kelly Song is a junior in the College of Arts and in love with him was exactly the kind of Sciences. The Songbird Sings runs every other experience most people describe — uplift- Thursday this semester. She can be reached at ing, enriching, wholly encompassing. How ksong@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Needs an Undergrad Applied Math Department P en and paper in hand, I felt a jolt of relief as I finished scribbling the last answer to a math problem set due in 20 minutes. Feeling accomplished, I paraded from Olin Library to Malott Hall, the mathematics building, hoping to find my TA’s office where homework is dropped off.

Upon arriving at Malott, I opened Blackboard to look for his precise office location. The result was appalling: My moment of accomplishment immediately receded as I discovered my TA’s office was located 15 minutes away in Rhodes Hall, which is by the Engineering Quad on the opposite end of the campus.

Fortunately, after sprinting to Rhodes, I somehow was able to submit my homework on time. It turned out my TA was an applied mathematician, and therefore, his office was located on the sixth floor of a building I had never heard of located far away from Malott.

I later learned my TA was a member of Cornell’s Center for Applied Mathematics, or CAM, a somewhat elitist program available primarily to Ph.D. students. Applied math, as distinct from “pure” math without any intended application, is a highly respected field by employers and researchers, with broad usage in statistics, engineering, social science and more. I was only a freshman when I learned this. Even now as a junior though, I remain bewildered by the question: Why doesn’t Cornell have an applied mathematics department for undergraduates?

The lack of an undergrad applied math major bothers me so much because applied math holds great prominence at Cornell.

According to the Cornell Department of Mathematics webpage, there are 44 faculty members in mathematics, 28 of whom do active research in applied math. Steven Strogatz, one of the most well-known mathematicians in the world, is a professor of applied mathematics.

And applied mathematics at Cornell is prevalent among not just professors, but also students. Cornell’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling, an annual university-wide applied math competition for undergraduates, “attracts students from many majors/departments” and “looks cool on your resume,” according to the contest’s website. Additionally, many students in other STEM departments double major with math, according to the math department website, for its “adaptability to a number of purposes.

It can emphasize the theoretical or the applied.”

Not to mention, Cornell already has several undergrad departments for applied subjects, something it takes great pride in. The University has distinct departments for the studies of applied economics and applied physics, both of which are popular majors and fields among undergrads within their

respective colleges. As such, a standalone applied math department would likely be both feasible and well received by the student population.

Instituting an undergraduate-centered applied math department would bring with it an abundance of perks. With the addition, Cornell’s plentiful faculty and graduate students could work more closely with undergraduates and more easily accommodate student research interests for a wider range of subjects. Several of the research areas available for CAM graduate students, such as mathematical finance and algorithms, are common prerequisites for undergraduates studying business and computer science, respectively.

Furthermore, the University could plan classes and host events related to applied math in a more organized manner. Currently, all courses, talks and competitions dealing with pure (i.e., non-applied) math are held in Malott Hall. But most classes and events related to applied math are scattered around campus; courses like MATH 4260: Numerical Analysis are taught in Gates Hall, while others like MATH 3620: Dynamic Models in Biology are taught in Comstock Hall.

Having a centralized applied math department would create a single touchpoint for applied math, reducing the need to scatter courses across departments and colleges.

Finally, adding a department would greatly reduce the clutter of similar undergrad courses in the math department. In the math course catalog, there are listings for four multivariable calculus courses and four linear algebra courses, two core math courses. However, a student can only receive credit for one in each category because half of these courses are intended for engineers and nonmath majors, and the other half for math majors. The jumble of similar courses in one department has inevitably led to confusion among my peers, uncertain about which class they should take. The addition would alleviate this issue while also providing alternatives for students less interested in taking pure math courses.

Benefits to the University aside, what’s most surprising about Cornell’s lack of the department is that applied math stands as a prevalent undergraduate field of study at other prestigious universities like UC Berkeley and Columbia.

Creating an undergraduate department exclusive to applied math would continue to establish Cornell’s status as not only one of the top engineering school in the Ivy League, but also one of the top research institutions in the world.

The lack of an undergrad applied math major bothers me so much because applied math holds great prominence at Cornell.

Creating an undergraduate department exclusive to applied math would continue Cornell’s status as one of the top research institutions in the world.

Nile Jones is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Rivers of Consciousness runs every other Wednesday this semester. He can be reached at nnj9@cornell.edu.

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Opinion

Erogenous Jones | Anals of Mathematics

Morita Equivalence Between Math and Sex

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ex and solving mathematical problems are the same process. Sometimes they are surprisingly quick, inducing a moment of ecstasy but an ultimately unfulfilling experience. Other times, you can try for hours with no progress on the floor of a study room in PSB until you inevitably realize that cumming with a condom just isn’t an option for some people. Even though you know the person you’re with hasn’t gotten tested, you’re still willing to trust them because they have an IUD — and because you haven’t touched a breast since 10th grade English class during a haunting read-aloud of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Generally, however, as you grow in either mathematical maturity or sexual ability you learn your needs and what problems you have the potential to solve or, in my case, how to eat pussy and smash. Perhaps the strongest parallel for me is that as soon as I solve a problem or conclude sex, I proudly announce to the room: “I fucking got it!”

The ways in which people approach sex and mathematicians approach problems have parallels. Some mathematicians like Erdos attempt to rack up as many partners as possible by looking for

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elegant solutions to quick and dirty problems, which makes Erdos the mathematical equivalent of a fucc boi complete with an addiction to amphetamines. Other mathematicians like Alexander Grothendieck develop an immense amount of theory so that sex happens naturally. There’s no way that sex would not have happened with the mood that Grothendieck carefully sets. Grothendieck was thus the master of foreplay, the king of the long-game and the father of algebraic geometry. Sometimes people attempt the Grothendieck style by playing the long-game only to never actually successfully achieve their goal.

These people work for years — often in secrecy in hopes that all of the theory they build up would provide them with a solution — and they are often inspired by the works of Grothendieck such as Éléments de Géométrie Algébrique — the math bible. In the romantic case, this would mean obsessing for years over a close friend with no interest in you only to learn that’s you won’t achieve a relationship if your inspiration is Ryan Gosling’s sexually charged performance in The Notebook, the romantic film analog of EGA. In mathematical circles (i.e. Simple Closed Curves), we call that the Mochizuki method.

Hook-up culture is the same as exploring many different areas of math until inevitably deciding algebraic geometry is too hard, geometric topology is really just the word problem, and any accessible problem in combinatorics has already been solved or is an outrageously specific graph theory problem that it is not really interesting. Some mathematicians become totally dedicated to a subject with a lot of results in the beginning and then decreasing amounts until

a consistent schedule is established that is sometimes slowed down by a pregnancy. This is analogous to how sex begins and decays in a marriage.

As you get older and older sex and mathematical lives dwindle, and once you’re over 40 you no longer qualify for the highest achievements such as the Fields Medal or sex with someone who wasn’t out of breath the whole time. Even introducing new definitions of terms and names in mathematics equates to masturbating, which makes perfect sense in the context of the study of formal logic — the academic equivalent of masturbation.

Some connections inform our behavior. Pretty much anybody can learn mathematics in the same way anybody can learn sex. Some people have talent, but at the end of the day, it’s all about practice and having good teachers. Some people like weird shit, and that’s totally okay and sometimes useful. I don’t know why anyone would fuck their teddy bear or study stable commutator length. I’ve tried both and would recommend neither, but if I hear people like stand-up comedian Greg Davies and mathematician Danny Calegari, it doesn’t make me think less of them. Finally, and most importantly, making people solve problems when they don’t want to solve problems is pretty fucked up and doesn’t work to have them learn mathematics. The people who come to love mathematics must arrive at that decision on their own, since the best and only way to learn mathematics is to find a problem you think is interesting and ostentatiously rub the surface of its recently washed asshole.

Erogenous Jones is a student at Cornell University.

Anals of Mathematics is a guest Sex on Thursday contributor.

Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow

Me, Myself and I

e are a week away from that little more.

1. Plan ahead to either get your favorholiday: Valentine’s Day. Having been single for 22 years ite food delivered to your place for solo continuously, I’ve really grown to hate dinner, or make a reservation at a restauthis consumption-driven, exclusionary, rant offering a V-Day special menu with sickly-pink holiday. Don’t get me wrong, a friend. Hey, single people should enjoy I’m a #stronginthose “for-two” perks too. dependentwoman 2. Buy or make and know I don’t The question to ask yourself a gift. It need a lovey-dovey partner to 1) have yourself this Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be fun, 2) be happy isn’t, do you have a boo, but expensive to be speor 3) orgasm, but cial, even carving out seeing all of the have you romanced yourself a portion of you day cheesy affection to do something you lately? If it doesn’t bring on display reminds love is #selfcare. me that I’ll never 3. Check out sex you income, inspiration, or achieve that linear, toy sales on the days orgasms, it doesn’t belong leading up to V-Day. heteronormative, Hallmark-romance Not only do a lot of in your life. love that socicompanies offer free shipping on this “speety hearts so very much. cial day,” but plenty of So, if you’ve found love just in time to them also have great discounts on items avoid being single on this dreadful day, that may already be on your Wish List. go fuck yourself, this article isn’t for you.

4. Gift YOURSELF flowers! Buy But if you’re a single soul like myself on them, ship them, pick them off the street, this miserable day, here are my top 10 or get a plant and care for it instead — Valentine’s Day tips and tricks to hating talk about a long-term relationship. this day a little less, and loving yourself a 5. Sneak a workout into your sched-

ule. Gyms will be empty (what with all of the lovers frolicking in the streets and sheets or what not), and endorphins are just what your body needs to feel that happy love buzz.

6. Pet an animal, call a relative, Marie Kondo your closet … do anything that makes you feel good and connected to the joy in the world.

7. Pop some bubbly! It’s never a bad day to drink champagne.

8. Get ready for the post-Valentine’s Day discount chocolates and laugh at couples who bought them at full price.

9. Later that night, draw yourself a hot bath, light some candles, or stream some porn.

10. Masturbate: it’s sex with someone you love ;) The better question to ask yourself this Valentine’s Day isn’t, do you have a boo, but rather, have you romanced yourself lately? If it doesn’t bring you income, inspiration, or orgasms, it doesn’t belong in your life. So forget the antiquated V-Day activities,

go inspire yourself, go love yourself and go fuck yourself (literally).

Veuve Cliq-Hoe is a student at Cornell University.

Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow appears monthly this semester.

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ew things beat a great bowl of pasta on a cold winter’s night. So, when I heard about Pasta Vitto, the new Italian restaurant that had just opened on the Commons, I grabbed three friends and headed downtown to evade the polar vortex via fusilli e fettucine.

Adjacent to the Marriott Hotel, Pasta Vitto is housed in a large open space with modern decor that lends itself to the restaurant’s casual ambiance. The seating consists of eclectic wavy blue booths upholstered in funky geometric prints beneath walls of exposed wood. My friends and I were promptly greeted and led to one of the booths. As I began to skim the menu, I noticed that they serve an expansive assortment of pizza and pasta dishes; they offer ten “pizzettes,” or personal pizzas, ranging from vegan pesto to walnut and blue cheese to your typical cheese pizza made with their special “momma’s sauce.” The

pizzettes ranged in price from $8 to $15, reflecting their mission to serve “Italian-inspired food at reasonable prices.”

For our appetizers, we elected to share two salads: caprese and roasted vegetable. Drizzled with a delectable blend of balsamic glaze and pesto sauce, the caprese is most definitely a contender for the best dish of the night. The mozzarella balls and ripe cherry tomatoes were garnished with capers, adding

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to the overall refreshing, delicious taste of the dish. Next, we dug into the roasted vegetable salad, an experimental melange of baby

kale with red onions, cauliflower, carrots, mushrooms, red peppers and walnuts. While the roasted vegetable was not nearly as good as the caprese, the oregano vinaigrette dressing added an earthy element that complemented the smoky flavors of the roasted veggies. The ratio of the kale base to the toppings, however, was far from ideal, with the roasted vegetables taking up the majority of the dish and dominating the crisp texture of the kale.

Following our salad appetizers, we were parched and flagged down a waiter to bring over a drinks menu. It should be noted that Pasta Vitto has yet to obtain a liquor license, but they do offer an array of creative house-made sodas — I opted for a seltzer with their homemade raspberry syrup. Although the soda was a little too sweet for my liking, it was nice to try something beyond my usual repertoire of Diet Coke or ginger ale.

After a slight 10-minute lull, our main dishes arrived, bringing with them the enticing aroma of creamy sauces and freshly made pasta. For my main dish, I ordered the fusilli with Pasta Vitto’s special pink sauce, a rich blend of tomatoes and

was disappointed by the scarcity of gluten-free dishes as her only option was a penne red sauce.

Ultimately, Pasta Vitto is a brand new restaurant off to a good start. Though they could improve by offering more gluten-free options and securing a liquor license for those who like to enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, the cuisine is simple, reliable and satisfies any craving for home-cooked Italian fare. If you are in need PIPER TORPEY / SUN STAFF WRITER of some good pasta to in the dish. The pasta was cooked transport you away from the harto perfection, which for me means rowing Ithaca cold, you should give just beyond al dente. Additionally, Pasta Vitto a try. the portion size was ideal; I finished the entire dish and felt absoluteServes: good, reliable Italian fare at a reasonable price ly satisfied but not uncomfortably Vibe: modern and casual spot full. At $12, the Pasta Vitto fusilli for dinner with friends offers incredible quality of price.

Price: $$ My friend argued that the best Overall: part of this new restaurant is the “accessible price point,” awarding Pasta Vitto “10/10 for prices” and Torpey is a sophomore in “8/10 for cuisine.” Another friend Piper the College of Agriculture and Life we dined with agreed that Pasta Sciences. She can be reached at Vitto’s prices are supreme, but she pat72@cornell.edu. cream enhanced by the whipped consistency of the dollop of ricotta

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Dining Guide Gimme! Some! Vegan! Protein!

By ANNA PAOLUCCI Sun Contributor

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f you have ever been to the Ithaca Farmers Market, you might know of a popular stand called Macro Mamas, famous for its delicious lime peanut noodles that are found all over Cornell’s campus. Macro Mamas is run by a group of women from the Finger Lakes area who are, according to their website, “cheerfully merging their talents in order to create fantastic market menus.” While most people will easily recognize and praise the infamous peanut noodles, Macro Mamas offers other creations that are beginning to pop up around campus in places such as Gimme! Coffee. According to their website, “each dish is its own exercise in co-creation, welcoming new found inspiration and varied ingredients, from [their] own fresh herbs to plants foraged from nearby hillsides.”

Gates Hall’s hidden gem, Gimme! Coffee, is arguably the best place to buy coffee on campus, despite its lack of BRB acceptance.

The layout of the small coffee stand is simple yet classy in its clean-cut white backdrops and bold red print proudly displaying its name. The tidiness of the stand makes it all the more visually appealing and with the appropriate funds, grabbing a coffee here is always a pleasant experience. After your eyes are immediately drawn to the red “Gimme!” sign, you will notice the abundance of fruity scones, buttery croissants and extra large muffins in the glass case. One may easily pass by the fridge on the left and go straight to the ordering post, but the fridge should not be overlooked. Often there is a line for coffee, so as you wait, peek into the fridge and check out all the additional goods that are offered. Inside their fridge you can discover a myriad of Macro Mamas’

Macro Meals.

Macro Mamas focuses on plantbased foods, which means most of the dishes are vegan. Macro Meals vegan protein bowls feature an assortment of different vegetables and grains. The contents of the Macro Meals will change frequently. When I PAOLUCCI went last ANNA / SUN CONTRIBUTOR Friday, the bowl was an unusual combination of ingredients that pleased my taste buds. The first aspect of the bowl was brown rice and Red Fife with cumin gomasio (a sesame and salt mixture). This rice dish was the base of the bowl. Next, smoky black-eyed peas were listed as a kind of cold bean salad, followed by cumin-roasted sweet potatoes and celeriac, then Brussels sprouts with lemon-poached pears and pistachios and finally, kohlrabi (a German turnip) and apple salad with lime parsley. I was intrigued because while I like all of these ingredients separately, I wondered how such a multitude of different textures and flavors would merge.

That being said, I was delightfully surprised with how it all came together.

The rice base was not overwhelmingly flavorful and thus served as an agreeable foundation for all the additional creative flavors. It had a subtle taste of cumin that was just the right amount. The rice was cold, but also fluffy and hearty. The sprinkling of blackeyed peas had a refreshing and salty flavor to them, adding moisture to balance the dryness of the rice portion. My favorite part of the

bowl was the sweet potatoes, my new current obsession. They were perfectly crispy and surprisingly not soggy. They had a cumin flavor and were paired with celeriac. Not only was the texture of these celery roots incompatible with the rest of the dish, but the chunks of celeriac were too large and bland, making them the worst part of the bowl.

Although I am not a huge fan of Brussels sprouts, I appreciated how they tasted in contrast to the pears and pistachios. This innovative combination was the correct amount of sweet and salty. The apple salad on top was an excellent and refreshing addition.

I noticed, however, that I ate each bit of this meal separately because I was worried about mixing it all together and getting too many unconventional flavors and textures at once. I enjoyed eating

each section and only mixing a few of the different components, like the sweet potatoes and rice, or apple salad and beans. This made the bowl less overwhelming than it could have otherwise been. My friend, who also got a bowl, ate it differently. She mixed all the ingredients, and I think she found it less agreeable. While I finished mine contently, she was deterred from it about three quarters of the way through.

So, in conclusion, would I order a grain bowl again? I think I would.

I am a huge fan of rice bowls and different vegetable dishes, so this was right up my alley. My bit of advice, however, is to relish each part of the bowl on its own. Also, I think it is necessary that I address the price of these bowls. At $12, each bowl is very expensive considering how small the portion is.

I understand that the vegetables are all organic and locally sourced from the Finger Lakes area; nevertheless, the price would definitely influence whether or not I buy it again. I still look forward to seeing what other kinds of inventive meals Macro Mamas has to offer and whether or not they gain popularity to the same extent as the company’s

mouth-watering peanut noodles.

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ast November, Meek Mill published five-month stint — which ended last April an op-ed in The New York Times — for popping a wheelie on a dirt bike in reflecting on his time in prison and Manhattan. The hashtag #FreeMeekMill dissecting the broken system that had put has come to represent more than just one him there. Meek, who had been sentenced famous rapper’s plight but rather the overto two to four years in prison for a tech- all dysfunction of a system that has created nical violation of his probation, used the a culture of mass incarceration.

Some have argued that Meek is the op-ed as a springboard for the foundation he was starting, an organization that would wrong symbol to rally around, that at the prioritize prisoners’ rights and address the end of the day he is a person who has comsystemic racism and injustice underpinning mitted a crime and should be punished. the American criminal justice system.

However, many have united around his In January, Meek Mill and Jay-Z intro- story that is marred by untrustworthy cops duced the foundation, Reform Alliance, and severe sentencings by biased judges, in an auditorium at John Jay College, characteristics that are unfortunately typiannouncing that they had pledged $50 cal in the justice system. million toward the initiative, which would In a New York Times op-ed written in work toward a complete overhaul of the 2017 by Jay-Z, he points out that “Meek probation and parole system as well as the was around 19 when he was convicted on freeing of one million people currently in charges relating to drug and gun possesthe system over the next five years. They sion, and he served an eight-month senplaced an emphasis on the inherent dis- tence … Now he’s 30, so he has been on crimination in the structure of probation probation for basically his entire adult life. towards the already marginalized popula- For about a decade, he’s been stalked by a system that contions of people of color siders the slightand peoest infraction a justification for ple of low locking him back socioecoinside.” nomic backThe Reform grounds, Linguistics Alliance is to be and plan on rooted in systemconfronting the disproic thinking, using the platform portionate consequences of jail time for small tech- offered by media and the music industry nical violations such as missing a meeting to ask people to look at the bigger picture when considering the criminal justice syswith one’s parole officer.

This initiative stems from Meek’s own tem. On stage at the auditorium in John personal experience with extended proba- Jay College, Meek Mill and Jay-Z were tion, a result of a crime he committed in joined by the board of Reform Alliance, 2008. Within these past 10 years, Meek a motley crew of corporate CEO-types has had to return to jail twice because of that included Patriots owner (and Trumpparole violations, the most recent being a supporter) Robert Kraft, 76ers co-own-

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er Michael Rubin, Nets co-owner Clara Wu Tsai, Third Point Management CEO Daniel Loeb, Galaxy Digital CEO Michael E. Novogratz and Vista Equity Partners CEO Robert F. Smith. The team, which Jay-Z compared to the Avengers, was more like a panel for Shark Tank:The only person with a background in criminal justice was Van Jones, political activist and CEO of the foundation.

While many of these people have been outspoken in their support for Meek Mill, numerous board members actively enable systems that are a part of the prison industrial complex through their own businesses. For example, the 76ers utilize Aramark catering for food in their stadiums. However, Aramark is notorious for not only propagating horrible prison conditions by providing maggot-infested food but also actively utilizing corrupt prison labor. While a small example, there is a question as to whether or not the change Reform Alliance is proposing can be sus-

tainable and progressive without a deeper self-evaluation.

The criminal justice system almost seems like a wicked problem, one so integrated into our society in so many ways that it seems impossible to overcome.

Despite this, I believe that Meek Mill’s Reform Alliance is exciting and admirable in its goals and represents an attack on the deeply problematic arrest-jail-probation cycle that currently runs rampant.

Action taken is better than an apathetic response. However, real change will be nuanced, far-reaching and most importantly, painful. It will be necessary to hold the entire system accountable; otherwise, the tenets (of fighting bad racism) will remain unchanged and institutionalized if the system of bad racism is held accountable.

Isabel Ling is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. She can be reached at igl3@cornell.edu. Linguistics runs alternate Mondays this semester.

Princess Nokia Is Redefining a Genre

BY NICK SWAN Sun Staff Writer

Destiny Nicole Frasqueri — perhaps better known as Princess Nokia — released her Metallic Butterfly mixtape on Soundcloud back in 2014, but just this past December the artist reissued the work as a streamable album and expanded it, adding three new tracks. This bit of chronological displacement, however, induced me and other relatively new followers of the rapper to believe that it is her sophomore album and thus to compare it intensely to her “debut” album, 1992 Deluxe. Placing Metallic Butterfly beside 1992 Deluxe reveals an impressive consistency in thematic and imaginative scope, but it also exposes the former’s relative lack of tenacity in the delivery of Frasqueri’s socially transformative ideals.

Frasqueri herself offers some remarks about Metallic Butterfly that are helpful in interpreting the album. In a tweet about the album, Frasqueri wrote that “[Metallic Butterfly]’s visual and audio aesthetics were deep-rooted in anime, cosplay, witchcraft, feminism and

cyber goth/rave culture.” All of these terms possess a certain connotation of intrinsic otherness to mainstream society and its restrictive notions of self-definition. Moreover, they suggest a certain deployment of imagination in the construction of different worlds or, better yet, the planning of what this world might be in the future. Princess Nokia invites us to do just that in the opening track of Metallic Butterfly, “Dimensia.” “This is the metamorphosis of the twenty-second century / Transmitting a higher frequency for the world to thrive on . . . On this planet, you are now released of all plague, hate and disease . . . It is time that you utilize your greatest potential before it is taken from you forever.” Frasqueri creates the grand outline of a future world in which devastating social woes, such as racial and gender hatred, sickness and war, no longer exist. Metallic Butterfly is the name of this world, but I think that it also hints at an individualization of the values that Princess Nokia specifies in “Dimensia,” with “butterfly” suggesting a transcendence and “metallic” signifying both the futuristic, utopian nature of these ideals as well as a personal hardening

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ty and other members of the African diaspora.

Something that makes Metallic Butterfly so other-worldly is the way in which it imagines this future without relying on the institutions that currently perpetuate social hierarchies. During the second verse of “Anomaly,” Frasqueri raps “Listen, I don’t get political/Government reform, that’ll be a miracle.” This echoes the sentiments of academics like Justin Adams Burton who envision rap music’s role in human justice as hinging on its own position outside of dominant culture and its power structures.

Metallic Butterfly is poignant art, but 1992 is a true masterpiece. On that album, Frasqueri still possesses a view of distant realms sans bigotry and hatred, but instead of imagining it for the future, she COURTESY OF MILAH LIBIN lives in it now and expresses power inequities of heteronormativ- herself through its terms and condiity are no longer observed. “Bikini tions, creating a more rugged, hardWeather/Corazon en Afrika” fea- edged clash with social binaries. On tures the artist claiming the African tracks like “Bart Simpson,” and origins of her ancestry and, as she “ABCs of New York,” Frasqueri’s raps over an up-tempo, reggae- flows channel a fire-and-brimstone tón beat, we might observe this ferocity as she defines herself in as a postcolonial, celebratory link ways that uphold and celebrate a between the Afro-Latinx communi- number of hip-hop ideals. She is

of the body and spirit as it reflects the blinding onslaught of the negative forces mentioned above.

Princess Nokia spends time in the subsequent tracks on the album filling in the details of her future world. In “Young Girls,” Frasqueri describes a place where mothers, sisters, and daughters are aptly considered the “patrons of the earth,” with this bit of ironic diction (patron stemming from pater, the Latin term for father) implying that the

authentic, in that who (and what) we hear rapping is undoubtedly her, and as we experience Princess Nokia through so many fronts, rapping styles and personas, we witness a literal movement that is characteristic of hip hop’s great discursive space.

During “Brujas,” perhaps the defining track of the album that explains Princess Nokia’s dynamic self-expression, Frasqueri identifies as a bruja, locating herself in a genealogy of women practitioners of brujería who are known for their ability to shapeshift in order to perform work that influences communities and their structures.

Upon a cursory listen of Metallic Butterfly, I was disappointed to hear that it doesn’t possess the same “bite” that characterizes 1992 Deluxe. We don’t hear much of Frasqueri’s rapping technique, and the music doesn’t comprise the sample-heavy, driven beats of 1992.

Nevertheless, the concept behind Metallic Butterfly is provocative and performs much productive work in the spirit of social justice. I’ll eagerly await whatever direction Frasqueri decides to take her music in.

Nick Swan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com.

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A&E The Editors’ Grammy Predictions If there’s one thing that we can agree on, it’s that the Grammys suck. Even if we don’t consider all of the controversies that have surrounded the politics of the awards show, the award itself has lost its value over the years.

It has become clear the The Recording Academy cares very little for artistic value and is willing to let Macklemore’s The Heist beat out Kanye West’s Yeezus and Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city in the 2013 Grammys. They even allowed Drake’s Scorpion to get an album of the year nod . . . seriously, that was the not even a top 50 album this year.

Despite our best efforts to boycott the award show once and for all, your arts editors have succombed to their most primal urges once again and have gathered their predictions together in what they hope will be a return of greatness to the Grammys. * symbolizes our predicted winner Record of the Year: “This is America” | Childish Gambino* “I Like It” | Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny “The Joke” | Brandi Carlile “God’s Plan” | Drake “Shallow” | Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper “All the Stars” | Kendrick Lamar and SZA “Rockstar” | Post Malone and 21 Savage “The Middle” | Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey Album of the Year: Invasion of Privacy | Cardi B* By the Way, I Forgive You | Brandi Carlile Scorpion | Drake H.E.R | H.E.R Beerbongs & Bentleys | Post Malone Dirty Computer | Janelle Monae Golden Hour | Kacey Musgraves Black Panther: The Album | Kendrick et al.

Song of the Year: “This is America” | Childish Gambino* “All the Stars” | Kendrick Lamar and SZA “Boo’d Up” | Ella Mai “God’s Plan” | Drake “In My Blood” | Shawn Mendes “The Joke” | Brandi Carlile “The Middle” | Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey “Shallow” by Lady Gaga | Bradley Cooper Best New Artist: H.E.R.* Dua Lipa Chloe X Halle Luke Combs Greta Van Fleet Margo Price Bebe Rexha Jorja Smith Best Rap Album: Swimming | Mac Miller* Invasion of Privacy | Cardi B Victory Lap | Nispey Hussle Astroworld | Travis Scott Daytona | Pusha T Best Alternative Album: Masseducation | St. Vincent* Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino | Arctic Monkeys Colors | Beck Utopia | Bjork American Utopia | David Byrne Best Pop Album: Shawn Mendes by Shawn Mendes* Best Rap/Sung Performance: “Pretty Little Fears” | 6lack & J. Cole* Best Rap Song: “Sicko Mode” | Travis Scott* Best Pop Album: Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes* Producer of the Year: Boi-1Da* For full Grammy coverage visit www.cornellsun.com, Friday, Feb. 8.

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14 The Cornell Daily Sun | Thursday, February 7, 2019

News / Sports

Rankings Aren’t Always Reality Around this time last year, Cornell men’s ice hockey was the No. 1 team in the nation. The Red was poised for a strong postseason run, both in the conference and NCAA playoffs. The squad looked like they could beat anyone.

This year, some may say otherwise. Now perched at No. 10, Cornell has double the amount of losses, receiving most of them at the hands of unimpressive opponents.

Wins and losses aside, however, this year’s Cornell men’s hockey squad has shown it may have just as much potential as the team that won the ECAC regular season and made the NCAA tournament last year.

Jack Kantor In The Box First off, do not forget Cornell is still atop the ECAC standings — albeit by a slim margin. If the season were to end right now, the Red would have a home playoff series against the lowest seeded team remaining. In other words, a third-straight trip to Lake Placid for the ECAC semifinals is likely in the cards.

Yet, Cornell has four more losses than it did in all of last season at this point. That is pretty substantial in a set of 21 games.

However, these losses are by no means indicative of the quality of this team.

The first two losses of the season came during the opening weekend at home against Michigan State. To put it bluntly, if this series was played now, or even a week or two later, Cornell would’ve taken care of the Spartans. Whether it was a combination of the Red’s rust, or Michigan State already having started its regular season, the 5-2 and 4-3 losses were truly irregular.

Shortly thereafter came the loss at home to Quinnipiac — currently ranked No. 4 in the country. Not only was this a loss

to a quality opponent, but the Bobcat’s winning goal was perhaps the most bizarre goal Cornell hockey fans have seen. The puck bounced off the boards, off Matt Galajda’s back, and into the Cornell net for a goal that gave Quinnipiac the lead, the momentum and eventually the win.

Cornell also faced a parade of injuries in November and December that resulted in a pair of losses, including another loss in-conference against Dartmouth.

And then there was the most recent loss to Colgate at home.

Third-to-last in the ECAC and 45th in Pairwise Rankings, Colgate is not a team Cornell should be dropping losses to, especially at home. In this contest, Cornell outshot its opponent, 41 to 19, but still lost by a goal. A loss is a loss, but these metrics show that the Red outplayed the Raiders and that Cornell is a better team.

The same goes for the tie against RPI last weekend. Again, there was an absurd shot on goal disparity where Cornell put another whopping 40 on net, with Rensselaer only having 14. The result, just like the loss against Colgate, is not indicative of how the Red are playing currently.

Having said all of that, Cornell needs to start finishing their shots. The team faced a pair of goalies who had unbelievable performances. It happens. But scoring one goal on 41 shots will get this team nowhere if this becomes a regular occurrence.

But it’s clear that aside from opening weekend, a healthy Cornell squad has not been truly outplayed by another school.

Amongst all of this, Cornell has only allowed 2.05 goals per game, good for seventh in the nation. However, this was expected from a team that kept all of its defenders and goalie after sporting the country’s best defense in 2017-18. It was that defense that allowed Cornell to hang with any team last year, and it will be this same defense that does the same this year.

The rankings may not show it, but there is no reason this team cannot have just as much success as last year’s squad. Especially when it comes to postseason — the bar was set pretty low the last time around.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Cornell Conducts Study on VR and Learning

A group of Cornell professors conducted a study that looked into whether Virtual Reality can be used to improve learning. In the study, people were assigned to comparison groups of hands-on, computer simulation and VR. Participants were to complete a tutorial in astronomy. Although 78 percent of participants believed that the VR option was their one of choice, the study showed that all three groups were equally effective in learning. The study’s senior author was Prof. Natasha Holmes, physics, and took place in the Virtual Embodiment Lab located in Mann Library.

Local Man Found Guilty of Murder, Sentenced to Prison

On Monday, the Cortland County Court ruled Dorain Bohn guilty of second degree murder of a two-year-old girl.

The girl was Kassidy Dains, the daughter of Bohn’s girlfriend at the time, Krystal Dains. Bohns was babysitting the child on April 9, 2018 when she was murdered due to a head injury.

Investigators discovered a damaged area of wallboard in the apartment that was at the height of the child’s head. They also found a hair of hers in a crack of the wallboard. The court ruled Bohn guilty of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. He faces the maximum penalty of 25 years to life in prison.

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On Wednesday, Mark Herring (D-Va.) admitted to wearing blackface while he was in college. Hours later, a woman came forward saying that Attorney General Justin Fairfax (D-Va.) sexually assaulted her in 2004. These developments are part of a long list of recent accusations against Virginia Democratic leadership.

On Feb. 1, Virginia governor Ralph Northam (D-Va.) admitted to being in a medical school yearbook picture that depicted two individuals, one in blackface or as a Ku Klux Klan member. Members of the Democratic Party called for Northam to step down. If he does, next in line would be Fairfax and then Herring, but it may go further in the line of command if they have to also leave their positions, pundits say.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Defenseman Green Eager to Contribute Again

After a months-long recovery, Alex Green is ready to return to prior elite status

Long road ahead | Though Green’s Nov. 2 injury looked scary, many believed that his absence would be short. Months later, he is finally back.

By ZACHARY SILVER

BEN PARKER / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

of just a roller coaster of emotions up and down.

Smith, who sat out Saturday’s game with an injury.

“I definitely think there was a little bit of a learn- That was definitely the hardest part.”

With so much lost time now in the rearview, ing curve, but the team helped me readjust and I just Cornell men’s hockey defenseman Alex Green will tried to play simple,” Green said. “So it wasn’t any- Green’s focus is set on the future. As he makes his be one of the first to tell you he was surprised by how thing crazy, but there was definitely a little bit of a way back to full speed, he slots back into a defensive his first collegiate season panned out in 2017-18: learning curve.” corps which is finding its identity from last season immediately thrust into top-four minutes, receiving This was the first concussion of Green’s playing and now sits as the country’s No. 7-ranked unit in valuable time on both special teams units and, most career and the longest recovery time he’s ever needed goals allowed per game, 2.05. notably, being rewarded with an NHL draft selection for an ailment, he said. Concussions are nothing new Personally for Green, improving his offensive caby the Tampa Bay Lightning. for Cornell, the NCAA and hockey players at every pabilities has been the focus since resuming skating, “I thought that I eventually thought I could get to level. But this was a unique recovery that Green has and because he hasn’t had to worry about blindside this point, but I didn’t think it would be this soon,” he never personally known, and one he knew he could hits from teammates in practice, he’s been able to told Cornell Big Red in Nov. not recover from quickly — take a mental step back, be patient with the puck and 2017 of his quick success last as frustrating as it was. hone in on that area of his play.

“It was tough, it was really tough ... season. “I didn’t think I’d “It was tough, it was re“He’s been practicing a lot over the last month, so have this much of a role at you can’t rush these things, obviously, ally tough, but the medical even the practices helped him because he hasn’t been this point, and I was kind of staff told me you can’t rush able to be physical,” Schafer said. “So he’s had to use because you only have one brain.” surprised, to be honest.” these things, obviously, be- better technique as far as defensemen are concerned Green’s previous prowess cause you only have one and be a little bit more patient. I think that’s helped Alex Green made his concussion in the brain,” Green said. “Unlike his overall game.” third game of this season all “I’m definitely looking forward to helping the a shoulder injury or somethe more frustrating. Not only had Cornell lost the thing of that nature, you can’t fight through a con- team offensively,” Green added. “It’s definitely a goal first of what would become a handful of skaters in cussion, so it was kind of being patient and staying of mine to be offensive, so I just have to pick back the first half of the season to injury, but it also lost with the process. That’s how we approached things.” [up] where I left off before I got hurt.” an up-and-coming, top-four defenseman who was a “I think the toughest part was just some days you staple of Cornell’s top-ranked defense a year ago. would feel really good and then the next day you Shortly after picking up an assist on Cornell’s first would feel really crappy,” he added. “So it was kind Zachary Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com. goal in a Nov. 2 game against Yale, Green was sent head-over-heels while in the neutral zone, landing on his head before being stretchered off the ice. Early prognosis for the injury was positive — “All I can say is that it’s much better than what it looked,” associate head coach Ben Syer said at the time — but the recovery, as it can be with concussions, took much longer than originally anticipated.

Green returned as a full participant to practices by Dec. 27, according to head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

After that, it was just waiting on medical clearance from the training staff.

It took another four weeks for his reentry to finally come, but Green was cleared to return to game action this past weekend against Union and RPI after missing 16 games and three months of play.

“It was definitely a sigh of relief,” Green said Tuesday of his long-awaited return. “It was a long time sitting up in the stands not playing, so it was a lot of fun to suit back up and play with the team.”

“I was happy for him. It’s been a long time since early in November for him,” Schafer said. “So now, [with] that consistency of practice and games, I think it’s hard to be out that long and you’re excited to get back into it. And now it’s about following gameplan and for him to get playing. It was exciting to see him get back into game action.”

Green’s first weekend back in action was nothing to write home about: a pair of shots on goal alongside a minus-one plus/minus and a minor penalty amid limited minutes as he eased back in. But Friday’s game represented both the end of a long, gruelMICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR ing recovery process and just the second time Cornell skated with a fully healthy defensive corps this sea- Sophomore struggles | Following a promising freshman debut, Green’s head injury during the third game of the season was son — albeit unaided by senior defenseman Brendan particularly frustrating.

Sun Senior Editor

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Sports

Red-Hot Red Skates Into Crucial Weekend

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

After putting on a show for the Lynah crowd and blanking both Union and RPI last weekend, No. 6/6 women’s hockey will hit the road this weekend to take on Clarkson and St. Lawrence in a pair of critical ECAC matchups.

The Red (16-2-5, 13-2-1 ECAC) currently sits atop the league standings at 27 points, but No. 4/4 Golden Knights (22-51, 13-3-0 ECAC) are clipping at their heels with 26 points. The Saints (13-12-3, 8-6-2 ECAC) are in fifth with 18 points.

With the ECAC tournament looming large in three weeks and the opportunity for the Red to host at stake, this weekend provides a key opportunity to pick up points.

Cornell has plenty of momentum heading into the matches: It won its last eight games straight and averaged a whopping 4.5 goals per game. Half of those last eight matches have also been shutouts. The Red also upended both Clarkson and St. Lawrence in early December. “[I’m] super excited to see what this team can do in the tail end of the season,” said junior forward co-captain and ECAC player of the week Kristin O’Neill. “We’re trying to stay in the moment and not look too far ahead, but playoff hockey is around the cor-

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ner and I couldn’t be more confident in our group.”

Riding an eight-game winning streak of its own, however, reigning national champion Women’s Hockey Women’s Hockey Clarkson still proves to be a formidable opponent. The Red Cornell Cornell will look to tarnish the Golden Knights’ unblemished home record by focusing on its own defense and special teams to shut down Clarkson’s prolific offense, vs. vs. which has matched the Red in averaging 4.5 goals per game.

“Clarkson will definitely be a good test of where we’re at, especially playing on the road at Clarkson St. Lawrence Cheel Arena,” said senior forward Lenka Serdar. “We know Friday, 6:00 p.m.

Saturday. 3:00 p.m. that Clarkson and St. Lawrence Potsdam, N.Y. Canton, N.Y. are talented offensively and we must be disciplined in our team defense to have success.”

BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR The Red will trek from Potsdam to Canton to take on the Down to business | Cornell finds itself tied with Ivy rival Princeton atop the ECAC standings, with Saints on Saturday. The signifi- Clarkson trailing by only a point. cance of these two league games is not lost on Cornell’s skaters, come of the games could potentially allow on Saturday at Appleton Arena against St. whose eyes are trained on the standings. us to remain at the top of the ECAC is super Lawrence.

“We obviously know how important important.” these two games are for us,” O’Neill said.

Gametime is at 6 p.m. on Friday at Smita Nalluri can be reached at “So I think keeping in mind that the out- Cheel Arena against Clarkson and at 3 p.m. snalluri@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Anticipate Matchup With Another Strong Goalie

a 4-0 loss and a 0-0 tie. This weekend, Cornell, occupying first place in the conference standings by a In two of its last four games, slim margin, welcomes Kielly and Cornell hasn’t been able to out- the Golden Knights to Lynah Rink.

“Last year, we didn’t play well smart goaltenders who dominated between the pipes as the Red’s hot against them at home and they took it to us pretty good here early in the streak hit a couple bumps.

This weekend, No. 10/9 Cornell year,” said head coach Mike Schamen’s hockey will take on a net- fer ’86 of his team’s Nov. 2017 loss minder who gave it headaches last to Clarkson, its first of the season. year — a goaltender who plays for “Watching the video of it, [the 0-0 one of the ECAC’s best teams, not tie] was a really good hockey game. a squad occupying the bottom quar- Both goaltenders played outstandter of the standings like the last two ing and the game could’ve easily been 3-3 or 4-4.” hot goalies Cornell has run into.

With 20 points in the league In two games against now-No. 9/10 Clarkson last season, Cornell standings to Clarkson’s 18, Friday’s scored zero total goals against Gold- contest represents a chance for Coren Knights goaltender Jake Kielly in nell to earn some breathing room — or to lose its grip on the top spot. Only two points separate the first and fifth-place teams.

“These are two big ECAC points against Clarkson and then two more points against St. Lawrence so we definitely want to create some separation in the standings,” said sophomore defenseman Alex Green, who returned to the lineup last weekend after missing three months with a concussion.

Clarkson, coached

by Cornell alumnus Casey Jones ’90, won eight straight games in late December and January.

BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Like Cornell, the GoldSomewhat pointless | Tough backstops have en Knights appeared to foiled the Red in half of their recent games. be hitting their stride

By RAPHY GENDLER

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

before a couple of hiccups — losses league wins on the season. One of to Harvard two weekends ago and them was a 4-2 win over Clarkson Quinnipiac last weekend — inter- that was the Golden Knights’ last rupted their hot streak as the regular loss before their eight-game winning season reaches its final month. streak. St. Lawrence is currently 59th The Red rode an eight-game un- — second to last — in the PairWise beaten streak into a Jan. 26 meeting Rankings (Cornell and Clarkson are with Colgate, where Raiders goalie 10th and 12th, respectively).

Mitch Benson robbed Cornell on its “Last time we played [Clarkson] home ice and led the visitors to a 3-2 at home they gave us a beating,” overtime win. Last weekend, after a Mullin said. “With St. Lawrence, 4-0 beatdown of Union, Cornell was it’s college hockey, you can’t take any stymied by Rensselaer goaltender Owen Savory, who made 40 saves Men’s Hockey Men’s Hockey in a 1-1 tie.

Cornell is prepared Cornell Cornell to face another top-tier goaltender on Friday night.

“If the goalie’s hot, you just gotta get in vs. vs. front of him,” said sophomore forward Tristan Mullin. “He can’t stop what he can’t see … Get in front of him [and] take away Clarkson St. Lawrence his eyes.”

Friday, 7:00 p.m.

Friday, 7:00 p.m.

Schafer said his Ithaca, N.Y. Ithaca, N.Y. team needs to establish its net-front presence and force opposing goaltenders to move “east-west.” team lightly; I think you saw that “[Kielly] has just been outstand- with RPI.” ing in the games we’ve played,” With only eight games remainSchafer said. “[Savory] played well ing in the regular season, Schafer is [for] RPI but I didn’t think that prepared for hard-fought battles. we did a great job of having traffic Though still banged up, the Red is in front of him and showing a lot nearing full health — but freshman of poise around the net on our re- forward Max Andreev is out at least bound opportunities.” a few more weeks and senior deOn Saturday, Cornell’s focus will fenseman Brendan Smith is banged shift to the ECAC’s cellar-dweller, St. up. It’s unclear when junior forward Lawrence. The Saints have just two Noah Bauld will return to the lineup.

“We took Monday off … to get rejuvenated for the stretch drive,” Schafer said. “Clarkson and St. Lawrence are two teams that play really, really hard, as does everybody this time of year.”

As it gears up to face one of the conference’s best goalies — Kielly’s 1.85 goals against average is second in the league; his .931 save percentage is third — Cornell seems to be nearing the end of its months-long goalie battle.

Sophomore Matt Galajda, who went down with an injury in late November and ceded the starting role to classmate Austin McGrath, spent several weeks splitting starts with the one-time backup. But after shutting out Union last weekend, Galajda started against RPI the next day, making his first consecutive starts since Nov. 17 and 24. “[Galajda’s] had success and that breeds the confidence,” Schafer said.

“In practice, Austin is a big part of his success. Austin has played well and I’ve always said, when Matt competes … his play gets sharper.

With Austin playing well and doing a great job, I think Matt has stepped up his game.”

While the bench boss still plans to “play it by ear” for another week or two, Schafer said he’ll have “one guy” when Cornell plays its final regular season home games Feb. 22 and 23.

Puck drop at Lynah Rink is set for 7 p.m. Friday against Clarkson and 7 p.m. Saturday against St. Lawrence.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.