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Faculty Say Bylaws Forbid Admins to ‘Circumvent’ Senate

Challenge Provost Kotlikoff on faculty’s involvement in business college creation

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Faculty members asserted that the administration disregarded University bylaws by creating the College of Business without faculty input in a Faculty Senate meeting with Provot Michael Kotlikoff Wednesday.

Prof. Richard Bensel, government, said that the creation of the business college was in violation of Article XIII of the University’s bylaws.

The bylaws state, “The function of the University Faculty shall be to consider questions of educational policy which concern more than one college, school or separate academic

unit, or are general in nature.”

Bensel said that under these bylaws, the president and provost cannot “circumvent the Faculty Senate.”

“Cornell Bylaws do not say that the President and the Provost may circumvent consultation with the Faculty Senate by talking to individuals,” Bensel said in a meeting with the Sun following the senate meeting. “The bylaws also do not say that the president and the provost may avoid consultation with the Faculty Senate by creating hand-picked committees.

The bylaws also do not say that the president and the provost may substitute confidential discussions with the University Faculty Committee or the Dean of the Faculty for consultation with the Faculty Senate.”

Winter wonderland Students stroll through campus yesterday, one of the first snowy days of the year.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff addressed Bensel’s concerns at the meeting, saying that there was “no intention to avoid the Faculty Senate,” and that the reason for constraint in discussing the new school was due to a concern for donors and alumni.

Kotlikoff added that he “went to individual faculty immediately after the announcement [of the business college].”

Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, English, agreeing with Benzel, spelled out how he believed the central administration had bypassed the bylaws. “‘Resolution on Shared Governance in Matters of See FACULTY page 5

Slope Day Revenues Increase

By TALIA JUBAS

Slope Day Ticket Revenue

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An increase in revenue from Slope Day ticket sales over the past five years has given the Slope Day Planning Board more options in their artist selection process. This year, Walk the Moon and Cash Cash will headline the concert on May 12.

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Man Arrested for Attempted Laptop Theft

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

Kelsey McBean, the son of Tompkins County legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D2nd District) was arrested Wednesday for attempting to steal a laptop from Olin Library, according to the Cornell University Police crime log.

At 5:35 p.m. Tuesday, McBean sprinted from the library with the stolen laptop, and entered McGraw clock

tower. According to one witness, he was seen carrying a knife.

Police removed McBean from the tower approximately 20 minutes later and he was referred to Ithaca City Court, according to the crime log.

Legislator McBean-Clairborne is the director of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.

She is also the first woman of color to be elected to her executive level, according to the Tompkins County website.

McBean’s father, J.R. Clairborne, was previously a member of the Ithaca Common Council and ran for mayor against Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 in 2011.

Police previously arrested McBean in 2013 after an altercation in which he threatened a man with a knife and stole his cell phone, according to the Ithaca Police Department.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

Slope Day Ticket Revenue ($)

Slope Day Budget Analysis

Over the past five years, funds that the SDPB receives from the Studet Assembly has remained relatively consistent. However, ticket revenue has increased by almost $30,000 since 2011, according to a SDPB report obtained by The Sun. 18,250 attendees were recorded at the 2012 Slope Day event, headlined by Taio Cruz, while attendance dipped to 17,700 the following year and has been slightly decreasing since then, according to the report. Even so, the concert of 2013, which featured hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, generated the highest revenue in ticket sales at $119,562.50.

Over the past five years, total expenses for the event have seen a net increase of more than $60,000 to $386,271.77 in 2015. The least expensive Slope Day was with Kendrick Lamar in 2013.

Attendance at Slope Day headline performances has increased since the founding of the Slope Day Programming Board in 2003, but has dipped slightly since a 2012 peak.

DATA COURTESY OF THE SLOPE DAY PLANNING BOARD

Sloping up | On average, revenue from ticket sales for Slope Day has increased over the past five years.

Artist Selection Process

After input from two Executive Board members, Samantha Batt ’16 and Chloe Chan ’16, the Board decided to hold a forum for the general student body, so that students could “voice their opinions regarding artists and to learn about the restricSee SLOPE DAY page 5

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Divestment protesters say only total divestment from the 43 companies in South Africa will curtail additional protests this spring.

‘Definitely Divest’ W. Richard Ryan III, legal coordinator of the Cornell Coalition for Divestment, expressed confidence that campus protests would eventually pay off. ‘I think within the year we will definitely have a divested portfolio. If I were a betting man, I would put down a s0tack of bills on it.’

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New York City labor unions and universities will join Cornell protestors, she said.

When divestment protests erupted last April, University officials frequently cited the proxy committee’s report and today’s trustee vote as an indication that Cornell was considering the divestment issue.

The 16-page report says Cornell should consider divesting within three years if companies investing in South Africa are making ‘insufficient progress towards ending apartheid.”

Some of the 44 trustees may vote against the proxy committee recommendations, but most observers expect a routine rubberstamping of the report.

Other Studies The proxy committee’s recommendations call for investment only in companies ranked in the top two categories of the Sullivan Principles, a set of guidelines designed to ensure fair employment opportunities for black South Africans.

The report will require Cornell to divest from two companies - about $660,000 worth of stock, according to Senior Vice President Herbster.

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C.U. Political Groups React to N.H.Primaries

By EMILY FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

While student leaders in Cornell Democrats and Cornell Republicans said they were unsurprised by the results of the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday, the parties agreed that the outcomes reveal “drastic changes to the electorate.”

Donald Trump won 35.1 percent of votes, earning 10 delegates, while Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) won three and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) took two each. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) won the Democratic

primary with 60 percent of the votes, earning 13 delegates, while Hillary Clinton earned 38.4 percent of the vote, picking up nine delegates.

Fernando Quiroz ’16, president of the Cornell Political Union, said he was not expecting the shift in the types of the candidates that voters preferred in this election.

“Unlike before, the two outsider and anti-establishment candidates, Trump and Sanders, won New Hampshire by a clear margin,” Quiroz said. “In my opinion, this lack of support for ‘establishment’ candidates suggests that the American people, including both Democrats and

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Strong second | Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) placed second in the Republican Party at the New Hampshire primaries Tuesday night.

Republicans alike, are sick and tired of the standard Washington politics.”

On the other hand, Nathaniel Jara ’16, vice president of the Cornell Democrats, said that he was “glad to see such a healthy, competitive, issues-based race.”

“Hillary Clinton and Bernie are two outstanding candidates and the Cornell Democrats will be proud to work to elect whoever the party chooses to represent us in the general election,” Jara said. “I don’t think I can say the same for our friends on the other side. The vulgar, disgusting attacks their leading candidates have thrown at each other speaks greatly about the state of the party and its tolerance for rational, experienced candidates.”

Jake Zhu ’18, first vice chair of the Cornell Republicans, said that Sanders’ and Trump’s win in New Hampshire were expected, but he expressed dissatisfaction with both the Democratic and the Republican winner.

“The implications are horrendous because our country is being overtaken by an absurd, populist wave that throws away all logic and rationale in favor of fallacious economic idealism,” Zhu said. “Wall Street doesn’t give any money to Trump and Bernie because it understands that these two candidates do not have the best economic interests of the country at heart.”

Jara said that he felt Donald Trump’s win “legitimize[s] Donald Trump’s role as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.”

However, Trump’s win is dangerous, because the candidate “wins votes by appealing to hate and vile personal attacks,” according to William Bristow ’16, president of the Cornell Democrats.

“Although New Hampshire was supposed to bring the Republican primary race back to reality, apparently it did not,” Bristow said. “Trump's rhetoric is not only divisive; it is dangerous as well. I hope Republican voters will eventually choose reason over reaction.”

Emily Friedman can be reached at efriedman@cornellsun.com.

Prof Explores Shifting Sides of U.S.Foreign Policy

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Peter Katzenstein, government, spoke on the contradictory strains of interventionist and isolationist principles in U.S. foreign policy in Malott Hall Tuesday.

“Every so often, about every 30 to 40 years, American politics goes through a change,” Katzenstein asserted.

Katzenstein explained that olitical realignment occurs when voting groups no longer belong to a specific political party and disparate voting constituencies combine under political leader who is able to unite different factions.

He went on to describe the mobilization of certain segments of the far left under presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as a political anomaly that he said many political scientists were unable to predict.

“If you had asked me, or anybody, nine months ago, whether Bernie Sanders would have a chance of winning New Hampshire, we would have laughed and said get yourself to the hospital,” Katzenstein said. “He’s mobilizing the left, a class based left and a generational left, a left that wants to take

the country back.”

Katzenstein also pointed to Donald Trump’s ability to rally a frustrated voter block which he said feels disenfranchised by the Republican establishment.

“On the right, we have this desperation, of ‘We want our country back,’ together with the anti-immigrant story, of ‘We don’t like what this country is becoming,’” Katzenstein said.

Katzenstein delineated the divides within each party with respect to interventionist and isolationist values.

“The old left, shaped by Vietnam [says] ‘Don’t intervene’ … the new left in the Democratic Party supports the human rights interventions of the 1990s and 2000s,” Katzenstein said.

“The old right [says] intervene in the defense of U.S. values … the new right [says],‘Don’t interfere, we are a declining power, we don’t have enough resources… we need to look out for U.S. interests.’”

Katzenstein said some experts believe these separate voting groups have been realigning for the past decade to form more cohesive voting blocs, while others believe the process has just begun.

“Whether or not you believe realign-

ment is ongoing or beginning has a lot to do with how you view Obama’s administration,” he said.

After Katzenstein spoke, members of the Cornell Political Union and other attendees debated whether this realignment of political partiesis ongoing.

Around 40 students participated in the discussion, which saw vigorous support for both sides of the argument.

One student said that this realignment has been taking place in the Republican Party for years.

“Since 2004 we’ve seen the immense growth of the tea party within the republican party, they have a huge [amount of ] power over the party, and that demonstrates a clear issue within their party,” the student said.

Another student expressed their opinion and said the realignment to be more recent.

“In this campaign year Senator Sanders having such a large pull from a part of the Democratic Party, but not the entirety of it... demonstrates that separation [is] happening on the Democratic side, and I think that is something that may begin that critical realignmen,” the student said.

The event was co-sponsored by the

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Changing their tactics | Prof. Peter Katzenstein, government, describes changes in U.S. foreign policy Tuesday in Malott Hall.

Roosevelt Institute, the ILR Global Affairs Club, Cornell Speech and Debate Society and the Society for Women in Politics.

Kyle Oefelein can be reached at koefelein@cornellsun.com.

OpenLoop Project Team Designs New Pods for High Speed Travel

By JONATHAN LEVENFELD Sun Staff Writer

OpenLoop — a project team composed of Cornellians working to improve high speed transportation closer to reality — advanced with 30 other teams past a preliminary round of a competition at Texas A&M last weekend.

In 2013, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX rolled out his vision for high-

speed travel, called Hyperloop, in which people and goods would be transported in pods that move through low-pressure tubes.

This past summer, Musk announced a student competition to build half-scale versions of the pods, which will be tested and raced this summer on a one mile track constructed by SpaceX in California. Within hours of the announcement, Nick Parker ’18 formed a Cornell team.

Given the competition’s press-

ing timeline, it was a nearing the impossible task for just one group at Cornell to prepare for, according to Parker.

The team now consists of 85 members from six schools: Cornell, Harvey Mudd College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Northeastern University, Princeton University and the University of Michigan, Parker said.

After winning the preliminary rounds, the 30 teams, including

OpenLoop, are focusing their attention on the Hyperloop pod competition this summer.

Unlike other teams, whose primary focus on building the fastest pod. Openloop has more ambitious goalsa, ccording to Parker and Business Lead Julian Moraes ’18.

“We want to make the technology work,” said Moraes. “We are trying to lay out a model that Hyperloop technology can actually construct –– a model that

they can follow and use to figure out how to scale this technology and really profit from it.” “[Other teams are] really emphasizing going as fast as possible, they’re building very lightweight aerodynamic pods,” Moraes said. “The real endgoal is to transport heavy cargo and lots of people, so we want to figure out how we can do that efficiently.”

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-tration bypassed article thirteen. “‘Resolution on Shared Governance in Matters of Educational Policy as Required

by Article XIII, Section 2, of the Bylaws of Cornell University,’ which the Faculty Senate passed last spring has effectively been ignored by the administration,” Cheyfitz said. “The president and the provost did not bring their plan for a College of Business to the senate for discussion before they and the trustees made the decision to create and fund the new college.”

According to Cheyfitz, both the administration and the Board of Trustees ignored the Faculty Senate when making this policy, by disregarding the senate’s recommendation to table the vote on the new college.

The trustees denied the senate’s request to approve a unanimous resolution they passed on Dec. 12, “asking the trustees to table approval of the new College until the senate had time to perform its duty ... to discuss the effects of the creation of the College of Business on the educational policy of Cornell,” Cheyfitz said.

Prof. Risa L. Lieberwitz, labor law and employment, stressed the importance of shared governance in central administration.

“To consider [educational policy], there needs to be a deliberative process by which the [faculty] senate can consider the academic ramifications,” she said.

Lieberwitz also criticized Cornell’s definition of “educational policy” for being too narrow.

According to a memorandum written by James Mingle, University counsel and secretary of the corporation, on Jan. 15, “the faculty of a CCB [Cornell College of Business] is responsible for matters of educational policy within the college.”

The memorandum also states that “the Board of Trustees is solely responsible for the establishment of a CCB, which entails a bylaws amendment adding the college to the list of major academic units of the University.”

Lieberwitz described the memorandum as “overly narrow” and “very disingenuous” and said saying it “emphasize[d] the trustees’ ability to make the final decision.”

Faculty involvement in educational policy should take precedent over the issues noted in Mingle’s memorandum, according to Lieberwitz.

“It’s a problem… because the tradition of shared governance is something that is very special in universities, and to have meaningful shared governance we need to be active participants in issues that affect the University,” Lieberwitz said.

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

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ing positive feedback at the board’s general body meetings and at a selections forum they held in the fall, according to Batt. “[Walk the Moon is] very interactive with the audience, very inclusive with the audience,” Chan said. “Moreover, whereas other artists which had more variable feedback about their concerts, with Walk the Moon, everyone consistently said they had a fabulous time,” Batt said.

Walk the Moon also satisfied a desire to find artists who “talk a little bit less about alcohol and drugs,” Batt said. On a day known at Cornell for rampant drug and alcohol use, the planning board said they hope to create a more inclusive environment and a safer event.

The Planning Board typically books two or three acts, and Cornell students have consistently expressed an interest in bringing in an EDM artist, according to Batt. Cash Cash “is a sound that everyone can get into,” she said. “It’s a very simple EDM.” “The energy combined is going to be really good for the students,” Chan said of both groups. “I think it will get everybody really hyped.”

-tions that the Board faces in the selection process,” according to the report.

A 2014 survey the Slope Day Programing Board sent to the general student body received over 9,000 responses, which the group analyzed “to determine which artists will please the most Cornellians,” the report said.

The selection of this year’s Slope Day headliners represents a move toward a more positive and inclusive event, according to Batt and Chan.

“I think that Walk the Moon... [has] a very positive energy,” Chan said. “All of their songs are very upbeat, talk about really healthy, inclusive things and they’re just known to throw really good concerts.”

The planning board also distributes a survey to the Cornell community every fall to gauge the student impressions of past Slope Day performers and to invite suggestions for the coming New Slope Day Plans year.

“Slope Day is an event that some In 2014 for example, the board feel excluded from because received a significant amount of nega“I think that Walk the Moon... students it's so heavily centered on drinking,” tive feedback following Ludacris’ perChan said. formance, according to Chan. [has] a very positive energy.

The broader Slope Day event also “[Ludacris] said a lot of misogynisincludes Slope Fest, a carnival on Ho All of their songs are very tic things… [and] borderline racist Plaza, but this year the planning things as well,” Chan said. “What he upbeat, talk about really comittee said they want to expand the said wasn’t very inclusive of … the events they offer. community in general and it wasn’t a healthy, inclusive things and According to Chan, the board very positive energy that he was giving “want[s] to throw a block party before off.” they’re just known to throw the gates open to the slope,” where In response, both the board and the local restaurants and food trucks will University administration decided to really good concerts.” be set up to create an alternative look in a new direction, seeking artists option to drinking and provide “a less who convey positive messages in their Chloe Chan ’16 intoxicated environment.” performance as well as in their music.

Slope Day is overseen by both the “People were hesitant to go for a student-run Slope Day Programming rapper… someone whose lyricscan be Board and the staff and student-led Logistics and Steering construed as inappropriate,” Batt said.

The board also wanted to avoid rap artists, because this could Committes. The logistics committee, which Chan co-chairs, have been the fourth Slope Day with a rapper headlining, she includes Gannett, Cornell Emergency Medical Services, Cornell Dining, Cornell Police, Grounds, Parking and Transportation said.

After filtering candidates for cost — no Beyonce — and and “any organization that needs to be involved in this largeappropriateness — no Fetty Wap — the planning board decided scale event of shutting down the slope and parts of campus,” she to book Walk the Moon, according to the board members. The said. group was one of the most popular write-in responses — suggested over 120 times in the survey — and received overwhelm- Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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Shared governance is a sham To the Editor: Is the broader Cornell community seriously surprised by the decision of the trustees, including elected representative trustees and President Elizabeth Garrett, to approve the new Cornell College of Business and completely ignore Cornell’s representative assemblies? This decision has ample precedent at Cornell in the failed attempt of the provost in summer 2002 to dismantle an entire college without consulting faculty. More importantly, though, our campus needs to actually engage in dissent outside of shared governance bodies lacking actual impact on university decision-making: It is time to feeling ashamed of dissenting in ways that circumvent “the usual channels.”

After approving the new college at a meeting in New York City — over 200 miles away from the campus which these decisions would actually impact — President Garrett emailed to say that the vote “marks the beginning of an inclusive and crucial process” to “more fully define” the new college’s structure. Given the usual administrative lag for anything at Cornell, it seems likely that the true “beginning” of this process was months ago. President Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff still aren’t concerned with our collective disapproval of this undemocratic process; rather, they simply wanted to rush their questionable agenda through to approval. Cornell’s corporate autocrats can point to shared governance when convenient, but their record demonstrates their actual disdain for it. Similar to the imposition of the student health fee last year without the advice and consent of students, this latest and greatest administrative blunder lays bare “shared governance” at Cornell as a disappointing lie.

Even if one rejects the health fee analogy, the direct precedent for the Board’s decision was an administrative initiative to dissolve the College of Architecture, Art and Planning during the 2002 summer recess. Two years earlier, the administration had also not consulted faculty governance in recommending the creation of eCornell as a for-profit “online learning subsidiary.” In 2007 the Faculty Senate’s Committee to Review Faculty Governance published a final report that expressed the general sense of faculty, based on two years of investigations: “The Administration and Board of Trustees have not consistently consulted in a timely and adequate manner with the University Faculty and Faculty Senate on important issues.” You don’t say!

Any Cornell affiliate should fume at this publicly available report detailing the administration’s flippant attitude toward “shared governance” — back in 2007! The administration’s record demonstrates that going through the “proper channels” of shared governance will not save “a strong and independent” School of Hotel Administration, as Chuck Feeney and other donors wish to preserve. Given that departments must now spend restricted donor funds for basic operating expenses, the administration does not actually care about Mr. Feeney’s money, either. However, the worst Cornellian misconception is still that if they just ask really nicely — pass a resolution in one of the assemblies or form yet another committee — then some day, the administration will deem them worthy enough to join the true ranks of decisionmaking.

The cruel reality of the University’s need to profit from our labor and tuition must crush our wildest dreams that Cornell executives are anything other than enforcers of that profit motive. “Non-profit” in name only, Cornell enriches the lives of construction firms, Wall Street bankers and university execs. Students pick up the tab with the family savings account, earnings from summer jobs, and a lifetime of debt bondage. Union workers have the “privilege” of providing excellent customer service, while their new, part-time colleagues are brought on at precariously low wages. And even under the protection of tenure, most faculty on this campus remain immersed in “the proper channels,” passively transforming Cornell into its own “rubble heap of progress.”

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America’s Prison Problem

here are plenty of pressing issues at want to make sure we need as few of them hand — the environment, our for- as possible. We can start really focusing on eign policy regarding the Middle eliminating the reasons people break the East and the economy to name a few. We law which is vastly more effective than hear these topics covered in the presiden- locking up everyone who commits a tial candidate debates nonstop and as crime. As it goes, “an ounce of prevention important as they are, they can draw is worth a pound of cure.”

Which is fundamentally what I believe attention away from other issues important to this country, specifically our bro- the U.S. Department of Justice should be ken justice system. There is plenty to be working on. Sending someone to prison said on this issue — I’d say its most press- may as well be a death sentence for their ing concern is racial bias — but I would careers because very few employers are like to discuss another worrying trend in going to hire someone with a past convicour justice system: the increasing privati- tion on their record. And before you accuse me of being “soft on crime,” I’m zation of our prison system.

Privatizing prisons does nothing for us not referring to murderers and rapists, in the long run. I don’t care what you simply nonviolent offenders (particularly think the point of prisons are (be it to those concerning drug charges) or even punish the guilty, or rehabilitate them those who made a dumb choice early in back into society), when the system their lives, such as thievery. Recidivism becomes private, prisoners begin to rates are still intolerably high; a study become a financial bottom line. It’s in a released in 2014 reported that 76.6 perp r i v a t e prison’s best interest to have a lot of We can start really focusing on prisoners, eliminating the reasons people break because with the law which is vastly more effective more prisonthan locking up everyone who commits ers comes a crime.

As it goes, “an ounce of more funding prevention is worth a and more business. It’s pound of cure.” in their best economic interest to keep people in jail and keeping cent of convicts were arrested again within recidivism rates high. I know that sounds five years of being let out of jail. Having a little conspiracy theory-ish, but consider these individuals without jobs, without a that the some of the biggest entities fight- chance at making a life for themselves is ing against marijuana legalization are pri- only putting a drain on our economic vate prison lobbies, along with police resources. As of now, most put nothing unions and drug companies. And non- into the system, but draw plenty out, not violent drug offenders are exactly the sort only during their stay in prison but over of people private prisons want: the low their entire lives. Sure, the old maxim applies “if you can’t do the time, don’t do risk type.

And this is all still supposing that pri- the crime,” but that’s not doing anything vate prisons are in fact cheaper, but the to alleviate the financial burden being evidence suggests otherwise. In 2011, The placed on the taxpayer, and private prisNew York Times reported that in Arizona ons are certainly not helping.

Both Democratic candidates Hillary private prisons are not only more expensive, but they even cut costs by only tak- Clinton and Bernie Sanders have pledged ing the prisoners who would be the least to end the privatization of prisons, which amount of work for them. Sure, they are is a step forward. However, we should be helping to deal with the spillover in the a little suspicious in the former’s convicjustice system, but they’re still leaving the tion on the matter, considering Clinton more problematic criminals for the state has accepted donations from private prison lobbies before, to the tune of over and federal systems to handle.

States fund private prisons because $130,000. On the other hand, in past they believe they’re cheaper, but prisoners months Sanders has put forth a bill to should be a financial obligation of the stop these practices. And while I can’t tell state, and nothing will influence a politi- you who to vote for, please consider this cian to make changes more than money matter alongside the other, more fashion— particularly money that is being lost. If able issues being debated in this election we can just foist our inmates onto a cor- season. porate body, they cease being our problem. Thus, we don’t have any incentive to Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and take steps to rectify the root cause of Sciences.

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The Duchess | Between the Sheets

For One Night, and One Night Only M

y professor asked a class of 217 if we knew what a “onenight stand” was. After the awkward “I-have-totally-been-thereand-done-that” laughter, he proceeded, “I think you guys call it ‘hooking up,’ You know, in my day, it was a single, one-night performance.” There are two social problems here. First, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists the sexual definition for a one-night stand: “a situation in which you have sex with someone once and you do not continue in a relationship afterwards” as the only significant definition, and, second, there is no way that every single person reading this agrees that a ‘one-night stand’ is the definition of ‘hooking-up.’

So, how do we define hookups? And why are they, however we choose to define them, integrated as such a norm in our lives? I’m sure you’ve either used or heard the phrase “Cornell has a really strong hook-up culture.” I think this can fairly be interpreted as a result of alcohol, grinding and *insert type of sexual activity*. The key component, however, is what happens afterwards.

The all-round agreed upon defining factors for an interaction to be considered a hookup is that the two individuals must either never talk again (it’s a one time thing with no clear future), or, establish it as a regular interaction without a “relationship” label on it.

Think about your own definition.

When a friend comes to you saying “so I hooked up with this guy last night… ” what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Before I’d had the enjoyable experience of waking up to my roommate having sex with her boyfriend (not under covers…), my mind went to a steamy make-out session on the dance floor, possibly followed by some kind of fingering or a little oral. As I got further and further into the Cornell community however, I realized that this was too mellow for a hook-up

we don’t clarify beyond “hooking up.”Maybe it’s good, in a way, to allow us to maintain some kind of privacy in a world where through Tinder, Snapchat, other social media and gossip in our tighter Cornell communities, there’s almost no way that this part of our lives remains secret. You’re likely to be seen getting or leaving with someone at a party, while your Tinder profile is readily available to the general Tinder public and their friends (aka 99 percent of campus). Then, everyone in

However you think of a hookup, the aspect that remains the same is the instability and lack of emotional investment associated with it. definition for a lot of people. But if that’s the case, then what word do we use for the steamy make-out sessions?

This social “development” has unfortunately left us with a huge gap where we’ve had some kind of interaction with a partner, but not enough to label it as a “real” hookup...

But then again, why is it someone else’s business to know what I do with my sexual partner? Okay, I’ll accept knowing that Jane Doe has something going on with John Doe, but why is it so important to everyone else where exactly his penis was during the interaction? Maybe it’s actually better that

whatever social club you’re in will likely be alerted via GroupMe about the interaction before the end of the weekend. At least, by calling them hookups, you are not “required” to give details about said sexual encounters and can make the conscious decision to allow others to reach their own conclusions.

But there’s one last part to this. Is the reason we’re avoiding details that we want to keep our lives private, or that we don’t want to admit to ourselves that we’re not sure what exactly our own interactions/“relationships” are or mean? Maybe we use the word ‘hookup’ because we just don’t want to

take the risk, or the leap of faith to define our own relationship. A hookup isn’t just the action, it’s also a state of being and a state of relationship choice: “I’m a hookup kind of person,” “he hooks up with a lot of girls,” “she’s hooked up with both of them a couple of times.” It saddens me to think that relationships have come to be viewed as so emotionally investing and embarrassing for so many that it is almost shameful to chose that as a lifestyle choice. Sure there are a lot of couples, but there are even more duos that are regularly “hooking up” but refuse to “officially” add the emotional investment.

There isn’t really a way to define hooking up in a way that pleases everyone. But I guess the point is that it doesn’t really matter. Use the term to your advantage when you don’t want to share details, or clarify information to those you want to share it with. Maybe what matters more is why this hookup culture exists. However you think of a hookup, the aspect that remains the same is the instability and lack of emotional investment associated with it.

Maybe that’s more of what we need to look into, specifically the fear of having something deeper, and whether using phrases as unclear as our feelings cover up our hope for potentially having something more.

The Duchess is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to queenbee@cornellsun.com. Between the Sheets appears periodically this semester.

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To Sext or Not to Sext?

No one is suggesting dropping big bank on a pic- sight of a messy room and overflowing trash. Plus, e all know that living in the age of technology has brought great innovations. like ture. However, it has recently come to the female setting the scene matters — doesn’t hurt to light supercomputers, Snapchat and our person- population’s attention that our male counterparts are some candles while you’re rubbing your little man. not aware of the proper etiquette when it comes to 4. Snapchat is a safer bet than iMessaging, which al favorite: the sext. will sync to the Cloud and possibly make a guest The heartfelt, late-night message “hey” that obvi- sexting. So gents, take notes: 1. So just like you don’t sign your Facebook com- appearance on your dad’s laptop. That’ll make for an ously took time and effort to construct, will often awkward Thanksgiving! suffice when you’re drunk. But Although there’s a certain etisometimes, it takes a little more quette to follow when sexting, than just a booty call to get No one is suggesting dropping big bank on a picture. don’t let that hold you back! things rollin’. That’s right, I’m Definitely use your discretion talking about about those steamy However, it has recently come to the female population’s and get creative with it. convos about what ya wanna do, Technology is such a big part of when ya wanna do it and how attention that our male counterparts are not aware of the relationships and college hookthings (or people) are going proper etiquette when it comes to sexting. up culture these days and it down. should be used to your advanThere’s several ways to go tage. about doing this. For beginners, A dick pic is not necessarily worth a thousand sexy the eggplant and peach emojis are a tame way to steer ments with your name like Grandma does, don’t put the conversation in the right direction. For the joke- your face in the dick pic. For obvious reasons, no one words. A few words of your own show interest and sters out there, make a sexual pun. Your funny bone wants to have both their dick and face plastered all investment in your partner’s pleasure. Sexting builds over the internet when the break-up ends badly. The up anticipation, spices things up in the bedroom and will help pave the way to the bedroom.

And then there’s the dick pic. Seems like a simple reasons why your private parts are now public will be brightens up a day or night for everyone involved. enough concept, a picture of a penis... right? But it awkward to explain to your kids (Good luck, Kim And with Valentine’s Day around the corner, who turns out that snapping the perfect sexy photograph K.!). Keep it sexy, keep it anonymous. doesn’t want to receive a little raunchy ball-sack pic 2. Please don’t send unsolicited dick pics. They with their teddy bear and flowers? ;) takes time and lighting, and some people have even made it into artwork. Soraya Doolbaz makes thou- aren’t cute, no matter the lighting or angle.

Rosenberg is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to sands of dollars staging pictures of strangers’ penises 3. Be careful what else is visible in the background Valentina associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this and selling them on the Miami art scene. of a pic … nothing will turn me off more than the semester.

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his past weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the 18th Annual Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off and eat some truly memorable chili. Of the 39 competitors vying for the title of best chili, some submitted both vegetarian and meat options and some even provided drinks or sweets as palate cleansers. Though I wasn’t able to check out all 39 stands, I’ve included thoughts on the 11 stands I did sample.

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The first chili I tried was pretty memorable. Luna served a chili with chocolate topped pork belly, Monterey Jack cheese, pork shoulder, black beans and chunks of tomatoes.

This chili was unapologetically selling itself to meat lovers everywhere. The subtle bitterness of the chocolate really brought out the flavor of the pork and made me think of a Mexican mole sauce. Even though I loved it, a little bit more spice would have made the flavors really pop.

CTB was serving up both meat and vegetarian chili, and because I had come to Chilifest with a friend, I got to try both! The meat variety featured barbacoa pork, which for those who see the word at Chipotle but don’t know what it means, is a form of barbecue. The meat made me think of pulled BBQ pork that you might find at a country fair. The meat itself was a good kind of stringy, the chili was hearty, and the garnish of blue and red tortilla chips added a nice texture.

The vegetarian chili could be described as a mixture of lentils and beans with the seductive whisper of lime.

After the first bite, I stopped, thought, and took another bite, thinking, “I enjoy the hint of lime that this chili is presenting me with. Yes.” It made me think of those Tostitos lime chips, which I absolutely love. But even though the vegetarian chili was amazing, the meat version still managed to present a simultaneous mix of nostalgia and novelty.

which makes sense, since D.P. Dough is known for its calzones. There was a very strong smoky flavor that didn’t work too well with the acidity of the marinara.

Unfortunately, it was also incredibly soupy, which isn’t the best thing for a chili to be.

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I took a break from chili to visit LSSC’s stand, which was offering bite-sized maple bacon jalapeño truffle fudge pieces. Even though I love spicy foods, this caught me off guard with a rude kind of spiciness. I detected some maple undertones, but couldn’t taste too much of the bacon. The shop was also offering free samples of chocolate — I got a piece of dark chocolate covered caramel.

Leadership Tompkins’ chili could be described as a reverse Sour Patch Kid: It started out sweet and calm until the spice slowly crept in and shockd me back to reality. It was a good kind of kickin-the-face spice that cleared my sinuses in only the most generous of ways.

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Coltivare Restaurant My friend described the vegetarian chili as “spice for the spice intolerant,” but the vegetables weren’t quite fully cooked. The meat option was pretty much the same, though slightly soupier.

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Viva Taqueria & Cantina The vegetarian option included mushroom, which really set it apart from the other vegetarian chilis. The meat option featured a bit of lime, but wasn’t quite as alluring as CTB’s lime chili. What really made Viva’s chili shine, though, were the tortilla chips it was served with. Not only did they add a nice texture to the chili, but it also provided the perfect amount of salt.

Chili, Anyone? | 39 vendors competed in the 18th Annual Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-Off on Saturday.

Moosewood Restaurant Moosewood’s vegetarian chili tasted how you would describe a friend who laughs when you sneeze in her face: down to earth. The chili featured so many different herbs and vegetables that, after sampling it, I felt as though I had gained a few more years on my life. A combination of chocolate and coffee gave the chili a slight bitterness that enhanced the “fresh green” feel. White

beans added substance that grounded this hearty chili.

Overall, the event was a success. I highly recommend attending, as this is an experience you can’t forget. The best part is seeing all different types of cuisines represented through one classic dish.

Jared Srinivasan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at js2576@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Proud to Be a Woman: Agent Carter

BY REBECCA EVEN Sun Contributor

In an age where “difficult men” populate many television shows and female characters are often disregarded, the second season of Agent Carter makes feminism its priority.

The Marvel show (which premiered Jan. 19 on ABC) follows Peggy Carter (Haley Atwell) as she fights misogyny and evil in post-World War II America. Peggy, who appeared in Captain America: The First Avenger as an Allied spy and as Captain America’s almost-girlfriend, now works for the fictional Strategic Scientific Reserve, a covert organization that was formed during the war to fight Nazis.

Despite gaining respect in the male-dominated SSR in season one by singlehandedly neutralizing a Soviet spy, Peggy must deal with continued discrimination and degrading barbs from her colleagues, who continue to view her as their physical and mental inferior.

However, this setback — like the numerous other systemic setbacks she experiences due to her gender — only strengthens Peggy’s resolve to do everything she can to ensure fairness and justice.

At the beginning of season two, Peggy heads to Hollywood at the behest of her superiors to investigate a mysterious, unusual murder. She finds herself ensnared in a web of conspiracy, teaming up with old friends and once again fighting a system that has every hope that she will fail.

The 1940s sets are unconvincing, the plot can be at times overdramatic and cheesy and the cast lacks diversity. However, these issues are mostly made up for by Atwell’s striking, honest portrayal of Peggy, who redefines “feminine” one snarky, angry comeback and unashamedly brutal fight scene at a time.

The opening scene of the season two premiere, “The Lady in the Lake,” features a ruthless battle between Peggy and Dottie Underwood, Peggy’s nemesis from season one. The show is not gratuitously violent, but the scene still flawlessly portrays that the fight’s importance is not at all diminished by the fact that not a single man appears in the shot. These two women are fighting for their lives, for causes they support and that they deem worth dying for, just as men do.

At one point, Dottie punches Peggy in the nose and slams her face into a desk. Peggy retaliates by kicking Dottie into the wall. There is hair-grabbing and gun-grabbing and a ruthlessness that is decidedly and unapologetically unladylike.

Peggy’s fighting style is brutal and efficient. Her goal seems to be to get the other person to hit the ground as quickly as possible, and she fights with everything she has. Her fighting style lacks frills or flare. She simply gives every punch as much power as possible.

This epitomizes Agent Carter’s specialty: treating women not as cogs within a patriarchal society but as people who are proud to be women. Agent Carter’s female characters refuse to let the misogynistic system determine who they are and what they can achieve.

Peggy’s fighting principles seem to apply to eating as well.

She does not delicately bite into sandwiches; she stuffs them into her mouth as quickly as possible. In episode four, “Smoke and Mirrors,” she drips mayonnaise on an important document and quickly wipes it off with her finger, licking her finger clean.

Peggy takes huge bites and eats enormous quantities of food. Not only is this refreshing and relatable (who hasn’t gotten food on a rented textbook?), but it also makes sense. Peggy spends her days chasing leads, fighting assassins sent to kill her and speaking out against every injustice she notices, all while

Chester Watson Past Cloaks POW Recordings

Stoned teenagers are responsible for some of the best hip hop ever made. The wise sages of today were the blunt-rolling kids of 10 years ago, and by that logic precocious Chester Watson could have a great album in him someday. His new tape, Past Cloaks, is not an album proper, but it’s pretty great nonetheless: woozy and dense, hyperverbal and unintelligible, simple yet complex.

Watson himself is a terrifically wordy millennial who compiled Past Cloaks from his recent run of mixtapes. He hails from Florida, but his music bears little resemblance to the trap music that dominates Southern hip hop. This makes sense, because as anyone who’s lived in Florida will tell you, big parts of the state are more or less culture-free, a mishmash of very different people who happen to live in close quarters. Accordingly, Past Cloaks is a journey through inner space, not the outside world. There’s little to no reference to specific places, people or events. This is the Madvillainy approach, the idea that rap music can exist in a Platonic space of abstract wordplay rather than the spatially grounded hip hop of Compton, New York and Toronto.

So on Past Cloaks, it’s you and Chester and not much else: no big features, no out-of-nowhere left turns. With its muted, dissonant beats, vintage film samples and rainy mood, the whole album seems to be shot in black and white, and Chester’s unchanging voice is another shade of gray. This could be from the smoke — “Get stoned and see the world in sepia,” he says on “Dead Albatross” — but it’s also the mental space in which Watson finds himself, a melancholic young pseudo-philosopher more interested in fucking with words than finding truth.

His influences loom large: most obviously MF Doom, from whom Chester co-opted his drawling monotone and taste in beats (he even tries, like the supervillain, to keep his real identity secret). Watson wisely acknowledges

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Peggy is not the only woman redefining gender roles. So far, a main antagonist of season two appears to be Whitney Frost (Wynn Everett), a brilliant woman who has engineered her and her husband’s rise to affluence.

While Peggy was empowered to become a spy during the war and realized she could take control of her life, Frost was resigned to the fact that she could never become a scientist and was forced to find another way to succeed. However, both have had to stomach many degrading remarks to succeed in a male-dominated society. Like Frost, Peggy came close to marrying for the sake of propriety and expectation.

Their paths diverge, but both are angry women, determined to leave their mark in a world that is dead set against their success.

Marvel has a wealth of superhero movies featuring male leads and one or two token women who play the traditional roles of caregiver or love interest. Peggy Carter is a heroine who defies female stereotypes. She is brusque, tough, unpolished and irritable, but also kind. Agent Carter is a show that stops and thinks about women and takes the time to treat each character with respect and honesty. Peggy is both an agent and a woman, but neither identity negates the other.

Agent Carter works with many larger themes: racism, sexism, a world haunted by a horrific war and the growing fear of Communism. As the show grapples with what it means to be a woman and a human being in many different contexts, it will hopefully continue to diversify its cast and handle these complicated issues with tact and honesty.

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But Watson can rap his ass off. He already has the precise, controlled flow of a professional, and his thick monotone spreads over the beats like peanut butter. A typical verse is packed with internal rhymes: “While the plot’s thickening, liquor shots quickenin’” If he has room to grow as a rapper, it’s in creating memorable images, since he hasn’t yet mastered the balance between displays of technical skill and quotable lines. His flow sounds great, but the focus is on the sound of the words themselves, not their meaning. He could emulate Bobby Raps, who steals the show on “Spliffs” with a few well-placed one-liners: “Your bars like Rey Mysterio, they on the ropes! / I don’t give a fuck what your man said, I got more bars than a light-skin Xanhead.”

“Wicked” is how Watson sounds at his best. On it, he flips a key sample from The Wizard of Oz — the tense orchestra build as the tornado touches down in Kansas — and loops it into a menacing haze. In Oz, the song is the point at which Dorothy breaks from black-and-white Kansas into Technicolor, but Watson is trapped in the gray. He lets the strings slide up and down, with no resolution, and tops them with a doomy verse: “I leave my words slurring like the seasons / End of days comin’ soon, check it, that’s my thesis.” It’s a fantastic song, with a dark

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Past Cloaks is full of gems like this. The moments on “Yetti” when the psychedelic, hazy keys behind Watson resolve into shimmering chords are just lovely. The twinkly “Phantom” and skewed “Execution” recall the experimental production of the RZA, with Watson casting himself as a bratty young genius. On “Dead Albatross,” his images are disjointed but powerful: “That shit was vivid as the smokescreen and analog / Heroining, fiending off the demons wearing camouflage.” The lyrics and samples on this thing follow their own free-associative, stoned logic that takes a few listens to follow.

This is a mixtape, not an album: there’s no real arc, no central theme and little attention paid to sequencing.

Creating a project that hangs together is one of his next challenges, and another is creating a more distinctive persona in his music. Past Cloaks demonstrates raw talent, but you don’t get much about Watson himself. The ability to rap well is distinct from the ability to create an onrecord voice that people like and return to, but it’s also a prerequisite to it, and at least Watson has bars.

Does he have star power? Probably not — after all, none of his heroes are stars. But this mixtape is a prime cut of alternative hip hop. Bratty teenagers are responsible for more than a few hip hop classics; no one is saying Watson’s going to do all that, but no one is saying he couldn’t either. Mainstream stardom looks unlikely, but another Operation: Doomsday or Bizarre Ride 2 The Pharcyde is within his reach. The guy is going places: get in on the ground floor.

Max Van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mvanzile@cornellsun.com.

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ip hop culture in Sweden is about as bleak as its winters. Despite the lack of a club circuit or a network of rap promoters, though, 19-year-old Stockholm native Jonatan Håstad has built an Internet empire on sizzurp motifs, Japanese text, vaporwave visuals and overwhelming sadness.

Better known as Yung Lean — with an album called Warlord on its way later this month — Håstad is Internet music at its most Internet. Having grown up alongside computers, his slack rap seems inspired exclusively by online culture, drawing more from 4chan than from attending live shows. Propelled by a dearth of Swedish hip hop history, Yung Lean went straight to the Internet for source material as much as distribution. This lack of context lead Lean to his own youth — the blips and bloops of early Nintendo, for example — paired with abstractions on select elements of American hip hop culture, especially Houston’s affinity for cough syrup in styrofoam cups.

Although he leverages today’s platforms to spread his music (SoundCloud, etc.), the Internet of Yung Lean’s muse is that of 2001-2003, which he calls the “most emotional” years. Håstad hearkens back to the time when it was still called the World Wide Web and dial-up modems dominated — and he was an elementary schooler.

If there’s anything that dominates Yung Lean’s aesthetic more than the early Internet, however, it’s sadness. His collective, called Sad Boys, glorifies the emotion to the point where dwelling in despair isn’t just seen as an inevitability of life — it’s a lifestyle.

The pinnacle of rabid Sad Boys fandom — a dedicated subculture built on a single emotion (or an appropriation thereof ) — is a closed Facebook group called SADBOYS 2001. With a description that reads, “i t s / o k a y / t o / c r y,” the community rallies around the inherent sadness that its COURTESY OF SETHANDDESTROY

predominantly white, cis, heterosexual male members apparently feel their lives hold.

Like any online cloud rap community (cf.

Lil B’s Bitch Mob), it’s impossible to tell where the majority of SADBOYS 2001’s members lie on the spectrum of sincerity to irony to p o s t - i r o n y.

Regardless of their actual stance, they perpetuate the assumption that sadness is the only genuine emotional response, and that life (or at least their lives) is full of it. This is the antithesis to the otherwise similar cis-hetero-male community that backs Lil B, where militant positivity is the theme.

At least according to Sad Boys fans, central to the experience of sadness is drug use. Xanax and marijuana have a strong presence in SADBOYS 2001, but no drug is more pervasive than lean. Again, it’s

Mike Sosnick 40 Percent Papier-Mâché impossible to tell how many members have actually ever used prescription-strength cough syrup recreationally, but it’s central A YUNG LEAN “EDIT”

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to the community’s aesthetic (or, as they would put it in the vaporwave tradition, “a e s t h e t i c”). Although he uses an abundance of sizzurp imagery himself, Yung Lean says he isn’t a drug user. He adopted it simply because of its American rap connotations and its similarity to his exceedingly misleading middle name, Leandoer.

Beyond lean, though, what do Sad Boys consider sad? It mostly comes down to a “know it when I see it” judgment. The safe parameters of sad imagery include the early Internet, Pokémon, Fiji water, Arizona iced green tea, Roman statues, bucket hats and Japanese text. As important as those images are, particularly when made into Microsoft Paint-style collages called “edits,” the Sad Boys aesthetic wouldn’t exist without the squat. Normally included in posts captioned “r8 my squat fam,” community members photograph themselves squatting as if they were clad in Adidas tracksuits on a Russian dating website. Replies to these posts range from, “not enough sadness/10” and “cut jeans like wrists/10” to “So much

emotion! I rate 1995/2001.” And God forbid you don’t plant your heels on the ground, because you’ll be met with “0/10 get those fucking heels planted in those god damn slippers” or “Actually trash, and I’m not just trying to be a dick.”

Oh, and if you’re female, you’ll have comments like this to look forward to: “cuts in jeans -> stupid fuck whore.” Girls, held up to a higher squat/sadness standard than your average (male) Sadboy, are objectified in the community. Rather than their bodies being the focal point, though, they’re termed “emotional shawties,” the troubled, contemplative girls these hetero Sad Boys claim to dream about. Unless, of course, they’re hiding behind the Internet wall that allows misogyny to flourish.

While misogyny is occasionally challenged, mods allow it to continue. This isn’t for lack of group maintenance, though; members are frequently thrown out if it seems like they’re trying to appropriate the community’s culture of sadness.

A friend of mine fell victim to a ban early in his SADBOYS 2001 membership, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this column gets me banned too. Despite how arbitrary the group’s abstraction of Yung Lean’s aesthetic is, punishment is swift for those who break its even more arbitrary rules. While not at all protective of the wellbeing of its members, mods are fiercely protective of the community’s sanctity.

At times it seems like the group is so sad it comes out the other end: by confronting their unhappiness head on, members can make progress toward combatting it. It’s certainly no support group, though. This theory of catharsis disintegrates when you consider the rampant drug glorification, unrestrained misogyny and downright cruelty directed at some members who don’t “get it.”

Trying to characterize SADBOYS 2001 by one element — be it sadness, white male privilege or even dedicated Yung Lean fans — proves futile. Rather, SADBOYS 2001 is simply the Internet in a petri dish.

Drawing almost exclusively from existing Internet culture, the group devolves into ridiculous memes, hyper-dedicated fans, simultaneous inclusivity and exclusivity, cyber bullying and bigotry, all spanning international borders. For all its impersonality, the Internet — and thus SADBOYS 2001 — is a spectacular microscope for human nature in all its creative, destructive glory.

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com. 40 Percent PapierMâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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In Return to Lynah, Icers Attention Face Tough Ivy League Foes Student Groups!

absence will, without a doubt, be appreciated by Cornell’s offense.

“We have to take advantage of the opportunia 1.51 goals against average and a .941 save per- ties,” Syer said. “They are very stingy to play centage. Lyon, an extremely decorated netminder, against, so when you get an opportunity, you have has been selected to the American roster for the to make good on that opportunity because they International Ice Hockey Federation World don’t come often.”

Championship. He was also First-Team All-ECAC Contrary to last week’s report, Schafer did not and was awarded the Ken travel with the team to Dryden Award for top ECAC Quinnipiac and Princeton, but goalie. The fans who pack Lynah “I love playing against he remained in contact with the Rink Saturday night are in store team over the weekend, accordLyon. He brings out the ing to Syer. for a brilliant goalie battle.

“I love playing against Lyon, “He was involved and in conbest in me and I try to he’s a great goalie,” Gillam said. stant communication with [the “He brings out the best in me elevate my game.” team], even though he didn’t and I try to elevate my game up make the trip with us,” Syer said.

Mitch Gillam ’17 to our standards of being elite The players noted how there goalies in the league. It’s going to was a clear absence on the trip be a battle between him and without Schafer, but his assistants me.” handled the task smoothly.

Yet, while the last meeting with the Bulldogs “It’s different not having him out there,” was a defensive battle to the end, resulting in a 0-0 Vanderlaan said. “[Syer] and [assistant coach tie, Yale will be without Boston Bruins’ draft pick Topher Scott ’08] did a great job taking care of us Rob O’Gara, who will be serving a suspension after and getting us ready for the game, but it’s good to a game misconduct in last weekend’s game against see [Schafer] back on the ice.”

Harvard.

Luckily for the Red, however, Syer has proved to According to USA Hockey’s Rule 404, a player be more than capable when called upon. In his who receives a game misconduct “shall also be sus- time as acting head coach, Syer has produced an pended for his team’s next game (the game already impressive 5-0-1 record. appearing on the schedule of that team at the time Schafer was back on the ice Monday at practice of the infraction),” but in the case of O’Gara, the and should be fine for the homestand this coming ECAC decided to add an additional game to the weekend. one-game mandatory suspension.

Last year, O’Gara was named an All-American Zach Silver can be reached and the ECAC’s Best Defensive Defenseman. His at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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NHL Not Up to Par With Others Despite excitement level of sport, NHL fails to gain popularity simply lacks marketable athletes. Its players are unexciting off the ice. King Henrik broadcasting hockey on a Lundqvist may be the Sexiest national scale, leaving its entire Man Alive according to Esquire hockey-broadcasting platform magazine, and Sidney Crosby to a Canadian network that it or Alex Ovechkin take up a partially owns, TSN. With no small part of the American Canadian teams in the NHL sports sponsorship market, but playoff hunt as of today (and overall the league lacks the the subsequent panic of potencharismatic and exciting players tially ultra-low TV ratings) we that the other three sports can see just how much of an unleagues are full of.

American sport hockey really is.

Sure the NHL playoffs are Calling it as it is, and I better than the NBA hate to disparage the finals — arguably If you’re Canadian then by all means because upsets are beautiful sport of hockey, but the NHL is dead significantly more embrace your national pastime with a common as an American sport. in the If you’re Canadian NHL than in the Labatt Blue and a slice of then by all means Association.

And Canadian Bacon. embrace your national sure, die-hard hockpastime with a Labatt ey fans can be found Blue and a slice of in pockets throughCanadian bacon. the Nashville Predators as the out the country. But hockey Living in New Orleans for one notable exception, the simply doesn’t have the appeal some time I quickly learned the failed Atlanta Thrashers and of other sports in the United regionalism of ice hockey. the destitute Arizona (ex- States I love the beautiful sport, Blame the culture, poverty, lack Phoenix) Coyotes epitomize I really do. Unfortunately, most of education or, most likely, the the failure of Bettman’s experi- Americans don’t share this senweather — whatever it may be, ment. timent. ice hockey is as niche as the So where does the problem In the long term we may see readership of Emu Today and a surge in the sport’s popularity lie? Is it the sport’s Canadian Tomorrow. The magazine serves in Southern markets, but for roots? Its lack of minority playthe nation’s surprisingly vocal the time being the situation ers? Competition from other Emu-appreciator minority. But doesn’t really seem to be sports leagues? Or maybe its the Ostrich-wannabe bird is improving. Since the NHL is as inept management. Whatever it still alive and well in its home white as a Wes Anderson movie may be the fact remains that the region of Australia — other or mayonnaise, the lack of NHL has failed to capture the places not so much — exactly minority players doesn’t help attention of the American like how hockey thrives in its broaden the appeal to the sports world. This can change. native Canada but struggles in American public. There can In the meantime I’ll be searchthe U.S. compared to the other only be so many P.K. Subbans ing ESPN in perpetuity for three major sports. or (my personal favorite) Ray NHL coverage.

ILR alum Gary Bettman Emerys in the league. ’77, commissioner of the NHL, Stemming from its dearth of Ben Denson can be reached at can be part of the blame. The American support, the NHL bdenson@cornellsun.com.

DENSON

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problem with Bettman is twofold — he is notoriously anti-player in terms of the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement, resulting in three labor stoppages, or lockouts, during his tenure. And second, his goal of Americanizing the game has created a system where the top revenue-earning teams (all in Canada or the Northeast) are forced to financially support American teams with smaller fan bases. With

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Having a ball | As the men’s and women’s squash regular seasons begin to wind down, the teams face crunch time to prepare for matches against Penn and Princeton.

Big Squash Weekend Ahead With nationals rapidly approaching, squash faces pivotal weekend

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

Nationals are approaching fast for the men’s and women’s squash teams. The women have three more games to prepare while the men have four. Both teams matched up against Harvard and Dartmouth this past weekend and have two more Ivy League games next week against Penn and Princeton.

The men’s team dropped both of its matches this past weekend, losing to Harvard 8-1 and Dartmouth 5-4. The Red (3-8) are still very much in contention for a B Division title despite the losses and put on a much better effort than what the final scores showed.

“I’d say as a team we put out the best effort we could,” said freshman Ben Francis. “We could’ve done better, but I was happy with how we played.”

Francis is leading the team with seven victories on the season as a freshman and remarked on the transition from high school to collegiate squash.

“It’s definitely a lot different,” he said.

“Everybody’s fit in college, and everyone has similar amount of skill, so it really comes down to the fitness.”

The women’s team fared similarly against the Crimson, losing 9-0, but was able to hold on and beat Dartmouth 8-1. The team followed the Harvard loss on Sunday with a 9-0 defeat of William Smith College.

Head coach Julie Devoy said she was pleased with how her team’s performance.

“They came out working hard, wanting to win, and playing excellent squash,” she said. “That was really pleasing to see.”

She thought even the team’s effort in the Harvard loss was strong, even though the outcome was not ideal.

“Against Harvard our main goal was to make them work for the win, and the rallies were competitive,” she said. “We focused on trying to keep the opponent on par with us for as long as possible.

Overall, the weekend went really well for women’s squash.”

Both teams have end-of-season goals to perform well at nationals.

At this point, the men are focusing on a B Division title, but an A Division birth is still not out of reach. Currently ranked 12th, the men would have to climb four places to compete in the A Division.

“We want to make the A Division… but if not and we make the B Division, our goal is to definitely win the B Division and get a national championship,” Francis said.

The College Squash Association has adopted a new electronic ranking system this season, which consists of computer-generated rankings based on match performances and previous rankings.

Currently ranked eighth and on the edge of the A Division, it is essential that the women’s team perform well in its remaining three games.

No. 7 Columbia is also playing No. 9 Drexel this weekend, so the Red is really hoping for a Columbia victory to prevent the possibility of Drexel taking its No. 8 position. The Red also has match this weekend against No. 11 Franklin and Marshall College, so a victory here is essential as well. “[This match] is critical for us to win as well obviously because they’re ranked behind us, so going into nationals we hope to manage stay in that top eight,” Devoy said.

Both teams hit the road for Princeton tomorrow to prepare for their Friday matches against the Tigers. Princeton is ranked third on the women’s side and 13th on the men’s.

“The end off the season is just on the horizon, and we need to make sure we’re in good shape and ready for nationals,” Devoy said.

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

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Red, reeling off a five game winning streak that came to a close last weekend. In Yale, Derraugh sees a tough opponent with a dynamic offense.

“They’ve got a lot of strong forwards,” he said. “They have a lot of speed.”

Both Brown and Bunton feel that coming into the Yale game with the right attitude and preparation will be a difference maker in its outcome.

“I think just coming into the game and playing desperate for

the win,” Bunton said.

An additional variable in this weekend’s matchup is that Cornell faced these two teams relatively recently and both sides are acquainted with the strengths and styles of play of their opponent. According to Derraugh, it changes how the team will prepare for the game.

“It decreases the preparation time for the coach,” Derraugh said. “We’ve got some experience playing them.”

Cornell is moving on from a disappointing home stand and refocusing on next weekend.

Poudrier said the team’s sched-

ule this week is tailored to let them regenerate for the task ahead.

“We have [Sunday] and [Monday] off,” she said. “It will be good to be away from the rink. We have two hard practices on Tuesday and Wednesday and we’re on the road Thursday.”

A loss in the standings is always tough to swallow, but an encouraging matchup and a new weekend means a fresh start for the Red. Cornell is ready to turn shots into goals.

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun.com.

t is widely assumed that professional athletes live glamorous lives and make excessive amounts of money. This is especially true within baseball, where major league players have inflated salaries because of their strong union representation, guaranteed contracts and that major league teams will have no salary caps. The average salary for a major league baseball player is just north of $4 million a season. At any time, there are 750 players in the major leagues, making a minimum of $500,000. To put that in perspective, the worst major league baseball player makes almost ten times the median family income in the United States.

While this is all true, I’m actually here to tell you how some baseball players are mistreated and underpaid. When a casual sports fan thinks of a baseball player, they usually think of someone like Alex Rodriguez or Mike Trout. They think of the $30 million salaries that exceed those of CEO’s of companies such as Starbucks and Wells Fargo. They don’t think of Jackson Quezada, Griffin Benedict or Tyler Stubblefield. These three players never saw time in the major

age. A child drops out of school and is sent to a training academy with “buscones” (businessmen who function as coaches and agents and take a portion of a player’s signing bonus and future earnings) and other players training to play baseball. They live in poor conditions and their lives revolve around baseball. If they are signed, they receive a small signing bonus. Minor league baseball players typically earn between $1,000 and $2,000 a month while they are playing. Of these Dominican baseball players, only 3 percent make the major leagues. Many of these foreign players send a large portion of their paychecks to their families in their home countries. This money means a lot to a family in the Dominican, because a college graduate in the Dominican Republic can make the same amount as a minor league baseball player in the United States.

Once players are done playing, they end up cheated out of a formal education, often returning to their home countries with a middle school education and little savings, because what they didn’t send back to their families, they used to survive.

Minor league players from

Noah Elden If I Were G.M. leagues, yet they are considered successes.

Jackson Quezada was a Dominican relief pitcher signed to a minor league contract in 2009. He pitched in 119 minor league games over the course of four seasons, before retiring due to injury problems. He is currently a minor league coach with the San Diego Padres. Tyler Stubblefield was a minor league infielder drafted as a junior in college out of Kennesaw State University. He played parts of three seasons before retiring at the age of 25 due to injuries. He is currently the regional scout for the Padres covering the Carolinas. Griffin Benedict was a minor league catcher for two seasons before retiring due to a lack of advancement opportunities. He is currently the Padres bullpen catcher. The three make modest salaries but are able to support themselves.

These are the success stories of minor league baseball. These are players that have successfully transitioned from struggling in the minor leagues, to finding stable careers that draw on their experience. There are almost 10 spots in the minor leagues for every spot in the major leagues each season. Most players never reach the majors. A majority of those are signed from foreign countries or drafted each year to fill minor league teams.

In the Dominican Republic, the country that supplies the largest amount of foreign baseball players, training typically starts at around 12 or 13 years of

the United States have it a little better. Players cannot be drafted until they have graduated high school, or are in their junior or senior year of college. Players that are drafted out of high school often have to choose between a university education or a chance at their dream.

Players drafted higher than the 10th round typically receive a six figure signing bonus, but have to endure years of a minimum wage job, long bus trips, and crowded living arrangements.

Few players actually make the major leagues, leaving the majority with a limited educational background and little savings after a grueling career as a minor league baseball player.

The lucky ones find careers as coaches or scouts, but there are only so many of those positions available. Many end up unemployed or in low skill jobs.

Baseball has created puppy mills of young men who routinely are thrown back into a society unable to support themselves, while the few who make it to the top are paid excessively. Last year, 20 minor league baseball players filed a lawsuit alleging that they did not make the minimum wage and were not compensated for overtime. Recently, the lawsuit was expanded to include 10,000 minor league baseball players, a decision that could eventually reshape the financial structure of major and minor league baseball.

Noah Elden can be reached at nee5@cornell.edu.

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Cornell to Face Brown,Yale in ECAC Clashes After snapping out of seven-game winless streak,men return to Lynah as season nears end

By ZACH SILVER Sun Staff Writer

Last week, associate head coach Ben Syer — who served as acting head coach while Mike Schafer ’86 recovered from taking a puck to the head during practice — mentioned that even though Cornell was in the midst of a rough patch, little things here and there were the difference between walking away with a win or loss in most of those games.

Cornell Now, with a 1-0-1, streak-snapping weekend in the rear view mirror, Syer said he is happy with how “the group was vs. very resilient and there was no panic at any point.”

Sometimes all it takes is a little momentum, a Brown spark of energy and hope, to get a team Today, 7 p.m. going. Even though last Ithaca, N.Y. Friday’s game against No. 1 Quinnipiac was a tie, the men walked away with their heads held high, knowing they scraped away a point against the current paragon of college hockey.

“We were down too, so it was nice to get a comeback on them and give them a little taste of their own medicine,” junior goalie

Mitch Gillam said. “Each point is huge and squeaking that one point out of Quinnipiac was huge.”

Cornell fed off the momentum after freshman forward Mitch Vanderlaan scored the late equalizer against the Bobcats. The squad left Saturday’s game against Princeton with a win in the record book, the Red’s first in the last eight attempts.

“The win is really big for us,” Vanderlaan said. “We were still pretty confident as a group Cornell after that [losing] stretch, so it’s nice get back in the win column and hopefully continue that this weekend.” vs.

However, what is imperative for this team is to not let the momentum be short-lived. That task does not come easiYale ly with Brown (4-16-4, 2-12-3 ECAC) — who Tomorrow, 7 p.m. gave the Red (12-7-4, 7Ithaca, N.Y..

6-3) serious trouble at their last meeting — and the ever-tough Yale (14-5-4, 9-4-3) on the docket.

“Brown is a real hard-working team, so we will have to have a really strong performance on Friday night,” Syer added. “Yale is going to be an extremely good defensive team, so it will be hard to generate [shots].”

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Momentum | Junior goalie Mitch Gillam hopes to continue his lights-out netminding in two big games this weekend against Brown and Yale.

While Brown currently sits at the bottom of the ECAC, the standings and stat sheets go out the window once the puck is dropped.

Last meeting, the Bears held the Red to 16 shots, while racking up 27 of its own. Luckily, the Red were able to escape with the 1-0 victory.

“Their top two lines are as good as any lines in the league,” Syer said. “They are not a team that is indicative by their record. They are going to be an extremely tough opponent.

They battle and always play hard.”

Gillam — who was just named ECAC Goaltender of the Week for the third time this season — was, once again, the main reason Cornell was able to escape Providence with a win earlier. His 70 saves on 72 shots this past weekend are indicative of how dominant he has been of late.

Opposing Gillam the second game this weekend against Yale will most likely be junior phenom Alex Lyon. He is sporting See M. HOCKEY page 14

The NHL Women Look to Snap Losing Streak Is Dead N WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

By KEITH BOLLT

Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s hockey will sweep through southern New England this weekend to take on two Ivy League rivals in their final road games of the regular season. The Red (9-12-4, 5-9-4 ECAC) will face Brown (3-19-3, 1-143) Friday at 7 p.m. and Yale (10-14-1, 9-8-1) Saturday at 7 p.m.

Cornell, which has lost three games in a row, sits at ninth in the ECAC standings and with only four games left in the regular season, time is running out for a big playoff push. Going on the road with such high stakes at play would seem to put Cornell at a disad-

vantage, but it is quite the opposite. Doug Derraugh ’91.

Brown skated to a come-fromThe Red has only one home victory all behind 2-2 tie against the Red in Ithaca season and are over .500 on the road.

Four weeks ago, Cornell scored six last January despite being heavily outgoals against the Bulldogs and notched shot in the contest.

Cornell 48 shots senior foragainst the “[The Bears] an actually hold their own. ward Jess Bears in a tie.

Having only We want to score early and be consis- B r o w n , has recodred two tent throughout the whole game.” who years of goals in the last three Jess Brown ’16 experience against the games, the Bears, says team desperately needs to get out of its scoring they are not an easy team to put away. “[The Bears] can actually hold their slump against Yale and Brown.

“We need to be able to put the puck own,” she said. “We want to score early in the back of the net,” said head coach and be consistent throughout the whole game.”

While the Red was able to get 48 shots through to Brown’s junior netminder Elvin Monica last meeting, it is pouncing on those chances that matters most.

“We created a lot of chances [against Brown],” Derraugh said. “It’s making the most of our chances.”

The Brown game a few weeks ago was perhaps a foreshadowing of this past weekend, where Cornell could only muster one goal total against two very strong opponents in Quinnipiac and Princeton despite even shot totals in both games.

“We are our biggest enemy,” said senior captain defender Cassandra Poudrier.

After Brown, Cornell will travel to CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Connecticut to take on Yale. The

Redemption | Senior forward Jess Brown and the women’s hockey team look to this weekend to avenge a tough loss to Brown earlier in the season.

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ext time you’re at the cafeteria with the major American sports, the NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL, take a look at how refined the MLB is as an historic pastime. Relish in the NFL’s glory as the most popular sport. And gaze in awe at the NBA’s ability to pay its players the most of any athletes in the world. Then look at the NHL and

Ben Denson The B.D. Report how it’s … um … Canadian? The National Hockey League would be the out of place kid sitting by himself — alone, cold and Canadian. As most Northeastern sports fan can attest to, there isn’t anything quite as exhilarating as playoff hockey — so why does the NHL dwarf in comparison to its peers?

It is the most niche and regional of the Big 4 sports. The NHL has the smallest fan base, least television revenue, least sponsorships and the smallest overall league revenue of the four. ESPN’s decision to opt-out of its TV contract with the NHL after the 2005 lockout speaks for itself. The U.S.-based network did not see a high enough demand to justify See DENSON page 14