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Faculty Discuss Attorney: Student Charged With Murder Provost Search, From Family With History of Abuse Inauguration Day By ANNIE BUI

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Topics related to the transition period of several senior-level administrators at Cornell were the primary focus of Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, where members discussed the ongoing search for the next provost and the class schedule during presidentelect Elizabeth Garrett’s inauguration. Dean of Faculty Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, astronomy, said the University Faculty Committee decided to withdraw its resolution that asked for the cancellation “[Our provost of classes from 10 a.m. to should be] 12:15 p.m. during the someone who is inauguration of Garrett on Sept. 18, breaking tradifocused on tion. “Just a couple of days academic ago, the president-elect excellence.” said that she did not want the classes cancelled, even Alan Mathios though it has been traditional in the past,” he said. “And the interim provost [Harry Katz] also said he did not want the classes cancelled, so we are withdrawing the resolution. There are times when you should fight the administration, I don’t think this is one of them.” In light of Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president of student and academic services, and President David Skorton’s concurrent departures from the administration, some faculty said they believe it was important to consider hiring someone from within the University as provost in order to maintain a sense of continuity of institutional memory. Prof. Abby Cohn, linguistics, said she hopes the selection committee will concern itself with selecting See FACULTY page 4

The attorney of Charles Tan ’17 confirmed at a press conference Wednesday that there was a “longstanding” history of violence and domestic abuse in the household of the student charged with killing his father. Tan, a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was arraigned Tuesday morning on a second-degree murder charge for the alleged shooting of his 49-year-old father, Ling Tan. Police responded to a report of a domestic incident at the Pittsford, New York, home Monday night where Ling Tan was found dead. The house was searched the following morning, where police said they found a shotgun in the garage.

Ling Tan was the president and neighbors, according to Nobles. He chief executive officer of added that these friends and neighbors Dynamax have also witnessed events over the Canandaigua-based Imaging, which develops image sen- years that led them to suspect a history of abuse in the Tan household. sors, according to its website. James Nobles, Charles Tan’s de- “They’ve asked for some privacy during fense attorney, said this time ... but they’re doing okay.” he has seen police reports “going back James Nobles to 2008 to 2009” where authorities “We have significant, credible, spehave been called to the Tan residence on several occasions “for instances of cific evidence to support that there was a longstanding abusive relationdomestic violence.” Nobles added that he was aware of ship in that house towards [Qing] Tan a recent proceeding in family court as well as both sons for a period of where Qing Tan, Charles’ mother and years,” Nobles said. Nobles said this abusive relationLing’s wife, obtained an order of proship may have gone as far back to tection against her husband. The family has seen an “outpourSee TAN page 4 ing of support” from friends and

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Edmund Cranch’45 Ph.D.’51,Former Engineering Dean,Dies at 91 By PAULINA GLASS Sun Staff Writer

Former College of Engineering Dean Edmund Cranch ’45 Ph.D. ’51 died Feb. 4. He was 91. Cranch was the dean of the engineering college from 1972 to 1978. He had been a faculty member at Cornell for 20 years, first becoming an assistant professor in 1951, according to the University. Cranch was an undergraduate at Cornell, graduating in 1945 with a bachelor’s degree in

mechanical engineering. During his four years as an undergraduate, he was involved in many organizations on campus such as the Tau Beta Pi honors fraternity, Sigma Xi and the American Society of Engineers. Additionally, he played hockey and continued to support the team after graduating, according to the University. Throughout his graduate and professional years at Cornell, Cranch served in a number of positions ranging from chair of the department of theoretical and

applied mechanics to for the Cornell holding a seat on the nanoscale research – Board of Trustees. the Knight Laboratory. Additionally, he A d d i t i o n a l l y, chaired the Advisory Cranch helped author Committee on the textbook, EnFinancial Planning and gineering Mathematics, the Committee on which played a large Special Education role in shaping the Projects. engineering program One of Cranch’s CRANCH ’45 Ph.D. ’51 in place today, accordmost notable contributions to ing to an interview with Cranch Cornell, according to the from 2012. Prof. Francis C. University, was his and Lester B. Moon Ph.D. ’67, mechanical Knight’s ’29 spearheading of what and aerospace engineering would become the primary place Cranch’s colleague who conduct-

ed the interview, described Cranch as “open, attentive and kind.” Cranch left Cornell in 1978 and became the president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he served for seven years. After leaving WPI, he served as president for the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in Massachusetts before his retirement. He is survived by his wife, Virginia Cranch and two sons. Paulina Glass can be reached at pglass@cornellsun.com.

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Univ.Looks to Replace Email With Gmail By BRENDAN DOYLE ’11

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Cornell Information Technologies is in the midst of an overhaul of the University email system that will increase storage quotas, speed and amenities for students and faculty. The project, called Ensemble, will enable faculty and staff to use such programs as Microsoft Outlook and Entourage. Students’ emails will be provided through third-party vendors. “We’re talking with Google and Microsoft, but we don’t have contracts yet,” Ricky MacDonald ’71, director of systems and operations for CIT, said of the student email accounts. “Our intention is that all students will be provided with accounts on both services. We would like students to have the option to use either.” The expected format of the new email accounts will have significantly more storage space than the 300 megabytes on current University email systems. The Google accounts hold six and a half gigabytes of online storage space, and the Microsoft accounts hold 10 gigabytes. Additionally, the new email accounts will have such applications as calendars and spreadsheets, and they will allow alumni to keep receiving emails and

University information long after they graduate. Though the overhaul is radical, it is also a long-time coming. “Ensemble is a broader initiative to modernize the messaging infrastructure for faculty, staff and students,” MacDonald said. “It builds on things a lot of our peer institutions already have underway.” Though no deals are official yet, the option to change emails format is expected to be open to students next month, according to MacDonald. “Both institutions are actively trying to hammer out the details,” said MacDonald. “We certainly hope to have something in place by the end of February. [The new accounts] offer a more modern, web-based interface than the existing systems. It’s certainly an exciting change for us here.” Staff email accounts will be transferred to Microsoft Exchange, a change expected to be completed in September 2009. Exchange also has numerous tools not currently available in the online communication system, including online word processing. For the most part, students seem to welcome a change in the technological format of their email accounts.

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Professor Emeritus L. Pearce Williams Dies at 87 By MOLLY KARR Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Emeritus L. Pearce Williams ’49 Ph.D. ’52, history of science, died at Cayuga Medical Center Saturday. He was 87. Williams’ 1965 book, Michael Faraday, A Biography, won the Pfizer Award, a prize awarded annually by the History of Science Society. As a historian, he has authored over 40 articles and book chapters as well as dozens of entries for American and French encyclopedias, according to The Ithaca Journal. Williams originally came to Cornell as an undergraduate to study chemical engineering, but left at the beginning of his first year for a year’s service in the United States Navy during World War II, according to The Journal. Upon his return, he pursued a degree in the history of science and graduated with honors with a B.A. in 1949. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1952.

After leaving Ithaca, Williams taught at Yale said. University and the University of Delaware before Williams enjoyed debates on subjects he was passionreturning, where he taught both the history of science ate about, according to Lewenstein. and the history of western civilization. “He was extremely knowledgeable and Williams was one of greatest teachers at would force you to provide evidence to Cornell “in a generation of teachers,” according support your arguments,” Lewenstein said. to Prof. Barry Stauss ’74, chair of the “But if you were willing to engage with Department of History. him, he’d engage right back with great “Professor Williams was a superb teacher,” joy.” Stauss said. “I will never forget his inspiring Aside from teaching, Williams enjoyed address to the freshmen or his sparkling lecphysical activities such as hunting with his tures in the introductory Western Civilization Weimeraners, playing touch football and class.” karate according to his obituary. Throughout his career, Williams had a com- WILLIAMS ’49 Ph.D ’52 Williams is survived by his wife of 65 mitment to the history of science, according to Bruce years, Sylvia Alessandrini Williams, as well as his four Lewenstein, chair of the Department of Science and children and nine grandchildren. Technology Studies. “He will be greatly missed and long remembered,” “He was the driving force behind the creation of a Stauss said. graduate program in history and philosophy of science and technology in the mid-1980s,” Lewenstein Molly Karr can be reached at mkarr@cornellsun.com.

Cornellian to Receive Award From Queen Nation Obama Asks Congressional Permission for ISIS Campaign

President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve a three-year military operation against the Islamic State Wednesday, according to The New York Times. The campaign would involve air power but could also include a “limited” ground force. The proposal the White House sent to Congress Wednesday would officially give the president approval to continue the operations currently under way against the Islamic State, The Times reported. House Passes Keystone Pipeline Bill

Despite President Obama’s vow to veto the bill, the House approved the Keystone Pipeline Wednesday, according to The New York Times. The bill passed 270 votes to 152, with 29 Democrats voting and joining congressional Republicans in support of the bill. The president now has 10 days to veto the bill, and while drawing partisan support, it is not expected that a two-thirds majority needed to override it will be reached. Three Muslim Students Fatally Shot In North Carolina

Three students were killed in an apartment complex near University of North Carolina Tuesday, according to The New York Times. On Wednesday, a 46-year-old man was convicted of the deadly shooting. Police said these deaths may have been a result of a deadly end to what began as a neighborhood parking argument. The three victims were of Arab decent. Ripley Hand, the regional United States attorney general stated that the shooting appeared to be an “isolated incident,” The Times reported. — Compiled by Madeline Cohen

Queen Elizabeth II to honor student for project with Bangladeshi youth By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN

In addition to being honored in a cere- and other environmental issues, and sees mony in the United Kingdom this sum- his vital work as both a duty and an obligmer, Shehab said he will also have the ation to the sustainable welfare of Queen Elizabeth II will present Shamir opportunity to take courses at the Bangladesh.” Shehab grad with the Queen’s Young University of Cambridge. Calvin Okwuego grad, who also travLeader award — an award recognizing “There was this online promotional eled to Bangladesh, said Shehab’s award exceptional public works of young adults campaign of the Queen’s Young Leader has the potential to introduce new people — for his work founding the Bangladesh award, and two things [motivated] me to to the organization and bring attention Youth Environmental Initiative. apply for it,” Shehab said. He said he not only from within Bangladesh but Shehab, who is in his first year at the believes the organization was looking for internationally as well. Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, said he students “who really [had] an impact in “[Bangladesh Youth Environmental created the Dhaka-based non-profit as a the society as well as a person who faced Initiative is] already a solid organization, means to educate youth in the country challenge in his life.” but I can see that by Shamir receiving this about environmental concerns and to proShehab said he felt he fit the descrip- award, it’ll only enhance and benefit the mote leadership skills to tion due to the chal- organization exponentially,” Okwuego a new generation. lenges he faced when said. “Probably with this “When I started back Additionally, Okwuego said the award deciding to commit to recognition, we’ll be in 2009, I never realized making social change, would allow Shamir to build relationships this [was] something that which “wasn’t an easy between his organization and top research able to take the would become a big part universities that specialized in climate decision.” organization to the of my life,” Shehab said. “Probably with this change and issues relating to Bangladesh. “The cultural context Shehab said he is optimistic about the recognition, we’ll be able next level.” back in Bangladesh is to take the organization future of the organization and added that quite different and to the next level,” after he completes his studies at Cornell, Shamir Shehab grad [there’s] so much talk he plans to return to Bangladesh and conShehab said. about the problems, but According to Wolfe, tinue his work within the organization. there is very little talk about how you can Shehab found out he had won the award “If each of us, within our own capacity, solve it.” when he was in Bangladesh working with do things or can work on things that we He said he believes that Bangladeshi fellow CIPA students during the Winter are passionate about and care about … all people historically expect policy makers Break. together combined we can probably make and politicians to solve problems, but do “After one of our morning meetings, we Bangladesh a little bit better,” Shehab said. not have enough avenues to exercise their got done with breakfast and as we started “I’m passionate about environmental own leadership. Shehab’s organization to walk away, Shamir said casually, ‘Oh! issues. I’m trying my best to make change focuses on developing leadership skills and By the way guys, I just found out that I in this field and that might contribute to proactive work with climate related issues. will be getting an award from the Queen bringing bigger changes in Bangladesh.” “What we are trying to do is to bring of England herself for the work I did with high school students from all over my organization,’” Wolfe said. “Shamir Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at Bangladesh and provide them environ- understands the impact of climate change dsz24@cornell.edu. mental education, climate change knowledge, and … some leadership skills and Wine and dine leadership knowledge,” Shehab said. “If we … exercise leadership within our capacity here [and] we can do it in our community, then we can expect these people in the long term to contribute on the macro scale and the policy level.” Over Winter Break, Shehab said he and other CIPA graduate students went to Bangladesh as part of the Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team. While in Bangladesh, some members of the team had the opportunity to learn and meet with members of the Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative, according to Shehab. “When I was in Bangladesh, I met a number of young leaders who worked with Shamir,” said Hill Wolfe grad, a member of the team that traveled with Shehab. “You can tell right away when they interact with Shamir that he is an inspiration, and they very much respect the amount of work he’s put into the organization. I think Shamir’s work ethic inspires them to CAROLINE FLAX / SUN ASSOCIATE EDITOR put the same amount of attention and care Patrons enjoy drinks and dinner at the recently reopened Rulloff’s Restaurant and Bar in into [Bangladesh Youth Environmental Collegetown Feb. 7. Initiative.]” Sun Contributor

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Attorney Corroborates Exam Schedule,Protest Regulations, Provost Search Discussed at Faculty Senate History of Domestic Some faculty looking to hire new provost within Univ. Violence in Tan Family FACULTY

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when Ling and Qing Tan first married 24 years ago. “[The abuse was] physical, mental, emotional, financial, every type ... you could imagine,” he said. In response to a reporter’s question about whether Charles Tan said his actions were made in self-defense, Nobles said he could “not answer that question at this time.” Nobles said the family is currently mourning the situation. “... They’ve asked for some privacy during this time … but they’re doing okay,” he said. Charles Tan is currently being held in county jail without bail and is scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon. His friends have started an online fundraiser on the website GiveForward for the purpose of helping fund his defense, with nearly $33,000 raised as of Wednesday night. Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

a Provost who “will have a profound commitment to faculty governance.” Alan Mathios, dean of the College of Human Ecology and Vice-Chair of the Provost Search Committee, spoke about the qualities he said he believes the next Provost must embody. “Someone who is a scholar with a reputation in the academy; someone who is focused on academic excellence in the highest priority,” he said. ‘Protecting and Promoting Free Speech’

In addition to speaking about the search for a new provost and changes in the class schedule on Inauguration Day, the Faculty Senate also discussed clarifying rules regarding protests on campus.

Prof. Risa Lieberwitz, industrial and labor relations, addressed the Faculty Senate, asking for their input on the “use-of outdoor space” policies for outdoor protests and demonstrations. Working with people to “protect and promote free speech” is incredibly rewarding, according to Lieberwitz, who is a member of a working group to address the ambiguity and conflict between the Campus Code and the various “use-of outdoor space” policies on campus. Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, said the government, University should also address decibel-level sound restrictions between competing protesters, citing the November 2012 political discourse and disagreement on Ho Plaza between Students for Justice in Palestine and Cornell Hillel.

“One group [Students for Justice in Palestine] who originally announced their protest had a hand-held megaphone and the other group [Cornell Hillel], in order to disrupt them, brought a giant boombox, a huge amplified sound system that completely drowned out the other group so I would think you would want to set out … guidelines for decibel levels,” Sanders said. Lieberwitz said the working group has met several times and is working toward submitting a report of recommendation to the President by next month. “I can tell you that we are so far working well together and there is a commitment to free speech and free expression on campus,” she said.

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun.com.

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Major Advance in Stroke Treatment Comes Through Use of Stents to Clear Blood Clots Stroke experts are reporting a major advance: Stents similar to the ones used to open clogged heart arteries also can be used to clear a blood clot in the brain, greatly lowering the risk a patient will end up disabled. Patients treated with these brain stents were far more likely to be alive and able to live independently three months after their stroke, doctors said Wednesday at an American Stroke Association conference in Nashville. The treatment was so successful that three studies testing it were stopped early, so it could be offered to more patients. One study also found the death rate was cut almost in half for those given the treatment. “This is a once-in-a-generation advance in stroke care,” said the head of one study, Dr. Jeffrey Saver, stroke chief at the University of California, Los Angeles. An independent expert, Dr. Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts General Hospital, called it "a real turning point in the field." For many patients, “this is the difference between returning home and not returning home,” although only certain types of patients can be offered it, he said. Stroke care “needs to be completely changed” to make the treatment more widely available, said Dr. Walter Koroshetz, acting director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. “This has taken stroke therapy to the same place that heart attack therapy is now,” he said. Most of the 800,000 strokes in the U.S. each year are caused by a blood clot lodged in the brain. The usual treatment is clot-dissolving med-

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icine called tPA. When that doesn't work, doctors sometimes try devices pushed through blood vessels to pluck out the clot, but several studies found they didn’t help. However, newer devices — metal mesh cages called stent retrievers — open an artery much faster and with less damage to the blood vessel. Unlike heart stents, which stay in place to prop the artery open, the brain stents flatten the clot, trap it and are removed with it. Two brands are sold in the U.S. — Trevo, made by Stryker Corp. of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Solitaire, made by Covidien, now part of Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc. They won approval in 2012 based on their ability to remove a clot — not because there was evidence they made patients better. Some people who got them had dramatic results. Don Sadoway, 64, a chemistry professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was having a holiday lunch on Dec. 23, 2012, at a Boston restaurant when he suddenly found he couldn't lift his wine glass for a toast. His wife was perplexed. “I said something unintelligible to her and all of a sudden my right side collapsed,” he said. Doctors at Massachusetts General gave him tPA but it didn’t work, so they tried a Solitaire stent. “Two hours later I was sitting up, talking to my kids,” said Sadoway, who is fine now except for small problems with memory and fine motor skilmostly stents, found these treatments greatly lowered the risk of disability in patients whose clots were not dissolved by tPA.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched an observatory inspired by former Vice President Al Gore toward a solar-storm lookout point a million miles away Wednesday. The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on the third try in four days, successfully hoisting the spacecraft for NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Air Force. Gore — who dreamed up the idea for an environmentally conscious, Earth-gazing satellite 17 years ago — returned for the sunset launch. He was at the previous two attempts as well, eager to see his brainchild finally soar. Besides watching for solar outbursts, the observatory will provide continuous pictures of the full, sunlit side of Earth. It “will give us a wonderful opportunity to see the beauty and fragility of our planet,” Gore said in a statement. He said he was grateful to all the scientists and others who saw the mission to completion.

Unlike Tuesday, the wind stayed within safety limits and everything else went SpaceX’s way — at least for launch. But rough seas forced the company to cancel its effort to land the leftover booster on an ocean platform. Waves towering three stories high crashed over the landingzone platform floating 370 miles off the Florida coast. Making matters worse, one of four engines needed to keep the platform steady was not working. With three hours remaining in the countdown, SpaceX called off the radical landing test of the first-stage booster. It would have been just the second such experiment; last month’s try ended in flames when the booster slammed into the platform, fell over and exploded. “Mega storm preventing droneship from remaining on station, so rocket will try to land on water,” SpaceX chief Elon Musk reported via Twitter shortly before liftoff. He said the chance of it surviving was less than one percent.

Chinese President Xi Jinping To Visit U.S. in September BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping will make his first state visit as president to the United States in September, Chinese official media reported Wednesday, underlining positive momentum in the often-troubled relationship between the world’s largest economies. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said Xi had accepted President Barack Obama’s invitation to visit in a telephone call between the two overnight. The

announcement came as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken was in Beijing to meet Chinese officials. Obama visited China in November to attend the annual summit of the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation forum during which he held a separate day of meetings with Xi. Obama and Xi also met in the U.S. in June 2013 for an informal summit at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage, California, a meeting cited by the Chinese side as help-

ing redefine ties based on equality and mutual respect. The U.S. and China have been working together on a range of high-profile issues, including pledging to cut back on their emissions of greenhouse gases. At the same time, the two have clashed diplomatically on several fronts, including over cyber-espionage allegations and Chinese actions asserting its maritime territorial claims against U.S. treaty partners Japan and the Philippines.

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Another bus driver’s perspective To the Editor: Re: “LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Cornell campus, warning signs ignored,” Opinion, Feb. 2 Brendan Goodrich, your response to the editor regarding your position of the tragic accident involving a member of Cornell offers, what I feel, was a very biased opinion that lacks both the journalistic etiquette worthy of a Cornellian and which professionals involved in the safe transportation of the public here take a severe reservation to. I don’t see included within your letter another of the reasons for your dismay with the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit system and your recent interaction in Collegetown listed within the article. You were identified as taking pictures of the buses and an operator reported the issue as a safety concern for the public as they are trained to do. This is part of their job and also helps to ensure safety for everyone within the system. The advertisement of information offered regarding this position being from a perspective of a bus driver compels me to answer for the drivers that do this tough and demanding job day in and day out, not for a short duration such as yourself, but from those who dedicate all the resources needed to make this a safe career choice. Your personal position is very appalling to the professional, from your own experience as you openly stated in your editorial, “laughs at the prospect of being safety compliant.” For your information, the TCAT organization does not have “many of these drivers” that willfully and intentionally look to harm the public as you so advertise within your communication. The operators here receive communications commending them for their actions and interactions from standpoints of safety, courtesy and customer satisfaction that far outweigh any negative observations. To associate and conjoin your personal opinion and practices to others that you do not know, interact with or have any other direct relevance to is totally inappropriate. I wholeheartedly agree that we cannot allow history to repeat itself in this capacity anywhere. However moving forward, there is an obligation to the future of everyone’s safety that requires us all to look back, identify, determine and completely research the reason for the issue to arise in the first place. This area of focus should examine in great depth the training and the instruction being given to the operators as well as the staff, faculty and students of the campus regarding crossing the roadway safely. Training is a very viable tool here and needs to be continually updated and reinforced as well being a mandatory action on all sides of this situation. I am saddened that I must continue to read outstretched positions of training given and offered in defense of the event however again the training is not completely as described nor as complete as being publicly articulated. My suggestion here is simple: Ask those within the position their perspectives on the training they receive and whether it is adequate to do the job safely. Compare the amount of training here within this system to others, and the difference will not only amaze you but surely speak for itself. It begins to appear within The Sun that some are simply taking a defensive posture to affix liability to someone as opposed to being proactive and researching the issues than forming a plan of action to remedy the situation from repetition. I feel that this particular case and issue would be one to do the research, form and follow through with a remedy of action items and do this in the name of both safety and for the memory of a true Cornellian, friend and coworker to many also one of our own. Frank Howells, TCAT zone chairman

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The Eight That Aren’t Here

y older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted,” Malcolm X once said. “I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn’t be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” Our ravenous appetites, for whatever it is we crave, will perpetually fail to be satisfied unless we open our mouths unless we use our voices. I know too well what it is like to starve — to really crave something you need. For generations, my family in the Dominican Republic has sat around waiting within poverty, our presence a mere plea at the foot of the gluttonous and abundantly wealthy government: throw us back our fair share. It is through us, my family, that they were well fed. We’ve been deprived of books, stable careers, esteem, respect. We’ve been deprived of identity. We are nuisances incarnate, anything and everything but people. It has been a timeless hunger for unalienable rights denied. The more hours spent under a sweltering sun, reaping crops for the cravings of an insatiable dictator, did not equate to an increased sense of stability. Perhaps, the only answer was escape, to run away to America; at least she promises her guests a dream. Eventually, I achieved the classic (18 years in the work) dream: I was the first in my family to attend college. A large reason why I was accepted into Cornell had to do with me being admitted into the University through the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (H/EOP). I gladly accepted, knowing that I would have no other debt to pay within four years, with the exception of my abiding gratitude. Because of H/EOP, no institution of higher education will ever be granted the upper hand of threatening me by means of dangling a hefty loan over my head, at the expense of my future. Through it, we reclaim the power robbed from us throughout the course of poverty’s perpetual heist, the autonomy of choice. Philosophically, education, as it should be, is priceless. Inevitably, there are strings attached, and they often become entangled with one another. Underprivileged individuals tend to get caught in this web, one in which they never weaved for themselves. That is what I told my legislators. On Tuesday, I, along with nine other students, traveled to Albany, where we lobbied for the continued financial support of the H/EOP program in New York. For the duration of an entire weekday, we advocated. Many students, however, were not able to attend. To those students: I understand. Classes aren’t the easiest things to make up; I get it. Please understand that funding for the H/EOP program is not a promise — it isn’t even a priority. There are legislators who wouldn’t even flinch at the idea of reducing financial aid support; George Pataki didn’t. He was infamous for cutting H/EOP and The New York State Tuition Assistance Program during the 90s. Despite the program’s recovery, a terrible reality still prevails for every student admitted into Cornell through H/EOP, there are eight who were not. These students simply didn’t fit within the

budget. Knowing that admissions through H/EOP is granted to students who would have been regularly inadmissible due to financial and academic constraints, one can only wonder: did those eight students even make it to college? Could they afford it elsewhere? I participated in Advocacy Day last year, contemplating that, perhaps, I didn’t deserve my seat. Unlike the others, I was fortunate enough to be given four years to figure myself out. Yesterday, exactly one year later, I am a product of the relationship between me, H/EOP, and all other programs partnered with the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives. H/EOP Counselors, peers and directors guided me through a turbulent freshman year, straight into the eye of the storm: An unexpectedly successful sophomore year. Within one year, my relationship with H/EOP has aided me in applying and getting accepted to two research programs: OADI Research Scholars and McNair. When you hail from a Dominican family, the options are doctor, lawyer, dentist or president. It’s a peripheral approach to viewing the bigger picture of what truly comprises a future, but I can’t blame them. Only now did I see the whole picture, too. You can be so much more — I can even be a professor if I really wanted to. This program isn’t just a large check, and it isn’t a safety net either. They challenge you. It’s a family. I can’t even begin to fathom meeting the person that I will be next year upon my return to Albany. In a game of Russian roulette for opportunities, I was picked first. To the eight other students: you’re not forgotten; I think about you all constantly, especially during this time of the year. You deserve to be here with me, too. Legislators expand this blessing to others. H/EOP student graduation rates strictly competes with that of Cornell, sometimes surpassing that of the University’s in certain years. Those abstract numbers that you place so much priority over the flesh of the narrative himself or herself, is ironically testament to the irrefutable effectiveness of the program. H/EOP works. Rule of thumb: If you can’t look my eight other peers, wherever they may be, straight in the eyes, then it’s probably not the correct legislative decision. They might have been with me in Albany, lobbying for other causes besides the ridiculous threat of funding cuts to a revolutionary higher education opportunity program. Who can truly argue against a more educated population? Go lobby, before you graduate. Go and make some noise for the eight lives treading behind you — they could’ve been you; you could have been them. H/EOP has entirely transformed lives, subjectively and objectively, within the matter of a year. A homesick girl from the Bronx, failing, never feeling at home, to a person with a voice — a person who doesn’t fear taking back what is rightfully hers. Contrary to the vulnerable texture of my voice, its magnitude begs to differ. I crave the presence of those eight people; it haunts me to wonder where they might be. I know what all eight of you would say, if I ever found you some day, and I too feel the same way: “I have yet to be satisfied.” Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at pmunoz@cornellsun.com. Midas’ Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

CORRECTION A Feb. 10 news story, “Skorton Urges Protesters to Work ‘Collectively’ With Administrators,” quoted Daniel Marshall ’15, when in fact it was said by another protester.

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OPINION

Eric Pesner | Dems Discuss

Moving Beyond Marriage Equality A

s Alabama this week became the 37th state to allow same-sex couples the right to marry, it’s clear that the fight to achieve marriage equality is drawing to a close. Unless the Supreme Court suddenly reverses itself, marriage equality will likely be legal nationwide by the summer. We’ve all but won this fight, so it’s time to figure out where we go from here. While most of the country has been focused on the marriage fight, advocacy organizations have been pushing for solutions to the numerous other problems besetting the LGBT community. Winning marriage equality was a long and arduous fight for equal rights, but it’s just one small part of the overall equality battle. People who are LGBT still face discrimination in many other areas of life, such as in the workplace, health care and schools. Until all of these problems are solved, there can never be true equality, so there’s still a lot of work to be done. Though this week was good for the people of Alabama, it wasn’t so good for the people of Kansas. On Tuesday, the state’s Republican governor, Sam Brownback, rescinded the executive order protecting LGBT people from discrimination in state employment. This clearly shows the need for the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which has languished in Congress for

nearly a decade. And there’s little hope experience issues with mental health and that it passes with the Republican Party in HIV/AIDS. While Cornell students are the majority in both chambers of lucky enough to have resources like CAPS Congress. Even if it did, it would likely be for mental health care and an LGBT without protections for trans workers and Resource Center offering free HIV testing with such a strong religious exemption as next week, most Americans don’t have to render the bill meaningless. such great access to care. This is especially So the hope for ENDAs rests at the true for the health issues affecting the state level. In New York, there has been trans community, who often have to travel protection for gay and lesbian workers for long ways at high costs for care. years; however, trans workers do not have I’m sure that, thinking back to high school, most the same protections. Cornellians Democrats Winning marriage equality was long can rememinstances in the State and arduous fight for equal rights, but ber their of Assembly it’s just one small part of the LGBT classhave passed the Gender overall equality battle. mates being bullied. Over Expression 90 percent of N o n Discrimination Act seven times since LGBT high school students face bullying 2007, but Republicans in the State Senate based on their sexual orientations and have blocked it every time. Even in blue gender identities, with about half facing states like New York, there’s still a lot of physical harassment or assault. This bullywork to do. ing is not simple teenaged meanness but But the challenges facing the LGBT can lead LGBT students to skip school or community are not all legal in nature. drop out because they feel unsafe. LGBT people face challenges in accessing And this bullying does not stop in quality health care mostly due not to dis- schools, but extends into homes as well. crimination, but to ignorance of the issues This exclusion also leads to a large amount that primarily affect the community. of youth who are forced to leave home to Members of the LGBT community are escape violence and hatred. This has much more likely than straight people to resulted in 40 percent of homeless youth

being LGBT. Homeless people are already marginalized as it is, so this group of youth do not get the help they need. While both the law and culture may be improving, there are still a lot of minds to change. Though a majority of Americans think that LGBT people are equal to straight people, it’s a vocal minority that makes life harder for the country’s LGBT community. The way to solve all of the issues affecting the LGBT community involves the same pressure and advocacy that won the freedom to marry in the first place. Even the simple act of trying to change someone’s mind has a huge effect on the struggle for LGBT rights. The worst thing that could happen to the LGBT community is for people to believe that marriage equality means that there is no more discrimination left to end. Marriage equality no more spells the end of homophobia in this country than the election of Barack Obama as president spelled the end of racism. Moving beyond marriage equality is difficult since it’s been the primary issue for LGBT equality in the national consciousness for years, but the fight is simply not over yet. On the contrary, it has only just begun. Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at erp55@cornell.edu. Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Who Are We? Defining America

ne of the remarkable and underappreciated aspects of America is our unique way of defining who we are. In many other nations, national identity is solely or primarily a function of race, color, ethnicity, historical ties to land or language. It would be highly unlikely, for example, for most Americans to ever be truly accepted as Chinese or Indian citizens. Instead, being part of the national identities of these countries is something you generally must be born into, not something that can be acquired. The same is not true, however, for individuals of foreign descent who aspire to be American. We define ourselves by reference to fundamental political principles in historic texts like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that stress liberty and natural rights. To be American is to assent to these principles, and because no one is excluded because of their appearance or ancestry, everyone is eligible. To assume that a European-looking individual walking the streets of New Delhi is a foreigner would be an exercise in common sense. To assume the same of someone of Indian descent walking the streets of New York or Los Angeles would be offensive. We might even call making such assumptions “un-American,” or in violation of fundamental American values. Labeling behavior in such a way is also something unique to the United States. As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has commented, there is no equivalent in foreign languages to the term “un-American.” For instance, it would mean little to refer to something in France as “un-French,” or to something in Germany as “un-German.” This difference is due to the central role that adherence to political principles, as opposed to other forms of collective identity, has always played in defining our nation’s people, from the founding to the present. This mechanism of self-identity is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it enables us to attract a diverse group of people from around the world who offer skills, talents and perspectives that enrich our national fabric. People have left countries where their families have been settled for centuries, even millennia, to share in our national experiment. These individuals continue America’s immigrant tradition. Our ability to provide opportunities for advancement to those who aspire to join our country — who wish to achieve the

American dream — continues to be a measure of our national virtue. Immigration is the lifeblood of our nation. Unfortunately, there is also a danger that comes along with this way of composing our national identity. That danger is that Americans could begin to reject our founding values, interpret them in increasingly disparate ways or aggressively cling to other identities. It was, after all, a disagreement about the meaning of our founding ideals that pushed the nation to civil war. Hundreds of thousands died in a struggle that was to decide whether slavery was consistent with America’s founding principles. We look back at that sorry chapter in our history as an opportunity to rededicate ourselves to Jeffersonian principles of individual liberty and freedom for all. It was precisely this concern about the potential for division in America that led Theodore Roosevelt to denounce the “hyphenated American” in a speech at Carnegie Hall 100 years ago. Roosevelt remarked: “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities … each preserving its separate nationality.” This remark should not be interpreted as nativist in nature. Roosevelt was careful to add that: “When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad.” His statement was born of concern for the effect that a failure to assimilate among immigrants could have on the nation. Roosevelt worried that by failing to properly incorporate newcomers, we were gaining citizens but losing Americans. Looking back a century after Roosevelt’s speech, where do we stand as a nation? Unfortunately, we may be falling into the trap he warned us of. The idea of the “melting pot,” where new immigrants both contribute to and glean from our national culture, is in poor standing among much of the nation. In its place has emerged the “salad bowl” metaphor — or, to use President Carter’s term, the “mosaic” metaphor — that Americans ought to maintain their differences from the rest of society. To assimilate is seen a sign of weakness, an indication that one is ashamed of one’s heritage. Our politicians and political commentators increasingly

reinforce this mentality. Seeing the potential for electoral advantage and profit in national division, they focus on what divides rather than what unites us. Explicit appeals to race are used to tell the downtrodden who to blame for their problems. The rich are accused of robbing the poor, demonstrating their supposed lack of munificence and compassion. Americans are directed to take a side in the culture war without acknowledging that in many cases, we are all pursuing the same social goals. Although they are not wholly responsible, American progressives are the driving force behind this pernicious trend. Their divisive rhetoric is as endless as it is damaging. We are told that the inability to achieve immigration reform is only because one side is acting in bad faith, uninterested in helping the non-white immigrants they look down upon. Middleclass Americans are instructed to take their democracy back from the supposed control of “the rich” or “the 1 percent.” Women are urged to fear that their greedy male bosses will cut off their access to birth control as part of a “war on women.” In each case, progressives want us to pick the “correct” side in these identity struggles or be considered the enemy of decency and moral rectitude. Thinking about what is best for all Americans becomes a secondary consideration to class and ethnic loyalties. The divisive power of such rhetoric does indeed threaten national cohesion, but we have the antidote within us. It is the same medicine that has been used by such leaders as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. It involves uniting around the principles of the American founding as they have been perfected over time. We should be proud to be American, a country whose regard for free people and free markets has led the world into a period of prosperity, freedom and opportunity that is unprecedented in all of human history. It is time we recommit ourselves to the national project of becoming a more perfect union, standing up to those from either party who would create false divisions between us just to serve their own interests. Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun.com. Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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DINING GUIDE

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Let Them Eat Cupcakes By RACHAEL CUSICK Sun Staff Writer

If you stroll down a grocery store aisle or pop into your token hippy coffee shop, you’re likely to stumble across desserts that just don’t seem … right. Brownies are no longer brownies, but concoctions of hemp and chia and every seed under the sun that a bird is bound to call dinner. Franken-cakes that incorporate high-fiber, low enjoyment flours are now the norm. And every shred of gluten, dairy or anything that might construe a cookie as enjoyable is threatened by the likes of soccer moms and sorority girls ’round the world. But more often than not, when a person craves something sweet, they are not subconsciously yearning for that sugar-free, whole-wheat bran cupcake with

a dairy-free blue“cheese” frosting. And thankfully, the folks at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge and Cupcakery get that. A few years ago, a friend of Felicia’s owners, Amelia Sauter ’92 and Leah Houghtaling, recommended that they start selling cupcakes — a seemingly peculiar addition to an average bar. But when Sauter’s first batch of cupcakes was offered back in 2013, patrons immediately took notice of the sweet new additions and bought out all the cupcakes within hours. After baking a second batch and watching customers scramble to buy them yet again, the owners were officially in the business of baking. Two years later, Sauter makes cupcakes in-house daily, with sales averaging about 200 cupcakes each week. So now that I’ve spent the better part of an introduction mocking new age, ancient grain diet fads, I have to get something out in the open: Felicia’s cupcakes are — for the most part — vegan. Sauter, who cannot eat dairy, started making Felicia’s cupcakes that way simply because dairy-free ingredients were what she knew to work with… and what she could taste test. After realizing the high satisfaction : crumb ratio left behind once customers finished her cupcakes, she saw no reason to mess

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with what worked. “We don’t use weird substitutes in our cupcakes like bananas or flax seeds,” Sauter said.

“Made right, vegan cupcakes are as rich and sinful as regular cupcakes.” And even I, the white flour advocate and “forget the granola” crusader, can attest to that after scarfing them down. Even though some chefs glorify foods that endeavor to be edgy, the owners of Felicia’s do not. They believe that when it comes to food, nothing rivals unpretentious and simple ingredients. Felicia’s bakers avoid food dyes and aim to use local ingredients whenever possible — with mint from their backyard garden, Ithaca Beer Company beer, local ginger and Gimme! coffee being some of their frequent menu visitors. While visiting Felicia’s before their Saturday night bar rush, I had the opportunity to talk with Sauter and

Houghtaling about their journey to the second home they’ve found on West State Street, as well as taste a ridiculous number of their desserts. Felicia’s offers a rotating schedule of over 20 flavors, incorporating everything from chai snickerdoodle to margarita, lavender lemon to French toast maple bacon (which is safe to assume is not vegan). Since three to five flavors rotate in and out of that glorious barside cupcake case, I was able to try their Mimosa, German chocolate pecan, maple bourbon brown sugar and goat cheese carrot cake cupcakes — each of which blew me away more than the one before. I also gobbled down the secondplace winner of Chili Fest’s “Best Chili Item” category: their ancho chile chocolate cupcake with

I realized I wouldn’t have been able to call them out for being vegan if my crumb-laden life depended on it. In addition to an aroundthe-clock cupcake operation, their day jobs serving up Sunday brunch and their night jobs running a bar, Felicia’s owners have progressed to their next phase of selling wedding cakes and opening a second restaurant in Trumansburg. Additionally, Felicia’s bakers take special orders for parties and even offer themed cupcake orders for holidays like Valentine’s Day (Read: Strawberry red wine cupcakes are currently to be had). Each time I tried probing Sauter and Houghtaling on their successes or insights, Houghtaling replied with one simple answer: “We just make things that we want to eat.” So, despite my initial skepticism on cakes baked without eggs and frostings beat without butter, Felicia’s has found a new groupie for what they like to call their “selfish-cakes”. But don’t ask me about Vegenaise. Cupcake Hours at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge & Cupcakery, 508 West State St.

fresh raspberries and Mexican chocolate buttercream. Aside from fan-girling the complex flavors and moistness of every cupcake,

runs from 12 noon – 12 midnight Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday, 12 noon – 1 a.m. Friday & Saturday, and 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday. Rachael Cusick can be reached at rsc247@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Middle-Aged Momentum The New Pornographers at The Haunt

BY JACK JONES Sun Contributor

I had settled myself in for a mellow, seated evening. Some light, lilting Irish-y music was playing. The crowd was weighted more towards middle-aged hipsters (the age of the headliners) than students, and everybody stayed seated throughout the set of the opener, Milwaukee’s Jaill. The group’s four scraggly fellows ambled onstage and tore through their set of tight, angular pop-punk to a politely appreciative applause from the audience. I felt myself strongly on their side by the end, mostly due to their furiously committed and very talented drummer, frontman Vincent Kirchner’s endearingly awkward thumbs-ups to the audience at the end of their songs and the spectacle of the bassist spilling his beer on his bass and then quietly trying to wipe it off with his shirt. However, between Jaill’s set and the arrival of the New Pornographers, the audience nearly doubled, including a huge influx of students who headed right for the previously vacant standing area between the seats and the stage. By the time the Pornographers came onstage, it felt like a real rock show. The older segments of the crowd, many of whom were clearly fans of the Pornographers since their arrival in 2000, got way more animated. My personal favorite was the beanie-clad woman near me who violently propelled her entire torso forward and backward to the beat of each song. The Pornographers launched right into it with the earworm harmonies of “Brill Bruisers,” and confined themselves largely to their most energetic songs. Among the standouts was Brill Bruisers’s chugging, urgent “War on the East Coast,” with Dan Bejar’s affected vocals obliquely lamenting a loss of idealism: “I wanted to go home with you / I wanted to stay true to the cause / But look what we’re living in.” From the same album, the beautiful and bewitchingly brief “Another Drug Deal of the Heart” gave Kathryn Calder her moment in the spotlight, while the titular track from their 2000 debut Mass Romantic still rocks as insistently as it when it was written. Challengers’s “Adventures in Solitude” offered a nice respite from the group’s spirited power-pop, with Carl Newman and Calder’s lovely harmonies floating over acoustic guitar and piano. The New Pornographers started as essentially a

supergroup of Canadian indie artists, fronted by Neko Case, an established solo artist, Dan Bejar and Carl Newman, both frontmen in other bands. Regrettably, Neko Case was absent on Tuesday night, but she was filled in for by member Kathryn Calder, who did well imitating her effortlessly captivating voice. The material leaned towards 2014’s excellent Brill Bruisers, but the previous five albums were all represented as well. The band has maintained a nicely democratic air throughout its six albums; about three-quarters of the songs are written by Carl Newman, with lead vocals on these split about evenly between himself and Neko Case, while the final quarter are written by Dan Bejar and feature Bejar on leads. The uneven split of the material was made awkwardly apparent throughout the show, as Bejar would sing one of his songs, then ironically bow and exit the stage, a process that was repeated seven times. Nonetheless, the Pornographers exude an air of teamwork and camaraderie that makes them feel like more than the sum of their parts, most exemplified in the gorgeous harmonies that fill out their best songs. They also sound harder and more streamlined live, largely because the bubbly arpeggios of synths that run through Brill Bruisers were overwhelmed by the force of their guitars, and the ornate instrumentation on some of their songs was reduced to the more basic (if still numerous) talents of four guitars, two keyboards, a bass and drums. The Pornographers are not young or dangerous, showy or wild; they are middle-aged professionals. Their act is well-polished and offers few surprises, other than the antics of chubby and ebullient keyboard/synthesizer player Blaine Thurier, who became a crowd favorite by exuberantly lifting a melodica above his head like a trophy before playing it with aplomb. Nonetheless, they feel exciting, even if only because it is so enjoyable to watch a group do

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what it does best so well: Playing driving power-pop with harmonies that meld perfectly. The show kept its momentum all the way to the end, where the Pornographers ended their encore with one of their best songs, “The Bleeding Heart Show” from 2005’s Twin Cinema. The song builds from an eerie and melancholy reflection on a relationship to a soaring chant of “hey-la”s with Case (at the show, Calder) singing, “We have arrived too late to play the bleeding heart show.” The conclusion of this song is perfectly emblematic of the Pornographers: Cryptic lyrics are made effective by the majesty of the music behind them, with the singers’ voices weaving in and out of each other, dancing in perfect sync. Jack Jones is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dwj37@cornell.edu.

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A major source of this simplicity is the sheer unambitiousness of the album. Engle seems to try only to make music that would make himself smile, and if listeners happen to smile too, then even better. Quarterbacks feels complete in its sparseness; no lofty artistic goals were ever dreamt of, so the record’s imperfections are all part of the vision that Engle had for it. Central to this vision is a skewed, decidedly unadult view of love. Just a quick peek at Quarterbacks’s tracklist will tell you this — when entering Quarterbacks’s universe, love is not “love;” rather, it is “luv.” This impressive self-awareness allows the band to dive head-first into the ocean of puppy love without any pretense. In this childish outlook on romance, every girl or boy seems like the end-all be-all, but, just like the under-a-minute tracks, they’re numerous and fleeting. Even the situations explicitly laid out in the lyrics are straight out of the young love handbook — “I made space for you / In my tiny room / Made myself small enough / So you’d fit in my bed,” evokes childhood bedrooms and freshman dorms. Unlike many other artists on the Team Love label, Quarterbacks doesn’t pretend to have all (or any) of the answers to your love-sickness. The end of “Stay in Luv”

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admits defeat with confused apathy, as Engle belts, “I can’t seem to stay in luv / I guess my heart / Just beats too fast / Or whatever.” This isn’t a heavy, emotionally intense record to lock yourself in your room to and wallow — it’s a light romp that approaches love the fun way, amping up the optimism and motivating you to get back in the saddle or just go talk to the pretty girl in class. It turns out that I’m really not too different from my 16 year-old self. I haven’t gotten less awkward around girls, and I definitely don’t know what real love is (Does anyone? That’s a question for another day), so the ideal of making dinner or holding hands on a couch with a hopeless crush still resonates, particularly when propelled by jumpy guitars and nasally yelps. Quarterbacks is so perfectly immature: abundantly cute in its naiveté and refreshingly shallow even in its moments of relative sadness. After the record propels you off your acne-ridden ass to go get the girl or boy of your twee dreams, you two can keep dancing your tails off with its unpretentious giddiness. Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

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am a hapless sucker for well crafted, cerebrally egg-headed but sensationally gripping pseudo-political dialogue — those seductive soliloquies and debates engineered with a foolproof recipe of pith, gesticulation and profundity, delivered by inhumanly articulate characters with strategically human problems (most often, a big ego or a broken heart). These monologues are meticulously watered down, just enough so as to be comprehended by impressionable liberal arts undergraduates, and calculated to inspire. You know the ones I’m talking about, which abound in works like House of Cards, Milk, The Iron Lady, The Ides Of March, Good Will Hunting and All The President’s Men, to name a scattered few that come to mind. This persuasion of dialogue is not rare, but it can be found in its most brand-name, prototypical form in the work of a man for whom I have terrible weakness: Aaron Sorkin. My appetite for invigorating political melodrama translates into a serious worship complex for just about anything Sorkin touches — which subsequently translates into a confusing pop cultural guilt complex, because a lot of really smart people

have some really serious beef with the man. I have loved him uncritically and unquestioningly (chalk it up to years of watching West Wing with my parents), while the Internet at large has criticized and questioned him with comparable devotion. I last gave into my Sorkin adoration this Winter Break, when I got hooked on his most recent show, The Newsroom. After season one, I was already infatuated with the show and everything about it: the news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and executive producer Mackenzie McHale’s (Emily Mortimer) never-ending barbed back and forth, the charming Don Quixote errant knight motif of a newsroom trying against all odds to “do the news well” and the eerily captivating fiction of watching years of news play out in retrospect, as well as no shortage of palatable workplace lust. I watched naively and blissfully unaware that, as I became transfixed by the staffers eloquent snark and charismatic chutzpah, critics and bloggers were shredding The Newsroom from every possible rhetorical paradigm. After hearing rumors of such controversy, I braced myself, before initiating an openminded inquiry into the surplus of

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thoughtful and prudent critiques of Sorkin and his work. I felt my notions of what I thought to be powerful and compelling female characters start to crumble as I recognized the validity of oft-echoed criticisms — of the palpably hostile and patronizing attitudes of male characters and of a subtle othering of the women of the show as they’re perpetually overcome by dubiously conventional “feminine” flaws: irrationality, insecurity and general ditziness. Sorkin’s women are powerful until the moment he needs them to be suddenly comically incompetent and make a mess for some smart guy in a suit to clean up. This is not to mention the off-screen light shed on Sorkin’s attitudes, revealed by the emails released in the Sony cyber-attack, in which claims that while Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can “play with the boys,” acclaimed female performances are “nothing close to the degree of difficulty” of male tour de force roles. Further complaints have been lodged with the way the newsroom’s website manager Neil Sampat (Dev Patel) and Hallie Shea (Grace Gummer), a campaign reporter, embody caricatured millennial perspectives. The hopeful tech-savvy of the show are repeatedly failed by their naive faith in the “digital revolution.” The show constructs a dogmatic false dichotomy between the honorability and dignity of old-world broadcast news and a portrait of digital and social media as deviant and inherently linked to voyeuristic self-aggrandizement. I am so seduced by what Sorkin does best — filling the mouths of smart characters with brilliantly crafted, inspirational zingers — that I watched The Newsroom and saw what I wanted to see in through a

process of confirmation bias. But the most fabulously intelligent dialogue out of a woman’s mouth is empty if, later in the episode, a man will patronize her and come across as compassionate. I watched The Newsroom lazily and uncritically because I worship eloquent characters and articulate snark. After turning a critical eye on the show, my experience of watching it was inherently changed, but, frustratingly enough, I still saw the show through to its last season. I love Aaron Sorkin nostalgically and probably always will, but I hate him for giving fumbling, secretly weak women brilliant things to say to conObjectivity vince suckers Bites like me to watch his shows. I more pertinently hate myself for needing the Internet to explain to me what was wrong with The Newsroom and for wanting to keep watching after it did. I am genuinely concerned and provoked by the manipulative, subtle chauvinism of the show, but not enough to close my laptop; much the same way as I’m repulsed by misogyny and homophobia in rap lyrics, but will jam out to “Bitches Ain’t Shit” and know every word to Kanye’s notorious “I’m in It.” So where do I go from here? How do we reconcile the offensive, the counter-intuitive and the problematic when it can be found in culture we love, enjoy and, by our own idiosyncratic preferences and standards, deem quality? There is no easy answer, but I think there is a healthy way to consume such culture. Watch on, but look closely, stay cognizant and try not to repeat my dismal cultural complacency.

Jael Goldfine

Jael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com. Objectivity Bites appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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“Is this about boundaries or race?” Jackson CHICAGO (AP) — A Little League team that captured the attention of the nation and the asked. Jackson did not discuss whether he blamed hearts of its hometown was stripped of its national title Wednesday after an investigation revealed any league officials for what had happened, but that team officials had falsified boundaries so in Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested that it was the adults who let they could add ineligible players to the roster. Only last summer, the all-black Jackie down the boys. “The fact is, you know, some dirty dealing by Robinson West team was the toast of Chicago and was honored with trips to San Francisco and some adults doesn’t take anything away from the accomplishments of those young men,” he said. to the White House. But the sport’s governing body announced It was a stunning end to a story that began that team officials had engaged in a Little League last summer as the team marched through the version of political gerrymandering. Instead of Little League tournament. Their odyssey ended politicians redrawing district maps to pick up with a loss to South Korea in the world chamvotes, it was local league officials who changed pionship game in South Williamsport, the boundaries that deterPennsylvania. mined where players must For days, Chicago was live. And after learning that “It’s a sad day for a bunch enthralled by the story, in their scheme had been of kids who we have come large part because the team exposed, they scrambled to was from the city’s South Side, to really like... who did convince surrounding leagues an area that has a reputation in nothing wrong.” to go along with what they much of the country for being had done. synonymous with crime and Stephen D. Keener “This is so heartbreaking,” gun violence. They were part said Stephen D. Keener, presiof one of the most heartwarmdent and CEO of Little ing World Series in Little League International. “It is a sad day for a bunch League history, with the country rooting for of kids who we have come to really like ... who Jackie Robinson West and a team from did nothing wrong.” But “we cannot tolerate the Philadelphia that had Mo’ne Davis, a star pitcher actions of some of the adults involved here.” who was the first girl to appear in the series for a The organization suspended the manager, U.S. team since 2004. Darold Butler, and suspended the team from When the Chicago team returned home, the Little League tournament play until the local boys were treated as conquering heroes. league’s president and treasurer have been Thousands of people lined city streets to catch a replaced. A district official who is believed to glimpse of them as they were paraded by bus have helped change the boundaries was also from their home field to a downtown park. The removed. team was treated to a trip to a major league All of the team’s victories were thrown out, World Series game in San Francisco and then a meaning that the wins will be awarded to other visit with President Barack Obama and first lady teams. Mountain Ridge Little League, the team Michelle Obama at the White House. from Las Vegas that lost to Jackie Robinson West Behind the scenes, Keener said, the investigain the national championship game, will be tion was creating a different story after a coach awarded the title. from a nearby suburb alleged that Jackie Parents were angered by the news, saying their Robinson West had violated rules by poaching children were being unfairly punished. top suburban players. “The boys had no inside dealings ... about any The investigation, which was first reported by borders, and I as a mother had no idea there were DNAinfo.com, appeared to end in December any [questions about] boundaries,” said Venisa when the national organization said it had uncovGreen, who was driving her son, Brandon, to ered no violations. Officials said they would school Wednesday when they were “blindsided” reopen the inquiry if new information surfaced. by the news as it came over the radio. About that time, the organization learned of “We weren’t involved in anything that could questions about boundary maps involving multihave caused us to be stripped of our champi- ple leagues. The investigation resumed. onship,” said Brandon, appearing at a news conIn an interview, Keener said Jackie Robinson ference with his mother. West officials expanded the boundaries of their Venisa Green said the move was especially dis- league at the expense of three neighboring heartening because the team was part of efforts to leagues, so that the boundaries included the keep children safe and prepare them for college in homes of several players on the team who would a community better known for gangs and drugs not otherwise have been eligible. than any kind of achievement. The investigation found that at least one dis“What would you have us do, Little League, trict official who had helped redraw the map for them to be killed on the streets of Chicago?” went to the other teams to ask that they go along she asked. with what the team had done, Keener said. She wondered if the fact that the players were “They [said] ‘We know we took your territory. black had any role in the ruling, something that We shouldn’t have done it, but will you give it to the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others questioned as us’ to essentially legitimize it,” Keener said. well. The other leagues refused, he said.

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underrated pitching staff. There are a multitude of issues, however, that currently stand in the way of Preller’s Padres becoming legitimate contenders in the National League. Let’s start with what the Padres can’t control. The rest of the National League West is no cakewalk either. The Los Angeles Dodgers are projected by Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system to have the best record in baseball at 97-35. Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman and general manager Farhan Zaidi, who added a significant number of pieces to an already strong core of young stars such as Clayton Kershaw and Yasiel Puig among other players, look ready to bring a championship to Los Angeles for the first time since 1988. And let us not forget that Bumgarner and the defending World Series champion also preside in the N.L. West, seemingly ready year-after-year to make a strong play for the title. While the fact that two major World Series contenders take residence in their division is already enough to temper expectations for San Diego, there is also a fundamental issue with how Preller

built this team. Among the issues, his arthritic hips. There are too many caveats the Padres infield corps currently consists of Yonder Alonso, Jedd with the Padres to consider them Gyorko, Alexi Amarista and a serious threat to come out of Yangervis Solarte: four players the National League. They could that combined for a total of 3.2 have a dangerous offensive outWAR. As the Padres infield is field if they stay healthy. They currently constructed, nearly half could a defensively sound infield of the lineup averaged to post less that couldn’t hit a baseball with than a win above replacement in an oar if they tried. Their rotation 2014. Especially given that the could be incredibly deep if they can avoid the Padre Petco disabled list Park, a ballpark that swallows Too many things have and have to give starts to up offensive to go right for the their questionproduction for Padres to become able pitching breakfast, depth. lunch and dinserious playoff Too many ner, four hitters contenders. things have to as offensive go right for the sinkholes waitPadres to ing to happen become serious playoff conisn’t exactly a recipe for success. As with any team, injuries tenders and, especially in basehave the potential to have a major ball, things generally tend to go impact on the Padres. Not every wrong over the course over 162 team, however, is depending on a games. The teams that are lifting group of players with significant the championship trophy at the injury history. Preller is hoping to end of the season aren’t the ones have the trio of Kemp, Upton that had the most things go right and Myers to pick up the offen- for them; rather, it’s about having sive load for the infield and is the fewest things go completely counting on his rotation to be wrong. For Preller’s Padres, there good on a nightly basis. Myers are too many questions to considmissed a significant period of er them legitimate playoff con2014 with a wrist injury. Hurler tenders, yet. Andrew Cashner managed only 123 and a third innings pitched last season. Kemp’s deal to the Joon Lee can be reached at Padres almost fell through due to jlee@cornellsun.com.

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Biology baller | Sophomore forward Nicholle Aston, right, ranks second on the women’s basketball team in points and first in field goal percentage.

Assistant Sports Editor and 10 Questions columnist Anna Fasman sat down with sophomore forward Nicholle Aston to talk about everything from family to Spanish. 1. How did you start playing basketball? At first, I was pretty much all soccer and swimming growing up, but then after my eighth grade year, I shot up four inches in one summer and I realized that basketball would be a good way to make friends. I did the park rec thing when I was little and I realized that I was good at it. My mom played basketball at [the University of Southern California] so she told me what it takes and we took those steps together and here I am. 2. What is one thing that most people don’t know about you? From looking at me, you definitely wouldn’t know is that I am half Colombian and first generation American on my mom’s side. If you look at pictures of my sister and I, you can see that she definitely got all of the Columbian genes whereas I have all of the English genes. I also am a good Latin dancer because of that. Do you speak Spanish? No, I don’t unfortunately anymore. I did growing up, but I lost it when I started school. My grandparents will call me and speak to me in Spanish and I respond back to them in English. 3. If you could play a game of one-

on-one with any non-basketball player, who would you play and why? He’s certainly not a non-basketball player, but I would play my uncle. He trained me throughout high school and whenever we would play one-on-one, he would just crush me, but now I feel like I could actually take him. In terms of celebrities, I would actually play [President Barack] Obama. I think it would be a fun time. 4. What is the funniest memory you have with your teammates? So this past weekend, we just came off of a really good win against Penn, which is the first time we’ve beat them since I’ve been here, although I’m only a sophomore. So we were on the bus driving to Princeton and we dared our point guard, [sophomore] Megan LeDuc, to go and sing for the team. She went up to the front of the bus, took the megaphone and started belting “I’m Coming Out.” We were absolutely dying. I was crying from laughing so hard. 5. You come from a long line of athletes. Do you think that your family influenced your decision to pursue basketball in any way? Absolutely. Like I said, my mom played college basketball and made it a part of my life since I was little. We live on a cul-de-sac and we basically had a full court with one hoop at each end and we would just play and play. Even as I got older, that would still be my training

space. My dad was constantly supporting me with whatever I did. My aunts, uncles, everyone were always at my games and it was just really nice to have that support.

strong, but by my senior year, we were really good. Even with Cornell, we had a decent season last year but now we are the dark house that no one really saw coming.

6. What has been your favorite class at Cornell? My favorite class at Cornell was kind of unexpected. I decided to take this plant evolution class. I’m not really into plants all that much. I’m a [biology and society] major, but I come from more of a medical background. I thought I wouldn’t enjoy it, but I actually loved it. I can totally see why [Agriculture] majors love plants, and now I’m in plant genetics and who knows where my plant career will go.

9. If you could be on any other Cornell sports team, which team would you want to be on and why? If I were a foot shorter, I’d do gymnastics in a heartbeat. Unfortunately that is not the case. I would definitely do volleyball. I think the girls are really cool, and I love the sport and the energy that they have. I wish I could be quicker laterally and I’m sure that sport could teach me how to be.

7. Ten years down the line, where do you see yourself? I’ll be 29, and I’ll hopefully either be running a hospital or part of some biotech company. I’ll have a condo on the beach living the California lifestyle and doing yoga everyday. I’ll still play basketball here and there, but certainly not to the extent of the training level I’m at now. 8. What is one thing that basketball has taught you that carries into your everyday life? I think every since I started high school, basketball has always taught me to persevere and never give up. If you want to find a way, there is a way. My high school team didn’t start off that

10. Can you think of one moment you’ve had at Cornell that has really shaped you? So, I can’t break it down into one moment. The community here, from teammates to coaches to friends, has really shaped who I am and made me really believe in myself as a person. That level of confidence is something that I can really attribute to them and something for which I will be forever grateful. To think that’s something that’s only happened in two years is really a testament to how great this school is. I was confident coming in, but I was also intimidated of playing in the Ivy League and everyone here has taught me that I can really do what I set my mind to. Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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Ahead of Season,Red Hopes to Hop Into‘Limelight’

By BEN DENSON

opener against Temple. Cornell will tentatively play an exhibition game against Lemoyne College on During her 16-year tenure as head Saturday. coach of the Red, Jenny Graap’s 157-108 Senior attack and co-captain Lindsay record shows that the Cornell women’s Toppe, a 2014 First Team All-Ivy seleclacrosse team isn’t kidding around. The tion, said she is excited for the season to team has been in the Ivy League tourna- begin. ment for three consecutive years, high“This is the most gelled team that I lighted by one Ivy League title. have experienced in my years at Cornell Responding to criticism about the pro- and it has been an honor to serve as cogram, Graap said she captain with [senior has total confidence in defender] Brittany the ability of her play- “This is the most gelled Marriott,” Toppe said. ers. “Everyone on the team team that I have “We’ve made the Ivy is coming into season Tournament four times experienced during my in better shape and in five years. It’s hard to with hunger to win. I years at Cornell.” say the program has am really excited to for Lindsay Foote been a disappointment the upcoming season with that success,” and my expectations Graap said. “I’m excitare high.” ed for this season. A good number of One noteworthy challenge for the Red experienced players have returned, and this season is the lack of a large senior I’m enthusiastic about the freshman class according to Graap. class. Several of them are ready to con“We definitely have a small senior tribute immediately.” class with four seniors on the squad,” After hearing the news that the Graap said. “It’s humble in number as George Washington University pre-sea- most teams have seven or eight [seniors]. son scrimmage was canceled due to We offset that with freshman ready to weather, Graap said she was “disappoint- step in, talented juniors and sophomores, ed” because of the opportunity to see emerging players.” GW’s team and prepare for the season Much of the Red’s dominance this

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Senior leader | Senior attack Lindsay Foote will co-captain the team this season alongside senior defender Brittany Marriott as Cornell looks to increase their presence nationally. season will depend on the performance of its four seniors: Toppe, Marriott, senior midfielder Claire MacManus and goalie Carly Gniewek. According to Graap, for the vast majority of womens lacrosse players in the NCAA, collegiate lacrosse is the pinnacle of their careers. Graap incorporates this into her coaching philoso-

phy and said that its part of her success. The Red looks to improve upon their 7-9 record from 2014. “We want to win the Ivy’s and qualify for the NCAA’s,” Toppe said. “As a senior class, we want to beat [the University of See W. LACROSSE page 14

Cornell Kicks Off Against Syracuse New Look Padres Not Yet Playoff Contenders T MEN’S LACROSSE

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s lacrosse team will kick off its season this weekend against Syracuse University on Sunday. The Red started last year’s season off 9-0 and looks to continue this trend of early-season success. Although the team has lost to Syracuse the past two years, head coach Matthew Kerwick said he likes his team’s chances. “We’re just excited to kick it off this early,” Kerwick said. “It’s going to be a true test but it is one the guys can use as motivation all year.” The 9-0 start last year was a surprise after the team had lost many of the seniors that

brought the team to the NCAA Final Four in 2013. In that year, Cornell lost to Duke University, 16-14, in the semifinals. “We don’t discuss our record very often,” Kerwick said. “We just want to be a team that develops … and hopefully that’s going to turn into victories.” Kerwick stresses the importance of building leaders through the program and having a group of leaders really helps to organize and unify the team. “Once [information] gets passed down, it makes it pretty easy for our coaching staff,” Kerwick said. “We just have to get the guys going in the right direction and keep focusing on our work ethic.” Kerwick said he is proud of the cyclical dynamic where information gets passed down to younger players fosters a truly connected program. “When you grow up in a an atmosphere like that, it’s kind of cool to pick and choose what you admire and that becomes who you are as a class,” said senior attack Matt Donovan. “It’s a really cool dynamic.” Senior defenseman Jordan Stevens added, “Its definitely pretty special and you don’t see this MICHELLE FELDMAN / SENIOR EDITOR

Championship dreams | Senior midfielder Connor Buczek helps lead a Cornell team, which kicks off its season against Syracuse on Sunday, that hopes to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament in May.

everywhere.” According to Kerwick, the Ivy League, one of the best lacrosse leagues in the country, creates a unique playing environment. “The intensity of the Ivy League contest is pretty evident when that first whistle blows,” Kerwick said. “It steps up a level when we play Ivy League opponents.” Senior Dan Lintner added, “There’s definitely a different mindset going into Ivy League games.” Princeton and Harvard will pose challenges for the Red, according to Stevens. “They are definitely pretty important,” Stevens said. “[Those games] are our ticket to the postseason.” The Red kicks off Ivy League play on March 14 against Yale. The Ivy League tournament begins on May 1, followed by the NCAA tournament later that month. The team’s goals go beyond an Ivy League championship according to Lintner. “The ultimate goal is to get to Memorial Day and take home a national championship,” Lintner said. While it won’t be easy, many on the team said they think the Red has a chance of going deep in the NCAA tournament in May. “You have to take care of each game if you want to compete in the NCAA tournament,” Kerwick said. “Our guys are well aware of that.” Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

he San Diego Padres, for as long as I can remember, have been an all-around unremarkable baseball team. They have boring uniforms (although some

Shields, Wil Myers and Derek Norris amongst a flurry of moves. For the first time in years, there is legitimate national hype around the Padres. The

Joon Lee Guest Column of the brown and yellow mock ups on the interwebs have been scintillating), a boring, non-offensively conducive ballpark and, most importantly, they’ve been mediocre. Neither amusingly terrible nor entertainingly good enough to compete in the playoff picture year after year. That was until they hired a new general manager. Astutely, Padres owner Ron Fowler decided to make a decision that practically guarantees success: He hired a graduate of Cornell University. Fowler’s decision to hire A.J. Preller ’99 immediately sparked change within the organization. Wasting little time, Preller revamped the entire Padres roster, landing an incredibly talented group of players such as Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, James

idea of having an outfield that consists of a Kemp, just a few injury-plagued seasons removed from staking claim as one of the best all-around players in baseball, Upton, who has the talent to be the among the best outfielders in the game, and Myers — who is just years removed from being among the top prospects in baseball — is one that gets me frothing at the mouth like a rabies-infected dog. The Padres are, without a doubt, infinitely more talented than they were when Madison Bumgarner ended the World Series by inducing a pop out to Pablo Sandoval. One can focus all they want on Preller’s acquisitions and the return of a mostly intact See LEE page 14