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Hacker Breaches Cornell, Attempts to Sell Access A Russian-speaking hacker dubbed Rasputin breached 60 agencies, including Cornell and NYU, report says

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

A notorious Russian-speaking hacker has breached more than 60 universities and agencies — including Cornell University — and is attempting to sell unauthorized access to the agencies for profit, according to a report from a private internet intelligence company.

The list of victims, published by Recorded Future, ranges from the City of Pittsburgh to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to 25 universities including New York University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford and Cornell.

A Russian-speaking hacker, dubbed Rasputin, is behind the breaches, according to Recorded Future, and is attempting to sell access to the victims’ networks for economic gain.

Wyman Miles, chief information security officer at Cornell, referred inquiries to Director of Media Relations John Carberry, who declined to comment on the breach.

Cornell also declined to comment in December on a for-

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Rasputin | Cornell declined to comment on a breach of C.U. and more than 60 other agencies by a Russian-speaking hacker.

The FBI, which also declined to comment for this article, eign-government sponsored hack of the ILR School in 2014, which IT administrators said was the biggest state- helped notify at least one university that it had fallen prey to sponsored cyber breach of Cornell ever, The Sun previously Rasputin, who reportedly also attempted to sell access to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in 2016. reported.

Michael Story, interim chief information security officer The same method used in the ILR School breach — SQL injection, in which instructions are entered into a web- at the University of California, Los Angeles, which is on list site’s data field — was used in the most recent breaches, of breached universities, told The Sun that the long list of according to Recorded Future, although there is no indication that Rasputin was behind the 2014 hack of Cornell.

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Second Fraternity Suspended

By STEPHANY KIM Sun Staff Writer

The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity has been placed on interim suspension status by the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life.

This suspension marks the second disciplinary action for a fraternity this year following the interim suspension of Sigma Phi

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Probe in progress | The University suspended Lambda Chi Alpha on Thursday.

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Epsilon earlier this month.

The suspension was enacted Feb. 16 due to a “serious violation of the University Recognition Policy,” according to a University statement. However, the statement did not give any details on the alleged violation.

The statement added that until further notice, the “chapter may not engage in any activities other than operation of its residence.”

President of the Interfraternity Council Drew Lord ’18 echoed a statement he made after the Sigma Phi Epsilon suspension, affirming the IFC’s confidence in the OSFL and declining to comment on any details.

“Any violation of the University Recognition Policy warrants a comprehensive investigation so that we can ensure the safety of our members,” he added Saturday. “Safety is our utmost priority.”

Stephany Kim can be reached at sohyungkim@cornellsun.com.

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For a behind-the-scenes look at downtown’s State Theatre (seen above), see page 3.

COLA Demands C.U. Cut Nike Contract, Citing Alleged Labor Violations

By SHAUNA CHEATHAM Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Organization for Labor Action gathered at Day Hall on Friday to deliver a letter to Interim President Hunter Rawlings demanding Cornell cut its contract with Nike after the Worker’s Rights

Consortium — an independent labor watchdog — released a report detailing violations at Nike’s factory against workers.

In the letter, COLA explained that workers in the Hansae factory in Vietnam have been victim to wage theft, harassment, extreme temperatures leading to illness and

“Students ... are ready to take action to prevent sweatshop apparel from bearing our school logo.”

Allison Considine ’17

manipulation by management, among other abuses — but when the WRC went to monitor the factory, Nike did not allow them in.

COLA claimed that Nike’s actions are a direct violation of Cornell’s code of conduct.

“We have specific language in our licensing agreement that

says any business that we are partnered with must allow the Workers Rights Consortium in,” said COLA member Xavier Eddy ’19. “We cannot know if there’s been any change in these factories unless the Worker’s Rights Consortium is allowed See COLA page 4

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Tour Traces Evolution of Downtown State Theatre

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

The iconic State Theatre of Ithaca was a downtown auto garage and dealership until a management group including two Cornell alumni stepped in and transformed the building into a vaudeville theatre and, later, a cinema.

Doug Levine, executive director of the theater, showed The Sun around the building on Tuesday and explained the history and evolving business model of the attraction on West State Street.

Two Cornell alumni bought the building in 1926 for Cornell Theatres, Inc. and turned it into a theatre in about two years, Levine said. The first show, which featured a live orchestra plus a movie, was on Dec. 6, 1928 and cost 50 cents to attend.

The initial president of Cornell Theaters, Inc. was Lewis Henry 1909, who had been managing editor of The Cornell Daily Sun, and the corporation’s first secretary was A. F. McCann 1916, who had been a Sun associate editor.

“In 1928, that was before television,” Levine said. “Radio was still in its infancy, so this was the main source of entertainment for people.”

Levine said the unusual Gothic architectural features of the nearly 90-year-old building’s interior were created to supplement the music and voices of performers before more modern technology.

“Our natural acoustics here are fantastic because [the theater] was built in an era where they didn’t have electronic acoustics to benefit from,” he said.

As the entertainment industry evolved over time, Levine said, the State Theatre evolved as well.

“It was originally a vaudeville house and then it transitioned to silent films in the ’30s and ’40s,” he said. “There was an era from the early ’70s to the ’90s that it was primarily a movie house.”

In the 1990s, following decades of successful patronage, the State Theatre was in full decline, Levine said.

“This building fell into disrepair and it was about to get completely taken away by the wrecking ball,” Levine said. “Some wanted to convert this space into a parking lot.”

Instead, the theater was revived by Historic Ithaca, a non-profit which supports the preservation of local historic sites.

“Historic Ithaca swooped in and raised enough money to buy the theatre and save

it,” he said. “For the next seven years, they raised over $10 million to get the theater operating again.”

However, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for State Theatre under Historic Ithaca’s management.

“They started booking Broadway shows and other acts, but it wasn’t as easy as they hoped it would be,” Levine said.

“Once you book a show, you have to market it and you have to sell tickets. Basically over the course of four years, [Historic Ithaca] amassed an enormous amount of debt well over six figures.”

A new organization with a specialized business strategy was formed. State Theatre of Ithaca, Inc. expressed interest, in 2009, in buying the theater from Historic Ithaca and forming its own notfor-profit organization that would own and operate the building.

Under the current business model, Levine explained, the theater puts on a certain number of family and community shows.

“We take a 100 percent risk on those shows,” he said. “For a lot of the family shows with sponsorships, we are breaking [even] before we even sell one ticket, so every ticket we sell is profit. That is how we manage to keep our doors open and remain profitable.”

Levine elaborated on the company’s low-risk strategy in outsourcing talent.

“We also have a relationship with our talent buyer [Dan Smalls] who is required to put on a certain number of shows per semester,” Levine said. “We guarantee rent and concession sales from these headliner shows. This also eliminates our risk because the more shows our talent buyer does, the more money we bring in.”

Aside from shows, the theater also goes back to its roots as a cinema and shows movies, funded by sponsors.

“For the movies as well, we have sponsorships,” Levine said. “The movies are really low-risk because we don’t need to pay the studios much to show a movie.”

When asked about competition from Netflix and online media, Levine said the theater works to select programs that are not available on online streaming services.

“When we pick the classic movies, we try to pick movies that are not on TV or on Netflix,” he said. “We try to pick things which need to be seen on the big screen.”

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

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Theater throwback | The State Theatre underwent a tumultuous history of disrepair and financial challenges before it was revived into today’s classic Ithaca entertainment venue.

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Teach-in | Students, faculty and staff gather in solidarity with Muslims around the world at the Teach-in to Combat Islamophobia through Education in Klarman Atrium on Friday.

Near Eastern Studies Dept.

Rallies Against Islamophobia Experts respond to travel ban, emphasize solidarity

By MEG GORDON

topics such as the history of Islam and the present Syrian refugee crisis.

In his discussion of “The Diversity Nearly 100 participants listened to of Islam,” Prof. Eric Tagliacozzo, histospeakers present on diverse topics ry, director of Comparative Muslim regarding the current outlook for prac- Societies, emphasized the importance ticing Muslims in Trump’s America at of intersectionality.

Islam Teach-In in the Klarman Atrium “Muslims want the same things as all on Friday. the rest of us,” he said. “They want a The event, which was co-sponsored better life, they want safety, happiness by the Clark Institute for Law and and health for their loved ones, and Development in the Middle East and they want their children to have better North Africa, Comparative Muslim opportunities than they themselves Societies, Jewish Studies, and Ottoman have had. They want what all of us and Turkish Studies Initiative, began want.” with a statement from Prof. Deborah To Samuel Rabkin ’15, the teach-in Starr, near eastern studies, the event’s went beyond the denouncement of the moderator.

Trump administration, offering a more Starr disconstructive cussed the solution to “Muslims want the same things as all participants. role of the teach-in as the rest of us. ... They want a better life, “Events “just one they want safety, happiness and health.” like this are a prong of our great opporresponse of tunity to Prof. Eric Tagliacozzo our opposihave a diation to the logue and to Muslim Ban,” a controversial executive learn more,” he said. order banning entry from seven Rabkin, a full-time staff member for Muslim-majority countries on Jan. 27. the Cornell University Religious She was joined by chair of the Works, emphasized the importance of Department of Near Eastern Studies solidarity with Muslim peers.

Prof. Lauren Monroe.

“For me, the most important thing “We wanted to both demonstrate is the personal level,” he said. “As a that we stand with the students, faculty Christian, my goal is to share Christ's and staff who are impacted by the exec- love with everyone, and so, specifically utive order on immigration in the in this context, build friendships with Middle East,” Monroe said. “We also Muslim students, hear people's perwanted to fulfill what we see as our spectives, and show respect throughmandate to educate on the Middle East out.” and to do it by bringing the faculty out For Lena Ransohoff ’17, events like of the classroom and into the broader this create “an opportunity to make a Cornell community.” powerful statement.”

The teach-in was held shortly after “Honestly, I am professionally lookCornell joined an amicus brief with 16 ing into careers that will directly or other universities on Feb. 13th, declar- indirectly improve the situation being ing support for all affected students and discussed,” she said. “I really do want staff on what has been declared a sanc- to make a life out of this. The urgency tuary campus, The Sun previously of these issues makes it impossible not reported. to.”

Professors from departments ranging from near eastern studies to perfor- Meg Gordon can be reached at mance and media arts presented on meg353@cornell.edu.

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COLA Insists Hacked Agencies Report Minor Breach, Rawlings Cornell Refuses to Dislose Details of Hack UCLA, N.C. State, RIT among list of 60 universities, government agencies hacked by Rasputin Take Stance On Alleged Labor Abuses HACK

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in.”

COLA member Allison Considine ’17 added that the University has a responsibility to make sure that Nike’s actions do not go unpunished.

“As the home of the Industrial and Labor Relations School, many proud labor faculty and students, and as a name that Nike is benefitting from selling, we have a duty to stand up to injustice against workers where we see it,” Considine said.

The letter referenced Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, who recently committed to severing the school’s contract with Nike at the end of the calendar year unless the brand allowed unwavering WRC factory access at its subcontracted factories, according to The Washington Post.

Eddy hopes Rawlings will take the same actions.

“If we can get enough universities to put pressure on Nike, Nike will change because it has a large impact on their profits,” he said. “When it comes down to it, that’s what they care about.”

The group has had success pressuring Cornell to withdraw support from companies due to labor concerns in the past. In 2014, Cornell severed ties with Jansport due to worker safety concerns in Bangladesh, The Sun previously reported.

“This heavily impacted Jansport and did cause them to adjust their labor practices,” Eddy said.

Considine added that the University needs to continue to hold companies to this standard.

“It is important that Cornell take a stand, because we have a long and proud history of being a leading University in standing up against brands that violate workers’ rights,” Considine said.

Eddy said letter drops are a common tactic the group uses to voice concerns to the administration.

“It’s a really great way to remind the administration that the students are here and the students care,” he said.

The event mirrors several similar actions going back to November 2015, when COLA presented a similar letter to the office of former President Elizabeth Garrett.

Since President Rawlings has not yet chosen a strong position on the issue, COLA hopes their letter will get a response from the administration and cause them to make meaningful change.

“Actions like ours show Nike that they cannot get away with abusing their workers,” Considine said.

“Students and others are watching and are ready to take action to prevent sweatshop apparel from bearing our school logo.”

hacked agencies is sure to raise eyebrows, but provides little information about the severity and context of the hacks.

UCLA had already fixed its breached website by the time Recorded Future published its report, Story said.

“We had already remediated the site. ... The site was a trivial site that didn’t have any valuable data.”

Cornell has not disclosed any details of the hack, including its severity and which departments or websites were affected, making it impossible to know the seriousness of the hacker’s breach of Cornell or if the vulnerability has been fixed.

Marc Hoit, vice chancellor and chief information officer at North Carolina State University, told The Sun in an email that one site at N.C. State was breached and taken down. The site was rebuilt, patched and is now up and running, he said.

“No real damage and it was a minor site,” Hoit said in an email.

Robert Pruett, the director of technology support at The University of Mount Olive — a small, private college in North Carolina that was also breached

by Rasputin — said the hacker had only managed to infiltrate an old survey website that had little, if any, information.

“We’re in the same boat as RIT, so we shouldn’t feel bad,” Pruett said, referring to the prestigious technology university in Rochester. “We had a SQL injection [breach] on a survey data program. That’s the extent of the breach on us.”

Pruett said the FBI, and not Recorded Future, notified The

COURTESY OF RECORDED FUTURE

Breach | More than 60 cities, universities and government agencies were breached by a Russian-speaking hacker who is now trying to sell unauthorized access for profit, according to an internet security company.

University of Mount Olive directly, and when they informed the university that there had been a breach, the technology team was able to find and patch the vulnerability.

When Recorded Future determined that universities were one of the major groups targeted by Rasputin, it contacted the Research Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC), which has 543 member institutions, on Feb. 7 to ensure that schools were aware of the hack.

Scott Finlon, principal security engineer for REN-ISAC, said Recorded Future sent the center a list of website addresses of universities that were breached as part of the Rasputin hack and REN-ISAC passed them along to the affected schools.

Humboldt State University in northern California was also a

victim of Rasputin, but the university said that IT staff quickly patched the vulnerability after they were notified on Feb. 8 and that no confidential data was accessed.

A training website that was in partial use by the human resources department contained a bug that allowed external visitors to view registration information, the university’s I.T. department said in a statement.

St. Cloud State University, a public university in Minnesota that enrolls about 15,000, was also breached by Rasputin.

Darrin Printy, senior I.T. security program lead at the university, told The Sun the hack does not appear to be serious, although the University is still investigating.

“So far, it seems to be minor,” Printy said. “We’re still trying to understand what’s really going on and why we made the list.”

Printy said he learned of the

breach from Recorded Future, but the company’s notification letter included few more details than that the company was going to publish a list and St. Cloud State University was going to be on it. Printy has since reached out for more information, he said, but received little back.

The hacker’s method, SQL injection, is a popular way to infiltrate websites and there are many free applications available to detect vulnerabilities.

Rasputin, however, is using a proprietary application he developed to find and exploit these coding flaws, according to Recorded Future.

Cornell was first contacted for comment on Friday and did not respond to additional requests for comment Tuesday.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nickbogel@gmail.com.

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Shauna Cheatham can be reached at scheatham@cornellsun.com.

Constituents ask Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) questions about the United States’ relationship with Russia, health care and several other issues during a town-hall style meeting Tuesday at the fire department in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

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everal months ago I spent a straight-backed evening in a room that reminded me of mopping my father’s floors. They were paneled with what I believe to be a wood-flavored linoleum, which is really a great surface to clean. If I were ten years younger and living in a Norman Rockwell painting, I imagine it would have also been the best place to play marbles. Resilient and impossibly smooth, linoleum is the 20th century’s greatest gift to flooring.

By some bizarre act of circumstance, I was invited to dinner with a handful of friends’ friends’ parents, who didn’t much resemble my friends. They were lawyers or owners of something important; it doesn’t matter. We ate in their home, in a room whose floors had undoubtedly inspired the person who had painted my dad’s. These boards, however, had been cut, stained and shipped specifically with this floor in mind. There was a portrait hanging on the wall above me of a stern white man who stared dourly down at us. It seemed as though he had expected Tagg Romney to join him for dinner, but instead got a guy who had just spent the cab ride spit-shining his nine dollar shoes with a loose napkin. You can understand his disappointment.

Rooms like this exude a gilded sort of condescension. The dim lights cast an elegant shadow across the table, one that had the effect of making my hosts look large and self-assured while making us irredeemably small. As a matter of fact, my hosts were not tall people.

how similar their inner lives were to my own. Instead, because of the rarified distinction that financial success has, the space they built and the connotations of their lives inflated the image I gave them, and faded the one I gave myself.

I should not portray myself as only the recipient of this brand of condescension. As a benefactor of immense privilege relative to billions, I am prone to evaluate those with less with a different set of terms as well. Their disprivilege defines the way in which I imagine their lives to be. Rather than means being a component part of their lives, as it is in mine, I interpret their experience as most directly shaped by the things they cannot access. This is all to say that wealth warps our perception to enlarge the lives of those who have it and contract the lives of those who do not.

Our current president won the election, in part, on the claim that rich equated to genius. He was not the first to do so — Tagg’s dad had a similar pitch — but he was certainly the most explicit. Since taking office, he has filled his cabinet with a cohort whose primary unifying, and in some cases sole qualifying feature, is their prosperity. The combined worth of this cabinet is $14 billion, which for reference is greater than the GDP of 72 different nations. More than any administration in recent memory, this one has cited its wealth as evidence of its wisdom and virtue, and done so quite successfully.

Our current president won the election, in part, on the claim that rich equated to genius. He was not the first to do so ... but he was certainly the most explicit.

In a corner of their kitchen was a small step stool the duty of which was to help them reach the highest cupboard in the room, which was no more than six feet off the ground. My memory, however, sketches the contours of a pair of hulking figures, those that would not need a stool.

There was a silence, too, that pressed down on us — the heavy feeling that we were not meant to be there, and so should act as if we were not. For hours, I sat and listened, anxiously tugging on the sleeves of my jacket, hoping to give the tailored illusion that they were the appropriate length for my arms. In those silent moments, I remembered mopping those smooth linoleum floors with an alien sense of insignificance and shame. Under the weight of that impressive room, my memories buckled just a bit.

Wealth has a way of changing the shapes and sizes of the things around which it hovers. It’s this distortive quality, which I have a hard time putting precisely into words, that makes it just a bit harder to see things for what they are. It’s not unlike other social structures that color the way we see one another, but wealth manages to infiltrate quite a lot of our brains. It stands between part that sees and the part that processes, and seeps into the bits that remember too. That night I should have noticed how unremarkable this couple was, how ordinary the content of their conversation were and

The common claim that gets made in opposition tends to be that this represents a dangerous accumulation of interests and resources, and the positions were awarded as a form of indirect patronage. It’s a claim that others have made well enough elsewhere, and one you can find with the Google machine. The most interesting story here, I think, is how our individual perceptions of wealth both facilitates this phenomenon and makes it inherently dangerous.

In a democracy, the corporate capture of government relies in part on a certain amount of support from the public. In our case, we have facilitated this influence through the way that we treat wealth and perceive those with it. We have a tendency to attach a moral value, a largeness of image, to those things and people who signify material success. It’s a tendency that has its roots in the most banal of life experiences, dinners with people you don’t much like. But the ultimate effect is that we crowd the halls of power with one perspective and one unitary interest. There’s nothing at all wrong with being rich, but it’s hard to see the world through gold tinted glasses, especially if we’re all wearing them.

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

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Regarding Cornell’s strangest tradition To the Editor: This spring we will contemplate the 50th anniversary of the second greatest loss of life tragedy in the history of Cornell University: the Cornell Heights Residential Club fire of April 5, 1967 that took the lives of eight students and one professor. This was the first of three incendiary attacks on students in the College of Arts and Sciences sixyear Ph.D. Program by person or persons unknown.

Yes, these deaths were murders, but why do none of the several memorials for the victims ― the official statements, the services in Sage Chapel, the lone plaque at the steps of Hurlburt House, ever mention that horrific fact? Paging back through the Ithaca and New York newspapers of 1967 we find that the authorities were certain that the fires were arson and that a Canadian laboratory reported traces of a fluid accelerant in all three. And one Cornell student was mysteriously missing from the scene when classes resumed that fall.

How was all of this forgotten? There was never an arrest, never an arraignment, never a trial and never, after the summer of 1967, a report of case status by any University or law enforcement official. The deaths could not be erased, but the crime, the nine homicides, could be slipped into an Orwellian memory hole and

replaced with, as we might say today, alternative facts.

A student of Cornell history will not be surprised at this amnesia. Consider the following two precedents.

On February 20, 1894, sophomore pranksters injected chlorine gas into Ithaca’s downtown Masonic Hall filled with banqueting freshmen. Many were sickened, some critically, and a black cook, Mrs.

Cornell degrees in June of 1896.

In 1901 businessman William Torrey Morris, Cornell 1873, obtained control of the Ithaca Water Works with the help of friends on the Cornell Board of Trustees (notably Chi Phi fraternity brother Robert Henry Treman 1878) who underwrote a $100,000 bond issue. In 1902 he directed that construction begin on a reservoir fed by Six Mile Creek in the

Gould Schurman and the Trustee’s Executive Committee campaigned with much success to keep these circumstances and their role in this disaster out of the nation’s newspapers. So we have negligence, wanton disregard of human life, simple murder and absolutely no retribution, no trial, and no justice. On June 16, 1903, Theodor Zinck (the pub owner immortalized in “Give my Regards to Davy”,

Yes, these deaths were murders, but why do none of the several memorials for the victims ― the official statements, the services in Sage Chapel, the lone plaque at the steps of Hurlburt House, ever mention that horrific fact? Paging back through the Ithaca and New York newspapers of 1967 we find that the authorities were certain that the fires were arson and that a Canadian laboratory reported traces of a fluid accelerant in all three.

Henrietta Jackson, was killed.

The coroner investigated and identified two suspects, law student Fred Luther Taylor ’96 who refused to incriminate himself during grand jury proceedings, and his roommate, engineering student Carl Louis Dingens ’96.

No indictments resulted, no trial occurred and the homicide remained technically unsolved.

Taylor and Dingens continued with their studies and took their

watershed between East and South Hills, but failed to insure that work crews had adequate access to sanitary facilities and, out of financial considerations, elected not to build a needed water filtration facility. In 1903 fecal contamination of the city’s water supply derived from that watershed led to a typhoid epidemic. Eighty-two people died, including 29 Cornell students.

University President Jacob

1905), despondent over the death of his daughter, Louise, rowed a boat from the shore of Cayuga Lake. On June 22, draggers recovered his body from the depths.

This is the quintessential Cornell Tradition: inadvertent murder, befuddled police, never a trial and the miscreants escape ― careers untroubled, unhindered. Then all is forgotten. Any memorial to the dead is sani-

tized; the underlying cause of death ― manslaughter, chicanery, malfeasance, is purged from the record. As Vonnegut said, “And so it goes.”

And The Cornell Daily Sun? In the case of the 1894 Chlorine Banquet The Sun did a passable job covering the then public grand jury proceeding, but it never took aim at Morris or any of his Cornell trustee enablers when the cause of the 1903 typhoid epidemic was discovered. Similarly, the 1967 Res Club tragedy was never reported for what it was: a multiple homicide by one or more serial arsonists. The University trustees called for a policy of “official silence” and the Sun rolled over. There you have it: three loss-of-life tragedies, but only one declared murder in the lot.

So what will The Sun publish on this 50th anniversary? A minimalist story: there was a fire, nine dead, how sad? Or will The Sun editors dig and dig deeply ― examining documentary scraps in the Library archives, demanding fresh statements from law enforcement authorities, seeking clues in the files of the University Counsel and reporting obstructions as they occur? It is time for some grown-up investigative journalism. Does The Cornell Daily Sun have what it takes?

Inquiring minds want to know.

H. William Fogle, Jr. ’70 Mesa, Arizona

Siduri Beckman | The Yale Daily News

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Solidarity on Solitary

ast week, I drove to Hartford to of survivors of solitary confinement. As standing the inhumanity of this practice, implement due process within the prison observe a hearing of the Connecticut one survivor spoke with me about his often go unheard. Beyond the issue of system, with independent oversight and Advisory Committee to the U.S. experiences, I was thrown off by how he access, there’s the even bigger obstacle of reporting reforms, all the work local advoCommission on Civil Rights, which described the small pockets of joy in the trauma. Resources for survivors to over- cacy groups have been doing could be set focused on the issue of solitary confine- time he was incarcerated and the limited come anxiety and depression are minimal back by decades. Who knows what the ment. At the meeting, a woman testified but powerful ways he sought out human and underfunded; the rules around proba- national political climate will look like about her experience in “administrative contact. The mental and physical tribula- tion and halfway houses almost always set next week, let alone by the time segregation” during her 23-year sentence tions which he and so many other inmates them up for failure. The majority of peo- Connecticut’s next major election rolls in Connecticut: “They’re not correctional across this country go through could not ple in solitary confinement have few, if around?

We are members of both New Haven officers. They don’t correct anything. be recorded in a succinct two-page testi- any, people advocating for them; their They punish. That’s why I call them mony, but it was a step in the right direc- contact with the outside world is limited and our home communities. The more we see ourselves as empowered at guards.” level of government, the Solitary confinement is a wellConservative agendas have effectively mobilized local and state every closer we come to the original conestablished practice in the United States. Although the intent of governments; now it is time for progressives to do the same. Ask stitutional ideal proposed and subsequently amended for all Quakers and Calvinists was to isolate convicts for spiritual reflection, your state senators about issues that don’t affect your district. Call Americans. Conservative agendas have effectively mobilized local the term quickly picked up a negayour state senator and ask how the state budget is changing in and state governments; now it is tive connotation. Today, correctime for progressives to do the tional facilities maintain that pracprison investment vis-a-vis schools. same. Ask your state senators tices like “administrative segregaabout issues that don’t affect your tion” and “special housing units” district. Call your state senator and ask are necessary for keeping order in prisons tion. It was incredibly difficult for this to correctional officers and lawyers.

As Americans, prisons and the condi- how the state budget is changing in prison man to tell his story, but with the bits and across America.

But all across the country, professors, pieces that came out, we crafted a narra- tions we sanction in them are a part of our investment vis-a-vis schools. Solitary conactivists, survivors and families are band- tive that he felt comfortable reading in reality, whether we choose to grapple with finement disproportionately affects people ing together to highlight the unusually front of a committee of state representa- them or not. The American public often of color, often from urban districts. State extreme nature of this internal penalty — tives and state senators — some of whom excuses itself from the conversation, fram- senators and representatives must feel in other words, the cruel and unusual he knew would vote against him every ing the penal code as a longstanding social accountable to their whole state, no matcontract immune from change. But why ter which district they come from. Yale aspect of this punishment, as Judith time.

As I watched this brave individual tes- should we rely on the bravery of survivors students, as geographically diverse voters Resnik, a professor at Yale Law School, puts it. At last Tuesday’s hearing, Resnik tify, I was struck again by how much to alert us to the wrongdoings of a concentrated in one place, have a unique emphasized the parallels between the telling his story cost him. It made me holdover system when they cannot rely on power to act when lawmakers target communities of color through practices like inhumanity of solitary confinement and upset. Here he was telling a devastating us to stand with them?

The time to act is now. Connecticut is solitary confinement. other historical practices which have been story that hadn’t been heard in a public struck down as violations of the Eighth setting — and only a handful of people more progressive than most states, but the were there to hear it. Survivors of solitary hearing made it clear that this was a result Amendment.

In preparation for the hearing, Yale confinement rarely have access to a formal of practice and not policy. Practice is easi- Siduri Beckman is a freshman in Jonathan undergraduates, law students and com- platform to speak about their experiences. ly revised, as we can see from the presiden- Edwards College at Yale University. Contact her at munity members gathered the testimonies Their stories, so important for under- tial election, and if steps are not taken to siduri.beckman@yale.edu .

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OPINION Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Letter of solidarity with I.C. faculty

Letter on Michael Johns

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty, including full-time and parttime faculty, have authorized labor actions up to and including a strike.

The authorization vote came last week, after 18 months of bargaining failed to persuade the Ithaca College administration to commit to the fundamental labor principles of “pay parity” and “equal pay for equal work.” The faculty members facing contingent work conditions, amounting to almost half of the current number of faculty at Ithaca College, held a rally on Monday, Feb 20th at the main entrance of IC campus. The rally preceded two days of scheduled mediation with the College administration and demonstrated the group’s collective power as well as public support for their insistent struggle to secure fair working and living conditions.

We, the members of Cornell Graduate Students United and Cornell Organization for Labor Action, stand in solidarity with the Ithaca College Contingent Faculty and unconditionally support all future labor actions undertaken by them.

We insist that no worker deserves the precarious, insecure and flexible working and living conditions to which full-time and part-time contingent faculty at Ithaca College are subjected. We reject the neoliberal capitalist narrative of inevitable austerity and its politics of deunionization that individualize structural problems, isolate workers, and depoliticize the workplace in an attempt to repress the collective power of organized labor. In this environment and historically, labor actions, especially strikes, are powerful expression of workers’ control of their own labor. By retracting their labor from profit-entranced employers, the workers, once organized in a democratic and bottom-up fashion, demonstrate that they are not commodities and that they can and should determine their working conditions in order to reach a just and sustainable society for all.

We, as current and future workers from Cornell University, remind the Ithaca College Administration that the fundamental role of the university is to critically challenge the status quo, which reserves justice, equality and dignity for a small minority, and not to perpetuate it; and that their fundamental responsibility is to ensure the wellbeing of all their workers and not the direct or indirect corporate profits of their Board of Trustees.

We recognize that all labor actions by our colleagues and professors at Ithaca College are actions against the corporatization of higher education in the US, against the crisis-ridden capitalist system, and against the various forms of violence, dispossession and insecurity that neoliberal corporate interests left and right inflict upon laborers worldwide. Their struggle is not separate but furthers solidarity with current struggles for justice and equality — including our unionization efforts at Cornell for the graduate students, and the struggles of Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock and immigrant workers in and across the U.S., drivers and public transit workers in India and Argentina, telecommunication workers in Sri Lanka, purged academicians in Turkey, women in Iceland and Kenya and millions of civilians in Syria and in Romania.

The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty are rising up for better working and living conditions. They are rising so that they are able to provide the education that their students deserve; so that their students do not face the same or worse precarious working conditions that they now face, in the future. And they are rising up to remind all of us of organized labor’s power to act for justice, equality and democracy.

We, the members of Cornell Graduate Students United and Cornell Organization for Labor Action, embrace their labor actions as ours and commit to further their struggle — our struggle — with them.

We call on all members of Cornell University and the Ithaca community to support Ithaca College faculty in their struggle!

We call on the Ithaca College Administration to immediately fulfill “pay parity” and “equal right for equal work” principles at the bargaining table!

Sena Aydin, on behalf of: Cornell Graduate Students United Organizing Committee (CGSU-OC) Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA) Letters to the editor may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK. Continue the conversation by sending a letter to the editor or guest column to opinion@cornellsun.com.

It is unfortunate that Cornell students attempted to silence conservative speaker Michael Johns, rather than challenge his arguments in the marketplace of ideas. Not only does this reflect a disturbing trend of intolerance for unpopular speech on elite college campuses, but it also reveals either indifference or amnesia to the efforts of many generations of progressive students and faculty who fought for the rights of unpopular individuals and groups to be heard.

Liberal democracy is not possible without the civil exchange of ideas, not matter how unpalatable.

Far more concerning than the conduct of a handful of students, however, is the university’s decision to require the Cornell Political Union to either pay $2000 in security fees or to close the event to the public. Doing so creates a classic “heckler’s veto” in which opponents of free speech can use the threat of violence or intimidation to control which ideas enter the marketplace. It is certainly understandable that the university requires tight security for controversial events. However, the cost of such safety measures should be part distributed evenly among all students through their tuition payments. While individual students may not wish to attend any particular speech and may disagree strongly with its content, the university community as a whole benefits from ensuring the free exchange of ideas—even if many students consider these specific ideas to be wrong-headed or pernicious.

Jacob M. Appel M.D. J.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Alec Noel Curtis Desbordes ’17 | Guest Room

Cornell Steals Our Wages,Exploits Our Labor

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ornell University is usually referred to as an academic institution comprised of an expansive and diverse teaching apparatus. It is also, however, an employer, something we do not think about often. Thousands of full-time workers, from Dayhall bureaucrats to food-service workers and janitors are on Cornell’s payroll. Not all employees are full-time work-

body has become a pool of low-wage workers from which the university extracts value and ultimately profit.

A short quantitative examination of the facts will demonstrate this controversial assertion. Over the 2016 year, the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI, an inflation measurement) amounted to 2.1%. Simultaneously, my personal raise for the New

reinserted into academic investment when it is convenient to the financial mission of this university.

The reality is that we are low-wage part-time workers, not students benefiting from extra-academic experience.

Therefore, our economic interests exist as such, independent from our status as students. We share the same fate as millions of precarious

The student body has become a pool of low-wage workers from which the university extracts value and ultimately profit. ers, in fact, many are student workers, like me and probably you. 50% of Undergraduates are employed on campus.

Food-service, libraries, gyms, research projects and class discussions all exist and function due to the hard work of the employees and students running their operations. This institution depends on its workers, and it so happens that thousands of these workers are also students.

Cornell prides itself on offering paid job opportunities and, by doing so, “preparing students for the real world.”

This institution, however, doesn’t pay much attention to the actual employment conditions of its student-workers.

Our wages amount to excessively less than our full-time counterpart for identical work assignments. In the Cornell Dining department, for example, our wages amount to almost $5 per hour less. This is a blatant and unjustified discrimination in employment, paying two groups of workers different wages. The student

Year, as a Cornell Dining worker, is $0.15 added to my $10.10 per hour wage, amounting to a 1.49% increase. This entails that the real wages of student workers in similar situations have decreased! While Cornell diminishes its remuneration of student workers, the Board of Trustees, the unelected and unaccountable ruling body of Cornell, approved a tuition increase of 3.5%, reaching an all-time high of $50,712.

An expected response to this concern is the claim that Cornell’s operating costs would rise with higher wages.

It is foolish to believe that this is a necessary conclusion, especially considering how tuition is rising at incredibly absurd rates, as mentioned earlier.

There is money in this institution; we have an endowment of 6 billion dollars, sitting in the coffers of corporations, chasing an interest rate which does not, and will never, come back to us. The money Cornell extracts from its students in tuition and low wages is only

workers throughout this country. All the university offers in exchange for this condition is an outrageously expensive education and a diploma representing the hollow promise of future more noble working conditions.

Cornell University and its bureaucracy have never been questioned about these practices; I believe it is time to start doing just that. It sees us as nothing more than students, blinding itself from the complex relationship it entertains with us. From the moment we are on the payroll, we are workers. All workers deserve decent and just wages for their labor. Until now, student-workers have been denied such treatment and have been relegated to a second-class status. Let the ruling administration know that these practices will not stay unopposed.

Alec Noel Curtis Desbordes is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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SCIENCE

Computer Vision

Diseases

Where Do I Get That Piece of Furniture?

Researchers create deep-learning-powered app to recognize furniture

PHOTO COURTESY OF SEAN BELL

Lounging around l Schematic representation of the information provided by the app on sample pictures of pieces of furniture.

By DARREN CHOW Sun Staff Writer

Imagine being able to find out where your roommate gets their lamp, fridge or chair simply by taking a picture of it. Thanks to Sean Bell ’16, Prof.

Kavita Bala, computer science, and their work in the field of computer vision, an app may soon exist to solve that exact problem.

Bell was inspired by the disconnect between computer vision research conducted by the academic community and tools available to the general public. Consequently, he founded Grokstyle, a company that is in the midst of developing an application that recognizes objects, specifically furniture. The name Grokstyle stems from the word ‘Grok’, meaning to understand deeply, thoroughly and intuitively.

“GrokStyle basically gives you a buy button that answers questions like ‘I want that, what is it, where can I buy it?’ Then it also answers some follow up questions like ‘what goes with that object and how do I use it in my home?’ We want to respond to all of these different questions using computer vision. You can take a picture on your phone or find it online and that will get into our system,” Bell said.

The company is developing an application that uses deep learning to find visual matches and similarities among different objects by comparing millions of images. Deep learning is a branch of computer science that uses sets of algorithms to model high level abstractions in data.

“Our system uses a very deep neural network. It sees an image, it processes the image with many different layers and tries to predict a visual fingerprint.

It’s like a summary of an image, a list of numbers that represent vectors in high dimensional space. We

then do a large scale nearest neighbor search, comparing millions of other images that look like the input query image, which returns a bunch of results that look very visually similar. Because we’re so accurate, the things that are most similar are mostly the same product,” Bell said.

“I think the internet is very textual. By making these tools available to the public, we can start to nibble at new visual experiences that people haven’t even thought were possible.”

Sean Bell Bell uses the analogy of an interior designer to explain his work.

“An analogy could be an interior designer walking through massive showrooms and carefully study-

ing all the furniture available and making a mental note. They don’t have a photographic memory; they just have a visual gist of what they’ve seen,” Bell said. “Over time they are learning about the different styles available and when they see a new item they think about whether or not they have seen something similar. Even though they are not exactly comparing the exact same item, they are comparing summaries of this item that are stored in their head.”

For now, Bell hopes to continue using furniture as his object of visual search, but he is hoping to expand the company’s outreach to other fields.

Furniture was the go to choice primarily due to its common structure and characteristics, which make it easy to recognize.

“Furniture and decor has the nice property that they are rigid. Clothing, on the other hand, when it is put on, changes shape, which makes it a more challenging computer vision problem. That was what led us to home décor as our initial vertical, but we are planning on moving into fashion and starting with products where fit is less of an issue. For example, handbags, shoes and accessories,” Bell said.

Bell hopes that his application will have a larger impact, specifically on the field of visual search.

“I think right now the internet is very textual, and it’s just started to become more visual,” he said.

“I think that that by having these sorts of tools and making them widely available to the public, we can start to nibble at new visual experiences that people haven’t even thought were possible. If we have a kind of public API where everybody can build new tools, I think we will be blown away by what the rest of the community comes up with.”

Darren Chow can be reached at dchow@cornellsun.com.

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SCIENCE

SCIENCE AROUND ITHACA CIS Seminar Series — Humans, Machines and Work: The Future Is Now The development of Artificial Intelligence is accelerating. A range of transformative innovations now appear likely within the next decade, including self-driving cars, real-time speech-to-speech translation, fully automated image recognition and autonomous robots. These technologies will have a substantial level of both autonomy and intelligence. Several of the world’s most prominent intellectual and technology leaders, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have recently suggested careful consideration of the potential impacts of intelligent machines on society. This seminar series considers this issue from a range of perspectives, including machine ethics, human labor and employment, autonomous decision-making as well as concerns about the potential emergence of superhuman intelligence.

Where: Room 155, Olin Hall, 6-44 Ho Plaza, Ithaca, N.Y. When: Monday, Feb. 27, 7:30 — 8:30 p.m.

Moto-Inventions at Ithaca Sciencenter A Combined Astronomic-Geologic Approach To Understanding Planet Formation

Seth Jacobson from Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, aims to demonstrate that geologic measurements can teach us about the solar system’s history and that astronomical models help us understand important events during Earth's evolution.

Where: Room 105, Space Sciences Building, 122 Sciences Dr., Ithaca, N.Y. When: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 4:00 p.m.

Invent contraptions that can move. Visit Ithaca Sciencenter’s Reinvention Station to tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines to take home!

Materials provided by Cornell Xraise.

When: Sunday, Feb. 26, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Cornell Researcher to Head Center For Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases Hopes to evaluate trapping methods and predict future human risk to mosquito-borne pathogens

By ARNAV GHOSH

the changing needs for detecting these new introductions,” Harrington said.

The center has two primary goals. First, What do Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever and Zika researchers will aim to validate existing prevention have in common? Not only are they extremely dead- methods. To do so, they will be working on six difly diseases, the three share a common vector: ferent topics: evaluating mosquito trapping methMosquitoes. ods, predicting future human For years, researchers risk to such pathogens, the have sought ways to interactions between reduce the probabilities pathogens and their vectors, of transmission and the chemical control of these vecseverity of each virus. tors and their basic biology.

Genetically modified “We will work to accommosquitoes that lead to plish the goals of the cluster. the collapse of entire These are applied research mosquito populations goals that will yield new and vaccines have only knowledge and will work to recently been introbring public health practiduced and their results tioners and academics togethare still uncertain. To er to solve problems,” augment such efforts, Harrington said. the Northeast Regional Dealing with future epiCenter For Excellence demics will be next on the in Vector Borne center’s list. Together with Diseases was launched partner institutions, the cenlast month, led by Prof. ter will offer a master’s degree Laura Harrington, in public health entomology Prof. Laura Harrington entomology. with the aim of providing the “We are continually technical expertise necessary faced with introducto manage, adapt and prevent tions of new vectors and new pathogens, yet there epidemics that arise in different conditions. has been little training and education for those The center was set up with help from a $10 milworking in public health and vector control to meet lion grant from the Center for Disease Control.

Sun Staff Writer

“There has been little training for those working in public health to meet the changing needs of detecting the introduction of new vectors.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDRE PENNER / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Deadly bite | Mosquitoes are vectors of three deadly diseases: Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever and Zika.

Other partnering institutions include the Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New York State Department of Health, Columbia University, New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Connecticut Department of Public Health and Calder Center, Fordham University.

Arnav Ghosh can be reached at aghosh@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Santa Clarita Diet Satisfies the Appetite

BY NATALIE FUNG Sun Contributor

When I first heard that my hometown was getting its own Netflix Original series, I was amused but thoroughly skeptical. What on earth was in Santa Clarita that could support a genuinely good show? I expected something in the mold of 90210 (though a step down — after all, Santa Clarita is quite a bit removed from the wealth of Beverly Hills), but when the Santa Clarita Diet trailers were released, I was both confused and intrigued to see that the show was actually about… zombies?

Turns out that’s not quite the best description. Eric, the show’s geeky next-door expert on the supernatural says he prefers not to use that term as it has a “negative connotation.” Even after I knew it would involve cannibalism, I underestimated its potential.

While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Santa Clarita Diet is one of the best shows I’ve watched, I will definitely be back for season two. For a brand new show trying to get its footing, season one did its job well.

The show centers on the Hammonds — Sheila (Drew Barrymore), Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Abby (Liv Hewson), a seemingly normal family living in Santa Clarita, California, and the chaos of their lives after Sheila mysteriously becomes undead. The cause of her condition seems at first a little incredulous and cheesy — she vomits what seems to be the entire contents of her stomach and then some,

including a small red organ – but then again, the premise of the show itself is equally so. From then on, the Hammonds’ greatest problem is how to sate Sheila’s appetite for humans without being caught by their policemen neighbors. With help from Eric (Skyler

Gisondo) and his vast knowledge about all things unhuman, they’re able to live their extraordinarily unusual lives (mostly) under the radar in an otherwise usual town.

Though Drew Barrymore’s casting is primarily what drew attention to the series before its premiere, Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal of the confused, yet supportive and loving, husband Joel surprisingly outshined her. He’s eccentric

and sarcastic in a way that provides much of the show’s comedy and his maddeningly logical approach to a completely illogical situation keeps the show moving forward. Of course, this is not to say that Drew Barrymore’s performance was subpar. In fact, her lighthearted por-

crazy-kids storyline. They’re mostlyaverage high school students with bigger problems at home, something many teens can relate to, and they’re navigating the mayhem of adolescence the best they can.

The only thing that seems to be greatly lacking is an overarching plot throughout season one. The search for a way to satisfy Sheila’s appetite understandably establishes a foundation for the series, and season one was likely written to set up future seasons. I just can’t help but wonder where the writers can take this moving forward.

Beyond the show’s premise, what more could the Hammonds have to deal with?

After all, the novelty of having an undead character can only last so long.

Though I was initially quite skeptical of how Netflix would be able to pull off Santa Clarita Diet, I was pleasantly surprised. I began watching only to see if I could recognize any of the settings, as it was filmed on location, but three or four episodes in I found myself clicking “next episode” because COURTESY OF NETFLIX it was genuinely entertaining. trayal of a character with such a deadly Its subtle references to the nuances of appetite makes the genre label “dark Santa Clarita culture made me chuckle comedy” seem almost inappropriate. (weed, realtors and Magic Mountain were She’s bouncy, she’s fun and she holds the the main ones). Though it’s not a standshow together — the type of humor she out, it’s quite well-balanced between fanprovides just doesn’t necessarily elicit tasy and reality and full of potential. laughter. And while the adults’ advenThe verdict: perhaps not rewatch-wortures call for the audience to truly sus- thy, but definitely binge-worthy. pend disbelief, Abby and Eric ground the show just a notch, providing a twist Natalie Fung is a freshman in the College of Arts and on the stereotypical normal-adults-with- Sciences. She can be reached at nf238@cornell.edu.

Ode to the Layman: Mark Matthew’s Abstracts

BY ALLISON ARTEAGA Sun Contributor

Obviously this is not a museum, nor a derivative of a museum, nor a borrowed public gallery acting as an integral exhibition space. Waffle Frolic is the spirit of Ithaca, a staple and an icon of the townspeople, a proud incubator of community involvement. They make it a point to stay tied to their roots, the founders being from Ithaca College, finding local artists to exhibit. In the upper seating area of Waffle Frolic, on the wall opposite the stairs, hangs Mark Matthew’s works, a showing of 8 abstracts.

Subject matter? There’s no tongue-in-cheek hiding of what these works are meant to be, “abstracts” of Ithaca nature, rivers and greenery, seen through a broken lense.

Though not a retrospective and not arranged chronologically, the works present a road from figurative and on the cusp of being contrived, to freeform in process and size. Beginning with the too-large Cavern Wall, Streaked, resembling a close up of a Gerhard Richter work to Cavern Iris, Glowing, multilayered in its painterly strokes and movement, ending with Underground “S”, Soaked, a satisfying move from misunderstood naturalism.

Most eye-catching of all are the miniatures, two painterly copy-paper-sized boards charmingly named Stream Swirl, Lesser Blue and Stream Swirl, Greater Blue.

The use of thick globs of paint, creating figurative texture on literal texture, could result in one mistaking the swirls as 3-D landscape models hanging from the bottom.

Matthews was able to create lights and shadows from the valleys and hills of oil paint. They’re casted onto the

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grayed-out waves, permitting the works to take on movement as the sun changes direction throughout the day.

This is perhaps a purposeful move by the Waffle Frolic staff to highlight the textures of the tiny works. Here exists an intimacy not seen in the remaining collection, the process of creation is a part of the work, the edges have paint heaved to the side, with the same force as waves breaking sand. In a way these are not abstract oil paintings but sculptures.

At first glance around the space, context and attention to maximizing the obvious consumer-focus seems to be lacking. Aren’t the eight pieces too high up for viewers to appreciate? Aren’t they close together in a way that suggests a set or a series when they're individually for sale? A suggestion of temporal space versus a static one is brought to mind, as well as a call to hide the pricing. This all has merit. But these preferences for an improved selling floor don't apply here or now.

Matthew’s show here is not meant to mimic elite shows in NYC, where galleries with executive boards and corporate interests and Chelsea real-estate hoard up millions.

Turned up noses. A dragging of a gown. Pissing contests.

Elegant reminders from the leisure class that this is meant for a select few, to see and to own, this is not for all. Social value is still value, it’s not coincidence that the book exchange nook is on the same wall as these abstracts. It’s no coincidence that the busiest part of the restaurant holds these for-sale products. Matthews’ works are not hiding their purpose, they’re simply meant to be enjoyed. Pleasure for pleasure’s sake. No artist’s statement or explanation from a curator is needed, no presentation at all in fact.

Demna Gvasalia created Vetements to match the creative process with consumer’s needs, Susan Sontag criticizes the art market that idolizes aesthetic decoratives over turning points in history, and while some would push for the loud and institutionalized optimization of “consumer art,” we don’t need to worry about this here.

The international art market behaves by different rules than at the local level. The local level is honest, it’s reverent to its beginnings as those are its endings too. In situ for in situ's sake and what a breath of fresh air that is.

Appraisal here is not dependent on critics, they’re not buyers. The Ithaca townspeople sitting down with vegan pastries, those who support a community that does not ignore the individual, those who simply want a painting to match the dining room table setting — this is for them. Do not come to this show during brunch expecting a cosmopolitan viewership, do not pretend to have distaste for anything not high-brow. Enjoy the calmness and familiarity the earth palette brings. In this space we celebrate and welcome all, in an exhibition space that constantly donates to local causes, where patrons just come inside to leave and take a book for the weekend, where the context is small town sustainability. Perhaps the point of this show is an enjoyment of art at all levels; no hierarchy exists here, only a leveling of artist’s creation and the public it's meant for. Perhaps the main point of all local shows is that art breathes indiscriminately.

Allison Arteaga is a memer of the Class of 2018 in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. She can be reached at aa2229@cornell.edu.

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SPORTS

MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Lock Up ECAC Playoff Bye WithTie at Clarkson

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

When sophomore defenseman Matt Nuttle — one of Cornell men’s hockey’s dependable, unsung heroes — scored late in the third period to give his team a lead, it looked like the Red was going to accomplish something it has not done since the 2004-05 season: a sweep of North Country on the road.

But on his senior night, Clarkson’s Troy Josephs got his team back tied less than a minute after Nuttle’s goahead goal for his second of the night. Just over two minutes was all that separated Cornell from breaking a decade-long drought, and the team ultimately exited the weekend road trip with three out of four points after Friday’s win at St. Lawrence.

“Disappointed” — emphasized several times — and “pissed off ” were the words head coach Mike Schafer ’86 used to describe his team’s performance against Clarkson.

Cornell (17-6-4, 12-4-4 ECAC) took five power plays on the night, not capitalizing on a single one and garnering seven of its 26 total shots on the man-advantage. By comparison, Clarkson’s (14-13-5, 9-8-3) power play sent six shots at senior goalie Mitch Gillam in one fewer try than the Red. Neither team scored on special teams, however.

The player who closed the scoring against St. Lawrence opened it the next night against Clarkson.

Senior forward Jake Weidner got Cornell on the board first 9:12 into the first period thanks to heavy net traffic. Clarkson would get the next two — one from Devin Brosseau and Josephs’ first — to give the Golden Knights their only lead of the game.

Sophomore forward Mitch Vanderlaan sent a onetimer from the slot past Clarkson’s Jake Kielly to knot the game back up, then Nuttle’s wrister from circles less than four minutes later regained Cornell its short lead.

Josephs’ second goal in the third period’s waning minutes meant overtime was coming.

For the second-straight meeting, the two teams entered overtime locked up at three, and it ended in a tie yet again. Cornell carried a power play into the extra frame, but Schafer was highly critical of that power play’s lackluster showing in particular. “Disappointed” was that word he used, yet again The final buzzer blew, and a wild game ultimately ended in a rather mundane way: both teams receiving a single point.

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Power(less) play | Clarkson handed the Red five power plays on Saturday evening, but the visiting team was unable to capitalize on any of its man-advantages.

Despite narrowly missing out on a win, the weekend was not short of its rewards for Cornell. The team’s unbeaten streak now sits at seven to go along with the Red’s clinching of a first-round bye in the ECAC tournament — something the team has not done since 2014.

However, a win on Saturday would have kept Cornell in pace with Harvard, who won both of its games over the weekend and is poised to make a run at first with a game in hand over Union. A win could have put Cornell one point behind the Crimson, but instead, that gap is now two.

“We want more than just the bye,” Schafer said.

“That’s why getting up to the top of the league was so important. It’s something we strive for and one of our goal to get home ice, but right now we have to address where we are with some of our guys … because we just

did not play very well.”

However, it is hard to look past what the team has accomplished as of late. After dropping two heartbreakers against Harvard and Dartmouth at home, Cornell has not lost since, earning 12 of the possible 14 points available. The team now sits two points ahead of St. Lawrence for third in the league, and clinching a bye in the ECAC tournament is certainly something to smile about.

The team is still never satisfied, and Cornell will have one last chance to prove itself against the league’s top-ranked Union and bottom-of-the-league RPI this coming weekend back in the confines of Lynah Rink.

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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League standings into a tie for fourth place with Brown. This proves especially crucial as the Red continue to battle for a spot in the Ivy League Basketball Tournament — an invitational tournament for the top-four seeded Ivy League squads.

“The wins were huge for us [in helping] us snap our losing streak and build more confidence going into the rest of the season,” Moran said. “We are coming off two huge wins and are very excited to continue the road to the Ivy League tournament.”

With every game being critical to a spot at the Ivy League Basketball Tournament, the Red will have its next opportunity to solidify an invitation this weekend on the road against Penn this Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. and Princeton this Saturday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m.

Joshua Zhu can be reached at @cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

WRESTLING

Cornell Squeaks Past Top Five Ohio St.for Upset Win No.3 Brian Realbuto overcomes Buckeye’s No.1 Bo Jordan,3-2

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Wrestling in the larger venue of Newman Arena instead of the Friedman Center meant higher stakes were at play for Cornell wrestling, both on the mat for the team and in the bleachers for the fans. The boys in red rose to the occasion and left their mark on a higher ranked Ohio St. squad, taking the NWCA Nationals Dual by a score of 19-18.

Several key wrestlers, including seniors Dylan Palacio (157), Brian Realbuto (174) and Gabe Dean (184), all handled their opponents, with Palacio landing the lone major decision for Cornell. But it was the heavyweight backup Jeramy Sweany (285) who eventually propelled Cornell to the upset victory over its opponent from Columbus.

“We just wrestled really well,” said head coach Rob Koll. “We’re right where we want to be.”

Highlighted by the comeback over a tough Ohio St. squad, the team’s grit came to life on Sunday.

“We are a team that rises to the occasion, and it showed today,” Realbuto said. “It is a culture that we have been creating — being able to dig deep and come out in a match that means a lot.”

“We have a stingy group of guys,” Dean added.

Noah Baughman got the action started at 125 pounds, taking on nationally-ranked No. 16 Jose Rodriguez. Throughout his first season in a Cornell singlet, Baughman has been rather streaky. He traded wins and losses throughout most of the campaign’s beginning, then hit a rut, losing five-straight decisions stemming from the beginning of January.

Since then, Baughman has won seven straight, including his 4-0 upset win over the redshirt Rodriguez in front of the packed Newman Arena.

Baughman and Rodriguez had meet before, when the Ohio St. wrestler took a major decision from Baughman at the Las Vegas invitational in early December. But on Sunday, there was a different, more special fan in the crowd for the freshman.

“Noah’s girlfriend was here, so we were pretty sure he was going to wrestle well, or else she was done with him,” Koll joked. “That’s exactly what we told him, and it seemed to work, so we have to make sure she comes back next year.”

Baughman got Cornell out to the early 3-0 lead. But after that, the Buckeyes took the next three decisions and jumped out to their own 14-3 lead. That was when the Red’s most dependable

wrestlers took the mat, including the three aforementioned seniors and sophomore Brandon Womack (165).

The primetime showdown of the afternoon came between No. 3 Realbuto and his challenger, No. 1 Bo Jordan — undefeated in the 2016-17 season. That is, however, until Realbuto was done with him.

The senior from Somers, N.Y., won a low-scoring bout by a 3-2 decision. It was a pump of energy for his teammates, who would go one to lose only one more decision en route to victory.

“I knew I had the No. 1 guy,” he said. “I just tried to get my job done for the team to try and get that team win.”

“I don’t know if [the win] mattered [for his confidence],” Koll said. “Brian is very confident.

If he lost a match he still would feel like he could win a national championship. That’s why he is as good as he is.”

Dean kept the Cornell momentum alive with a 10-5 decision over No. 10 Myles Martin, the defending champion at 174. Dean had a near pin for quite a while, but never got the call.

Regardless, the all-American and two-time NCAA champion continued his undefeated season and sits at 27-0 on the year.

Then, it was Sweany’s turn to take the mat, and the sophomore who had appeared in 17 matches on the year took a 4-0 decision over Josh Fox that solidified the Red’s comeback win.

Now, Cornell has a few weeks to rest and prepare before the team travels to Bucknell for the EIWA tournament in March. Despite not being a match with the greatest of implications, the win over Ohio St. Sunday highlights the progress Koll’s program has made since its first contest against Buffalo.

In that match back on Nov. 11, Cornell took only half of the decisions in a narrow 18-15 win over the Bulls. And now, “[we] won six out of 10 against a top team in the country. We are going to go into [EIWAs] with the right mindset,” Koll said.

Cornell’s defense of its EIWA title and quest for 11th straight begins on March 3 from Lewisburg.

“Everyone is fighting hard, and you can’t ask more than that,” Dean said. “Now we have to peak.”

“This is the most fun part of the season,” Realbuto added. “Right now it’s just refining … just making those incremental gains that are going to make a difference come NCAAs.” Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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Riding high | Cornell wrestling has been dominant as of late, winning its last eight dual meets. The Red will ride this momentum with the EIWA Championship coming up next in early March.

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Too little too late | After letting the Crimson shoot 60 percent in the first half, the Red held its foe to shooting 38 percent after halftime.

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percent on 20 attempts. But once again the majority of these opportunities came in the The Red turned it around second half when the Red was on defense after the break and already in a big hole. held the Crimson to only 38 “You have to make free and 14 percent from the field throws,” Earl said. “It was good and three, to see them respectively. go in both CORNELL @ HARVARD But it was these games. too little too I think we late, and are learning 1ST 2ND FINAL Cornell ulti- Game: to get fouled Cornell 28 47 75 mately lost Harvard more. And 87 48 39 to Harvard down the by 12. stretch we “We have a lot to work on,” are getting smarter trying to Earl said. “Defensively we have lengthen the game by getting a long way to go and hopefully fouled going to the rim.” we will see the fruits of that Cornell now sits at sixth in come forward.” the Ivy League with While four Cornell players Dartmouth, while Harvard reached double figures, it was stays at No. 2 behind the undenot an efficient shooting night feated Princeton Tigers. for the Red. The team shot 43 Cornell will honor four percent overall with the previ- seniors at its final home games ous night’s top players — this weekend against Princeton.

Morgan and Gettings — shoot- The Red will face Penn at ing 35 percent collectively. home the night before.

But Cornell did succeed on offense once again from the Jack Kantor can be reached at charity stripe, shooting 100 jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

C.U.Holds Off Green Late in Win

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Ballers beat Dartmouth,69-65; Harvard puts up strong first half to defeat Red by 12 points

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Cornell men's basketball was able to notch one more conference win with a close four-point victory at Dartmouth over the weekend, but was taken down with a strong first half effort by Harvard the following evening in Cambridge, losing 87-75.

Dartmouth (6-17, 3-7 Ivy) managed to bring Friday night’s game within two with under a minute to go, but the Red (7-18, 3-7) held off its opponent in a tight game to complete a season sweep of the Green with a 69-65 victory. The game is emblematic of the overall struggles Cornell has seen closing in the final minutes throughout the year.

“The major takeaway is that we won down the stretch which has been our hallmark here,” said head coach Brian Earl said. “Over the last month or so we have been in a lot of close games and generally have lost them, so it was nice to get a win against Dartmouth where it was away and close.”

Earl and his team had only a one-point lead at halftime, but began to inch away from Dartmouth coming out of the break. The key for the Red in the second half was free throws. Cornell attempted 22 free throws — compared to one attempt in the first 20 minutes — and converted 18.

“We have tried to put our guys in practice into pressure situations, so that may have helped over the past couple weeks,” Earl said. “We lost a game to Brown where we shot 10 of 20 from the free-throw line. We get into practice and make sure [our guys are] taking the them.”

Notable performances against Dartmouth came from sophomores Matt Morgan and Stone Gettings. Morgan had a game-high 28 points and Gettings recorded his first

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Cutting it close | Dartmouth came within two points during the second half, but the Red managed to stay ahead late Friday. at 20-point lead at halftime, 48-28. career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.

“We were playing a few seconds of good defense and But aside from a couple strong performances and effithen we would give up an open three,” cient free throw shooting, defense was Earl said. “Some of our turnovers and integral in Cornell’s success. Dartmouth CORNELL @ DARTMOUTH missed shots turned into easy baskets.” shot 41 percent from the field, includCornell kept it close with Harvard ing 37 percent in the second half. early on, tied at eight following an ath“We played some pretty good Game: FINAL 1ST 2ND letic three-point play from senior guard defense and it was a tough place,” Earl Cornell 31 38 69 Robert Hatter. The home team abruptsaid. “Going to Dartmouth is tougher Dartmouth 30 35 65 ly went on an 11-0 run, which Cornell than people realize. I would not say we were outstanding on either side, but what really matters is would climb back from to get back within three points.

But a 15-2 run for the Crimson to end the half was the that you come away with a win.”

But this same success did not come the next day at final nail in the Red’s coffin.

Harvard. In its win over Cornell, the Crimson shot 60 percent from both the field and three in the first half to secure See M. BASKETBALL page 15

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Redeems Itself at Home Against Green, Crimson

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s basketball team capitalized on the opportunity to improve in the Ivy League standings this weekend, as the team prevailed over Ivy League rivals Dartmouth and Harvard.

The pair of wins represented a redemption for Cornell (14-9, 5-5 Ivy), with the pair of wins coming less than a month after previously suffering consecutive losses to the same two teams on the road.

“We learned a lot about ourselves and about Harvard and Dartmouth the first time we played them,” said senior Kerri Moran. “We came into the games this weekend with more confidence and a better understanding of what each team likes to do and how to exploit their weaknesses.”

Cornell put on an dominant performance in its first weekend game against Dartmouth. Shooting 50 percent from the field and assisting on all but seven field goals, the Red displayed confident shooting and cohesion as a team. In par-

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Strong start | Cornell entered halftime with a comfortable 16-point lead against Dartmouth.

ticular, a 25-6 run in the second quarter from beyond the arc. helped Cornell blow the game wide open “Harvard has a versatile team and and secure the 72-57 win. many options of scoring,” said freshman The Red was equally as impressive on Samantha Widmann. “We [knew we] the other end of the court with its early needed to focus on defense and stopping defensive presence. At one point, the the ball and then capitalizing on them on team held its opponents scoreless for the offensive end.” almost three minutes. For the game, the The win also broke an 18-game losing Red held Dartmouth to 42 percent streak against Harvard. shooting and only “The Harvard game allowed a single player was especially imporDARTMOUTH @ CORNELL to score in double figtant because the ures. seniors have not beat “We really keyed in them in our 4 years 1ST 2ND FINAL on certain players and Game: here and to do that was 57 36 looks in their offense Dartmouth 21 a huge boost in our Cornell 37 35 72 to prevent them from confidence,” Moran getting easy scores,” said. said senior Nicholle The success over the HARVARD @ CORNELL Aston. “Our emphasis weekend was an all week was defense encouraging sight for FINAL 1ST 2ND and that really came Game: the Red, which had 29 23 52 through [against Harvard lost five of its last six 24 33 57 Dartmouth] during the Cornell games. weekend.”

“We struggled in The Red’s following game against the first half of the Ivy season and we Harvard presented a much closer knew we left a lot on the floor,” matchup. With both teams struggling Widmann said. “We buckled down and offensively, the key to victory once again knew what we needed to do in order to depended on defensive performance. change the outcomes of these game not Cornell managed to secure a close 57-52 only for Harvard, Dartmouth weekend win by slightly outperforming their but for future weekends.” opponents, shooting 36 percent from the The two wins also helped catapult field and 27 percent percent from three- Cornell from the lower end of the Ivy point range, while holding the Crimson See W. BASKETBALL page 14 to 30 percent overall and 26 percent

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