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Tompkins County Judge Rowley ’82 reflected on heroin and the legal system to churchgoers on Sunday. | Page 3

A light-hearted movie runs into writing, plot problems, Gouldthorpe ’18 writes.

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C.U. Mulls Need-Aware Admissions For Transfers, Other New Measures Graduating students could carry more debt, documents show

By JOSH GIRSKY

lege deans and a few underThe text of this recomgraduate representatives. The mendation states that Cornell AFAWG has been meeting could raise or lower the numCornell is considering reviewing the monthly since the fall and ber of no-aid international financial needs of transfer students as discussing possible ways to students accepted, depending part of the application process, admit- lessen Cornell's cost of proon how much revenue the ting more international students who viding financial aid to stuUniversity wanted to make. do not need financial aid and graduat- dents.

Last year’s announcement ing students with more debt, according The AFAWG is considerof the upcoming change to DEAN KNUTH to more than 30 pages of internal docu- ing nine possible options, international admissions ments obtained by The Sun. including raising the number of admit- policy from need-blind to need-aware The task force behind the possible ted international students who will generated controversy among students. changes — named the Admissions and receive no financial aid, according to Yet one of AFAWG’s recommendations Financial Aid Working Group — documents from their January and is to take a step further and make transincludes several top administrators, col- February meetings. fer admissions need-aware as well.

AFAWG documents also include two recommendations to change loan policy.

VERAGE EBT OF VY EAGUE RADUATES One suggests changing the no-loan cutOnly Brown students graduate with more debt than Cornellians. No data available for Columbia. off — the level of family income below which students will not receive loans — from $60,000 to $45,000 and increasing the maximum annual loan from $0 to $2,000 for those that are affected.

The change would affect around 650 students and save about $1.3 million in grant-aid for the University, according to the document.

The other option lists a variety of changes that could be made to income cutoffs for maximum loan levels and maximum loan levels themselves, in effect increasing the amount of debt that students take on.

Barbara Knuth, dean of the graduate school, chairs AFAWG and was the only

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Car Dealer Sues City of Ithaca, Mayor Over Zoning

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

Maguire Family of Dealerships has turned to Tompkins County Supreme Court to aid its year-long quest to construct a dealership at Carpenter Business Park near the Cayuga Inlet.

The dealership’s owner, Phil Maguire, filed a lawsuit in Tompkins County Supreme Court on Friday against the City of Ithaca, the city’s planning and development director and all 11 members of Common Council — including Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 — arguing that the city’s zoning of the waterfront area is illegal.

Maguire claims, in the lawsuit, that Common Council’s zoning of the waterfront area as a Temporary Mandatory Planned Unit Development district exceeds the council’s authority, violates New York State law, is an abuse of power, is inconsistent with the city’s comprehensive plan and is unconstitutionally vague.

In an interview on Sunday, Phil Maguire said the dealership and Ithaca are in early, productive talks to potentially build a dealership on a city-owned plot of land behind Walmart on Route 13. He brushed aside the lawsuit, which makes sharp claims about the legality of the city’s zoning, as “nothing more than

a contingency plan.”

“If everything fell through and we chose to get a second opinion on the TMPUD, we’re forced to do this in order to keep that option open,” Maguire told The Sun, citing time See LAWSUIT page 5

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In gear | Phil Maguire is suing Ithaca over what he says is illegal zoning, but he also told The Sun he is confident in the two sides’ ability to forge a deal on a new location.

Above: A rendering shows the Maguire proposal for the Carpenter Business Park site.

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Activism | I.C. professors and students, as well as Cornellians, rally in support of faculty job security.

Protests‘Ramp Up Pressure’on I.C.

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

As prospective students arrived at Ithaca College for an admitted students event, the college entrance was surrounded on all sides by protesters demanding equal pay and job security for faculty.

The timing of the protest and the accepted students event was deliberate, according to Prof.

Rachel Kaufman, writing, Ithaca College, as an effort to “ramp up the pressure,” she said. “[The college is] selling a message to the school to accepted students about their priority being education,” Kaufman said.

“And they’re just not showing that at the bargaining table. We’re looking to expose that and let “It’s really prospective students know that this is a college that has important even a choice right now about though we whether to be a leader or don’t go to I.C. not in higher education.”

I.C. faculty were joined to be active by students from both Ithaca in every College and Cornell along with labor activists from all community over Ithaca, including that you can.”

Cornell Organization for Labor Action and Cornell Izzy Pottinger ’19 Graduate Students United.

“We’re not about to just let these things happen to our professors when there’s clearly injustices happening and they’re not being treated fairly,” said Kaylee Warner, a student at I.C. Participation in the protest for COLA member, Izzy Pottinger ’19 was crucial regardless of school affiliation.

“It’s really important even though we don’t go to I.C. to be active in every community that you can because when one person’s rights are taken away or job stability taken away, it creates a precedent for everyone’s to be taken away,” she said.

Demanding equal pay for equal work, protesters argued that learning and teaching ought to remain the core value of the University, part-time faculty must be granted equal pay to full-time faculty and there must be greater job security across the board.

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Injection SitesWould Save Lives,Tompkins Judge Says Says opiate addictions partly due to abuse of prescribed medication, urges awareness on drug safety

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

John C. Rowley ’82 is in his 22nd year of presiding as a judge — his 17th in Tompkins County Court — but heroin use has posed a unique, new challenge for the judge in the last three years, he told congregants at the First Congregational Church of Ithaca on Sunday morning.

“For those of us on the other side of the aisle, the receiving end of the addiction, it is extremely frustrating,” Rowley said.

Rowley, who earned his J.D. from SUNY Buffalo’s School of Law in 1987, said overprescription of opiate medication is partially to blame for the heroin epidemic, and asked people to rid their homes of unneeded medication.

“I would urge you to go to your medicine cabinet and get rid of everything that is narcotic because, believe it or not, your grandkids, or the gardener, or the cleaning lady, or anybody, is possible to be looking for that because it is so valuable,” he said.

“Thirty-two states continue to see this as an increasing epidemic,” he said. “We are talking about a majority of the country.”

The term “opioid” includes both heroin and prescription medications, and Rowley said a majority of heroin users began their addiction with prescription medications.

“There is definitely an easing of pain, a numbing of pain that opiates provide that matches up with those who use it,” he said.

“Especially once you’ve gotten people Rowley reflected inward durinto treatment and recovery, the ing his hour-long conversation with dozens of churchgoers, saycommunity then is so important.” ing he has been in recovery for years.

John Rowley ’82 “I didn’t have the emotional capacity to deal with being a teenager,” he said, referring to a time he smoked marijuana in eighth grade at a Boy Scouts camp. “I wanted to feel different.”

“The longer a teenager delays their first use of drugs or alcohol, the less likely they are to get addicted,” he added.

Rowley said that the court system, although not ineffective, is “a clumsy way to deal with addiction” and the drug users who end up before his court in handcuffs.

“It is very hard to take a public health approach on a matter that is so heavily criminalized, but I’m encouraged by [Ithaca’s] efforts,” he said, throwing his support behind the Ithaca Plan, proposed by Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 in February 2016.

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Hooked on heroin | Judge John Rowley ’82 speaks at the First Congregational Church about effective strategies to prevent and treat opioid addiction.

The plan proposes a series of measures to reduce drug use and help drug users, the most publicized of which calls for the creation of supervised injection facilities, where heroin users could inject the drug under the supervision of medical professionals.

Rowley said the plan “challenges us at a very different level to tolerate something which we otherwise find intolerable, but I do think that the data supports that it saves lives.

“I think what it represents, symbolically, is that we’ll do anything, because what we are doing now is just counting people — we’re just counting bodies.”

Rowley said people should try to avoid defining others by their addiction — he does not use the word “addict” — and emphasized the importance of building a supportive community for those recovering from addiction.

“I think it is that sense of separation and isolation which is so devastating,” he said.

“Especially once you’ve gotten people into treatment and recovery, the community then is so important, because it won’t last without it.”

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

Baptist Church Hosts Gay Men’s Chorus I.C. Profs, Students Demand

By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Staff Writer

Singing for a crowd of more than 50 people on Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Ithaca, the Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus showed how it has become a symbol of Ithaca for many of its patrons.

Belinda Howell, a frequent patron of the IGMC’s concerts, explained that the group’s affiliation with the LGBTQ+ community was a major reason she attended the group’s shows, saying she wants to continue supporting them.

Patrick Chaopricha, an usher for the Kitchen Theatre, agreed, citing Ithaca’s longstanding culture of acceptance as a reason for the success of the Gay Men’s Chorus. “[Ithaca] is pretty open about gender acceptance,” Chaopricha said. “I guess, in a way, [the Chorus] is making a statement.”

Chaopricha added that regardless of any statement the chorus may or may not be making, he attended the shows because of the music. “[IGMC] has its own identity,” Chaopricha said. “But it’s just a name to me.”

Katrina Mackey, a first-time patron of the concert, said she believed the name “Gay

Men’s Chorus” was a unifying force for the group.

“It explains who they are and brings them together as a community,” she said.

As for their music, the IGMC is known for bringing humor and charm to its selections.

“I appreciate how they pick entertaining songs and enjoy making fun of themselves,” said Nina Chaopricha.

She was proven correct when the group walked down the church aisle dressed as nuns for their first song.

Founded in January 2009, the IGMC hopes to “unite, educate and inspire its audiences and members through high-quality choral music set for the male voice,” according to its Facebook page.

Howell said she was grateful to live in Ithaca, where she enjoys all types of music from a diverse group of people.

“Ithaca is a very progressive town,” Howell said. “I think we’re very open and supportive and I wish that people felt as comfortable in every part of the nation as they do here in Ithaca.”

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.

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person on the committee to accept The Sun’s request for comment. In an interview with The Sun, Knuth said that although the documents use the word “recommendations,” she believes they are better thought of as “options,” since the group will not necessarily be recommending them.

She said that the recommendations will be presented to the provost as a “contingency plan” for

a potential scenario like the economic downturn in 2008, when Cornell gave grant-aid to more than 50 percent of its undergraduate students, much higher than the normal 42 to 44 percent.

“That’s not sustainable,” she said, referring to 50 percent figure. “That’s where we don’t have enough tuition resources coming in to be able to cover the expenses of providing grant aid to that number of students.”

Some of the options would barely change financial aid policy,

including the recommendation to continue asking for no parent contribution for students whose families earn less than $60,000 in annual income and less than $100,000 in assets. This option is the only one that AFAWG has designated as having “high” desirability.

However, other proposed changes — whose desirabilities the committee has not yet determined — may have larger impacts, both on students at See FINANCIAL AID page 4

Equal Pay for All Faculty PROTEST

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Protesters spoke out against the inflation of the administration at the cost of professors, fighting back against what they called the “administrative octopus” raising the price of tuition but not the salaries of its faculty.

“Right now, I get paid about 40 percent less to teach the exact same class as my full-time contingent counterpart,” Kaufman said.

“The students certainly don’t expect me to teach 40 percent less.

They don’t pay for 40 percent less tuition.”

This protest comes as a response to mounting tensions between I.C. faculty and the administration.

Some Cornell graduate students protested not only for union solidarity and labor advocacy but also because of the parallels they saw between graduate students and contingent faculty, said Juan Guevara grad, a member of CGSU. For Vera Khovanskaya grad, a member of CGSU, compensation does not reflect the reliance both Cornell and I.C. place on gradu“[Collado] talked about ate students and contingent facdignity for all people. She ulty.

“The University relies on a talked about being from a steady stream of people who family of laborers.” aren’t getting paid very much for the work they do,” Khovanskaya Rachel Kaufman said. “They have to hire more graduate students and more lecturers to fill courses that professors would teach because they can spend less money doing so. People are always going to come in and fill the spots.”

This protest preceded a federally-mediated bargaining sessions with college administrators to negotiate pay parity for part-time faculty and job security for full-time faculty.

The outcome of this bargaining session comes with the pressure of a contingent faculty strike dependent on the proposals presented, The Sun previously reported.

However, the appointment of I.C.’s new president made some protesters more optimistic about the outcome of bargaining.

“Her core values seemed really aligned with ours. She talked about dignity for all people. She talked about being from a family of laborers,” Kaufman said. “We certainly hope the college will be moving towards her direction rather than continuing to follow the failed policies of Rochon.”

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

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Cornell and the University’s image.

Need-Aware

Cornell takes pride in its policy of need-blind admissions for the majority of its domestic students.

But it is now considering reviewing the financial needs of transfer students in the application process, which the University already plans to do for international students in the fall.

Students expressed concern last year when the University announced it would review the financial needs of international applicants, saying it would encourage Cornell to admit more wealthy students.

Now, the AFAWG may raise the number of admitted international students who will require no financial aid.

“This option could be potentially turned up or down fairly quickly with more significant impact than other options and with potentially less negative public perception issues than other options and with potentially less negative public perception issues than other options that are more visible,” the document states.

Knuth said Cornell moved from need-blind to need-aware admissions for its international students because the University sometimes ran out of the $12 million annual budget it had set aside for international student financial aid. When this happened, Cornell could not fulfill the need for all international

students and some students had to drop out, Knuth said. She did not provide any data on how many students have been affected by this shortage of financial aid.

Because international students cannot receive federal loans and do not qualify for federal work-study, they are some of the most expensive students to cover with financial aid. Knuth added that needaware admissions does not mean the University is prioritizing students’ financial status over their merit in the admissions process, but she acknowledged that it remains a complicated issue.

“It takes some explaining and often in little sound bites the nuance gets lost,” Knuth said.

“University resources are not unlimited and so that’s why there’s a budget set.”

Saim Chaudhary ’17 — an international student from Pakistan — said this change would go against Cornell’s founding principle of “Any person, any study.”

“It actually becomes ‘any person, who is rich enough to come to Cornell,’” he said.

Last year while serving as vice president for diversity and inclusion on S.A., Chaudhary co-sponsored a resolution that demanded Cornell reverse the change from need-blind to need-aware admissions for international students. He said that when he and his colleagues discussed the issue with the administration last year, he never received any data supporting the University’s belief that international students were being forced to drop out because of their financial situation.

Chaudhary knows international students he believes would not have been admitted under the new policy who he said have “added a lot to the Cornell community.”

However Knuth said that needaware admissions is not necessarily “an evil thing,” pointing to data that indicates that the number of students who do not receive aid from Cornell is going up under need-blind admissions.

“In some ways these trends are occurring anyway,” she said.

“Need-aware admissions gives you just a little more information at the time of admissions so that you can make sure you’re admitting people who truly have need and are deserving, as well as others who are deserving and don’t have need, so that you can use your resources appropriately.”

The University may seek to continue gathering information at the time of admission by becoming need-aware for transfer applicants as well. Its recommendation notes that, under a need-aware admissions policy for transfer students, Cornell could still choose to fund admitted transfer students at the same level during need-blind admissions.

Yet, Sagar Chapagain ’18, a transfer student on financial aid, called need-aware admissions a “terrible policy” and echoed Chaudhary’s statement that it would go against Cornell’s founding principles, adding that it may create inequality at Cornell.

“What happens is when you make [admissions] need-aware that means — in a very nice way — you’re saying we’ll accept transfer students who are relatively wealthy … but if your parents can’t pay then we might have to think about it,” he said. “Community college students, first generation students, students who come from humble backgrounds … they’re going to be hurt.”

“We can see the intention behind it,” Chapagain added.

When asked if Cornell would implement need-aware admissions for applicants who are not international or transfer students, such as domestic applicants, Knuth said that Cornell is going to do its best to remain need-blind for the majority of its applicants for as long as possible. “[Expanding need-aware admissions] is not at all under consideration. That has not been proposed,” Knuth said. “Could anything happen in the future? Sure.”

Knuth said.

Despite the removal of that option, two others remain that include preferential packaging.

The first suggests continuing post-admittance preferential packaging for underrepresented minorities whose parents’ income are between $60,000 and $120,000.

The option explains that Cornell actively competes against other institutions for the “somewhat limited pool of high-achieving, middle income URM applicants,” and that this preferential treatment helps them attract those students.

The document shows that URM enrollment doubled over a decade — from 1,760 in the fall of 2006 to 3,118 in the fall of 2016.

While minutes from the Feb. 1 meeting suggest that members of AFAWG liked this recommendation, they voiced some concerns as well. Eliminating this program would save $2.73 million in grantaid affecting around 1,250 students, “a substantial cost savings that could meaningfully contribute to Cornell’s efforts to limit total grant aid expenditures,” the report reads.

The second proposed policy change suggests eliminating preferential packaging for URM families with incomes of over $120,000.

Knuth said that preferential packaging is one of a few ways that Cornell seeks to improve its minority enrollment. However the report explains that in 2013, Cornell began to eliminate certain preferential loan reductions for URM students, saving almost $6 million in grant aid.

This change led to “no discernible negative impact on Cornell’s ability to recruit and yield URM students,” according to the report.

to increase the amount of loans that Cornell students receive.

Although the committee is concerned about giving students more debt after they graduate, Knuth pointed out that Cornell students that graduate with debt have on average less in student loans to pay back than students at the average private university. However, Cornell students on average have higher debt than most other students in the Ivy League, according to data from The Institute for College Access and Success.

“We are concerned about loan levels and want to avoid high debt,” she said.

Loans can present a problem to students on financial aid. Lindsay Vinarcsik ’18, who had to drop out of Cornell for a semester because she could not pay for tuition even with financial aid, said that she feels the amount of debt she will have after graduation has limited her career choices.

“I don’t want a big-paying job,” Vinarcsik said. “I have a lot of stupid altruistic ideological aspirations, and none of those are going to be accessible when I have to be paying off all of this debt.”

Knuth said that there are different repayment plans for federal loans that allow loans to be forgiven at a certain point so that people do not get discouraged from doing public sector or public service work. However, Vinarcsik had to take out private loans — which do not have the same repayment plans — when her financial aid package was not enough to cover her expenses, and Knuth admitted that most people are not aware of the federal programs that help people like Vinarcsik.

Loans and Debt

AFAWG members will continue to meet over the next several weeks, both among themselves and with other shared governance organizations around campus. The

As going to college has become more and more expensive, national student debt has skyrocketed, hitting $1.31 trillion at the end of 2016. That has not stopped the AFAWG from considering options

What’s to Come

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CORNELL ENDOWMENT RETURN Cornell had a negative return in fiscal year 2016, losing 3.3 percent of its endowment.

Preferential Packaging

In addition to need-blind versus need-aware admissions policy, several options proposed by AFAWG have to do with “preferential packaging,” or altering the balance of the three components of financial aid packages — federal work-study, federal loans and grant aid — to benefit the recipient by giving them more grant aid.

At its January meeting, AFAWG discussed a proposed recommendation to offer some students — those who receive financial aid but are in higher income brackets than others — with high SAT scores these “preferential packages,” with the goal of increasing the yield among admits in the highest aided income bracket.

However, this recommendation was struck from AFAWG’s February report, because “nobody, literally nobody on the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group supported it moving forward,”

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requirements for legal challenges.

“Believe me when I tell you that everything has been very positive — it’s not anything negative.”

Maguire purchased six parcels of land through an LLC in August and September 2015 for just over $2.7 million, deeds show. One month after Maguire applied for a building permit in February 2016, Common Council created the TMPUD, requiring developers to work closely with the council for any project in the waterfront area.

Maguire, who is represented by attorney Anthony N. Elia III of Miller Mayer LLP, makes many arguments that the TMPUD violates state law, including claims that the zoning treats buildings in the same zone differently, that New York does not give cities the right to make PUDs mandatory and that the TMPUD authorizes or encourages “arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”

“The TMPUD is so vague that any application may be rejected,” the lawsuit says, later adding: “It is not clear what end the TMPUD serves other than to stop development.”

The TMPUD expires on Sept.

2, 2017, by which time Common Council plans to adopt regulations for the waterfront area consistent with the city’s comprehensive plan.

Mayor Myrick told The Sun that the city followed “a thorough and legal process” and that all decisions made by Ithaca’s committees and Common Council were sound.

“We will defend against this lawsuit vigorously, protect policy makers and protect the city’s right — the people of the City of Ithaca’s right — to decide what uses are appropriate,” he said.

Myrick also noted the opposition of many Ithacans to a car dealership at Carpenter Business Park. Ithaca residents sent more than 240 letters to City Hall arguing against the dealership when it was being considered by the Planning Committee, which ultimately recommended against Maguire’s proposal in October.

Common Council officially killed Maguire’s proposal in December by a vote of 8 to 2.

“It’s just pretty clear that a car dealership at that site is not what the people have in mind and the people of Ithaca are entitled to make land use decisions,” Myrick said.

Maguire emphasized that he only filed the lawsuit to preserve the dealership’s rights if plans for the Southwest Business Park behind Walmart do not work out.

“The actual story is we’ve been having great dialogue and it’s all been positive and in good faith,” he said of conversations with Ithaca. “We’re working very well with the city to relocate us to Southwest Business Park.”

Maguire acknowledged that a dealership at Carpenter Business Park appears to not be in Ithaca’s vision for that space.

“Carpenter Business Park is not the best place for our usage, so we’re working hard to come up with something closer down to Route 13,” he said, adding that if the Southwest development works out, he will try to sell off his Carpenter Business Park properties at 742 Cascadilla Street.

Second Ward Alderperson Seph Murtagh, who chairs the Planning Committee, said he was committed to finding a solution for Maguire so they can sell their Carpenter Business Park properties and move to the Southwest location.

“I think that [Maguire has] heard overwhelmingly from the Ithaca community — the downtown community — they’ve heard overwhelmingly from the constituency that I represent on the Common Council that that site is not a good site for a car dealership,” Murtagh said.

“There’s not a lot of space,” he added. “[Maguire is] trying to expand their business. They’re trying to grow and they’re just trying to find a way to do that which works within the city’s rules and regulations.”

Reach Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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group will continue to alter the options as it receives input. Knuth said that she does not anticipate AFAWG assigning final “desirabilities” for each option before March 22, if not later.

Most recently, the AFAWG added an option to reevaluate how the financial aid office calculates need. Knuth said that there is no one correct line that separates need from no-need, since many different criteria determine how the University calculates that line. However, Cornell could reevaluate how it treats the different criteria to see if there are aspects of the current methodology that should be changed.

She added that although Cornell’s endowment is over $6 billion, Cornell’s endowment per student is lower than many of its institutional peers and the lowest in the Ivy

League. She attributed the low ratio to the large undergraduate population, among other factors.

“Cornell delivers a really excellent education, but it’s not cheap,” she said. “If it was cheap, it wouldn’t be as excellent.”

She said that the group will assign a level of desirability to each option, with a high desirability meaning it is more likely to occur, while some options may be excluded from the list altogether. After the group will submit the options to Provost Michael Kotlikoff, who commissioned the AFAWG, and the options will be discussed at the Board of Trustees meeting in March.

The full documents from AFAWG are available at cornellsun.com.

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

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BY MILES LIU Sun Contributor

James Baldwin is one of the greatest writers and intellectuals of the 20th century. His writings and critiques on race in America have been established in a class of their own. His language brings eloquence and grace to a grotesque and deplorable situation. The recent documentary I Am Not Your Negro tries to bring this contrasting relationship to the big screen.

I Am Not Your Negro proves to be a provocative title and the film itself was able to match the intensity of its name. In only 95 minutes, filmmaker Raoul Peck does a masterful job in bringing Baldwin’s poetic words to life. Samuel L. Jackson narrates the film exclusively using words from Baldwin’s unfinished 30-page manuscript Remember This House. In this manuscript Baldwin examines racism in America through the lives and deaths of three of his close friends: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Baldwin does not simply regurgitate

the biographies of these three civil rights leaders. Instead, he takes a more profound approach where he analyzes how the lives of these three men molded his own view of race and how their deaths were emblematic of the hypocrisy and incongruous nature of race relations in America. Throughout the film he tries to expose America’s juxtaposition between black and white people through the ideas of power, privilege, oppression and ultimately “the story of the Negro in America.”

Even though Baldwin’s voice radiates throughout the whole film, Raoul Peck makes Baldwin’s voice come alive through the use of powerful and relevant images from an arsenal of cultural and historical sources.

From excerpts of Sidney Poitier movies to newsreels of police officers bashing batons on the skulls of black people in the 60’s, Baldwin’s words always correspond to the image.

Peck does not limit his visualizations to

Baldwin’s era. He keeps the audience conscious of the vitality of Baldwin’s words and of racism in America by exhibiting

has subsided with the significant, but mostly isolated, victories of black poeple in America.

Regardless of viewers’ familiarity with Baldwin, the effect of I Am Not Your Negro remains the same. It is a thought-provoking piece of work that will have the audience questioning their own role and complacency in race relations in America. It further cements Baldwin’s artistry to a realm of landmark political litCOURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES erature in ways that images of police protests in Ferguson, only history can do so. The audience will along with the haunting faces of Trayvon leave the theater understanding Baldwin’s Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, genius, while also more aware of how Sandra Bland and Freddie Gray. The use racial history has transcended itself into of these contemporary images as a back- the present along with Baldwin’s words. drop to Baldwin prophetic voice ignites the audience to remember race as a con- Miles Liu is a sophomore in the College of Arts and tinuing struggle, not some archaic sin that Sciences. He can be reached at mgl72@cornell.edu.

Rock Dog Is Good Natured, But Falters

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

Here’s a little number that’s stayed on the sidelines. From Ash Brannon, who directed Surf’s Up and co-directed Toy Story 2, comes Rock Dog. I didn’t know a whole lot about this movie, so I did some reading on it; oh boy, did I have to really dig on this one. The film is based on Tibetan Rock Dog, a 2009 graphic novel released by Chinese songwriter Zheng Jun. According to a 2009 post on a Chinese media website, the film adaptation was already in the works; that’s eight years of production! Rock Dog is a big deal, though, because it’s one of the first Chinese-financed films to be produced in the United States, specifically at Reel FX. Four different companies receive credit for financing the production, and I tried diving into all of them.

There’s Mandoo Pictures, which “seeks to revolutionize entertainment… with its unique Sino-American sensibility,” and seems to combine Chinese culture with Hollywood production resources. It also claims that Rock Dog is due out in 2015… so it’s a bit outdated. Then there’s Huayi Tencent Entertainment, controlled by both Huayi Brothers Media (the largest private film company in China) and Tencent Holdings (a Chinese multimedia company). Funnily enough, Huayi Tencent Entertainment itself is registered in the Cayman Islands. The third company, Eracme Entertainment, seems invisible. I found an article saying that they were planning a separate movie… in 2015. Finally, there’s Dream Factory Group, or rather, there isn’t one that I can find information about. The closest I came was an advertising agency in Florida. All four companies have only Rock Dog in their filmographies.

On top of this murky past comes a story of corporate struggles and revenge, that resulted in Rock Dog bombing in its home country by only being shown a total of seven times.

I bring up this whole mess because there are a lot of individual producers. I mean, a lot of them. Between executive producers and co-producers and associate producers and just straight-up “producers,” twenty people were at the helm of Rock Dog. Sadly, it shows. While the movie still carries charm, it just has too many trappings and issues to be taken seriously.

The movie focuses on Bodi, a young Tibetan mastiff voiced by Luke Wilson who lives in a village called Snow Mountain. Snow Mountain is inhabited entirely by sheep, excepting his father Khampa (J.K. Simmons) and the leader Fleetwood Yak (Sam Elliott). Khampa has dedicated himself to protecting the village from the threat of the sinister wolves, who wish to devour the sheep.

He wishes Bodi to follow in his footsteps, to the point of banning music from Snow Mountain to avoid distractions. However, when a radio falls from a passing airplane, Bodi discovers a craving for music and dreams of becoming a rock star like his newly-found

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idol, Angus Scattergood (Eddie Izzard). The young mastiff ends up traveling to the big city to follow his passion, not realizing that Angus has hit a creative roadblock of his own. Meanwhile, the wolves decide to take the opportunity to make their move.

To start off, the animation is pretty good, considering the budget. At $60 million, Rock Dog had less to work with than even Illumination movies do, and they’re kings of low-budget animation nowadays. The character designs are very good, almost plush in feeling. We can also see Ash Brannon’s expertise come into play, with some nice shots and sequences. When Bodi first discovers the radio, there’s a scene where he imagines himself in a blank space with the music visualized as colors dance around him. It’s a nice sequence that really stood out to me. The animation also helps deliver the visual humor well, providing enough impact to make the slapstick effective. Visually, the animators and story artists have done a good job.

The writing itself is a mixed bag, sadly. Let’s do the positives first: the main characters, Bodi and Angus, are both enjoyable. I

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enjoyed watching the dog’s unbridled enthusiasm grate against the cat’s cynicism, and they have a fun dynamic. Khampa also manages to be stern and tough without becoming mean-spirited. He genuinely cares about his son, but also worries about the future of the village. All the voice actors deliver good performances, especially Eddie Izzard. Izzard’s delivery makes us believe he’s a rock star who’s gotten too comfortable on his laurels, and elicited the most laughs from me. Unfortunately, a lot of the other characters feel extraneous. A duo of wolves constantly try to kidnap Bodi, but they constantly fail to slapstick antics. It makes the threat of the wolves feel laughable while not really advancing the plot.

There’s a fox and a goat (I think it’s a goat?) who feature in the promos but don’t really have a big impact on the story. Honestly, if they had cut out the comedic wolves and strengthened the fox and goat, it would have made the story more powerful.

As for the plot itself… well, it doesn’t offer very many sur-

prises. From the set-up I gave you in the beginning, you can probably guess most of the main beats with few deviations. It’s not fundamentally broken, but if you ask too many questions the story doesn’t hold up. For example, Khampa has a magic mastiff death punch that he wants Bodi to learn, until Bodi learns to unlock it through music. No other animals demonstrate magic though, and it’s not really discussed in their society. Is it some ancient art? Are only mastiffs magic? Or another conundrum: Bodi seems fairly comfortable with the concept of airplanes and buses and other electronic equipment. So why does he seem mystified by the radio that falls from the sky, calling it a “magic music box”? Or the scene where the wolf mafia (yes, they’re a mafia) kidnap Angus Scattergood by accident, believing him to be Bodi… and end up releasing him. I mean, my only experience with organized crime comes from reading/watching The Godfather, but I’m pretty sure that even if you’d kidnapped a big name star by accident, you’d take advantage of the ransom potential. Speaking of the wolves, they just go all over the place. They start out as these vicious predators that we’re supposed to fear, but then turn into the aforementioned mafia-parody slapstick oafs. Then, at the climax of the movie, they storm the sheep village, and it’s insinuated they are going to serve the cooked village members to Khampa and the yak elder as a humiliation and terror tactic. That’s Silence Of The Lambs level of messed up. It just creates a jarring effect as the antagonists go from menacing to comical to psychopathic over the course of only limited screentime. In fact, at the very end it seems that they reach a truce where they agree to befriend Khampa and the others? Quite a turnaround from wanting to eat someone to working together.

Rock Dog’s story has a lot of flaws. However, the very core of it still beats pretty true. The basics of the story are there: we know why Bodi wants to be a musician, we know the obstacles he has to face, and it’s still endearing to watch him relentlessly pursue his goal. His arc is the heart of the film, and that much is pretty solid.

It’s just the meat of the world-building and the supporting characters who end up falling apart. As for the humor, it’s not a laugha-minute movie, but most of the gags got a chuckle out of me, and none of them made me groan. There was just one part where Bodi found himself in a wrestling ring thanks to the wolf mafia, and he turned to the ropes only to have them turn into a cage…

I still don’t understand why? My only reasoning was that it was supposed to be a gag, even though it made no sense. Again though, most of them did well enough to evoke humor from me.

Rock Dog has a lot of plusses and minuses, but in the end…

I enjoyed it more than I disliked it. There’s just something charming about it. I think it’s the fact that it comes from one culture trying to reach to a new audience, and you can feel the heart and soul being put into it. It just got stuck in production hell. Sure, it’s not a breakout movie for any of the players involved, but it’s certainly better than something like The Angry Birds Movie. If you have small children, or you’re looking for a gentler time, Rock Dog is relaxed and harmless.

David Gouldthorpe is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun.com.

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Education Without Fear LAST WEDNESDAY, TWO INDIAN SOFTWARE engineers, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, were shot at a bar in Olathe, Kan. Kuchibhotla was killed, while Madasani and Ian Grillot, a bar patron who attempted to confront the shooter, were both injured. According to witnesses, the alleged shooter, 51-year old Navy veteran Adam Purinton, had belligerently asked about the two engineers’ immigration statuses, told them to “get out of my country” and used racial slurs before being asked to leave the bar. He complied, but returned shortly thereafter with a firearm.

Both Kuchibhotla and Madasani were here legally on H-1B visas, according to the Washington Post. They had completed graduate studies in America and were working for tech firms in Kansas.

The immigration policies pursued by the Trump administration have emboldened a culture of xenophobia throughout the United States, threatening to do lasting damage to our nation’s place on the global stage. Though the White House has vociferously denied any connection between the president’s rhetoric and a reported rise in hate crimes and groups, the government’s cavalier attitude towards immigration enforcement and deportation signals that those who look different are no longer welcome.

For a global institution such as Cornell, implications of this culture are devastating. Perpetuating fear among international students that the United States is a dangerous place to pursue an education in no way serves the interests of the University.

Both undergraduate and graduate international students are an integral part of the Cornell community as well as the greater Ithaca and Tompkins County communities. They are sources of intellectual, academic and economic stimulus in this college town as well as college towns across the country. It is incumbent on the University to reiterate its support for its international students in the wake of this senseless killing.

This responsibility extends beyond Cornell — Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY) must raise his voice against the creeping irrationality and racism that threatens to harm the multiple world-class institutions in his congressional district. The Congressman, an early supporter of the president’s campaign, has the influence necessary to persuade President Donald Trump J. to speak out, forcefully and frequently, against acts of violence and hate like the one in Olathe, Kan. The economic and academic health of his constituents may well depend on it.

Sunayana Dumala, Mr. Kuchibhotla’s widow, told reporters, “I, especially, I was always concerned, are we doing the right thing of staying in the United States of America?... But he always assured me that only good things happen to good people.”

No student or potential student, whether they are from India (as the victims were), or the Middle East (as the alleged shooter perceived them to be) or anywhere else, should have to question their safety when deciding to come to Cornell — whether they fear harassment from overzealous immigration officials or the xenophobic environment brought on by the administration.

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have a serious question that needs a tongue in cheek answer: What makes a great business student?

It’s really not as asinine as it sounds.

Lately, I’m beginning to think that the market for business students is sorely lacking in clarity and ripe for exploitation, if we ever begin to think deeper than just grades and internships. On some level, this is article is inspired by the half measures business takes to define itself, because if the sciences are precision and humanities are expression, business is a premature gestation of both.

We don’t derive Slutsky’s equation or breathe Shakespeare. They are not special tricks and bubbly rhetoric. Last night, I had to watch my policy debate friend prep for a new debate. She was speaking in tongues, running her mouth so fast the syllables were blurring the air around her.

“Why do you have to talk so fast?” I said, bewildered if not mildly impressed by her sheer speed.

“To fit in as much evidence as possible in nine minutes,” she said, looking up.

Then she went back talking at an ungodly rate.

But in business, it’s just a matter of speaking slowly and confidently. It’s not exciting, and it’s not supposed to be. In my management communication class, most of the students stand up during the second week and do a little talk in front of the whole class. The cinch is that not a single

of an embarrassing amount of degrees from Cornell University, decided to donate a small country’s GDP to Cornell’s business program, he not only managed to bring a stream of extremely important people to the celebration with deep pockets and ubiquitous last names, but also made a statement on behalf of Cornell’s Business School: Wharton was old news. Cornell was going to make it like any other American organization — spend, spend, spend until it got to the top, and look pretty freakin’ good while doing so.

And with Dyson’s exceptional business analytics program, they can continue to churn out good business students. The problem is, at the end of the day, a business school can only do so much. While a graduating medical student, knows all he or she needs to know before his or her residency, and a law student, after passing the bar, is ready to practice, a business student is never really fully prepared for his or her career.

Blame it on the constantly shifting winds of the business industry. Blame it on the baselessness of business — what was good one day might prove to be poisonous the next. If there’s one thing we know in business, it’s that we don’t know.

Poor Marissa Mayer. The former Yahoo CEO turned laughingstock has seen her reputation tumble farther than anyone in recent years. Once a star as a part of Google’s Product Search team, the Stanford

But Dyson only offers one communication class.

This is a problem, because it’s only offered to freshmen. For such an important skill that is never objectively perfect, its development is being limited by the Dyson School. one of us has more than two minutes to prepare the topic. So while some people might have had a little more comfort speaking in public than others, all of us were on the same level of preparation. There were weird topics (“What would win? Rock or paper?”)…..and there were thoughtful ones (“What are you passionate about?). And the people! Some were clearly passionate alphas unafraid to articulate their thoughts. They paced and swiveled and romped their way through the presentation. But others were a little hesitant, and the awkward pauses were palpable. Some people get the gist of public speaking from day one and run with it. But most people, like me, don’t.

That’s okay. That’s what the class is for.

Professor Lennox, who teaches Management Communication, sees it as a refinement for those who want to move up in management. Entry level jobs are mostly data analysis and crunching, but advancement requires softer skills. For his part, coming from the school of hotel administration before teaching at Dyson, communication is an important part of the career advancement part. The hotel school offers a variety of communication classes, ranging from management communication to corporate communication – even a communication class for entrepreneurs, which teaches them to talk about their ideas to potential investors. But Dyson only offers one communication class. This is a problem, because it’s only offered to freshmen. For such an important skill that is never objectively perfect, its development is being limited by the Dyson School.

Professor Lennox has hope though. He’s planning a grand new foray into communications for Dyson by hiring new faculty to teach a variety of classes. He’s got impeccable timing too. Three weeks ago, Cornell decide to up its ante against the rest of the business world. When Fisk Johnson, owner

graduate was hired to lead a floundering Yahoo company in 2012. Despite her pristine resume (consulting job at McKinsey, internship at Menlo Park), she never got her feet down properly at Yahoo. Throwing money after expensive hires wasn’t enough to stem the bleeding of Yahoo. The problem was despite all her business acumen, she lacked experience, which is a nice way to say she lacked intuition of where the market was going. But how do you get intuition?

Her plight recalls the tale of John Scully, one of the renowned marketers in the world who was a driving force behind the Pepsi Challenge back in the 70’s. Still, despite that and his Wharton MBA, his tenure as CEO of Apple was nothing short of disastrous.

Apple’s reputation plummeted in the late 80’s to early 90’s as Scully failed to introduce anything innovative, his biggest mistake being the Apple Newton, a personal assistant that was known for its erratic writing mechanism and unfortunate stylus. It wasn’t until Steve Jobs returned to a leading role in the company that Apple became a successful business again. And the funniest thing was — Steve Jobs, a college dropout, never had the same business exposure and education his predecessor had. And it didn’t matter.

It’s why I don’t think there’s a good answer to “how you make a great business student.” Or, at least, there’s not a good serious answer. There’s more than one way to become one, and there’s not a checklist to be done to become a great business student. It’s a lot like seeing the future. You can’t predict it, it might be vastly different from what you expected, but when you see it, you’ll know it. That’s the exciting thing about being in business — what you don’t know might be the most valuable part of your education.

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Narayan Reddy | Reddy Set Go

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verything happens for a reason.” This is a mantra I repeat to myself whenever my world is shaken. It’s a recitation I do with foresight, knowing it will help to eventually make clear the vast improvements the simple passage of time can create.

I’m not there yet, but I hope to be soon. But, everything happens for a reason. Whatever happened was in the past, and in some way, it could have been for the best.

I believe that experiences shape your person. Each moment refines our wisdom.

The insights derived from everything we go through, from the mundane to the monumental, are constantly informing a better and brighter future. Who knew something as trivial as internet surfing could rupture what I presumed were deepseated beliefs.

I found myself on a message board in which many gathered to cope through “everything happens for a reason” and the also popular “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” There was, however, one dissenter. The commenter mocked the extent of hardship expressed by the others, wondering whether they even knew what hardship was.

He then went on to narrate the most devastatingly tragic and unfortunate life story I’ve ever heard.

Things Happen of regaining hope has drawn out The moral: we fill each other the tough times? with false comforts. Everyone Ultimately, I resolved that I of reach completely. The only waxes poetic when faced with would never force myself to thing I can do is hope that it life challenges. Real struggle, confront these concerns. I fig- will one day return.

I did resolve to reform some however, is insurmountable. It ured the unshakeable optimism suffocates one’s ability to see its that hope provides is advanta- aspect of my desperate grip on meaning or beauty. Life is shit geous even in a world where it is “everything happens for a rea(suffering), and a sense of narra- irrational. This logic of having son.” By choosing not to probe, I tive blinds us from understand- faith may be shaky, but the pos- feel that perhaps the best lives are itivity and resilience attained by the most organic. Those that ing this truth.

Cue existentialist and theistic its possession are what I trade fully experience each individual moment to crises. Is there the next. a God? I When we fuel actively disI don’t know what’s going to happen, idea that suade myself maybe nobody or nothing does. I do know an our lives from examinI’ll get to find out though, and I look should follow ing that quesa certain path, tion because, forward to all the ups and downs, lefts we grow comI honestly, and rights, barely analogous fortable with don’t want to predictability know the defidirections that I’ve yet to live through, and take pains nite answer. I celebrate, overcome, learn from to realize that have long projected realbeen comfortand move on. ity. We beable with the come slaves to non-committal agnostic stance: if there is, for condemnations of ignorance a narrative. When the past is great, if there isn’t, oh well. and cowardice for not discard- always used to demonstrate how Through this professed ambiva- ing it. Faith is still a source of we should think about the lence, I allow myself to retain a life for most on Earth, and has future, the present becomes irrelvague sense of security. maintained life for people in its evant. It will always be a means “Everything happens for a rea- throes. I’m too young for hope- to an end and never anything to son” is a saying that perfectly lessness, and I decided I would itself. Some say it feels intoxicating when life is really lived, a describes this safety; it assures me never age enough to receive it.

I have no judgments to pass state, in my opinion, when there that no matter what bad occurs, there will always be hope for on the commenter who dispar- is absolutely no regret of the past something good later. Am I fool- aged the bonding session or worry about the future, only ing myself completely? Should I around the uplifting phrase and allowing your senses to comjust accept outright that nothing those who participated in it. I pletely absorb the current.

Tuning it all out sharpens happens for any reason, that only have interpretation, and I there really is nothing beautiful, feel he’s reached a point in his your audial abilities; you can endearing or meaningful about life in which even the possibility hear important things you oth-

erwise would’ve missed. In these moments of mental solitude you learn new things about yourself you never knew, little epiphanies that make it all worth it, whether or not it’s clear why. I want to look back on my life decades from now with the comfort that I always strived to place myself outside my comfort zone, into circumstances ripe with uncertainty. I want it to be something completely different than what it could have been, for better or for worse, so at least it was my own.

I don’t know what’s going to happen, maybe nobody or nothing does. I do know I’ll get to find out though, and I look forward to all the ups and downs, lefts and rights, barely analogous directions that I’ve yet to live through, celebrate, overcome, learn from and move on.

Shifting my perception of uncertainty from a bottomless predicament to limitless excitement has inspired a profound change in my outlook. I pray that I will always have the strength to push through, keep reaching for and dreaming of bigger things, whatever that means to me in the future.

Whether they’re realized, I’ll just have to wait and see.

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com.

Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester.

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

Cosmos as Metaphor

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On Cornell’s most visible work of art

t has been said that there are no new ideas. I disagree, but I would admit that new ideas are exceedingly rare.

Certainly they are rare enough that I will never think of one. As a writer, then, my job is all about metaphor. If I can put old ideas together in exciting new ways, then I am worth my salt as a composer of language. Last week, as I descended the slope on my daily journey home, the stimuli around me afforded me a metaphor that has yet to leave my head.

Even if you have never been to the Johnson Museum of Art, I would wager that you are familiar with at least one of its exhibits by sight if not by name. And that is by design. Leo Villareal’s Cosmos, the ever-changing LED installation on the museum’s overhang, was in fact partly chosen “for its high visibility not only on campus but also from the city of Ithaca.”

What you may not know is that Cosmos is an homage to astrophysicist and former Cornell professor Carl Sagan, who hosted a television show by the same name.

While Sagan was by all accounts a brilliant researcher, most consider his true legacy to be that of a knowledge communicator. He was the host of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, a thirteenpart PBS series that aimed to educate the public about contemporary scientific concepts. The show won two Emmy awards and has since been described by the New York Times as “a watershed moment for science-themed television

programming.” My parents watched it, and I would wager that yours did too.

Professor Sagan’s remarkable act of making esoteric ideas graspable is the reason he is still being honored in art museums some twenty years after his death.

(Interesting side-anecdote: my grandfather met him once in an airport bath-

“spaceship of the imagination.” The trip is meant to convey scale; Sagan takes the viewer from the edge of the universe to our local group of galaxies, the Milky Way, the boundaries of our solar system, and finally the earth. It is this particular episode that I consider most germane to the metaphorical significance of Leo

At first glance this seems to be an indictment of humanity — an accusation that we as beings lack the capacity to see the bigger picture. But on the other hand, our ability to convince ourselves of our own significance could be seen as one of our greatest strengths. It would be hard to envision a functioning society comprised of people who lacked this ability. room. He turned to the man in the urinal next to him and said, “Hey, has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like Carl Sagan?” The man replied, “That’s because I am.” My grandfather promptly asked for his autograph.)

As the title suggests, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage dealt primarily with subjects relating to the nature of the universe. One episode, entitled “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean,” featured a journey through the macrocosm on Sagan’s

Villareal’s Cosmos exhibit.

Think of it. A man comes on our television and shows us the unfathomably grand scale of the universe. He shows us that our sun is just one of the billions of stars in the Milky Way, which is in turn only one of the hundred billion galaxies in the universe. He shows us that we’re a speck of dust in an infinite void. That we don’t matter. That we’re nothing. And what do we do? Do we see the error of own selfish ways? Do we agree as a soci-

ety to put our petty differences behind us and work to make our insignificant speck the best speck it can be? No, we put up flashing lights.

At first glance this seems to be an indictment of humanity — an accusation that we as beings lack the capacity to see the bigger picture. But on the other hand, our ability to convince ourselves of our own significance could be seen as one of our greatest strengths. It would be hard to envision a functioning society comprised of people who lacked this ability.

One wonders if our font of solipsistic delusion will ever run out. Or could there be some sort of event that made apparent humanity’s triviality and subsequently drove us all mad. In that spirit, consider the Fermi paradox. Most scientists agree that the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations is extremely probable. Physicist Enrico Fermi struggled to reconcile this belief with the fact that earth has never been visited by aliens.

His conclusion, a view shared by Sagan, was that technological civilizations inevitably self-destruct before interstellar travel can be achieved. This definitely depressed me the first time I read it. But I didn’t have time for an existential crisis — I had a prelim the next day.

Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun.com. Whiny Liberal will appear alternating Fridays this semester.

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Icers Look to Carry Regular Season Success Into Playoffs M. HOCKEY

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game that requires an extra period. Schafer called it “just a real good college hockey game,” plain and simple.

Part of that, he alluded to, had to do with one of Lynah’s most vocal crowds of the season.

“The atmosphere was great tonight, I thought the crowd was great,” he said. “I hope we get all the students in that one section to show up for our playoff games. The students in section B and A were awesome tonight. The other section, I don’t know what they got going for them, but we need them here for the playoffs.”

Junior forward Trevor Yates got the scoring underway a little over halfway into the first on the power play, his team-high seventh of the year on the man-advantage. It was indicative of how the game would pan out, as five of the six total goals on the night came on the power play.

“It was hard to figure out what was a call

and what wasn’t a call,” Schafer said.

Union’s dangerous duo of Mike Vecchione and Spencer Foo added a goal of their own, along with Brett Supinski.

Cornell senior forward Matt Buckles found the back of the net on his senior night to regain Cornell the lead after Vecchione’s equalizer, but then Foo and Supinski gave the Dutchmen the lead.

Vanderlaan got the pivotal game-tying goal with 5:01 left in the third to send the game to the extra frame. It gave him a goal in five straight contests — a feat not achieved by a Cornellian since Michael Kennedy ’09 in 2007-08, according to Cornell Athletics — and solidified him at the top of the team in goals with 14 on the year.

“Sucks getting a tie, but I thought we battled pretty hard out there,” Gillam said.

“All four lines played really, really strong, and it’s a taxing game, they’re a strong team.”

Cornell also lost sophomore defenseman Brendan Smith for the year after a hit deliv-

ered by Foo in the second period, per Schafer. It is a big loss for a defensive core that has already seen some centerpieces go down to injury. Freshman defenseman Yanni Kaldis also went down in the game blocking a shot, but did not miss a shift, and the air cavity of Lynah Rink relieved itself in unison.

“We only had five defensemen after that and then went into overtime, so that’s a lot of minutes for [the five, and] it’s pretty intense back there,” Gillam said. “We had to throw [junior forward Alex] Rauter back there for a bit. Good that he can come back and play a role like that at any time. But Sucks losing Smitty, he’s a good two-way defenseman.”

Now, the boys in red will get some welldeserved rest before hosting a team to be determined on the weekend of March 10-12 in the ECAC quarterfinals.

For Gillam and the other seven seniors honored on Saturday night, the team seems to be in the best position it has been in recent memory to make a run at the national

tournament. Being a bubble team is no longer an option for them, and the coming week will be the time to get prepared for what the team hopes is a deep run, playoff beards included.

“I don’t know what’s going on but I plan on keeping the beard, maybe do something funky with it,” Gillam said.

Motivated by the excellence that has passed through the program, and the bitterness of never making the tournament, the team feels confident heading into the most exciting time of the year.

“It feels like just yesterday we were watching Andy Iles [’14] and then heading out,” Gillam said. “It’s pretty crazy that this is our final kick at the can here, and I’m enjoying every minute of it with the guys.”

“We’re not finished yet, though,” he continued. “I think we are going to go pretty far.”

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

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with under a second left in the third quarter. The deficit was still large at that point, but Cornell got a quick goal to start the fourth and it seemed, for a moment, that the Red would surmount a comeback.

Unfortunately for Cornell, that early fourth-quarter goal would be the last the team could muster, even with 14:20 left to play. “[Hobart] finished the chances when they had them and shot the ball really well.” Kerwick said.

“When their hands were free they were putting it in very good spots.”

Four Statesmen recorded a hat trick, two of which added a fourth.

It is senior goalie Christian Knight’s first season back on the field for Cornell since last year’s season-long injury, but Kerwick is not phased by the starter allowing over 15 goals in his first two games.

“We need to do a better job on the defensive side and clean that up,” Kerwick said. “He’s playing with confidence now and he should be. Neither of these two first contests in any way should be put on his shoulders.”

Though a rainy affair — the game was delayed 45 minutes due to inclement weather — Kerwick did not believe it was much of a factor in the loss. Regardless, Cornell lacrosse did not look like the team fans from Ithaca are accustomed to seeing.

Errant passes were abundant, faceoffs became a non-factor, defense went undisciplined — Cornell was penalized on six different occasions. But at the end of the day, it was the lack of capitalizing on chances that dethroned the Red in Division I’s longest rivalry.

“We just have to do a better job of finishing our chances,” Kerwick said. “When you’re generating good offense it’s not good enough just to get the looks, you have to bury it in the back of the net.”

Part of those troubles stemmed from the five-foot-ten, 212 pound goalie in net for the Statesmen.

Senior goalie Jackson Brown has held the starting gig for Hobart since his sophomore year, going toe-to-toe with Cornell three times including Saturday.

In the two career appearances against the Red prior to Saturday, Brown has made double digit saves. That trend continued in 2017, as he went on to make 18 against Cornell, but this was the year he earned the college of under 2,500 students the elusive win.

“Credit to their goalie,” Kerwick said. “I thought he was tremendous in the first half, some highlight saves he had. He’s capable of that, we’ve seen it over the last couple of years.”

As if losing was not disappointing enough, it was Kerwick’s first return to The Boz since his final days as a coach on the Hobart side of the benches.

“I owe so much of my career and opportunities that I’ve been given in the sport to Hobart,” he said. “Of course I wanted to come away with a win and get doubled in a game that should have been a lot closer, but it’s on to Albany now.”

So now where does a team go that was looking for a rebound season after last year’s worst finish since 1998? To the Red’s credit, two games is usually too early to determine what the season will look like, but getting back in the win column at next weekend’s home opener against Albany will be crucial.

Yet through the poor weather and team performance, there are still bright spots to be seen in Saturday’s performance. Freshman attack Connor Fletcher recorded goals two to four of his career with a hat trick, classmate Jeff Teat added two more, and senior midfield Andrew Keith knotted a hat trick of his own, and sits just one goal below his career high.

Still, the team knows it still has plenty of work to do if it wants to get back into the form Cornell lacrosse is accustomed to. And that all starts Monday.

“The emphasis right now is going to be on finishing plays. It has to be every single teammate committed together and practicing at the highest pace that we can,” Kerwick said. “Nothing can take the place of hard work, so we just have to get back to it Monday.”

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

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the Red on a power play opportunity in the second period.

“I think I was in the right place at the right time,” Curlew said of her series-clinching goal.

The goal brought energy to Cornell, who had been out-skated in the first period, with Colgate controlling the puck and creating scoring opportunities.

“We were a bit scattered [in “When you have a little bit of the first period],” Derraugh said. momentum, you don’t want to “We didn’t look to attack enough lose that and have to play another game.” and were playing slow.”

Cornell will bring its tough In the second period, Cornell flipped the switch, especially fol- defense and strong goaltending to lowing the Curlew goal. Realizing St. Lawrence this Saturday in the its opportunity to complete a ECAC semifinals, looking to sweep and avoid a winner-take-all clinch a spot in the finals the next third game on Sunday, Cornell night against either Princeton or Clarkson. tightened up its defense.

“Certainly you want to get [the sweep] done when you have Troy Bridson can be reached at the opportunity,” Derraugh said. tbridson@cornellsun.com.

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Icers End Regular Season on Nine-Game Unbeaten Streak Surging men head into playoffs on high note following weekend win over RPI, tie against Union

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Instead of coasting and playing comfortably through a weekend that, in the grand scheme of things, would not have drastic implications on playoff seeding, the No. 9 Cornell men’s hockey squad — unbeknownst to the word ‘comfort’ — blanked RPI, and tied Union in an instant classic, overtime thriller to deny the Dutchmen the first seed in the ECAC tournament.

The team (18-6-5, 13-4-5 ECAC) finished the year on a nine-game unbeaten streak, going 6-0-3 in that span. “[We’ve] been resilient all year long and found ways with a depleted lineup, and being healthy and not healthy, to win games or tie games,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “We have made quite the surge here to get to the top of the league.”

Despite clinching a bye last weekend, there were still several more under-the-surface benefits that the team takes from this weekend. With the win over RPI (8-26-1, 616), the Red locked up the No. 3 seed in the ECAC. And not only did the tie with Union give Harvard (22-5-2, 16-4-2) the No. 1 seed, but it also ensured that the earliest

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Remaining viligent | Despite already clinching a bye, the Red took no breaks in blanking RPI and tying with Union this weekend.

Cornell can face the Crimson is in the ECAC finals, granted all goes in Cornell’s favor.

Despite Union (23-8-3, 16-4-2) securing a share of the ECAC regular season champion honors, a tiebreaker in Harvard’s favor leaves them No. 2. So Cornell could hypo-

thetically face a team it is 1-0-1 against in Union before it might have to face the only team it is 0-2 against, Harvard.

Cornell is the only ECAC team Union failed to beat at least once all season.

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ond place, or we can’t go to fourth place but I do know it’s a big game for confidence,” Schafer said ahead of Union on Saturday. “A big game for the NCAAs and a great competitive game against a real good hockey team.”

Senior blueliner Patrick McCarron and sophomore forward Mitch Vanderlaan provided the scoring in the win over the Engineers. Senior goalie Mitch Gillam made 31 saves in the contest for his 11th career shutout. RPI outshot Cornell 31-25, but most of the shots the team from Troy engineered came from well outside the danger zone.

“Always good to get a shutout,” Gillam said of No. 11. “Guys played really well in front of me, they kept the shots from the outside for the most part. Give credit to the guys in front of me.”

The next game, on his senior night against Union, Gillam made 32 saves — his number. Half of those came in the third and overtime period, where Cornell was outshot 16-5 against a team fighting for seeding.

The contest was nowhere short of excitement, as is inherent with essentially any See M. HOCKEY page 11

MEN’S LACROSSE

Women Sweep Colgate,Move Into Semis Laxers Suffer First Loss

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Women’s hockey fans around the country should have been delighted to see the ECAC quarterfinal matchup between Cornell and Colgate. In the regular season, both teams took the home matchup, with each game decided by a single goal. This set the stage for an exciting, hard-fought playoff matchup.

Those fans, at least in Cornell’s camp, would have gotten their money’s worth, as Cornell completed a series sweep of Colgate on Saturday in the ECAC quarterfinals, both one goal affairs.

Surprised?

Freshman forward Kristin O’Neill’s penalty shot put the game away for the Red in game one, and classmate Amy Curlew scored the lone goal in the second game along with senior goaltender Paula Voorheis’ 29 saves to clinch the series sweep.

“We were fortunate to get the one [goal] tonight and Paula had a great game,” head coach Doug

Derraugh ’91 said after securing a spot in the semifinals.

In an up and down type of game in which Colgate played the aggressor — outshooting Cornell 29-17 — the Red relied on its defense and goaltending to carry the load. Cornell blueliners routinely blocked pucks and stymied

“I don’t know if it has really hit me yet, but it is definitely an amazing way to possibly end my time at Lynah.”

Senior goalie Paula Voorheis the Colgate attack time and time again with its physical play.

“Hats off to Colgate,” Derraugh said. “They played us hard in both games.”

Friday’s affair was also a tight contest, with Cornell securing a 21 win. Sophomore forward Diana Buckley tied the game at 1-1 in the second period before freshman forward Kristin O’Neill put in the

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Brick wall | Senior goalie Paula Voorhies had 29 saves and shut out Colgate on Saturday to clinch a spot in the ECAC semifinals.

go-ahead goal with a late third period penalty shot.

In the end, strong goaltending ultimately provided the difference between the two closely matched teams. Voorheis notched 60 total saves on the weekend.

“If you are going to have success in the playoffs you need strong goaltending,” Derraugh said.

“I felt really good and I have confidence in my defense,” Voorheis added. “Even if I let out a rebound, I felt like they were always on top of it so I could play aggressively and do my thing.”

In what could be the final game at Lynah for Cornell’s senior class, the players left it all on the ice, looking to ensure a deep playoff run.

“I don’t know if it has really hit me yet, but it is definitely an amazing way to possibly end my time at Lynah,” Voorheis said.

Cornell’s senior class has been tight-knit all season. Given the fact that the Red expects most of its underclassmen to contribute significant minutes on the ice, the seniors have provided leadership and have been a major reason for the success of the underclassmen.

The seniors, led by Voorheis, showed their poise on Saturday.

The moment never felt too big for the experienced bunch.

“To finish up like that is real special,” Derraugh said. “All of the seniors had a great game tonight and it’s something that they will never forget.”

While the seniors provided the leadership, it was the freshman class that scored the crucial goal for See W. HOCKEY page 11

To Hobart Since 2004

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

GENEVA, N.Y. — “Leave no doubt” reads a graffiti-ridden wall a couple hundred feet from Hobart’s Boswell Field — clearly visible on even the rainiest of days that was Saturday’s affair.

But with a white, spraypainted beckoning call in sight, Cornell men’s lacrosse exited “The Boz” getting doubled up by the Statesmen, 16-8, leaving many questions, as well as plenty of doubt, surrounding the Red program coming off its worst season in nearly 20 years.

“We’ve got to regroup and take a look at this from top to bottom,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “We’ve got to make some changes in personal,

we’ve got to make some changes in practice. And it’s all in front of us now.”

For a team that almost relegated itself to Division III in 2008, Hobart looked polished and poised throughout much of the game’s inception. The Statesmen scored the game’s first three, then Cornell stormed back with three of its own.

After that, it was all Hobart.

The team from Geneva took a 7-4 lead into halftime, and added nine more across the third and fourth quarters.

Cornell’s young, talented attacking force was held to four a half.

Freshman attack Jeff Teat got Cornell an impressive goal See M. LACROSSE page 11

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Poor shooting | The Red struggled offensively and failed to tally any points after an early fourth quarter goal.