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Senior Nia Marshall became Cornell women’s basketball’s all-leading scorer over the weekend. | Page 16

Christ Stanton ‘19 explores the music industry’s relationship with politics. | Page 11

Police Officer Sues City,Chief Alleges retaliation after complaint of gender, sexual orientation discrimination

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

Civil action | Officer Sarah Crews filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the City of Ithaca and Chief John Barber violated Title VII and the New York Human Rights Law. NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS / SUN STAFF WRITER

An Ithaca police officer is claiming in U.S. District Court that the City of Ithaca and Ithaca Police Chief John Barber discriminated against her based on her sex, gender and sexual orientation and retaliated against her when she complained.

Officer Sarah Crews said in the lawsuit filed Thursday that “discriminatory, heteronormative and sexual stereotypical” IPD policies require her to search, transport and monitor female arrestees because IPD identifies Crews as female. Crews, in the lawsuit, said she is an “openly gay female and identifies as gender non-conforming.”

Disproportionately searching and transporting female arrestees, Crews said, puts her job in jeopardy because women recognize that

Dyson School Names Wooten as New Dean

By RACHEL WHALEN and EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Staff Writers

Lynn Perry Wooten will be the newest David J. Nolan Dean of The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, the school announced on Monday.

Wooten, senior associate dean for student and academic excellence at the University of Michigan’s business school, will join her colleague Martha Pollack in a

G. Tobin Professor of Marketing — said that she is “looking forward” to the move.

“For a while, I have been fond of Ezra Cornell’s ethos of ‘any person… any study,’ and now I have the honor to live this ethos by serving a dean of the Dyson School,” she told the Cornell Chronicle.

She also expressed enthusiasm regarding Dyson’s distinct mission in “solving the world’s most significant business and

“For a while I have been fond of Ezra Cornell’s ethos of ‘any person...any study.’”

Lynn Perry Wooten move from Michigan to Ithaca on July 1, according to the University.

Wooten — who will succeed interim dean Edward McLaughlin, the Robert

social issues,” a statement posted on the school’s website.

“I am looking forward to working with Dyson’s faculty, staff and students, and excited about how at

Dyson, education and research focus on business as a vehicle for making the world a better place,” she said.

Wooden recieved her undergraduate degree in 1988 from North Carolina A&T State University and her MBA in 1990 from the Fuqua School Business at Duke University, according to Michigan’s website.

Her research currently focuses on positive organizing routines, diversity management practices, and crisis leadership.

Her research has been published in journals including the Academy of Management Journal, American Behavioral Scientist, Human Resource Management and Organizational Dynamics.

She has also coauthored a crisis leadership book Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving See DYSON page 5

she is openly lesbian and have, multiple times, thing to me.’”

Crews, represented by Ithaca attorney Ed threatened to falsely claim that Crews sexually Kopko, claims that the chief’s and the city’s abused them.

A female detainee harassed and masturbat- alleged discrimination created a hostile work environment and violated the ed in front of Crews in 2011, the New York Human Rights Law, the officer said in the suit, after Crews equal protection clause of the 14th was assigned to supervise the Amendment, and Title VII, which arrestee because of IPD’s policies protects employees against disrequiring that people who are crimination based on sex. arrested be searched and supervised The officer is requesting $5 by officers of the same sex. million in monetary damages for “This prisoner harassed Crews, “past and future pain and suffersaying Crews’ prisoner checks were ing” and loss of past and future sexually motivated in frequency,” CHIEF BARBER income, punitive damages against Crews said in the lawsuit, using “prisoner” to refer to a woman who had been Barber, a court order that Ithaca prohibit “furarrested. “At one point, the female prisoner ther illegal and discriminatory conduct” and began masturbating in Crews’ presence and an award of attorney fees. said, ‘Hey big gay woman, you want some of See LAWSUIT page 4 this? I’m gonna make it up that you did some-

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Author Highlights C.U. Roots of Ginsburg ’54

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

When Ruth Bader Ginsberg ’54 first studied at Cornell, she could not know that her experiences would set her on a legendary career path.

This was the focus of a lecture

by Irin Carmon, journalist, feminist and co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, held on Monday night.

“I am so happy to be speaking at Cornell in particular, because this is such a Cornell story,” said

Carmon. “Justice Ginsburg’s commitment to equality was shaped here.”

Ginsburg’s collegiate influence is not limited to Cornell; according to Carmon, she was influenced by the sexism she witnessed during her time at Cornell and Harvard Law School, specifically by the housing policies for women at the two universities.

“To her it was an illustration as to how arbitrary sexism could be,” Carmon said. “That one campus could have exactly the opposite policy, but justify it as

being as for a woman’s own good.”

“This is such a Cornell story. Justice Ginsburg’s commitment to equality was shaped here.”

Irin Carmon Ginsburg was also profoundly inspired by a professor, accordSee GINSBURG page 5

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Prof Discusses Fictional Expectations in Market Economy

By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI Sun Contributer

What do literature and economics have in common?

More than you might think, according to Jens Beckert, director of Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

Becker argued that the fictional expectations that propagate in the market economy are comparable to aspects of literary fiction in a lecture on Monday. “[Literary] fiction creates a reality of their own — the ‘doubling of reality,’” he said. “This capacity of humans to imagine a world different from the factual world is one of the fundamental anthropological quality. It is also fundamental to the economy.”

Beckert added that fictional expectations about the future are the crucial backbone to an innovative capitalist society.

“Nobody can know what the future will bring,” Beckert said. “In situations where we cannot rely on facts of the

future, fictional expectations are crucial placeholders that provide confidence and conviction despite the uncertainty of the future. They help us to act, coordinate and create in the economy.”

Beckert concluded that the capitalist system is unstoppable as long as there is a steady supply of stories about the future, even if those stories may appear to be anti-capitalist.

“Capitalism is able to integrate all these counter-narratives — these ‘fictional expectations,’” he said. “For capitalism to function, the content of these stories are completely irrelevant. … If you think the normative perspective that capitalism as a system to be stopped, than the outcome for this is very pessimistic.”

Yet despite this similarity, literary and economic fiction are different since the latter only pretends to be representative of the factual world, according to Beckert.

“In literature, there is not even the intention to represent the fact,” he said. “[On the other hand,] in economics, it is not possible to represent facts of the future, because

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they do not exist yet. And yet, these ‘fictional expectations’ [function] as as-if statements that pretend to be certain knowledge of the future.”

Beckert’s view on the bridge between “In economics, it is not capitalism and literature were not univerpossible to represent sally agreed upon, facts of the future.” however; Michaela Brangan grad conJens Beckert tended with Beckert’s methodology comparing literary and economic fiction.

“I think there is a difference between literary fiction as an aesthetic object used as a lens to see reality and fiction that is used specifically to deceive people or keep people hanging on,” said Brangan. “They are related, but they are different.”

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at yk462@cornell.edu.

Speak Out Panel Hosts Mental Health Discussion

By MOLLIE CRAMER Sun Staff Writer

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Mental illness is all too often discussed behind closed doors, and this is what Cornell Minds Matter sought to combat by hosting a “Speak Out” panel discussion to facilitate conversations about mental illness on Monday.

CMM social chair and resource center staff member Kristina Wagner ’17 organized the event as part of a project to share mental health experiences through panel discussions and video footage.

“It’s an opportunity for students to share their per-

sonal experience with mental illness because storytelling is one of the most effective ways to reduce stigma,” she said.

“In fact, it might even be the only powerful way to reduce stigma.”

Wagner also hopes to create a video to show at all future panel discussions on campus.

“We’re putting together a video that’s not as detailed as a discussion panel would be, but just to give a face to mental illness to show that there’s a whole other invisible side to people that nobody else sees, that people walk around with See MENTAL HEALTH page 4

Hotel School to Adopt Technology Into Curriculum

By SICHUN LUI Sun Staff Writer

As the hospitality industry becomes more technology-oriented, the School of Hotel Administration is looking for ways to expand its curriculum to respond to student and employer demands.

The hospitality industry has

seen remarkable growth in the past 10 years, with the prevalence of online booking agencies, fast food dining and digital hotel check in process, among others.

However, according to Andrew Whitmore, a full-time lecturer in information systems in the Hotel School, “the hospitality industry has lagged behind other industries in their adoption of

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Whitmore said that the SHA is orienting its curriculum around the fact that more technology companies are recruiting technically-capable hotel graduates on campus.

“Although the hotel school, in taking its cues from industry, has been a little bit slow towards adopting technology into its curriculum, I would expect the growth and expansion of IT and business analytics related curriculum, not only in the hotel school but also in the college of business,” he said.

The students in the hotel school, according to Whitmore, have also shown more interest in the Information System concentration at the hotel school and the Information Science minor.

Prof. Bart Selman, computer science, who was recently interviewed on this subject in The New York Times, studies how technology affects the workplace and claims to have witnessed a “tripling of enrollment” in his computer science classes over the past few years. He also noted that not everyone should become computer scientists.

“Students need to receive a general college education with their chosen specialization, but should possess some knowledge of

computer science,” he explained.

With the increasing adoption of technology, the automation process by machines not only makes people more efficient but also decreases the demand for employees.

“Companies are driven by efficiency and cost reduction, and they only introduce technology when the cost is lower than the cost of labor,” Selman said. “As a result, only certain types of jobs will be replaced, but not very low level jobs, such as cleaning, because robots are costly.”

Therefore, Whitmore noted it

may be crucial to consider whether the automation process in the long term will generate fewer needs for technology-related jobs.

“The people with technical skills would be less affected and would have a higher likelihood of retaining their jobs because companies need people to maintain and improve the technological systems,” Whitmore said. “These are the kinds of things that our graduates are positioned to do.”

Sichun Lui can be reached at slui@cornellsun.com.

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Tech campus | The School of Hotel Administration is adopting technology into its curriculum in response to student and employer demands.

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2007 and is currently working for the department, according to the suit. Public records confirm that Crews has been employed by the city of Ithaca for at least the last seven years.

Barber, a 23-year veteran of the department, is retiring in less than two weeks and has emphasized transparency and progressive policing in his three years as chief. He declined to comment on Crews’ allegations, citing city policy.

“IPD values diversity amongst its Officers and works to foster a welcoming environment for all,” Barber said in a statement to The Sun. “IPD’s detainee search policies conform to state and federal laws, which limit same sex searches.”

A voicemail message left on Crews’ listed phone number was not returned on Monday evening and Kopko, her attorney, did not respond to a request for comment.

Crews made dozens of verbal complaints over several years and sent a formal objection to two IPD sergeants by email in May 2015, according to the lawsuit. The officer’s complaints, the lawsuit claims, led to retaliation

by Crews’ superiors, who she said assigned her to lesspreferred beats more frequently after her emailed complaint.

In Crews’ email, quoted in the legal filing, she objected to jailing female prisoners. Crews noted that male officers are prohibited from jailing female prisoners and said the policy is discriminatory and protects heterosexual male coworkers but does not protect her “as an openly, and obviously, gay female.”

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with all kinds of problems,” she said.

Panels explore different areas of mental illness based on the experiences of three student speakers, according to Wagner.

“I’m hoping that I impact the people that come to the event,” Wagner said.

“I want students to be able to come hear their peers talk about something that they don't hear their peers talk about otherwise. These could be minor things that they feel they’re experiencing alone and this is an opportunity for them to understand and hear personally

“I have been ridiculed and treated with hostility because I expressed my concerns,” Crews wrote in the 2015 email, according to the lawsuit. “I have reached a point where I can no longer tolerate this situation.”

The lawsuit refers to three incidents between 2015 and 2016 for which IPD issued notices of discipline against Crews, the officer said. Crews claims IPD issued the discipline notices — including one for using “the fword” in a private conversation, the lawsuit said — as retaliation for her speaking out against the search and

“I have been ridiculed and treated with hostility because I expressed my concerns.”

Sarah Crews supervision policies.

In one of the three incidents described in the lawsuit, Crews said she was called to the IPD headquarters last June to search a woman who had been arrested. When she arrived, she saw that there were multiple male, heterosexual officers who she said could have searched the arrestee.

“There and then, Crews realized that the IPD was using the stereotypical policies to highlight her gendernonconformity, ostracize her from her peer group, make her uncomfortable, and discriminate against her,” the lawsuit said. “Crews started crying.”

A lieutenant saw Crews crying and asked her to come into his office, according to the suit, but did not again

that they’re not alone in dealing with these issues.”

CMM hosts programs dealing with a wide range of topics relevant to mental health. The students on the panel at Monday’s event discussed topics ranging from transgender issues to eating disorders to students who are simply experiencing stress.

“The main mission of CMM is to advocate for the positive mental health of all students,” Wagner added. “We do that through advocacy and programming and outreach within Cornell and the wider Ithaca community. We serve to be a resource for students.”

CMM provides a personal and inter-

order her to search the arrested woman. Crews received a notice of discipline for insubordination seven weeks later, she said.

The lawsuit said IPD’s staff is overwhelmingly composed of heterosexual men, in contrast to the more diverse population it serves.

Crews’ union attorney proposed to an Ithaca City attorney that IPD create a policy that protects arrestees and arresting officers against sexual orientation, gender and sex discrimination, but the request was ignored, according to the lawsuit. A member of the Ithaca City Attorney’s office did not respond to an interview request on Monday.

In a 2015 interview with The Ithaca Times, Chief Barber said he would not tolerate any discrimination by employees of the department and said he had directed police staff to report any discrimination by their colleagues.

“Complaints will be investigated vigorously and with as much transparency as practical,” he said. “I will not tolerate any deviation from this. Period. The people in our community are our greatest asset and they will not be treated with anything less than dedication, professionalism, and courtesy.”

An initial conference for the case — Crews v. The City of Ithaca et al. — is set to take place before Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles on June 2 in Binghamton. Mae D’Agostino, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of New York, is presiding over the case.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

active organization for students, a service that fills the gap in Cornell’s mental health outreach, according to Wagner.

“I think Cornell is very good with providing a support network,” Wagner said. “I think we have a caring community; we have tons of resources to support everyone. But I think I’m filling a gap because one of the biggest problems with the stigma of mental illness is we talk about it in this way where we know it exists but we don’t necessarily identify with it. We don’t necessarily reveal that we individually deal with mental health.”

Wagner has always had a passion for

mental health, and when she became involved in CMM she started to dedicate more time and energy to helping other students on campus.

“I’m an advocate for mental health,” she said. “I have more experience with it than most people do. I spend so many hours of my week dedicated to improving people’s mental health, and yet it’s still difficult for me to say that I struggle with mental illness. So, I think there’s a big difference between saying that resources exist and actually identifying with mental illness.”

Mollie Cramer can be reached at mcramer@cornellsun.com.

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ing to Carmon. Prof. Robert Cushman, government, along with her distaste for McCarthyism, influenced Ginsburg’s desire to become a lawyer.

“Cushman showed her that even as the federal government was going after individuals in violation of their first amendment rights, the people who were defending them were the lawyers,” Carmon said.

Carmon, whose Ginsburg biography had a three month tenure on The New York Times bestseller list, expressed admiration for Ginsburg’s principled way of life, saying that she “maintained her identity” at Cornell and “stayed true to herself.”

“She is a voice of dissent at a time where so many important civil rights, including women’s rights, including remedies to racial injustice, are on the chopping block,” Carmon said.

In an interview with The Sun, Carmon — also a visiting fellow at the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School — elaborated on the purpose of Ginsburg-esque feminism in SPACEX VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Johnson College of Business, a combination initially met with mixed reactions from faculty, alumni and students across all business programs.

“Lynn’s deep passion for student success will only enhance

Before, During and After a Crisis, and co-edited the book Positive Organizing in a Global Society: Understanding and Engaging Differences for Capacity “Lynn’s deep passion for Building and Inclusion.

student success will only In addition to her published research and enhance the quality of the teaching experience, Dyson School experience.”

Wooten consults with nonprofits organizations, Kathryn Boor hospitals and professional service firms, and is a current member in national volunteer leadership the quality of the Dyson School organizations, including Delta experience,” Kathryn Boor, dean Sigma Theta Sorority, Jack & of the College of Agriculture and Jill of America, Ann Arbor Life Sciences, told the Junior League and The Links Chronicle. “Her leadership and creativity in the field of underInc. Under Wooten’s leadership, graduate business education Dyson will remain as a shared make her the right choice for this school between the Cornell SC role.”

Johnson College of Business and the College of Agriculture and Emma Newburger can be Life Sciences. reached at enewburger@cornellWooten will represent a step sun.com. Rachel Whalen can be towards solidifying Dyson’s reached at future within Cornell SC rwhalen@cornellsun.com.

the current political climate, noting that the United States is the only “wealthy country that does not require paid parental leave by employers.”

“We have a lot of rights on paper, but actually vindicating those rights, such as being able to push back on employment discrimination, is actu-

“The Supreme Court is more important than ever in safeguarding these basic rights.”

Irin Carmon ally harder than it was 10 to 20 years ago,” she said. “I am really inspired by this generation of feminists. I am happy that the first act of resistance of the Trump presidency was women taking to the streets and protesting.”

When asked about infringements involving protesting political speakers on campus, Carmon argued that there should be no question as to the rights of protesters.

“Just because somebody has the right to speak, does not mean that they have a right not to be peacefully protested,” she said. “I am really wor-

ried about encroachments on free speech that policy makers who really have power to limit people’s speech. I am not worried about campus speakers being protested peacefully.”

According to Cornell Hillel Speakers Series Chair Molly Pushner ’19, Carmon herself is a model for success.

Citing her numerous accolades — including her 2011 appointment to Forbes's 30 Under 30 in Media — Pushner called her an “incredible and accomplished person.”

“She has definitely inspired me with the work she does,” Pushner said. “Much of her work covers topics such as reproductive health and gender which are two things that I am very passionate about. I find it inspiring that she has committed herself to work around such powerful thing.”

Carmon did not hesitate to emphasize the importance of the Supreme Court in the modern era.

“So much is at stake, and as we are clearly seeing, the Supreme Court is more important than ever in safeguarding these basic rights and liberties,” she said.

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

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un. Not away from the issues but towards them. Do not think that just because you are young or inexperienced that you cannot make a difference if you try. And there is no more important time to make a difference than now, when the new status quo is totally unacceptable. Keep marching, keep raising your voice on the issues you care about, and then take that energy and run with it.

Pick an office — any office — and work towards it. The events of the past year have shown that no office in the nation is out of reach as long as one meets the bare minimum of requirements. And although inexperience may be a lodestone around the neck of the current White House (as evidenced by the scandal-a-day routine to which we are now accustomed), don’t let that distract you from the massive changes this administration is affecting in all governmental and cultural spheres. Despite their inexperience and casual disregard for norms, this administration is making a difference in the lives of all Americans, for better or for worse. So

Simply put, it’s our turn now, and we must seize the opportunity as it presents itself.

Joe Biden gets it. America’s favorite vice-president (sorry Walter) spent last week campaigning for a state senate candidate in a special election in Delaware. That candidate, Stephanie Hansen, won the election handily due to a massive uptick in turnout, besting Democratic margins from three years ago. Because Hansen prevailed, the Democrats kept control of the Delaware State Senate, and added another talented politician to their bench.

In under two months, the citizens of Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District will elect a congressman to replace current Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price. Running for the seat is 30-year old documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff, a former congressional aide who has been endorsed by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA).

With the help of a nationwide network of motivated Democrats, Ossoff has fundraised well past expectations, and

That district could be yours, and that person could be you.

Congressmen long assumed to be in “safe” districts must and will feel the heat of their constituents come the 2018 midterms. don’t doubtyour personal capacity to make just as much change, if you happen to find yourself in a position of power.

You don’t have to run for president.

If you’re under 35, you aren’t even allowed to (though who knows how much weight the Constitution carries these days). But the future does not lie in the presidency — the White House is a lagging indicator of nationwide political shifts. The future lies in local elections, not just Senate and House races but the General Assembly, in county legislature, in the Ithaca Common Council. Win those races, and the rest will follow.

In 2010, a wave of disillusionment with the Washington establishment swept across the nation and brought Republicans to power in unprecedented levels. Although President Obama won reelection two years after, that disillusionment and resentment continued to grow until it boiled over in the form of Trumpism. But Trumpism would not be possible without the success of the Republicans on the state and local levels. Aided by a horde of gerrymandering state legislatures and seemingly bottomless bench of messengers, the Republican Party executed a bottom-up takeover of the entire American political system.The Republicans had the benefit of being the opposition party — President Obama provided them with an unparalled foil agaist which to run.

But times have changed. The White House is now occupied by a president with a level of unpopularity unseen in the modern era. If there’s one thing you take away from the viral videos of angry constituents confronting their (mostly Republican) representatives, it’s that the tides have turned.

stands as a serious contender to represent the Republican-tilting Sixth District. If the Democrats are to take back the House, they need people like Jon to run in red districts across the country.

That district could be yours, and that person could be you. Congressmen long assumed to be in “safe” districts must and will feel the heat of their constituents come the 2018 midterms.

All of us at Cornell are receiving or have received a world-class education.

We possess all the tools necessary to help our communities in this time of need. Whether that community is deep blue Chevy Chase, Md., ruby red Wichita, Kan., or right here in upstate New York, you can make a difference.

Look no further than our very own Mayor, Svante Myrick ’09, who ran for and won a seat on the Ithaca Common Council while still an undergraduate.

Now in his sixth year in office, Myrick has revitalized the city with the Commons renovations and has positioned himself at the forefront of opioid addiction treatment with his “Ithaca Plan.”

So when you go home for spring break, take a minute to look up when your next local election is. For those of you who live here full time, there are several spots on the Ithaca Common Council up for grabs this year. Don’t underestimate the power the right person in the right place can have. Even if it’s just a town council seat. Even if it’s just county legislature seat. Find your issue, make a plan — and run with it.

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he worst news today is the news about how technology is killing us. “The use of social media causes us to meet face-to-face with much less frequency resulting in a lack of social skills” or “technology creates the perfect recipe for depression with the lack of human contact, overeating, and lack of exercise” or “being constantly plugged in and connected causes an extra layer of stress that wasn’t present before the overuse of technology” — I can keep going, but honestly I’m sure you could type the words “bad” and “technology,” and Google’s algorithm will be happy to oblige.

It’s not so much that these news stories are fake as

There seems to be a distinction people draw today of what is “real” and “unreal.” Real is what occurs in our everyday, face-to-face interactions while unreal is what apparently occurs online. it is that technology seems to be pit against anything good that could occur in society. Fearing the inevitable shift towards technology accomplishes little else other than an unproductive discussion to which the only logical conclusion seems to be switching off all your devices and hiding in your house.

There seems to be a distinction people draw today between what is “real” and “unreal.” Real is what occurs in our everyday, face-to-face interactions while unreal is what apparently occurs online. There is, however, danger in drawing conclusions like this about the technology we engage with on an everyday basis.

Technology tends to be a reflection of the kind of people we are and the interactions we engage in on an everyday basis. When we draw a line between technology and real life, however, we do ourselves a disservice in analyzing how technology impacts our daily lives.

Rather than looking at how we may turn away from the technology we employ in our lives, we must look to how we may better understand and benefit from the technologies we have and will continue to use in our lives. Painting the teenagers that spend time on their phones as unhealthily obsessed with technology unfairly identifies technology as the problem, and fails to see the larger context at hand.

Hebani Duggal is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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“What terrible publicity! What a great way to turn the public opinion of city residents against you, Mr. Maguire! You already have a monopoly on car dealerships in Ithaca… The council, the mayor, and residents see a waterfront that has been totally misused and we want to see it turned into a beautiful and valuable resource for our community – not more cars!!”

Bob Hutko Re: “Maguire Dealerships Owner Sues City of Ithaca, Mayor Over Zoning” News February 27, 2017

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efore last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump was solidly the candidate of anger — anger at elites, anger at the media and anger at the yawning gap between the rural and urban Americas. As part of this anger, Trump foretold destruction — draining the swamp and dismantling NATO, all while building a big, beautiful wall. He was a “disrupter,” that faddish term economists use to describe upstart startups. Clinton’s message of hope couldn’t withstand Trump’s brand of change.

Now Trump and his motley crew have taken over the White House and those who were angry before are no longer quite so.

Populist elements of his blue-collar base have been soothed by his attacks on those “enemies of the people,” on the fourth estate who have been conjuring news from thin air (“The leaks are real, but the news is fake”). Big business — the greediest alligators in that Washington swamp — have also been riding high as stocks soar and Trump promises a bonfire of red tape (I wonder if the fumes will do anything more to further addle the man’s brain).

Thus the mantle of anger has passed to the left. The Women’s March and the protests against the immigration ban fiercely demonstrated the resistance Trump can expect to his blundering policies.

However the most virulent expressions of rage on the left have not been directed at any new policies or any new actions by those in power, but at free speech.

One has only to look at the recent cancellation of a speech by thenBreitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos at University of

California, Berkeley after protests against his appearance turned violent.

Yes, Yiannopoulos (he may prefer to go by “MILO” but such a moniker is much too facile for a man who rather gleefully promotes himself as a “dangerous faggot”) is an absurd provocateur making absurd points with little basis in ideology, but he should be free to speak his mind. Even if his verbiage is the discursive equivalent of the Exxon Valdez. I can despise Yiannopoulos for his comments on race and feminism and his condonement of paedophilia while holding dear his right to express such noxious bilge.

Forcefully silencing figures such as Yiannopoulos (or Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, who was recently convicted in absentia of hate speech) may seem cathartic to some but only serves to further enrage and radicalize the far-right’s anger against liberals. The American centre is shrinking from the erosion of foundational ideals on both sides of the aisle.

The United States has a long and complicated history with free speech, from the Sedition Acts to the Red Scare. Indeed, patriotism has often been equated with undermining that most American ideal — in the words of the general secretary of the red-baiters, “McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.” For all we may try, we cannot escape ourselves.

Though technology has now advanced sufficiently to nearly completely guarantee free speech in the virtual realm, free speech means little without the ability to commune in person. For that is

the most effective way to speak truth to power: through united, concerted action. The actions of those like the Berkeley demonstrators are as anti-American as what they complain against. In this it seems that America is suffering from one of its periodic crises of confidence.

This country is witnessing creeping authoritarianism not only in a rightist White House but also on leftist campuses across the country. In this political moment, Trump is far from having a monopoly on anti-democratic views.

We must work towards an enlightened society in which each individual has their confidence in their own views tempered with a healthy humility towards those of others, such that we may refute arguments based on reason rather than withdrawing ourselves into our own familiar darknesses.

The content of speech should not be used as a justification for its denial. Unless uttering a direct exhortation to violence, individuals must be free to speak their mind. The remedy for hateful speech is more speech, not less.

Free speech is what some have termed the master ideal — without free speech it is impossible to guard those rights that appear more immediate. Without guarding the freedoms of those with whom I disagree, however abhorrent their views, it can never be long before there will be no one left to speak for me.

Alex Davies is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News For You? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Cautious: Cornell Professors Comment On Trump’s Climate Change Policies Express concerns over excessive fossil fuel promotion GABRIELLA DEMCZUK / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Climate slayer l Scott Pruit, 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, at his confirmation hearing.

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

While Punxsutawaney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter on Feb. 2, the nation had been experiencing one of the warmest months in decades.

The United States Geological Survey has attributed the early advent of spring to the result of climate change. The Trump Administration, however, has no plans of taking this threat seriously. President Trump has famously tweeted that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese and the recent reports of increasing federal budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency have been met with concerns.

The Sun reached out to professors of climate science to understand their view on the matter.

“I’m a glass half-full kind of person,” said Prof.

Natalie Mahowald, atmospheric sciences, on the effects of the new administration on climate science.

“I think it is too early to know the implications of the new administration on either science funding or climate change progress yet,” she said. “While this administration returns climate change to a lower emphasis than the previous administration, it is more similar to what we saw previously, with the Bush administration, and we still have a Republican controlled Congress, so it’s not clear it is new ground, or just a return to a lower status.”

David Wolfe, plant and soil ecology, agrees, saying that Trump has changed his mind about climate change and the Chinese and “all of Trump's Cabinet picks have acknowledged that something is changing with the climate.”

“Nevertheless, all indications are that the new administration is focused on promoting and expanding fossil fuel use as opposed to exploring renewables and providing leadership on addressing the impacts of climate change,” Wolfe said.

Prof. Bruce Monger, earth and atmospheric sciences, is not optimistic about the changes, pointing to the hypocrisy in the nature of the “war on science.”

“The war on science is selective. If it goes against big corporate or religious interests, then they [Republicans] are going to discount the science,” he

said. “It’s not like they don’t believe in science, I don’t think, it’s that when the science disagrees with their desired outcomes, they’re gonna discount the science.”

According to professors, there is a silver lining.

Mahowald said that the recent republican legislation that proposes a carbon tax is a step in the right direction.

Additionally, White House apathy seems unlikely to stop local, corporate or international initiatives towards climate-friendly policies.

“It’s not like they don’t believe in science. It’s that when the science disagrees with their desired outcomes, they’re gonna discount the science.”

Prof. Bruce Monger “Despite what goes on in Washington, local community and business leaders of all political persuasions have had little choice but to tackle the very real costs of climate change impacts, such as coastal damage associated with sea level rise and heat stress.” Wolfe said. “Many states are taking creative and effective action to not only build resilience to climate change, but also to slow the pace of climate change by promoting energy efficiency and exploring renewable energy

solutions.”

Monger emphasized the importance of an international treaty like the G20 Paris Agreement, and said that it was extremely hard to pull out of something of that magnitude.

“Every leader of every nation on this earth signed [an agreement] that said that we’re not going to cross two degrees warming and to do that, we need to take the world to zero carbon emissions. It’s not some ecocrazy group mouthing off, it’s the entire planet’s leadership. How do you argue with that?” Monger said.

Wolfe and Monger both talked about the how economic reasons can also push for more climate friendly policies. Instead of the proposed coal revival to increase jobs, Monger said that the same people can be put to work creating solar panels.

“Many economists have argued that the transition to an energy future with less reliance on fossil fuels will not only reduce the costs of weather-related disasters, but will be a boon to those nations that are at the forefront of new technologies that will take the world there,” Wolfe said. “These market forces may eventually win the day and cause a shift in thinking within the Trump administration.”

There is, however, a sense of urgency.

“We don’t have much time now. Cornell is going to zero carbon by 2035 for a reason. So this four-year delay is a big deal,” Monger said. “It really disheartens me that we have to struggle through this even though it is exactly the time that we need to turn it up to 11 on getting ourselves to zero carbon [emissions].”

Monger encourages students to take an active role in fighting for their beliefs through protests, voting and calling their congressmen to keep them accountable.

“Every so often, a generation gets called upon to do something extraordinary. You guys [millennials] didn’t have anything to do with all of the [climate] things that are going wrong but we have 20 to 30 years to get to zero carbon and your generation has to push it because if we cross two [degrees increase] we cross two for 10,000 years.”

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun.com.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:

Do Machines See What I See?

By SARA RAGI Sun Contributor

In under 60 years, computer programming has gone from excruciately producing punch cards to instantly creating algorithms that can recognize people in photos. What lies ahead? At Cornell’s weekly computer science colloquium Philip Isola, a postdoc in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at UC Berkeley, attempted to shed light on that very topic.

“My goal is to make systems that can understand the visual world and see the same kind of richness and structure that we see. So, in the talk I was trying to convey one approach to that: learning without having expert knowledge of what you are trying to imitate,” Isola said.

“Computer vision is going through a revolution. Five years ago, people were working on classic computer vision which is based more on principles that psychologists had developed about how

human vision works. How if you look at an image you know where one aspect ends and another one starts. In the last five years, the question has become how do the classic theories fit with modern machine learning methods and how relevant the pre-deep learning era is to the new era of machine learning,” said Prof.

Noah Snavely, computer science, and the event’s Cornell host.

One of these more conventional techniques — supervised object recognition — is in widespread use. A learner, or computer in this case, is provided with an exhaustive array of images that share the same label. By analyzing the patterns that cause images to be associated with such a label, a computer is able to associate a similar unlabeled image with the correct label.

The issue with such a technique and indeed all techniques that require handcurated training data and hand-designed tasks is that they are in stark contrast to our natural way of learning, by way of raw sensory experiences and by generat-

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Berkley postdoc, Philips Isola, speaks on the future of computer vision.

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ing our own objectives. images as we do, machines need to “There’s this element of curiosity understand and reason about the strucabout people that we actively learn tures they ‘see’. According to Isola, one things without having to be force-fed way forward is to use a method known as knowledge, representation learning. An algorithm, so those the ‘autoencoder’, kinds of abilinterprets the image ities to genand encodes vital eralize from information into an a small numimage code vector. ber of examThese can then be ples or to used by algorithms curiously to reconstruct the explore the image. The goal is to world are have machines recmissing from ognize structures computer contained within a vision and larger image, for people are example, recogniztrying to get ing fish in an image closer to of a coral reef. t h a t , ” Despite the fair Snavely said. accuracy of such Picture a key algorithms, zebra on a obstacles remain. green field.

Researchers are still How do you Prof. Noah Snavely trying to pinpoint distinguish the amount of comthe zebra pression needed; too from all the grass around it? If you have never seen a much and crucial information is lost but zebra before, then the contrast between too little and unnecessary features are colors should be sufficient. Isola aims to retained.

“My ultimate goal is to make sysingrain the same intuition into machines. He does so using a measure tems that really have the kind of abiliknown as Pointwise Mutual ties that human babies have and I think Information, which estimates how often this requires understanding the type of things co-occur if they are actually inde- input that biological systems get, the pendent. In this case, a machine could structure of the environment and also contrast the high PMI association the structure of our brains,” Isola said. between white and black with the low “I think this requires agents that are PMI association between black and adaptive, that explore the world and green to infer that the picture contains seek out doing new constructive tasks on their own. In the end, I hope this two distinct structures.

“We assign objects to the same pixel helps us understand what it means to segment if they have high PMI [and] to learn to see, that this will provide a different object segments if they have more complete understanding of intellow PMI. The goal is to design an affini- ligence.” ty measure that is adaptive to each image it is applied to and that’s what using PMI Sara Ragi can be reached at enables,” Isola said.

To complement this ability to process sdr82@cornell.edu.

“We actively learn things without being force-fed.

That ability is missing from computers and people are trying to achieve that.”

Quantifying Atmospheric Carbon With Soil Microbes

By TRANG DAU Sun Contributor

In fall of 1991, eight men and women were sent to live in a three-acre glass and steel dome in the middle of Arizona’s scorching desert. Referred to as Biosphere II, the complex aimed to model the Earth’s biosphere — even containing a field to grow crops. The two year experiment was designed to test if humans were capable of surviving in an artificial ecosystem.

Less than a year later, the project lay abandoned. The level of oxygen dropped drastically to levels seen on Mount Everest. Despite significant debate, it was finally determined that the reason for such a drastic change was the soil. Scientists wanted to ensure that human occupants would have enough food supply, so they increased the soil’s fertility. This seemingly harmless act, though, altered microbial activities and lead to catastrophic failure.

According to Prof. Daniel H. Buckley, soil and crop sciences, the project had a few key lessons and highlighted the significance of soil in our ecosystem.

“Knowing what the soil does matters. Failing to understand how it works leads to disastrous consequence,” Buckley said.

Buckley serves as the principal investigator on a project to investigate soil-microbial interactions. Knowing how soil behaves matters even more in the age of climate change. The terrestrial biosphere — vegetation, soil etc.

— holds a large fraction of global carbon and nearly 70 percent of the organic carbon in terrestrial systems is

found in soil.

“The degree to which it stores carbon is good for us.

The degree to which it respires is not, because it contributes to the amount of carbon found in the atmosphere,” Buckley said.

“Knowing what the soil does matters. Failing to understand how it works leads to disastrous consequences.”

Prof. Daniel H. Buckley In his lab at Cornell, Buckley and his colleagues shed light on how soil responds to changing environmental conditions brought about by climate change, such as higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, higher temperature and lower precipitation. Specifically, they study the connections between microbial activity and carbon-cycle

transformations, which remain poorly described.

The project is divided into three main parts. First, the team hopes to characterize the functional traits of microorganisms that help mediate the mineralization of organic matter in the soil. Second, they aim to determine the degree to which such mineralization depends on variations in microbial traits. Finally, Buckley hopes to quantify the variation in the carbon cycle due to variations in microbial-soil interactions.

To begin testing their hypothesis, the team aims to label carbon containing molecules in decomposing matter with isotopes. Upon feeding on this, microbes imbibe this carbon into their DNA. Researchers can then sequence their genome to understand the mechanisms of their interactions with molecules in the soil.

One of the greatest challenges facing such research is that microbes do not work alone. In fact, the collaborative nature of organisms makes it harder to predict how the system will respond to changes in the environment.

“It’s like how the economy works. You get a chip from China, software from somewhere else and assemble the whole thing in the U.S. The job is distributed and done by those that are most efficient at it. But that makes it really complex,” Buckley said.

While this would be an important first step in understanding how microbe-soil interactions occur, Buckley hopes to predict how these interactions may change, perhaps to even successfully recreate Biosphere II. Trang Dau can be reached at tld68@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Shall We Dance? Yes, but Not Around Colonialism

BY ZOE LINDENFELD Sun Contributor

As a longtime Zadie Smith fan, I began my journey into Swing Time, her latest novel, with a certain degree of expectation. I anticipated to be entertained, that there would be points where I laughed and, as a testament to the complexity of her writing, for there also to be moments in the book when I cried. I did not however, expect to feel intense irritation, almost to the point of hatred.

The plot of Swing Time is effectively split into two. The first half revolves around the childhood friendship of two girls tied together by their similar skin tones and mutual love of dance. The book is written from the perspective of one of the girls, who remains unnamed throughout the novel and for whom the term ‘unlikable’ is a substantial understatement. The narrator is insecure, constantly doubting her own (terrible) decisions, while continuously maintaining harshly critical opinions of others. In short, Swing Time is a story about friendship that begs the question: why would anyone want to be friends with this person?

Zadie Smith is no novice at creating contentious characters that elicit a diversity of reactions from readers. In White Teeth, the bad-boy character of Millat infuriated me with his womanizing persona, but I secretly wondered whether I had a bit of a crush on him. Similarly, while reading On Beauty, the seditious Professor Claire Malcolm frustrated me with her inability to recognize the good in her life (she was tenured, for god’s sake!), but I reserved warm feelings for her, particularly as she advocated for the inclusion of disadvantaged students in her classroom.

Yet in Swing Time, I was unable to muster up such compassionate thoughts for the narrator. The screen through which she viewed the world was so negative and judgmental that gaining insight into her mind was unpleasant. However, this too raised a question for me: why did Smith construct this character to be so thoroughly unredeeming?

The second half of the plot centers on the adult experiences

of the narrator, who has grown distant from her childhood friend Tracey and is now working for Aimee, a celebrity of the hybrid pop star/do-gooder variety that has become fairly ubiquitous in contemporary media. As a grown woman, the narrator continues to be her pessimistic, uber-critical self, though her callous thoughts are now directed toward Aimee rather than Tracey. As Aimee’s personal assistant, the narrator is involved in all aspects of Aimee’s life and aids her in a plan to build a school for underprivileged children in an (again unnamed) country in Africa.

Through the lens of a less judgmental character, Aimee might be heralded as generous, even commendable in her efforts to improve the world, motivated by mostly positive intentions. With such a critical voice narrating the novel however, Aimee’s approach is all wrong.

Rather than turning her into a virtuous savior, Aimee’s actions are represented as a brand of ignorant colonialism. Aimee is portrayed as vapant and naive, more concerned with her own humanitarian image than the success of the school. This comes to a head when (seemingly on a whim) Aimee “acquires” an African baby, in the eyes of the narrator, as quickly and easily as she would a new designer handbag.

I began to share the tone of judgment inherent throughout the novel as the narrator described Aimee’s misguided attempt at improving the lives of African people, and considered the motives behind the trips students of my generation

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Sometimes you can judge a garage rock album by its cover. Rock duo Japandroids have long opted for short, punchy album titles. The duo made their 2009 major label debut with the decisively named PostNothing, followed it up the next year with the similarly bold No Singles, a compilation of their limited-run EPs and then released Celebration Rock in 2012. Japandroids’ titles underscored their music: unadorned, fuzzed-out, straight-to-the-point rock tracks about Vancouver, traveling around and awkward love in your 20-somethings.

As such, the title of the duo’s 2017 release — Near To The Wild Heart Of Life — signaled a change to longtime listeners.

For context, Japandroids broke out during a mid-naughts surge of what might be deemed Bruce Springsteen revivalism.

Bands like Titus Andronicus, The Gaslight Anthem and The Menzingers started churning out populist, anthemic tracks about hometown bars, hometown sports teams and, well, really hometown anything.

Although Japandroids formed far from the Rust Belt that spawned many of their contemporaries, their motifs weren’t all that different: a full-throated singer with a score to settle, throbbing guitar parts in no way

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Zoe Lindenfeld is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at zll3@cornell.edu.

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take to less-developed countries abroad with the goal to “help.” Doubtlessly, such trips are well-intended; we come as members of Global Health brigades, charity missions and teaching teams. Yet how often do we question whether the countries we enter either want or need our help? Such countries have their own histories and their own distinct traditions of healing, learning and teaching. On our end, it is a bit presumptuous to assume that we are even able to help and that our form of knowledge should supplant that of the locals, many of whom are far older and wiser than us.

Half of my mind wonders what the narrator would think of such trips and whether she would equate them with Aimee’s ill-founded efforts. The other part of my mind, which truly does not like her, tells me to ignore her judgmental quips and remember that most people who embark on such trips do so with the best intentions — that’s what counts, right?

Unfortunately, similar mindsets have been used to justify horrific events for hundreds of years, not least of all colonialism. Volunteer trips abroad are well-intended and not inherently evil, but it is necessary to continuously reflect on the motives behind such ventures and to question the extent of the good that is actually being done.

In employing such a judgmental narrator, Smith is promoting the idea that sometimes, it helps to view the world through the eyes of the ultra-cynical to take a step back and reconsider actions perceived as objectively ethical. Yet in a sense, she is also cautioning against inhabiting the narrator’s mindset too often; after all, there’s a reason she’s so unlikeable.

lacking distortion and drums pushed up in the mix.

Part of what made the music of this Springsteen-esque resurgence so exciting was its easy translatability. When Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles screams about getting ready to “yell like hell for the glory of the Newark Bears,” many listeners can pencil in their favorite hometown team that they loved for few other reasons than the fact that the team was simply there, making something to root for on a weekend night (For me it was the Tri-City ValleyCats, thanks for asking).

Yet, another critical reason why the subgenre of homegrown, rootsy punk worked was that many groups understood that they had to cut their full-throttle anthems with something else. Titus Andronicus’ 2010 The Monitor, for example, provides a master class in weaving in a variety of styles and elements to give the listener something other than pure hometown pride. The Monitor opens with two adrenaline-charged tracks — “A Most Perfect Union” and “Titus Andronicus Forever” — that hook the listener and establish the album’s main theme: the U.S. Civil War. Yet after the chants of “the enemy is everywhere” that

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run through “Titus Andronicus Forever” die down, Titus Andronicus makes a complete 180 to “No Future Part Three,” which finds Stickles mewling over a strippeddown and drawn-out guitar track which eventually speeds up and tumbles into a boisterous chant of its own, but the break gives the listener a chance to catch their breath before the next crescendo.

Early on in their career, Japandroids also practiced the art of deftly balancing out the raw force of tracks like “The Boys Are Leaving Town” and “Wet Hair.” Coming to the close of Post-Nothing, for example, Japandroids had already charged ahead with a half-hour of crunching rock. Yet, the duo pulls the album to a full stop with “I Quit Girls.” For the first 40 seconds, the listener hears nothing but Brian King’s distorted-to-death guitar slamming out chords. A little past the track’s halfway mark, David Prowse enters on drums, but the song has already been solidified as a head-bangin’ meditation of a track. “I Quit Girls” constitutes a clever album cadence while still viscerally sludging right up to the end.

Yet, in an album that is supposedly getting nearer to the “wild heart of life,”

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Japandroids’ latest release feels notably superficial and complacent. The rough, mumbling fuzz that distinguished PostNothing and No Singles has been buffed down to a sheen. Whereas tracks on the duo’s previous albums flew by, a number of tracks on Near To The Wild Heart Of Life plod by, especially “North East South West” and “I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner)”. The latter track feels like Japandroids’ attempt to fill out Wild Heart Of Life with another “I Quit Girls”-esque track. Yet, whereas “I Quit Girls” thrived on tension and unpredictably, “I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner)” simply feels repetitive and interminable, even though it’s only two-and-a-half minutes long.

In the end, the raw energy that characterized Post Nothing, No Singles and Celebration Rock has ceded to a malaise that pervades glossed-over, drawn-out tracks in Near To The Wild Heart Of Life. Rather than shaking up their modus operandi, Japandroids solidified their style, churning out 36 minutes of decent, but nearly indistinguishable tracks.

Shay Collins is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.

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Julia Curley Cloud Nothings’ Life Without Sound explores the contradiction within its title. Audiences expect recalcitrance and disobedience from the alternative Indie group, but their new album carries the irony of its name throughout each raw, mismatched track. Artists have a long tradition of rejecting their genre. Even the first English novel began with, in more complicated language, this is not a novel. These writers wanted to create something new, something detached from form and independent of critical expectations. The first modern novels told stories of self-invention that lent writers as much individual autonomy as their protagonists. Naming an album — a mechanism of noises, phrases and harmonies — as sans sound has the same effect. The first thing Life Without Sound does is deny its instrument and mute its impact. It strips away its validity and then rebuilds with a notion of newness and impossibility. There is, of course, sound in the world. Front man Nathan Williams knows that and shares his own voice and noise in the nine-

track album. With his chosen title, he openly frees the band from the expectation of what kind of sound or silence his life and his album should exploit.

Cloud Nothings labels its album Life Without Sound and then fills a silent void with music.

The reinvention begins from track one. A mechanically-mesmerizing piano introduces the album as if breaking an infinite silence. And like a child learning to walk it happens all at once — sound emerges. Williams rises from a muted ambiguity: “I came up to the surface/ Released the air/ With no words to remember/ What happened there.” He describes a relatable awakening to the rhythm of his bass guitar and breaks with the anticipated soundlessness to express a mental noise. Like listening to music in headphones or getting lost in thoughts, sometimes life takes on a tone other than sound. Cloud Nothings’ violent drum clashes with an electric guitar between Williams’ coherent words. The fleeting cacophony walks the line that we repeatedly cross each day between

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silence, sound and noise. Sound carries a certain connotative clarity — a cause and effect — that noise lacks. William’s choice of title plays to this thought.

Each track fuses new, unidentifiable resonances. Voice, guitar, piano, tambourine, drum, technological intervention meld in a novel, not-all unharmonious noise. Cloud Nothings composes noise in a way that defies its displeasing essence yet retains the rowdy tumult.

Arguably, Life Without Sound evades the qualifications of sound. With one contradiction reconciled, however, the album focuses on others. The track list progresses from “Things are Right With You” where Williams repeats “feel right, feel right, feel right” to “Internal World” where he sings “But I’m not the one who’s always right.” His indecision resonates with me and equals the mismatched instrumentals. Feelings and thoughts don’t line up in Life Without Sound, just as in our lives. The album brings this inner turmoil “Up to the Surface” with a screaming splash.

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gent coda, the whole album ends up making sense after a few patient listens.

Life Without Sound signifies an internal existence breaking through.

Soundlessness blankets our reality when the mind’s noise grows too loud. Life Without Sound violently splinters the divide between an inner and outer self; amid the chaos, Williams provides flashes of insight and understanding. When you let the inner noise become reality’s soundtrack “You give up what you know/ Can’t explain where to go/ And you move in a world that moves on its own.” But when you realize, like Williams, that “it’s time for coming out” that there’s “No use in life without sound” you pull back the blinding mental curtain and remove the brain’s earplugs to clear, coherent sonorousness.

This resurfacing and re-invention comes from a thought or a feeling, a sigh or a bang.

Julia Curley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmc628@cornell.edu.

Bruce Springsteen, Chris Christie and Unrequited Love

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ll your favorite artists are problematic. It’s an events and tweeting his favorite lyrics at him. This outobvious statement, but one that resurfaces on wardly emotional courtship seems at odds with a man social media in the wake of most every celebrity whose appearance and political tactics suggest something scandal, from Kanye’s vocal support of Donald Trump to closer to “middle school bully.” Bruce, who still lives in Azaelia Banks’ apparent Twitter crusade against any and New Jersey, has largely ignored Christie’s romantic all forms of human decency. Of course, with other artists advances, relenting only for the sake of the Hurricane the crimes prove more unforgivable, inviting armchair Sandy relief effort in 2012. critics everywhere to try and reconcile good art’s occaOn some level, Christie’s passion for all things Bruce sional tendency to come from bad people. Skillful makes sense. Springsteenism, after all, is the closest thing deflections and self-justifications on this topic range that New Jersey has to a statewide religion. And, as from “Only a troubled mind could have made this!” to Petrusich writes, the Boss’ source material tends to draw the more nihilistic “Everything is terrible; we might as from a certain American mythology, that of “the tough, well enjoy the music.” It’s an exhausting debate, and one hardworking white man who, with wit and will, tranthat seems to affirm the sad truth that people will always scends his hardscrabble beginnings to achieve extraordido what they can to avoid feeling guilty in their indul- nary wealth and notoriety (and girls).” In that sense, one gences. could easily frame Springsteen This sort of cognitive as a mouthpiece for the same dissonance, though, finds economic disparities that Trump itself reflected in the more says got him elected. Of the humorous tendency of president himself (whom individuals to willfully Christie eagerly supported, only misinterpret their preto be ousted by Jared Kushner), ferred works of art, often Bruce has said, “He’s such a flaReally Terrible, in an attempt to reconcile grant, toxic narcissist.”

And Such Small them with their own Financial hardship and the Portions political beliefs. In an era elusive American Dream cerwhen the President of the tainly inspire much of United States bars Springsteen’s discography, but “unfriendly” news outlets from press conferences, it he also employs these narratives in order to critique instishould come as no surprise that people hand-select the tutions and the mega-rich. In one of pop music’s great information that best suits their preferred narratives. We subversions, “Born in the U.S.A.” conceals an anti-war followers of Kanye West, for example, interpreted the anthem under the guise of the same uncritical, flag-wavman’s recently deleted tweets as a total repudiation of his ing patriotism that now defines country music. Between prior support for Trump. It was a narrative too flimsy foot-stomping choruses, Bruce sings of a man drafted to even to fool ourselves.

Vietnam to kill strangers, only to return home to nightIn a recent piece for The New Yorker, Amanda mares and dwindling job prospects. The bait-and-switch Petrusich explores conservative America’s undying fealty worked so well that Ronald Reagan even played the song to Bruce Springsteen, a phenomenon that seems to at campaign rallies — or at least until Bruce asked him befuddle even the artist himself. Gov. Chris Christie (R- to stop.

N.J.), famously, has seen the Boss tear up the stage with Of course, there is a value — which should not go the E Street Band over 130 times. The governor’s air unmentioned — in the universal appeal of Bruce drumming and tantric dance moves have become famil- Springsteen. On some level, it allows you to imagine that iar sights for Springsteen fans. For his part, Christie has his music taps into a deeper, human longing felt by peorepeatedly and publicly attempted to finagle a heart-to- ple across generations, socioeconomic classes and politiheart with his idol, inviting him to perform at various cal affiliations. At the same time, though, one cannot

help but view Christie’s political views as incompatible with the core themes of Bruce’s music. The man can somehow project himself onto Springsteen’s protagonists while also politically reinforcing the institutions that the songs indict. It’s an incredibly blatant act of cherry picking that allows him to filter out only the ideas that question previously held beliefs.

This concept, obviously, is not exclusive to the Springsteen-Christie relationship, nor is the irony in Christie’s idolatry a recent development. But given the apparent relativity of facts in today’s mainstream discourse, I’d say there’s something to be gathered from people’s ability to intentionally misinterpret the art that disagrees with them.

Chris Stanton

Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cms459@cornell.edu. Really Terrible, and Such Small Portions! runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

No.6 Penn St. Holds Off Laxers Late in Fourth

By ADAM MASTERS Sun Contributor

On a rainy Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field, No. 15 Cornell women’s lacrosse fell to 1-1 on the year as sixth-ranked Penn St. squeaked by, 9-8.

The Nittany Lions (5-0) struck first early in the match, but senior captain Catherine Ellis found the back of the net four minutes later to tie it up.

The conditions were not ideal for either team as heavy rain fell throughout the entire contest. With a little more than 20 minutes on the clock, the two teams were forced off the field for a half-hour rain and thunder delay. At that point, Penn St. held a slim 2-1 lead.

“The heavy rain and wind were a challenge for both teams” said head coach Jenny Graap. “We were a bit sluggish coming out of the first weather break and coming out of a shortened halftime break.”

The Red, down 4-1 at the break, quickly found its stride in the second half. Junior Ida Farinholt, who missed large parts of the past two seasons with injuries, scored her first goal since freshman year, followed by a goal from sophomore Sarah Phillips and the game tying goal by Ellis — her second of the game.

The remaining 30 minutes of play were an offensive frenzie: Penn St. took a 6-4 advantage only to have its lead cut in half by junior Joey Coffy soon after. The Nittany Lions pulled away 8-5 with two goals in under a minute, but the persistent Red then fired in two free-position goals from senior Amie Dickson and sophomore Tomasina Leska to make it a game again at 8-7.

A ninth Penn St. goal put the Red down by two with under two minutes on the clock. Phillips then fired in her second goal of the afternoon, cutting the deficit to one goal with little time remaining. A forced turnover gave the Red one final play to tie up the game, but the Lions regained possession with 10 seconds left to seal the deal on a 9-8 victory.

As the final whistle blew, the Red held a 31-18 advantage in shots, it won the ground ball battle 21-

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Rainy day blues | No. 15 Cornell went up against a tough Penn St. team in stormy conditions and could not secure the victory, falling 9-8.

15 and it turned the ball over just 14 times compared to Penn St.’s 23. Yet the Nittany Lions finished with 11 faceoff wins to Cornell’s eight — one of its keys to victory.

Sophomore Cait Callahan was happy with the team performance despite the narrow defeat.

“We were well connected on defense and able to come up with some big stops at the end of the game when the score was tight,” she said. “On the defensive end, we were also able to hold some of Penn St.'s top scorers to only a few points.”

Likewise, Graap was proud of the Red’s effort.

“Credit goes to stellar defensive performances by senior Catie Smith who caused three turnovers while

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shots in the second half as easily as it had done in the first, the Red found itself unable to put points on the board as its shooting percentage fell from 58.3 percent down to 45 percent on field goals, and from 44.4 to 37.5 from beyond the arc between the first and second halves.

Cornell competed with Princeton until around the 3:15 mark of the game when the team started to sink into a deficit. As Morgan and senior guard Robert Hatter attempted to take the ball up the court, both were hammered with pressure from the Tiger defense. Specifically, senior forward Spencer Weisz — who led the Tiger defense with four steals — contributed to giving the Red offense plenty of headaches.

On Cornell’s sideline, even though Earl attempted to coach Morgan and Hatter in-game regarding tempo and sets to run down the final stretch of the game, the Tigers’ collective defensive effort ultimately proved too strong for the Red. “I wanted them to understand how we were being guarded a little better,” Earl said about Hatter and Morgan in the game’s final three minutes.

With a little over a minute left in the contest, Earl substituted his three active seniors out of the game and Newman Nation rose to its feet, giving the graduating seniors a final standing ovation for the commitment and time they have contributed to the team

over the past four years. Seniors Hatter, Desmond Fleming and Jojo Fallas proudly checked out of the game and walked off the Newman court for their final time.

After the game, Earl reflected on what it was like having his four graduating seniors for a couple of years during their careers at Cornell.

“It’s difficult when there’s transition on anyone who’s involved … particularly for college kids who are 22 and have been coached in a way for three years,” he said. “It speaks volumes with them sticking with everything we’re trying to do here, and obviously it hasn’t produced results yet, but there's a lot to be said for putting your head down, doing the work and sticking with a program.”

Through what ended up being an agonizing and tension-filled weekend for the Red at Newman — losing both games and failing to break either Penn or Princeton’s win streaks — Hatter shed light on the positive aspects of the seniors final game at Newman.

“I’m speechless,” he said humbly. “I love Cornell so much, and I appreciate everybody that supported myself and my other seniors, and it just felt amazing to see everyone appreciate us.”

The Red hits the road next weekend as it closes out its final games of the 2016-17 season against Yale and Brown.

Bobby Marani can be reached at ram482@cornell.edu.

marking the Nittany Lions top feeder, and junior Cait Callahan with six ground balls and four caused turnovers.”

Graap remains optimistic for the rest of the season in spite of the loss.

“Big picture, our offense needs to be more patient focusing on breaking down the opponent’s D instead of rushing our scoring looks,” she said. “This loss was tough, but the lessons we can learn from it will be hugely beneficial.”

The Red next takes on conference rival No. 12 Penn on Sunday, March 4th.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Marshall Breaks Scoring Record; Red Split on Road

By JOSH ZHU Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s basketball team played its final two regular season road games this weekend, splitting the pair of games against Ivy League rivals Penn and Princeton.

Cornell (15-10, 6-6 Ivy) suffered a tough double-digit loss to Penn on Friday before bouncing back with an impressive 11 point win over Princeton.

“We felt pretty good about the split,” said senior Kerri

“We wanted to make the game memorable for Nia and wanted her to remember that moment.”

Senior Guard Kerri Moran Moran. “[While] we did not play well at all against Penn, [we] were able to regroup and figure out what we needed to do in order to beat Princeton.

Friday’s game at Penn featured poor offensive performances from both teams. Cornell had only a single player in double figures — senior Megan LeDuc with 13 points — while shooting just 26 percent from the field and 18 percent from three-point range. Penn did not fare much better, shooting 37 percent from the field and 29 percent from beyond the arc.

Both team’s totals — Penn’s 47 and Cornell’s 34 — were season lows in points scored.

“Coming off [the] upsetting loss against Penn, we really fueled that frustration against Princeton,” said senior Nicholle Aston. “We knew that we came up just short the last time we played them, so we really looked to make key adjustments on the defensive end.”

After the rough shooting night against Penn, the Red refocused its efforts for the following matchup against Princeton — a game in which senior Nia Marshall would

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New number one | Senior forward Nia Marshall is now alone atop the program’s all-time scoring list.

have the opportunity to surpass Karen Walker ’91 and become the program’s all-time leading scorer.

“We also knew it was an important game for Nia, as she had a very high chance of breaking the all-time scoring record in the game against Princeton,” Moran said. “We wanted to make the game memorable for Nia and wanted her to remember that moment as a win not just for herself, but for the whole team.”

The Red certainly made the game memorable, improv-

ing drastically from its previous outing. Cornell had a balanced offensive attack, with four players scoring in double figures, and shot 38 percent from the field and 30 percent from long distance.

“We had a lot more rhythm to our offense in the second game and had the confidence to hit open shots,” Aston said.

The Red performed equally as well on the other end of the court. Cornell held their opponents to a scant 27 percent from the field and 11 percent from three-point range, in addition to forcing 15 turnovers.

With the impressive offensive and defensive improvements, Cornell notched a 55-44 win over Princeton, breaking a 17-game losing streak against the Tigers. Marshall ended the night as the Red’s all-time leading scorer, with her 12 points bringing her career total to 1,657 points and surpassing the previous 1,650 point mark set by Walker.

“As we enter the final weekend of the regular season we know that we still have things to improve upon, [but] our morale is definitely high right now, as we beat Princeton for the first time in seven years,” Moran said.

Cornell now moves into sole possession of fourth place in the Ivy League standings after a previous tie with Brown.

The Red will end its regular season this weekend at home, against Yale and Brown. Cornell will hope to hold onto the fourth seed in order to gain an invitation to this year’s inaugural Ivy League tournament.

“We know that the fourth spot is ours for the taking, [and] we just need to finish out this last weekend,” Aston said. “[This weekend] is our senior night weekend at home, so using that emotion to get a sweep for our last weekend at Newman Arena will be a great advantage for us.”

Cornell plays in its last two regular season games at Newman Arena this weekend against Yale on Friday, Mar. 3 at 6 p.m. and Brown on Saturday, Mar. 4 at 5 p.m.

Josh Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hoopers Swept at Newman Home losses eliminate Red, spoil senior night

By BOBBY MARANI Sun Contributor

After coming up short in two excruciatingly close games against Penn and Princeton this past weekend, all opportunities for the Cornell men’s basketball team to secure a position in the inaugural Ivy League tournament have vanished.

Cornell (7-20, 3-8 Ivy) lost 69-66 in the final minute against Penn (12-13, 57) on Friday night, and faded in the second half to fall 75-60 on Saturday’s senior night to Princeton (19-6, 12-0).

The Red struggled down the stretch to score the points and maintain closing energy necessary to topple its opponents in both Ivy matchups.

As expected, Penn’s talented freshmen tandem — guard Ryan Betley and forward A.J. Brodeur — combined for 34 points to lead the Quaker attack against the Red. Betley notched 21 points, five steals and five rebounds in the winning effort.

Although the Red clawed its way back from a hefty 12-point halftime deficit to temporarily lead 63-59 with 3:05 left on the game clock, Brodeur drilled a critical jumper with over 30 seconds remaining to give Penn the edge as time wound down.

Following Brodeur’s clutch make, which created a four point difference between the two teams, Cornell junior guard Will Bathurst responded with a 3-

point bucket to inch Cornell within one point.

Then, down by three after a pair of Penn free throws, sophomore guard Matt Morgan caught an inbound pass — having already scored a game-high 26 points — and tossed up the Red’s final 3-point attempt of the game. As Morgan’s shot failed to connect, the Quakers snuck away from Newman with a tight 69-66 win.

“It speaks volumes with them sticking with everything we’re trying to do here.”

Head Coach Brian Earl After Friday night’s shootout against the Quakers, the Red eagerly arrived at Newman Arena, ready for senior night festivities and prepared to take on the Tigers and their perfect 11-0 conference record.

Moving the ball efficiently and scoring points early in the game, Cornell jumped out to a 23-13 lead with 10:04 left in the first half — the largest lead it would hold all night. With Red sophomore forward Stone Gettings battling to control Princeton’s points in the paint, the team’s defensive efforts limiting Princeton’s field goal shooting to 41.9

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Playing for pride | After being eliminated from postseason contention, the Red will close out the 2016-17 campaign with two road games this weekend in New England.

percent, and 38.9 percent from beyond the arc, the Red fought courageously against the Tigers and went into its locker room down just 35-34 at the half.

However, the more experienced and resilient core of Tiger players returned to the court following the break and came alive by way of sophomore guard Devin Cannady’s smooth three-point shooting.

Cannady was consistent from the field and was a threat from beyond the arc, making 6 of 10 attempts on the night and hitting nine of 15 field goals.

“The guy just makes shots,” head coach Brian Earl said of the talented Cannady. “I know firsthand spending a year with him that he’s special, and you

can’t lose him at all. He’s not a guy who thinks twice about [shooting], and so when he springs loose you’re in a lot of trouble … and we were in a lot of trouble when he got loose tonight.”

Earl added that when former colleague and Tiger head coach Mitch Henderson switched the Tiger’s personnel to include its more versatile and smaller-sized lineup, the Red encountered severe problems.

“They went to that smaller lineup which caused a lot of confusion for us defensively,” Earl said.

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