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Dems Slam Writings of Judicial Nominee Lee’97 Senators criticize ex-editor of The Cornell Review and nominee to 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for not disclosing articles By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun News Editor
On Monday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) issued a joint statement against President Trump’s latest nominee to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that Cornell alumnus Kenneth Lee ’97 failed to disclose “controversial writings” — some of which were written and published during his time at Cornell. Some of the writings the senators cited were published in The Cornell Review, a self-described “conservative, contrarian, anti-establishment” student-run publication, according to its website, at which Lee worked throughout his time at Cornell. Feinstein and Harris criticized Lee for failing to disclose the articles to the Judiciary Committee.
“These new articles — some published around the same time and even in the same publication as writings that have been turned over — are even more inflammatory than others that Lee failed to initially disclose,” the Democratic senators wrote in the statement. “It is hard to believe these omissions were unintentional.” After joining the publication his freshman year, Lee SEN. HARRIS served as editor in chief for two and a half years, writing tens of articles, according to his farewell editorial published in December 1996. Lee did not respond to The Sun’s requests for
comment. Feinstein and Harris catalogued many articles in The Review written by Lee between 1993 and 1996, calling them “inflammatory” and specifically quoting from two. The senators further highlighted a piece they said Lee wrote in defense of The Review’s parody of Ebonics, quoting Lee: “If the Oakland School Board provides politically correct, feel-good nonSEN. FEINSTEIN sense to poor urban blacks, Cornell University does the same for middle-class and See LEE page 4
State Senator to Lead Center of Excellence By KATHRYN STAMM Sun Contributor
New York State Senator Catharine Young (R-District 57) will step down from her seat representing western New York to become the new director of the Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell AgriTech, Young announced Feb. 28. A civil servant for 23 years, Young will begin her new role at Cornell on March 11. She will join the Center of Excellence in the midst of its inaugural year to aid its goal to build partnerships
in research, business and agriculture. The Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture was launched in September 2018. In the months since, it has engaged with over 50 companies to help them raise a total of $12.3 million for their businesses. Young’s new position at Cornell AgriTech will focus on the intersection between business and agriculture. Cornell AgriTech — originally called the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station — was established by the New York State
Legislature in 1880. The station was integrated into Cornell University in 1923, and is now
“It truly is an honor and a privilege to be at Cornell. I plan on hitting the ground running.” Catharine Young a vital part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. See YOUNG page 4
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Church changes | Father Daniel McMullin has been filling the role left empty by Reverend Carsten Martensen’s absence, students say. Above: A view of the interior of Sage Chapel.
Students Shocked Following Allegation Against Reverend By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun News Editor
“When [Father] McMullin read the letter from the diocese, the church was silent,” Elise Viz ’22 said. “Nobody knew what to say.” Last weekend, Catholic leadership on campus announced an allegation against Reverend Carsten Martensen of sexual abuse of a
minor in the 1970s during Sunday morning Mass. Since the announcement, students have expressed a range of emotions. The USA Northeast Province of the Jesuits first received the allegation against Martensen — former director and chaplain of Cornell Catholic — of sexual abuse of a minor, The Sun reported. The allegation dates back to the 1970s, the Diocese
said. The University learned of the allegation on March 2, according to University spokesperson John Carberry. After the Province “temporarily suspended” the Reverend from ministry duties, Martensen’s “chaplaincy privileges” were publicly revoked on March 3 through See REVEREND page 4
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Cornell Law School Ranks 13th Again By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun News Editor
Cornell ILR School Celebrates New Headquarters in NYC
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations celebrated the opening of its new presence in New York City last week, cutting ribbons at the 570 Lexington Ave. headquarters to mark the occasion, according to the Cornell Chronicle. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a speech, as well as New York State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon. The ILR school has offered classes and programs in the City since the 1940s, according to the Chronicle, but this “hub” establishes a permanent presence downstate from the Ithaca campus, joining existing ventures Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell in the Big Apple, and furthers President Martha Pollack’s vision of “One Cornell.”
Cornell Law will once again be the United States’ 13th top law school, according to a leaked copy of the U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings posted yesterday on Above the Law, a well-known legal blog.
Every year, U.S. News — which is best known for its annual ranking of undergraduate schools — scores 192 law schools on the basis of selectivity, post-graduation placement success, faculty resources, bar passage and peer and professional assessment scores, according to the survey’s website. While maintaining its membership to the
exclusive “Top-14” — a group of schools historically placed at the top of U.S. News’ report — Cornell Law still ranks below the four Ivies that also offer a J.D. program: Yale, Harvard, Columbia and The University of Pennsylvania. This year, Cornell placed beSee RANKING page 5
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Local Tompkins County Legislature Passes Resolution Supporting Drivers’ Licenses for Individuals Without Social Security Numbers
On Tuesday, the Tompkins County Legislature passed a resolution supporting the New York Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act, a bill that would allow drivers’ licenses for state residents regardless of immigration status, The Ithaca Voice reported. If adopted, the bill would waive the requirement for a social security number to obtain a license to drive. Though members of the legislature opposed the measure, the resolution passed the county legislature 10-3, with legislators Mike Sigler, Dave McKenna and Glenn Morey voting no, according to The Voice.
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Beyond boxes | At last year’s fair, around 35 service providers and employers signed up to attend the fair that aims to connect formerly-incarcerated job seekers with potential employers. By SEAN O’CONNELL Sun Contributor
On March 20, The Beyond the Box Networking and Job Fair will seek to offer formerly incarcerated men and women a place for job searching, bringing together employers and potential employees for education and hiring. The opportunity is organized by Ultimate Reentry Opportunity, a program that aims to assist those with prior convictions “rejoin” the local community and backed by the Cornell Cooperative Extension. The event will kick off at the Hotel Ithaca, and will feature a number of presentations aimed towards both potential employers and potential employees on how to hire job seekers with criminal records. The event’s
keynote address will be delivered by Ithaca College President Shirley Collado. “Having these conversations is really going to break these stigmas about incarceration,” said Taili Mugambee, director
cess the resources to successfully rejoin their local communities,” according to the group’s press release. The group is organizing this year’s job fair, as well as other upcoming events including a Parenting Through Incarceration and Reentry event. “Having these conversations is Potential topreally going to break these stigmas ics for the fair will include efabout incarceration.” fective ways to recruit, hire and Taili Mugambee retain workers, as well as an exof the Ultimate Reentry Op- planation of available resources portunity Initiative, in a phone to support businesses employinterview with The Sun. ing job seekers with incarceraThe Ultimate Reentry Op- tion experience. The attendees portunity Initiative works with will then split up into smaller the Cornell Cooperative Exten- groups of employers and job sion and alongside community seekers, aiming to create a diaorganizers to “help formerly in- logue about issues facing workcarcerated women and men ac- ers with prior convictions.
Sean O’Connelll can be reached at so366@cornell.edu.
Initiative for Digital Agriculture Kicks Off
President Donald Trump issuesd an executive order revoking a mandates disclosure clause that required the U.S. military to publish numerical estimates of civilian bystanders killed in airstrikes outside of war zones, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The provision has been in place since 2016, during President Obama’s tenure, and was used to attain a larger scope of the impact of foreign operations. The executive order noted that an existing Congressional rule, which requires the Pentagon to issue annual bystander deaths from its operations, remains in place, the Times reported.
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About 40 service providers and employers from the Ithaca area have already signed up to attend the fair — more than last year’s 35 and approaching this year’s goal of 50 attending groups. Last year, groups like Kendal at Ithaca, a retirement care center, and FingerLakes Reuse attended, according to the initiative’s Facebook page. This year’s fair — which will be the second annual fair of its kind — will honor Gino Bush, a local activist committed to helping formerly incarcerated people, who passed away in December. Interested participants can sign up for the job fair online. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Radical robots | The initiative aims to combine agriculture and information science, like in the above robot in Aurora, New York.
Humanity is facing a difficult challenge: to “feed an estimated global population of 10 billion people by 2050,” states the website for the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture, an initiative that hopes to tackle this challenge through sustainability and digital innovation. The initiative is one of Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s eight “radical collaborations” — task forces that promote interdepartmental
cooperation on modern issues. The CIDA Task Force is directed by Prof. Susan McCouch Ph.D. ’90, plant breeding and genetics, and combines agriculture with computer and information science through events such as hackathons. “Dairy barns in our region are already heavily instrumented with censors and automation, but they struggle to make that worth the capital expense,” said Prof. Abe Stroock ’95, the Gordon L. See CIDA page 5
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affluent blacks. The university has justly garnered a notorious reputation for championing racial group-think and multicultural dogma.” Other articles authored by Lee critiqued the University’s liberal-leaning faculty, such as in his “Where's the Diversity? Cornell Faculty Dominated by Democrats” from 1995 and “GOP Need Not Apply” from 1996. The Review published a free, biweekly paper during Lee’s tenure as editor in chief. Students from The Review did not respond to requests for comment by publication time. Lee was first nominated for the position in November 2018. After the nomination was not acted upon in time by
Jan. 3 in the Senate, President Donald Trump nominated the alumnus again in February. Some conservatives did not appear concerned about the
“It indicates Lee may continue to hold extreme and troubling views on race, which would place him out of step with the mainstream legal community in California.” Senators Feinstein and Harris writings. One of these was Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who said he was not “overly worried about it,” on Monday, Politico reported.
A Wall Street Journal editorial criticized the senators’ discussion of college writings in recent hearings, writing that “what Mr. Lee wrote in college is of no relevance to how he’d behave as a jurist.” Democrats, however, claimed that Lee’s columns — and his failure to share them with the Committee — were troubling. “Not only does this indicate an intention to obstruct the vetting process, it indicates Lee may continue to hold extreme and troubling views on race, which would place him out of step with the mainstream legal community in California,” the Californian senators wrote. “The committee should not be moving forward with a hearing on any date.” Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.
‘Push, Pull, Grow’: Young Named Reverend Martensen’s New Director of AgriTech Center Removal Causes Shock, YOUNG
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“Now, there’s a new and exciting opportunity to carry on my public service,” Young said in a press release, in reference to her new job. “To grow New York’s food, beverage and agriculture economy by linking them with the incredible innovation, expertise and resources at Cornell AgriTech so they can expand and flourish is a natural extension of my work that I have done as a Senator.” Young will head the Center during an early phase, when it is still looking to grow. “It’s not a big enterprise — yet,” Prof. Jan Nyrop, Goichman Family Director of Cornell AgriTech, told The Sun in a phone call, speaking from the State Capitol. “Catharine Young, as the director, will be responsible for implementing and realizing the goals and the new strategies that have been developed thus far for the Center of Excellence,” Nyrop said. The Center actualizes its goal of expanding the New York agricultural economy through their ideology of “push, pull, grow” Nyrop said. “Push” is moving and commercializing technologies out of Cornell, “pull” is attracting companies to New York and “grow” is helping existing companies expand. According to Nyrop, one pull aspect is a new project called “Grow New York,” a business
competition focused that seeks to bring over 100 companies, entrepreneurs and startups to the region. “[The Center] will engage with those firms … to help them make connections and show why it would be strategic for them to locate to New York,” Nyrop said. Ultimately, seven finalists will receive a total of $3 million of state funding, as long as they stay in upstate New York for at least a year. Young has previously chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee, and was the first woman to chair the Senate Standing Committee on Finance in 2016. “Through those roles, I worked extensively to advance economic development and agriculture in the state,” Young said. “[This new role] is taking that background that I have and putting it to a new, exciting use.” Young began her career of public service in 1995 in the Cattaraugus County Legislature, and became a state assembly member in 1999. In 2005, she was elected via a special election to the State Senate to represent the 57th Senate district, which encompasses the southwest corner of the state. “It truly is an honor and a privilege to be at Cornell,” Young said. “I plan on hitting the ground running.” Kathryn Stamm can be reached at kls332@cornell.edu.
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an emailed announcement to the Cornell community coauthored by Father Daniel McMullin and Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student life. Mike Gabriele — communications director for the Province of the Jesuits — declined to comment on the specifics of the allegation that led to Martensen’s temporary suspension from ministry. During McMullin’s homily, in which he read aloud a letter from a bishop of the Diocese to the congregation, attendees of Sunday’s morning Mass were shocked to hear about the allegation. Martensen worked concurrently at Ithaca College until Hierald Osorto, director of I.C.’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, said that Martensen had “stepped down” from current ministrial assignments in an online statement on March 3. I.C. campus minister John Morton said that Martensen was “experiencing fatigue” and was “with his Jesuit brothers in Massachusetts,” in an email to the Ithaca College Catholic Community on Feb. 25, The Ithacan reported. Thérèse Russell ’20, a member of the Cornell Catholic Community, said that she also received an email on Feb. 25 that Martensen was feeling fatigued and that he would be in Massachusetts until Easter. “There is no set timeframe for the investigation, but if the review board deems the allegation credible upon completion, Fr. Martensen Will [sic] be permanently removed from all public ministry,” Gabriele wrote in an emailed statement to the Sun. “I have seen a wide spectrum of reactions, but most people have been expressing some degree of confusion, mostly,” Viz said. For now, Martensen has been removed from his roles at both campuses. At Cornell, Father Dan McMullin, associate dean of students for the Office of Spirituality, has been fulfilling Martensen’s former duties, Russell said. Eileen Heptig, associate director of the Cornell Catholic Community, assumed administrative duties at Ithaca College, Osorto wrote in his statement.
The nature of the departure of Martensen — who was working at Mass as recently as Feb. 17, Russell said — left the community “very saddened,” according to Russell. “People in the community are dealing with the news in very different ways,” Russell said. “Many are still grappling with the news and others are finding it as a way to go deeper into other aspects of their faith.” Martensen — who served the Cornell and I.C. communities since 2007 — will face an independent investigation conducted by the USA Northeast Province of the Jesuits. “The investigation will be fully reviewed by our independent review board that consists of mental health and legal professionals, often from law-enforcement backgrounds,” Gabriele wrote. In the meantime, the Province “has temporarily suspended Father Martensen from all current assignments and public ministry pending completion of an investigation,” McMullin and Lombardi wrote. The University has temporarily revoked Martensen’s “chaplaincy privileges.” “Father Martensen is not an employee of Cornell University, so the investigation is being led by the Jesuits USA Northeast Province,” Carberry previously wrote in an email to The Sun. Martensen worked under an “affiliated” chaplaincy with the Cornell Catholic Community. “Of course, I had always been aware of many other cases of abuse and assault like this within the Catholic Church at large,” Viz said. “This was something I had only ever heard about on the news, happening in other places. Not Cornell.” The announcement of the allegation against Martensen closely followed a reported resolution of a claim against another local priest, Reverend Bernard Carges, who retired in 2002 and died a year after, The Democrat and Chronicle wrote. Carges worked at the downtown Immaculate Conception church and school from 1975 to 1997; a $125,000 settlement was reached in the case, according to The D&C. Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.
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Researchers from many different departments collaborate in new Initiative for Digital Agriculture CIDA
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Law schools ranked | The law school has not moved up in the top rankings in years, remaining behind other Ivy League insitutions.
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tween Northwestern and Georgetown — and six spots behind Penn, its closest Ivy competitor. Cornell Law has struggled to break through the traditionally stable rankings, having failed to move above the 13-spot since at least 2010. However, since the survey began in 1987, it has never fallen out of the venerated “T14.” Last year’s U.S. News rankings estimated that almost 91 percent of Cornell Law graduates found a job upon graduation, with the median private sector salary ringing in at $180,000 — figures comparable to its peers. The class of 2022 had an acceptance rate of 31 percent, median GPA of 3.82 and LSAT of 167, according to Cornell’s website — making it “moderately competitive,” popular admissions website Law School Numbers wrote. The National Law Journal, which
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publishes a competing ranking system that emphasizes employment outcomes over other factors, ranked Cornell fourth on its 2017 list of schools that place the highest percentage of students into the country’s 100 largest law firms. Though Cornell’s Law School has yet to produce a Supreme Court Justice, the school’s alumni span a wide variety of political, judicial and business positions: high-profile graduates have included Tsai Ing-wen LL.M ’80, the current President of Taiwan, Edmund Muskie JD ’39, a former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State and at least 30 current or former members of the federal Judiciary. According to the school’s website, 97.2 percent of students are employed within nine months of graduation, and last month the Cornell Law Review received media attention for electing an all-female board. Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at jstimpson@cornellsun.com.
Dibble ’50 Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and co-associate director of the initiative. “[By] taking the computer science method, [these initiatives] help to streamline and make more efficient the operations that are absolutely part of New York agriculture,” Stroock continued. CIDA, which was launched last year, has active involvement from the College of Agriculture and Life Science, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Engineering. The initiative hosted its first hackathon this weekend, with sponsors including Microsoft, Cargill and the Dairy Farmers of America. And, as digital agriculture develops, Cornell hopes to continue pioneering the field. “There are other universities that have digital [agriculture] coordinated programs, but nothing like ours,” McCouch said. McCouch said that Cornell’s Ivy-league status and range of highly-ranked colleges are essential to the future of agriculture. “Having [all of the colleges] on this campus is exceptionally favorable for the kinds of interactions we’re trying to foment here, and the fact that we have full buy in and support from four Deans and the Provost, and that we’re now being pitched as the most exciting thing on campus by even some of the Provost’s offices, speaks a lot to how excited people are,” McCouch said. Prof. Hakim Weatherspoon, computer science, cited CS 5412: Topics in Cloud Computing, which he said saw enrollment increase by more than 50 percent this year. Weatherspoon, part of CIDA’s leadership, attributed this increase to the digital agriculture initiative and the enthusiasm surrounding the topic. “We’ve seen excitement at the undergraduate, masters, and the Ph.D. level as well,” Weatherspoon said. Emma Volk ’19, who studies international agriculture and rural development in CALS, said that although she does not work with CIDA, she appreciates the vision. “I have yet to come across a research project that could not benefit from a multidisciplinary team,” Volk said. “You need people with the
technical skills, the agricultural knowledge, and the first-hand knowledge and I am happy to see that there is a push to bring people with unique backgrounds together and develop solutions for farmers.” However, Volk also stressed the significance of recognizing that “achieving these goals requires focus on individual communities and farmers.” “One solution does not apply to every person or community,” Volk said. “It is important to keep in mind that there are multiple strategies that farms and communities have to
“I really wish this was around when I was a freshman because I could have really benefited.” Caroline Motzer ’19 consider in order to feed the growing global population.” For those who are interested in studying digital agriculture, the future looks bright. “I think it’s fair to say in CIDA we now are launching a curriculum committee and going to be developing and exploring ideas for expanding curriculum,” said Prof. Steven Wolf, natural resources, a member of CIDA’s leadership team. Eventually, Wolf continued, that might take the form of a formalized major or minor in digital agriculture. Additionally, the unique combination of agriculture and engineering is designed to help students entering the workforce. “I really wish this was around when I was a freshman because I could have really benefited,” said Caroline Motzer ’19, who studies agriculture sciences. Motzer said she is struggling to find jobs she is interested in and qualified for based on her Cornell experience. “Getting involved in this initiative will help undergrads in both the agriculture community and the engineering community be prepared for careers past college,” Motzer said. Dena Behar can be reached at dbehar@cornellsun.com.
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Stephen Harper and the ‘reasonable right’ To the Editor: Time and time again, centrist media pundits have used their platforms to bemoan President Donald Trump’s crudity. They wax nostalgic about the good old days of “respectable Republicans,” harking back to a fictional recent past in which “honorable men” from both parties ruled the country. Such venerable men include the likes of war criminal former president George W. Bush, America’s Butcher of Baghdad. At least this good Christian man didn’t spew vulgarities and tweet-storms while authorizing massacres in the Middle East, right? When the Cornell Republicans announced their intent to invite former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to campus, we can’t say that we were surprised. The student group’s membership largely embraces a white-collar, pro-business ethos a la Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and seems to have very little interest in the alt-right iconoclasm that’s been embraced by large swathes of the millennial-right. Hell, the GOP’s Cornell arm in 2016-2017 was even chaired by a self-professed moderate who vocally backed Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid. Harper fits their old-guard conservative style to a T, a true fit for a Cornell Republicans event if there ever was one. But before we discuss the speaking event any further, let’s unpack his recent rebranding as a global mouthpiece of the “reasonable right.” Let’s start with Harper’s fascist crackdown on organized labor in Canada. In 2007, he utilized back-to-work legislation to force 124,000 rail workers to end their strike — a flagrant violation of international labor law. Less than two years later, he gutted Canada’s Human Rights Commission by stripping public sector unions of the right to file pay equity complaints. He then forced 48,000 locked-out postal workers back to work, earning Canada the dishonor of International Labor Organization penalties. The list goes on, but the trend is clear: Harper used his political office as a platform to wage class warfare against the working class. Beyond Turtle Island, Harper’s policies took on a truly butcherous face. He was the first foreign leader to meet with former Honduran President Porfirio Pepe Lobo, whose illegitimate administration cooperated with right-wing factions to crack-down on civil society, murder political activists and welcome Western imperial influence in a sovereign nation. Harper’s Middle East policies are virtually identical to those embraced by our very own war hawks at home, obstructing Canada from becoming a constructive check on an increasingly rogue Israeli state as it continues to reject international law and basic standards of human rights. The fine gentleman cemented his country’s status as a reliable right-wing ally of the U.S.’s imperial designs, fostering an arrangement that even the ostensibly liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused to challenge since assuming the role of P.M. in 2015. Further, Harper has been no ally of his settler-colonial country’s many First Nations peoples. Initially campaigning on the promise of robust environmental protection, Canada’s 22nd prime minister showed his true colors once he assumed office. His resource extraction policies had a profoundly negative effect not only on First Nations peoples, but on the earth as a whole in regards to climate change. In 2007, Harper even shamelessly fought for the expansion of Canadian sovereignty over Arctic waters to ensure the protection of potential petroleum sources in the seabed. Further descrating stolen land, his administration also saw to the rapid expansion of the Alberta Tar Sands. These massive oil fields produce the dirtiest oil on the planet, poisoning wildlife, desecrating the land and detrimentally affecting the health of the First Nations peoples who rely on the surrounding territories for survival. That’s to say nothing of Harper’s successful push to cut funding to the Native Women’s Association of Canada program in 2010. His reason? The organization was able to bring global attention to the 600 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women cases — stabbing a dagger in Canada’s faux international image of progressivism and multiculturalism. When asked about Canada’s MMIW ordeal, the fine prime minister was quoted in an interview saying: “It isn’t really high on our radar, to be honest.” If anything’s on Harper’s mind, it’s the maintenance of his white supremacist settler-colonial state. To those who attend his speaking event, don’t be fooled — as decorated and “respectable” as this gentlemanly statesman might be, no sugarcoated appeals to right-wing values or recycled faux-condemnations of populist right-wing incivility can conceal his unforgivable crimes. When Cornell embraces Harper on stolen Cayuga homelands, broad swathes of students will once again be reminded that this university does in fact belong to them. An abhorrent architect of his Conservative Party’s vision for a hyper-capitalist state that tramples on the rights of the many so-called Canadians who don’t look like him — the Sikhs, the aboriginal peoples of Canada, the refugees, the Chinese immigrants, the East Indians. So in conclusion, are we at all surprised that one of the furthest-right state leaders in the entire history of modern North America is rearing his head in the Finger Lakes region? Not in the slightest. Harper will leave our “City of Gorges” with a grotesquely large paycheck, all for a short speech that’s sure to be monotonous and ultimately meaningless. After all, isn’t that the precise function of Ivory Towers like ours? To enrich the already-rich and empower the already-powerful; to mold new generations of obedient capitalists; and to leave the rest of us behind to face unemployment, alienation, indebtedness and death. You see, Harper’s speech is just a sideshow, a distraction that’s simultaneously bizarre and cynical — one so powerful that it deludes young right-wingers into embracing the sinister, supremacist politics of a fashy former Canadian leader while wholly ignoring the life-or-death crises of climate change and water wars. So whatever lies Harper comes armed to campus with, please don’t hesitate to interrogate his manufactured charismatic persona. Criticize him for “cashing out” in the form of lavishly paid speaking tours, challenge his shameless lies, and remind him of the utter terror he’s inflicted on the northernmost parts of Turtle Island and far beyond. Colin Benedict ’21, Student Assembly minority student liaison at-large Adam Khatib ’20, president of the Islamic Alliance for Justice Christopher Hanna ’19, board president of Tompkins County Workers’ Center
I Might Not Do an Internship This Summer, and That’s Okay
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y freshman roommate once sion. Many cups of coffee later, I ended asked me, as she blinked awake up receiving an offer my freshman year to to the cloudy, Ithaca sky filter- write breaking news for CNBC. When I ing through our dorm window, “Kelly, received my offer, I remember breathing are you ever so stressed that you can feel a sigh of relief. But I also remember not it in your chest when you wake up?” I, being able to fly home to see my family having just woken up ten minutes ago, for more than ten days that entire year. looked at her, looked at the fort of laun- And the same again for the next year. dry between us that needed to be done Soon, I had forgotten entirely what my bedroom at home felt like. and just nodded. It occurred to me, later, how freshman Earlier this week, almost exactly three years since that conversation, I woke year might have been the only time I up to that feeling in my chest again. could have afforded to go home for the Immediately, I thought of her and our summer. I was so busy stressing about yellowish wood furniture and string finding an internship that it didn’t occur lights that clearly violated safety hazards to me there were other opportunities I — what a stressful, chaotic, beautiful would be missing. It just goes to show time. It occurs to me now that her mus- there are always two sides to every coin, ings always came at a particular time, and and usually, only a fraction of our stress it happens to be that time of year again is truly necessary. As a junior now, I admittedly still — early March or, more to the point, can’t exactly practice what I preach. My summer internship acceptance season. When someone brings up the words stomach still drops when I hear about “summer internship,” I am immediately internships; that’s just what we’re all overwhelmed by a series of thoughts: I trained to default to at Cornell. But maybe it’s time for all of have not found one yet. But I’m a junior us to reorient our valand that probably ues. Too often, blindmeans I’m What will happen to me ed by stress, I find screwed we end up working for my if I don’t find an interntoward someone career. But ship? Am I a failure if I else’s agenda rather I also don’t than toward our have the don’t have one? own. energy to My circumapply for stances are difmore. Even if I wanted to keep apply- ferent than many others’, and I recognize ing, have they all passed already? Does it that it’s a privilege that I can consider just really matter? Of course it does — every- going home for the summer — for many, one says a junior internship is the most it’s a vital time to be earning money. important one. But is it bad that I’m Personally, since I’ve already interned for also kind of exhausted and just want to two years and journalism doesn’t demand fly back home and eat popsicles with my as many undergraduate internships, I can sister on the back porch? Is it wrong if I afford to consider alternatives. But everyjust want to go home for once? one has different levels of what they can That’s the thought cycle that keeps afford to give and take — it just might be repeating itself in my head. What will worth reevaluating what matters. Perhaps happen to me if I don’t find an intern- it is worth it to take the small company ship, and does it make me a failure if I with a job we love, rather than chasing after a big name. Or to pursue a research don’t have one? Apparently, I didn’t learn anything project or travel abroad. Or in some from freshman year. My roommate and I cases, to simply go home and spend time scrambled around our room for the first with family. In the case of this summer, I don’t half of spring semester, editing cover letters and compiling twenty different ver- know what I’ll choose to do. Perhaps I’ll sions of resumés. But by the time April end up picking an internship anyways. hit and I still didn’t have an internship, Or perhaps I’ll choose to fly home to my heart was palpitating at dangerous California and eat those popsicles with speeds. “Dear God, it’s over,” I thought my sister on the porch, finally. Either to myself. “I’m never going to be hired way, it’s not worth thinking the world for this summer, which will mean I’ll will be over. And it’s certainly not worth never be hired for the rest of my life, feeling the stress in our chests first thing which means I’ll die alone and miserable. in the morning. Everything, hopefully, What am I going to do, just go home to will fall into place for all of us who are California?” I remember feeling, much still searching. as I do now, like I am five steps behind my peers who have already received their Kelly Song is a junior in the College of Arts and offer letters — they know where they are Sciences. The Songbird Sings runs every other going, and I still have no idea. Thursday this semester. She can be reached at But all of this, it turns out, is an illu- ksong@cornellsun.com.
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Sure Why Not | An Irregular Affair
Here’s to a Steamy Senior Spring Editor’s Note: This piece, though new to The Sun, was originally composed in early 2018. The author has since graduated.
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came to Cornell as many of you did: bright-eyed, enthusiastic and, above all else, incredibly naive. I fondly remember my first few fraternity parties, trying to look “sexy” but mostly arriving at some combination of awkward mall-dweller and short-sighted librarian while my more experienced friends guided me through the maze that would eventually become the backbone of my social life. I went through high school incredibly focused on my academics and extracurriculars, While my partners have knowing that I would move on certainly improved in terms of from my small skill and personality, town to bigger, more exciting I can’t help but feel that my things. Little expectations of them did I know how unprepared I haven’t changed since would be for them. freshman year. It took awhile for me to become acclimated here, and when I did, I was immediately ready to find myself in more ways than just intellectually. Often, I cringe at my freshman year antics — deserting my friends to make out with a decent looking stranger, grinding shamelessly on the dance floor in my somewhat less-than-flattering outfit and allowing myself to believe that these fine, upstanding young Cornellians would want a relationship with me after the first blowjob. As I reflect on the beginnings of my sexual history, I can’t help but realize that I continue to fall into the same traps. Now, they’re more easily blown off within my friend group by claiming that I’d blacked out or that, in fact, I’d been talking to that boy for a whole three days, so really he isn’t a stranger at all. Actually, I know more than five facts about him, so we’re basically best friends — did you know he’s from Westchester and has two sisters? While my partners have certainly improved in
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terms of skill and personality, I can’t help but feel that my expectations of them haven’t changed since freshman year. As I find myself getting more bold with what I want from them, I can’t help but feel unsatisfied. I forever live in the shadow of the one night stand that had me struggling to walk the next morning, the paint peeled from where my fingernails had desperately grasped the night before. In all this time, and after a such a diversity of relationships, I still find myself in pursuit of the perfect fuck. Maybe he’s here, maybe I'll find him post-grad. I’ve lost my initial hopes of finding a husband here and pursuing the Cornell marriage. Coming to Ithaca, I fully expected to find a fellow Cornellian to spend my life with and become a power couple in our own way. At this point, the less-than-fulfilling way that I’ve interacted with all of my potential candidates has squashed that hope. In a way, it’s empowering — I’ve discovered that I carry a high likelihood of being the dominant one in any relationship I’m in, and I’m okay with that. Cornell’s atmosphere of sex positivity has allowed me to develop that part who I am. I'll be grateful for that when I graduate. Regardless of my own personal growth and self-discovery, if my time here has taught me anything it's that you can count on two things from a Cornellian. The first is eagerness: I haven't yet come across a boy who would turn me down in the face of what I want. The second is ultimately falling just short of what you'd wanted. A combination of hookup culture and, I believe, my own personal preference for Jewish lovers has left me vastly unsatisfied. In a lot of ways, I don't think that this is a unique position to be in. Whether it is simply the case that like-attracts-like, or if the general feeling extends to others beyond my direct circle, it seems that many people’s drunken confessions aren't dissimilar to my own. Often while waiting for a slice at CTP or d r a g g i n g Given circumstance, it’s often far myself out more rewarding to focus on of an Uber, I'm struck pursuing a short-term high. by the similarity of my friends’ circumstances to my own. Maybe it's the expectations we come in with, maybe it's the background that we come from. It's hard to say when that scheme begins. As I head toward graduation, it's disheartening to hear my female friends lament about not finding someone to spend forever with. I'm always quick to bring up that permanent isn't always the solution, that given circumstance it's often far more enjoyable and rewarding to focus on pursuing a short-term high. Fingers crossed for an eventful and somewhat regrettable Senior Spring. Sure Why Not is a Cornell University alumnus. An Irregular Affair appears periodically.
Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow
Thirty Things to Do During a Dry Spell
hinking about writing this week’s column stressed me out even more than my three prelims combined. Truth is, I have no sexy sex story for this week. I’ve been going through a frustrating, disappointing and wretched couple of weeks: a dry spell. All of this time, I had thought dry spells were either a myth or an excuse lazy people use to avoid coitus, but it turns out, they truly can happen to anybody. Now, I stand here before you with the credibility of a bankrupt financial advisor. To be fair, I have learned a lot during this quiet period of my life. For one, I can now find my G-spot in less than Truth is, I have 10 seconds, which will surely no sexy sex story come in handy when I’m in bed with a real-life human for this week. I’ve again. Nevertheless, I’ve had get creative to make this been going through toless-than-fruitful time pass by as quickly as possible. a frustrating, From chronic crankiness to disappointing and an occasional mental sex-cain the middle of class, wretched couple of pade these trying times have weeks: a dry spell. taught me that involuntary celibacy is a force to be reckoned with, but as bad as it may get, it is better to deal with that horror than to settle with an inadequate lover. Lucky for me, I see the light at the end of the tunnel with a prospective fuck this weekend. As grateful as I am for this character-building, meta, spiritual time, I’m ready to flood
this Sahara Desert. But for anyone still dealing with chronic dry spell, here go my top 30 adventures to try during a dry spell. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Yell Get angry for no reason Download Tinder, Bumble, Hinge and Grindr Flake on a date Go to Fishbowls to see excessive PDA Read a book Decide reading a book is too much work and binge Netflix Watch porn Masturbate Watch more porn Develop a surprising fetish (Hentai, anyone?) Begin to grow a small forest down there Nurture it Get an STD test Go to a Juggling Club meeting to feel some balls Send a nude Actively complain about your dry spell Buy a new vibrator Masturbate some more Begin to find the weirdo in your psych class cute Fantasize about the next time you have sex during lecture Get a massage to remember what it’s like to get felt up Forget to close your porn tab and open your laptop in the middle of class Regret the last time you said no to having sex
25. Go on a run to get your cardio in 26. Experiment and find your G-spot 27. Craft the perfect sex playlist for when you finally get some 28. Buy Ben Wa balls and do kegels at the library 29. Flirt with Happy Dave 30. Attend a human bonding lecture to figure out how to get laid Veuve Cliq-Hoe is a student at Cornell University. Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow runs monthly.
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Starting the Day Right at Sunset Grill By ELIJAH FOX
every seat taken and a swell of people waiting by the entrance, it was a few minutes before we could he outing was on a whim. A even get the host’s attention to ask friend of mine had returned about a wait time. His optimistic from February break armed estimation of five minutes proved with a car. This prescient; din2004 Honda ers melted Insult to Fuel Finally, and perhaps away almost Efficiency to most importantly, the hot instantly liberated us free up a table from the lim- sauce waiting at the table for four locatits of expensive speaks volumes about the ed right beside Ubers and the the griddle. c u m b e r s o m e establishment that placed A choice TCAT; sudit there. To sit at a table spot for brunch denly, the decihas a few early prepared for a medley sion to travel indicators of of warmth and savory three miles quality to look for a Saturday out for. The and be greeted with the morning of the familiar bottle of Frank’s size brunch was crowd around easily withRedHot is to be sure your brunch time in reach. We chef knows what they are is the first whisked off to a sign; one look doing. lot just north of through the Ithaca College doorway of occupied by a Sunset Grill gas station, a inspired conliquor store and a staple of the fidence. The second, aroma, was Tompkins County dining experi- immediately obvious as the sweet ence: Sunset Grill. scent of the warm interior beckoned The crowd nearly dissuaded us us to enter from the frigid parking the moment we walked in. With lot and demanded that we stay. Sun Contributor
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the hot sauce waiting at the table spoke volumes about the establishment that placed it there. To sit at a table prepared for a medley of warmth and savory and be greeted with the familiar bottle of Frank’s RedHot is to be sure your chef knows what they are doing. The homey, American decor ensured a pleasant atmosphere despite the high-speed hustle of the staff. When we settled into our booth, vintage posters and advertisements on the walls welcomed us to a safe late-20th century vibe. Sunset Grill has strong a reputation that precedes it, and I was ready to experience it for myself. The griddle was occupied almost entirely by about ten pancakes being made simultaneously, signaling that I may have had no choice but to check them out. When my three friends each ordered pancakes, though, I saw my bold first bite of the day, brought odds of securing a bite skyrocket to life by a substantial dousing of and opted for the classic American Frank’s RedHot. While warnings breakfast of steak and eggs. at diners about undercooked red Two eggs over easy, four pieces meat abound, I can attest that they of rye toast, half a plate of home are best reserved for other establishfries and a six-ounce black angus ments. The steak was seared to persirloin landed fection and surin front of me Two eggs over easy, four vived the lonabout 15 mingest of any item pieces of rye toast, half a on the plate as utes after placing my order. plate of home fries and a it demanded Even with no to be savored. attempt at frill six-ounce black angus sir- Although the loin landed in front of me home fries or fanciness, the dish was would have about 15 minutes after undeniably done well to placing my order. Even handsome. be more thorClassic for with no attempt at frill or oughly cooked a reason, the and seasoned, fanciness, the dish was brunch satisfied the main undeniably handsome. both hunger course was and pallet with plenty to satisevery bite. The fy all the modtoast — heavy erately hunand flavorful, buttered without so gry brunch-goers, relegating much as a nod toward moderation the potatoes to an afterthought. — proved a delightful vehicle for Sunset Grill is an excellent spot the eggs while they maintained their for delicious food to start a day off form and handy sponge once the right, and it is also a space woryolk had been broken. Sunset Grill thy of any hours of free time you clearly emphasizes quality in their might have to spare. Its patrons ingredients; the eggs were a rich and are a mix of students and locals
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(though locals seem to dominate), drawn to the warm and inviting prospect of its wholesome American experience. Friendly staff, vintage decorations and rustic furnishing were complemented by the buzz of conversation, punctured sporadically by bursts of laughter. For $12.99 before tax and tip, my cold morning became a cozy afternoon. If you have access to a car and a couple hours to spare, try Sunset Grill, and don’t be surprised if you become a regular. After borrowing plenty of bites from plates to my left, front and right, I recommend that on your next visit to Sunset Grill, you insist that your date gets the pancakes. From the food on your plate to the jubilance in the air, Sunset Grill is an experience worth sharing. Serves: American breakfast and lunch Vibe: Classic American Price: $ Overall: Elijah Fox is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at etf25@cornell.edu.
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War Films and Perspectives
recently watched Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old at Cinemapolis. Quite unintentionally, this followed a period over several weeks in which I watched a number of films pertaining to either war or its effects, including Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun — the latter of which is starkly different from the previous two films. This recent plethora of war films has raised a number of issues in my mind, all of which might be consolidated in the following question that this column seeks to address: Can a war film be made without glorifying the destruction it depicts (or does not depict)? The juxtaposition between Fassbinder’s film and the others highlights the importance of the perspective of those involved and how it influences a war film’s merits and politics. In my opinion, these questions are obvious and necessary to the experience of engaging with a war film. Of course, they are certainly not original or profound, as critics have been accusing war films of propagandizing since their inception. Nevertheless, it seems as though many viewers are not questioning war films along the aforementioned lines. Admittedly, I approach war films from a starkly anti-war viewpoint, but I think a common belief that I share with even my most hawkish peers is that the violence of armed conflict ought to be approached with some sort of dignified solemnity. Of course, it’s also important to understand both sides of a conflict. It seems as though the more gritty and realistic a war film appears or claims to be, the more it actually works to glorify war’s destruction. With this statement I have films like Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk in mind, both movies portraying acts of war in scenes that are tremendous and grandiose. They Shall Not Grow Old uses actual footage from World War I that was restored to a striking, colorized clarity by Peter Jackson and his production team. (An extra interview with Jackson after each screening of the documentary reveals the incredible lengths the team went through to restore the footage.) While the claim might be made that such depictions seek to inform and warn viewers of the very real destructive capacity of man, at what point does the massive expenditure of resources on recreating these violent acts become inherently suspect? Moreover, the striking cinematography of these films runs
the risk of coming across as epic, inspirational, even beautiful at times. When these images are placed in narratives of Allied victory and triumph, any anti-war, anti-destruction message, if it even existed, is nullified. A strikingly different depiction of war is Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, released in 1978. The film’s premise is about a German woman who was married during World War II and, following Germany’s defeat, has yet to reunite with her husband, presuming him to be dead. Interestingly, we do not see very many scenes of war itself. Instead, the viewer is left only with the utter destruction of war and all of the anxious despair that thrives amidst the rubble and bombed-out cities. I think that only a director from a nation who “lost” a conflict and experienced the brunt of its destruction could make such a film that is so genuinely anti-war. Fassbinder, who was born in Germany in 1945, was likely quite familiar with how a defeated nation copes with war’s devastation. In the post-film interview with Jackson, he states that his documentary carries no inherently political message and asserts that it merely tells the story of an average British soldier on the front line. He mentions that the primary purpose of the documentary is to inspire viewers to learn about any possible involvement in WWI by their ancestors. Jackson’s claim to political neutrality is surprisingly naïve, and we must hold such directors more accountable. These epic images created by directors of war films take on lives of their own — always the postmodernist — and in an era of increasing nationalistic fervor around the Swan’s Song world, these images can be used to justify more violence and narrow-mindedness. In this light, I place They Shall Not Grow Old in line with other films like Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, both of which I interpret as pro-Brexit propaganda as they valorize Britain’s endurance during times of war from limited perspectives. I certainly do not mean to downplay the bravery of the individuals who took part in these wars, but I am rather calling for an increased complexity in the narratives these films employ as well as a more critical stance against them.
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A$AP Ferg to Perform At Cornell’s Barton Hall on March 24 BY PETER BUONANNO ARTS ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
“Ride with the mob / Alhamdulallah / Check in with me, and do ya job / Ferg is the name / Ben Baller did the chain / Tourneau for the watch / Presi plain Jane” . . . well, we all know the rest. Cornell Concert Commission announced Tuesday in an email to their members that A$AP Ferg will be performing at Barton Hall on March 24. He is the second act to be hosted by the Cornell Concert Commission this semester — the first being Electric Guest. They followed followed up this announcement Wednesday afternoon with a Facebook post revealing that A$AP Twelvyy would be opening for A$AP Ferg. A$AP Twelvyy and A$AP Ferg are both members of the hip hop collective A$AP Mob and have collaborated extensively, including on the Cozy Tapes series and on Twelvyy’s debut album 12. A$AP Ferg is best known for his hit songs “Plain Jane,” which has amassed over 338 million streams on Spotify since its release, and “Shabba.” He is a prominent member of the A$AP Mob and has previously collaborated A$AP Rocky and Nicki Minaj. He was also the recipient of the 2013 BET Rookie of the Year award. Twelvyy released his debut album 12 in August of 2017, which features songs such as “Diamonds” (featuring A$AP Rocky), “Hop Out” (featuring fellow Barton Hall performer A$AP Ferg) and “L.Y.B.B.” — which chronicles Twelvyy’s rise to fame. In an interview with HighSnobiety, Twelvyy spoke on how he was inspired by his experience growing up in the projects to create 12: “Around the age of 12-13, I moved to Castle Hill projects. Everything I experienced in the projects made me into the mastermind I am today. The one of a kind ways of the projects and streets shaped me into a beautiful product of my environment.” Twelvyy also performed at Governor’s Ball 2018 where he performed tracks off of his debut effort. He released his new single “Child’s Play” back in January, which currently sits at over 390,000 streams on Spotify. Due to previous collaborations and their A$AP affiliation, expect Twelvyy and Ferg to be more of a joint concert rather than a strictly adhered to opening and main act. Previous Barton artists include Gucci Mane, Playboi Carti and Young Thug. A$AP Ferg’s appearance at Barton will mark the fourth year in a row that the Cornell Concert Commission has booked a hip hop act for the spring ballot. Tickets for the March 24 show go on sale Thursday morning at 9 a.m. They can be purchased on the Cornell Concert Commission website. Expect tickets to be around $25. Peter Buonanno is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves as the assistant arts editor on The Sun’s editorial board. He can be reached at pbuonanno@cornellsun.com.
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Tetris 99 Is the Gen-Z Tetris When I subscribed to Nintendo’s online gaming service, I knew I’d get free arcade games, but I never expected Tetris: Battle Royale. I mainly subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online to continue playing Splatoon 2 — I’d always played competitively online for free, but Nintendo introduced a paywall for online games starting in late 2018. The $20/year subscription service allows players access to online multiplayer modes on a large collection of popular titles, including Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. However, Nintendo knew players would want extra perks for handing over extra cash just to access features they’ve always had, so they introduced an online-exclusive app called Nintendo Entertainment System to host virtual copies of dozens of games from the NES console. Subscribers can play retro games like the original Legend of Zelda or Metroid for free as long as they connect to the internet every couple of weeks. However, this app doesn’t hold much value to newer gamers who aren’t interested in retro games or are too young for NES nostalgia (for reference, the NES is older than me, a junior in college, by thirteen years.) Recognizing this, Nintendo has long been promising that Online subscribers would be receiving other perks as time goes on. During their Direct presentation on February 13th, they announced a new free-for-subscribers exclusive: Tetris 99. Tetris 99 is the unholy lovechild of the classic game Tetris and recent hits such as Fortnite Battle Royale and Player Unknown’s Battle Grounds. More accurately, it’s Tetris’s answer to the Battle Royale genre, a category that describes any game where dozens of players (usually around 99) battle in real time to become the last player standing. Tetris 99 takes this concept and runs with it, taking it . . . somewhere.
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The most important thing to understand about Tetris’s Battle Royale game is that there’s no tutorial. A trembling purple button on the home screen taunts “You versus the world. Can you win it all?” Without thinking, I immediately selected it. There was a short waiting period while the system matched me with 98 other players, and then the game began with a haunting robotic voice: “Ready? GO!” Immediately, an upbeat remix of the classic Tetris theme began to play, and a normal game of Tetris appeared in the middle of my screen: a bright yellow square slowly descended in an empty rectangle. Tetris is a classic arcade game; its gameplay is so iconic, you wouldn’t think it would need a tutorial. But I had no idea what to do. I moved the joysticks on both my controllers, frantically trying to move the square from one side to the other, but all I did was move a pulsating circle around the edges of my screen. That’s when I noticed: I wasn’t alone. What I’d first mistaken for decoration was actually 98 other screens, players with their own games of Tetris.
Congratulations, Nintendo, you’ve finally made me want to play a classic retro game. What looked like laser beams flashed across my screen. Twirling my joysticks further just revealed a baffling menu with choices like “K.O.s” and “Attackers.” My controller rumbled and “WATCH OUT!” flashed across my screen. By the time I realized through an embarrassing amount of frightened button-mashing that I could rotate with A and move side-to-side with
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the arrow buttons, my screen had seemingly exploded multiple times and the gray bedrock that normally creeps up on a game of Tetris had risen unnaturally fast, killing me instantly. I placed 74th, and the game let me scroll through a list of my accomplishments: “Singles: 0. Doubles: 0. T-Spins: 0.” I’ve played the game a lot since then, scoring as high as 26th place. I haven’t won a Chicken Dinner, but I have gotten more into the game of Tetris itself. I don’t think I ever really understood it as a kid, but now I kind of enjoy the rhythm of fitting shapes together, which I guess is why the original game got so popular in the first place. I found that I was happiest playing the game when I just ignored all the buzzing and lasers and just focused on my own game of Tetris. I’m sure if I really dedicated myself
to it and looked up enough guides online, I could figure out exactly how to attack other players the way they were attacking me using the joysticks and learn what exactly a “Killshot” or a “T-Spin” is, but part of me doesn’t want to really deal with all that. Part of me just wants to play a vanilla game of Tetris. Which might be what the plan was all along? Has this just been weird Gen-Z advertising for the countless re-releases of normal Tetris that have accumulated over the years? Congratulations, Nintendo, you’ve finally made me want to play a classic retro game. Olivia Bono is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ojb26@ cornell.edu.
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Rachel Mattessich I’ve always thought that Hozier is an underrated artist. He doesn’t make music that you listen to while jumping around at a fraternity party or the music that you sing-scream at the top of your lungs as you’re driving around with your friend. However, his music is the kind that makes you think — it encourages you to look up the lyrics and actually try and understand them. It has soul and depth. In his first album since his self-titled debut Hozier, which was released in 2014, Hozier has returned from a prolonged hiatus with a powerful and moving album. Prior to the full release of Wasteland, Baby!, Hozier released the songs “Almost (Sweet Music),” “Movement” and “Dinner and Diatribes.” “Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples)” and “Shrike,” both from his 2018 EP “Nina Cried Power,” are also included on the
new album. While I do like the second half of Wasteland, Baby! more than the first, the songs “Movement” and “No Plan” from the first half are definitely worth the listen. “Movement” starts off soft and angelic. About a minute in, Hozier raises the volume and shows off the strong command he has over his voice. “No Plan” follows, which has much more emphasis on guitar usage and almost switches the genre. But it works great. Hozier grew up with his dad playing blues music in the house, and by listening to this album, you can see how skillfully Hozier combines the soulful characteristics of blues with a rock-esque vibe. In the second half of the album, I particularly enjoyed “Shrike.” He sings “I couldn’t utter my love when it counted / Ah, but I’m singing like a bird ‘bout it now / And I couldn’t whisper when you
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needed it shouted.” Hozier retrospectively recounts how he never expressed his love at the time, even though his partner needed the reassurance. In this piece, Hozier likens himself to the shrike songbird that impales its freshly killed prey on tree thorns (in this case the thorn is his lover). How romantic. He goes on to tell his lover to remember him when he is later reborn as a shrike and that, just like a shrike needs a thorn to survive by using it to impale its prey, Hozier needs his lover to survive as well. The final song of Wasteland, Baby!, fittingly, is “Wasteland, Baby!” The first 24 seconds of instrumental sound like a piece from a movie soundtrack where a boy and girl drive away from each other but know that they are still in love. And that’s basi-
cally what this song is, but with a bit more nostalgia. It seems like Hozier recognizes the struggles of the relationship with lyrics like, “that love soon might end / Be known in its aching,” yet he still professes his love with the final line of his chorus as “I’m in love, I’m in love with you.” This inconsistency in his romantic feelings seems to be a trend throughout the album that is left unresolved in his final song. Hopefully, this unfinished love story will continue via more
releases. I have great respect for Hozier — he flies under the radar and drops heart-felt music. Impressively, Hozier comes from a family of talent and creativity. Hozier’s mother has created the cover art of both of his albums. The abstract and intricacy of the covers are fitting for his work and embody who he is as an artist. His music is full of metaphors and allusions, and it certainly is worth checking out. Rachel Mattessich is a junior in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at rjm463@ cornell.edu.
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RPCC, Appel Mail Services to Combine by 2021 By ANYI CHENG
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By 2021, the RPCC and Appel service centers will combine in order to streamline mail and package services for North Campus residences, according to Karen E. Brown, director of campus life marketing and communications. Eventually, all of Appel’s mail and package services will move to to RPCC. However — tentatively set for fall 2019 — the first step in the merging of the two service centers is removing personal mailboxes from RPCC to make space for storing resident packages, Brown told The Sun in an email. North Campus residents will still follow the current pickup system, in which students receive email notifications about delivered pieces of mail or packages. However, students will retrieve both their mail and their packages at the RPCC service desk instead of checking their own mailboxes. “The biggest factor in the decision to update our mail-
room operations is the enormous change to the way students use mail,” Brown told The Sun in an email. “We have seen that many students have stopped checking their mailboxes daily, as there has been a huge drop in paper mail.” Soon, students will no longer pick up their mail in these mail boxes. Instead, they will receive notifications when they have mail. Without a constant influx of paper mail items such as letters, bills and advertisements, Brown and her team found mailboxes phasing out of necessity. On the other hand, she noticed that the quantity of packages being sent to students has spiked. “The underutilized mailboxes are taking up space that we feel could better be used for handling packages and the rest of students’ incoming mail, with an aim toward increasing throughout in a more efficient mailroom operation,” Brown wrote. Eventually, RPCC and Appel are on course to fully merge their mail services — all North Campus residents
would pick up their mail and packages at an “expanded and improved” service desk in RPCC. The renovations are as yet unscheduled, but projected to take place in fall 2020 or fall 2021, according to Brown. The planning process for the merge is currently being led by Brandi Smith-Berger, associate director for conference and event services. The process includes input from staff and students, according to Brown. “We feel this will provide the best combination of flexibility, convenience, and efficiency for our students and the staff providing the mail service on campus,” Brown wrote, adding that the changes reflected similar structures at many other universities. “Unlike the current operation, they will know when there’s mail to be picked up, and won’t have to check a mailbox that’s empty most days anyway to see if there’s anything there.” Anyi Cheng can be reached at acheng@cornellsun.com.
Highly-Ranked, Innovative Cornell Women Startups Are ‘Crushing Tech,’ Forbes Says By NICOLE ZHU Sun Assistant News Editor
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Cornell alumnae and, according to Forbes Magazine, are also three of the top 50 most innovative women-led startups in tech. Phaedra Anestassia ’14 first began developing Spero Foods’ plant-based versions of cheese and eggs as a way to relieve symptoms from her “chronic illness,” according to the company’s website. After making the switch to plant-based foods, Anestassia “started to forget what sick even felt like.” “I spent years working in software engineering and data analysis for both corporate and start-up entities, but was never satisfied,” Anestassia said on the Spero website. “I knew there was something more that truly mattered to me and the world at large — something I just had to do.” Armed with her background in biosciences and optimization, Anestassia turned her efforts towards creating sustainable, nutritious plant-based alternatives for dairy and egg products. Soon after, Spero — meaning “I hope” in Italian — was born. Since the company’s start in 2016, the full line of products has since expanded to include dairy-free chevre cheeses, liquid egg alternatives and even whipped cinnamon cheesecake. Six ounces of Spero goatcheese product costs around nine dollars. Founder of bidet attachment maker TUSHY and serial entrepreneur Miki Agrawal ’01 is no stranger to startups. After graduating from Cornell, Agrawal started an organic pizza restaurant which later become a chain of restaurants, then in 2014 began working on THINX and anti-incontinence underwear company ICON. She founded TUSHY in 2015, which makes bidets that attach to typical toilets. Once known as the taboo-busting, feminism-driven CEO of menstrual underwear maker and millennial phenomenom THINX, Agrawal was ousted in 2017 after employees
alleged sexual assault and misconduct including fat-shaming and penalizing workers who took maternity leave. Although Agrawal is no longer involved in operations at TUSHY, the company has gained traction, even garnering a shout-out on SNL late last year. Cornell alumna Dr. Iya Khalil Ph.D. ’01 is the co-founder and chief commercial officer of her start-up, GNS Healthcare, a data analytics company that uses AI to help healthcare providers optimize patient treatments. The company, which Khalil founded in 2000 with fellow Cornell alumnus Colin Hill M.A. ’00, has since acquired $54.3 million in funding from venture capitalists and other investors, moving its headquarters from Ithaca to biotech hub Cambridge, M.A. In the past, GNA Healthcare has worked on projects varying from analyzing standards for federal healthcare reform to teaming up with pharmaceutical companies to predict patients’ responses to experimental drugs. “Given that we now have the capability to unravel our biology, and predict how to intervene to get to the best possible outcomes, our challenge then becomes how do we apply this to every disease and every aspect of our health, including how we age,” Khalil said in a recent interview with the Precision Medicine World Conference. “I look forward to a time where we can predict serious illness or life-threatening events well before they happen and actually prevent them,” she continued. According to Forbes, the 12.3 million women-led startups in the nation have not received the same access to capital that men have received — women-led startups received only 2.2 percent of investor funding last year. Nicole Zhu can be reached at nzhu@cornellsun.com
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Red Rolls Past Colgate in Decisive 15-6 Victory By SMITA NALLURI
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Second-half surge | A dominant second half that saw seven unanswered goals and 30 minutes of shutout defense lifted the Red to victory.
score,” Graap said. “Our defensive effort was solid, but we need our midfielders to help more consistently in transitioning the Unfazed by snow flurries and a windchill ball up the field into our offense.” Walsh led the way for the Red with three of 3 degrees Fahrenheit, Cornell dismantled the Colgate Raiders 15-6 in an impressive goals and two assists, both of which are career highs. Junior captain and midfielder display of athleticism and tenacity. “Today’s weather was a challenge,” said Caroline Allen had two goals and an assist, head coach Jenny Graap ’86, “but our lead- while senior captain and attacker Sarah ers did a good job keeping the team moti- Phillips and sophomore midfielder Grace Paletta each tallied two goals of their own. vated and working hard.” Defensively, junior captain and defendSophomore Ellie Walsh set the tone for the game, scoring for the Red 10 seconds er Mary Kate Bonanni had an impressive into the first half after winning a draw and game, limiting Colgate’s most prolific scorer to just an assist on the day. Junior goaltaking it all the way to the goal. The Raiders (2-4) nipped at the Red’s keeper Katie McGahan came up big for the heels throughout the rest of the first half, Red once again, stopping 13 of the 17 shots that came her keeping the game for a save within reach. “We are trying to focus on the effort way percentage of After Colgate c o u n t e r e d and the energy on the field versus the .765. McGahan currently leads Walsh’s goal with final score.” the NCAA in one of its own, save percentage Cornell (2-2, 1-0 Jenny Graap ’86 at .629. Ivy) responded Always lookwith two more to go up 3-1. The Raiders found a way to hang ing to improve, the Red will look to tidy on; Colgate would score one and Cornell up its transition as it heads into another would answer with two. The Red carried a busy week. “It’s important to take every game as a four-goal lead into the second half. The second half was a different story. clean slate,” said senior attacker Tomasina The Red dominated, putting seven points Leska. “With each game we’ve noticed on the board before Colgate was able to aspects we can improve on, so we’re going to work on those and focus on those this week. score again. After scoring nine unanswered goals and That way we can hopefully be even better shutting out Colgate for more than 30 min- for Columbia.” Looking to extend its winning streak, utes, the Red was able to walk off the field with its second victory of the season and the Red will head to New York City to take on the Columbia Lions (2-4, 0-1 Ivy) on remain undefeated at home. This was the second consecutive game Saturday at 1 p.m. It will then step away from in which the Red shut out its opponent for conference play again to face Marist (2-2) in more than half an hour and was its largest Poughkeepsie on Monday at 3 p.m. margin of victory thus far. “We are trying to focus on the effort Smita Nalluri can be reached at and the energy on the field versus the final snalluri@cornellsun.com. Sun Staff Writer
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Red Looks to Set Record Straight in ECAC Semi By FAITH FISHER
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The resilient Red conquered an adversity-stamped weekend to secure a well-deserved spot in the ECAC tournament semifinal. For its troubles, the Red has been rewarded with a matchup with the only ECAC foe it hasn’t defeated this year. Cornell (22-4-6, 17-3-2 ECAC) will hit the ice against Princeton (20-6-5, 15-4-3 ECAC) with a coveted spot in the ECAC championship game on the line. Cornell, the regular-season ECAC champions, managed to triumph over RPI in last weekend’s ruthless three-game series — but not without difficulty. The Red clinched a 2-1 win in the first game, but its quest for the championship title was interrupted by a 2-0 loss the following day. The Red recovered, however, and guaranteed its position in the semifinal with a decisive 6-1 win in Sunday’s game three. “It was a tough weekend. RPI Women’s Hockey really brought the energy and pushed hard,” junior defensemCornell an Jaime Bourbonnais said. “We faced a lot of adversity in the second game, so it’s nice to go through that adversity early so we can build off of it next weekend.” vs. The weekend was a learning experience for the Red and a testament to the team’s toughness. Going into the game against Princeton, the Red will look to Princeton implement important lessons from its hard-fought series against RPI. Friday, 7 p.m. “Our players recognize that you Ithaca, N.Y. can’t get down, you can’t be thinking about the period before the play before,” head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 said. “We need to finish on our chances … and work on a number of things scoring-wise for the rest of the playoffs.” The Red’s results against Princeton during the 2018-19 regular season were unfavorable — Cornell has yet to seal a victory against the Tigers this season. The Red suffered a 5-0 loss at home in January and eked out a 2-2 overtime tie in November. With these games in mind, the Red is aware that the semifinal will be a fierce competition, requiring both focus and discipline.
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“They have quite a few numbers that are dangerous scorers up front, so we will have to keep them in check,” Derraugh said. “Like all the teams at this point in the season, they have really good goaltending, they have defenses like us that are contributing on the offensive side that are also solid defensively.” “Princeton is a great team,” said Bourbonnais. “We have definitely had some trouble with them this season. They have a lot of really good young players.” Despite the Tiger’s offensive and defensive capabilities, both Derraugh and the players realize that the playoffs present a clean slate, and regular season results do not dictate playoff outcomes. Last year, Cornell defeated Princeton in the quarterfinals after splitting the regular-season series. “Playoffs are a different season,” freshman forward Gillis Frechette said. “It is a different atmosphere and it is possible for anything to happen.” More importantly, the Red is eager to set the record straight against the Tigers after Princeton thrashed the Red at Lynah in January. Princeton was one of the only teams that toppled Cornell at home, disrupting the Red’s almost flawless home-ice record (13-2-0).
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“We have that fire and we know we can beat them,” Frechette said. “Our last game we played against them wasn’t our best showing — we feel like we didn’t play our best game — but we know that we can win if we play our team game.” Treating the January loss as an anomaly, the Red is happy to enjoy the familiar and energizing environment of Lynah and avoid the exhaustion of travel. “Being able to host is huge,” Bourbonnais said. “Sleeping in our own beds, having our own dressing room, and our own ice — it’s definitely nice to host and finish the year strong.” “Playing on Lynah is special,” Frechette said. “We have a whole new fire in our bellies when we play here.” The Red just marked the program’s 600th victory with its win against RPI, and the team is looking to make it to 601 victories with a big one this weekend. The contest will be held on Lynah Rink on Saturday at 1 p.m., and Clarkson and Colgate will face off at 4 p.m. to fill the other championship spot. The winners will tangle for the ECAC championship Sunday at 2 p.m. Faith Fisher can be reached at ffisher@cornellsun.com.
Galajda Tapped as ECAC Goaltender of the Month By CHRISTINA BULKELEY Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Cornell men’s hockey’s decorated sophomore Matt Galajda was today awarded his latest accolade: the title of February ECAC Goaltender of the Month. Throughout the month, Galajda provided the Red with an invaluable last layer of defense over seven outings while notching two shutouts and allowing a total of 12 goals for a league-leading 1.61 goals against average and putting up a .929 save percentage. The lone hiccups in the month for Galajda came on the weekend of Feb. 15. Against Brown on that Friday, the netminder conceded three goals in the span of 53 seconds in the third period to tie the game, and the following night against Yale, the sophomore was pulled after his team went down 3-0, before returning to the net when classmate Austin McGrath allowed the Bulldogs their fourth goal. JOSE COVARRUBIAS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER But as a whole, Galajda provided a steady Return to form | After a rocky start, All-American netminder Matt Galajda has hand to help Cornell finish with a 4-2-2 record reasserted himself as a superb backstop with a stellar February. in the month and later a share of the regular
season championship. Galajda’s latest performance at Clarkson showcased his aptitude at backstop, even if the game didn’t end the way the team had intended. Throughout a first period in which the rest of the Red’s performance was subpar, Galajda made save after save to hold the deficit to one. Ultimately, the game resulted in a 2-2 tie on a goal in the last minute that Galajda had no chance at stopping. “Matty was great,” senior defenseman and alternate captain Matt Nuttle said after the game. “We probably should’ve been down two or three nothing at the end of the first period.” In that first period, Clarkson had 14 shots on goal as compared to Cornell’s three. By the game’s end, Galajda had made 33 saves — his season high. “[He] kept us in the game,” said freshman forward Mike Regush. Some of Galajda’s previous honors include All-American status from last year, first freshman ever to be named a Hobey Baker finalist, Ivy League Player of the Year amid a slew of other weekly honors. With the Red enjoying a bye this weekend, Galajda will next take the ice March 15 at Lynah against an opponent to be determined. Christina Bulkeley can be reached at cbulkeley@cornellsun.com.