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An extension faculty member shares her efforts to integrate people with disabilities into the workforce. | Page 3

Mark DiStefano ’16 lauds Hitchcock / Truffaut, which will be shown at Cornell Cinema this evening. | Page 10

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Faculty Senate Candidates Vie for Dean Position

Voice plans to strengthen shared governance, augment faculty input in University policy

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

The Faculty Senate will consider possible replacements for Dean of the Faculty Prof. Joseph Burns, astronomy, mechanical and aerospace engineering — who is currently on medical leave — at its Wednesday meeting.

The faculty dean is the University faculty’s chief administrative officer and liaison to the president, trustees and Cornell community, according to the University Faculty website.

There are currently five candidates for the position, according to Acting Dean Prof. Michael Fontaine, classics. All candidates stressed the need for shared governance, especially when determining the details of the new College of Business.

Prof. Paul Soloway, nutritional sciences, said the administration’s method of creating the college indicates a lack of trust in the faculty.

“As a faculty member, it seems that the provost, pres-

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ident and trustees lack confidence that we can provide effective, appropriate and prompt input,” Soloway said.

“We should prove them wrong; and if we can’t, then Cornell has bigger problems than anyone realizes.”

Prof. Risa Lieberwitz, industrial and labor relations, emphasized the increasing prevalence of top-down decision making at both Cornell and colleges across the country. She said she hopes to re-establish the Faculty Senate’s influence in University policy.

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“I would work with the Faculty Senate and college governance bodies to revive the role of faculty governance at all levels,” Liberwitz said. “This, in turn, will encourage active faculty participation in governance, which will improve the quality of deliberations and decisions on matters of educational policy.”

Prof. Nerissa Russell, anthropology, said that See FACULTY SENATE page 4

Ithaca Student Threatens Shooting

High schooler arrested, charged with school terror threat

The Facebook posts included the narrative of an imagined shooting — “Local Teen Opens Fire at Ithaca High” — in which Rollins-Young describes a Jacob M. Rollins-Young, 17, a student at Ithaca “Caucasian male” opening fire with an assault rifle High School, was arrested and charged with a “in a cafeteria nearby.” He also repeatedly suggested felony Tuesday after threatening a mass shooting at that he was not joking, according to the felony his school via Facebook, according to a press release complaint.

In a Facebook converfrom the Ithaca Police Department.

“One student became upset and made sation between several IHS students, “one stuPolice charged a ... threat of violence to the entire dent became upset and Rollins-Young with origiIthaca High School community.” made a direct threat to nating a terroristic threat another student followed — a Class D felony — Ithaca Police by a threat of violence to Saturday night, and he the entire IHS commuwas arrested Monday nity,” according to an email sent by school adminnight, according to The Ithaca Journal.

The police responded to an alert at approximate- istrators to students’ parents.

The police “do not believe the student who made ly 3:28 p.m. Saturday, after concerned students who had seen Rollins-Young’s Facebook comments noti- the threat poses an actual threat to the IHS commufied Ithaca High School principal Jason Trumble, according to the release.

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By TALIA JUBAS

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Victory smile | Hillary Clinton poses yesterday with voters.

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C.U. Profs Analyze Primary Results

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

Gov. John Kasich’s (ROhio) home state victory will not slow Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton cleared her path to the Democratic nomination in Tuesday’s primaries, according to Prof.

Lawrence Glickman, history, and Prof. Maria Cristina Garcia, history.

Clinton and Trump emerged as victors in the elections, and Marco Rubio (RFla.) dropped out of the race for the Republican nominee.

Rubio decided to suspend

his campaign after losing in his home state of Florida.

Trump and Clinton were both declared winners in four states; however, Trump conceded Ohio to Kasich, its governor.

Garcia said she was not surprised by the results of tonight’s Florida primary, because Rubio “seemed unable to carry his home state,” she said.

While Kasich’s Ohio win was also predictable, Rubio’s campaign suspension could significantly benefit the See PRIMARIES page 4

Cornellians Elect 2016 S.A.Leaders

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor

Cornellians have elected Jordan Berger ’17 Student Assembly President and Matthew Indimine ’18 Executive Vice President in the 2016 S.A. elections.

Nearly 30 percent of the Cornell student body voted in the elections, according to the assembly’s website.

“I hope to [instill] the importance of truly representing the voices of students who are often not included in many discussions or decisions,” Indimine said.

Only six positions, including S.A. president, were contested this election cycle.

Julia Montejo ’17 and Traciann Celestin ’19 were elected to serve as Minority Liaisons-at-Large on the S.A., and Lauren Lang ’17 will be the Class of 2017 President, according to the S.A. website.

Akhilesh Issur ’17 was elected International Student Liaison-atLarge for the S.A. Students also elected Bjorn Bjornsson ’18, Yuchen Wang ’17 and Daniel Engelson ’18 to fill the three Arts and Sciences Representative positions.

Additionally, Justin Selig ’17 and Rebecca Herz ’18 won positions as College of Engineering Representatives.

Daniel Engelson ’18, who ran uncontested for Class of 2018 President, expressed his appreciation for the students in the College of Arts and Sciences who voted in the election.

“They spoke their voice so that I, along with the other elects, could fight for them, and that is exactly what we will do,” Engelson said.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Florida Woman Fights to Keep Pet Alligator ‘Rambo’ at Home LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman is fighsixing to keep her 6-foot-long pet alligator in her home.

The 125-pound reptile named Rambo wears clothes, rides on the back of a motorcycle and has a bedroom in Mary Thorn's home in Lakeland.

Thorn has had a license for the alligator for 11 years, but it recently grew to six feet. Wildlife officials say that size alligator must have two and a half acres of land.

Thorn tells the Orlando Sentinel that even if she had land available, Rambo can’t be left outdoors because of sensitivity to sunlight.

Thorn takes Rambo to schools and charity events to teach people about reptiles. She says she has trained him not to bite.

Florida wildlife commission spokesman Gary Morse says Thorn’s case is under investigation.

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Charlton police told WCVB-TV that a black SUV containing a group of men in their late teens or early 20s pulled up next to three teenage boys Saturday afternoon.

One of the men got out of the vehicle and started rapping. The other men then asked the teens if they wanted to “spit some bars” with them. When the boys declined, the men drove off.

Police say it doesn’t appear to be an attempted abduction, but the boys were frightened.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

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Woman Accused of Stealing Taxi, Telling Driver Destination DENVER (AP) — A Denver woman has been accused of stealing a taxi, but not before she told the driver where she was headed.

KMGH-TV reports that the cab driver called police early Friday to say that a woman got in his cab and asked to go to a 7-Eleven store.

Police say she then threatened him with a knife, kicked him out of the taxi and took off in the vehicle.

The woman ditched the cab but walked to the convenience store she had initially mentioned. Police say she was arrested there and taken into custody.

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Extension Faculty Member Shares Rewards of Work in Disabilities

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

LaWanda Cook, an extension faculty member at the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, has dedicated her life to helping people with disabilities achieve their career goals.

A certified rehabilitation counselor, Cook studies the work-life balance, access to worksite wellness programs and social inclusion of people with disabilities.

Although Cook uses a wheelchair, she said her conversations are largely focused on her work rather than on her disability.

“If you know me one-on-one, we’re not talking about the chair most of the time because that’s not who I am,” she said.

Cook said her research was inspired by her experiences with summer employment programs. Working made her feel “powerful and capable,” she said.

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At Cornell, Cook is working on an inclusive fit“I liked feeling that ... in a work situation, I was a contributor and people needed the skills I had,” ness initiative that supports wellness participation for people with and without disabilities. One of her she said.

Cook started working with the Northeast current projects involves extending this initiative to Americans with Disabilities Act Center in 2010, Cornell Outdoor Education, through programs before joining the such as setting aside time slots at the rock wall for Yang Tan Institute — student workers to assist climbers with disabilities, she said. part of Cook also co-teaches Cornell’s School of “I liked feeling that ... in “Introduction to Disabilities Studies” — a class she said Industrial a n d a work situation, I was a aims to show people “how contributor and people close disability is to their L a b o r experience.” own Relations. needed the skills I had.”

She said she is constantly S h e surprised by the need for said her LaWanda Cook public education in this area goal is to and attributes the lack of help people with disabilities communication to people’s fears of uncomfortable not only keep their conversations.

Building one-on-one relationships is an essential jobs but also feel more satisfied with their part of helping people see each other as full human work. Cook said beings rather than identifying others by their disleisure is just as abilities, according to Cook.

“Both sides [need to be] okay with not getting it important as employment in living a ful- ‘right’ and helping each other do better the next time,” she explained. “There’s still a ton of work to filled life.

She added that, do.”

When she is not working on disabilities procontrary to popular belief, employment grams at Cornell, Cook said she makes a conscious and leisure offer simi- effort to follow her own advice on work-life balance.

“I’m very deliberate about having those times lar benefits in terms of identity, skill build- when I’m not working,” she said. “That helps me a ing, social opportuni- lot.” ty and structure.

“They’re not really opposites — people need Julia Greenberg can be reached at jgreenberg@cornellsun.com. both to feel whole,” she said.

U.A. Requests Information on Cost of Carbon Neutrality

By ZACH SILVER Sun Staff Writer

The University Assembly passed a resolution in a 7-1-1 vote, requesting additional information from the University about the costs of carbon neutrality Tuesday.

Prof. Ellis Loew, physiology, emphasized the importance of carbon neutrality and its potential impact on the entire planet.

“Anything you can do to minimize energy usage will have a financial impact — which will be positive — and a positive impact on our environment by reducing our carbon footprint,” Loew said.

Loew acknowledged the financial burden carbon neutrality places on the University, but argued that the value of carbon neutrality was greater.

“There is going to be cost to everything,” he said. “The question is — what’s the eventual payoff? How do you balance the investment right now, which might take you into the red, when in the long term you’re going to save money?”

Loew emphasized his hope that the Cornell community will support the U.A.’s carbon neutrality decision.

“Many people on campus feel that Cornell should make a stand on recognizing the importance of global warming and the importance of carbon neutrality,” he said.

The assembly also discussed forming a

trustee board to choose a president who sort of idea what candidates for our next Cornell presiwill focus on dential feel carbon neu“Many people on campus feel that about the trality.

Cornell should make a stand on entire topic of “I feel, as a global warmfaculty memrecognizing the importance of global ing.” ber and citizen, warming.”

After carthat carbon bon neutrality neutrality and Prof. Ellis Loew discussions, sustainability the U.A. unanare things that should be targeted and important,” Loew imously passed a resolution recognizing said. “It’s important enough to have some President Elizabeth Garrett and her con-

tributions to Cornell during her tenure.

The assembly had tabled the resolution at its previous meeting because not enough members were present for a vote.

“The vote about Garrett was simply a resolution recognizing the contributions she has made and our sincere condolences to her family and the Cornell community,” Loew said.

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

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Resolutions | The University Assembly discusses the visibility of carbon neutrality goals at its meeting on Tuesday.

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Dean Candidates Present Platforms

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Tech team

Stress transparency,shared governance FACULTY SENATE Continued from page 1

increased communication between the administration and faculty is a priority.

“The Dean of Faculty serves as liaison between the faculty and the administration,” Russell said. “These groups work best together when they maintain open communication and cooperation; my goal will be to foster productive partnership while advocating for the faculty role in governance.”

Prof. Charles Van Loan, computer science, explained that developing this communication necessitates more dialogue between the administration and faculty. “‘Thinking out loud’ in front of the faculty needs to be routine, productive and intellectually driven,” Van Loan said. “To create a climate for this to happen, the trustees, the administration and the senate must each dial back their strict constructionist views of who can do what under the University Bylaws.”

Van Loan compared his vision of increased dialogue to the flipped classroom method of teaching, where “the ratio of dialogue to Powerpoint [should be] five to one and not the other way around,” he said.

Prof. Elaine Wethington, human development, also emphasized the need for an increase in partnerships.

“Cornell is very much in need of transparent and productive partnerships between its faculty and administrators, both within and across colleges,” Wethington said.

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

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Humanities professors discuss the role of technology in the study of the humanities in Klarman Hall atrium on Tuesday.

Profs React to Florida and OhioVictories PRIMARIES

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Ohio governor, according to Glickman.

“The fact that he won and Marco Rubio dropped out after getting steamrolled in his home state of Florida means that Kasich might have a little momentum in his battle with Ted Cruz to be the dominant ‘non-Trump’ candidate,” Glickman said.

Glickman added that he believes Kasich’s chances of receiving the nomination remain slim.

“Kasich may have a chance in states with what remains of moderate Republicans, like Pennsylvania and New York,” he said. “Still, it’s probably too little and too late. Winning one state out of 29 that have been contested, especially when it’s his home state, makes it premature to see him as a serious contender to Trump.”

Glickman speculated, however, that the most serious consequence of Kasich’s victory was its effect on the Trump campaign.

“Because [Ohio] is a winner-take-all state, Trump may now have a hard time accruing all the delegates he needs to win the nomination on the first ballot,” he said.

Glickman added that Tuesday was an important night for the Clinton campaign, as Clinton “regained some of the momentum she lost after her stunning defeat in Michigan,” he said.

In fact, Clinton outperformed Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) among low-income white voters in Ohio — a demographic Sanders has been championing — according to Glickman.

“If Hillary can solidify her support among working-class whites, that could really help her, given the strong support she has earned so far among African American voters,” Glickman said. “It will be interesting to see if that pattern holds in Illinois and Missouri.”’

As a researcher of U.S.-Cuba policy, Garcia said she found it remarkable that neither party’s Florida victor “pandered to the hardline pro-embargo Cuban American vote in order to carry the state.”

“For the first time in half a century both the Republican and Democratic victors favored normalization of relations with Cuba,” Garcia said. “The tides have turned.”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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nity at this time,” according to the email.

As a precaution, however, police will hold increased patrols around the school, the release said.

The case is currently under investigation, and no further information about the context of the threat has been released, beyond that it involved a

mass shooting with an AK-47, according to the release.

Rollins-Young was released to the custody of a family member under the supervision of Day Reporting, according to Ithaca Police. He is due back in court on March 25.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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Ferguson City Council Votes To Accept DOJ Reform Deal

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Ferguson City Council has unanimously agreed to accept a U.S. Justice Department plan to overhaul its embattled police force and municipal court system after a brief attempt to revise the deal led to a federal lawsuit.

Elected leaders in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown Jr. helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement voted Tuesday night to approve the DOJ consent decree.

Brown’s father, who attended the meeting but didn’t speak publicly, shook hands with Ferguson’s mayor and several council members after the vote.

The agency and Ferguson reached a tentative agreement in late January after months of negotiations, but the council rejected the plan in February over cost concerns, prompting the Justice Department to sue the next day.

The lawsuit remains pending as a federal judge must still approve the preliminary agreement.

Vanita Gupta, head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement that Ferguson “took an important step towards guaranteeing all of its citizens the protections of our Constitution.”

Assurances from Gupta that the city won’t be required to provide its police officers with pay raises — a provision they feared could bankrupt Ferguson — led to the consent decree’s tentative approval at a meeting one week ago.

A city analysis had indicated implementation costs could approach $4 million in the first year alone. That led the Ferguson council to propose amending the agreement in February with seven provisions aimed mostly at keeping costs in check.

City Manager De’Carlon Seewood said Tuesday that the new measures will cost Ferguson “a little over $1 million” in the

first year, about $700,000 in the second year and $600,000 in year three.

Those estimates don’t include technical assistance and grant money Ferguson could receive for its efforts, he added.

By contrast, the costs of fighting the federal government in court could have been substantially higher.

“Thank you,” retired teacher Gerry Jasper told the council. “I’m glad our city isn’t going to go down the tubes.”

The 131-page consent decree is intended to correct problems identified in a scathing Justice Department report last year that found sweeping patterns of racial bias throughout the city’s criminal justice system.

The agreement calls for the hiring of a monitor to ensure Ferguson follows the requirements. New diversity training will be instituted for police, software will be purchased and staff hired to analyze records on arrests, use of force and other police matters.

And within 180 days, all patrol officers, supervisors and jail workers will be outfitted with body cameras.

The city had been under federal scrutiny since the August 2014 shooting of Brown, who was black and unarmed, by white police officer Darren Wilson, who was cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department in the shooting and whom a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict.

Wesley Bell, one of three new council members either elected or appointed to office since Brown’s death, suggested that the sweeping DOJ agreement could transform Ferguson into an exemplar of police reform. Each of the new council members is black in a city where so are more than two-thirds of its residents.

“The world is watching us,” said Bell. “We’ve got an opportunity to show what change looks like. ... Shame on us if we can’t meet this challenge.”

Google Reveals 77 Percent of Its Online Traffic Is Encrypted SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is disclosing how much of the traffic to its search engine and other services is being protected from hackers as part of its push to encrypt all online activity.

Encryption shields 77 percent of the requests sent from around the world to Google’s data centers, up from 52 percent at the end of 2013, according to company statistics released Tuesday.

The numbers cover all Google services expect its YouTube video site, which has more than one billion users.

Google plans to add YouTube to its encryption breakdown by the end of this year.

Encryption is a security measure that scrambles transmitted information so it’s unintelligible if it’s intercepted by a third party.

Google began emphasizing the need to encrypt people’s online activities after confidential documents leaked in 2013 by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S.

government had been vacuuming up personal data transferred over the Internet. The surveillance programs exploited gaping holes in unencrypted websites.

While rolling out more encryption on its services, Google has been trying to use the clout of its influential search engine to prod other websites to strengthen their security.

In August 2014, Google revised its secret formula for ranking websites in its search order to boost those that automatically encrypted their services. The change meant websites risked being demoted in Google’s search results and losing visitors if they didn’t embrace encryption.

Google is highlighting its own progress on digital security while the FBI and Apple Inc. are locked in a court battle over access to an encrypted iPhone used by one of the two extremist killers behind the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, in December.

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n an unseasonably warm That is not to say that pickles do Wednesday morning, some not still remain a widely appreciated friends and I sat on treat. They are still very “New York.”

Collegetown Bagels’ patio, in true The intensity of the sourness, the senior fashion, as I waited for a bruised bumpy exterior, the audible California Sunrise to be delivered to crunch — all in line with the grit and our table — the perfect start to, what ferocity of the city that never sleeps. was expected to be, a carefree and lazy United Pickles, the aforementioned weekday. As a senior, opportunities to New York producer put it best: engage in such free-spirited disregard “Mention pickles in a conversation and of the humdrum, cyclical five-day week talk naturally turns to New York City.” and two-day weekend are surely num- Stephen Leibowitz, the owner of bered. My friends were getting antsy, as United Pickles now finds himself in a I was the last to niche market, order in our group, wholly unique and they had long from the dime-aEven something as finished their Zabs’ dozen pickle busiand assorted egg at the turn seemingly mundane and nesses sandwiches. With of the 20th centurelatively poor ry. He is the kind vision — and hav- ridiculous as a pickle can of guy who likely ing forgotten my comes prepared to be studied and glasses at home — I interviews with an avoided “peoplearsenal of corny appreciated for its place pickle watching,” the jokes ready norm during such to go. “If you’re in in history. To put it even a pickle, call highly trafficked hours. Instead, I United Pickle,” he opted to fully more broadly, oftentimes, says. It sounds like engage with my a late-night the most interesting table — an increasinfomercial, but it’s ingly anxious and got a ring to it. In stories are those that tense situation case you were wonemerged as the the origins aren’t always being told. dering, CTB employees of the idiom “in a repeatedly scurried pickle” are murky, across the outdoor yet some have seating with everything but my gua- attributed the phrase to Shakespeare. camole infused meal. One by one, Few foods in today’s day-in-age these so-called “friends” of mine come with as much personality as the unabashedly brought their compost- pickle. They are elusive and slippery, compatible plates to the garbage, hint- funny and phallic. Even just saying the ing at an impending return to our word pickle is funny. Heavily processed Cook Street home. My Cali-Sunrise food with ambiguous origins provides a was nowhere to be seen. But, at the sense of unease for the end-user. Where very moment I began to lose all hope did this meat come from? Is this really of attaining any semblance of satiety chicken, or does it just taste like it? I that morning, and flirting with the can’t believe it’s not butter! But the idea of a quick trip to 7-11, I noticed pickle, particularly from factories such something familiar, yet peculiar. A as United Pickle, provides a sense of complementary vegetal treat, resting authenticity and nostalgia, a taste of on a friend’s plate. Knowing this would older and simpler times. Sure, there contribute to the 30 to 40 percent of was rampant poverty, living conditions the total food supply that goes wasted that make College Ave. look like Park in the U.S., I spoke up — “are you Ave and polio — but way back when, going to eat that pickle?” for just a nickel, you could walk up to While pickles have been around for a guy in the street and buy the best thousands of years (the first recorded damned pickle in the country.

Much of the history of the pickle pickle was linked to Ancient Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.) and have has been passed down generations, cultural implications elsewhere (in with little formal recording of the Fiji, pickles are a part of the courting nature of its cultural relevance — quite process), they have a strong New York different than the mountain of inforidentity. Many are aware of the scores mation that comes with the study of of fresh-faced immigrants in lower wines. And as I currently sit to prepare Manhattan, with unapologetically for a Wines midterm, I can’t help but heavy Eastern-European accents, who reflect upon the interconnected nature made a living off such mobile and eas- of food and culture. Even something as ily produced foodstuff. Poor tene- seemingly mundane and ridiculous as a ment dwellers enjoyed the fresh taste pickle can be studied and appreciated of the pickle and, as is often the case for its place in history. To put it even with food and smell, the pickles were more broadly, oftentimes, the most strong nostalgic devices, bringing interesting stories are those that aren’t them back, so to speak, to their home always being told. A cognizance and countries. The Pushcarts and various proclivity of such overlooked informapickle institutions began to dwindle tion will be quirky, but it will also cerover the years. Gus’s Pickles, arguably tainly not be trite. the most esteemed storefront of them all, closed up their Lower East Side Philip Susser is a senior in the College of Human shop in 2002, and are now producing Ecology. He can be reached at pickles at a much larger scale in a pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Bronx factory.

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OPINION

Katy Habr | On the Margin

Presidential Foreign Policy L

ike it or not, the president of the U.S. is effectively the president of the world, and the government’s decisions, ranging from economic to foreign policy, tremendously affect a multitude of other countries. I do not mean to deny the agency of other leaders around the world nor the power of people’s voices. However, it is true that the American presidency affects most people around the world almost as much as it affects Americans — the only difference is we don’t get to vote.

With this great impact comes responsibility, not only for leaders making crucial decisions, but also for the general populace, who must consider critically the actions of their country and the politicians they are electing.

The ramifications of the U.S. elections on the rest of the world are large. When it comes to foreign policy, the U.S., as a major superpower, plays a huge role in the world. In the Middle East specifically, there are many issues to be dealt with. First and foremost is tackling the growth of ISIS and the death and carnage they have left behind as they prey on unstable areas (arguably caused by U.S. intervention). Second, the U.S. has to deal with the rising tensions and proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and Iran, navigating its ties with its Saudi allies with its new position after nuclear talks with Iran. Peace seems unlikely as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also remains deadlocked and has given rise to a recent bout of violence in the face of continued occupation and oppression.

However, foreign policy, while addressed frequently in debates (especially on the Republican side) is only regarded and evaluated in its effects on and benefits to the U.S. This is fine, since the U.S. elections are for the U.S. president, but it often seems that constituents don’t really realize that the words politicians say have real effects on people’s lives.

The election so far has been dominated by hyper-masculine rhetoric, such as Jeb Bush’s gun tweet and basically everything Donald Trump says, much of which would be amusing if it wasn’t terrifying. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) quote about the Middle East: “I’m going to carpet bomb [ISIS] into oblivion …

I don’t know if sand glows in the dark but I’m going to find out,” sounds like a cheesy line from the villain of a bad movie — except it’s real and, at this point, a possibility. Even Hillary Clinton holds similar views, disguising her war-hawk policies as a progressive feminist agenda, though her campaign stands for nothing more than equal opportunity imperialism, allowing women to be just as complicit in patriarchal acts of masculinity and violence.

The reality is that there is likely nothing the U.S. can do to fix the complex issues in the Middle East (and it is debatable that that should be its responsibility), and this rhetoric is often just used to pander to people’s anger and gain votes. However, there are actual tangible effects to these policies and rants and actual innocent civilians who will needlessly die. Many people support these aggressive policies, which appeal to lofty ideas of defending America, without thinking of the actual people whose lives they will affect.

This indifference is epitomized by the contradiction between popular jokes about moving to Canada if Donald Trump is elected and popular opinion that is suspicious of refugees fleeing war and terror. Those seeking refuge are interrogated, harassed and distrusted. Undocumented immigrants are deported back to their deaths and the people who can joke about escaping Donald Trump and his plan to “build a wall” are those privileged enough to be unaffected by it. It is a subconscious hypocrisy — when populations are othered, they become dehumanized. Americans who joke about moving to Canada yet refuse Syrian refugees and support deportation of immigrants fail to humanize others and afford them the same rights and respect as they feel they themselves deserve.

It is frustrating for many of us from other countries to hear this violent rhetoric without being able to do anything about it or vote. We can only encourage others to be aware, to think about who they are voting for and consequently the policies and stances they are supporting. In an election where foreign policy ranges from wildly violent and destruction at worst to almost no policy at best, prospects for the future can be frustrating and feel somewhat hopeless. It is important for people to push their politicians, to speak out and make their voices heard. Although it seems this election won’t improve current state of world affairs, hopefully the results will not be disastrous.

Katy Habr is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.

Comments may be sent to kh547@cornell.edu. On the Margin runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Sarah Zumba | Zumba Works It Out

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Be This Way

s I’ve been applying to of what having a successful tions made by not only race, internships, I’ve started career, which is highly associ- but class as well. A person is to think a lot more ated with the corporate world, assumed to be “bad” or some about the idea of professional- looks like, so we’re often kind of degenerate if they are a ism. It is such a confusing con- expected to change ourselves person of color and from a cept to me because it presents to fit into that mold. I’ve actu- low-income background, so the idea that everyone has to ally been complimented on my they have to perform the role act and look a certain way in hair and then told that I might of someone that is considered order to be taken seriously. as well do it before I have a acceptable by society. Because Professional is often associated career. That’s terrifying to me. it also has to do with class, with someone who dresses in The fact that I’m expected, just white people are also subjected business casual clothing, like in many other aspects of to standards; they just take a speaks eloquently and appears society, to compromise myself different form. Even with their to be overall put together. in order to fit into a box is privilege, they have to think There are so many limitations frustrating. We like to believe about how they are presenting that comes with this profes- we all have agency over our themselves. But the major difsional standard such as no hair bodies, but our bodies are con- ference is that when they do dyed an unnatural hair color, stantly being policed, often in this, they are upkeeping and facial piercings or visible tat- such subtle ways that are hard creating the standard whereas toos. It provides yet another to notice. non-white people must work set of expectations people are There are all kinds of impli- to meet the existing standard. supposed to meet as they go cations following the idea of If I look a certain way, it is into their careers and it makes professionalism. At times, it apparently a reflection of my me feel really uncomfortable. can be extremely racist, such as work ethic and capabilities, Part of who I am is how I look. I actively choose to pre- The fact that I’m expected, just like in many other sent myself in aspects of society, to compromise myself in order certain ways to fit into a box is frustrating. We like to believe through my clothes, hair we all have agency over our bodies, but our and piercings. bodies are constantly being policed, often in All of these decisions are such subtle ways that are hard to notice. ones we all make everyday, which ensures that we feel the expectation that hair is which is ridiculous. I don’t some sense of individuality. “neat,” which means that it want to have to change myself Looking “professional” is should be straight or com- and aspects of my identity in weird because we’re still tech- pletely tamed and out of your order to gain respect from nically given some sort of face. Curly hair is often another person. What is confreedom, giving an illusion of deemed the exact opposite of sidered acceptable for me to choice, but ultimately we’re this standard. There are nega- say to others in a “professiononly “allowed” to pick within tive assumptions that come al” setting, including my use a range of options deemed with curly hair as it is heavily of slang, discussion of politics, acceptable by societal stan- racialized. Curly hair, especial- etc, is a whole other subset of dards. I have never under- ly on people of color, does not this entirely. Professionalism stood the need to act or look meet a white beauty standard is not simply putting on a a certain way because that is and sometimes doesn’t even fit front, it’s something that the only way someone will in the white professional appears to take your selftake me seriously. People world. expression away and minishouldn’t have to change how It plays into respectability mizes the chance of you they look in order for others politics as we’re told that we speaking out. It aims to get rid to think they are good at what should look a certain way so of you; therefore representing they do. we’re perceived as valuable by another form of power.

In no way does the fact that others. People of color are I have dyed hair and more often forced to follow profes- Sarah Zumba is a sophomore in the College than two piercings on my ear sionalism more strictly because of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at affect the work I produce. we are starting off in a place of sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out We’re ingrained with the idea lower value due to assump- appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

social media

Biomedical Engineering

Cornell Researchers Study Snapchat’s Appeal Study finds ephemerality of app unites users

By KATHERINE QUINN Sun Staff Writer

Researchers from Cornell Social Media lab and ReImagination Lab have studied the social media application platform Snapchat in hopes of learning how its unique design features affect our relationships with technology and with each other.

The study, co-authored by Prof. Dan Cosley, information science, Prof. Natalya N. Bazarova, communication, Pamara Chang and Bin Xu, grad students and Christopher Welker ’18, found that Snapchat’s ephemerality contributed to its acting as a medium for everyday, informal communication between smaller, closer networks.

“Because of this feature of ephemerality, it allows people to be more informal, losing inhibition with content sent to close friends,” said Pamara Chang, a fifthyear PhD candidate and co-author to the study.

“Whereas there’s this notion of impression management and self-presentation concerns with other applications like Facebook or Twitter where you do have a larger audience.”

Unlike originally text-based platforms like Facebook or Twitter, Snapchat is a mobile application primarily based in sending image and video content. Users can add friends and send photos or videos, called “snaps”, to whoever they select in their network. They can preselect a set amount of time between one and ten seconds that a recipient will be able to view the content before it auto-deletes. This feature highlights the unique transient design of the app and could explain its popularity, especially among college students.

In the study, researchers interviewed undergraduate students who were regular Snapchat users to see how this ephemeral feature of the app’s design would affect user communication. The short lived nature of content transmitted through the app affected the content people felt they could share.

Researchers found that people were more likely to share goofy, unfiltered content or content not related to tasks through Snapchat. In addition to set viewing windows and auto-deletion of content, users can see if and when the recipient has viewed the content, and if they took a screenshot of the content. The reassurance that

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Snap That | Snapchat logo on the phone case of Peter Hanby, the head of news at Snapchat tionships that are close enough that both parties feel comfortable sharing everyday, mundane communication.

However, many users also enjoy the larger communities created by Snapchat’s location specific features like geographic filters or the Ivy League snapstory. The geofilters allow users to overlay snaps with a design indicating their location and the Ivy League story incorporates snaps from users across universities in the Ivy League.

“It’s an interesting perspective or social media designers to think about. What are the benefits and costs to having ephemeral features?”

Ben Xu grad content will quickly disappear permanently from both the sender’s and receiver’s phones appeases a user’s typical concerns of privacy when it comes to social media.

The study also found that the relatively small network on Snapchat versus that of Facebook or Twitter influenced user communication with similar effects.

“The network is a lot smaller, and a lot closer,” said Chang. “On larger platforms, you have this large diverse group of friends. On Snapchat, it’s very few and it’s very selected. It would be your closest friends rather than a larger network of professors and other students that you met once in a class.”

The study reflects that the app is most popular between close friends or romantic interests, that is, rela-

“The stories are super fun,” Paroma Chakravarty ‘16 said. “I like to compete for the Ivy League story.” While these features are favorable components of the app, users do not feel as connected to larger communities included in these features as they do to their smaller networks of friends.

In sharing content rather than simply showing it, Snapchat’s design uniquely couples clear digital ownership and close feelings of connectedness. As Bin Xu, a fourth-year PhD. candidate in the department of information science and co-author to the study puts it, this feeling of “knowing people in the moment” is fostered

by Snapchat’s design as a mobile application and the ephemerality of snap content.

While taking a screenshot of a sender’s snap was considered a default “norm violation” for archiving what was meant to disappear, the study finds this practice is accepted between users who are close friends or in cases when the shared content is out of the ordinary. Chang and Xu say this exception to the temporary nature of the app’s content provokes questions as to whether users want more or less ephemerality in their social networks.

The study was published and presented at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing journal proceeding conference in San Francisco from Feb. 27 to Mar. 2. Social media industry representatives also attended the conference and in response to the study, raised questions about a possible trend toward ephemerality and whether it should be integrated into larger platforms.

“It’s an interesting perspective for social media designers to think about,” said Xu. “What are the benefits and the costs to having ephemeral features?”

It is evident that other developers are taking note of the app’s unique features. Xu cited an new communication app, Telegram, as an example that takes Snapchat’s appeal into account. The app deletes transmitted messages after a certain amount of time.

While the study finds that ephemerality encourages close relationship maintenance, it does not conclude whether this feature of design would be as successful or popular integrated into other platforms. Xu said that answering this question would require “a more comprehensive comparison between Snapchat and other social media”.

Studies like this pave the way for future exploration into human-technology interaction and how technology and design influence human communication. Research into the effects of social media design provoke questions as to the implications of text versus image and videobased applications or the extent of influence of design trends like ephemerality.

By studying the intersection of social media platform design and human communication and interaction, the authors hope to promote further explorations into ephemeral features and interdisciplinary research on digital sociality.

Katherine Quinn can be reached at kkq2@cornell.edu.

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SCIENCE

Researchers Find New Way To Understand Heart Diseases

Suggest focus on mechanical microenvironment of heart cells rather than genome

By GRACE AHN Sun Staff Writer

Disease is the disorder or abnormal condition of a structure or function. Nearly one in every 100 babies are born annually with a congenital heart defect — a large portion of such defects found in the heart valve, responsible for unidirectional blood flow. The continued misunderstanding of heart formation despite advances in the human genome library makes us rethink whether we are thinking about development and disease wrong.

Cornell researchers have found that a focus on the signaling microenvironment rather than the genome may lead us closer to understanding disease.

As the genome provide instructions for developing into an embryo, how exactly does the body sculpt its own tissues such as the heart, and can understanding of these mechanisms heal malformations and eventually disease?

Prof. Jonathan Butcher,biomedical engineering, associate professor at Cornell University Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, said yes.

“Most scientists look for molecular signatures that precede formation of a defect— the genetic inducers that will lead to disease,” Butcher said.

“But the cell is like a social being that interacts with its neighbors in the environment, and these interactions provide cues for what it should become.”

The heart is the first organ to form in the embryo.

During development a human heart is morphing dynamically and rapidly, all while pumping nutrients and keeping the body alive. A single tube is able to transform into four chambers and eventually develop valves to maintain unidirectional blood flow.

The presence of a heart valve is an advanced structure that only two phylum have: vertebrates and mollusks. Considering how phylogenetically distant they are, it is a fascinating feature to consider. Different organisms vary in size and need to perform certain actions with a certain amount of energy. Humans are large and need a heart with lots of energy, and therefore need valves.

“When the heart beats, tissue is exposed to cyclic periodic stretch which actively switches between signaling programs. With no switch, no valves will form,” Butcher said. “The heart assumes a continuum of bringing about its own maturation and is well-tuned to doing this.”

Cornell researchers pursue this approach by looking at the signaling mechanical microenvironment surrounding heart formation. By modulating the mechanical environment, researchers can see how the heart controls signaling programs in that environment to bring about proper structure or malformed structure — looking backward rather than forward.

A recent discovery in the Butcher Lab identified the signaling mechanism that coordinates this cyclic stretch by activating enzymes called RhoA and Rac1 — specific proteins known as GTPases that translate and amplify signals within the cell. A

cyclic stretch deactivates RhoA and activates Rac1, which then switches back to activating RhoA and inactivating Rac1 in a cyclic rhythm with each beat.

“We initially were interested in how mechanical forces were translated into a biological response in the developing heart,” said Russell Gould, postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University and formerly a part of Butcher’s lab.

“A valve needs to get stronger and condense into a strong, fibrous leaflet. While early cushion formation requires RhoA signaling, the transition to remodeling the heart form requires Rac1 signaling,” Butcher said. “It is this maturation process that is likely the source of these heart malformations.”

Using chick embryos, the lab sutured off different sides of the heart to shunt blood flow. In doing so, the heart valves were either over-developed or under-developed. This discovery led to the hypothesis that blood flow and pressure was capable of shaping the heart valve structure.

Butcher’s focus on the signaling microenvironment rather than the genetic predisposition led to a successful foundation for “hemodynamically informed surgical interventions that potentially retard valve malformations, or to restore it,” said Gould.

Another example of this kind of reverse-disease thinking is a current Cornell study on heart calcification. A good model is considered able to test therapeutic cases in which the calcium disease state is present and clinically accurate. Scientists used to study culture systems that develop calcification in order to stop and reverse when present.

Lara Estroff, associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering, has successfully synthesized nanoparticles that mimic native calcificaProf. Jonathan Butcher tion. Taking these particles into a 3-D culture system, researchers have been able to begin with a model already in the disease state. Using these particles in a culture environment, cells start in the disease state instead of being healthy which is clinically relevant because patients come into have already began calcification.

Programs may be already turned off to disease process and patients are already past the point in which development of disease is irrelevant. Studying the process of signaling and reversing disease using a signaling approach this way we are taking rugs to prevent what happens in the future.

Scientists of different expertise from across department and institutions are working together and continuing to contribute their individual assets and skills to further develop this idea. Translating such findings directly to medicine has evolved into an incredible example of scientific collaboration — on Cornell University campus to the Weill Medical College and beyond.

“Most scientists look for molecular signatures that precede the formation of a defect. But the cell is like a social being that interacts with its neighbours in the environment and these interactions provide cues for what it should become.”

Grace Ahn can be reached at gsa33@cornell.edu.

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A&E

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Hitchcock / Truffaut at Cornell Cinema

If you are a film buff, a film major or a filmmaker, the work of Hitchcock should be running on a 24 hour loop inside your head. If you are any of the above and haven’t seen the man’s work, a self-respecting film buff would cry, “What the MacGuffin is wrong with you?” and prescribe you a steady diet of Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho and others.

I’m afraid I am not one of said film buffs who would do such a thing. Yes, I am a PMA major and aspiring filmmaker, but I have never been overtly enamored with the classic films of the great director. Personally, I’m more partial to his earlier work — The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps — and I even wrote a paper in Global I about the perceived lapse in quality — apparently noticed only by myself and Pauline Kael — as Hitch entered Hollywood.

And yet, in spite of not being a devout Hitchcock apostle, I found Hitchcock / Truffaut to be a fascinating and wonderful documentary. For even if you know little about the world of filmmaking, you most likely have heard the renowned director’s name, and perhaps that of the equally renowned Cahiers du Cinema critic and later French New Wave director Francois Truffaut. Hitchcock / Truffaut, directed by film historian Kent Jones — who is no stranger to fans of the Criterion Collection — is mostly about the love of cinema, the creative process and the extensive possibilities of the art form itself. It includes corroborative stories from many other practitioners of the medium whose films you might recognize: David Fincher (Gone Girl), James Gray (The Immigrant), Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom) and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall Street).

It is a story about the singular influence of one filmmaker’s vision and the generation of newcomers he inspired,

see a story that is only possible through the combination of imagery and sound. Hitchcock was a die-hard purist.

Some of the work dissected — fascinatingly — throughout the film includes the aforementioned classics Vertigo and Psycho. To hear Peter Bogdanovitch, who directed Paper Moon and is one of the great American film historians, discuss the impact that Psycho first made when it hit theaters is nothing but a thrill. When the shower scene came up, according to Mr. Bogdanovitch, Hitch had the audience so firmly in the palm of his hand that there was a firm, sustained shriek that echoed throughout the theater for a full minute. To demonstrate, Mr. Bogdanovitch shrieks for about 10 seconds on camera. Martin Scorsese talks about the subtle framing and nearly-trite camera angles Hitchcock selects all the way up to the shower scene, during the picture’s first 45 minutes. If you are a Scorsese admirer (I am) you will be enthralled, but even if you are unfamiliar with him, the passion and the verve that he and the other Hitch disciples bring to the table ignites a flame in your chest.

David Fincher comments, “If you think you can hide your seedy preoccupations in life and choose a profession like a film director … you’re nuts!” And indeed, Hitchcock openly embraced his seedier, more unseemly obsessions with murder, voyeurism and icy blondes by putting them front and center COURTESY OF COHEN MEDIA GROUP in his movies. James Gray makes an impassioned Cornell case as to why you must be able to understand the was one of cinema’s great formalists — inner-workings of Vertigo even if you know nothing about the Cinema determined to coax the medium to its art form. Hitchcock / Truffaut is that rare film you may leave fullest potential and do things no filmmak- with a full-hearted desire inside you to become a film critic, a er before him had tried before. He was tired cinephile or even a filmmaker. It is that special, infectiously of seeing films that looked like stage plays; movies that enthusiastic art documentary which inspires just as much love looked like they ought to be played beneath a proscenium for the art form it studies as it lavishes upon it. arch. Movies that were full of photographs of people talkHitchcock / Truffaut plays at Cornell Cinema Wednesday, ing, which bore no resemblance in his opinion, to the art of March 16 at 7 p.m. Editor Rachel Reichman will be present, the cinema. Hitch reinvented the medium and utilized it to along with director Kent Jones via Skype to discuss the film. tell stories in a way that was exclusive to it. When you see a Hitch film, it’s true that the characters and story might Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be come second to the visual pyrotechnics, but you will indeed reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com. thanks in part to a series of influenced conducted with a young upstart and humble cinephile who was a great admirer of the man’s work. Francois Truffaut debunked the theory that Alfred Hitchcock was a so-called “light entertainer” and forever cemented his reputation as one of the great innovators of the movies, not merely a Master of Suspense or a television personality, but a master of staging, composition, storytelling and drama.

In this regard, even I would have to agree. For Hitchcock

Mark DiStefano

Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday and Animation for Adults

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o many, animated movies seem like a medium for chil- addition, while hearing the original voice cast dren: pretty, colorful and reassuring, with straight in an unknown language might not do much edges and corners, gaudy colors that fit just inside the to help you learn that language, it does teach lines, and a lack of the moral ambiguity that cannot help but something about how information is conenter a film when the characters are played by actual humans. veyed and emotions are expressed.

Only Yesterday tells the story of Taeko, a The work of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio best known for Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, has 27-year-old woman living in Tokyo. During a proved again and again that animated films can be complex, trip to the countryside, she remembers the provocative and even disturbing, and remain enthralling for year 1966 from her childhood, and those children. However, the intrigue of Studio Ghibli’s films hard- memories make up most of this slow, meditaly expires at a young age. I’ve only recently come to them (I tive film. Only Yesterday deftly balances beauhaven’t even seen the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away tiful, transcendent visuals with moments of agonizing adolescent discomfort, which are yet), but I have been captivated by the few I’ve seen so far.

The 1991 Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday, directed by made all the more poignant and believable by Isao Takahata, has only just been given a United States release the silence into which the film often settles.

The animation style is distinctive: rather with an English dub, 24 years later. It had been the only than the flat faces of Ghibli film lacking a most anime characters, the adult U.S. release. I saw it at characters of Only Yesterday have more the Cornell Cinema, detailed, expressive faces. The film’s without the English colors are also more muted and fluid dub, just the original than the typically bright, gaudy style Japanese voice cast and of most anime. Both of these lend to English subtitles. the precise realization of the nuanced It’s interesting how Despite all different an experience characters. The fluidity of the animathe Amputations it is to watch a foreign tion also contributes to the film’s animated film this way, dreamlike atmosphere, as it shifts rather than with a cast of English voice actors. With an back and forth from memories to Taeko’s trip to the country.

English dub, a film feels like it is stretching to appear like a The best moments of the film are understated but burstunified project, but cracks appear when the English voice ing with significance. One scene, in which Taeko’s family actors’ words don’t line up with the mouth movements of the cuts and eats a pineapple for the first time, says volumes characters. This keeps the audience mindful of the language about both foreign allure and cultural boundaries through and the cultural gap even though the English dub is made to only a few visuals and lines of dialogue. In another scene, close this gap in the first place.

Taeko’s father resorts to slapping her when he cannot underWith its original voice cast, however, Only Yesterday stand why she sits in silence and refuses to accompany the didn’t feel like it was trying to mask anything. The reliance family on an outing; the inexpressible anguish that the rift in on text to understand the plot also creates a new kind of film understanding between them causes each is stunningly realexperience: the audience first reads the text, then applies its ized. In perhaps the film’s most quietly eloquent moment, understanding to the visual image to see how the words are the child Taeko and her classmates run through the corridors being reflected by the characters’ expressions or actions. In of a train, unnoticed by the 27-year-old Taeko.

Jack Jones

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Only Yesterday is probably one of the least child-oriented of Studio Ghibli’s films — part of the plot revolves around girls getting their first period, and the scene of Taeko’s father hitting her is unsettling — which may have something to do with why it took so long for it to receive a U.S. release.

However, it may be the one that children on the verge of adolescence would relate to the most for these same reasons: it precisely captures that age’s anxiety, self-consciousness and halting development of perspective.

Only Yesterday shows the breadth of animation, and what it can do that live-action films can’t. Touches of magic realism in live-action films often seem to require an interpretation, usually with the conclusion that a character was imagining the magic: think of Riggan’s superpowers in Birdman, or the monsters in Beasts of the Southern Wild. In animation, on the other hand, the boundaries between reality and imagination are less strict. Perhaps it’s because animation helps us to see like a child again, when dreams can seem as vivid and true as the real world.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com. Despite all the Amputations runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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By BRITTANY BIGGS

With a short week coming up, Molotsky underscored the importance of the upcoming practice schedule.

“Going into next week’s championships we only have Looking to set the pace for the ECAC Championship three days of practice at home, so the team will be looking this weekend, the Cornell gymnastics team traveled to increase the number of repetitions in order to stray away Pennsylvania to compete against West Chester University. from those uncharacteristic mistakes,” she said. “We will be The Red was able to pull out a very close win, 192.350 to concentrating on focus and confidence as those are the two 192.000. things that really helped us succeed as a Winning by .350, this close victory was team at Ivy League Championships.” made possible by top finishes in major “We have the potential to Cornell has a big weekend ahead, events. Freshman Kaitlin Green was able competing against Ivy League competihit more school records tion, Penn, Brown and Yale, as well as to secure a win in beam and bars to assist the team in its win. Green was followed by at this competition if we strong teams from William and Mary teammate junior Elana Molotsky who tied and Temple University put it all together.” for second in the bars. Freshman Lyanda “Saturday’s meet was a good way to Dudley also had a big weekend, coming in get out last minute jitters before our Melanie Dilliplane third in beam and scoring 9.775 on floor upcoming ECAC conference champito secure a second place finish on floor. onship,” said assistant coach Melanie Aware of what lies ahead, the team sought to use this Dilliplane. “We made some mistakes on bars and floor so we competition as a springboard for Saturday’s championship. will go into the gym this week and work on those parts of Even with the win, more can be done to ensure a strong the routines that have been giving us problems.” competition on Saturday, according to Dudley.

Despite the errors made over the weekend, Dilliplane “Despite some really great performances, Saturday’s meet said the Red is prepared to make big waves at the champiwas definitely not our best showing as a team,” Dudley said. onship.

“Truthfully, this is not the pace we wanted to set going into “On bars we need to focus on hitting handstands and championships. However, I believe this past weekend is a sticking dismounts and on floor we need to clean up our strong motivation to get back in the gym this week and work tumbling and dance,” Dillipane said. “We have the potential harder than ever. That drive will set us up for success this to hit more school records at this competition if we put it all upcoming weekend.” together. All of the teams have been scoring about the same Molotsky was similarly critical of the recent meet. off and on all season so we certainly have the potential to “Although it was not one of our best performances this win this meet. The last time we won was during the 2011 season, it was a good learning experience,” Molotsky said. season.”

“We had some uncharacteristic falls on floor and bars, but the team really stepped up on vault and beam to keep our Brittany Biggs can be reached at bbiggs@cornellsun.com. score at a reasonable place.”

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Sticking the landing | The gymnastics team pulled off a close victory over West Chester this past weekend, defeating the Golden Rams 192.350-192.000.

Bartolo Colon to Play His Best Season Yet DENSON

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throughout the interwebs. The world knows that watching him do anything remotely athletic will brighten up anyone’s day. Please just watch him running — you can tell Bartolo is a regular every Tuesday at Buffalo Wild Wings 75 cent-awing night.

Colon’s age, lovable demeanor and 18 chins remind us of a teddy bear, or Jabba the Hutt’s cousin, fellow Hutt lord

py, and a 50-game suspension in 2012 for violating the MLB’s drug policy, Colon is back, or at least I want him to be. Hopefully he’s been laying off the synthetic testosterone, because Mets faithfuls have reason to believe this will be his best season yet. Last season he reached his highest number of games played since his 2005 Cy Young award winning season.

And with a dose of delusional optimism, I think he can make his fourth career all-star appearance.

Next time you see a Hispanic Santa Claus running the bases for the New York Mets: this team was in the World Series last season, and they can win it in 2016. and Galactic arms dealer Grappa the Hutt. They say the secret to his crippling off speed two-seam fastball is hidden in between the rolls of his seventh and eighth chin.

After spending several years as a middle relief pitcher for a few struggling bullpens in baseball purgatory, Colon had an unlikely resurgence at the ripe old age of 40. No doubt it was his nearly career-ending shoulder damage that held back his dominance. To any fan, it seemed like Colon’s 2005 Cy Young winning pitching was over. But after seasons of mediocrity, spending the entire 2010 season in physical thera-

Call that claim my hot take, but it’s more likely to happen than Colon winning the Silver Slugger award among pitchers. Whether or not the existence of that award, or pitchers’ batting in general, is healthy for the sport is a discussion for another column.

Amazing things are happening to the Mets. Next time you see a Hispanic Santa Claus running the bases for the New York Mets just remember: this team was in the World Series last season and they can win it in 2016.

Ben Denson can be contacted at bdenson@cornell.edu. The B.D. Report appears on Wednesdays this semsester.

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Freshman Dalton Macri will wrestle in his first ever national championship over the weekend at Madison Square Garden.

Red Continues Slow Start With Losses to Saint Francis C.U. looks to get back on track with five-game tournament SOFTBALL

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hoped for, but we improved a lot as the weekend progressed,” Weinberg said. “Our bats came alive, our defense became tighter, and we were able to stay in the final game.”

Weinberg said she knows the losing streak is taking its toll on the team but stressed that Cornell is determined to stay focused and improve in time for Ivy League play in early April.

“It’s been tough on our morale,” Weinberg said. “I think that our competitive drive to do better and succeed during league play is keeping us focused.”

Farlow said she is also trying to remain positive but needs certain aspects of the team’s game to improve.

“We’re hitting the ball hard, and I feel pretty happy about where that is, but our pitching definitely has to sharpen up … and our defense isn’t quite perfect yet,” Farlow said.

Cornell opens up a five-game tournament in Fairfax, Virginia next weekend against none other than Saint Francis.

“It’s not panic time yet, but we have to start improving right now,” Farlow said.

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

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Grapplers Head to NYC for NCAA Championship

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Senior Writer

Coming off of numerous post-season Ivy awards announced Tuesday afternoon, the Cornell wrestling team will head to New York City on Thursday to compete in the NCAA Wrestling Championships. The tournament will take place over the course of three days at Madison Square Garden and nine men will be wrestling for the Red. After a bumpy start to a season plagued by injury and illness, head coach Robert Koll managed to bring his squad to a 6-5 overall finish in the regular season and qualified nine out of a possible 10 wrestlers for the tournament this weekend. Just yesterday, it was announced that Koll earned the title of Ivy League Coach of the Year along with Princeton’s head coach Chris Ayres. While Koll and his players have much to be proud of at the end of the regular season, they are all still working hard coming into the NCAA Championships.

“I expect they will all wrestle as hard as is humanly possible,” Koll said.

In terms of preparation for the weekend, the Red has had just a little under two weeks to recuperate from the team’s EIWA Championships victory to mentally and physically train for NCAA’s. Koll’s main

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Championship bound | Junior Nahshon Garrett was recently named Ivy League Wrestler of the year. He will compete in the National Championship this weekend.

focus leading up to the championship tournament was keeping players healthy and injury free.

“We have run short, intense practices,” Koll said. “Not a lot of live wrestling. At this point in time the only thing we can do is get hurt. They are ready.”

Heading into the weekend, Koll wants his players to go in focusing on their first matches and not looking too far ahead and getting distracted, he said.

Bartolo For MVP

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ave you heard the story about the house cat looking at itself in the mirror and seeing a lion? Or the one about our perennial narcissist, Kanye West, insisting that he is in fact God? But my favorite is the one about the 285-pound, 42year-old Mets pitcher who, I think, can be a dangerous batter. Just two days ago, the Mets pitcher, former Cy Young winner Bartolo Colon, hit a monster home run during a spring training batting practice session — Mets beat reporter Marc Craig claims it “took out a tree branch.” After setting his season high in hits last season — with eight — I can

Ben Denson The B.D. Report see a batting title in Colon’s near future. It’s no coincidence that Bartolo’s new contract has an incentive clause worth $50,000 if he wins the Silver Slugger Award.

“I don’t have delusions of grandeur,” Bradley Cooper said in the movie Limitless.

“I have an actual recipe for grandeur.” Well, I certainly have grandiose delusions for New York’s favorite near 300-pound Dominican, Bartolo Colon.

Such a graceful athlete — this cookie pouch of a belly flailing in the wind as he rounded first base en route to his first career double last May. Minutes after, social media jumped on Colon as GIF after GIF was distributed See DENSON page 15

“All too often guys started looking two or three matches into the bracket,” he said. “[They] need to get there first.”

While Penn State has the most points coming into the tournament, Koll explained that for each weight class, the toughest opponent can be from any given school competing. Thus, it is important that the Red not underestimate any other squads this weekend and that each player steps on the mat ready to fight.

Despite a rough start and early season, the Red squad is back in fighting shape, overcoming earlier problems with sickness and injury.

“Our biggest problem [this season] has been our health,” Koll said. “We fixed this having everyone get sick earlier in the year.”

While Koll has undoubtedly played a huge role in getting the Red to this point, the squad boasts plenty of talent beyond the coaching staff including senior and Ivy Wrestler of the Year Nahshon Garrett and freshman and Ivy Rookie of the Year Joey Galasso. Juniors Gabe Dean, Brian Realbuto and Dylan Palacio, freshmen Jeramy Sweany and Dalton Macri, seniors Owen Scott and Duke Pickett make up the rest of the talented squad headed to New York this weekend.

In last year’s championship, the squad was able to take home fifth place and Dean took home a national title. Realbuto was good for second and Garrett came in fifth place for his respective weight class. With some fresh faces and an overall strong regular season, the Red heads into this year’s tournament positioned for success.

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

SOFTBALL

Shaky Pitching,Big Innings Doom Red as Softball Remains Winless Saint Francis extends Cornell’s losing streak to eight games

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

Three tough losses in two days have left the Cornell softball team still searching for its first win after another disappointing weekend against Saint Francis.

The Red Flash (12-12) took three straight from the Red (0-8, 0-0 Ivy) which is now off to its worst start in recent history.

First year head coach Julie Farlow ’97 and the rest of the team said they were not happy with the weekend’s results and know they must improve.

“We’re going to have to start making some quick adjustments and get some W’s on the board,” Farlow said.

On Saturday, Cornell lost both games of a doubleheader by the same score of 12-4, both lasting just six innings in each.

After a big first inning two-run home run by senior Meg Parker gave the Red a 2-0 lead in the first game on Saturday, Saint Francis came back with five in the bottom half of the frame to take back the lead, a phenomenon that Cornell is becoming very familiar with.

“So far this season, when we do have a lead it’s short lived,” Farlow said. “We have to do a better job of shutting down the other team when we’re ahead.”

Cornell got a run in the third but sophomore Maddie Orcutt failed to get anything going on the mound, giving up four runs in the sixth, ending the game an inning early and falling to 0-3 individually on the season.

In game two, Saint Francis was first promptly gave all four back in the boton the board, putting up a four spot tom of the inning. Parker would give the against sophomore right-Hander Sierra Red its second lead of the day with a twoStone in the second. When Cornell came run home run in the fifth. to bat in the third, the Red pieced After five innings played, the women together a nice comeback, featuring led, 7-4, but Saint Francis rallied for five home runs by junior shortstop Olivia in the sixth and handed Cornell its May, sophomore first baseman Megan eighth straight loss to open the season.

Murray and sophomore designated hitter “[Sunday’s] loss was probably the Tori Togashi to tie the game at four. most disappointing one since we were But it did not stay that way for long, really in the game,” Farlow said. as Saint Francis immediately answered Although not the desired overall outand got four runs back in the bottom come, Weinberg did note half of the inning. Four more in sixth some improvement as the once again ended the game early and weekend progressed. allowed the Red Flash to clinch “Obviously we didn’t a series win. get the results we had Cornell has not pitched See SOFTBALL page well thus far this season, and Farlow admitted averaging 10 runs allowed per game is not acceptable.

“We’re definitely still trying to get more composure on the mound and prevent some of those big innings … We can’t give up 10 runs a game and expect to win,” Farlow said.

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