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Former Student Sues Cornell Over Sexual Assault Investigation

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By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

A former student filed a complaint against the University for what he says was a flawed investigation into allegations of “nonconsensual sexual activity” with another Cornell student.

The former student — who is referred to as John Doe in the lawsuit — claims Cornell “failed to conduct a timely investigation of the allegations” and “failed to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation,” according to court documents. Furthermore, he claimed that disciplinary actions that arose from the investigation were “discriminatory” and based on his male sex.

The lawsuit claims that in addition to the University’s reliance on an See LAWSUIT page 5

S.A.Urges Attention to Arts; Cornellians Condemn Proposes Global Affairs Major Arrest of UVA Student Passes two resolutions advocating administrative action

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly recommended that President David Skorton convene a task force charged with strengthening the University’s arts programs and encouraged the creation of a inter-college global affairs major at its meeting Thursday.

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Under one of the resolutions passed Thursday, the S.A. recommended Skorton convene a task force which, according to the official resolution document, would be charged with creating a strategic plan to strengthen the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Schwartz Center for See S.A. page 4

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

Cornell students said the violent arrest of a student at the University of Virginia Tuesday night was indicative of a larger trend of racial discrimination across the country, even at elite universities.

Martese Johnson, 20, was arrested by agents from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control after attempting to enter a bar with a fake I.D. Two

agents forced him to the ground, hitting his head on the pavement with what witnesses said was unnecessary force.

Johnson — who can be seen on video yelling, “I go to UVA” with his face bloodied — required 10 stitches after the arrest, according to ABC News.

Johnson was charged with obstruction of justice without force and public swearing or intoxication. After receiving treatSee UVA page 5

Students Prepare for 90th Annual ‘Hotel Ezra Cornell’ MICHAELA BREW / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Check-in | The Statler Hotel will host the 90th annual Hotel Ezra Cornell this weekend.

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

Celebrating its 90th year and Cornell’s sesquicentennial, Hotel Ezra Cornell — an annual weekend-long, student-run hotel school conference — kicked off Thursday with the theme “... and the rest is history!”

This year’s Hotel Ezra Cornell, or HEC 90, will run through Sunday. It officially began with an Opening Cocktail event, when Hotel School Dean Michael Johnson and Richard Adie ’75, general manager of The Statler Hotel, handed the keys to the Statler over to Tess Williams ’15, HEC 90 general manager.

“HEC is a huge part of the

School of Hotel Admin- ence has been a yearlong istration’s history and hotelies effort. take pride in their involve“Everyone involved in ment,” said Kira West ’15, HEC has put time and effort HEC 90 marketing and com- throughout the year,” Wolcott munications director. said. “Right when the last According to West, this HEC ended, everyone started y e a r about 300 stu- “Right when the last HEC ended, dents — everyone started preparing acting in the roles for this one.” of managers, Paige Wolcott ’17 direct o r s , assistant directors and general preparing for this one.”

The highlights of the volunteers — are staffing the conference, and 200 guests are conference feature numerous panel discussions — includregistered to attend.

Paige Wolcott ’17, a mem- ing a deans’ panel featuring ber of the wines team, said putting together the conferSee HOTEL page 4

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Domestication: The Crossroads of Cultural And Natural Diversity 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall HEC 90: Cornell Goes Global with Glenn Altschuler 9:15 - 10:15 a.m., Statler Auditorium Cell-Type Specific Strategies for DNA Damage Response With Anne Britt 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building Match-Makers and Deal-Breakers: Modeling Search Strategies and Choice Behavior on Online Dating Sites Noon - 1:15 p.m., G87 Martha van Rensselaer Hall

News, “Skorton Will Host Town Hall at Noon,” Monday Addressing widespread concerns over the state of University finances ““Cornell is a complex place, and many of you are asking important questions that suggest we need to shed more light on some of that complexity through a community-wide conversation.”

President David Skorton

News, “Former Ambassador Speaks at Cornell,” Tuesday Speaking about diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States “[U.S.-Russian relations] are not the basket case that you read about 20 years ago. Russia isn’t a superpower, but it is a power. … This story is really driven by what happens inside Russia.”

Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia

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News, “N.Y. Secretary of State Argues for Proposed Minimum Wage Hikes,” Wednedsay Speaking in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) proposed minimum wage increase “There are many people in the state of New York … that work full time every week and are still living below the poverty line. That shouldn’t happen.”

Cesar A. Perales, New York Secretary of State

Opinion, “Doing Too Much (And Getting Too Little),” Thursday Assessing Cornell’s campus culture “We take things too seriously, get worked up over small, trivial nothings that would not otherwise bother us.”

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Man Charged With Stealing Computers From Ithaca Elementary School Dylan Goodman, 18, was arrested Wednesday after he was found in possession of five Apple Macbook computers stolen from Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca. Police charged Goodman with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and additional charges are pending an investigation, according to The Ithaca Journal.

National Judge Rules Against Releasing Grand Jury Evidence In Eric Garner Case A jury ruled on Thursday against releasing the evidence presented to the grand jury that led to the acquittal of a New York police officer who administered a fatal chokehold on Eric Garner in July, according to The New York Times. Garner’s death inspired public outcry, but Justice William E. Garnett of the State Supreme Court decided against the request for public disclosure. He said the jury failed to establish a “compelling and particularized need” to make the documents public, The Times reported.

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Cornell’s union for disability adopts a global perspective

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Staff Writer

Representatives from Cornell Union for Disability Awareness, Student Disability Services and the South Asian Council compared the experiences faced by disabled people in the United States and South Asia during a discussion Thursday.

At this forum, these two groups discussed the efforts to alleviate burdens on the disabled both at Cornell and in India.

According to Kartik Ramkumar ’16, a Persons with Disabilities Act was implemented in India in 1995 to address the discrimination against disabled people.

There are “low levels of awareness of the Persons with Disabilities Act,” which do not help the totality of the approximately 70 million disabled people in India, according to Ramkumar.

Ramkumar said India’s treatment of people in wheelchairs illustrates lack of understanding. According to a YouTube video that Ramkumar showed, Hindu temples deny some disabled people entry and do not allow wheelchairs.

“Not only there is the physical barrier of not being able to get the wheelchairs on the busses, but disabled people are also charged to do so,” he said.

Kelly McClure ’16 discussed how her experience as a disability policy intern in India taught her about the transition from the moral model to the medical model of disability.

“The moral model of disability, a view of disability as a consequence of God’s punishment, is unfortunately still very pervasive,” McClure said. “India is slowly transitioning towards the medical model, according to which disability is considered a private matter between the disabled person and the doctor, not an obligation of the society.”

According to McClure, the number of times the Indian Parliament passes laws to

assist disabled individuals does not help if there is no enforcement of such laws.

“We need a social change, a social movement, a change in the way people think,” McClure said.

Many Indians think that disability remains a family issue, according to McClure.

“The family unit is very tight in India,” McClure said. “People think that it is not the state’s duty to take care of disabled people, but the family’s duty.”

Johnathan Goldstein ’17, president of the union, who has the tuberous sclerosis complex, talked about the challenges faced by disabled students at Cornell.

“We always tend to think about physical disabilities and that is a simplification,” Goldstein said. “We don’t necessarily recognize the social implications that are at stake.

Disability is never actualized until society comes into play.

According to Goldstein, a disabled person has a double challenge: “You have to accept yourself and have the society accept you.”

“I registered with Student Disability Services and was overwhelmed by the process of disclosing my disability and talking to professors,” Goldstein said.

Cornell’s campus is challenging for people with disabilities and the emphasis placed on confidentiality can sometimes exacerbate the stigma they face, according to McClure.

“I tried to get the restroom in Willard Straight Hall renovated,” McClure said.

“Cornell secured the funding and all I needed was a sign-off from the Student Assembly.

The proposal was rejected because they claimed that the responsibility belonged to the University. They claimed that disability is sensitive and it is the Student Disability Services’ job to accommodate it.”

According to McClure, a “big inadequacy in preparing students with disabilities to face the job market” exists.

“Students may be comfortable to disclose the issue of their disability, but a job interview

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Dicussing disabilities | A representative from Cornell Union for Disability Awareness and Student Disability Services shares her experiences Thursday.

is not like talking to professors,” McClure said. “When it comes to recruitment a lot of employers do not want to pay to accommodate a person with a disability.”

Goldstein said Cornell is working to assist disabled students to make the all parts of the campus “inclusive and accessible.”

“We work a lot with the Cornell community and try to figure out what the climate for students with disabilities is, how we can work with the Student Assembly to make sure that the campus is more inclusive and accessible for students with disabilities,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein added that the event aimed to approach disability not only in a Eurocentric perspective, but also in a South Asian context.

“For us it is really important to have cultural events like this, where we can highlight students’ experiences but also differences in cultural context,” Goldstein said.

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bcarnaghi@cornellsun.com.

C.U.Republicans and Democrats Face Off on Immigration

By TOM SCHREFFLER Sun Staff Writer

Three members of the Cornell Democrats and three members of the Cornell College Republicans participated in a debate about U.S. immigration policy Thursday in Malott Hall.

Participants discussed recent executive actions taken by President Barack Obama, the economic impact of undocumented immigration and immigration more generally.

Brandon Thompson ’16, speaking on behalf of the

Republicans, spoke about President Obama’s executive decision in November to stop the deportation of select immigrants.

“This is a touchy and difficult issue that the President should not have taken on by himself ” he said.

He said the average American family loses about $1,000 every year as a result of undocumented immigration, and that this creates a struggle for many families that are at or below the poverty line.

All of the speakers acknowl-

edged that most immigrants to the United States have good intentions. However, the Democrats went further, emphasizing that immigration policy should be compassionate and alleviate unnecessary stress for immigrants.

Dylan Johnke ’17, a member of the Cornell Democrats, said haphazardly expelling immigrants leaves people “in limbo” and “breaks up families.”

“We’re not suggesting opening borders or ceasing deportations,” he said. “We propose living up to the American ideal of

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Three v. three | The Cornell Democrats and C.U. College Republicans debate immigration reform in Malott Hall Thursday evening.

equal opportunity.”

Willow Hubsher ’18, a member of the Cornell Democrats,

“We propose living up to the American ideal of equal opportunity.”

Dylan Johnke ’17 echoed this sentiment.

“We’re trying to deport criminals, not families,” she said.

Alex Chakrin ’18, member of the Cornell Democrats, said immigrants bring economic benefits that outweigh the costs of their presence.

“It doesn’t matter how much it costs, it matters how much you net,” he said. “If [undocumented immigration] costs $113 billion and you gain $118 billion, you gain $5 billion.”

Chakrin also discussed the perils immigrants faced while entering the United States from Mexico, saying that a significant number die of dehydration crossing the border.

Shay Collins ’18, a member of the C.U. College Republicans, said that giving undocumented immigrants legal status would inevitably create economic incentives for more people to immigrate illegally.

“Because of the current state of our economy, it is unwise to grant amnesty to a large number of people” he said.

However, he also stressed that executives in big businesses had to be punished for knowingly exploiting undocumented immigrants.

“We need to strike this out at the root,” he said. “We need to start going after business owners themselves” he said.

A question and answer session followed after all the Republicans and Democrats spoke. Students in the audience asked about the economic impact of President Obama’s executive orders, and how past American foreign policy towards Mexico should affect current immigration policy for Mexican immigrants.

The Republicans acknowledged that some of their ideas were unorthodox, saying a “time to tout the party line” exists, but that ethical considerations also mattered.

Donald Quinones ’17, who is member of the C.U. College Republicans, said that all three branches of government “should be involved in the [immigration] process, not only executive, but judicial, legislative.”

Tom Schreffler can be reached at tschreffler@cornellsun.com.

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S.A.PassesTwo Resolutions Hotel School Prepares to Host

Students bring attention to arts,propose global studies major S.A.

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it does make a difference,” Batista said.

Going Global

Performing Arts.

The S.A. also passed a resolution which The resolution document states that the called for the University to institute a global Schwartz Center and the Department of affairs major. The resolution, according to Performing and Media Arts have seen more the official document, encouraged the than $1 million in budget cuts since 2009, University to “strongly consider presenting which has resulted in the loss of 18 full time this proposed major as a ‘cross-major’ for staff positions. more than one college.”

During the debate, Brian Murphy ’16, the According to Shivang Tayal ’16, resolution resolution’s co-sponsor and president of the co-sponsor and vice president of diversity and Schwartz Ambassadors, said the staff reduc- inclusion, the resolution encourages the tion has led to significantly fewer perfor- University to build on the strength of its mances at the “stellar international Schwartz Center and relations program.”

“The Schwartz Center brought has affected the “[The current proCollegetown comgram been several thousand people to the ranked has] munity and Cornell’s

by Foreign “town and gown Collegetown area every year.” Policy in the top 15 relationship.” international relaBrian Murphy ’16 “The Schwartz tions programs,” Center brought sevTayal said. “However, eral thousand people this program is still a to the Collegetown area every year for its pro- minor, and we need a major which emphafessional season, which are people that are no sizes global affairs. I think this resolution longer coming” Murphy said. “The engage- really calls for the University to create that ment with its constituency has pretty much major and to take expedient action toward ended.” creation of a cross disciplinary college major.”

Juliana Batista ’16, executive vice presiThe resolution’s other co-sponsor, Emma dent for the S.A., said the resolution marked Johnston ’16, Arts and Science representathe first time anyone had formally stated that tive, said the proposed major’s cross-college the community feels a loss of “culture and nature would make it unique. vibrancy” from the reduced level of program“It’s the first major that has kind of ming at the Schwartz Center. Batista embraced this cross-college learning,” expressed her hope that the resolution would Johnston said. “It unites students across diflead to a “reinvigoration” of the arts at ferent colleges and also stresses the imporCornell. tance of having an understanding of global “I see the undergrads on the student issues.” assembly, the undergrads in the PMA department starting to make those minor changes Christopher Byrns can be reached at to really move in that direction to show that cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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Johnson and previous hotel school deans David Butler, David Dittman and John Clark — as well as tastings and demonstrations on Spanish food and wine, a hospitality business plan competition and a Gala Banquet.

So far, features of HEC 90 have included a signature sandwich at Collegetown Bagels and the launches of an iOS and Android HEC app, which happened earlier this month.

Members of the HEC team said they believed HEC owes its success and long history to its unique ability to bring classroom lessons to life and to connect students with industry leaders and alumni.

“HEC, as a whole, is a really great way for us to showcase what we’ve been working on and to have hands-on experience working with industry leaders,” Wolcott said. “We are the next generation of hoteliers, who will be changing the industry and introducing new things to hospitality.”

Liz Huston ’15, HEC 90 food and beverage director, said she hopes the weekend will provide educational experiences for both conference guests and Cornell students.

“The goal of the weekend is to balance the guest experience with the student experience,” she said.

“We want to create an environment where the guests are learning and seeing what we do here at the hotel school. Meanwhile the students are

getting to experience things they otherwise would only hear about in classes.”

Leanne Youstra ’17, HEC 90 service team manager, said learning about the collaborative nature of the conference and the reputation of HEC played a major factor in their decisions to attend Cornell.

“Hearing about HEC when I was choosing schools was a huge deciding factor in me choosing Cornell,” she said. “It’s such a unique experience and really brings people together.”

Mara Jaffe ’17, sous chef of this year’s conference, also said that HEC was one of the reasons she chose to attend the hotel school.

“My favorite part of HEC is that there are people who have a lot of experience as well as those with very little experience, who all work together to create a professional, polished end result,” Jaffe said.

“Everyone learns something from the weekend whether it's their first time cooking anything or if they already have a culinary degree.”

Patrick Tan ’16, HEC 90 sales director, who has been involved in HEC since his freshman year, said that the conference has been an integral part of his time at Cornell.

“Hotel Ezra Cornell has been one of the most valuable parts of my education,” he said.

Anika Sethy contributed reporting to this article.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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Former Student Sues C.U.Over‘Biased’Sexual Assault Investigation LAWSUIT

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investigation “consisting of a skewed rendition of the facts” and employment of a “single-investigator model which resulted in a lack of due process” for the plaintiff, administrators failed to adhere to Cornell’s own policy concerning sexual assault, harassment and violence — Policy 6.4.

The policy mandates that investigators of sexual assault and harassment cases complete their formal investigations within 60 days.

The investigation, however, did not conclude until the issuing of the investigative report on April 30, 2014, 71 days after Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 first met with Jane Doe regarding the incident, the lawsuit contends.

During the 2013-14 academic year, the Office of the Judicial Administrator did not generally meet the policy’s mandated timelines, The Sun previously reported.

Grant attributed this to a staffing issue, as well as “extra procedural steps” introduced

by Policy 6.4.

‘No One Was Excessively Intoxicated’

On the evening of Dec. 13, 2013, the plaintiff attended an end of semester event held for chemical engineering students at the Statler Hotel, according to documents.

He was in attendance with an acquaintance, referred to as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, who he had known since the spring of 2011 when they were in the same course.

The plaintiff and Jane Doe were both seniors at the time.

The event, which “consisted of dinner and drinks” with other students, teaching assistants and professors from the School of Chemical Engineering, ended around 8:30 p.m. A witness stated that the John and Jane Doe “seemed happy and friendly”

during the course of the party, according to documents.

Following the event, they — along with other classmates and professors — attended an after party at a Collegetown residence, where “they continued socializing, dancing and drinking.”

While at the party, a witness noticed the plaintiff and Jane Doe were “getting close and flirting,” according to court documents. John Doe consumed “approximately five or six drinks over a 10 hour period” while Jane Doe alleged that she drank about fifteen drinks during the course of the evening.

However, another witness said Jane Doe appeared coherent at the party, according to court documents. “[Jane Doe] wasn’t drunk, maybe a couple of drinks, but not messy drunk,” she said.

Another witness said she “didn’t notice anyone having trouble walking or slurring [their] speech.”

At approximately 2:30 or 3 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 14, 2013, the plaintiff, Jane Doe and four witnesses left the party and walked back together to Jane Doe’s apartment.

Documents state that “although everyone had been drinking, no one was excessively intoxicated” due to the presence of professors at the Statler event and Collegetown after party.

Their Relationship ‘Did Not Change’

The plaintiff, Jane Doe and the four witnesses stayed in Jane Doe’s apartment for approximately 25 minutes, according to records. Witnesses stated that at the time, nobody seemed to be “overly intoxicated to the point of being incapacitated.”

When three members of the group departed Jane Doe’s apartment, she did

not protest when the plaintiff remained behind, documents state. One witness testified that Jane Doe “seemed fine when he left Jane Doe and plaintiff at the apartment.” Another stated that if he felt the plaintiff “was too drunk to be there with Jane Doe, he would have made him leave.”

Jane Doe agreed to let the plaintiff stay the night at her apartment, given the cold weather and the distance to his apartment.

Because Jane Doe did not have a couch, “it was understood that [the] plaintiff would sleep in her bed with her,” the complaint claims.

After the four witnesses left the apartment, the plaintiff told Jane Doe he was interested in her. They began to kiss, and though the plaintiff and Jane Doe verbally communicated about hooking up, Jane Doe said “she did not want to have sex,” according to documents.

At that point, Jane Doe removed her clothing and so did the plaintiff, documents state. They then began to engage in sexual activity for about an hour, and were both “awake and coherent at all times during the sexual activity,” communicating non-verbally.

The lawsuit contends that Jane Doe was able to demonstrate her consent through “actively participating” in the sexual activity, “stating her willingness” to do so up to a certain point and “continuing to kiss and touch [the] plaintiff ” throughout the encounter.

The plaintiff and Jane Doe awoke later that morning at around 8:30 a.m. Both fell asleep together in Jane Doe’s bed and “engaged in conversation” when they both woke up, according to documents.

Jane Doe also “advised [the] plaintiff to not ‘make it weird’” because they had mutual friends.

Documents state the relationship

between the plaintiff and Jane Doe “did not change” following the events of that night, as they continued to sit nearby each other in classes and completed their finals for the semester.

However, on Feb. 18, 2014, Jane Doe reported the plaintiff, alleging that he raped her “while she was incapacitated” on that December night, documents state. A couple of days later, on Feb. 24, a temporary no-contact order was implemented and an investigation began.

Three months later, on May 20, 2014, a panel of faculty members appointed by the Dean of Faculty issued a decision which found the plaintiff responsible for charges brought forth by Jane Doe. The University determined at the plaintiff ’s sanction that “expulsion was appropriate” and also changed the sanction to withhold his diploma for two years, according to documents.

A Reputation ‘Tarnished’

The plaintiff claims in the lawsuit that he has been damaged emotionally and economically as a result of the University’s actions, exemplified by “the loss of five job offers to date.”

“As a result of Cornell’s actions, plaintiff ’s parents’ financial resources used to provide plaintiff with an education at an esteemed Ivy League institution have [also] been squandered,” documents state.

The lawsuit also contends that John Doe’s reputation has been “tarnished,” his career prospects “put on hold” and his economic future “compromised.”

Joel Malina, vice president of university relations, said in a statement Thursday night that the University does not comment on pending litigation.

Annie Bui can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ment for his injuries at a hospital he was released, ABC news reported. On Wednesday night, Johnson joined thousands of UVA students in a rally decrying his violent arrest.

Though Johnson’s arrest took place in Virginia, Cornell students say the force used by the law enforcement agents — which some are calling brutality — is not unique to UVA. Instead, they say Tuesday’s events are indicative of a growing racial problem in America to which college campuses are not immune.

Samari Gilbert ’17, treasurer of Black Students United, said many Cornell students are already aware of racial problems on campus.

“What happened to Martese Johnson was obviously tragic, but it also brings to light something that many black students on this campus knew already,” Gilbert said. “Regardless of education or affiliations, we are still black people in America and to some that is criminal enough.”

Although some say Johnson’s status as a student at an elite college makes his arrest especially shocking, Gilbert said Johnson’s education should not make him any more or less respected than any other Black American.

“Attending a prestigious university did not save Martese and it may not save me, but it’s also important to acknowledge that it shouldn’t have to,” Gilbert said.

“The humanity of people of color is not derived from their respectability.”

Syed Ali Khan ’15, minority at large representative for the Student Assembly, also said the incident reflected common concerns on campus, including fear of “police brutality.”

“This is just one of many inci-

dents of police brutality over the last year,” Ali Khan said.

“Members of the minority community at Cornell have shown through die-ins, town hall meetings and vigils that these events have a profound effect on us.”

Ali Khan added that student efforts would be more effective with more active support from Cornell’s administration.

“Increased administrative support would help us during these difficult times, as these incidents

bring students together to help influence real change on campus and throughout the country,” he said.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

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WE GIVE UP THE SUN’S 133RD EDITORIAL BOARD has been at work for a fortnight as of this weekend, (happy anniversary, readership!) but we collectively decided in this week’s editorial meeting to cease publishing news and to begin publishing straight up sourceless claims.

This whole run as a “credible” news source has been dope, don’t get us wrong. We’ve enjoyed the fact-checking and the interviews with human sources. It has been two weeks, and we’re becoming lazy. Spring Break is so soon, yet so far. So let’s be honest — you’d all rather read baseless statements about the community. Right?

As it turns out, coming up with unfounded stories was easier than anticipated — shocker, we know. We put our reporters to work creating next week’s “news.” Here are the headlines they came up with: Klarman Konspiracy: A shady source told us that “Klarman Hall” is actually a new presidential mansion for President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett. Reportedly, Garrett will also change the University’s motto to ‘Any President, any new-age mansion built within a pre-existing structure.’

Denise’s Den: Denise Cassaro, in an effort to connect with the Cornell community, founded a nighttime hot spot on the fourth floor of Goldwin Smith. You’re not allowed in to this exclusive club without a printed essay outlining the merits of Comic Sans MS, written in Comic Sans MS. If you use colors in a way that pleases Cassaro, you gain acces to the VIP section.

We’ve also decided that if we forgo legitimacy in the realm of accuracy, we might as well just forgo all legitimacy. We’re going to start using words that don’t make sense in context, especially words for which we don’t know the definition — a classic case of journalistic antidisestablishmentarianism.

Don’t think of our new practices as purely illegitimate — think of them as avant-garde. All tips we receive that make it to publication will go unsubstantiated, because where’s the fun in legitimacy?

If you would like to submit a claim, that’s chill. Go for it! Chances are we’ll just shrug and say, “sounds about right.”

Q: A Sun story on the passing of Prof. F. H. Fox DVM ’45 earlier this week alluded to his history of pranks with students. Can you elaborate?

— What Does the Fox Say ’16 A: Fox taught veterinary medicine at Cornell from 1947 to 1992 and certainly belongs in the Hall of Fame of Cornellian pranksters. During visits to farms, he would often intentionally leave a student behind to hitchhike home in an era before cell phones.

Some alumni recall him providing students with glasses of yellow liquid and explaining that illnesses could be diagnosed through the taste of an animal’s urine, encouraging them to join him by taking a swig of the faux urine. Another story involves a box of horse droppings disguised as chocolates. But students retaliated by making sure no one would ever forget Fox’s age or birthday, despite his dislike of both. The old railroad bridge over Route 366 in nearby Varna has proclaimed Prof. Fox’s age in graffitied paint for over 20 years, honoring a tradition of pranking that spanned the entirety of his career. Besides displaying his age on the bridge and on posters and banners throughout the Vet School, students also celebrated his birthday over the years by filling his office with hay, live sheep and 1,000 helium balloons. His office was once switched with the dean’s office, and once was relocated to the roof of the Vet Research Tower as well. Fox leaves a wonderful legacy as a Cornellian, educator and mischief-maker.

Q: What’s the story behind the Ithaca Gun smokestack near the bottom of Fall Creek gorge?

— Smoking Gun ’15 A: The Ithaca Gun Company, founded in the 1880s, became internationally known for its firearms, serving as a major industry and employer in Ithaca’s early years. Using hydropower from Fall Creek, the factory was producing 53,000 guns per year by the 1920s. Ithaca Gun became Ithaca’s first company to be traded on the American Stock Exchange, but changes in ownership led the company to move operations out of Ithaca in 1987. Among the legacies left by the business are the landmark smokestack near the aptly named Gun Hill apartments and a contaminated parcel of land that has made redevelopment of the old factory site challenging.

Q: How many Nobel Prizes have Cornellians won?

— Noble Nobelist ’15

A: By my count, Cornell can claim 45 Nobel Prize winners, beginning with Peter Debye, who joined Cornell’s Chemistry Department in 1940 after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936. Of the 45 Nobelists,15 hold degrees from Cornell and 10 are only affiliated as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large, a nonresident professorship for distinguished intellectuals.

Q: What was Cornell’s early relationship with Ithaca College?

— Go Bombers ’15

Ithaca College is a few decades younger than Cornell University, opening in 1892 as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. Eventually expanding to a broader curriculum, the conservatory became Ithaca College in 1931. Many faculty, staff and students have shared allegiances with the two institutions over the years, and one of the founding Ithaca College faculty was the sister of future Cornell dean of forestry Bernard Fernow (of Fernow Hall). The early years did involve collaboration with Cornell, with Cornellians enrolling in the conservatory’s music courses and the Ithaca students taking language courses at Cornell. The conservatory was also responsible for music in Sage Chapel. Ithaca College didn’t move up to South Hill until the 1960s, making its downtown facilities more easily accessible to Cornell students, many of whom lived nearby.

Collaboration continues today with the Cornell University-Ithaca College Exchange Program, which allows students at one school to cross-enroll at the other institution for courses only offered there.

Of course, the two institutions weren’t always so friendly to each other. When Ithaca College faced financial troubles in 1933, Cornell president Livingston Farrand wrote to the I.C. trustee chairman, “The college can’t possibly succeed. My suggestion is that you go down the hill, close the college down, lock the doors and throw the keys in Lake Cayuga.”

Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.

CORRECTION A March 19 a sports column, “Ten Questions,” stated that Dena Tanenbaum was a sophomore In fact, Tanenbaum is a junior.

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Emma Goldberg | Yale Daily News

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n Friday the 13th, Dean Jonathan Holloway sent an email to the student body: “A message about sexual misconduct and the Yale College community.” It included a letter from “The Brothers of SAE” regarding the fraternity’s violation of Yale’s policy on sexual misconduct. Cue campus buzz that lasted a couple of days, maybe even a week.

Pretty soon the conversations died down. After all, the letter contained little concrete information. There were no particulars to ground discussion. And maybe this is a good thing. Letters like this one toe a dangerous line — they may fuel productive conversation, or they may just breed gossip.

Still, Holloway concluded his email by calling on students to read SAE’s letter closely: “I urge you to read it because it contributes to discussions aimed at improving our campus climate.”

Those discussions have yet to emerge in concrete ways, but they are critically important. Now is an opportune moment for discourse on reforming Greek life at Yale.

In the past year, Greek life has made waves across national headlines. In November, Rolling Stone reported on the troubling abuses of a fraternity at the University of Virginia. At Stanford, a swimmer was accused of assaulting a woman after a fraternity party. And just last month director Kirby Dick released the documentary “The Hunting Ground,” an exposé on campus rape.

Holloway’s email reminds us that Yale is not immune to this pervasive culture of misogyny and abuse.

The letter’s release was critical for a number of reasons. As Holloway explained to me in an email, “One of the UWC’s goals is to find ways to educate involved parties in any situation.”

With the SAE incident, Holloway and other administrators felt there was an opportunity to educate the community without violating the confidentiality of parties involved in the case.

Holloway’s email also figures importantly in a case in which SAE otherwise escaped with little retribution. According to the email sent to the Yale community, the UWC’s sanctions against SAE included: “a ban on on-campus activities;” a ban on communication through university emails; a two-year prohibition on use of the SAE name in conjunction with Yale.

Effectively, all of this means very little. Because SAE’s house is off campus, the on-campus ban has barely any impact. They can advertise their functions through Gmail rather than Yale email. Since the case closed last fall, the fraternity has frequently hosted parties and events. An anonymous member of the fraternity acknowledged that the UWC sanctions changed very little in the way that SAE operates. “The sanctions themselves have basically no effect on us,” he told me.

Admittedly, University administrators are limited in their ability to place sanctions on organizations that primarily operate off campus. In SAE’s case, Yale recognized a flagrant violation of the school’s sexual misconduct policies — but administrators struggled to devise sanctions that would actually impact the fraternity’s activities.

That’s where the Feb. 13 letter factors in. It’s a call to action of sorts. We can’t feign ignorance of the fact that our community is plagued by many of the same abuses present at UVA, at Stanford, at schools across the country. And the burden is not just on administrators, but also on students to identify areas for improvement in Yale’s social and sexual culture.

At a national level, survivors and activists have floated many powerful ideas for reform. One of the most innovative and potentially effective is the move to make fraternities coed.

Nearby Wesleyan University implemented this initiative last fall; university spokesperson Kate Carlisle told CNN the decision aimed to make the campus “as fair, inclusive and equitable as possible.” Yale might consider an initiative of this sort, one with large-scale impact that would demonstrate leadership at a national level.

But in the meantime, to borrow the White House and the Yale College Council’s language on the subject — it’s on us.

Institutions are bogged down by forces of inertia, but students don’t have to be. We can take our superficial conversations about SAE’s letter and deepen them, using them to re-examine ourselves and our school culture.

Emma Goldbers is a junior at Yale University. She can be reached at emma.goldberg@yale.edu.

Letters to the editor and guest columns may be sent to associate-editor @cornellsun.com.

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What Happens In the Back

hen I was a child going with my parents and my pets to the vet, I would always be unhappy at the part of the appointment when my pet would be “taken to the back.”

For me, the displeasure was a combination of intensely unsatisfied curiosity and moderate suspicion that unpleasant things were being done to my animal.

Now that I’m (practically) on the other side, I can see those same feelings in the eyes of many clients. So here’s a look into “the back.”

First of all, in the back there are generally one or more examination tables with various equipment arranged around them and sometimes a few holding cages.

A large purpose of the space is convenience — it’s impractical to have multiple pieces of equipment of the same type when you can have just one that you keep in a communal space and all of the doctors in the practice can come use it when they need to. Also, exam rooms are fairly small.

Oftentimes examinations need more space than the small tables and tight floor space. It’s difficult to do a complete orthopedic exam on a large dog, for example, when you don’t have the space to fully flex and extend all of their joints and examine the complete range of motion of their limbs — this is much easier to do where there is a good amount of floor space and a padded mat on the floor for the comfort of the animal. So, “I’m going to do a complete exam of your animal in the back” isn’t actually as sinister as it sounds, it just means that the veterinarian

responsible regardless of whether or not the client offered verbal consent to help with the procedure.

Lastly, in the back there are resources — other doctors to bounce ideas off of, and books and computers to refer to for clarification. I’ve been taught by every veterinary mentor I’ve had that when you don’t know something, your clients will always appreciate it and respect you if you admit to not knowing but promise to find out. That being said, with veterinary knowledge expanding so rapidly, it’s never wrong to brush up on the latest data — especially if you’re dealing with a condition that I’ve been taught by every you don’t see veterinary mentor I’ve had verySooften.“the that when you don’t know back” comes something, your clients down to more will always appreciate it e q u i p m e n t , and respect you if you space, hands and resources admit to not knowing but than in the promise to find out. room with the client. It also, in the end, stress-free procedure. Moreover, allows all of the clients to be satI’ve seen techs draw blood from isfied — for example the overveins that were so tiny and so protective ones don’t have to hidden I wouldn’t have convinc- worry obsessively while watchingly been able to say they were ing their restrained pet and the there if anatomy hadn’t told me squeamish ones don’t have so. Clients who aren’t squeamish watch a procedure that makes may argue that their pets are them uncomfortable. Of course, most comfortable with them, it’s all thrown out the window if but then it comes down to a you’re a large animal vet making matter of education and liability. farm calls because then there’s Clients generally don’t know the no back to go to, but in those best way to hold the animal to situations you generally carry all keep it from moving while your equipment with you, have simultaneously using their fin- plenty of space, manage to gers as a tourniquet. Also, their recruit hands from around the animal is likely not used to being farm and additional resources restrained in such a way by their are just a phone call/smartowner and will probably not phone away. respond as the owner expects.

Moreover, if something were to Nikhita Parandekar graduated from happen to the client in the vet- Cornell in 2011 and is a third-year student in the Cornell erinary clinic (say a dog jumps veterinary College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be and the needle scrapes the client, reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. or even if the dog turns around Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays and bites the client), the clinic is this semester.

needs to use additional equipment and space.

Secondly, there are hands in the back. Words cannot describe how vital veterinary technicians are to running a veterinary practice. Technicians have extensive training on how to perform certain procedures and are invaluable when it comes to animal restraint. If a vet tells you they’re going to take your pet to the back to draw some blood, it means there will be someone there to facilitate that. Your pet will not just offer their arm and sit quietly like a human would, and appropriate restraint is the key to a quick, comfortable,

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friends Pay Tribute to Taylan Cihan Charles Cacioppo’s In Loving Memory of Taylan Cihan opened.

Scored for piano, violin and cello, the piece was not unlike Taylan himself: Turbulent and multi-directional, but ultimately welcoming of any and all who would hear him. Cacioppo’s tribute sparked a trilogy of sorts, fleshed out by Michael Small and Ryan McCullough’s Snowcoder, which found the musician-composers navigating a soundscape of live electronics and manipulated percussion, and my own An Elegy for Taylan, which built on choral textures in mournful unraveling. These inaugural soundings took place in the museum lobby, while

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

On Saturday, friends, collaborators and students gathered at the Johnson Museum of Art to honor the memory of Taylan Cihan (1978-2014), a graduate student in composition at Cornell’s Department of Music, whose life tragically ended last October. Among those of us affected by his genius, Taylan was known to push himself and those around him beyond the chalk outlines of comfort into which we all too often settle. He was a force to be reckoned with, because force was COURTESY OF TAYLANCIHAN.COM all he knew. Whether building his own synthesizers (a passion he followed into his final hours) or fearlessly picking the scabs of what he saw to be an infirmed music industry, Taylan’s livewire spirit was an inspiration, and then some.

Although the scope of his influence is averse to summary, summary was nonetheless in tall order as we came together to share his everlasting gifts with those who knew him and, just as importantly, those who did not.

As could be expected, the three-hour event was as interdisciplinary as its honoree, running the gamut from live performances and video screenings to static listening stations others lured the growing crowd deeper into the museum. (which featured archival collaborations and dedicatory sound From an upstairs offering of ambient beats and oceanic washinstallations by Corey Keating, David Friend and Amit es by synthesizer legends Trevor Pinch and James Spitznagel — Gilutz) and visual art. The latter, courtesy of Tonia Ko, took a.k.a. Electric Golem — to a downstairs improvisation by form as sheets of bubble wrap, affixed to a blank wall and pix- CAGE (Cornell Avant-Garde Ensemble, cofounded by ilated with black and white paint. Despite its relative silence Taylan) on sound sculptures by Harry Bertoia, listeners were (bubble wrap has, in fact, been an instrument elsewhere in treated to a panoply of audio languages and diffusions. Pinch Ko’s performances), it was no less heartfelt than even the most also led, with Jordan Aceto, an onsite synthesizer-building thrumming portions of the afternoon — all the more elegiac, workshop, carrying on a nascent tradition also spearheaded by in fact, for closing its mouth so that we might open our eyes. Taylan in his ongoing quest to demystify the methods behind Many of the proceedings were decidedly sonic. Composer his madness. Electronics had been his forte, as attested by the

Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly Top Dawg Records

“I want you to get angry — I want you to get happy. I want you to feel disgusted. I want you to feel uncomfortable,” rapper Kendrick Lamar said of his third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, in a recent New York Times interview. Following the almost unprecedented critical and commercial success of 2012’s good kid, ,m.A.A.d city, Kendrick holds the unique position of both dominating the music industry with his popularity and having significant influence over the national discourse on issues ranging from race relations to poverty. His success has granted him a singular opportunity as well as a heavy burden, and To Pimp a Butterfly finds Kendrick suffering a severe case of survivor’s guilt and questioning how well he has used this newfound influence to give back to his hometown of Compton, Calif.

Yet with Butterfly, the 27 year-old M.C. violently casts these doubts aside and appoints himself Compton’s deeply flawed preacher, pulling zero punches and pushing himself in abrasive new directions, both sonically and lyrically.

GKMC is Compton’s Odyssey, a day-in-the-life tale of the struggles and temptations faced by Kendrick and his friends as they come of age in an inner city. That album is rich with microcosmic commentary, reframing the quotidian details of the rapper’s adolescence as a reflection on the broader systemic issues of racism, poverty and gang violence. In retrospect, GKMC seems like the groundwork for Butterfly, a thematic jumping-off point for a grander and more divisive discourse. The album brings us to modern day and expands these conversations to a national scale, as made evident by the striking cover art, which features a group of black men trampling a Supreme Court Justice in front of the White House. Kendrick raps from his newly attained position of cultural reverence and asks big questions about race in America that will undoubtedly incite discomfort and alienate the listeners who bandwagonned GKMC. That undying integrity represents Kendrick’s enduring appeal: He’s here to

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Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

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handful of his instruments on display in a way they were never meant to be: As art objects, switched off and silent.

The same room housing his creations also hosted four screenings. Two contained visuals by frequent collaborator Andrew Lucia and one by John Zissovici, both of Cornell’s Architecture, Art and Planning program. The films charted relationships between sound and (de)composition, space and time, medium and message with intuitive congruity. This left the final montage by Taylan’s former student Mafalda Reis Moore, who presented a video diary before concluding with a brief, inward-looking meditation involving a contact microphone and rough surface. Following this was local musician Peter Vincent, who shared an impassioned assemblage entitled Magnifico. Any eyes that had remained dry up to this point now certainly let down their guard, as Vincent organically shuttled recordings of conversations with Taylan through his electronic loom. Although he seemed to do nothing more than sit at his laptop and press play, his presence was integral to the performance, smiling as he did at Taylan’s colorful opinions along the way toward his own cathartic tears. It was a remarkable shift in the program, a hefty portion of generative life flanking an otherwise lachrymose meal.

Yet nothing was as cleansing as CAGE’s final benediction, improvised in the museum lobby with all the solemnity of a prayer. With this, the circle might very well have seemed closed. But if Taylan’s legacy — and, by extension, these outpourings of grief and celebration in kind — teaches us anything, it is that no life is ever closed, even by death. Each in a link in a chain that will continue to resound, so long as there are still others around to give it a tug.

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fight battles and tell stories. And if you won’t hear what he has to say, he’ll shrug and shout, “Fuck your friendship.”

In interviews leading up to Butterfly’s release, collaborator Pharrell Williams referred to “King Kunta” — a funky stomper of a track that might qualify for radio play, unlike the rest of this album — as “unapologetically black.” While that description only partially encapsulates the rest of the album’s lyrical content, it accounts for its entire soundscape.

Culling together members of L.A.’s jazz-influenced production scene (Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Terrace Martin), a choir full of soulful R&B singers (Bilal, Anna Wise, James Fauntleroy) as well as some veritable guardians of the funk (Ronald Isley, George Clinton), Kendrick has crafted an aesthetic solely attributable to African-American art forms.

While Compton rap has drawn from funk and soul for years, Kendrick has arranged them in such a way as to suggest that all American music stems from these traditionally black genres. In doing so, he asserts hip-hop as belonging to the same pantheon of cultural reverence in which jazz, soul and funk already reside. It’s a suggestive and immersive sonic palette that demands as much thought and analysis as the lyrics.

The album’s emphasis on musicality extends its way to Kendrick’s performance on the mic, as the M.C. makes the bold decision to sing on album opener “Wesley’s Theory” before he has rapped a single word. He goes on to channel everyone from James Brown to D’Angelo over the album’s remaining 15 tracks, but Kendrick refuses to prioritize aesthetics over content, constantly throwing out rapid and dense bars even where they do not seem to fit. As the album title’s Harper Lee homage suggests, Butterfly finds Kendrick at his most literary, employing recurrent metaphors and motifs to convey a larger caterpillar-to-butterfly narrative.

Kendrick himself stands at the center of it all, navigating the temptations that come as the cost to his own success. In one

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of the album’s many literary devices, Kendrick manifests these evils in “Lucy,” the feminine embodiment of his own vices and shortcomings. The songs unfold one after the other in his process of overcoming Lucy, coping with survivor’s guilt and searching for his purpose in a post-GKMC America, one that desperately needs leaders following the tragic events of last year.

Kendrick’s rapping imbues his novelistic tendencies with the explosiveness of a Spike Lee joint, as the fiery MC employs a seemingly endless arsenal of flows to tell his stories. While “Blacker the Berry” finds him raging at every institution through a ferocious bark, the self-reflective “u” — a thematic film negative to “i” — unveils the same cracked, emotive delivery that made “His Pain” so affecting.

“Loving you is complicated,” Kendrick sobs drunkenly to a mirror. The tangible nature of that self-loathing stands as a testament to Kendrick’s singular ability to emote through his voice. No other rapper — or vocalist in general — could project his emotions in such a way as to incite the same sentiment even in listeners who could not hope to relate to his problems. For all of Butterfly’s focus on Kendrick’s own experiences and the struggles of being black in America, its brute emotional force will affect any close listener.

The anti-commercial and contentious nature of To Pimp a Butterfly might alienate casual fans of GKMC, but it hardly matters when Kendrick has crafted such a layered, uncompromising album that is as emotional as it is political. It is a dense and demanding work of art on which a single music review could never hope to scratch the surface.

Only time will tell what To Pimp a Butterfly’s legacy will be, but for now, Kendrick has left us with a lot to unpack.

Chris Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

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The Art of Action: Run All Night

Ruhe knows how to lens New York City. Even when flanked by neon, these men are bisected by shadows, which naturally populate the dingy corners in which they find refuge. Fight scenes draw Blood runs thicker than water in Run All Night, but the attention to bloody mouths, trembling heels and water might as well be out to kill you too. Enraged Irish the scum on bathroom floors as much as the mobsters, crooked cops and one smooth assassin are merely punches swung. The violence is literally too dark the humans out for Liam Neeson and his son, as rain, fog and the scuffles too messily desperate for Jimmy’s and blasts of fire also engulf their surroundings with a hos- particular set of skills to provide fodder for “oh, tile agency. The inevitability and omnipresence of violence snap!” humor à la Taken.

Brad Ingelsby’s script has only one good line, I on display is downright Biblical, and mature in a way that the revenge camp of Taken, the movie that started this think. When a platoon of police cars and heliwhole party, is not. If director Jaume Collet-Serra does not copters surround the project where the two are hidmatch the smooth classicism of Non-Stop, his genre jewel ing, Jimmy turns to his panicked son and says, “It’s from last year and the finest Neeson vehicle yet, then he a big building. We got some time. Let’s wait.” The lacquers Run All Night’s unremarkable script with enough rest is merely serviceable, while many of Shawn’s lines sound lifted from what Don or Michael grit to make for some essential, elemental action cinema.

Jimmy Conlon (Neeson) must protect his estranged Corleone once said (“I am a legitimate businessman,” “There’s not enough money in the world son, Mike (Joel to pull me back in”). Of course, Harris Kinnaman), because Run All Night makes it all work, embodying through he himself killed the son of his best friend, Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra his ghoulish mask and rising cadence the unhinged volatility that comes with Shawn. The kid Starring Liam Neeson, Joel grieving while searching for blood.

(Boyd Holbrook) Playing an unapologetic killer many Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook was about to shoot shades darker than his Matt Scudder Mike, and he was a from last year’s ace A Walk Among the brat who insulted Tombstones, Neeson can’t do much to Jimmy on the regumake him sympathetic but play up his lar, and Shawn quotidian flaws: alcoholic, sickly, single. pulled out enough Jimmy remains bad to the bone, and one hair over his son’s delinquency to end up being played by Ed Harris, but senses his father bear instinct is conflated with a renewed when your son ends up clipped in a Brooklyn kitchen, you taste for blood. When pointing a gun, Jimmy hardens his are not too open to being eased by words that start, “Well, face before taking the shot, leaving a brief pause between in the long run....” So Shawn releases the hounds, so to reaction and life-ending action. He is so good at killing speak, ordering his people to snuff out Mike’s life first so that he has time to consider and perhaps even savor it, which must cycle back into an unending, bloodletting that Jimmy will feel firsthand the pain of losing a son.

Jimmy and Mike do a lot of running through streets, feedback loop.

While the computer-generated scene transitions that fly subway tunnels and the projects, obviously. But the many chase scenes do not grow tedious, because Collet-Serra over broad swathes of cityscape do their best to distract opted to shoot on location and cinematographer Martin from this fact, Collet-Serra has a talent for capturing the

BY ZACH ZAHOS Sun Staff Writer

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s Cornell’s Student Assembly celebrates the transition from one female president to the next, the technology and finance industries cower under the pressure of yet another gender discrimination allegation. Ellen Pao, current interim CEO of Reddit, is suing her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most illustrious venture capital firms, for $16 million in damages. The large sum represents lost earnings from unfulfilled promotions to being barred from serving on multiple boards. These are just a few of the many privileges available to male employees at Kleiner Perkins and only a couple of the complaints Pao has about working for the firm as a woman.

In the field of venture capital, it is not rare to see gender bias play out in daily life. In 2014, Fortune magazine purported that of the 542 venture capital partners in the U.S., only 23 (or 4.2 percent) were women. In his testimony, John Doerr, Pao’s mentor at Kleiner Perkins and a renowned venture capitalist, admitted that the paucity of women in the trade is a problem that he is working to address.

As the case unfolds, it is evident that the facts are complicated and at times contradictory. Unfortunately, sources ranging from USA Today to NPR often seem to oversimplify the thorny situation as a clear act of injustice on the part

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minute, physical gesture. He wrings suspense from the act of reloading, and how, in the heat of battle, those with empty clips must compromise by using their knees or tips of their fingers to do so. He rarely brings bodies together in proximity or even in the same shot, since everyone is out to kill one another. Only after one character lands a fatal shot on the other, near the end, does Collet-Serra allow the two adversaries to unite again and lean on one another in a heartbreaking display of belated gentility.

The film turns into a horror show when Common pops in as a ruthless, machine-like hired gun, with a night vision eyepiece that hammers comparisons with the Terminator into almost-fact. His character is a cliché, though Common brings the cool, which anyone who saw him earlier this month at Bailey can testify he has in spades. An interesting twist is that the aforementioned fog and smoke screws with his night vision piece, and so multiple times he is forced, mid-fight, to tear it off, making him a chump like anyone else. Maybe God is raining down all that hellfire not to kill the Neesons, but to force his enemies to treat him with a little respect.

Zach Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornell.edu.

Lean In,Then Fall Over of Kleiner Perkins. However, the venture capital firm makes numerous qualified arguments pointing to Pao’s lack of interpersonal skills as the cause of her dismissal from the firm in 2012.

Although it may not be a simple dispute of man versus woman, the case does raise important concerns about the consequences of “leaning in,” as Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has recommended for women looking to take the next step in their careers.

Pao’s experiences working in venture capital clearly demonstrate the problems with owning the assertive personality Sandberg says is necessary for success. In her book “Lean In,” published in 2013, Sandberg prescribes specific measures that both genders can take to increase the number of women in the upper echelons of various industries. Through her own experiences and those of other influe n t i a l women such as Ariana The Melting Huffington and Marissa Pot Mayer, she purports that women often do not do enough to ensure their personal success.

One of the main problems Sandberg points to is the “leadership ambition gap,” in which women believe it is ill-fitting to aspire to positions of power.

However, throughout her seven year tenure at Kleiner Perkins, Pao hoped to move from junior to senior partner.

Despite her devotion to the firm, Pao’s dream was never realized.

Letitia Chai

In her testimony, she described working until the Friday before giving birth and taking a short three month maternity leave before returning to the office.

Upon her return, she discovered that she had lost a board seat with RPX, a company that protects large corporations from patent lawsuits, to a male partner who. Pao had dedicated months to developing relationships with the patent startup and enthusiastically supported the company. Within three years, RPX went public, an incredible feat that required strong support from Kleiner Perkins.

In her TED talk, Sandberg dedicates a large portion of her time chastising women who talk themselves out of important positions. Sit at the table, Sandberg commands. And Pao tried — both literally and figuratively. Senior partners would ask her and her female co-workers to take notes at crucial meetings, further recommending that she was simply there to observe these discussions rather than participate in them.

Ultimately, she refused and asserted herself.

Many of the Kleiner Perkins employees testifying in court describe Pao’s personality as one that just does not fit in with the K.P. culture. Pao, apparently, is not a team player. In “Lean In,” Sandberg recounts a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, in which he told her that she had to stop craving everybody’s approval. That desire, he said, was “holding her back.”

However, it seems that the world of venture capital demands a different kind of person. Specifically, someone who can “[work] well in a collaborative environment,” Phil Sanderson, chair of the

Western Association of Venture Capitalists, explained in his interview with NPR about the industry and Pao’s trial.

Pao v. Kleiner Perkins further rattles Silicon Valley, an area soon to be riddled with more anti-minority allegations.

Just this week, another woman named Chia Hong filed a similar gender discrimination lawsuit against Facebook, her former employer. As we continue to watch both cases develop, perhaps we should keep an eye towards the innate differences between the two environments — specifically focusing on what type of employee each industry demands. It may simply be that life as a professional woman in technology requires a drastically different personality than in other industries.

However, cultural phenomenons such as the scarcity and purported maltreatment of women in Silicon Valley can rarely be simplified into such a digestible conclusion. Additionally, as we see through the example of Ellen Pao, the formula that Sandberg presents to reignite the feministic movement is unrealistic. Change, in the case of gender discrimination in the workplace, will not trickle down from those who strike the perfect balance between leaning in and falling flat on the ground.

Rather, change will come from implementing policy out of cases like Pao’s trial to protect the rights of those in Silicon Valley and eventually the rest of the nation.

Letitia Chai is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lchai@cornellsun.com. The Melting Pot runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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UAB Blazers Upset No.3 Iowa State in NCAA March Madness

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The UAB Blazers may not have a football program anymore. They do have the first big upset of the NCAA Tournament and hope they can give their university something to rally around.

William Lee scored the last four points for 14th-seeded UAB, and the Blazers knocked off third-seeded Iowa State 60-59 on Thursday in their opening game in the NCAA Tournament. It’s the third straight year a 14 seed has upset a No. 3 seed, and Georgia State followed up by joining the list within an hour with a 57-56 win over Baylor.

The Blazers (20-15) came in with the third-youngest team in the NCAA Tournament and with nobody having played in this tournament before. They wound up winning the program’s first “We were celebrating NCAA game since 2005 and ran over to celebrate in front of the because that was a really fans of a school that shut its footbig win for us with us ball program down in December. being the underdogs.”

“For us, it was just huge,” UAB junior Robert Brown said.

Tyler Madison “We come here, not just to play games, but to actually make some noise and to win some games. To be able to do that and win for Birmingham, win for Coach [Jerod] Haase, it’s a great feeling.”

And it set off a wild celebration in the Blazers’ locker room.

“We were celebrating because that was a really big win for us with us being the underdogs,” UAB guard Tyler Madison said.

Haase estimated maybe four or five of the Blazers didn’t even realize a month ago that the Conference USA Tournament champion earned an automatic berth, while another had never watched a selection show before Sunday.

“You’re a product of your thoughts,” Haase said. “There’s been more talk right now about 14 seed or upsets than we’ve said the entire year. Our thoughts have been, when we play well, we think we can compete with anybody, and those thoughts have been expressed to our team, and our team has made the choice to believe in that. I think that’s what you saw today.”

The ninth-ranked Cyclones (25-9) came into the South Regional looking for a much longer run than a year ago when they reached the Sweet 16 without top scorer Georges Niang due to injury. But they just couldn’t match the scrappy Blazers on the boards in a second half where the Cyclones couldn’t hold onto a 55-51 lead with 3:13 left.

For Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg, it’s as tough a loss as he’s had.

His Cyclones came in having won five straight, rallying from doubledigit deficits in each on their way to the Big 12 Tournament title.

Hoiberg called that an emotional three days in Kansas City followed by playing the first game Thursday.

“I’m not going to make any excuses,” Hoiberg said. “You’ve got to come out and play 40 minutes. ... I don’t know. Maybe we should have let them get up double digits. That’s kind of how we play our best.”

The Blazers, who outscored Iowa State 9-4 down the stretch, will play 11th-seeded UCLA, a 60-59 winner over sixth-seeded SMU, on Saturday.

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SPORTS

Red Travels to Maryland To Take On Three Squads

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Despite having been thrown from a bull in July, Ryder Wright competes in the National High School Finals Rodeo last Saturday.

“Moving forward, we really need to work on adjusting to the pitchers earlier in the game,” Parker said.

“The games against Delaware were a lot better in that respect and I think they more games we play, the better we will get at that. The more games we can play the better.”

Though the Red has huge talent, the game will be in the details this weekend. Parker explained that while these details may be harder to practice, if the Red focuses on them, that will make all of the difference.

“Fixing the little things that are more difficult to practice. Taking extra bases, not letting teams take extra bases on us and timely hitting,” she said when explaining where her squad needs to improve.

Practicing those things has been hard for the squad, which has been stuck in the Ramin Room for its whole season thus far. However, this weekend the team’s upperclassmen are confident that a little focus and determination will bring home a win.

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com.

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this year, so it was definitely good preparation to play in tight situations under pressure,” Fleck said. “Hopefully we will use this experience in future matches.”

According to Fleck, the Red looks to continue its recent successes as it heads into a home matchup with Buffalo on Sunday. Buffalo has taken on Ivy League competition four times so far this season and has failed to come away with a victory.

“We are definitely confident coming into the match, as we have built up a lot of positive momentum over the past few weeks,” Fleck said. “However, we will certainly not be complacent as we have lost to this team before.”

In fact, the Red has compiled an impressive 24-1 series

lead over the Bulls, but Fleck just happened to be around for the lone loss. The defeat came on Jan. 19, 2014, with a Cornell team struggling to overcome injuries and falling by a close score of 4-3.

Fleck acknowledged that despite Buffalo’s struggles this season and the Red’s overwhelming history of victories against them, the team is by no means complacent.

“They are still a good team that’s perfectly capable of beating us if we don’t show up,” Fleck said.

Cornell will need to continue to show up far past the match against Buffalo, as the all-important Ivy League season begins the following weekend against the Columbia Lions. According to Fleck, a season’s worth of hard work has led up to this point.

“We have been preparing for these matches since the fall so there is nothing we will do in particular to prepare during

practice, just keep doing what we’re doing,” he said.

The Red is 7-5 overall at this point in the season, but 51 at home, meaning that the three Ivy matches at Reis Tennis Center, including the final one of the season against Princeton, will be especially important. According to Fleck, however, one of the guiding factors for the Red through this grueling part of the schedule will be to get the sufficient amount of rest.

“It’s a long season and we are coming towards the end of it so it’s important we stay rested and don’t burn out down the final stretch,” he said. “We expect to compete in close matches with all the Ivies as there are no standout teams, but no bad teams either. As always, our aim is to win Ivies.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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he Brown’s men lacrosse team, currently No. 1 in Ivy League standings alongside Princeton and Cornell, has seen much success this year, earning five wins since the start of its season in late February. The team currently only holds one loss on the season against Bucknell.

While the team has only faced one Ivy opponent, it still poses a threat in league play after proving itself in regular season matches. While the Bears struggled somewhat in its Ivy season last year, only coming in fifth place overall, Brown is already off to a better start than last season in league play.

After losing to Harvard early in the 2014 season, the bears went on to earn themselves a 2-4 record and its fifth place standing. However, in its sole Ivy game this season, the squad has already defeated the Crimson, 14-19, just last weekend.

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Seeing brown | The Brown Bears, fifth in the However, before its faceoff against Brown, the Princeton Tigers will take on Yale in between, havIvy League at the end of last season, ing the chance to improve its Ivy record before takcurrently share first place with Cornell and ing on the Bears in Providence, Rhode Island, on Princeton in Ivy standings.

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Women: Columbia Sees First Win on Tuesday T he Columbia Lions have had a tough start to their season, only earning one win and totalling five losses in a span of two months. The women have totaled two losses in Ivy play, losing to Harvard on Mar. 7 and one week

later to the Red. The Lions also had trouble in the Ivy League last season, coming in at the bottom of the rankings as No. 8.

The squad finished its season with a 0-7 league record and an overall record of 4-10.

The Lions earned its sole win this season against LIU Brooklyn on Tuesday. However, up until then, Columbia struggled to break out of a losing streak that was going four games strong. But with a seven point victory this week, Columbia heads

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The Lions will face their third Ivy opponent of the season, Yale, on Saturday at home in New York City.

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Team hopes to improve game as it heads into Ivy League season But beyond offensive production, the team is looking to sharpen up mentally on the diamond.

“We need all three facets of the game To put things in perspective, the Cornell baseball team’s upcoming week- to come together this weekend,” said end series against Bucknell — statisti- senior outfielder JD Whetsel, who cally speaking — does not matter anticipates a return from injury when towards the team’s ultimate goal of win- Ivy League play kicks off. “We’ve seen ning the Ivy League title. The Red’s first how good we can hit. We’ve seen how well we can swing it.

We’ve seen how well we “When you up the intensity level in could pitch at times and practice, when you make every rep in we’ve seen how well we practice you take count, it’s good to see.” can defend at times. We just haven’t been able to J.D. Whetsel put together all three facets of the game, so we’re lookconference games do not come for ing to do that and get wins.”

Cornell’s game against Virginia another couple of weeks, which is when wins and losses really begin to hold a lot encapsulate the team’s struggles so far this season. While the Red can look of value.

However, that face should not down- strong for a large portion of the game, a play the value of the Red’s (2-8) games single mistake can unravel the group’s against the Bisons (9-6). Head coach focus and negatively affect the play on Bill Walkenbach’s squad has to improve the field. As a result, the team has strugbefore it finds itself in a position to gled closing out games, an attribute make a run at the conference title. As it Whetsel said comes from a lack of big currently stands in the Ivy League, game experience for some of the Cornell is sixth of eight in runs scored younger players who tend to get tense in and last in both batting average and on- those situations.

“We haven’t done a very good job of base percentage.

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Bucking Bison | Senior outfielder J.D. Whetsel hopes to return to the field for Ivy League play. Whetsel has been unable to play this season due to injury.

bailing out our teammates lately,” Whetsel said. “When someone makes an error in the field, it’s followed by four or five hits and the [other team] scores four runs. When a teammate makes a mistake, kicks a ball in the field, it’s on everyone else to pick that person up and get out of the inning without getting hurt too badly.”

Whetsel, who is one of three captains on the team, said he experienced the same things as a freshman. As he got more time on the field, he learned to loosen up and stay focused on the end goal. That confidence, as a group, ultimately helped the Red win the Ivy League title that season.

“Everyone sees it and everyone realizes it and there is an ‘ah-ha’ moment where stuff clicks,” Whetsel said. “I remember freshman year during our spring trip, we went on a little run and played real well and it really sparked everyone and everyone saw that when things come together how good we can be. We rode that momentum going into Ivy League play.”

One way the team has tried to expedite this process is by raising the level of intensity during practices.

“When you up the intensity level in practice, when you make every rep in practice you take count, it’s good to see.

When guys make mistakes, they get pissed off and get mad because they know that can’t happen in the game,” Whetsel said. “We’re really bringing it on every single rep so when that intensity level is there in the game, you’re not tense [since] you’ve been practicing like this all week.”

Once Ivy League plays rolls around, Whetsel anticipates the team being ready to go.

“We want to build some momentum going into Ivy League play and be confident,” Whetsel said. “Right now, the way things have been going, not being able to piece together full games, confidence and momentum is important.”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.

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Chasing ivy | Senior Sam Fleck won both his doubles and singles matches on Wednesday.

Red Notches Victory In Wednesday Match

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Senior Writer

The men’s tennis team kept its strong spring season going with a dominant 6-1 win over St. John’s on Wednesday afternoon. The victory marked the Red’s third straight, with four wins in the last five matches. Cornell will face off against Buffalo this weekend in its final non-league match of the season, before kicking off the Ivy League season against Columbia on March 28.

Though the Red lost only one match of the day against the Red Storm on Wednesday, five of the singles matches went three sets. Senior Sam Fleck said that although the Red did not play as well as it had hoped, there were some important takeaways.

“We actually didn’t play too well in our match against St. John’s,” he said. “A positive that we will take is that we won a lot of very close matches.”

Fleck won his No. 1 singles match in three tightly contested sets and then went on to win his No. 2 doubles match alongside sophomore Colin Sinclair.

Sophomore Chris Vrabel was the only Red player to win his singles match in two sets.

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SOFTBALL

Red to Play Four Games at St.Mary’s Invitational

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell softball team will travel to Emmitsburg, Maryland, to play in the Mount St. Mary’s Invitational. The squad will take on the University of Albany twice on Friday, then Siena College and Mount. St. Mary on Saturday.

“The three teams we play in Maryland are all teams that, in the past, have given us great game,” said junior pitcher Meg Parker. “They are all teams we can beat, so hopefully the weather cooperates so we can get the games in and get a few more wins.”

The weather has been a huge factor in the softball team’s season thus far, as it always is in Ithaca. Lack of playing time outside puts the team at a disadvantage compared to southern teams and even the

squad saw promising potential. more southern Ivies.

“Even when Delaware scored, no one “From getting onto a plane to South Carolina [two weeks ago] to this past got down or gave up like last year,” said junior Michiko McGivney. weekend and playing “We just need to keep on a Monday, bad “With the team we have playing hard, stay positive, weather has changed all of our plans,” this year, we are stacked focus and fight hard in every inning, every at bat, Parker said. up pretty well against every pitch.”

Despite the unforthose teams.”

McGivney also said she tunate circumstances, has confidence in her team the upperclassmen Michiko McGivney going into the weekend. remain positive about “With the team we the Red’s chances this have this year, we are stacked up pretty spring, starting with this weekend.

“We have what it takes. The more well against those teams,” she said. “I innings our pitchers get in the circle expect to win all of those games. I have full (myself included) the better,” Parker said. faith and high expectations in my team.”

Getting in one more weekend of games “The freshman pitchers are already feeling comfortable and doing great and they before Ivy League play starts is crucial for the talented but inexperienced Red. proved that last weekend.”

The other upperclassmen agree.

See SOFTBALL page 14 Despite the overall result last weekend, the

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Stormy softball | The Red has been unable to practice outside due to the poor playing conditions.