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A community art collective installed an altar in Dewitt Park on Monday to help residents celebrate the dead. | Page 3

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C.U.Republicans Chair Fires Back At Ann Coulter’84

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

When Olivia Corn ’19, chair of Cornell University College Republicans, woke up late on Sunday morning and rolled over to check her phone, she found about 70 messages from friends urging her to check Twitter.

Opening the app on her iPhone, Corn saw that Ann Coulter ’84 — the controversial, right-wing pundit and author known for making provocative comments on television and in print — had insulted her early in the morning in a tweet to 1.4 million followers.

“College Republicans at Cornell have always been useless weanies,” Coulter said in the tweet, which she posted alongside a New York Times article in which Corn said being a Republican on a liberal campus is “very difficult.”

“This girl sounds as cowardly as Charles Murray,” Coulter wrote in the tweet.

Corn told The New York Times she was shoved to the ground on campus and called racist shortly after the elec-

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Twitter fingers | Cornell Republicans Chair Olivia Corn ’19 shot back at Ann Coulter ’84 after the pundit insulted her on Twitter. tion of Donald Trump. Cornell Republicans endorsed Gary Johnson for president in 2016.

In an interview with The Sun on Monday, Corn brushed off the tweet, saying the insult made her wonder about Coulter’s priorities.

“The first thought I had was, really? This is what you care about?” Corn said.

But the College Republicans chair also pointed to Coulter’s comments as an example of what she said was a problematic split between right-wing conservatives and moderate Republicans.

“I think [Coulter is] indicative of a bigger trend of See COULTER page 5

New Apartments Slated for C-Town Police Recover Over 100 Project would replace 2-story house with 28-bedroom building

By KIMBERLY LEE

room, a mechanical room and a trash area outside. All aboveground units will have a balcony Developers are hoping a new facing College Avenue. four-story apartment building with The developer included specific 28 bedrooms and balconies at 118 landscaping plans in the docuCollege Ave. will be available ments, saying he intends on for students to rent by creating “a lush experiAugust 2018. ence with interest The project, throughout the seaproposed by local sons” by planting developer Todd foliage along the Fox of Visum street edge, side Development, is and rear yards. expected to cost Preference will $1.4 million and be given to native will be marketed plants, and the to Cornell stuplant life will be dent renters. purposely selected A two-story, to be naturally f i ve - b e d ro o m drought-tolerant, house with a requiring no irripaved driveway gation or manual and concrete watering past the retaining wall initial period of currently sits on planting. the 0.87 acre No off-street COURTESY OF lot. Site develparking will be STREAM COLLABORATIVE opment will provided for this Sky’s the limit | Developers want to replace a two-story require the project, the docuhouse on College Avenue with a four-story, 28-bedroom apartment complete ments say, and so building, complete with balconies. removal of the it is predicted that existing house car ownership and the relandscaping of the drive- and one four-bedroom unit with among future residents will be disway, walkways and lawn, according two bathrooms.

See APARTMENTS page 5 The lower level will have a bike documents submitted to Ithaca’s

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Division of Planning and Economic Development.

The proposal is for an apartment building of four, six-bedroom units with three bathrooms

Items Stolen on Campus

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Sarah Palmer ’17 said in a sworn statement to Cornell Police that a representative from her bank called on Friday morning and told her someone had used her debit card to rent a $336 hotel room from The Hotel Ithaca the previous night.

“I did not give permission for anyone to make purchases with my debit card,” Palmer wrote in the statement, noting that the bank representative also said Palmer’s card was used for a $6 purchase at Starbucks.

Cornell Police Officer Raymond Schweiger said in a statement that he confronted the other suspect, Huyler, outside of the same hotel and found someone else’s driver’s license and credit/debit card in Huyler’s back pocket.

The name on the cards

Cornell Police said on Monday that officers have recovered more than 100 stolen items after arresting two people and charging them each with a felony for allegedly carrying out a string of backpack thefts last week and renting a $336 hotel room with a student’s stolen debit card.

More than $12,000 in computers, cash, bank cards, headphones, jewelry and other valuables were reported stolen on Thursday, according to an updated version of the campus crime log posted on Monday.

Police arrested April M. Mace, 31, of Savona, and Richard E. Huyler, 39, of Corning, at The Hotel Ithaca in downtown Ithaca on Friday night and charged them each with criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, a class E felony, according to a felony complaint filed in Ithaca City Court on Monday.

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Local Art Collective Installs Altar CGSU Liaisons Face Project celebrating‘Day of the Dead’unveiled in Dewitt Park

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

Members of Art Club, an Ithaca-based community artistic collective, installed a community altar in Dewitt Park on Monday to help the community celebrate the dead and work through various grieving processes.

The shack-like structure — made of wood, lights, string and other materials — includes a series of shelves under a small roof where members of the community can place items honoring

loved ones or memories.

Charity Burger, one of the founding members of Art Club, said the project was inspired by Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday known as Day of the Dead.

“The inspiration of this project was drawn from Day of The Dead, which focuses on celebrating the lives of deceased ancestors,” Burger said. “We thought that it was an important part of community and saw that it was missing in our See ALTAR page 5

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Poignanat remembrances | The altar in downtown Ithaca’s Dewitt Park allows Ithaca community members to place items that honor loved ones to help them in their grieving.

Israeli Consul General Praises Country for ‘Looking to the Future’ Israel,” Dayan said.

“Israel is the No. 2 most innovative country in the Dani Dayan, Israel's consul world,” he said, citing the general in New York, discussed World Economic Forum. “Our Israel’s diplomatic revolution technological and security over the last two decades in expertise allowed us to establish Willard Straight Hall on comprehensive ties with many many countries in the world, Monday.

In his lecture Dayan detailed from India to Argentina to how “Israel is looking to the Cyprus.”

The Israeli cybersecurity “In a country of little more than 8 million i n d u s t r y , according to people, every two and a half hours a D a y a n , new innovation company is established.” encapsulates how Israeli Dani Dayan innovation built new ecofuture” and how the country has nomic and political ties with undergone “a silent revolution other nations.

“Cybersecurity is the indusin its relation to the world,” which has catapulted Israel to try of the future — actually, of the world stage by integrating it the present,” Dayan said, corinto the global, political-eco- recting himself. “[Israel] is becoming — in fact, is — the nomic weave.

“Israel has never been less cyber-security capital of the isolated than this,” Dayan said. world.”

Dayan said Israel attracted “As we speak now, this moment, something that was 10 percent of the global investinconceivable 20 years ago is ment in cybersecurity in 2014, happening,” Dayan said. Israel then 20 percent in 2015 and 25 Prime Minister Benjamin percent in 2016.

These new technological and Netanyahu “is visiting China development while, simultaneously, the presi- diplomatic dent of Israel is visiting brought immense wealth to Vietnam. We did not even have Israel, he said.

“After the Yom Kippur War diplomatic relations with these in 1973, [Israel] had enough countries 25 years ago.”

Dayan attributes the mete- foreign reserve to last 3 oric rise of Israel to the distinct- months,” Dayan said. “These ly innovative nature of Israeli days, we have foreign reserve that exceeds $100 billion.” citizens.

Dayan added that, in addi“In a country of little more than 8 million people, every two tion to Israeli innovation, the and a half hours a new innova- changing political landscape of tion company is established in the Arab world drove the Israeli

By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI

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diplomatic revolution.

“Yes, there are countries not yet open to friendship with Israel,” Dayan said. “But, it seems that when you are afraid of someone, like many of the Arab countries are afraid of Iran, that’s a good recipe for making friends … Israel’s relationship with other Arab countries is much better now.”

Dayan also painted a pessimistic picture of the current situation in the Gaza strip.

“I think Gaza is tragic,” Dayan said. “It chose to become a middle-eastern Somalia, a place of warlords who uses every single penny that is contributed to armaments. They chose to become a Somalia.”

“The Hamas leaders said, ‘we could have been Singapore, but we don’t want to be Singapore, we want to fight Israel,’” Dayan added. “It is quite tragic that Gazans are held hostage by the Hamas’ desire, or perhaps, their shared desire.”

In response to a question about Israel’s position on President Donald Trump’s statement that the United States no longer insists on a two-state solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, the consul general said Israel is open to contemplating many kinds of solutions.

“Let me clarify what President Trump said,” Dayan said. “President Trump said that any solutions good for all [are] good for me, which I believe to be a sensible position.”

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun.com.

Grad Student Questioning

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

With the unionization election just one week away, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly heard presentations addressing concerns about the Cornell Graduate Students United and clarifying voting procedures.

CGSU liaisons Tyler McCann grad, and Paul Berry grad, presented on behalf of CGSU and later fielded questions from graduate students and assemblymembers about the ultimate aims of the formation of a union at Cornell.

“Together with GPSA, we’re aiming to increase the collective power of grad and professional students and expanding advocacy for our students,” McCann said, describing the end goal of

missive” manner with which some CGSU members have treated graduate and professional students in their organizing efforts. CGSU has been criticized in the past for creating a polar atmosphere among graduate students in the unionization drive.

“I want to apologize personally and on behalf of the organization for anyone that feels dismissed,” he said. “I know that personalities and feelings flare up, especially during organizing campaigns for [an] organization to … create itself.”

McCann said that he believes this behavior will subside as the organization gains a stronger footing, pointing to their guiding principles of “fairness, respect and democracy.”

“That [behavior] will go away, because it is my understanding that our tagline is

“We are all grad students, so we have a commitment not to [upset] each other.”

Tyler McCann, grad the unionization effort.

Berry added that the union seeks to focus on ameliorating five major areas — childcare, healthcare, worker’s compensation, intellectual property and gender equality in the workplace — in their contract negotiations.

“What we’re negotiating is a minimum only,” Berry said. “There are some clauses that may apply to some individuals and not others, [but] the idea is establishing minimums [that satisfy] as many people as possible.”

If more than 50 percent of the bargaining unit vote in support of the formation of a union, CGSU may then work to negotiate a contract with the University, according to the agreement between CGSU and Cornell.

McCann issued a formal apology regarding the “dis-

true to ourselves, and I am confident that it is,” McCann said. “We are all grad students, so we have a commitment not to [upset] each other.”

The union election will be held on March 27, and is open to all graduate assistants currently employed by the University. Ballots will be counted by the American Arbitration Association, a neutral third party.

Jason Kahabka, associate dean in the graduate school, additionally presented at the meeting to clarify voting procedures and logistics for the election next week.

“You need to have either a government-issued ID or a Cornell-issued ID card [to vote],” Kahabka said. “The poll workers will be provided See GPSA page 5

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GPSA Clarifies Altar to Help Promote Accessible Art Voting Procedure For CGSU Elections ALTAR

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with the students’ official registered name, and also the preferred name as it’s in the systems.”

Student eligible to vote in the election are the students within the bargain unit — those who hold an assistantship: teaching assistants, research assistants, graduate research assistants and graduate assistants.

Voting will also be in-person at specified polling sites, assigned to students depending on their field, according to Nathaniel Rogers, president of GPSA. While absentee ballots are available, the conditions are limited. Students must either be “registered with Cornell for the current term as in

absentia” or “registered and attending a conference or will be away from the Ithaca or Geneva campuses for work obligations related to your position as a teaching assistant or research assistant,” said Jesse Goldberg grad, in an email to GPSA members.

Because “the results of this election will be binding on all eligible graduate student assistants,” Kahabka said, he emphasized the importance of participation in the election.

“At this point, the real energy is around turning up to vote,” Kahabka said. “We want students to all feel that they can vote and make an informed decision that is in their own best interest.”

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Schweiger said he found in Huyler’s pocket is the same as a person who had reported them stolen to CUPD, the officer said.

A Cornell spokesperson did not respond to multiple requests on Monday attempting to confirm that Mace was a lead supervisor employed at Cornell for about nine years.

Mace says on her Facebook and LinkedIn profiles that she worked at Cornell beginning in 2005 and supervised more than 100 full-time and student employees, assisted in payroll management and helped open five dining halls.

“I start my new job Monday,” Mace wrote in a public Facebook post in November 2014. “Bad news is that I will be leaving Cornell, I will miss everybody the employees and the students !!!”

The items reported stolen include seven computers, driver’s licenses, passports, debit and credit cards, jewelry, two pairs of headphones, clothes, keys, textbooks and cigarettes.

Cornell Police are working through more than 100 pieces of recovered property, logging and processing them into their system before officers begin contacting victims to verify ownership, although it may be a while before students get their things back, authorities said.

“Evidence must be held until it is released by the

“It is so rewarding, even if it is just one person who comes up and says that our art makes them feel better.”

Charity Burger

“Mayor Svante loved the idea of the parks being utilized and was really cool about it,” Burger said.

The altar will be in the park until April 17 and the artists invite Ithacans to “participate personally and watch it evolve communally.”

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

Coulter ’84 Calls C.U. Republicans ‘Useless Weanies’ Conservative pundit calls group’s chair ‘cowardly’ in tweet COULTER

that has taken place during Trump’s ascent to the Oval Office.

“All the comments online really highlighted those who didn’t support Donald Trump,” Corn the divide this country has gone through,” she said. “I think that’s a very serious problem, and said. “It’s basically Trump supporters versus nonshe just highlighted, with this post, the divide in Trump supporters.” the Republican Party.”

Coulter’s tweet was liked by more than 1,000 Corn, who said she is “not a fan” of users and reposted by hundreds, including by The President Trump and voted for John Kasich in Cornell Review, of which Coulter was once edithe Republican primary, said she thinks of tor-in-chief. Efforts to reach Coulter through her Coulter as similar to conservative host Tomi literary agent were unsuccessful.

Lahren and former Breitbart editor Milo Corn said Coulter should reach out to her Yiannopoulos. directly instead of making her the subject of one “She makes a lot of statements to anger peo- of the pundit’s frequent online insults. ple,” Corn said. “A lot “I want [Coulter] to of the time, she doesn’t look me in the face and have any of these state- “I want [Coulter] to look me in the face have her tell me what ments based in fact. I and have her tell me what she thinks she thinks of me think she gives a really because you can hide of me.” bad name to conservabehind a computer tives and Republicans screen, but I think it Olivia Corn ’19 in general.” takes guts to tell someMore than 180 peobody who’s 30 years ple responded to the pundit’s tweet, some ques- younger than you — who was assaulted — that tioning why Coulter, 55, had decided to insult she’s a weenie because she didn’t support Donald Corn, 19, over the internet — or at all. Many Trump,’” Corn said. other users criticized Corn for supporting Referring to Coulter’s previous criticism of Johnson, a Libertarian, or acting as a “foot-mat” Cornell’s contract colleges, Corn shot back at the for liberals. author, challenging her to a debate and saying she “Probably smoking the weed with her lib may want to reevaluate her critiques of the friends,” one Twitter user wrote of Corn.

University.

“Is she from the everyone gets a trophy gener“I’ll show her what a real Cornell education ation?” another user wrote of Corn. “they don't looks like, because she misspelled ‘weenie,’ ” Corn know how 2 embraced [sic] harassment 4 doing said, laughing. something right.”

“You know you’ve done something right when In her interview with The Sun, Corn was both Ann Coulter hates you,” she added. defiant and candid, saying Coulter’s tweet bothered her not because of the personal digs, but Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at because it represented a splintering of the GOP nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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own.”

Burger and Christina Coleman, co-founder of the club, named the installation “Community Altar: Your neighborhood art installation of love and loss” and it features a slanted roof covered in moss.

The Art Club began the arduous process of getting approval from several local boards and commissions last year, as well as the Presbyterian Church, which owns the park.

The group had initially planned to put up the altar on Dec. 21 — the winter solstice — but the process of implementation took longer than expected.

“The spring equinox actually feels really good [for installing the altar,]” Burger said. “It is this time of rebirth, of sowing seeds, of setting intentions, so it worked out perfectly in the end.”

Coleman and Burger founded the Art Club about two years ago with the goal of making art accessible to the community, Burger said.

“It is so rewarding, even if it is just one person

who comes up and says that our art makes them feel better,” Burger said.

The Ithaca-area artist added that public art strengthens the bonds within the Ithaca community and noted that Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 was very supportive of the project at the Common Council meeting approving the altar.

prosecutor or a judge,” Deputy Chief David Honan said in an email. “We will be working closely with victims and Cornell's crisis management team to assist students impacted by these crimes.”

Students and other community members reported to police that more than a dozen backpacks were stolen from multiple locations around Cornell on Thursday including from The Carl A. Kroch Library, Willard Straight Hall, Helen Newman Hall, Noyes Community Center, Statler Hall and Olin Library.

Some backpacks were taken while students attended a lecture in Kroch Library, according to the professor who brought her class to the lecture.

“All the students were writing papers for me on those laptops, and those students were having a genuine Cornell-only learning experience at the archives, which is a really special part of Cornell,” Prof.

Masha Raskolnikov previously told The Sun. “These people took advantage of how people are super trusting in this special place of learning.”

Huyler was remanded to the Tompkins County Jail on Friday without the option for bail and Mace is being held at the jail in lieu of $3,000 cash bail or $6,000 bond.

Both will be back in court later this week, CUPD said.

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

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couraged as a result.

Instead, residents will have access to both indoor and outdoor bike storage areas and will also be provided with a membership to Ithaca Carshare as a part of their lease. Multiple cars will be available directly in Collegetown and throughout Ithaca for use.

Visum Development did not respond to requests for comment, but developers are hoping to move forward with the development process during summer 2017 if all documents are approved, according to The Ithaca Voice.

Kimberly Lee can be reached at kimberlylee@cornellsun.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Why STEM grads support CGSU To the Editor: On March 27 and 28, graduate students will vote to recognize CGSU as a graduate student labor union. If this vote passes, the Cornell administration will be legally required to acknowledge our needs by collaboratively drafting a contract with us that will protect and improve our working conditions. Understanding how our union’s contract could benefit grad students requires acknowledging the minimal influence we currently have on our working conditions, and also requires creative thinking about how our lives could improve. Thankfully, we can look to any of the more than 30 universities with existing grad student unions for examples of why working under a union contract will benefit our Principal Investigators, our labs and ourselves.

A union contract does not impose limitations, but rather enables protections. It is a myth that a union contract would limit the hours a graduate student can work. In fact, many contracts explicitly state that grads can work as many hours as they choose. For example, Article 33 Section 8 the University of Washington contract states: “Workload assigned to a [graduate employee] should not in any way be construed as imposing a limit on the amount of academic work necessary for a student to make satisfactory academic progress toward their degree.” A union contract does not limit our work, but will protect students who feel they are overworked or in need of support. In the 14 years since University of Washington established their union, not only has it admitted more PhD students, it rose to second for federal research grants awarded to a university.1 A union does not limit STEM stipends, but protects them. A union will not negatively impact students who receive the best stipends. Instead, it protects and guarantees increases to the highest stipends, and also increases the minimum. Currently graduate students have no say in minimum stipends and no guarantee that individual stipends will increase from year to year. Summer appointment letters decreased by up to $780 in engineering departments in 2016 compared with 2015. It is unclear how widespread this cut was within the school of engineering since the administration does not inform us of pay cuts, who they affect, or why they occurred. The Board of Trustees currently determines both minimum and maximum graduate stipends unilaterally. We will draft our contract with language that protects graduates from decreasing stipends, which is exactly what NYU’s contract Article XIX protects against: “No provision of this agreement shall be construed as to lower the compensation rate of any graduate employee.” The NYU grad union contract, like many others, explicitly rebuts the misconception that stipends will decrease for the best-paid students. We will include an equivalent statement in our contract that ensures stipends won’t decrease, and instead have guaranteed yearly net gains.

No CGSU member would vote to ratify a contract that had more dues than gains to salary and benefits.

A union contract establishes a floor, not a ceiling. We will write protections into our contract, not limitations. Expanding healthcare coverage to include dental and vision limits no one. Expanding graduate childcare grants limits no one. Establishing clear leave policies for bereavement or illness limits no one. Establishing protections for the most vulnerable, such as international students and victims of sexual assault limits abuse. A union does not limit working conditions for graduates who are well supported; it protects everyone.

Given that there are clear advantages to unionization, it is unsurprising that advisor/student relationships can improve when graduates unionize. According to a study published in the ILR Review on precisely this subject, “the potential harm to faculty-student relationships and academic freedom should not continue to serve as a basis for the denial of collective bargaining rights to graduate student employees.” A union contract establishes baselines and expectations for everyone, so graduate workers spend less time anxiously asking advisors for bureaucratic or procedural guidance.

Our union contract will enable more flexibility for graduate students. In several STEM departments, the graduate school already provides training assistantships for new students during their first semester, giving them time and flexibility to decide on a group. Why not expand upon the support the graduate school can provide? As a unionized graduate student body, we can put pressure on the graduate school to provide assistantships that help decouple a P.I.’s funding situation from their graduate students’ stipends. How about assistance for students whose P.I.s are leaving Cornell? How about assistance for students who wish to change their advisor due to a lack of clear expectations or mentorship? A union provides a means to address the problems we know exist in graduate school.

When we go to the polls on March 27, we will be voting to establish a democratic community of graduate students who will collectively work to improve our working conditions and benefits. Every step of the process, from union recognition, to selecting a bargaining committee, to ratifying a contract is democratic. Our union and the contract we develop together will reflect our interests. If you don’t believe us, read any of the more than 30 contracts ratified across the country. We think you’ll find them compelling enough to vote.

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On the Importance Of GraduateVoter Participation in the Upoming CGSU Election

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n March 27 and 28, eligible graduate students will vote on whether or not to recognize Cornell Graduate Students United as the exclusive representative of Cornell’s Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Graduate Research Assistants. Graduate students currently serving in any of these positions this semester are eligible to vote.

As the members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Executive Committee and the Graduate and Professional Student-Elected

advocacy, and it is by no means easy to make. After examining our experiences at Cornell, we must CGSU Electionafter the introduction of a union. Whether this change is necessary, acceptable or reasonable is once again up to each individual voter.

This election provides eligible graduate voters with a unique opportunity to decide the future of graduate student advocacy on campus. Shared governance at Cornell has provided graduate and professional students a unique opportunity to advocate their needs and position to the administration. Many of

We do not know with certainty what will happen should graduate students choose to unionize. We cannot tell our fellow classmates what choice they should make, only remind them that deciding not to make their voice heard is a choice as well, and should be made thoughtfully, not as a default.

Trustee, we have heard from several eligible voters who are no longer comfortable voting in the upcoming election for myriad reasons. We are writing this column in the hopes of convincing those individuals to consider participating.

We would like to stress that we are speaking on our own behalf, not that of Cornell University’s administration, the GPSA or the Board of Trustees. These are our views. Our intention is not to tell our fellow graduate students how to vote or how to feel about graduate student unionization. We do believe, however, that actively choosing not to participate in this election is a mistake with real consequences.

The purpose of this election is to produce a result that is representative of the bargaining unit as a whole, and only a high voter turnout can guarantee this.

The stakes are high. There is no required minimum turnout for this election — the outcome of graduate student unionization at Cornell will be decided by only those eligible students who vote. If the election results favor unionization, every current and future eligible member in the bargaining unit will be bound by the result. Irrespective of the outcome, a low voter turnout will cast doubt on whether this election is truly representative.

Consequently, eligible voters must decide what they feel contributes to an academically satisfying, financially secure and personally fulfilling graduate student experience. This holistic assessment is central to graduate student

our current benefits are the direct result of numerous conversations between the Cornell administration and our predecessors. However, shared governance is not without its limitations, and eligible voters need to critically assess whether this system is still effective. Our decision next week will potentially restructure student advocacy for future generations of Cornell graduate students, and that is worth considering carefully.

We do not know with certainty what will happen should graduate students choose to unionize. We cannot tell our fellow classmates what choice they should make, only remind them that deciding not to make their voice heard is a choice as well, and should be made thoughtfully, not as a default. We hope that next week, students can go to the polls educated and confident, remembering that their participation in this election is a right, and not one they should forfeit lightly.

Dara Brown is the graduate and professional student-elected trustee. Nate Rogers is the president of the GPSA. Nathaniel Stetson is the executive vice-president of the GPSA. Sarah Hesse is the vice-president for operations of the GPSA. Manisha Munasinghe is the vice-president for communications of the GPSA. All of the authors, save Ms. Brown, sit on the GPSA Executive Committee. Ms. Brown, in her capacity as graduate and professional student-elected trustee, sits as an ex-officio member of the GPSA. This is a special edition of Trustee Viewpoint. Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun.com.

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Margaret Lee | Shining a Light

For the Safety Of All Cornellians

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or some odd reason, Cornell seems to take pride in its lack of snow days. Even when surrounding premises close down in the worst of weather conditions, Cornell remains open. When I first arrived on campus in August, I was shocked to learn that despite Ithaca’s harsh winters, snow days take place rarely, if ever, every ten years or so.

Surprisingly, Winter Storm Stella forced the university to cancel classes and close down most operational services from 12 p.m. on Tuesday to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. This was the first full-day closure since 1993.

Many students were grateful that classes and exams were cancelled during this stressful prelim season, while others were relieved to see that the university finally came to its senses in such hazardous circumstances.

Nevertheless, Cornell could have saved itself a lot of trouble had it reacted more quickly in response to such an urgent situation. It was not until 10:42 a.m. on Tuesday, March 14 that the administration sent out the CornellALERT emails stating that the campus would close at noon.

Several weather advisories had already been broadcasted across the northeast region long before the university made the decision to close down. The National Weather Service had issued a storm warning to Tompkins County from 8 p.m. on Monday to 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

Most other peer institutions around the northeast, as well as in Ithaca, had issued closures on Monday evening.

Yet Cornell waited until the last minute before issuing a shutdown, at the risk of the safety of its students, faculty and staff. While some professors used their discretion to cancel morning classes, the university administration deferred their decision until late morning despite adverse weather conditions that had not only been forecasted, but were distinctly visible.

The university needs to make clear, prompt decisions in the case of such events. Although administrative complications are understandable,

While some professors used their discretion to cancel morning classes, the university administration deferred their decision until late morning despite adverse weather conditions that had not only been forecasted, but were distinctly visible. the safety and well-being of the people who constitute Cornell should be of top priority. Most students who attended morning classes were able to commute back home easily because they live on or nearby campus.

However, not all staff members live in such proximity to the University.

For some, it takes two or more hours to travel to and from Cornell. The University could have saved all this hassle had it opted to close down in advance.

Cornell also needs to reexamine whether its employees are being overworked. While it is important to have roads cleared for people to be able to move through, it seems unreasonable for the work to have to be done past midnight. At 2 a.m. on Wednesday, I was shocked to hear snowplows roaring outside of Balch Hall. Was it absolutely necessary for the person in the car to risk his or her own safety to be plowing past midnight?

Cornell prides itself in being a caring community concerned for the physical and mental health of its people. However, I can’t help but wonder why precautionary measures could not have been taken beforehand under extreme weather conditions, when the community needed immediate action the most.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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“Interference in U.S. democracy with the collusion of a sitting President is undoubtedly a bigger threat and higher priority than the CIA monitoring civilians, which — while troubling — has been somewhat codified into law after 9/11. You claim Wikileaks is not partisan, as, “Wikileaks wouldn’t have hesitated to publish RNC emails if they could get them.”

Well, that’s exactly what happened. Wikileaks is partisan, or at least acted in a partisan manner, by refusing to release hacked RNCs.” Jake Forken Re: “SCHULMAN | Prioritize Privacy Over Partisanship,” Opinion March 20, 2017

Priya Kankanhalli | Matters of Fact

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here’s a table outside my pied a space so closely, never ties at this one table. With this dorm room that is, on its engaged in such a dynamic, inter- simple play, we notice an imitaworst day, in extremely woven dialogue, never educated tion of a fundamental facet of high demand. I might say I wish each other in the way they do at human nature. A hesitation to inhabit the same territory, even to be like this table if it weren’t for the table.

It’s curious, this phenomenon, when we are not outnumbered, its lack of mobility. It caters to a plethora of clients, from the dili- but it’s not inexplicable. After all, even as we enjoy the company of gent, early-morning academic to the four chairs are positioned on our own counterparts, models a the late-night intellectual; from opposing sides of the table and universal deficiency. Yet, the four the maintenance guy who awaits therefore are capable of obliging chairs are resilient. Night and day, his cue to the community-enthu- contrary perspectives. Now, let us they battle on, urging the synthesiast depositing snacks for group prod at the dichotomy between sis of various sects and subgroups gluttony. So, you see, it’s a versa- privacy and companionship that within college society — and, in tile table in its own right, but to afflicts many of the table’s visi- time, within the world. While at further our discussion, let us tors. When you find yourself first glance this table seems too direct our attention to its chairs. lured into the sphere of the table, small, too forceful and entirely There’s a table outside my do you want to see, or do you unconducive to the union of sepdorm room with four lightly- want to be seen? Will you sit with arate entities, it works relentlessly padded chairs that are, on any your back turned to your audi- to destroy socioeconomic and day, warm and inviting. Please, ence, or will you sit with your political barriers and replace do not consider these chairs as eyes wide, feasting on the them with intimate connectivity.

For inanimate objects, the subjugates of the greater table. glimpses of passers by and by?

Instead, I would like to propose This challenge raises a key line of table and chairs offer us copious here that the chairs are, in fact, logic about the human popula- insights about the human expericulturally significant to a greater tion. In what is likely an equal ence. In years to come, further degree than the table, and, fur- split, half of all people are hungry study on related topics might thermore, pivotal in the shaping for information; they have insa- gain momentum in laboratory tiable cravings to know their sur- settings, but the scientist in me is of modern youth.

Allow me to justify my claim. roundings. The other half, quite impressed with the frameAll four chairs are close to power arguably more mischievous, do work that this table provides. outlets on alternate sides, so there not fear the unknown; they prefer Humans might is no doctrine of power created by layout. But, alas, it is not so simple. These two pairs However, the chairs are dis- of people are plagued by an aversion to tinct in their heterogeneity. They resist the merger of personalities and passions. their two parties at this one table. With this Two of the simple play, we notice an imitation of a chairs face a window over- fundamental facet of human nature. looking West Campus. They ask, “Oh, to to encapsulate themselves and even evolve someday into a which dining hall might the care not of the movements hybrid species with personas that winds of life take me tonight?” around them. If ever in need of do not conform to these four Two of the chairs offer a narrower clarifying your own stance, sim- chairs, but as of yet, that is an worldview, facing internally into ply choose a seat. untested hypothesis. the hallway. They are able to The table and its four chairs Me? I often wonder whether I observe the stillness of time; they also encourage us to question the am a window-chair or hallwayare ignited by abstract thought nature of synergy. Consider the chair type of person. I also often and broodings about the natural scenario of two pairs of people, reach the same conclusion, which universe. Whether by encourag- vying to seat themselves on the is that I am neither. I like to hang ing wanderlust or philosophical table’s four chairs. So far, there is out in my room. speculation, these chairs produce no conflict — four people, four an astounding scientific paradox: chairs, one-to-one ratio. But, alas, Kankanhalli is a sophomore in the the seamless coexistence of the it is not so simple. These two Priya College of Arts and Scences. She can be traveler and the wallflower, the pairs of people are plagued by an reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. introvert and the extrovert. These aversion to heterogeneity. They Matters of Fact appears alternating Tuesdays two characters never before occu- resist the merger of their two par- this semester.

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Roots, Shoots and a Dash of Medicine Research associate discusses the future of plant-based medicine

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Medicine man l Manuel Aregullin, senior research associate, is an expert on plant pharmacology.

By CHENAB KHAKH Sun Contributor

Cornell is a gold mine of fantastic gardens, beautiful foliage and abundant flora. In just the five-minute walk from Mann Library to Rockefeller Hall, one can see trees of all sizes and a wide variety of flowers.

With colorful flower blossoms in spring and large full trees in summer, the valley, campus walkways and gardens are scenic masterpieces for much of the year. But there is much more to these shrubs, leaves or grasses than meets the eye.

Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Diabetes are all debilitating diseases. Their treatments routinely involve drugs containing a wide of variety of artificially synthesized chemicals. Is it possible that plants possess chemistry just as powerful as that in synthetically designed drugs? Could the plants we see as decorative be the sources of a new generation of drugs?

Natural remedies have been an important part of human history and extracting medicine from plants is not a new notion. However, investigating the properties of plants that may help provide better, more effective drugs or help us better understand disease biology is not as well established. As of late, the scientific community has fostered a unique interest in plant chemistry with booming trends in plantbased alternative medicines and “allnatural” remedies, either as initial treatment or as last resorts. According to Global Industry Analysts, the global herbal supplements and remedies market is expected to be valued at $115 billion by 2020. With rising health-care awareness among consumers, corporations will take a larger interest in producing products based on herbal and botanical extracts.

The Sun sat down with Senior

Research Associate Manuel Aregullin, toxicology and pharmacology, that plant biology, to talk about the grow- would fulfill the requirements of a ing interest in alternative medicine major in plant and health sciences do and his laboratory’s unique focus on not exist. plant pharmacology.

“I lecture on botanical pharmacol“The medicinal use of plants ogy in the courses I teach, but that is remains a very important component only relevant when you look at plants of the healthcare system of many cul- as medicinals,” Aregullin said. “The tures around the globe and students major will bring in a formal robust are interested in learning about this academic foundation to the importopic. Cornell tance of plants in has made an human health.” effort in Aregullin and addressing that his colleagues interest in the expressed their past through a excitement that diversity of many students courses in interested in plant biology,” studying plant Aregullin said. medicinals intend The School to attend medical of Integrated school.

Plant Sciences “I think that to offers a plants have some kind of and human background to the health concenunderstanding of tration but plants as medicidoes not have nals is important a dedicated in the medical major on the practice for a topic. Crop number of reastudies on sons,” Aregullin functional said.

“Some foods or foods patients use plants that provide as a form of comb e n e f i t s plementary mediManuel Aregullin beyond nutricine while for othtion, have ers it is an alternabeen conducttive and it is ed at Cornell, but not many have always advantageous for the practifocussed on plant based drugs. tioner to acknowledge the natural ori“No one was really working on the gin of a prescription drug in clinical pharmacology of a particular plant, use.” whether it was the chemical or biologOften, in medical school training, ical aspect, for a specific purpose, for the number of courses on plant phara practical motive or looking for macology are fairly limited and physisomething that could result in a new cians have poor knowledge of what drug lead,” Aregullin said. consequences certain alternative medA number of courses, such as plant icines may have. This gap needs to be

“A large segment of the population is consuming ‘natural’ remedies as supplements and we need to know what is in them and if there is a benefit.”

urgently filled if physicians are to know how plant-based drugs react with conventional ones.

“Rarely does botany address the medicinal chemistry of a plant,” Aregullin said. “A large segment of the population is consuming ‘natural’ remedies as supplements and we need to know what is in them and if there is a benefit.”

However, conducting research on plant chemistry and its possible therapeutic benefits is not easy.

“The National Science Foundation will only help fund what they think will be the most effective drug, which will not necessarily come from a plant.

Research in clinical areas gets much more funding; there is little funding going towards ventures which are not pivotal to the pharmaceutical industry,” Aregullin said. “It is a little bit complicated.”

However, Aregullin’s research continues. A crucial point of focus is drug discovery based on disease biology and plant chemistry. Aregullin explains that the first step is to establish the hierarchy of the study. The study usually begins with an investigation of either the treatment’s goals or a plant’s chemistry, with subsequent steps intended to find a connection between the two.

If the lab begins by looking at diseases and their treatments, they often begin by looking at developments in the pharmaceutical industry.

Clinically validated modes of actions, the process of substance-initiated functional or anatomical changes at the cellular level, are then targeted.

Understanding the underlying chemistry behind this mode of action is crucial so that one can identify such chemistry in certain plants.

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One criterion by which plants are chosen for study is history. Because of the way certain plants have been used by different groups over the centuries, theories of their benefits have surfaced.

“There is a historical background to most plants, if you give weight to that, chances are that the therapeutic health benefit is real, I concur with the idea that the persistent use of a plant for a

specific medicinal purpose could reflect efficacy and safety,” Aregullin said.

A particular group that Aregullin’s lab looks at closely is the Iroquois. The team is investigating the species they use in order to prevent the contribution of starch to higher blood sugar.

Northeast American ethnobotany, the study of a region’s plants, is very robust and diverse. Therefore, research does not require traveling vast distances to access plants. In fact, many of the plants used in the lab have been collected from Cornell’s grounds.

When there is a lack of ethnobotanical information, Aregullin looks at particular plant chemistries which have been found to be therapeutic, in a process he calls template chemistry.

Once such chemicals have been properly identified, Aregullin can identify new plants that may be used to provide similar benefits. Aregullin is also working on what he calls combinatorial pharmacology, studies in which treatments for two types of diseases are found from similar plant chemistry because of the similarity between these diseases.

With a higher number of ‘natural’ pharmaceuticals expected to hit the market in the coming years, there is a serious need for physicians to understand the chemical basis for these medicines. Furthermore, as pharmaceutical companies see manufacturing costs rise, studies like Aregullin’s could provide the foundation for a new generation of alternative, natural medicines.

Chenab Khakh can be reached at ckk47@cornell.edu.

Turning Back the Clock: Mechanisms of Aging Seminar sheds light on future research avenues for slowing aging

By KELLY ZHOU Sun Contributor

Studies in evolutionary biology tell us that all living organisms originated from a common ancestor, yet lifespans vary greatly. Clearly, something in the genome accounts for such stark differences; the question is what? Why do we live as long as we do? Why do our bodies break down as we age?

On March 6, Prof. Vadim Gladyshev, medicine, Harvard, led a seminar at Cornell titled “Mechanisms of Aging and Redox Control” that attempted to answer some of these questions.

The study of the mechanisms that affect aging is one of the Gladyshev lab’s newer projects, but it is their extensive work on selenoproteins that led to an interest in the field.

Selenoproteins are any proteins that include the residue of a selenocysteine amino acid. A key component of this amino acid is selenium, an essential trace element in humans and many other life forms. Selenocysteine is interesting because it is coded by the gene bases UGA, which are also used to signal the termination of the process by which ribosomes create proteins.

Gladyshev’s initial interest was on studying how many selenoproteins existed. However, due the intense focus on the human genome project, all genes that encoded selenocysteine were inter-

Hand of god | Testubes await genomic sequencing, the process used to identify the genes that code selenocysteine.

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preted as termination signals.

Gladyshev’s lab was one of the first to predict that these genes could be used to code for selenocysteine. Using both the organization of RNA structures and looking at similar proteins, Gladyshev’s lab found that the human genome has genes that code 25 selenoproteins.

Selenoproteins are common in eukaryotes, cells that contain subunits enclosed in membranes. Mammals contain selenoproteins but most other organisms have a cysteine-containing protein, in which the selenium atom is

replaced by one of sulfur. One gene that is functionally connected, evidenced by a similar pattern of occurrence, with the selenoprotein is MSRA, the gene that helps code a family of enzymes known as methionine sulfoxide reductase. Methionine, an essential amino acid, is susceptible to oxidation which can render it dysfunctional, thus affecting the tissue proteins that contain it. Under stress, such as during aging, methionine is oxidized to methionine sulfoxide. Msr enzymes react with other chemicals to repair

these oxidized forms of Methionine.

Because levels of the enzyme decline with age in humans, it may be possible that artificially altering their levels could slow aging.

Methionine sulfoxide has consistently been linked to aging but it is its connection to selenoproteins which Gladyshev credits for the lab’s shift to investigating the process of aging.

Research is still in its early stages, but to delineate the mechanisms behind aging the team has compared different cell types, such as neurons, which live forever, and monocytes, which only live for a couple of days. They have also analyzed the genomes of mammals with long lifespans such as the naked mole rat, Brandt’s bat, and the Bowhead whale.

After collecting several dietary, pharmacological and genetic interventions, the team uncovered a number of these mechanisms, such as caloric restriction — reducing caloric intake.

Unfortunately, the mechanisms, though similar, were carried out differently in different organisms.

Gladyshev’s work is particularly important because many diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s are correlated with age, so by understanding the aging process, breakthroughs in delaying their onset may be possible.

Kelly Zhou can be reached at kz86@cornell.edu.

SCIENCE AROUND ITHACA C.S. colloquium: Type-driven program synthesis Nadia Polikarpova, MIT, will be discussing methods used to prevent subtle errors, such as the violation of security policies, in programs.

Where: G01, Gates Hall.

When: Thursday, March 23, 4:15 p.m.

Harnessing plant metabolic diversity Anne Osbourn, metabolic biology, John Innes Center, will be speaking on how researchers intend to tap into the natural product diversity of plant genomes in order to sustain demand for green, sustainable feedstocks.

Where: B25, Warren Hall.

When: Tuesday, March 28, 4:30 p.m.

Future Shock: Where are the interesting fields in astronomy?

S.R. Kulkarni, Caltech, will be speaking on how astronomers are handling the shift from a data-poor to a data-rich field.

Where: 105, Space Scienes Building.

When: Tuesday, April 11, 4 p.m.

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Chuck Berry and the Things We Ignore

USIC 1101, Elements of Music, begins with a rather thorough discussion of the Voyager Golden Records.

Each record contains a somewhat lengthy selection of music, which was compiled in 1977, by a committee chaired by Cornell’s Carl Sagan, then professor of space sciences. Of course, this spurs the musicological debate on archival selection and canon formation. Is it even remotely fair that an American professor, grounded in Western culture, is in charge of leading the effort to select music representing societies of the entire world?

The final lineup is indeed unjustly skewed towards the inclusion of Western musical examples and traditions.

However, there is one justified choice among the numerous inequities on the Voyager Golden Record and that is Sagan’s inclusion of “Johnny B. Goode,” by Chuck Berry. With Berry’s recent death on March 18, I have noticed many references around various social media to his inclusion on the record, all

Nick Swan Swan’s Song exclaiming that his music will live forever. So many celebrities over the past several decades have praised Berry’s extensive influence over the inception of rock and roll and its subsequent development. Nevertheless, it is Elvis Presley who has been canonized as the “King of Rock and Roll.” This supreme idolization of Elvis is, at worst, an acceptance of Jim Crow era social norms, a time when only a white man could front the image of an emerging musical genre. Early rock and roll was not the creative experiment of white people. On the contrary, it emerged from the blues genre, which stemmed from the musical traditions of African-Americans. It was musicians like Chuck Berry who invented the artistry and attitude of rock music. Fortunately,

Chuck Berry has been given much credit in the years since his prime period of popularity, many asserting him to be the chief pioneer of rock and roll. Any sole reference to Elvis as being the King is completely ignorant of the black originality of the genre, and I am glad that Carl Sagan was aware of this fact in 1977, when he chose “Johnny B. Goode” instead of “Jailhouse Rock,” for the Golden Record.

Chuck Berry’s career was not without its problems or questionable occurrences. In 1959, he was arrested and charged, under the Mann Act, with moving a fourteen-year-old Native American girl across state lines — it was additionally alleged that he had sex with her. On these charges he was found guilty and served three years in jail during the early 1960s.

Furthermore, in 1990, a group of women sued him on allegations that he installed video cameras in the women’s bathroom of a club he owned. On this matter he ultimately settled out of court. Yet, to merely label Berry a sexual offender would be contrary to the general purpose of this column, by laughably asserting judicial impartiality of the criminal justice system in the American South during the twentieth century. I bet that there was a degree of racism and white resentment present in both legal settings, and the antiquated language of the Mann Act was certainly ambiguous at the time. But, we all know that rock and roll — and popular culture in general — has a tendency to objectify people, those objects being its own vanguard of stars or women in its lyrics and mindset. Many characterize the inception of rock and roll as the initiation of a rebellious, teenage state of being. I believe that this characterization is rather innocent and much too white. If rock music really stems from African-American musical traditions, then its inception is not of mere teenage angst but anger. This nearly thirty-year-old man did not turn the volume of his guitar up so loudly and duck walk and shout across stages to pander to some young Americans, whose caricatures one observes in Hairspray or American Graffiti. Chuck Berry was asserting his humanity in the face of Jim Crow America by

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Greg Graffin Millport Anti Records

In elementary school, running into your teacher outside of school was like watching your favorite television character walk right out of the screen. Our grade school teachers only existed in construction paper covered classrooms, between cursive writing lessons and popcorn reading. As we’ve grown, of course, it’s easier to see that teachers have lives too. They wait with us in line at Temple of Zeus; they peek at their phones during discussion. But Greg Graffin, a professor of evolution this past fall semester and former PhD student at Cornell University, forges new boundaries for the teacher-form. You might see Professor Graffin at the grocery store, but, more likely, when class time ends, he heads across the country for the weekend to rehearse with his punk rock band: Bad Religion. And if that’s not enough for an existential crisis, a community of paleontologists just named an ancient bird fossil after the professor-rock star-hybrid. And, on March 10th, Graffin released his second solo album. Graffin transcends classroom walls with his ten track Millport, but, rather than assuming a punk rocker alter ego, Graffin retains an intellectual, paleontologist sense of self within each folk melody.

Despite what his students might think, Graffin’s Millport convinces me that he moonlights as neither a musician nor a professor. Like the recently excavated “Qiliania

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inventing gritty, expressive riffs and mocking the ridiculous physicality of the Al Jolson, black entertainment mentality.

Unfortunately, he did so by calling on the already ingrained societal subjugation of women by playing songs like “Sweet Little Sixteen” and “No Particular Place to Go,” even embodying this mentality through questionable behavior with women outside of his music career.

Rock is indeed a profound mode of artistic expression and its development in the twentieth century is a fascinating subject to study. Its early years may have been dominated by male artists and questionable lyrics, but soon after a profound group of women began to use the genre’s expressive powers for their own assertions. In its truest form rock music can be used by all, and for that, anyone affiliated with the genre must owe a degree of thanks to Chuck Berry.

graffini” fossil, Graffin emerges in Millport as an impression of all his experiences, ventures and scientific findings. If his students listen to his new album, they might be surprised by how much he sounds like himself. And, at the same time, they’d regret how little they knew of him. Graffin describes the creative process of his album scientifically: “Like a huge tree with broad limbs, you can never predict what the crown will look like from the time that the roots are embedded in the soil.” In addition to being factually correct, this description fits Graffin’s lifestyle, as well as his academic and creative work. Graffin joined Bad Religion right out of high school and now remains in the group as the only founding member. He planted his roots and the rest of his career grew from that point.

Then, leaves sprung out: a book deal (Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God), a PhD, a first solo album (American Lesion) and a teaching gig. Yet, Graffin remains rooted in one consistent form. Millport doesn’t so much unearth this root but clings on to a sense of constancy in Graffin’s ever evolving mold.

Millport and Graffin’s occupational philosophy work as an additive process. The album comes together by focusing on what can grow, rather than emphasizing what must drop away. Millport sounds like letting

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the leaves fall off a tree and then carefully pinning them back on. Graffin contends that the album represents “three distinct historical trends that came together in the span of only 10 days, during recording at Studios 606 and Big Bad Sound in April of 2016.” He cites the following as these three histories: the musicians, the musicianship and the people.

Graffin’s three “roots” could be trees all in themselves and yet he resists breaking things apart. Instead, he brings opinions, occupations and instruments together. Millport characterizes no one specific moment, identity or period of life. It retains the professor, the high-school rock star, the mature performer and the author. And, most centrally, it adds the human qualities that these titles often leave out. Millport reveals what’s important to Graffin, without a syllabus or a tour schedule, without lecture slides or chapter titles. Millport patches together a sense of home —that place where everything fits and nothing falls apart — in his lyrics and instrumentals. He arrives at this place not as the un-ironic, penniless rock star reject, but as just another stop on his historical odyssey.

He passes through pit-stops with more than emotional baggage.

Evolution, as a study, relies both on the idea of moving forward and falling back. We continue to ask ourselves what we once were only because we’re something different now.

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We wonder where we came from; because, if ashes go to ashes, we might return there again. Graffin’s Millport focuses on the progress from a starting point rather than the return to nothingness. He approaches his music like a paleontologist observing his field work, with a knowledge of the histories, theories and characteristics that lend important meaning to small findings. In the album, Graffin traces “historical roots,” which not only stabilize his music but support all of the experiences and moments he adds to them.

When interviewers ask Graffin how he can make everything work in his tight schedule, Graffin answers that teaching “leaves plenty of time to head overseas on the weekends!”

Teachers have a way of compacting a lot of information into short periods of time. A prelim review section, after all, can transport you from pre-test self assurance to immovable horror. In Millport, Graffin shrinks, squeezes, compresses and packs things up in a magical, preservative way. I picture the professor arriving back in Ithaca each Monday morning and unpacking his weekend suitcase like a folk rock Mary Poppins. Graffin breaks all professor stereotypes, but, I’d still be surprised to see him in a grocery store.

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

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Jessie Weber Well-worn but never quite worn out, Pitbull classics like “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” and “Hotel Room Service” are always a go-to for playlists if you want a song everyone can sing along to. He’s been around for a while now, having released his first album M.I.A.M.I. in 2004 and been on an up and up trajectory with many collaborations with big-name artists. In Climate Change, released Friday, Pitbull turns has (once again) wrangled artists like Enrique Iglesias, Robin Thicke, J-Lo and Kiesza to do a lot of the heavy lifting in most of his tracks with their vocals.

But between Lopez reiterating ad nauseam how much she’d “like to get/a piece of that sexy body,” and Jason Derulo crooning out just as frequently his potential to be a great educator in the bed department, Pitbull actually waxes a little nostalgic. He sends out the platitude “The grass looks greener on the other side/’til you get to the other side…” in “Can’t Have,” then follows up with “ducked prison, ducked death, I’m fortunate/it was all a dream, now I wake up and live it/thinking that the sky was the limit/’til I figured out there’s footprints on the

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moon.” In case we don’t get his point by the second verse in this track he draws it out so clear you can’t misinterpret it; “first me make the sandwich/then we own the restaurants/first we clean the house/then we own every house on the block/not bad for some immigrants.”

Watch out, Trump. Listen to that one too many times and you might catch some of your own family history in that line.

And like Trump post-election, Pitbull’s taking a victory tour here (but maybe a more tasteful one?), telling all of us several times over just how far he’s made it; hence the brand-name appearances, the notinfrequent references to how much his life has changed and his nod and flippant middle-finger to people who think he’s outdated.

Don’t start listening to this album expecting supreme storytelling, or even a real reason to keep the tracks in any kind of order. This is basically another shuffle album composed entirely of catchy singles and repeated forays into accomplishments and prowess. The one layer to the album that speaks to Pitbull’s innovation is actually its title — paired with other releases like Globalization and Global Warming,

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it’s meant to draw attention to the global environmental crises, not to give any insight to the tracks themselves. In changing his branding from Mr. 305 to Mr. Worldwide, he solidified his approach of not only producing music meant for a wider audience, but also to use the broadening of his scope to draw attention to climate change itself. Pitbull’s intention, it seems, is to stick an issue he’s passionate about in plain sight so his listeners might give it more thought on a day-to-day basis.

So maybe he’s not so similar to Trump after all.

Apart from not having much connection aside from all being catchy and sharing typical club beats, the tracks aren’t bad, but they aren’t going to blow your mind.

Standalone track “Messin’ Around,” made with Iglesias and released as Climate Change’s lead single last April, is undeniably catchy, sophomoric and has, at best, a piecemeal story about someone hearing from someone that someone else is messing around. so they hope that that someone also heard from someone, who heard from someone, that the messing around is mutual. If you can make it through that logic, you’re good to go. The rest are a lot

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more straightforward — unless you count “give me the greenlight ‘cause I’m ready to go/let’s have a good time/what you waiting for?” as being esoteric.

Again, the album isn’t worn out, but it’s probably not going to surprise you either.

“Options,” featuring Stephen Marley, might be the most unexpected track out of the whole list, and you feel like Pitbull barely touched it. The rest of the tracks are good, of course, but they don’t feel particularly innovative. It’s an album full of singles I would listen to over and over again, and I love the momentum of tracks like “Can’t Have” and “Freedom,” but this isn’t an album I’m going to sit down with and listen from start to finish while I’m walking to class or on a road trip. And that’s okay — because sometimes you just have to be okay with calling something for what it is. Climate Change is a group of successful singles united under a single name and it’s probably going to stay that way, but it’s still a collection of singles that are all worth your time.

Jessie Weber is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jlw372@cornell.edu.

Light and Sound Synesthesia “Would we be able to detect music without the ear? Of course not. Well, we are surrounded by things whose existence we never suspect, because we lack the organs that would reveal them to us.”

sheet of thin metallic paper that lies parallel, suspended between two sheets of translucent white paper. As I hesi-

— Guy De Maupassant De Maupassant’s quote provides an interesting touchstone for Yael Erel’s exhibition, Light Topographies, on show in the John Hartell Gallery.

In this unique exhibit, the artist seeks to explain the subtleties of light, texture, sound and their relationship to one another. The banal becomes the fantastical as sheets of metal, light to the touch, reflect wonderful tapestries of light on the white walls and hanging sheets of the gallery space. Erel’s background as a licensed architect in New York and Israel provides the framework for light itself as a form of architecture. The soft and hard lines of light paintings provide a biomorphic design framework.

The waveforms are exposed, enlarged and highlighted, as symphonies and crescendos are generated through a variety of interactive installations within the space.

In one particular piece, entitled Double Reflector, the viewer is expected to interact with a vertically hanging

tantly poked at the floating metallic surface, a seismic shift in the reflection on the white paper gave me quite a start. The simple movement, amounting to just a few inches, resulted in a projection of such vast differences in light that it was reminiscent of an earthquake, or of waves off of a stormy coastline. The smallest movements and

gestures have ramifications unseen by the human eye. It reminded me of the butterfly effect, the idea that the simple flap of a butterfly’s wings could cause a chain reaction of apocalyptic proportions. Light is seen as a malleable but deeply complex system that is constantly being shifted, played with, yet also kept constant, despite our human meddling.

Erel’s interest in light, and the exhibition of its complexity, is showcased in an installation that is painterly in its assessment of physical phenomena.

Erel fuses the scientific and the artistic, evoking the beauty of the former and its inextricable link to the latter. For thousands of years, artists have found inspiration in biomorphic forms, whether that be the curve of a tortoise’s shell or the splayed broad leaves of a fern. In Light Topographies, a microscope is taken to the smallest of details, to cellular proportions, to highlight the immense beauty and inherent magic in something we often take for granted. The exhibition allowed one to fight seasonal affective disorder and immerse in the beauty of one of our most sacred elements.

Harrison Holland-McCowan is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at hrh65@cornell.edu.

Ithaca Spring Concert Preview Jamila Woods 3/25 – Risley Jamila Woods’s ethereal voice, easily recognized from “Sunday Candy” and “Blessings” by Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment and Chance the Rapper, will fill the room in Risley Hall on Saturday night. Last year, she released the album HEAVN, which The Sun’s named second best album of 2016. We expect her to bring her own distinct brand of hip hop and urgent social commentary.

Opening: SadoSan, Paulitics Gucci Mane 3/26 – Barton Trap music pioneer Gucci Mane will be taking over

Barton Hall on Sunday, and he’s sure to bring an energetic show. His collaboration with Rae Sremmurd on “Black Beatles” last year was one of songs that most strongly defined 2016.

Decemberists 4/7 – State The folk-influenced indie group The Decemberists will be at the State Theater to round out spring break.

Their tunes are complex, but concordant and take the best from rock, pop, folk and country music. The performance will be full of energy and unusual melodies, which are worth checking out.

Opening: Julien Baker

Wet 4/1 – Haunt Making electronic music that is peaceful and soulful is no easy feat, but Wet have done it. They’ve received wide critical praise and are ready to show off skill with synths, vocals and percussion at the Haunt.

Opening: Blonder Barenaked Ladies 4/30 — State Barenaked Ladies have been performing for nearly 30 years, establishing themselves as fun and easygoing performers. Their music bounces around different rock subgenres, sometimes bumping into alternative and folk.

Opening: Alan Doyle

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Virginia — combined for five points between two goals and three assists in a noble attempt to advance the Red. Midfielder Jordan Dowiak also notched two goals in Saturday’s outing while fellow sophomores Jake McCulloch and Clarke Petterson contributed one goal and one assist a piece. However, the Red was unable to overcome Yale’s strong defensive stands and challenge the offensive production displayed by several of the Bulldog’s talented attackmen such as junior Ben Reeves.

“Obviously Ben Reeves is always a challenging matchup, but I don't think it was just one person that we had trouble with,” Knight said. “They ran a pretty good offense, with a

lot of off ball movement. Most of their goals came from defensive breakdowns, and losing track of a guy off ball. We knew that goals off of ball movement were a big part of their game plan, but we struggled defending it.”

Yale finished the game with a 38-34 shot advantage and a 36-22 ground ball advantage, highlighting the team’s physicality.

“We need to be more physical on defense,” Kerwick said.

“Yale came away with the tough ground balls so we need to be more determined there. We lacked a little confidence offensively early in the game and made some simple turnovers, which has been something we’ve struggled with in four of our five games, giving teams the ball early.”

Concerning Tuesday’s matchup against in-state rival Colgate, Kerwick is both mindful of the challenges the

Raiders will bring to Ithaca as well as the necessary changes in play his players must make in order to acquire its first win of the season.

“They’re a good offensive team with a veteran goalie and an outstanding face-off guy,” Kerwick said. “It’s going to be, as it has been the last couple years, a 60-minute effort.”

With a 74 percent winning percentage historically when playing on Schoelkopf turf combined with the cold lessons learned from losses suffered so far this season, the Red hopes to start its three-game home stretch with a much needed win against Colgate on Tuesday at 5 p.m.

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people might put you up there like you’re indestructible, like you can’t even be touched, like you’re a machine, but that’s not true,” he said. “Every single one of us is a human being. We all have our shortcomings. We all don’t wrestle the way we play it out in our head every single time.”

But the disappointment for the Cornell team came much earlier than team’s finals match. Palacio entered the tournament as the No. 7 seed, yet the high-spirited middleweight was poised and ready for a deep run through the bracket.

After dramatically upsetting No. 2 Michael Kemerer of Iowa on Friday afternoon in the quarterfinals, it seemed as if he might not be stopped.

Fast forward to Friday night, and with just over 10 seconds left in his semifinal match against No. 3 Joey Lavallee of Missouri, Palacio was closing in on the victory. Lavallee, however, responded with a late four-point nearfall to take the match in the waning moments and end Palacio’s title hopes.

“He wasn’t wrestling a typical Dylan match,” Koll said.

“Normally he’s attacking and pushing the pace, but this time he was all defensive. A lot of the credit has to be given to the kid he was wrestling, though.”

About 20 minutes later, it was Realbuto’s turn to earn a spot in Saturday night’s finals.

Wrestling against No. 3 Bo Jordan of Ohio State — someone Realbuto upset in February — the former NCAA runner-up also jumped out to a quick lead. At one point, Realbuto led 7-2, but a rare mistake late in the third made the night that much worse for the Red. “It’s an incredibly stressful situation there with 19,000 people all screaming at the same time … and it was one of the very times in his career he let the emotions get the best of him,” Koll said. “He made a very poor decision, and instead of being conservative and giving up a [two-point] takedown, he went for a big move and gave up four points.”

The way in which the losses came about made them that much tougher to deal with, according to Koll.

“It wasn’t just that they both lost, it was the dramatic fashion in which they lost,” he said. “Both let

it slip away in the very last second, and it was just heart-wrenching.”

Despite the tough last two sessions, there are some positives the team hopes to take away. The eighth place finish makes Cornell and Iowa the only two schools to finish in the top-10 at NCAAs every year since 2008. The team also earned an impressive four AllAmerican honors, including one from a standout in Womack.

“We did come away with an All-American with Brandon Womack as the 13th seed, and everyone won matches and scored some bonus points. So there were some real positives to be taken away,” Koll said. “It was just unfortunate that the seniors could not reach their ultimate goals.”

“Wrestling’s a grueling sport … but at the end here, I’m glad I made it out with three AllAmerican honors,” Realbuto said in an interview after it was all said and done. He now plans to stay local for a year with Dean and coach a local youth program.

The remaining two wrestlers — senior Mark Grey (133) and sophomore Ben Honis (197) — did not place in the tournament, but competed hard nonetheless.

“Grey wrestled the best he’s wrestled all year long, and I was really proud of him,” Koll said.

“And Honis won a match by major decision, and he’s back for two more years so we’re excited about that.”

With four of the six NCAA qualifiers graduating, younger wrestlers like Honis and Womack are the Red’s future, and the program’s winning tradition now depends on their success.

“We’ve got a great group of young guys coming back next year,” Koll said. “We recruit hard, and we’ve got a great room. That’s why these guys are where they are.

They’re getting pushed every day.”

While Dean, Realbuto and Palacio have all donned the red and white singlet for the final time, their departure opens the door for the next class of Cornell greats.

“As sad as I am to lose our seniors, I’m also excited for the next generation of Cornell AllAmericans and National Champions,” Koll said. “In the fall, we’re going to have the next generation of Gabe Dean’s and Brian Realbuto’s.”

Until then, Cornell wrestling fans will just have to be patient.

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

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comeback that included a run of four unanswered goals and tied the match ten-all with 8:30 left to play.

Demonstrating its maturity and outstanding ability to keep its composure under pressure, Cornell sealed the victory when junior midfielder Taylor Reed found the back of the net with 1:52 left in the game. “[USC] did climb back on us during the second half but we just stayed very composed,” said senior co-captain attacker

Catherine Ellis. “We had been in positions like that before so we all just looked at each other and knew we could still win the game.”

Senior goalie Renee Poullott made 10 invaluable saves during the match, denying the Trojans crucial points.

“Poullott was our hero,” Graap said. “She made a point blank save on a wide open shot which really ignited our team.”

Not content to rest on its laurels, Cornell looks to continue building momentum and working toward its goals. “[We are] still a work in

progres,” Graap said. “We’ve got plenty to improve upon, but our foundation is solid.

Every player on the bench and on the field wants to compete.

We believe in pushing each other at practice and getting better every day. We are a hardworking group of athletes, and we have to stay hungry.”

The Red returns to Ancient Eight play this weekend, taking on the Yale Bulldogs (5-3) on Saturday at 1 p.m. in New Haven.

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

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Grapplers Fall Short of NCAA Expectations

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be.

At least, that’s how it seemed after Cornell wrestling two-time National Champion and four-time All-American Gabe Dean fell in the 184 pound finals on Saturday night of the NCAA Championships, capping off a tough 24hour stretch for the team from Ithaca.

The Red was in prime position to bring home some hardware going into the second day of competition Friday night. The team had put up big numbers during the opening sessions of the tournament and was solidly in contention for a top-five team finish. Its top three wrestlers — seniors Dean, Brian Realbuto (174) and Dylan Palacio (157) — were all in their bracket’s semifinals. Cornell had also already locked up four All-Americans with the three aforementioned seniors and sophomore Brandon Womack (165).

What transpired next was tough to swallow for anyone watching. Palacio and Realbuto lost on Friday night in the final minutes, followed by Dean’s defeat on Saturday. As a group, Cornell fell several spots to finish the tournament in eighth place.

“We were wrestling great, but we had a couple of guys who found ways to lose on Friday night which really just took the winds out of our sails,” said head coach Rob Koll.

Dean came out in the semifinals against Oklahoma’s Nolan Boyd, whom he had already beaten multiple times this season, and Friday night was no different. The fourtime EIWA champion came out fighting and cruised to a 9-3 victory. Unlike his classmates, he was just one victory away from capping off an undefeated season and his third consecutive national title.

Dean’s semifinal win landed him a matchup with No. 2 Bo Nickal of Penn St. on Saturday night. The Nittany Lions’ sophomore had lost just once coming into the bout and was some experts’ pick to be the only one who could take down the seemingly unstoppable Dean.

“As we all know he’s a great wrestler, he’s very dangerous,” Dean said in an interview before the match. “As a senior, to have an opportunity to compete for your last title is really awesome. I’m just looking forward to the challenge that awaits me.”

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The mighty have fallen | Gabe Dean, a four-time all-American who finished the season undefeated, was unable to pick up his third straight NCAA Championship Saturday.

In the end, however, that challenge proved to be too much for Dean.

The Red senior scored the match’s first two points on a takedown and appeared to hold on to that lead going into the second period. However, a challenge from the Penn St. staff ended up with Nickal being awarded a late takedown, giving the sophomore the 3-2 lead at first break.

After an escape point, Nickal led 4-2 and held off Dean for the remainder of the second. Dean escaped to open the third and had just under three minutes to land a takedown and win the match. But Nickal’s defense was just too good on Saturday night in front of the raucous Scottrade Center.

Dean did all that he could — nearly forcing his opponent to the mat multiple times — but the referees would not give Dean credit for a takedown, and the match ended 4-3. Just like that, the senior’s illustrious career at Cornell

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was over.

“Penn State had four consecutive championships before that one, and I think the kid was wrestling on a high,” Koll said. “It wasn’t like Gabe wrestled poorly, [Dean] actually took it to him. There were a couple of opportunities that could’ve gone his way depending on the refs, but his opponent did a good job of avoiding him. Gabe is relentless, but unfortunately wasn’t able to capitalize on a couple of opportunities.”

When all was said and done, and the undisputed favorite and Cornell’s all-time winningest wrestler had finally been defeated, Dean’s answer to a question from the day before seemed truer than ever.

“When you’re one of the top wrestlers in the country, See WRESTLING page 15

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Laxers Crack National Top10 Red Continues Drought

By SMITA NALLURI

Trojans (6-2) moved the Red (5-1) up from No. 11 to No. 7 in the national polls and USC down from No. 4 to No. 10.

Preparation for the teams’ first-ever meeting began early for the Red as the team watched film to analyze the Trojans’ game plan and craft a winning strategy. “[Our] attackers were focused on preparing for USC's zone,” said head coach

Sun Staff Writer

Proving that it is a force to be reckoned with at the national level, the Cornell women’s lacrosse team kept its four-game win streak alive by defeating the University of Southern California at Nickerson Field in Boston Sunday.

The 11-10 victory over the

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On a roll | After defeating No. 4 USC, the Red has won four straight games heading into Ivy League play.

Jenny Graap. “Specifically, our offense needed to be patient so we could create both ball movement and player movement during our possessions.”

The Red also mimicked game situations in practice in order to be well-prepared for the match.

“Since their goalkeeper is left handed, we had our freshman goalie, Katie McGahan, play left handed so our shooters would be ready,” Graap said. “[Our] defense was focused on supporting each other and staying disciplined in their execution.”

The focused practices translated well to the game as Cornell got off to a solid start, scoring first to break a fourgame streak of giving up the first goal. The Red finished the first half with a 7-4 lead.

Cornell also scored the first two goals of the second half, extending its lead to five points, but USC refused to go down without a fight. The Trojans mounted a valiant See W. LACROSSE page 15

After Dropping Ivy Opener

By BOBBY MARANI Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s lacrosse team suffered its fifth consecutive loss of the season after dropping its game against Yale this past weekend 178, heading into this week’s New York rival-matchup without a win.

In the 77th meeting between the two schools, Yale’s (3-3, 1-0 Ivy) offensive onslaught began in the early seconds of the game when junior midfielder Conor Mackie drove through Cornell’s (0-5, 0-1) defense to sneak in a long distance shot and quickly commandeer the lead. The early goal, however, did not give the Red a reason to panic.

“I've been playing goalie long enough to know that a sixty minute game is a long time and you can't let an early goal affect your confidence,” said junior goalie Christian Knight. “That play gave them a lot of momentum though and they carried it throughout the quarter.”

Although Knight notched 13 saves on the day, marking his sixth consecutive game tallying double digit stats, his overall effort in goal

was not enough to fend off Yale’s close-range and persistent attacks.

“We need to support Christian more,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “He’s been very steady but we’re giving up too many looks on the inside that we can’t expect him to save. We need to do a better job controlling the tempo on the offensive end.”

While a lack of offensive tempo and inability to successfully scrounge for ground balls troubled the Red during several of its valuable possessions throughout the game, an experienced Bulldog roster took full advantage of the Red’s youthful inconsistency and scattered defensive play.

Scoring seven goals by way of seven different players, with ten total Yale players scoring throughout the entire game, Yale coasted into halftime with a 7-3 lead.

Conversely, Cornell freshman attacker Jeff Teat — who was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week following his performance last Saturday against No. 13 See M. LACROSSE page 15