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Rawlings to Return As Interim President

Will replace Acting President Kotlikoff in April

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

HUNTER R. RAWLINGS III Cornell University President 1995 - 2003, Interim President 2016

President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III will return to the Hill once again to serve as interim president after he was unanimously appointed by the Board of Trustees Thursday.

Rawlings will take the helm of the university on April 25, succeeding President Elizabeth Garrett after her death from colon cancer on March 6. Rawlings, 71, will serve until Cornell’s 14th president assumes office, with an international search to fill the position set to begin in the coming months, Board of Trustees Chair Robert Harrison ’76 said Thursday.

As Cornell’s 10th president, Rawlings served from 1995 to 2003. This will be his second term as interim president, the first of which took place

between 2005 and 2006 after President Emeritus Jeffrey Lehman ’77 resigned.

“It is an honor to once again be called to help lead this great institution,” Rawlings said. “There is much momentum around Beth’s vision, and I will work with Mike [Kotlikoff ], the leadership team, deans, faculty, students and staff across our campuses to continue building the university’s strengths around those priorities.”

Rawlings will follow Provost Michael Kotlikoff, who became acting president as President Garrett underwent surgery last month, as the next leader of Cornell. Harrison described Kotlikoff’s leadership as exceptional and thanked him for his service “during what has been an unprecedented and challenging time for Cornell.”

Trustees Resolution Mourns Garrett’s Death ship Elizabeth Garrett brought to Cornell during her time as President.”

The Board also held a moment of silence for Garrett before proceeding Senior Vice Provost of Academic Affairs with the usual business of the meeting.

John Siliciano has been named Deputy The Board of Trustees heard reports Provost, Acting President and Provost from the Student Assembly, Michael Kotlikoff announced at the Board of Trustees meeting “The members of the University Assembly G r a d u a t e - P r o f e s s i o n a l Assembly and the University Wednesday morning.

“This is in recognition of express their genuine appreciation for the Assembly.

Juliana Batista ’16, reported John’s terrific oversight of the Provost Office and his involve- service, vision and leadership [of Garrett].” about the recent initiatives on the Student Assembly to allow ment in every initiative in the University Assembly resolution freshmen to attend Greek Provost Office,” Kotlikoff said. events in the first two quarters The trustee meeting began “Whereas, in this time, the University of the current Quarter System. with the board’s adoption of a resolution “I would prefer the freshman to be in mourning President Elizabeth Garrett’s death. Community has come together to mourn “She set in motion a process that had her passing and celebrate her life,” the that sort of [monitored] environment long been regarded by university leaders as resolution said. “Therefore, be it rather than in an unregulated environimportant but daunting … establishing a resolved, the members of the University ment off campus,” Batista stated.

College of Business,” Acting Chairman Assembly express their genuine appreciaSee TRUSTEES page 5 tion for the service, vision, and leaderJan Rock Zubrow said.

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

Following the successfu adoption of this resolution, Zubrow also read the unanimous resolution passed by the University Assembly, expressing condolences and appreciation for President Elizabeth Garrett.

Cornell Faculty Elect Dean and Associate Dean of Faculty The Cornell faculty have elected Prof. Charles Van Loan, computer science, to be the new Dean of Faculty and Prof.

Chris Schaffer, biomedical engineering as Associate Dean of Faculty, according to results released Thursday.

Much of the debate in this election revolved around how best to increase communication between the faculty and the board of trustees. “‘Thinking out loud’ in front of the faculty needs to be

routine, productive and intellectually driven,” said Van Loan.

“To crePROF. VAN LOAN ate a climate for this to happen, the trustees, the administration and the [faculty] senate must each dial back their strict constructionist views of who can do

w h a t under t h e Univer s i t y Bylaws.”

Prof.

Bruce Lewen PROF. SCHAFFER stein, communications, was also elected faculty trustee, while Prof. Julia Felippe, veterinary medicine, was elected to the Nominations and Elections

committee.

Prof. Rob Thorne, physics, Prof. Durba Ghosh, history, and Associate Prof. Kate Walsh, management and organizational behavior were elected to the University Faculty Committee.

The turnout for the election was historic, with almost 900 faculty members voting, according to acting and associate dean of faculty Michael Fontaine.

— Compiled by Josh Girsky

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Student Indicted On Multiple Drug Charges Lehman Schwab ’18, was indicted on multiple drug charges Thursday after he was reportedly found with nearly 20 grams of cocaine in his suite at a Cornell residence hall.

Schwab, 19, was taken into custody on Dec. 4, 2015 after police searched his suite in Hans Bethe House, a west campus residence hall, according to a University release.

Records show that police found nearly 20 grams of cocaine in Schwab’s room along with small ziplock bags and a digital scale that officers believe were used in the process of selling the drug, according to the Ithaca Voice.

Schwab — a student at the time — was charged with two counts of thirddegree criminal possession of a controlled substance for allegedly having cocaine with intent to sell. He also reportedly had “compounds, mixtures or substances” with at least half an ounce of cocaine, according to The Voice.

It is currently unclear whether Schwab is still a Cornell student or permitted on campus. A University spokesperson said more information may be released Friday, according to The Voice.

Schwab is scheduled to be arraigned at the Tompkins County Courthouse on April 6. He is being represented by Norma Schwab, and the case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Eliza Filipowski, The Voice reported.

— Compiled by Josephine Chu

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Quotes of the Week Opinion, “Who Doesn’t Love a Good Contest(ed Convention?),” Monday Speculating about the possibility of a contested Republican National Convention “Trump himself has incited his supporters to violence against protesters multiple times. If Trump simply applies those tactics to the convention he could have the whole thing wrapped up in an hour. Ted Cruz supporters? ‘Get ‘em outta here!’ Kasich supporters? ‘Go back home to mommy.’”

Jacob Rubashkin ’19 News, “Stand up Comedians Dave Coulier and Hannibal Buress to Perform at Cornell,” Tuesday Describing the demand among students for the upcoming Hannibal Buress performance “The Cornell population’s interest in seeing Hannibal perform has only grown since he was scheduled to appear in the fall of 2014.”

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Cornell University Program Board executive chairperson Gabe Diamond ’18

Tomorrow It Takes More Than Nostalgia: Celebrating 50 Years of Historic Ithaca and Community Preservation 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., The History Center Liberia in Stitches: Quilts from Sinoe and Montserrado Counties Noon - 8 p.m., Human Ecology Building, Jill Stuart Gallery

Close-Up, “Asian and Asian American Center Director Sophie Sidhu Shares Passion for Diversity,” Wednesday Speaking about the Tapestry program, which promotes the benefits of diversity “[I am proud] to help students find some common ground and shared experiences and learn from one another when they first enter campus.”

Director of Asian and Asian American Center Sophie Sidhu News, “Ithaca Planning Board Approves Hughes Hall, Ag Quad Renovations,” Thursday Speaking about the reasoning behind future renovations to the Ag Quad “A fair amount of utility work needs happen in the Ag Quad, and because of that we have the opportunity to revitalize the quad’s aesthetic.”

The Fire Is Gone But We Have the Light Noon - 5 p.m., Johnson Museum of Art Tradition,Transmission and Transformation in East Asian Art Noon - 5 p.m., Johnson Museum of Art

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Sammy’s Pizza Closes C-Town Location Museum to Host First Senior Gala

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

After operating for two years in the heart of Collegetown, Sammy’s Pizzeria closed Wednesday, according to Sam Chafee, the restaurant’s owner.

Since its opening in 2014, the restaurant has become one of the staple late night eateries for Collegetown students.

According to Chafee, the restaurant closed because the building’s lease expired and the landlord decided to transform the space into a real estate office for his properties.

Chafee said the “old good memories we had when we started in Collegetown [in 1997]” prompted the opening of Sammy’s Express again in 2014. However, Chafee noted that business is “not like it used to be.”

“I think everyone eat[s] at dining halls at Cornell — I know the quality of food got much better on campus,” he said.

Chafee reminisced about “old good days” when he said Sammy’s was the first store to open in Collegetown in August 1997.

“We were so busy — at this time Cornell dining halls close[d] early and more people [ate in] Collegetown,” he said.

Chafee added that recently, even with the regular visits from the “late crowds [visiting] after bars — with lines sometimes till the front door,” the restaurant still strug-

gled to find sufficient professional help.

Connor Riser ’16 called that the restaurant’s closing “a huge loss for the Collegetown Community.”

“Sammys had become the go-to pizza place for my friend group,” he said. “The quality was high and the pricing was fair.”

Riser emphasized his disappointment with the latest change to Collegetown’s landscape, saying he “truly believe[s] Sammy's Pizzeria closing really changes the whole vibe of Collegetown.”

“One of my goals for senior year was to make it up on their picture wall and now I'm devastated knowing that dream will never come true,” he said.

Liam Bui ’17 said that the restaurant “was a nice place to go for drunk late night food,” but pointed that hours were inconsistent leading up to the store’s closing.

“I recall a few times coming in at normal hours on a weekday and the pizza was cold and the store was empty, so it doesn't come as a huge surprise that they closed down,” Bui said.

Riser said he was “completely shocked” by the store’s closing.

“Every time I went in there it was fairly packed,” he said. “Considering how everything closes in Collegetown though, I guess I should have seen it coming.”

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

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Say goodbye to the pie | The Collegetown location of Sammy’s Pizzaria closed Wednesday, two years after the restaurant’s opening.

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

Approximately 800 people are expected to attend the first Senior Gala at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on April 16 to celebrate the 2016 senior class at Cornell, according to Bobby Dougherty ’16, co-chair of Senior Days.

“Every year, students look forward to their last semester and all the fun events to commemorate senior year,” Dougherty said.

The Cornellian Senior Gala is supposed to be a wonderful way to celebrate four great years on campus in the classy setting of the Johnson Museum.”

The black-tie event will feature three cash bars, catered food, live jazz performances, three deejays, and two dance floors, according to the event’s Facebook page.

Seniors and their guests will walk down the “Red Carpet” when they arrive, greeted by a jazz quartet, Dougherty explained.

“As people walk throughout the museum, there will be catered spreads and bars, and they can also enjoy many beautiful art pieces ranging from a laser light exhibit to ink painting from Southeast Asia,” she said.

Guests will have access to two different dance floors — one overlooking Cayuga Lake and the other under the sparkling star “Cosmos” exhibit. At 10 p.m., Ryan Lombardi, Vice President for student and campus life, will give a toast in honor of both the Class of 2016 and Elizabeth Garrett, Dougherty said.

“We hope to create a memorable night to lead into the last few weeks at Cornell,” she added.

John Lowry ’16, president of the class of 2016, will also give a toast at the gala, representing the senior class council.

“We are about to start a new stage in our lives and it is important to not forget how remarkable our four years were,” he said.

Lowry further emphasized the importance of graduating Cornellians coming together as a class.

“That’s the spirit that has filled the heart of the Senior Gala from its beginning,” Lowry said. “April 16 will be one of those special nights where we can gather and celebrate, identified not by the fraternities, sororities, or groups we belong to, but rather who we are as a senior class.”

Julia Greenberg can be reached at jgreenberg@cornellsun.com.

Klarman Hall Time Capsule to Alum Receives Whiting Award for Drama Commemorate 2016 Humanities

By ANNA DELWICHE

“I’m interested in the institutions we construct to manage what’s unmanageable about human experience — how our Cornell alumna, Madeleine George ’96, schools, hospitals, prisons, etc. both express is one of this year’s recipients of the Whiting and condition our deepest longings, our Award for her work as a playwright, accord- best and worst impulses towards each ing to the Whiting Foundation. other,” she said.

The Whiting Award is given annually to During her time at Cornell, George said ten emerging authors in categories of fic- she took most of her courses in linguistics tion, nonfiction, poetry and drama. With and foreign languages. As a student in the prizes of $50,000, the Whiting Foundation College Scholar Program — a program for aims to provide support to students to design their own major scholars and writers, according in the College of Arts and Sciences to the foundation’s website.

— she said she shaped her curricuPast award recipients lum around her three main interests: include novelist and author of language, gender, and performance.

The Pale King, David Foster “My coursework in syntax was, Wallace and Pulitzer prize winfor me, an ideal preparation for my ner for The Hours, Michael work as a playwright,” George said.

Cunningham.

“It taught me to look for patterns in “It’s extremely thrilling to language, to see expression as the GEORGE ’96 be included in the company of end result of a series of sometimes so many other writers I admire so much, invisible transformations and to attend to both in the cohort of writers who currently the construction of utterances as a primary getting Whiting Awards and the many driver of meaning.” inspiring writers who have come before In today’s career force, building a life as me,” she said. an artist in America is a challenge, according George said that her plays reflect on the to George. She has learned the importance human condition, using examples such as of collaborating with other emerging artists the subhuman, superhuman, gorillas and for emotional, spiritual, and professional robots, in order to define what it means to support. be human.

George co-founded a collective of play“I often use my plays to think through wrights in 2003 — the Thirteen questions about personhood: I’m drawn to Playwrights, Inc. — to address some of looking at limit cases to see what light they these difficulties faced by artists, she said. shed on what it means to be a human Together they realized productions of 13 being,” George said. plays, one by each playwright.

In her reflection on human nature, George often centers her plots in different Anna Delwiche can be reached at acd82@cornell.edu. institutions, created by humans.

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By HENRY KANENGISER

opening of this building and its dedication have given us an opportunity This week, the to reflect on the imporCollege of Arts and tance of the humanities, Sciences began accepting not only to Cornell, but faculty, staff and alumni to our lives and the contributions to the world around us.”

Klarman Hall time capThe purpose of the sule, which is scheduled capsule is “to capture life to be buried during at Cornell today the formal dedica– especially the “The opening of this tion of Klarman role of the building and its dedication humanities in Hall on May 26, according to the our lives — and have given us an University. pass it on to the The capsule — opportunity to reflect on the Cornell comwhich will be munity of the importance of the placed between future,” she humanities.”

Klarman Hall and said.

Lincoln Hall — A committee Gretchen Ritter ’83 intends to encapsucomposed of late the way that four professors students learn the commemorate the year – Prof. Gregory Mihumanities, according 2016 as it was a particu- chael Londe, English, to Kathy Hovis, larly special year for the Prof. Benjamin William University writer for the humanities at the Anderson, classics, Prof.

College of Arts and University.

Naminata Diabate Sciences.

Klarman Hall, which comparative literature Submissions should was completed and and Prof. Andrew J. answer the question, “If opened up to the public Hicks, music – are you could talk to a this year, was “the first responsible for selecting Cornell student 50 years building dedicated to the some of the specific from now, what music, humanities on Cornell’s items to include in the movies, shows, books central campus in 100 and art do you love years,” Ritter said. “The See CAPSULE page 4

Sun Staff Writer

today that you would want to make sure they know about? Why are these works so important to you?” according to the University.

Gretchen Ritter ’83, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, said that this capsule will

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Trustees Unanimously Approve Rawlings’ Return RAWLINGS

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“President Garrett built a strong leadership team, and we have set an ambitious agenda,” Kotlikoff said. “I look forward to working with Hunter, who knows Cornell so well and is so highly regarded by the faculty. His inspired leadership and experience make him the perfect choice.”

Rawlings — the current president of the Association of American Universities, a post he will leave in May — made his mark on Cornell during his presidency through the launch of Cornell’s Residential Initiative, which resulted in freshman moving to North Campus and the creation of the West Campus house system.

In 2001, Rawlings inked the deal that lead to the creation of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, now known as Weill Cornell Medicine in

Qatar. He also established the Presidential Research Scholars program and held appointments in the Departments of Classics and History.

Harrison said he believes Rawlings is “uniquely suited to take the helm of Cornell at this time of transition.”

“Cornell University is indeed fortunate that Hunter has agreed to step forward once again to lead through a time of transition,” Harrison said in a statement. “The board’s unanimous vote is evidence of the respect for his leadership at Cornell and as one of the nation’s premier advocates for higher education.”

Rawlings was the president of the University of Iowa from 1993 to 2003 before his time at Cornell. He earned his Ph.D. in classics at Princeton University in 1970.

Tyler Alicea can be reached attalicea@cornellsun.com.

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Rawlings returns | Presidents Emeritus Hunter Rawlings and Jeffrey S. Lehman attend Charter Day.

Student Leaders Address Trustees

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International students are currently unable to receive their tax returns from the IRS, contributing to financial hardships, according to Walroth.

“No one has gotten their money back and there is no clear timeline about when the IRS will issues these funds,” he said.

In the final report in the open session, University Assembly chair

Matthew Battaglia ’16 explained the importance of the U.A. on campus in the shared governance system.

“The U.A. is unique that it brings together stakeholders from all of Cornell’s four constituencies,” Battaglia said.

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“International students affected by this are feeling scared, angry, abandoned,” Walroth said.

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time capsule, according to Hovis.

Anderson said that there is no final consensus on what items will be included within it,but ideas include photographs of the construction of Klarman Hall, an iPad to represent present day technology, and a list of majors and departments offered by Arts and Sciences in 2016.

According to current plans, the capsule will be opened by

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun.com.

“Sometimes we forget how much the humanities give to Cornell and the world.”

Zoe Kalos ’18 the leaders of Cornell in the year 2065 — 200 years after the University was founded.

“We’re hopeful that the submissions and stories will be read and widely distributed to the entire Cornell community during the University’s bicentennial celebration,” Hovis said.

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Students have expressed their excitement about the added emphasis on humanities at Cornell.

“I think it’s really awesome to be part of such an exciting event as a humanities major,” said Zoe Kalos ’18. “Sometimes we forget how much the humanities give to Cornell and the world and I love being able to celebrate the beauty of my field in such a historic way.”

Ritter was optimistic about the impact of the capsule on the role of humanities on campus.

“We hope that thoughtful contributions to this time capsule as well as broader participation in New Century for the Humanities activities will foster a deeper reflection on the importance of the humanities and its centrality to lifelong learning,” she said.

Henry Kanengiser can be reached at hhk33@cornell.edu.

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S. Carolina May Overturn Domestic Violence Law Failing to Protect Same-Sex Couples

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Mourners attend a candlelight vigil for the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks at Place de la Bourse in Brussels.

Jury Finds Law School Sued

By Unemployed Graduate Not Guilty A jury found Thursday that a San where it’s fully litigated, and depositions Diego law school did not mislead a gradu- and documents examined, to see the hype, ate who sued on the grounds she was lured the chatter about that did not prove to be to the school by false promises that her the truth, as found by a jury, I think that’s degree would land her a job after graduat- a helpful message,” Sullivan told reporters after the verdict. ing.

Juror Wade DeMond, who works on The San Diego Superior Court jury rejected Anna Alaburda's claim against the regulatory affairs in the pharmaceutical Thomas Jefferson School of Law on a 9-3 industry, said he questioned how Thomas vote that was reached after about four Jefferson collected employment data after Alaburda’s time but that it made a goodhours of deliberations over two days.

While more than a dozen similar law- faith effort in her case.

“The jury instructions, the questions we suits have been filed in courts across the country, the case is believed to be the first were asked, were very specific and they were time-bound: Did Thomas Jefferson of its kind to go to trial. falsely represent Alaburda, who filed her lawsuit in “The jury instructions [...] were employment data for U.S. News & 2011, argued that very specific and time-bound: the World Report editions Thomas Jefferson Did Thomas Jefferson falsely that she reviewed? So used inflated data to bolster the success rate represent employment data from that means the whole thing gets narrowed of its job-seeking the U.S. News & World Report down to the 2004 and graduates. The 37year-old woman gradeditions that she reviewed?” the 2005 editions,” he told reporters. uated near the top of Wade DeMond Thomas Jefferson her class in 2008 and reported post-graduasays she has been unable to find a full-time job as a lawyer. tion employment figures that exceeded 70 Meanwhile, she said has been saddled with percent and topped 90 percent in 2010. $170,000 in student debt. She sought But the school did not disclose that those figures included part-time and non-legal $125,000 in damages.

The trial came amid growing debate work such as a pool cleaner and a sales clerk over such promises by schools competing at Victoria’s Secret and were based on a to recruit students. The lawsuit was among small sample of graduates, said her attormore than a dozen similar ones filed in ney, Brian Procel.

Procel has said the school has routinely recent years against law schools, including Golden Gate University School of Law in reported unemployed students as San Francisco and the University of San employed and shredded surveys and other Francisco School of Law. Though most of documents that reflected a more accurate the lawsuits have been dismissed, critics say employment picture.

The lawsuits against Golden Gate they point to a need for greater regulation and transparency for law schools, so University and the University of San prospective students know their employ- Francisco also alleged the schools were misment prospects, the debt they will incur representing their post-graduate employand their chances of successfully passing ment figures.

The Golden Gate lawsuit was settled, the bar.

Michael Sullivan, an attorney for the with each of the five plaintiffs receiving law school, acknowledged “isolated mis- $8,000, according to a May 2015 court filtakes and “clerical errors” in data collection ing. The case against the University of San but said there was no evidence that the Francisco was dismissed in May. In court school lied. He said the verdict set no filings, both schools said data were availprecedent but may send a signal to other able that showed what percentage of stustudents who sue.” Having an opportunity dents actually obtained jobs at law firms.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A law me, what’s the remedy?”

Bakari Sellers, an attorney for the that perhaps unintentionally failed to protect domestic violence victims in woman who brought the case, argued same-sex relationships appears to be the domestic violence provision can be unconstitutional, and now South changed to include all couples.

Carolina’s high court is trying to “The state has a legal interest in protection of all its citizens from decide what to do.

The court was asked on Wednesday domestic abuse,” he said. to weigh in after a woman tried to get More than two decades ago, Sellers a protective order against her former noted, state lawmakers intentionally fiancée, also a woman, and was denied. made the law restrictive to maleThe state’s domestic violence law female couples. This change, Associate defines “household members” as a Justice Don Beatty said, makes clear spouse, former spouse, people with a that lawmakers were specifically keepchild in common, or specifically men ing same-sex, unmarried couples from being included under and women who are South Carolina’s crimior have lived “The state has a legal nal domestic statute. together — but not interest in protection of “Otherwise, they unmarried same-sex would not have couples. all its citizens from changed the word The issue has domestic abuse.” from ‘person’ to ‘male come up in at least and female,’” he said. one other state Bakari Sellers State prosecutor since the U.S. Emory Smith said Supreme Court's decision last summer legalizing gay those changes were part of a “general marriage nationwide. Earlier this cleanup” of the law, the overall intent month, the Ohio Supreme Court of which was to protect people. He adopted the use of gender-neutral ref- said the law doesn’t need to be comerences in family court cases, a ruling pletely rewritten. Instead, Smith sugthat covers divorce, child support and gested, the court is allowed to interdomestic violence. Other states, such pret the law as reading “male or as California and Massachusetts, female,” not “male and female” — proactively changed the language in thereby meaning the law protects their laws, according to Beth Littrell, same-sex couples, too.

Littrell, of Lambda Legal, said it’s a senior attorney with Lambda Legal.

South Carolina Chief Justice Costa time for such laws to be interpreted in Pleicones said the handling of domes- gender-neutral ways instead of being tic violence situations isn’t as clear as struck down and forcibly rewritten the gay marriage ruling from the high- entirely. Or, in the alternative, state lawmakers can be proactive, before a er court case.

“The only people who are not pro- lawsuit is brought, and make the tected under this statute right now are changes themselves.

“It’s unfortunate when legislatures same-sex cohabiters or former cohabiters, is that it?” Pleicones said in court refuse to be proactive in terms of recWednesday, according to a video of ognizing that marriage equality is the arguments archived on the court's law of the land,” she said.

The South Carolina court will issue website. “This statute is pretty clearly unconstitutional in its discriminatory its ruling later, likely in several impact upon same-sex couples. So tell months.

W.Virginia Senator Holds Town Hall on Obama’s Supreme Court Pick, Merrick Garland Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia heard a mixed verdict Thursday from his red-state constituents about President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court selection, and told them he was undecided about whether he’d back Merrick Garland but vehement about giving him a vote.

The town hall was attended by about 60 people, ranging from gun rights backers to members of the state’s progressive Citizens Action Group. In contrast to the calm mood at Manchin’s event, the issue has sparked fierce debate in Congress.

The meeting came eight days after Obama nominated Garland, a longtime federal judge, for the high court vacancy. He would replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month.

With West Virginia’s solid Republican track record in recent national elections, Manchin faces a more challenging political calculation over Obama's pick than many other Senate Democrats.

Manchin has said he plans to run for re-election in 2018.

“You have a situation where the most unpopular person in the state is the president,” Manchin said. “So if they think it’s all about the president — this is not about the president. Our country’s bigger than the president.”

Manchin said Garland’s experience is of utmost importance, but he also noted West Virginia’s concerns on guns, abortion and coal.

“If they think he’s going to be voting proabortion all the time, anti-gun all the time, it’d be a big problem,” Manchin told reporters.

Underscoring the state’s longtime dependence on the fading coal industry, one speaker, veteran John Koch of Charleston, told Manchin, “Oppose this, don’t even meet with the guy, or anybody else that Obama puts up” until there’s a truce in the “war on coal.”

Republicans and Obama opponents often use that term to describe

Obama’s efforts to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired plants that contribute to global warming.

Others said judicial qualifications should be driving the Senate's decision.

“The idea ought to be that we pick people who are qualified and can do the job, instead of a vote on what all of their opinions are,” said Anthony Majestro, an attorney who has represented the state Democratic Party.

Manchin said he will compile a list of West Virginians’ concerns and bring them to Garland.

He said his main question for the nominee is whether he looks at regulations established by federal agencies differently than if Congress voted on them.

As a longtime federal judge, Garland is considered a liberal-leaning moderate. If confirmed, he could alter the high court’s 4-4 tie between liberal and conservative justices, and some of his past rulings might pose problems with West Virginia voters.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT You’ll Always Be a Loser: Titus Andronicus at Haunt

BY JACK JONES Sun Staff Writer

Titus Andronicus play their own music to warm up the crowd. This is fitting; Titus Andronicus don’t seem scared of over-indulgence. Their breakthrough album was 2010’s The Monitor, an hour-long kitchen-sink explosion of punk riffs, honky-tonk piano, a bagpipe solo and lyrics that used the American Civil War as a metaphor for personal strife and alienation. Their latest album manages to surpass The Monitor in grandiosity; 2015’s The Most Lamentable Tragedy runs an hour and a half long with several intermission tracks and two tracks titled “No Future Part IV: No Future Triumphant” and “No Future Part V: In Endless Dreaming.”

Luckily, Titus Andronicus balance the pretension of their album formats with unpretentiously great songs. At their best, they meld arena-rock riffs with a ferocious punk attack. Stickles’s lyrics are clever, full of allusions to history and music and almost relentlessly pessimistic; but even at their most anguished, the music remains dynamic and exhilarating. Their ability to balance melody equally with chaotic drive keeps their live show entertaining even for those who don’t know the band’s music. Former Arts editor Jael Goldfine ’17 wasn’t familiar with their music, and still really enjoyed the show. Current Arts editor Troy Sherman ’18, on the other hand, described himself as “bored” during the show, but considered spending up to $25 on a vinyl copy of their newest album at the merch booth afterwards, so you can see that they provoke complex reactions.

Craig Finn of the Hold Steady serves as the opener on the current “No Faith No Future No Problem” tour, and provides a nice counterpoint to the relentlessness of Titus’s music. His songs are much more measured, languishing in wry lyrics like “the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the

kitchen workers and the bartenders’ friends” and lyrical truisms like “certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls.” He’s the ultimate everyman performer, which fit nicely with the Haunt’s atmosphere, where performers often mill around during other performers’ sets like both Finn and Stickles did.

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Titus showed a lighter, more playful side at the Haunt.

Stickles tried to hawk the “triple-L.P. quadruple gatefold” record at the merch booth, and wished bassist Julian Veronesi a happy birthday by playing a distorted “Happy Birthday” on his guitar and telling him something like “You’re as good a bass player as you are nice to hang out

with, and the haircut you got two weeks ago still looks great,” which sounded more sincere than ironic. The songs they played, on the other hand, were their leanest, most forceful and most anthemic. In the studio, they sound like many different bands; live, they sound like one.

Titus gave a cathartic show, and deserved the enthusiastic mosh pit of mostly young males that grew throughout it.

It was a memorable sight to see these guys yelling euphorically along to the songs’ refrains, which are often bleak: “Let me show you my fatal flaw,” “You’ll always be a loser” and “Your life is over.”

Most punk fans agree that punk is dead, or at least that its best moments came decades ago.

Titus Andronicus don’t play like inheritors of a strand of hardcore punk musicians that valued brevity and unalloyed sonic assault, and sneered at any hint of musical pretension. The band they recall most is The Clash in its early career, one of the first punk bands to straddle genres and experiment with complex musical arrangements and lyrics. Fucked Up, Titus’s colleagues among the most innovative and exciting current punk bands, also make gofor-broke grandiose statements: 2010’s David Comes to Life was an 80-minute rock opera with mostly indecipherable lyrics and lavishly layered guitars. The fact that both Titus Andronicus and Fucked Up have made a lengthy rock opera within the last few years says something about the current state of punk, a genre that formed originally in opposition to the excesses of prog and stadium rock. These bands value earnestness over cynicism, and are unafraid of tripping over their ambition. I think this is what the kids moshing to Titus Andronicus love most about them.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com.

Reel Talk: Hitchcock / Truffaut Editor Rachel Reichmann

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

After a screening of Hitchcock/Truffaut last week at Cornell Cinema, Sun Staff Writer Mark DiStefano ’16 was fortunate enough to speak with the film’s co-producer and editor, Rachel Reichman. The conversation encompassed favorite films, a liberal arts education, the process of film editing and the nature of art itself.

THE SUN: What do you see the essential job of an editor to be?

RACHEL REICHMAN: Well, for every film it’s different. In documentaries of course, the editor is a stronger participant in the storytelling than they are in narrative work. And in fact, the structure is so essential to the storytelling in a documentary that what’s beautiful about it is you can have a kind of gut feeling about it, but move the pieces around and then that will bring about the actual manifestation of what your gut is telling you the story is. And that brings me to one of the most odd and wonderful things about editing, which is that it’s intuitive.

SUN: Where did your journey into the filmmaking world begin? Did you go to film school?

R.R.: Yeah, I went to the School of Visual Arts. I liked movies, but I was not a movie kid.

What happened to me was I went to an open school, they called it a free school, when I was in high school in the ’70s, where you could kind of do whatever you wanted and get credit for it. And so I took a college class that was probably an extra credit at Washington

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University, which was near me, and went somehow to a film class that must have been focused on European cinema, because I remember seeing a bunch of Bergman and Antonioni. And I remember being about 15 and just being so blown away when I saw Persona and L’Avventura. And I remember going to see at that time, Pasolini’s Salo came out.

SUN: To get into Hitchcock/Truffaut, what was the genesis of that project and how did you become involved?

R.R.: Well in fact, the project was originated by some other people. As you may have noticed, it has a co-writing credit of a man named Serge Toubiana. Serge is the man who was the director of the Cinémathèque Française [from 2003 to 2015]. He was put in touch with the original tapes of the conversation between Truffaut and Hitchcock, which took place in ’62. This was maybe 15 years ago, or at least that’s when it came to public light, and this was I think 27, 28 hours of material. And at that point, an American producer named Gail Levine, whom our film is dedicated to, she began to collaborate with Serge about a concept to make a film using the tapes as a kind of spine, if you will, of the structure. And about three years ago Gail died of cancer. And it happened very quickly. And what happened was that the French television company involved began to search for a partner in the States and a new director.

They teamed up with Charles Cohen, a wonderful guy who had started a company a while ago in distribution [Cohen Media Group]. [Cohen] is on the board of the New York Film Society, and Kent [Jones] is the director of the New York Film Festival. Kent had just about four years ago finished a film that I was

lucky to be involved with called A Letter to Elia, which is about Elia Kazan. So since Kent had made at least one film [about a historical film figure] —he also made a wonderful film about the producer Val Lewton that he produced.

Wonderful film, highly recommend it.

SUN: This film is so condensed and so fluid, and that’s a credit to both you and Kent for condensing so much information into an 80 minute runtime, which I really admire. A very tight film.

R.R.: I think the hardest part was, how do you get the richest, most salient points in, and not burden the film with an unwieldy shape.

And again, Kent wasn’t interested in some sort of cookie-cutter history. It’s just not his thing, he wanted to make a movie, and by gosh, he did! In terms of structure, we began with the pieces where there was a kind of potent spark.

If you look at it, this is not a traditional shape [for a film]. It kind of loops around twice, we do a very quick little history — just to encapsulate what the film was going to be about, to kind of get people settled. How do you nail that thesis? It’s different for every single documentary. A very conventional documentary would have five central characters, pre-title sequence say, “What was the reason that Robert Moses wanted to expand the highways?!” and then, “What was he up against?!” and, “He was a bastard! — He was a genius!” And then you have the title of the movie. We were hell-bent on not going that route.

SUN: Insofar as the interviews went, how did you decide on which famous directors to interview?

R.R.: Those were Kent’s decisions. The one

thing I weighed in on was that there was an idea at the beginning to include a lot of people who were not directors. Some of the actors [from Hitchcock’s films] are still alive, there are lots of good scholars on these guys, and someone could have made a good film going that route.

But somehow… it just made perfect sense to me to include directors only. First of all, we were not interested in people simply singing melodically about Hitchcock.

SUN: But twice. You have Hitchcock passing it to them, and then them throwing down the gauntlet to us, and talking about how they love the cinema the same way that he did, and that’ll inspire the same thing in somebody who watches this movie. I do think it has the ability to get people excited and talking about cinema.

R.R.: I’m glad to hear that. There’s one thing I wanted to go back to, when you were talking about the length of the movie, and the concision… that was a tricky one for me, because I wanted the film to open up more. And Kent wanted it to move like a railroad train. And we never had an argument about it, we actually don’t argue, that’s not the way we work, but that was a little bit of an issue. Of course as the director, Kent’s decision was the final one and my job is to get his vision on screen, but my job is also to bring to it my perspective. In that sense the editor saves the director from themself sometimes. So I was really really glad that he and I could work together, and when something didn’t work for him he’d say so.

A longer version of this interview can be found at cornellsun.com.

Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences . He can be reached at gds82@cornell.edu.

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When Rhetoric Falls Short

usical composition and performance are perhaps two of the most effective vessels for the indication of political support or dissent by private citizens.

Consider the late 1960s, when groups and musicians like Jefferson Airplane or Bob Dylan wrote music that challenged the Vietnam War and political establishment. As evidenced by the festivals, riots and protests of that decade, not only does music spread awareness about a particular cause, but it also forms immeasurable solidarity among its listeners.

Yet, what happens when musical choice and expression extends itself to public officials? Politicians, by the nature of their existence, must

I did not devote much thought to the playlists. I simply assumed them to be similar to the tactics mentioned above. Yet, over the past few months, and perhaps influenced by the Monty Python sketch that has become the 2016 presidential race, I have come to realize the profundity that characterizes Obama’s two playlists. The songs he selected encompass a wide range of topics and emotions that affect all members of our culture.

The day playlist contains songs that deal with sensitive and powerful subjects. One such track is “Memories Live”

by Reflection Eternal. In this song, hip hop artist Talib Kweli talks about the creative significance of his own memories and consciousness as they have been shaped by his African heritage and vibrant upbringing.

Swan’s Following Song this track is “Tombstone Blues” by find ways to connect with Bob Dylan, which criticizes their constituents. This often American authority and policy takes the form of loud and of the 1960s and asserts the booming words that pander to arbitrariness of living in a one side of an issue while world so unstable and violent. alienating the opposition. In the chorus of the song, Could music not promote Dylan sings “Mama’s in the synergy without the extreme factory/She has got no partisanship generated by shoes/Daddy’s in the charged speeches? alley/He’s looking for The way in which food/I’m in the kitchen/With American politicians have uti- the tombstone blues.” lized music in the near past Obama's inclusion of such has been, for the most part, tracks offers a respectable strange. It inspires images of acknowledgement of the the questionable, Orwellian socioeconomic, philosophical “Freedom Kids” act that preceded a recent Donald Trump rally. There is Bill Clinton’s famous saxophone playing on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1992 during his presidential campaign (although not alive to experience this at the time, the image of Clinton, wearing a suit and jet-black sunglasses, is permanently ingrained in a layer of my own subconscious). Worth mentioning is Paul Ryan’s 2012 praising of Rage Against the Machine.

For a band with tracks such as “Killing in the Name” and “Township Rebellion,” Ryan’s move thoroughly confused fans of Rage as well as those of the Republican Party.

Most of these events seem nothing more than gimmicky ploys used to create a charismatic perception of the given candidate or politician.

However, I do find a certain degree of hope and comfort in one particular musical endeavor undertaken by a public official. Last August, Barack Obama released on Spotify two playlists of his favorite summer tunes. One playlist is for the day, while the other is reserved for night. At the time,

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or physical adversity that is formative in the lives of so many individuals. The night playlist becomes much more subtle and pensive, opening with John Coltrane’s thirteen minute-long epic jazz rendition of “My Favorite Things.”

The rest of this playlist contains a number of serene love and jazz songs.

The contrast among these musical selections is surely a musical representation of the difference between the hot, busy summer day and the cool and placid summer night.

However, I believe that it speaks to its listeners on a far more philosophical level.

There are indeed innumerable issues currently facing the world, and it is crucial that those with a relative freedom of mobility use their resources to consistently challenge and fight injustices. However, equally as important is the remembrance of why these issues are worth combatting; that is, the human satisfaction of love, friendship or personal introspection. Such a theme can bridge the divide between polarized peoples and maybe this was Barack Obama’s intent when he picked these specific songs. The 2016 presidential race has thus far indicated that emphatic retorts and gestures may now speak more to feelings than do thoughtful words and statements. Perhaps it is music that may channel this new form of political efficacy into more bipartisan and compassionate action.

Nick Swan is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com. Swan’s Song appears alternate Fridays this term.

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In response to the Language House controversy To the Editor: I am Gregory Chu, a senior currently living in the Cornell University Language House. Having been a resident for almost three years, I am quite familiar with the Language House before and after significant changes were made.

But before I address the conflict as described in a recent article, I would like to highlight the aspects of the Language House that The Daily Sun neglects to mention.

The Language House offers residents a near immersion experience in their target language. Residents of a specific language section are required to only use their target language when speaking to other members of that section. This gives residents experience in the practical and social use of a language, which is often neglected in traditional classroom settings. As such, living in the Language House is a must for students studying a foreign language and those planning on spending a semester abroad.

In addition, the Language House offers residents the opportunity to interact and socialize with a highly diverse group of people including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and various guests. While living in the Language House, I have met some of the most intelligent, passionate and unforgettable people here at Cornell. Without a doubt, I am proud to have lived in the Language House, and highly encourage more Cornellians to do so.

That being said, many other Language House residents and I believe we can improve the Language House experience. I had hoped the petition would lead to a productive discussion on how residents and the administration could achieve this mutual goal. Clearly this has not yet happened.

The Language House is an excellent program with so much to offer. The problems facing the Language House are by no means insurmountable, but require that the residents, native speakers, house fellows and the administration work together rather than against each other. Despite the drama currently playing out in the media, I remain confident that these issues will be resolved timely, and that the Language House will become stronger as a result of this honest dispute.

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n the house where my brother lives, entered Auschwitz and died there. For there are mirrors everywhere. There some, mere days separate those two dates. must be 15 or 16 of them lining the Very few people were smiling, many of halls; circular mirrors with ornate frames, them had matted hair and tired eyes. You squares mirrors lined with old pho- can take many tidbits of thought from vistographs, the floor-to-ceiling ones that iting a Nazi death camp, but what I kept interfere with normal depth perception. thinking was how little vanity mattered to Everywhere I am I can see myself turning these people, even before facing the horcorners and gliding down the slippery rors of Auschwitz. And how, faced with wooden hallways and opening interior such challenges, consideration towards doors. I have an ugly affair with mirrors, looking nice is laughable. Aesthetic not unlike a relationship with a disap- appearance seems to me the lowest on the proving grandmother whom you fre- totem pole of human needs, and never quently check in on. Mirrors usually more than when I was facing those faces. worsen my mood, yet they are magnetic Society might disagree. Explicitly they to me — I glance at my reflection at every (the royal “they”) will tell you that Beauty pass, revolving slowly like a microwavable Is On The Inside and It’s What’s Inside pizza, catching all my angles. Fix that That Counts and The Most Beautiful stray hair, tuck this in, don’t stand like People Are Happy On The Inside. But that. I think mirrors offer an opportunity subtly, they will ply you with images and to prove to myself I am not as strange commercials and magazines that scream looking as I think. Only half the time am outer beauty and contouring and flatter I satisfied. your figure! We are We’re just visiting torn between two this house — visiting ideals. It’s as if it’s an my brother, more When you think about unspoken rule, we are specifically, in the not allowed to talk how quickly life Polish town he’s lived about how much we in for the past year. It’s moves and what little care whether or not we been an emotionally are pretty. impact your heavy trip so far. We But how can we arrived Tuesday, on the appearance makes in look at something like day of the Brussels what happened at your daily life, it attacks, and today we Auschwitz and still drove 45 minutes to seems silly to care care about whether our visit the Auschwitzeyebrows look right or inordinately about Birkenau camps. We our shoes match what left for Auschwitz in celebrities are wearhair and clothes. It the the early morning, and ing? After my visit, the the weather here is just seems unimportant. topic of human vanity cold enough to be my mind quite a It seems superficial. isbit.onWhen bothersome when the you think sun is behind the about how quickly life clouds. There are four moves and what little mirrors in the foyer alone, and as we but- impact your appearance makes in your toned our coats I glanced into the nearest daily life, it seems silly to care inordinately one. I remember being unhappy with my about hair and clothes. It seems unimporhair, which I had thrown into a ponytail tant. It seems superficial. I have begun to in the wake of an uneasy night’s sleep in a think it would be far better to go through foreign land. life without constantly checking your own The Nazi camps were, to say the least, reflection, focusing instead on being both chilling. Most of what a typical tour interesting and interested. On value over group views is original and largely vanity. untouched, so it’s no great stretch of the So even though the immediate memoimagination. Walking through the build- ry of Auschwitz will fade and regular life ings where prisoners lived, worked and will supersede, I have resolved to thrown perished is an experience that transcends away pride where my looks are concerned. daily life and consumes all immediate Who cares if my hair is unkempt? Who thought, almost like being in a long movie cares if I am wearing socks with sandals? I — when you leave, you’re not sure how am an interesting person; I don’t worry much time has passed and you can’t about what people think of how I look. remember what you were thinking about Of course, saying that is simple. beforehand.

Embodying that is pretty damn hard.

One such building displayed the This morning, when I go down the sparse, overcrowded rooms where prison- hall for breakfast, I peek at exactly zero ers lived. On the walls outside the rooms mirrors. were thousands of photographs, set up like mug shots, taken of each individual Ruth Weissmann is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at person upon their arrival and including raw287@cornell.edu.

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f you’ve ever taken a psych class, odds are you’ve heard of the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Children were told that they could either eat a marshmallow immediately or wait 15 minutes and have two marshmallows. Some of the kids gobbled up the marshmallow right away while others were able to hold out for the big payoff at the end of the test. The study was a landmark look at delayed gratification, and later studies showed that the kids who could hold out for that second marshmallow went on to greater academic and professional success than the kids who couldn’t. Delayed gratification equals success. Simple, right?

But, how does one measure success? If you’re an academic achiever (a safe assumption if you’re reading this column), you’ve probably delayed gratification most of your life to give yourself a shot at “success” after you graduate from school and/or training. In grade school, you work hard to get into a good high school, where you then work hard to get into a good college, where you subsequently work harder to get into a good company or graduate program and so on ad infinitum, so that you can ultimately be a “successful” person. In the medical field, with its extensive hierarchy — from medical student to resident to fellow to attending — this is especially true. But if you’re always working towards the next best opportunity, when do you actually reap the benefits of your hard work? When does the delaying stop and the gratification begin? And, how are we supposed to know what successes will make us happy when our education so strongly emphasizes those in the professional and academic arena? Is success really just hard-won achievement from sacrifice or is there something more?

I’ve been asking myself this question a lot lately as a third year medical student. Third year of medical school is made up of clerkships, large blocks of time where you join a medical team and learn how to manage the medical conditions within a given field, whether it be pediatrics, surgery or gynecology, to name a few. Third year is an exciting time when you actually see patients and apply what you learned in class, and it also serves as a critical chance to “try on” different fields for size and choose what kind of residency you want to apply to and therefore, what kind of doctor you want to be.

Unsurprisingly, medical residencies and the fields they feed into vary widely in length, rigor, compensation and work-life balance. Choosing a residency is akin to choosing the trajectory for the rest of your career, along with your salary, hours and the demand on your personal life.

Many students have to weigh factors such as when they want to start a family, how much compensation they hope to attain, how much time for their personal life they need and even whether the

time and energy that goes into a residency and possibly even a fellowship is worth the payoff at the end, whatever that may be. Do I want to train in a large, prestigious academic program where more will be expected of me but I’ll have a stronger pedigree and stand on the cutting edge of medicine? What about a smaller community program that won’t turn as many heads on my resume but also won’t try to make me fight to become a leader in the field even if I just want a small private practice and a thriving family life? Do I want to reach further for the shinier brass ring or should I live a little and settle for one more within reach?

Ben Franklin often told a relevant parable based on his experience purchasing a whistle during his boyhood. Creatively titled, “The Whistle,” the parable details how young Benjamin, en route to a toy shop, instead purchased a whistle from a boy he met along the way with all of the money he had intended to spend at the store. Overjoyed with his purchase, he returned home with his prize. However, his enjoyment was cut short when his siblings pointed out how much he had overpaid for his new toy, and how much more fun he could have squeezed out of those extra coppers he overpaid with. The whistle then only served to remind him of his folly and he no longer derived any joy from playing with it. He had paid too much for his whistle.

Franklin tells this story to caution his readers against paying too much for the things we think we desire, lest the joy we take is overshadowed by the bitterness of the cost we pay. While he probably was talking about throwing your life away in fruitless pursuits, this risk is also ever-present when you’re a delayed gratifier. After years of climbing the academic ladder rung by rung, many of us reflexively reach for the biggest brass ring we can see, even if the cost means we are filled with bitter regrets when we look back on our lives filled with tangible achievements. Thoughts like “I wish I had spent more time with my kids when it mattered,” “work leaves me no time to enjoy my hobbies on weekends” or “I wish I had traveled more before I had all of these responsibilities,” are all too common when you get caught up in becoming the greatest achiever you can. Of course, plenty of people obtain real fulfillment from committing themselves completely to their work, and there is no one-size-fits-all for how to attain meaningful balance. However, everyone eventually reaches a limit on how long they can give 110% before drawing a line in the sand in order to give themselves a chance to live a little.

So how are we to know when enough is enough?

Jack Stupinski is a third-year M.D. candidate at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He may be reached at jas2069@med.cornell.edu.What’s Up Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ast week I caught a mistake in one of the readings for my Nutritional Science 3090: Global Health Case Studies class. The article was entitled “What Can Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health?” by Pfieffer and Nichter. It discussed how national health systems were underperforming because of a lack of infrastructure.

Together, the authors hold two bachelor’s degrees, three master’s degrees and two doctoral degrees. However, while discussing health challenges the authors grouped “Africa” in with “other resource poor countries.”

Africa is a continent, not a country. Back in August of 2014, the Washington Times cited both Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as having referred to Africa as both a country and a nation. I understand that everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

However, I also believe that repetitive mistakes require examination. When four highly intelligent, highly educated individuals make a basic geography mistake, we must question whether the knowledge we are receiving from the people our society deems as researchers, ambassadors and teachers should be blindly trusted and regarded as fact. I believe we must go out into the world and discover truth for ourselves.

Cornellians who consume media about international affairs are always asked to make a choice: whether to accept or reject the reality of the world they live in. The best analogy for this is The Matrix in the scene where Morpheus presents Neo with the choice of choosing between the red pill or the blue pill. The blue pill will allow Neo to continue to live his life ignorant of the truth.

The red pill will awaken Neo’s senses to the true reality of life. In one hand, a student can believe an ahistorical view of the world.

This is a reality where inequality and oppression are nonexistent and global white supremacy is a myth. It believes that neocolonialism is a fairy tale when countries report that the World Bank and the IMF are engaging in predatory lending practices and

are sabotaging their economies.

This is the blue pill and once one takes it ignorance becomes bliss.

On the other hand is the red pill.

The student has the ability to swallow the hard truth and becoming “woke,” aware of the ugly realities of the world they live in. Many people I talk to describe the state of “wokeness” as a permanent state of consciousness, a mental attitude. I believe that the choice to be conscious or unconscious to life is an daily choice, an hourly decision and a second by second stance. It is making the choice to see the world in its full glory, pleasure and pain, façade and fact, falsity and truth.

Our dilemma in the present day is that we live in a hyper-visible world of information technology that still renders certain people invisible both inside and outside our society. Continents, countries, movements and populations of people are misrepresented and misinterpreted, not only in the media but also in academia. It is easy to read a book or an article about world affairs or take a vacation. However, a vacation is a pseudo-escape from reality with a front row seat to distraction. It is passive, easy and comfortable. We cannot afford to take the easy path. It is harder to learn a language and engage with a community. However, this is the work that needs to be done. I believe this is the reason why the College of Arts and Sciences has a language requirement. All that is next is a diversity requirement.

It is the job of Cornellians, regardless of GPA, to have the courage to go about this task of correcting the wrongs of the past, bridging our gaps of knowledge and contributing to true cultural understanding with curiosity and passion. The world does not need any more careless Spring Breakers who present a misconstrued image to the world of who all Americans are. The world does not need any more tourists. It needs ambassadors.

Post WWII, President Harry S. Truman and the U.S. Government created as a flagship international educational exchange program on Aug. 1, 1946 known as the Fulbright Fellowship. According to Gilbert

Levine, Cornell’s current Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays program advisor, “The Fulbright Program is an unique investment program, not a problemsolving program! It is intended to develop a more knowledgeable and culturally empathetic cadre of individuals who will become leaders in their fields of endeavor — professional, social, and political … It is clear, from our current political campaign that the U.S. would benefit from a greater population of educated young people who had personal experience living and working in other countries.” The Fulbright Fellowship is the example of an opportunity for future global leaders who want to engage in an experience of ambassadorship, cross cultural exchange and peace building.

Past generation of scholars and academics dedicated their lives to accurately present the world as they knew it in their time. However, their knowledge alone was not enough. None of them were able to account for all of the complexities, nuances and contradictions that their future, our present, would bring. The mantle of responsibility for research, teaching and truth telling lies with the scholar ambassadors of the future. The ambassadors of the future should pack the backpack of responsibility, the suitcase of curiosity and the carry-on of conscience.

They must be able to speak their truth and share their stories with others wherever they are in the world. Tomorrow’s scholar should be able to see through deceptive identities of a textbook world and be willing to reauthor the scripts of their mind.

The global shapers of our century must actively participate in engaged learning and research to question and challenge convention. There are three kinds of people you meet in life: those who read the news, those who write the news and those who are the news.

Which one are you?

Jeremiah Grant is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Jeremiah can be reached at jg856@cornell.edu. Gates & Ladders appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 “Dancing With the Stars” network 6 Early sign of spring 11 Big, uncouth guy 14 Flap 15 Now 16 King of ancient Rome 17 Songs without words?

19 Celebrity known for wearing gold jewelry 20 Like 21 Check for a poker player?

22 Corner of a diamond 23 Place name derived from a Koyukon word for “tall” 25 Touch 27 Earthquake consequence?

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55 Hustler’s genre 59 Dollar alternative 60 Pop __ 61 Money-making fiasco?

63 Important time 64 Leader of the pack?

65 Main artery 66 __ Taco 67 Manage 68 Solid that, when divided into three parts, describes this puzzle’s theme

DOWN 1 Sportscaster Rashad 2 Capital on its own river 3 “__ Thro’ the Rye”: Burns 4 Kin, informally 5 Soccer practice transport 6 Sphere opening 7 Lynda Bird’s married name 8 Auteur’s starting point 9 Stock-tracking device 10 Part of PBS: Abbr.

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48 Charm 51 “If __ Would Leave You” 52 Perfume applications 53 State in northeast India 56 How ties may be broken, briefly 57 Re-entry need 58 Word in many place names 61 Stir-fry additive 62 Opening

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FRIDAY MARCH 25, 2016

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SOFTBALL

Busy Break to Include Start of Ivy Play

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s softball will face four opponents over Spring Break, beginning with a doubleheader against George Washington (11-12) in Washington D.C. on March 29. The next day, the Red heads to Poughkeepsie for a pair with Marist (17-7). Cornell finishes the break with its first two home games of the season, against Ivy opponents Harvard (9-10) on April Fools Day and Dartmouth (7-8) on April 2.

Cornell had gone winless over its first ten games before beating Georgetown last Saturday. According to head coach Julie Farnow ’97, finally coming out on top instills confidence that her team is on the right track.

“The good thing about that win is it showed us what we need to do to win,” she said. “Our hitters were aggressive. We got a lead early in the game and we held onto it.”

Senior pitcher Meg Parker is also optimistic.

“It’s definitely a relief,” she said. “We’re over that hump.”

Farnow is happy with the positive steps her pitchers are taking, as evident in their results last weekend and in practice this week. She said the 13-0 loss to St. Francis after the Georgetown victory was in heavy rain, so she doesn’t look at that game as an indicator of performance.

“The other three games, we did throw the ball well,” she said. “They’re really starting to zone in.”

Parker acknowledged the improvement but knows there is still a lot of work to be done.

“I feel like I improved from last time,” she said.

“There is still a lot work to be done.”

The George Washington and Marist games offer the final in-season action before games start counting in the Ivy standings. According to senior catcher Leanne Iannucci, playing actual games is one of the best ways to

improve.

“It’ll be good to get some reps in,” she said.

Farnow and the Red are anticipating both out-ofleague opponents to play well.

“We played George Washington last year,” she said.

“They’ll be good competition ... they’re pretty solid.

We’ve always had very close games against them.”

“Marist is a very tough team,” she added. “They are a very fast team [and] have a ton of stolen bases.”

Iannucci said that while the Red has seen most of these teams in recent years, class turnover means no two seasons for a given team are exactly the same.

“We don’t really know until you actually play them,” she said.

After George Washington and Marist, Cornell will have played its first sixteen games on the road. The Harvard doubleheader is the Red’s first home stint of the year and will be the first games in the renovated Niemand*Robinson Field.

“We’re kind of road warriors,” Farnow said. “I think [the advantage of playing at home] is familiarity.”

The Red are well aware that they have a clean slate going into Ivy League competition, given that Ivy League standings are determined solely from the outcomes of games between Ivy opponents.

“Really, the season starts this week for us,” Farnow said. “If we win one game in March but a lot in April, that’s okay.’”

Nonetheless, Ivy League competition will be very good this season.

Dartmouth took five of six games on the West Coast last weekend, including a win against Stanford. Farnow said the Red will try to cast aside school rivalries and its own non-league record and focus on one game at a time.

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun.com.

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A blank slate | The Red will get a chance to “start over” in April with the beginning of Ivy League competition.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Red Hopes to Regain Positive Momentum Against Penn

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell men’s lacrosse team continues Ivy League play this weekend with a game against Penn, looking to regain positive momentum after the team’s loss to Yale last weekend. The loss marked the first time the Red had fallen to the Bulldogs since 1999.

Cornell (3-3, 0-1 Ivy) has finished on top of nine of its last ten games against the Quakers, but Penn (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) has a very strong team this season and will surely be a tough opponent.

The Red has been focused on this game in practice since the loss to Yale. The team will typically begin a practice week focusing on general lacrosse drills and then gear Thursday and Friday toward studying the weekend’s opponent using tape and special, selected drills.

Freshman attackman Zachary Ward — one of 17 freshmen on the Red’s roster — emphasized that the team will have to win the ground ball battle in order to be successful against a high-caliber team like Penn.

“I think [winning the groundball battle] is really important this week coming after a loss especially,” he said. “We just have to get back to the basics.”

KARLY KRASNOW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Key to camaraderie | The relationship between freshman attackman Zach Ward and senior attackman John Edmonds, pictured above, is just one example of the relationships that have developed between upperclassmen and underclassmen on the team.

The Red have one of the best face-off and ground ball players in the country in junior midfielder Domenic Massimilian and really hope he will step up this weekend.

Massimilian ranked second in the nation last season with 9.38 ground balls per game and is averaging 8.5 this season.

He has won the faceoff battle in five of his six games.

Obtaining possession is essential for success in lacrosse, which makes having a good ground-ball player like Massimilian key.

Ward, who has had a breakout season as a freshman, emphasized how veteran players like Massimilian have helped him and the other freshmen transition from high school play. Ward emphasized the speed of collegiate lacrosse as the major difference from high school.

“It's been a lot faster,” he said. “When I first got here, I realized how the speed of the game is much different in high school.”

Ward had two assists in the loss to Yale and has two goals on the season. Both goals came in the Red’s 6-5 win over Colgate on March 15, when senior attackman John Edmonds fired an assist to Ward for a goal at the buzzer.

Ward described how Edmonds has helped him extensively with the assimilation to college.

“He’s been a big role in my time here,” he said. “He's really good at letting you know that there will always be peaks and valleys.”

“The special moment we had at Colgate really helped me,” he added.

The lengthy lacrosse season is full of ups and downs for any team, and communication between younger and older players is essential for establishing camaraderie. It is essential the Red take the season one game at a time.

For now, though, the Red are focused on the Quakers. A win this weekend will be essential for establishing positive momentum going further into Ivy League and postseason play.

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.