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Ithacans Open Doors to Airbnb Visitors

Say hosting for company supplies citizens with revenue,supports local economy

By ISABEL LING

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Using Airbnb — a world-renowned vacation rental service that enables guests to stay in local hosts’ homes — residents across Tompkins County and upstate New York are opening up their houses “There are lot to strangers.

The company’s activity in the of issues with Southern Tier — a region of New York that includes Steuben, housing in Schuyler, Chemung, Tompkins, Ithaca, and Tioga, Broome, Chenango and Delaware Counties — has grown this helps to approximately 650 hosts in Ithacans stay 2015, according to an Airbnb report. in their Ithaca resident Dan Taylor said he decided to rent out a bedroom homes.” in his South Hill house to earn Dan Taylor extra money after a positive experience with Airbnb in Amsterdam.

Taylor, who has been a host for one year, said guests are largely split between people visiting Cornell and Ithaca College and tourists visiting the

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Airbnb’s unique business model allows visitors to build relationships with their hosts, who regularly interact with guests and offer a local perspective, according to Taylor.

“There is a difference between staying with some-

Ithaca Police Arrest Armed Man After W. State Street Blockade Police have arrested Nicholas Monaco, 38, for allegedly threatening another man with a gun on the Commons Tuesday afternoon, according to an Ithaca Police Department press release.

After making the threat, Monaco fled into a building with multiple apartments, the release said.

Officers arrived on the scene at approximately 4:11 p.m. and blocked off a section of West State Street — extending from North Geneva Street to North Cayuga Street — with police tape as they investigated.

The blockaded area included the Capital Corner restaurant, the State Theatre of Ithaca and The Cornell Daily Sun’s office. At least three officers with high-powered rifles and one police dog were on the scene.

Officers took Monaco into custody at the Ithaca Police lock-up, according to the release. He has been charged with menacing in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree — two class A misdemeanors — and was arraigned at the Ithaca City Court yesterday.

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Cornellians Praise Contributions of Dean Hubbell ’69 at Farewell Event

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during an investigation Tuesday.

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Fond farewell | Kent Hubbell ’69 will vacate his position as Dean of Students this year and resume his professorship in the architecture school.

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Commons crime | Police sectioned off areas of West State Street

one who can give you a personalized experience ... and just visiting,” Taylor said. “Someone who lives every day in the town can give you a very positive experience.”

Taylor added that people who use Airbnb instead of hotels are putting money into the local economy and helping community members.

“Our property taxes are high and there are a lot of issues with housing in Ithaca, and this helps Ithacans stay in their homes,” he said.

Tompkins County’s 843,000 annual visitors produce a total lodging revenue of approximately $45 million a year, according to the Ithaca Tourism Board website.

Airbnb’s report stated that its total host earnings for 2015 was $4 million, with each host earning approximately $5,300 annually.

A group of self-organized Tompkins County hosts, which has since disbanded, assisted with Airbnb’s efforts to pass legislation that would allow the company to collect occupancy tax on room rentals, Taylor said.

The legislation would allow hosts to remit their taxes to the government, according to Josh Meltzer, Head of Public Policy for Airbnb in New York.

“Airbnb is eager to work with leaders from around

Over 100 Cornell alumni, administrators, faculty and students gathered in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room Tuesday to celebrate Dean of Students Kent L. Hubbell’s ’69 final semester in that role.

Hubbell — an architecture professor who will continue to teach in the College of

Architecture, Art and Planning — has served as dean for 15 years. In that time, Hubbell has left an indelible mark on both the University and the people with whom he has worked, according to Joseph Burke, director of residential and student life programs. “[Hubbell’s] generosity of spirit and kindness is as real as any bridge or building ever constructed, and it is certainly more

enduring,” Burke said.

Several speakers testified to Hubbell’s unreserved commitment to serving students.

“At the core of his work has always been the students — not himself, not the staff and administrators, but rather, the students,” Burke said.

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Man Turns Himself In on Charge Of Stealing Television in 1989 NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Police say a man charged with stealing a television in Connecticut 27 years ago flew from his Florida home and voluntarily turned himself in last weekend after recently learning there was a warrant out for this arrest.

Police in Norwalk, Connecticut, tell The Hour newspaper that 60-year-old Randy Iannacone, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, arrived at headquarters Sunday with the letter notifying him of the warrant.

Iannacone was arrested and charged with thirddegree larceny. He was released with a promise to appear in court next week. The charge stemmed from the 1989 theft of a television from the Norwalk Jewish Center, where Iannacone worked as a custodian.

Lieutenant Paul Resnick says it was “pretty cool” that Iannacone turned himself in.

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International Jetport. It’s one of 10 individual animal sculptures that are part of a work called Glimpse by artist Wendy Klemperer.

Animals include a deer and wolf. The porcupine that was stolen is nearly three feet long and is made from steel and repurposed nails.

A police report has been filed but the sculpture has not been recovered. Police are asking anyone with information about the missing sculpture to contact them.

Hamburglar Breaks Into Five Guys Restaurant WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say a man got hungry while he was burglarizing a District of Columbia hamburger restaurant and began cooking himself some food.

The Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release that security footage from March 18 shows the suspect putting food on the grill after breaking into a Five Guys restaurant.

The video appears to show the man cooking two cheeseburgers while talking on a cellphone, but a police spokesman tells The Washington Post he couldn’t confirm the nature of the food.

Officer Sean Hickman says the man sneaked inside the restaurant after a delivery person left, and eventually stole a bottle of water.

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Multidisciplinary Prof Details Pioneering Work With Biotextiles

By JONATHAN LEVENFIELD Sun Staff Writer

When Prof. Chih-Chang Chu, fiber science and apparel design, arrived at Cornell in 1978, his approach to textiles was unlike anyone else’s in his department.

“When we think about textile fibers, we think about clothes only –– outside the human body,” Chu said.

“Nobody related textile fibers for human body repair and reconstruction inside the human body.”

Chu combined his background knowledge in chemistry and polymers to use synthetic fibers for human body repair and reconstruction.

As a Ph.D. student at Florida State University, Chu said he became engrossed in the study of polymers and saw a practical use for them. He first used polymers for tissue and body repair for his postdoctoral work at the University of Alabama, where he focused on maxillofacial prostheses –– reconstructing facial structure due to radical surgery, defects or accidents.

Afterward, Chu said he secured a position in Cornell’s Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, an outcome he attributed to the department’s appreciation of his novel work.

“We at Cornell were the pioneers in using biotextiles

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inside the human body, as I started this frontier program in 1978,” Chu said. “No other university in this planet had that foresight 37 years ago. We were the first. Now a lot of traditional textile design-related schools are jumping onto this wagon, about 20 to 30 years later.”

Chu is currently the only FSAD faculty member who focuses on the inside of the human body, making him the self-proclaimed “ugly duckling” of the department.

While he may be alone in this field, Chu said his work has paid off.

Chu has received 68 patents and earned a spot in the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, whose members comprise “the top two percent of the medical and bioengineering community,” according to the AIMBE website.

His most successful invention was the development of “pseudo-proteins” that attach drugs to stent implants — mesh tubes used in surgery to open blocked arteries. The European Medicines Agency has approved the pseudoproteins, and Chu said he hopes the Food and Drug Administration will follow suit eventually.

Chu summarized his work by discussing “the three P’s: publications, patents and partnership.” He said publications enable him to share his work with the academic world, while patents allow for the commercial-

ization of his inventions.

He added that graduate and undergraduate students in his lab have the rare opportunity of becoming copatent holders, since he “always gives students the proper credit they deserve.”

However, Chu emphasized partnership above all else.

“We need partners because our field is multidisciplinary in nature,” he said. “I’m only good in material chemistry. I’m not a biologist, I’m not a clinician and I’m not an immunologist. We have to partner with other expertises using multidisciplinary strategies to advance this field.”

This concept also applies to the classroom. Chu said he prides himself on creating courses that attract students from nearly every college on campus, and even requires students to work with peers from different academic backgrounds for some of his group projects. “[My classes] have a unique characteristic of training students to think [in a] multidisciplinary [way], to open their minds,” Chu said. “If you have an open mind, you’ll have some unconventional and creative thinking.”

In addition to his teaching and research at Cornell, Chu also serves on the editorial board of four science and medical-related journals and has held visiting appointments in Taiwan, England, Philadelphia and Maryland.

Chu said these experiences have given him a “global perspective,” which he called necessary for expanding the reach of his field.

“My basic philosophy is that there is no border for human body repair or reconstruction –– global vision regardless of race, ethnic groups and countries,” Chu said. “We want to broaden the impact of our research outcomes as much as we can for human beings and for the well-being of the whole world.”

Jonathan Levenfield can be reached at jlevenfield@cornellsun.com.

Speaker Seeks to Challenge Misconceptions About Rape said. “It’s not until you get [to college] that people start talking about this, long after people have already had sex or been Widespread misconceptions sexually assaulted.” about victimhood hinders disAnother common misconcussion of pervasive rape culception about rape is that men ture, according to author Kate are always the perpetrators — Harding. according to Harding, they are In her keynote address on statistically more likely to be Monday during Cornell’s secraped than to ond annual Sexual Assault Awareness “When you put people into one of these rape.“We tend to Week, Harding described her ‘unrapeable’ categories, that just creates talk about men only as perpetrastruggle to identimore barriers.” tors, not as vicfy and convict tims,” she said. someone who Kate Harding “This is a really raped her in colbig problem, tied lege. She said her friends did not believe her can do to prevent rape, not into all of these other things, account and told her they “don’t what perpetrators should do to leaving a group of victims really believe that he is a rapist, but not rape, according to Harding. undeserved.”

She added that the implica“[We are] laying the ground[they] believe that he is a blackout drunk that doesn’t know work that if you are assaulted, tion that only certain types of and any one of those things women can be raped causes what he does.”

“I get it if you don’t want to were present, then it’s your many groups — such as ethnic people or homosexuals — to believe that someone you know fault,” she said.

Harding called for more become marginalized from disand like did something like this,” Harding said. “We have extensive education efforts, cussions of sexual assault.

“If you are gay, are raped by to be informed enough to have especially for adolescents, on the intellectual background consent and sexual assault to another man and tell somebody, then you now have that stigma overriding that knee-jerk reac- shift this belief.

“College is too late,” she of having been raped by a man, tion and take these claims seriBy JUSTIN PARK

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ously.”

Rumors that her alleged perpetrator had been involved with several other sexual assault cases in the past finally moved Harding to file a formal complaint, she said.

Rape culture tends to blame victims for the incident, and many women are told what they

the stigma of it being ‘queer,’ and you have no obvious support system,” Harding said.

“When you put people into one of these ‘unrapeable’ categories, that just creates more barriers to [victims] being able to access

resources and find help, let alone find justice.”

Harding said she hopes to challenge current conversation around rape culture.

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Take a stand | In a keynote address for Sexual Assault Awareness Week, author Kate Harding seeks to debunk myths about rape.

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his deanship.”

Lombardi confirmed that Hubbell’s focus on student health endured throughout his tenure.

“Kent is a very genuine man, a very sincere man, Lombardi — a former dean of students at Ohio University — pointed out the selflessness required to who cares deeply about students and their wellbeing,” Lombardi said. “He has always seemed very perform Hubbell’s job.

“Every day, you are acting as an advocate for oth- focused on that and very committed to student ers, and Kent really embodied that notion of being advocacy on that front.”

In his time as dean, Hubbell also supported the an advocate for students,” Lombardi said. “I think it’s important for us to take the time out to thank creation of Cornell’s Asian and Asian American Center and made renovations to Willard Straight him for those 15 years of advocacy.”

Hall that include the Hubbell said he Cornell Ceramics enjoyed his work as “Kent is a very genuine man, a very Studio, the Browsing dean, joking that “it’s sincere man, who cares deeply about Library, the Fifth Floor just wonderful to work Lounge and the Office with students when you students and their well-being.” of Student and don’t have to give Community Support. grades.”

Ryan Lombardi Hubbell’s work for “The most wonderful The Straight will be one thing about Cornell is its students, so it has been a great pleasure dedicating of his lasting legacies, according to Matthew myself to enriching the student experience,” Stefanko ’16, Student Assembly Vice President of Hubbell said. “The Cornell student experience is Finance.

“It is a complicated building, and being able to much more than the simple sum of courses and credit hours a student takes for a degree. That’s a understand it the way he did — to be able to work very important concept that everybody in the on renovations and to be able to passionately advocate for the changes that were so badly needed — is Cornell community needs to understand.”

Former Vice President for Student and Academic certainly a legacy,” Stefanko said. “Anyone who has Services Susan Murphy ’73, who hired Hubbell as either used a resource in Willard Straight Hall or dean in 2001, said Hubbell’s commitment to stu- appreciated its aesthetic probably has Hubbell to dents was apparent from his application to the posi- thank.”

Hubbell said he plans to “rekindle [his] role as tion.

“He wrote about the importance of student mild-mannered university professor of architecture” health, especially mental health, and the work that when he leaves his position as dean. He plans to we on a college campus had to do to learn more teach one semester per year for the next four years. about mental health and especially how to identify students who may have particular challenges,” Drew Musto can be reached at Murphy said. “He wanted that to be a centerpiece of dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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the state to collect and remit taxes on behalf of hosts, and to create sensible laws that would allow our community to legally share their primary homes for less than 30 days,” Meltzer said.

Taylor said these self-organized communities within the region are “essential to the relationship of trust built between guests, hosts and Airbnb.”

“It isn’t really one memorable moment of being a host, but rather a series of serendipitous meetings that have led us to make long-lasting friendships with visitors and people throughout Ithaca,” Taylor said.

Meltzer added that he hopes Ithaca residents will continue to work with Airbnb in the future.

“We are thrilled that there are so many hosts in the Southern Tier, as New Yorkers in all corners of the state are discovering that hosting is a great way to help make ends meet,” Meltzer said.

Isabel Ling can be reached at iling@cornellsun.com.

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“I talk about rape culture very often in terms of men and women in a heterosexual context, because so much of rape culture operates in terms of telling women what to do to protect themselves and upholding rigid gender roles,” she said. “But this is something that affects people of all genders, and I don’t want to [disregard that].”

Justin Park can be reached at justinpark@cornellsun.com.

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Obama’s Comments on Clinton Email Raise Concerns of Bias

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes his former secretary of state did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information.

But he also says he’s not trying to influence his administration’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

The White House on Tuesday was under pressure to reconcile those two statements — asserting Obama’s public defense of Clinton was not an attempt to meddle in an ongoing probe and that federal investigators will not be swayed by the boss’ views.

“The president is committed to ensuring that individuals who are conducting criminal prosecutions do their work without influence from politicians or anybody that’s involved in politics,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

Earnest’s reassurances came amid growing criticism that Obama had put his finger on the scale with recent comments describing Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state as mere “carelessness.” In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Obama seemed to embrace the Clinton campaign’s suggestion that the root of the controversy is overclassification — that too much

government information is classified by bureaucrats after the fact.

And most notably, Obama weighed in with his views on Clinton’s intent.

“She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy,” he said of Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.

The FBI is investigating whether sensitive information that flowed through Clinton’s email server was mishandled.

There are also at least 38 civil lawsuits, including one filed by The Associated Press, seeking records related to Clinton's time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

It wasn’t the first time that Obama has suggested that he doesn’t think there’s much to the email controversy. In October, he said flatly he didn’t think the setup posed a national security problem.

Each time he weighs in, it raises legal experts’ eyebrows and roils political adversaries.

Republicans this week have suggested Obama is signaling prosecutors to go easy, and using a different standard for Clinton that has been applied to other administration officials investigated for mishandling information, like former CIA Director David Petraeus.

Skiers Stuck on Alaska Glacier Rescued in Good Condition ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rescuers on Tuesday picked up two skiers who were stranded on an Alaska glacier for four days.

The experienced outdoor enthusiasts were in good condition after braving fierce winds and snow by digging a snow cave for shelter.

A break in the weather allowed an Alaska Air National Guard helicopter to land on Bear Glacier to reach Jennifer Neyman and Christopher Hanna.

Rescuers assessed the health of Neyman and Hanna before they were flown to Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna.

Hospital spokeswoman Camile Sorenson said Hanna felt so good, he didn’t check in.

Neyman was being evaluated, she said.

“They had to dig out four feet of snow around the survivors to get to them,” said Guard Lt. Col. Matt Calabro, 38, the director of operations for the 210th Rescue Squadron, which flies the helicopters.

He said they were in good spirits and uninjured.

“Being on the mountain that long, in the cold, in the snow, isolated, we are going to take them to the hospital,” Calabro said. “We just want to make sure they are safe.”

An airplane had dropped off Neyman, 36, and Hanna, 45, on Friday but could not return that night because of bad weather.

Though planning to spend just one day on the glacier, they carried a light tent and two days of provisions, plus communication devices important to their rescue.

Strong wind and snow shredded their tent Saturday. They dug snow shelters but were run-

ning out of fuel for their cook stove.

Neyman and Hanna used cellphone calls and satellite text messages to communicate with friends and rescuers. Satellite coordinates indicated the duo were at the 4,300-foot level of the 13-mile-long glacier, one of more than 30 in the Harding Ice Field, the largest ice field entirely within U.S. boundaries.

Strong winds and low clouds hampered rescue efforts.

“The terrain there is pretty gnarly,” said Calabro, 38, who also was the helicopter pilot on Monday’s attempt to rescue the two skiers.

“High mountain peaks, clouds, snow, icing and the glaciers, so everything is white-onwhite,” he said. “It's like what we call flying in a pingpong ball.”

Besides the white-out conditions, there were 30 mph winds with higher guests. “You can only go as far as you can see, so it’s a really dangerous environment to fly in,” he said.

He attempted to put a fourman rescue team on the ground Monday when he couldn’t land the helicopter. The first attempt, about eight miles from the skiers, was aborted because of huge crevasses on the glacier, which would have made for dangerous overland conditions.

The rescue team was eventually lowered to a nearby glacier that doesn’t have many crevasses.

The team was making the approximate 15-mile hike to the survivors when weather cleared Tuesday.

A Guard helicopter pinpointed the skiers’ location Tuesday, and crew members spotted skis believed to mark the entrance of a snow cave they dug.

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To the Editor: Both private and public college tuition costs have increased exponentially since I attended Cornell in the early ’70s. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) thinks it’s outrageous that today’s students will be saddled with huge student loan debts, sometimes as high as $100,000. He advocates a tax on Wall Street speculation that will enable public colleges and universities to offer tuition-free education, and he’s fighting to significantly reduce student loan interest rates.

In addition, Bernie has consistently voted to raise funding for public schools and to reduce class sizes. Bernie’s proposals show ingenuity and a concern for the ability of working class students to obtain a good education.

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When Honor Sleeps With Drama

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hen acclaimed filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was asked what ultimately drove him to create his film The Wind Rises, he pointed to a quote by Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the gorgeous Zero fighter planes that were infamous during WWII for their unparalleled killing capabilities. Wracked with guilt from the pain his creations had unleashed on the world, the engineer apparently once made one of the most simple yet poignant statements to ever go unheard by the world at large: “All I wanted to do was make something beautiful.”

Whether or not Horikoshi fully grasped his complicit nature in the devastation to come remains a point of contention. But we know one thing for sure: The moment he was selected for such an honorable task, a swirl of manipulation and distorted expectations descended upon the young man until, whether by his own design or not, he had become an instrument of war, and his planes the harbingers of terror. This illuminates a sad and universal truth: Along with all of the euphoria, affirmation and selfassuredness that accompanies leadership and prestige, crippling vulnerability and self-doubt are often not far behind.

Leaders can be some of the most flawed individuals in this collection of flawed creatures we call human beings, often succumbing to the allure of trivial petulance as easily as anyone else. I have seen this manifest in so many different, disheartening capacities that my only solace, ironically, has been my own comparable hypocrisy. It’s always been refreshing to immerse myself in self-reflection and whisper quietly “At least you’re no better.” Needless to say, there’s a reason I am such a resolute introvert: Navigating the sea of humanity can be an exercise in perpetual disappointment, and I’d rather be disappointed in the one person whom I can control.

As leaders, we should understand that when the dominant force guiding our actions is not noble, then our cause will fall prey to improper execution.

We cannot view the systems that we critique through the biased lens of our discontent, lest we risk conjuring up inaccurate perceptions of those same systems and replicating the very dynamics that we claim to repudiate. I expect my predecessors to make a concerted effort to be fully transparent and objective so that I can make informed decisions about my future. Vitriolic slandering and fallacious depictions of would-be “competitors” should be cast aside so that we as leaders can instead turn towards that which matters. There is evil pervading this world. And while we may find it both easy and comforting to cope with entities like the White Students Union by laughing at their absurdity or denouncing them outright, we fail to see the subtle, undeniably human traits that undergird their existence. The same foolish pride that leads to this blatant evil can creep, casually costumed as benevolence, into the upper echelons of our most esteemed circles. We can deny its exis-

tence, but that will not dampen its incendiary and counterproductive impact.

Yet the same goes for those being criticized in the first place (for better or worse). We cannot become so obsessed with defending our own merit that we inadvertently neglect to at least consider the criticisms being levied against us. When we are too strongly endeared with institutional memory — this hallowed idea of “what has been, is all that can be”— we allow it to hover untouchably over our response to present-day realities.

Silent disapproval and passive dismissal of those who do not belong to the same esoteric constituencies as us will have a net positive effect of zero.

The boldness of our rhetoric should be reflected in equally bold actions.

Or, at the very least, we should ask ourselves the tough questions. What do we want our future relationships with other leaders to look like? Does knowing all that we know about our peers’ institution invalidate the goodness of their work?

There is much to concede here on my part. Admittedly, I tend to be impatient, not always granting people enough time to reflect before acting. I am as much one who has betrayed my own values as anyone else, sometimes rushing to make poor, dishonest decisions based purely off of limited perspective. In these cases, the knowledge that I can never truly rectify the situation is about as powerful of a reminder as I can have of the consequences for my unethical actions. But you can rest assured that, from now on, I will ask the right questions and challenge my peers from within. Should I be met with resentment, then I will have no choice but to leave, because I know from my own mistakes how dishonesty breeds drama, which begets discomfort and ultimately perpetuates negativity.

Leaders should not focus their collective energy on negativity, but on the issues that matter. Progress should be unhindered by pomp and panache, but rather bolstered by a collective moral consciousness and a commitment to truth.

At the end of the day, I will never know everything about anyone, but at the beginning of every day, I will always wake up knowing myself. I know that whether I am Amiri Banks, Cornell Student; Amiri Banks, Stanford professor; Amiri Banks, unemployed drug addict; or Amiri Banks, Kroger cashier, life will carry me towards the path that can only be walked by Amiri Banks. I will regret nothing about the qualifiers or affiliations I embrace or reject while walking that path, only what I do with the powers I wield. All I ever wanted was to love all people, to share my joy, to critique myself rigorously, inviting the same from others, and to appreciate the scope of wonderful art available to me. Perhaps not as elegant as Horikoshi’s quote, but just as sincere.

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun.com. Honest A.B. appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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came to Cornell to learn lots of things. That’s what college is all about: learning shit. Among the things I’m most proud of learning are various intricacies of contemporary art history, how to roll my own cigarette and how to contract mono. The Ivy League education system is filled to the brim with diverse educational opportunities, some in the classroom and some outside. As a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, I have a bunch of specific requirements to complete so I can graduate. While some people find the requirements daunting and excessive, I’ve always kind of enjoyed them. Taking a foreign language gave me an excuse to potentially travel abroad. Taking that one class about Blaxploitation Film opened my eyes to institutional racism in Hollywood. That being said, one requirement makes absolutely no sense to me — the swim test.

Cornell is among three Ivies that require each student to swim two laps in an Olympic sized pool in order to graduate. Their reasoning can be found nowhere because the swim test has absolutely no purpose. It pretty much just tests if you had a “normal” childhood, which I had no idea I was lacking until I came to Cornell.

While I can’t speak for other non-swimming Cornellians, I know I have been in water before. As weird as it sounds, you don’t need to be in a 10-foot pool to hang out at a pool. Tons of my childhood friends had pools, but their pools transitioned slowly from one-foot to seven-feet in depth, as any other recreational pool would. I could lit-

[The University’s] reasoning can be found nowhere because the swim test has absolutely no purpose. It pretty much just tests if you had a “normal” childhood, which I had no idea I was lacking until I came to Cornell. erally just stand in the five-foot portion of the pool, while still fully enjoying the water or whatever the point of being in a pool is.

Though I understand that swimming is a useful skill to have, I don’t get why it has to be mandatory. There are just so many ways to not drown. For example, I only take showers so to avoid the potential dangers of a bath. While I can’t use bath bombs, I’ve watched enough Snapchat stories to understand the novelty. I can’t go into the middle of the ocean, but the fun of going to the beach is really just getting sand in your cheeks and achieving that perfect sunkissed look. I probably won’t ever go gorge diving, but fuck all that townie garbage.

While I do want to graduate, I feel like the swim test shouldn’t be the thing that stops me from doing so. That’s just not the Cornell I know. Failing a class because you forgot attendance is mandatory would be a more Cornell way to not graduate. Switching your major as a senior because you realize you hate it would be pretty Cornell. Wanting to stay here one more semester because you realize you actually love it here would be very Cornell.

Maybe one day I will learn to swim. Maybe I’ll swim across the English Channel. Maybe I’ll end up becoming an Olympic swimmer. Maybe I’ll retire and live on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic. Maybe I’ll end up living in one of those caves in the gorges. Who knows what my life will end up like? One thing I do know is that I have to learn to swim to graduate for unnamed reasons. That’s definitely more than I bargained for. Maybe I’ll end up learning to swim. Maybe I won’t. Either way, I’m proud to say that all of Cornell exists on dry land, so I’ll be able to go to class regardless. If you’d like to talk to me directly about the swim test, you can find me far above Cayuga’s waters.

Akshay Jain is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at aj265@cornell.edu. College Stuff appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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raduation is 46 days stand why those demands will at the table and can work away. Forty-six days make this campus safer and WITH the powers that be to away, that lowkey more inclusive for all. We make decisions instead of hav(highkey) creeps me out. I was wouldn’t have false or “valid” ing them made FOR us. There walking to a meeting yesterday threats of White Student would be less snow and gray just marveling at the fact that Unions. More students would skies and more sun (I know in a few weeks, this venerable spend their time engaging this probably will never hapinstitution is going to be my with communities in ways that pen). MGLC organizations alma mater. If I am being hon- are relevant to their profes- would have the same resources est, I kind of still cannot sional and academic groups, as IFC and PanHel organizabelieve it. Still cannot believe and the growth of engagement tions. Students of color and that they admitted me to this at Cornell would be student CUPD would have a positive University. Still cannot believe focused and faculty or staff relationship. Mental health that it has would be something been four we stopped years. Still simply talkcan not I am left wondering if any of the work I’ve done ing about believe that it and someis finally my (or we all do) actually ever moves this place forthing we turn to cross that stage and ward and makes a difference. I’ve said it before a c t u a l l y turn my tasbegan to and I’ll say it again, I love Cornell. But, to love take care of. sel. I cannot believe this something is to criticize it and soon I won’t have AC o nr n de l ,l place and the would be a opportunities this column anymore so, I’m going to get all of bit less comit affords to my opinions out now. petitive, or each and at least every one of based in us.

On Mon healthier day night, Engaged Learning facilitated. Finances would not competition. and Research held its fourth be a barrier to student particiI am sure that I am forgetCommunity Engaged Showcase pation in internships, study ting things, but that is my and that coupled with other abroad, winter break trips, etc. vision for a better, more perfect things has me thinking about We wouldn’t need to have a Cornell. To those of you that what this campus would like in sexual assault awareness week, still have time left on this a perfect world. I am left won- because people will under- beloved Hill, I would encourdering if any of the work I’ve stand that no means no. age you to think about what done (or we all do) actually ever Cornell would be less Cornell at its best looks like to moves this place forward and siloed. People could still oper- you and then work to make that makes a difference. I’ve said it ate within their own commu- “dream” a reality. We are not before and I’ll say it again, I nity but there would be more going to become more perfect love Cornell. But, to love some- cross-pollination of ideas and overnight, but I have faith that thing is to criticize it and soon populations so that informa- if we continue to struggle with I won’t have this column any- tion reached us all at the same the big, tough ideas, and make more so, I’m going to get all of time. There would be a diver- space to have complex, complimy opinions out now. sity requirement for all of cated, and often hard conversaIf I woke up tomorrow and Cornell that was tailored to tions, that one day we will get by some chance Cornell was each college, but still met there. At least, I hope so. this “perfect” place what University-wide standards. would that look like? There There would be more transwould be more faculty and parency from the administra- Gabrielle Hickmon is a senior in the College Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be staff of color. All of BSU’s tion to students, faculty and ofreached at ghickmon@cornellsun.com. demands would be met and staff so that people affected by Gabbing with Gabby appears alternate people would really under- decisions actually have a seat Wednesdays this semester.

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Researchers Assess Potential Of New Gene Editing Tool Study unveils detection mechanism, features for Type I Cascade

By MARY NATTAKOM Sun Staff Writer

Imagine having the ability to edit the mutations out of your own genes. Genetic diseases like Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs and cystic fibrosis would become a thing of the past; this ability would change the face of medicine. The potential applications of gene editing are far-reaching — and new research from Cornell might get us closer to making these applications a reality.

A recent study may have uncovered another mechanism of a new gene editing technique. Prof.

Ailong Ke, molecular biology and genetics, has been leading research on the structure of Type I Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR) systems, which have the potential to be more specific than current gene editing techniques.

CRISPR refers to short repeating DNA sequences normally found in bacterial genomes that are important in the bacterial immune system. When bacteria are infected with viruses, a small portion of viral DNA can be integrated in the bacterial DNA between these CRISPR sequences. They serve as a database of foreign invaders, allowing the bacteria to easily recognize and attack viruses. Bacteria are then able to synthesize RNA molecules made from both CRISPR and viral DNA and use this RNA as a guide to find and cut up DNA from invading virus particles.

CRISPR immunity was discovered nearly a decade ago, but its new potential applications were only discovered in the last few years. With modifications, the CRISPR immune system has been transformed into a gene editing technique that can insert or delete genes at a target region with unprecedented accuracy. The key feature of this technique is a programmed CRISPR-Cas9 system — it uses a synthe-

sized RNA guide that can target nearly any desired DNA sequence. Once this system locates the sequence of interest, it uses the enzyme Cas9 to cut the DNA at that location. CRISPR can be applied to many different animal systems, including humans, but the full implications are still being studied. For now, the technology is primarily used in basic science research.

CRISPR technology has immense potential, but is still very new. Most research has been done on

“The crystal structure gives us the necessary information to potentially engineer new Cascade variants.”

Robert Hayes, post-doc Type II CRISPR-Cas9 systems, which use a single protein, Cas9, combined with a guide RNA to target a 20 nucleotide long DNA sequence. Research done in the Ke Lab investigates Type I CRISPR systems, also known as Cascade: CRISPR associated complex for antiviral defense. For the first time, they were able to uncover the mechanism of Type I Cascade.

In their recent paper published in Nature, Robert Hayes — a postdoctoral fellow in the Ke Lab and first author of the paper — describes some the key features of Type I Cascade. Unlike Type II CRISPR

systems, Type I Cascade is made up of several proteins and uses guide RNA to target a 32-35 nucleotide sequence.

“The longer RNA sequence in Cascade could potentially lead to higher specificity in targeting,” Hayes said.

The researchers also discovered that Type I Cascade has a different DNA detection mechanism.

DNA in its normal state forms a double helix, often compared to a spiraling ladder. Because of the naturally uneven spacing between DNA strands, the DNA has major and minor grooves. When viewed from the side, major grooves are located where DNA backbones are farther apart, while minor grooves are the spaces where they are closer together. Type I and Type II systems must first check a short nucleotide sequence before fully unwinding the DNA to see if it is a match for the RNA. To do this, they read sequences from the grooves of the DNA. According to Hayes, most Type II systems recognize the major groove, while Type I systems read the sequence from the minor groove, a far less stringent form of recognition. “[This could] potentially increase the number of targets that Cascade could be programmed to interrogate” Hayes said.

Using X-ray crystallography, the team was able to capture a snapshot of Type I Cascade in action.

From this, they determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of the protein complex attached to its guide RNA as it was interacting with its DNA target.

“The crystal structure gives us the necessary information to potentially engineer new Cascade variants,” Hayes said. With this structure, the team could create a new tool in gene editing.

Mary Nattakom can be reached at mtn36@cornell.edu.

Presenting | Ailong Ke (left) and Robert Hayes (right) present the three-dimentional structure of Type 1 Cascade, a potential new gene-edition tool.

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Make a Mark: Study Develops Strategies for Online Persuasion

Asserts importance of word usage and plentiful examples

By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Two of college students’ favorite pastimes — social media and arguing—were topics of a recent Cornell study. The paper titled “Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions” was published on arXiv — an online e-print service owned by Cornell.

By using the ChangeMyView debate platform on Reddit, the research team had unique access to a sample of people dedicated to reasoned debate and the exchange of ideas. Grad Vlad Niculae, one of the paper’s authors explained why CMV was a great platform to study.

“CMV offers a combination of conditions that are very fortunate for our research purposes,” Niculae said.

“It [CMV] is a well-moderated community where interactions consist of attempts at persuasion and openminded discussion, all in one place.”

Social media platforms like Facebook, on the other hand, are notorious for unreasoned, inflammatory comments and as such are not ideal for studying how people’s minds are changed during debate, Niculae said.

“An attempt to find successful acts of persuasion in the wild Internet is like looking for a needle in a haystack; finding multiple comparable arguments against the same view is near impossible,” Niculae said.

CMV, then, was a godsend.

The crew found that certain linguistic strategies correlated with higher success at persuasion. For example, word count is positively associated with persuasive success — the longer your response, the greater your chances at convincing someone. On the flip side, bulleted lists seem to do little in terms of one’s ability to make a convincing argument.

Niculae said that the team found some surprising results — most of which related to word usage.

“One surprising finding to us is that within two comparable arguments, the effective one turns out to be less similar to the original opinion in terms of word usage,” Niculae said. “This may indicate that offering a new perspective using different words makes one less

defensive.”

Furthermore, exciting words were found at the end of a sentence.

“We were intrigued by the trajectories that certain factors take over the course of an argumentative Reddit message,” Niculae said. “For instance, all messages used more arousing, exciting words towards the end than at the beginning. But the successful ones start off much calmer than those that failed.”

“Within two comparable arguments the effective one turns out to be less similar to the original opinion in terms of word usage. This may indicate that offering a new perspective using different words makes one less defensive.”

Vlad Niculae grad Of course, not all arguments prove successful in persuading others, so the researchers examined how arguments fail in addition to how they succeed. Thanks to a CMV requirement that participants state their beliefs and reasons for holding them clearly, Niculae and Crew were able to glean differences in the sorts of opinions subject to change and those resistant to it.

They found, for example, that some beliefs are sim-

ply less susceptible to change than others.

“The language used can reveal interesting aspects about the relationship between a person and their opinion. For instance, do they identify it deeply with their individual world view eg. ‘I, for one, believe that’ or do they diffuse responsibility within a larger group eg. ‘we believe that’?”

In that vein, the research team found that personal pronoun usage is indicative of a malleable belief, while the use of first person plural pronouns is linked with ideas resistant to change.

The paper pinpoints a variety of manners in which individuals can succeed at persuading argument partners. These include the use of hyperlinks to substantiate statements which correlates with persuasion success.

Interestingly, the researchers found that .com links seem to be more convincing than PDFs or .edu domains.

Beyond that, employing examples –– signified with introductory phrases like “for example” or “e.g.” –– is another lucrative method for formulating a powerful argument.

The paper’s authors also discovered that some muchused techniques are not as convincing as one may believe. The use of quotations to quote an argument partner, for one, was not found to be a persuasive approach. Nor, according to the data collected, are question marks advantageous to persuasion. While questions can be helpful in clarification, question marks are at best ineffective in terms of correlation with persuasive success.

Nevertheless, questions remain. In the paper, the authors recommend more research into the effects a debate experience can have on an individual’s persuasive success, better semantic models for studying online content and how sequences of connecting words (but, now, then, etc) add or detract from persuasiveness.

The paper may indeed give insight into composing victorious arguments, but an equally large takeaway is the ability to have calm, reasoned, and convincing arguments over the Internet.

Sam Kitterman can be reached at skitterman@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT O TE S T S P I N S Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet Records

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However, after a full listen of Next Thing, noting the album’s fundamental sonic and sensual similarity to much of Kline’s previous work seems about as productive as noting that the chapters of a novel, or stanzas of a poem, are written in the same style, follow the same story or are of the same deeply compelling character.

This reaction reframed as a curious observation arguably reveals the greatest strengths (and potentially the titular inspiration) of Next Thing. The album has all of the poetic wit and wisdom, aerial emotionality (heart-shredding/melting disclosures disguised by their cute rhyming quality), particular relatability and intimacy for young women listeners and formidable vocal and instrumental skill of Kline’s previous work.

However, this record is so clearly a next thing; an unfolding, a thickening: the songs bear a wider lens, new emotional bulk, self-awareness and confidence in what Kline has to say.

This praise might sound patronizing coming from someone in the exact same set of years, but I, perhaps more than anyone, have the perspective to recognize that Kline is artistically naming and giving meaning to experiences that I often only have the emotional clarity to resonate with and point to in art, saying, “Yes, that. I feel that.” To do this is her immense gift, and she does it more thoughtfully and eloquently than ever over the 15 tracks of Next Thing.

Whatever this quality of Next Thing is that I am trying to get at, I’m resisting calling it “growth” or “maturity,” because to call it that would be to assume that Kline needs to “grow up” to make good music. This kind of “new maturity” praise that often litters sophomore album reviews (I at least, am guilty of it) seems backwards to me, given that it is Kline’s particular youthful vulnerability and perspective that give her empathetic and emotional access to the kind of truths she is telling and the confessions she is making. The readiness with which she opens herself, her artistic humility, her uncensored candidness, her bold sincerity and the colorful, daydreaming imagination and sense of reverie which she imbues her music

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with, are all because of her young femaleness — not in spite of it. Frankie Cosmos’ narrative power and emotional depth is not wisdom beyond her years, but rather of her years. And so, I think Cosmos has perfectly titled this piece of music with her signature, marvelous anti-grandeur — the next thing in her career, in her life, in this story.

This chapter of her work is a series of fragmented vignettes, with each song less than three minutes and the whole album clocking in at 28. In the brief empty space on almost every track, Kline rapidly renders a vivid emotional experience or observation: always affecting, sometimes frank and crisply naked, other times cosmic, elusive and abstract.

The brevity of each track makes the album one that requires a somewhat keen ear and relative concentration. Treated as background music, and without attention to the stories she tells, the tracks instrumentally blend together, using similar acoustic structures, while each is lyrically and emotionally distinct.

Next Thing is extremely external, visual and sincere, flipping the respectability politics of indie rock coolness in apathy, distance, austerity and metaphorical grandeur, ever-sorefreshingly, on their head. The details and richness of her lyrics utilize the small, quotidian, idiosyncratic details: bad coffee, subway transfers, a bug on one’s ear, backseats in New Mexico, boots kicked off, chips at a rest stop, reading Sappho, watching David Blaine, bug bites on vacation, free corporate pens. The weight of each track on Next Thing usually falls all at once, with the seemingly lackadaisical drop of a particularly arresting image, confession or observation, which explodes the song into animated reality. She is not afraid to express herself in casual terms, from the hip, almost childlike in their clarity: “Once I was happy / I found it intriguing … You make me feel like a fool / Waiting for you” (“Fool”); “is it possible that I really miss you / or am I pissed at you” (“Sleep Song / Is It Possible”); “I drink bad coffee / hope that you’ll call me” (“Too Dark”).”

However, her lyrics can be just as intricate, esoteric and dreamlike, as they can be grounded and self-evident. On “Floated In,” she dreams of a lover or a friend whom she would love to “rummage through / your pink silky space cap,” while on “Sappho” she muses about existential disappearance and instability — “Under the crack in the door / can you tell I have no floor / I’m not ground in nothing / nothing” — and attests to her own perversity on “Sinister”: “My soul is not like a waterpark / It’s big but surprisingly dark.”

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“Too Dark” bludgeons with the line “If your love was as strong as my shame / I’d marry you and take your name” externalizing the agony of even quasi-unrequited love. Much more subtle but just as cutting amidst all the velvet and clouds, Kline evokes the smaller, stranger discomforts of frustrated romantic ambitions on “Fool,” “Sappho” and “On The Lips” and messy romantic apathy on “O Dreaded C Town.”

Another motif on the album, endemic to Frankie Cosmos as a creator, is her quiet resistance of the pressure to participate in the project of growing up: to give up or “get over” particular emotional tendencies like being sad and mad on “If I Had A Do,” (“Am I still so sad? / I guess that’s pretty lame”), feeling out of control or crying when it feels like there are no answers. She lets herself be sad and confused, and seems to both challenge and reflect on expectations surrounding youth, observing skeptically, “when you’re young / you’re too young / when you’re old / you’re too old” (“What If”).

On a lighter side of an album which quietly covers an astonishing emotional range — from depressive and dark to giddy and playful — it is fun to mine Next Thing for familiar characters from Kline’s cohort and the scene she travels in.

“Embody” is an ode to the “grace and lightness” she admires in women around her, in which she lists Gabby Smith of Eskimeaux, Emily Sprague of Florist and an anonymous Sarah. “We’ll all embody all the grace and lightness,” she says, making me feel admittedly a deep shade of warm and fuzzy inside to hear this celebration of the rad group of women amidst which she is creating.

Next Thing listens just a little bit like a road narrative; perpetually offering hints of travel and transience: hers are the reflections of a girl sitting in a van, with her hand out the window, wandering around rest stops, weird neighborhoods and cities she doesn’t know. These imagined environments of displacement are the perfect scenery of Next Thing’s blurry intensities; Kline’s trains of thought go in and out of focus, just like the ephemeral picture outside her window. As she takes in this adventure, and reckons to the new intimacies and experiences it brings, Kline feels it all with the magnified intensity of a young person. To her, everything means something, no matter how quiet, small or simple.

Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.

Ariana Grande “Dangerous Woman”

On the March 11 Grande released “Dangerous Woman.” No, it’s not breaking the borders of a single genre. No, it’s not even trying to cover up how half of pop music is only sold because it either advertises an “all girls want to be like that, bad girls underneath” aesthetic (direct quote from this single) or a guy who can say “fuck bitches get money,” but look. The recycled riff that starts out this single has a funked-out guitar and it just sounds… simple. The instrumentals are happy to be there, and they don’t feel the need to tell you directly in front of your face that they feel that way. Grande’s voice is still the entire foreground of the music, but it balances so much more naturally with an environment that allows her to showcase what she does best, which is stun with that pure sound she can pump out at just about any part of the scale. And the real difference is that, listening to this song, you feel a rush hearing “something ’bout you makes me feel like a dangerous woman” with the escalation of the rhythm trailing behind her. It’s a pretty simple message; she’s got a partner who’s got her feeling sexy, she’s empowered, she likes sleeping with him and she likes to like it all.

And it’s not hard to realize that that’s a pretty good feeling when you’re listening to it. I don’t know if this is supposed to indicate a new era of Ariana, or even that she’s looking to diversify her sound a bit. I do know, though, that this is the only single she’s released that I’ve wanted to play over, and over, and over again.

— Jesse Weber

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Get Lost: Naked Noise #7

BY LINDSAY VINARCSIK Sun Contributor

My boyfriend knew never to discuss with me the possibility that “noise” music could take any talent to create; he knew I’d say there was no kind of artistic value in a bunch of sounds that I could easily reproduce.

He knew that I equated noise to contemporary art that consists of a blank canvas or an empty room or a single red dot painted with a shaky hand.

And he knew very well that I was absolutely determined to stay ignorant.

So I understood his shock when I notified him that I would be going to Ithaca Underground’s Naked Noise #7 on Saturday night.

What changed my mind was basement duty. It was late last Monday night, and I exhaustedly slumped down the basement stairs with my broom, only to find Beau Mahadev ’18 playing around on their new synthesizer. I began sweeping without even giving Beau’s sounds a second thought. My mind hadn’t shifted into the frame of music listening; it hadn’t applied the listening lens that my experiences have created. I wasn’t searching for a pleasant beat, wasn’t evaluating lyrics, wasn’t passively listening to a background noise. My brain firmly decided that I was not listening to music, but that I was sweeping. Caught off guard, vulnerable and stripped of its usual pre-conditioned music-listening garb, my brain got tricked by the sounds that Beau was making into feeling far, far away from the broom. I don’t know how Beau did it, but I was not sweeping anymore; the wooden dowel was not moving through my hands, piles of dirt and glitter were not being collected and I certainly wasn’t in that crumbly basement of drinking games and laundry days which I know and love.

I find myself continually shocked at the power of the social conditioning to which our brains have been subjected. I never liked noise music before this because I had never been capable of listening to it without my preconceived notions of what is good and what is bad. I had thought I was “open-minded,” but I was unable to grasp the concept that there was a specific space which society had created in the messy background of my brain in which all music-listening thoughts took place, where all the rules of good and bad were to be strictly followed. The sounds that Beau created entered my brain without going straight to the music-listening thought-space; they floated in places that they had never been before and were not meant to be, confusing my habituated, structure-ridden mind more than it could handle.

After the show on Saturday, some of my friends argued that Naked Noise wasn’t “adequately transporting,” that they were unable to get lost in the venue and that the magic of the noise didn’t work. The fact that they were looking for the venue to be the catalyst for their experience was almost ironic to me, considering that the point of noise (as I now see it) is that it should be listened to and looked at without any forethought of not only the venue, but the experience as a whole. It is rare to be as caught off guard as I was in the basement the other day, rare to find something that enters your cortex before the subconscious window falls in place, before the societal laws that have been nailed in since birth are allowed to bring order to our messy perception.

Although I was expecting it the second time around, and although I had maybe even started to construct an “experimental noise-listening space” in my brain, Naked Noise managed to give me another experience different from anything in my life thus far. I was able to absorb the noise even though my defenses weren’t lowered and even though I wasn’t caught off guard. I think that’s the point. I think that experimental music is meant to constantly stretch the limits of what is and is not expected, so that no laws can fit it into a standard box that our simply-governed minds can understand. Naked Noise did exactly that. The setup was perfect and the musicians must have been telepathically communicating, as the sound culminated into a swarm of experience in the center of the room, with individual, distinguishable roads on the edges.

Now, I can’t believe I didn’t think that noise requires talent; the aura that the musicians created on Saturday night was nothing I could ever reproduce. Thank you to all of the musicians at Naked Noise for making me question the very basis of my own simple mind.

Lindsay Vinarcsik is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lkv8@cornell.edu.

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Heavyweight Readies For Syracuse and Navy ROWING

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The heavyweight men’s team is preparing for a nonconference matchup steeped in history, according to head coach Todd Kennett ’91.

“The Goes Cup goes back forever,” he said. “There’s a lot of traditions at these places ... I like to think it’s a friendly, fierce competition.”

According to Kennett, Navy and Syracuse are both potent rivals.

“Syracuse is sort of the dark horse,” he said. “They just went and rattled off a good race against [nationally ranked] Wisconsin in [Skokie, Ill.].”

Kennett pointed out that Naval Academy as an institution attracts rowers with a never-give-up attitude in races.

“Navy is always good,” he said. “They always pull hard, they never stop.”

The Red have been working on correcting some of the “big mistakes” they made two weeks ago against Harvard. Kennett said sicknesses and bad weather has dampened the opportunity the week off from competition could have offered. For example, with an exposed and potentially windy course this weekend, Kennett was hoping to have his team practice in Cayuga Lake proper more often.

“I would have liked to have used [the week off] more wisely,” Kennett said. “I was hoping to get some ... good fundamentals [in].”

While he always wants his team to be faster, Kennett is happy with their effort. He is confident that the quality of his team as suggested by national polls will be validated this weekend.

“I think we stack up well,” Kennett said, stipulating, “We have to execute a really good race plan.”

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

Men and Women to Finish Against Penn,Princeton TENNIS

Continued from page 16

far.

“We are a really solid team, and it's going to come down to who wants it more,” Stewart said. “I have no doubt that we are going to be the team that wants it the most”.

Both teams are looking to utilize the home court advantage this coming weekend citing the energy and support of the fans as something that pushes the players forward, making it hard for opponents to assert themselves when playing at Reis.

Achindra Krishna can be reached at ak785@cornell.edu.

Jays Can Win Division DENSON

Continued from page 16

about the effectiveness of short pitchers (Pedro Martinez as the exception), Stroman started four games last season. And as much as I love R.A. Dickey after his magical Cy-Young winning season with the Mets, his numbers have slipped since leaving New York.

Toronto is banking on the power of Bautista, Donaldson and Encarnacion to carry the team. To guarantee an AL East win this season, the team desperately needs reliable starting pitching. Expect the Blue Jays to be on the hunt around the trade deadline.

Baltimore Orioles

The most underwhelming of teams in the MLB, the Orioles increased their payroll by $150 million last season to go 81-81 and finish in third place. The team’s saving grace, third baseman Manny Machado, is oozing with potential, and the team has reliable batters in Trumbo, Chris Davis, and Adam Jones. Like the Blue Jays, however, Baltimore’s pitching is severely lacking. Yovanni Gallardo is good for at least 13

wins or so, but the limited upside ends there. I’m predicting a fifth place finish for Baltimore this season.

New York Yankees

New York is a peculiar case in 2016. On one hand, the team is full of elderly players far from their prime. But on the other hand, the team still has enough talent to win 90 games. With A-Rod unexpectedly being one of the AL’s better players last season, it will be great to see him join the 700 home run club while, hopefully, providing a productive bat in the middle of the lineup. Injuries have already plagued New York—often-injured Mark Teixeira’s backup, 23-yearold Greg Bird is missing the entire season due to shoulder surgery.

Pitchers Tanaka and Pineada have been injury prone in recent years and C.C. Sabathia, coming off a stint in rehab for alcoholism, is far from his old self. Besides a few shines of light in young talented batters and pitchers such as Castro and Luis Severino, I just can’t help but look at New York’s roster and see the 2007 All-Star team.

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Rough rowing | The women’s team dropped two of six races in the Class of 1975 Cup, while Princeton took home the trophy.

C.U.Women to Compete With 20 Teams at Clemson Men’s lightweight team sweeps Penn and Harvard, keeping Matthews Trophy and Leonard Cup

By KEITH BOLLT

with the Class of 1975 Cup. However, according to women’s head coach Liz Dennison, her entire team took steps forward last weekend against Harvard-Radcliffe and Princeton.

All three Cornell rowing teams are competing this week“All the Cornell crews raced hard and aggressively, and all end. Coming off of wins in every race in a matchup against the boats made progress from where we were over the previHarvard and Penn, the men’s lightweight team is set to face ous race weekend,” Dennison said. “The 3V8 and C4 winPrinceton on Saturday for ning their races was great — espethe Platt Cup and Yale on “The Ivy League is one of the fastest cially with many of those athletes Sunday. The women’s team being younger and predominantly won two of six races in the conferences in the country right now, freshmen. That really speaks to the Class of 1975 Cup, but and it will be great to see crossover.” depth we have on our team right Princeton won overall. They now.”

Women’s head coach Liz Dennison are one of 20 teams competDennison said that looking ing at the Clemson ahead to this weekend, Cornell Invitational on Saturday and will be facing ranked teams from Sunday in South Carolina. Meanwhile, after a weekend with different parts of the country. no races, the men’s heavyweight team is racing on Saturday “It is always exciting to see crews from all over the counagainst Navy and Syracuse in Annapolis for the Goes Cup. try, and teams we do not see on a regular basis,” she said. “I The women’s team did not come away from Cayuga Inlet think the Ivy League is one of the fastest conferences in the

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country right now, and it will be great to see crossover with other conferences to get a measure of our speed outside of the league.”

According to Dennison, support from Cornell Rowing alumni has made going to South Carolina in the middle of the semester less of an ordeal.

“In the past, we have traveled to this race via bus,” she said. “Now we fly the student-athletes down for this race.

That has made a huge difference in our ability to perform at a high level. The reduced travel time helps enormously with athletic performance and also academics.”

While the ultimate focus for Dennison is the Ivy League Championship in May, her team is not merely training through this weekend.

“Our goal is to go as fast as possible every weekend that we race, with the ultimate goal of having our best race at the Ivy Championships on May 5,” she said.

See ROWING page 15

A.L. East Is Women’s Team Seeks Ivy League Title Wide Open F TENNIS

By ACHINDRA KRISHNA

Sun Contributor

The Ivy tennis season comes to a close this weekend, with both men’s and women’s teams taking on Penn and Princeton. The men are coming back after winning a two-game away stint, while the women spent this past weekend

defeating both their visitors. The men’s team will celebrate senior day on Friday, before heading off to Princeton on Saturday.

Senior Stefan Vinti hasn’t dropped a single match against Ivy opponents, and hopes to continue that streak with his last contest at Reis Tennis Center. Teammates Colin

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Down to the wire| Sophomore Lizzie Stewart believes the Ivy League will be won by who wants it more.

Sinclair and David Volfson are looking to extend their doubles Ivy League undefeated streak.

Cornell (10-10, 3-2 Ivy) looks to keep momentum and extend their winning streak to four with two games this weekend. Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu is especially excited about this past weekend, considering he didn’t think the team played their best.

The Red’s men are currently ranked third in the Ivy standings, behind Columbia (15-5, 5-0 Ivy) and Dartmouth (14-8, 3-1 Ivy), but Tanasoiu believes the disparity between the top teams is “razor thin.”

Friday’s match against the Quakers (7-13, 2-2 Ivy) will be the first time these two teams will go head-tohead this year, but Saturday’s contest in Princeton will take the form of a rematch, with Cornell looking to record a win this time around. The Tigers (14-8, 2-2 Ivy) just barely edged out the win last time, with the Red coming within two points of winning the match.

Coach Tanasoiu believes his team can get the job

done this weekend.

“We are a better team now than when we played them earlier in the season,” Tanasoiu said.

The women’s squad hopes to steal a win on the road this Friday, before returning home for their Ivy season finale. Sunday’s match marks the last time senior captain Dena Tanenbaum and senior Jane Stewart will don their Cornell uniforms in front of a home crowd at Reis.

The Quakers (10-7, 3-2 Ivy) are coming off a 5-2 win against Dartmouth, but that is not worrying the team according to sophomore Lizzie Stewart.

“We aren’t worried about either match,” Stewart said. “We know that on any given day, any team can beat any team. We know that we could have beaten Dartmouth that day, and we know we can beat Penn as long as we stay disciplined.”

The Cornell women are seeking the Ivy League title this weekend, and Stewart credits the team’s unity and spirit for their success thus See TENNIS page 15

or the first time in over a decade the American League East division is wide open. Long gone are the days of Yankee dominance and a ruthless Boston-New York rivalry. The trinity of mediocrity among Baltimore, Toronto and Tampa Bay has ended, as even the Orioles can win the division. Let’s take a closer look at this hodge-

Ben Denson The B.D. Report podge of talent. I predict Toronto will win the division, and Baltimore will finish in last.

Toronto Blue Jays

With the best offense in baseball, it’s easy to see why Toronto may be the most lopsided team in baseball. Like last year, Toronto is my pick to win the division this season. Of course their glaring hole is the lack of pitching, especially after the loss of David Price. Pitching is their Achilles heel, and it will be their downfall this season. I have little-to-no faith in number one starter, twenty four year old, 5’8” Marcus Stroman. Besides my skepticism See DENSON page 15