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The Corne¬ Daily Sun Dodging JAs like Muhammad Ali since 1880 THE 135RD EDITORIAL BOARD WOULD GET JA’D FOR...

SOPHIA DENG ’19

JOSHUA GIRSKY ’19

Embezzling University Funds

“Otherwise misusing university property”

JACOB RUBASHKIN ’19

LYDIA KIM ’18

Getting wasted at Regent while underage

Advertising Manager

PRAJJALITA DEY ’18

ZACHARY SILVER ’19

Never showing up to class

Hacking into Cornell’s official twitter

LEV AKABAS ’19

CAMERON POLLACK ’18

Overzealous listicling

Instagramming illicit photos of Dean Kotlikoff

BRIAN LAPLACA ’18

Illegally downloading Quark on University Computers

JUHWAN KIM ’18 Singing in the stacks

ANNA DELWICHE ’19

STEPHANY KIM ’19

Hoisting the Maryland Flag from McGraw Tower

Complicit in friend’s sugar abuse problem

NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS ’19 Live tweeting when he ain’t supposed to be

RACHEL WHALEN ’19

Setting free all the animals in the Ag school

KATIE SIMS ’20

ARNAV GHOSH ’20

Being swept up in a drug bust although innocent

Stockpiling plutonium in his dorm

OLIVIA LUTWAK ’18

ANDREI KOZYREV ’20

Importing banned wine from North Korea

Hacking the S.A. elections

EMMA NEWBURGER ’18

JANNA YU ’18

Doing drugs on the Ivy League Snap Story

Using Hot Truck as a getaway vehicle

GIRISHA ARORA ’20

ALISHA GUPTA ’20

Videotaping protestors

For being too chill

JOHN YOON ’20

CHARLES COTTON ’19

Drowning students in his thoughts

Extreme hall sports

JOSH ZHU ’20

For finally snapping after the latest Knicks season

JACK KANTOR ’19

Jumping off the gorge too many times

KARLY KRASNOW ’18

JAMIL RAHMAN ’19

Holding the line up at Libe one too many times

Going unoticed

JEREMIAH KIM ’19

Staring someone to death

MEGAN ROCHE ’19

Getting high and taking notes on Arrested Development

Sex on Thursdays:too prude?

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Accidentally writing code that leads to massive Cornell endowment losses

DAHLIA WILSON ’19

Letter to the Editor

MICHAEL LI ’20

For leaving this page’s writers struggling for jokes

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WORKING ON TODAY’S OPINION PAGE THE HERO THE SUN NEEDS, BUT NOT THE ONE IT DESERVES

It’s time for The Sun to reconsider Sex on Thursdays. Nah, I’m not a fuckin prude. I wanna see some titties, not just read about them. Who reads anymore?

Maybe like in the 1990s writing about sex was cool, but this is the 21st century!

Look, it’s not like Eisenplower and them aren’t good writers, it’s just that words on a page just aren’t doing it for me anymore. Let’s get some visual aids in there.

Some people think that Sex on Thursdays is too scandalous. Personally, I’ve seen more disturbing things happen on a dirty couch in the Thumpty basement.

And that sort of desensitization is exactly what’s making Sex on Thursdays so stale. So here are a few ideas to spice things up.

1. Instructional videos: A column about choking? Tame. An instructional video about choking? Now that’s what I call content, concerned moms be damned.

Detailed diagrams: Some of the stuff they talk about in Sex on 2.

Thursdays is complicated! I’ve tried some of that shit myself and, man, I need to improve my flexibility to say the least. I think it would be super helpful to include some diagrams with directions and the like to aid fellow sexstronauts on their journey.

Support for foreign language: I don’t know about you, but sometimes 3.

I like my ladies like my coffee and cars — that is, not American. And one of my favorite pastimes is reading Sex on Thursdays whatever biddie is in my bed. They almost always give me weird looks, but its even worse with the ones who don’t speak English. How about some Sexo el Jueves every once and a while?

I hope you’ll take these under consideration. I don’t think my sex life can take the staleness for very much longer. Sex on Thursdays is what makes The Sun great, and I want to see it grow.

S. M. Utaddict

Back down,ye foolish mortals!

To the Editor: Who be these mortals that deign threaten my place of nourishment on Cornell’s campus? I didn’t kill my father Kronos, rescue my five siblings, wrest control of the heavens from the titans and make a sizeable donation to Cornell’s endowment just to see my Temple renamed for some oil baron! I swear to myself, the things people these days think they can get away with. If I were younger, I’d march right down from Mt. Olympus and set you all straight myself. I guess I’ll get my boy Hercules to do it instead — he seems to like that artsy stuff.

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From the Editor

Bringing The Sun Into The 21st Century (For Real This Time) YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED SOMETHING different when you glanced today’s copy of The Sun. A little sleeker, perhaps? More ergonomic and aesthetically pleasing? Delivering to you all the day’s information as efficiently and succinctly as possible? That’s the goal.

Our new front page reflects the ultimate level of synergy between print and online journalism. No longer will you pick up a copy of The Sun and wonder why it appears so antiquated, so 20th century. This is the future, and we’re happy to be here.

Some of our long-time readers might be put off by the lack of actual content on our new front page. To them we ask: “who ever cared about content in the first place?” We all know that the vast majority of our readers don’t actually read the articles we publish, they just laugh at the pithy headlines and move on. So we decided to put as many headlines on the front page as possible. That way, our valued audience can get what they want, and we don’t have to worry about pesky things like reporting and editing.

We didn’t take such a radical redesign of our 137-year-old flagship product lightly. The Sun invested tens of thousands of dollars (Zimbabwean) and countless hours in the research and development process. After nearly three years of hard work, we’ve finally moved out of beta testing and are offering the new design to the public. So it’s no stretch to say that it’s been a long time coming. Yes, dear reader, The Sun is finally, truly, entering the 21st century of news media.

Previous editorial boards have said that they’ve been the ones to bring The Sun into the 21st century. They’re dirty liars, each and every one of them. It’s all us, and the proof is in the page. So enjoy it. It’s the future, baby! The Sun isn’t setting anytime soon. We’re only getting brighter.

Jacob Rubashkin ’19 That Cute Baby Photo on the Cover?

Yeah, That’s Me. I’m Gorgeous.

The final goodbye To the Editor: Hi Cornell. It’s me, Hunter. We need to talk.

You know that friend of yours that keeps on trying to hook up with their ex?

Yeah, that’s you. I get it. I’m a pretty great guy. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be with me? I’ve got that Iowa charm mixed with Princeton gravitas, and if this president thing hadn’t worked out, I had a whole career in modeling lined up. You feel comfortable with me because I’m familiar, but Jesus, guys, enough is enough!

How many times do you have to keep showing up my door drunkenly yelling up at my window that you want me back? How many times am I going to be woken up at 3 a.m. by a “you up” text? How many pints of ice cream are you going to steal from my fridge after I invite you to my room?

It’s not healthy, guys. It needs to stop. Find yourself a new president and settle down. Buy some land. Have some baby provosts. You’re a great university. I mean it! It’s just not working out between us, and it’s gotta end.

Cornell, I’ll always love you, but this is the final goodbye.

Hunter Rawlings III

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“There was a strong sense ... that the particular actions of Mr. McBride were wrong, but not covered by the Code.”

University Hearing Board Chair Timothy DeVoogd

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Mitch McBride ’17 at Wednesday’s hearing.

Hearing Board Clears McBride In Doc Leak Case

Prof calls prosecution‘travesty from start to finish’

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS and DREW MUSTO Sun City Editor and Senior Editor

A hearing board of five Cornellians determined on Wednesday night that a student did not violate the Campus Code of Conduct when he shared internal working group documents with The Sun, at least momentarily concluding a case that thrust the campus judicial process into the spotlight.

The Office of the Judicial Administrator accused Mitch McBride ’17 in March of violating two sections of the Code by sharing internal documents from the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group with The Sun that showed the University was considering a host of measures to reduce its burden of providing financial aid.

Those charges brought sharp rebukes in the last week from several faculty members, including one Law School professor who helped revise the Code and said the University was attempting to “stretch the Code” to encompass actions that it does not cover.

The University Hearing Board — composed of

three students, one faculty member and one staff member — spent hours listening to arguments from McBride and Associate Judicial Administrator Christina Liang as well as witness testimony from eight witnesses including the accused student.

Members of the board, including the chair, Prof.

Timothy DeVoogd, who does not vote, deliberated for 30 minutes in 163 Day Hall before determining that McBride had not violated either section of the Code.

“There was a strong sense of the Hearing Board that the particular actions of Mr. McBride were wrong, but not covered by the Code,” DeVoogd said after reading the verdict.

It was not immediately clear late on Wednesday night whether the OJA would appeal the ruling to the University Review Board. Liang declined to comment after the ruling was announced.

The arguments largely centered around whether the documents McBride shared with The Sun were confidential and, if so, whether sharing confidential documents falls under a section of the Code that declares it a violation to “misuse” University documents.

Dean Barbara Knuth, who chaired the working

group, ignored reporters’ questions in Day Hall shortly after the verdict was announced.

During the hearing, Knuth testified that she had “made it clear that the documents [were] for consideration by members” of the working group and were “considered private and confidential.”

Asked by one of the members of the UHB how sure she was that she had told McBride the documents were “confidential,” Knuth said, “I’m positive.”

The testimony of the other six witnesses, all either current students or recent graduates, formed a picture of the working group where some members were told that the documents were confidential and some were not. All testified that there was a general understanding that the documents should remain private.

As McBride awaited the verdict in a quiet hallway, he grew more and more concerned that the UHB may rule against him. He said the questions they asked, which largely focused on why he felt compelled to disclose the documents rather than the definition of the Code, concerned him the most.

When the verdict was read shortly after 9:30 p.m.,

Faculty Presents New A&S Curriculum Proposal

By WILLIAM BAI Sun Staff Writer

The College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Student Advisory Council hosted a student forum on the curriculum review on Wednesday.

To start off the forum, faculty representatives from the A&S Curriculum Committee explained the new curriculum proposal and answered students’ questions.

“The new curriculum proposal is designed with the goal of enabling students to explore more areas of study beyond their majors,” said Prof. Tom

Pepinsky, government, chair of the Curriculum Committee. “We want to empower students to explore and allow them to get the most out of their liberal arts education.”

In the new curriculum, distribution categories are replaced by five new modes of inquiry: humanistic inquiry, social and behavioral inquiry, scientific inquiry, mathematical and quantitative reasoning, and interdisciplinary exploration. Prof. Ravi Ramakrishna, mathematics, stated that the new categorizations “simplified the classification of See FORUM page 5

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Pollack Addresses Faculty Senate

By JOHN YOON Sun Assistant News Editor

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Class in session | Prof.

Pepinsky presents the new A&S curriculum proposal during a student forum.

The Faculty Senate passed a resolution regarding practices of navigating false and unreliable information and discussed new proposals for the academic calendar on Wednesday.

The Senate also heard remarks by newly inaugurated President Martha Pollack on her third day in office.

The resolution — presented by Prof.

Stephen Ellner, ecology and evolutionary biology — called upon the administration and faculty to expand educational activities that help “explain established academic practices for discriminating between fact and opinion, validating facts, establishing what is reliable knowledge.”

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From Periodization to the Auto-Immune Secular State 4:30 - 6 p.m., 142 Goldwin Smith Hall Conversations in Digital Humanities: Makerspaces And Maker Literacy in the Digital Humanities 4:30 - 6 p.m., 703 Olin Library European Migration Policies In Times of Multiple ‘Crises’ 4:30 - 6 p.m., 106 White Hall C.U. Music Musicology Colloquium: Hildegard's Hexameron: Theology, Poetry, Music and a Digital Model 4:30 - 6 p.m., 124 Lincoln Hall

Tomorrow Mechanistic Basis of Metabolic Evolution in Plants 11:15 a.m., 404 Plant Science Building Manipulating Memory Traces in the Hippocampus 12:20 p.m., 202 Uris Hall

SpringFest! | SpringFest, a celebration of Earth Day, will feature local food and art vendors, musical performances and interactive tabling from student and faculty groups on Ho Plaza on Thursday afternoon.

Today SpringFest!

11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Ho Plaza Data Driven Policy-Making in Child Welfare Noon - 1 p.m., 2nd floor Conference Room Beebe Hall Did the Cold War Ever End? Will It? 12:15 - 1:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall

25 Years of Breastfeeding in Asia 12:20 - 1:10 p.m., 100 Savage Hall

The Spectacular Now with Producer Dan Cohen '05 in Person 3:30 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre

Courses Outside the Classroom: Course Options for Fall 2017 4:30 p.m., 3330 Tatkon Center

Keynote Address for “On/By Black Women/Black Girls: A Symposium” 4:30 p.m., Multipurpose Room Africana Studies and Research Center

Book Talk With Albert Laguna 4:30 p.m., 124 Reading Room Schwartz Center

Dining with Diverse Minds: “Activism Then, Activism Now” 5 - 7 p.m., Memorial Room Willard Straight Hall

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Community Renews Suicide Prevention Efforts

By MARIN LANGLIEB Sun Staff Writer

Eighteen community and state mental health stakeholders — including representatives from the Suicide Prevention Center of New York, the City of Ithaca and Cornell Minds Matter — adopted “The Watershed Declaration,” which pledges to renew the “commitment to suicide prevention” during a meeting Monday.

The meeting, which took place at The Watershed, was initiated by the Sophie Fund, an organization created in honor of Sophie Hack MacLeod ’14 who died by suicide last year while on medical leave. The organization's main goal is to help “enhance mental health initiatives aiding young people in Ithaca,” according to their website.

While the original purpose of the meeting was to share some of the organization’s initiatives, the declaration was met with so much enthusiasm that the group decided to adopt it as a way of reenergizing their suicide-prevention efforts, Scott MacLeod, father of Sophie

and donor advisor of The Sophie Fund, told The Sun. “It’s very powerful to have that declaration and actual support from a wide variety of organizations in one place and in one moment,” Macleod said. “It shows the community at large, yes, your community cares about this issue and yes, we are working on this issue. It’s one thing to work on things, it’s another thing to show solidarity behind it.”

Lee-Ellen Marvin, executive director of the Suicide and Prevention Crisis Service in Ithaca,

Watershed | Gara Lloyd-Lester, associate director of the Suicide Prevention Center in N.Y., addresses mental health stakeholders in Ithaca.

was also present at the meeting.

“My agency has been on this task for 48 years, so it feels good to have other people saying we commit to making this better,” Marvin said.

In addition to supporting the declaration, the meeting attendees also announced plans to produce a Tompkins County suicide coalition by June.

“A declaration is one thing, that’s great, but building a coalition is actually doing work on the ground,” MacLeod said.

M a r v i n added that she hopes the declaration will not only impact the organizations at the meeting but send a message to a wider audience that “everyone [should] take suicide seriously and that begins with ourselves.”

MacLeod echoed Marvin’s sentiments and

also hopes that the declaration will continue sending a message of hope to anyone dealing with mental health concerns.

“As somebody who is very passionate about this because of our own tragedy, I can tell you how the heart was lifted by seeing this kind of thing,” MacLeod said. “I think it’s a good sign to the vulnerable people in our community and someone who might be experiencing depression or anxiety, that there is hope.

People do care. We are supporting you, and let’s fight this. We’re not by any means giving up on anybody.”

University Resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can called Gannett Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-2553277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607-255-2673), the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-2738255) or find additional resources at https://thesophiefund.org/resources/.

Marin Langlieb can be reached at mlanglieb@cornellsun.com.

Students Put Price On Trees to E.A. Survey Gauges Raise Environmental Awareness Employee Satisfaction, ‘Bureaucratic Red Tape’

By GLORIA LEE Sun Contributor

On Tuesday, a group of students labeled approximately 80 trees on the Arts Quad with individual price tags — but the trees are not for sale.

The tags — as a part of the annual “The Value of Trees” exhibition — show the environmental value of each tree based on its ecological services like removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, cooling, reducing pollution and retaining storm water runoff.

The exhibit is a student-led event that has been taking place since 2013 as a part of the Creating the Urban Eden course led by Prof. Nina Bassuk, horticulture, and Prof. Peter Trowbridge, landscape architecture.

“We celebrate trees on Arbor Day. We celebrate the Earth on Earth Day,” Bassuk said. “This activity ties the two together to make people more aware of all the benefits trees provide to the environment.”

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Value of trees | Every tree on the Arts Quad is labeled with a price tag.

The students in the class calculated the value of each tree by using iTree Design, an online software developed by the USDA Forest Service, according to Bassuk. This software can estimate the benefits of an individual

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tree using its location, species, size and condition. It can even calculate the impacts trees have on the heating and cooling utility bill, for those located near buildings.

“All trees take up carbon dioxide and store it in their wood, helping to reduce climate change,” Bassuk explained. “A large Sweetgum tree near White Hall was calculated to store more than seven tons of carbon dioxide and capture more than 100,000 gallons of stormwater runoff for as long as 25 years”.

This exhibit has always been on the Ag Quad but due to construction, it has been moved to the Arts Quad this year.

“We’re reaching a new audience there who will hopefully learn that trees are more than just pretty faces in the landscape,” Bassuk said. “They are also real workhorses in the environment that return important, tangible benefits.”

The tags will be on the trees for two weeks until Tuesday, May 2.

Gloria Lee can be reached at gl2474@cornell.edu.

The Employee Assembly deliberated the changes to the academic calendar and presented the results of the 2016 Employee Survey Wednesday.

During the meeting, Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan gave the Assembly updates on possible changes to the Cornell Academic Calendar.

Van Loan highlighted how, of the three options that the faculty had to choose from, the Modified Current Calendar, seemed the most favorable to employees, because it would feature a five day longer summer break.

“In regards to employees, the Modified Current Calendar has some attractive features,” Van Loan said. “One is restoring orientation to a full, five days, and at the end of the year, we would be restoring what are called Senior Days.”

The other option, the Early Commencement Calendar, would remove February break, feature a two week shorter winter break and a two week longer summer break.

Van Loan described how Brown was Cornell’s only peer institution that had two breaks during spring semester, and that Yale has a single, two-week break.

“So we’re extremists in that regard,” he said.

Shared governance organizations will vote from among the options, and the Provost will make the final decision.

Besides the Academic Calendar, the Assembly also discussed the 2016 Employee Survey.

William Searle, from Institutional Research and Planning, delivered a presentation on the results.

Administered by the Survey

Research Institute, the survey covered nearly 5,000 non-academic staff, with a response rate of 68 percent.

According to the survey, 81 percent of respondents were at least somewhat satisfied with their jobs, a small increase from 80 percent of respondents in 2011, when the same survey was last put out.

A new question on the 2016 survey, asking about the effects of “unnecessary bureaucratic red tape,” found that only 32 percent of respondents found that “unnecessary bureaucratic tape” gets in the way of doing their jobs either “not at all” or “a little.”

The largest changes in results from the 2011 survey came in the category of “Leadership and Direction.” Only 39 percent of 2016 respondents “agreed” or “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I have a clear understanding of the strategic goals and objectives of Cornell as a whole,” a decrease from 50 percent of respondents in 2011.

Similarly, 6.5 percent less respondents think that, “Overall, I think Cornell is moving in a positive direction,” and 10.1 percent less respondents agree with the statement, “University leadership has a clear vision for the future of the university.”

The number of respondents has seen a decrease from 5,870 in 2011 to only 4,823 this last year.

After discussing the results of the survey, the Assembly brought forward that elections will be taking place for representatives of five colleges, disability and infrastructure.

The voting period is meant to begin at 8 a.m. on April 24 and ends on Wednesday, April 26 at noon.

David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun.com.

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A presidential task force will be commissioned to develop concrete plans for the resolution’s implementation, Ellner said. The force will collaborate with several other campus organizations that have already developed similar objectives.

Following the vote, Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan presented the report of the Academic Calendar Committee, which was formed in December.

The Committee’s report includes two proposals, one assuming graduation date is fixed and the other assuming its date is moved. Both are designed to address grievances and concerns regarding the purpose, placement and length of breaks, orientation and exam periods, Van Loan said.

He added that comparing Cornell’s academic calendar with those of other peer institutions revealed many other ways that it was highly unusual.

“Our current calendar is a very radical calendar,” he said. “For example, if you look at how much other universities devote to new student orientation, we are at the very bottom.”

Van Loan also emphasized that Cornell was the only institution, besides Harvard, with fewer than 8 academic days after Thanksgiving break, out of a pool of various other Ivy League schools and other peer schools such as Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan and Berkeley.

The comparative study also revealed that Cornell’s study and exam periods are longer relative to peer schools. Winter breaks are 1.5 weeks above the median and summer breaks are 2.5 below the median, Van Loan said.

Following the presentation, some faculty expressed doubt that February break, which had originally been implemented five years ago after a series of suicides among students, really helps relieve

stress.

“The main issue isn’t graduation but whether we should have a February break,” said Prof. Larry Blume, information science.

In response, Van Loan emphasized the overwhelming support for February break students expressed in the surveys conducted by the committee.

Per the committee’s recommendation, the Faculty Senate and each of the Assemblies would vote on a ranking ballot. Then, each assembly would communicate its preferences to the Provost, who will determine the final academic calendar from 2018 forward.

After several faculty expressed concern for the shortened winter breaks — which Prof. Yuval Grossman, physics, called “crucial” — the Senate tabled a motion to vote on whether to keep the current commencement days for the next meeting in May before voting in the default ranking ballot recommended by the committee.

To conclude the meeting, Pollack delivered a brief remark to the Senate.

“I am excited to interact with and learn from the faculty. The faculty are the main people are the main people I have to learn from,” she said. “The university is only as good as its faculty.”

Pollack said she would continue giving faculty more time to teach and do research through the bureaucracy reduction effort, which had started under President Elizabeth Garrett.

She said she would continue support for scholarly research and expand efforts to increase overall trust in the central administration.

Pollack also stressed the importance of Cornell’s commitment to its core academics, outreach with the City of Ithaca, and diversity, access and inclusion.

John Yoon can be reached at jyoon@cornellsun.com.

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Judicial administrators silent on potential appeal of verdict where only 60 people can be.”

“It is certainly not a public hearing,” added Aravind Natarajan, grad, who called the set-up an however, he celebrated with his attorney, Alan Sash — “absolute disappointment.”

“I’ve been involved in student government at who was barred from speaking on his behalf during the hearing — and Judicial Codes Coordinator Cornell since 2010 and this is the single worst abuse Kendall Karr, a law student who made McBride’s case of power that I have ever witnessed,” said Paul Berry, grad. “The procedures and policies of this institution during the hearing.

“This is all I’ve been thinking about for a month,” are rotten and in desperate need of reform.”

Matters gradually improved when the audio qualsaid McBride, who has been accepted into ity was adjusted and the Graduate Professional Georgetown Law. “This has taught me a lesson that people in power Student Assembly and Student Assembly subsidized need to be held to account, and I think that law is the pizza for the attendees.

Prof. Richard Bensel, government, a member of mechanism to do it,” he said.

Immediately after the ruling, McBride called his the Faculty Senate and an outspoken critic of the case parents, who he said first found out he had been against McBride, said the ruling was “a confirmation cleared by following The Sun’s live blog of the pro- of good sense and justice.”

“But the conduct of the OJA in attempting to disceedings.

“They were just so happy,” he said. “They’ve been able the defense by attempting to deny the assistance worrying about this constantly, too. It’s just been hard of counsel, prohibit the testimony of defense witnesses, and close the hearing to the public,” Bensel said in on my whole family.”

The public hearing on Wednesday was the first in an email, “is simply inexcusable in an open university community that welrecent memory for sevcomes and, in fact, utterly eral participants, including Joel Cisne, adminis“I’m glad the Board took seriously its depends on the presentation of contrary and comtrative chair of the obligation to enforce the Code as writ- peting opinions.

University Hearing and The OJA had previReview Board. Its pub- ten, not as the administration wished.” ously objected to McBride lic nature shed light on Prof. William Jacobson calling Clermont, the law the campus judicial proprofessor who revised the cedure, leading to code, to testify, and Chair claims from students and faculty that the OJA was overreaching in its pros- DeVoogd upheld that decision.

Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, government, said the ecution.

Prof. Kevin Clermont, law, was a member of the prosecution “process was a travesty from start to finteam that revised the Code in 2007 and 2008 and ish.”

“The charges were absurd and should never have previously The Sun that neither of the provisions McBride is accused of violating apply to the circum- been brought,” she wrote in an email after the verdict.

“The fact that they denied entry to Prof. Clermont, stances in his case.

“Cornell is trying to stretch the Code to reach an expert and contributing author of the Code, indicates a remarkable level of arrogance and vindictivebehavior that the Code does not cover,” he said.

Prof. William Jacobson, law, said after the verdict ness.”

“We must work to reform the JA process and the that he was “glad the Board took seriously its obligation to enforce the Code as written, not as the admin- irresponsible power of Cornell officials who do not believe in anything approaching shared governance, istration wished it had been written.”

Cornell and the OJA’s actions “put at risk an inno- free speech, or democratic process,” Sanders said.

Karr, who argued successfully for McBride during cent person’s reputation and career,” Jacobson said in an email. “Some self-reflection is in order at Day the hours-long proceeding, said there are many improvements that should be made to the campus Hall.”

Students piled into a second-floor room of Uris judicial system.

“Hopefully, any errors or things that are problemHall on Wednesday afternoon, where the hearing was broadcast live to a room of 60 people. Many more atic [in the Code] can be addressed in the future filled the hallway outside of the room, waiting for through all of the parties that interact with the Code,” Karr said. others to give up their spots.

McBride acknowledged after the proceedings that The streaming audio was of poor quality and the UHB ultimately reversed its position and allowed two he worried the UHB would find him responsible as reporters to sit in the Day Hall room during the trial. the proceedings continued into the night.

“They were saying what I did was so wrong and I Inside Uris Hall, Matthew Battaglia ’16, chair of the University Assembly Codes and Judicial didn’t think the Code was being talked about,” he Committee, and others argued that the hearing said.

“Even if people think what I did was wrong, I should have been held in a room that could accomthink that the Code does not apply.” modate all members of the public.

McBride, hugging and high-fiving friends in Day “I think that it’s absolutely appropriate to raise a procedural objection that we are not following the Hall shortly after 10 p.m., said he felt vindicated.

“I’m just finally glad that the Code is upheld,” he rules that have been set out on campus,” said Cisne, who had the unenviable task of acting as a liaison said. “That’s the vindication.”

To see an updated version of this story, see between the Uris Hall viewing room and the Day cornellsun.com.

Hall proceedings.

Christian Brickhouse ’17 asked how “public” was being defined by the OJA, “considering we are in a Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at separate room where we can’t hear, we won’t be pro- nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com. vided transcripts, and may or may not be allowed to Drew Musto can be reached at broadcast [the proceedings] outside of this room, dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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courses and make it easier for students to remember.”

The second adjustment of the new curriculum is Foundational Courses, which serve as “gateway” courses for their respective disciplines for students who “often find it daunting to take courses outside of their major,” Pepinsky said.

Additionally, human difference has been added as the third breadth requirement in addition to geographic and historical breadth. HD classes will focus on topics such as class, race, gender, nation, ability and ethnicity.

The new curriculum also allows students to study abroad without any foreign language requirement, making it an easier and more accessible options

for students.

Among these changes, the most debated during the forum was the removal of firstyear writing seminars.

Some students raised the concern that with the loss of FWS, there would be less small, engaging classes that students could take, especially for STEM majors.

In response, Pepinsky acknowledged that this concern has been brought up by students and faculty members alike and that this part of the curriculum will definitely see changes in the next revision.

Pepinsky also emphasized that this is only a preliminary proposal. The committee will be meeting with all the departments to get their feedbacks on the draft curriculum.

William Bai can be reached at wbai@cornellsun.com.

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On professorial misconduct: a public letter To the Editor: The recent union drive at Cornell, like those at other campuses across the country, has given a voice to the issues that graduate students face. One of the most pressing issues on which grads have organized is sexual harassment.

This issue hits close to home at Cornell, which has more active Title IX investigations than any other university in the nation. For graduate students, facts like this are especially worrisome. Per a 2015 study by the Association of American Universities, grad students were four times more likely to be sexually harassed by a professor than undergrads.

Professors who supervise grads have unparalleled influence over their future careers, which can create an environment in which grads feel they do not dare to lodge complaints.

As a graduate student at Cornell, I am extremely troubled — in fact, disgusted — by the conduct of Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department David Collum. For years, Collum has publicly shared extremely sexist, bigoted and misogynistic statements. These statements make me wonder how he can supervise female and/or LGBTQ students without creating what the law and Cornell’s policy call a “hostile work environment.” Allow me to share some examples: He has used transphobic slurs to describe transwomen, calling them “trannies” “Did you save it because @BTFDtv never recorded at request of closet tranny.” — tweeted Jan. 24, 2015 “But I have a still photo of the tranny.” — tweeted Jan. 24, 2015 He has made posts indicating that he sees allowing young people to identify as their preferred gender as child abuse. He then supported that claim by referencing the American College of Pediatrics (a fringe group founded to push anti-LGBTQ beliefs).

He has tweeted support for Mike Cernovich, a rape apologist whose social media record includes statements like: “Have you guys ever tried ‘raping’ a girl without using force? Try it. It’s basically impossible. Date rape does not exist.” “@60Minutes You should do a piece on the #fakenews coming out of the main-stream media. I’ll take @zerohedge’s and @cernovich’s anyday.” — tweeted March 27, 2017 He has repeatedly tweeted rape-apologetic views, pushing the myth that rape on college campuses is a “perceived” threat, for example: “In an effort to stem a perceived epidemic of sexual violence against women, the Department of Education sent strong messages to universities” — David B. Collum, Year in Review 2015 He has told men accused of sexual assault to sue their victims (“accuser”).

“Moral of the Story: Sue your accuser” — tweeted Feb. 8, 2017 in response to an article about a student expelled from Amherst.

He told a friend to “bring roofies” (a date rape drug) on a trip to Las Vegas “Bring some roofies.” — tweeted Sep. 15, 2013 in response to “We should do a 3 day Vegas meet up” The problem of allowing such a person to supervise graduate students and graduate workers is compounded by Cornell’s policies with respect to complaints of sexual harassment: as the Department Chair for Chemistry, official complaints via Cornell’s Policy 6.4 would go through him personally. How can graduate students at risk for sexual assault and bias feel safe knowing the man handling sexual harassment complaints is a rape apologist?

Sexual harassment is a real issue which should not be taken lightly, and having a rape apologist who encourages the use of date rape drugs serve as Chair of the Chemistry Department makes it impossible for such cases to be dealt with objectively.

Cornell advertises itself as a “caring” institution, where grad students are supposed to feel — and be! — safe. But with people like Collum sitting at the table where these issues should be addressed, it makes one wonder how many cases are handled with the dignity they deserve. Indeed, it makes one wonder whether any student in the Chemistry Department would dare to bring a complaint, even in the case of the most egregious misconduct. Harassment is extensive in many labs that employ graduate students, and research shows that the high prevalence of sexual harassment in labs has been one of the major factors discouraging women from going into the STEM fields.

Cornell needs to join other universities and have official sexual assault complaints handled by a neutral and objective third party. David Collum cannot be trusted to advise students and he needs to be removed from his position as Chair of the Chemistry Department.

Kevin Hines, grad Robert Escriva, grad Ethan Susca, grad Mel White, grad Rose Agger, grad Kolbeinn Karlsson, grad Jane Glaubmanm grad

A Response To Ballinger’s Plea Deal I

recently received a check up at Gannett. The counselor went through every box on the routine survey, and right before I was about to exit the room and head to my 10:10 a.m. class, she goes, “Oh by the way, I see you checked the box for ‘non-consensual sex.’

Do you want to talk about it?” She had said it so casually — almost forgotten the question even, that I was in no way enticed to rehash stale memories with this women, who didn’t seem to care, as this was objective and procedural for her.

A week later and I’m still thinking about that same question and I still don’t want to answer it.

I’m not interested in using this piece as a place to talk about any of my personal experiences with sexual assault, but rather, as platform to critique Cornell’s ‘lax policy towards reported sexual assault cases on campus, as well as the

Cornell did not give him a proper judicial process. My process took eight months...he did not get that. The court ruled how they ruled. & by the way cornell's punishment for rape is 1 year suspension & assault is 1 semester. So, in my opinion, Wolfgang got a very harsh treatment that lacked fairness...and that's coming from someone who has been through Cornell's sexual assault reporting process.”

While I believe every person is entitled to their opinion, I can not condone advising women to not report being sexually assaulted in any capacity. If anything, the more women who stand up for themselves and ignore the shame that society attaches to being a victim of sexual assault, the more we can prevent sexual assault from happening and destigmatize the internalized misogyny attached to it.

If anything, the more women who stand up for themselves and ignore the shame that society attaches to being a victim of sexual assault, the more we can prevent sexual assault from happening and destigmatize the internalized misogyny attached to it. internalized misogyny that surfaces when our legal system handles rape cases, particularly when women are the victims.

Sexual assault cases fall under Title IX and Cornell now has more open active Title IX investigations than any other university. In fact, it is alleged that Cornell is not even bothering to investigate these cases. So, when a case from Cornell actually makes it to court, you better believe that there was more than enough evidence for it to get there. I am not claiming to know the details of Wolfgang Ballinger’s case, but at a school where sexual assault cases are reported every weekend and rarely investigated, I suspect there was some foul play.

Ballinger accepted a plea agreement before the trial began (he would be tried for a felony offense), and I assume his pleading guilty to a misdemeanor sex offense, which garnered him six years of probation, was probably a strategic move.

I posted a Facebook status in the same vein as this column on Friday and the response was shocking. The post received 250 comments and twice as many reactions and shares. Survivors began messaging me privately, sharing their stories or telling me they were inspired to confront their realities. This was all well and great until I received a comment on status that changed the direction of my thoughts. On Saturday, I received a comment from a Cornell student reading, “My biggest piece of advice for any girl who is raped or sexually assaulted at Cornell is to not report it and remember that there is a 10 year statute of limitations. Cornell's process is just emotionally painful and does not benefit either party (the rapist or victim),” and continuing, “Also, I don't think it is fair to call out Wolfgang specifically on this status; you don't know the details of his case or exactly how Cornell went about handling it. I don't think it's fair to use him as the example — especially when

This girl’s comment reflects the problems with our patriarchal society. Instead of being defeatist and accepting of the poor treatment of women in sexual assault investigations, we need to team up and demand to be treated as equals. If someone calls the C.U. Police and says, “Hey, I think my neighbors are being too loud” or “Hey, my neighbors are smoking pot,” you sure as hell know the C.U. police will investigate the reported, even if they get there and there is no pot or noise. Why should we not expect the same for the human body? I am in full agreement with this girl (who, it should be mentioned, had her case thrown out for admitting she had lied about her sexual assault to keep her from getting in trouble, though I do not mean to assume in anyway she may or may not have been assaulted). It sucks to report sexual assault at Cornell because such reports often go uninvestigated, and when they are, the woman potentially faces social, as well as emotional, backlash.

Additionally, I am fully aware of how hard it is to bring oneself to report being sexually assaulted. Whether it is because you come from a very conservative family or you don’t want to be labeled as “the dirty girl” or “the annoying girl” or “the dramatic girl” etc., it cannot negate the importance of claiming your body as your own and reporting assault.

To men, and I don’t mean all men, you know who you are: we women are not property to be owned. And we definitely are not bodies to used and then discarded like trash. We women are your mothers, your sisters and most importantly, your equals, and while I know it is more fun to exploit positions of power and treat us as less, we are just like you (and arguably, more complex).

Siobhan Brandman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Guest Room runs periodically this semester. Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun.com.

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Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

Trump Was Right I

’m not a Donald Trump fan –– but I believe credit should be given when deserved. President Trump’s decision to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syrian air instillations was both the strategic and moral decision to make.

For the last six years, Syria has been locked in one of the deadliest civil wars in modern history, as nearly 450,000 civilians and soldiers have died. The brutality and length of the conflict has revealed some of the darkest corners of man’s capacity to inflict pain and loss on itself.

The sheer destruction of this conflict has leveled cities, ruined families, displaced 7.5 million from their homes and forced 4.5 million to flee the country as refugees.

Syria’s civil war has been, without question, a war of immense pain and misery.

At the helm of this crisis stands one man: Bashar alAssad –– Syria’s autocratic president. The son of Syria’s former president, Hafez al-Assad, Assad once maintained complete and absolute control over the Syrian people.

However, the powerful tide of the Arab Spring turned Syria’s once absolutist dictatorship into a land of anarchy.

In a desperate attempt to save his own power, Assad violated international law by using chemical weapons against rebel forces. Yet the horrific effects of these weapons were not solely felt by the soldiers of the rebel army; instead, hundreds of innocent men, women and children were exposed to the toxic chemicals. Assad’s use of these weapons was not only illegal, but it also symbolized the worst of humanity. A dictatorial strongman used his power to end lives, ruin families and expose the world to the horror of chemical warfare.

In the wake of these attacks, the world’s most powerful nation did nothing. Under the leadership of President Obama, the United States simply stared at the problem and hoped that it would go away. No action was taken; no leadership was shown. And as the United States shrunk from its responsibility to defend those who could not defend themselves, a new power emerged in the Middle East: Russia. By supplying the Syrian government with weapons and air support, the Russian government effectively sanctioned the use chemical weapons and the killing of innocent civilians. And as Russia acted to support the sheer evil of Assad’s regime, we passively stood by and watched.

From a strategic standpoint, I understand Obama’s reluctance to intervene in the conflict. There is little appetite in this nation for another Middle Eastern war, as our conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, alongside the global War on Terror, have taken their toll. Furthermore, there are many within the foreign relations establishment that are wary of the United States removing another Middle Eastern strongman. The most recent removals of Middle Eastern dictators –– specifically Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya –– have not ended well.

Hussein’s removal sparked a radical destabilization of political power in Iraq, as the new Iraqi parliament was unable to fully quell the warring Sunni, Shi’a and Kurdish factions within the nation. As a result of this instability, a powerful fundamentalist group was able to gain large swaths of Iraqi territory: ISIS. At the same time, the removal of Gaddafi in Libya created an intensely unstable state. Thus, concerns over another American intervention in Middle Eastern affairs are understandable.

Yet America’s unwillingness to act in the wake of blatant human rights violations is a sign of great weakness. It is the job of the world’s lone superpower to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves –– and that involves reacting to the evil actions of rogue dictators. Standing idly by as countless civilians are poisoned by chemical weapons is not a luxury afforded to a nation that claims to lead the free world.

President Trump’s decision to attack Syrian air bases is good for multiple reasons. First, it shows that the United States is willing to stand up and fight for what it believes to be right. Second, it shows that America is not afraid to act in the wake of aggression. Finally, the action gives the appearance of decisiveness –– and the appearance of decisiveness is one of the most important aspects of any nation’s capacity to project power.

While Trump’s foreign policy thus far has been an embarrassing roller-coaster, his latest decision was one he got right. By standing up to a tyrant, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is prepared to defend the interests of free people across the globe. Though Trump has much to do to repair his (and America’s) image abroad, this is certainly a step in the right direction.

Michael Glanzel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sceinces.

He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun.com. Cornell Shrugged runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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his May, Cornell University will host former Vice President Joe Biden as our convocation speaker. Not surprisingly, the announcement has been well-received.

Although it is a time-honored tradition for politicians to speak at graduation, Biden is an unusually prominent and popular speaker. Of course, Biden has attained considerable popularity due to his relaxed “Uncle Joe” persona and his down-to-earth personality. More importantly, however, Biden is an vital example of leadership in a moment that desperately calls for leaders.

Biden has been an enormously influential figure in our political system over the past eight years. I can’t simply summarize an entire administration in one column. Here’s one big point, however: in 2009, President Obama and Vice President Biden were inaugurated amidst the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Yet, through an economic stimulus spearheaded by Biden, the worst consequences were avoided. Biden was one of the most prominent advisors within the Obama administration, particularly as a contrarian voice.

It can be easy to forget, for example, that there was a time less than five years ago when the Democratic Party had no consistent position on marriage equality. Biden announced his personal support, forcing President Obama quickly to follow suit. By the end of the year, the party had found a consensus.

Biden’s simple words made a difference. It means something to speak out, even if others are hesitant.

This principle is equally apparent through Biden’s dedication to combating the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. With the “It’s On Us” campaign, Biden brought a clear message to students across the country: the responsibility can’t be passed along to someone else. Accordingly, there will be moments where it is uncomfortable to speak out. It’ll make you unpopular. But it’s still your moral obligation to do so.

The prevention of sexual assault is an unusually visceral example. The duty to speak out holds in every aspect of our lives.

That’s one of the reasons that it’s so important for us to hear from Joe. He gets the importance of duty. He lives it.

And, it must be said, he has endured through devastating experiences. Shortly after winning his first term in the United States Senate, he lost his wife and daughter in a car accident that also severely injured his two sons. In 2015, Biden was confronted with the loss of his son, Beau, to cancer.

Few of us have dealt with such tragedy; Biden has candidly admitted to being overwhelmed in the aftermath. I have no doubt that not a single day goes by where Biden does not

Kevin Kowalewski | Democratic Dialogue

Lessons From Joe think of Beau. Still, in spite of everything, he has never quit.

He’s kept going. He has dedicated himself to fixing problem by leading national effort to cure cancer. Instead of retreating into bitterness or hopelessness, Biden has been shaped into a man of perseverance and empathy.

In another world, perhaps, Biden may have made an attempt to be President Obama’s successor in the White House.

We do not know, and cannot know how that would have turned out. But as a politician, Biden is gifted. He delivers simple, effective messages about protecting the middle class and working class. The role of Biden’s government is not to be big or small, but to make it so that every mom and dad can tell their kids that it’s gonna be O.K., and mean it.

Going forward, the Democratic Party could learn a lot from Biden. It must remain keenly aware of the daily struggle of millions of Americans. The path back to a majority will run through many of the same communities that turned away from Democrats in 2016. As the Democrats adjust their messaging, they should also remember the other key pillar of Bidenism: relentless optimism about America. Even when times are rough, Biden has always stressed his belief that America will come out on top. It’s a uplifting narrative that will help focus the purpose of the Democratic Party, even when things look dark.

Ultimately, the lesson we should take from Joe shouldn’t be just about a party. It’s a lesson about the values that should motivate us every day. If you’re one of the big guys, stick up for the little guys. If you’re knocked down, you get back up. If you see something wrong, you damn well better say something about it. That’s what Joe Biden stands for. That’s the authentic, good-humored, courageous public servant we will soon welcome to Ithaca to send off our graduating class. And I can’t wait. Have you heard of the Dairy Bar, Mr. Vice President?

Kevin Kowalewski is a senior in the College of Arts and Sceinces.

Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Gaby Leung | Serendipitous Musings

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For What It Is

whole Great Gatsby affair comes to mind when I think about the ’20s. The glorified notion of the time of prohibition, symbolized by speakeasies and flappers. Or when I think of the ’60s, it’s Woodstock and hippies that come to mind, complete with colorful Volkswagen vans and the Beatles.

It seems like human nature to categorize these time periods. We find specific objects or events to describe an entire era, so that when we look back on a particular decade, a specific image comes to mind.

Interestingly enough, I’ve found that art has become a medium that enables this categorization.

My friend once asked me, with genuine interest and not the usual condescending tone I get from non-humanities majors, why I study Art History. I knew my answer: the reason I had been so drawn to the subject from the very beginning was my realization that, although history relays the sequence of events and explains why certain things occur, art history explains how people react. How we, as human beings, respond to what we are dealt. I find it fascinating to trace the similarities of how humans create art throughout history, finding an interconnectedness of humanity that is comforting. Art styles change across cultures and time, but some human emotions remain the same, something that is evident in the way we feel when we view a piece of art.

Art movements emerge when artists have a similar interest in a certain aesthetic or concept while responding to the culture of their time and current events. Pop Art emerged in the 1950s in response to the mass consumerism and increasing consumption in the United States. With the mass images available to the public, artists found a way to use the commonplace images that were dominant in American popular culture (such as Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola

bottles) to illustrate this idealization of mass production. Andy Warhol’s screenprinting process created a machine-like look that mimicked the mass-produced items he used in his work. Minimalism, on the other hand, was a movement born as a response to both Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, reducing art to its base materiality and surface, moving away from a pictorial and illusionistic representation of objects.

Just as there were the Michelangelos of the Italian Renaissance, the Caravaggios and Rembrandts of the Baroque Period and the Monets of Impressionism, I often find myself wondering: who are the artists of our time?

What will they name this time period?

When people read about the 2010s in textbooks decades later, who will they find on the pages they flip through? Who will be projected onto screens and written about in essays? Whose lives will be investigated so that every little thing they might have said or done is made to look as though it influenced their artwork?

And once those questions arose, whether I was studying art in class, or strolling through the rooms of MoMA or the Met, I couldn’t help but wonder where we stood in history. Life, it seemed, was a linear narrative that flowed continuously forward, with labels placed periodically on the timeline to indicate a significant period had passed. I could look backwards and see Assyrian lamassus, Laocöön’s writhing body and the creation of Adam. I saw Botticelli’s Venus, Seurat’s dots and Warhol’s cans. But I think of now, and all the current artwork I have been exposed to, and I feel disoriented and confused. I can’t seem to find a connection between what I see that creates a distinct label. I wanted to find something — a theme, a style, anything — that tied art together in a way that made sense. I wanted to see the breakdown of a surface

and simplification of natural forms and know it was Cubism I was looking at. I wanted to see works that reflected dreams and the power of the imagination, and know I was dealing with Surrealist artists.

And then something changed. It was when I went to the Whitney’s Biennial that I came to realize the importance of appreciating art now, not for what it might do to influence future art movements or how it represents time, but for my personal connection to it. The Biennial showcases living artists’ works, art that reflects the current issues of our time, such as racial inequalities, economic inequity and political tensions. As I walked through the exhibition, the impact of the work I was seeing hit me tremendously. These were artists who were living, whose works resonated with me because they were so real and true.

And I understood that there was no point in wondering what we would be seen as in the future; how people would view this time period in relation to the artwork that was created within it. Because I could see the work and feel the power of it firsthand. They weren’t things I studied in textbooks or read scholarly articles about. They reflected current issues that either impacted me directly or indirectly.

They made me feel like I was part of the experience, not an outsider who tentatively looked in.

I don’t want to label these moments.

Maybe years from now, people will find a name to categorize the artworks made during this time period. Maybe they’ll find a similar style or technique that connects the works. But all I can do at the moment — all I want to do — is appreciate these works of art for how human, present and alive they make me feel.

Gaby Leung is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gleung@cornellsun.com. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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began my conversation with Jason Sidle, Director of Operations at Coltivare, located on Cayuga Street in downtown Ithaca, by asking him to explain the restaurant’s partnership with Tompkins Cortland Community College. “There is no partnership.

We are TC3,” he responded. So began my reconnaissance of Coltivare and TC3’s revolutionary Farm to Bistro program. The program, which opened in December 2014, contains four hospitality programs, three of which are operated directly out of Coltivare and one that calls a new 32-acre plot of farmland, owned by TC3, home.

If you haven’t been there yet, Coltivare is one of Ithaca’s most tasteful, tasty and innovative restaurants. With a farm-to-table focus and an emphasis on seasonality, the restaurant’s constantly changing menu features local vegetables, fruits and meats. The kitchen, in addition to paying strict attention to ingredients, values presentation nearly as much.

It was telling that when I received my bill at the end of the meal, included was an evaluation with the first question asking, “Was your plate colorful?” Yes, Coltivare is not your typical college student joint.

While diners enjoy the street-side dining room, the cooking facility extends far back into the building. Besides the regular commercial kitchen that fuels the restaurant, Coltivare unveiled a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen with the opening of the hospitality program. The kitchen allows culinary students to observe and practice at individual stations with an

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In addition to the teaching kitchen, the Coltivare complex also houses a wine tasting room for students of the program. The area is outfitted with auditoriumstyle seating and tables with small circular lights built in to illuminate wine glasses for inspection.

The wine program has extended itself internationally with virtual wine classes through a partner school in France. Through these collaborations, students taste wines mailed ahead from abroad while listening to experts from the region of interest.

Students in the two-year culinary program, who hail from all over New York state, learn the restaurant business through their chosen area of focus. Currently offered concentrations include culinary arts, wine marketing, hotel and restaurant management and sustainable farming and food systems. Although there may be just a

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handful of culinary programs in two-year colleges across the United States, there are none, according to Sidle, that have a culinary center, restaurant and farm to work with.

As an offshoot of the various TC3 curricula, the culinary program is truly comprehensive.

Students take hands-on classes onsite Monday through Friday for the entirety of the semester. They also benefit from Coltivare’s forprofit business by using real restaurant data in accounting classes.

TC3’s culinary program is highly selective of applicants as well. Currently, 65 students populate the Coltivare culinary program, a small group compared the more than 200 applicants of the program, which began its second year this fall.

The education continues beyond daytime classes. Most of the students enrolled in the culinary program also work in the restaurant, shifting roles for maximum experience. When I visited, Sidle pointed out all the students working on staff that night. They included prep cooks and chefs working the line during service, as

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well as front-of-the-house serving staff, hosts and bartenders.

While many schools boast culinary programs, rarely do you find one as comprehensive and fully integrated as Coltivare’s, which aims to connect all elements of the restaurant business and supply chain.

My recent meal there was an exciting departure from the redundant dining halls on Cornell’s campus. To start, my friends and I shared that day’s appetizer special: pierogis stuffed with mushrooms, braised beef and pearl onions atop a polenta cake and local carrot purée. The creation was garnished with blackened caramelized onions.

Such a dramatic description sounded a bit intimidating to those of us who were used to more casual dining, but the warmth and comfort of the dish was immediately pleasing and undoubtedly delicious. “I’m a fan,” my friend concluded of the pierogi.

From there, we moved on to the restaurant’s now-famous Apple Fest mac and cheese. I remember trying this masterpiece in September and being blown away by the cooked apple and braised pork flavors. In the restaurant, however, the kitchen overcompensated with presentation (excessive browning and garnish) and lost the intense cheesiness I remember from Apple Fest. To be clear, I wasn’t truly complaining, it just wasn’t how I remembered it.

For a second main course to share, we sampled the “Wine and Swine” pizza. The crust was perfect — yeasty yet crispy — and the toppings (apple butter and gruyere) were inventive and complemented the shaved ham well.

Sometimes, restaurants offering extravagant desserts get so caught up in being over the top in presentation (think: Black Tap’s Instagrammable milkshakes) that they lose a quality of flavor. This

was not the case with the “Death

by Chocolate” masterpiece. The dessert, a mini bundt cake coated in fudge and layered with chocolate mousse and coconut pecan frosting, paired with a chocolate truffle on the side (because why not?), was blissful.

As for TC3’s prophesied farm (it is still in the works), the project consists of approximately 32 acres adjacent to TC3’s Dryden campus, with just 12 to 15 acres under cultivation at the moment. In addition to teaching sustainable farming practices, the farm operates as an organic CSA (community-supported agriculture) supplier to the greater community and collaborator with Coltivare. The farm intends to succeed as a profitable CSA and restaurant supplier as well as an outdoor classroom for the Sustainable Farming culinary students.

Although the restaurant tries to be as local as possible, with “8085% of the menu sourced from Tompkins County,” Sidle reminded me that, as a business, “we need to have things that people want to buy — seafood, for example.” The restaurant must be a profitable

business in order for students to learn the trade. This means that, while the restaurant would ideally serve 100 percent local food, economic constraints of demand prevent it.

In all, Coltivare is an icon to

“There is no partnership.

We are TC3.”

Jason Sidle, Coltivare Director of Operations explore that offers much more to the Ithaca community than highend meals. Its culinary program adds depth to the culture of the restaurant that is worth consideration and appreciation.

Oh, and next time you go, ask, “Are there any students in the kitchen tonight?”

Louisa Heywood is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at lheywood@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The F8 of a Franchise

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

I went to the bathroom during this movie (and I never do that). I usually get pissed off when I see other people leave the theater before the lights come up, but watching Fate of the Furious, I had no problem stepping out for a minute. The kicker is that I wasn’t in a hurry — I walked calmly to and from the restroom and even stopped to fix my hair on the way out. For reference, when I drank a little too much ICEE during my second viewing of The Force Awakens, I flat out sprinted to the bathroom and didn’t stop to wash my hands.

When I returned from my lengthy restroom excursion, my friend informed me that I hadn’t missed much — ”just some gushy stuff.” By “gushy stuff ” I mean anything other than fast cars being driven aggressively, which I maintain should be the only thing on screen at all times. And this “gushy stuff ” is my main problem with this new installment in the Fast and Furious series.

Despite their flaws, I think the earlier movies saw themselves for what they were: stupid fun. However, as the series has progressed it has pushed both ends of the spectrum — action and plot — to their limits.

What started as a fairly straight-forward series about a small, gasoline-thirsty cast of characters and their interactions with lawmen and outlaws has evolved into an action-heavy box office behemoth with a star-studded cast and steadily progressing storyline complexity. And though I’m fine with ramping up the thrills, the increasing gravity of the overarching storyline doesn't always come across well.

These movies have asked me to swallow a lot. We’ve seen our ever-expanding cast of characters conquer corners, tunnels, borders, trains, cargo planes, tanks, military helicopters and some fundamental laws of physics with nothing but horsepower and ingenuity.

The Fate of the Furious does nothing to quell the madness. As you can see in the trailer, our crew battles with a Russian submarine on a frozen arctic sea. And somewhat surprisingly, I’m okay with all that.

Sure, the main characters are practically gods, but broadly speaking the driving and action scenes in these movies are well executed and, though they’re absurd, they’re consistent in their absurdity. They play by their own rules. So when I’m asked to accept Dom (Vin Diesel) and friends’ seeming invincibility, I do!

That said, my acceptance of the absurdity gets worn down by the franchise’s repeated attempts to dive deep into complex plots and character development. It’s hard to watch a scene intended to pull on the heartstrings when it immediately follows our protagonists jumping a Lykan Hypersport off the top floor of a Dubai skyscraper.

Despite the inherent silliness of these movies, their tendency to take themselves too seriously can get in the way of one important truth that they should cling to: fast cars are freaking awesome. Like holy crap.

They’re so flipping cool. Hot diggity dog (my parents read these, I’m trying to be civil).

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And these movies have always done fast cars right!

Sure we haven’t gotten something as iconic as the General Lee (Dukes of Hazzard) from this series, but the franchise has given us some of the best driving scenes in recent memory. And I’ll admit that every action scene in the new film got me into that special mind-numbing dumbstruck trance we’ve come to crave from these movies.

I’d like to see this franchise present our heroes with a new baddie to take down in a speedy and irate (get it?) manner every two years or so and drop all its pretenses of sophistication. For a while, I thought Fate of the Furious had gone this route. The opening sequences of this film screamed childish fun, but plotlines quickly bogged it down. When I go to see a Fast and Furious movie, it’s not to explore the depths of human character; it’s to turn my brain off and ogle fast cars and cunning stunts.

More often than not, the action and plot get in the way of each other. The plot gets stretched to shoehorn in an action scene that looked cool on the storyboard and the action gets cut off abruptly to make room for a crucial plot point. With the elevating levels of action we’ve come to expect from the Fast and Furious franchise, the mutual exclusivity of its absurd stunts and complex plots is becoming all the more painfully evident It seems like these complaints will fall on deaf ears.

Don’t get me wrong — I get it! It can’t be easy to tell a bunch of actors and crew members that they aren’t working on a movie with rich story. It can’t be easy to subjugate your own film to the kind of “no-plot” criticisms it would garner, but everything considered, that’s the route I’d like to see these movies take.

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Until Universal decides they’re alright with dropping their aspirations of having a “real” plots in these movies, future additions to this series will keep feeling shallow. It’s mind-boggling that in films where we see people perform feats of unbelievable difficulty the things that take me out of the movie are plot points.

My qualms with the mere existence of this movie’s plot aside, Fate of the Furious continues another concerning trend. Early in this franchise, our heroes defeated their adversaries with wit and burning rubber and now … well, there’s no other way to say this — they’re murderers. Our “heroes” graduated from winning races to absolutely brutal killings. For example, at beginning of this film, Dom takes down a guy in an epic race and wins his respect. That’s how things used to be! Later in the movie, Letty straight up throws a guy into a propellor. And sure it might make sense that our protagonists’ actions escalated alongside the heightening stakes, but that’s just the problem I was addressing earlier. The point at which this series turned family-loving racecar drivers into ultra-elite operatives of death was the point at which it lost itself.

The sad thing is, I know this franchise could be remembered fondly if it turned things around. There’s a place in cinema history for a unique, pedal-to-themetal action franchise. However, there might not be a spot for one that kept tripping itself up to be remembered in 50 years (assuming they aren’t still churning these things out when I’m in my 70s).

Now reader, you might be thinking I hated this movie and I’m about to tell you that’s not totally true (please stay with me). Though I just wrote over 1000 words complaining about this movie, I did so because I’m kinda a fan of the franchise. I grew up reading Motor Trend, Automobile, and Car and Driver religiously. I watched Top Gear like it was my job. So when a franchise came around that was about cars; one not just throwing in a car chase here and there or some sexy B-roll footage but one really about cars, I latched onto it.

Sure, the acting isn’t always perfect and sure, like I lamented earlier, there are some serious problems with its storylines, but at their cores these movies have always been fun to watch. Fate of the Furious is no different. Though much of this movie annoyed me, I also found myself turning to my friend in giddy amusement a couple times. This movie’s action is just the stupid kind of fun I’m an absolute sucker for.

Fate of the Furious, like all of the sequels, is alright, even fun, if you’re willing to turn your brain off just a little. The production value is there — the stunts are huge, the actors are famous and, in generally, the thing is well put together. If you’ve liked any of the other films, you’ll have a good time at this one.

Nick Smith is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nks53@cornell.edu.

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I’m Smurfing Done With Smurfs: The Lost Village

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

In 2011, The Smurfs came to us from Sony Pictures Animation. In 2013, we got a sequel. Both movies were panned, and now Sony has decided to reboot the Smurfs again.

Smurfs: The Lost Village is directed by Kelly Asbury, who also directed Shrek 2 and Gnomeo and Juliet. The writing duo includes Stacey Harman, who did work on The Goldbergs, and Pamela Ribon, who worked on Moana and is currently attached to Ralph Breaks the Internet. These are all very talented women, and it should have been a cinch for them to put together a great movie! Alas, Sony Pictures Animation appears to remain a place where, as Phil Lord described, “it’s too hard to do great work”. Smurfs: The Lost Village is unfunny, boring and an overall unpleasant experience to sit through.

The movie centers on Smurfette (Demi Lovato), who we learn was created by the evil wizard Gargamel (Rainn Wilson) to lead him to Smurf Village. If he can find the Smurfs, then he can extract their magic to become the most powerful wizard in the world. Luckily, Papa Smurf (Mandy Patinkin) managed to turn her from the dark side, but she still struggles with not being an actual Smurf. One day, Smurfette finds evidence that more Smurfs live in the Forbidden Forest, and accidentally tips off Gargamel to their existence. It becomes a race against time to warn the new village before Gargamel reaches them first.

However, the lost village has a surprise of its own: instead of being all-male, like Smurf Village, this one is all-female! Will Smurfette finally find her true identity here after all?

I’m not gonna lie, I had to cap off that synopsis with filler, because that’s so much of what this movie is. It’s hard to put together what the story even is because characters seem to have little logical progression. Smurfette seems to feel guilty for letting Gargamel discover the whereabouts of the lost village, but then seems shocked when he assigns the blame to her. All of the characters are downright irritating, and without that, the movie crumbles. Look, I know that Smurfs are famous for their one-dimensional personalities: Brainy Smurf is a know-it-all, Hefty Smurf likes to work out, Clumsy Smurf is

clumsy and so on. When you’re making a movie, though, you have to take creative liberties to flesh a Saturday morning cartoon into a working story. Sony clearly doesn’t know how to do that. Gargamel is a pitiful villain; apparently his greatest concern is getting himself some hair. Between his slapstick antics and constant buffoonery, his lousy character saps the plot of any sense of conflict.

And then there are the female Smurfs. I feel like the movie is trying to send a feminist message that says that girls and women can be whatever they want … but it’s hard to do that when your three female supporting characters

I outright groaned at several gags. Seeing Gargamel brandish a block of cheese that he announces was in his underwear for a week elicits not comedy, but disgust. Seeing him grab an eagle and kiss it for a little bit too long doesn’t make me laugh, it makes me cringe. Watching Gargamel getting bitten on the butt by a fish and saying it’s a “bottom feeder” doesn’t leave me rolling in the aisles, it leaves me thinking that I could have spent my time and money better by rewatching Your Name. A lot of other “jokes” come from characters trying to be annoying. Surprise: it’s not funny, it’s actually annoying! It’s hard

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are all stereotypes. You have Smurf Storm: she’s edgy and cynical, but has a soft spot! You have Smurf Blossom: she talks too much and is unbearably annoying. You have Smurf Willow: she leads the female Smurfs and falls in love with Papa Smurf, because of course she smurfin’ does! When the characters are as weak as these, you can’t get invested in the story, and when the movie tries to pull off dramatic moments, like Smurfette Disneydying at the end (spoiler: she comes back to life with the power of love), it feels hollow and unearned.

Okay, so maybe the plot is weak. I could forgive that if it at least made me laugh.

Unfortunately, Smurfs: The Lost Village has hardly any laughs in it at all. The issue extends beyond a flat-out absence of humor;

to laugh with characters that we constantly want to chuck out a window. Then there are the stolen jokes. Gargamel invents these spheres that freeze Smurfs, and as he throws them he shouts “Freeze ball! Freeze ball!” which totally does not mirror Gru shouting “Freeze ray! Freeze ray!” in Despicable Me. They even steal a gag from one of their own movies. That bit where Clumsy falls off a cliff and screams, only to find he’s actually safe? They did it in Horton Hears a Who! in 2007. I honestly felt embarrassed for Sony watching this movie. Between the embarrassment, the annoyance and the disgust, I had maybe one laugh during the movie. The one gag that worked… was ironically at Smurfette’s faux-funeral. Sad! The voice-acting for the movie was simi-

larly poor. Many voices felt simply miscast, but one of the biggest offenders was Rainn Wilson as Gargamel. Wilson simply didn’t deliver a lot of emotion to his role. At one point he yells “SMURRRRFS!” as the camera zooms away from him… but he feels bored in the recording booth. A few lines I picked out though feel like he’s giving less of a performance, and more of an angry lecture to the executives: “Stop ruining things!”

“This isn’t funny!” “Why won’t they just die?!” After this film, I myself am ready for the Smurfs movies to die out.

So much went wrong with this movie that I hardly even know how to categorize everything. There are just so many halfbaked ideas that leave me wondering “Why?” Why are there rabbits that glow in the dark and act/sound like horses? Why is the Forbidden Forest forbidden in the first place? Who cares, Sony clearly doesn’t! They care so little, they still use running sound effects from the 1960s! Oh yeah, that tapping that you hear on The Flintstones? It shows up here! Those little bursts of stars from people getting hit on the head? Those things that the Looney Tunes relied on? They make an appearance! So much of Smurfs: The Lost Village screams lousy execution, and it simply leaves a bad feeling in my stomach.

So far this year, I gave Rock Dog and The Boss Baby lukewarm reviews. I feared that maybe I wasn’t being critical enough; I’ve only been doing this for about a year now, so I still feel like I’m learning. Was I being too soft?

Smurfs: The Lost Village has done one good thing: it assured me my scale is still calibrated.

Rock Dog had flaws, but managed to be amiable and have a solid enough center. Boss Baby had flaws, but managed to deliver at least a few good laughs and performances. Smurfs: The Lost Village has nothing to offer. It’s dull, contrived and downright offensive to good taste. It’s not even worth putting on in the background because it’s so annoying. I hope that Asbury, Harman and Ribon move on to better work, because I honestly don’t blame them for this trainwreck; Sony Animation has simply become an unpleasant studio with an unpleasant reputation. But hey, at least there’s their next movie this year!... ...The Emoji Movie…

David Gouldthorpe is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu

Personality in Electromagnetism: The Glamour & the Squalor Car speakers emit radio waves with a long travel logged history. When we turn up the dial on a finger-worn sound system, our heads bop to a sound bit morphed into electromagnetic energy — a wave particle caught up in the ionosphere, thrust back down again and ricocheted at the speed of light from one aerial antenna to the next. By the time these notes reach our numb ears, they carry more than empty air. Once our carpool starts singing the lyrics, we’ve forgotten even what station transmits each new note. The next best single transports our minds like the longform radio wave — away from car parts and gasoline, beyond wired batteries and tuning dial. Good music moves us into an upper atmosphere of selective unconsciousness where we feel the melody and forget the process.

This Friday, Cornell Cinema moves backward in the opencircuit and recognizes the electric lines behind musical energy. The Glamour & the Squalor overlooks the importance of electromagnetic waves but gives credit to the man behind the radio. The documentary film — first released in June of 2015 — screens the life and legacy of Marco Collins, the Seattle disc jockey often called America’s last great D.J. Collins debuted tracks by Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and seemingly every other great American rock group of the last thirty years. At the same time, he etched new grooves for the LGBT community. The Glamour & the Squalor offers a glimpse behind our seemingly person-less radio boxes and a look inside the heart of a history.

Director Marq Evans takes radio listeners back to 1991.

From the boom box to the stereo to the Walkman, different

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hardware plays the same sounds. Evans shows how Marco Collins connects disparate pieces, parts, people and places with his software — an ear for listenability. In a small captured moment with a high-school-age “radio host” Collins reveals, sarcastically yet symbolically, how his work functions. The young girl professes, “I myself am a D.J. and program director at a tiny ten Watt station at my high school, what would you recommend for shmucks like me to get into radio and become big-wigs like yourself?” Collins responds laughing and consoling, “You’re not a shmuck and I’m not a big-wig; we’re all just the same...” Despite its sarcasm, this moment epitomizes Collins’ character and career. He works as the connective tissue between music production and music Cornell listeners. He bridges the gap between Cinema the not-yet-heard and the instant chart-topper. The new sounds Collins exposes form alternate modes of communication. Collins provides listeners of his station — and every other station that follows his lead — with melodic methods of transmuting soundless singularity for flowing cohesion. When Collins first played Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” he was alone in recognizing it as a hit. When the song ended, he played it again. Listeners and competing stations quickly sang and rocked along with him. Collins broke new songs and built new networks of engagement.

The Glamour & The Squalor looks at the way Collins transmits unmapped wavelengths — in his profession and as a person. Collins championed records and he championed bands and he championed the gay community. Along the way, however, Collins struggled to find himself in the mass of atmospheric energy. Evans expertly portrays this issue of mediation in Collins life — the space between self identity and self acceptance like the chasm between music produc-

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tion and platinum success. The film’s medium switches from flashback to cartoon narrative to interview. The viewer bounces along as if from transmitter antenna to receiver antenna — transmitter, receiver, transmitter, receiver. This electric travel log strings across Collins’ career and a similar pattern cuts through his personal life. Evans beautifully recreates the complexities of living under public scrutiny and private distress. His camera angles and his medium pull in opposing directions so that the viewer begins to understand the process behind a finished product. Evans lends equal credit to each accomplishment — Collin’s critical acclaim and personal victories.

Collins’ keen ear has become as fundamental to American rock radio as the formation of the energy wave itself. Collins functions as a critical stop along the electric line — the junction between static and music. He is the fundamental link. The Glamour & the Squalor rewinds the track — in a way impossible to live radio — and restores him to his human form. Automobile fanatics sometimes develop that strange habit of naming a car “Baby” or “Herbie” or “Lucky” or whatnot. The process of shining the wheels, greasing the brakes, washing the windows and scrutinizing the engine makes the devotee put personality back into the car. Collins once worked for a mechanic. He describes it as the “butchiest” job he’s ever had. But, where Collins sees boredom, the car lover looks into parts and recreates a human character. The automobile enthusiast conceives an independent being out of mass produced units.

In a similar way, Collins anthropomorphizes the radio industry. The Glamour & The Squalor shows listeners and viewers a radio D.J.’s human crux on the radio culture map.

I still can’t grasp the electromagnetic spectrum, but I recognize Marco Collins’ crucial, personal contribution.

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

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Women Look to Red Takes 4th atYale Invitational Saturday Contest Readies for Ivy League Championship Friday in Connecticut With Princeton On Schoellkopf GOLF

By JOSH ZHU

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell golf team is finding its groove at the perfect time. In its final tuneup before the Ivy League Championships this upcoming weekend, the Red recorded its best spring season outing last Saturday with a fourth place finish at the Yale Spring Invitational.

“We’re definitely getting used to hitting on the greens and finding our rhythm again,” said senior cocaptain Luke Graboyes. “We have a few things we need to work on [but] I think we’re in a good place

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quite a few good moments that happened all over the field.”

Smith shared a similar sentiment concerning her team’s hard work, but believed the Red could have done more.

“I think our team worked as hard as we could, but finishing our plays would have put us in a better position to dominate the game,” Smith added.

“Whether it was getting a ground ball out of our defensive end, protecting our sticks on transition or finishing our shots around the goalie, we needed to finish every play and take care of every moment.”

“With the way we’ve been playing ... We think we can do well at the championships this year.”

Junior Mike Graboyes heading into the Ivy’s.”

Graboyes and his younger brother Mike both shot two under-par 68s in the second round to place in the top-five individually. Graboyes recorded a final score of four-over 144 for fifth place, while Mike recorded an even more impressive par 140 for second place.

Sophomore Tianyi Cen placed 44th with a 13-over 153, and freshman Michael May rounded out the lineup with a 19-over 159 for a 57th place finish.

Notably, junior Christopher Troy shot a three-over 73 in the first round before sitting out to avoid aggravating an injured knee.

“I would say our confidence is especially high given the way we played this weekend,” Mike Graboyes said. “Our team finish didn’t really reflect how we’ve been playing [because] Chris sat out, but we feel really good about how we’re playing.”

As with all of the tournaments this spring, the Yale Invitational offered Cornell the opportunity to continue gaining experience hitting outdoors after building up some rust over its winter hiatus. In particular, the course gave the Red a chance to putt on some large greens.

“The greens are really big [and] almost outside thirty feet,” Mike said. “You can hit a bad second shot on the green and have a 50 foot putt, so getting the speed down is really key.”

The Invitational also offered some practice with elevation changes and building more trust in hitting atypical shots.

“There’s a lot of elevation changes and blind shots.

Some of the newer guys had never played that before, so [it taught] how to trust your shot and just hit it,” Graboyes said.

With the Ivy’s looming this weekend, the Red’s fourth place finish should certainly provide some confidence heading into the championship tournament.

“The Ivy’s will be a shorter course than Yale,” Graboyes said. “It’s more of a modern golf course

“Our team is excited to play Princeton ...

We know they are going to be a tough team, and I think we are all ready.”

Senior Goalie Renee Poullot

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Finding a groove | After struggling in its first two spring tournaments, the golf team appears to be hitting its stride at the perfect time.

with deep bunkers, but with the way we’ve been playing, we have the chance to put up some low numbers.”

The tournament will take place at the Stanwich Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Red will look to keep a simple mindset of sticking to fundamentals heading into the event.

“The key to this course is to miss in the right spot where you have an uphill straightforward shot rather than one over a mound and down a slope,” Mike said.

“It’s really just giving ourselves easy putts, dealing with the greens and hitting the approach shots [correctly] which will help us do well.”

“We really think we can do well at the championships this year. Me and Luke gained a lot of confidence at Yale, the Ivy’s take place at Chris’s home course, and the course just sets up really well for Jack and Mike,” he added.

The three-day tournament begins Friday morning and concludes on Sunday.

Josh Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

Despite the loss, Cornell must regroup and prepare for its next matchup against Princeton (10-2, 4-0). The Tigers held down the Orange, 16-11, earlier this season, so they will surely be a threat for the Red. Last year, Cornell fell to Princeton in a close 8-7 loss, where the game was never more than a twopoint differential. The heated rematch between the two Ivy’s will surely be seen on Saturday.

“Our team is excited to play Princeton,” Poullott said. “We know they are looking to avenge their loss to us last season in the Ivy Tournament. We know they are going to be a tough team, and I think we are all ready and excited for the competition.”

Smith foresees Cornell and Princeton going allout in the upcoming matchup.

“Ivy games are always fun, and there is a lot more emotion put into Ivy games, so it will be a tough battle,” Smith said. “You can expect there to be a lot of aggressive plays and both teams going 110 percent the entire time.”

Princeton currently boasts a 10-2 overall record complemented with an undefeated 4-0 Ivy record.

One of these two top ranked women’s lacrosse teams will have to walk away with a conference loss come Saturday.

The Red will host the Tigers Saturday at 1 p.m. on Schoellkopf Field.

Tobenna Attah can be reached at tattah@cornellsun.com.

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But recent performances show a noticeable change in the Red’s trajectory. During the five-game slide to open team’s defense, meanwhile, is not the season, Cornell gave up an average something to hang your hat on and has of 17.8 goals per game and averaged some gaping holes, giving up 14.13 only 10 goals, despite an 18-goal pergoals per game. formance during an overtime effort The team has seen in a dip in offen- against Virginia. In the six games since sive performance during league play, then, the Red has averaged 12.3 goals however, only scoring 11.75 goals a while giving up just 9.3 per game. game, while F o r playing only Kerwick, it is slightly better “That’s always a goal for us, to play well a thing of on defense beauty to see than usual, and win that Ivy League tournament and where this but still giving team is then continue to play after that.” up a hefty going.

Head Coach Matt Kerwick 13.75 goals a “We have game. These a very young numbers are group in that similar to Cornell’s overall trends, locker room right now, and they just which averages 10.8 goals per game keep getting better, and they're believand gives up 13.4. ing in each other,” he said. “They're Continued from page 16

working really hard at it, and that's all we can do.”

Kerwick admitted that the season has not gone the way anyone would have liked it to, but that his young, tenacious team has to keep on pushing.

“Obviously we're not where we want to be right now, but you can't look in the rearview, you've got to keep moving forward, and it's about the next play, the next game, the next practice, and they've done a really good job,” he added.

The team will have to overcome its subpar road record this weekend.

Cornell is just 1-4 away from home while it is 3-2 at Schoellkopf. Brown also does well at home with a 4-2 record, despite struggling on the road.

Regardless of the situation facing the team, the message remains constant — looking forward and playing as a team.

“It’s about 3-2 right now, we want to

get the next one, that's all we care about,” Kerwick said. “Having a great, productive week of practice, going down to Providence and playing our best game of the season, and we’ll see after that with Princeton coming here.”

With the regular season coming to a quick close, the team hopes that Saturday’s game will bring some momentum for a late post-season push. “[If ] we end up 4-2, we’re in good position and continue to play into May,” Kerwick said. “That’s always a goal for us, to play well and win that Ivy League tournament and then continue to play after that, we want to keep this group together as long as we can.”

The Red’s road finale will get under way at 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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No.7 Syracuse Tops Red With Strong 2nd Half In matchup of top-15 teams, No.11 Cornell lets lead slip away in tough road loss to Orange

By TOBENNA ATTAH Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s lacrosse team played a hardfought match against Syracuse on Tuesday night, but ended with an 11-8 loss at the Carrier Dome. The Orange, known for its dominance across all sports, played a magnificent second half to win its fifth straight and bump its win total to 13.

The match between the Red (10-3, 5-0 Ivy) and Orange (13-4, 5-1 ACC) was exhilarating right out of the gate. Sophomore Sarah Phillips put Cornell on the board first, taking the early 1-0 lead two minutes into the game. Strategic ball control from senior captain Catie Smith on the opening draw allowed the Red to benefit from her efforts and start strong.

“Our team has done really well offensively against a zone, and we were very prepared for Syracuse,” Smith said. “Syracuse plays very similar year to year, so our defense was also able to make big stops when we were in our zone.”

Limiting Syracuse to five goals in the first half was no easy task, but the Cornell squad managed to replicate its magic from the 2016 season. The team even showed considerable improvement from last year, as the Red put up five in the first half this year as opposed to two last year.

“We want to go hard from the first whistle and leave everything on the field,” said senior goalie Renee Poullott. “Our attack did a great job of picking apart their defense early on and getting them back on their heels. We knew how fast they would be in the midfield and on their attacking side of the ball their go to playmakers. Everyone prepared very well and really gave their all throughout the game.”

After the intermission, the Orange truly found its stride in picking apart the Red defense. In the opening

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Coming up short | Despite leading during the first half, the Red could not hold off Syracuse in the end. moments of the second half, senior Devon Parker gave last time the Red would keep Syracuse in its sights. The the Orange its first lead of the game by notching a goal Orange began to run away with the victory after forcing key turnovers and capitalizing on all fronts. in under 40 seconds.

“Syracuse was a good, aggressive team and we were “Syracuse came out strong on the draw to start the second half,” head coach Jenny Graap ‘86 said. “They aware of that,” Poullott said. “We prepared well, studied were able to put a few goals on the board early which film, learned about their offensive, defensive and draw looks. In the end, we may not have won, but there were gave them some momentum.”

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Laxers Set to Take On Brown in Key Ivy Road Matchup

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It has been a tale of two seasons for the Cornell men’s lacrosse team. Since the team’s lackluster 0-5 start, the group has bounced back as of late and has put together a 4-2 record since, with the only losses coming in a close one-goal decision

against Penn and an away loss to the No. 1 team in the country in Syracuse.

Now, the Red (4-7, 2-2 Ivy) finds itself tied for third place in the Ivy League, sitting only one game behind Princeton for second place. The tie for third will be broken this weekend, as the team hits the road for the final time during the regular season

when it heads to Providence to take on defending league-champion Brown (5-5, 2-2).

Last year, Brown came into Ithaca and thrashed Cornell 225 in the Red’s final home game of the season. Cornell will be looking to give Brown a taste of its own medicine heading into Brown’s final home game of this season.

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Revenge? | After a 22-5 drubbing at home last year, Cornell will look to get back at Brown on Saturday.

“They are a very different Kerwick said. “He’s an outteam [from last year],” said head standing player, one of the best coach Matt Kerwick. “They had in country by far at his position, a special group of seniors last but they’re a very young team year, and we saw that first hand. around him now so it’s a very different We’re certainly group.” going to use “We have a very young Not only is that as motivation, how they group in that locker room this a new, took it to us on right now, and they just younger team for Brown, our home field keep getting better.” but this will last year, and also be the that's someHead Coach Matt Kerwick first time that thing we’re Cornell will going to try to bring to the game on Saturday.” take on the team under its new Cornell will see a familiar head coach, Mike Daly.

After longtime coach Lars face in now-junior attacker Dylan Molloy, who gave not Tiffany headed to UVA to take only the Red, but the entire col- the head coaching job there, Daly was brought in from Tufts. lege lacrosse world nightmares.

Molloy led the way for In his 18 years with his alma Brown last year, leading the mater, Daly took his Tufts teams then-highest scoring team in the to nine NCAA Division III nation with three goals and Tournament appearances — three assists against Cornell on three of which resulted in his way to posting the fourth- Championships. He also posted most single season points in his- a 244-83 record and won seven tory. Molloy then went on to be straight NESCAC titles. Tufts the the first player in Brown his- finished last season as the hightory to win the Tewaaraton est scoring team in the country Award last year for best college for Division III, averaging lacrosse player, and was named 17.48 goals a game.

That offensive firepower carthe 2016 USILA Outstanding Player and Outstanding ried over to Daly’s new position, as Brown is still a force to be Attackman.

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‘The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster’ A YouTube Masterpiece for the Masses

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BY NONE OF YOUR BEESWAX Sun Bug Writer

The Bee Movie is a marvel of modern cinema. In its 10 years stewing in the film canon, the release has successfully ended the threat of global warming, led to the increased personal agency and social mobility of bees, and inspired Wiz Khalifa’s 2011 hit “Black and Yellow.” The Bee Movie’s harsh critiques of the corporate grind and careerism are striking and potent. Its unconventional love story rejects strictly defined relationship roles by presenting the complicated, but ultimately deeply supportive ambiguously-romantic friendship between Barry B. Benson and Vanessa Bloome.

The voice acting of Jerry Seinfeld as Barry is unparalleled, accomplishing incredible feats of vocal expression and truly imbuing his words with emotion. Barry is no simple bee, and Seinfeld doesn’t let him sound like one. The visuals of the movie are also incredible in their ability to anthropomorphize the bees without eliminating the features that make them bee-like. A honey-colored palette sprinkled with a bright spectrum of flower blossoms, purple infrastructure for

contrast and compliment, and the gentle plasticized curves of nearly all objects make for a pleasant visual setting. On top of all of that, somehow there are new jokes every time you watch it.

All of the beauties of the film are magnified when the film is sped up and shared on youtube in “The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster.” With a general familiarity of The Bee Movie — a prerequisite for the enjoyment of this piece — you get to experience in only seven brief minutes the cinematic journey that is the 91minute Bee Movie.

Before the sounds get too fast to parse words, you get in a few of the best jokes in. With the movie moving so fast, you get them rapid fire, too. Even better. This setting of the scene also gives the context you need for when the movie is far too fast to understand anything going on.

Then, you’re relying only on your memories of the rollercoaster of emotion that is The Bee Movie.

Furthermore, in an web saturated by “beemes,” Bee Movie memes, we are tasking with wading through the chaos to find the ones that make our life better. Maybe they change our perspective, maybe they incite an idea for new green space develop-

ment in urban areas or maybe they just brighten a rough day. No matter what, it’s worth the while — with the right beeme.

The “Bee movie but…” meme is far overdone, with an unimaginable amount of bastardizations of the movie available at a few clicks. Some are outstanding, some are mediocre, and some are downright hard to watch. The speed changed ones are the highlight of the genre, because they allow you to experience The Bee Movie, mostly untouched, in a fraction of the amount of time expected.

There are plenty of beemes that add special effects, slow the film, add in clips (or entireties) of other films, remove characters or focus on only one character. They each show the film in a different light. This video has a bias towards the beginning of the film, since the film gets progressively faster and skips more and more as time continues. While the beginning of the film is more engaging and — dare I say — more important part of the film, this piece fails to convey many of the complex themes that are resolved in the last third of the film. It flies past the final conflict: not having any flowers for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. While this is possibly the least memorable subplot of the

film, in any of its forms, the valuable lessons of cooperation and the indispensability nature of our friendly pollinators is lost in the speed. In all shortcuts, something must be lost, and the opportunity to experience nearly the entire bee movie in under 10 minutes is really enough of a benefit to make up for what is lost.

The choice to make the film faster every time the word “bee” is mentioned ensures that the Barry B. Benson’s identity as a bee isn’t stripped away as he becomes more human socially, emotionally and physically.

Realistically, you don’t have time to watch The Bee Movie when you need to most. The night before your Orgo final, at 11:23 p.m. when you have a paper due at midnight, when you’re a few minutes away from clicking “call” for the Skype interview for your dream internship. In these times, though, you might just have time for “The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster.” And that’s something beautiful about the time and place in which we live.

None of Your Beeswax is a bee in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at buzzed@cornellsun.com

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Golf Class Now Required for Business Minor

By FOREEEEEEEEEE!

Sun Senior Citizen

If you are interested in earning the sought-out business minor, you better brush off your grandfather’s old putter.

On Wednesday, the University announced a curriculum change to the popular undergraduate minor, naming PE 1320, Professional Instructional Golf, a required class for the minor.

“As a University, we look to teach our students the most applicable, necessary skills that would serve them best in their respective careers,” said Liger Woods, a University spokesperson and totally not a pro golfer.

“For students interested in pursuing a career in business, golf is by far more useful than, say, Microeconomic Theory.”

Though a breaking of the norm for what has come to be standard curriculum for an undergraduate program, the business minor is certainly not alone in its decision. Just recently, The School of Hotel Administration announced it would be installing HADM 4201: Intro to “We are pushing the Schmoozing as a required class for bounds of what it freshmen. means to be a That decision, though controCornellian.” versial at its Liger Woods inception, has been widely regarded as a “strategically brilliant” move by students.

“At first, it seemed like I would just go back to working as a caddy at my local country club,” said Chad Thomas ’19, a student in the SHA, about his upcoming summer. “But now, thanks to HADM 4201, the skills I learned landed me a job doing marketing for Vineyard Vines. It’s lit!”

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In order to fulfill the class requirement for the business minor, students must hit a par on every hole on the Robert Trent Jones Course, Cornell’s very own course.

Failure to do so would force one to retake the course.

That is, unless you’ve taken HADM 4201.

“Oh yeah, I went three over on every hole, but that schmoozing class really bailed me out,” Thomas added.

But the recent move has not been without its criticism. Members of the University have called the new curriculum change out for its potentially damning impacts on the Cornell varsity golf program.

“If so many people are out playing golf now, how the hell are people going to know that I’m a Division I ath-

lete — not them?” asked golf’s team captain Jordan Johnson. “I earned the right to do this, no one else.”

While it is still to be seen what the true impacts of this seismic change will be, the University is nowhere near done in testing the waters of being a University that prides itself on ‘Any Person, Any Study.’

“We still have some ideas we’re sitting on. Pre-vets might have to protect a bird’s nest like it was their own,” Woods said. “We are pushing the bounds of what it means to be a Cornellian.”

FOREEEEEEEEEE! can be reached parthreeforme@cornellsun.com.

Cornell 1st in NCAA to Launch Varsity Beer Pong Team School looks for team to raise overall C.U. spirit

By WHO DO YOU KNOW HERE Sun Resident Bro

Thought Cornell hated greek life?

Think again.

On Monday, to the delight of the several hundred frat bros, beer pong was named an official NCAA Division I sport, and Cornell became the first to form its team.

“Here at Cornell, we’re always trying to increase school spirit,” said a statement from the Athletic Department.

“We’ve decided that adding such an accessible sport as beer pong to our University will surely attract scores of fans to cheer on the Big Red.” With over 30 fraternities for every-

“I’m tired of destroying freshman at our open parties … I want to crush some Ohio State posers.”

Statler Klarman one and 10 plus sororities to choose from, Cornell believes its talent pool will quickly propel the program to national stardom.

“We are kind of a state school, after all,” said Ciroc Daddy, a junior in Rho

Rho Rho (your boat). “My dad would buy me and my friend some brews starting in seventh grade, so I’m pretty well-practiced.”

Daddy is not alone in his confidence. Others see the new team as a chance to finally put their skills to use and attain campus glory.

“I mean I’ve always been pretty good at pong, and how competitive can tryouts really be?” asked Statler Klarman. “I’m tired of destroying freshman at our open parties … I want to crush some Ohio State posers.”

But according to newly named head coach Keystone Ice, the bar will be set quite high.

“We’re only looking for recruits who shoot over 80 percent per game and stay on a table for at least 30 minutes at each party,” Ice said. “Anyone else best stay home.”

Some critics of the sport wonder how the student athletes will retain their composure once the effects of the alcohol start to take hold. Klarman is not worried, though.

“Bro, everyone knows

the more drunk you get, the better at pong you are,” he said. “Isn’t that the whole reason you play with beer?”

The team expects most of

“We’re only looking for recruits who ... stay on a table for at least 30 minutes at each party.”

Head Coach Keystone Ice its members to come from Greek organizations, but tryouts will be open to anyone.

Balls, solo cups and brews will be provided by the University.

Tryouts begin the afternoon of Slope Day. Ice strategically chose this date to attract only those that can perform already several beers in and on substantially limited rest.

“If you can hit ten cups then, you should have no problem during our matches in the fall,” he said. “Not looking for two cup boners.”

Who Do You Know Here can be reached at 1v1mebro@cornellsun.com.