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IPD’s Youngest Officer Connects With Cornell Officer Colin Toland and Cameron Yates ’18 share converging stories of living with cancer

By CELINE CHOO Sun Staff Writer

Colin Toland, age nine, is the youngest police officer at the Ithaca Police Department.

Colin is no ordinary police officer. Aside from being the youngest member of the IPD, he is also battling ependymoma, a type of brain cancer. At 9 years old, it is Colin’s seventh year fighting the disease, and his fifth year in Ithaca with his mother, Tamiko “He doesn’t really Toland ’90 and father, Ian Hayward care [about the ’04. uniform] — most kids The IPD officially swore Colin into are into the gear.” the position on Tamiko Toland ’90 September 12, 2016.

Since then, he has been doing SWAT training, making visits to the 911 center, as well as touring other agencies as a member of the IPD, according to Toland.

Colin has also recently been spending time with Cameron Yates ’18.

Yates said had also been through a similar situation in his childhood in Fairfield, Conn. At the age of four, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and underwent intense treatment. During his treatment, the chief of the Fairfield Police heard about his desire to become a police officer and began sending patrol officers to his house.

COURTESY OF TAMIKO TOLAND ’90

Officer Colin | Officer Colin and retired chief John Barber speak to a kindergarten class in Northeast Elementary School.

Just like Colin, Yates was given a swearing-in ceremo- him care packages from the police department as well. ny as a child before the Memorial Day Parade, which he Two years ago, Colin went into a relapse and went got to participate in with the FPD. The current deputy chief of the FPD is involved in Colin’s story and sends See IPD page 4

C.U.Remembers Holocaust Victims

By Dylan Majsiak Sun Staff Writer

Cornellians gathered together today on Ho Plaza to honor the millions of individuals who perished in the Holocaust for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. Cornell Hillel annually hosts a speaker for Yom Hashoah, according to Jeremy Marchuk ’20, Hillel’s chair of the Cultural Programming

Committee. This year, the group is not only hosting Holocaust survivor Irene Zisblatt to speak on May 3, but it is also complementing the speaker component with a new memorial service.

“It’s a very far-reaching event and that’s why I wanted to have a service so that people can see that and see how different people feel connected to it,” Marchuk said. “I want people to give their voice if they want to or, if not, just be able to take in the service for

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Memorial service | Cornellians gather on Ho Plaza and share stories and poems in honor of the millions of individuals who perished in the Holocaust.

themselves.”

Marchuk opened the event by reading from the experiences of Holocaust survivor Eugene Black, who lost all of his family in Nazi death and labor camps.

“He is still piecing together his life and his family’s story,” Marchuk said.

“This is just one of the many stories of survivors whose lives were touched by the Holocaust.”

A list of names of those who perished, both Jewish and non-Jewish, was passed around following the introduction. Each attendee read the name of a victim, the victim’s country of origin and where the victim perished, though some attendees chose not to speak.

“Holocaust Memorial Day is really meaningful to me,” said Niki Sochaczevski ’20. “Having family who perished in the Holocaust makes this day extremely meaningful and extremely somber.”

The ceremony shifted to an open forum once the reading of the names concluded. The memorial’s attendees were encouraged to reflect on their own experiences, and three people volunteered to lead in prayer. Rafael Jacobitz ’20 read El Male Rachamim, a Holocaust Memorial Prayer, which was See MEMORIAL page 4

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Alumna Appointed Cuomo’s Secretary

By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Staff Writer

Amidst the recent major reorganization of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s second administration, Melissa DeRosa ’04, chief of staff, was promoted to Cuomo’s secretary, the top staff-level position in the state administration. At 34 years old, DeRosa is not only one of the youngest people to hold the position, but also the first woman.

Growing up in Albany, New York’s capital city, and her father beSee

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A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS Today HealthEcon Seminar: Laura Cornelsen Noon - 1 p.m., G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Negotiation Skills Workshop Noon - 1 p.m., B1 W. Sibley Clark Hall Pillsbury Institute Speed Networking Event 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., 291 Statler Hall Society for Humanities Series on the Future of Publishing 4:30 p.m., Guerlac Room, A.D. White House

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explain what drew people from all walks of life to anarchist ideas in interwar Chile today in Olin Library. At the forefront of this movement was the “firecracker poet” Gomez Rojas.

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COURTESY OF PROF. CHEKITAN DEV

Hotel Professor Takes Expertise to the World, and the World to His Classroom hard to know what’s going on out in the field,” he said. “So when I go out into the field, I do two things — I go out to teach, Prof. Chekitan Dev, hotel administration, doesn’t like but I also go out to learn about challenges to just teach and research in Ithaca. He prefers to “engage and opportunities facing managers.”

Having served corporate, government, education, adviin the world’s experiences.”

That preference is evident in Dev’s career path. Dev — sory, legal and private equity organizations in more than named one of the top 25 most extraordinary minds in sales 40 countries and six continents, Dev has consulted comand marketing by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing panies like Disney, Hilton, Four Seasons Mumbai, Dolce Association International in 2009 — fills his office’s walls Canada, Ritz Hotel Paris and many more.

“My relationship [with Disney] started when a senior with more than 46 frames featuring photos of his work, spanning more than 75 U.S. and international companies Disney manager attended one of my sessions as part of our General Managers programs at Cornell came up to me over his 38-year career.

Outside of his teaching career, Dev is also a consultant after class and asked me to come talk to his team about who regularly travels abroad to advise U.S. and interna- what I had presented,” Dev said.

Dev said he helped Disney’s executive team brainstorm tional companies. By mixing classroom service with real work in industry, Dev says he brings experiences to the new ways to “essentially understand the big picture.”

“We talked about global trends in the hospitality indushotel school that other professional schools lack.

“The problem in many professional schools is that you try and best practices and about what was going on — either have professors with just pure academic training or some of the new developments and changes that were happrofessors from the real world without any advanced aca- pening, including new research — because Disney wanted demic training, so the former have trouble connecting to know what was new, what was interesting and how they could change their business model to their teaching to the real world and the reflect these new changes,” Dev said. latter end up telling a bunch of stories “I’m constantly In addition to Disney, Dev has also ‘war’ don’t hang together with a good connecting with business worked for companies in Europe, theory,” Dev said. including HOTUSA Spain, Dev told The Sun he has “engaged to make my classes PlanHotels Italy and Zatisi Czech with the industry” at least once per current and relevant.”

Republic, and in Asia, including Taj week in his 29 years of teaching at India, Imperial Delhi and YUM Cornell. He called his industry expeProf. Chekitan Dev Malaysia. rience “an essential part of his work” “It’s amazing how common the and said he works to “incorporate problems are for these companies,” he said. “A lot of the these experiences into his classroom teachings.”

Dev divides his work for these companies into four cat- businesses have very similar challenges, including how to egories — teaching, consulting, speaking as a keynote at get new customers, how to keep old customers, how to ensure that customers are happy and how to fight the comconferences and serving as an expert witness.

Under teaching, Dev holds workshops for company petition.”

Dev said that Taj India asked him and two other executives who are looking for ways to “improve their business practices and institute new changes to reflect changes Cornell professors — a finance professor and a human resources professor — to create a 10 day program for 40 in consumer trends.”

“I’m constantly connecting with business to make my Taj general managers in four different locations in India, classes current and relevant. In my case, if you’re teaching including Mumbai, Pune, Lonavala and Chennai.

“At Taj, we brought our Cornell education to these genhotel management and you’re just stuck in Ithaca, it’s very

By SHIVANI SANGHANI

Sun Staff Writer

eral, senior and assistant managers through our executive education office,” he said. “So basically, we trained them on marketing, finance, strategy and how to manage and motivate employees.”

Companies also frequently fly Dev in to their respective headquarters to testify on their behalf as an expert witness, he said.

“If there is a legal dispute between companies and hotels, my role as an expert witness is to explain the subject matter to the court,” he said. “I once helped secure a $10 million-judgement for the owner of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Bali, Indonesia against its management.”

In addition to testifying, Dev has also worked for the Indian, Austrian, Jordanian, Jamaican and Aruban governments.

“In a lot of countries across the world, the government plays a major role in promoting tourism and hospitality,” he said. “For example, in Aruba, the Minister of Tourism sat in the front row, while I spoke at a conference on hospitality trends and offered my ideas on hospitality and tourism practices in their country.”

Dev calls his research, teaching and consulting “indispensable” to one another and said that he “would be bored to death” if he “did not do all three jobs.”

“Because I teach, I think I am a better consultant who can explain things clearly. Because I teach, I think I am a better researcher because I focus on asking questions to which my students want answers. Because I do research, I think I am a better teacher because I have something new and interesting to share in the classroom,” Dev said.

“Because I do research, I think I am a better consultant, since I’m doing work that’s creating knowledge with impact and because I consult, I am both a better researcher and teacher, since I get to ask questions with both intellectual and pedagogical value.”

Shivani Sanghani can be reached at ssanghani@cornellsun.com.

Experts Anticipate Labor Changes Under Trump Urge Cornellians to ‘accept what you can’t change and change what you can’t accept’

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

Prominent lawyers, professors, corporate managers and union leaders gathered for a roundtable talk on Monday to discuss the direction of hospitality, labor and employment relations under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Prof. David Sherwyn, hotel administration, highlighted the purpose of the discussion in the context of the hotel school’s background.

“As the leading hotel school program in the world, we, along with our partner in this endeavor, the ILR School, feel that it is imperative for us to bring people from labor, management and government together to provide a forum where we can discuss ideas and to create a better legislative agenda, a better work environment and a better industry,” he said.

The talk was divided into four topics covering employment, changes in leadership of the National Labor Relations Board, the issues of discrimination, arbitration, wage and hour laws, and a student question-and-answer sec-

Sherwyn discussed the potential impacts of tion.

Several roundtable participants debated the the Trump administration afterward.

“It’s no secret that we’re still up in the air as impacts of a growing market for contract workers. Some suggested that such changes would to what this administration will do,” he said. decrease quality of service or decrease wages in “This is trending to be not very different than what we saw in the last couthe industry. ple of Republican adminisParticipants also distrations.” cussed the potential impacts “This is trending to be His message for the of changes in the leadership not very different than ...

Cornell community was of the National Labor the last ... Republican that changes in administraRelations Board, concluding tions can change labor and that the future of this board administrations” employment relations law and of joint employer issues, and that it is important to depends on who President Prof. David Sherwyn stay aware of these Trump appoints as its chair. changes.

On April 21, 2017, “The Cornell community should be cogTrump announced his intention to appoint Republican Philip Miscimarra as the NLRB’s nizant of this fact and make it a priority to new chair. Obama appointed Miscimarra to the understand what changes are being made, and like the old standard says, accept what you can’t board in 2013, according to Reuters.

Participants agreed that regardless of who change and change what you can’t accept,” takes the NLRB’s helm, there will likely be Sherwyn said. more litigation based on the distinction between employees and independent contrac- Breanne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun.com. tors.

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IPD Gives Pediatric Cancer Patient ‘Sense of Purpose’ IPD

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informed Toland and Hayward that Colin had less than a year left to live with little options of treatment left.

“It was during one of his radiation treatments [at the time] that he started talking about how he wanted to become a police officer,” Toland said.

A year later, in early 2016, Toland found out that her son had less than a year left to live.

“Long story short, over a year ago, we were told by doctors that he had about three to six months to live. They didn’t have any treatments options for him,” Toland said.

“Last May we actually took him down to Memphis, to St. Jude’s, for an emergency brain surgery. And the surgeons had said we won’t do any more surgery on Colin.

Not too long after his treatment in Memphis, Colin attended a community barbecue in Ithaca, where he met John Barber, retired Chief of the IPD.

At the barbecue, Barber told Colin about the prospect of becoming a police officer. Colin, however, due to his hearing deficit, misunderstood it as a promise to let him join the department immediately.

“It helps the officers as well, I think, because it’s very easy to get dragged down by the stuff that happens.”

Tamiko Toland ’90 A misunderstanding became a reality in September when Colin was sworn in. As the news spread around the town, the ceremony soon became a community event with friends, family and his fourth grade class, according to Toland.

“It’s given him a sense of purpose,” Toland said. “People want to make a difference in their lives, and they want to

find something where they can have their lives have meaning. And at the age of nine, Colin already has a thing.”

Toland speculated that Colin’s sudden desire to become a police officer around last year was due to Zootopia, an animated Disney movie about police officers achieving their goals through adversity.

“He wants to make a difference,” Toland said. “He doesn’t really care [about the uniform] — most kids are into the gear.”

Toland believes Colin’s presence in the IPD has helped the officers as well.

“For him, it’s not the trappings of it. It’s about the deeper meaning about what the police do,” Toland said. “And it’s a great message. It helps the officers as well, I think, because it’s very easy to get dragged down by the stuff that happens.”

Hard-Liners

Celine Choo can be reached at cchoo@cornellsun.com.

Students Reflect on Tragedy of Holocaust MEMORIAL

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Brandon Cohen ’18.

“The Male Rachamim was written in remembrance of all the people who perished in the Holocaust so that God can protect their souls to be lifted and so that we can remember them,” Jacobitz said.

Maddie Feldman ’19 read the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning, Kaddish, and Cohen concluded the ceremony with the poem “First they came for the Socialists…” by Martin Niemöller.

“For me, it’s just a constant reminder of what happened. I think it’s important to take a step back and remember some of the atrocities that have occurred,” said Jay Sirot ’19. “In the same way as Jews thrive in the U.S. and Israel, other groups aren’t thriving and I think it’s important that in the same way we suffered to think about ways that we can outreach and prevent anything [like this] from happening again, whether on the scale of the Holocaust or anything less.”

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Protesters gather near the Murrieta Border Patrol Station, where buses of detained families from Central America were expected.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies, New York University

“Materializing History: Time and Telos at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews” April 27, 2017 5:15-6:30 PM Johnson Museum of Art David A. & Rochelle Hirsch Lecture Room

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Dylan Majsiak can be reached at dmajsiak@cornellsun.com.

DeRosa’04 Named to Top Staff-Level Post In Governor Cuomo’s Administration Alumna to be one of the youngest to hold secretary position CUOMO

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ing a lobbyist for Bolton-St. Johns, DeRosa became interested in politics from a young age.

When she was only 16, she interned for the political director of the New York State AFLCIO, the largest federation of unions in the country.

DeRosa completed both her undergraduate and graduate study at Cornell. She received a bachelor of science degree in industrial and labor relations in 2004 and master’s degree in public administration in 2009.

While DeRosa was a graduate student in the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, she was a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honors society for public affairs and administration.

After graduating from Cornell, DeRosa continued to do campaign work and political public relations for various organizations, including the executive board of the Women’s Leadership Forum Network of the Democratic National

Committee.

In 2009, DeRosa went on to serve as the NYS Director of “Organizing for America,” President Obama’s national political action organization.

Two years later, she was named deputy chief of staff, then active chief of staff, for New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.

During her time in this position, DeRosa orchestrated the office’s effort to pass the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act, a bill to combat rising rates of drug use in New York.

Schneiderman’s former chief of staff Neal Kwatra told The New York Times that DeRosa is a “quadruple threat,” who excels in “policy, strategy, messaging and organizing.”

“You don’t work as hard as someone like her if you don’t care about what you are doing and who you are impacting,” Kwatra said.

In 2013, DeRosa entered Cuomo’s administration as the communications director and a

strategic advisor. She was then quickly promoted to his chief of staff in 2015 and finally as his secretary in 2017.

While working within Cuomo’s administration, DeRosa has aided in organizing campaigns such as “Fight for 15,” an initiative to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour. It is estimated that by 2021, the act’s passage will increase incomes for over 3 million New Yorkers.

Currently, DeRosa’s attention has been on mobilizing Cuomo’s plans to make SUNY and CUNY college tuition free for low and middle income students.

“It’s about moving the right pieces at the right moment and understanding when the political environment is ripe for action,” DeRosa said in a Crain’s New York Business interview. She was recently featured in Crain’s “40 Under 40.”

Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Prof. Collum, chemistry, is owed an apology and a retraction To the Editor: On April 20, 2017, The Cornell Daily Sun published a lengthy letter to the editor from seven graduate students: Kevin Hines, Robert Escriva, Ethan Susca, Mel White, Rose Agger, Kolbeinn Karlsson and Jane Glaubman.

The letter impugned the integrity of Cornell world-renowned Prof. David B. Collum, chemistry in the most serious ways, accusing him of being a rape apologist, misogynistic and unfit for the position of department chair. Several of the letter writers were graduate student union supporters active in the union vote drive. Prof. Collum has been widely criticized by union supporters for opposing the union drive. The letter appears to be payback.

In publishing that letter, The Sun gave a platform to a smear campaign against Prof.

Collum in a manner that did not allow Prof. Collum to respond or provide for a verification of the context of the supposed evidence. I have researched several of the key tweets and quotes attributed to Prof. Collum in the letter, and it is clear that the way in which they are presented in the letter is misleading at best, and, in some cases, presents a false portrayal.

For example, the letter includes a tweet regarding controversial social media personality Michael Cernovich by Prof. Collum. The letter alleges: “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’.”

Yet the actual sequence shows that the tweet in question by Prof. Collum concerned an appearance by Cernovich on 60 Minutes, not a general endorsement of everything Cernovich has done or said in his life.

In the sequence, after twitter account @volcelscience called Prof. Collum's attention to the controversial 2012 Cernovich tweet, Prof. Collum responded “good point” and then deleted his own tweet.

Thus, the sequence showed that rather than endorsing Cernovich’s 2012 date rape tweet as the letter suggests, Prof. Collum rejected the message in that tweet when called to his attention.

One or more of the letter writers surely were aware of this sequence because the first named writer, Kevin Hines, posted about the tweet and deletion on his own Facebook account contemporaneously with the deletion.

Ominously, the exchange ended with a prediction that the twitter exchange would be spread to female grad students in Prof. Collum’s lab, which it was through the Sun letter: “I hope the female students in your lab don’t see your Cernovich love” — tweeted by @volcelscience on March 27, 2017.

So not only was Prof. Collum’s tweet about Cernovich misrepresented by suggesting it related to anything other than the 60 Minutes appearance and by leaving out the full sequence, it appears that one or more grad student union supporters were involved in or monitoring the exchange right at the time the union organizers were attacking Prof.

Collum for his opposition to the union drive.

Another accusation in the letter regarded the quote from Prof. Collum's 2015 Year in Review, a 135-page document in a format published by Prof. Collum annually. The letter quotes a single sentence from page 95 as follows (emphasis in letter): “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

B

irthdays are strange. Some people look forward to their special day all year, counting down the days until they’re finally another year older. Some get so into this countdown idea that they even make a point to celebrate their half–birthdays. Other, more normal, people choose only to recognize the actual day of their birth as a day worthy of festivity. I don’t really fall into either of those categories.

Honestly, I’ve never been huge on birthdays.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the hype. You’re another year older, and surviving another year is worth celebrating. A lot of people buy into the idea of making their birthday this day of debauchery and excess.

One might use their birthday as an excuse to treat oneself to an especially carb-filled dinner or to shirk responsibility and get drunk with their friends on a Tuesday. As a bona fide hedonist, I’m already used to making regrettable decisions on the regular, so my birthday’s end up falling in line with the norm.

Being at college, and more specifically at Cornell, every birthday has been given a certain importance. Your 19th is the first birthday away from your family and the last year of your teenage life. Your 20th is the first birthday of your twenties and likely your first birthday living offcampus, unless you live on West, in which case your 20th can be an opportunity to go crazy at the ice cream bar at the Keeton dining hall or whatever. Your 21st is a big one because you can finally pay

From that single sentence the letter argues Prof. Collum was “pushing the myth that rape on college campuses is a “perceived” threat.” The words written by Prof. Collum do not say that, of course.

Moreover, the letter leaves out the fact that that sentence ended with a footnote to a Slate DoubleX article by a prominent feminist author questioning the facts in the movie The Hunting Ground. So not only does the sentence not, by its words, amount to a denial that there is a sexual assault problem on campuses, the “perceived epidemic” wording was referencing a prominent feminist critique of a particular case.

Equally important, the letter leaves out that in the same section, Prof. Collum wrote: "Women have been the object of abuse since abuse was first invented. It is obvious to all that this is wrong an [sic] should be opposed by all rational means."

By selectively choosing one sentence from a 135-page document, stripping out the footnote, and ignoring other language in the same section, the letter writers presented a false portrayal of Prof. Collum’s writing.

The letter also claimed that Prof. Collum “told a friend to “bring roofies” (a date rape drug) on a trip to Las Vegas.” The tweet in question, however, was taken out of its sequence and context. The twitter users were making movie references, including to Fargo and Coen Brothers movies. Prof. Collum’s tweet appears to reference the movie The Hangover, in which a group of men partying in Las Vegas can’t remember what happened because they were given roofies. I confirmed with Prof. Collum that that was what he was referencing.

Prof. Collum’s tweet thus was not suggesting anyone actually bring roofies to Las Vegas, he was referencing a movie theme. This is the exact opposite of what was claimed in the letter.

Had any one of the letter writers or The Sun contacted Prof. Collum, he could have provided that context, which should have been obvious from the sequence anyway.

Another tweet used in the letter was one that said, “Moral of the story: sue your accuser.”

From that tweet alone, the letter argues that Prof. Collum "has told men accused of sexual assault to sue their victims (‘accuser’)."

But the link in the tweet showed that Prof. Collum was quoting the article he was linking in the tweet, and that it was about a very specific incident at Amherst in which the male claimed to be a victim of a sexual assault by a female but asserted he was not treated fairly by university administrators. Why didn't the letter inform readers that the tweet was a quote from another story, and provide the context, which would negate the suggestion in the letter that Prof. Collum was telling men generally to sue their accusers?

There are other accusations in the letter, which I presume readers can view in the context of the grad student union supporters’ hostility to Prof. Collum.

What is critical is that they key evidence used to smear Prof. Collum as a rape apologist is misleading, taken out of context, and creates a false narrative as to what Prof. Collum was writing.

I wrote to each of the original letter writers raising each of the points raised above and asking for a response. As of this writing, I have received no response.

These accusations in the letter to the Sun forever will appear in search engines when Prof. Collum’s name is searched. To paraphrase Raymond J. Donovan after his acquittal on fraud charges, to what department does Professor David B. Collum go to get his reputation back?

The Sun and the letter writers owe Prof. Collum an apology and retraction.

Prof. William A. Jacobson, law

Akshay Jain | College Stuff

What Does It Mean To Feel 22? $21 at Rulloff ’s for a pitcher that tastes like Keystone Ice with a hint of orange zest. Even if you’re not big on birthdays, we can all agree that these birthdays inherently carry some importance.

What exactly, if anything, is so important about your 22nd birthday? It’s the age at which you’ll probably graduate, so I guess you could find importance in it being your last birthday at Cornell, but as a senior I can tell you that every senior brings up “lasts” way too often. For example, I was almost convinced to go to fishbowls last week because it was the sixth-to-last fishbowls before graduation.

If you’re a senior, everyday is your last something, so no one should take a last birthday here all that seriously.

A 22nd birthday reminds me a lot of the notoriously difficult Cornell computer science class, CS 3410: it’s nothing I’ve ever experienced and I don’t really know what to think of it. My mom always told

me that there was probably a song to explain every complex idea in life, so I did a quick Google search and it ended up yielding some pretty fascinating answers. Of the many songs that came up, I found Taylor Swift’s 2012 popcountry-rock crossover ballad, “22” to be particularly useful in finding some meaning behind 22nd birthdays.

In the song, Taylor laments the follies of life as a 22-year-old. She cries, “we’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time.” These words cut me like a dull knife that someone had recently sharpened. Swift goes on to claim, “It feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight.” These words cut me like a sharp knife that someone had recently made even sharper. I too always feel that every night is perfect for pancakes at midnight, and to hear someone else put my thoughts into song truly opened my eyes to the anxiety behind the 22nd year

of one’s life. Yes, McDonalds did offer 24-hour breakfast, but who has the energy to drive all the way there at midnight?

On Tuesday, I took the plunge and turned 22. It was no easy experience for me. As Taylor Swift so aptly claims, “it felt like one of those nights.” Turning 22, like CS 3410, is no easy task. What does one do? What does one not do? What happens if one meets someone that “… looks like bad news,” as Swift does in her song? These ideas haunted me all day and night. Nah, just kidding.

Ultimately, I’ve realized that turning 22 doesn’t really make you feel any different, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth celebrating or at the very least acknowledging. At 22, you’re sort of just an actual adult finally, but if Taylor Swift taught me anything, it’s that you don’t have to act like an adult at 22.

One line in Taylor’s song will always stick with me. At the climax of her four minute epic, Swift lets out some of her most profound lyrics to date: “dancing like 22, yeah, 22, yeah yeah.” If Cornell let its students put a quote in the yearbook under their picture I think I would choose that. I think there are a lot of words I could use to describe how these lyrics make me feel, but ultimately, I guess I’m just feeling 22.

Akshay Jain is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached a ajain@cornellsun.com. College Stuff runs every other Wednesday this semester.

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OPINION

Paul Russell | Russelling Feathers

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My Johnson

couple years ago, my parents and I loaded up the rental and embarked on the fabled highway 95 New England college road trip. I made a last minute decision to beg for a detour to Ithaca to visit Cornell, and eventually we found ourselves on the Arts Quad, listening to a smile-prone sophomore give her tour-guide spiel about the University.

Halfway through the tour, we passed the Johnson Museum, and our guide began to describe the programs and displays it hosted on a regular basis. At some point during this talk, she mixed up her words and referred to the museum as “my Johnson.” She immediately corrected herself and moved on, but there was no going back. She’d said it. I laughed out loud.

I mean, come on. My Johnson. As in her you-knowwhat.

This was too much for my immature seventeen-year-old mind, and I lost my cool. During my attempts to conceal my fit of incessant chuckles, I made eye contact with another pre-frosh who shared my apparent love for potty-humor. It was now our joke. Throughout the rest of the tour, we looked at each other

twice more, laughing each time was absolutely irrational. Sure, haven’t the slightest idea where he in remembrance of the comedic the Penn tour kid who wouldn’t goes to college. But without him, say a word to me might have my life would look a lot different gold we’d witnessed.

Thinking back, it wasn’t funny laughed too if he had the chance from how it looks now.

It got me thinking: what if at all. But that moment, and the to hear the same slip-up I did at friendship I’d forged from it had a my Cornell tour. But none of I’ve unknowingly impacted profound impact on my college that mattered. It was Cornell someone in a significant way? decision. At my other college vis- where I laughed sporadically with What if there’s somebody sitting its, the students around me — a stranger for 30 minutes, and no in the grass on the other side of pensive high school seniors force of logic could get me to dis- the country, thinking back about some straightenmoment ing themthat, to me, selves out in was forgetattempts to Halfway through the tour, we passed the table and play it cool, Johnson Museum, and our guide began unexciting, glancing but to around their to describe the programs and displays it them was tour groups hosted on a regular basis. At some point deeply to guess who meaninghad what it during this talk, she mixed up her ful? took to actu- words and referred to the A while ally get ago, I got accepted — museum as “my Johnson.” into a conwere almost versation depressing.

They walked from hall to hall, associate that moment from my with a friend of mine about the talking to no one because when it perception of the school. So, best compliment he’d ever gotten. all comes down to it, we’re all just largely because of this “Johnson” It was intriguing, so I began to business, I applied early decision extend the question to others I admissions competitors.

But here, at Cornell, this to Cornell and never looked knew, in various conversations about various topics. The answers lanky goofball was lighthearted back.

This week, as I saw the next were oddly predictable: people enough to share a laugh with me wave of Cornellians waddle found their best compliments in about johnsons.

So, from that moment on, I around in packs on campus, I moments that didn’t contain an considered Cornell to be the one thought about my tour buddy. I explicit compliment at all. More university on my list where stu- don’t remember what he looks like, often than not, the response was dents liked to have fun. Sure, it I don’t remember his name and I a reference to some occasion long

ago when an unexpected somebody, sometimes a stranger, told a one of my friends that they had impacted them in some way.

Ask anybody at Cornell about why they picked the career they did, and you’re likely to hear the word “impact” five or six times.

It’s the buzzword of our generation. But sometimes I fear that we often only think of it as some lofty goal to be attained someday in our 40s. We “make an impact” every day. And we could definitely do it more right now.

My buddy from the Johnson might never hear me tell him that he helped me make the right college decision. But there are other people around me who “have an impact” on me everyday — and a meaningful one, at that.

I know they’d love to hear what they’ve done for me, and I know that if I told them, it could even end up being their favorite compliment of all time. But I still don’t usually do it. Sometimes “thanks” is a bit too vulnerable for my tastes.

But maybe it’s time to be a little bit more vulnerable.

Paul Russell is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at prussell@cornellsun.com.

Russelling Feathers appears Wednesdays this semester.

Guest Room | Charlie Liao

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The Ivory Tower on an Ivory Tower

he esteemed Prof. Matthew Desmond, sociology, Harvard, spoke at Cornell late last year.

Standing in front of a group of eager academics, he passionately discussed the riveting journey of a low-income family under duress. This family, consisting of a single mother and her young sons, was unceremoniously evicted from their trailer home; they could not pay rent.

Trudging through snow-blanketed streets, the downtrodden mother and her children were forced to seek immediate shelter to make it through the week.

As Desmond continued his story, I sat shaken in the audience. How could anyone press on despite such abject conditions? I could not see myself surviving the confluence of immense financial burdens, runoff psychological tolls and potential societal stigma through which Desmond’s anecdotal families went.

After the event ended, I found myself lost in thought and wandering aimlessly through central campus.

This semester, I continued my inquiries into socioeconomic inequality.

I came across a New York Times article detailing Ivy League socioeconomic data.

Unfortunately, the nominal data was severely disappointing. Despite the fact that we attend a school with billions of dollars in its endowment, only 2.9 percent of poor students become wealthy adults.

Despite my initial surprise at the data, a quick look at my Cornell experience reveals something obvious. Throughout my time here, I have become part of a socioeconomically privileged system; I am the president of the Cornell Consulting Club, a professional organization with a 2.5 percent acceptance rate.

There are more pre-professional clubs like this, some with equivalently strenuous admissions processes. Moreover, these organizations represent only a slice of the issue. The extensive Greek community, other elite non-business organi-

zations and even certain colleges further that help them navigate Cornellian terriexclude and segment a supposedly united tory. Consider resumes: connected stustudent body. dents may have neatly formatted resumes Why is selectivity problematic? While replete with prestigious internships and Cornell is resource-laden, it is severely experiences. Those of lower-income can behind the career counseling curve. lack opportunities and might, in Many students’ inclination to trust their Cornell’s environment, appear less tradipeers over Cornell’s career counselors tionally interesting or learned. After all, when it comes to advice speaks volumes society tends to view the worldly about the quality of the University’s Instagram traveler as more cultured than administrative competencies. As such, the son of a blue-collar worker. career sucT h i s cess is high“vicious To surmount the wall, students ly depencycle” is dent on perpetuatinvest time and money. Monetary ed unrestricted at access to Cornell. costs include formal attire for extracurricThe underu l a r business clubs, membership dues privileged resources. lack the This access for Greek organizations, and a host e c o n o m i c is manifold. social of aggregate auxiliary costs (e.g. and Whether it resources be through social costs). Time costs are just as n e c e s s a r y learning to break clear. A student working several into how to some interview of the most jobs to pay tuition may find it under the effective tutelage of a difficult to spare time to participate extracurricsenior or ulars. As a in intensive student groups. through result, they amassing have a social capital via a sorority’s events, the tougher time taking advantage of what quintessential Cornell experience is this campus has to offer. Upon gradualocked behind a wall of applications and tion, they are often quantitatively and rush events. qualitatively behind.

To surmount the wall, students invest Cornell’s motto is “Any Person, Any time and money. Monetary costs include Study.” Quite frankly, this is hard to formal attire for business clubs, member- believe (see the leaked AFAWG papers). ship dues for Greek organizations, and a Because I doubt Cornell’s main focus is host of aggregate auxiliary costs (e.g. on student socioeconomic equality, I social costs). Time costs are just as clear. believe campus leaders should spearhead A student working several jobs to pay the change. The clubs we lead often hold tuition may find it difficult to spare time some of the keys to structural terms of to participate in intensive student success out of college — many recent graduates and upperclassmen credit their groups.

Other barriers are harder to quantify organizations for their career successes. but still ever-present. Wealthier students For example, my mentors within my may have extensive pre-college networks consulting club and business fraternity

helped me land my internship at McKinsey. I genuinely believe that I would not have made it there without their assistance.

Campus leaders can take the proper moral stance by evaluating barriers to entry. My consulting club has banned freshman résumé and now strongly encourages casual attire during our interview process. Along with one of my good friends in AEM, I have also started lobbying business club leaders to create a joint “business boot camp” to disseminate professional resources to the public.

One potential universal solution could be a united effort to offer more financial flexibility with regards to membership dues in various clubs and Greek organizations.

These potential solutions all matter.

While interviewing for internships last semester, I kept hearing one recurring theme: “we care about intrinsics.” In other words, my interviewers were looking for internal skills as opposed to the icing on the cake. Cornell ought to maintain a similar environment. Prior advantages conferred upon select students do not accurately represent the skills and intellectual capacity of the average Cornellian.

To disparage and ignore this issue is to fail an exercise in empathy and compassion. As Cornellians, we travel to Ithaca expecting to learn from and grow with our peers. Yet, the current system separates us from one another due to factors outside of our immediate control. We end up trapped in our echo chambers while also perpetuating a type of inequality with severe implications for society as a whole. This year is the year to begin fighting the trend and taking responsibility for the problem at hand. If not now, then when?

Charlie Liao is a junior in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Guest Room runs periodically this semester. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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OPINION

Guest Room | Alyssa Bruce on Behalf of DSOC 4700

Addressing Food Waste And Insecurity On Campus T

he U.S. wastes more than 40 percent of its domestically produced food. It is a hard statistic to come by: between unharvested crops, undesirable or “ugly” produce, overabundant supermarket aisles, overzealous shoppers and discarded leftovers, large amounts of food waste occur at every step of the food chain. Current food waste estimates remain conservative, and may not include additional areas of undetected food waste at the household, retail or restaurant levels.

At the same time, food insecurity affects an estimated 13 percent of American households. Defined as “the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food” food insecurity is related to prominent social issues like obesity and educational shortcomings. The U.S. food stamp system acts as one key measure of insecurity, and approximately half of all children will have participated in the program by the age of 20. Large numbers of people across the country are going hungry — even more are consuming poor quality and unhealthy foods due to financial restrictions — all while millions of tons of consumable, nutritious food go to waste.

While food waste and insecurity are national concerns, they impact communities and people in a distinctly personal way. Without knowing about the issues’ scale or being a part of the affected population, food waste and insecurity are easily missed. The Big Red Food Rescue was created to bring light to these issues on Cornell’s campus.

Cornell represents a near-perfect microcosm of the disconnect between wasted food and those who need it.

Every day, our dining halls throw out thousands of pounds of processed and fresh foods. Dining halls are held to strict food-safety policies that hinder them from disbursing the food to hungry students, and the cafés on campus are concerned with both legal liability and profit margins. Concurrently, the most recent Cornell PULSE survey [Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences] highlights food access instability as a prevalent subject for nearly a third of the student body.

There are a few initiatives already fighting food insecurity at Cornell, including the 626 Thurston Food Pantry and Anabel’s Grocery, as well as other organizations in Ithaca and Tompkins County like the Food Recovery Network and the Friendship Donation Network. The Big Red Food Rescue looks to supplement existing on-campus projects by drawing more of the student body into this effort. We want to dissolve any stigma attached to food insecurity on campus, and give students a platform to share experiences, propose solutions and apply real pressure to reduce waste and divert excess food to people instead of compost piles or landfills.

Our group has begun by helping to reinvigorate the 626 Thurston Food Pantry. The food pantry is a place where students are welcome to come pick up staples like bread or cereal, no questions asked. After applying for and receiving a grant, the pantry will expand its offerings and facility capacity in the next few weeks. Dr. Renee Alexander, director of the pantry, is excited about drawing in more students who could benefit from the assistance, and is ready to provide support for similar initiatives led by other groups like BRFR across campus.

Looking to the future, BRFR wants to build a sustainable network of students who are passionate about change. There are several barriers to successful elimination of food waste and food insecurity on campus, ranging from the sheer size of the issue to ingrained policies protecting those who participate in redistribution efforts from any and all liability. With enough backing and push from the student community, change will come.

Our group needs your help to make a difference on our campus! Connect with us on social media to get the latest updates on events and initiatives, as well as educational pieces on how we as individuals can have an impact on the food and agricultural industries.

Alyssa Bruce is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. Big Red Food Rescue can be reached at bigredfoodrescue@gmail.com, and on Twitter at @BigRedFoodRescue.

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s prospective Class of 2021 students from all over the country explore campus on Cornell Days ahead of the May 1 College Decision Day, a particular group appears to be underrepresented. International students, who compose about 11 percent of the undergraduate student population, are becoming more talked about but rarely given their own platform.

President Trump’s nationalistic policies such as cuts on H1B visas for high-skilled non-immigrants, Cornell’s elimination of the need-blind financial aid policy for international students and concerns regarding a rapid increase in international student admission rates have placed these “nonresident aliens” under the spotlight. Yet throughout the country and around campus, misconceptions about international students persist, stemming from a lack of engagement between American citizens and noncitizens.

According to the admissions website, Cornell admits and retains international students because of its values for diversity and globalism. International students go through the same application process as all other first-year applicants with the exception of a required TOEFL or IELTS score for those whose first language is not English. Still, many wrongly perceive of international admissions as a lenient gateway for “rich international kids” who willingly pay the full tuition to get in.

Many fail to understand that international students cannot simply be put under one category. These students come from more than 100 different countries, each with different socioeconomic backgrounds. For some, the distinctions are clearer between those from the east and west coast than for those from China and South Korea. The tendency to observe international students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Middle East, and Oceania under a single category is a highly misleading symptom of “othering” non-Americans.

Within the international student population, several divides exist such that they should not simply be seen as a single group.

In fact, the economic disparity is more apparent amongst internationals. While U.S. citizens have various federal and private resources to fund their education, most non-citizens are expected to pay the full $50,000 plus all other expenses. There certainly are affluent and privileged international families that are able to do so without difficulty. However, for many others, sending

Margaret Lee | Shining a Light

On International Students their child off to an expensive but prestigious university like Cornell means scrapping everything in hopes of providing a better education and future. The split persists even at Cornell, where students receive the same education but live in different worlds — some have the luxury of paying $2,000 monthly rent to live in a studio apartment at 312 College Ave. while most others don’t.

There has also been severe criticism surrounding isolationist international groups such as Asian cliques that roam around Olin and Uris Libraries. Many argue that these international cliques form an unhealthy culture of disintegration with the rest of the American community. Why attend school in the United States if you’re going to hang out with people from your country, they ask. While I agree that these segregated groups aren’t necessarily good, one should think about why they form before jumping to conclusions. When placed under the category of “non-resident alien”, it is much easier to associate with the group of people who face similar challenges.

Also, different international students place different emphases on their Cornell education. While some prefer to network with the rest of the American community, others focus on the academics.

International students, who were legitimately admitted through Cornell’s admissions process, should not be shunned for the different values they have, even if not necessarily in line with those of Americans. While there are geographic and administrative barriers that can separate international students from others, I hope that these students can be accepted for who they are and appreciated for the diversity they bring to Cornell.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Priya Kankanhalli | Matters of Fact

The Mandate Of Expression I

’d like to think that in 19 years of life as a Student™, I’ve amassed some degree of immunity to classroom anxiety…but what I’d like to think is not always congruous with the truth. Even now, with every fifth word I type, like clockwork, I throw a forcefully casual glance over my shoulder to confirm that no human soul is lurking within the range of vision. By extension, I guess I am something of an advocate for the laissez faire approach to learning, and this brings me to my diplomatic disagreement with iClickers.

Gone are the days of presence; reigning are the days of participation. It used to be that I felt pride and joy at simply arriving to class.

At lecture’s end, I departed with a full heart, secure in the knowledge that I renounced my humble sleeping quarters and embraced the intellectual journey. Now, happiness has become costlier in a world at the mercy of iClickers. I must also engage — I must conquer the lecture, and I must conquer my classmates — to feel this same utility. Quite frankly, iClickers go beyond their advertised duty of incentivizing active learning in a barbaric manner. They make sheep out of students, wolves out of professors and pulp out of our self-esteems.

It doesn’t end there. Within seconds, you are reduced to a statistic, stripped of your humanity. I shudder to think how insulting it must be to the ancestry of mankind to utilize our snazzy opposable thumbs in this capacity: applying pressure to a slightly raised surface to decide whether we’ll be sitting under a halo or horns for the hour. In one moment, the wealth of information that you have worked all your life to

gather is deemed either correct or incorrect. The color drains out of the scene, and the class is divided into the saints in white and the sinners in black. iClickers abandon the movement towards integration and reinvigorate the historical facets of classism.

Unassuming as they seem, Buttons A through E are not innocent bystanders in this scheme. Yes, these iClickers, mobile devices fueled by alkaline batteries and raw fear, bear the bulk

viously apolitical cellular phone. iClicker: solution for everyone.

Increase participation. Confirm understanding. Measure performance. This is what an iClicker claims to do, and I know that deep down, at its core, the iClicker is trying. It’s really trying. But Planet Earth is no place for a device with such naively optimistic, lofty goals. In this ecosystem, the cast of the educational system operates on reading lecture slides after class and cramming for exams. The mandate of expression is neither divine nor powerful — there is hardly a need for evaluating progress on a daily, numerical scale. (By the same logic, how do we feel about outlawing exams?)

Assembling the mental artillery is a beautifully self-driven, forgiving, noncompetitive and definitely nonlinear process.

I’m not lobbying for anything drastic here — merely the repositioning of the learning space as a sanctuary instead of a warzone, through the complete and utter obliteration of all iClickers and their offspring. But, if this is too troublesome to execute, the administration will be thrilled to know that I am not impossible to please. Certainly, there are ways to convince me of the valuable insights and benefits that iClickers bestow upon malleable, college-aged individuals. After very little thought, I reach a simple solution: if, somehow, the software were programmed in such a way that I, a receptive and sensible Student™, would always get every question right, then I suppose iClickers would not be so bad after all.

I shudder to think how insulting it must be to the ancestry of mankind to utilize our snazzy opposable thumbs in this capacity. of the blame, but its component parts contribute tremendously to the violation of the lecture hall. One wrong click could detonate your collegiate career: you become a puppet in the play of slackers. You notice sideward peeks from your peers; you are no longer the recipient of inquisitive comments, for you have nothing to offer but wrong answers. Saddest of all, you lose faith in yourself.

Let us also not forget about REEF Polling, the less flashy but equally pretentious alternative to traditional iClickers. Testing the very limits of temptation, the applet version entices you with distractions. Would you rather click a button or peruse your social media accounts, perhaps send a return email or two? With a new body but an identical mission, REEF Polling infuses charged sentiment into the pre-

Priya Kankanhalli is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Scences. She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternating Tuesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

March for science

Hundreds Participate In Ithaca’s March for Science

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Turn up for Science l (1) Demonstrators listen to a keynote speaker at Ithaca’s March for Science. (2) A protester holds up a creative sign. (3) Carrie Lazarre at the march.

By JOSH EIBELMAN Sun Staff Writer

For some, science is more than a lifelong passion or a suitable career path: it’s the difference between life and death.

Carrie Lazarre, a Tompkins County resident who has been suffering from stage IV colon cancer for the past decade, says that sustained colon cancer research has been crucial in keeping her alive all these years. Along with hundreds of others, Lazarre chose to participate in the March for Science at the Bernie Milton Pavilion on Ithaca Commons on April 22 to showcase the importance of science for everyday Americans.

The march was part of a larger endeavor across the United States and the world to stand up for science research, funding and policy. The main event, which attracted approximately 40,000 people, took place in Washington D.C., with satellite marches in around 500 locations across the United States.

Hundreds of scientists, students and concerned citizens from and around Ithaca participated to voice their anger over the uncertain future of scientific research while demonstrating their enthusiasm for the brighter future that such research makes possible.

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According to one organizer, the goal of the demonstration was to “promote inclusiveness, help everyone find their inner scientist and bridge partisan divides on science.” Demonstrators pledged to defend scientists from censorship and to “encourage electoral participation for science on all levels of government.”

One major concern was the proposed reduction in the budget of the National Institutes of Health.

The Trump administration’s budget blueprint for 2018 promises to slash funding for the NIH by 20 percent, from $31.7 billion to $25.9 billion. 80 percent of the NIH’s budget funds biomedical research. In other words the center funds nearly 300,000 scientists around the world.

These cuts would especially impede the progress of cancer research. Conventional cancer therapies have their beginnings at the NIH and most experts agree that the institute plays a crucial role in researching treatments that companies would usually find too risky to pursue.

Coinciding with Earth Day, one of the most prevalent concerns of those at the march was the negative effects that climate change would have on small communities such as those in Tompkins County. Prof. John Wootton, biomedical sciences, attended the march and told The Sun that he is seriously concerned about the new administration’s dismissal of climate change and its introduction of policies aimed at environmental deregulation. He said that these policies are not simply a threat to the environment but also to people’s health and safety.

The current administration’s budget blueprint lays out a plan to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding by $2.6 billion. This includes slashing the Clean Air Act’s budget by half and nearly eliminating funds for a program intended to screen chemicals for hormone disruptors to prevent developmental problems in children.

The march included talks by scientists and science advocates on these topics. Demonstrators held up signs with slogans like “Science not silence,” “Education makes America great” and “Defiance for science,” all while chanting “fund science! Use science!” before key speakers took the stage.

Roger Selgeken, science commentator and one of the speakers, dryly remarked, “if you take the planetary walk in Ithaca, you’ll know more about science than the entire West Wing of the White

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House.” Selgeken also emphasized the importance of skeptical scientific inquiry and curiosity, exemplified by renowned Cornell astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan’s critical fascination by the way the world works.

Elvis Cao grad also spoke at the event and detailed a diagnostic smartphone application called Feverphone he was developing. The app, which is targeted toward developing countries, would be able to diagnose six infectious diseases — including malaria, dengue and typhoid — based on a blood sample supplied to a coffee machine sized device.

The cheers that followed demonstrated the wide support for continued innovation in areas that have greater importance in developing countries than in the United States.

For some, the March for Science in Ithaca was a way to express their enthusiasm for science. For others, like a group of Cornell Veterinary College students, it was about the importance of tackling climate change and the spread of vector-borne illnesses that it would help accelerate.

But for many ordinary Americans like Carrie Lazarre, rallies like this might decide whether they continue to reap the benefits of cutting-edge, innovative and transparent scientific research.

Josh Eibelman can be reached at jeibelman@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Zookeeper’s Wife Lacks Tragedy

BY BECKY FRANK Sun Staff Writer

I can’t imagine a more fitting title for The Zookeeper’s Wife. Hearing the title alone, one would have no idea that this was a film about the Holocaust. It’s about a zoo!

Animals! Maybe even a love story!

Theoretically a Holocaust film, it could be argued that The Zookeeper’s Wife wasn’t one at all, as it lacked substantial representation of the true suffering in the Holocaust.

Set in Warsaw in 1939, The Zookeeper’s Wife begins with the happy zookeeper, his wife and their young son. The Zabinski family ran the Warsaw Zoo, and were forced to clear the zoo of the animals by Nazis. One of the the only scenes during which I felt I had to look away was one where Nazis killed one of the zoo animals. The fact that this is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the entire movie is telling.

The true suffering of the Jews was not well portrayed. The scenes of the Warsaw Ghetto were toned-down and PG-rated.

Furthermore, the Zabinskis, who turned the zoo into a hog farm and smuggled 300 Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto, were able to smuggle the Jews out with few complications. I would think that at least one of the times a Nazi might have gotten somewhat close to discovering one of the Jews. The Zabinskis, and the filmmakers, almost made it look easy.

The film focused too much on the zookeeper’s wife, Antonina Zabinski (Jessica Chastain). Chastain looked beautiful and did an amazing job portraying Antonina. In an interview panel released by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Chastain discussed her ambition to show the growth and strength of Antonina. She attempted to show Antonina’s ability to run the household when her husband was away and how this strength intensified their rela-

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tionship upon being reunited. Antonina exhibited immense complication and strength in her interactions with Nazi Lutz Heck. Chastain accomplished her goal and could not have done a better job playing Antonina.

However, too much of the movie was about Antonina. Viewers learn a lot about her, but not about the Jews she was saving.

We never learn most of the hidden Jews’ names. We never find out the stories of these people that Antonina and her husband risked their lives to save. As stated above, the title proves fitting, as the film centers around Antonina.

On the other hand, true suffering and terror is portrayed substantially in the film as well. A storyline following a young, raped girl is tear-wrenching and difficult to watch.

I spoke with a professor who had seen the film as well, and he told me the most powerful scene for him was of an old man. The old man was entering a train, one he knew would lead him to his death, at Auschwitz

with a number of young children. Mr. Zabinski tried to save him and smuggle him out, but the old man would not go. He felt the need to stay with the children and comfort them to the end. He sacrificed his life to support these children to their death.

The cinematography and storyline allow for a number of very powerful interpretations for viewers to consider. In my Jewish Studies 2580: Imagining the Holocaust class with the Prof. Dan Schwarz, English, we recently read the graphic novel Maus by Art Spielberg. In Maus, the Jews are each drawn as mice. The Nazis are illustrated as cruellooking cats. Yet, in the paintings on the wall by the hidden Jews, Antonina was drawn as a mouse as well as the Jews. Was this to symbolize that they were all prisoners? That Antonina too was deemed inferior by the Nazis because of her actions? I am not sure what to make of this artwork, but I am sure that it adds another level of understanding and intellectual intensity to the film.

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The contrast of the Jews and animals is quite powerful. Nazis often referred to Jews in concentration camps by different animal names, such as pigs. Jews were treated like animals in a number of different ways.

Dehumanization of Jews in the camps is often illustrated through animal references.

That is why The Zookeeper’s Wife is so compelling. Jews were hidden from the Nazis in a zoo. They lived where animals lived. The zoo animals were cleared out and the hidden Jews took their place. The Warsaw zoo became a zoo of Jews.

As someone who views and reads a lot about the Holocaust, I truly enjoyed The Zookeeper’s Wife. I do think that it could have been more powerful if it focused less on Antonina and more on the Jews.

It is important how we tell stories of the Holocaust in this day and age. There are fewer and fewer survivors still alive. We must work to shape memory and interpretations of society to know about and see the true terror exhibited in the Holocaust. That is why I wish that the Warsaw ghetto scenes were more historically accurate. I would not want someone to think that the Holocaust was not as gruesome as it was. The Zookeeper’s Wife does not illustrate the suffering enough. It also does not ever truly show the imminent death that the Zabinskis saved these Jews from. The film also assumed that viewers already knew about Auschwitz, Treblinka and other concentration and death camps.

However, I do still encourage you to go see the movie. The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the incredible story of true heroism: the Zabinskis risked their lives to save 300 Jews.

The Zookeeper’s Wife is playing at Cinemapolis on the Commons.

Becky Frank is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at rnf33@cornell.edu.

Conceptualizing Musical Dissent

used to be a lot cooler than I am now. Flashback to a rebellious political climate. I remember arguing with while ago, about six years actually, right around the my bandmates about not censoring the lyrics when we end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012, when I was performed, or trying to entertain the idea of driving up a freshmen in high school. I played considerably more to Zuccotti Park in Manhattan with our instruments guitar (mostly electric) than I do now, and at that time I and playing some of this music in solidarity with the found myself as the rhythm and occasional lead guitarist protestors. Armed with the dual power of a 1994 in a Rage Against the Machine cover band. The entire Fender Stratocaster and someone else's Marshall halfgroup consisted of five young high schoolers, and it was stack — a rather deafening pair — I thought I could organized through a shop at which we all received actuate a real change in the world.

Now we have the American political climate of lessons on our respective instruments. We ultimately booked two performances, a week apart from each other, 2017. It is marked by a greater degree of polarity and fervor than in 2011, for reasons that need no mentionat two different dive bars in central New Jersey. ing. No change is going to be actuIt was a shortated by playing twenty-year-old lived project, but rock tunes in bars. It would seem what an exciting that now, right at this moment, our two shows we salient musical culture is due for a played! We always new wave of dissenting artists in began with the development of some new, “Bombtrack,” a broader form or genre. Where is tune which starts our rock and roll? When is our with a quiet, foreSwan’s folksy, drugged-out psychedelia set boding guitar riff Song to arrive? Surely our hardcore and suddenly punk and sample-packed hip hop explodes in sonic force. I always remember being shocked by this detona- are bound to thrash their way onto the scene sometime tion and I could feel, with a curious intrigue, the soon! When is our revolution going to occur, and more irreparable damage being inflicted upon my hearing. I importantly, what the hell is it going to sound like?

Following World War II, perhaps the last great crisis think the best of our setlist really began in its second half, when we dropped our instruments to D tuning and a time when the viability of humanity was in doubt, and played some of the band's more grainy, dissonant artists sought to diverge from any previous notion of aestunes. We began this half with “Testify” and ended it thetic expression, lest another catastrophe be inspired by with “Freedom” — an apt tune for a concluding the antiquated style. Thus, composers began to create remark. This was around the height of the Occupy music in new ways, seeking natural processes and the movement, and in my younger naiveté I believed that exploration of sounds that ultimately seek to strip away we were making some honest contribution to this any old, romantic or nationalistic connotations. Jazz

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turned into bebop, becoming erratic, unpredictable and increasingly reliant upon chance improvisations. As we seem to approach international unrest and uncertainty, how are contemporary artists and composer going to react to all of the strife and wreckage in the aftermath?

Are scientist-composers going use the processes of quantum mechanics or computer code to create pure, universal music that offends none, something that is truly avant-garde and virtually separated from any other human desire or social construct?

I doubt it. When all of those aforementioned western musical subcultures emerged, the world was far less connected than it is now. I do not mean to assume some notion of international hegemony, but through the extent of various media, cultural undergrounds rarely go unnoticed. I do not think it is worth speculating on the properties of a musical movement that may not even occur, and if it does, will not transpire in one place with one overarching aesthetic motif.

Rather, societies and individuals in all places need to become more spiritual and transcend the tangible nonsense. Not through organized, hierarchical institutions, but through art and music. There does not necessarily need to be some highly politicized, rebellious musical movement. Such a trend would likely wind up leaving many people out. Maybe those high school cover bands playing at dive bars are not so useless, but rather cogs in a bigger process of artistic democratization. If people would listen to artistic expression on a more serious and frequent basis, then maybe this next global catastrophe need not occur.

Nick Swan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com. His column Swan’s Song runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Golfers Tie for Best Ever Finish Men Hope for NCAA GOLF

Continued from page 16

Luke again struggled early and shot 39 on the front nine. But an eagle on the par-five 14th and birdies on two of the last four gave him a one-under 71 on the day. The two day score of 147 was good enough for fourth place.

Cen moved all the way into a tie for 14th after an impressive round of 72. The sophomore had three birdies and three bogeys on the day. May had a rough back nine, including a double bogey on 18, and shot a 77 on the day. Troy shot 75, four shots better than his day one score.

Going into the third and final round, Cornell was a combined 11 over par, just two strokes behind Harvard. With Graboyes holding onto a significant lead, the Red had a shot not only at medaling, but also at winning the whole tournament.

For everyone other than Mike, Sunday was not the day the group had hoped for. Luke and Cen both shot 77, Troy a 75 and May 82. The Red’s combined score for the day of 302 was 13 shots worse than Harvard and better than only Columbia. But with a little help from Mike, the team still managed to finish in second place, two strokes ahead of Princeton.

“Of course we’re pleased,” Graboyes said. “You can tell that this program is going in the right direction.”

With 18 holes left to play, Mike still had some unfinished business to take care of. On a quest to

match his brother’s first-place finish from last year, he just needed to play within himself to maintain his comfortable two-day lead.

Graboyes began his Sunday afternoon with an eventful front nine. He bogeyed the first, birdied the third, eagled the par-five fifth and bogeyed eight and nine. With nine holes to play, the New Jersey native was four strokes ahead of anyone else. Graboyes shot 37 on the back to card a 73 and earn medalist honors.

“This entire season my scores weren’t really reflecting how well I was playing. I knew I was playing well, but I couldn’t make the birdie putt or get the par save when I needed it,” Mike said. “This weekend it all came together.”

The impressive second place finish for the team as a whole caps off what was a season filled with strong showings. In just eight tournaments, Cornell pieced together six top-fives, two second places and a first place finish back in September at the Cornell Invitational.

“After the strong fall, we knew going into this season that we were a good team,” Graboyes said.

“We’ve improved every single year, and now we just expect to be perennial contenders in the Ivy League championship. It’s not going to be a surprise that we play well there anymore.

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

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All in the family | One year after his brother Luke finished first, Mike Graboyes topped the field at Ivies.

Tourney At-Large Bid M.TENNIS

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2, Cornell is well-situated to qualify for the tournament with an at-large bid.

“This win means a lot for the seniors in particular because they’ve worked so hard throughout the year,” Kazakov said. “However, the team [as a whole] will definitely be looking ahead to the NCAA [tournament] as the next challenge.”

But for now, the team has

earned every right to relish its historical accomplishment.

“This win is special for me, special for the team, and I’m just extremely glad and satisfied that I’m leaving this team in a better place than four years ago, and knowing that this team can be even better in years to come,” Casares Rosa said.

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

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once our matches were over, we tried to look at the updates of the other Ivy matches to see where we would stand.”

And when the dust finally settled, and Penn emerged victorious over the Crimson, the Red learned it had occupied the top spot in the Ivy League with two other schools.

“We were on the drive back when we finally found out that Penn had defeated Harvard, and to hear the van erupt the way it did with their celebrating was very exciting,” head coach Mike Stevens said. “So, obviously we are all very proud of what the team accomplished, and very excited for the women who put so much work in all season.”

While the ceremonies may last for now, Cornell is still not set for the rest of the season quite yet. Due to a tiebreaker, the Green earned the Ivy League’s automatic bid into

the NCAA Tournament.

Dartmouth won both of its matches this weekend against Penn and Princeton, also defeating the Red earlier this season, 4-3, April 14 in Ithaca.

The Red will have to wait to see if it will earn an at-large bid into the field of 64. But, either way, the team got revenge; last year, Princeton defeated the Red in the final match of the season to win the Ivy League championship outright over Cornell.

“In my freshman year, we went 0-7 in Ivy League play, so this was kind of the culmination of four years of hard work,” senior Marika Cusick said. “There is nothing like setting a seemingly unachievable goal and then finally being able to capture it in my senior year, especially because it was the first one in school history.”

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Tennis Teams Clinch Ivy Titles on Historic Day MEN’S TENNIS

Men top Brown to secure 2nd Ivy League title

By JOSH ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With its sixth one-point victory of the season and a nail-biting final set, the Cornell men’s tennis team secured itself an Ivy League championship for just the second time in history Sunday afternoon.

The Red (21-3, 6-1 Ivy) downed Brown (11-11, 0-7) with a 4-3 victory on Sunday to clinch the title. The win came in tense fashion, as senior Bernardo Casares Rosa prevailed against the Bears’ Charles Tan in the final set of the game.

“Today was definitely the most important match I’ve ever played,” Casares Rosa said. “I tried to focus just on playing well rather than winning, which I think paid off.”

The Red fell into an early deficit as it dropped two of its three doubles matches to lose the doubles point. Sophomore David Volfson and freshman Lev Kazakov won Cornell’s sole doubles game, 6-3. “[Volfson and I have] gotten really used to our positions on the court throughout the year and know exactly what to expect from each other,” Kazakov said. “He’s giving me confidence throughout the game and it just worked out very well today.”

Cornell eventually evened out the score in the singles portion of the match. A series of wins from Volfson and seniors Colin Sinclair and Chris Vrabel balanced out losses by Kazakov and freshman Pietro Rimondini to set the score at 3-3 heading into the final match of the game.

Mens Tennis vs Brown by Adrian Boteanu_39 “The seniors have always been there for us, especially when we aren’t doing too well,” Rimondini said. “They really helped me out in so many ways especially [today], and it’ll be really sad to see them leave in a few weeks.”

With the championship title on the line in the final game, Casares Rosa faced immense pressure to secure a victory against Tan. The senior managed to edged out Tan in a close 7-5 decision in the first set, before finding himself in a similar situation in the following one. A critical call came as Casares Rosa seemingly hit a ball out of bounds with the set tied 5-5.

“After winning the first set, a mixture of [Tan] playing well and my nervousness led to the tie at 5-5,” Casares Rosa said. “The sixth point ended up being a long rally where I was

moving around a lot and [Tan] called an out on one of my forehands.”

However, after a review, the previous call was overruled, giving Casares Rosa the point.

With a 6-5 lead, the senior did not miss a beat and completed the clutch two-set victory 7-5.

“There was a lot of noise in the crowd, so the ref went to replay the point,” Casares Rosa continued. “He ended up calling the ball in and I got the break to go up 6-5.

Thankfully, I was able to finish the match and give the victory to Cornell, my teammates and all our supporters.”

With the win, Cornell finished the season in a three-way tie with Columbia and Harvard for the Ivy League title.

“Everyone played a great role in winning the Ivy League championship, especially the seniors who have mentored us throughout this whole process,” Rimondini said. “I’m still new to the program, but I’m very happy to see that everyone’s hard work paid off.”

While the Red will undoubtedly savor its long-awaited Ivy title, the team will also certainly be looking forward its first NCAA tournament bid. With the announcements of the NCAA field coming this Tuesday, May See M.TENNIS page 15

ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Clutch | Senior Bernardo Casares Rosa won a tough match to earn the title for his team.

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Game, set and match | The women won a share of the Ivy League title for the first time in program history on Sunday afternoon.

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Women win 1st trophy in program history

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

ping the doubles point,” said senior Alex D’Ascenzo. “But we quickly turned it around because we knew that we had to win that match to stay alive.”

Heading into Sunday, the final day of the regular season, the Red needed to win its match against Brown, and have Penn beat Harvard to clinch at least a piece of the league championship.

In a shortened match, the Red defeated Brown 4-1 in Providence.

Cornell had to wait approximately 90

For the first time in its 44-yearlong existence, Cornell women’s tennis has clinched the Ivy League in a three-way tie with Harvard and Dartmouth Cornell entered the weekend the way it left it — in the three-way tie — but with Dartmouth and Penn, instead. The Red needed to win both of its matches against Yale and Brown to stay alive for a piece of the Ivy League “In my freshman year, we went 0-7 crown.

Cornell (15-6, 5-2 in Ivy play, so this was kind of the Ivy) began the weekculmination of four years end in New Haven, facing a Bulldogs of hard work.” squad that had yet to Senior Marika Cusick win an Ivy League match. However, Yale came out with a spoiler mentality, and minutes until it found out that the took the doubles point to begin the Quakers defeated the Crimson 4-3. match.

“We really had to focus on ourBut the Red’s talent prevailed, as selves, because there was a lot of variCornell was able to capture all six sin- ables up in the air that we ultimately gles matches in straight sets to prolong had no control over,” said junior its opportunity to win the league title, Priyanka Shah. “So, in terms of baland ensure that the team would finish ancing emotions and our focus, we the season with a winning league really just had to worry about ourrecord. selves when we were on the court, but “We got off to a little bit of a rough start against Yale, especially after dropSee W.TENNIS page 15

Mike Graboyes Takes 1st Place at Ivies,Golf Takes 2nd

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

For the second year in a row, a Cornell junior named Graboyes finished first in the Ivy League Golf championships. But this year, it was Mike.

The younger brother of last year’s medalist, Luke Graboyes, finished the wire-to-wire victory with a three-day score of 214, two under par and three strokes better than the field.

“It means a lot to me to win representing the university on top of playing as an individual,” the younger Graboyes told The Sun.

Winning the tournament also won Mike a place on the first-team all-Ivy, as well as a spot in the NCAA regional championships against the nation’s best in May. And if you think Mike’s top-finish one year after Luke’s is quite the occurrence, it is not even the first time the two have experienced it.

“We’ve actually done this before,” Mike said. “He won the high school state championships his senior year, and then I won them my senior year. He’s been really supportive of everything all along.”

Mike’s win was the highlight in what was a very successful week-

end for the Red at the Stanwich Club in Greenwich, Conn. Tied for the best finish in program history, Cornell took second place, behind only Harvard, who won for the second year in a row.

But things were not looking up for the Red on day one. Senior captain and defending medalist Luke Graboyes struggled and shot a five-over 77. Between junior Chris Troy, sophomore Tianyi Cen and freshman Mike May, the Red was a combined 15-over.

“He’s been struggling with his game a little bit recently,” Mike said of his older brother.

Mike, on the other hand, was

playing his best golf of the season.

“In the second round at Yale [last weekend], I finally started playing well, and it really gave me some momentum going into this weekend,” he said. “Having an expectation that you could win and then actually doing it feels really good.”

That momentum certainly carried over for the junior. After a consistent first 10 holes at two over par, he got hot. Mike went on to shoot a four-under 32 on the back nine and birdie five of the last eight heading into the clubhouse. His score of 69 was one of just two scores in the 60s over the three-day

tournament. Despite an up and down first day, Cornell sat in second after day one.

Day two was another big one for the Red — especially for those named Graboyes. After an uneven front nine, Mike parred seven of the last nine and carded an even par 72. Going into the final round, he held a three-shot lead over the rest of the field.

“In years past I’ve been a really good ball striker, but my putting has held me back,” Mike said.

“This weekend I was putting really well, though.”

See GOLF page 15