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Ex-Student Who Forged GPA Says Parental Pressure to Blame her mother as “strained” and said Chandra “felt that her mother’s love was contingent” on her “good grades and good looks,” which led to her A former student who used fake grades and developing “an unhealthy need to fulfill their high other application materials to gain admission to expectations at any cost.”

Zimmer said in a court filing that Chandra was three colleges — including Cornell, where she studied for three years — said pressure from her born in India and later moved to Australia and settled in Carmel, Indiana, where she parents had led her to deceive her now lives, when she was 10. family and the universities for “We are pleased with Chandra’s father is a software engiyears. the outcome of this neer, her mother is a mortgage The former student, Cavya Chandra ’13, fraudulently took criminal investigation banker and her brother studies at Harvard University, Zimmer said. out more than $130,000 in fedwhich culminated in “Ms. Chandra’s parents are very eral loans in the process and successful, and growing up, Ms. pleaded guilty to federal student [Chandra] taking Chandra acknowledges that her loan fraud in the fall. On responsibility.” belief that she needed to be someMonday, federal judge David E. one her parents would be proud of Peebles sentenced Chandra, 26, Jason Locke, into an unhealthy need to five years of probation and vice provost for enrollment developed to fulfill their high expectations at ordered her to pay Cornell more any cost,” Zimmer said in the than $70,000.

Chandra’s lawyer, Kimberly M. Zimmer, said memorandum.

In a statement, the U.S. attorney for the in a court filing that Chandra had “felt an enormous amount of pressure” from her parents to suc- Northern District of New York, Grant Jaquith ceed academically.

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Standing with Gaza | Holding signs on Ho Plaza, scores of students join the Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine in support of thousands of protesters in Gaza, dozens of whom have been killed in recent weeks.

Students Rally for Gazans

More than 50 attend pro-Palestine demonstration

By JULIA CURLEY Sun News Editor

More than 50 Cornell students answered the Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine’s call to “stand with Gaza” on Wednesday by gathering on Ho Plaza in support of protests in the Gaza Strip.

Speakers at the rally said that the recent clash between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers is neither a geopolitical conflict nor a religious clash, but a

moral recognition of human rights violations.

“We are standing here today to protest the systematic killing of innocents, of peaceful protesters, of children playing on the beach, of journalists who bring us the truth,” said Amal Aun grad, who is from Palestine. “We are standing here today to support human rights and to recognize that while we’re all created equal, this war is not.”

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Pollack Urges Students to Report Ethical Concerns

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Romance at Cornell | Professors offer differing opinions on two possible consensual relationship policies at a meeting of the Faculty Senate, which is considering plans banning some relationships at the University.

Two Relationship Policies Divide Senate

By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI Sun News Editor

The Faculty Senate debated two different plans to regulate romantic and sexual relationship between faculty and students in a Wednesday meeting rife with sharp policy disagreements and rampant confusion about parliamentary procedure.

Both proposed plans — Consensual Relationship PolicyA and CRP-B — prohibit faculty members from pursuing relationships with undergraduates or exercising “academic and professional authority” over graduate

students and post-doctoral students that they are in a relationship with, and require faculty to disclose their relationship with non-undergraduate students to a proposed Policy 6.x office.

Upon being notified of the relationship, the office would then craft a “recusal plan” that limits the faculty’s influence on “important decisions that affect the students,” according to a presentation prepared by Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan, computer science.

“Nobody wants a love police force,” Van Loan said. “On the other hand, if you had a work-

place romance, it has to be managed. It has to be disclosed. There has to be a recusal plan. People have to be informed.”

While the two policies are otherwise identical, CRP-A institutes a blanket ban on all faculty-subordinate relationships within the same field. Meanwhile, CRP-B permits such relationships as long as faculty members disclose it to the Policy 6.x office and follow the recusal plan.

After nearly an hour-long deliberation largely occupied by several accusations of failure to See RELATIONSHIPS page 4

President Martha E. Pollack called on Cornell community members to report ethical concerns and highlighted a confidential hotline system in an email sent to the Cornell community on Wednesday morning.

John Carberry, a University spokesperson, said in an email to The Sun that Pollack’s message is a “routine announcement” made each year. Former Interim President Hunter Rawlings sent a similar email to the Cornell community in May 2016.

In her email,

Pollack also brought up the “Standards of Ethical Conduct,” which every person acting on the University’s behalf must abide by.

According to the policy, which was first issued in October of 1996 and last updated in June 2013, all student employees, faculty, staff, executive officers and trustees are bound by this policy.

“This policy and other university policies and applicable laws require that all members of our community are aware of their responsibilities to report misconduct,” Pollack said in the email.

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New Bikeshare Program Enters Downtown Ithaca

By SOPHIA GAO Sun Contributor

Cornell students and Ithaca residents now have another option for transportation in the City of Ithaca: lime green bicycles scattered around downtown Ithaca.

Bike Walk Tompkins, which is a project of Ithaca Carshare, and the City of Ithaca facilitated the selection process, choosing to partner with LimeBike instead of several other competing bike-sharing services. LimeBike will provide 200 bicycles for the new service, which features a dock-free rental system and a discounted rate for students.

“We have been thinking of bringing bike-share services here for many years now,” said Hector Chang, active transportation and bike-share coordinator for Ithaca Carshare.

“And actually, because we work in close collaboration with the city and also people at Cornell University, it was a choice that was informed by people in both the city … and people in the college.”

The first 200 bicycles are largely distributed in downtown Ithaca and other flat areas in Ithaca, Chang said. He told The Sun in a phone interview that LimeBike may provide more bicycles and expand the covered region in the future.

The Cornell campus already has its own bike-sharing program, which launched last year, and none of the LimeBike bicycles are in Collegetown yet, although that may change.

“We hope that bike-share will expand to cover uphill areas like Collegetown and maybe even Cornell,” Chang said.

Renting a bicycle will cost $1 for 30 minutes for the average user. Students, faculty and staff with a valid college email address can use the bicycle from the service for 50 cents per 30 minutes.

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York, Chang said, in an effort to expand the places people can go with a rented bike and to provide greater convenience.

“The main priority that we have is coverage,” Chang said. “We didn’t want to leave any neighbourhood in the Ithaca city behind.”

Users will need to download and register a smartphone application in order to use the service. After picking up bicycle and scanning a code on the bike, they can use it and park it anywhere that public bicycle parking is allowed. The locking mechanism on the bike will then lock the rear wheel, preventing unauthorized use, according to Bike Walk Tompkins.

Each bike is also equipped with GPS and cellular con-

nections to help users locate the nearest bikes.

“Ithaca is not a big place, and most of the trips people do by car in the city are so short,” Chang said. “Those trips can be very easily done by bike.”

Chang hopes that the new bikeshare service, as well as the Bike Walk Tompkins program, will encourage more people to consider biking as an alternative for short-distance driving.

“Hopefully this will open up bicycling to more people [and] to the community, including students too,” Chang said.

Sophia Gao can be reached at xg243@cornell.edu.

Club Performs to Raise ASL Awareness TEDxCornell to Host

By STACEY BLANSKY Sun Staff Writer

Cornell University’s Deaf Awareness Project performed interpretations of three popular songs in American Sign Language under the Balch Arch on Tuesday night to increase support for a Cornell ASL program.

The set list included “It’s Time,” “Shape of You” and “The Cup Song,” all performed in ASL, as a celebration of students finishing their prelim exams, said Mary Grace Hager ’19, president of CUDAP. “This is our end-of-semester presentation,” Hager said. “We thought it would be fun to do an Arch Sign when freshmen are coming back from prelims.”

Juliet Remi ’20, outreach chair for CUDAP, said the performance was a good way to show Cornell students what the members are currently working on and to bring exposure to their cause.

The club is working to increase the resources available for students who are interested in learning ASL, chiefly through introducing ASL courses to the Cornell curriculum, Hager said.

“This semester we passed a resolution through the Student Assembly to have ASL count as a foreign language and to establish an introductory course sequence,” Hager said. “We haven’t heard back from that yet, but we are hoping for news soon.”

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A member of the Deaf Awareness Project performs in American Sign Language.

has not yet responded to that resolution, which the Student Assembly passed unanimously in March.

In a separate letter to President Pollack, Remi said, CUDAP wrote that Cornell is one of several schools among the Ivy League to not include an ASL program. Brown University, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University are the only Ivy schools to offer at least two introductory ASL courses, The Sun previously reported.

She added that Ithaca College has a deaf studies minor and the Rochester Institute of Technology has a deaf studies program.

“We are trying to catch up regionally, and then among other areas, too,” Remi said. “At Cornell, we pride ourselves on ‘Any person, […] any study,’ [which means] having a diverse campus.”

Remi said that ASL introduces cultural diversity to Cornell through deaf culture as well as increasing the accessibility of the University to deaf individuals.

“People with hearing loss don’t just consider themselves to have a physical disability, they consider themselves as part of a cultural community based on ASL and deaf education,” Remi said. “We think it’s important to introduce that sort of cultural component [to Cornell].”

She also said incorporating an ASL class would create a more diverse space on the Cornell campus, because it represents tangible progress in the disability community.

“If more people on campus were exposed to ASL, [a deaf person] would feel more welcome here and less of an outsider,” Remi said. “We have an obligation to try to make the world as successful as we can and introduce different forms of diversity in terms of ability, language and culture.”

Hager also emphasized that knowing ASL can be useful knowledge that allows us to understand other communities, which can help individuals in all aspects of their lives.

“There is going to be a day in your life when you are going to run into someone who is deaf and, if you can sign to them, they are most likely going to be very excited about it,” Hager told the Sun. “I am speaking from my own experience and it makes me smile to think of how happy they were that I could talk to them.”

Stacey Blansky can be reached at sblansky@cornellsun.com.

‘Eclectic’ Conference

By MIGUEL SOTO Sun Staff Writer

Cornell will host its fourth independent Technology, Entertainment and Design conference at the Statler Auditorium on May 6, celebrating diverse achievements and ideas among Cornell community members.

This will be the largest TEDxCornell event to date, according to the TEDxCornell website.

Though previous years’ conferences were built around a singular theme, this year’s event assembles an “eclectic” group of individuals from within the Cornell faculty, the website said.

TED is an organization that holds conferences focused on providing a platform for “ideas worth spreading.” Since 1984, TED events have garnered over a billion views worldwide for their thousands of taped, 18minute talks, according to the TED website.

The Cornell event’s lineup will feature seven speakers, hailing from departments across the University.

Renee T. Alexander ’74, associate dean of students and senior advisor to the dean, will speak about her work regarding campus climate. Alexander works to facilitate discussion across the spectrum of Cornell communities. She won the Perkins Prize in 2017, a prize awarded by Cornell, for her work on the “Breaking Bread

Initiative,” which brings participants together across differences for a meal and conversation.

Prof. Itai Cohen, physics, will focus his talk on attempting to understand “out-of-equilibrium behaviors,” such as the coordination of dance movements at events from tango to heavy metal.

With degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and several published books, Prof.

Shimon Edelmen, psychology, will speak about “how the realization that the brain is a virtual reality engine can help us make a case for human ethics.”

Best-selling author and emeritus Prof. T. Colin Campbell M.S. ’58, nutritional sciences, will address what he says is the neglect that nutrition science programs receive from the medical field. Campbell has done extensive research on how food and nutrition affects the development of cancer.

Prof. Drew Margolin, communications, will address the motivations and content of online discourse via social media, something that is “not well understood,” according to the website brief. This lecture will explore how “accountability, credibility and legitimacy” play a role in online discourse.

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After Fraud Revealed, Student Will Pay Cornell $70,000 SENTENCING

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said, “Whatever pressure students feel to get into a particular school, it cannot justify fraud.”

“We maximize opportunities for higher education by maintaining the integrity of financial aid programs, including taking action against dishonesty,” Jaquith said.

When Cornell denied Chandra’s application in the fall of 2008, she applied to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh using a forged letter of recommendation and was admitted.

Then, in the spring of 2010, she applied to Cornell using a forged high school transcript, a forged Carnegie Mellon transcript and a forged letter of recommendation. The former student claimed at the time that her freshman GPA was 4.0 when it was actually 2.79, prosecutors said.

Cornell accepted Chandra based on the forged material, and she studied at Cornell for three years beginning in the fall of 2010, conducting research in the Cornell Infant Studies Laboratory, The Sun previously reported.

Chandra received more than $130,000 in financial aid while at Cornell, and Cornell has since repaid the debt to the Department of Education. Chandra has agreed to pay Cornell the $70,145.81 she owes.

Chandra’s fraudulent behavior was not discovered until 2013, when she used a forged Cornell transcript while applying to medical school, falsely claiming that her GPA was 4.0 when it was actually 1.98. At that

point, the American Medical College Application Service alerted Cornell to the possible fraud, spurring an investigation that led to Cornell expelling Chandra in November of 2013.

It remains unclear if another student could dupe Cornell in the same way that Chandra did, as spokespeople for the University won’t say if Cornell has made any relevant changes to its admissions process since Chandra was admitted in 2010.

Spokespeople also didn’t answer questions about how many people could be attending the University based on false applications, what the investigation of Chandra’s case entailed, and how Chandra managed to successfully trick Cornell until the medical college application service alerted Cornell.

In response to the questions, a Cornell spokesman, Jeff Tyson, provided a statement from Jason Locke, vice provost for enrollment.

“We are pleased with the outcome of this criminal investigation which culminated in the defendant’s plea agreement taking responsibility for her wrongful acts,” Locke said in the provided statement. “Restitution of the financial aid she wrongfully received while at Cornell will enable deserving students to continue to receive financial support for education at Cornell.”

After being expelled from Cornell, Chandra applied to transfer to Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis — again using forged transcripts and false grades — and IUPUI admitted her, she said in the plea agreement last fall.

A spokesperson for Indiana University, Holly

Vonderheit, told The Sun in the fall that the school had also employed Chandra. In her job, Chandra conducted neonatal research from March 2014 to August 2015, and the University later awarded her a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience in May 2015, which she held for more than a year until the University rescinded it on Aug. 12, 2016.

Before Indiana University rescinded her bachelor’s degree, however, Chandra had enrolled in a graduate program at the University of South Florida. A spokesperson for USF, Adam Freeman, told The Sun in the fall that Chandra had attended the school in the fall 2015 and spring 2016 semesters. She later withdrew after her bachelor’s degree was rescinded, the government said.

Chandra’s Facebook profile and a resume posted online indicate that she studied at the USF Morsani College of Medicine, The Sun previously reported. The resume also indicated that she had worked at the Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research at Indiana as a research technician while studying there.

Zimmer, Chandra’s lawyer, said in a phone interview on Tuesday that Peebles, the judge, had “recognized the pressure” that Chandra had put herself under and told the former student in federal court in Syracuse that he sees her eventually accomplishing her dreams.

Michael F. Perry, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, said in a court filing that, “Having come clean, finally, about her past, Chandra still plans to attend medical school at some point in the future.”

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

Faculty Senate Considers Students Rally for Gaza Protesters 2 Relationship Policies PROTEST

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RELATIONSHIPS

studies.

Prof. Richard Miller, philosophy, supported CRP-B, arguing follow parliamentary procedures that the cost of a ban on all intraby faculty members, the senate departmental relationships far outshot down, by a 10 to 30 vote, a weighs its professed benefits of preresolution amending CRP-B to venting “bad actors” from unfairly allow faculty the option to have an assisting the subordinate’s career “individual responsible for the aca- prospects. demic workplace” craft a recusal “Ithaca is a small city, in which plan instead of the Policy 6.x extremely busy, unattached junior office. faculty find it hard to develop “[The] reason why many of us emotional attachment with those felt this was not an appropriate who share their intellectual interest proposal plan was that it involves broadly defined,” Miller said. people who aren’t trained, not proMeanwhile, Prof. Cynthia fessionals, and not objective,” Prof. Grant Bowman, law, argued in Rhonda Gilmore, design and envi- favor of CRP-A, citing that faculty ronmental sciences, said, arguing members are “fiduciaries” who that the Policy 6.x office alone should be banned from romantic would have the expertise to consid- involvement with their beneficiaer faculty-student relationships. ries, the students.

“There is not a “I’ve spent dean nor a chair my entire adult who has had “There is not a dean nor career studying training in this issues of sexual a chair who has sensitive topic.” harassment, sexhad training in this The heated ual abuse and discussion on problems of sensitive topic.” the resolution power in intiProf. Rhonda Gilmore left no time in mate relationthe 90-minute ships, and I very meeting for the strongly support senate to come to a consensus. CRP-A,” Bowman said. “Other Faculty members, instead, voted fiduciaries are doctors to their individually on ballots that will be clients, lawyers to their clients. … given to President Martha E. All those professions have banned Pollack on May 1. sexual relationships with their Several faculty senators noted clients.” that the choice between the two Prof. Dan Brown, animal scipolicies divided their departments, ences, was “very troubled” by both leading many to believe that there plans for breaching the privacy of may not be “one good opinion.” the parties involved.

“Equal numbers of my col“This policy is about consensuleagues in feminist studies felt that al relationship entered into by a ban on any kind of relationship mature people,” Brown said. “We prevented our students from hav- could be easily be talking about ing the autonomy or right to graduate students or post-docs at choose to have a relationship with the age of 30. [CRP-B] demands a faculty member. An equal num- disclosure even in situations where ber felt that … preference for one individuals prefer to keep things student over another violated the private. I find this very offensive.” terms of pedagogical engagement,” said Prof. Durba Ghosh, history Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached and feminist, gender and sexuality at ykakutani@cornellsun.com.

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Gazans organized a widespread protest against 70 years of “oppressive” Israeli policy on March 30, the CCJP said.

More than 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers near the border and more than 1,000 injured since then, The New York Times reported.

The Times also reported that Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza, supports the protests, and the Israeli government has accused some of carrying out attacks under the cover of the protests.

“You don’t have to know about what’s going on in Palestine to join students for peace and to stand in solidarity with Palestine,” said CCJP founder Prof. Darlene Evans, creative writing.

This “Great March of Return” along the militarized border between the Gaza Strip and Israel has attracted protesters of all ages and armed Israeli soldiers to the Gaza border.

“This demonstration is happening here at Cornell, but I can promise everyone standing here that demonstrations like this are happening all over Israel and there are Israeli citizens who do not want these actions to go through,” said Nitzan Tal, grad, an Israeli cit-

izen.

“You don’t have to be Palestinian, you don’t have to be from one religion or another. You don’t even have to be on one side of the political map,” Tal continued. “All you have to be is a person who sees the picture clearly and who sees children and people without guns being shot down.”

CCJP has said that the Israeli army has used tear gas, snipers, tank shelling and air strikes to quell the protesters.

“It’s not a conflict between equal sides,” Aun said. “It is not a dispute or a clash. And as many people here at Cornell have asked me before, no, it is not a religious conflict between Muslims and Jews.”

“It is an occupation, colonization and erasure of the people,” he continued. “There are no equal sides. It is a war between an occupier and an occupied, an oppressor and an oppressed, the powerful and the powerless.”

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has reported that Israeli combatants have shot and killed at least 39 Palestinians since the beginning of the march on March 30. Thousands more have been injured, the CCJP said at the rally. No Israeli casualties have been reported, according to the health ministry.

Palestinians in Gaza, num-

bering nearly 1.5 million, have little access to clean water, food or electricity, but the Great March of Return calls not for the alleviation of suffering but for the freedom of movement, according to the CCJP. The marchers want to return to their former Palestinian homes, now inside Israel, club members said.

For 11 years, Israel has enforced a complete land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, protesters at Cornell said. Aun said the international community sees Gaza as “the world’s largest open-air prison.”

At the event, a CCJP representative collected signatures for a petition urging New York state senators to recognize what the group says are Israeli human rights violations. The group also seeks the re-evaluation of American political dollars that support Israeli military efforts in Gaza, Tal said at the event.

“The American government is complicit,” Tal said. “I invite all of us to not only look at American dollars but to look at Cornell’s dollars and to look at where those are invested and to start make our voice heard within our small circle of influence.”

Julia Curley can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun.com.

TedxCornell Event Slated for May 6 TED

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Prof. Ifeoma Ajunwa, organizational behavior, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, the Guardian and more, will speak on the “controversies of ethics and technology in modern workplace management.”

Prof. Susan Fleming M.S. ’08 Ph.D. ’10, hotel administration, will address the lack of women in U.S. leadership positions, drawing

from her experience on Wall Street. She is an advocate for women’s advancement and has served on the board of six public companies and both private and non-profit boards, according to the website.

The event will be held in the Statler Auditorium on May 6, and full-price and student-discount tickets can be purchased on the TEDxCornell website.

Miguel Soto can be reached at msoto@cornellsun.com.

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Pollack Encourages Violations Reporting HOTLINE

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nance of an environment in which abuse of power is not tolerated,” it states.

Pollack stated that it is an “obligation” to report an incident, whether the ethical concern involves conflicts of interest, research, athletics or other areas.

She said community members should first tell their concern to their units or to “the appropriate dean, vice provost, or vice president.”

Pollack also said that when community members have “concerns about reporting within [their] unit,” they can use a confidential hotline to report issues. The hotline system has both a telephone, with a number of 1-866-293-3077, and a website. The system is run by EthicsPoint, an incident management software that is part of

NAVEX Global, according to the EthicsPoint website. Ithaca College and the University of California also use the same software.

The hotline website also provides the link to a program that allows community members to report criminal actions that are not an emergency, which is called the Cornell University Police Silent Witness Program, Pollack said.

“In addition, retaliation against persons who have made good faith reports of ethical or other standards violations is absolutely prohibited under Cornell policy and many applicable laws,” she stated in the email.

“The integrity of the university depends on our collective efforts to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct,” Pollack expressed.

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Romance studies grad students denounce proposed changes to arts college language requirements To the Editor: We, the undersigned graduate students of the Romance Studies Department, emphatically denounce the recommendations of the Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee. We lend our support to the Romance Studies Faculty’s unanimous and unambiguous rejection of the current proposal.

Beyond the committee’s hasty procedure and failure to adequately consult the many departments who will be affected, our principal concern is the reduction of the language requirement by almost half.

The lower undergraduate enrollment in our courses will result in fewer faculty, fewer course offerings and fewer graduate assistantships. This is a direct blow to our funding, our teaching opportunities and our competitiveness on the job market, and threatens the prestige of our program.

Apart from our concern for the quality of post-graduate studies at this institution, we would like to emphasize the following: This proposal severely undermines the value of an undergraduate education at Cornell University. It has been suggested that fulfilling the language requirement is difficult for pre-med and science students. We have found our many students from the STEM and pre-med fields to be superb language learners. If the goal is to ease course loads for pre-med students, the curriculum changes will harm those whose very burden they seek to alleviate. Cornell’s own Weill Medical College website explicitly states “proficiency in a second language” in their selection criteria.

The extant requirement is as follows: One course at the non-introductory level or 11 credits in a single language. This provides students with the classroom time necessary for advanced engagement with the language and its historical, political and cultural contexts.

We speak in defense not only of the languages taught in our department, but the many languages offered at this institution. At stake is a philosophy of learning that respects indepth engagement with a foreign language and culture, and its replacement with an approach that treats Cornell’s language courses as mere items on a menu. This sabotages the very ideals upon which the committee’s recommendations are predicated: Cornell’s status as a “global university.”

Amanda Recupero grad, Italian Mario Jimenez Chacon grad, Spanish Kelly Camille Moore grad, Spanish Romain Pasquer Brochard grad, Cristina Hung grad, Spanish French Matías Borg Oviedo grad, Spanish Julia Karczewski grad, French Andy Leonel Barrientos-Gómez Jackqueline Frost grad, French grad, Spanish & Portuguese Mary Jane Dempsey grad, Italian Lia Turtas grad, Italian Vincent Guimiot grad, French Patrick Kozey grad, Spanish Eliana Hernández-Pachón, Álvaro Garrote Pascual grad, Spanish grad, Spanish Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez, Magdala Lissa Jeudy grad, French grad, Spanish Yen Vu grad, French Alexander Gannuscio grad, Spanish Sam Carter grad, Spanish Elise Finielz grad, French Alex Lenoble grad, French Félix Miguel Rosario Ortiz Sebastian Antezana grad, Spanish grad, Spanish Ebtisam Mursi grad, Spanish Gustavo Quintero grad, Spanish Valeria Dani grad, Italian Giulia Andreon grad, Italian Antonio di Fenza grad, Italian Brandon Greer grad, French Heftzi Vázquez Rodríguez Janet Hendrickson grad, Spanish grad, Spanish Chenyun Li grad, Spanish Martina Broner, grad Spanish Nicholas Huelster grad, French Penelope Rosenstock-Murav, Hannah Cole Hughes grad, French grad, French Peter Caswell grad, French Paulo Lorca grad, Spanish

To the Editor: We, the undersigned students and recent alumni of the Department of Development Sociology, unequivocally condemn the proposed integration of DSOC into a new social sciences-specific college.

The word “sociology” in Development Sociology does not mean that DSOC is a conventional social science in the vein of anthropology or linguistics. The word instead stems from the department’s commitment to rural sociology — a unique discipline that studies access to natural resources and sustainable livelihoods, particularly in communities on the peripheries of global capitalism. DSOC is an applied form of sociology that concerns itself with critical issues surrounding agricultural and community development, making the the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences its perfect home.

Crucially, DSOC enjoys exceptionally synergistic relationships with other CALS Departments that also center the empathetic study of the Global South, including International Agriculture & Rural Development and Global & Public Health Sciences. It’s not uncommon for DSOC undergraduates to double-major in peer CALS programs such as Environmental & Sustainability Sciences, a further reflection of the department’s interdisciplinary nature and fundamental importance to the larger CALS community.

We believe that extricating DSOC from an impressive array of top-ranked and interconnected development-focused programs in CALS would irrevocably damage the college’s excellence in purpose-driven science. Further, we refuse to let this misguided merger proposal interrupt our department’s cutting-edge research on global problems that threaten us all: anthropogenic climate-change, natural resource maldistribution, destructive market inequalities, disruptions to food systems and so much more.

As DSOC students concerned with maintaining the integrity of our department, we stand in solidarity with the Stop the Merger campaign organized by members of the ILR, Human Ecology, DSOC and Communication communities. In the wake of such resounding opposition, it is abundantly clear that the Committee on Organizational Structures in the Social Science’s proposed “College of Social Sciences” is a project that will only harm our various disciplines. We hope that the campus community will join us in opposing the merger, and in opposing all attacks on the integrity and independence of academic departments that center the betterment of human lives over the maximization of profits.

Sierra Murray DSOC ’17 Samantha Kreda DSOC ’17 Sonya Qamar DSOC ’17 Christopher Hanna DSOC ’18 Tessa Schneider DSOC ’18 Paige Wagar DSOC ’18, ESS ’18 Maia Kunzman DSOC ’18, ESS ’18 Ana Lopez DSOC ’18 Ismini Ethridge DSOC ’18 Emily Slifkin DSOC ’18 Kathleen Donnelly Moran DSOC ’18, IARD ’18 Anne Brenna DSOC ’18 Evelyn Sanchez DSOC ’18 Vanessa Amankwaa DSOC ’18 Nina Möger Bengtsson DSOC ’18 Elizabeth Gorman DSOC ’18 Keshara Senanayake DSOC ’18 Gillian Cowley DSOC ’18

George Liu DSOC ’19 Francesca Viazzoli DSOC ’19 Xavier Salvador DSOC ’19 Shivani Parikh DSOC ’19 Amanda Sudilovsky DSOC ’19 Dana Gelb DSOC ’19 Noelle LaDue DSOC ’19 Stevanica Augustine DSOC ’19, ESS ’19 Deborah Glick DSOC ’19 Anastashia Alfred DSOC ’20 Minnie Jung DSOC ’20 Oluwafunke Akinkuolie DSOC ’21 Liam Sherer DSOC ’21 Jenna Winocur DSOC ’21 Christine Johnson DSOC ’21 Hailey Andress DSOC ’21 Esuvat Bomani DSOC ’21

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Matthew Lam | The Despatch Box

No,an Amtrak Station in Ithaca Is Not an Absurd Idea

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n a recent meeting on connecting Cornell and New York City, Prof.

Noliwe Rooks, Africana and feminist, gender and sexuality studies, asked, “How hard would it be to get Amtrak to let us have a stop here?” Largely ignored by our leaders, her idea was also noted by some commentators as unrealistic and a nearly impossible feat. They are right; Professor Rooks’ idea is not easy to implement. However, it is also worth a consideration. In fact, a rail line from Ithaca to New York, via Binghamton and Scranton is the final key to connecting our bucolic campus and city to the financial and commercial center of this country.

There used to be passenger rail trains in Ithaca, in fact. Knowing how important a connection to New York was, Ithaca’s forebears had actually built and operated a train line to Penn Station for many decades. The tracks are still there on Fulton Street, on which a freight train still runs through Ithaca. An elegant, classical revival passenger station also remains, now serving as a branch office of the Chemung Canal Trust Company. The groundwork is literally

there for a revival; it just needs to be rehabilitated.

A simple Google Maps search shows further. The current tracks, operated by private rail freight company Norfolk Southern, head down from Fulton Street to a junction in Waverly and end up going over to Binghamton and Scranton. The tracks then head further south to Allentown, Pennsylvania, however, without a current direct connection to the tri-state area. Like Ithaca’s railway, there used to be a connection: an engineering feat, the Lackwanna Cut-Off railroad connected to New York and was abandoned in the 1970s, along with the demise of other railroad companies. Fortunately, through lobbying efforts by senators and commuter advocacy groups alike, construction has already begun to restore the line, with service to Andover, New Jersey slated to begin in 2020. If the stars align in New Jersey, and New York State plays its role in reviving its portion of the tracks, then a physical connection is not impossible.

I emphasize physical because the restora-

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A freight and passenger rail route that could reconnect Ithaca to New York City.

tion is currently led by NJ Transit, a state agency that runs Jersey commuter trains to New York. Amtrak, the federal quasi-public corporation that runs interstate long-distance lines and whose name promotes poor

having to stay mentally alert for five-plus hours or risk death, dealing with Jersey drivers, seedy rest stops, and burning gas and money.

Being a public transit rider for most of

A rail line from Ithaca to New York is the final key to connecting our bucolic campus and city to the financial and commercial center of this country. spelling, would have to wrestle for access.

Operationally, this line would have to contend with competitors that originally killed it in 1961 — the car and bus. Service to New York would need to be reliable and under four-hour travel time from the tristate area to compete against the bus, which takes five or six hours, depending on traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel. The passage should be seamless as well, with substantial connections to other parts of Ithaca from the train station. Cornell, for example, should operate a shuttle from the station to Central Campus that runs on a complementary schedule to the train. The trains themselves need not be gaudy and laden with “Millennial-friendly” expensive technology, but simply maintained, clean and comfortable.

Since coming to Cornell, I have made the journey from home in New York to Ithaca at least twenty times, and I’m sure many of my fellow students have done so as well. This five-hour trip, which is taken either by the bus or the car, is the single biggest competitive disadvantage that Cornell and the Southern Tier has compared to its peers. Buses are plagued with late arrivals, disgusting bathrooms, smelly seats and haphazard driving. While driving is a better alternative, I am personally exhausted, like many Cornell parents, of

my life, I can tell you that transit experience is simple: just get me from A to B safely, quickly, comfortably and at a reasonable price. In the Ithaca-to-New York transport market, none of the competitors are doing this, and that’s why new private bus companies keep popping up with band-aid solutions. Even the University has entered the market with the Campus-to-Campus bus, which is the most comfortable but also with the most expensive price tag designed to capture the wealthy alumni and guests. A train line, however, if well-executed, is the real, permanent answer that can unlock the economic potential of this University, city, and region. The new Governor of New York, whoever it will be, needs to get on this.

This proposal is one that we absolutely can realize, and certainly not scoff off as an impossible. It is not impossible — our predecessors who literally dug and built railroads across this country from scratch more than 100 years ago proved it so. And if we leave their groundwork to waste, while other countries are literally speeding past us with their own network expansions and reaping the economic benefits, we only have ourselves (and the car lobby) to blame.

Matthew Lam is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mlam@cornellsun.com. The Despatch Box runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Narayan Reddy | Reddy, Set, Go!

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y barber, who is Cambodian, said he would give me the “Indian cut.” After he was done, the other guy waiting said that I looked just like a doctor. The unsolicited observation has led me to believe that we, of the South Asian Council, are actually getting ahead of ourselves if our front is asserting that our perspectives are not completely irrelevant, and that we should be able to take up space within spaces that are generally designated for students of color. First of all, how the fuck are we going to convince people that our brownness does not itself qualify us to perform an emergency tracheotomy with a box cutter and a plastic straw? I mean, I’ll do my best with my knowledge of Asian American racial formation but no promises. A few days later while I was trying to figure out my next dick, I remembered I’m gay as well as Tamil. The fact that the queer identity itself is inherently politicized made me see it as a remedy. My friend put it — nail polish — on me. The color was a deep, peacock blue called “midnight” and it popped against my brown skin. It truly did make me feel more relevant.

Midnight Twinks When I saw the teenage students at the afterschool program I work at with “midnight” on, I learned that I wasn’t shit. One of the younger students didn’t talk to me that day, when he usually says something to me. That hurt.

Even more so than the last time I painted my nails and a homeless Nepali man asked me if I was a faggot, to which I replied “yes, sir!” as faggy as I could (we talked a little after that and got to know each other better, he then offered to “raise hell” on anyone that ever gave me shit, but I haven’t seen him since). Everyone else said my nails were on point, but I think he was just too young to deal with the fact that the older male college volunteer he knew for several months just walked in with “midnight” on in broad daylight. I would have been confused at his age too. It begged the question, was it really more important for me to assert my own experiences and identities as an individual, rather than building meaningful relationships with others who had experiences and identities different than mine?

I washed “midnight” off as soon as I could.

It’s probably not smart to

take something profound away from someone that called me a “faggot,” but I could have spared myself from déjà vu if I did. Both times were attempts to “live my truth,” and the boys I’ve recently been on are the ones I’ve deemed very honest.

On violence, I’ll push back if you push me. But I won’t start it.

So, his offer to kick someone’s ass on my request goes against my

because I knew it would affect my ability to engage with people that are not as steeped in their own identity as me. In fact, something I understood is that identity doesn’t necessarily even reside within ourselves.

It’s in the meaningful relationships I have with others that may have grown up in and still live in a world different than mine. Without diversity, there

Cutting yourself off from others for the sake of individual liberty only makes [social lines] more rigid. values. But it’s the thought that counts. I really believe he saw that someone or something was hurting me on the inside over the course of our unlikely conversation and offered to provide support. Which was already more than my friends at the time were willing to do. That’s why I painted them, to break away from friends I was already isolating myself from. So this time around, I washed them off

would be no differences to perceive. But real differences are deeper than skin, and fixating upon or asserting the physicality of brownness and/or queerness alone keeps intercommunity discussions and relations superficial and could undermine them altogether. The effect of acknowledging them between and working with each other along the lines that mercilessly structure society blurs them. Cutting yourself off

from others for the sake of individual liberty only makes them more rigid. It’s not about carving out spaces within spaces, it’s about undermining the need for those spaces themselves.

Before we insist that others accept us, we must address ourselves and think critically about the lines that separates South Asian students — including Asian and Asian American students in general — and other students of color. The queer people living their truths and those that can’t identify as queer. I understand that these binaries I set up as well as this entire column in general are reckless blurrings of identities and social issues, but that’s kind of the point. My new catchphrase is “I don’t have the answers” but I can guarantee you these problems require more than acceptance at the individual, psychological level. An overhaul is in order.

Take it from a messy gay brown boy; it’s time we make a mess together. Painting your fingernails doesn’t excuse anyone from getting them dirty.

Narayan Reddy is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com. Reddy, Set, Go! appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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will preface this review by saying that I hold very high standards for Korean cuisine — we’re literally talking about home food, folks! Despite the relatively plentiful options of classic Korean dishes in Ithaca, I have not really found a place that rises above mediocrity; Ithaca’s Korean selections have yet to elicit a blissful grin of satisfaction from me and my fellow Korean friends.

Consequently, when SoPoong magically appeared in Collegetown, I just had to go check it out!

I first passed by the newly opened restaurant, which says it offers “Kimbap & Korean Snacks Take Out,” a few days before my official visit, when I tried to peer inside its large and intriguingly foggy windows. I had been making a late trip to Kung Fu Tea with one of my friends, who not only informed me that SoPoong had sold out on its first night, but also encouraged me to give it a whirl.

Due to its relative newness — a business Facebook page was created just seven days ago — SoPoong has not had much coverage. A quick Google search for the restaurant amusingly reveals a single Google

review from a (presumably) Korean woman named Jinju Ock, who gave the place five stars but left no comment! The only other public Google review Ock has made is for an owl cafe in Tokyo, Japan, so I cannot testify to her credibility as a food critic. More promisingly, SoPoong’s Yelp page revealed two five-star reviews that both enthusiastically endorse its kimbap and udon, so I ultimately made the visit to C-Town with much excitement!

Located next to Kung Fu Tea, SoPoong occupies a fairly small space. There is not much seating available, but the place was pretty empty during our early Monday lunch. My companion, who had already been to SoPoong multiple times, later informed me that it is usually super packed.

SoPoong is organized like an indoor street food stall; you wait in line, order, pay, pick up food at a booth and return to your table to lovingly devour it. The set-up actually reminded me of the countless bunsik (a catch-all term for inexpensive Korean food) vendors that line the streets of Seoul.

Interestingly, the menu is only in English and romanized Korean, which was a bit confusing for me — I was definitely not used to having to read or

as “yubu chobap” and “koma kimbap” — but I eventually decided to order the C3 combo of dduk bokgi and two rolls of koma kimbap. My friend chose to have a spicy tuna kimbap. I wanted to order one of the strikingly vibrant fruit smoothies they had a gorgeous picture of, but SoPoong only offers free water (but it’s filtered!) and a few different kinds of canned soda.

Service was actually very quick; it felt as if I did not wait at all.

Although the dishes were not that visually appealing, I brought my tray back to our table with great anticipation. My dduk bokgi, to be frank, was bad. Although the rice cake and fish cake — dduk and odeng — were soft, the spicy dduk bokgi sauce did not stick to both, making every bite of the dish taste too bland. A bit deflated, I proceeded to try my two koma kimbap rolls; koma, which is the word for “tot,” is an accurate descriptor for the rolls — they were so tiny!

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed them; I gobbled up everything in a handful of bites in the span of a few minutes. The pickled radish, which I usually dislike due to its strong taste, was detectable but not overpowering; the rice soft; the sausage not too salty and the seaweed tasty, clearly adorned with lots of sesame

oil. I also had some of my friend’s spicy tuna kimbap — the main difference between the two dishes is the choice of the meat — and although it also did taste good, the tuna was a bit dry.

So poong ( ) is the Korean word for a trip, picnic, outing or excursion; it implies that you are taking a short trip — the destination is often not far — with someone else. In Korean culture, so poong is usually associated with spending time with family or classmates, and a picnic outside is often accompanied by homemade kimbap rolls. As someone who has never really loved kimbap, I peculiarly enjoyed SoPoong’s versions!

And although I’m not so sure about the other menu items, and the seating and presentation leave much to be desired, I do think I will be going back often, especially due to its inexpensive prices and speedy service. I truly hope the place is here to stay; more Korean options means a more satisfied Ruth.

Overall, I do recommend trying SoPoong out — go on a so poong to SoPoong — but maybe take the food outside instead! When the sun is out, Libe Slope looks like a beautiful place to be happily munching on some kimbap with friends.

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nyone who knows me knows me to be a huge Marvel fan, and knows that in the past few weeks I have not stopped talking about Avengers: Infinity War. And while I’ve been marveling at how far the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come in terms of character development and universe-building in the past ten years, I also can’t stop thinking about the one thing they’ve made very little progress on: LGBTQ+ representation.

To give it some context, in May of 2008, Iron Man brought about the beginning of what we know today as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In November of the same year, California passed Proposition 8, which reinstated the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Here we are, ten years later in 2018. And while there are still a multitude of sociopolitical issues facing the LGBTQ+ community today, the progress that’s been made in this country and around the world is undeniable. In the MCU, however — not so much.

The MCU debuted its first queer character in Thor:

Andrea Yang Five Minutes Till Places Ragnarok just this past November, and it’s likely you didn’t even find out from the movie itself. A flashback scene in the movie hints at the reason the only remaining Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) left Asgard — Hela had killed someone who appeared to be her lover, a fellow Valkyrie. But a speculation is about as much as you can get from the movie, and unless you go do some digging and read Thompson’s tweets and interviews, you probably would not know that the Valkyrie is, in fact, bisexual. Although Thompson had convinced director Taika Waititi to shoot a scene in which a woman walks out of her character’s bedroom, it never made the final cut because “it distracted from the scene’s vital exposition,” according to Rolling Stone.

J. Cole KOD Dreamville

Juliette Rolnick “KOD. 3 meanings.

Kids on Drugs King Overdosed Kill Our Demons The rest of the album I leave to your interpretation.”

J. Cole tweeted this on April 19 prior to releasing his new album, KOD. The rapper’s fifth L.P. features 12 songs, all of which fuse to tell a succinct story about what I believe is the culmination of addic-

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Yet, Marvel has never seemed to have problems with depictions of heterosexual romance that actually distracted from vital exposition — which is basically all of them except that between Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter, and Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. Thor and Jane Foster, for example, were so lacking in chemistry that I could not be more relieved when I found out Jane would not appear in Thor: Ragnarok. The sudden romance between the Hulk and Black Widow that started in Avengers: Age of Ultron made less sense than had Widow and Cap gotten romantically involved in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And while the Russo brothers were smart enough to avoid that in Winter Soldier, they inevitably fell into the trap in Captain America: Civil War when they had Cap kiss Sharon Carter out of nowhere. Even Vision and Scarlet Witch, whose romance might actually be vital for the plot development in Infinity War, have been quite a forgettable pair thus far.

In short, few of the heterosexual romances in the MCU have proven to be memorable, because they come from forced engineering instead of genuine chemistry and connection between the characters. In contrast, many of the male characters have had more than enough of what we call “bromance,” yet the MCU hesitates to define any sort of non-platonic relationship between any of them. (As for female characters, there really aren’t that many of them to begin with.)

Of course, there’s the issue of countries that censor homosexuality in film, but that doesn’t mean Marvel can’t even leave room for the possibility. For instance, despite describing Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes’ history to be “a love story” and encouraging people to interpret the subtext however they want after Winter Soldier, the Russo brothers

tion and pain through technology in 2018.

What is most interesting about KOD is that it is an exploration of many types of relevant pain in 2018. “BRACKETS,” “Window Pain (Outro),’” and others do contain content surrounding pain in the context of the political climate, shadowing Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., which just made Pulitzer Prize history, but J. Cole’s definition of pain is not centered anywhere in particular. His pain is dispersed within mundane objects like a “Photograph” or an “ATM.” J. Cole plays on the idea that in 2018, mundanity, addiction and pain are all heavily intertwined through technology and this truly digital age. In 2018, we treat addiction with more addiction.

I strongly believe that this album should be listened to in chronological order, as the North Carolina rapper incorporates much relevant and detailed meaning within his intros and outro, as well as his “featured” sections.

After my first run through of the album, I was left with questions, one of which: Who is kiLL edward, the entity featured on two tracks? J. Cole went platinum with no features. Will all of those memes go to waste? Eerily enough, a new Soundcloud artist page was created on Monday for the one and only kiLL edward, aka J. Cole’s alter ego. KiLL edward, or J. Cole, or whoever you would like to call the rapper, posted a track called “tidal wave (Just a little reference)” on Soundcloud, seemingly to introduce fans to the alter ego before KOD was released.

So the answer is yes, the memes are still relevant. No features for J. Cole.

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then went ahead with the aforementioned kiss between Cap and Sharon Carter in Civil War, a move that could only be interpreted as a way to reassert Cap’s heterosexuality and, in some ways, masculinity.

And perhaps that’s really the crux of the matter — masculinity. Perhaps the lack of LGBTQ+ characters in the MCU and superhero movies in general is less about queerness itself than about its conflict with the hypermasculinity still all too prevalent in superhero films. Perhaps it’s why the MCU’s first queer character had to be a woman instead of a man.

In the end, before there can be more queer superheroes, there must be a decoupling of heroism and hypermasculinity. The MCU, which has developed complex heroes who are very much human underneath the suits, and has tackled difficult socio-political topics as those presented in Civil War and Black Panther, is more than capable — only unwilling.

As Phase 3 nears its end and Phase 4 begins, with works such as Captain Marvel and Black Widow that promise more female superheroes, I dearly hope that, somewhere in the blueprints, there is room for queer heroic presence.

Andrea Yang is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at ayang@cornellsun.com. Five Minutes Till Places runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

Along with kiLL edward, there is another new voice present throughout KOD. It is a woman’s voice, a calming one, a voice that would seem to appear on a hypnosis relaxation tape. It appears in “Intro”: “A newborn baby has two primary modes of communication.

Laughter, which says, ‘I love this.’

Or crying, which says, ‘This frightens me, I’m in pain.’ Life can bring much pain.

There are many ways to deal with this pain. Choose wisely.” This verse sets the stage for the entirety of the album: J. Cole’s exploration of pain, drugs and how God comes into play with all of this. Later, in “Once an Addict (Interlude),” this hypnotic voice appears again: “Sometimes I think pain is just a lack of understanding.

If we could only understand it all, would we feel no pain? God must feel no pain.”

J. Cole’s decision to use this voice and not one of a different nature is interesting.

He prods his fans to fall into a sort of hypnotic state while listening. He is encouraging his supporters and youth to refrain from drugs or other harmful ways of dealing with the pain that modernity has caused. He is acknowledging the fact that pain in 2018 is different from pain in 2000, while questioning the role of God in all of this pain. He confesses that technology causes pain, and yet it is a drug all on its own.

This brings me to my fascination with “Photograph,” the third song on KOD. In

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this track, J. Cole gives us his fully raw take on the social media selfie. Unlike rappers before him such as Trey Songz or Drake, who have fetishized the Insta model, with lines like, “Gotta hit the club like you hit them angles” in Drake’s “Nice For What,” J. Cole doesn’t sugarcoat it. Let’s face it, in 2018, people post for likes and sex appeal.

People swipe left in hopes of finding the right one. In “Photograph,” J. Cole confirms what romanticism has become.

“Love today’s gone digital and it’s messing with my health.”

In KOD, J. Cole tells us that it is up to us how we cope with the often self-inflicted struggles and addictions of 2018, including loss of romanticism through technology, hyper-glorification of wealth on social media, lack of social change and drug abuse.

It is up to us to “Choose Wisely.”

Juliette Rolnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jr798@cornell.edu

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Freshman Grappler Used Mental Grit to Win Title YIANNI

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details of the injury. He didn’t care how his knee felt, or what was wrong with it. He was going to keep wrestling for the title — no matter what. “[Trainer] Chris [Scarlata] did the ACL check and … he just made this face, and I was like, ‘don’t tell me what’s wrong, I don’t want to know. I am wrestling no matter what, so I rather not know,’” Diakomihalis said.

A year before winning the title, it was unclear whether or not Diakomihalis would have

been able to pull off what he accomplished at the NCAAs. Coming to Cornell, the talent was certainly there.

“Just because he’s 18, 19 years old doesn’t mean he can’t beat a 22 or 23 year old; he will,” Koll said at the beginning of the season. “We know Yianni, although unproven [on the collegiate level], he’s a proven commodity.”

But still, there was something missing.

“A flaw of mine in high school [was] … I never had the full push,” Diakomihalis said.

“And you need the full push.”

On a technical level, Diakomihalis was wrestling at a

very high level upon his arrival to East Hill. But skill alone is not enough to win a national title. He still had plenty of work to do — mentally and physically — in the months leading up to the start of his first season as a collegiate wrestler. “[A lot of my improvement] came from training my mind, because I always had good skills, but I was never really in great shape and I never was super tough, [I never] grinded people,” Diakomihalis said. “I never broke people in high school. I just won matches because I was a better wrestler.”

As good as he was,

Diakomihalis was more than ready to improve as a wrestler, to obtain that ‘full push.’ He didn’t have to go at it alone.

Two-time All-American Mike Grey ’11, now an assistant coach at Cornell, has been an integral part of helping the freshman become a championship-caliber wrestler.

“When I got here, all the intangibles — the ability to win close matches, the ability to score when you need to — all those things I had inside of me that I was not able to pull out, Mike was able to pull out of me,” Diakomihalis said.

“Mike’s the toughest dude I know,” he added. “I knew he could get that out of me. I wasn’t tough, and he made me a lot tougher than I used to be.”

According to Diakomihalis, Grey has gone above and beyond in helping him rise to the top. “[Grey’s] done so much for me this year,” Diakomihalis said.

“He’s put a lot of time and effort into me. Even though it’s his job, he didn’t have to do that; he doesn’t have to work out with me and help me cut weight, help me diet, way more than he needs to, way more than he should, some would say.”

Every day, Grey would give Diakomihalis a mental test to complete. Whether it be getting a certain number of takedowns in a practice, or hanging from a bar for a period of time, the tests involved physical ability and tested Diakomihalis’ mental will.

“When he first got here, he obviously had a lot of accolades to his name,” Grey said. “[But] there was a lot of unknowns.”

He either passed or he failed.

There was no in between, and failure was not an option — at least not for a champion.

“I just try to challenge him mentally every day,” Grey said.

“Every day there is an opportunity to expand his mental capacity and his mental toughness.

And that’s really what I tried to hammer home to him.”

Grey put significant time and effort into ensuring Diakomihalis was where he needed to be by the time the postseason rolled around.

“I wouldn’t have won this year if he didn’t put so much time into me,” Diakomihalis said. “Bottom line, the odds of me winning go way down if I am just going through the regular season without [Mike] focusing on me.”

As a result of all this time spent together, Grey has become much more than just a coach or

trainer to Diakomihalis. “[Mike] is like family to me,” he said. “Mike’s done so much for me … He’s given up a lot for me.”

The unwavering support from Grey helped elevate Diakomihalis, physically and mentally, to a place he wasn’t at when he first walked into the Friedman Wrestling Center. But by the time March rolled around, winning the NCAA Championship didn’t take him by surprise.

“Not that I thought that I was better than everybody, but if you gave me a thousand dollars and said ‘bet’ I would have bet on myself,” Diakomihalis said. “For me, I expect the best possible result for myself whether or not I can do it.”

Now, with a national title already under his belt, Diakomihalis is set to lead the charge over the next three years for the Red. “What I see from him in the future is just continued success,” Grey said. “He knows what his goals are, we know what his goals are … The goal is to just wrestle to the best of your ability … His goal is to win when he steps on the mat.”

‘Demand the best’

After winning a national title in his first year, the expectation for Diakomihalis remains the same — four championships.

“I expect to win four [championships] because I demand the best of myself,” Diakomihalis said. “So the fact I won my freshman year, the most I can get is four, so I am going for four.”

Diakomihalis has shown he can win a national championship, even in the toughest of situations. And by returning the favor to Eierman in the national semifinal, the rising star has shown he can defeat everyone he has faced thus far.

Nonetheless, there isn’t a sliver of complacency surrounding his mindset.

“The goal is to continue to improve,” Diakomihalis. “You set these milestones for yourself, but really, you’re just looking to improve.”

The true goal for Diakomihalis is to become the best wrestler he can be. And the national title is a result of this drive to improve — another stop along the road to greatness.

Dylan McDevitt ’19 contributed reporting to this story.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

MEN’S LACROSSE

Laxers Set for Regular Season Finale at Princeton

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Only one game remains before No. 6 Cornell men’s lacrosse begins its postseason campaign. While little will likely change before then, the Red will look to stay hot as it closes out the regular season against Princeton on the road.

With a dominating 19-5 win over Brown, Cornell (10-3, 4-1 Ivy) locked up the second seed in the Ivy Tournament, which takes place May 4 and 6 in New York. But before then, the Red will travel to take on the Tigers (7-5, 2-3) in the hopes of extending its winning streak to eight.

“No matter what’s going on this year … Princeton’s always that team that Cornell wants to beat,” said junior attack Colton Rupp. “I think we have an added chip on our shoulder to play hard this week just based on that rivalry game. We would love to come out victorious against them and obviously it would be huge for our momentum heading into the postseason.”

The Red’s only Ivy loss was in its first conference game against Yale, when it fell to the Bulldogs by a couple of goals.

Since then, both teams have been impressive. Yale secured the Ivy League regular season title and was crowned the new No. 1 team in the nation this week in the Inside Lacrosse poll.

For Cornell’s part, the Red has been almost perfect in and out of the Ivy League, having piled up a seven-game winning streak.

Over the course of the winning streak, the Red has had a pair of double-digit wins over Ivy opponents as well as victories against nationally ranked opponents, including thenNo. 7 Syracuse.

“It’s a great feeling to go out there and win a couple weeks in a row, but we try to take it game by game,” said junior midfielder Jake McCulloch. “Now we are just focused on Princeton; we aren’t worried about a winning streak at all.”

Last on the docket for the Red is a Princeton team struggling in the Ivy League, but with the chance to come out .500 in the conference. Despite the record, the Tigers are a squad full of talent and grit.

Interim head coach Peter Milliman was not available for comment Wednesday due to a personal conflict. “[Princeton has a] really talented team,” said assistant coach Jordan Stevens ’15. “They’ve got a lot of good weapons, especially on offense. They do a good job of scrap-

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Finishing strong | Cornell men’s lacrosse enters the final contest of its regular season riding a seven-game unbeaten streak — a mark it will look to extend this weekend and into the conference and national playoffs.

ping in the middle of the field. Their defense has come together more as of late.”

While Cornell has the claim to the nation’s best offense, averaging 15.13 goals per game, the Tigers are not far behind, ranking fifth in the country with 13.58. ‘[Princeton’s] got one of the better offenses in the country,” Stevens said. “They’ve got some good shooters on the inside and up top.”

Phillip Robertson and Austin Sims have 2.58 goals per game thus far in 2018, leading the way for the Princeton offense. The hope for Cornell is that sophomore Jeff Teat and junior Clarke Petterson, each averaging 2.69 and 2.54 respectively, can outdo the Tigers’ pair on the opposite side of the field, among other things.

“Being smart with the ball in the middle of the field, making sure we can limit their possessions and just being tough on defense will hopefully get us a win,” Stevens said.

Another strong spot for the Princeton is in the cage with

goaltender Tyler Blaisdell. The senior is currently tied for fourth in the nation with 12.42 saves per contest.

“I think we’ve faced a lot of skilled goalies throughout the year,” Rupp said. “Specifically … this goalie plays a higher arc, which could rely on trying to redirect the ball from one side of the field to the other to open things up.”

The home team will look to return the favor after Cornell defeated Princeton by a goal in the 2017 regular season finale in Ithaca. However, this time around, the roles are reversed. The teams’ conference records are swapped, and the Red is ranked in the national polls.

“We know this is a rivalry game, both for us and them, so we know [Princeton’s] going to be up for this one,” Stevens said.

Cornell will square off against Princeton at 1 p.m.

Saturday in New Jersey.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red Seeks Spot in Ivy Tournament

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Crunch time | Cornell needs a win at Harvard this weekend to qualify for the conference playoffs — a chance to win a ticket to the NCAA tournament.

By SMITA NALLURI and GRACIE TODD Sun Staff Writers

With a coveted spot in the Ivy Tournament on the line, Cornell will head to Cambridge to take on Harvard this Saturday.

Cornell (7-7, 2-4 Ivy) will look to rebound from its most recent losses to keep its postseason dreams alive. A win against Harvard (5-9, 1-5) would secure a berth in the Ivy Tournament and provide it with an opportunity to earn its way to the NCAA tournament.

“The challenge for us in playing [Harvard] in our last game is in the reality of Cornell needing to win this game to advance to the Ivy Tournament — and that’s certainly one of our goals,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86. “Our fate is still in our hands to win this game and get to the tournament in 2018.”

However, despite the Crimson’s losing record, Graap cautions against underestimating the host team. “[Harvard’s] record is not necessarily a reflection of its ability, its talent, and how dangerous it is as a team,” Graap said.

“Harvard’s offense is very impressive.”

Harvard’s offense includes Julia Glynn, who is ranked No. 1 nationally in goals per game (4.57) and No. 2 in points per game (6.43), behind only Stony Brook’s Kylie Ohlmiller (7.48) who recently broke the all-time NCAA records for career points and career assists.

In order to tame the Crimson’s prolific offense, Cornell will rely not only on the strength of the defensive unit, but also on the grit and determination of the team as a whole.

“We have to want it more than they do,” Graap said. “We frankly have to

really earn this in a way that leaves no doubt that we belong in the top four teams in the conference.”

Not one to shy away from tough competition, the Red has been a team that has played some of its best lacrosse in challenging situations.

Cornell has taken on six nationally ranked teams thus far this season — holding one of those powerhouse teams, then-No. 6 Syracuse, to only 14 goals, over three goals less than its average goals per game (17.5) at the time.

The Red has also maintained its composure under pressure — winning both its matches that extended into overtime so far this season.

Especially lethal from the eight meter, Cornell is currently ranked No. 9 in the nation in free position shot percentage (.505) in part because of sophomore attacker Caroline Allen, who is one goal shy of tying the school record in free position shots in one season.

Even with the high stakes of the match, the Red will stick to the fundamentals and stay true to its motto as it “comes to compete.”

“One way to say it is that it’s added pressure; another is that it’s added excitement,” Graap said. “It’s about embracing where we are in the season and definitely our strategy as Cornell Lacrosse is bringing our best and preparing to compete — and that does not change.”

The battle for the opportunity to compete in the postseason begins this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Cambridge.

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com. Gracie Todd can be reached at gtodd@cornellsun.com

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by her favorite memory of her time as head coach. Although she has herself garnered numerous coach of the year awards and has coached All-Americans, won Ivy tournaments, upset countless nationally ranked teams and earned multiple

ple step up in a way that is so magnificent and so inspiring from strong women.

“Leading strong women, being around strong women to have a venue or a lacrosse game where they can demonstrate that core strength — that theme runs throughout all these years. For me it’s about the people and the relationships — those are the memories

“It’s about the people and the relationships.”

Jenny Graap ’86 NCAA Tournament berths, Graap still cites her interactions with athletes as her most important memory.

“Certainly winning Ivy titles and moments like that I’ll always cherish,” Graap said.

“But for me in 21 years in every season whether it’s a winning season or not, every season what I remember is the individual players — those moments where peo-

that mean the most to me.”

200 wins is an impressive feat for any coach, but the milestone is clearly born from a legacy Graap has created that extends far beyond wins and losses.

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WRESTLING

Diakomihalis’ Toughness His Greatest Weapon weight of the latter achievement notwithstanding, the young wrestler was grateful to get a chance at redemption.

“The Eierman match wasn’t about winning nationals or making the finals,” Diakomihalis said. “That one was just for me.”

Not even the toughest of injuries was going to stop Diakomihalis from getting that loss back, illustrating the attitude and determination it takes to be a national champion.

‘Full Push’

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Title tough | Freshman wrestler Yianni Diakomihalis has built up a resume of success in his first year, losing only once in his first season as a Cornell grappler en route to becoming the program’s second true freshman to win an NCAA championship.

Diakomihalis earned the chance to final seconds to stun then-No. 1

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

At the South Beach Duals last December, Cornell wrestling’s Yianni Diakomihalis lost by decision to Jaydin Eierman of Missouri. A video review in the match’s waning moments gave Eierman a chance to come from behind, and the Tiger wrestler executed a six-point cradle in the

Diakomihalis and hand the freshman his first career collegiate loss.

The loss to Eierman turned out to be the only defeat that Diakomihalis suffered en route to a national championship. But it was one loss too many, according to Diakomihalis.

“That cost me a few nights of sleep,” he said. “I [wanted] that back.”

redeem himself against Eierman on the national stage at the NCAA Championships in Cleveland. Except this time around, he was operating with a torn right ACL. But against all odds, the fearless grappler rose to the challenge. Diakomihalis avenged his single loss and won in the national semifinal to advance to the title bout. The

In the national quarterfinals against twotime national champion Dean Heil of Oklahoma State, Diakomihalis unknowingly tore his ACL. The rookie would go on to win the match — and then two more — anyway to win the title at 141 pounds, joining Cornell wrestling legend Kyle Dake ’13 as the second true freshman in program history to win an NCAA Championship.

Dake went on to win four national titles in his collegiate career.

“If we expect anything like we did with Kyle, the next three years are going to be a heck of a lot of fun,” said head coach Rob Koll.

To wrestle not one, not two, but three matches with a busted knee undoubtedly takes physical toughness to endure the pain.

But it also takes a mental grit that separates wrestlers from champions like Diakomihalis.

After that quarterfinal match, the trainers examined his right knee. But Diakomihalis insisted that he not know the See YIANNI page 14

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Graap ’86 Building Legacy as Coach

By GRACIE TODD and SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writers

Last week, Cornell women’s lacrosse beat out Binghamton to maintain its perfect record against the Bearcats. While remaining undefeated against a single opponent is a noteworthy achievement of its own, the win also marked an important milestone in head coach Jenny Graap’s 21-year tenure — her 200th win at the helm of the Cornell program.

Graap, who graduated from Cornell with a degree from the College of Human Ecology in 1986, returned to her alma mater in 1997 to lead the team she once played for.

In her undergraduate time at Cornell, Graap was the captain of both the field hockey and lacrosse teams during her junior and senior years. She excelled in both sports — earning varsity letters in all eight seasons she played.

Upon graduation, Graap accepted a job at Bloomingdale’s and while taking classes in sports administration at NYU, realized the void that the absence of athletics created in her life.

So she decided to obtain her master’s degree in exercise and sports science from Penn State, while simultaneously assistant coaching for Nittany Lions

women’s lacrosse.

She then continued to coach at George Mason, where she was hired as the school’s first ever varsity women’s lacrosse coach.

“I was building [George Mason] up from scratch,” Graap said. “I had a lot of pride in that.”

However, when an open position for head coach of the Cornell women’s program popped up in 1997, Graap made the tough decision to relocate back to Ithaca to succeed Cheryl Wolf, who was

“The idea of coming back to my alma mater played a big part in my decision to apply for the job.”

Jenny Graap ’86 her coach in both field hockey and lacrosse while she played for the Red. “It was a very emotional decision for me,” Graap said. “The idea of coming back to my alma mater played a big part in my decision to apply for the job.”

Building the ‘Bricks’ of Cornell Women’s Lacrosse

In the 21 years since she began coaching the Red, Graap has led the team with a unique, yet sim-

ple, coaching style.

“Graap’s coaching style is steady and consistent,” said assistant coach Bill Olin, a member of the Cornell program since 2016.

Her consistency in coaching style has translated to consistency on the field, as well. Since Graap has been head coach, Cornell has been mostly a winning team, with an overall record of 200-133.

“The program has gone through growth stages,” Graap said. “Certainly the program itself now is much more stable from a standpoint of development.

We’ve put in a lot of ground work to establish tradition and precedent for the program.”

One of the reasons that the program has been successful is the foundation that Graap has laid — both literally and metaphorically — by conceptualizing the concepts of “hard work,” “positive attitude” and “team first” as the “bricks” for the team.

“Her decisions are rooted in these three ‘bricks’ of Cornell women’s lacrosse,” Olin said.

“She uses these core values to lay the foundation to guide and educate the young women in our program.”

There is even an award in the form of a brick, aptly named the BRICK Award, which is given

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Intangible impact | Jenny Graap ’86 won her 200th game as Cornell head coach last week, a manifestation of the immeasurable contributions that she has made to the program in her 21 years at the helm.

each season to the player who best embodies the character traits of each of the three bricks.

“For women’s lacrosse, we’ve used the red brick as our symbol of hard work,” Graap said, “And every year we talk about it and renew our investment in what we want to be and who we are as a team.”

Building a Legacy Beyond the Field

Graap’s impact on the team, though very evident in the competitive sphere, extends far past the lacrosse field, as she strives to help each individual on her team find their strengths in other areas of their lives.

“There are two things that dis-

tinguish Coach Graap from her peers,” Olin said. “Her ability to stay composed and in the moment during the heat of the game is something that is truly unique.

“Secondly, and more importantly, she is committed to helping our student-athletes reach their potential as both lacrosse players and young women. She is steadfast in her goals to help them find their strengths as individuals and provide them with the tools they need to be successful after their time at Cornell.”

Her commitment to fostering the growth of strong, independent young women is evidenced See GRAAP page 15