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Students Criticize New Economics Department Policy Say loss of CPT authorization harms international students’ job prospects

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

In the first policy change of its kind, Cornell’s economics department has decided to discontinue access to Curricular Practical Training work authorization for international students in the major, prompting confusion and backlash.

CPT visas are issued for planned independent studies and internships that many students participate in over summer break, according to the department’s website.

Last Thursday, the Student Assembly tabled a resolution submitted by Akhilesh Issur ’17, international student liaison at large — which asked the S.A. to request that the economics department restore its CPT autho-

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Prof. Chris Schaffer, biomedical engineering and rization. Issur said he believes the department’s current policy marginalizes international students by restricting associate dean of faculty, noted that the faculty in the their opportunity to study or work at an internship in economics department had “concerns with the way they were doing things at the time and wanted to make a the United States.

“We international students rely a lot on the CPT to change.”

“Decisions about curricuget work experience often lum are very much in the essential to find a job after “We international students rely a lot on hands of the faculty and this we graduate,” he said. decision is one that affects The decision to terminate the CPT to get work experience [and] majors in economics, so it is the independent study coursa decision made by the facules was made by the economfind a job after we graduate.” ty of the department of ecoics faculty, according to Prof.

Akhilesh Issur ’17 nomics,” Schaffer said.

Larry Blume, economics and Without the CPT, stuinformation science. dents will be forced to request “The decision to discontinue independent study courses for CPT’s was made Optional Practical Training visas, which impose signifiby the economics department faculty last spring,” cant financial and time constraints upon students, Blume said. “All significant decisions concerning our according to Issur. In many cases, visas do not arrive by undergraduate curriculum are made by a vote of the See CPT page 4 faculty.”

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Sun Survey of Cornell Students Shows Clinton Crushing Trump

Polling plans | More than half of the students who plan to vote in the general election intend to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton.

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

While less than a third of Cornellians surveyed in a poll conducted by The Sun last week said that they voted in the Democratic and Republican pri-

maries, approximately three quarters of those students say they plan to vote in the general election.

Fifty-four women, 44 men and one gender-nonconforming respondent — including approximately 20 students from each

class year, 11 graduate students and a several staff members — participated in the survey.

Subjects were asked to complete an anonymous form presented to them at different locations around campus, including Statler Hall, Goldwin Smith Hall, Goldie’s Cafe and Mann Library.

Among the 99 students surveyed, 49 said identified as Democrats, eight as Republicans, 11 as Independents, seven as third-party members and 22 said they are unaffiliated with any party.

The Cornell Concert Commission has announced that it plans to bring rock group Portugal. The Man to Bailey Hall on Nov. 6.

The band was formed in Alaska in 2001 and has released seven studio albums on its way to becoming an “essential part of the indie rock genre,” according to a CCC press release.

The group released Evil

“This is my favorite band that Cornell Concert Commission has brought in during my three years here,” Dellett said. “We love to bring all different genres to campus, and I’m happy to be bringing indie rock after the more upbeat Louis the Child, Young Thug and Wavves shows.”

Andrei Talaba ’18 said he shared Dellett’s excitement

General Election Results

Of the students who plan to vote in the general election, more See ELECTIONS page 5

GRAPHS BY MADELINE COHEN / SUN ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Primary problems | Fewer than a third of students surveyed said they voted in the primary election, some citing the difficulties involved with registering for an absentee ballot.

Indie Rock Band Portugal.The Man To Perform in Bailey

PORTUGAL.THE MAN

Friends, its most recent album, in 2013, and is currently working on new record Gloomin + Doomin, according to Rolling Stone. The magazine praised the band’s “hazy swagger,” comparing its sound to artists like David Bowie and the Beatles.

CCC President Sarah Dellett ’18 said the organization believes Portugal.The Man’s different musical style will “attract both Cornell students and the Ithaca community.”

about CCC’s change in genre.

“I really like that band and I want to hear them live,” Talaba said. “There hasn’t been a band of this kind — this alt rock genre — at Cornell in a while, and I’m excited to see a new kind of music here.”

Tickets will go on sale for students on Sep. 28 and to the general public on Sep. 29, and will be available on the CCC website.

— Compiled by Josh Girsky

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Willard Straight Hall Directors Express Concerns About Leadership Changes that choose their own volunteer advisors, the SUB is a University organization that works through the office of campus and community The Willard Straight Hall Student Union engagement,” he said. “As part of that relationBoard of Directors released a letter on Sept. 9 ship, advisors of the SUB are staff in campus and voicing grievances about recent abrupt changes community engagement and are appointed by in administrative leadership. Subsequent meet- the administration.”

In the letter, the SUB asserted that the deciings between the WSH Student Union Board of Directors and members of the administration sion had been made without their notification or have raised questions about the necessity for consultation, and said they were only informed of the changes the day before transparency between student classes started. leaders and administrators.

Students secured a meeting Specifically, the letter raised “Unlike independent stuconcerns about changes imple- dent organizations, [WSH with Burke to discuss these mented by Joseph Burke, who advisors] are appointed changes on Aug. 31 after “great difficulty and several emails,” was appointed this summer to by the administration.” they said. The SUB also disthe newly created position of cussed the abrupt replacements executive director of campus Joseph Burke with Vice President Ryan and community engagement.

Lombardi on Sept. 13.

In the letter, the Student Both Burke and the SUB said they felt the Union Board Executive Board criticized the lack of communication and transparency in recent meetings were “productive.”

“The outcome of those two meetings was a administrative decisions, including the replacement of WSH advisors David Bell and Denice very positive feeling of shared commitment to Cassaro with Brandi Smith, assistant director of the partnership between the SUB and CCE in community center operations, and Joe Scaffido, the current campus shared governance model,” assistant dean of students for student activities. Burke said.

Shikha Patel ’17, executive director of board Burke defended the administration’s decisions, saying the board’s leadership lies under the of directors, agreed with Burke’s assessment, sayUniversity’s jurisdiction.

“Unlike independent student organizations See WILLARD STRAIGHT page 5

By JUSTIN PARK

Sun Staff Writer

Get the facts straight | Willard Straight’s Student Union Board said recent administrative changes were made without warning.

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Cornellians Run to Support Children’s Hospital First Big Red Thon 5K fundraises, spreads awareness for dance marathon

By WILLIAM BAI Sun Contributor

Twenty-five students ran five kilometers in the Cornell Plantations on Sunday to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and promote Cornell’s annual Big Red Thon.

The Big Red Thon is a dance marathon that occurs every November at colleges across the country, according to Terry Li ’17, Big Red Thon fundraising chair and an organizer of the 5K. Working in partnership with the Children’s Miracle Network — which helps fund children’s hospitals and medical research — Cornellians hope to raise $60,000 for the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital in Syracuse, according to Li. Li said she planned the 5K

“I had never run a 5K that I know will make good use — the first one ever associated with the Big Red Thon — rely- before, and I wanted to chal- of it.”

All runners finished the race ing on the assumption that lenge myself,” Byman said.

Alex Ciampaglia ’20, who in less than 30 minutes and Cornell students are “very health conscious” and “enjoy also participated in the run, were rewarded with an assortof bagels from agreed, adding that the event ment being outdoors.”

Collegetown Bagels “The weather in Ithaca during this “It wasn’t anything huge ... but you can and a laptop sticker as a prize, according to time of year is beaucome back for lunch feeling like you Li. tiful, and I thought Because this was the it would be nice to made a little bit of a difference.” event’s kick-off year, Li hold an event outAlex Ciampaglia ’20 said only 40 people doors where students registered and approxicould enjoy our mately 25 attended. campus, fresh air “I hope word will spread and and sunlight,” she said. “I was a “lovely chance to get out chose the Plantations because on a Sunday morning and do more people will want to take part next year in support of our many 5K’s have been held there something nice.”

“It wasn’t anything huge, cause,” she said. “I am hoping in the past, and it is just the most beautiful location for a just a little bit of exercise and the 5K will become an annual helping out a charity, but you event, so it can grow in popu5K race to be held.”

Participant Jake Byman ’17 can come back for lunch feeling larity.” said it was “really nice” to that you made a little bit of a explore the Cornell Plantations difference,” Ciampaglia said. William Bai can be reached at “The money is going to a cause hb388@cornell.edu. during the run.

Local Cornell Receives Grant For Research on Tomato Bacterium

The National Science Foundation has granted Cornell scientists $4.2 million to improve the marketability of tomatoes that have been plagued with a bacterium called Pseudomonas syingae pv. tomato, according to the University. This bacterium has been studied at Cornell for more than 20 years.

The award money will go toward research on the genes involved in plant immunity, which could impact farming subsidies and more sustainable farming practices, according to University.

National Officials Identify Suspect In New York City Chelsea Bombings

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Competing for a cause | Attendees line up in the Plantations on Sunday at the first annual Big Red Thon 5K.

Ahman Khan Rahami was identified by law officials on Monday as the prime suspect in the Chelsea bombings, The New York Times reported.

Rahimi was taken into custody after a shootout, during which two police officers were injured, although there were no fatalities.

The search for Rahimi was in response to a detonated bomb on 23rd Street and an undetonated bomb a few streets away, according to The Times. The explosion occurred around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night, injuring 28 people.

— Compiled by Rachel Whalen

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Economics Profs ‘Highly Uncomfortable’ With Current CPT CPT

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the start of students’ internships.

The renewal process can also be complicated and narrow the win-

dow when international students can search for jobs in the United States after graduation.

“It would reduce [international students’] chances of getting a job after graduation and make it

impossible in several cases, because most jobs require a one year contract before taking on the lead of sponsoring international students,” Issur said in an email to the economics director of under-

graduate studies.

Economics major Imtisal Qadir ’18 agreed, stressing that discontinuing CPT would have severe consequences for international students striving to find employment in the United States after they graduate Cornell, jeapordizing their ability to secure work.

“The economics department is very knowingly disregarding the career aspirations and prospects of its international students and making them practically unemployable within the United States after they graduate,” he said.

Issur added that several international students are currently considering switching majors or declaring a second major that still provides CPT. In an email to Issur from Prof.

Stephen Coate, the director of undergraduate studies for economics, the professor cited multiple reasons for discontinuing CPT, saying the department’s faculty were “highly uncomfortable” with the fact that students were using the program to complete internships unrelated to their studies at Cornell.

“The fact of the matter is that these summer internships are not integral to our major or part of our program,” Coate said in the email. “We are simply inventing a course and claiming that the internship is required for it. We feel that this is abusing the system and we are highly uncomfortable facilitating this abuse.”

Addressing concerns that CPT

provides international students with an unfair advantage over domestic students, Schaffer proposed that the department create a full course, “rather than an ad hoc independent study,” to compensate for the fact that the program is not available to U.S. citizens.

“A real course ... might better handle awarding academic credit for a kind of reflection on the concepts of your field as they were applied in the internship," he said, referring to a proposal mentioned in the S.A. resolution.

“[Discontinuing CPT] would reduce [international students’] cances of geting a job.”

Akhilesh Issur ’17 This solution could be “a nice, one-credit, pass or fail class that can be available to domestic or international students,” he added.

“International students would have to do it in order to be eligible for CPT, and other students could do it if they would like.”

The S.A. is expected to address the tabled resolution again at its meeting this Thursday, inviting economics faculty members to attend.

Shaikh Talha Khurram ’19 contributed reporting to this story.

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

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Absentee Process ‘Too Complicated’ ELECTION

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than half say they plan to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Only two students surveyed plan to vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump, five plan to vote for third-party candidates and 13 are still undecided.

The two Trump supporters are students in the School of Ecology and Human

Ancient ruins MICHAELA BREW / SUN SENIOR EDITOR

Fourteen of those primary voters identified as Democrats and had voted for Sanders; two Sanders supporters are voting third party and the remaining 12 reported that they plan to vote for Clinton.

The three remaining primary voters whose candidate did not win a party nomination were Republican voters who voted for candidates besides Trump. Of these three voters, one chose to vote for Gary Johnson and the

Prof. Anand Vivek Taneja speaks about Islamic architecture at a lecture Monday in Uris Hall.

New WSH Director Promises SUB Smooth Transition MADELINE COHEN / SUN ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Polling politics | The Sun surveyed just under 100 students to understand the campus’ current political leanings.

Architecture, Art and Planning; both said they supported the candidate in the primary and identify as Republicans.

Three of the prospective third-party voters said they plan to vote for Gary Johnson, while two plan to vote for Jill Stein. These two Stein supporters identified as Democrats and voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the primaries, whereas the three Johnson supporters said they did not vote in the Republican primary.

The vast majority of the 17 students who do not plan to vote in the general election said they have decided not to participate because they are not politically involved.

However, not all of the students surveyed have decided whether or not they will vote, and some are still deciding which candidate to vote for. Of the 74 students who said they plan to vote, 13 specified that they are not sure which candidate to vote for and eight said they have not decided whether to vote or stay home on election day.

The Primary Less than a third of students surveyed voted in the primary election; 26 students said they did not vote in the primary due to difficulties submitting an absentee ballot.

Sixteen of these students said they did not vote in the primary because the absentee process seemed “too complicated,” while 10 said they “tried but were ultimately unable to submit their absentee ballots.”

Of the students who voted in the primary, nine did so via absentee ballot, nine voted at polling places in their hometowns and eight voted in Ithaca.

The majority of student primary voters — 17 of the 26 — cast their bids for candidates who did not win the primary.

others remain unsure who they plan to vote for.

With many speculating that undecided voters may decide this election, The Sun plans to conduct several follow-up surveys in the next six weeks to see if and how the percentage of undecided votes changes.

Rebecca Even ’18 and Henry Kanengiser ’18 contributed reporting to this story.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

Says union will remain ‘by students, for students’ WILLARD STRAIGHT Continued from page 3

ing the meetings between administrators and students were productive and augmented understanding between the two groups.

“We had a positive reaction to the statement and a very productive meeting with Vice President Lombardi,” Patel said.

“We will be happy to share more information as we have it, but this is an ongoing process.”

Speaking of the change in advisors, Burke said the straight’s former advisors will still work closely with the SUB

to ease the transition to new leadership.

“The SUB has had a strong relationship with their former

“The transition should have no direct impact on the SUB’s ability to operate.”

Joseph Burke advisors, and in the meeting with VP Lombardi it was noted that such a transition can be difficult,” he said. “The transition

[should] have no direct impact on the SUB's ability to operate as a successful student organization and perform their daily functions and services to the student body.”

Burke maintained that his goal was to continue supporting the SUB and their efforts in upholding the values of Willard Straight Hall. “[Lombardi and the CCE] share mutual goals of helping the student union remain a vibrant and exciting place ‘by students, for students,’” he said.

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

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Letter to the Editor

Statement in support of fellow grad worker To the Editor: As members of Cornell Graduate Students United, we stand in solidarity with fellow student and colleague Marsha Jean-Charles grad as she navigates the graduate school grievance process in an effort to reverse the unfair revocation of her funding and “good standing” in her program.

Marsha’s funding and good academic standing have been jeopardized by the poor review of a single faculty member within her department. Marsha’s funding and good academic standing were revoked due to a single bad review without the input of her special committee. Marsha’s funding and good academic standing were revoked despite a detailed letter from her dissertation chair indicating that the behavior catalogued in the review was anomalous and the processes that led to the funding revocation were problematic.

It is illogical and unfair that Marsha’s good academic standing was judged based on a poor review from a single faculty member, who is not part of Marsha’s special committee and therefore has no direct connection to Marsha’s academic progress.

These inconsistencies highlight the unjust nature of the decision, as well as a lack of respect for Marsha’s labor and scholarship.

Marsha filed a grievance against this decision, which has escalated up to the Graduate Grievance Review Board. No other case has made it to Graduate Grievance Review Board (GGRB) in nearly twenty years at Cornell. This is not because Marsha’s case is an exception. It is because Cornell’s grievance process is long, arduous, and ineffective; it lacks transparency and tends to favor faculty and administrators over students. Graduate students are actively discouraged from escalating grievances by administrators who assure the students who come to them for help that little can be gained from the process. This process is particularly daunting to those marginalized by oppressive cultural and institutional biases, especially when experienced at the intersection of multiple identities. Instead of giving graduate students an avenue for action, it merely supplies language for the administration in their advertising of Cornell as a “Caring Community.”

Facing this grievance process alone, Marsha could be powerless as her future is decided by biased authorities who care more about preserving Cornell’s image and pacifying faculty than they do about their students’ fates. She is expected to silently accept whatever judgment is handed to her.

But Marsha is not silent. She is not powerless. She is not alone. Her voice and struggle are our collective voice and struggle as graduate students. We, her fellow workers and scholars, stand with her.

Marsha should not pay the price of others’ lack of responsibility and abuse of power. She deserves respect as a worker and as a scholar.

We have the right to fair, just and functioning channels for grievance resolution that are not single-handedly created and decided by the administration. There is no real “Caring Community” unless the voices of graduate students are included, listened to, and impact how we shape our learning environment.

Each of us know that Marsha could have been me, could have been my best friend, my office mate or my fellow grad colleague in a seminar room. I stand in alliance and solidarity with her in her fight for her rights at her hearing before the GGRB. We, together, demand the reinstatement of her funding and her good academic standing.

This Wednesday (Sept. 21) we will be gathering on the 3rd floor of Caldwell Hall at noon to show support for our fellow colleague and worker, and we sincerely hope you stand with us, as we stand with Marsha.

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God Bless Football F

ull disclosure: I was going to use my column this week to announce my forthcoming presidential candidacy, but then I remembered that I once had pneumonia in second grade, so I guess I’m disqualified from ever doing that. All jokes aside, is America really going to hand over the nuclear codes to an unstable, self-serving sentient Cheeto because Hillary Clinton was dehydrated? Come on, people, a little perspective never hurt anybody.

In other news, my beloved Giants took on and defeated Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints in New York’s home opener. The Big Blue Wrecking Crew is 2-0 for the first time since 2009, Victor Cruz is catching gamewinning touchdowns, Eli Manning is having his best statistical season ever and Odell Beckham Jr. is being Odell Beckham Jr. — life is pretty good for this perpetually disappointed fan. Yes, football is back, and thank God for that.

It is a gross understatement to say that America needs football right now. To paraphrase noted contemporary scholar K. Omari West, America needs football like school needs teachers and Kathie Lee needed Regis.

In the midst of such turbulent times, football offers America another channel into which they can direct their emotional energy. And unlike the upcoming election, football is virtually consequence-free regardless of outcome.

I say virtually, because there are of course consequences to the outcome of the NFL season. I estimate that the weekly collapse of the Giants last season had a demoralizing effect on me worth at least a tenth of a point off my GPA, and my rapport with my roommate took a decided turn for the worse after a particularly bad outburst following a (totally avoidable) loss to the New England Patriots.

But nobody died. Nobody launched a nuclear strike after being offended by a tweet. The dollar didn’t collapse and cause a global economic meltdown. Nobody (except Tom Coughlin, bless his angry, angry heart) lost his or her job. The season came and went, and America emerged relatively unscathed, even moderately entertained.

Why do fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars put on their jerseys and watch Blake Bortles fail to live up to his potential every weekend? Why do Cowboys fans crowd by the hundreds of thousands into that glittering monstrosity in Arlington, Texas every season when they know that Tony Romo will just get injured and the team will limp to an 8-8 finish? Why do Browns fans even bother anymore?

They do it because even though their teams lose just as often as they win, there is a magical feeling that comes with being surrounded by your friends and fellow fans and watching your team take the field and perform feats of superhuman athleticism. They do it because even when their team goes 6-10 or 3-13 or 0-16, there is

always the hope of “Next Year,” the promise of better things to come in the future, the assurance that, despite how bad things get this year, next season is ripe with potential.

There is no such assurance in politics. The decisions we make at the ballot box have world-altering implications. People will live or die depending on whom we select in November. The economy will go down one of two very different paths depending on America’s choices.

There is no promise of “Next Year” when it comes to politics, and that alone is cause for alarm.

But all that alarm is taxing on body and soul. Many of my peers have taken to avoiding the news entirely because each latest story only creates more stress for the future of our nation. When I began to tell one friend last weekend about Hillary’s illness, she cut me off and told me she had enough to worry about already. Acquaintances with dual citizenship are seriously considering leaving this country depending on the outcome of the election. I’ve also seen friendships tested and sometimes lost over political differences this cycle. I am, more than ever, conscious of avoiding the discussion of politics with certain friends because I worry about the lasting implications of our differences.

This election cycle has also brought out the worst in otherwise decent people. Certain candidates have normalized a level of violence and racially tinged vitriol throughout the course of their campaigns that is frightening. Some people may truly hold such deplorable beliefs, but many more are swept up by the herd and are drawn to behaviors that, alone, they would never indulge in.

There is good news, though. With the arrival of football, America will be forced to divide their attention and energy. Instead of suffering minor heart attacks with the arrival of each successive twist and turn in the presidential race, I can enjoy the innocent journey of the NFL season. Instead of punching and harassing protesters at rallies, Cheeto-lovers can go back to harmlessly cussing out their TV screens and hurling insults at millionaire athletes who couldn’t care less about the haters.

Humans are simple creatures. We only have so much capacity for intense emotion. Right now, that emotion is almost 100 percent political in nature — that’s unsustainable and often incredibly harmful. But fear not, because the good folks at the National Football League are here to offer us sweet relief. So long, CNN. Farewell, Fox News. Aloha Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth.

We’ve missed you more than you know.

Go Giants.

Jacob Rubashkin is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun.com. The Jacobin appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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here’s a quip that goes, “If you want something done, ask a busy person.” It took me a while to sort through the implications of that statement when I first heard it. “Why would I ask someone that already has too much on their plate to get something done for me,” I scoffed. And then I got to college.

My freshman year I struck up conversation with some kid in some introductory 500 person class Cornell conveniently forgets to mention they have in their pre-frosh handbooks. He was a sophomore chemical engineering major taking 23 credits and not regretting every decision he’s ever made. I was dumbfounded. Every person I’d spoke with up until that point had insisted the best way to tackle your time at Cornell was to take a 15 credit course load

Coming straight out of high school, most of us were the kind of people that did everything all the time. It’s a strange feeling to come to college and not have what you’re supposed to do to succeed laid out for you in a neat schedule. every semester, leave time for extracurriculars, and a life outside of school (and sleep, but honestly that one’s more debatable).

He seemed entirely comfortable with his decision. I believe the way he phrased it was something along the lines of “I do better when I’ve got things to do. Keeps me on my toes.” I may or may not have rolled my eyes at the time, but now as I’m entering my junior year of college, I can see why having things to do isn’t the worst idea in the world.

Don’t get me wrong — this isn’t to say those people taking 15 credits and killing it (in a good way) don’t have things to do.

People thrive under different environments, and finding what works for you is a large part of college many people tend to forget when recounting what their college experience did for them. Coming straight out of high school, most of us were the kind of people that did everything all the time. It’s a strange feeling to come to college and not have what you’re supposed to do to succeed laid out for you in a neat schedule.

Some people are a lot better at figuring out what works for them than others. The ChemE I spoke to my freshman year? The kid has his life together in a way that I wouldn’t be able to accomplish at the age of 45 with an career and two kids behind me (presence of a husband yet to be decided).

I’d say there’s a small subset of people that don’t have their life together enough to actually have their life together. It’s the people that are probably two hours late to things, switch up plans on you, don’t actually know what’s going on in the next month — but they’ll get the work done regardless. They’ll be there when it counts, and it’s those people I hope you take inspiration from most in college.

Hebani Duggal is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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“Sanders was an immensely strong, organized, and thoughtful candidate by comparison: he’s out there saying that a third-party vote for president is a mistake.

He didn’t get bought off by ‘the system.’ He’s a leader, and this is where he’s leading. I accept and respect your feelings of resentment towards those who are talking down to you, that sucks; those feelings are less important than what happens to the country six months from now.”

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he technical possibilities of they use or explain all phenomena knowledge of the individual’s tomorrow are just as they witness, though the knowl- ends provides a justification for incredible as those of the edge of most of them exists with- the compulsion of action contrary 1950s because they are real. in some human mind. If artificial to the individual’s own desires.

Artificial intelligence will Simultaneously everything is with- intelligence continues to develop, in reach and nothing. We use new in the future we will create sys- usher technology through even technologies but few people tems that generate knowledge of greater leaps but its power over understand their function. their operation, independent of our decisions must be tightly cirMachines, programs and devices us. An artificial intelligence could cumscribed. If A.I. is deployed as on the horizon, rushing towards focus its computing power on some central planner, akin to the us, will be far less widely under- understanding the operations of economic planning that the comstood than would those of the the complex, mutating interlink- munist experiments of the last 20th century, had they come to ages of which it is composed. century engaged in, with power pass.

Such technologies would under- over the distribution of resources It is conceivable that most people, with a modicum of An artificial intelligence could focus its computing study, could understand the power on understanding the operations of the functioning of a complex, mutating interlinkages of which color TV or a flying car it is composed. Such technologies would depicted in a understand themselves better pulp science fiction book. In than we do. contrast, now, and into the future, many of the technologies stand themselves better than we within society, we are likely to permit it to define its own goals we create will be beyond the do. understanding of the average perThey will also likely develop in achieving our public distribuson. With the advent of machine knowledge of human interactions tional ends. In so doing, we learning and artificial intelligence and societies that is separate from threaten to subjugate the individwe may only be able to understand human understanding. Depend - ual’s understanding of their own how we built something, not how ing on the A.I.’s task, such infor- ends to the inhuman planner’s it functions. mation could be beneficial to its understanding of the correct In the past human understand- goal — a new financial market means to achieve its goals.

For society to heed the deciing was shared across the group — model for an A.I. directed to foreeveryone within the tribe under- cast stock prices for instance. sions of such an A.I. rather than stood pretty much everything the Because of its source within an AI deferring to individuals’ choices others did. After the spread of such knowledge may be beyond would deal a great blow to human metal tools, most members of a the capability of the human brain freedom. An artificial intelligence possessed of both greater knowlvillage could likely tell you how to to fully comprehend. go about fashioning an axe, even if Thoroughly and forcefully edge and power, direct or indinone of them understood the sci- centralized understanding has rect, that would likely result in ence explaining quite how the always presented a threat to the enforcement of its own logical process proceeds. The total sum of human freedom. An entity, be conclusions should be resisted by human knowledge was a fraction they man, party or machine, pro- all. of what it is now but any individ- fessing to be better placed to ual could easily understand a select the ends which an individ- Alex Davies is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at greater proportion of it. ual should pursue results in ajd253@cornell.edu.

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A SHIPWRECK OF A FILM

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

The Wild Life, alternately titled Robinson Crusoe, is an animated film coming from Belgium. Illuminata and nWave Pictures produced it, while Studiocanal and Summit Entertainment distributed. As its Belgian title suggests, it’s loosely based off of the classic book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. I emphasize “loosely.” I must make clear that I’m not opposed to adaptations in principle if they’re done well. Heck, even the old Disney movies, which are infamous for botching up their source material, were at least good films in themselves that also acted as segues for people to experience the real stories later on. Unfortunately, The Wild Life failed at even being a good movie on its own. The film suffers from a dull plot with terrible characters, and demonstrates an utter contempt for the basics of visual storytelling.

Now to begin, I will give credit where it’s due: The animation in the film looks good. It’s not Disney or Pixar quality, but certainly nothing to be ashamed of. I was particularly struck by the way the animators handled the water.

Unfortunately, the visuals cheapen when obvious gimmicks are thrown in to justify a 3D ticket price. Three-dimensional visuals can carve out worlds and give their stories a little more depth (pardon the pun). Meanwhile, the 3D tricks used in The Wild Life are just that: Empty tricks meant to make the kids “ooh” and “ahh.” Again though, on the whole the animation was solid, and I tip my cap to the animators for a job well done.

After I do that though, I’m gonna take off my cap and smack the writers with it. I could have written a better composed story when I was in high school. The plot begins with a group of pirates finding the island on which Crusoe is marooned. They pick him up and demand an explanation. As Crusoe begins, his pet parrot outside proceeds to tell a pair of ship mice “the true story of Robinson Crusoe,” which is code for, “We’re about to butcher Robinson Crusoe.” We get the story narrated to us by this scarlet macaw named Mac, because get it? Scarlet Mac-aw? Alright, bad puns aside, Mac lives on an island with a small group of five or six creatures. All these creatures have names, but we are never invested enough in any of them to care about what those names actually are.

I’d like to focus on these other creatures and point out that they are all useless characters, one of the major issues in

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Unfortunately, he’s still not well-built.

To begin with, he believes that there is another world beyond the island, while the other creatures do not. Now obviously Mac is correct, but… why does he think this? Why has he departed so radically from his fellows? This is never explained to us. When Crusoe and his dog arrive, he has his proof that the outside world exists, while the others are paranoid that the human is dangerous. Given the track record of history, I can’t say I blame them for this mindset.

But Mac insists that they take no action, literally saying, “That was my genius plan: to do absolutely nothing.” Even when Crusoe begins to practice shooting with his musket, Mac insists they not scare him off. The fact that he’s willing to put his friends’ lives in danger makes him selfish, and he even acknowledges that. But he faces no consequences for his actions, a problem for a supposedly positive role model. He ultimately doesn’t PHOTOS COURTESY OF NWAVE PICTURES follow any kind of real develstuck themselves. Finally they all plum- opment, making him also narratively met to their doom, only to land on a useless.

My next complaint comes from a pair twisty slide made out of caves that guides them to safety. They have no defined of cats who are the film’s main antagopersonalities and ultimately only slow nists; the man vs. nature conflict is down the plotline. Crusoe early on tries apparently too much for children to to hunt them for food, but ends up not understand. The two shipcats wish to shooting out of pity. I honestly think the kill Crusoe and his dog. I have to say, I movie would have gotten along a lot bet- was actually surprised when halfway ter if he had pulled the trigger. Now, I through the movie, the cats succeed in want to digress a moment to say that killing the dog, burning the shipwreck Crusoe is perhaps the only character in with him aboard. Normally I commend this movie that I actually liked, because a children’s movie for trying to approach he used reason and had a strong sense of death, but since we hardly know anydetermination. I mention this here thing about the dog it has little dramatic because the animals try to label him as a impact. The cats end up marooned on a dummy, which is hilarious coming from nearby island (because plot convenience) a group of some of the most insufferably and… the male impregnates the female…so that she can have a kitten idiotic side characters I’ve ever seen.

Mac himself I find a little more toler- army. Yes, it is presented as uncomfortable, if only for the fact that he at least ably in the movie as I just made it sound. has some kind of personality. The cat army is defeated through slapthe movie. They cause nothing but problems, even when they’re trying to help — and they are often not trying to help at all. Even after befriending Crusoe, they just casually watch as his shelter falls apart despite him calling for help. I feel like it all gets summed up well in an early scene, when the goat falls off a cliff and calls for help. One by one they all try to help him… and end up getting

stick antics, making them woefully incompetent and (once again) unnecessary in what should have been a survival story pitting Crusoe against the elements and his own human weaknesses.

Now, the other half of this movie’s downfall: The atrocious dialogue. It fails on every level. First of all, it’s made of nothing but cliches and nonsense.

Characters say, “It’s all my fault!” when they have had no role in whatever bad thing has happened. Jokes are nonsensical, like a dumb character being described as being “one kidney short of a meatball.” What does that even mean?!

Second, the voice actors are all bland and uninspired. The only performance that I liked was Yuri Lowenthal’s; he provides a humble and charming voice for Robinson Crusoe. Third, the screenplay violates the most important rule of visual storytelling: show, don’t tell. For example, we’re told that Mac once tried to fly over the ocean to find the other world, almost to exhaustion. We want to SEE that! Don’t have the parrot narrate things to us, SHOW us! Perhaps the biggest slap in the face comes when the credits begin rolling. As the words appear, Mac decides to conclude his story with a series of stills, saying that he learned to appreciate his home and that both he and Crusoe found love when a pair of females arrive on their island.

That could have made for an interesting arc (romantic cliches ignored). Instead, the movie rushes it out in less time than I took to explain it here in print.

On the whole, The Wild Life is not a broken movie. It’s just a lazy one. The animators did a fine job with their craft, but the writing offers nothing of substance to anyone. It’s too mindless for adults, and honestly I wouldn’t feel comfortable letting a young child watch it.

It’s not worth your money and it’s not worth your time. Go see Kubo and the Two Strings instead.

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

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Don’t Breathe and Buy a Rottweiler

BY TRIP HASTINGS Sun Contributor

Just an hour and a half long, Don’t Breathe, directed by Fede Alvarez, is a film you’re not soon going to forget. It’s a suspense movie about three thieves — Rocky (Jane Levy), Alex (Dylan Minnette) and Money (Daniel Zovatto) — who decide to rob a seemingly helpless war veteran: Blind Man (Stephen Lang). Imagine if Kevin from Home Alone was grown up and psychotic and you’re on the right track.

The film opens up in an aerial shot of the Blind Man dragging a woman down a street, setting the uncomfortable mood that dissociates the setting from the rest of the world. You’ll know if you’re in the right theatre within the first few seconds. The movie then moves to exposition on the main characters’ personalities. Rocky is a likeable character, but I can’t say her acting towards the beginning of the film is the best. Money — a stereotypical and unlikable jerk — is the only character I couldn’t stand.

Money’s relationship with Rocky is his only redeeming quality, but I still found myself waiting for his death, which was obviously alluded to in the trailer.

Even without seeing the trailer, the viewer would be oblivious if they did not pick up on the horror movie tropes that foretell his death. Money is also stupid, threatening the Blind Man with a gun instead of playing innocent. Alex is the most relatable character out of the group since he is more sensible and the only member averse to stealing money from the Blind Man. Alex initially seems out of place alongside the very devious Rocky and Alex, but he grows in his ruthlessness by the end of the film. Alex fills the handyman role of the group, disabling arms and procuring keys (his father works for a home security company) and spewing legal technicalities.

The opening scenes that largely establish the character development and setting drag on for far too long, but do

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provide interesting backstories. For example, Rocky talks about her parents often locking her in a trunk. The story often returns as an analogy when Rocky describes wanting to be as free as a butterfly that once flew into the trunk. The filmmakers also waste time on Alex’s conflicted thoughts on whether to join the plan or not (his decision already evident from the trailer). Before the thieves enter the house, most of the (in)action serves as suspense-less filler.

The Blind Man lives in a ghost town for some reason (I guess they have the

fun, but I’m have fun along with it. It’s not like dogs are actors anyway.

The cinematography is pleasing as well. For example, when reading text messages, the part of the message that isn’t read is blurred. In scenes such as when the thieves are searching the house, the shots are impressively long with few cuts. I also like the night vision when the characters walk through the dark basement, and it becomes an omniscient view, allowing the viewers to see what the characters cannot. The dolly zoom was also utilized to make charac-

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best town hall meetings), but I feel like our current government wouldn’t allow this. Correct me if I’m wrong. When the thieves break into the house, they are introduced to easily the best character in the entire film: the Rottweiler. That thing is a freaking monster! There is no stopping it! Oh my Dog! It breaks through glass, a car, a door and gets through an air vent with no trouble.

Every time the dog was released, it triggered a visceral, “Oh sh#t!!” The only downside, other than realism, is that the close-ups of the dog reveal that it’s not very vicious. It just looks like it’s having

ters feel further away than they truly were, mimicking one of Hitchcock’s techniques.

Narratively, the film distinguishes itself by having no true villain. The Blind Man antagonized the main characters, but he’s just trying to protect his house. Furthermore, the writers establish that the main characters only steal because they are difficult situations that cause them to take risks to survive.

Furthermore, the writers overuse the Blind Man’s status as a war veteran to explain his seeming invincibility. At one point, he breaks out a set of chains to go

grab a gun. Still, the writers make sure to humanize him with a subplot about his daughter. It is interesting how Lang portrays the man and conveys his emotions with very few lines. The real monster of the story is that freaking Rottweiler.

I’m going to talk about the very end right now, so if you don’t want me to SPOIL the very end, skip to the next paragraph. Rocky leaves the money, completing her character arc (although I would have preferred an ambiguous ending that lets the audience consider her morals). On the way to California with her sister, she sees that the Blind Man survived, causing news reporters to believe that the man was attacked and fended off the defenders and covering up the true story. The writers seem to be commenting on the public’s willingness to believe a war vet over a thief, noting that neither side is really “right,” but the side that wins is the one with media attention and public backing. And, sometimes the truth stays hidden because of to whom we listen.

A horror film audience is usually really fun, and this group was no exception. There was this guy that kept yelling out things like, “Hit him!” and “Get outta there!” For some reason, someone was laughing when the Blind Man was hitting Rocky or Alex and when the subject of genetics was brought up, if you know what I mean. And, of course, when the Rottweiler came on, we all went, “Oh sh*t!”

Some last things that go against Don’t Breathe were its soundtrack and conspicuously cinematic feel. The soundtrack wasn’t bad, but it would have been more suspenseful if there were no score at all, just ambient noise. The still shots and cinematic editing, too, could have added to the suspense if the camera was less still and slightly less professionally shot. Now, I’m going to go buy myself a Rottweiler.

Trip Hastings is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gh357@cornell.edu.

Legitimization or Appropriation?

his year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Beastie Boys debut album Licensed to Ill, and in commemoration, the work will be reissued on vinyl, which is set for release on October 14. Licensed to Ill was wildly popular when it was initially released in 1986, and has since been certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). A quote by Chuck D of Public Enemy is included in Def Jam's press release for the reissue: “The breakthrough of Licensed To Ill in 1986 paved the road legitimizing Rap to its USA masses…

This record also expanded HipHop diversity allowing Public Enemy's Takes A Nation to be its antithesis.”

Chuck D's words here pose an interesting question: what exactly does it mean to “legitimize” an art form to the “masses” of fans in America and the western world? The answer to that questions seems to vary and possess its own degree of complexity.

However, the case of Licensed to Ill is relatively simple. At the time of its release, the rap genre was still in a state of infancy; if the somewhat arbitrary founding date of rap is assumed to be September 1979 with the

release of “Rapper's Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang, then the genre had not aged even a full decade. In the time preceding Licensed, rap flourished in primarily African-American cultural communities. Artists like RUN-DMC and Kurtis Blow perfected the musical and production aspects of rap, while individuals like Grandmaster Flash explored the social commentary that can be achieved with the genre. “The Message,” a song by Grandmaster Flash that represents the tribulations of city life as a black American, is perhaps the best example of early “reality” rap.

Just as this socially potent facet of the g e n r e began to develop, Swan’s three white Song guys from New York City created and released an album that is entirely devoid of potent racial commentary, instead opting for themes of partying and misogynistic sexual pursuits. Nevertheless, Licensed to Ill is musically captivating and millions of people embraced the Beastie Boys and their music. As Chuck D mentioned, Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back can be thought of as a type

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of antithesis to the Beastie Boys' work; it is highly political and a unique product of black discontentment. In this sense, Licensed to Ill is indeed a case of cultural appropriation as it plucked the best parts from rap music and left behind the components of the AfricanAmerican experience. This is not to say that Licensed was entirely palatable; its themes and the Beastie Boys' subsequent tour were offensive to many. However, with Licensed to Ill, the Beastie Boys did manage to convert an artform that was inconceivable to American masses into something that was more tangible and only tastefully offensive.

Perhaps this is the general algorithm when it comes to “legitimizing” an art form to any larger group of people. An emerging creative medium often holds a great deal of personal significance to its pioneers, one that is rooted in a discontentment with the status quo.

When another party emulates this new sound, the original affinity can be replaced with less polarizing notions in order to gain a broader fan base. Yet, does this process always have to specifically entail cultural appropriation? Not necessarily. “Legitimization” can simply occur when a genre stops being unfamiliar and assumes some stability. The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's is often lauded as one of the greatest rock albums of all time because, like Licensed, it finally allowed its genre to become widely accepted, and thus

harmless as an art form. (The “borrowing” by the Beatles of Indian musical elements on songs like “Within You Without You” is certainly noted.) Likewise, The Clash's London Calling served to integrate punk rock into the musical palates of the masses, and represents a clear departure from the alienating grittiness of other bands like the Sex Pistols or the Damned. A more recent example might be the ever increasing popularization of EDM music; originally of a more underground notoriety, the genre gained a massive following only when artists incorporated it into their own forms of popular music.

Maybe it would be wrong to assume that the mass popularization of a new genre entirely annuls its artistic potency. In the case of Licensed to Ill and Takes a Nation, it is important to note that the latter was released two years after the former. Thus it is completely possible to assert that the Beastie Boys' initial success allowed later groups like Public Enemy or N.W.A. to gain their own platforms and fame. In every case, the additional diversity allows for an influx of different nuances, spawning ever more artists and music.

Nick Swan is a sophomore in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com. Swan’s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Hackathon

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Physics

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Students Come Together to Code, Solve Problems at BigRed Hacks

By JOSH EIBELMAN Sun Contributor

Have you ever found yourself with friends, in need of a stereo system to play music, but with none in sight? Problem solved. A group of University of Buffalo students took up their weekend to design Goofy, an app which creates a loudspeaker system from your phones, syncing the same song across a number of devices and thus amplifying the sound. All you have to do is take a picture, wait for the system to randomly choose a song based on your mood, and sync it across your friends’ phones.

Where was this and so many other cool apps and websites designed?

You guessed right: BigRed Hacks, the student-run hackathon right here at Cornell.

While most regular students were out Friday night at 8 PM, a group of several hundred undergraduates from all over the country gathered at Call Auditorium for the opening ceremony of the annual BigRed Hacks Hackathon, getting ready for 36 sleepless hours of designing, coding, building, testing, and re-working.

BigRed Hacks was organized as part of the student hackathon league, Major League Hacking, and was sponsored by companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Bloomberg, and Wayfair. These companies presented their Application Program Interfaces — pieces of code their companies developed — which hackathon participants can use in their own code. Capital One, for example, offered a wide array of APIs related to online banking and shopping. Microsoft provided APIs related to facial emotion detection.

Most sponsors also offered prizes for the team that best uses their API which were sure to leave participants drooling. Microsoft, for one, promised to give each winning team member a Surface Pro 4 Tablet.

The opening ceremony featured Prof. Carla Gomes, computer science and director of the Institute of Computational Sustainability. Gomes’ presentation, called “Computational Methods for Balancing Environmental, Economic, and Societal Needs,” related to the overall theme of hacking for sustainability at this year’s event.

However exciting Gomes’ talk was, it was evident that the participants, many of whom travelled a long way to participate, were eager to begin coding.

Chatter, shuffling of suitcases, and laptop clicking prevalent during most of the opening ceremony were

all silenced in sleep mode, however, when aspiring computer science rapper Jared Wong ’18 performed lines like, “It all looks better in the tech,” “Most rappers use base 10; I speak base 2” and “took bits of a sandwich because I needed a byte.” Wong, known as JWong and FloCaml, received the most rambunctious and enthusiastic applause of the night, leaving the crowd buzzing and even more jittery than before.

The hackathon itself took place at the Physical Sciences Building. Laptops, Oculus Rifts, monitors, backpacks, and water bottles were strewn across the tables in the lobby of the building, company booths packed to the brim with people gathering tech swag — company t-shirts, selfie sticks, yoyos, and other goodies — and there was a hardware rental station where one could find all sorts of devices to use. Most of all, there was an evident air of excitement and not just the sort of buzz that surrounds cool technology: it was the creative energy, the endless possibilities that coding and design provide which electrified the air.

Despite 36 hours without sleep, not a single team member gave any sign of weariness. Adrenaline flowing, eyes glowing, participants rushed to tell me about their products, already planning out further improvements and changes they can make.

The creators of Goofy — Parag Jayant Datar, Melvin Philips, Kushal Bhandari, and Nishant Ravichandran, all second year graduate students in the Computer Science and Engineering Departments at the University at Buffalo — said their biggest challenge in developing the app was reducing the syncing latency, or delay, across devices to a minimum. They say they managed to get the latency down to 60-70 milliseconds.

One Cornell team – Sophia Yan ‘17, John Draikiwicz ‘17, and James Cassell ‘17 – developed a product called Life Alert for Turtles, envisioning a safer environment for turtles and better tracking of the reptiles. Their plan attached electrodes to the turtle’s shell, which alert a devoted turtle rescue team in a given area when a turtle flips over onto its shell and is helpless.

The system also involves a tracking system, detailing where the turtle is and which direction it is heading at any given time, which the team suggested could be useful for turtle tracking in wildlife refuges.

Another Cornell team developed a sustainabilitythemed product called Fridge Buddy. Fridge Buddy tracks the expiration dates for food in your fridge, marking food that needs to be urgently eaten in red

and the other food in green.

“Did you know that 35 million tons of food waste is produced each year?” Amanda Chen Cornell ‘19 asked.

The app also suggests recipes for food already in your fridge, weighing food with more urgent expiration dates more heavily. Chen, and her teammates — Michael Velez ‘19 Swathi Chakrapani ‘19, Michelle O’Bryan ‘19 — hope that Fridge Buddy will cut household grocery costs and reduce food waste.

Nikhil Verma and Alvin Lin, a second year graduate student and a freshman, respectively, at Rochester Institute of Technology, along with Cindy Wang ‘19, developed a phone game called Recycle Rampage, which is meant to educate people about which items are recyclable and which are not. Its simple, intuitive design won the team the Best UI/UX, meaning user interface and user experience design.

SwearJar, which listens for profanity in speech and charges the user after a certain amount of times it hears profanities, won the Goofiest prize. The app was developed by Hope Jin (Columbia University senior), Arian Moslem (Rutgers sophomore), Darpan Tanna (Purdue University freshman,) and Alan Cha (Columbia University junior).

The prize for the best business prospect went to Jonathan Grant, Maia Mirchandani ‘19, and Eric Stermer, from University of Southern California, Cornell University, and Liberty University, respectively. Their product, Add.me, allows a user to follow another person on multiple social media platforms at once, simply by scanning a QR code.

A lone Binghamton student named Jack Fischer took on the challenge of making a web browser in 36 hours, and succeeded. Named Andreesen after Marc Andreesen — the author of the very early Mosaic web browser which popularized the internet — this project’s creator won Fischer the Best Technical Feat prize.

Other projects included intElect, which generates candidates for senate when a user enters a zip code, and Kalories, which splits pictures of food into their individual components, such as identifying the ingredients in a soup, and lists the ingredients’ nutritional value.

The list of amazing projects goes on. It was certainly inspirational to see so much accomplished in just 36 hours.

Josh Eibelman can be reached at je332@cornell.edu

DOE Grant Boosts Cornell’s Power Systems Research

By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell has been chosen to play a leading role in the push to update America’s crumbling infrastructure.

Patricia A. Hoffman, the Assistant Secretary at the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability — a branch of the Department of Energy — announced in late August that Cornell was one of five universities chosen to receive a grant for research into how to mend America’s beleaguered power systems.

An aspect of the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative — which, on top of striving to make baseline improvements to the nation’s energy grid also seeks to make the system more open to renewable energy sources and energy efficient structures — the grant totals $1.8 million to be split between the schools.

Alison Kennedy, senior advisor at the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, summed up the GMI as “a comprehensive DOE effort to help shape the future of our nation's electric grid and solve the challenges of integrating conventional and renewable sources with energy storage and smart buildings, while ensuring that the grid is resilient and secure to withstand growing cyber security and climate challenges.”

As stated in 2015’s Quadrennial Technology Review — a report on the nation’s energy needs produced by the DOE — recent natural disasters like

Hurricane Sandy have made the need for an updated, more reliable and more responsive energy grid all the more prescience.

Kennedy pointed to this need and numerous other problems currently facing America’s power systems.

“Factors include a changing generation mix, evolving consumer needs, and growing recognition of expectations for a resilient and responsive grid in face of natural, or man-made, events,” he said.

He also mentioned other issues pointed out in the QTR, including the need for new manners of detecting failures in the system, as well as the adoption of smart grid technologies.

OE oversees many of the DOE’s ongoing powerrelated projects with a host of partners.

“DOE in partnership with universities, states, industry and other stakeholders is helping to shape the future of the power system,” Kennedy said. “The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has primary responsibility within DOE for this effort.”

Cornell’s project, which was chosen after submitting a proposal in the OE’s competitive selection process, is entitled “Management of risk and uncertainty through optimized co-operation of transmission systems and microgrids with responsive loads.” The team, which received $360,000 of an estimated $450,680 project cost, will be working on microgrids and transmission, with a specific focus on storage, renewable sources, and efficient energy demand response.

Renewable sources of energy are less certain than conventional sources, like oil, and as such require updated systems that can respond to disruptions in production. This aim, too, will be a focus of Cornell’s project, as will the relationship between micro and macro-grids, helping make improvements to the energy system on both a large and small scale.

The project also seeks to address the concerns that helped spur the OE into action and produce the grant contest, in the first place. The devastating effects natural disasters can have on an ill equipped energy system are a primary focus of the project. Specifically, the Cornell team plans to analyze how low-voltage systems can smoothly react to response demands.

Research into power grid systems is nothing new to Cornell — the recent DOE grant is a small part in a long history of research into power systems. Home to the Cornell Energy Institute, Cornell’s engineering department is a founding member of the Power System Engineering Research Center, which, since its founding in 1996, has sought to modernize electric grids through research like that now being aided by the DOE grant.

Other grant winners are the University of California, Riverside, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Clarkson University, and The University of Texas at Austin.

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

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Researchers Measure 3-D Force In Matter at Single-Particle Scale

By KELLY ZHOU

probability.

“This gives us a much more robust way of approximating the stresses between particles,” Lin said.

What started as a question to the A-exam turned SALSA essentially transforms the microscope into a into a revolutionary discovery in the material science pressure gauge. The microscope is typically used to field. Neil Y.C. Lin, a graduate student from Cornell image the colloidal suspension structure, but now, with University in pursuit of a physics Ph.D., was asked if it SALSA, image can indicate how the forces are distribwas possible to measure forces at the single particle uted. scale, given that the current methods can only measure Before SALSA, a mechanical probe such as a spring said forces at bulk scale (in groups) on his A-exam. Awas used to gauge stress, pressure, or any other force. exam is an exam where Ph.D. candidates must take a Probes fail to resolve individual particles without causcrack at questions not even the professors know the ing a disturbance. SALSA, on the other hand, is a nonanswers to. This question led Lin to work with Prof. Itai invasive way of measuring the force of a system, and so Cohen, physics, Prof. James Sethna, physics, Matthew looks at the system as is, with no disturbances to the Bierbaum, grad, and Prof. Peter Schall from the system that a probe introduces. This provides a look at Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam. the true, instantaneous state of the system, which is After three years of research, this team of theoimportant to determining the true source of a materists, computer calibrators, and crystal specialists rial’s mechanical properties. In addition, with found their answer in SALSA — no, not the tasty SALSA, the resolution of the force is not limited by dip, but Stress Assessment from Local Structure probe size, or is the resolution limited to the surface Anisotropy. of the material.

Most materials have complex force distribu“As long as you can resolve individual particles, tions within them that determine their overall you can measure the force at the single-particle mechanical properties. The force distributions are scale,” Lin said. complex, because almost all materials have defects.

Not only can SALSA resolve particles and the In the case of crystals, even though there is a periodic stress at the single-particle scale, but it can also resolve arrangement of particles, chances are sometimes you the distribution in three dimensions. will find some areas that have a broken symmetry or “This is actually the first time you can see a stress any other imperfection. Thus, measuring such forces, distribution in 3-D in any kind of material,” Lin said. though made difficult by methods currently available, is SALSA opens the door to answering all of the fundacrucial to understanding how the bulk mechanics mental material science questions. By measuring the emerge. force evolution, SALSA has the potential to answer A major advancement in the field, SALSA, allows Cell chemistry | Cornell researchers have transformed a micro- questions such as: What mechanisms underlie crackresearchers to measure 3-D force fields in a colloidal scope into a local pressure gauge, as shown by this illustration. ing and fatigue? How do crystals flow and when do suspension system. Colloids act like atoms, but are they break down? With SALSA, researchers can iden106 times larger than atoms, making them easier to tify the driving force behind a phenomenon at a sinsee than actual atoms. For comparison, if an atom was tainties, and those uncertainties lead to major errors in gle-particle scale. the size of a dodo bird, a colloid would be about the size the final calculations of force.

“The ultimate hope is that these forces give you the of Italy! Therefore, a colloidal suspension system proSALSA provides a solution to this dilemma. Instead precursor or help you to predict the behavior of materivides a model for how atoms behave. of calculating the exact moment the particles interact, als,” Lin said.

“The challenge in the field is yes, we can see atom- according to Lin SALSA looks at how many times the like particles, but we still don’t know how to measure particles collide over a given time, known as collision Kelly Zhou can be reached at kz86@cornell.edu

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the stress or the force within the suspension,” Lin said.

This challenge stems from the fact that you need to know first, how the particles interact, and second where the particles are located in order to determine the force.

Conventional methods can measure how the particles interact, but measuring where the particles are located is far from simple. Lin explained that since the forces between particles are often strong, a slight shift in their locations by the disturbance of experimentation can generate uncera lot of

Cornell Scientist Predicts Climate Change Will Prompt Earlier Spring Start Date

By ANNIE TAYLOR Sun Contributor

In an astronomical sense, the first day of spring occurs on the vernal equinox, when the hours of the day are almost exactly evenly split between daylight and night.

For the past six years, this exact time has fallen on various hours of March 20th. Conventionally, this is the date the Gregorian calendar on your refrigerator will call the first day of spring.

But how does a climate scientist define spring? An article published last month in Climate Dynamics, coauthored by Zachary Labe, UC Irvine, Professor Toby Ault of Cornell earth and atmospheric sciences, and Raul Zurita-Milla, University of Twente, highlighted the importance of this definition to understanding the phenomena of early onset springs. The purpose of the study was to simulate both historical and future spring onset dates and better understand the extent to which natural variability and climate change impact these dates.

Spring is popularly defined by the senses – the bustling and buzzing of renewed insect activity, shrill and gurgling bird song, and the shockingly iridescent greens, purples and yellows that symphonically burst from the landscape.

“It’s one of those things, you know it when you see it, right?” Ault said. “There’s a host of changes that you can really detect, just subjectively, in the middle to end of April, early part of May.” The study, “Identifying anomalously early spring onsets in the CESM large ensemble project,” is partially unique for its use of what Ault defines as an objective and quantitative metric of what defines the onset of spring.

“What actually was originally a model of lilac bud burst and first blooms but has been repurposed as a more generalized indicator of spring onsets,” Ault said. “What

we’ve done is we’ve taken a model that was once tied to plant phenology and adapted it to be more tuned to the atmospheric component so that we can isolate the part that’s driven by the climate system or is driven by the atmosphere.”

Ault and his colleagues used this index in combination with global climate models to create long term predictions of how spring onset dates will change in the coming decades. The results were staggering.

“The average spring in a future... less than half a cen-

path of burning a lot of fossil fuel and using the atmosphere as a dumping ground for excess CO2 when we make energy,” said Ault. “It’s hard to believe that we’re going to just let this happen to the planet without doing something about it,” Alut said.

If 2012 is any indicator, these increasingly normal early springs will have a large toll on agriculture. According to the Senate testimony of Joseph Glauber, the chief economist of the United States Department of Agriculture, flowering trees which had an early response to warm temperatures in March were negatively impacted by subfreezing temperatures that continued into April. In particular, tart cherry production was cut nationally by 68 percent, including over 80 percent losses in Michigan.

When spring comes early, the date of the last frost often does not shift along with temperature averages and trends of animal and plant life cycle events or phenological events.

As a consequence, the less hardy plants begin to suffer, leaving farmers to either suffer crop losses or find a way around the late freezes.

Despite the gravity of these consequences, Ault points out that the predictions of this study are hardly set in stone.

“It doesn’t have to be that way,” said Ault. “Now is the time to take a different path if we think maybe it would be better not to have all of the increased risks and potential consequences and impacts from rising global temperatures.”

“Now is the time to take a different path if we think maybe it would be better not to have all of the increased risks and consequences and impacts from rising global temperatures” Prof. Toby Alut tury in the future looks like the earliest spring on record over the last century,” Ault said.

The earliest spring on record was the spring of 2012.

In that year, Ault explained, the indicators of spring onset changed by around two months. In other words, according to the most recent models, within four or five decades one might begin to regularly expect typical April weather beginning around February.

“This is the outcome we get if we continue down this

Annie Taylor can be reached at amt259@cornell.edu

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Red Avoids Shutout Vs.Navy SPRINT

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“It just brings a little bit of a new element to our offense.”

Coming out of the half down 28-7, the Red needed to put up points quickly to stay in the fight with the feisty Midshipmen. However, three of the four drives for Cornell in the third quarter resulted in punts, and the other was an interception in the red zone.

Navy capitalized on the Red’s inability to keep possession of the ball, scoring twice more in the third quarter, extending their lead to 40-7.

As the rain began to fall at Schoellkopf, so did any possibility of a comeback by Cornell. In the final period, both teams put in backups, hoping to avoid injuries to key starters, giving underclassmen and less experienced players opportunities to play.

“I have all the confidence in our team and our ability,” said senior running back Kevin Nathanson.

“I think that we can do a lot of great things this season. We just have to execute.”

Navy quarterback Nick Deterding, who not only passed for 191 yards and four touchdowns, but also rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns, led Navy. Clements ended the first sprint football game of his career with 133 all-purpose yards and a touch-

down.

“Navy is a really exceptional team,” Cullen said.

“Their quarterback made one mistake the entire game. Nearly every single pass he threw was right on the button. We had someone there all the time, we were just out executed.”

For Cornell, Nathanson finished the afternoon with a team-high 81 rushing yards, and scored the only touchdown of the day for the Red. Conrad McCarthy and Alfonso Nazzaro anchored the defense with seven tackles apiece.

“We only had 15 practices to prepare for our first game,” Cullen said. “Navy, on the other hand, had spring practice along with a scrimmage; so at this point, they were just way ahead of us in terms of preparation, and installation of offense and defense.”

Next week, Cornell will look to improve to 1-1, when the men travel to Mansfield for a showdown at Karl Van Norman Field next Saturday. The Mountaineers were defeated by Penn, 31-7 in both teams’ season openers.

“After today’s loss, all I am thinking about is moving on to the next game,” Nathanson said. “The only thing we can do at this point is focus on beating Mansfield.”

Bennett Gross can be reached at bmg83@cornell.edu.

Men’s Hockey Ranked Fifth, Sixth in Preseason Polls Cornell men’s hockey has been picked to finish fifth and sixth in the ECAC for the 201617 season in the media and coaches’ poll, respectively.

The Red enters the season with most of its key players returning, including all of last season’s top-five scorers and AllIvy League goalie Mitch Gillam.

Cornell finished last season with a record of 16-11-7.

Cornell was ranked seventh by the coaches, and ninth by the media in last year’s preseason poll. 2015-16 saw the emergence of a strong offensive line with senior Jeff Kubiak in the middle, and sophomores Mitch Vanderlaan and Anthony

Angello on the wings.

On defense, Cornell retains strongholds sophomore Alec McCrea and seniors Patrick McCarron and Holden Anderson.

Top names ahead of Cornell include perennial favorites Quinnipiac, Harvard, Yale and St. Lawrenc

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Padres’G.M.Scandal Conflicting for Admiring ILR Student ELDEN

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was lauded as one of the most intelligent hires in the game — holding a very aggressive approach that allowed him to skyrocket to relevance. Within the next month, I decided that I wanted to apply to Cornell early decision. I visited and fell in love with the campus, I knew the school was where I wanted to be.

The night before the application was due, I changed my mind about what program I wanted to apply to. I had written the majority of my essay for AEM, but I had the epiphany that ILR was a better fit for me.

I had to start my essay from scratch, because I was applying to a different college (within Cornell). This upset my parents, but I finished in under eight hours and submitted it before the deadline. Miraculously, I was admitted to the ILR program at Cornell. In hindsight, I don’t believe that I would have been admitted to the AEM program (and therefore… Cornell in general) if that’s what I had applied for. A.J. Preller and his position with the Padres is the seed that was planted in my head that brought me to the idea to apply to ILR. Arguably, A.J. Preller is the reason that I ended up at Cornell, heavily shaping the last two years of my life.

Preller followed his hiring with two massive overhauls of a consistently mediocre Padres team, first acquiring and signing many experienced and expensive players to try to win immediately. This approach failed in a way.

But in another way, it renewed fan interest in the sense that the owners spent enough money to build a sense of trust that had eluded ownership for almost two decades. He flipped the veterans for prospects, building a reserve that far exceeded the talent that he inherited. He became my idol, in terms of how I wanted to shape my career. For the first time as a Padres fan, I felt that the front office was extremely competent.

Preller’s aggressive approach has ruffled some feathers in the past — he served a different one month suspension in the late 2000’s because he attempted to negotiate with an international free agent serving a suspension for lying about his age. The Padres hired him with full knowledge of the situation. This brings us to today. A.J. Preller was suspended for 30 days for concerns surrounding a trade with the Red Sox that sent pitcher Drew Pomeranz to Boston.

This is what we know about the situation: • The issue with the transactions had to do with medical records reported to teams in trades.

• The Padres and Marlins made a six-player trade at the trade deadline, but part of the deal was reversed after pitcher Colin Rea came out of his first start with the Marlins with an arm injury. Rea was sent back to San Diego in exchange for justtraded pitching prospect Luis Castillo.

• The Padres fired longtime trainer Todd Hutcheson before the season, and hired for-

mer minor league trainer and sports medicine director for the San Diego Navy SEALS Mark Rogow as a replacement.

• After hiring Rogow, the way that the Padres recorded injuries changed. Allegedly, they were keeping two logs of player injuries — an internal log in which minor treatments (such as massages, over-the-counter pain relievers, or acupuncture) were recorded along with the more significant injuries that were reported in the external log. A report by Buster Olney stated that “front office people” from San Diego instructed Rogow to do this.

• San Diego did not report to Boston that pitcher Drew Pomeranz was taking an oral medication before the trade, likely Tylenol. The Red Sox (and a few other teams that made trades with the Padres) complained to the commissioners office.

The result of this scandal was that A.J. Preller was suspended for 30 days without pay.

He has taken at least some of the blame for this, although it is unclear his direct involvement in the situation. It has personally been hard to stomach, regardless of how much involvement Preller had, that the man I have

modelled my entire academic and career focuses after is involved in a scandal that has

The man I have modelled my entire academic and career focus after is involved in a scandal ... dragged his reputation through the mud.

Indirectly, I owe so much to A.J. Preller — he inspired me to spend these last two years at

Cornell University. I still aim to emulate many qualities of his in my professional career, but I sit here, hoping that his involvement in these possibly underhanded maneuvers was either not intentional or nonexistent.

It is very possible that I am wearing rose-colored glasses, as a dedicated Padres fan, a fan of Preller and a student at Cornell.

It is my opinion that there currently is not enough information to realistically know where to place the blame at this point.

Noah Elden can be reached at nelden@cornellsun.com. If I Were G.M. appears on Tuesdays this semester.

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Red Bounces Back Strongly WithWin at Lock Haven

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Back to back goals in the second half from junior forwards Katie Carlson and Krysten Mayers blew open Sunday’s game against Lock Haven (3-3, 0-1 A10) for Cornell field hockey (4-2, 0-0 Ivy). The 4-0 win was an important step for the team as it looks to carry its momentum into Ivy League play.

“It was good to get the [win] under our belt,” said head Coach Donna Hornibrook said of the game. “We scored some goals and got the shut out so there were a lot of positives in that game.”

After a close one to zero defeat at the hands of Stanford (2-4, 0-0 America East), it was important for the Red to get back on track offensively. The team’s offense was certainly in a groove on Sunday, with Carlson and Mayers leading the way.

Carlson added two goals to continue her impressive 2016 campaign; she now leads the Red in scoring with five goals on the season.

“Katie has definitely had the potential all along to become a solid goal scorer,” Hornibrook said. “She has found a knack around net and has a good sense of timing.”

Mayers scored one goal and assisted on another against Lock Haven. While Mayers is a pure goalscorer, she has found other ways to contribute this season, setting up numerous goals with her brilliant passing. “[Mayers] has become a player who can really create opportunities for us,” Hornibrook said. “She has a wellrounded approach.”

Senior midfielder Katy Weeks also put in some very solid minutes for the Red, facilitating play through both ends of the field and notching two assists. Weeks set up junior forward Gaby DePetro for her first goal of the season.

One strength for the Red this season has been the team’s fitness. Cornell has been able to outwork opponents in the second half because of the team’s top-notch conditioning.

“Our fitness has been a benefit for us,” Hornibrook said.

Fitness could also be one of the factors that has helped

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Taking charge | Junior Katie Carlson scored a pair of goals against Lock Haven to lead Cornell to victory, raising her goal total to five for the season.

the Red defensively. Cornell is holding opponents to an average of just one goal per game so far this season.

Junior goalkeeper Kelly Johnson has been lights out as well. Although she has not been forced to defend a lot of shots so far this season, Johnson has made several key saves for the Red. Cornell will open up its Ivy League season against a talented Penn (4-1, 0-0 Ivy) team at home on Saturday. The Red is well prepared for the match and understands what it will take to get the win. “[Penn] has shown in the past that they have the ability to put goals in net,” Hornibrook said. “They are a consistent

team and certainly one of the more talented teams in the Ivy League.”

Cornell will only focus on what it can control however, and that means executing on both sides of the ball. If Carlson and Mayers can continue to produce as they have in recent games, Cornell will be in a solid position for to earn a victory.

The Red will take on the Quakers on Dodson Field at noon on Saturday.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

SPRINT FOOTBALL

Cornell Drops First Game to Navy Midshipmen overwhelm Cornell in home opener; Red loses by 33 points

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Contributor

Coming off of a 4-3 season, with several important players returning for the Red, Cornell was slated for a strong finish in the CSFL. However, in the squad’s first game of the 2016 campaign, the team was defeated by Navy, 40-7, at Schoellkopf Field Saturday.

The visitors began the game by scoring on their first drive, capped off by a 49yard touchdown pass. After forcing the Red to punt, the Midshipmen quickly put up seven more points, on a 16yard screen pass to running back Brendon Clements, who previously started 33 games on the Navy football team.

Cornell responded with a methodical scoring drive of its own, engineered by the read option running attack of senior quarterback Rob Pannullo. At the end of the quarter, the Red trailed 14-7.

The Midshipmen were able to score two more touchdowns before the half,

Preller ’99 Conflict

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hen I began the college search process, during the middle of sophomore year, I started to look for schools in big cities. I have always had an affinity for cities, and I decided that I wanted to find somewhere urban to spend my college years. My poor knowledge of New York geography combined with my urge to go to an academically elite school brought me to Cornell University — which at the time I thought was in New York City. Soon after, I realized it was

Noah Elden If I Were G.M.

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Could not keep close | Cornell was able to mount a scoring drive towards the end of the first quarter, trailing 14-7, but could not keep the gap closed.

one of which was on a 41yard scamper by Deterding.

In the second quarter, Cornell was only able to muster a combined negative eight yards on their four drives.

Despite having one of the most efficient quarterbacks

in the CSFL, co-head coach Terry Cullen decided to replace Pannullo with Connor Ostrander for two series prior to the break. The substitution did not go as planned for Cullen, as Ostrander fumbled on the Navy 42-yard line, leading to

a Midshipmen touchdown.

“We have known all preseason that Connor and I were going to split time at quarterback, and when I am not at quarterback, I will be at receiver,” Pannullo said.

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not where I thought it was, but the school stayed on the list. The Applied Economics and Management (AEM) program at Cornell struck my interest. The youngest person ever hired to my dream job — the general manager of a Major League Baseball team — was AEM alumnus Jon Daniels ’99. Eventually, I compiled my list of universities, and narrowed it down to 20 schools by the end of my junior year.

Days before my senior year started, my hometown baseball team, the San Diego Padres, hired a graduate of Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) program to be their next general manager — A.J. Preller ’99. With Cornell producing several top baseball executives, my desire to attend strengthened. Preller See ELDEN page 15