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Cornell Title IX Coordinator To Depart University in June

By DREW MUSTO Sun Senior Editor

Sarah Affel, a former prosecutor who has overseen Cornell’s internal investigative office for sexual assault claims since its creation in 2016, will leave the University after the spring semester. As Title IX coordinator, she heads a University office — itself under federal investigation — that probes sexual violence and harassment claims against students, staff and faculty, some of whom have challenged the results in court.

Affel, 34, has led Cornell’s Title IX Office through a thicket of lawsuits, external investigations and a substantial shift in policy under the Trump administration as Title IX investigations around the country have drawn

increased scrutiny in recent years. She is expecting her second child in February and will be leaving the University in June to move to Boston.

“It will be hard to leave Cornell behind, but I am looking forward to time with family before taking any next steps in my professional career,” Affel said in a statement to The Sun. Affel studied at Tufts University and later earned her law degree at Northeastern University in 2008. Before joining Cornell, she prosecuted criminal cases as an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County near Boston. Cornell hired Affel as an associate judicial administrator in September of 2014 See AFFEL page 4

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Title IX | Sarah Affel will leave the University in June, after more than three years at Cornell.

Black Lives Matter Poster Vandalized

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

COLLADO

I.C. President Was Convicted of Sex Abuse Collado pleaded no contest in 2001

By ANNE SNABES Sun Staff Writer

Documents from an anonymous source forwarded to The Ithacan have brought to light a case of sexual abuse from 2001, in which Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado was accused of one count of misdemeanor sexual abuse for an encounter with a patient while she was working as a therapist.

Collado pleaded nolo contendere — no contest — to the case which was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. This meant that she did not admit guilt, but was convicted and given a sentence as if she had pleaded guilty.

The prosecution said Collado engaged in a sexual relationship with the patient, whose name is not identified in The Ithacan, from May to October 2000 that began when Collado was treating the patient at The Center at the Psychiatric Hospital in Washington D.C. Collado denies this claim.

“In light of the resurfacing of this legal action, I want to unequivocally state now, as I did then, that the accusations in the court documents are simply not true,” she wrote in a message to I.C. students, faculty, staff, parents and alumni.

Because Collado pleaded no contest, the trial did not occur.

See COLLADO page 5

Cornell Police are searching for a suspect who administrators in the College of Veterinary Medicine believe yanked a Black Lives Matter sign twice from an employee’s door and then vandalized it when it was replaced.

Deputy Chief David Honan confirmed that the apparent thefts and vandalism are “under active criminal investigation” and declined to provide any additional information.

The small Black Lives Matter poster, which Audrey Z. Baker ’09 taped to her door in Schurman Hall, was first removed on Jan. 11, according to Baker, an evaluation and assessment specialist in the college.

Baker said she replaced the sign, which again went missing on Tuesday. Using stronger tape, she

replaced it again, but when she returned to her office, Baker said, the sign was scratched out with pen.

Lorin D. Warnick, the dean of the college, said in a letter to staff that the college has “zero tolerance for defacing of public or private property, hate speech or discrimi-

nation.”

“This sort of behavior performed under the cloak of anonymity threatens the open and inclusive climate we seek to create,” Warnick said.

Other signs on Baker’s door, which promote LGBTQ+ rights and women’s rights, were not vandalized or pulled and down and remain.

In an interview, Baker said she put the signs up to “push the conversation around equity and what it means for public health.”

“I put little stickers on each of [the signs] that said ‘this is public See BLM page 6 PHOTO COURTESY OF AUDREY Z. BAKER

Poster Swiped | Cornell Police are investigating the removal and vandalism of a Black Lives Matter sign on an office door in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Armed Man Robs Northside Gas Station, Police Say Ithaca Police were searching on Sunday night for a man who they say robbed a gas station with a gun on Ithaca’s Northside, the third armed robbery in the city in just over a month.

The man displayed a handgun at Quik Shoppe on the corner of Third and Adams streets at about 6:20 p.m. and made off with about $200, Sgt. Matthew Cowen told The Sun at the scene.

Witnesses said the man — a black man about 5’7” tall wearing a ski mask — ran in the direction of the Bowl-O-Drome. Police were reviewing surveillance tape from the store, Cowen said.

“We got robbed,” one man who identified himself as a shop owner said as he entered the Quik Shoppe, where several police officers were combing the store with flashlights.

The robbery is the third armed robbery in the City of Ithaca since Dec. 20 and the sixth in Tompkins County since Dec. 5.

“It’s like one after the other,” Cowen said outside the Quik Shoppe as police continued to investigate around 7:15 p.m.

Police encouraged anyone with information to contact IPD at 607-272-3245 or Crime Stoppers at 607-697-0333.

— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

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NEWS

Pollack Rejects Review Of Mental Health Code

DEMOGRAPHIC POINTS FOR ADMITTED EARLY DECISION STUDENTS

Parents claim ‘systemic failure’ of policy programs and practices to address them. The task force would also make recommenThe parents of a Cornell dations to Cornell’s president student who died by suicide in based on best practices.

MacLeod and Hack said 2016 sent a 13-page request to the University about 10 the task force should contain a months ago asking for the majority of members with no establishment of an indepen- Cornell affiliations, include a dent mental health task force. high percentage of mental Last week, President Martha health professionals, exclude E. Pollack denied their Cornell employees who directrequest, fueling critics’ con- ly supervise mental health and cerns about the University’s related student services and effectiveness in supporting the include students in at least 10 mental health needs of its stu- percent of the body’s membership. dents.

MacLeod Sophie Hack declined to MacLeod ’14 release the full died in March letter, but shared 2016 from a excerpts of the prescription letter with The drug overdose Sun. while on medThe letter ical leave from said “failures” of Cornell, The the University Sun previously included the lack reported. In her of a suicide prehonor, her parvention strategy ents established to address “the a non-profit MACLEOD ’14 spike in suicide organization, The Sophie Fund, to raise among the current generation awareness of mental health of Americans” and the failure issues and battle the stigma to adopt a strategy that dealt associated with it in the with the mental health supgreater Ithaca and Tompkins port for victims of sexual violence.

County areas.

According to a 2016 report In response to what they called a “systemic failure” on from the Center for Collegiate Health, which the part of Cornell, Sophie’s Mental parents, Scott MacLeod and MacLeod and Hack cited in Susan Hack, asked the univer- their letter, about 33 percent sity to establish an indepen- of college students who sought dent, externally-led body that counseling in the 2015-16 would be tasked with review- academic year had seriously ing the mental health chal- considered attempting suicide. lenges facing Cornell students See SOPHIE page 6 and the university’s policies,

By SHRUTI JUNEJA

Sun Staff Writer

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Early decision | Cornell released early admission decisions on Dec. 11. Of the accepted students, 37 percent were students of color, an increase from last year’s 35 percent.

Early Decision Apps Break Record Admission rate for early decision drops to 24.3 percent

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Managing Editor

For the third year in a row, Cornell received a record number of early decision applicants for the Class of 2022.

Out of 6,319 applicants, 1,533 were admitted for an early admissions rate of 24.3 percent, down from an early admissions rate of 25.8 percent for the Class of 2021 and 27.4 percent for the Class of 2020, the University said in December.

Cornell’s early decision applicant pool has increased by 83 percent in the last decade, the University press release noted.

Other Ivy League schools also saw lower early decision admissions rates.

The University of Pennsylvania’s early admissions rate dropped to 18.5 percent, while Harvard and Yale had early admissions rates of 14.5 percent and 14.7 percent, respectively. Brown’s early admissions rate was 21 percent while Dartmouth’s was 24.9 percent.

Out of the admitted students, who were notified on Dec. 11 of the decision, 14.3 percent are international.

Cornell’s statement noted that international applications were up 19 percent over last year despite the current political climate. Last year,

Women’s March

international applications were up 20 percent over the previous year.

Fifty-three percent of the early admits are female, up from 50.1 percent last year. At 37 percent, students of color also make up a higher percentage than last year’s figure of 35 percent.

The percentage of legacy students and athletes both fell since last year. Legacy students went

The percentages of legacy students and athletes admitted fell since last year, while the percentage of students of color increased. from making up 23.3 percent of early admits for the class of 2021 to 22.1 percent this year, while athletes went from 13.4 percent last year to 11.5 percent this year.

Regular decision admits will be notified along with all other Ivy League admits on March 28.

Josh Girsky can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Judge: Cornell Can Suspend Student Guilty of Sexual Assault

By DREW MUSTO

County ruled in Cornell’s favor on Dec. 15, allowing the University to suspend the student and handing Cornell a decisive A Cornell sophomore who the victory in a case that lasted nearly five University found guilty of sexually assault- months. ing a woman lost a lawsuit against Cornell John Carberry, Cornell’s senior director in December, clearing of media relations, said the way for the in a statement to The “Cornell substantially University to suspend Sun that Cornell was the male student for two “pleased with the complied with years, although the stuCourt’s decision to disits own policies dent has indicated he is miss the lawsuit for all and procedures.” appealing. of the reasons stated in A University Hearing that decision.”

Judge Eugene Faughnan Panel ruled in May that “The Court’s thorthe male student had sex ough decision recogwith a female student nized the Title IX who was too intoxicated to consent in Office’s adherence to the procedures, and August of 2016. The panel recommended the decisions of the Hearing Panel and that the male student be suspended for Appeal Panel were found to be both contwo years, and a Cornell Appeal Panel sistent with and supported by the eviupheld the decision in July. dence,” Carberry said.

The sophomore student, whose name is At stake in the court battle was whether withheld in court documents and who is Cornell had complied with its own polireferred to as John Doe, sued Cornell after cies throughout its Title IX Office’s investhe Appeal Panel decision in July and a tigation of Doe and whether the judge halted the two-year suspension while University’s Hearing and Appeal panels he heard arguments in the case. had enough evidence to find the student Judge Eugene Faughnan of the New York State Supreme Court in Tompkins See TITLE IX page 5

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Milena DiFiore displays a sign on the anniversary of the Women's March at a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday.

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NEWS

University’s Title IX Coordinator to Vacate Position AFFEL

gations under a microscope.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened six and she became the University’s lead Title investigations into the Title IX Office at IX investigator in 2015.

Cornell, responding to claims that the “I knew when Sarah accepted the role office is not complying with Title IX. The that she and her husband would be return- OCR has dismissed three of those coming to Boston in June 2018,” Mary plaints and three remain active. The Opperman, vice president and chief inquiries do not imply wrongdoing, and human resources officer wrote to some while the Education Department has employees in October, according to a letter requested data from Cornell, it has not shared by the University after The Sun publicly released any findings. inquired about a job listAffel said at a Student ing for Affel’s position.

Assembly meeting in “Cornell has benefitApril of last year that her “We really think that ... ted from the wisdom, office has “fully coopertalent, dedication and we’re working in a way that ated” with the Education is responsive to what the Department probes by professionalism of Sarah Affel,” Opperman said. community’s needs are.” providing statistics and Affel became a Title other information.

IX investigator one “We’d love to be hearSarah Affel month after a June 2015 ing constructive critireport blasted Cornell’s cism from them if that’s disciplinary system as unfair, confusing and what they have for us,” she said of the overburdened, and she served on a task OCR investigators. “We really think that force that overhauled Cornell’s sexual mis- we’re doing a good job and we also really conduct guidelines one year later. The task think that we’re working in a way that is force transformed Policy 6.4 — which responsive to what the community’s needs defines forbidden sexual abuse and behav- are.” ior on campus and specifies procedures for Several men accused of sexual misconTitle IX case resolution — from the one duct while studying or teaching at Cornell harshly criticized in the 2015 report to one have filed lawsuits against the University lauded by one campus watchdog as one of since March 2015 claiming that they were the fairest in the nation. treated unfairly.

The task force established a three-memFour of the ten lawsuits specifically critber board for sexual violence and harass- icized Affel’s performance as an investigator ment investigations that reviews a Title IX or coordinator at Cornell. Five more claim investigator’s recommendation, determines mistreatment took place while Affel was guilt and imposes sanctions. Previously, an lead Title IX investigator or office coordiinvestigator had probed the case, decided nator. responsibility and recommended punishIn one case, a New York State Supreme ment.

Court judge ruled that Cornell arbitrarily Student awareness of the services pro- and capriciously ignored its own policies vided by the Title IX coordinator has sky- and ordered the University to investigate its rocketed during Affel’s tenure, more than own investigator for bias. (Cornell’s attorquadrupling since 2015, according to neys stated in court that the University University data. The statistical jump hired an outside lawyer who cleared the occurred during a period in which many investigator, Elizabeth McGrath, who has colleges beefed up their Title IX offices and since left the University.) journalists and activists put campus investiLast month, in a separate case, the same Continued from page 1

judge, Eugene Faughnan, said Cornell substantially complied with its own policies in finding a student guilty of sexual assault.

Some lawsuits have ended in private settlements, according to court documents. Two cases are in progress and one is in mediation.

Affel, who succeeded Lynette ChappellWilliams as Title IX coordinator, also led the Title IX Office as contradictory directions from the Obama and Trump administrations resulted in more scrutiny of university investigations of sexual violence around the country. But the scene on Cornell’s campus had already changed by the time President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, announced the new rules.

In September, DeVos supplanted Title IX instructions from 2011, permitting universities to use a higher burden of proof to find students guilty, allow mediation in cases of sexual assault and grant only one party the right to appeal. Under the Obama-era guidelines, universities had feared losing federal funding if they did any of these things.

Cornell has not substantially modified its policies in the wake of the Trump guidelines.

At a meeting held by Office for Civil Rights investigators last March on campus, students aired complaints, telling the investigators that the Title IX Office was slow, unresponsive and had a greater interest in deterring litigation than in helping victims pursue justice.

Among those who have worked closely with Affel, though, many recognize her skill and dedication.

Adebola Olofin J.D. ’17 formerly led a group of four law students known as judicial code counselors who defend Cornellians accused of policy violations.

He told The Sun in August that he had seen Title IX investigators file inaccurate reports and fail to treat parties equally, which he said harmed his clients, although he declined to describe specific instances.

But he also said administrators of the

campus disciplinary system, like Affel, have “students’ best interests at heart.”

“I don’t think that any of what goes on behind the scenes is out of malfeasance,” Olofin said.

Prof. Kevin Clermont, law, who advises the judicial code counselors and is a frequent critic of campus judicial proceedings, told The Sun last year that an investigation by Affel reached “the stratosphere of injustice” and contained a “litany of procedural abuses by the investigators.” But even while criticizing the report, Clermont maintained that Affel is “an incredibly talented, pleasant person.”

Courts have twice refused to vacate the finding contained in Affel’s report that Clermont criticized, Cornell spokesperson Lindsey Hadlock noted.

“As Title IX Coordinator, I have had the privilege of meeting many students, staff, and faculty from across the university’s campuses; have had wonderful support and partnerships from colleagues across the university; and have worked with an excellent Case Manager and excellent Lead Title IX Investigators,” Affel said in her statement, adding that “Ithaca is a beautiful place to live.”

The University has hired a private recruiting firm, Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates, to search for Affel’s successor, according to an online job posting, and Clermont said the firm reached out to him for advice on Affel’s successor.

Clermont said he told the firm to hire a “good lawyer, but preferably one without prior Title IX experience.”

“Serving in this office has a polarizing effect, so it is better to choose someone who does not start with an ideological bent,” he added.

Opperman, the head of human resources, said in her note to employees that Affel will also have a hand in the choice of her successor.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com

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MacLeod and Hack also cited a 2011 PULSE survey of Cornell students which reported that 80 students had attempted suicide in a 12month period.

A Cornell student was found dead in her apartment during finals week in December, The Sun previously reported.

On Thursday, the University released a statement in the Cornell Chronicle, which is run by the University, saying the “delivery of mental health services is a top Cornell priority” but not addressing why the task force was denied.

Last fall, the University conducted an internal review of the “operating standards and capacity of Cornell Health and the strategic directions of the Skorton Center,” the Chronicle release said.

The Jed Foundation, which partners with high schools and colleges to help them improve their mental health and other programs, also reviewed Cornell.

As a result of these discussions, Cornell identified three priorities that “need further

attention,” according to the release: “Matching CAPS staffing levels with community expectations for timeliness and frequency of care, investing in other key elements of the comprehensive approach to support student well-being, campus health and safety [and] recruiting and retaining talented health care professionals, particularly underrepresented minority staff.”

In response to the University press release, MacLeod and Hack said in a statement that while they appreciated the University’s acknowledgement of mental health challenges on campus, they are still concerned about what they said is a “closed, defensive mindset in the Cornell administration.”

They said that the three problem areas identified by the university were “very vague” and did not “directly address the critical issue of Cornell’s heavy reliance on already over-burdened off-campus community mental health providers to support CAPS’s overflow of students in distress.”

Additionally, MacLeod and Hack urged the University to See SOPHIE page 6

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Judge Rules for C.U. I.C.President Accused of Abuse In Title IX Lawsuit College’s board says president has its ‘full support’ TITLE IX

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responsible.

Doe’s current relationship with the University is unclear and Alan Sash, the student’s lawyer, declined to comment on the judge’s ruling or the student’s status at Cornell.

Faughnan wrote in his decision that “Cornell substantially complied with its own policies and procedures and had a rational basis for its determination.”

The judge added that the University’s suspension of the student can now go into effect because the court has upheld Cornell’s determinations.

Doe declared in a court filing on Dec. 18 that he will appeal “each and every part” of Faughnan’s order.

The student had argued in court that Cornell carried out its investigation unfairly, departing from its own policies in a way that tipped the scales in favor of his accuser. But Faughnan sided with Cornell, saying the University adhered to its own policies throughout the investigation.

Doe rehashed several of his allegations against the University, including his claim that it arbitrarily and capriciously departed from its own rules in seven ways during his case. Two of these departures, Doe said, were when a University Hearing Panel failed to ask his accuser certain relevant questions and when an investigator withheld evidence from the investigative record.

Faughnan disagreed with Doe on all seven accusations, finding that while some of Doe’s allegations were factually true, the University “substantially complied” with its own policies throughout the process and did

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not act “arbitrarily and capriciously in [its] disciplinary proceeding against Doe.” Faughnan also found that the Hearing Panel — the body that first decided Doe was guilty — had “sufficient basis” in the record to find Doe responsible for sexual misconduct and retaliation.

The panel found that Doe retaliated against his accuser by filing a Title IX complaint against her after she filed a complaint against him.

Doe said in the suit that he learned of the complaint against him only after deciding to file his own complaint. Faughnan did not assess whether Cornell’s process itself was fair, nor whether Cornell was right to find Doe guilty, but rather whether Cornell had adhered to its own policies.

This case marked the second time in December that Cornell received good news regarding a Title IX investigation. On Dec. 11, the Department of Education closed an investigation into whether Cornell’s Title IX Office discriminated against a complainant on the basis of race, color or ethnicity by failing to respond promptly and equitably to a complaint of sexual assault.

The U.S. Department of Education said its ending of that investigation was an “administrative closure,” but the reasons for it are unclear.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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“I didn’t have the legal resources; I didn’t have the financial resources to, and I didn’t have the emotional wherewithal to really take this on the way I would have preferred,” Collado said in an interview with The Ithacan. “So I took a different route. And like many people in this country, young people in this country, people of color, people who don’t have networks, that was me.”

Collado said her husband committed suicide in 2000, which prompted her to take a leave of absence from her position at The Center, according to the message she sent to the IC community.

“And so, I juggled two very strong and opposing instincts: to defend myself aggressively against a painful, false accusation or to devote my energy to healing from my loss,” she said in her message. “My lawyer recommended pleading no contest to the misdemeanor charge so that I could just end the matter quickly and move on.”

According to The Ithacan, the prosecution said the patient was being treated for post-traumatic stress at The Center as she had experienced sexual abuse in the past. Sharon MarcusKurn, the prosecutor for the case, wrote that the patient had been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and bipolar disorder.

The patient said she and Collado kissed after most of their therapy meetings. The prosecution brought forward the patient’s claim that on two encounters, Collado “fondled the patient’s buttocks and rubbed her inner thigh and pelvic region,” as stated in The Ithacan.

According to the prosecution, the patient said she, Collado and a man had a three-way sexual encounter in September 2000. The Ithacan reported that Collado and the man said this encounter did not occur.

According to Collado, the patient started to live in her home in late summer or fall 2000 and left by November of that year. Collado dis-

obeyed her contract at The Center by living with the patient, according to The Ithacan.

“I, at that point, was sought out by a patient who I had treated before on the unit who really needed my help and was in crisis and didn’t have a place to stay,” Collado said to The Ithacan.

The patient informed Nora Rowny, social services director for The Center, in November 2000 that once she and Collado started living together, they “became more sexually intimate and that she often slept with Dr. Collado.”

The Ithacan wrote that William Hickey, Collado’s lawyer, called the allegations made by the patient “reckless and spurious” in the defendant’s Memorandum in Aid of Sentencing.

Hickey also wrote that the a brain tumor had been identified in the patient and that she had experienced hallucinations.

Judge Frederick Dorsey sentenced Collado to a 30-day suspended sentence, an order to keep away from the patient, 18 months of probation and 80 community service hours, The Ithacan reported.

Ithaca College’s Board of Trustees discussed the search process in a statement to the IC community on Tuesday.

“During the process, we learned of a legal action brought against Dr. Collado, nearly 20 years ago,” the board stated. “We were provided with detailed information regarding this situation, and Dr. Collado was extremely forthright in answering all our questions. Then, as now, she vehemently denied the allegations that were made against her.”

The IC Board of Trustees maintains its “support” of Collado, according to the statement.

“As we stated earlier, Dr. Collado has our full support,” the board said in its message. “She was the right choice when she was named president of Ithaca College last year, and her first six months in office have only reinforced our belief in what an exceptional person and leader she truly is.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.P.D. Investigating C.U. Rebuffs Parents’ Task Force Request

Theft, Vandalism of

Black Lives Matter Signs BLM

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health’ as a conversation starter campaign about social movements and their relation to public health,” Baker said. “I thought maybe this could start conversations with students when they come back after the break.”

Baker said she notified her superiors and submitted a bias report after the first incident.

Faculty and staff were supportive of Baker in a team

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meeting discussing the incidents surrounding the BLM sign, and some proposed responding by putting up signs of their own, Baker said.

“A couple of them came to me and said ‘Hey I don’t like to put political things up but now I’m mad, can I have one of those signs?’” Baker said. “Now people are posting Black Lives Matter signs all over CVM.” Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at akilpatrick@cornellsun.com.

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provide adequate attention to students who are already feeling burdened and pressured by their psytransparently release the findings chological problems and academic of last fall’s review of Cornell and social environments.”

Health and The Skorton Center as In their letter, MacLeod and well as the Jed Foundation report.

Hack said that they were particuThey also expressed skepticism larly concerned by the university’s about the significance of the seal of “institutional mindset reflecting approval from the Jed Foundation. complacency and defensiveness “We have great respect for the that appears to prioritize Cornell’s Jed Foundation and its important public image over the welfare of work on behalf of student mental students struggling with mental health and campus suicide prevendisorders.” tion,” they wrote. “Jed Campus is MacLeod said Cornell, in an essential program supporting October, participated in a highimproved mental health on 156 level briefing on the Zero Suicide college campuses nationwide. But Model organized by the Sophie JED Campus’s mandate is to operFund for healthcare leaders. ate in ‘partnership’ with According to the Suicide institutions, who pay a Prevention Resource $22,000 fee for member- “While we have made great strides and Center, the Zero Suicide ship, rather than a Model is “based on the many improvements over the past robust, fully independent realization that suicidal decade, we can and will do more.” review body.” individuals often fall Greg Eells, the directhrough multiple cracks Ryan Lombardi tor of Cornell CAPS, is a in a fragmented and member of Jed’s Board of sometimes distracted Expert Advisors, according to the “Students are faced with frus- health care system.” foundation’s website.

MacLeod said that they asked tratingly long waiting times for In 2013, Cornell received the appointments,” the parents’ letter participants to make a commitJedCampus Seal from the Jed read. “This leads to a failure to ment to implement the Zero Suicide model and that “doing so would be a major step in addressing our concerns about institutional accountability.”

The parents originally sent the letter demanding an independent task force to Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III in March 2017, on the anniversary of Sophie’s death, and forwarded it to Pollack in April after she took over as president.

The blog post issued by The Sophie Fund last week noted that when Pollack issued her initial response in May, she thanked MacLeod and Hack for voicing their concerns and told them that the University strives to be open about how it can improve its mental health policies. The request for an independent review was not directly addressed.

President Pollack ultimately denied the request for an independent task force in an email dated Jan. 11.

“We will continue bringing attention to concerns we have in the community at large, including at Cornell,” MacLeod told The Sun. “I don’t think this is the end of the road for the Sophie Fund’s efforts to bring attention to the student mental health issues at Cornell or to advocate for improvement.

“It’s going to be up to Cornell to decide how and what and when to do things,” MacLeod said. “We hope that everybody will try to do the right thing.”

Cornell also received the Active Minds Healthy Campus Award in 2015 from the Active Minds nonprofit. This organization “forms peer-run groups on campuses to empower students to speak openly about mental health, educate others and encourage help-seeking,” according to the University.

“We know Cornellians struggle, too,” Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, said in the press release. “We take this seriously, and are committed to supporting our students’ mental health and well-being at Cornell. ...

While we have made great strides and many improvements over the past decade, we can and will do more,” Lombardi said.

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Foundation. According to the University, the foundation’s assessment said that “Cornell stands out as a leader in campuswide mental health programming. This is not unexpected as your institution has been historically at the forefront of mental health services and programming.”

MacLeod said that they found in their research that the number of students seeking counseling at Cornell Health’s Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) doubled since 2003. During the same period, according to CAPS figures, the CAPS full-time staff increased by only 24 percent, the parents said.

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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LAST SEMESTER CORNELL WAS WITNESS to a potential hate crime in Collegetown, continued overzealous behavior by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a display of rank anti-Semitism and the abrupt end to the once-promising political career of a graduate of Cornell in a precursor to the #MeToo movement.

We also witnessed the grand opening of a state-of-the-art technology campus in New York City, the completion of a new and improved Cornell Health center, demonstrations of solidarity in the form of occupations, petitions and marches, and the welcoming of displaced students to Cornell from the Universidad de Puerto Rico.

As spring semester begins, all eyes will be on the Greek system as Tri-Council implements phase 3 of its “Diversity and Inclusion Plan.” The reformed New Member Orientation program and Tri-Council’s continued conversations with leaders from a multitude of campus communities are the first steps in correcting serious flaws in fraternity and sorority culture.

We applaud and support Tri-Council’s proposal for all IFC and MGLC chapters to instate a diversity and inclusion chair on their respective executive boards. At a time when universities across the country are cracking down on Greek life, the newly-elected leaders of IFC, Panhellenic Council and MGLC have the opportunity to make Cornell’s system a model for the rest of the nation, and we hope they make the best of it.

Down the hill, Ithaca must maintain its resolve against the increasingly brazen ICE agency, which just this month raided a local restaurant and arrested two workers. Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 has been admirable in his declaration of Ithaca as a sanctuary city, but Cornell can and should do more: Cornell Law should reinvigorate its Legal Aid clinic to provide services for more Ithaca residents, and the Cornell student body should continue to pressure leaders at all levels of government to speak out against the Trump administration’s heartless immigration policies.

Though there is much to improve, there is much to celebrate. We hope Cornell Tech flourishes in its new home on Roosevelt Island in New York City, and that the investment Cornell made in that venture pays dividends to all students and faculty, including and especially those in Ithaca.

Students in Ithaca should continue speaking up, marching, kneeling and petitioning for what they believe, and the University, including both the administration and the trustees, should make every effort to be as receptive as they can. For its part, The Sun will continue to speak on the most important issues of the day. In this uncertain time, The Sun remains an independent voice for Cornell, for Ithaca, for New York and beyond.

The Real Cost Of Bitcoin B

itcoin mining consumed nearly one but it’s also less efficient. The blockchain percent of the United States’ elec- is cool for being a public log, but as tricity last year. Globally, Bitcoin’s argued, “the hard part is [not] getting estimated yearly power usage is greater money from A to B or keeping a record of than that of Ireland, or 30 times more than what happened. In each case, moving that of Tesla vehicles. Considering this, money and recording the transaction is one wonders whether the societal benefits actually the cheap, easy, highly-automated of the world’s foremost cryptocurrency off- part of a much more complex system.”

The shared public log stored across sets its significant energy consumption, which expedites greater, existential risks multiple “wallets” supposedly safeguards like irreversible climate change. Does against widespread digital deletion, but the susceptibility of digital infrastructure, Bitcoin justify its power bill?

First, while Bitcoin is often described as including how a Minecraft botnet disruptan emerging currency, its illiquidity — you ed the East Coast’s internet service, betrays can’t just buy groceries with it — makes it troubling possibilities. In another recent as an asset best-likened to gold. Times article, a cryptocurrency enthusiast Throughout his annual shareholder letters, described investing in them as “the ultiWarren Buffett repeatedly disavows acquir- mate short trade,” for “the worse regular ing gold, arguing that it isn’t something he civilization does … the better crypto can evaluate as a non-income-generating does.” The grand irony of Bitcoin as fodasset. Indeed, as a value investor, Buffett der for libertarian distrust is that its exishas always been wary of evaluating an asset tence depends on digital infrastructure as based on market expectations, which are we know it, which, like all infrastructure, is impossible to predict. Despite attempts to maintained by government regulation or calculate Bitcoin’s intrinsic value, the extent spending. At least with gold, you’ll be able to which ambiguous probability governs its to retrieve the bars under your mattress future enthusiasm therefore shows Bitcoin once the apocalypse strikes.

It is fascinating to note who of our felhas two purposes: being a store of value, low classmates have and being another excitedly adopted volatile asset on which speculators College students proudly Bitcoin — and its younger sibling can bet. trading one of the most Ethereum — tradNobel economics ing as their next laureate Robert Shiller recently volatile and unpredictable hobby. Not too long a Snapchat conexplained in a New assets as among their ago, tact — undeleted York Times article from freshman orihow few people use first forays into the entation — posted Bitcoin as a store of financial markets is to his story a large value. But even then, monitor displaying a it still doesn’t offer a deeply worrying. candlestick chart, unique comparative with a caption that advantage over other assets. Gold’s price offers a similar freedom read “Balling with Bitcoin.” Seeing literal from monetary policy — and, unlike college students proudly trading one of the Bitcoin, isn’t susceptible to a cyberattack. most volatile and unpredictable assets as (If anything, Bitcoin’s value is always com- among their first forays into the financial pared against fiat currencies, and so markets is deeply worrying. Not only do demand for it cannot totally escape the the eagerness and relative inexperience of impact of monetary policy decisions.) At traders our age (who’ve known nothing least the dollar retains value so long as but roaring bull markets of the past there is public trust in the state. And even decade) resemble the shoeshine boys of the currency of prisons, cigarettes, is sup- lore giving stock tips in the lead-up to the 1929 crash, but also reveal the tulip-like ported by material utility.

On the other hand, as a speculative mania surrounding Bitcoin’s popularity. instrument, neither does Bitcoin offer a It’s a fundamentally unpriceable asset, for unique advantage. If it is Bitcoin’s volatility its value entirely depends on guessing what you love, there are other highly-volatile the next schmuck will pay for it.

Currently, knowledge of Bitcoin’s evenassets and derivatives on which to speculate, and it is always possible to adjust your tual finitude hastens attempts to mine it. portfolio’s volatility by adopting varying But while the amount of Bitcoin that can be supplied is ultimately limited, it isn’t degrees of leverage.

As in gold, those who dabble in Bitcoin unlikely that there could come a more must therefore decide their trades using imminent point at which the pace of its the questionable methods of technical mining outpaces growth in demand for it. analysis, or the spectral intuition of market There are only so many people in the momentum. The former is hamstrung by world with an interest in Nakamoto’s the problem of induction, which holds brainchild — soon enough, Bitcoin will that what has been observed in the past exhaust the demand of retail traders with will give us clues to the future, while the enough disposable time and income. As latter isn’t logical in the slightest. At least liquidity for institutional funds eager to the value investing method of discounting short Bitcoin increases, likely too will future cash flows to the present, while also downward pressure on the cryptocurrency. similarly inductive, depends more strictly And one shouldn’t count on high-frequenon the rigor of arithmetic. (To those unfa- cy trading, for who knows where equilibrimiliar with technical analysis, imagine um price might fall if momentum in either making trading decisions based on literal direction is exacerbated by algorithms, in geometry: retroactively superimposing aggregate, going long or short.

At least gold is material, pleasing to “trend lines” on price movements.)

Considering the technology behind behold, and has some use-value in the creBitcoin, some argue the blockchain could ation of both electronics and medicine. transform the way we log transactions in Other than falsely stimulating libertarian the 21st century. However, as argued in a fantasies of a currency free from governrecent long-form piece by Kai mental interference, Bitcoin, as an immaStinchcombe, after years of research and terial experiment, offers little warranting investment, we haven’t yet found an its material cost. advantage to blockchain over existing Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and technologies besides increasing the ease of Sciences. He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com. illegal transactions. Not only is it less safe, Not a Cop appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Name Withheld | Guest Room

Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

Being a Cornell Graduate Tell Me About Yourself Student in a Weinstein World O O ne of the greatest days in my life was when I was accepted into a Cornell University graduate program. And one of the worst days was when, during spring semester open house weekend, a Cornell professor pressured me into sleeping with him.

Being a graduate student at Cornell is a mixed bag.

Some grads come in knowing which labs and advisors they’ll be working with, but others, like me, are lost at sea. The whole first year is a process of searching for a home and for someone who wants to work with you.

You have to possess all the qualities of a golden retriever: smart, charming, enthusiastic, easy to be around, trainable and honest. A good egg.

And it’s not just your personality, either. During first semester prelims, I chirped that I’d put on makeup and looked like a decent human that day — a small, feelgood triumph. A male associate professor immediately cut me down. “Don’t look too nice,” he said, “or we won’t think you’re doing enough work.”

But being the perfect, “not looking too nice” golden retriever doesn’t shield you from being harassed at Cornell. Unfortunately, there’s no way to protect graduate students. Like being an young actress in Hollywood, being an aspiring academic has a lot to do with “who you know” and your reputation. Yes, if you are brilliant you should recognized for your achievements, but let’s be honest — there’s a lot more that goes into reputation than just your achievements.

One of the biggest loopholes at Cornell is that despite a policy that protects students from being entangled with those who directly supervise them, there’s little to no protection against the abuse of other power dynamics.

Harvey Weinstein was a big name producer, but he wasn’t directing all the women who accuse him of sexual harassment or assault. Likewise, the professor who pressured me to sleep with him didn’t supervise me, but he was in my department, and could have influenced my career.

The night of the incident I am sure of a few things.

What I did know was that this was supposed to be a professional event to meet prospective students and welcome them to Cornell, and to our department.

The professor didn’t introduce himself to me. I didn’t know his name. I didn’t know if he knew the advisor with whom I wanted to work (though I found out later that they were best friends). He didn’t ask me if it was okay before he started touching me under the table at the bar.

We had only met two hours prior. After he heard about a past failed project of mine, he suggested I take another look into the project using data he might be able to get me through his familial connections. I didn’t know if he was the dean.

He insisted that I stay after all the older graduate students left the bar. I didn’t know what he would tell the other professors if I didn’t stay. I didn’t know what the other graduate students would whisper about me afterwards. I didn’t know he was married.

If I didn’t sleep with him, would he lie and tell the professors I had said something inappropriate or that I was a “bad egg”? If he did lie to other professors, how would I know?

Short answer: I wouldn’t.

My event with the professor was not a rape. He didn’t push me down or physically force me to do anything, so it wasn’t Title IX-worthy. It wasn’t coercion under Title IX because there was no explicit threat and the implicit threat — my reputation and academic career being potentially ruined — is not under the jurisdiction of 6.4. That being said, I filed a complaint anyways.

Paradoxically, I was comforted by the Title IX office that if I had rejected him and then he told other professors something to ruin me (and I had somehow found out about it), then I could file a Title IX case.

But, let’s be honest — how would I have been able to find proof? After six months, the Title IX office found the professor “not guilty” in my case, even though the dean writing the decision ruled that the professor had used “questionable judgement...with students,” that his conduct “clearly fell short of what is expected of faculty members,” and that he “risked compromising Cornell’s reputation.”

The professor actually recited Policy 6.4 before I left his house in shambles, claiming “we” did no wrong. I felt sick. He told me afterwards that he didn’t want to share anything that happened because he didn’t want me to be a black sheep in the department. It was a Catch 22: sleep with him and feel terrible or don’t sleep with him and risk him wielding his burnt ego against my aspiring academic career. I didn’t know what his temperament was like. He did not feel the need to introduce who he was.

As a woman in STEM, these questions and selfcontemplations are not far-fetched paranoias, especially in light of the stream of #MeToo posts over the past month, the headlines coming out of Berklee College of Music and the University of California of professors preying on young female academics, the downfall of members in Hollywood who were preying on aspiring actresses, and the disturbing sex abuse of gold medalists by Olympics doctors.

Kesha stayed in an abusive work contract out of fear that Dr. Luke would sabotage her career otherwise. The CEO of Uber had to step down after a federal sexual harassment investigation into his company. Even on Capitol Hill, Congress is moving to disclose just how much money they’ve paid out it settlements over the past decade.

Cornell is not immune to this predatory behavior of men in power. Case in point: me.

I volunteered to help welcome prospective students to my department. I did not volunteer to be picked out of a crowd to be touched. I did not volunteer to have older students give me weird “that’s a bit scandalous,” “are you trying to get brownie points,” and “that’s a bit trashy” looks. I did not volunteer to teach my department and professors “what to do” when someone reports one of their own for stepping out of line.

I would discuss how much of a clusterfuck my Title IX case was (they lost the tape of my interview and made me redo it, for one), but it is currently under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights.

Faculty members, graduate students and undergrads should push for more protections for students. If a professor who does not teach you or supervise you in a lab starts to touch you, unless he pins you down, he is not guilty of any crime in the eyes of Cornell’s Policy 6.4. If your advisor’s colleague starts taking off your clothes and you freeze — it’s still not a violation of Policy 6.4. And if you freak out and reject them before anything happens? Well, you better hope there’s a paper trail, otherwise Policy 6.4 just isn’t for you.

I am not accusing all faculty members of being predators: I will say that the faculty heads of my department were very supportive of me during the process and I am thankful for them. However, there are predators and they need to be put into line.

If anyone says the Title IX system works, I would tell them to talk to anyone who has ever tried to file a complaint against a professor.

The potential fallout from professor lying to other faculty, an undergrad having a messy breakup with the postdoc running their lab, or a potential employer questioning the integrity of a student’s academic success (did they only win grants because they slept with x or y?) is not protected by Cornell. Policy 6.4 is limited and lets the Harvey Weinsteins get away with abusing power. This is a problem.

Luckily there is solution on the horizon: the upcoming work of a Faculty Senate and GPSA joint endeavor called the Consensual Relationships Policy Committee. One of the proposals under discussion is the mandatory disclosure of faculty-student relationships to a confidential point of contact. I believe such a policy would have deterred the professor from ever approaching me.

A student should never have to feel their academic success will be compromised if they do not sleep with a faculty member. And it would be ignorant to believe students never feel this way or that faculty members do not recognize the power they have. I know I’m not the first Cornell graduate student who’s been failed by Policy 6.4, and unless it’s changed, I know I won’t be the last.

Cornell is not immune to this predatory behavior of men in power.

The author’s name is withheld for her safety. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

n the first few episodes of ABC’s The Bachelor, when the eponymous character needs to quickly get to know a woman during a cocktail party before deciding whether to kick her out of his romance mansion, he often resorts to a routine command: “Tell me about yourself.” It’s an unsettling and somewhat existential prompt, right up there with “What’s a fun fact about yourself?” though not nearly as awful.

(Thank goodness we’ve more or less been removing “fun facts” from the zeitgeist.) And yet, we still have to answer it on interviews, dates, The Bachelor and, worst of all, the first discussion section of the year.

I recently re-read the email I sent to the list of fellow firstyear spring admits two years ago, where I attempted to sound cool and interesting and ultimately tell these strangers “about myself.” I said I was interested in politics and in my free time I was “usually reading, succumbing to a Netflix binge or excessively snapchatting,” which was all true, I guess, but somewhat grim in retrospect.

Watching Netflix and using Snapchat does not a particularly interesting person make, and it sure doesn’t tell you anything “about” that person either.

No braggies, but I do things that are more fulfilling than just watching TV or using social media — I’m just extraordinarily embarrassed to

way to viscerally feel and understand the capabilities of your own body. I am so unbelievably uncoordinated that it’s the only time my limbs can really feel free to move however they please. Running is meditative, and, as a viral comic from The Oatmeal puts it, “...when I run, the world grows quiet.”

Insecurity in announcing the things that are important to us — no matter how much we suck at them — is largely due to our generation’s use of social media and incessant perfectionism. Amateurism and beginnerism can’t thrive on social media, when the goal is to showcase ourselves, our talents and our obsessions.

Crafting a web presence means putting your best foot forward, and so when I Instagrammed my marathon picture, I didn’t include the ones with the timer in the background and I made the caption some self-deprecating and relatable joke about being slow. Even when I made a now-defunct parody fitness Instagram and cataloged my runs, I would only include the mileage if the run was more than four miles. Our desire to share content but also to curate it is a constant, throbbing reminder to keep the things you suck at (even if you love them!) on the down-low.

But, as Karen Rinaldi wrote in a popular piece for The New York Times last year, “it’s great

The reality is, I suck at a lot of the things I love to do. announce them to my discussion section or list them in a Twitter bio. If I did, the implication, whether I like it or not, is that I’m good at these things, or at least good enough to dare to affix the title to my identity.

The reality is, I suck at a lot of the things I love to do. I especially love to run, and I especially suck at running, but saying that I’m a runner immediately makes expectations bubble up inside the audience, expectations about how good I should be before co-opting the title of “runner.” I don’t look like a runner. I’m not thin or lanky and I audibly mouthbreathe when walking up the slope or walking up the footbridge to the Ag Quad or walking in general. If I dare bring up my extremely brief tenure on my high-school track team, the response is almost always something like “Really? I wouldn’t have guessed you ran track,” which — now that I write it out — I realize is also pretty rude. I’m not that good at running either, so I can’t really prove my haters wrong. I ran a halfmarathon in May (which I’m really proud of!) with a truly mediocre time (still proud, but not anything to write home about). The thing is — I don’t really care. I love, love, love to run! It’s the most awe-inspiring

to suck at something.” She writes, “Maybe sucking at something where the stakes are low can lead us to a better place. Maybe it could be a kind of a medicine for the epidemic cocksureness in our culture,” a cocksureness that — at least in its performativity — plagues today’s young people especially.

A study published in the Psychological Bulletin earlier this month suggests that perfectionism in youth has risen over the last 27 years, noting that “this may be because, generally, American, Canadian and British cultures have become more individualistic, materialistic and socially antagonistic over this period, with young people now facing more competitive environments, more unrealistic expectations, and more anxious and controlling parents than generations before.” In other words, the cards are stacked against us, and being awful at something and, well, owning it is such a wonderfully fun way to refuse this system of perfectionism.

So, yeah, I’m Pegah, and in my free time I like to crochet, cook and run, and I suck at all three.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the arts college. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays.

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ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT What Were the Biggest Animated Hits and Misses in 2017?

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Columnist

2017 is over. Another year gone. I’d might have put more of the typical “new years” style fluff here, but I’ll just jump right into the story. Here are some of my personal highlights from 2017: The LEGO Batman Movie

Warner Brothers delivered the first major animated release of the year, and they delivered a great film. It’s energetic, thrilling, pull-out-all-the-stops fun that we all really needed at that point, for one reason or another. Besides a brilliant comedy though, it’s also surprisingly a good Batman film in its own right, taking the familiar characters in new directions. It pokes fun at the famous comic franchise while also being a love letter, and it really hits home.

Rock Dog

Was this a great movie? No, not really. Yet I still found myself charmed by this picture.

While a lot of stuff didn’t work, there was a lot of stuff that did work. It also attempted to establish a Chinese stake in the American animation market, and I regret that the low box office might delay further works. What charms me is that Rock Dog is an honest attempt to make something good, and any kids’ movie that doesn’t rely on Shrek-style humor in 2017 is an effort I can admire. I just wish that corporate politics and production hell hadn’t undermined that effort. What might have been a spearhead for Chinese animation ended up stumbling at the starting line.

COURTESY OF WALT DISNEY PICTURES

Miguel meets his dead family in Coco. average movie at best, but Your Name

As for foreign animations though, 2017 saw the Japanese smash hit Your Name finally arrive in the United States after after an August release in Japan.

If you have not seen this film yet, you’re missing out. Even if you’re not an anime fan (neither am I, for the record), Your Name has great characters, an intriguing plot, beautiful animation, fantastic music 2014 — it’s just all-around spectacular!

Captain Underpants

One of my biggest positive surprises this year was DreamWorks’ Captain Underpants. I fully expected an

Captain Underpants ended up full of wit and charm. They played with the animation style a lot, kept the plot nice and simple without being stale, and stuffed personality into every frame. It’s one of DreamWorks’ strongest movies… and their last movie until 2019.

DreamWorks will not be delivering a film in 2018, as they finish production on How to Train Your Dragon 3. Captain Underpants was also the last DreamWorks movie not distributed under the Universal logo, so in a way it’s the end of the old DreamWorks. Is that a good thing or bad thing? We’ll have to wait and see.

Emoji Movie

Speaking of bad things — The Emoji Movie. I mocked the movie’s idea, but went in with a genuinely open mind. Stupid ideas have been made into good movies before, right? And in exchange for my hope and goodwill, I got the absolute worst film I’ve ever seen. It’s a fill-in-the-blank generic kids movie, except it’s filled in with shameless advertising.

Tr a n s f o r m e r s manages to be more subtle with its product placement! The Emoji Movie is a 90 minute commercial filled with bad messages. It’s one thing for a movie to be lazy or uninspired, but The Emoji Movie transcends that into sinister cynicism, and I consider it noteworthy for all the worst reasons.

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Coco

Over Thanksgiving, I got to go see Pixar’s Coco with my boyfriend, and we both ended up crying during one of the best movies that the studio has released. With Coco, Pixar reminded everyone why they are the industry leaders. Do I even need to spell it out?

Great story, fun characters, and once more they’ve pushed computer graphics even further. Not only do they play with visuals to be fun and exciting, but they slow it down for the most powerful scenes. The character animation on the titular Coco, especially near the ending, moves with such powerful subtlety. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen. And of course, the music.

“Remember Me”, or “Recuérdame,” ties the whole plot together in such a brilliant way. It’s beyond satisfying that Coco won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, and I look forward to seeing the work that 2018 brings us.

“With Coco, Pixar reminded everyone why they are the industry leaders.”

Loving Vincent

Masami and Nobunaga bump into each other in Your Name.

nothing else, it’s worth seeing to simply marvel at all they did bring the unique visuals to life.

Luckily, the year delivered a couple more big hits. One that I found myself enamored by was Loving Vincent. While it’s been pointed out that the story is not necessarily the strongest, the sheer craftsmanship behind the film carries it through. Every scene has been handpainted in Vincent van Gogh’s style. The sheer effort poured into this movie, all the time sunk into painting out every single last frame — it’s remarkable. If

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

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Black Mirror: What Would I Do?

recaller. If I was in this situation, I would be wishing that my mother went through on her decision on driver’s ed.

BY WLIBERT REN Sun Contributor

For those who haven’t seen the show, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror paints a universe that takes place in the near future.

A future near enough that makes me worried about Google Glass and Amazon Echo. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to imagine myself in the scenarios Brooker presents the audience in this most recent season and determine whether I will survive.

“USS Callister” The technology: A videogame simulation of a Star Trek-esque world where digital clones of people in the real world are stuck as slaves, forced to follow the orders of the game’s player.

Initially, I think I would be fine in this world. I had two different sets of Star Trek Halloween costumes growing up, so yes, I am a fan. However, like most other students here at Cornell, I have pondered the question of existence, and would probably go to supreme stages of shock if I was told point black that my life is nothing more than a bunch of digital code. There would be no way where I could have the willpower to fight off the dread of living forever in space.

“Arkangel” The technology: A Big Brother version of parental monitoring software, where mothers can observe every single action of their children, including watching them make love for the first time and snorting lines of coke with their dropout boyfriends.

COURTESY OF HOUSE OF TOMORROW

I have a tiger mom who calls me every three days. In high school, she honestly considered the possibility of having me not sign up for driver’s education courses so that she could transport me everywhere and observe my every move. Needless to say, I would not be a fan if my mom was there with me during my first kiss, let alone duing sex. It might be enough for me to be like Brenna Harding in this episode and hitchhike out of town, considering I barely survived high school in the first place.

“Crocodile” The technology: A memory recall device used by the police and insurance

CupcakKe

Ephorize

Self-released

Ephorize, CupcakKe’s newest album, does not deliver a message or follow a theme based on the tracklist alone. It requires listening, but does not make a chore out of it, as the album is filled with fun and clever bars.

CupcakKe, a female rapper from Chicago, has been in the spotlight since her 2016 mixtape, Cum Cake. After that, her 2017 album, Queen Elizabitch kept her momentum with its consistency and uniqueness.

CupcakKe is nothing like Cardi B, Nicki Minaj or any other highly popular female rappers.

CupcakKe’s lyrics are in a category of their own in that they can be funny, extremely vulgar or introspective. She has kept this unique style since her mixtape, and her new album Ephorize is her best one yet.

There has been no change in what CupcakKe is doing. She’s still not afraid to rap about what’s on her mind in a witty way, her struggles or sexual themes. However, Ephorize has a

distinctly professional, polished sound. From the day CupcakKe unveiled her album art, it became evident that she was more serious about her success and music than ever before.

Nevertheless, her music has not lost any of its eccentricity.

The first track, “2 Minutes,” lives up to everything the album should be and is well written with positive, encouraging bars about overcoming struggles and being optimistic, such as “But I’m dealing with real shit / My stretch marks really itch / My hair haven’t grown an inch / But I’m still that bitch.” Right away, the listener knows that Ephorize is going to be as real and raw as it gets.

“Cartoons,” the second track, was released prior to the album and was well-received. As opposed to “2 Minutes,” “Cartoons” is witty, but still raw.

CupcakKe best highlist her rapping skills in “Cartoons,” and it’s the track you’ll want to learn how to rap not only because it’s

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“Black Museum” The technology: In this episode, there are multiple devices, that can transfer consciousness from one body to another body or inanimate object.

I honestly am not very worried about this technology. Ethical arguments aside, I do not think that anyone would ever want to keep my consciousness after my death.

My parents would be happy for a finally quiet house, my friends would be glad to get rid of an obnoxious man-child, and I probably wouldn’t have a girlfriend (still).

Wilbert Ren is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at wr62@cornell.edu.

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agencies that can record on video the emotions and visual images seen by the witness.

In “Crocodile,” the whole mess gets started when Mia and Rob, driving back from the club, accidently hit a bicyclist and kills him. Then, instead of calling the cops, the paranoid couple decide to dispose of the body in a lake. Fifteen years later, Mia decides to kill Rob for being a blabbermouth, gets investigated by an insurance agent, displays her memory of killing Rob and the bicyclist on the screen, decides to kill the insurance agent, goes the insurance agent’s home and kills her husband and baby child, and then attends her child’s school musical. This was all because of the

“Hang the DJ” The technology: Tinder meets teenage fiction dystopian society, where the dating algorithm determines if you and the person you swiped right on are compatible based on the number of simulations in which the two of you rebelled against men with tasers.

Initially, I was a fan of this. My dating life right now is like the real-life version of any Kidz Bop song: it’s a sad joke. An app that sorts out the mess of “is she the one” for me without getting my hands dirty seems great. But the idea of me fighting a simulated totalitarian society along with a stranger seems too much. I honestly do not think there is anyone who can beat all of the buff bodyguards while I complain the whole time.

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CupcakKe may not deliver a big, meaningful and inspirational message, but begins to introduce new listeners to the type of artist she is. It isn’t until “Duck Duck Goose” that the audience is exposed to signature CupcakKe. One of the four explicit tracks on Ephorize, “Duck Duck Goose” is not for the weak. To anyone who may be familiar with CupcakKe’s previous work, “Duck Duck Goose” is an improved, catchier version of “Deepthroat” (the title says it all) and has nothing to do with the childhood game. I am probably not allowed to write most of the lyrics on this track, as the mildest it gets is “Turn it into a Yeezy shirt when you rip off my top / My box already small, it don't need to be cropped.” The “Duck Duck Goose” music video is full of dildos and CupcakKe in a duck onesie, and is the epitome of her artistic style.

Perhaps the catchiest track on Ephorize, “Crayons” is an ode to

the LGBTQ community. Ever since her 2016 song “LGBT,” it has been no secret that CupcakKe is not afraid to be an ally. “Crayons” not only demonstrates CupcakKe’s growth as a writer and artist, but as a person.

This time around, she shows a better perspective of the community and criticizes problematic stereotypes, such as “Girl on girl, they like ‘yup’/But when it's man on man they like ‘yuck’.”

She expertly sums up her message on the second verse, “Ain't no confusion, everybody human/ Get to know people instead of just assumin'/ Yeah, in conclusion, the gays ain't losin'/ Like boomerang 'cause I'm all about the movement.”

The eighth track, “Self Interview,” is CupcakKe at her most exposed. CupcakKe has been working hard for her music and fame, and in this track, she questions double standards and reminds herself to never change for fame: “I'm hoping I never be that, you know? Never change

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for the fame, stay me.” Not many artists show the downside to being famous, and if they did, nobody would want to be a celebrity. CupcakKe, however, reveals ugly truths, such as “Most wouldn't comprehend, double standards need to end / It's a list of shit I could name but it ain't enough ink in this pen / Spent three hours on makeup with my face covered like peek-a-boo.”

Most rappers have a focus, whether it be identity, culture, sexuality or politics. CupcakKe is all about sexual liberation, her struggles and remaining optimistic, which sends the perfect message with which to start 2018. CupcakKe is not afraid to be herself and show her fans the not-so-glamorous parts of her life, or attack double standards, which is what more rappers — female or not — should aspire to do.

Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun.com

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and .930 save percentage.

Before an NHL career that included stints in Toronto, Los Angeles, Edmonton and Montreal, Scrivens was named ECAC Goalie of the Year his senior season, in which he also earned first team All-America honors. His 2,873 career saves are the secondmost in Cornell history.

He is one of 30 Cornellians to play in the NHL and was a key member of the 2009-10 ECAC championship team that Scrivens set an NHL record advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. for most saves in a regular Scrivens began his NHL season shutout as an career in the Toronto Maple Edmonton Oiler in Jan. 2014, Leafs organization after going He bounced around, making 59 stops in a 3-0 win. undrafted. eventually seeing playing time in the AHL before winning his first start in November 2011.

After the 2012-13 NHL lockout, Scrivens became a full-time backup goalie for the Maple Leafs.

While his Cornell career features more record breaking accomplishments than his professional one, Scrivens did set an NHL record for most saves in a regular season shutout as an Edmonton Oiler in January 2014, making 59 stops in a 3-0 win against San Jose. He also set an Oilers record in that contest for most saves in a game.

Scrivens will be the ninth Cornell men’s hockey player to play on an Olympic team, and the sixth for Canada.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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Between the pipes, freshman Matt Galajda was dominant once again. After senior Hayden Stewart’s return from injury this week, the rookie goaltender kept his spot in net, making his fourth consecutive start. Galajda made 24 saves for his fourth career shutout.

“It’s game-to-game and weekto-week for us right now,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said of the ongoing goalie competition between Galajda and Stewart. “I like both of them and Hayden

was going then got hurt. Now Matt’s in, and he’s kind of got it rolling.”

Galajda stopped a flurry of Colgate opportunities in the first half of the third period after a first two frames controlled mainly by the Red. “Our team played well tonight in front of me and didn’t give them many chances,” Galajda said. “It’s pretty comfortable at home here, it’s nice to have the fans back. I felt dialed in from the start and pretty confident.”

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By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Following a wild season that, by week eight kickoff, saw the chance of a seven-way tie for first place, Ivy League football announced Tuesday that it is shifting around the schedule starting in 2018 by ending the season with regional rivalry matchups.

Penn-Princeton, Brown-Dartmouth, Cornell-Columbia and The Game between Yale and Harvard will now cap off the 2018 season and beyond, as the league hopes it can enhance the excitement of the final weekend.

“The storied-tradition of 2018 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Ivy League regional rivalries has always been of great Game: Date: importance to our alumni, fans Cornell @ Delaware September 15 September 22 and teams,” Ivy League Yale @ Cornell Executive Director Robin Sacred Heart @ Cornell September 29 Harris said in a press release. Harvard @ Cornell October 6 October 13 “We look forward to a fantastic Cornell @ Colgate October 20 final weekend of the Ivy foot- Cornell @ Brown October 27 Cornell @ Princeton ball season, with these rivalry November 3 games adding to the excite- Penn @ Cornell November 10 Dartmouth @ Cornell ment of the Ivy League title Cornell @ Columbia November 17 race.”

The season finale will not be the only change to Cornell’s 2018 season, however. The Red will once again open its campaign at Delaware but will then return home, hoping to avenge last year’s thrashing on the road to eventual-champion Yale.

Cornell will remain in Ithaca to take on Sacred Heart after a one-year hiatus in the matchup, followed by a rematch with Harvard over the fall break from classes.

A mid-season three-game road trip kicks off at Colgate, where the Red will return for the first time since its last-second win over the Raiders in 2016. Ivy play resumes at Brown and Princeton the following two weekends, with Penn and Dartmouth in November rounding out the home slate of games.

While The Game will be going on in Fenway Park, Cornell’s rivalry conclusion to the season will be on the road to New York City to take on Columbia.

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

Freshman Galajda Stops 23 to Complete Sweep M. HOCKEY

I thought maybe he was going to shoot it and he did.”

Galajda, third in the ECAC Freshman forwards Cam in save percentage, picked up Donaldson and Kyle Betts his fifth shutout of the season, scored for the Red, who now tying the Cornell rookie record.

Late in the second period, have 15 goals from the class — three defensemen and five for- the Cornell offense broke through when Donaldson capiwards.

The Cornell defense made talized on a turnover at things difficult for the Raiders Colgate’s blue line and convert(10-10-4, 6-5-1) all game long, ed on a breakaway. Betts doustymying a few early scoring bled the lead on a wraparound midway through the third. chances with key blocks.

As the season’s intensity “[Galajda is] a good goalramps up, the Red’s tender and they’re defensive effort has committed to the way. blocking shots [and “Guys are buck- led Cornell allows 1.52 making it] tough to ling down, per game, get pucks through they’re making goals fewest in the to the net and cresmarter plays, ECAC. ate tips and deflecare bucktions,” said head they’re getting ling“Guys down, they’re coach Mike Schafer the puck out of making smarter ’86. plays, they’re getGalajda, who the zone.” ting the puck out stopped all 47 Freshman Matt Galajda of the zone,” Colgate shots in the Galajda said. weekend sweep, “They’re not trying made perhaps his to be too fancy, so biggest save of the series 7:08 into the second, we’re doing a good job just getsteering away a breakaway ting pucks deep.”

Cornell hits the road next opportunity by Colgate’s Mike Panowyk with his skate to pre- weekend for a pair of Ivy League matchups at Harvard and serve a 0-0 tie.

“I had no clue what he was Dartmouth. going to do,” Galajda said. “I saw he had the puck out in front Raphy Gendler can be reached at of him in a shooting position so rgendler@cornellsun.com Continued from page 20

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BASKETBALL

Morgan on Shortlist For Lute Olson Award

By JOSH ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Cornell men’s basketball junior guard Matt Morgan has been named to the watch list for the eighth annual Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award.

The midseason watch list, which was disclosed on Thursday, includes 30 standout NCAA Division I players who have played at least two seasons. Past winners have included Kemba Walker, then with Connecticut and now with the Charlotte Hornets, as well as Creighton product Doug McDermott now with the New York Knicks.

By making the shortlist, Morgan helps his potential NBA bid after an offseason in which he declared for the NBA draft.

Morgan also joins the likes of top NBA prospects in Villanova’s

Mikal Bridges, Michigan State’s Miles Bridges, and Duke’s Grayson Allen in making the watch list. Morgan is the only Ivy Leaguer named to the list of 30.

Morgan is currently ranked sixth in the nation in scoring at 23.5 points per game, up from 18.1 last year, while maintaining efficient shooting at 49 percent from the field and 38 percent from beyond the arc. The guard is coming off his second consecutive Ivy League scoring title and is looking to lead this year’s Red to its first Ivy League title since the 2009-2010 season.

The winner of the 2017-2018 Lute National Player of the Year Award will be announced on March 31 at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Event in San Antonio.

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

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Scoring spotlight | Matt Morgan’s impressive season has garnered national attention.

Cornellians to Olympians W. HOCKEY

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player in collegiate hockey.

Johnston holds several school records, including shots on goal (673) and shots per game (5.7).

As a freshman, Fortino was the top-scoring defenseman in the NCAA and eventually finished as a three-time AllAmerican. The first overall pick in the 2014 Canadian Women’s Hockey League draft, Fortino has earned professional success akin to that which she enjoyed in college as a scoring defenseman.

Rougeau is a former Cornell captain who also earned the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award and helped lead Cornell to three Frozen Four appearances in her tenure. She was recognized as the ECAC’s best defensive defenseman three times, and also earned four firstteam All-ECAC selections.

Jenner is a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year who holds school records in gamewinning goals and assists. She was second in the NCAA in scoring as a freshman, a feat that helped her earn Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors.

Saulnier, playing in her first Olympics, earned ECAC Rookie of the Year honors along with being named a first-team All-American and a top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award in the 2013-2014 season.

These five players played at Cornell together for only one season, but they helped define an era of success for the women’s hockey program. Now, as teammates in a jersey of a different shade of red and white, they will look to help continue an era of success for the Canadian national team.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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No.4 Icers Sweep ColgateWith Consecutive Shutouts Angello scores twice in Red’s home win Entering Friday’s matchup with zero goals in its last 15 man-advantage chances, the Red was finally Junior linemates Anthony able to notch a power play goal Angello and Mitch Vanderlaan when Angello, moving to the slot continued their scoring onslaught between the circles, redirected a shot from on Friday defenseman night against COLGATE @ CORNELL Yanni Kaldis to Colgate, give his team a extending the 2-0 lead.

Red’s unbeaten Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL Vanderlaan streak to seven. Colgate 0 0 0 0 and Angello C o r n e l l Cornell 1 1 0 2 have combined (15-2-1, 9-1-1 for 14 ECAC) cruised to a 2-0 victory over the No. 19 points—seven goals and seven Raiders (10-9-4, 6-4-1) in the assists—in their last five games. front end of a home-and-home Angello has seven goals in his last series. The two teams are set to seven games. meet again Saturday night at See M. ICERS page 17 Colgate.

Angello dominated offensively for the Red, scoring two goals to bring his season total to eight.

Angello’s first goal of the contest came just 2:40 into the first, and showcased the red-hot “BAM” line of freshman Brendan Locke, Angello and Vanderlaan.

The three have combined for 41 points this season. Vanderlaan set up the goal by entering the zone in transition near the blue line and drawing three Colgate defenders before finding an open Angello, who drove to the net and flipped the puck past Colgate goaltender Colton Point.

“I’ve played with [Vanderlaan] all of freshman year, a lot of last year and then this year,” Angello said. “It’s just one of those things that I know where he’s going to be at all times on the ice. It’s just one of those weird connections.”

The Red’s second goal gave them a comfortable lead and ended a power play drought 43 seconds into the second period.

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Shutout city | The Red beat Colgate at home on Friday and away on Saturday, behind a pair of shutouts from freshman goaltender Matt Galajda.

Galajda earns second straight blanking Gillam ’17 blanked Yale and Brown in November 2015.

With the victory and Freshman goaltender Matt Dartmouth’s win at Clarkson, the Galajda and the stifling Cornell Red (16-2-1, 10-1-1 ECAC) moves into a defense in tie with the front of him CORNELL @ COLGATE G o l d e n stole the show Knights atop again Saturday the ECAC to complete a 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL standings with sweep of Game: Cornell 0 1 1 2 21 points.

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Colgate 0 0 0 0 Clarkson Galajda h a n d e d made 23 saves for his second consecutive Cornell its only conference loss so shutout. It’s the first time a far this season.

Cornell goaltender has recorded See M. HOCKEY page 18 back-to-back shutouts since Mitch

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Six Cornellians Headed to 2018 Olympics for Canada Five women’s hockey alumnae selected to Canadian Olympic roster CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

Five former Cornell women’s hockey players have been invited to represent their home country of Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Team Canada announced Friday.

Featured on the four-time defending gold medal team’s 23player roster for 2018 are Cornellians Rebecca Johnston ’12, Laura Fortino ’13, Lauriane Rougeau ’13, Brianne Jenner ’15 and Jillian Saulnier ’15.

All five players were teammates on the 2011-2012 Cornell team, which took a Going for gold | Five former women’s hockey players are headed to South Korea for this year’s Olympic Games.

30-5 season all the way to the national semifinals, ultimately losing to eventualchampion Minnesota.

One Cornellian, Micah Zandee-Hart ’20, missed the final Olympic team after originally being named to the Canadian roster this past summer as one of its youngest members.

For Johnston, the stage will be far from unfamiliar. The 28-year-old forward will be experiencing her third winter games, which includes gold medals with Canada in 2010 and 2014. While a member of the Red, Johnston earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors in 2007-08 and enjoyed selections to the All-Ivy and All-ECAC teams in each of her four seasons. Johnston finished three seasons as a top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top female See W.HOCKEY page 19

Scrivens ’10 one of three goalies on men’s squad

By RAPHY GENDELER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell alumnus and former NHL goaltender Ben Scrivens ’10 will represent his home country on the ice at the upcoming PyeongChang Olympics.

Team Canada announced its roster Thursday, which unlike in the past, doesn’t contain any current NHL players. The league’s players aren’t participating in the 2018 games.

Scrivens, 31, currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia. His wife, Jenny Scrivens ’10 was also a Cornell goaltender, making 1,336 career saves.

Scrivens played four seasons in a Cornell sweater, including three as the starter. He recorded a career 1.93 goals against average See SCRIVENS page 17