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Tobacco talk | A referendum on whether Cornell should launch a two-year initiative to become tobacco-free will take place in the spring.

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Ezra’s Tunnel: 1830-2018

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Students to Vote on Campus Tobacco Ban

By BREANNE FLEER

ed by the University Assembly in May Sun Staff Writer last year through U.A. Resolution 9. It is meant to allow all members of the This spring the Cornell commu- Cornell community to vote on whether nity will have Cornell should the opportu“launch a two-year nity to vote on “Deciding ... to make initiative to become whether to Cornell’s Ithaca campus tobacco-free.” ban all tobacThe resolution tobacco-free involves co products was originally from the sponsored by many considerations.”

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President Martha E. Pollack former chair of Currently, the the Employee referendum is Assembly, and was slated to coincide with spring elec- introduced in March 2017. The tions for the Student Assembly, Cornell community will have the according to Gabriel Kaufman ’18, opportunity to submit statements chair of the Student Assembly during a comment period before Appropriations Committee. It is like- the referendum takes place. ly to be held in early March.

The referendum was officially adoptSee TOBACCO page 4

Cornell erected a steel gate last week in front of Ezra’s Tunnel, blocking off a cave that the University’s co-founder blasted through rock in 1830, and which in recent decades has been used to reach a swimming hole where two Cornellians have drowned.

The closure of the 200-foot tunnel above Ithaca Falls follows the city’s approval, in December, of Cornell’s offer to pay for and build the gate, which is on city land. The City’s approval followed a monthslong debate between those who wanted one of the most beautiful gorge areas to stay accessible and others who believed that if the tunnel remained open, more teens would be injured or die.

The black gate, made from a combination of stainless steel and galvanized steel, stands about 16-foot tall and includes a locked, 6-foot-by-8-foot door

“We had the refreshing opportunity to work in subzero wind chills to get the work done.”

Dan McClure that can be used by medical personnel in case of emergencies. Some Common Council

and Cornell community members hope that the gate could one day allow for guided tours, although there are currently no plans for tours of the area.

conditions, at some significant risk to themselves, in an effort to help secure the safety of others when the good weather returns,” McClure said.

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Tunnel termination | After months of debate, Cornell gated off the entrance to Ezra’s Tunnel, a cavern built by the University’s founder.

Contractors paid by Cornell worked in freezing temperatures and snow from Monday through Wednesday last week, welding the bolt cutter-resistant gate shut.

“We had the refreshing opportunity to work in subzero wind chills to get the work done” by the first day of classes, Dan McClure, the Cornell construction manager who designed the gate and oversaw the installation, said in an email to The Sun. “I commend the efforts of the team we put together to work on the side of a cliff in icy

McClure said it is not yet clear how much the implementation of the gate cost, saying it would likely end up costing about as much as the gate Cornell erected in the Cascadilla Gorge. The gate will now be transferred to the City of Ithaca, which will maintain the gate.

Cornell owns the gorge area east of the Stewart Avenue bridge, where students and locals swim illegally under Forest Falls, and the City of Ithaca owns the gorge area to See TUNNEL page 4

University Consolidates, Rebrands International Offices Cornell Abroad, International Students and Scholars Office merged into new Office of Global Learning

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer

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International aspirations | Cornell launched its Center of Agriculture and Development at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad, India.

CorneAffairs. “Joining the two previously separate teams under an expanded mission of global learning will provide increased capacity and opportunities.”

In recent years, Cornell has shown a diversification of global opportunities.

Thirty seven percent of graduating seniors participated in an international program, according to Cornell Abroad.

Semester-long study abroad courses are also not the only way for students to participate

in international programs.

Another alternative is lesser known year-long academic programs like the International Agriculture and Rural Development 602 class which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year.

At its founding, the course was a brief twenty-day course in Latin America or India. Now it is an eight-credit fall course, a twenty-day 3-credit course of hands-on experience in a foreign country, and a spring course.

Beginning in 1968, when See GLOBAL page 4

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Suing Like a River: Law, Secularism and the Rights of Nature Noon, 404 Morrill Hall A Bird’s Eye View of Extrasolar Planets 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building 15th Annual North Campus Food Show 3 - 5:30 p.m., 1st Floor, Robert Purcell Community Center Disability in the Healthcare Context: Reflections on the Broader Ethical Landscape 3:30 - 5 p.m., 141 Sage Hall Chemistry Colloquium 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., 120 Physical Sciences Building

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Students Write and Perform Hotel School Alum Productions Within 24 Hours Named Hospitality

By EMILY YANG

sure of the short timeline encourages everyone to do their best work. “The race against the clock inspires writers to focus on central themes Given the open-to-interpretation themes and the actors to perform at their highest level,” “weather” and “mix and match” and 24 hours, he said. students created and performed four plays and “There’s just this camaraderie in having to one dance at Festival 24, a biannual event which put something together in 24 hours,” said Ilana featured the culmination of dozens of Cornell Wallenstein ’20, who was an actress in a play. performers’ work this Saturday.

“It’s so rewarding when you get to work with Co-producers people who are just as Irving Torres-Lopez passionate — and ’18 and Camilo “It’s so rewarding when you get to work tired — as you are. It’s Reynolds-Dominguez with people who are just as passionate such a unique and fun ’20 began recruiting and crazy experience.”

— and tired — as you are.” playwrights, actors, R e y n o l d s dancers, directors, Dominguez hopes to Ilana Wallenstein ’20 production crew and expand future festivals filmmakers in to include nonprofit November and at work, and he encour7:30 p.m. on Friday announced this year’s theme ages anyone to participate in the productions. for writers and choreographers.

The doors to the Flex Theatre in the Schwartz For the next 24 hours, the members of Center opened to a full house at 7:30 p.m. on Festival 24 worked nonstop to write scripts, lead Saturday. Some pieces featured outrageous rehearsals, create sets, costumes and develop humor while others touched on more serious lights and music. topics of isolation on campus and racism.

The process is “chaotic, nerve-wracking, wild The topics of this year’s plays included a fun,” said Reynolds-Dominguez, who has previ- Chinese emperor and his concubines, a Cornell ously acted in the event. support group, a student’s attempt to become an The Festival began in 2008 with six plays but actress, and dreams about Amazon Alexa. has since shifted to incorporate other art forms, like dance.

According to Reynolds-Dominguez, the pres- Emily Yang can be reached at eyang@cornellsun.com.

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Ithaca College and Cornell Libraries Combine Catalogs

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

A new Cornell University and Ithaca College partnership allows students, faculty and staff to borrow books and other reference materials directly from both campuses.

The library departments of Cornell and Ithaca College have now added a program where members of each of the college’s communities can go to the other’s campus and check out books.

Students will have to apply for a free library card before they can borrow materials.

Cornell currently does have library lending partnerships with other universities.

The University participates in the Interlibrary loan program that

allows students to receive materials from Cornell’s partner organizations. Ithaca College also has a similar program in place.

“We have had a long-standing relationship with [Ithaca

“The philosophy of resource sharing is getting these materials to people no matter where they are.”

Caitlin Finlay College] on Interlibrary Loan,” said Caitlin Finlay, Director of Interlibrary Services. “This is something that is growing in the resource sharing community.

The philosophy of resource sharing is getting these materials to

people no matter where they are.”

Because of the proximity of the campuses, members of either institution are now able to go directly to the library and check out books.

“We are so close that the [Interlibrary Services] department was getting people from Ithaca College or vice versa saying ‘Hey I am here can I take out this book?’ and there was no mechanism to do that because that was not the way the system would work,” said Wendy Wilcox, Access Services Librarian.

Cornell additionally has in place a program called Borrow Direct between the Ivy League, Stanford University, University See LIBRARY page 13

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Cover to cover | Cornell students can now check out books and reference materials from the Ithaca College Library.

Innovator for 2018

Entrepreneur awarded for creating world’s largest online group travel provider.

By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

Timothy Hentschel ’01, cofounder and CEO of HotelPlanner, has been honored with the 2018 Cornell Hospitality Innovator Award for his industry leading success in the online travel market — an achievement he credits to his personal resilience.

“This award means quite a bit to me. As someone who was adopted and moved around all of the time, the hotel school and my fraternity brothers were like family,” Hentschel said in an interview with The Sun. Hentschel will formally accept the award on June 5 at the 10th Annual Cornell Hospitality Icon and Innovator Awards gala.

Hentschel established his company HotelPlanner in 2003 with his business partner and chief operating officer, John Price. Over the last 15 years, the company has grown into the world's largest online group travel provider.

“As someone who was adopted ... the hotel school and my fraternity brothers were like family.”

Timothy Hentschel ’01 According to Hentschel, his success didn’t come overnight.

It took HotelPlanner a few years to break even, but Hentschel combined his hotel school background and a concentration in micro-computing to continue working towards his travel-tech ambitions.

“Entrepreneurship is 20 hours a day. That’s how it gets started in the first year,” Hentschel said. “Everybody expects you to fail. And that’s what makes it even harder. And if you don’t believe in yourself then you will fail. But any kind of adversity turns into an opportunity if you just fight through it.”

Hentschel said he focused on keeping costs down, creating innovative automated systems and optimizing profit margins.

The Hawaii native worked around the clock for the first couple of years, offering clients 24/7 phone support from his apartment.

He experienced an unhealthy weight gain and no pay for the countless clocked hours but “knew it was brilliant.”

“We were the first in the space. I knew it was needed and I knew we could do it better than anyone else,” he said. “I had the Cornell education, I had the family background in sales from my family’s hotels and group travel tours. I had

“Entrepreneurship is 20 hours a day. That’s how it gets started in the first year.”

Timothy Hentschel ‘01 ultimate confidence in myself.”

HotelPlanner now partners with many of the emerging platforms that inspired Hentschel’s enterprise, like Priceline and Expedia.

Ironically, Hentschel rejected Priceline’s attempt to buy HotelPlanner in 2006. “It was obviously the right decision because just a few years later we started working with Travelocity and Orbitz and Hotels.com,” Hentschel said. “We’ve grown into this massive behemoth of a company.”

After 15 years, several travel agencies in the United States use HotelPlanner for group bookings, according to Hentschel.

The company is completely employee-owned and is forecasted to continue growing with new travel apps and virtual assistance.

HotelPlanner also offers group travel technology expertise to over 4.2 million group event planners located in offices in Florida, London, Hong Kong and Las Vegas.

“I had the Cornell education, I had the family background in sales from my family’s hotels and group travel tours.”

Timothy Hentschel ’01 Hentschel felt that receiving this award was like “being recognized by [his] family.”

“When Kate, the Dean of the Hotel School, brought me up on stage and announced that I was the innovator, I looked out on a room of just all smiling faces. All the guys that I’ve known for 17 years,” Hentschel said of the moment he received the news at the American Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles.

“It’s so much pride to look out there and see those guys. It says something to [my class] around 2001 and I’m so happy to represent them,” he said.

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

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on Tobacco Ban Ezra’s Tunnel Closed for Safety Vote After Pollack’s review, referendum to be non-binding TUNNEL

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ing Ithaca Falls and Ezra’s Tunnel.

In 2011, Kendrick Castro, 22, from Reston, Virginia, drowned the day after he received his diploma after slipping and being swept away by the rushing waters as he waded toward the swimming hole under Forest Falls. Winston S. Perez Ventura, 17, of the Bronx, was enrolled in Cornell’s pre-freshman program when he drowned at the swimming hole on Aug. 5 of last year.

“There’s this big industrial piece of metal blocking access to an area that’s so beatiful.”

Logan Bell Both passed through the tunnel shortly before their deaths.

"The installation of the safety barriers to close off the dangerous area above Ithaca Falls is a crucial component of the broader gorge safety efforts between Cornell and the City of Ithaca, to promote safe and responsible use of the gorges,” Todd Bittner, Cornell’s director of natural areas, said in an email.

Cornell’s co-founder, Ezra Cornell, used gunpowder to burrow through the tunnel in 1830 with a crew. A dam above Ithaca Falls, which is now spray painted and crumbling, once sent water gushing through the tunnel and powered mills along Fall Creek.

For decades, students have traveled through

the tunnel to lounge on the rocks upstream from the 150-foot-tall Ithaca Falls or swim illegally under Forest Falls. A headline from The Cornell Daily Sun in 1963 reported that “Ezra’s Tunnel Lures Students.”

Frank Proto ’65 told The Sun in December, after urging Common Council to vote against the gate, that he and his friends walked through the tunnel “a number of times” in the early 1960s.

Logan Bell, who founded a loose group, Free the Gorges, that advocates to keep natural areas open, said the erection of the barrier “feels almost unreal.”

“There’s this big industrial piece of metal blocking access to an area that’s so beautiful,” he said on Sunday evening. “We really don’t have much of a recourse at this point other than … going in more dangerous paths to get to the same areas.”

Joe McMahon, the former chair of Ithaca’s Natural Areas Commission, wrote in an op-ed in The Sun that he wished he could continue to enjoy the area, but that the danger of the area and the desire of people “to go to a spot where there is little-to-no oversight” requires that it be shuttered.

Some Common Council members said in December that they supported the gate, but also held out hope that it would one day be opened.

“I will be voting for this gate with the hope that we will also marshall our time and resources [to] maybe take it down sometime in the near future,” Rob Gearhart (D-Third Ward) said in December.

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

TOBACCO

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Joseph Anderson ’20, chair of the Campus Welfare Committee and an undergraduate representative to the U.A., said the referendum is being held to give every individual at Cornell the opportunity to “have a say in this process.”

In September 2016, the U.A. referred the idea of creating a tobaccofree campus to the Campus Welfare Committee. After meeting with constituent group representatives, Cornell Health, Cornell Wellness, Environmental Health and Safety and Tompkins County, the CWC recommended the U.A. hold a campus-wide referendum.

President Martha E. Pollack’s response to the approved resolution praised the U.A.’s commitment to addressing the health concerns of tobacco on campus and providing a chance for members of the Cornell community to express their views, but recommended that they hold at least one public hearing regarding the referendum.

“In addition to providing opportunities for dialogue on the use of tobacco on campus, a referendum — along with the attendant comment period and public forum –- would create an opportunity for a public education campaign on campus to enhance understanding about the negative health effects of tobacco use, an effort I would fully support,” she said in her statement.

Pollack did express some concern that some might see a tobacco ban as “a significant personal restriction.” She specifically disagreed with a clause in the resolution that would make the results of the referendum binding.

“Deciding whether to make Cornell’s Ithaca campus tobacco-free involves many considerations, and although popular opinion among our students, faculty and staff is chief among them, other concerns — about enforcement and the impact on staff on a sprawling campus — must not be overlooked,” she said in her acknowledgment of the resolution.

The Assembly took Pollack’s concerns into consideration. In response, Anderson told The Sun, the referendum will not follow the initial binding clause so university leadership will not be obligated to honor the referendum results.

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Creates New International Opportunities for Students GLOBAL

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international students comprised only 3.2 percent of undergraduate enrollment, IARD602 was Cornell’s first international course, run by International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life

Sciences.

“It is anything but a typical classroom,” said Prof. K.V. Raman, who has been associated with the course since 2001.

Since its launch, students have had the opportunity to explore Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa

Rica, Honduras, Ecuador, India, Thailand and Myanmar.

“IARD602 broadened to include socio-economic and development issues, and then expanded to provide insights into issues of globalization and transnational communities,” course director Ronnie Coffman said. “The consistent

thing about the course is that it often represents a life-altering experience for the students.”

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell and NYU are among several universities from all 50 states that are offering refuge to students from the University of Puerto Rico, whose education was interrupted by Hurricane Maria last year.

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Cornell Health puts a great deal of effort into vaccinating as many individuals as possible during the end of September and beginning of October, and at every opportunity after that, per CDC recommendations. This year, we aimed high and procured enough supply to vaccinate 10,000 members of the Cornell community (that’s 2000 more than usually opt to get the vaccine). We succeeded in dispensing most of that vaccine during the fall semester, which means our community is better prepared now than it ever has been for flu season.

In a typical year, interest in flu vaccination drops off by January, and most years Cornell does not exhaust its supply. This year, at Cornell and across the country, there is an ongoing demand, due to awareness of the sustained level of widespread and intense flu activity. As a result, the national supply is dwindling; and late last week, Cornell Health gave the last of its large pre-ordered stockpile. Following concerted efforts by our staff, we have been able to replenish our supply and will continue our efforts to keep a supply on hand as long as there is demand for vaccinations.

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T

he “erroneous” missile warning in Hawaii was a government coverup. I don’t think there was an incoming nuke. I think the powers-thatbe wanted some data on how people would handle an imminent nuclear crisis.

Consider the location of the incident.

Hawaii is the most isolated state in the union, which significantly lowered the risk for national panic. And its relatively tiny population presumably led to a smaller potential for casualties. If the warning message truly was a random occurrence, what are the odds that it would occur in the state with ideal conditions for such an experiment?

And what about the emergency management employee who “pushed the wrong button” and caused the panic?

First of all, I’d imagine that sending out a nuclear missile warning involves a few checks and balances. Second of all, the guy wasn’t fired. He was reassigned.

If there are any fireable offenses within the emergency management agency, one would think that this would be it. It’s the equivalent of, say, an executive at Proctor and Gamble force-feeding Tide Pods to children. I call bullshit. The higher-ups got some workaday ham-andegger stooge to do their dirty work for them, and then they shunted him sideways to throw the public off the trail.

Wake up people.

I haven’t been shy about voicing this opinion, and I’ve received nothing but scorn and derision for doing so. And despite the fact that I’m probably wrong, I don’t think my viewpoint deserves to be mocked.

Conspiracy theories get a bad rap, as I demonstrated somewhat by falling into satire in the last paragraph.

(Digression: anyone writing to convince should never pass up at opportunity for humor. It’s the most powerful tool in your arsenal.)

I for one consider conspiracy theorizing to be a noble pursuit. In the ’50s and ’60s, the U.S. government imposed mass sterilization policies in Puerto Rico.

And a short while later, they strongarmed their way out of a genocide charge in the ICJ case of Yugoslavia v. United States of America. A person informed of these events who had previously been ignorant of them, might very well view them as ludicrous conspiracy theories.

But they happened.

Independent of the Hawaiian missile fiasco, I would merely point out that the US government has earned all the skepticism it is met with. All governments have, and millennials are slowly but surely getting it. Look at the new Star Wars movie: it’s very clearly and deliberately trying to be a Star Wars for a new generation. The leader of the bad guys is a sympathetic character, the “old master” is a disillusioned fainéant, and the rich weapons dealers sell arms to both sides.

Look also at the current NFL season: talk of “fixed” games and “paid off ” referees is on people’s tongues with a frequency that was unheard of when Joe Montana played quarterback. We’re losing faith in the system and it’s music to my ears.

Until there’s an erroneous missile warning, and everyone is suddenly ready to give the system the benefit of the doubt. Until it’s time to address the actions of Antifa, and we condemn them as dangerous radicals. If the system is as fucked as everyone seems to think it is, we should be rebelling with force. Wake up people.

We are the generation that has to save the world. We have the knowledge and the technology to facilitate meaningful communication, we face enough hardship to provide motivation, but we’re no closer to the French revolution then we were 10 years ago. It’s maddening.

Liberals waste their time on infighting, tone-policing and increasingly complicated language rules instead of taking to the streets. Why? Because it’s safe.

The least we could do is come up with a few more good conspiracy theories.

Because the alternative would force us to face with sober senses the real conditions of life and our relations with our kind.

The least we could do is come up with a few more good conspiracy theories.

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun.com. The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Jason Jeong | Jeongism

The Juul Manifesto A

spectre is haunting Cornell — the spectre of the Juul. It has seized every Collegetown frat party, every hidden corner of the Olin stacks, and every North Campus dorm.

With each additional “Do u have pods?” text sent on this campus, the grasp of the Juul tightens around the lungs of Cornellians.

However, an existential threat to the Juul looms over New York State.

Two months ago, Governor Cuomo signed a bill banning the use of e-cigarettes in public indoor spaces — officially putting him on every teenager’s shit list, right next to the mayor from Footloose and the principal from The Breakfast Club. So I ask every single one of you that I’ve seen not-so-secretly puffing the Juul in the library — lend me your ears and your mango-flavored hearts.

Much to the delight of econ professors across the country who need real life examples of taxing negative externalities, cigarette consumption has dwindled throughout the decades due to government anti-smoking campaigns and taxation. Our generation has instead found our daily nicotine buzz in the form of the vape.

There is (rightfully) a negative societal perception of vaping. We can look at pictures of James Dean or Marlon Brando smoking a cigarette while leaning against a Corvette and admire how objectively cool they were, even sixty years later.

back.

Every generation has a unique destructive habit that they can indulge in and then warn their children against decades later. For the baby boomers, it was tobacco and copious amounts of booze. The Jimi Hendrix-listening,

Every generation has a unique destructive habit that they can indulge in and then warn their children against decades later.

Conversely, I doubt our great-grandchildren will share such feelings when they see TMZ video clips of Matt Damon or Brad Pitt taking fat rips from their $8 e-cigs as they are leaving the gym.

But all this changed with the introduction of the Juul in June of 2015. And $110 million in funding later, nicotine is

peace-and-love generation of the 70’s had a propensity for the devil’s lettuce and LSD that helped pave the path for Seth Rogen and James Franco’s commercial success.

We, the millennials, have the Juul.

We smoke it because dubious internet “scientists” tell us it is supposedly healthier than cigarettes, and because

we can furtively blow the vapor down our sweatshirts in the back of lecture halls.

We are the generation of kale chips, SoulCycle, farmer markets and whatever acai bowls are. From what I hear from my much hipper acquaintances, we as an age cohort have even turned against Jamba Juice and Odwalla because “the smoothies have too much sugar and none of the nutritional value of real fruit.” But let’s not forget: we are also the generation that eats Tide pods for internet approval and walks miles to catch imaginary Pokemon on our phones. At its core, the Juul represents our tech-savvy ingenuity when it comes to making bad decisions.

In 20 or 30 years, we may look back to 2018 and cringe at the Instagram photos of you and your buddy dressed as matching Juuls for Halloween. But let’s not forget this time of youthful ignorance and how incredible it was to own a e-cigarette in 2018.

Juulers of the world, unite.

Jason Jeong is a junior in the college of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjeong@cornellsun.com.

Jeongism appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Joe McMahon | Guest Room

Gating Off Ezra’s Tunnel Was Necessary In November, Amanda Green’s sister, Nicole Miller, and Kornowski filed notices of claim against New York State and its Department of Environmental Conservation, the first step in a lawsuit. The claims accuse the state and DEC of negligence for failing to maintain the property in a reasonably safe condition, warn of danger, ‘adequately demarcate and/or restrict access to dangerous and prohibited areas of the property, adequately marking areas safe for hiking and warning the public to hazardous conditions in the forest.’

‘There are marked hiking trails,’ he said.

‘If you do that, you create a duty that has to be maintained.’

From The Buffalo News, Dec. 10, 2017, reporting on the deaths of two people who fell off a 100-foot cliff at Zoar Valley, owned by New York State.

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here was much said and written about the recent decision whether the City should accept Cornell’s offer to close Ezra’s Tunnel. An editorial in a local publication and many who spoke before the Common Council chose to disregard many aspects that

There is no way the City can leave the approach to the tunnel in its current condition and allow access. were necessary when the Council made its decision. I would like to highlight some of the issues ignored by those who feel it’s simply a matter of risk or whether they have the right to do as they please on property they don’t own.

Unfortunately in our society it’s not enough to put up a sign and expect people will adhere to the rules or advice as posted. The result is often an expensive law-

suit against the property owner when someone is injured or killed. Granted, Ithaca has not even done the minimum in warning the public of hazards surrounding Ezra’s Tunnel, but that is one indication resources are too limited to do what would be required to allow access.

The city can neither afford to upgrade the area, nor to fight or settle lawsuits brought against it without affecting other areas of the budget, and those of us paying taxes should not be expected to lose services because too much of a tight budget goes to lawsuits. When the mayor appeared on national television and was asked what is the biggest challenge in running our city, he responded, “potholes.” His answer was not gorge access.

Regardless of one’s opinion whether or not Ezra’s Tunnel and the gorge are safe enough as is, there is no way the City can leave the approach to the tunnel in its current condition and allow access. If this were a state park it would be closed off, with fines levied for trespassing by park police who would monitor the area, as is the case at Taughannock Falls (where visitors can’t climb down to the gorge above the falls). The state parks spend a large proportion of their budget for infrastructure such as stairs and railings to allow access to spots like Ezra’s Tunnel, areas that are often gated off and closed in winter. To offset those costs they charge a fee to enter.

An editorial published by the Ithaca Voice cited statistics to show the risks of visiting this area have been exaggerated. Making a similar analogy, I would say the drivers I witness going past the elementary school in my neighborhood driving 40 mph don’t pose a risk to students or themselves as there has never been a crash there involving a fatality or serious injury. Should we accept the notion those drivers know what they are doing and therefore allow them to continue without some enforcement by the police?

In calling for the tunnel to remain open with oversight by local law enforcement, people like to assume the police will be available and address problems when

they inevitably arise. The neighbors who have called police to report fireworks being set off, bottles smashed, people spray painting the area or engaged in risky behavior when the police department is short-staffed or at night tell a different story. Yes, emergencies will be

Many people calling for the tunnel to remain open are motivated not just by the spectacular nature of the surroundings but by a desire to go to a spot where there is little-to-no oversight. addressed, as was the case when the city spent over $35,000 to rescue two teens from a ledge near Ezra’s Tunnel. Unlike other states, New York does not have laws to recoup those expenses when people are found to be negligent. New York does have strict laws about where swimming is allowed which the city must adhere to and enforce.

Many Cornell students, past and present, claim access to this spot provides their relief from the stress of academic life. Absent the trash and graffiti, it does the same for me. As I said to Common Council, I wish I could continue to go there as well. But there are dozens of spots to relax in the gorges in Ithaca, certainly more than other Ivy League towns.

Unfortunately, many people calling for the tunnel to remain open are motivated not just by the spectacular nature of the surroundings but by a desire to go to a spot where there is little-to-no oversight and one can do as they please without repercussions. Isn’t that what Second Dam is for?

If you want more input on what happens and doesn’t happen in Ithaca’s natural areas, two of the new commissions will give you a voice, the Public Safety and Information Commission and Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission. Applications can be found on the City’s website.

Joe McMahon chaired the City of Ithaca’s recently defunct Natural Areas Commission. Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester.

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Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

An Independent to Democrats: You’re Losing

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ell, the last month has been interesting, to say the least. Trump has further unveiled his narcissism, racism and misogyny. More importantly, however, Michael Wolff’s tell-all, Fire and Fury, has revealed the complete and utter incompetence of Trump and his cronies.

As someone who gobbled Wolff’s book down, I can only say that the men (and only men) that are running this country terrify me to my core.

But perhaps the greatest evil of the Trump era is not the president and his staff, but rather the Republican-controlled Congress that continually defends the monstrosity that is Trumpism. The moral bankruptcy of men (and only men) like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Bob Goodlatte

Democrats face three major problems: they are still haunted by the ghosts of 2016, are unable to convey a coherent message and lack inclusivity.

(R-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) threaten the very foundations of our democracy. Despite the complete lack of competence and morality among Republicans, Democrats are somehow, some way, losing the war on Trump and his allies.

Democrats’ recent defeat on the government shutdown –– where Democrats failed to get a deal on DACA –– is only a symptom of a much greater institutional dysfunction within the party. As a registered Independent, I find that my outsider status gives me a unique perspective on the party’s problems. In my view, Democrats face three major problems: they are still haunted by the ghosts of 2016, are

unable to convey a coherent message and lack inclusivity.

2016 hangs over the Democrats like mosquitos on a hot summer night. Debates on whether Hillary stole the nomination, or whether it was her fault that the party blew the most winnable presidential race in modern history, plague the party. Democrats are still embroiled in a bitter civil war over a race that was lost over a year ago.

The time for fighting over 2016 is over. Democrats need to accept that there will never be a broad consensus over what exactly happened in that strange, bizarre election. As a swing voter, I personally find Democrats’ constant fights over the election to be annoying and distracting from the real issues. An autopsy is fine –– but this all-out brawl feels like a fight between petulant children.

Beyond the election, Democrats face a massive messaging problem. If I were forced to identify the main theme of the party’s messaging, it would be this: Trump sucks. No focus on policy, no focus on the problems facing everyday Americans.

Instead, Democrats seem to be almost singularly focused on the fire-breathing dragon that is Trump.

Sure, Democrats may occasionally discuss an issue that seems to have salience (DACA, for example); however, the main focus of their efforts has been an attempt to bring down Trump.

I understand the impulse to focus one’s energy singularly on the president: the guy is dangerous and wholly incompetent. However, Trump is Teflon. Look at the Republican primaries –– Trump was able to literally insult veterans and somehow not lose support. Look at the general election –– Trump bragged about groping women, yet somehow won over 300 electoral votes. Quite simply, the country has

become desensitized to the filth and evil of this amoral buffoon. Thus, focusing on Trump is a gigantic waste of time.

Instead, Democrats should offer a reasoned alternative to the fiery blond orange. The party should present a platform that utilizes its history of economic populism with a wellthought-out foreign policy agenda. This will not only counter Trumpian populism, but will also contrast with the let’s-throw-a-hand-grenade-into-world-affairs-and-see-whathappens approach of the president’s foreign policy.

Furthermore, the party should push a uniform message. It is clear that nearly every major Democrat –– from Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to Governor Andrew Cuomo (DN.Y.) –– has their own message and agenda. Instead, Democrats should strive to establish some sort of universal message that will routinely be heard by the American people.

Finally, Democrats face a major inclusivity problem. The party refuses to admit those who do not adhere to an exact ideology –– meaning that anyone who has pro-life, pro-gun or any other semi-conservative leanings is unwelcome in the party. This is perhaps the most foolish thing that a party rebuilding from the ashes of a historic defeat can do.

Republicans were routinely criticized by Democrats after 2012 for having policies that excluded minority Americans from their party; four years later, Democrats are effectively making the same mistake by blockading those that do not fall in line with liberal orthodoxy.

To win the war on Trump, Democrats need to free themselves of their self-imposed chains. They must present themselves as something beyond the broken two-party system that has paralyzed our system of government. And maybe –– just maybe –– if Democrats present themselves as a dignified party, they may raise the level of political discourse and force their Republican colleagues to emerge from their morally bankrupt status.

Michael Glanzel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun.com. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Mondays this semester.

William Wang | Willpower

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New Club! Application Required.

y friend and I are half-heartedly considering starting a new club at Cornell. One matter we stumbled upon was how selective we wanted the club to be.

Personally, I wanted it to be open to anyone, so we could attract the most students. She wanted it to be capped at a certain amount, so we could maximize our time with each member. Who was right?

This isn’t a fresh debate. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about the exclusivity of clubs at Cornell. The Sun published a piece published last semester in which the heads of each of Cornell’s finance and consulting clubs talked about their incredibly selective and rigorous application processes.

The processes are born out of necessity. A common talking point among the presidents in the article was that despite accepting fewer than 10 applicants per semester, the clubs’ information sessions still attracted hundreds of people. And so, making the application process as selective as possible had become the new trend.

The strongest argument for capping any club’s membership is that if you don’t, popular clubs would hold too many students, making them unwieldy and difficult to manage.

Specifically, clubs that were meant to train students would suffer from a dilu-

tion of resources and time, and their quality of the club would suffer as a result. In a large school like Cornell, open membership could pose a litany of problems for the day-to-day operations of a club.

It brings me back to a conversation I had a while ago with someone who had gotten into one of Cornell’s selective business clubs. It was a huge boost to his résumé — this was the kind of club on campus from which top-end companies recruited. He seemed happy about his membership, but he took a minute to lament about the students that weren’t quite as fortunate as him: “I mean it would suck if you didn’t get in these clubs. What could you do, then?”

What could you do, honestly? It wasn’t the end all, be all, but there was a certain emptiness that followed. If you couldn’t get into clubs, you missed out a on a lot of things of what the club offered — networking, work experience, a chance to make new friends, a more attractive C.V. In hushed tones, my well-connected friends will fervently talk about what bigname companies recruit from what bigname clubs on campus.

It’s why these clubs are heavily sought after, and why the idealistic phrase “any student, any study” rings a bit hollow at times. For a lot of people, it is as if col-

lege admissions day never ended and they are perpetually waiting on pins and needles for another acceptance letter.

Quietly, some grumble about this exceptionalism. It’s why I wanted my club to be open to all Cornell students.

But as we considered that, we started running into some problems.

Say if we wanted to rent a room for our meetings, but made it open to every-

bounds? The logistics were brutal, even if our idealism was well-founded. And at some point, it became too much of a hassle.

And so, during our initial meeting to plan for the yet-to-be-named organization, I came up short defending my position. We bantered back and forth on the matter, but it would simply be too much to cater to everybody. It was better to

For a lot of people, it is as if college admissions day never ended and they are perpetually waiting on pins and needles for another acceptance letter. one. How could we predict the number of students that would show up to each meeting if we didn’t cap the number of members?

Then there were the costs. How much would we have to spend on membership materials if we simply allowed anyone to walk in? And most importantly, as a new club, could we do the best job if we spent much of our time trying to manage a free-flowing organization that had no

restrict and let the free market dictate what was best for the club. It’s no wonder by the end of our meeting, there were only a few words typed up on our sheet.

And at the top, in bold letters: “Application Required.”

William Wang is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Jeremiah Kim & Viri Garcia For a generation who practically grew up on the internet, the age-old American adage of “Do It Yourself” has never loomed so tantalizingly close overhead. Want to make a music video for YouTube? Do it yourself. Want to organize a rally on Facebook? Do it yourself. Want to garner 2.4 million listens on Soundcloud? Do it yourself.

We are convinced that the traditional models for artistic and cultural production — which relied heavily on the capital of big-name record labels and mainstream broadcasting corporations — have lost their titanic grip over our DIY 2.0 society. At the same time, however, pop is increasingly trending toward independent artists whose success can be nearuniformly traced as a neat jump from the Soundcloud hype circuit to Spotify’s Rap Caviar playlist, or from a viral YouTube video to an Apple Music feature.

Nowhere are the exhilarating capacities and latent contradictions of today’s entertainment industry more apparent than in the meteoric rise of boy band/hip-hop collective/pop outfit Brockhampton. And their latest effort, SATURATION III, caps off what has been a watershed year for the boy band exactly in terms of those tectonic economic shifts to contemporary music production and consumption that I just described.

For example: there’s a decent chance you may have seen Kevin Abstract, the band’s de facto leader, on Twitter before you heard his music. And that’s alright — in fact, that’s exactly how it should be. Every member of Brockhampton is active online (shoutout to Death Grips) and thus fully engaged with “pop culture,” which gives us a clue not only to their marketing strategy but also to the content, form and force of their music.

As many have noted, Brockhampton wear their musical influences — Kanye, Frank Ocean, Odd Future, Childish Gambino, N.E.R.D. and Kid Cudi to name a few — on their sleeve with unabashed ardor. If you were to (1) take the maximalist production and lyrical freak-outs of Kanye post808s and (2) mix it with the genre-and-sexuality-bending aesthetics and pitched-up vocals of Frank Ocean on Blonde, and then (3) cram all that into the frenetic energy of a group

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of eager, vulgar youngsters with more than half a mind to flip over the metaphorical table that is the mainstream music industry whilst wearing (and selling) brightly colored streetwear akin to Odd Future, you’d end up with something resembling Brockhampton in its current state.

This isn’t to imply that their three back-to-back-to-back albums are wholly derivative. They each deliver a startlingly fresh sound that’s genuinely fun to listen to. And since we’re already making comparisons between Brockhampton and Odd Future, I’ll make the case that the former’s Saturation trilogy sounds leagues ahead of Radical, the latter group’s second mixtape. From production quality and vocal delivery to thematic depth and stylistic range, Brockhampton scores higher than their predecessor across the board at parallel stages of development. Let’s look at some of the highlights from the album to see what I mean.

Following the trend of Saturation I and II, Saturation III begins with punch-to-the-face banger “BOOGIE” that is breakneck in both its lyrical content and breathless, carnivalesque pace. Aside from being instantly catchy and fun, “BOOGIE” addresses some issues that the seven members feel are important to them. Kevin Abstract starts off the first verse with “What’s on the rules for breakfast today? / What are the words I’m forbidden to say?” Kevin Abstract is openly gay, and his family has often censored him with their disapproval. He is no stranger to homophobia and has made it his mission to make sure no one else feels the way he did through his music.

The fourth track, “LIQUID,” is short but features four strikingly raw verses and an outro. Ameer Vann starts off the first verse with “I grew up all alone / My mom and dad fighting / I moved around a lot, I did a lot of fighting.” Dom McLennon jumps into the second verse with “Watch my uncles duck indictments / I'm used to ramen noodles, victims of mental illness / Products of neighborhoods with broken souls and wounded spirits.” Each member has gone through different hardships and they’re not afraid to let the world know, especially since they are living proof and hope that hard times are only temporary.

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“BLEACH,” the seventh track, has become more popular than “BOOGIE” regardless of the fact that the two songs sound like opposites. Whereas “BOOGIE” is an upbeat dance song, “BLEACH” is smooth, emotional and raw. The laid-back beats and echoing chords create a melancholic backdrop to the chorus, sung by Ryan Beatty: “Who got the feeling? / Tell me why I cry when I feel it / Tell me why.” The first verse, rapped by Matt Champion, follows the despondent theme of the chorus with lyrics such as “Feel like a monster, feel like a dead head zombie / Feelings you don't want me, I ain't giving up, you should set if off / Tell me ‘time's up’, let the water run, let my body run.” In a genre that is generally about flaunting fame, success and money, Brockhampton are not afraid to flaunt their vulnerabilities and emotions.

The last track, “TEAM,” has no chorus but brings the Saturation trilogy to full circle. In each album, every track had a six-letter title, except for “HEAT,” the first track on Saturation. Now, on Saturation III, the last track has four letters once more, signaling the end of the trilogy. “TEAM” is made up of two parts, the first one being an exposed ballad sung by bearface. The second part features the members once more revealing striking pieces of themselves, such as “Little old me, I thought my world was progressive / 'Cause my president was black, twenty-five lighters on the dresser” and “I hope this holy water burn me 'cause I ain't worth this life / I ain't worth the light of day, but for some I light the way.”

The end of the Saturation trilogy leaves listeners satisfied yet wanting more. There has been enough of Saturation, but we want more Brockhampton. They bring something new and fresh. This isn’t generic rap and this isn’t Kendrick or Kanye. This is Brockhampton, the best boy band since One Direction, and listeners are eager to see what they have in store for the future.

Jeremiah Kim is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jsk356@cornell.edu. Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun.com

Festival 24: The Epitome of Student Creativity

BY RUBY QUE Sun Staff Writer

What did you do in the 24 hours starting from Friday at 6:30 p.m.?

A group of students were creating something incredible from scratch. Festival 24, which started in 2008 with only theatre productions, recently added film and dance performances to showcase the work of other students in the Performing and Media Arts department. Festival 24 challenges students to produce a story from a one-word theme in 24 hours. Playwrights stayed up all night to write a 10-minute play. Directors and stage managers came in at 6:30 a.m. to cast actors.

Rehearsals started right away, while the tech crew started coordinating light and sound.

This year’s program features four plays, a dance and a film. The Flex Theatre at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts filled up as soon as the house opened, with people evensitting down on the ground.

I loved how different creative minds interpreted the theme, “weather,” in all ways possible. Playwright Janilya Baizack ’18 made a reference to the one and only Angels in America by bringing an actress wannabe into

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a hallucinating state, where she meets Harper Pitt in Antarctica and learns a life lesson.

In the only dance piece of the night, Hurricane, the choreographer created a beautiful natural rhythm with the dancers’ smooth yet powerful movement.

My personal favorite was Teagan Todd’s ’20 Room 104, a play about the fictional “Cornell Loneliness Club,” where sad and lonely college kids with no friends can get together. Over the course of a club meeting, characters exchange stories about how they lost their friends. Luisa (Catherine Yu ’20) sacrificed friendship for school and higher GPA, Nicky (Alonzo Farley ’20) couldn’t resist the lure of casual sex and slept with all his friends, Daisy (Ilana Wallenstein ’21), who came into the scene with charisma and confidence that almost didn’t fit, eventually revealed that although she could easily socialize with anyone in the room, she didn’t know how to bring the conversation beyond surface level and build long-lasting friendships. These confessions are shockingly personal and relatable. As the club flyer reads, “Cornell is overflowing with these sad, sad fucks,” yet we never talk about our weaknesses half as much as we should. Todd, who was also the master-

mind behind Booty Call in the 10-minute playfest last semester, has a unique sense of dark humor and her work always taps into the issues we face as college students with honesty and sympathy.

Richa Parikh ’20 and Carley Robinson ’21 are hilarious as the artificial intelligence “Alexa” developed by Amazon in Dream State, written by Jack Press ’18 and directed by Julia Dunetz ’19. The play, by showing how Alexas mess with college student Rowan (Scott Blankenbaker)’s psyche and produce a detrimental effect on his social life, vaguely reminded me of Black Mirror, a TV series that explores the modern age techno-paranoia.

To use project coordinator Irving TorresLopez’s ’18 words, “the amount of creative and emotional labor that went into this production is nothing short of remarkable.”

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Dancer Madeline Gray ’20 admitted that although the program has a lot of “rough edges along the way” due to lack of rehearsal, there’s “a kind of magic in making something so complete” in such a short period of time.

Festival 24 is ephemeral and so particular to this moment in time, that I almost felt sad when it ended. But there’s always a next time, and if you want to see what some crazy, determined artists can create in one day, make sure to mark next semester’s date.

Ruby Que is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at yq62@cornell.edu..

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’ve never made a New Years resolution. My aversion to about DIY scenes is legally obligated — I deduce — to them stems from my awareness that I’ve never stuck to include at least one paragraph about how scenes thrive when a goal like “read more!” before, and that I’m not start- artists boost each other. In other words, you should go to ing now. Following a call from my doctor about my your friend’s basement set on a Friday night even though triglyceride levels this January, I finally agreed to eat veg- you would rather be in bed playing computer games. etables and engage in the dreaded activity called cardio.

But I’m fallible and self-conscious (I told you I’m an But other than that, I’ve attacked 2018 the same way that emo artist), and a negative feeling sinks in when I hit I’ve approached each prior year. “going” to my friends’ shows on Facebook or stream their That is, with ambitious dreams that I break down into albums: envy. exactly zero actionable steps and then abandon.

When I say, “I’ll for sure go to your show,” a petty, litIt’s not my fault. According to 16personalities.com, I tle part of my mind says, “I wish I had a show coming am an ENFP personality type and as such have “poor up.” When I see someone get a stellar review, that same practical skills” and “find it difficult to focus.” voice whispers, “I wish I was getting written up.” It’s trivStill, I’m turning 22 this June and trying to act like the ial, it’s immature, it’s probably inextricably human. post-college adults portrayed in sitcoms and movies. I Thankfully, I’m usually adept at beating back those made a habit tracker and signed up for a budgeting web- thoughts. When they flare up, I remember Jon, played by site. I deleted hundreds of half-baked tweets about Air Domhnall Gleeson, from the movie Frank. Jon wants to Bud and the Food Network.

I opened my LinkedIn for the third time since creating it. And I started to think about the role that envy plays in my life.

Besides being a full-time student and a parttime worker, I also moonlight as an emo singer-songwriter. Actually, COURTESY OF FILM4 “m o o n l i g h t ” Frank (Michael Fassbender) and Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) in the movie Frank implies that I make money. So I’ll just say that I play music, mostly for be a famous musician but channels his energy into manmyself and occasionally for other people. aging the band Soronprfbs, fronted by the eponymous In a vacuum, it’s an ideal creative outlet. For the most Frank (Michael Fassbender). After alienating the entire part I like the songs I write. Having an artistic practice, if band save for Frank, Jon finally gets to play one of his an admittedly sporadic one, counterbalances Cornell’s songs in front of a massive SXSW crowd. high-stress culture. I uploaded an album to Bandcamp They hate it. It’s a terrible song. Jon gets what he’s last February and my friends said very kind things about always envied Soronprfbs for — adoring crowds, a huge it. Some even bought it. It’s a charmed life. stage — but his musical skills just aren’t there. Jon wastThere’s one problem: I don’t live in a vacuum. I live in a ed all of his effort envying Frank’s success instead of city with an active DIY community and a bunch of friends working to be a better artist. who make amazing music. Every journalist who writes “Oh God,” I thought when I first watched Frank, “I’m

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In January of 2017 Donald Glover, better known as Childish Gambino, gave a shout out to three of music's hottest on-the-rise M.C.s: Quavo, Offset and Takeoff.

Together they formed the group Migos. A few days after Glover's mention of the trio, Migos dropped the album Culture, which quickly reached critical acclaim. From there, Migos saw a successful summer, playing on a massive tour with Future and making several festival appearances.

In the midst of their busy summer, Offset dropped a major bomb: the announcement of Culture II. And after months of waiting, almost on the exact anniversary of Culture, the sequel has arrived.

Culture II is a booming follow-up to an incredibly successful year. Over the span of 24 tracks that equate to nearly two hours of listening time, Migos flaunt their wealth, ambition and style. Tracks such as “White Sand,” “Gang Gang,” “Too Much Jewelry” and “Open It Up” stand out as clear setlist staples, and Offset and Takeoff shine on “Crown Kings.”

Migos enlist the help of fellow Atlanta native 21 Savage, mega-star Drake, Gucci Mane, Big Sean, Travis Scott, Post

Shay Collins Morning Bowl of Surreal of my envy and insecurity would go away. Yet, Tad Friend’s profile of Ben Stiller in the New Yorker shows how much insecurity can plague the extremely successful.

In the article, Stiller’s wife Christine Taylor explains that Stiller thinks, “Do my peers respect me? I don’t get nominated for awards…. And it would feel good to get the call from this director, or that one.” Envy, it seems, has more to do with how you think than external success, or lack thereof.

Relief came in the form of the realization that there is another way to create. Many ways, actually. At the end of break, I took the Metro-North down to the city to visit my grandmother, Renee. Renee has been creating for her entire life, and her apartment alone is evidence of her practice. Artworks of many media adorn all of the walls: collage, paintings, mixed media works, drawings.

Decorated bottles of various shapes cover a long counter in the living room. Every time I visit, she insists that I take something — if she has her way, a bunch of things — back home with me.

This isn’t to say that she hasn’t been successful in a public sense, too. She has shown her work in many shows throughout the years, and worked as an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology for much of her life.

Still, I’ve always admired Renee for the way in which she shares her art: not for profit, not for fame, not for admiration, but because she finds something beautiful and she thinks you will too. So here it is, a non-resolution for a new year: to envy less, share more and just play some damn music without worrying so much.

Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. Morning Bowl of Surreal will appear alternate Mondays this semester. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com

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Peter Buonanno

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Malone and several other big-name artists to piece together a group of energetic tracks designed to act as the backbone for any party. But what may be most impressive are the producers that Migos were able to recruit: the likes of Metro Boomin, Kanye West, Murda Beatz, Zaytoven and Pharell Williams included.

While the content from song to song is very repetitive, the group’s sound is constantly changing. The Migos have opted for a more experimental, reverberant vibe on Culture II. While they haven't completely abandoned the 808s of their past, still including songs like “Motor Sport,” Culture II has a much bouncier and lighter feel than the dark trap house vibes of its precedent.

Tracks like “Narcos” and “Stir Fry” show the Migos using new vocal effects, rhyme schemes and rhythmic patterns.

These songs also see experimentation with traditionally Latin instruments. Furthermore, “Beast” utilizes a synth pop influence and “Made Men” has a very jazzy feel, showing that the Migos and their producers are committed to reinventing Migos’ Sound with each track.

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However, Culture II proves that Takeoff has star power flowing through his veins. While all three Migos give memorable performances on the record, it is Takeoff who truly shines. It seems that he has a major impact on nearly every song, but he especially displays his skills on the jazzy “Made Men.” Culture II is a fun sequel that will quickly become a staple in playlists around the world. It is the beginning of new era in for Migos: one that is no longer Quavo-dominated. Offset and Takeoff — Takeoff especially — prove that they are among the best M.C.s today. The only thing about Culture II that falls short in my mind is the lyrical similarity between songs.

I look forward to what Migos have in store for us this in the coming year.

Peter Buonanno is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at pfb48@cornell.edu.sun.com.

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time all season.

“All four lines knew when [Donato] was on the ice,” Schafer said. “You have to know when he’s on the ice, you better play him one-on-one strong, you better keep your feet moving against him.”

The highlight-reel performance was perhaps Galajda’s most challenging of all his shutouts yet. The Crimson peppered the rookie with scoring chances, especially in the second period, during which the Harvard outshot the Red, 136.

A back-and-forth opening period saw the Red take a 10 advantage into the locker room thanks to Angello’s first strike and the first of three early Cornell penalty kills.

“I think as a whole we brought it to them and got pucks to the net, and good things happen when we do that,”

Angello said.

After failing to convert on one minute of power play time left over from the opening frame to open the second period, the Red fended off several Harvard advances, holding off the Crimson to enter the final intermission still clinging to a one-goal lead.

One of Galajda’s biggest saves of the night came with under five minutes left in the second frame when he sprawled to glove a redirect off the stick of Harvard’s Michael Floodstrand.

“He’s very, very calm in the net,” Schafer said of his goaltender. “He doesn’t get running around or sliding around in there.”

Angello gave the Red some breathing room 6:33 into the third, rifling a shot that ricocheted off the post and then off Harvard goalie Michael Lackey before trickling into the net.

Cornell dominated the first half of the closing period,

outshooting the Crimson, 10-4, entering the midway media timeout.

With Angello’s insurance goal in hand, Galajda settled further into his element. The rookie netminder made several more big stops, including an instance in which he covered up a shot after a flurry of chances in his crease with around eight minutes left. The lockdown defense did its job the rest of the way, squashing Harvard’s few remaining opportunities.

The “gutty” game was yet another tough battle between the two storied rivals.

“It was a hard-fought game,” Schafer said. “I said to [Harvard coach] Ted Donato at the end it was just typical [of the rivalry matchup], a battle to the very end.”

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

Icers Clinch Ivy Title DARTMOUTH

ple things, worked hard, made a couple nice plays and got a bunch of chances.” beautiful feed from sophomore The Green was able to answer defenseman Yanni Kaldis. With at 6:45 into the first, when Tim the goal, Cornell has now scored Shoup ended freshman Matt first in 18 of its 21 contests.

Galajda’ shutout streak at 227 The Donaldson goal was the minutes and 11 seconds — the first of several chances for the 13th-longest in NCAA Division Barron-Trevor Yates-Donaldson I history. The goalie ended the line that has struggled in its last night with 27 saves in the victocouple games. ry.

“Donny hit a “We defi“Tonight we got back to nitely post, Morgan hit were a post, [Yates] hit the simple things, like, you a post. They didk n o w , worked hard, made a n’t have an evenMatty’s not strength scoring couple nice plays and got going to save chance [Friday],” every puck a bunch of chances.” said head coach this season. I Senior Trevor Yates Mike Schafer was particu’86. “[I] met larly proud with them this of how Matty morning and said they got to pull handled it,” Yates said. “Good their weight. I thought they came job for him to get refocused after out and they played hard that one went in and make a ton tonight.” of great saves to help us get two “We’ve been not too happy points tonight.” with our performances,” Yates Save for the 4-on-4 goal 10:34 said of his line. “We haven’t been into the second, the contest was a creating as many chances. largely back-and-forth affair.

Tonight we got back to the sim- Cornell’s nation-best defense, allowing only a goal and a half per game, clamped down on Dartmouth in the second and third periods, forcing Galajda to make just a handful of key stops.

Sophomore forward Noah Bauld iced the victory with an empty net goal in the waning minutes — the third empty netter for the Red this season and the second in two games.

The Red will return home to Lynah next weekend for contests against Union and RPI. Continued from page 16

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of Chicago, Duke University, John Hopkins University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Borrow Direct was “a means of getting books to each other a little faster,” Wilcox said.

The program “creates a shared catalog” that allows the partners to “move books much quicker to each other,” Wilcox said. “It was really just a faster Interlibrary loan between us.” The “natural extension” of the Borrow Direct evolved to allow members of the partner institutions to take out books directly from the institution.

“It just made a lot of sense to get rid of the barriers associated with sharing materials.”

Wendy Wilcox “Once we had those relationships and people were used to getting those books from Borrow Direct, we would see a lot of people go visit those actual institutions,” Wilcox said. “We saw that this was the natural expectation

our users wanted.”

Using the existing framework of the Borrow Direct program, Cornell was able to create the new partnership with Ithaca College.

When looking to see other institutions that would be good partners to expand the program, “Ithaca College couldn’t be a better partner,” Wilcox said.

“They are right here in our town, [have an] undergraduate population, and they have several master programs. It just made a lot of sense to get rid of the barriers associated with sharing materials,” Wilcox said.

Wilcox talked of how coordinating programs between libraries takes careful planning. Different schools have different systems of organizing their libraries.

“It was complicated,” Wilcox said. “Figuring out how we would manage the logistics took a lot of time to work out.”

Three people have already gone to Ithaca College to use the service, and several people have come to the Cornell libraries, according to Wilcox. “It is pretty exciting and I think people also agree it makes sense.”

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WRESTLING

Red Dominates Brown, Harvard For 80th Straight Ivy Win Talented freshman class continues to play crucial part on road to 16th consecutive Ivy League title

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With convincing home wins over Brown and Harvard this weekend, the Cornell wrestling team has now gone 80 straight contests since its last loss to an Ivy League opponent.

The win also takes the Red one step closer to its 16th consecutive Ivy League title.

Cornell (7-2, 2-0 Ivy) defeated the Bears (2-5, 0-1) and Crimson (3-2, 0-1) by hefty margins of 27-9 and 35-3, respectively. With the Red winning at least its first four matches in both duals, the home team’s success was never in much doubt.

“Coach Koll is a real strong believer that there is no such thing as a rebuilding year.”

Freshman Ben Darmstadt Despite only losing a total of four matches, head coach Rob Koll believes his team still could have posted a better performance.

“I don’t mean to not be thankful for the wins, but we always expect to be better,” Koll said. “There were some close matches that were disappointing.”

Several losses against Brown could be accounted for with sophomores Fredy Stroker (157) and Adam Santoro (165) moving down and up weight classes, respectively. However, it was junior Ben Honis’ one-point loss at heavyweight which disappointed Koll.

“Heavyweight was disappointing, losing it at the very end,” he said. “And I felt that we were vastly superior and we shouldn’t have lost that one.”

Nevertheless, all 10 of Cornell’s wrestlers managed to pick up at least one

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Young talent | Key newcomers Darmstadt, Diakomihalis, and Dean have all eclipsed 20 wins in their freshman campaigns. win on the day, with freshmen No. 4 that we just come in and do what we he said. “When you know you have an anchor like that at 197, you’re going to Yianni Diakomihalis (141) and No. 6 know we can do.”

“Pressure is something you put on get not just a win but a bonus point.”

Ben Darmstadt (197) each getting two As long as Darmstadt and his fellow bonus point victories. Diakomihalis, yourself,” Diakomihalis added. “If you Darmstadt and freshman No. 11 Max don’t feel that pressure, there’s no pres- freshman continue to contribute in a Dean have all eclipsed 20 wins in their sure, so it’s just in your head. And we are meaningful way, onlookers can only confident in coaches. If they believe in us, expect the remainder of this 2017-18 freshman campaigns. wrestling season to be nothing less than These young grapplers are also contin- we believe in ourselves.”

The key trio of freshmen have demon- exciting. uing to impress and show that they are Cornell continues league play with a more than able to carry on the program’s strated an undaunting attitude thus far in tradition of success, even in an environ- the season, with Dean, Diakomihalis and home dual meet against Columbia at 1 ment with a high expectation of success. Darmstadt at 11, 17 and 19 bonus point p.m. Saturday, before hitting the road on “Coach Koll is a real strong believer wins respectively. Darmstadt in particular Sunday to square off against No. 23 Lock that there is no such thing as a rebuilding is a bonus point machine, with 86 per- Haven at 1 p.m. year and we are those tools to say no to cent of his matches resulting in bonus the rebuilding,” Darmstadt said. point victories — an unprecedented rate, Jack Kantor can be reached at “[However] I don’t think there is any according to Koll. “[Darmstadt] just gives you a spark,” jkantor@cornellsun.com. pressure. We work so hard in the room

Morgan, Gettings Lift Hoops Past Columbia M. BASKETBALL

games this year, but when you hit the Ivy League everyone is going as hard as they can,” Earl said. in the final round,” Earl said of “We’re missing a few guys from the final two minutes of the last season who started and game. “We managed to eke out played significant minutes. With the win. Matt and Stone had a the three or four guys who big part in that, but the other haven’t played a lot of Ivy League guys did all the things that you minutes they’re gonna learn quick and need to do to painfully [that] win down the “The other guys did all the pace, stretch.” the things that you need effort, and With the concentration win, the to do to win down the is double that young Cornell stretch.” in league squad is games.” beginning to Head Coach Brian Earl The Red transition will hope to keep from non-conference play into the more its newfound momentum going intense Ivy League pace. Cornell as it continues its home stand will look to continue to quickly next Friday, Feb. 2 against expose its younger players to Dartmouth. quality minutes, especially with injuries to key rotation players Joshua Zhu can be reached at such as juniors Troy Whiteside jzhu@cornellsun.com.

Jonathan Harris can be reached at and Jack Gordon.

“We’ve won a couple big jharris@cornellsun.com.

Continued from page 16

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Willing into existence | Following last week’s blowout to Columbia, Gettings promised a bounceback win this week. The forward was able to keep good on his word, recording 25 points and 7 boards in the process.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

ICERS CLINCH 22ND IVY LEAGUE TITLE

Angello’s hat trick, Galajda’s shutout down Harvard

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

Two pivotal games against nemesis Harvard this season, two last-second goals for Cornell men’s hockey. Only Friday — this time on the road — it was significantly less dramatic than the thrilling game-winner in November.

Junior forward Anthony Angello earned himself a natural hat trick on an empty net goal from center ice with one second remaining Friday, securing his team’s 3-0 win — much to the delight of a raucous traveling Cornell fan base.

“This is our home away from home, in a way,” Angello said. “I think our band is three times as loud as theirs and our fans maybe even a little louder.”

Freshman goaltender Matt Galajda certainly looked right at home between the pipes at Bright-Landry hockey center, also known as “Lynah East,” making 35 saves and earning his third consecutive shutout, a first for a Cornell freshman. Galajda extended his shutout streak to 220 minutes and 30 seconds, contending for secondbest in program history.

With the victory, Cornell maintains both its unbeaten streak and its place atop the ECAC standings.

“I don’t think it was that pretty,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “It was a gutty performance on the road to get two points.”

Never one to oversell his performance, Galajda said he looked forward to building on the momentum and extending his team’s stretch of success in a key matchup with Dartmouth Saturday.

“The puck seems to be bouncing my way right now and we’ll keep it rolling tomorrow night,” Galajda said. His sixth shutout of the season is the most for a freshman in Cornell history.

Angello, now with nine goals in his last nine games, led the way offensively for Cornell (17-2-1, 11-1-1 ECAC) with his ninth, 10th and 11th goals of the season.

To back up the offensive production, Galajda dominated yet again as Cornell’s best-in-the-nation defense kept U.S. Olympian Ryan Donato and Harvard (97-4, 8-4-3) off the scoreboard for the first See HARVARD page 12

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Hat trick | Angello recorded a natural hat trick in the waning minutes on Friday to lead the Red to its 3-0 win over archnemesis Harvard.

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Stifling defense | Cornell’s nation-best defense clamped down on Dartmouth in the second and third periods to put the squad in position to secure the win.

Dartmouth win brings Red unbeaten streak to 10

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

Thanks to a stifling penalty kill and yet another goal from junior forward Anthony Angello, Cornell men’s hockey clinched the program’s 22nd Ivy League title on Saturday with a 3-1 win over Dartmouth.

The win, paired with Clarkson’s tie with Brown, means the Red is now in sole possession of first place in the ECAC. A back-and-forth affair saw the Red (18-2-1, 12-1-1 ECAC) and Dartmouth (8-11-2, 6-7-1) enter the second period all knotted up at one. Two Dartmouth power plays in immediate succession looked like a momentum shifter for the host Green, which entered the contest with recent wins against top-five teams Denver and Clarkson.

But the two shorthanded opportunities ended up propelling Cornell to victory and extending the Red’s unbeaten streak to 10 games. After keeping Dartmouth in check after a holding penalty on senior captain Alex Rauter, the

Red went right back to the kill after a penalty on freshman forward Morgan Barron, but earned a shorthanded scoring chance and a power play of its own when freshman forward Kyle Betts was dragged down on a drive to the net.

With its 4-for-4 showing, the Cornell penalty kill improved to 64-for-75 on the season and has not surrendered a goal since Jan. 5. The Red went 3-for-3 on the kill in its 3-0 win over Harvard Friday.

Angello needed only seven seconds of four-on-four hockey in the second period to net his tenth goal in as many games and give his team a lead it couldn’t relinquish. The junior was able to notch the goal after winning a faceoff in the offensive zone before getting a feed from junior defenseman Matt Nuttle in the slot and burying a shot past Dartmouth goaltender Devin Buffalo to make it 2-1.

The first period saw the Red get off to a hot start, as freshman forward Cam Donaldson buried his third goal of the season two minutes into the contest off a See DARTMOUTH page 12

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Takes First Ivy Win in One-Point Thriller

By JOSHUA ZHU and JONATHAN HARRIS Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sun Staff Writer

In a postgame interview after last week’s blowout loss to Columbia, junior Stone Gettings gave his assurance that the Cornell men’s basketball team would be able to avenge its loss the following week.

The forward certainly held true to his promise.

Despite some late-game heroics by Columbia’s Gabe Stefanini, the Red (7-10, 1-3 Ivy) managed to hold on in the nail-biter for a 82-81 win against Columbia (413, 1-3) this Saturday. With the win, the squad secures its first Ivy win four games into conference play.

Cornell’s power duo of

Gettings and fellow junior Matt Morgan once again shouldered much of the offensive load.

Gettings poured in 25 points on 50 percent from the field and seven boards, while Morgan totaled a game-high 29 points on an extremely efficient 72.7 percent from the field, making all four of his three-pointers.

“The team chemistry is starting to gel right now, which makes it easier for [Morgan and me],” Gettings said. “We worked hard this weekend, found the open man, and just knocked down shots with confidence.”

Following last weekend’s game in which the Lions torched Cornell for 16 three pointers, the Red changed up its defensive scheme to run shooters off the line and force the drive. Head coach Brian Earl also found suc-

cess experimenting with a matchup 3-2 zone which visibly confused Columbia’s recognition on the defense.

“Our defense leads to our offense and just being able to keep teams off balance is helpful for us,” Morgan said. “I think it all came down to communication and fight today. We forced them to shoot some shots that they weren’t comfortable with and we rebounded the ball.”

After heading into the locker room at halftime trailing 39-35, Cornell was able to overcome a slow start and secure the lead early in the second half. All 15 of the Red’s bench points came in the later period, and the squad was able to improve its shooting from the field from 40 percent in the first half to 63.16 percent in the second.

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1-2 punch | Cornell’s dynamic duo of Morgan and Gettings came up big again on Saturday. Morgan had 29 points, with Gettings adding 25 more.

The last few minutes of the game featured a back-and-forth affair with the two teams trading buckets before Cornell secured the lead by a slim margin in the last two minutes. Despite two late game desperation threes by Columbia’s Stefanini, Morgan

and Gettings were able to seal the win at the free throw line.

“Our guys that were out there were pretty winded, and so were [Columbia’s] guys. It was kind of like two heavyweight punchers in See M. BASKETBALL page 15