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The pipe of Lake Source Cooling, which uses water from Cayuga Lake, will be cleaned for the first time ever. | Page 3
Students are working to construct a sustainable campus of homes in Little Falls, N.Y. | Page 8
The women’s cross country team placed second at Paul Short Run in Pennsylvania this weekend. | Page 16
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A group of 80 public and private universities announced plans on Sept. 28 to improve the college admission process by launching a new application platform. The group, which includes all eight Ivy League institutions, is known as the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success and aims to reshape the traditional approach to admissions and increase educational access for low-income families and underrepresented groups. The coalition formed in response to barriers low-income students often face in the college admissions process. They plan to launch a new application website which they hope will make the process more broadly accessible.
An excavator tears down the remnants of the Chapter House, which was destroyed in a fire on April 14 that also displaced 40 students and destroyed the adjacent apartment building.
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Jury Remains Split in Tan’17 Trial After Days of Deliberation By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Editor
Jurors deliberating in the trial of Charles Tan ’17, who faces charges for the murder of his father, told the judge they were unable to reach consensus Tuesday after a sixth day of deliberations. Monroe County Court Judge James Piampiano responded by issuing the jury an “Allen charge,” an instruction for the jury to continue deliberations and a request for those in the minority to reconsider in the hopes of avoiding a hung jury. If the jury cannot eventually reach a unanimous deci-
sion, the judge will have to declare a mistrial and the case will be retried. “Start with a flesh slate,” Piampiano wrote in the Allen charge. “Do not feel bound by how you felt before, whether you favored conviction or acquittal. Have the courage to be flexible.” Tan was arrested last February after his father was discovered shot dead in their Pittsford, New York home, and subsequently charged with second degree murder. During his trial, Tan’s attorneys argued that his father had been abusive to both him and his mother, and that the prosecution failed to prove that Tan ever even held the murder weapon — a
shotgun — according to The Democrat and Chronicle. During their first six days of deliberations, jurors passed the judge nearly two dozen notes asking for additional information or to see evidence. “We’ve seen in earnest how much they have sought to educate themselves during deliberations,” said Assistant District Attorney William Gargan, the prosecutor in the case. While both sides have said they are hoping the jury can reach a verdict, both have vowed to continue on in the event See TRIAL page 4
Medical College Rebrands Ag Quad Renovations to Cost $9.6M
Weill Cornell Medicine reemphasizes discovery,teaching, patient care By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor
of a strategic expansion” that has affected all of WCM’s programs, including the medical college, Weill Cornell Graduate
Weill Cornell Medical College announced Tuesday a new name and “The esteemed brand — Weill Cornell physicians and scientists at Medicine — which will Weill Cornell Medicine will “more comprehensively capture the full scope” of continue to be the institution’s mission. trailblazers.” The new name will bring together the three President Elizabeth Garrett main principles of the institution — “to care, discover and teach” — under School of Medical Sciences and one umbrella, according to Weill Cornell Physician Sarah Smith, director of media Organization, according to the University. relations for WCM. The announcement of the new name is the “culmination See WEILL page 5
By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Contributor
A $9.6 million plan to renovate the infrastructure and landscaping of the Ag Quad will begin the summer of 2016 and is slated to be completed ahead of the 2017-18 academic year. The project will be completed in two phases, with the first phase focused on the infrastructure of the quad and the second phase focused on the landscaping, according to David Cutter, the University’s Landscape Architect. The renovation of the infrastructure, which will begin next summer, will dig up walkways around the quad in order to replace several underground utility corridors, Cutter said. In addition to a new working underground, the renovation plans include the installation of new lighting, additional blue lights for security, a rain garden
and social working spaces for students, Cutter added. In particular, the social working spaces, which will be small plazas in front of Mann Library and Roberts Hall, will have
benches and tables for students to use, Cutter said. “[The Ag Quad has] been abused for the last few years, so See QUAD page 5
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Bird’s eye | A rendering depicts the Ag Quad following renovations.
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Former Students Search for Lost Time Capsule INDIALANTIC, Fla. (AP) — Former students of a central Florida middle school were hoping to crack open a buried time capsule to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hoover Middle School. The problem is no one remembers where it was buried. Florida Today reports teacher Jack Deppner filmed students on an 8 millimeter camera in 1976. He also collected mementos to bury in the time capsule. Students reconnected on Facebook raising the idea of opening the capsule. But no one knew where it was buried. Deppner died a few years ago, but had searched for years and never found the spot. Former student Dawn Atkinson-Spaccio says they’re planning on using metal detectors and ground penetrating radar to scour the campus. If they pinpoint a location, they’ll seek permission from the school to start digging.
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Santa Claus Runs for Office FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A man whose legal name is Santa Claus is running for a City Council seat in the tiny Alaska town of North Pole. The Fairbanks Daily News-Minerreports Claus has launched a write-in campaign for the office. Claus, whose driver's license bears his legal name of Santa Claus, is the former president of the North Pole Chamber of Commerce. Two seats on the City Council are up for election. No one filed for office, however, during the regular filing period.
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For the first time since assuming office, President Elizabeth Garrett met with the University Assembly Tuesday, emphasizing that she wants a University that promotes open dialogue but also has sensible rules of conduct. “We need to look at what we do regarding freedom of expression, but in such a way that we can have expression, association and constructive dialogue, while at the same time acknowledging that we’re a University,” Garrett said. “We are not about shouting, we’re about discussing.” “Vigorous debate” needs to be balanced with the fact that the University’s goal is to promote regular learning and the fact that there are also faculty and staff on campus, Garrett said. Still, she emphasized her commitment to free speech. “You won’t find a bigger supporter of free speech than I am,” Garrett said. “And that comes not only from my training as a lawyer, but also from who I am as a person.” She said that to her, a university culture should center on “reason and rationality.” “I believe that what we are about is putting out propositions, testing them, arguing about them, figuring out what is right, and figuring out what conclusions we will come to,” Garrett said. Garrett touched on a variety of other prominent issues, including campus sexual assault, student financial aid and student mental health. On the issue of sexual assault, Garrett said she believes forming a coherent and comprehensive University policy is not easy, in part because some federal laws can be “obscure.” “It’s like digging a hole,” Garrett said. “It takes a lot of work, but once you finish, you’ve really done some-
Man Pleads Guilty to Public Lewdness On Campus Bradley P. Hannula, a 22-year-old male from Tioga County, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for public lewdness on Friday. On July 27, Hannula followed a woman in his vehicle while masturbating on campus, according to the Cornell University Police Department. The woman reported that Hannula drove up to her on Cradit Farm Drive and asked for directions. She was able to see him masturbating and walked past the vehicle, which turned around and drove past her a second time, according to CUPD. Following the incident, CUPD was able to identify and find Hannula, who admitted to the incident when interviewed. He was arrested on Aug. 7. Hannula is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 18. Public lewdness in the first degree is a class A misdemeanor. — Compiled by Sun Staff
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Photojournalist Gary Braasch’s photos hang in Mann Library in an exhibit titled “Observations and Innovations — Climate Science Around the World.”
thing.” Garrett also addressed the mounting debt many students must take on to access a Cornell education. She divided undergraduates seeking financial aid into two pools: students who are poor and students who are middle to upper middle class. “The father works at a high school, the mother works at a bank, they live in the middle of the country,” she said of the latter group. “They’re not poor, they live a comfortable life, but college is still a very expensive proposition for them.” She said the University has to remain focused on allocating money to meeting those students’ needs, along with students in the lowest economic quartile. Asked about student mental health, Garrett said that the new circumstances of college can cause some students to experience negative feelings they have never felt before. She said that it was important for students to
know that when coming to the University, they are entering a “caring community,” and that she personally cares about their lives here. “I’m on email a lot. So if I get a message, where someone is reporting that someone they know is showing symptoms, I’ll forward it to the relevant person,” she said. “As president, I feel that it’s my job to take care of every student here in the best way I can.” Garrett also lauded Emeritus President David Skorton for the work he did to eliminate hazing from Greek life rituals on campus. “We have seen, in the incidence of hazing, a decrease of thirteen percentage points. That’s good. But one case is one too many, so there is still work to do,” she said. “If I find out about this happening, it won’t end well for the person.” Tom Schreffler can be reached at tschreffler@cornellsun.com.
Cleaning Planned for Lake Source Cooling Pipe Mussels clogging intake pipe will be removed in pipe’s first ever cleaning By LAUREN KELLY Sun Contributor
For the first time in 15 years, the intake pipe for the Lake Source Cooling project — a low energy system that channels deep water from Cayuga Lake to cool the University’s chilled water cooling network — will be cleaned. Since the pipes were first put in place in July 2000, so many zebra and quagga mussels have covered the pipe’s surface that the amount of water flowing into the plant has significantly decreased, according to Lanny Joyce, utilities and energy management director. To tackle the cleaning, Cornell hired engineering consulting firm Makai Ocean Engineering and diving contractor Global Diving and Salvage, Inc. The Lake Source Cooling team plans to clean the pipe from Thursday to Oct. 19, pending the weather, by forcing a brush through the pipe and pushing any debris that has accumulated out into Cayuga Lake. This method pushes the mussels back into the lake and it causes no adverse environmental impacts, Joyce said. “Future cleaning will be based on how fast the freshwater exotic mussels (zebra and quagga) grow in the intake pipe,” Joyce said. Though the Lake Source Cooling system cools both Cornell and Ithaca High School, the University is paying the full cost of cleaning the intake pipe, which are accounted for as part of the normal operating costs. Starting in 1989, Cornell experimented with low energy cooling methods by using water from Beebe Lake to cool the entire campus in the winter months. In 2000, the project expanded into the current Lake Source Cooling system, which expanded Cornell’s chilled water system to Cayuga Lake and uses the cold lake waters to cool a closed loop extension of campus water. It is an unprecedented way of using
utilizing a natural, non-polluting and renewable resource to cool buildings, according to the project’s website. Developing the project cost $58.5 million dollars, according to the website. However, Joyce said he believes the price was worth it. “The system saves 85 percent of the electricity used by the conventional chillers that it replaces, with associated reductions in environmental impacts due to energy use,” Joyce said. “LSC alone reduced total campus electricity usage by 10 percent, enough for about 3000 homes each year or 25 million kiloWatt hour per year.” LSC has eliminated the burning of over 19,000,000 pounds of coal annually in regional
power plants and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by over 56,000,000 pounds per year, according to calculations by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. LSC also has created additional benefits for the Ithaca community, according to Joyce. Construction of the project resulted in the creation of East Shore Drive Town park and improvements to Ithaca’s utilities, roadways and sidewalks for over 1000 feet on Lake Street and University Avenue worth over $1 million. Additionally, the system provides free air conditioning for Ithaca High School. Lauren Kelly can be reached at lsk77@cornell.edu.
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Deep water | Cornell first experimented with cooling methods using water from Beebe Lake in 1989 and later implemented the Lake Source Cooling system, which uses water from Cayuga Lake, in 2000.
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ly accessible. “The schools in the Coalition have individually tried many different and creative approaches to address these challenges,” said Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale University, in a statement from the coalition. “We have come to the conclusion that we can have a much bigger impact on student access and completion if we work together.” Discussions over these plans date back to Oct. 2013. Deans from Cornell and approximately 25 other institutions began to informally meet at that time due to “significant concerns about the Common Application,” according to Jason C. Locke, Cornell associate vice provost for enrollment. The coalition’s new website will rival the Common Application, a platform about 600 universities currently use to handle the application process. “Initially, Cornell joined the coalition discussions because the technical problems with the Common Application posed a very serious institutional risk for the more than 500 colleges and universities that relied solely on the Common Application as our online application vendor,” Locke said. Focus quickly shifted from the Common Application’s technical issues to broader, structural inequalities inherent in the “There are so many system. talented students who “However, as we continued to discuss the idea, the should aim for a great concept of simply creating a school, but they often don’t second admissions applicaunderstand the path to get tion evolved into something more. We began to talk about there.” how to improve the admissions application process and, Seth Allen specifically, how to engage more low income students from under-resourced schools,” Locke said. The initial iteration of the platform will be available to high school freshmen, sophomores and juniors in January 2016, according to the coalition. Although the platforms and tools are still under development, the coalition plans to provide tools for students to use to begin their application as early as their freshmen year of high school, according to The Huffington Post. Students will be able to use this online application in the same way they currently use the Common Application. However, in addition to allowing students to submit college applications, the website will also allow students to create digital portfolios and to receive feedback and advice from college admissions offices. Students can upload any work they have completed in high school that they feel best demonstrates their interests and abilities onto the portfolio. Some universities have thought about making application questions more personal by relating the questions to material in the student’s portfolios, according to Insider Higher Ed. “Starting to think about college earlier reduces some of the pressure of the application process, but more importantly, it sets the expectation that students should aspire to attend college,” said Seth Allen, vice president and dean of admissions at Pomona College, in a statement for the coalition. “There are so many talented students who should aim for a great school, but they often don’t understand the path to get there.” By providing these free resources and encouraging planning and growth over multiple years, the coalition hopes to level the playing field for all students and aid students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Students will still have to pay an application fee unless they qualify for application fee waivers, according to Locke. Samantha Acriche can be reached at sacriche@cornellsun.com.
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of a mistrial. The jury will return to deliberationsWednesday, and will be kept late if they cannot reach consensus, according to The Democrat and Chronicle.
Prior to his arrest, Tan was a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell. Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun.com.
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trailblazers, their work giving rise to new innovations that will truly make a difference across the globe,” Garrett said. The new name also underscores the institution’s belief that collaboration is vital in patient care and outcomes, according to the University. Weill Cornell Medicine has existing partnerships with N e w Yo r k - P r e s b y t e r i a n Hospital, Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan
Examples of such strategic growth include the 2007 opening of the ambulatory care center called Weill Greenberg Center, the addition of more than 40 medical practices throughout New York City’s boroughs in the past three years and the opening of the Belfer Research Building in 2014, according to a press release. Dr. Laurie Glimcher, the “Weill Cornell Medicine Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell has a distinguished legacy Medicine, said in the release that the new name of putting patients first.” fully captures the patientDr. Laurie Glimcher centric mission of the institution. “Weill Cornell Medi cine has a distinguished legacy Kettering Cancer Center, creatof putting patients first, pro- ing a “powerful scientific corrividing them with the finest dor” in Manhattan’s Upper East care and offering the best possi- Side. ble outcomes to ensure that A new logo was also revealed they live healthier lives,” for Weill Cornell Medicine, Glimcher said. rendered in a custom font President Elizabeth Garrett named “1898 Sans” in honor of said in the release that the new the medical school’s founding Weill Cornell Medicine name is year. The official color palette reflective of Cornell of WCM consists of red, dark University’s culture of “discov- orange, bright orange and yelery, ambition and creativity.” low. “The esteemed physicians and scientists at Weill Cornell Annie Bui can be reached at Medicine will continue to be managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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[the renovations are] truly needed to improve the area,” Cutter said. “We can take care of aging infrastructure and utilities, and it’s an opportunity to improve the walkways and look of the Ag Quad.” The project, budgeted for $9.6 million, will be funded by several sources, according to University architect Gilbert Delgado. The funding will primarily come from the Cornell University Utilities, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and private funding, he said. Construction for the project will only take place during the summers of 2016 and 2017 in order to be the least disruptive to students, according to Cutter. He added that the project had been talked about for years, but will finally see action now that funds are available. “It’s been an ongoing thing,” Cutter said. “I’ve been working at Cornell since 2007, and ever since I started, this was one of the projects I’ve seen as a priority.”
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Other projects on the Ag Quad, such as construction on Warren Hall and Mann Library, prevented the rehabilitation of the quad landscape from taking place sooner, according to Cutter. Delgado said he guided and oversaw the design of the rehabilitation project before sending it off to the Board of Trustees for approval. After completion of the project, the landscaping will incorporate student work, according to Cutter. Previously, the planting around the perimeter of the quad had been designed, installed and monitored by students. In addition, Cutter said students will be able to design a new garden in the 2017 academic year. “The Ag Quad is one of the most significant public spaces on campus, and it also serves as a teaching laboratory,” Delgado said. “We are excited to bring it up to its former glory. We’re very happy with the design and are excited to start construction.” Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jlr424@cornell.edu.
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rowing up, for “white-boys” such as myself, rap was an ironic musical genre. Us awkward Jewish boys fully embraced the overt, inflammatory language of rap, glossing over the true meanings of the lyrics and bopping our heads to the beat. It was pretty funny. I remember the first time I listened to 50 Cent’s “In da Club” (clean version), arguably the biggest banger Camp Mah-Kee-Nac has ever seen. When Curtis Jackson smoothly uttered the lines “We gon’ sip Bacardi like it’s your birthday,” I sang along with my own, “We gon sit the party like it’s ya birthday.” Because why would my nine-year-old self have any idea what Bacardi was, or the fact that birthday parties would be comprised of anything besides a trip to Chelsea Piers for bowling, arcade games and chocolate cake? It was nonsensical to me. While I still have zero clue as to what any of Sean Paul’s lyrics mean, I think I currently have a firm grasp on the meanings underlying many of the gangster rap songs of the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century. And it has little relevance to my life, or my upbringing. Thankfully, I was never shot nine times and never had to sell crack in the fifth grade. Yet, the highlight of my Yankee themed bar mitzvah was the discovery of Soulja Boy. My demographic has for too long had to settle with the removed and frankly, irrelevant rap of our upbringing. We have struggled as we “cranked that,” “leaned wit it and rocked wit it” and “let it rain and cleared it out.” Fortunately for us, a rapper has recently emerged from the abyss to give a relatable voice to a generation of hiphop’s confused young followers. Meet David Burd, a.k.a. Lil’ Dicky. His unique path to rap stardom is now well documented as a riches-to-fakerags satirical take on the hip-hop we have grown so accustomed to. The second song of his debut album Professional Rapper, is an interview with Snoop Dogg, reviewing his qualifications and outlining his place in this musical genre. Holding true to his college educated background — he graduated from the University of Richmond with a 3.03 GPA — he uses this song as a “thesis” of sorts, telling audiences that he wants to bring something different to rap, a new voice. While he surely isn’t the first musician to express such a desire, there is no denying that his rap-comedy resonates with a lot of people; His music video “Lemme Freak” currently has over 8 million views on Youtube. There is no doubt he is a funny guy. Yet his music is slightly unsettling for me. He has been lamented by Vice for being a beacon of white-privilege and ignorance. His music does at times seem a little out of touch and overly
confident. Most notably, his music video “White Dudes” shows him and some friends strolling by a police car, smoking weed as cops turn a blind eye. Obviously he meant for this message to be taken lightly, as a hyperbolic comment on the comforts of being white and having law enforcement often give him the benefit of the doubt. But does he have the luxury to make such a statement? With Lil Dicky in the picture, hip-hop now seems to be a double-edged sword. On one end is the established derisive commentary of gangster rap. On the other, is a stoner white boy chuckling at his “leftward sloping penis” (“ExBoyfriend”) because he has nothing else to worry about. After all, “imprisonment is not a predicament.” (White Dude) D i c k y’s brand is surely unique. He brings observational humor to the studio and finds a way to rap about such issues as being double billed for a coffee refill at a diner. He’s like that friend you had in middle school who was the first guy to start telling masturbation jokes. Did he push the envelope? Sure. Did you find him funny? Of course. But odds are, this friend, just like the rest of us, eventually realized that he needed to get a job and would unfortunately have to limit such humor in public spaces. Dicky himself expressed the risk that he took by publicly releasing such raunchy humor. During his interview with Vice, he mentioned that his parents were “begging [him] not to put anything online because it would completely damn any possibility of having another job.” He undoubtedly took a “risk” in assuming the proverbial role of the masturbation-joke friend. The best part of his quote though, is that anybody’s parent would have said the exact same thing (I can vividly picture my parents declaring my professional career over), which adds a real authenticity to his work and significance to his rise to success. Dicky should tread lightly. In being an Internet celebrity, his lyrics have implications. Unlike many other comedians, he is not shielded by the safety of comedy clubs and the implicit understanding that one will make people uncomfortable. His words will be especially scrutinized given his comfortable upbringing. One careless slip up and he can set back a group of young men who, for years, have been clamoring for such a rapper to come around. After all, he is representing a cohort of individuals like me, who want to show how well they can $ave that money.
Meet David Burd, a.k.a. Lil’ Dicky. His unique path to rap stardom is now well documented as a richesto-fake-rags satirical take on the hip-hop we have grown so accustomed to.
Philip Susser is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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t her inauguration, Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett referenced scientist and author Edwin Slosson. She said, “We expect more of Cornell. Cornell, in order to be conservative in the sense of being true to its traditions, must be radical and progressive, for that is the way it started.” Speaking before the rows of esteemed personnel seated neatly on the sunsoaked Arts Quad, President Garrett seemed both genuine and promising; she accepted the challenge to carry on Cornell’s trailblazing tradition and its mission to serve both its local and global community. However, it remains to be seen whether she will do so at this fall’s meeting of the university’s trustees, when they can potentially take a stance on fossil fuel divestment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the scientific community have affirmed on multiple occasions that climate change — driven largely by fossil fuel emissions — is a threat to humanity. Climate change is linked to the spread of pests and diseases, poses risks to food and water security, floods coastal and island communities, damages livelihoods and economies (especially in poor communities and countries), contributes to social and political unrest and fuels the disruption of the ecosystem. Fossil fuel divestment refers to a global movement in which individuals, corporations, institutions, municipalities, and other groups cut ties with the 200 companies that are most closely linked with coal, oil and natural gas as listed by 350.org. The campaign aims to shift the political debate around climate change by applying grassroots pressure on people in power in order to overcome the influence of the energy lobby. Divestment has proven effective in the past; for example, divestment movements across the country helped provide the necessary pressure for Congress to take action against apartheid in South Africa. In light of the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, it is especially crucial for renowned institutions such as Cornell to divest from fossil fuels and send a strong signal to our representatives that we want to stand on the right side of history. President Garrett has indicated opposition to fossil fuel divestment, echoing the sentiment of her predecessor that doing so would compromise the stability of the university’s endowment. The Office of Investments has repeatedly claimed that the university earned $100 million from its holdings in fossil fuels between 2004 and 2013, but that figure does not reflect last winter’s plummeting oil stocks. Additionally, HSBC has noted that stiffer climate regulations may cause fossil fuel investment to turn into stranded assets and has offered strategies including divestment from fossil fuels to reduce the financial risks of investing in increasingly volatile stocks. Nevertheless, last year, Cornell’s trustees rejected the Student Assembly’s nearly unanimous resolution that supported permanent divestment from direct holdings in coal, even though the University had not held any for at least seven years. Finances aside, the University has a responsibility to respond to the demands of its students. To date, every legislative body on campus — the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Assemblies, the Faculty Senate, the Employee Assembly and the University Assembly — has passed individual resolutions in support of fossil fuel divestment. The board of trustees has resisted time and time again, insisting that divesting from fossil fuels would not only hurt the University’s finances, but also initiate a slippery slope allowing special interests to use the endowment to further their own agendas. However, the precedent for divesting the endowment from inhumane and exploitative organizations has already been set at Cornell. First, in the 1980s, the Board of Trustees voted for partial divestment from companies that traded in or had operations in South Africa in response to student pressure to protest apartheid. As recently as 2013, at the urging of President Skorton, Cornell divested from oil companies conducting business in Sudan to protest human rights violations there. Therefore, the question is not whether Cornell should set an administrative precedent, but rather whether the fight against fossil fuel companies that exploit and pollute water and land resources from rural Pennsylvania to Nigeria is worthy of our attention, or whether we wish to invest in and implicitly support companies that profit from and thrive on the acceleration of arctic meltdown, sea level rise and the host of other calamities associated with climate change. The leaders of the world will be meeting in Paris this December to make plans for how their respective nations will combat climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions. The decision of Cornell’s Board of Trustees allows us to add our voice to the opposition to exploitative, business-as-usual practices. We, the students, expect more of Cornell because Cornell, as our new president said herself, must be radical and progressive in order to stay true to its traditions. Elizabeth Chi is a sophomore at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs periodically this semester.
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to disregard the racist past and he other day as I was walk- nism. Meninism is pretty much present that I and my fellow peoing to class, I came across something horrific: a man based upon the idea that women ple of color face. Reverse racism walking around in a #meninist t- — and really anyone who isn’t a seems to be rooted in the idea that shirt. To make the situation even cisgender male — who are critical we are all meant to be treated worse, I ran into one of my of oppressive structures and how equally, which often means “we friends and she also mentioned men contribute to it, they are don’t see race” or “we’re all one seeing a #meninist shirt, but a dif- attacking men on a personal level. race: the human race.” In order ferent man was wearing it. Two Privilege can be difficult to under- for a white person to assume they #meninists shirts had been seen in stand, let alone accept. Men seem are facing racism, they must one day, and that was two too to think that women who are believe the system isn’t inherently many for me to ignore. It’s just empowered to take action are cre- racist. The mentality appears to come one example of those with privi- ating discrimination rather than lege feeling attacked by the opposing it. On a deeper level, from those who feel personally there is something troubling attacked, desiring not to be oppressed. Meninism, also referred to as about men who are uncomfort- grouped with the other whites #meninism as it started on able when their power is threat- who are actively racist or other Twitter, is basically the counter- ened. As marginalized groups men who are actively sexist. Some movement to feminism. The most choose to question those with fail to realize that they are represimplistic definition of feminism is the belief in equality regardless of gender or Even just looking at the name, sex, often practiced through the empower- “meninism” is degrading to feminists. ment of women. Men are taking a movement originally Meninism is the complete opposite in that created by women, for women, it is specifically meant to bring attention to and making it their own. the issues men face and how feminism “forgets” about their “discrimina- privilege, the more threatened sentations of a grander oppressive structure and it’s not always about tion.” The whole movement they seem to feel. This is why I feel a little pain the individual. I think it is really started off as a joke on Twitter, which is a different issue, and when I see a man casually wearing important to keep in mind the grew to become something men a #meninist shirt. I also see this society we’ve grown up in. Even have actually begun to identify kind of foundation in reverse- when we may understand how racism: The ridiculous idea that privileges work, it doesn’t mean with. Even just looking at the name, people of color can be racist we’re free from making mistakes, “meninism” is degrading to femi- towards white people. I’m always myself included. Even though meninism started nists. Men are taking a movement astounded by the amount of ignooriginally created by women, for rance that accompanies this belief. as a joke, it became a “movewomen, and making it their own. If I were to make a white person ment.” It goes to show that even if By taking such a significant and joke, in no way would it impact people joke about these strucpoliticized identity for women, the structural power a white per- tures, someone with privilege will one that some women still don’t son has. There is no history of somehow make it about them. I even identify with, these men white people being oppressed in understand that there is a learning have managed to negate its the same way that there is for peo- process to social justice, but importance. They make it seem ple of color, so they cannot be appropriating other movements and hardships takes away from that by actively being critical of equalized whatsoever. A white person can never those whom have actually experisexism and misogyny, women are somehow infringing upon the understand the actual racism a enced marginalization throughpower that men have. It changes person of color constantly faces, out history. the dialogue of the issue by mak- so similarly to meninism, even ing it seem like women are begin- proposing that a white person can Sarah Zumba is a sophomore in the College of ning to discriminate and ulti- experience racial discrimination is Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mately oppress men because they ridiculous. Claiming that a white sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out aren’t the main focus of femi- person is facing racism manages appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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C.U. Sustainable Development Embarks on Housing Project By KEVIN WANG Sun Contributor
Eco-friendly estates | The Overlook Ridge Development Project, located in Little Falls, New York, is a planned campus of rental and
A small city situated over 90 miles private homes based around environmental sustainability. The project northeast of Ithaca, Little Falls is the is a partnership between David Casullo of Bates Communications and epicenter of a new sustainable housing students of Cornell University Sustainable Development. Construction project taken on by Cornell University of new buildings is planned to begin in early 2016. Sustainable Design this semester. With a site of over 100 acres, the Overlook Ridge Development Project seeks to construct a campus to host sustainable rental homes and private estates. Led by Zachary Cesaro ’16 and Project Chairman David Casullo — president of Bates Communications — the project groups 18 students from across the University and aims to begin construction in Little Falls early next year. Adding to the 17 existing buildings on the Overlook Ridge campus, the team plans to implement a solar array field to power the community in an environmentally friendly way, revitalizing the community and prompting development in the region. “The plan for the site is ... to be a leader in sustainable development,” Cesaro said. “[Casullo] is planning on re-envisioning this huge plot of land to a planned sustainable community.” That would ultimately include private estates, some rental townhouse-type apartments, and nect the Little Falls community with the project. On the other hand, the Design team is tasked with the main attraction being a Leadership Development developing and designing four rental properties, Institute.” The housing development project is deeply rooted in the theme of sustainability. Casullo’s goals tie in with his passion and ambitions for sustainable housing and net-zero energy use, implemented through cutting-edge technology, according to Cesaro. For this reason, the project became a collaboration with CUSD, broken up into design, energy and public relations sectors. The PR team focuses on social impact, marketing and communications, upholding the pillars underlying the principles of CUSD — ecological, Zachary Cesaro ’16 economic and social sustainability, Cesaro said. Consisting of students across a number of majors, the PR team is focused on “ensuring that the community is engaged, both the local community and the drawing together sustainability, economic feasibility broader society.” Currently, the team is working to and state-of-the-art technology. Within this team are develop online presence and public engagement, plan- students of various majors, especially architecture and ning events and conducting market research to con- civil engineering. Last weekend, the Design team vis-
“We try and transcend the activism message and actually go out and get our projects built in the real world.
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ited the Little Falls site to consolidate a master plan for the construction of the various buildings and homes. The team met with Casullo, Project President Neil Rosenbaum and construction company Lewis Custom Homes, LLC. The Energy team is focused on developing and implementing the solar array field in the community to attain their target of net-zero energy use, exploring energy solutions to promote sustainability, including solar and geothermal energy, according to team leader Dale Shearin ’18. “The Energy team is hoping to demonstrate the many ways in which sustainability can be incorporated into a unique building design,” Shearin said. “We are looking into alternative technologies such as a trombe wall, green roof, rainwater collection and community compost with the purpose of promoting sustainable energy usage and demonstrating how impactful a few small changes can be.” See OVERLOOK RIDGE page 9
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ence can easily be lost with past CUSD members graduating. Keeping this knowledge, therefore, is of utmost importance to the project team. For example, the team currently draws on experiences from their 2013 Farm Pond Circle project, as that project shared similarities in terms of housing styles, Cesaro said. “We do have a couple of members of that team working on this project who can bring that knowledge to this project,” Cesaro said. On the whole, as Cesaro describes, CUSD projects
involve taking into account past experiences and integrating them with cutting-edge technology, for applications towards new situations. According to Cesaro, this means “transcending the activism message” behind sustainability and getting to build real-world projects. “Being students we have a lot of schoolwork, and a lot of the time that’s theoretical and problem sets,” he said. “This is an opportunity for students to have experiential learning – to actually go out in the world and do something.” Kevin Wang can be reached at kw382@cornell.edu.
Around the table | Above: students in Cornell University Sustainable Development discuss their project. Right: the interior of a home on the Overlook Ridge campus.
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According to Cesaro, who leads the project after two and a half years with CUSD, the two most pressing challenges are using time effectively — the target date of early 2016 creates a very tight timeline — and the need for expertise in industry and professional
contexts. “Our students really have to initiate a lot of the learning on their own,” said Cesaro. “A month ago, I didn’t know a lot about architecture. [The architecture students] have been able to catch me up to speed, and I’ve learned so much already.” Moreover, the university schedule and environment within which CUSD operates means that experi-
Study Finds Bias in Social Psychology Community By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Contributor
Prof. Stephen J. Ceci and Prof. Wendy M. Williams, human development, have responded to a paper in the most recent edition of Brain and Behavioral Sciences that suggests the ideological makeup of social psychologists has gone too far left. The paper — written by a team of five liberal-identified social psychologists including José L. Duarte, Arizona State University, psychology — reports that the proportion of self-described liberals to conservatives in psychology is currently around 12 to 1, up from the 4 to 1 ratio preceding the 1990s. The authors posit three manners in which this polarity may mar social psychology: the dispersion of faulty and demeaning views towards conservative individuals, the refusal to study topics that may run in the face of liberal ideologies of social progress and the implanting of ideology into theory. Ceci says he has encountered these roadblocks firsthand. “For quite some time there has been a censorious mood in the social science community,” Ceci said. “There is a bias against findings that go against the dominant bias narrative ... by this I mean biases of all stripes.” Referring to a previous study he conducted, Ceci said he found that these biases are often political. “My colleagues and I found that university human subjects committees were more likely to reject a treatment of human participants if they believed it could undermine racial, ethnic or gender assumptions than the identical treatment for obese participants,” he said. “Thus it was not the treatment itself but its implications for political interventions that mattered.” The evidence presented in the Duarte paper paints a similar picture — the authors point to a 1978 study car-
ried out by self-proclaimed conservative social psychologist Clark McCauley that demonstrated accuracy of social stereotypes. Though the results were further supported by numerous independent studies, Duarte et al. point out that for years, the extremely progressive field refused to address such a discomforting question. According to Duarte, “a conservative social psychologist asked a question nobody else thought (or dared) to ask.” But Ceci found out that even if a
methodology but with a sample six times larger and far more representative.” This is precisely an effect brought up by Duarte: it is an established principle in social psychology that individuals are more likely to accept — and seek out — evidence that bolsters their own preexisting notions. Such an effect is known as confirmation bias and has an even stronger effect when the topic may elicit issues surrounding group identity and moral emotions, according to the
“For quite some time there has been a censorious mood in the social science community. There is a bias against findings that go against the dominant bias narrative ... by this I mean biases of all stripes.” Prof. Stephen Ceci psychologist asks contentious questions, the pushback at the end can be just as great as that at the beginning. Speaking of a recent paper he and Williams published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing a 2 to 1 preference for women in STEM-related hiring, Ceci said the findings were “met with immediate and fierce pushback.” “Hundreds of comments assailed our study for all sorts of allegedly methodological flaws. I say ‘allegedly’ because none were valid, something we repeatedly pointed out in responses we wrote to these critics,” Ceci said. “The irony was that they held out a similar study to ours as being rigorous, obviously unaware that our study used the same
BBS paper. “Critics were angry and panicked by our findings and grasped at any straws they could to create the impression it was flawed whereas when the same methods were used to support the opposite claim, they not only were unchallenged, but they were heralded for their rigor,” Ceci said regarding the STEM hiring study. Avoiding pitfalls such as confirmation bias is one reason the BBS paper calls for more distinguished efforts to recruit those with right-leaning ideologies into the field. Furthermore, the authors point out that diversity of all types — sexual, racial and ideological — is necessary for establishing a system of checks and balances within the field
of social psychology. Duarte and his team detail numerous aspects that may be influencing social psychology’s political polarity, including a hostile climate for and general discrimination against conservatives. The article points to a 2012 study showing that, when asked if they feel that there is hostility towards their political ideology within their field, 82 percent of conservative Society for Personality and Social Psychology discussion list members responded “yes” (half of that number responding “very much”), while only 7 percent of liberals responded “yes.” In the same study, 82 percent of liberal social psychologists who responded to a survey indicated that they would be prejudiced against a conservative applying for an academic position, while 83 percent of conservatives responded that they would have no prejudice against a liberal applying for a position. Are there signs of anti-conservative discrimination here at Cornell? Ceci believes so. “Last year my co-instructor and I asked our class if they perceived any pressures or biases against them based on their political or religious views and several said they did and were intimidated from speaking out in discussions,” Ceci said. Still, Ceci called for further studies into the matter, echoing his and Williams’ call for an even more encompassing study in their response to the Duarte et al. paper. “It is something that needs to be studied in a comprehensive canvass of Cornell undergrads,” he said. The Duarte paper, entitled “Political diversity will improve social psychological science,” was accompanied by 33 accompanying responses from academics around the globe. Sam Kitterman can be reached at sok26@cornell.edu.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Spoken Word Activist Remi Kanazi Visits Cornell BY JESSIE WEBER Sun Staff Writer
to articulate or combat misconceptions” about Palestinians or Arabs as a whole. Living in post-9/11 Brooklyn, Kanazi was frequently confronted by strangers saying ignorant things to him, and at first, responding with something equally rude was all that he could think of to do. But over time, and after being exposed to spoken word performances and activism across the world, he began to put his frustrations to paper and to build a network with other organizers. The goal? To stop injustice everywhere. His most immediate focus? Freeing Palestine. Kanazi’s performance was not just a string of readings — rather, he interspersed details about growing up as the sole
A table stacked with books, falling bombs pictured on theirs covers, stood before us. Easy chatter filled the McGraw Hall room on Friday evening as a crowd of people, mostly Cornell students, mostly members of Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine (the group that organized the event), waited for 34-year-old spoken word poet Remi Kanazi to enter and begin his performance. And after about fifteen minutes, he did. Hadiyah Chowdhury ’18 presented us with a brief introduction and he stepped forward. His eyes grew COURTESY OF FLICKR large as he leaned forward and greeted the room in an overly-earnest voice, “Thanks for coming out on a Friday night to hear poetry!” Instantly, the stiffness was cracked out of the room by laughter. “Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising up from Brooklyn to Palestine,” also the title of his newest book, is a tour taking Kanazi across the United States and Canada, as well as through Europe and the Middle East. Cornell was the third stop. His mom, Kanazi told us, thinks that his book is better than One Direction. His mom, he told us, doesn’t have any idea who One Direction is — but she loves him very much. He became flustered when he tried to call out a latecomer and she responded by smiling and offering him an apple from a bag she’d just finished picking. “This is what I get for trying to call out a nice minority in a small Massachusetts community (“we got anothperson — I don’t know why I do this,” he muttered, half to er brown family in eighth grade — that was a weird fucking himself and half to the entire room. He was profusely apolo- experience”) to the immense anxiety that he initially felt travgetic towards her, but once he transitioned back to his work, elling to Palestine to perform his work for the people whose he was anything but. lives he writes about. When Kanazi performs, each poem The grandchild of refugees of the 1948 Jaffa Nakba, when comes to live in the room as he breathes it out. As he reaches zionist military forces displaced almost all Arab Palestinians the end of a piece, he leans backwards as if he’s on the cusp of from the city of Jaffa, Kanazi is no stranger to racism and xeno- falling over from the weight of his work. There is no escaping phobia either at home or abroad. His poetry provides him with the frank emotion in his pieces, for him or for us. an important outlet. Before he started writing seriously, he Although he’d warned us ahead of time that none of his would encounter people on the streets and “didn’t have a way poems were going to be “happy,” it was impossible to suppress
the sensation of ice creeping down our backs as he evoked images of parents digging through rubble for their children and screams resounding through villages. He has an intensity to his work that many spoken-word poets shy away from; In the middle of a performance he will lock eyes with a member of the audience while speaking a line calling out a character he’s making them fill. He stepped forward to read “Normalize This!” and boomed the first word — then stopped, acknowledged that he’d made someone jump, and restarted. He let his anger, his sorrow and his call to action carry him through the piece. He stared down an audience member as he said, “In case you missed the hint — I don’t want to pretend that all is okay.” To all those who try to cover up tragedy with reason, he said, “we don’t want this messed-up world to crash your baby’s lullaby.” For Kanazi, it seems the lullaby has and will continue to be in a state of disruption. Before reading each piece, he held it close to his face and stared at it silently for about ten seconds — something that an audience member asked him about after his performance. Kanazi is seeking to disrupt, educate, advocate, anger, reveal and organize. He insists to rooms full of strangers, readers of his books and those watching his videos online — that they must stop tweeting from “their parents’ basement,” where revolutions may take root “… but probably not in that basement,” and demand real change. This takes immense effort, and an immense connection to his work, even in the midst of daily barrages of violence and injustice soaring through media. The ten seconds he takes aren’t about checking that he has the piece memorized so much as they’re about ensuring that he’s fighting off his own desensitization. Because he has a message for those who agree with him, and also for those who don’t. “You deserve nothing, nothing more than equality.” Jessie Weber is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jweber@cornellsun.com.
A Return to Roots: Indian Ocean in Ithaca There are over 20 different languages spoken in India, and the music of Indian Ocean mirrors this diversity, as they opened with a classically-influenced number based on a traditional Kannada folk song: The primary language of the southern “I never thought I’d be doing this.” A wave of chuckles rippled Indian state of Karnataka. through Statler Auditorium on Sunday night, in response to the Throughout the concert, the members cracked jokes, bearded man on stage. His free-flowing silver hair kept in check by interacted with the audience and shared personal anecdotes a trademark cloth headband, bass guitarist and frontman of rock before each song that they performed. Charming, sincere and group, Indian Ocean, Rahul Ram commented on his return to funny, they engaged the audience in a way that is rare for a Ithaca after almost 20 years. Ram ‘90 received his Ph.D. from group of such fame. “Lustful failed Sufis,” Ram jokingly called Cornell University in Environmental Toxicology, and since then, himself and his bandmates, before beginning a gentle folkhas been working with his band, Indian Ocean, which is widely inspired tune called “Bhor” that evoked reflections of a lone regarded as one of India’s foremost rock fusion bands. bird in the light of dawn. Asha Cornell, a campus non-profit, organized the concert I’ve been to my fair share of big-name, big-budget concerts as a fundraiser to benefit education initiatives for underprivi- — the most recent being Vampire Weekend and Paul leged children in India. McCartney. However, this was my first time seeing such a As the lights dimmed, each of the band members entered renowned group in such an intimate setting. That being said, the stage clad in a short kurta — the traditional Indian tunic I wouldn’t be surprised if not a single person reading this arti— and jeans, unassumingly taking his place at a microphone. cle has heard of the band Indian Ocean. Largely considered one of India’s most influential rock groups, Indian COURTESY OF PICTUNEERING Ocean has been around for the past 25 years, making fusion music that combines the guitar-anddrums-heavy Western rock sound with traditional Indian musical elements and themes. The result is a unique concert experience in which melodies and lyrics familiar to a primarily Eastern audience are intertwined and energized by a Western backbone, creating a sound that is accessible to all kinds of listeners. When I first sat down in the audience and observed the stage, I noticed that there was both a drum set and a tabla: A traditional South Asian instrument consisting of two hand drums varying in size and timbre. I’ve heard tablas and I’ve heard drum sets, and I immediately thought there was no way anyone would be able to hear the soft, tuneful percussion of the tabla over the thrashing of the Western drums and cymbals. However, as the night and the music progressed, I found that BY SNIGDHA SHARMA Sun Contributor
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not only were the two clearly distinguishable within the music — they complemented each other in a way that was essential to the soul of Indian Ocean’s aesthetic. Lead guitarist, Nikhil Rao transformed his sound to fit the atmosphere of the music — in “Ruk Ja Re Bande,” his powerful playing created a classic rock ballad sound, while in “Charkha” the long, technically skillful solos echoed the lyrical strains of traditional Indian string instruments like the sitar and veena. Rahul Ram on the bass guitar was not your run-ofthe-mill rhythm and groove section. Ram’s bass playing weaved back and forth between laying a solid foundation which the rest of the band enhanced and accentuated — and enmeshing his sound with the vocal and lead guitar lines, creating a one-of-a-kind musical interplay unique to Indian Ocean’s sound. Solid, throaty, folk-inspired vocals soared above the instrumentation, punctuating the intricacies of melody, harmony and rhythm with powerful, profound lyrics set to simple tunes. The musical journey that began with South Indian folk ended with the title track off the album Kandisa, a beautifully gentle, deep and ethereal hymn in ancient Aramaic sung to this day in the Syriac Orthodox Church. Indian Ocean is a group that defies all restrictions of genre, definition and even language. There is no sufficient way to describe their music — their musical styles and lyrics take inspiration from vastly diverse sources, including Indian classical, Indian folk and even elementary school Hindi textbooks. The atmosphere they created within the two short hours of the performance ranged from energetic to meditative to interactive and everything in between. The upbeat, Bihari-folk inspired “Hille Le” made several people jump out of their seats and dance, transforming the dignified Statler Auditorium into an impromptu Indian folk festival. For a few unforgettable moments, Indian Ocean transported me and the audience back to a time and a place halfway around the world, steeped in the sights, sounds and culture of India herself. Snigdha Sharma is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sharmasnigdha95@gmail.com.
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n 2013, Steven Soderbergh retired from filmmaking. The news came as both a shock to many, as the then 50 year-old — a relative youngster amongst established Hollywood directors — had just completed a prolific hot streak that saw the release of four well-received films (Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike and Side Effects) in the span of two years. A critically lauded wunderkind, Soderbergh has earned a unique respect over the years for his technical mastery in all aspects of filmmaking. Equally talented as a cinematographer, writer, producer and director, Soderbergh famously competed against himself for the Best Director statue at the Oscars in 2000 (his work on Traffic won out over Erin Brockovich). As the textbook example of a visionary filmmaker in modern Hollywood, what does Soderbergh’s departure suggest for the changing shape of the industry? To clarify, Soderbergh has only retired from the mainstream studio arena, and has publicly vowed never to make another Hollywood-produced movie until the industry is less “fear-based in its decision-making.” He has since switched his focus to television, directing HBO’s Liberace film Behind the Candelabra, as well as Cinemax’s 10-episode series The In Knick. other words, his work ethic has hardly diminished. Yet while Really Terrible, and he receives well-earned Such Small Portions! credit as a trailblazer in other ventures, Soderbergh’s move into television represents only the latest in the trend of high-profile directorial talent flowing freely between TV and film. There’s a general consensus amidst critics and audiences alike that we are living in a New Golden Age for television. Starting around 2000, the era is defined partially by the sheer amount of content, as well as focus on long-form storytelling, the prominence of “showrunners” (show creators who often serve as director, producer, screenwriter and ditor) and the recurrence of certain thematic tropes. By now, you might be familiar with names like David Simon (The Wire), Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) and Matthew Weiner (Mad Men). If not, you know their muses: Jim McNulty, Walter White, Don Draper — charismatic, morally ambiguous men struggling with (mis)conceptions of the American Dream. Each of these shows has a refined aesthetic and creative cohesion that’s relatively new to the medium. Not only is this amount of individual authorship unheard of in television, some would argue it’s becoming unique to it. As far as on-set reports and interviews go, it seems that each of these showrunners (along with their writing staffs) held vast creative control of their shows for the entire five to ten years of production. In contrast, Hollywood studios frequently shut down month-long film shoots over “creative differences” with the directors they hire. Fear-based decision-making, indeed. “This is really auteur TV,” Soderbergh recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s like what I’m doing on The Knick, what Cary Fukunaga did on True Detective. One filmmaker doing the whole thing — there’s unification that comes with that [and you] can’t do it any other way.” Soderbergh’s invocation of auteur theory opens a whole can of worms to pretentious critical analysis, but it certainly accounts for the number of high-profile directors foraying into television at the moment. Until recently, David Fincher (Fight Club, Social Network) — who already serves as executive producer and occasional episode director on House of Cards —was in talks to develop not one, but two new shows over at HBO. His initial involvement with season one of House of Cards, before it became the ratings behemoth that it is today, was to grant Netflix some legitimacy as a creator of original content. Fincher toured with the show, doing speaking engagements across the country to build anticipation and help Netflix’s big bet pay off. It was a ploy, really, designed to capitalize on the prestige of the Fincher brand. The tables have turned, as big-name movie directors are now pitching their show ideas to networks, hoping to prove themselves in this new arena. Ideal conditions may have ignited our current Golden Age of Television, but the enduring appeals of films and filmmaking will always drive the cycle back toward Hollywood. The first Golden Age of television began soon after the device’s popularization, reaching a peak in the 1950s. While that content was wildly popular at the time, the era’s enduring legacy is as a training ground for some of Hollywood’s iconic writers and directors — Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen and Paddy Chayefsky, to name a few. Studio filmmaking is undoubtedly in need of revamping, but the creative flow between TV and movies will inevitably, eventually reverse. In the end, the lasting effect of this cross-pollination of talent may be its contribution to the death of decade-long TV shows. Viewers crave the instant gratification of binge-watching, and the time crunch of that demand caters well to the expected work schedules of a film director. Guys like Soderbergh and Fincher may see the appeal in taking six months to direct a ten-episode single season, but it’s hard to imagine them setting aside ten years to craft a Mad Men.
Chris Stanton
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Runners Looking To Build Momentum CROSS COUNTRY
weather and racing conditions, but because of their ability to compete well in a big field. freshman Suzie Petryk, who fin- We’re not where we want to end ished 19th, up, but we are certainly where “I thought they competed we need to be right now. We very well,” said head coach Artie want to get there at the right Smith. “Placing second and fin- time of the season and we’re getishing as the top NCAA team — ting close.” Guelph is not in the NCAA as Some of the runners also said they are in Canada — was a very they feel that the team is making good performance. It was a large great strides towards a spectacufield and the most competitive lar season finale. we’ve faced so far. Guelph won “We’re always looking ahead yesterday 2015 with essentially at what we can work on and the same team that won in meet- improve from week to week,” record fashion in 2014. Last Hugard said. “I’m very excited year, we had a good day and they about the strong team cohesion beat us by 43 seconds, using the and work ethic that have put us average of the top five times on in a good position at this point in the sea“We’re definitely at that point in the season son.” “ We ’r e when we’re absolutely chomping at the bit definitely at that point to get into some more competitive races.” in the season when Caroline Kellner w e ’ r e absolutely each team. This year they only chomping at the bit to get into beat us by 10 seconds using that some more competitive races,” metric. We’ve clearly come a Kellner said. “The composure long way and yet I know there and love of challenge that we are things that we can improve displayed out there on the on in our racing, especially in course definitely showed that we the second half of the race.” were ready to compete with anyMinor victories mean noth- one.” ing if they do not appear be As the team continues pushhelping the Red eventually reach ing forward, the Red said they an overall goal. Smith’s group, hope Friday’s meet is a stepping however, seems to be on track to stone towards future success. reach what they set out to do in “We still have two months to the beginning of the season. go, and it’s important to be “We are knocking on the patient and to keep moving fordoor of where we want to be,” ward,” Kellner said. “The best Smith said. “Clearly the team is races are yet to come.” moving in a great direction, not just because of the many person- Brittany Biggs can be reached at al bests, despite the terrible bbiggs@cornellsun.com Continued from page 16
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Leaving a Legacy Beyond Sports Field Hockey Ready To Face Bulldogs DENSON
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both players. In today’s baseball world, a hitting catcher is hard to come by. It’s more a defensive-minded position, but Yogi Berra broke this mold. With a productive yet powerful bat and a few douses of great wit, Yogi created a character, on and off the field, that all catchers tried to model their game after. For eternity, Yogi will be known as the sagacious Yankee catcher. So far, eternity has served Berra well. No doubt it will continue to do so. The world is far from perfect. As Yogi famously said, “If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.” Let that statement marinate. The world — you, me, Donald Trump, that tree over there, Donald Trump’s hair — is imperfect and impermanent. Everything we know, love and hate will decay into nothingness. This means the human condition is, well, does it matter? If it’s the trivial bullshit that defines our life and everything is trivial if it is impermanent, then why try at all? But don’t fret! Don’t become an apathetic vegetable! (I’m okay with you becoming an apathetic fruit … like that avocado who is too cool to care). Yes, the androgynous avocado could fall into a deep sadness knowing that it will turn into a medium spicy Wegman’s brand guacamole. But really it’s happy to be eaten. And it’s an avocado. As humans, we have much more to offer than an avocado does. Our decaying bodies will disappear, but our ideas are immortal. Doesn’t that make our thoughts more real than anything else? The goal of the human condition is to create a legacy and, in a way, achieve the immortality that is otherwise impossible to achieve. All of a sudden, everything matters. Athletes, especially, have the perfect opportunity to craft a legacy. Being famous in the eyes of millions and working in an industry dominated by numbers, having a lasting legacy almost seems like the end goal for any athlete is to have a lasting legacy. Living beyond their years on Earth and become something bigger than oneself. And really, it is. Take the gauntlet of time and create your own legacy. If you happen to be a professional athlete, you have the easiest path towards immortality. Yogi Berra joins the rank of athletes to transcend sports itself. “Having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I’ve learned in my life. I’ve [also] found out that having one woman a thousand different times is more satisfying,” said the late basketball demigod Wilt Chamberlain in 1999 just a few months before his death. A man who’s larger than life, and larger than everyone he played with, Wilt the Stilt joins Yogi Berra as one of the few athletes to become a phenomena outside of their respective sports. To wit, for the number 20,000. Wilt Chamberlin claimed to have slept with 20,000 women in his lifetime.
"At my age, that equals out to having sex with 1.2 women a day, every day since I was fifteen years old,” Chamberlin wrote in his autobiography “A View From Above.” I wish I was that cool when I was 15. I wish I was that cool now. And of course, “The Big Dipper” scored 100 points in an NBA game — the only player to do so — solidifying his legacy as a misogynistic, grandiose and dominant basketball player. Promises of eternity are hard to come to by. The idea of a legacy is the only thing we have
to guarantee our existence beyond our physical means. It is an intangible, imperishable, incorporeal, all powerful source. I might have just found the meaning of life. Can I get a confirmation on this? Whatever the meaning way be, all athletes strive for greatness, but it’s the ones that are famous for all the other reasons that cross into the realm of the divine. Ben Denson is a ssenior sports columnist. He can be contacted at bdenson@cornellsun.com The B.D. Report appears every week this semester.
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“We are looking to communicate more on defense and push the speed of play,” Hornibrook said. Although Yale does not have a winning record, the team is well-coached and still does a lot of things well. “Yale teams are always well balanced,” Hornibrook said. Hornibrook said Yale’s
great ball movement and pace creates a lot of scoring opportunities. The Cornell defense will have to be on its toes and be prepared for a variety of offensive looks. “They’ll be playing on their home field and will be ready play,” Hornibrook said. “We will be ready, too.” Troy Bridson can be reached at tmb259@cornell.edu.
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Cornell Splits Games Against Columbia, Syracuse By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer
Cornell looked for a break through midway through the first half in a tied matchup with Columbia. Senior captain Marisa Siergiej rose to the occasion, scoring two goals in a little over two minutes to put the Red ahead, 3-1. Siergiej’s first goal came from a sweep shot off of a penalty corner. The captain’s second goal came on a penalty stroke earned by her sister, freshman Isabel Siergiej. The Siergiej sisters provided a needed jump start to the Cornell offense, with the duo proving to be a major reason Cornell (5-4-0, 1-1 Ivy) beat Columbia (5-4-0,1-1 Ivy), 5-2, on Saturday. “Our strikers created some great scoring opportunities which we converted,” said head coach Donna Hornibrook. Sophomore forwards Katie Carlson and Krysten Mayers were also key players in the victory. Carlson scored a pair of goals and Mayers added a goal and an assist. Senior captain Taylor Standiford also had a solid game in midfield, facilitating play. Defensively, the Red did not allow a whole lot of scoring opportunities for Columbia.
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Super sophomore | Sophomore Katie Carlson ranks sixth on the Cornell field hockey team in shots on goal. In addition, Carlson is tied for fourth in the team lead for goals for the Red. “We had a great overall team effort,” Hornibrook said. “We controlled play offensively and defensively and Kelly Johnson had a nice game in net.” It was a different story for the Red when the team faced off against No. 1 ranked Syracuse (10-0-0) on Sunday. The Orange, who is playing the best field hockey in the country right now, could not stopped by the Red. “We were able to hang with them in the first half, but they were too much to handle in the second,” Hornibrook said. Cornell was overmatched in all areas of the game,
with Syracuse showing why they are the top team in the country right now. “We give them full credit,” Hornibrook said. “Attack wise, their ball speed and execution was outstanding.” Cornell is looking to make improvements before its upcoming match with Yale (2-7-0, 0-2 Ivy) and continue doing some of the things the team did well against Columbia. The teams in the Ivy League know each other very well and, as a result, the Red is really focusing on preparation and execution. See FIELD HOCKEY page 15
Promises Runners Race to Second Place Finish Of Eternity Red beats out James Madison, John Hopkins in Paul Shorts Run R CROSS COUNTRY
By BRITTANY BIGGS
Sun Staff Writer
In running, one of the biggest challenges is keeping up with a strong start. Do you take some gas off and slow down the pace to ensure a successful finish? Or do you keep speeding forward? The Red answered this question by continuing to push forward to an already successful season by coming in second place at the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Finishing only behind the University of Guelph, the No. 1 Canadian university team, the Red finished as the top NCAA squad, beating out schools such as James Madison and top ranked Division III
sophomore Shannon Hugard and freshman Gracie Todd and Jackie Katzman. In the Open race, the Red was able to “We are knocking on the foor of where we secure five of the top want to be. Clearly, the team is 15 spots in a field of 296 women. Freshman moving in a great direction.” Briar Brumley was the first person from the Artie Smith Red to cross the line, coming in fourth place. to secure points and top earners in She was joined by teammates freshboth categories. Junior Taylor Spillane man Annie Taylor, who came in ninth was able to continue her dominant place, freshman Maggi Szpak, who season, finishing in fourth place in a finished tenth, junior Jessie Elliot, field of over 300 athletes. Fellow who finished thirteenth, and freshpoint earners in the Gold division included senior Caroline Kellner, See CROSS COUNTRY page 14 national No. 1 Johns Hopkins. Competing in two races, the Gold and the Open Race, the Red was able
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‘Moving in a great direction’ | The Red ranked second in the Paul Short Run, falling behind just the University of Guelph, the top cross country among all Canadian Universities. Standouts included Taylor Spillane, Caroline Kellner and Shannon Hugard.
emember me. Remember me for something. Remember me for greatness or futility, for breaking records or breaking barriers, for love or hate. Please don’t let me be average. Mediocrity breeds forgetfulness. It leads to the infinite abyss of obscurity. With the recent death of two sports icons, namely Yogi Berra and Moses Malone, reactions swirl around towards what kind of legacy
Ben Denson The B.D. Report both legends left. These are two men who embodied their respective eras- playing during the infancy of their sports. Malone played during the ABA-NBA merger, and served as the archetype big-man during a brand new, more offensively focused NBA. Much like him namesake, Moses Malone brought NBA fans to the promised land of physical, fast-paced basketball. As a six time NBA rebounding leader, he was appropriately nicknamed “chairman of the boards.” Why he was never nicknamed “The Prophet,” we’ll never know. But just imagine Moses Malone with a biblical-like beard. If Malone is Moses, than please call me Paul. I’m working on the beard, but at least I try to be a prophetic writer. Both Yogi and Malone had a number of disciples, men who followed them tried to play the respective sports in the style modeled after See DENSON page 15