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Prosecutor Slams Student With Hate Crime

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The county’s top prosecutor charged a Cornell student with a hate crime on Monday, accusing the sophomore of targeting a black student in Collegetown because of his race, punching him in the face and leaving him bloody and dizzy nearly two months ago in an encounter that “There is a legal basis for altered many stuthe classification of the dents’ perception attempted assault charge of the campus climate. as a hate crime.”

Matthew Van Houten, the Matthew Van Houten Tompkins County district attorney, and witnesses said John Greenwood ’20, who is white, targeted Solomon Shewit ’19, who is black, struck him in the face with a closed fist and then later knocked a woman’s phone out of her hand and repeatedly stomped on it after she had recorded him

calling another student a “sand-nigger.”

Van Houten charged Greenwood with three misdemeanors for the alleged actions, including attempted assault in the third degree as a hate crime, which is the first time a Cornell student has been charged with a hate crime while enrolled since GREENWOOD ’20 2006, when Nathan Poffenbarger ’08 pleaded guilty to hate crime assault after stabbing a black man on campus.

“After conducting a careful and thorough review of the investigation conducted by the Ithaca Police Department, it is my belief that the charges filed are supported by the evidence and that there is a legal basis for the classification of the attempted assault charge as a hate crime under the Penal Law,” Van Houten told The Sun. Greenwood was originally charged with assault, but Van Houten said Shewit’s injuries, “thankfully,”

did not qualify for an assault charge, hence the accusation of attempted assault.

Shewit has said Greenwood and several other white men repeatedly punched him and called him a racist slur on Eddy Street.

“They said ‘Fuck you, nigger,’ over and over, as they were leaving,” Shewit told The Sun from the hospital on Sept. 15, shortly after the assault, where medical stuff ruled out a broken nose or concussion.

“I was pretty bloodied up.” Reached by phone on Monday, he said he had no further comment.

Greenwood’s lawyer, Ray Schlather J.D. ’76, said his client “was not involved in any physical altercation.”

“Unfortunately, Mr. Shewit has misled the police, the prosecutor, and this community,” Schlather said in an email on Monday. “The objective physical evidence that has been discovered since the initial charges were filed contradicts his claims as to what happened after the verbal exchange.”

Greenwood previously apologized for using “lanSee GREENWOOD page 4

New President and V.P. For Panhellenic Council

Leading | Keith Brown, left, and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne discuss the benefits of a proposed diversion program.

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By ANU SUBRAMANIAN Sun Staff Writer

Ithacans Learn of Diversion Program

By MEREDITH LIU

program is based on a harm reduction philosophy and trauma-informed care. The services The City of Ithaca is develprovided would be entirely oping a new program that based on the self-identified would allow Ithaca Police to needs of participants, while divert low-level offenders to immediate abstinence of illegal community-based services activities would not be required. instead of arresting and incarGibrian Hagood, an cerating them, in an attempt to attendee, asked whether the reduce recidivism rates LEAD program would as well as the city’s an impact on “[The program] connects a struggling have reliance on the criminal what he said was the person to services that can actually justice system. implicit racial bias of Launched first in some police officers. do something, instead of jail.”

Seattle in 2011, the In response, Morris Law Enforcement Najja Morris said LEAD permits Assisted Diversion, or police officers to build LEAD, program aims close relationships with to reduce criminal behaviors by People in the program would people who may need the proproviding people with immedi- go through a thorough psycho- gram’s help, which might help ate support services, according logical assessment so that case officers gradually reduce implicto the LEAD National Support managers and mental health it bias. Building those connecBureau. Eligible individuals providers can build a “careful tions, he said, could lead to a would be diverted to the LEAD and complete picture” of the more equal relationship program at the pre-booking individual, Morris said. between white officers and citistage, bypassing an incarceraKeith Brown, Albany LEAD zens of color whom they serve. tion process criticized as slow project director for the Katal Morris said LEAD was and costly.

Center for Health, Equity and See LEAD page 4 At a community forum for Justice, said the operation of the

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the proposed program on Monday night, Najja Morris, operations advisor for the LEAD National Support Bureau, described the program as not just a treatment program, but one that “connects a struggling person to services that can actually do something, instead of jail.”

Christina Nastos ’19 and Juliet McCann ’19 will take over next semester as the new president and vice president of Cornell’s Panhellenic Council after being elected to the positions on Sunday.

Nastos said she is excited to work with everyone on the Greek Tri-Council executive boards and hopes to maintain and strengthen Panhellenic Council’s presence on campus.

“I am particularly interested in fortifying the relationship between Panhellenic and the ‘typical’ chapter member by providing programming of interest to Panhellenic mem-

bers,” she said in an email. “I have always admired the enthusiasm members have about their respective chap-

“I have ... admired the enthusiasm members have about their respective chapters” Christina Nastos ’19 ters, and hope to broaden the scope of that enthusiasm to the larger Panhellenic community.”

The Panhellenic executive board is comprised of 10 See PANHELLENIC page 3

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Graduate, Professional Student Fee Could Drop $1 Assembly also supports University Assembly motion encouraging Cornell to draft strategic plan

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly recommended on Monday evening that the graduate and professional student activity fee be set at $84 for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years, a $1 decrease per student from the previous cycle.

The recommendation will need to be approved by President Martha Pollack, said graduate student Tyler McCann, who is the GPSA appropriations chair.

The fee, which all graduate and professional students must pay, funds organizations that serve the graduate and professional student community.

Also on Monday night, GPSA called for the development of a strategic plan, throwing the body’s support behind a University Assembly resolution that urges the Cornell

administration “to engage with not only all assemblies but also the larger Cornell community” in creating a strategic plan.

A strategic plan would serve as a guide for the University’s institutional decisions, outlining how to best to invest its time, effort and money, the resolution says. Cornell’s last strategic plan was completed in May 2010 and was for the period of 2010-2015. The University did not implement a strategic plan after 2015.

GPSA also endorsed seven nominees to serve on Pollack’s presidential task force who were recommended by the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement Leadership Council. The task force has been charged by the president with investigating and addressing persistent “bigotry and intolerance” in the Cornell community.

The GPSA also voted for one individual to represent the body on an ad hoc hate speech working group formed by the

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GPSA | The activity fee will need to be approved by Pollack, said Tyler McCann, above left.

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Assembly | Graduate and Professional Student Assembly members on Monday evening voted to decrease the activity fee by $1 from the previous cycle to $84 per student.

University Assembly’s Codes and Judicial Committee.

The working group is tasked with sending a recommendation to the CJC regarding how or if hate speech should be dealt with on campus, and whether any addition or change to the Campus Code of Conduct is warranted, said Matthew Battaglia ’16, grad and chair of the CJC. If there was an amendment to the Code, Battaglia said, the working group would send it to the CJC, which could “tweak” or “rework” the proposal as it sees fit. At that point, a proposal would go to the U.A. and, after any changes, would, if passed, go to Pollack for final approval.

“If all those are a yes, then the Campus Code of Conduct would be amended,” Battaglia said.

The presidential task force will also presumably work with the CJC, as any proposed changes to the Code would require

CJC and U.A. approval, Battaglia said.

“The Code right now follows the First Amendment, and to tweak it would be a large change on speech,” Battaglia told The Sun. “Because of the magnitude of this and because of the complexity of the issue, … the community needs to understand that.”

Altering the Code would be a complex and layered effort, by design, in order to ensure the inclusion of adequate community input in such a critical and impactful process, Battaglia said.

“There’s multiple layers, and the key is to really take the time to ensure people are aware, take time to make sure the assemblies are included, the community’s included and to then move forward so we have the best outcome for the entire campus community,” he said.

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

Napkin Finance CEO Presents Finance Crash Course

By MARIA CHRISTINA KALOGERA Sun Contributor

It may not seem plausible, but a napkin can change a person’s entire world.

That’s what Napkin Finance founder and CEO Tina Hay said on Sunday, arguing that a napkin changed her life and that using napkins can, in 30 seconds, change the world for those who struggle to understand complex financial decisions.

Hay, brought to Cornell by Phi Sigma Sigma, is a Harvard Business School graduate who said she felt compelled to apply

what she had learned from earning a film and technology degree at UCLA. She began sketching and now those sketches form the basis of a multimedia platform.

In an interview with The Sun, Hay said the works of famous figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud had influenced her work.

“DaVinci and Freud used sketches, drawings to derive information about numbers and quantitative data,” Hay said. “I wanted to provide an attractive way of understanding that would allow people to easily absorb financial concepts.”

“The information needed to be snackable and digestible,” Hay said.

Seeing Hay’s exploits in the business world, Yasmin Mahayni ’17, president of Phi Sigma Sigma and Sarah Karkoura ’20, director of marketing at Napkin Finance, thought her experience would help inspire Cornellians interested in finance and even other careers.

“We thought this personal finance crash course would be the perfect opportunity to provide students of Greek community with skills for personal development, smart budgetary

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members from nine chapters.

Nastos said she hopes to “revitalize” formal recruitment by extending diversity and inclusion initiatives “to the very first time a [potential new member] walks through a chapter’s door in January.”

Greek life, Nastos said, was founded on principles of elitism and “sentiments of these archaic notions subtly persist in our Greek system today,” but she said she hopes to “break down the institutional barriers.”

“I’d want to give student groups outside of Greek life a forum to express their frustra-

tions and try to reinvent that negative energy as implementing positive change,” Nastos said, referring to students who had helped institute the Greek Tri-Council’s diversity and inclusion plan.

McCann said the PHC can “continue pushing the Greek community in the direction it has been going by increasing diversity and dialogue within the community.”

“It is my goal to create spaces for collaboration between both individual chapters and other organizations (such as IFC, MGLC, and non-greek organizations),” McCann said in an email.

Greek leaders wrote the Tri-Council Diversity and Inclusion Plan in response to multiple incidents earlier this year, including one in which a black student said he was punched in Collegetown by a student who was said to be an underground member of Psi Upsilon.

“Since Greek Life is so prominent at Cornell, it’s very easy to stay within a Greek ‘bubble’ when trying to problem-solve, but I’d definitely hope to listen to the unique perspective nonGreek leaders can provide,” Nastos said.

Reach the author at asubramaniam@cornellsun.com.

management and hands-on practice of financial concepts,” Mahayani said.

During the crash course, Hay stressed that having credit and knowing how to manage it is a long-term strategy, especially for people who have to handle issues such as student loans and car and mortgage payments.

“A student who knows his/her credit score, understands the significance of having a credible and liable financial history — because companies, employers, landlords and governments check this information to make informed decisions about that

person,” Hay said.

Hay said the key is to pick a credit card with low annual interest rates, or low APR, to diversify and to not close accounts even if one is not using them, because these lessons may improve one’s credit.

“Financial education is a useful skill for contract workers and employees to consider,” Hay said. “A good financial history shows the ability to pay back on time and a person’s ability to make smart investments.”

Maria Christina Kalogera can be reached at mk2472@cornell.edu.

Forgotten crisis

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A boy runs through the streets of Kawkaban, Yemen, Oct. 26, 2016. In a humanitarian crisis caused by the war, children are bearing much of the burden.

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down the sidewalk until members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, of which Shewit is a member, intervened. guage that was completely unacceptable and inapShewit said that the altercation began when he propriate,” and Schlather has said his client did not and his friends were approached by several white commit a crime. men while returning home from a party shortly after A video obtained by The Sun, which has been midnight, he told police. The two groups got into reviewed by police, appears to show Greenwood an argument, and Shewit headed toward his house, calling another student — not Shewit — a “sand- he said, but the argument got louder and he saw a nigger” and later adding, “Come fight us, nigger.” friend of his pushed to the ground.

The recorded verbal exchange occurred about 30 He attempted to separate the groups, he told minutes after the assault, Ithaca Police, when the witnesses said. group of white men “I heard multiple voices yelling out the yelled, “Nigger! Nigger!

Witness statements filed word ‘Nigger’ from that group.” for the first time in court on Fuck you nigger!”

Monday describe a heated “I heard multiple voicSolomon Shewit ’19 encounter in Collegetown es yelling out the word that left Shewit “extremely ‘Nigger’ from that disoriented,” according to group,” he told police. one student, who said she had recorded a video of The woman who recorded the later verbal the verbal exchange to obtain evidence of discrimi- exchange told police that Shewit, after hearing the nation. slurs, “ran over to [the men’s] house before anyone That student told police that the man who could actually stop him.” Shewit said he confronted Shewit later identified as Greenwood “started calling them directly about using the slur but was not tryme ugly, and made fun of my bangs” before knock- ing to start a fight when they began punching him. ing her phone out of her hands and stomping on it Another witness said it appeared the man Shewit after she said she had recorded him. He cracked the later identified was Greenwood “might have been screen and damaged a credit card that was attached drunk as he punched and missed everyone but did to the back of the iPhone 7, she said. strike a car that was parked in the driveway.” The The woman said a member of Psi Upsilon, short- woman said Shewit “had blood all over his shirt” ly thereafter, grabbed at her phone and chased her and his face and told her that he had been jumped.

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Shewit told police he wants “criminal charges pressed to the fullest extent of the law for being physically attacked by these guys.”

The altercation thrust Cornell into crisis in September, with Black Students United declaring a “state of emergency for black students” and President Martha Pollack convening a task force to address persistent “bigotry and intolerance” at the University.

In the wake of the assault, Pollack said that “based on what we know, and pending final investigation, Cornell will not consider Psi Upsilon’s reinstatement as an affiliated fraternity.” Greenwood is believed to have been an underground member of the suspended fraternity, which shuttered its Cornell chapter days after the assault.

A few weeks before the Collegetown incident, a resident of the Latino Living Center reported hearing a member of a neighboring fraternity chanting “build a wall,” and in the weeks after the assault, an unknown student responded with the N-word to an electronic poll in a campus house and anti-Semitic posters were found in at least 10 locations on campus.

Greenwood is scheduled to be arraigned in Ithaca City Court on Nov. 29 at 9 a.m. in front of Judge Richard M. Wallace.

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

Students Impressed, Ticked Off by ‘Rickroll’ Prank

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor

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LEAD | Najja Morris, operations advisor for the LEAD National Support Bureau, said at the Greater Ithaca

Did you hear that?

For more than a week, students and staff in at least four campus buildings heard a fivesecond tune, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly where it was coming from.

Some ignored it. Others questioned if they might be imagining things after one too many all-nighters. Many wondered where the noises, which began around Halloween, were coming from and what was producing them.

“It was driving me crazy all week,” said Fred Cederstrom, a student manager at Temple of Zeus in Klarman Hall.

“Every day, you just got madder and madder,” Patty Dennison ’18 said, recalling that she and others finally became accustomed to the noise that permeated the Statler Hall lounge every 30-or-so minutes.

The eight-bit tune is a sample of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” and hundreds of students in at least four buildings — Statler, Duffield, Klarman and Gates halls — See PRANK page 5

Activities Center on Monday night that the program would connect people to services they need.

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designed to reduce the negative impact of mass incarceration and the racial disparity of arrests in the Seattle area.

Another objective of LEAD is to strengthen the relationship between law enforcement agencies and the community, as both parties are “aligning around the same goals”, Brown said.

He said LEAD creates a third option for police officers, besides arresting or ignoring low-level offenses. Instead, he said, they can divert citizens into programs that would, in theory, be beneficial to them and the community.

The proposed program had its critics, as well.

Joey Cardamone, another attendee, said many people believe that it would be better to put offenders in jail, rather than divert them into community service programs.

Robert Lynch, a 49-year Ithaca resident and paralegal, said he was concerned that low-level offenders would be wandering on the streets and disturbing businesses. And Debra Martens, who has been living in Ithaca for more than 40 years, said she was skeptical that LEAD would be effective, given the fact that there are already many social services programs.

“I live next to the Southern Tier Aids Program house, the Magnolia house for homeless and addicted women, and another house for homeless men,” Martens said. “People are smoking and yelling by the streetside all night, and that has affected the quality of my life in downtown area.”

Martens said she is also worried that LEAD would normalize the use of heroin.

Morris said police officers will receive training to increase their awareness of mental health issues when dealing with citizens suffering from these problems or other traumas.

Brown said that in Seattle, criminal recidivism of those who participated in LEAD was reduced by 58 percent compared to offenders who went in and out of the standard system of incarceration.

“It’s important to know that you can protect people better by not putting [the offenders] in jail,” Brown said, “just like you can’t solve the issue of homelessness by arresting homeless people.”

“LEAD belongs to no single person or entity, ” Morris added. “We are all equal partners here.

We have shared credit and shared responsibility.”

Meredith Liu can be reached at mliu@cornellsun.com.

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have been repeatedly “Rickrolled” for more than a week by devices they suspect were placed by a prankster or pranksters.

As soon as Cederstrom recognized the song, he thought, “Oh no. I get it now.”

The phenomenon of tricking people into listening to Astley’s chart-topping 1987 song has been a staple of the internet since about 2007, and a Cornell prankster seems to have now brought the trolling act into the physical world.

“Someone really had to commit to this joke,” said Justin Parratt ’18, who heard the tune in the basement of Gates Hall.

“They didn’t just do this casually.”

A Sun reporter and Viri Garcia ’20, a senior arts writer for The Sun, chronicled the frequency of the tune in Klarman Hall for about seven hours in the early morning of Nov. 3, determining that the sound played at irregular intervals — between 32 and 38 minutes apart.

Using The Sun’s tabulations, Cederstrom found the source of the tune: a quarter-sized black disc with several wires and a watch battery. It was hidden in a light sill in Klarman.

But shortly after that device was found and confiscated by Cederstrom, two more popped up in hidden areas in Klarman Hall. Garcia discovered one disc that produced Astley’s song from under a statue in Klarman Hall, and another device seems to be playing the song intermittently from behind a wall in the building.

In a brief interview in his office, Henry W. Crans, Jr., director of facilities for the College of Arts and Sciences, said members of his staff told him they have been hearing the noise for days in Klarman, and that he had found another, identical device tucked in a corner near the dean’s office on the first floor of Goldwin Smith Hall.

“I didn’t have a lot of time to worry about it,” said Crans, who has overseen operations at all College of Arts and Sciences facilities since 1979. “I have more alligators in the swamp.”

Ward Simcox ’19 said that everyone in the Statler Hall lounge knew the noise was coming from somewhere in the center of the room, and he finally decided enough was enough.

“I stood up on the table and pulled it down,” he said. The noise, he said, “was kind of funny for like a day and a half, and then it was like, OK, whoever did this needs to step forward.”

The devices seem like they are handmade, said Dennison, who was in the Statler lounge when Simcox found the device.

“Some person smarter than I am is manufacturing those out of their dorm room,” she posited.

The device in Statler Hall alone, she noted, “annoyed hundreds of people every single day — and it was here for a week.”

Cheer Tsang ’19 was studying with friends in the Duffield Hall atrium, she said, when she

noticed an “8-bit jingle” playing every hour or so.

“After the third time, I realized it was playing ‘Never Gonna Give You Up,’” she told The Sun in a Facebook message.

“We were too busy trying to finish our report [to find it], and we thought we were imagining the noise at first since it was 3 a.m.,” she said. Tsang said she suspects an electrical and computer engineer with “too much time on their hands” pulled off what she said was a clever prank.

“It cheered me up a bit,” she added.

Parratt said he and a friend looked all over for the device in Gates Hall last week, but came up empty-handed. He said he “was definitely impressed” by the prank.

Students have also reported hearing the noise in Carpenter Hall and the Physical Sciences Building. Garcia, the arts writer, determined that one device is lodged behind a wall panel in Klarman Hall, putting the total number of known devices on campus between seven and nine.

Cederstrom, the student manager at Zeus, said the prank was a good one, but that he was completely sick of the jingle after a day or two.

“The thing that was driving me most crazy,” he said, “is that it wasn’t on a direct 30-minute [schedule], because I would come out here and be like, how long am I going to stand here … trying to wait for it?”

“I don’t know if it’s in any way deserving of any disciplinary action,” he said. “I just think it’s annoying.”

Cornell Police Deputy Chief David Honan said CUPD had received no reports regarding the devices.

Crans, the director of facilities, said he had considered reviewing surveillance video,

but that it is not “a serious enough issue.”

Plus, Crans is a fan of pranks himself. He told a story about a prank he briefly considered playing years ago, but never fol-

lowed through on — an anecdote he insisted be kept off the record.

“It’s a cute joke,” he said of the devices around campus. “I’m always up for a cute joke, and

that’s what this is.”

“I just wish they’d use a battery with a shorter shelf life.”

Reach Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Of Blessed Memory

So much of the division in our country n the turmoil following Donald Trump’s inauguration and his subse- stems from a lack of empathy. When we quent Muslim ban, I turned to my lack empathy for immigrants, for people grandfather’s story for solace and for guid- of color, for the poorest among us, we fail ance. Grandpa Ben had survived Soviet to see how harmful our policies and norms Russia, two years in a German refugee can be. When we lack empathy for others, camp, the Great Depression and the when we cannot put ourselves in their Korean War, and built a prosperous life for shoes, we allow ourselves to do terrible himself and his family here in New York. things we would never want done to ourHe had made it to America, and then he selves.

My empathy is informed by my famihad made it in America. During that dark January, when uncertainty hung heavy ly’s experience, and while I am by no means perfect, I am a over all of us, when better person because nobody was sure just of where my family how things would Grandpa Ben had has been. I don’t want turn out, I looked to to become the man my grandpa. survived Soviet believes everyI looked at his life, Russia, two years in a who thing should be given and I knew that to him because everything would be German refugee dammit he’s an okay, so long as we camp, the Great American, always has did the right thing. I been and always will looked at him and Depression and the be. I certainly don’t understood that while America offers us Korean War, and built want any of my children to be that peropportunities beyond a prosperous life for son. But as secondour wildest imagination, it also doesn’t himself and his family generation Americans like myself grow up, guarantee us anyhere in New York. we’re faced with the thing. For him, comreality that our North ing to America wasn’t Star, our living link to a certainty. Becoming a citizen wasn’t certain. Getting into med- a long-ago adversity, is dimming.

What can we do? We can start by ical school, surviving a war, being accepted by a hostile society wasn’t certain. So much telling their stories, never forgetting where of what I take for granted was a privilege we came from. We can find new stars to and a blessing for him, and without his guide us, and perhaps the people with example, I probably would never think whom we meet and connect will one day about the advantages afforded to me and be Grandpa Bens to their own Jacobs. We can instill in ourselves and others the those like me in today’s America.

Grandpa Ben passed away yesterday knowledge that none of us are better than morning, just a few months shy of his another, none of us are born more deserving than another, but some of us are just a 100th birthday. And now I’m scared.

Will my kids grow up unaware of the few generations ahead.

Nothing will ever replace Grandpa Ben adversity their family faced? Will they know that the America that today treats or the 99 years he lived, and that’s somethem so well was not always such a place, thing I’m just going to have to live with. and that it’s incumbent on all of us to But as we grapple with a society that is make sure we never go back to that place? quick to judge and quicker to condemn, it’s those stories that we must hold on to, Or will they be blissfully unaware?

I am privileged to have had a living, those stories we must continue to seek out. breathing reminder of that struggle so I’m holding on to his story, and I’m not close to me for 20 years. I am privileged to letting go. have a person in my life who faced chal- Jacob Rubashkin is a junior in the College of Arts lenges I can’t comprehend so that I could and Sciences. He is the associate editor of The live the life I do. And I can’t let that go to Cornell Daily Sun. He can be reached at associateeditor@cornellsun.com. waste now that he’s gone.

Activism, Burnout And Scented Stickers

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y favorite part about 10th grade math was the sticker I would get when Ms. Ho would walk around the room and check homework. My favorite ones were the smiley scented stickers (specifically watermelon) that she would place on my homework with a smile. The gesture was

Activism is not just protesting and demanding change or showing up to fill the Memorial Room to use our own bodies politically. small, but it felt like a commendation, a validation of my work, and it made me feel recognized.

This semester has been challenging and trying. From a national political climate that attacks our identities, to incidents on campus that have lessened the sense of belonging that many Cornellians feel, this has not been an easy semester. Particularly for those advocating for change, this semester has tested our resilience and grit. But throughout all this, the students at Cornell have shown their exemplary ability to keep fighting.

This activism can take many forms.

Activism is not just protesting and demanding change or showing up to fill the Memorial Room to use our own bodies politically. Activism is sharing ideas — columns in The Sun, poetry, art. Public, open and powerful. Appreciated and recognized.

Activism is also found in the one-on-one conversations we have with individuals where we challenge each other’s ideas on the way to class, in the meetings with representatives and administrators, even the closeddoor meetings where no one ever knows the work that you place into a cause. Not as public, but equally important.

And sometimes activism does not produce the desired results.

When that happens, we may experience burnout. As an undergraduate, we are only

on campus for four years and it is important to remember that during an ephemeral experience, we often don’t get to see the results of our labor. We are laying the foundation, and oftentimes we will not see the results of our leadership and activism.

There are moments that restore my faith in the work that we do as students, moments where we see the direct result of our work. Seeing column after column advocating for the Cornell Cinema, or affinity groups forming coalitions to advocate for change, and then seeing the change occur.

I’ve seen it several times during my time here at Cornell — from the renaming of the Cornell Botanic Gardens to the opening of Anabel’s Grocery. Large, rare victories that act as “scented stickers” for the work that we put into creating change at our university.

As I reflect on my time at Cornell, I keep in mind how emotionally draining it is to put yourself on the line and really commit to a cause. How sometimes the work we do goes unrecognized or the goals of our work aren’t achieved. Know that your leadership is going to lay the foundation on which the future students who fill our shoes will build.

Know that your work behind doors, those phone calls late at night, and the time spent in Libe is appreciated and important.

Process is often as important as results.

Have pride in the work that you do, regardless of the result. Give those around you a “scented sticker,” because sometimes the work we do goes unrewarded. I’m hoping

Know that your leadership is going to lay the foundation on which the future students who fill our shoes will build. that this column serves as your scented sticker. The work that you do matters, is important and is recognized.

Dustin Liu is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dliu@cornellsun.com. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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DongYeon (Margaret) Lee | Here, There and Everywhere

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Why Is Cornell So Bland?

wo weeks ago, my friend who attends Princeton visited Cornell to see me and another friend. It was during the middle of a busy week of had prelims and quizzes, so I didn’t expect to be able to show her much. I mean what is there really to show around campus and in Ithaca other than natural scenery, the A.D. White Library and perhaps the Commons? What’s

time. I really hadn’t expected much because I was pretty bored of the overrated dining hall food last year, and so I hadn’t visited RPCC in months even though I lived on North. But my friend loved it. Initially surprised by the sheer scale of the dining hall due to both its variety and the number of people, she happily chose from a wide selection of omelets, noodles, sushi,

I always thought it was a problem with Cornell in and of itself; even my columns are almost always criticizing Cornell. But what I realized these past few days is that all along it had been a matter of my own perception. worse, the weather was forecasted to rain all week as per usual, and we were supposed to get our first semi-winter weather at around 40 degrees.

As rain poured down heavier than I had seen in weeks, I thought to myself, “Why oh why did I invite her all the way here to take a two-hour train ride and a five-hour bus ride, only to see pretty much nothing in bad weather?” Even my friends were surprised at the fact that someone would come all the way to Cornell just to see their friend. Whenever I ran into any of my Cornell friends and introduced my Princeton friend to them, their reactions would be the same: “Wow, you came all the way to Cornell?”

It turned out to be that her visit was well worth it.

The night she arrived, my roommate and I took her to RPCC because it was the only dining hall open at that

pancakes and, of course, ice cream. The only aspect that had changed from last year was the noodle bar, but I too developed a love for the food that night. I already knew how great Cornell’s food was, but I hadn’t truly embraced the greatness until my revisit.

Although my friend couldn’t purchase much from the Cornell Store because of how overpriced everything was, she enjoyed seeing the gorges while crossing bridges, liked the walks around the Arts Quad and was amused by the White Library and Johnson Museum. I had already been pretty much all around campus from far down the end of Tower Road to the tip of North Campus, so I anticipated that the only great thing that would come out of the tour would simply be showing my friend around where I walk every day and catching up on what we had missed from each other’s lives.

As a matter of fact, those walks were the best I had since freshman orientation week. I saw the campus from a new light — the blend of old and new, the diversity of different types of people from different walks of life, the beautiful buildings, the crisp clean air, the multicolored leaves along the Arts Quad, the starry Johnson Museum, the pleasing sounds from McGraw Tower — all things that I had passed by everyday without giving much attention to. I had been so used to badmouthing Cornell just like we all do, that even the smallest things made me realize what a wondrous place it is to be at.

Yes, even though “Ithaca is Gorges” and “Ithaca is amusing,” it isn’t quite as glamorous as New York City. Nor is the weather even half as pleasant as it is in California. I always thought it was a problem with Cornell in and of itself; even my columns are almost always criticizing Cornell.

But what I realized these past few days is that all along it had been a matter of my own perception.

When I went to watch the ice hockey game against Dartmouth for the first time, I was instilled with a sense of pride and delight that can only be gained through a Cornell experience. Last week for the first time, I noticed that there were carvings on the walls of Goldwin Smith, a building that I walk in every other day. Again, I simply passed by this place without being conscious of where I was. Looking above and around the paths I walked along each day, I saw the entire campus in a new light. Most importantly, I recollected the excitement and awe on my first day and remembered how honored I was and will continue to be here.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays.

Priya Kankanhalli | Matters of Fact

The ‘I’ in ‘Team’

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ecently, I’ve been grappling with my group identity. My courses this semester have placed an emphasis on collaborative group projects, and as such, I’ve been viewing myself through the lens of my teammates, as a part of a whole, rather than as a completely individual entity. In academic settings, the concept of group work is interesting in that it anchors a set of strangers, without much consistency in background or passion, to a common goal – likely a desirable grade.

Usually, then, after teams are selected, the professor gradually decreases the level of imposed structure, and the madness begins.

Four of my six classes have currently assigned ongoing group projects: one of my teams is designing a website, one of them is building an application, one of them is filming a video and the last is dedicated to studying the role of technology in group work. As relatively long-term assignments, these projects demand heavy communication, both in-person and virtual, both in content and frequency. Routinely, during the week and weekend, I meet with my teammates to assess progress, schedule milestones, and divide up the workload, and of course, in these meetings, there is always room for small talk – we’re humans, not robots, right? We scatter peripheral questions, noncontroversial rants, and light hearted jokes throughout our sessions. Ironically, individual errors, instead of being shamed, are treated with excess tenderness in an effort to maintain harmony and assure good will of all participants. Yet, after all of these measures are taken to introduce warmth into a group, it still wears out so quickly. Somehow, meeting after meeting, the group dynamic never evolves into intimacy — only familiarity.

Like everything, familiarity has its pros and cons.

Among its values, it’s comfortable, it’s safe and it’s perfect for teams looking to create A-grade deliverables that

blend together the widely diverse perspectives of multiple students. In familiar settings, idea generation is uninhibited and creativity is welcome. In some ways, being placed on a team forces me to be better (outwardly, at least). It eases the workload and teaches me to delegate.

In other ways, I am unsettled by the inconsistency and the unpredictability — who I am in a group depends so greatly on its members that I struggle to relate my performance back to my own personality.

Even though these meetings are purely academic by nature, they still don’t elicit a feeling of productivity in the end. Personally, there’s so little utility associated with group meetings, and these interactions simply feel empty — void of substance and excitement. Academically, I feel that progress is slow and fragmented, with no larger exchange of perspective.

Socially, I feel that conversations with teammates always revert back to the assigned task — which is understandable, but still saddening.

I’m rattled by this feeling partially because of its implications to post-collegiate professional life. If intellectual collaboration doesn’t breed closeness, then how do colleagues become friends? Or, if it does, is friendship just a product of circumstance and necessity? What is it about academic teamwork that proves to be a dead halt for

social synthesis? Why, when I walk away from a group meeting, do I feel like I’ve left nothing behind?

My frustration stems from a place of respect. I know there is so much I could learn from other students here pursuing a range of majors and interests, and the convergence of various backgrounds and experiences is a beautiful thing. Knowing this, it is more disappointing that direct, uncensored collaboration does not always allow for shared insight.

In defense of team settings, perhaps I’m expecting too much. Maybe it’s different outside the college bubble, and collaborators feel that their interactions are both intellectually stimulating and socially rewarding. In my

What is it about academic teamwork that proves to be a dead halt for social synthesis? Why, when I walk away from a group meeting, do I feel like I’ve left nothing behind? penultimate year at Cornell, I haven’t stopped hoping that the people I meet and work with through classes might transition from “peer” or “teammate” — cold, formal and stiff — to friend.

Priya Kankanhalli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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BY VIRI GARCIA Sun Staff Writer

When I first listened to allfemale Japanese trio Paranoid Void, I learned of the existence of math rock. At first, it did not sound fun, as anything having to do with math is just not fun to me. Math rock, though, is a genre holding some similarities to post-rock that utilizes unconventional time signatures, rhythms and dissonance. Paranoid Void, composed of members Meguri, Yu-Ki and Mipow, is unlike most music I have listened to, and it became evident that the trio put endless effort into their first full-length album, Literary Math.

On Paranoid Void’s website, the band describes Literary Math as a “three-dimensional composition of the sound and words that the female sensibility unique to women creates.”

Additionally, on the album’s release date, the band published a blog entry explaining what they wanted the album to convey. The blog entry discusses the importance of the first, second, third, fifth and 10th tracks and the way that they

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build the theme of Literary Math. The first track, “Dog of Karma,” has a music video that further solidifies the ideas that the band wrote in the blog.

The song starts out with a guitar-heavy introduction, then moves into a pattern that is repeated, then another, much like a loop, agreeing with the blog entry. “Dog of Karma” is meant to portray the everyday loops that people can never escape because everyone is always subconsciously seeking something that they’re missing, always incomplete.

The second track on the album, “The Sky of Foam, the Eternal City,” is a gentle, comfortable melody that also loops, but in a reassuring way.

Here, the listener is supposed to picture what the title describes. The music video is a simple animation of an eye opening and closing with a floating city inside it. The animation moves smoothly along with the song, focusing on the city and creating a soothing, satisfying experience that makes one wish the music and video would not end so soon.

Paranoid Void creates their own world in this track, which can either be listened to intently or simply function as laidback background music.

Paranoid Void seeks to paint the world with sounds, and the track that they felt best accomplished this is the album’s third track, “All in the World.” The song, which has no lyrics, is filled with gentle guitar sounds and patterns that are carefully put together both

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Eminem “Walk on Water” Aftermath

BY PEGAH MORADI Sun Staff Writer

Eminem is a walking contradiction, at once meticulous and utterly messy, both in character and in lyric. His politics are complicated, his rhymes often puzzling. The illustrious Marshall Mathers has without a doubt left behind a prickly portfolio that ranges from aggravating dark male anger to poppy bops to mind-bending twists of verse. He is, by most measures, one of the greatest and most problematic hip-hop

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artists of his era.

Eminem has since more or less fallen out of the zeitgeist, nowadays reserved for workout playlists and the occasional surprise appearance on shuffle. In “Walk on Water,” the new prelude to his upcoming album Revival, Eminem wants us to know he’s well aware of his tumble down into irrelevance, but that he’s not satisfied with it. The new ballad — moreso a sneak peek for Revival than a true, standalone single — doesn’t sound a whole lot like Eminem. There’s no playful twang or aggressive sharpness.

Instead, subdued and somber, Eminem reflects on the artistic pressures of his legacy against the noise of tearing paper and a simple piano in place of a beat.

The song’s pensive tempo is, as many have pointed out, much more Macklemore than Marshall, in an unsettling way.

If not for Beyoncé’s grace-

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melodically and rhythmically.

This carefully-crafted song is able to both create imagery and induce effects that most music cannot, something that is especially hard to find in instrumental music. Musicians often depend on lyrics to carry themes and ideas, but Literary Math manages to create meaning without relying on lyrics.

The only track on the album with an English title, “null,” is purely instrumental, whereas most of the other tracks featured vocals, even if there were no lyrics. In their blog entry, the band mentions that they felt this track was much like a game in which a collection of items must be picked up while trying to avoid obstacles. The resulting sense of unity is meant to represent a person, as that is what all people are. Much like the fifth track, “null” feels saturated and slightly frantic, but not only is it intentional — the music is coherent, enjoyable and portrays the band’s thematic ideas.

Literary Math is exactly what the title makes it out to be: math. Paranoid Void has taken numbers and calculations and arranged them in such a way that there are emotions attached to the patterns and motifs in their music.

While patterns and motifs often become tiresome to listen to, Paranoid Void has created interesting musical themes that fit together like a puzzle and can often be catchy, something rarely seen in instrumental music and especially math rock.

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

fully tapered hook, the track would be exceptionally boring, both lyrically and musically. If “Walk on Water” is meant to introduce the new tone and artistic tension of Revival, then we may be gearing up for a softer, more mellow Eminem, albeit not a particularly interesting one. There isn’t need for alarm, though: The song’s outro ever briefly teases at the familiar cockiness of Slim Shady, alluding to the possibility of conflict rather than sheer contemplation in Eminem’s upcoming work.

Artists who outlast their prime tend to either gracefully fade out of relevance, blunder loudly enough to undermine their previous success or — on rare occasion — make a glorious comeback. Eminem is, laudably, aware of the crossroads he’s approaching, particularly at this exact political moment. How he chooses to exist in it is still to be seen.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com.

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The Art/Artist Problem

ver the summer, I had an ongoing debate with a friend at work about whether it is worthwhile, useful or even possible to try to “separate the art from the artist.” It covered the predictable bullet points this argument usually touches: whether art “ascends” to somewhere outside of the human sphere of its creators or whether it always bears the sign of the creator’s human hand; whether or not it is harmful to continue consuming art that was created by (generally) male artists with odious and/or criminal backstories; and whether it is ever useful or informative to apply an artist’s biography to their work. I was firmly in the camp that the art and artist are inextricable, and the Hollywood revelations of the past few weeks have only made me more sure of this.

The relationship of biography to art was always impossible to ignore in Louis C.K.’s FX show Louie, and this was the way that C.K. intended it. The show’s main character was a reflection of its creator that never pretended to be much different than the man himself, but with his baggage and misbehavior exaggerated (it seemed). Louie was critically adored for seasons, and often praised as an incisive interrogation of masculinity and gender norms. There were some voices of criticism about the ways it depicted sexual assault and harassment — more than one episode features Louis C.K.’s character enduring some form of sexual assault by a female character, and there is a deeply disturbing scene in which he pushes and drags his “love” interest Pamela around his apartment trying to kiss her, an action which has absolutely no repercussions for their storyline. However, the general critical interpretation of the show was that the creator was manipulating the audience’s expectations about sexual misconduct in a way that was intelligent and productive, and that the scene of Louie’s assault on Pamela was posing a thoughtful problem to the audience about the limits of our sympathy for C.K.’s character.

In the light of the revelation of Louis C.K.’s pattern of sexual misconduct and harassment — which, it should be noted, is not a new story but a story only now made widely public — this aspect of his show looks much different than it appeared to me in the past. I loved his show for years, and now the accusations against C.K. have not only made it impossible to watch his show without thinking of his behavior, they’ve also made me question how and why I believed that the portions of the show about sexual assault were productively provocative art. They now appear like purposeful efforts to implicitly excuse his offstage behavior by reversing the usual gender positions in sexual assaults and by portraying him as a hapless, helpless victim of domineering and selfish women.

The trailer for his recently cancelled film I Love You, Daddy, ends with a female character sitting telling C.K.’s character that “we’re all perverts.” This now feels like an overarching message in Louie, and it is one that attempts to make his harassment less repugnant by casting it as an uncontrollable, undeniable and universal aspect of human

identity that ignores gender power inequalities. Louie always toyed with its close relationship to autobiography at the same time that it insisted on its fiction, but only now is it clear the extent to which its creator saw it as an opportunity to address and reframe his own life and actions.

The New Yorker film critic Richard Brody said after the Harvey Weinstein story broke that “whatever a viewer knows about a film and a filmmaker can be illuminating… But the better a film is, the likelier that the biography only fills in details regarding what should already have been apparent to a clear-eyed viewing.” The New York Times’s Amanda Hess reads this as “a bizarre calculation that dismisses discussions of bad deeds based on the talent of the person performing them.”

Personally, I am completely unable to make sense of Brody’s comment, but it seems nonsensical and absurdly tangential to the debate over the actions of figures like Weinstein, C.K. and Kevin Spacey. But

Jack Jones Despite all the Amputations

regardless of what Brody intended to say, there is an unsettling truth to his comments when they are applied to Louie. And that is what this scandal has left me with; the suspicion that C.K.’s behavior was on display all along for “clear-eyed viewing,” and that because I found him often funny and insightful, I followed the critics who found ways to cast his jokes and scenes as productive disruptions rather than problematic fantasies and calculated confusions of the realities of gender inequality and sexual assault.

You can’t watch Louie and separate the art from the artist, and you never could; the artist made the show about himself, and there is no way now to watch the scenes of sexual assault or the jokes about masturbation and not connect them to what C.K. was doing to women whom he believed were too much in his debt to harm his reputation. Louie may be a particularly obvious example of this, but I am convinced that it is an educational one because of this. Art is always, always made out of human experience, and I don’t believe in a kind of separate sphere to which it ascends once completed. There is no “pure” way to consume art without coming into some kind of contact with its creator’s mind, and with the creator’s life and experience which informed its creation. I used to love Louie, but I don’t think I will watch it again, because I don’t think I could stand getting that close to the actions that informed its creation. But if you do watch it, don’t tell yourself that you’re going to separate it from its creator. C.K. never intended you to do that; and more than ever, his life explains his show.

Jack Jones is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com. His column Despite all the Amputations runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

Biofuels

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Microscopic fracking l Petri dishes containing oil producing algae strains that could soon be experimented with using Prof. David Stern’s bioreactor chip.

Algal Biofuel Reactors on a Chip to Revolutionize Renewable Energy Research Will fuel examination of algae strain growth and oil production rates, Prof says

By CHRISTIAN ONG Sun Contributor

Most of the world’s oil reserves are buried kilometers under the Earth’s surface.

With nations worldwide slowly waking up to its ecological impacts, our newest sources of oil may lie far below Cayuga’s waters, stored in a group of green, slimy organisms: algae.

Algae are valuable because the natural oils they produce are remarkably similar to diesel. Using a simple conversion process, these oils can be used in vehicles that currently operate on fossil fuels. The issue, however, is efficiency. Often the species of algae that produces the most oil is also the slowest at reproducing, making it unfeasible for any real cultivation.

Using metabolic engineering, Prof.

David Stern, plant biology, managed to transfer the metabolic pathway of Botryococcus, a species of algae that produces large quantities of usable oil, into another species of algae that has a fast rate of reproduction. Despite the improvements, there was still not enough oil.

“We buy and produce so much oil that to make a dent in the market, one would need to produce massive amounts of biofuel,” Stern said.

“Scaling up is always challenging.”

Rather than abandon this pathway and seeking out a more effective species, Stern decided to turn to genetic engineering to increase the cell’s net oil production. In order to find a new, improved variant of the species, scientists must manipulate the algae’s genes. However, as Stern

admits, the scientific community is ized compartments, or “bioreactors,” still unsure of which gene in the algae’s each capable of holding an algal cell. genome is responsible for the effects The compartments allowed the team the team desires. Deducing the combi- to create different growth environnation of genes to alter is thus, a mam- ments and experiment with different moth task. genetically modified strains of algae.

“How many genetic changes would “As we can create hundreds of it take to optimize oil production and thousands of these tiny droplets, we reproduction in an algal species? can put single cells in every one of Would it be one, 10, 20?” Stern said. these bioreactors and grow them to see In addition to this combinatorial how fast they are growing and how problem, not all variation created in a much oil they are producing,” Stern cell would be said. beneficial.

Stern could Without knowthen screen miling what each lions of cells for gene in the improvements algae genome in reproductive does, mutating and oil producthe algae withtion rates at the out serious same time. negative conseFu r t h e r m o r e , quences, such the chip’s plasas cell death, tic construction becomes ever makes it easy more challengand cheap for ing. Stern uses other research the problem of teams to experisolving a ment with.

Rubik’s cube as “[We would] an analogy. “If recover the variyou try to solve ants that were all of the sides performing sigProf. David Stern at once, it’s nificantly better overwhelmthan the avering.” age. One could Instead of focussing on a single then use the best variant from screenmutant strain at a time, Stern realized ing, and mutagenize and screen it that the team would need to create again. This creates the effect of rapid and screen a large number of strains. evolution,” Stern said.

To do so, the researchers built an Without the chip, it could take entire research facility on a microchip researchers a lifetime to go through the size of quarter. The chip features only a fraction of these combinations. hundreds of thousands of individual- Instead, scientists can now screen mil-

“We buy and produce so much oil that to make a dent in the market, one would need to produce massive amounts of biofuel.”

lions of algae mutants at a time with multiple chips, searching for that one “miracle mutant.”

Stern, though, insists that the path to such a breakthrough is riddled with obstacles.

“We’ve barely scratched the surface of the potential for on-chip algal screening. The major barriers are higher throughout and creating highly accurate detection of the biological properties of interest,” Stern said.

In addition to these issues, funding is becoming harder to attain for those involved in biofuel research.

“The price of oil has declined drastically because of fracking, which has created a daunting barrier to entry for new energy technologies,” Stern said.

“This has led to failure or drastic repositioning of companies formed to develop algal biofuels; for example by switching to specialty oils for cosmetics or food products.”

Stern also believes that, under the current presidential administration, it will become increasingly difficult for environmentally concerned researchers like himself to receive funding, given the rising incentives that make investing in traditional oil a better alternative.

And yet, Stern remains optimistic about the future of biofuels.

“While our project did not deliver a commercially viable algal strain in four years, it has advanced our knowledge in this area of metabolic engineering, and has shown promise for on-chip screening of algae. We learned a lot.”

Christian Ong can be reached at cbo35@cornell.edu.

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COMICS AND PUZZLES

Sundoku Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

Puzzle #650

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on the scoreboard by the end of the first period.

Eventually facing a 2-0 hole late in the game, Cornell pulled Boissonnault for an extra attacker while on a 5-on-3 power play, forcing the Badgers into a rare 6-on-3 situation. The Red found its way onto the scoreboard in the final minutes of the game, when Mills scored her second goal of the weekend on assists from O’Neill and sophomore forward Jamie Bourbonnais.

Boissonnault came up huge for Cornell in the crease again, recording 26 saves.

“As a young team, we learned a lot from our mistakes this weekend because Wisconsin’s a team that will take advantage of those miscues,” Derraugh said. “But we also realized we can play with the top teams in the NCAA and compete with them. It’s important with our young group that they start believing that.”

Always striving to improve, the Red looks to fix its mistakes from this weekend and maximize its potential heading back into ECAC play against Brown and Yale.

“Having played two very fast-paced games, it will be very important for us to take that same intensity and grit into next weekend’s Ivy League games,” Gerace said. “Although we have a different opponent, we need to be playing the same way.”

The Red will be back in action this weekend as it hits the road to resume conference play and take on Ancient Eight rivals Brown and Yale. The puck drops at 6 p.m. on Friday against Brown in Providence and at 3 p.m. on Saturday against Yale in New Haven.

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A Journey Worth Joining McDEVITT

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representing this institution with heart and soul, and we owe them heart and soul in return. The only remaining undefeated team in the country should not be struggling to fill its arena, period. If you ask me, they deserve the level of enthusiasm and energy that the Faithful gave them on Saturday every single weekend.

Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 previously expressed his concern that fans were arriving late at games, a noteworthy problem as players cherish the moment their names are called while the crowd showers them with praise as they skate from the goalline to the blue line.

“That time when the player comes down, that’s the exciting time. When you skate on the ice and you’re welcomed by the Lynah Faithful,” Schafer said before the Harvard game. “That was what I came to Cornell for [as a player] … I would love [for] our fans on a regular basis to welcome our team to the ice. They’re excited to see our fans.”

Schafer’s request is far from unreasonable. The intensity from the other side of the glass has a positive effect on the team’s morale and performance on the ice. Watch a post-game press conference or a pre-game media day on YouTube. The coaches and players express their love for the Faithful with every chance they get.

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they battle it out.

Lynah Rink has a reputation around the ECAC and the entire country as a building synonymous with character and spirit. I am sick and tired of hearing that Cornell isn’t a sports school.

Cornell is a hockey school, whether you like it or not. And it’s time we started to not only live up to that expectation, but exceed it.

Clarkson is not Harvard, and I get that. The Harvard rivalry is built, in part, on an inferiority complex. There is no such air of superiority associated with Clarkson. Most of you probably don’t even know where it is. But if the building looks and feels against Clarkson even half as animated as it did against Harvard, the team’s chances of winning will be so much greater.

Cornell received four first place votes in the most recent USCHO poll and five in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine. This team is getting a ton of national respect, and a victory this coming Saturday against another top-10 opponent would put this team one step closer to being a true national contender.

The Lynah Faithful can join this team on a journey to excellence. But only if we decide to magnify the intensity more than once a year.

Dylan McDevitt is a junior in the ILR School. He can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Seniors Excited About Program’s Direction M.SOCCER

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season.

Not to mention, the season featured a dramatic takedown of then-No. 11 upstate rival Syracuse.

“If you look at it statistically, we improved in every aspect,” said head coach John Smith. “We scored more goals, we let in far fewer goals, we had more shots, allowed fewer shots, and from a stats point of view the numbers don’t lie: we’ve improved a fair amount.”

The expectations are high for next year’s team, and Smith wants the team to improve upon what it achieved this year. In addition, he expects the returners to be more physically and mentally prepared.

But most important, he wants the team to be more of a force than they were this year, “and I’m excited for that,” he said.

But as the Red’s season comes to an end, so too do the college careers of its six seniors.

“I told the [team] that in the 19 months that I’ve been here, all six of those guys have given everything they’ve got,” Smith said.

“And as a coach, you can’t ask for more than that. They’ve never failed in terms of being punctual and bringing an intensity and “I hope that my senior bringing a passion and always class is remembered for being there and being ready.”

Last Thursday, just a few days laying the groundwork for before Saturday’s Senior Day the program to come.” game against Columbia, the team volunteered their evening Senior Captain Spencer Kopko to serve Thanksgiving dinner to a group of underprivileged Ithacans.

For Smith, it was a moment of pure pride — pride in the development in his squad as not just soccer players, but as people.

“Just to be around the six seniors, all at one table serving, and to watch how they interacted with everybody and how willing and able they were to help, I was swelling with pride,” said Smith. “It’s those moments where you think back and you say ‘these are incredible people, these really are incredible young men.’”

This year’s senior class had a sense of tenacity about them throughout their time with the team. They endured injuries, sickness, coaching and program changes, and sub-par seasons.

“I hope that my senior class is remembered for laying the groundwork for the program to come,” Kopko said. “We will be like the Columbias and the Dartmouths in years to come, but I want to be remembered for going through the hard years when it wasn’t easy and we weren’t winning.”

When the 2018 recruiting class steps on campus next August, with them will be hopes and expectations of greater achievement.

Until then, Smith and multiple players have emphasized the importance of improving fitness in the offseason.

“You have to be physically ready to compete every single day, and you have to be the most fit you’ve ever been in your life when you come in for preseason,” said leading goal-scorer freshman Tommy Hansan.

But until the team begins its grueling off-season workouts, they will be celebrating the careers of those six seniors: the six young men who hope to be remembered as the foundation of what has the potential to become a very successful program in the years to come.

Jonathan Harris can be reached at jrh293@cornellsun.com.

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“We definitely changed the culture this season in the conference in how other teams view competing against us,” Arenas said. “We’re not the underdogs anymore and we came in third, and that really changes teams’ attitudes when they play us.”

And even after such a successful end to the season, Vande Berg and the returning members of the team are already looking forward to next season.

“We will continue to work very hard, be the hardest working team in the Ivies,” Vande Berg said.

“Our block and defense will

continue to improve, and I’m hoping that our offense will follow suit,” Chamness took it one step farther.

“Our goal next year is of course to come out strong and win an Ivy League championship,” she said. “This spring we will be focusing on rebuilding after losing our fantastic seniors and working on mental toughness and consistency. We proved ourselves this year by beating every team in our league, our next step is having no let downs throughout the season.”

Zora Hahn can be reached at zhahn@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

VOLLEYBALL

Red Tops Brown, Yale to Finish 3rd

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell volleyball ended its season on a high note this past weekend, defeating both Yale, in first place at the time, as well as Brown. The two victories ensured Cornell’s perfect Ivy home record in the 2017 season.

The Red downed Yale, 3-0, and topped Brown, 3-2, moving its overall record to 12-11 and its Ivy League mark to 8-6. With the two wins, the team tied Harvard for third in the Ivy League — its best finish since 2006.

The Red played both teams on the road a little over a month ago, beating Brown but coming up short against Yale. That previous defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs pushed Cornell to work particularly hard for vengeance.

“The first time we played them we were up in every set up until the end,” said head coach Trudy Vande Berg. “We have worked a lot on closing out sets and making good choices in pressure situations.”

“I think that our win against Yale this weekend really came down to our mentality, attitude and energy,” added sophomore setter Zoe Chamness. “We wanted the win and went out there as if there was no other option but to give it our everything.”

Although Cornell was ultimately successful in both games, neither win was easy with each of the opposing teams brought its own strengths into Bartels. But the Red was ready.

“Yale is a very fast-paced team that plays every point like they’ll be featured in a highlight reel. Brown is the complete opposite, and they brought the pace down a lot more than Yale did,” said sophomore outside hitter Samanta Arenas. “This makes it a little more difficult to keep your side at a faster pace, but we did a good job of worrying about our own side to execute.”

The two victories not only marked the end of the season, but the final game for all of the Cornell seniors.

Emily Wemhoff, Kiley McPeek, Kit McCarty, Chelsea Sincox and Maddy Sroufe may have finished their colle-

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All smiles | After defeating Yale and Brown, the Red secured its best finish since the 2006 season. In the process, Cornell also played spoiler by knocking the Bulldogs out of the Ivy League’s top spot.

giate careers, but they definitely went out in style.

“McCarty was a powerhouse for us this weekend with not only her play, but also her attitude and desire to win,” Chamness said. “Kiley also had a ‘nothing hits the floor’ mentality in the back row and brought a ton of energy to the team.”

“Our seniors really brought their A-games for their final weekend,” Vande Berg added. “Kiley and Kit took over in the fifth set vs. Brown, and we were struggling in the previous two sets.”

In the end, the Red has much to be proud of, perhaps best evidenced by its strong finish in the Ivy standings.

“We came into this season with big goals and those

big goals led us to a winning record and a better finish in the Ivy’s than we have had in quite a while,” Chamness said. “Being undefeated in the league on our home court is a huge accomplishment that I am incredibly proud of.”

While the Red may have had lofty expectations for the 2017 season, the team was still incredibly vulnerable on the road, winning just one match away from Newman Arena.

Despite that, the team hopes to take the progress realized in its home showings as it prepares for an even better 2018 season.

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FOOTBALL

Run-First Football Searching for Identity After Losing Walker

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Next man up? | Sophomore Harold Coles has been one of several running backs to attempt to take Walker’s place, but the offense continues to sorely miss its primary back.

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

“You can definitely call us a run-first team,” was what Cornell football head coach David Archer confidently ’05 told The Sun just a few weeks back. That, however, was before junior first-team AllIvy running back Chris Walker went down with a season-ending leg injury in the team’s upset win over Princeton.

Now, after its second consecutive abysmal showing Saturday afternoon against Columbia, the Cornell offense seems to have lost that identity.

Entering the 2017 season, all eyes were on junior quarterback Dalton Banks to continue his progression as the face of the Cornell offense. Banks’ 2016 numbers were near the top of the Ivy League across the board and also propelled him into the top five of several Cornell offensive categories. But through the first several games, it was clear the passing attack was not the route to success for the 130th installment of Cornell football.

Banks’ struggles and an offensive line better suited to run block meant it was time for a change, so Archer and Co. turned to the run. Backing up Walker

before his injury was a more-than-compe“I think we found a little groove there tent backfield that featured sophomore in the middle of the year, really establishHarold Coles and senior Jack Gellatly — ing the run,” Archer said. “The last two both of which were critical in turning the weeks we haven’t been able to establish it, season around. and that’s probably been the biggest difThe Red began to run the ball nearly ference. When you are able to run the ball three times for every one pass — and it effectively you are able to open up a lot of worked. A strong ground game, subse- different things.” quent play action and time of possession “They started to shut the run down victories carried the team to victories over and we couldn’t make the plays we needHarvard, Brown and Princeton for a spot ed to the last two games,” Banks said after atop the league standings for the first completing 14 of 26 passes for just 134 time in decades. yards and an interception against Walker’s numbers through just under Columbia. “We couldn’t make it all come seven games were not mindblowing, but together. Overall you have to be balanced was the most dynamic playmaker on the and keep a rhythm going, and we just team, playing a key role in its success. haven’t been able to do that recently.”

Not only was he the After the run failed team’s leading rusher, he him last week, Archer “[Walker] erases every- stressed he would stick had also caught more passes than any of the one’s mistakes. He is a with it in a cold contest team’s receivers. against Columbia. But guy that is different … it failed once more.

Gellatly, Coles and freshman S.K. Howard Gellatly and Coles We sorely miss him.” were also contributors could not solve either in the team’s three wins. Head Coach David Archer ’05 of the two defenses, But then Walker and the Red limped to went down. the finish line on “[Walker’s] an eraser, he erases every- offense in two straight Saturdays. one’s mistakes,” Archer said after “Both [Columbia and Dartmouth] Saturday’s loss to the Lions. “He is a guy play a very different style of defense,” that is different … We sorely miss him.” Archer said. “They have done some good And since then, it’s been all downhill. things and played well, but I don’t think Cornell managed just 52 yards on the we’ve played our best. … It’s a combinaground in its shutout loss to Dartmouth tion.” and, apart from some big gains in garbage Whatever it is, without Walker, it isn’t time, had very limited success against the cutting it.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

No. 1Wisconsin Overpowers Red in Weekend Sweep

On to Providence | After dropping both contests to the Badgers, Cornell prepares to take on Brown and Yale on the road next Friday and Saturday.

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By SMITA NALLURI and JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun Staff Writers

Though No. 7 Cornell women’s hockey remained competitive, Wisconsin proved why it was the nation’s No. 1 team this weekend at Lynah Rink, handing the Red two losses by margins of 3-1 and 2-1.

Heading into the series, the Red (3-3, 3-1 ECAC) knew the Badgers (16-0, 8-0 WCHA), in the midst of a 14-game win streak, would be formidable opponents.

But Cornell remained confident in its ability to put up a fight.

“We knew that [playing Wisconsin] would take heart on the ice, but we most certainly did not change our approach to this weekend much more than we would for any other weekend,” added junior goalkeeper

Marlène Boissonnault. “We went into the games expecting to give our 100 percent for the full 60 minutes of the game and come out knowing that we gave it our all — just like we expect to play all of our games this season.”

Cornell got off to a slow start on Friday, launching only four shots on goal in the first period but increased the intensity during the second and third periods to take 18 more shots. Ultimately, the Badgers outshot the Red, 34-22, and took the win, 3-1.

The Red’s lone goal of the match came from freshman forward Maddy Mills off an assist from sophomore forward Kristin O’Neill about 17 minutes into the second period, but it came with the team already trailing 3-0.

Boissonnault had an outstanding third period to

keep the Badgers scoreless during the frame en route to recording a career-high 31 saves, but Cornell failed to light the lamp again in the contest, dropping a 3-1 game. “[On Friday] in our D-zone we got running around a little bit and chasing pucks,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “So [Saturday] we tried to focus a little bit more on our defensive posture on our own end. We tried a couple of new things through the middle, offensively, as well.”

Hoping to salvage a win on the weekend, Cornell looked to regroup and regain its com“Wisconsin is a very posure heading into talented team ... [but] we game two.

“Between Friday are capable of and Saturday we beating any team” tried to shift our mentality from playJunior forward Pippy Gerace ing not to lose to playing to win,” said junior forward Pippy Gerace. “Wisconsin is a very talented team and they work very hard, but we had to gain confidence in ourselves and recognize that we also have those qualities and are capable of beating any team.”

“Certainly playing the same team twice in a weekend, you see what works and what doesn’t work as well,” Boissonnault added. “In that case you emphasize on what works well and you keep playing your heart out.”

When the puck dropped on Saturday, both teams got out to a roaring start, playing an aggressive and fastpaced game that saw Wisconsin whistled for seven penalties and Cornell four in the game.

It was clear from the start that neither team was going down without a fight as both were unable to get See W.HOCKEY page 13

One Day a Year The capacity of Lynah rink is 4,267. A Cornell men’s hockey sellout is not in itself an unusual occurrence, but each scholastic year features one game in particular where the sellout crowd just seems larger than in all the others.

And this past Saturday, in that annual occurrence, junior defenseman Alec

we show up to support the men’s hockey team and put on a spectacle that rivals any other in the world of collegiate sports.

We agree to do all that.

But only on one day.

We won’t agree to do that, for instance, this coming weekend, which will see the Red take on conference opponents St. Lawrence and

Dylan McDevitt Letters from Lynah McCrea’s game-winning goal with just over two seconds remaining capped off an exhilarating comeback victory for the Red over its archrival Harvard. Those 4,267 fans, and dozens more packed around the glass, certainly got their money’s worth.

As I wrote last week, the Harvard game is one of the most special days of the year for the Cornell community.

On that day, we agree to put aside the notion that Cornell isn’t an institution built around its athletic programs or that school spirit is characteristically low, and

No. 8 Clarkson, the latter matchup with perhaps the best team in the conference.

But we should.

Standing at 6-0, following a huge victory over its biggest rival, this Cornell men’s hockey team has earned the highest level of attendance and esteem from the Lynah Faithful. They have met every challenge with poise, and in the toughest, most demanding moments of this young season, the team has delivered with all its might.

The Cornell players are See McDEVITT page 13

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Staying positive | While the Red came up short in its last few matches, the team took a big step forward in 2017 by winning six more games than it did last season.

MEN’S SOCCER

Strikers Close Out Much-Improved ’17

By JONATHAN HARRIS Sun Contributor

After dropping its last two games to top-25 teams in Dartmouth and Columbia, 1-0 and 2-0, respectively, the Cornell men’s soccer team fell to 7-8-2, 2-5-1 Ivy, to finish the season.

But the team knows its tough end to the season and the team’s record are not truly indicative of what the Red has accomplished over the past 19 months.

After an abysmal 2016 season in which the Red went 1-14-2

and 0-7 in the league, the team held a players meeting aimed at changing their work ethic and shifting expectations for the upcoming season.

“We all gathered [after the season] to discuss getting after it in the spring. At that point, [my class] had to step up and lead the team,” said senior captain Spencer Kopko. “This past summer we worked on getting [the freshmen] adjusted to college, and they came in and really hit the ground running and made an immediate impact.”

Even though this year’s sub.500 record may not seem like much of an achievement, the Red has set itself on track for success.

This year, the team played in 12 games decided by one goal or less. In those games, Cornell split the decisions, winning six and losing six. The Red also amassed six more wins than all of last year and were very much in the running for the Ivy League title up until the last few weeks of the See M.SOCCER page 14