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Man Sentenced for Murder of I.C. Student on Cornell Campus Nagee Green receives 20-year sentence for murder, and assault of 2 Ithaca College students, after fraternity party

By ANNA DELWICHE and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

was injured in the melee.

Anthony Nazaire’s father, Reginald Sun News Editor and Sun City Editor Nazaire “said he would’ve loved to have 30 seconds in a room with the defendant, Nagee Green, the man convicted of and then he thought, ‘What would murder in the stabbing death of an Ithaca Anthony do?’ and he wanted to do the College student at Cornell, was sentenced better thing and be the better person, and to 20 years in prison on Monday. he said he would be able to do that Judge John C. Rowley senbecause of his son,” Van tenced Green to three years for Houten said. second-degree assault and 17 Eliza Filipowski, an assistant years to life for second-degree district attorney, read a statemurder, which will run consecument from Williams to the tively, Matthew Van Houten, the court before sentencing.

Tompkins County district attor“On Aug. 28, 2016, I was ney, told The Sun. introduced to what true pain “He’ll have to do most of the feels like,” Williams said in the 20 years” before potentially statement, according to The NAGEE GREEN being released on parole, Van Ithaca Voice. “Pain that is Houten said. physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and The father and sister of the victim, very unbearable … This traumatic experiAnthony Nazaire, read emotional state- ence that I went through brought me and ments in court on Monday, and a prosecu- is still bringing me through a phase in life tor read a statement from Rahiem in which no other word can describe as Williams, an Ithaca College student who purgatory.”

A jury found Green guilty of murder in September after a jury hung on the murder charge in the first trial in June.

The jury in June found Green guilty of assault.

“It’s painful. It’s not satisfying in the sense that you can never bring Anthony back.”

District Attorney Matthew Van Houten The two stabbings occurred on Cornell’s campus after a party hosted by Cornell fraternity Omega Psi Phi. In the early hours of Aug. 28, 2016, Cornell University Police found two men stabbed in the grass on the corner of College Avenue and Campus Road at around 1:57 a.m. after responding to a fight.

Nazaire was fatally stabbed in the chest and Williams was stabbed three times in the back.

The two Ithaca College students were taken to hospitals for treatment, and Nazaire was later pronounced dead at Cayuga Medical Center.

In an interview with The Sun in November 2016, Nazaire’s mother demanded a life sentence for Green. Katie Touissant, his mother, said she wanted Green to spend “life in jail because my son will never be able to see the sun shine.”

After the sentencing, Van Houten described the verdict as “bittersweet.”

“It’s painful,” he said. “It’s not satisfying in the sense that you can never bring Anthony back and this life that had so much promise and so much good. In that sense, you can never feel good, ... but we feel that the verdicts were justice and that’s significant.”

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

Grads Recommend Allocating Funds to Cornell Alum Indicted by Cinema Despite Potential Defunding From S.A. Dept. of Justice for

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

Days after undergraduates protested the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee’s recommendation to defund Cornell Cinema, graduate students voted to recommend funding the full amount requested by the Cinema.

This preliminary vote comes after the appropriations committee of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly drafted a statement defending their decision to recommend $11 per student to be

included in the graduate and professional student activity fee for the Cornell Cinema. This would be an increase from the $10.54 allocated last year.

The amount — $81,037 total, according to a presentation from an October GPSA meeting — allocated to the Cinema from the graduate student activity fee makes up about 17 percent of its operating budget, according to an S.A. report of the Cinema’s income.

This statement detailed a three-step approach designed to address how the Cinema would be

funded in the future and noted the implications of a potential defunding of the organization by the S.A., including a 30 percent loss in the Cinema’s operating budget.

While making explicit that they “in no way intend” to tell the Student Assembly or S.A. appropriations committee members how to make funding decisions, the GPSA appropriations committee emphasized in their statement the harms of this loss of finances.

“Given the short and immediate notice of the defunding, we believe that

the Cinema’s programming and operations — student workers included — would suffer immeasurably and that this decision could very possibly lead to the Cinema’s indefinite closure,” read the statement.

Mary Fessenden, director of Cornell Cinema, gave context for discussions over the Cinema funding at the meeting.

She said she started working with administrators in the spring, and they have begun to craft a proposal to the provost with the See CINEMA page 4 SHAILEE SHAW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Collusion in Florida

By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

A Cornell alumnus has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly rigging online property foreclosure auctions.

The U.S. DOJ indicted real estate investor Stuart Hankin ’07 for restraining fair competition through bid rigging in Florida’s online property foreclosure auctions, according to a press release on Friday.

The indictment, filed in Southern Florida’s U.S. District Court, alleged that Hankin colluded with two other investors between January 2012 and June 2015 to win foreclosed properties at suppressed prices.

The details of the supposed collusion

HANKIN ’07

remain unclear.

Hankin, who graduated from Cornell with a degree in operations research and information engineering, told The Sun “I can say that I am innocent and am going to fight,” but did not elaborate on the case itself due to his lawyer’s advice.

On his client’s behalf, Hankin’s attorney David Oscar Markus of Markus/Moss, PLLC wrote “Stu is innocent,” explaining that See INDICTED page 5

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Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Law School Alum to Inspector General

By SAMUEL NOLAN Sun Staff Writer

After last week’s announcement that a Cornell alumnus was nominated to lead NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) MBA ’09 may soon have a fellow Cornellian in the administration.

President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Michael K. Atkinson J.D. ’91 to become the next Inspector General of the United States Intelligence Community, according to a press release from the President’s Press Secretary on Thursday.

The current Inspector General of the Intelligence Community is Wayne A. Stone. In this position, Atkinson will be responsible for the oversight of the federation’s 16 government agencies’ programs and operations.

The Intelligence Community, established in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan, includes the the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and various other military intelligence programs. The Intelligence Community maintains sensitive information used in support of military leaders, policymakers and members of Congress.

The Office of the Inspector General works in cooperation with the President’s Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board, the Joint Intelligence Community Council and the Office of Management of Budget.

According to the White House release, Atkinson had previously been involved with the U.S. Attorney’s office as Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General since 2016.

He began working in the public sector as a trial attorney for the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the Department of Justice from 2002 until 2006. As Assistant U.S. Attorney of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Atkinson became the Fraud Section’s acting chief from 2015 until 2016.

Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and his law degree from Cornell, Atkinson became a partner at the D.C. branch of the Chicago-based international law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, the release said.

The Inspector General’s office, a position established by the Obama Administration, falls under the office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Samuel Nolan can be reached at snolan@cornellsun.com.

Alum Critiques Trump’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy

By MEGHAN FLANIGEN Sun Contributor

President Donald Trump may think that “threatening little rocket man with fire and fury and total destruction will intimidate Kim Jong Un and compel him to give up his nuclear weapons, but it's more likely to have the opposite effect,” Robert Einhorn ’69, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former sports editor for The Sun said.

Einhorn, who was chief negotiator with North Korea on missile issues from 1996 to 2000 and deputy head of the U.S. delegation to the Iran nuclear talks from 2009 to 2013, discussed the challenges of North Korea and Iran with respect to the Trump administration at a lecture on Monday.

He highlighted what the presidential strategies mean for the future of the United States.

“How the Trump administration handles these challenges will have far reaching implications for stability and prospects of war in Northeast Asia and implications for U.S. alliances in relation to potential adversaries all over the world, for efforts to prevent further proliferation of nuclear weapons capability and for the credibility and leadership of the United States in the world,” he said.

Einhorn also evaluated the current strategies Trump appears to be favoring or employing in regard to the aforementioned nations, and proposed some alternatives.

In the case of North Korea, Einhorn said that Trump’s strategy is to “place irresistible economic, diplomatic and military pressures on North Korea to the point where it decides to abandon its nuclear and missile programs and to do so completely, and in the near future.”

“We need to be realistic about what can be achieved and we need to compromise.”

Robert Einhorn ’69 However, Einhorn believes that this strategy is unlikely to succeed, as Trump does not have multilateral support, particularly from China.

Instead, Einhorn proposed that the U.S. begin to tackle the problem with what he calls “an interim freeze.” Under an interim freeze, nuclear tests and production of bomb making will be suspended. In exchange, North Korea will be able to keep the nuclear materials they have already produced if they agree to begin to denuclearize.

“Sooner or later the Trump administration will come around to the conclusion that the current goal — [complete and immediate denuclearization] — is

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Puerto Rico | Students hosted a panel highlighting Puerto Rico’s unique relationship with the U.S. on Monday.

Panel Debates Puerto Rico Relations

By SAMANTHA STERN Sun Staff Writer

While the University is expecting to welcome up to 58 Universidad de Puerto Rico students for a free semester at Cornell in the wake of Hurricane Maria, faculty and students on campus hosted a panel to debate the very question of Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States.

“We need to begin by problematizing the whole issue of being ‘American citizens,’” said native Puerto Rican Prof. Vilma SantiagoIrizarry, anthropology and Latino/a studies. “Because we’re not. The basis for our citizenship is not constitutional.”

The panel, hosted by the Puerto Rican Student Association, aimed to leave audience members with “a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding our status as a commonwealth, as well as what independence and statehood would mean for the island and the United States,” according to the event’s Facebook page.

When asked what he wants audience members to take away from the event, PRSA chapter president Christopher Arce ’19 stressed that it is not a theoretical debate, but rather one that affects many lives daily.

“It is more than just a status question,” Arce said. “It has day-today consequences on how you treat human dignity.”

Arce also stressed that Puerto Ricans also give to the United States, including serving in the military.

Prof. Aziz Rana, law, began the panel by examining Puerto Rico’s status as an unincorporated territory, which has been a recent topic of discussion in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Rana noted that in wake of the hurricane, a common response was that Puerto Rico’s status seems “aberrational.”

Rana then delved into the history of Puerto Rico and the United States, including the 1901 Supreme Court case Downes v. Bidwell.

Rana said in that case, Justice Edward Douglass White concurred that not all places in which the U.S. exerts power should be considered as part of the “American family.”

“We need to begin by problematizing the whole issue of being ‘American citizens.’

Because we’re not.”

MEGHAN FLANIGEN / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Nuclear strategy | Robert Einhorn ’69 discussed the challenges of North Korea and Iran for the Trump Administration on Monday.

unachievable … and that lashing out militarily is reckless,” he said.

Einhorn also found issues with Trump’s Iran strategy. He argued that Trump wishes to back out of the existing nuclear deal with Iran, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action. Since the beginning of his campaign, backing out of JCPOA has been embedded in Trump’s initial campaign pledge and subsequent rhetoric.

However, Einhorn said he feels that the president should make an effort to “keep JCPOA in place and build upon it ... If Washington wants Iran to address its concerns seriously, it will have to offer positive inducements, such as further relaxations of U.S. sanctions on Iran.”

He also noted that Trump’s threat to end the deal will definitely not fare well with Iranians. Overall, he advised Trump to understand the limitations of the political world and to embrace multilateralism.

“We need to build international coalitions. We need to be realistic about what can be achieved and we need to compromise,” he said. “These realities will be difficult for President Trump to swallow but unless he does, the challenges posed by North Korea and Iran will only grow more acute.”

Meghan Flanigen can be reached at mmf222@cornell.edu.

Prof. Vilma Santiago-Irizarry Rana further discussed legislation in the early 20th century that had a broad impact on Puerto Rico, including the 1920 Jones Act. “[The Jones Act] has essentially transformed the Puerto Rican economy into an adjunct of American economic interest,” Rana said.

“It has facilitated American business growth. But at the cost of a set of exploitative measures and practices that has been deeply extractive for the local Puerto Rican economy.”

Rana said the United States has continuously “economically immiserated the island while denying them political participation.”

Prof. Jamila Michener, government, then discussed Puerto Rico’s extreme poverty rate, unemployment rate and lower labor force participation rate. Michener said U.S. social policies do not adequately aid Puerto Ricans.

“Our social policies are not designed with Puerto Ricans in mind,” Michener said. “They are not tailored to their particular economic and social positioning.”

In addition, Michener said that U.S. social policies do not offer the same level of benefits to Puerto Ricans. These policies also take a long time to be effective in Puerto Rico.

For Santiago-Irizarry, who is pro-Puerto Rican independence, the citizenship of Puerto Ricans is something she views as purely “symbolic.”

But for Arce, who indicated the lack of awareness among mainland Americans of Puerto Rican rights as U.S. citizens, the recognition of Puerto Ricans as citizens is a crucial one with significant consequences.

“This doesn’t occur in a theoretical vacuum,” he said.

Samantha Stern can be reached at sbs268@cornell.edu.

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Trump in Tokyo

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GPSA Votes to Continue Funding Cornell Cinema CINEMA

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan receives Trump in Tokyo on Oct. 6.

goal of changing the Cinema’s funding source from student activity fees to the University itself, she said.

While Fessenden said she hopes the University will offer help in the case of S.A. defunding, she said that if University funding is currently unavailable, another option would be working with Alumni Affairs and Development.

"We have a lot of Cornell alums who are very devoted to the organization, and so even if the University says there’s currently no funding here, working with Development is a path we might take,” she said. “But this would, of course, take time."

The S.A. is expected to vote on its appropriations committee’s recommendation at this Thursday’s meeting. Fessenden noted that the the Cinema is still processing what S.A. defunding would mean.

"We received word of the S.A. Appropriations Committee's proposed defunding less than one week ago, so we haven't had any time to think about what we will do if the proposal does go through,” she told The Sun. The GPSA’s recommendation passed with a vote of 15-0-3 and will be included in the final resolution

for the overall graduate and professional student activity fee. Tyler McCann, grad, GPSA appropriations chair, told the Sun that he felt good about the vote and the work that had been done to address the Cinema’s funding.

“I think this is the culmination of a lot of work that was going on and a lot of discussions that were had by members of the Appropriations Committee, but then also with Cornell Cinema, but with all the byline organizations too,” he said. “So I think all of us probably feel very accomplished.”

Additionally, Jan Allen, associate dean for academic and student affairs for the Graduate School, announced during the meeting that the U.S. House of Representatives’ new tax proposal that could make tuition taxable would not apply to Cornell graduate and professional students.

“If you have concerns that your tuition might become taxable, which could be a six to 10 thousand dollar hit, at 3:30 this afternoon we got information from Legal Counsels Office ... that the new tax proposal should not affect you,” she said.

The reason, Allen said, is that the University follows Section 117(a) and not affected Section 117(d) in determining the taxability of tuition paid to students by the University.

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

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because the auctions were online, his client could not have rigged the market. “[Hankin] bought properties through an online auction like eBay in which anyone in the country could bid,” he said. “No one controlled the market, nor could they. These properties were sold at fair prices.”

However, the indictment claims that among the three investors, there was a “continuing agreement, understanding and concert of action.” The indictment accuses the defendants of conspiring in meetings, telephone conversations, emails and text messages.

Hankin founded Prodigy Capital Inc. in Palm Beach Gardens in 2010 with accused coconspirator Christopher Graeve.

Hankin and Graeve engineered a real estate investment fund “specializing in the fix-and-flip model,” according to the firm’s

“I am proud of the company that I helped to build.”

Stuart Hankin ’07 marketing material. The third accused investor, Avi Stern, was associated with Florida’s Best Realty Services in Boca Raton, but no longer works there.

“I am proud of the company that I helped to build, which has done good and ethical work,” Hankin told The Sun. However, Friday’s indictment questions Prodigy Capital promise of “a rapid turnover rate with an exceptional return on investment, exceeding industry performance standards,” according to the company’s website.

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division wrote in the DOJ release that the division will prosecute “regardless of whether their conduct is carried out in person, or in texts, online chats or through other electronic means.”

Delrahim also promised in the DOJ release that he will prosecute all those responsible.

Markus, who has prevailed in at least three similar DOJ cases in his district, said that “despite the inflammatory language in the prosecution’s press release … this case has been brought to bolster the Antitrust Division’s statistics.”

“It is not about justice,” Markus said.

The accusations hold Hankin in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act — the 1890 legislation barring trusts and preserving commercial competition — because he agreed to lower bid rates with his competitors in order to allocate properties among group members.

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

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Sonia Yanez, left and Laura Torres look on a row of 26 crosses, one for each person killed at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

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Willow Hubsher | This is Not a Sex Column

The Biggest Little Pill

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irth control is a human right. Period.

I will fight you on this. It is proven to fight poverty and increase female educational attainment. I don’t normally traffic in hypotheticals but if men could get pregnant, birth control would be sold next to the gum at every 7/11. And it would probably come in fun flavors. BUT, that is not the argument of this column. I would like to instead point out that, while I believe birth control should be a right, taking birth control should not be a requirement.

I understand my privilege in being able to say this, but: stop forcing me to take birth control!

Disclaimer: no one is actually forcing me to take birth control. However, I do take issue with the fact that so many young educated women accept birth control — and the weird, frightening and at times disgusting side effects that come with it — as almost an obligation. Many of my friends think of it as a necessary evil.

However, just because we face the larger battle of ensuring access to birth control for everyone, we should not be complacent with the problems and side effects of birth control: side effects like weight gain, nausea, spotting and mood changes.

I have always assumed that the pill was the only option for me. I’ve been on the pill since eighth grade — not because I was a promiscuous little middle schooler — but because I have a condition called endometriosis. Endometriosis is a disorder that causes the tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus to grow on the outside of your uterus. It can manifest in a lot of different ways. For me, and for many other sufferers, it came in the form of super-duper painful cramps. Not “skip a class to lie in the nurse’s office” painful, but “miss two days of school because you are crying on the bathroom floor” painful.

Hormonal contraceptives are one of the only viable treatment options.

I’ve pretty much always thought that these pills were magic, and in many ways, they are. I rarely get cramps and my period is almost non-existent. As awesome as that sounds, the older I get and the more I learn about the topic, the scarier it seems. For one, birth control is one of the possible causes of my anorgasmia. Not to mention the increased risk of breast and cervical cancers.

Taking birth control pins me between two great fears: the first being the memo-

ries of the “stabbed in the stomach” pain I used to feel every month, and the second being the mysterious hormone science that scrambles my insides and confuses my uterus every time I pop a pill. Not every girl is in the same unique position as me, but I believe this “stuck between a rock and a hard place” phenomenon is common among girls taking all different kinds of birth control.

For example, my best friend has an IUD. I drove her to Gannett to get it put in and she said it hurt like a bitch.

Everything had been fine for a while until her boyfriend came up to visit and she started randomly bleeding during sex. I was ready to strap on my head-lamp, pull out my surgical gloves and look up in there but she wisely suggested she see a doctor instead. Apparently, this can be a side effect that just comes with an IUD even when it is working correctly.

It is a little fucked up that we as women have to chose between the autonomy and peace of mind afforded by birth control and side effects that men would never put up with! (Not to mention the fact that I wouldn’t trust a man to take his pill every day. I can barely remember and I’m the one that would have to lug that baby around for 9 months.) Yes, birth control is amazing and yes, everyone should be able to get it if they want it, but just because it provides us with this invaluable service, does not mean we should settle for the nonsense that comes with it.

Essentially, my point is that it is not enough that we have birth control, but rather that we should not be satisfied until the responsibility of contraception is shared and birth control becomes less of a physical burden forced upon women.

Maybe if you got a tax break every time you used a condom they would be more popular. I don’t care as long as I never have to hear that “sex with a condom is like getting a massage with a winter coat” again.

You might be tired of me ending my columns with “I don’t have a solution” — but once again, I don’t. However, I encourage you all to explore your options, and if you are anything like me, go take that pill you forgot to take yesterday!

Willow Hubsher is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at wrh73@cornell.edu. This is Not a Sex Column appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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e are writing as the undergraduate student staff of Cornell Cinema and members of the Cornell Cinema Student Advisory Board.

This past week, the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee voted against Cornell Cinema’s requested allocation of $8.50 per student from the Student Activity Fee — a 22 percent decrease from its current allocation of $10.90 per student — and instead recommended $0.00 for the next byline cycle, effective beginning next fall. This would be a cut of about $150,000, or 30 percent of Cornell Cinema’s budget.

The Appropriations Committee based their recommendation on the fact that a portion of Cornell Cinema’s allocation of the SAF goes toward professional staff wages, and claimed this to be a misuse of funds. The Student Assembly’s governing documents, however, do not stipulate that a byline-funded organization cannot use its allocation to pay wages.

Furthermore, the 2015-2016 Student Assembly approved that a portion of Cornell Cinema’s allocation from the SAF be used for professional staff wages for the 2016-2018 cycle. The 2016-2017 Appropriations Committee raised concerns regarding the usage of the SAF to pay for staff wages, but restrictions imposed by the SA on diverting these funds to other spending categories prevented Cornell Cinema from adjusting or cutting its spending mid-cycle. The earliest Cornell Cinema can cease its usage of SAF funds for professional staff wages is at the start of the next byline cycle, beginning Fall 2018. The Cinema’s commitment to doing so is reflected in the 22 percent reduction requested in its 2018-2020 byline funding application.

Performing a cost-per-attendee analysis on a non-profit student resource denies the unquantifiable value that such a resource provides.

The SA website reports that 70.5 percent of the budget for Cornell Cinema goes toward professional staff wages. These wages are paid mostly through subsidies from the College of Arts & Sciences and outside grants. In fiscal year 2017-2018, Cornell Cinema charged its activity fee account $37,495 for wages, or 10.6 percent of total staff wages. Thus, the bulk of the $150,000 that the Cinema would lose as a result of the Appropriations Committee’s recommendation would be from funds spent on programming, not staff wages.

The members of the Appropriations Committee have stated numerous times, in their written recommendation, as well as during last Thursday’s meeting, that their decision to defund Cornell Cinema is based on the assumption that the University will cover the deficit. The Appropriations Committee has not specified a source within the University that they expect to provide this aid. Cutting 30 percent of the Cinema’s funding immediately, without the time to find replacement funds, would likely mean the end of

Cornell Cinema. Without any comment from the University, the SA will make an extremely significant and permanent decision in the absence of vital information.

During last week’s Student Assembly meeting, Jaewon Sim ’21, Freshmen Representative At-Large, stated, “Students should not have to pay an annual fee regardless of whether or not they watch movies at the Cornell Cinema, and then have to pay an additional $6.50 [sic] ticket fee to use their services.” Such a reckless approach to funding student organizations sets a dangerous precedent. Like other organizations funded by the Student Activity Fee, such as Slope Day Programming Board, Cornell Concert Commission and Cornell University Programming Board, Cornell Cinema needs SAF funding to subsidize affordable ticket prices in order to be accessible to every student. Many services that are funded by the SAF, such as those that promote mental health and/or support identity-based communities, are used by only a portion of the student body. But it is critically important that these resources are available and accessible to all students.

Performing a cost-per-attendee analysis on a non-profit student resource denies the unquantifiable value that such a resource provides.

If students pay for only the organizations that they use, many crucial student organizations on campus will become available only to those who can pay. By attending Cornell, students are always paying for resources they will never use, classes they will never take, and professors who will never teach them. But doing so is essential, because universities thrive when they have vast offerings — academic and extracurricular — that are open to all.

That said, a significant portion of the student population does use Cornell Cinema. Last year, 18,743 people attended Cornell Cinema, 10,212 of whom were undergraduates. Of these 10,212 undergraduate admissions, 5,800 were unique, meaning 40 percent of Cornell undergraduates attended at least one show at Cornell Cinema that year (clearly, many students attended far more than one).

In his report detailing the Appropriations Committee’s decision, Gabriel Kaufman ’18, Vice President of Finance, acknowledges that with a significant decrease in or complete cut to SAF funding, Cornell Cinema would be projected to run a sizeable yearly deficit. The Cinema could not continue to operate in this state. It would be short-sighted and irresponsible to eliminate SAF funding without guaranteed replacement funding and without a specific plan to find this funding in the immediate future. We call upon the Student Assembly to consider the repercussions of defunding a beloved cultural institution that has been valued by the Cornell community for almost fifty years. If you support the arts, vote like it.

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Artur Gorokh | Radically Moderate

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The (Rigged) Pursuit of Happiness

t was one of those crap days. It might have been the gloomy Ithacan weather or Monday or maybe it was just me. Procrastination hit its terminal stage, and the Google Scholar search cursor was silently blinking at me with poorly concealed condemnation, as if anticipating when I finally collect myself and make a productive query. Instead, I typed in “happiness” to see what science has to say on the matter, and started climbing the shoulders of giants.

genetic make-up (with estimates ranging from 50 to 80 percent). With the exception of clinical depression, how you feel is in the long run more or less constant (a socalled set point), and all one can do is temporarily depart from the set point and slide back into it a few days or months later. The never-ending race for a better condition is nothing but a fruitless effort, as every improvement you win with years of hard labor you quickly adapt to, a phenomenon researches aptly dubbed “the hedonic

Research on subjective wellbeing ... has existed for decades and produced a line of insightful and extremely counter-intuitive results which relate directly to our daily experiences and lives overall.

In contrast to many of my colleagues, I am not a big supporter of popularizing all science and I fail to see how knowing the inner workings of a black hole is useful for anything but better appreciation of some scenes in Interstellar. But if there’s any work that currently languishes in undeserved obscurity it’s the research on subjective wellbeing, a branch of psychology and sociology that has existed for decades and produced a line of insightful and extremely counter-intuitive results which relate directly to our daily experiences and lives overall.

The rosy self-help books that promise fulfillment and joy upon completion are fully detached from its findings, and for a good reason: these findings are a publisher’s nightmare.

Everything you think will make you happy, the science says — be that having a successful career, finding love, staying healthy, creating a family or becoming rich — all those blessings combined account for somewhere between 8 and 15 percent of people’s subjective wellbeing. The rest seems to be mostly determined by our

treadmill”: you end up covering a lot of distance without getting anywhere. This seems to be especially true for wealth, as countless unlucky lottery ticket winners have testified.

The good news is, if you’re a happy person right now independent of how you do in life chances, you will likely continue to enjoy the ride years and decades later. If you’re not, well, brace yourself.

The patterns get even more disturbing when you look at the society at large instead of an individual. An improving economy, for example, has been shown to not affect national happiness (with the exception of countries suffering from extreme poverty), and sometimes even hurt it. Bhutan is one of the happiest countries in the world, but my considerably wealthier homeland, Russia, is one of the most miserable. War, at least under some circumstances, seems to make people happier, and so does religion. Famously, when London was being bombed during WWII the number of suicides decreased; people reported a stronger sense of unity and purpose and later

would remember those times with nostalgia.

I always got mad at Grandpa whenever he would say life was better during Stalin’s rule (in Russia, this view is surprisingly common in his generation and beyond). But maybe all he meant to say is that life felt better, even though in pretty much every objective metric we use as proxy for happiness it wasn’t. Stripped of wealth and many freedoms, with goal of building communism slowly being replaced with what was essentially a religion around worshipping the nation’s leader, the Soviets at the time might have been psychologically healthier than the purposeless and disillusioned population of modern Russia. Alternatively, they may have been absolutely miserable and later just adjusted their recollections through some bizarre coping mechanism.

How is one to decide policy in the light of all these findings? If you think about it, the documents we hold sacred in the modern liberal society, like the constitution or U.N. conventions, are adopted with an implicit assumption that the rights they demand promote wellbeing. Sometimes that is undoubtedly the case, but other times it may not be.

If we set our goal to be happiness of the nation, then it would follow that it might be a good idea to stop worrying about the economy, proclaim a Buddhist theocracy and start a war on somebody (so, basically, appoint Myanmar as a role model), but all these suggestions sound like madness. On the other hand, declaring happiness meaningless and instead pursuing GDP growth and ultimate freedom for their own sakes seems equally insane.

I don’t have any answers to these societal dilemmas, but there seems to be some hope for us individuals.

Supportive community, a romantic partner, fulfilling job and exercise are not as powerful as the tyranny of DNA but have robustly demonstrated to improve happiness somewhat. So did the mindset of gratitude and helping others. Finally, people have shown to grow happier as they age, so if none of the things above work for you, maybe just wait.

Artur Gorokh is a graduate student studying applied mathematics at Cornell University. He can be reached at ag2282@cornell.edu.

Radically Moderate appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Hebani Duggal | Teach Me How to Duggal

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am blank. I have been renting this space in The Sun since freshman year, every other Tuesday, with the same punny title my editor picked out for me on the second day of freshman year. And I’m out of things to say. I’ve gone back and forth on sending off an email that officially ends it — dear Jacob, I’m too old for this, find a freshman too scared to send in a column late to replace me and we’ll both be better off — but I’ve held back each time. Unsure why, but maybe by the end of this column, I’ll flip in favor of just calling it quits and you’ll never see me again.

For now though, here I am. Full on Larry David attitude, complete with the scowling face and “eh” expression. I feel cranky, like I’m being forced to do this (I am, it’s 3 a.m. and if I had it my way, I’d sent this in five minutes before it’s supposed to run tomorrow) and I feel irrelevant. At a certain point, you have to admit that you’re writing for the sake of writing, and if you had to ask me now, that point was two semester ago.

I wish I could tell you I did something inspirational lately that had me #recommitted to this column. I didn’t. I thought that Nicholas Kristof talk might do it for me, but all I realized at the end of that is that if I could somehow scheme my way into having people pay for me to travel and then also pay me to write about my travels, I know that I would a) start meeting (or even paying attention to) deadlines with more gusto, and b) write better.

In a way this attitude is liberating. I literally don’t care. I care slightly that this goes up on the internet until the end of

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time (or at the very least, the foreseeable future that I am alive and kicking and looking for a job) so I should probably refrain from spouting too much trash. But beyond maybe engaging in hate speech, I can’t say that I have too much skin in the game here.

So why do this at all? Well first of all, I barely am. And second, there is something important about learning to care less — or not at all. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again — the best (possibly only) thing I’ve taken away from Cornell is learning how to deal with when every single thing you were scared would happen does. I hate this place because I have found myself in situations I thought I had done everything in my power to avoid being in, I hate it because it makes me face failures I didn’t know I was capable of committing. I love this place for the same reasons.

I don’t mean “don’t care about anything,” and I also don’t mean “pretend like you don’t care about things you care deeply about.” There is power in honesty, and being honest with yourself about the things that matter to you and the things that don’t is perhaps the best thing you can do for yourself in college. There was a point in time that this column was the most important thing I did on campus. I sent every piece in (almost) on time, I researched and put thought into the concrete national issues I was going to address with the space I had been afforded, I shared each one on social media — I cared. That point has since come and gone. Today, I’m a senior and frankly, if I told you the most important thing I did on campus was write a 900-word column

every two weeks that internet trolls could comment on under a pseudonym and with no accountability, I would need to seriously reconsider my priorities and what they say about me.

So why am I here? I was supposed to come to a conclusion about my presence

ments, the blatantly racist emails — and the positivity that comes along with people relating to your experience. It was the first column I’d written in a long time that had me picking a side. I wasn’t hedging because I was afraid what people would think, I wasn’t pulling facts to support

I am here because writing this column is a reminder that you do not always need to apologize for a change in your priorities. here for my own sake, and for your reading pleasure’s sake — I’ve been told a good column develops a greater argument and reaches a gradual conclusion, one that isn’t crammed into the last paragraph of the piece. Good thing I’m not here to write a good column or I would actually have to worry about that one.

I am here because writing this column is a reminder that you do not always need to apologize for a change in your priorities. In fact, I would argue that it’s almost always better to revel in the change. Two weeks ago, I wrote a column on immigration policy, an issue freshman year Hebani would not have dared touch. It felt so good. I sent it in, shared it, and was proud of it. I reveled in the nitpicking com-

arguments that I knew I didn’t believe in.

I was just writing. Some people come into college with this mindset — props to them. For those of us, however, that need time and experiences to grow up and be honest with ourselves about the things that matter and why, there are always indicators to help you recognize your shifting priorities, if you choose to look for them.

Mine was the exponentially increasing amount of time I was handing in columns past my deadline. I hope yours mess with fewer people’s sleep schedules.

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

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

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Climate change

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Cornell Students, Professors Participate In UN Climate Conference Will present climate change related studies, discuss new solutions PHOTO COURTESY OF UNFCCC

Climate change crusader l Prof. Johannes Lehmann, soil and crop sciences, discusses soil carbon at COP 23.

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Sixteen of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.

However, progress toward minimizing increases in global temperatures is slowly being made. In 2015, 198 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement, the first major pledge by countries to limit global temperatures to 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Now leaders and academics from around the world will be returning to the conference at which the historic agreement was signed, the 23rd Conference of the Parties in Bonn, Germany from Nov. 6 to 13. Taking part in these negotiations will be 10 researchers, 11 students and two staff

members from Cornell University.

Since its inception in 1995, the conference has been the focal point for important progress in the fight against climate change. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol, which sought to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, was signed at the conference.

The United States’ position at the conference is unclear. Even though the current administration revealed its intention to withdraw from the Paris agreement in June, states and businesses across the country have pledged to abide by the Paris agreement. Among other controversies, the United States is expected to promote the use of cleaner coal and natural gas as an answer to climate change. Speakers

Withdrawal l President Donald Trump declared in June that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.

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from Peabody Energy, the largest private sector coal company in the world, are also expected to be part of the U.S. delegation.

“When the United States government announced in June that we would withdraw from global climate change conversation, I was especially motivated to be involved in the conference to gain more knowledge about climate change science and policy, and to inform policy makers from all over world about the world renowned climate change research taking place on Cornell’s campus,” said Emma Bankier ’19, a member of Cornell’s delegation to COP 23.

With the effects of extreme weather phenomenon being felt in countries all over the world from wildfires and hurricanes in the United States to floods in Nigeria, there is an increasing sense of urgency among scientists to find ways to reduce global emissions. With this in mind, at COP 23, leaders aim to their share solutions as well as review existing transparency measures.

“Over the next two weeks, we will be attending a series of events and discussions led by climate leaders from all over the world regarding several issues including renewable energy, melting polar ice caps, sea level rise and lowlying island states, indigenous communities, and agriculture,” Bankier said.

“If it is still not clear that climate change deserves our full attention, I believe it is our job as Cornell students to share the evidence that proves it is.”

Emma Bankier ’19 The delegation will also be sharing climate change related Cornell research publications at the conference in the hope that other nations can draw on these experiences to meet their own targets.

In particular, a pressing issue many developing nations face is the tradeoff between employing environmentally friendly agricultural practices and food security. At a press conference on the first day of the event, Prof. Johannes Lehmann, soil and crop sciences, shared his opinions on the connection between the two, hoping to “demystify the common stereotype that these are not combinable targets.”

“Soil carbon has been recently recognized as being the big elephant in the room. There is much more carbon in soil than in vegetation and atmosphere combined,” Lehmann said.

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“The Paris Agreement made a forward move in calling out that increases in soil carbon stocks may mitigate the missing emitted carbon that would otherwise lead to carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere.”

As he shared examples of projects in Ethiopia, Lehmann explained that

focusing on ways to sequester carbon in soil could improve crop productivity and protect them from the impacts of climate change. He also emphasized that finding the correct soil management strategy required understanding the cultural, political and socio-economic aspects of the local community.

“Food security and climate change can hang together in a mutually reinforceable way through soil carbon,”

Lehmann said.

Along with these presentations, students of the delegation also designed a survey for COP 23 attendees. With it, they aim to understand the effects that student and researcher participation has at the conference and the influence that each delegation has on negotiations.

“We hope to draw conclusions that will help Cornell and other research universities determine the importance

of our role at the conference and strengthen our research contributions in upcoming years,” Bankier said.

“If it is still not clear that climate change deserves our full attention, I believe it is our job as Cornell students to share the evidence that proves it is.”

Arnav Ghosh can be reached at aghosh@cornellsun.com.

Pollack Addresses Increasing Enrollment In Computer Science Classes Highlights the need to instill computational thinking and digital literacy skills

By ARNAV GHOSH Sun Science Editor

President Martha Pollack answered questions from members of Cornell’s computer science community on her academic interests and vision for the computing and information sciences department on Monday.

With the number of students enrolled in computer science classes increasing every year, members in the audience raised the issue of the lack of small CS classes that encourage greater interaction between professors and students. Assuaging some of these concerns, Pollack said the CIS department has been given the authority to hire more faculty. However, she also acknowledged that this problem is faced by most institutions across the country.

“The problem is everyone wants to do that and I don’t have an easy solution,” Pollack said.

Pollack emphasized the need to capitalize on the relationship between Cornell Tech, Cornell Weill Medical College and the Ithaca campus to become a leader in tackling social problems. When asked about her hopes for

the CIS department, Pollack said she hopes to preside over a period in which data science is more heavily utilized and in which problems are viewed from a more socio-technical as opposed to simply technical perspective.

“It doesn’t matter what department I talk to, they are interested in and involved in data science. That is where CIS is leading,” Pollack said.

Pollack also stressed the importance of building digital literacy and computational thinking skills among all students, emphasizing the need to ensure that students build the skills necessary to interpret data.

“The other thing is this way of thinking that I learned in grad school; the ability to look at a big messy problem and say, I’m going to use iterative procedure and make sure the solutions I build are reusable,” Pollack said.

With ethical questions abound, especially with respect to surveillance practices and the commercial use of online data, Pollack also addressed the

importance of instilling an understanding of how to think critically about ethical challenges.

were needed to address these skills.

“The curriculum is owned by the faculty,” Pollack said.

Pollack also drew on her own experiences to emphasize the need to persevere in an especially competitive field.

“You’ll start writing research papers and they’ll get rejected, including some that you think are your best papers,” Pollack said. “For the longest time I thought it was me, then I became the editorin-chief of a CS journal. You have to work on something you’re passionate about and have to enjoy it.”

“Learn to communicate across differences. [Listen] to someone who’s had a different experience than you,” Pollack said, ending with a general piece of advice that would benefit students across departments.

“It doesn’t matter what department I talk to, they are interested in and involved in data science.

That is where CIS is leading.”

President Martha Pollack “It’s something that comes with practice,” Pollack said. “I think that ethics is incredibly important in the modern world. It gives you that moment of confidence when deciding what to do.”

But Pollack left it up to the CIS faculty to determine if any more classes

Arnav Ghosh can be reached at aghosh@cornellsun.com.

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Upward trend l A 2015 study by Computing Research News indicated that the number of newly declared computer science majors is on the rise.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Girlpool at The Haunt

BY VIRI GARCIA Sun Staff Writer

If there is one word that is overused when describing concert experiences, it’s “magical.” Experiences and emotions are subjective, yet everyone seems to come back to that word. I agree that there is a certain atmosphere to be found at concerts that can’t be found anywhere else, but I believe that the affects found in a Girlpool concert are in a category of their own. Girlpool’s music takes emotions that are difficult to describe and puts them in an accurate, concise form of music that makes one think, “Wow. Why couldn’t I think of that when it’s so straightforward?” Taking those sentiments to a small venue like The Haunt makes the experience personal by forcing one to address neglected, bottled up feelings, creating a truly magical experience.

Girlpool opened their show with “123,” the first track off their newest album Powerplant. While the song is already gentle, guitarist Cleo Tucker started off the song more delicately, creating a powerful start.

Bassist Harmony Tividad joined Tucker in a way so unnoticeable that the song’s tenderness was not lost, even at the more powerful parts of the chorus. The lyrics — “Looking pretty at the wall is my mistake in love installed” — carry enough impact in the album, but when it comes to a live setting, Girlpool has deciphered a way to not only carry those same emotions, but amplify them. Throughout all of the songs they played, Tucker and Tividad constantly looked to and followed each other, making it obvious that as musicians they were used to each other and had no trouble playing together. However, in between songs, Harmony would constantly say playfully pointless things to Cleo, such as “hey Cleo, what’s up? so what’s up?” Cleo, on the other

hand, asked the audience for a ride to New York City and continued to interact with the audience in similar ways. The duo’s dynamic proves that in addition to their bond as musicians, Harmony and Cleo share a strong bond with each other. This combination is what enables them to so easily deliver difficult emotions in their rawest form.

After playing “123,” Girlpool went on to play most of Powerplant, but in all of the

songs they added a keyboard/saxophone player. Powerplant is different from Girlpool’s other albums in that it was the first to introduce a drummer, and taking it to the stage with another addition would seem to stray from their signature simplicity, but, surprisingly, this bold addition fit in perfectly with the album. At times, Cleo played saxophone solos, but none of this ever interfered with the sentiments and atmosphere that had been originally envisioned by Harmony and Cleo when they wrote Powerplant.

As the concert continued with Harmony and Cleo poking jokes at each other and the audience, the two announced that they were about to play their last song, which was “Static Somewhere.” They played song as carefully and emotively as the rest of their

songs, and considering it was their last track, I was slightly disappointed that most of the songs they had played were from Powerplant, with only two from Before the World Was Big. “Static Somewhere” delivered, but it was obvious that the crowd was not expecting that song to be the last of the night. After Girlpool left the stage, the audience chanted “one more song!” along with “do ‘Chinatown’!” and “do ‘Cherry Picking’!”

track that Girlpool has packed the most emotions into, and when played live, those emotions go from being felt by one listener to a whole venue, creating an unmatched, beautiful atmosphere. After they finished playing “Chinatown,” Girlpool went on to play their very last song — “Cherry Picking.”

Just like “Chinatown,” “Cherry Picking” is filled with emotions. As they played the opening chords, the audience cheered for the track they were KATIE SIMS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER hoping to hear. “Cherry Picking” did not get more people to cry, but rather to sing along. It lifted everyone, though the song is not about anything happy. I never thought I’d see a room so happily singing “’Cause lovers turn to strangers/ everyone always has to go,” but I think there is something positive to be felt in knowing not only that others share these thoughts and emotions, but that a song exists as a monument to all of these normal, but hidden, sentiments.

Girlpool has never lacked raw, unfiltered emotions, but I did not think it possible to take them and make them have an even greater After some suspenseful moments, Harmony impact on people. In a venue full of crying people, it was normal to simply feel. It was and Cleo returned to the stage.

As soon as the audience heard the open- normal to feel sad, it was normal to feel ing chords to “Chinatown,” everyone happy, it was normal to feel lonely, nervous, cheered. The melancholy and nostalgia car- anxious, or anything else. I don’t know ried by the track are enough to bring one to whether I cried, but I definitely felt sometears sometimes. As the pair sang “Do you thing I hadn’t felt in a long time, and that feel restless when you realize you’re alive?” I was full: full of not only my own emotions, looked around and noticed that a handful of but reassurance that other people also felt a people in the audience had begun to cry. At whole spectrum of emotions. If anything, in the line “I am nervous for tomorrow and their albums Girlpool teaches one how to today,” I looked around once more to see feel, and in playing live, causes everyone to that the number of crying audience mem- take in each other’s unspoken experiences, bers had increased. There are certain lines in which is magical.

“Chinatown” that hit home for different people. “If I told you I loved you, would you take it the wrong way?” does it for some, and Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of “If I loved myself, would I take it the wrong Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached way?” does it for others. “Chinatown” is the at vgarcia@cornellsun.com

In This Corner of the World is a Simple, Perfect Exhibit of Life

BY AMY LIN Sun Contributor

On my five-hour bus ride home, I watched Sunao Katabuchi’s latest animated film, In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni), which had been recommended by my Japanese language professor. Captivated by the candor of Katabuchi’s resonant storytelling, everything around me melted away, and the world was reduced to my phone’s sixby-three-inch screen. The wistful soundtrack and clean animation throughout instantly swept me away to simpler times.

Set during World War II, this award-winning film is an expressive story about Suzu, a woman who leaves her family in Hiroshima to join her husband in Kure, a naval port city. A daydreamer and storyteller, Suzu has a bashful disposition and inclination to capture the changing world through illustration. When she gets married, she cheerfully and diligently devotes herself to her husband’s family. She is not depicted as a particularly exceptional, and many of the events that occur in the film are out of her control. Instead, she floats through life with a backbone of quiet fidelity, continuously working on chores to keep the collective harmony in her household. Her narrative is a glimpse into a simple life that is full of all of

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life’s regular ups and downs, dreams and tragedies.

Suzu’s unique experience is of a civilian’s perspective from the losing side of the war; though she remains far removed from politics,

ments let the viewer fill in the blanks. Suzu and her family are not primarily portrayed as helpless victims of the war; rather, they stoically continue their daily lives: mending the roof, collecting rations, inventing new ways to cook COURTESY OF MAPPA

she experiences all the effects of wartime as she and her family do their best to support their homeland.

Heart-wrenching scenes are followed by quotidian ones; In This Corner of the World reminds us that life goes on. Exemplifying the Japanese way of courage in the face of adversity, the film’s muted and subdued story ele-

with fewer ingredients, hanging their clothes to dry even as debris rains down from above.

Like many survivors of World War II, Suzu’s is a family that endures hardship and takes life as it comes.

Though the entire film is from the protagonist’s perspective, it is difficult to tell exactly how Suzu feels in each of her interactions.

Mistakes are made, and funny stories are told, but the film does not explicitly announce each impactful encounter with a bang — Katabuchi masterfully choreographs the events to flow independently of each other, weaving together to influence future emotion and shape personal narrative, as real life does.

The ambiguity of the scenes in In This Corner of the World make it difficult to see the divide between dreams and reality, letting the viewer’s mind wander and wonder about the possibilities. One particular scene caught my attention: Suzu, in a flashback, remembers an important detail that saves her life. But there is nothing flashy or cliché about the moment; her realization isn’t the keystone discovery in a Sherlock Holmes mystery, nor is it Wonder Woman’s dawning realization of Ares’ identity.

It is as fleeting and serendipitous as déjà vu, exemplifying the beauty of the film’s ordinariness.

In This Corner of the World presents anguish, simple joy and sentimentality without the overdone theatricality of Hollywood films.

Amy Lin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at al887@cornell.edu.

COMICS AND PUZZLES

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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)

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VOLLEYBALL

As Season Nears Close, Road Woes Continue

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

With the hopes of continuing a solid winning streak from last weekend, Cornell volleyball made the trek east this weekend but won just one set en route to losses in both contests.

The Red fell to both Penn (12-9, 7-5 Ivy) and Princeton (16-6, 9-3) this weekend by scores of 3-1 and 3-0, respectively — a stark contrast to Cornell’s 3-1 sweep of the same squads at home just three weeks prior.

“We started off pretty slow against Penn and took a while to find our rhythm,” said head coach Trudy Vande Berg. “By then Penn was on a roll.”

“I knew we had to come out firing on all cylinders against [Princeton] and we just couldn’t get a string of points going against them,” she added.

Sophomore hitter Samanta Arenas looked to the team’s mental approach on the road as an Achilles heel in dropping the matches this past weekend. Including the losses to Penn and Princeton, Cornell is 18 playing on the road as opposed to 7-1 playing at home. “[Both teams] played exactly as we expected them too,” she said. “I don’t think we had the confidence to start off against these teams because we had it stuck in our heads that we normally do poorly on the road.”

Despite the losses, the Red did not give up without a fight. In both Philadelphia and Princeton, Cornell started off slow before bouncing back toward the end of each game.

At Penn, Cornell lost the first set by a score of 25-12 but then came back to the second set with renewed energy, only losing 25-22.

The Red then won the third set by the same margin as Penn won the second, but ultimately dropped a hard-fought final set, 26-24, and thereby the match.

A similar situation occurred at Princeton, with Cornell losing the first set, 25-16, before holding slightly tougher for the second and third sets, 25-21 and 25-17, respectively.

“Once the game[s] continued on, we realized that there wasn’t anything to be afraid and that the teams were not doing anything we haven’t seen before, so we started to pick up our fight,” Arenas said.

Arenas also pointed to two of her teammates in particular who led the charge in the marginal comeback efforts.

“Kiley McPeek and Chelsea Sincox both poured their heart outs in these two matches this past weekend,” Arenas said. “Especially since it was their last away games before they graduate, I think they exuded their passion and positivity really well this weekend.”

This upcoming weekend marks the end of the season for Cornell, with Yale and Brown venturing to Ithaca to battle against the Red in Newman Arena. Cornell beat Brown 3-1, and lost to Yale by the same score when the team traveled to New England in October.

“We will prepare for them as we prepare for all of the teams we play,” Vande Berg said. Brown is “playing with confidence right now. Yale is tied for first with Princeton right now so [they] have a lot on the line this weekend and will be ready to go.”

With plenty to play for — both emotionally and to play spoiler — five Cornell seniors will have the chance to finish their collegiate careers on a high note on Senior Day. “It’s our last weekend and we want to send our seniors out with a bang so we will be ready to battle,” Vande Berg said.

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

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SPORTS

FIELD HOCKEY

Red Finishes Season; Coach Wins No. 300

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

Not only did Cornell field hockey’s 2-1 win over Dartmouth this weekend give head coach Donna Hornibrook win No. 300 in her career, but it also handed the senior class its 42nd victory as a group, leaving the band of five women tied with the classes of 2011 and 2017 as the all-time leaders in wins for a class.

“I was a little emotional in the locker room before the game, knowing I was about to walk onto the field for my last game,” said senior captain Isabel Josephs. “But you have to put those emotions aside and get the job done, especially because I wanted to end my career on a high note with a win.”

“As a group, this senior class was just phenomenal,” Hornibrook added. “During their time here, we achieved national rankings, and as a whole, they just always came to practice ready to compete. Definitely one of the best classes that we have ever had at Cornell.”

After Dartmouth knotted the game at one at the end of the first half, junior Gabby DePetro clinched the victory for the Red with a goal late in the second. Senior Kelly Johnson, who leaves the program as the alltime winningest goaltender in program history, got the start and was replaced by sophomore Maddie Henry in the second half.

A combination of their efforts in goal helped secure a major career milestone for their head coach.

“I honestly didn’t even realize that I was one win away from 300 entering the game Saturday,” Hornibrook said. “I was just focused on us getting one last Ivy League win to end the season.”

Looking at the season in general, this year also marks the fifth consecutive winning campaign for Hornibrook and the Red, who finish with a 10-6 record, 3-4 in the Ivy League.

The Red began the year with four-straight one-goal victories, but sputtered down the stretch, as the squad was unable to find a rhythm in the second half of its season.

“I felt like we weren’t that consistent this year,” Hornibrook said.

“There were some really close games that we lost that we probably should have won, and those ultimately tilted the season for us.”

The loss that most haunts Hornibrook was an overtime defeat at the hands of Ivy rival Harvard, a team ranked No. 13 at the time. The head coach felt that despite the loss, it was the team’s best performance of the season and that the setback had negative ramifications for the rest of the year.

A theme throughout the year was the team’s inability to create shots on goal, and its reliance on the goaltending tandem of Johnson and Henry.

The dynamic duo, hailed by their head coach as the best in the country, combined to save over 79 percent of shots faced, holding opponents to just 1.43 goals per game and notching three shutouts.

But the team’s weakness came in lack of shots, predominantly stemming from the squad’s failure to generate corner opportunities.

Opponents attempted 17 more corner attempts than the Red this season.

The Red was led in goals with six from the program’s all-time leading points scorer in senior Krysten Mayers. Two-time captain senior Sam McILwrick followed behind with five of her own.

Next season, Cornell will have to replace Mayers, McILwrick and Johnson, as well as the versatile Isabel Josephs and year’s third-leading goal scorer in Katie Carlson.

“I felt lucky to be a part of this team,” Josephs said. “I would not have been totally satisfied unless we had won the Ivy League and made it to the NCAA tournament, and I’m sure most of the team feels this way because we are competitors. But with all that aside, I think everybody brought their best every day, and I wouldn't trade my relationships with my teammates for anything.”

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun.com.

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Best for last | The field hockey team achieved two marks in its season finale: the 42nd career win for the senior class and the head coach’s 300th.

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Linebacker Uses Lessons From Rugby to Play for Red BABA

weight room and studying with the playbook, Adejuyigbe watched underclassmen earn higher spots on the depth chart than he did. Each year, he would ing him to understand the nuances of the game and come out of the offseason with a renewed sense of optipushing him to be his best. mism, feeling improved and ready to take on a bigger “Being in a room with them for three to four years role on the team. Yet time and again, younger guys has been pivotal for my growth within the game,” leapfrogged over him.

Adejuyigbe said.

“You’re like, OK maybe next year I’ll get a shot,” As the men who have to orchestrate the play and Adejuyigbe said, “and then next year the youngsters leap react to opposing teams’ offensive you and you’re like, oh OK, maybe schemes, linebackers are widely connext year I’ll get a shot, and then the sidered to be the quarterback of the “... Because you’ve never next year, other youngsters leap you, played, I feel like I’m defense. Coming from rugby, where and you’re like, ‘Oh damn, maybe positions are much more fluid than always just climbing and things aren’t working out.’” the siloed nature of football, But despite the frustration, climbing and climbing.” Adejuyigbe refused to give in and Adejuyigbe relished the opportunity to slot into the position that allowed remained committed to learning the Senior Baba Adejuyigbe him to make an impact on the field game and focusing on getting better doing a variety of different things. one day at time. The coaching staff “It’s tough especially when you don’t know anything continued to guide him, always reminding him that he but when you start to learn, [playing linebacker] is very had just learned the sport a few years ago, while the instinctive,” Adejuyigbe said. “You’re reacting to the run guys who were playing above him had all played since or you’re reacting to the pass and you’re dropping. And elementary school. so it’s like you get to do a bit of everything.”

Eventually, the hard work paid off.

On Adejuyigbe’s final Homecoming, the senior was *** called onto the field for the first time in his career durDespite the hours training on the field, lifting in the ing the team’s blowout win over Brown. It felt like a Continued from page 16

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All day | Baba Adejuyigbe knew he did not have the same technical skills, so he made his home in the weight rooms.

capstone on four years of dedication.

“At times it’s been tough,” Adejuyigbe said. “Not knowing what you’re doing is not always easy and because it’s such a fast-paced game. ... Everyone is just moving so quickly that there’s no one to stop and sit with you and so it’s like you’re trying your best not to fall behind and you’re already behind, because you’ve never played, I feel like I’m always just climbing and climbing and climbing.”

Adejuyigbe hopes to continue to climb after graduation. After taking a gap year — maybe playing rugby in Europe, maybe shadowing a doctor in the United States — the senior is looking to go to medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon.

“The whole journey has But for now, been absolutely crazy. when asked “rugby or football?”

Wouldn’t trade it for Adejuyigbe has to the world.” think for a second.

In his head, you can Senior Baba Adejuyigbe see the memories of both sports flooding back: growing up across the globe as a rugby player, being part of a fast improving Cornell football team, playing semi-professional rugby after high school, finding a brotherhood of teammates in Ithaca.

“Football,” he answered at last with a laugh.

“Football. I’ve just really fallen in love with the game.

It’s just guys out there competing. Because each guy knows his role, it’s kind of like you all come together to make something beautiful.”

From mistakenly stepping on the Cornell “C” on the locker room floor his first day to playing in the Homecoming game as a senior, for Adejuyigbe, “The whole journey has been absolutely crazy. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.”

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Learning the ropes | Once a rugby winger in South Africa, Baba Adejuyigbe tried out the natural equivalent in football: running back. When that did not work, he made the transition to linebacker.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

Null Secures 3rd-Straight Weekly Ivy Award

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

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Put respect on his name | Passed up by other schools, Nickolas Null is now making himself known to the Ivy League.

As someone who plays with a chip on his shoulder after being passed up by several schools before being given a chance to play at Cornell, Nickolas Null continues to prove his doubters wrong on a weekly basis.

The Ivy League has crowned the Cornell football sophomore punter/kicker its Special Teams Player of the Week for the thirdstraight week thanks to his record-setting performance in the team’s disappointing 10-0 loss to Dartmouth on Saturday.

In the defeat, Null was called upon to punt 12 times, pinning the Dartmouth defense inside its own 20 yard line seven times, which broke the school record of six shared by three alumni, including All-American Chris Fraser ’17. But Null went a step further, booting all seven of these punts within the 15, including

three inside the 10. eight honor roll.

Five of Null’s punts in the game came The reigning Ivy Defensive Player of in the third quarter alone, along with the Week, Gesualdi had nine total tackfour of his seven punts inside the 20. All les against Dartmouth — five solo — to of these punts made it difficult for the Green’s offense to capitalize on stalled out Cornell dri- Settin’ Records and Takin’ Names ves, helping his defense Sophomore punter/kicker Nickolas Null set the Cornell keep the game within record for the most punts pinning the striking distance. opponent inside the 20 yard line with seven Dartmouth’s average against Dartmouth this past Saturday. starting position was on its own 27.

The sophomore also had one kickoff, go along with two pass breakups. Most and he sent it out the back of the end notably, at 2:24 of the second quarter, zone to keep him a perfect 11-11 on Gesualdi came up big to knock down a kickoff touchbacks on the season. pass attempt on a big 3rd and 5 play to The Cornell dual threat is the first prevent the Green from continuing to Ivy Leaguer to earn weekly honors for roll into the Cornell end. three-straight weeks since Harvard’s Taylor joined his position-mate with Justice Shelton-Mosley was named six tackles of his own — three solo — Rookie of the Week four weeks in a row and four pass breakups — both of which in 2015. are single-game career highs.

A pair of safeties join Null on the weekly honors, as senior captain Nick Gesualdi and sophomore Jelani Taylor Zachary Silver can be reached at were named to the Ancient Eight’s week sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Heartfelt Homecoming | Baba Adejuyigbe’s long journey to varsity action finally paid off, as he got his first playing experience this past Homecoming against Brown.

Senior Traces Path From South Africa to Gridiron Baba Adejuyigbe, a linebacker for Cornell, had to learn the basics of football when he arrived in Ithaca

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

Laying on his back, staring up at the sky, Baba Adejuyigbe got his first real taste of football.

In a 2014 scrimmage, thinking he was no longer involved in a play, Adejuyigbe casually jogged down the field, watching the action develop on the opposite side of the gridiron. Out of nowhere, he was hit and thrown to the turf by an opposing player.

“Oh damn, OK. So these guys can block me too,” he said.

It was just one of many learning experiences for the current senior throughout his time so far on the Cornell football team. Other freshmen had to just learn the playbook when they joined the team; Adejuyigbe had to learn the entire game of football.

Adejuyigbe, who was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but raised in South Africa, grew up playing just about every sport imaginable, but never football. Fast forward to his senior year in Ithaca, and the 6-foot, 223-pound linebacker earned playing time in front of 13,000 raucous fans in the team’s 34-7 victory over Brown.

It was a long time coming for the ever-confident, fiercely competitive South African. ***

Unlike almost all college football players, Adejuyigbe’s path to the gridiron started across the globe in a country where football refers to a different sport.

Thanks to his successes on the field and in the class- Adejuyigbe how to play at the varsity level of a sport room, Adejuyigbe earned scholarships to attend private you know nothing about? For him, it was a lot of time schools in South Africa, elevating him above what he taking extra reps on the field, a lot of time reading the said is the country’s lackluster public education system. playbook, a lot of time asking questions. And, oh yeah, And it was at boarding school where he excelled in a whole lot of time spent in the weight room.

“I can comfortably say I’m one of the strongest guys four different sports, playing at the national or provincial level in each: water polo — “it’s basically wrestling on the team,” Adejuyigbe said. “I was always out there lifting, making up for what I didn’t have in practice in underwater” — swimming, soccer and rugby.

After being accepted into Cornell, Adejuyigbe had a the weight room. That kind of allowed me to gain a lot of respect among my teammates.” choice. He knew he wanted to continRespect was always something ue his athletic career and play a sport “I was always out there Adejuyigbe had to work for. At footin college, but he figured he had bulked up too much, so swimming lifting, making up for what ball programs across the country, and soccer were largely out of the I didn’t have in practice there is a general mentality that, compared with the well-established question. That left water polo and in the weight room.” recruits, walk-ons have to prove their rugby, both only offered by Cornell at worth time and time again. As a freshthe club level. Adejuyigbe, always one Senior Baba Adejuyigbe man walk-on who didn’t know anyto seek out a challenge, knew playing thing about football, Adejuyigbe was at the club level would not satisfy him.

“I like to push myself, and I like to be pushed by the “lowest of the lows” on the team, he said.

For a guy who spent the first 18 years of his life dompeople around me,” Adejuyigbe said. inating every sport he ever participated in, that adjustSo that left one option: football.

He put together a series of videos of him carrying the ment was a struggle, and one that he has tried to make ball and tackling players in his high school rugby up for by playing the hardest out of anyone — even in matches and sent it over to Cornell football head coach daily practice on the scout team, where he’s yelling like David Archer ’05. Archer told Adejuyigbe to see him it’s game day and not afraid to go up against the team’s when he got to campus. After Archer saw that starters.

“He’s earned the respect of everybody in the organiAdejuyigbe was a real person and could go through some simple agility drills, “that was that,” and the South zation,” Archer said. “He just brings it every day and is so positive and fun to be around.”

African was on the team.

The helmet felt weird. All the guys already knew *** each other. He didn’t understand the game. So ask Adejuyigbe started at running back; it seemed like a natural position after playing wing in rugby, a position that lines up on the outside edge and finishes off scoring attempts. Yet once he got the ball, Adejuyigbe found it difficult to adjust to the schemes of the completely new sport.

“I would never hit my gaps,” Adejuyigbe said. “I would always just run like a rugby player — just find what’s open and go.”

Since he rarely got reps in practice, Adejuyigbe would consistently watch film of other running backs during team meetings, always waiting to see himself on the big screen. Finally, later on in the season, the position group watched a clip of him getting a carry. As the coach started giving him advice, Adejuyigbe stood up and pointed at the screen.

“I shouted, ‘Oh coach, did you see that spin move?!’”

Adejuyigbe said, sending the room into fits of laughter.

“He just shook his head. He probably thought this guy is a joke, but I was just so happy to be on film.”

After switching to linebacker in the spring of his freshman year, Adejuyigbe began to find his stride and carve out a place on the team. Living with the outlook that you’re only as strong as your weakest link, COURTESY OF BABA ADEJUYIGBE Adejuyigbe’s defensive teammates stuck with him, help-

Strong man | Without prior knowledge of the intricacies of football, Baba Adejuyigbe (center) used his pure athleticism, showcased in sports like water polo and rugby, to earn himself a spot on the Cornell team.

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