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Business School Dean Abruptly Resigns University maintains silence over Dean Dutta’s resignation

Students shocked by college leader’s unexplained exit

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS and YUICHIRO KAKUTANI

Unexpected Resignation | Business School Dean Soumitra Dutta showed every indication of staying in office. And then, he resigned, and neither he nor the University tells us why.

Sun City Editor and Sun Staff Writer

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business students were bewildered by the unexpected resignation this week of their college’s top official.

The University has not offered any explanation for why Soumitra Dutta, the dean of the Business College since its launch in 2016, left so abruptly.

In the absence of any information, business students have been left to speculate on the reasons for the dean’s departure.

“People were talking about it in class“ said Zach Baer ’21. “The secrecy shows that definitely something is happening … the question is, just how See REACTIONS page 5 TOP: CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR RIGHT: MICHAEL LYNHORST / SILE FILE PHOTO

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The mystery surrounding Soumitra Dutta’s abrupt resignation from his role atop Cornell University’s business college continued to grow on Wednesday as Dutta and Cornell refused for a second day to provide any reason for his sudden exit.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in an email to SC Johnson College of Business employees on Tuesday afternoon that he had accepted Dutta’s resignation letter, effective immediately, and had named an interim dean to lead the business college.

Kotlikoff’s brief statement blind-

Guarded secret | sided all but a select handful of Cornellians, including many business faculty members and some employees in Dutta’s Statler Hall office, who were surprised when they read the news for the first time in The Sun. Even L. Joseph Thomas, whom Kotlikoff named to replace Dutta as interim dean while Cornell searches for a permanent successor, only learned about the situation on Monday.

“I was asked to do this interim job two days ago, and it was a surprise,” Thomas said in an email to The Sun on Wednesday night.

Dutta, 54, has not responded to multiple requests for comment since he resigned, but has said in recent

days that he expects to remain on the faculty, according to a Cornell alumnus briefed on the conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

Cornell’s spokesman, John Carberry, has declined to answer any questions about what led to Dutta’s resignation and had no information by press time late on Wednesday on whether Dutta would remain on the faculty.

Thomas met with campus leaders and spoke several times with Kotlikoff on Wednesday, his first full day serving in a position he likely never expected to take after retiring

Given little explanation, business students can’t help but speculate on why their dean suddenly resigned.

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TCAT Adds 11 Buses to Fleet,Struggles To Find Depot Space for Housing Them

By TOBA STERN Sun Staff Writer

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Timely TCAT | TCAT will be acquiring 11 new buses this February to modernize its fleet and provide more reliable service.

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit hopes to improve the service it provides to Cornell and the Ithaca community by incorporating 11 new buses to its fleet this February. However, the organization still needs to build a space to house its newly modernised fleet.

Frank P. Proto, who took over

as the new chairman of the TCAT Board of Directors last Thursday, believes the replacement buses will play an essential role in improving the quality of service that TCAT provides.

“These 11 new replacement buses will go a long way to help us provide on-time service and avoid missed trips,” he said. “If you can’t be there with the bus to pick up passengers then you don’t have

quality service.”

TCAT’s current facility at 737 Willow Avenue is not large enough to accommodate these new buses, TCAT informed the county legislature’s Planning Committee. In the submitted proposal, TCAT cited a commissioned Facility Assessment and Planning Study that showed that the current facilSee TCAT page 5

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Proceeds From Fundraiser Donated to Mental Health Efforts

Local collaboration raises over eight hundred dollars for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services of Ithaca

By AMANDA CRONIN

Sun Staff Writer

The late Sophie Hack MacLeod ’14, who died by suicide in 2016, loved to bake.

In her honor, Cornell’s Alpha Phi Omega, along with Active Minds at Ithaca College and The Sophie Fund, sold five-dollar button pins emblazoned with a cupcake icon in several locations and donated “It was incredible to see the money raised to how Ithaca came the Suicide Prevention and together to support the Crisis Services of mental health of college Ithaca on Wednesday. students.”

In total, the three Winnie Ho ’19 organizations donated a check of $829.50 to SPCS after fundraising in their respective campuses, two GreenStar Natural Food Market store locations and at the Apple Festival in the Commons in September.

The Sophie Fund chose to donate the funds to the Ithaca SPCS because of its work in mental health education, crisis counseling and its establishment of a suicide hotline service.

“All the funds raised in the button campaign were given to SPCS with no strings attached, for them to use as needed,” said Scott MacLeod, Sophie’s father and an officer of The Sophie Fund.

“We sincerely thank Alpha Phi Omega and Active Minds, as well as all the many people who made generous donations, for supporting the cause of suicide pre-

vention in Tompkins County,” MacLeod added.

Winnie Ho ’19, president of APO, said she was moved by the community's reaction to the cause and was proud of how the organizations worked together.

“It was incredible to see how Ithaca came together to support the mental health of college students and incredibly touching to have a chance to talk to so many people who cared,” she said.

The cupcake button campaign aimed to not only raise money but also to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health challenges faced by college

students.

“We recognize how important mental health is to us, as a organization dedicated to public service, but also as college students who often find ourselves and our peers in stressful circumstances on this campus,” Ho said.

“Through volunteering for these issues ... we are also further breaking stigmas of addressing mental health topics and that we are connecting students who care to the causes they are passionate about,” she added.

Amanda Cronin can be reached at acronin@cornellsun.com.

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From cupcakes to cash | Alpha Phi Omega President Winnie Ho hands a check to executive director Lee-Ellen Marvin of the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service in a ceremony last Wednesday.

New Diversity and Inclusion Director E.A. Voices Frustration Jennifer Majka to lead diversity initiatives for business college House, then assumed the position of assisSun Staff Writer tant dean of Alice Cook House.

“A day in the life entailed many different Jennifer Majka, assistant dean of Alice moving parts and no day was like another, Cook House, recently announced her which is why I have enjoyed the assistant departure from the West Campus commu- dean position for the past eight and a half nity to pursue her “passion for diversity and years, said Majka.”

Barnaby Knoll, graduate residence maninclusion work in higher education” with a joint appointment as the founding director ager, will be taking over as the temporary of diversity and inclusion at the Charles H. assistant dean of Cook House for the spring semester. Knoll previously Dyson School of Applied served as the residence hall Economics and Management director of Risley from 2011 to and the Cornell SC Johnson 2012 and the graduate resiCollege of Business. dence manager of Maplewood The new position was creatfrom 2012 to 2015 before leaved to address the idea that ing Cornell to start an academ“principles of social justice ic coaching business, according such as equity, recognition and to Majka. inclusion are important to Majka said he “will serve the consider as they relate to camCook community well” while pus life,” Majka said.

Cornell searches for the next Majka said that the position MAJKA permanent Cook House assisis particularly important in terms of understanding the causes of injus- tant dean.

As assistant dean, Majka fostered acadetice and the marginalization of certain mically nurturing and inclusive livinggroups of people.

“The newly formed Office of Diversity learning communities through program and Inclusion is an integral component to initiatives, as well as directed student serfostering student development and helping vices and house operations.

While living and working at Rose and to achieve Dyson’s mission of ‘Our business is a better world,’” she said. “I believe the Cook House, she connected students and director of diversity and inclusion position alumni that might not have otherwise met.

“Learning about the impact I may have provides the unique opportunity to further the university’s goal of creating a more had on students is heartwarming,” said Majka. “Also, the thoughtful going-away inclusive campus climate.”

In order to achieve the goal of diversity cards and letters I’ve received from students and inclusion, Majka said that she will are so touching; I will miss them dearly!”

Nonetheless, Majka is looking forward draw upon her research experience in “transformative” social justice education to the next chapter of her life as the director practices as well as her time as a Ph.D. can- of diversity and inclusion.

Driven by students with greater underdidate at Cornell in education and social standing, sharpened leadership skills and justice.

Majka’s believes her future work is cru- deeper empathy, Cornell will truly be — in cial to not just maintaining, but bettering the words of Majka — “a place where diverthe Cornell community as a whole. sity and inclusion, student success and acaHowever, she said it is a bittersweet transi- demic excellence are at the center of what tion because she will certainly miss the we do.”

West Campus community.

Majka served the West Campus community for over eight years. She began as the Victoria Moore can be reached at founding assistant dean of Flora Rose vmoore@cornellsun.com.

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About Communication

By PARIS GHAZI Sun Staff Writer

Concerned that students and staff are uninformed about the tobacco referendum authorized last year by the University Assembly, the Employee Assembly called for better and more frequent communication between assemblies and the constituents they represent at their meeting, Wednesday.

This discussion was initiated when Carrie Sanzone, vice chair for communications, questioned the status of the tobacco referendum, saying that she was reminded about it only after reading a Sun article on the topic.

“It just occurred to me that I don't have any information to give to my constituents about how this is going to work, what they can expect, and so I was just wondering if ... someone could give us an update on what to expect,” she said.

Laura Johnson-Kelley, library and museum representative, said

the connection between the last year’s U.A. resolution and the spring referendum was unclear.

Other Assembly members agreed, sparking a larger discussion on the lack of communication regarding the status of approved resolutions.

“I just wanted to ask for some clarification,” she said.

The previous chair of the Employee Assembly, Ulysses Smith, resigned last month after accepting an offer to become senior manager for global diversity and inclusion at electronic arts.

The rapid turnover in the assembly leads to faulty communication between the assembly and the public, according to Gina Giambattista, director of the Office of the Assemblies.

“It really is incumbent on the [Employee] Assembly itself,” said Giambattista, “[to] serve in the capacity of maintaining the continuity.”

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Assembled employees | Members of the Employee Assembly debate strategies to improve the connection between the assembly and its constituents.

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in 2016 from teaching at Cornell.

“I am very pleased to help Cornell and my college in any way I can,” Thomas, dean of the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management from 2007 to 2012, told The Sun. “Cornell is a wonderful university, and it has been good for me and my family. I did like my retirement activities, but those can be scaled back a bit.”

Thomas said he will serve only as long as it takes for Cornell to find a permanent

dean for the College of Business, which opened in 2016 and includes the School of Hotel Administration, the Johnson Graduate School and the Charles H. Dyson School of Economics and Applied Management.

Asked about Dutta’s unexpected resignation after heading the University for the last year and a half, Thomas said only that Dutta “has led the new college very well” and that members of the college are “well positioned to move forward because of ” Dutta’s and the leadership team’s efforts.

Lourdes Casanova, Dutta’s

wife and a senior lecturer at the Johnson Graduate School, declined to comment when reached at the couple’s house this week.

“I’m sorry, but we cannot say anything,” Casanova said from just inside the door of the couple’s home on Tuesday evening.

Several College of Business faculty members said it was notable that Dutta’s resignation came less than a week after his deputy dean, Chris Barrett, said on Jan. 22 that he would step down from his post in July and return to teaching and research.

Barrett did not respond to requests for comment, but the

Cornell alumnus, who had been briefed on the matter, said Barrett’s stepping down was not connected in any way to Dutta’s resignation.

Prof. William Henri Lesser, science and business, who retired this month and served as the interim director of the Dyson School for a few months in 2016, said the announcement of Dutta’s resignation had been “opaque.” Lesser also said he was concerned about the financing of the College of the Business, which he described as “suspect.”

“We all need to know what has gone wrong, for certainly something has,” Lesser said in an email. “Depending on the reason, there can be lots of reason for concern.”

Lesser said the business college had spent too much money on extra deans, offices and expensive hires of faculty with not enough sources of revenue.

“In my opinion the whole venture [of the College of Business] has been poorly conceived and executed,” Lesser added, saying . “Hopefully the multiple costs will not be too extensive.”

Dutta had made no indication that he was planning to resign. He represented the College of Business at an event in New York less than a week ago, on Jan. 25, and he is also listed as a keynote speaker at an information technology conference in India in late February.

In an interview with Cornell’s official media service, the Cornell Chronicle, in July, Dutta said there was more he wanted to accomplish.

“We still have a lot more that we can do together, in all three schools combined,” he said, adding that there “is a lot more to be done, but it’s all exciting, good stuff.”

Kotlikoff ’s four-sentence statement on Tuesday made no

mention of Dutta’s more than five years with the University, during which he led the Johnson Graduate School as dean beginning in July of 2012.

When Kotlikoff announced, in December of 2015, that Cornell was seeking to create a business college, the provost also announced that Dutta would take the helm as the College of Business’s inaugural dean.

Dutta oversaw about 200 faculty members and 3,100 students while leading the College of Business through its first, controversial years, during which students, alumni, faculty and staff protested its creation.

Born in India, Dutta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi in 1985 before earning a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 at UC Berkeley, where he studied artificial intelligence, according to his curriculum vitae, which Cornell hosted on its website until the University removed his profile on Tuesday.

When Cornell hired Dutta in 2012 to lead the Johnson Graduate School as its 11th dean, then-president David Skorton said Dutta was a “natural fit,” with expertise in emerging media and “extensive experience on the international stage.”

Cornell’s proposal in December of 2015 to merge three schools under one business college umbrella sparked controversy, and Dutta was thrust into the role of dean, leading an institution that many said they did not want to exist.

After months of student and faculty unrest, Dutta sought to quell concerns in 2016 in what the Financial Times called a “charm offensive.” Dutta, largely working behind the scenes, argued to alumni and students that merging the three schools would boost their national marks and allow for students to enroll in a broader range of courses. He also maintained that he would protect each school’s unique identity.

While Dutta worked methodically, H. Fisk Johnson ‘79 made a splash last year with his $150 million donation to the College of Business, the largest donation ever made to the Ithaca campus. The influx of cash increased support for the merged programs and permanently affixed Johnson’s name to the college. Johnson did not return a message left with a company spokesperson on Wednesday.

In January of 2017, Dutta said Johnson’s “extraordinary gift” would expand the college’s learning and research opportunities and “support our mission to realize the full potential of Cornell’s business programs.”

Thomas said that while he has not yet prepared any specific initiatives — he’s been on the job for only a day — he plans to “move the college forward” rather than to simply keep things as they were. As an emeritus professor, Thomas said he had been volunteering and staying connected while in retirement.

In addition to overseeing See DUTTA page 11

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TCAT Plans to Expand Students Curious About Dean Resignation Into Bigger Facility REACTIONS

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ity is “completely maxedout [sic].”

“TCAT’s goals this year are to initiate a strategic plan that will give us a road map on how to go forward — for both the short-and long-term future,” Proto said.

To remedy the facility deficit, Proto said that they plan to find a new site for the TCAT facility in order to house the 11 new Gillig buses TCAT will be obtaining to replace some of its older buses.

“The Federal Transit Administration has established the useful life of a bus as 12 years,” he explained. “The average age of TCAT’s fleet of approximately 50 buses is nine years. We have some buses that have been in service in excess of 16 years.”

According to the study, it would cost over $3 million dollars to keep the current facility functioning. In comparison, the report says that it would cost approximately $50 million to build a new facility that allows for the acquisition of the new buses.

In terms of funding this massive project, Proto said that “besides working with our local funders, we are staying abreast of the state government and what changes they are proposing through the Department of

E.A. Brainstorms New Strategies

Transportation, and also with the federal transportation bill that the president has been talking about.”

“We are hoping that our elected representatives at all levels are going to recognize and support our needs because, once again, there is continuous clamor for expanded and quality service throughout the county,” he said.

Proto has served on the TCAT board and its previous operating committee since the 1990s, and even served as head of the board multiple times. He also has experience as a Tompkins County legislator.

He is replacing former chairman David Howe, assistant dean of finance and administration at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Howe left the board at the end of last year, after over five years of dedicated service.

Proto anticipates that the biggest challenge he will face is “dealing with the state and federal governments with regards to transportation needs.”

“It is a major challenge to deliver quality service to our riders while we try to address geographic changes in our community,” he said.

bad is it?”

Others milling about Statler Hall and Statler Hotel were more cautious.

Linna Li ’18 said that if Dutta had left for “a personal reason” or because of health issues, “then obviously we respect his privacy.” But, no matter the reason, she warned, it would likely be revealed eventually.

Daniel Abaraoha ’17 said he was curious about what could lead to such a hasty exit for Dutta, who had been a dean at the University since 2012 and at the College of Business since it opened in summer 2016.

“I’m definitely curious,” Abaraoha said. “I’m sure that’s the echo of many people in the business school: curiosity and a little bit of suspicion.”

“Students have a right to know what’s going on,” he continued. “We are talking about the dean of this school.

People don’t know what’s going on. That’s a problem.

Isaac Greenwood ’18, an economics major who said he takes classes in the College of Business, and Matthew Federici ’20 both noted the controversies surrounding the creation of the business college in December 2015 and much of 2016.

The new controversy, they said, “reflects poorly on how that organization has been brought about.”

“I still think that there are growing pains within the school and that it’s not easy to merge three distinct colleges,” Greenwood said.

Like others, Federici was frustrated that there were no answers supplied by the University in the email sent to College of Business students and faculty.

“I think we should know about this because we pay, we come here, we are pretty much employing all of these people and without us, they wouldn’t have a job,” he said. “So we do have the right to know.”

Others had an out of sight, out of mind approach to the change in the College of Business’ leadership.

“I didn’t even know that person existed until I got the email,” Casey Doherty ’20 said of Dutta.

Unless Dutta’s resignation results in undergraduates saving money on tuition, Doherty said, his departure is unlikely to have any effect on his time at Cornell.

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun.com.

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

Toba Stern can be reached at tstern@cornellsun.com.

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To achieve this goal, assemblies should maintain close contact with their constituents when working on resolutions, according to Giambattista.

“Being the proactive partner [with constituents] in whatever the issue really will go a long way toward institutionalizing the results,” Giambattista said. “We can help, but the more you can probably put into the resolution itself is helpful.”

“We can help, but the more you can probably put into the resolution itself is helpful.”

Gina Giambattista Other E.A. members called for the U.A. to send update emails to staff members to bridge the information gap. “[The email should include] ‘here’s what we’ve done, this is what impacts you, here are the resolutions and how we made progress on them,’” said Hei Hei Depew, less than 5 years of service representative at-large.

Paris Ghazi can be reached at pghazi@cornellsun.com.

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What Is Cornell Hiding About Its Business Dean’s Departure?

FOR TWO YEARS, ALL CORNELL COULD TALK ABOUT was the College of Business.

Why, then, is the administration so tight-lipped following the sudden departure of Soumitra Dutta, the college’s dean, on Tuesday?

Dutta, who had served as the dean and public face of the controversial SC Johnson College of Business since its launch in 2016, resigned yesterday without explanation.

A University spokesman declined to comment because Cornell “does not comment on private personnel matters,” and in an email to colleagues, Joe Lyons ’98, executive director of leadership gifts, communications and donor engagement, said that “no further comment will be coming.”

The college Dutta led is integral to the University’s plan for the 21st century, and Cornell’s lack of transparency is unacceptable.

Endowed by the single largest donation to Cornell’s Ithaca campus, housed in the $25-million state-of-the-art Breazzano Family Center, built to catapult the Johnson name into the ranks of Wharton, Sloan, Kellogg and Haas — and yet, not a whisper about why its founding dean has made such an unceremonious exit.

We encourage any administrators, faculty, staff or students with information regarding Dutta’s departure to contact The Sun. Assistant news editor Girisha Arora is reachable at garora@cornellsun.com and securely on the Signal app at 607-6973615; city editor Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs is reachable at nickbogel@gmail.com and on WhatsApp and Signal at 315-730-8907.

If the College of Business is to be successful, it must be accountable. Dutta oversaw about 200 faculty members and over 3,000 students in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York. They deserve to know why he left.

Moreover, Cornell owes answers to the entire faculty, student body, Cornell staff and all others who have been affected by the creation of the College of Business.

The University’s insistence that it uniformly does “not comment on private personnel matters,” and its further plea to staff to refrain from commenting or speculating is confounding.

In previous years, administrators and faculty members have spoken far more extensively on personnel matters; such was the case with the resignation of Prof. Grant Farred, Africana studies and English, from the Africana Studies faculty search committee in 2011; the arrest of a former ILR administrator for the theft of over $360,000 worth of equipment; and the University’s civil suit against former head football coach Richard Kent Austin in 2017.

What spurred today’s ruling of radio silence?

Furthermore, where is Dutta in all of this? Provost Michael Kotlikoff ’s brief statement did not include any message from the outgoing dean, and when reached for comment, Dutta’s wife, Prof. Lourdes Casanova, business, told The Sun that she and her husband “cannot say anything.” Students from the College of Business have the right to hear directly and candidly from their (now former) dean.

The College of Business is still in its infancy. Its creation was rife with contention, drawing criticism from faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, alumni and this paper’s editorial page. We had hoped the University had learned from the confusion and frustration it caused two years ago, but Dutta’s departure — and the University’s handling of it — shows that our hope has been misplaced.

If the University wants to regain the trust of its students, faculty, staff, alumni and patrons, it must immediately and comprehensively explain the circumstances of Dutta’s exit. Anything less will not suffice.

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ornell defines sexual assault as “sexual intercourse or sexual contact without affirmative consent.” It defines affirmative consent as “clear permission regarding willingness to engage in the sexual activity” from an individual who is neither incapacitated nor subjected to “coercion, intimidation, force or threat of harm.” However, it doesn’t protect against being pressured, implicitly, into consenting.

to bolster or bash the woman’s reputation, while women have no recourse. This, coupled with society’s disdain for disobedient women, fosters an environment where reluctant compliance is unfortunately the logical choice.

The Aziz Ansari story does not depict a rape. He did not physically force or threaten his accuser. She chose to stay; and, ultimately, he accepted a verbal “no.” To label it as rape is to diminish the very serious experiences of rape survivors.

It is, however, like all unwanted sexual contact, a violent abuse of power. It is a less sensational, yet still deeply disturbing, manifestation of rape culture.

In situations where one party persistently cajoles the other to participate, necessity is saying “OK” for fear of the consequences of saying no.

Individuals who believe genuine consent can be coaxed believe so because they feel entitled to impose their choices on others, and further, to exercise ownership over them. Women comply because they have no desire to find out what happens when they deprive men of what they feel they are owed.

Last year, men recognized the importance of policing other men to create a future where fewer women can say #MeToo. Many were shocked by the reve-

Women comply because they have no desire to find out what happens when they deprive men.

This month, Babe.net published one woman’s account of a sexual experience with comedian Aziz Ansari in which she never said no, but she never said yes, either.

During that encounter, an exchange occurred that epitomizes a sexual gray area I like to call “necessity consent.”

Necessity, as defined in criminal law, is a defense for a choice made in an emergency situation to prevent the greater of two evils. Necessity consent is compliance in the face of such a choice.

The accuser voiced to Ansari her feelings about being forced, and he initially responded respectfully.

He then immediately proceeded to request an act she had already repeatedly refused.

Feeling she had already pushed back as much as she could without making the situation uncomfortable, she complied.

This was not sexual assault, nor was it consensual. It was a choice made out of necessity. In the wake of the Ansari allegations, I found myself in dozens of discussions with my female peers about this genre of hookup. Every time, without fail, each woman present shared similar experiences, claiming not only was this frequent, but it was expected.

Countless op-eds and social media conversations on the subject in recent weeks support their claim. Women, rather than risk creating an awkward or embarrassing situation, grin and bear sexual experiences that push past their boundaries. Necessity consent appears to be par for the course in modern hookup culture.

Author of American Hookup Lisa Wade came to campus last fall to speak about her book, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of relationships on today’s college campuses. The book’s numerous accounts from students nationwide consistently describe hookups as exchanges of social capital, in which, female students note, men determine the terms. In other words, after hooking up, the man has the power

Rape culture is like any other system of oppression; its beneficiaries are blind to its existence and to their role in preserving it.

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lation that they had been ignorant to womens’ reality. Rape culture is like any other system of oppression; its beneficiaries are blind to its existence and to their role in preserving it.

Consequently, Aziz Ansari seems to genuinely believe his encounter was consensual. Instead of shaming otherwisefeminist men like Aziz for behavior they believe to be normal, we should seize the opportunity to dismantle that normalcy.

The conversation of sexual assault broke into popular discourse because women were brave enough to share their stories of disempowerment.

Hopefully, in the next stage of the conversation, men will be brave enough to reflect on their role in taking away that power.

Jade Piñero is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at jpinero@cornellsun.com. Jaded and Confused appears alternate Thursdays.

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Sarah Lieberman | Blueberries for Sal

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Cornell Health Doesn’t Meet Student Needs

ne of the most serious threats to students’ safety at Cornell is our mental health. The administration claims to care about our well-being, but lately I’ve been seeing evidence to the contrary.

A few weeks ago, I saw an article on Facebook that left me feeling frozen. The headline

Eight days before I left for my freshman year at Cornell, my best friend died by suicide. This loss changed me in ways that I can’t explain — in ways that make my stomach sick as I type this. I arrived at Cornell with a heavy sadness and swollen eyes. The nets under the bridges were a constant conversation point. The idea of needing to prevent students from throwing themselves off the edge seemed funny to some people. I don’t want to ever remember the way that made me feel.

I was more grief than person my freshman year. And, so, because my parents insisted, I called Counseling and Psychological Services, and I had a phone consultation. Afterwards, I was given an appointment, but I have since learned that students are often deferred for over a month if they aren’t in crisis.

I shuffled my feet into Cornell Health — a building that is now shiny and new but still doesn’t take suicide seriously enough — and I sat down with a counselor who just kept repeating, “that must be hard for you.”

He was right, it was hard for me.

At one point during that first semester, I asked the front desk if I could see someone different. They suggested that I work that out with my current provider, which was terrifying and felt confrontational. I declined and continued to feel unsupported and unwanted by the therapist CAPS had assigned me.

Quickly, the appointments went from every week to every two weeks. Eventually, I got the question, “So, should we keep seeing each other?” It felt like getting dumped. My grief hadn’t gone away, but even my coun-

This institution has not done enough for me or my peers when it comes to our mental health, but this doesn’t have to be the end of the story. read, “Pollack Rejects Creation of Independent Task Force to Review Cornell’s Mental Health Policies.” I clicked the link, and you should too. I was introduced to Sophie Hack McLeod, a Cornell student who took her own life in 2016. Her parents, Scott MacLeod and Susan Hack, following this tragedy, requested an investigation into the university’s practices when it came to their student’s well-being. The article spoke of the ways in which Sophie’s parents witnessed “systemic failure” from Cornell in the face of Sophie’s suffering.

President Martha Pollack rejected Sophie’s grieving parents’ request. I am deeply ashamed by this, and I hope the rest of the Cornell community is, too.

I’ve been biting my tongue for a long time when it comes to Cornell’s mental health resources, because, in my mind, criticizing the institutions in place could dissuade someone from pursuing them. However, I believe we are at a point in which the system requires such deep reform that staying silent much longer would be a disservice. Though I believe CAPS is flawed, it is not useless, and students should never stop seeking help.

selor didn’t want to hear about it anymore. We decided we would check back in next semester, but I never heard from him again.

My experience wasn’t solely negative. I participated in a Cornell bereavement group through CAPS, which helped, but I only found it after significant digging.

Most students don’t know such things exist.

I’ve heard stories similar to mine. Phone consultations that never turned into appointments. Cancelled appointments that never got rescheduled. The feeling that CAPS is just trying to clear you of “risk” so that someone else can take your place, and they can have plausible deniability if something really bad happens to you. When our mental health is treated like a backroom deal, it’s hard not to feel ashamed for needing help in the first place.

One could claim that I didn’t try hard enough — that I should have forcefully advocated for myself and my mental health until it was under control. But I want to know why it has to be so hard. Why does it have to take so much effort and discomfort? Maybe an external review would want to ask those questions, too. So, President Pollack, why don’t you want the answers?

Cornell Health is ill-equipped to handle student’s mental health concerns. If someone seeking help has to wait over a month for an appointment, we have a serious understaffing problem. This institution has not done enough for me or my peers when it comes to our mental health, but this doesn’t have to be the end of the story.

The Cornell administration should agree to an external review of our mental health policies, and, above all else, they should improve. Nets under the bridges aren’t enough. Telling us that you care isn’t enough. We need publicized resources and a better trained staff with more members. We need you to help us.

Sarah Lieberman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at slieberman@cornellsun.com. Blueberries for Sal appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Faiza Ahmad | The Fifth Column

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peaked when I was 10 years old.I know that sounds ridiculous. And whenever I mention it out loud to someone — my friends, parents, professors — they roll their eyes and laugh it off. To be quite honest, I don’t blame them. How many times have we heard this clichéd story before? A straight-A student who has always been at the top of their class goes off to an Ivy League, quickly realizes that things are much tougher when they’re a little fish in a big pond, and ends up developing an inferiority complex and wailing “I PEAKED WHEN I WAS 10!”.

A classic tale. Boohoo.

But that’s not what I mean when I say that I peaked at 10 years old. I don’t think my life is all downhill from here, and I don’t doubt that I’ll have achievements in the future that I’m proud of. This is a different kind of “peak” that I’m referring to.

When I was 10 years old, I used to adore writing. I started keeping journals when I was as young as 7, and I would write short stories, poems, prose — the whole shebang. I would tell anyone who would listen that one day I’d become a journalist, or at least an author. I couldn’t wait to go to college, where I would undoubtedly major in creative writing, or comparative literature — or maybe, if I played my cards right, I could do both! For my entire childhood, that was what I genuinely believed. So how did I end up here: a premed student majoring in psychology with nothing but a measly minor in English?

I don’t believe that this is an isolat-

Ambition Kills Passion ed incident, or that I am alone in this experience. I have friends that I’ve known since elementary and middle school who, when we were kids, used to love dance, or were phenomenal artists, or spent all their time playing music. But now, when I ask them why they don’t do those things anymore, their answers are always “I don’t know, I just… stopped.”

They just stopped.

But, why? You don’t “just stop” doing something you love doing, and you especially don’t “just stop” doing something you’re good at doing.

For the longest time, I blamed myself for not keeping up with writing. I regretted how my writing dwindled down to just a few sporadic journal entries every few weeks once I entered high school. I went into a fit of rage when my mom reminded me that my fourth grade teacher had once said I had a lot of potential as an author. Mostly, though, I hated myself for not continuing the one thing that I was really passionate about.

However, when I began talking to my friends and found out that they too had a long-abandoned passion that they wished they had continued, I realized that maybe this wasn’t completely my fault.

You see, when I was 10 years old, I didn’t know that there was a such thing as a “pointless career.” I had no concept of a “useless degree” or a job that “wasn’t real.” I thought that you

just had to find something you liked doing, get a job in it and go about your life. Simple!

Only, it wasn’t.

Now, it’s not unheard of that many students are relentlessly pushed towards STEM fields, both by society and by our parents. (I fall into that category, as I’m sure many do.) But, I

place, I think that somewhere along the line we lost the passion we once had.

When you are told that your childhood hobbies cannot become your lifetime job, you start to see them as a waste of time. They become a guilty pleasure that you might get to indulge in every once in a while, but only if

You don’t “just stop” doing something you love doing, and you especially don’t “just stop” doing something you’re good at doing. think what we don’t realize is how much we sacrifice along the way.

As you grow up, you gain responsibilities. You have less free time and more stress. You’re told to focus on your future. What do you want to do with your life? What field do you want to go into? You need to start planning!

You need to have a goal! Figure it out!

You’re introduced to the idea of having a substantial career. Then, you are told what does and what does not qualify as a substantial career. You are conditioned to get on a one-track path to success. No ifs, ands or buts.

And while you can argue that this mindset may have been what got many of us to Cornell in the first

you have everything else figured out.

Any time you pick up your guitar to strum or your pencil to draw, you start to think about the more productive things you could be doing instead.

And that takes the fun out of it. It’s no wonder so many of us end up abandoning our passions.

So, when I say I peaked at 10 years old, I don’t mean that I was at my smartest, or my most successful, or my most determined. But I do believe that I was at my most passionate.

Faiza Ahmad is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at fahmad@cornellsun.com. The Fifth Column runs online alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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f your ideal dinner consists of chicken tenders and french fries, Nikki Green is not the restaurant for you. The menu provides plant-based meals in a unique way so that we vegetarians don’t have to order salads everywhere we go or casually push pieces of sausage to the edge of our plate for our carnivore friends to eye during the entire meal. It isn’t for the closeminded or those averse to a variety of vegetables in all their forms. Its limited menu doesn’t appeal to picky eaters, but it encourages an expansion of the idea of what dinner consists of outside the box of meat and potatoes.

When I first walked into Nikki Green, I thought I was in the wrong place. The lighting was harsh and bright, making me feel like I was in an art

gallery as opposed to a restaurant. There were a few tables

and a bar-like section with high stools that faced the parking lot.

It was the type of place that made you want to eat and get out as quickly as possible.

At first glance, the menu made me extremely nervous.

There were a total of nine options to choose from, all in bowls and all categorized as either savory or sweet. The sweet bowls consisted of a variety of blended fruits, nuts and chocolate — a little too dessert-like for dinner. I chose the Beetbox Bowl with cauliflower rice, roasted mushrooms, zucchini noodles, purple cabbage and avocado with a beetroot dressing, and my foodie associate ordered the Tangi Bowl with jasmine rice, peas, sunflower seeds, broccoli, ginger and tofu with a teriyaki dressing.

Before digging into the Beetbox Bowl, I tasted each ingredient separately, including the dressing. This was a mistake.

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Sampling the Tangi Bowl gave me the same experience.

However, mixing everything together created a whole new experience. The strong flavors from the beetroot dressing blended with the plain vegetables, while the crunchy texture of the zucchini noodles was enhanced by the creamy avocado. The soft rice and tofu were offset by the sunflower seeds, and the ginger provided an occasional break from the teriyaki. The whole was significantly better than the parts. My associate cleaned his bowl even after complaining about the ginger and the lack of meat.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the presentation and the quality of the vegetarian cuisine offered at Nikki Green, even after entering with a pessimistic mindset that was exacerbated by all the lights. It was unique, quick, cheaper than many other dinner options on The Commons ($10-$13 for one bowl) and I didn’t feel that heaviness I usually feel when I go out to dinner and eat rich foods loaded with salt and fat.

However, the narrow menu restricts the ability to visit regularly — after a few meals, the whole menu would be exhausted. I still recommend giving it a try because it adds to Ithaca’s restaurant diversity in a bit of a healthier way, and it shows the versatility of fruits and vegetables that we nutrition majors try to force on all of our peers.

Serves: Plant-based bowls Vibe: Earthy library Price: $$ Overall: Mikayla Kuykendall is a senior in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. She can be reached at mpk77@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Kendrick Lamar’s Satire

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he 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday evening and it opened with an appearance by Kendrick Lamar. He performed a medley of songs like “DNA.” and “XXX.” from Damn. and “King’s Dead” from the Black Panther soundtrack. To accurately describe his performance in words would ultimately be futile, though I will briefly attempt to do it anyway. I encourage you check it out. Seriously.

“Vicious” is the first word that comes to mind following Kendrick’s act. In one of Spike Lee’s production journals for Do the Right Thing, the director uses the same word to describe a Public Enemy track that was newly released in 1988, “Bring the Noise.” Like that of Public Enemy, Kendrick’s music — and particularly his work from Damn. — is relentless in its honesty as it brings the more frank aspects of urban, African-American identity to the forefront of our attention.

Obviously, he does this primarily through his lyrics, such as those in “XXX.,” and through the samples in his productions, like the soundbite of Geraldo Rivera’s aggressive misunderstanding of Lamar’s thoughts on police in “BLOOD.” and “DNA.” Yet, in Lamar’s Grammy appearance, it was the choreography of his fellow performers that perhaps most viciously drove home the weight of the rapper’s verses.

At the beginning of his performance, a number of dancers dressed in military gear marched in a square formation as an American flag — one so large as to possibly be considered gaudy — flies on a screen in the back-

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and daughters and fathers and mothers are literally gunned down. Kendrick’s performance was vicious and perhaps even inspirational in its honesty, but the truth which it conveys is an abomination: a tragic story of failed race relations and subsequent violence and death.

What is the “satire” that Lamar references? One might assert that the satire comes about from the mock patriotism inspired by the American flag that waived just prior to the message. Of course, to say that figures like Lamar or Chappelle are proud of the state of the union is indeed laughable.

However, I don’t think that Lamar is letting the audience off the hook so easily, and to be honest, I don’t think that he’s trying to side with us on this matter. There is something a little awkward and uncomfortable in watching the performance take place at a mainstream awards ceremony broadcasted by a major network, and I believe that this is the satire which Lamar seeks to highlight.

His performance deals with tragedy, and yet we all gawk and cheer at the end anyway, like in some future dystopian universe. Chappelle’s comments make sense: watching Lamar is indeed terrifying, and being Lamar is even more terrifying, so why do we cheer? What do we really do about any of it?

While it may appear trite or oversimplifying to interpret his satire as an attack on white liberalism, I don’t think it is grossly harmful or erroneous. Lamar has dedicated his life to moving people spiritually through his music, so to take his message as a call for greater responsibility is certainly not unproductive.

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com. His column Swan’s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

The Last Jedi Reimagined

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got to review The Last Jedi when it came out, along with some other Arts & Entertainment writers. To sum it up, we all pretty much said the same thing: it was a film of highs and lows. The overarching theme of balance the movie sought to explore shone through in its quality: good balanced against bad. But this isn’t a movie review.

This is a “rewrite” of sorts, in which I will attempt to suggest a few small tweaks that had the potential to improve a movie.

I’m a Star Wars guy. I’ve always been a Star Wars guy, but I’m not nearly nostalgia-blind enough to say I hated the new movie. I’d be out of my mind to sit here and tell you The Last Jedi wasn’t stunningly beautiful or the acting wasn’t good. That’s what we’ve largely come to expect of projects with budgets in the hundreds of millions, especially those from the House of Mouse. However, my acknowledgement of the film’s general decency certainly doesn’t mean I loved it.

The Last Jedi, in an almost Dunkirk-esque fashion, follows three distinct but eventually converging storylines. Aboard the Resistance flag ship, we see that our heroes aren’t just desperate, but fractured, as they run for dear life from the baddies’ overwhelming might. On a remote world, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) delve into the untold, hard truths behind the Jedi mythos, shedding new light on the celebrated order. Finally, on a voyage to an opulent casino city, Finn (John Boyega) and Rose (Kelly

ground. Lamar launched into “XXX.,” and at the end of his first verse, a gunshot sounded, then the stage became dark. On the screen behind him appeared the words “This is a satire by Kendrick Lamar.” Bono and The Edge come onstage to play their feature, and Lamar and the soldiers suddenly broke into a portion of “DNA.” remixed to sound rawer and more percussive. The soldiers danced in a raucous way to match the remixed music. At the end of this segment, Lamar simulated being shot in the Swan’s Song head by one of the soldiers.

At this point, to add to the surreal nature of what happenned, Dave Chappelle interrupted the performance to remind the audience “that the only thing more frightening than watching a black man be honest in America, is being an honest black man in America.”

Lamar then went into “King’s Dead” from the Black Panther soundtrack, and after another sequence and interruption by Chappelle, the performance ended as each of the dancers was gunned down to the sequence of Lamar’s cadence in the epic finality of his verse.

The performance and its choreography was indeed vicious, but I also can’t help but to feel quietly horrified after I watch it. Its poignancy lies in all of the military gear, simulated gunshots and erratic dance-stomping as all of these factors synthesize to show that the black body itself is (and has always been) the actual setting of race relations in the United States. Though all of the violence occurs in streets, storefronts, patrol cars and centers of detainment, it is ultimately the family that becomes war-torn, as sons

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Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) and Finn (John Boyega) in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Marie Tran) discover that the war isn’t as black and white as they thought.

On paper, those stories all sound promising, but if you’ve seen The Last Jedi I’ll bet that last one was your least favorite.

and Tran have the acting chops to make divergent storylines interesting. However, the clumsy manner in which the film’s writers tried to shoehorn in the handful of themes the arc explores made the whole thing miss the mark.

On subsequent viewings of the film, I’d let out a little sigh whenever the film cut away from the more engrossing other two portions to show more of Finn and Rose.

Their egress from the Resistance’s fleet could have served to further the notion that the group lacked cohesion, but devoting serious time to their off-site journey was a serious misstep. Without Finn and Rose’s little misadventure, the film

Nick Smith Guest Room Just about everyone I’ve talked to seems to think the Finn and Rose segments fell flat, which is a real shame because I do believe Boyega

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could revolve more tightly around two intertwining and compelling storylines.

The whole point of Finn and Rose’s storyline was that they needed to travel to the casino to track down a “codebreaker” capable of cracking the First Order’s shield, which could’ve been avoided entirely if the writers had made Rose the tech wiz instead. Obviously, stomaching any Star Wars movie requires a hefty suspension of disbelief, so why would it be any more unbelievable if Rose, a technician on a borderline magical spacecraft, had some knowledge of how the bad guy’s magical spacecraft worked? Maybe “they both run on basically the same tech” or she was trained on the kind of ship they were attacking. There are endless little one-liners that would’ve perfectly

sufficed to convince the audience she could do it.

Not only would dropping the whole outward venture remove an unnecessary storyline and free up some time to further explore the more well-developed arcs, it would also give a little more agency to Tran’s underwritten character. As it stands now, Rose’s potential is almost entirely wasted. Sure, she’s got a spunky little scene near the start of the film, but following that she merely serves to accent Finn and cram in an awkward animal abuse message.

Right now, The Last Jedi is sitting at a 48 percent from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, which is just absurd. For reference, The Boss Baby has a slick 52 percent. This movie is better than that as is, but removing the Finn and Rose stuff that everyone just seemed to hate so much could’ve turned it into one of the franchise’s best entries. Apart from the portion I’d “cut,” the story is actually pretty well written and, like I said earlier, the visuals and acting are solid.

The Last Jedi is a truly good — even great — film derailed by a single errant train of thought. Rian Johnson breathed exciting new life into the franchise with his writing and directing, but just one misstep kept him from apotheosis in the Star Wars fandom. I hope that for Episode IX, J. J. Abrams has got someone with fresh eyes in the writing room.

Nick Smith is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nsmith@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs periodically this semester.

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business students on the Ithaca campus, Thomas, as dean of all undergraduate and graduate business programs, will also manage the Cornell Tech MBA program at Cornell’s campus on Roosevelt Island, which had 53 students in its 2017 class.

Dutta has been widely published over several decades — his CV is 30 pages long — and he has held many jobs in at least four countries over more than three decades while remaining on dozens of boards.

From 1989 to 2012, he served as an administrator and professor in various roles at INSEAD in France, a leading international business school that also has campuses in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore. He also worked briefly as a visiting researcher at the General Electric company in

Schenectady in 1990.

Dutta also says on his CV, which was most recently updated this month, that he has been invited to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for more than 10 years. He co-edits a frequentlycited innovation report each year and serves on the boards of Sodexo, Dassault Systemes and Tower Learning Solutions, which is a subsidiary of Cornell.

Dutta has received $1.65 million in research grants and gifts since 2012, according to the CV, and is currently chair of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, which says on its website that it is the world’s largest business education alliance.

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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.

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SPORTS

GYMNASTICS

Freshmen Lead Red to Second Place Finish at Temple Quad Shen earns individual title in bars, Herczeg wins on beam

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

Powered by a pair of freshman performances, the Cornell gymnastics team was able to hold on to win second place at this weekend’s Temple Quad Meet.

Cornell scored a collective 191.600 points at the meet to finish behind host Temple (193.225) and ahead of Southeastern Missouri University (189.325) and ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN FILE PHOTO Ithaca College (188.075).

Major keys to the Red’s outing were standout perfor- Setting the bar | As the Red finished in second at the Temple Quad meet, freshman Amy Shen won an individual title with a mances from freshmen Amy Shen and Izzy Herczeg. 9.8 on bars and classmate Izzy Herczeg won the beam competition with a score of 9.85.

Both freshmen were able to capture individual event titles, with Shen earning hers in bars after posting a job and we wouldn’t have been able to do as well as we Championships, the Red will begin to amp up practice for the crucial meet. In particular, the squad plans to score of 9.8 and Herczeg earning hers in beam after had without everyone.”

Despite the solid all- focus on the simple and small adjustments that need to posting the Red’s fifth-higharound performance, the Red be made in practice to improve their performance. est score of 9.85 in the event. “[Shen and Herczeg] were huge “At this point, it’s all about the small details,” said saw a marked regression from Aside from the two freshits performance against senior Allison Franz. “We have plenty of solid routines men, the team as a whole standouts [but] everyone else that Cortland the previous week- with high levels of difficulty that we perform consistentposted solid numbers. Other competed did a great job.” end, where it had scored ly. Now, it’s about focusing on the little things: pointing notable finishes included 192.500 points. The dip can our toes, eliminating every tiny step or bobble, perfectfifth place by senior Lauren Head coach Paul Beckwith largely be attributed to sever- ing every pose [and] making all the minuscule changes Wong on bars and fifth place al recent illnesses and injuries that make our skills bigger, faster, higher, more beautiby freshman Maddie Smith ful.” on floor. The Red totaled a final 47.500 in vault, that have plagued the team.

The Red will return to action against Penn this “We had a few people recovering from sicknesses this 47.650 in bars, 48.125 in beam and 48.325 in floor on week as well as this being the first week [and] we weren’t Saturday, Feb 3. at 1 p.m. in its first home meet of the the night.

“Both Amy Shen and Izzy Herczeg won events at the able to have our whole team travel to the meet,” said season. meet,” said head coach Paul Beckwith. “They were huge senior Jessica O’Brien.

With just about a month left until Ivy Zora Hahn can be reached at zhahn@cornellsun.com. standouts [but] everyone else that competed did a great

Red Takes on Dartmouth and C.U. to Defend National Ranking Harvard After First League Win HOCKEY

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BASKETBALL

Yale, Harvard has been a force defensively, allowing only 66.1 points per game. Forward Seth Towns’ 20.8 Dartmouth features a balanced offen- points and 5.5 rebounds per game sive attack, paced by five players aver- lead the Crimson offensively. aging over 10 points per game. The “Defensively, [Harvard is] one of game will highlight a matchup the best in the country. It’ll be a fight between Morgan and breakout for 40 minutes, but as long as we stay Dartmouth sophomore guard focused and play together as a team Brendan Barry, the centerpiece of the we should hang in there and hopefully Green offense and get a win,” Morgan the team’s leader in said.

“Defensively, [Harvard is] minutes.

If there is an “Despite what achilles heel for one of the best in the Dartmouth’s record Harvard, it is playis, they’re really tal- country. It’ll be a fight for ing away from ented. They played home. The Crimson 40 minutes.”

Harvard close both have put up a 4-8 Junior Matt Morgan times,” Morgan road record, and the said. “We really have Red is excited about to lock in on Friday its chances on its and take it one day at a time. It should home court. be exciting.”

“It definitely feels better to play in Saturday will present a more front of a crowd that supports you, in daunting challenge against Harvard a gym that you are most familiar (9-10, 4-0 Ivy). After a tough 77-71 with,” Earl said. “But no matter loss to the Crimson at home last year, where we play, we have to compete the Red is confident in its ability to with the same intensity.” earn a win.

The games tip off at 7 p.m. Friday “We had them on the ropes here and 6 p.m. Saturday, both at Newman last year so we’re capable of making it Arena. a game,” Earl said. “But again we just need to make sure everyone is going as Bennett Gross can be reached at hard as they can go,” Earl said. bgross@cornellsun.com. Tim Morales can Coming off wins over Brown and be reached at tmorales@cornellsun.com.

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itself on its ability to keep its opponents from finding the back of the net. But even so, this year’s unit is not your typical Cornell defense.

“I think we are an even better defensive team this year because the positions all can skate,” Schafer said. “We can pressure teams more in all three zones, all night long, for 60 minutes. When you’ve got a team that can really skate, which this team can, it allows us to be a lot more consistent.”

The type of consistency that Schafer describes has been present all season long, and the Red will look to maintain its winnings ways on Friday against a third-place Union (15-12-1, 10-4) team. The Dutchmen will come into Lynah riding a four-game winning streak following a 4-3 victory over RPI (4-19-4, 3-10-2) last weekend.

The following night, Cornell will host the second-to-last-place Engineers, but is by no means overlooking the struggling group from the Capital Region.

“RPI is a pretty good hockey team,” Schafer noted. “[In] the game they had

against Union … I thought RPI played great. I think it goes back to our players trust in the coaching staff. When we tell them we think a team is pretty good, we are not just saying it for the sake of trying to get them fired up about it.”

Regardless of how long Cornell keeps its place atop the national rankings, the players know that there is only one time that

“Every team wants to be No. 1 in the country. But our goal is to be number one at the end of the year.”

Senior Trevor Yates being on top means that the work is over.

“Every team wants to be No. 1 in the country,” Yates said. “But our goal is to be number one at the end of the year.”

The ambitious Yates and his squad welcome Union to Lynah Rink for a 7 p.m faceoff Friday night, followed by another 7 p.m. start on Saturday against RPI. Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

No.1 Icers Look to Extend Unbeaten Streak

After clinching Ivy title, Red aims to keep top spot in ECAC, welcomes Capital Region foes

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The work is far from over for the men’s hockey team newly crowned best in the nation.

The team may be ranked No. 1, but Cornell still has eight conference games to play –– plenty of hockey before the postseason. If the Red fails to take care of ECAC opponents Union and Rensselaer at home this weekend, its time at the top will have been short-lived.

“We just have to focus on continuing to play hockey,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “And as arduous as the climb to get to No. 1 [is], the descent will be really quick if you don’t continue to win. That’s the way the polls work.”

On Monday, Cornell (18-2-1, 12-1-1 ECAC) was ranked No. 1 in the USCHO.com poll for the first time in nearly 15 years. The Red was also selected as the nation’s top squad in the USA USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll for the first time since 2005.

The ranking comes with good reason. This team has not lost a game since Dec. 1 and holds a 10-game unbeaten streak, the best in the nation.

The Red refuses to slow down now. Even at the top of the polls, Schafer and his players know there is plenty of room for improvement.

“There are a few areas in our game [where] we have so much growth left, that we have to get better at, that we want to get better at,” Schafer said. “But [we] also can’t forget our building blocks … that’s what got us to this point.”

Senior alternate captain Trevor Yates and his teammates share a sentiment similar to Schafer’s.

“We know we are number one, but we are not resting on our laurels,” Yates added. “We don’t really care about [the ranking], we just care about Union Friday night and getting better in practice this week, and focusing on ourselves rather than focusing on our national ranking.”

Junior forward Anthony Angello and Yates lead the Red in points with 20 and 19, respectively. While their individual successes have put them in the spotlight, it is their focus on the group’s success that has brought about the results.

“Within our team, the guys are not hanging their hat on whether they are scoring goals,” Schafer said. “They are

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Hot streak | No. 1 Cornell men’s hockey will look to extend its 10-game unbeaten streak this weekend, hoping to maintain its spot atop the ECAC standings against conference opponents Union and RPI.

hanging their hat on how they perform and how they can get better the next day, and [Yates and Angello] are prime examples of not worrying whether they score or not.”

Angello, who earned his first ECAC Hockey Player of the Week honor Tuesday, has been on fire, posting seven goals in the last five games and leading the nation with nine goals in January. But for the team’s points leader, continued success as a unit is all that matters right now.

“I think I have been lucky in the recent past to have things go my way,” Angello said. “But it really wouldn’t make a difference if another guy scores. As long as we get two points at the end of the night, that’s what I care about.”

While Angello has been in a groove lately and Yates

started the season hot, one constant on this team has been its defense — the nation’s best.

Cornell has kept its opponents starving, averaging 1.43 goals allowed per game.

“Our biggest thing is our depth and how committed we are to the smallest details,” said junior defenseman Matt Nuttle. “Even though maybe the result turns out the way we wanted to, we don’t always have the details perfectly correct. As a [defensive] core, we keep each other accountable; we just work really well together.”

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Hoopers Face Tough Ivy Tests at Home

MEN’S BASKETBALL

By BENNETT GROSS and TIM MORALES

“If you look at what we did at Columbia compared to what we did at home, [we were] a completely different team,” Earl said.

Coming off its first Ivy League victory of Gettings said he attributes the difference the season, the Red will look to continue its between the two games against Columbia to winning ways in two pivotal conference games his team’s intensity. this weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard.

“The biggest difference between the two After losing its first three Ivy League games times that we played Columbia was that we by an average of 26 points, the Red defeated just came out with a lot more energy the secColumbia in an 82-81 nailond time around,” Gettings biter at Newman Arena on “If we continue to play said. “If we continue to play Saturday. Highlighted by a with a lot of effort and stick to combined 54 points from the with a lot of effort and the game plan, we know that prolific scoring tandem of stick to the game plan, we can compete with any team junior guard Matt Morgan league.” we know that we can in this and junior forward Stone Entering the matchups Gettings, the win provided the compete with any team with the Green and Crimson, Red some much needed confithe team hopes to play with in this league” dence heading into the pair of sustained effort. The Red has league contests.

Junior Stone Gettings emphasized keeping up the “We suffered a couple big intensity no matter the oppotime losses on the road,” said head coach Brian nent or venue.

Earl. “It was helpful to get us back to center “I think the most important thing is just to and realize we can put some pretty good per- play hard,” Earl said. “We’ll talk about differformances out there.” ent personnel and schemes, but we realize “It gives us a little momentum going for- right now we need to have everyone who ward,” added Morgan, whose team-leading checks in the game to go as hard as they can 23.6 points per game is good for sixth in the go.” nation. “It was good to get a win and hopefulOn Friday, the Red opens up action against ly we can build on this and defend home Dartmouth, (4-13, 0-4 Ivy) who held leads in court.” two early-season losses against ACC oppoThe win over Columbia came only seven nents Notre Dame and Boston College. days after a 88-62 loss on the road to the See BASKETBALL page 15 Lions.

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BORIS TSANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Turnaround | Coming off its first conference win of the season, an exciting 82-81 win over Columbia, the Red will look to earn two key Ivy wins this weekend.