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Cornell Tech Establishes Postdoctoral Program

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New curriculum will focus on ‘advanced research in digital technologies,’ dean says “In Runway, [postdocs] with deep technology expertise focus on technology products that are Six postdoctorates — research not yet proven, thus needing [a] assistants who have already runway to get off the ground, earned their Ph.D. — will join whereas accelerator or launchpad Cornell Tech, conducting programs generally focus more on proven technologies,” research to help launch he said. new entrepreneurial The postdocs will startups, the University research and develop announced Monday. entrepreneurial proThe postdocs will jects in the fields of participate in the camhealthcare, e-compus’ first “Runway merce and urban planProgram,” which will ning, according to a focus on the “commerUniversity press cialization of advanced HUTTENLOCHER release. Once a postdoc research in digital technologies areas,” according to has a project that is ready to Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of launch, the Jacobs Institute will Cornell Tech. He added that provide funding to develop the most postdoctoral programs, technologies, Huttenlocher said.

Professors from Cornell and unlike Cornell Tech’s program, which will be held in the Joan Technion-Israel Institute of and Irwin Jacobs Technion- Technology — Cornell’s partner Cornell Innovation Institute, in the tech campus venture — focus on research rather than its commercialization.

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By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

State of the humanities | Goldwin Smith Hall, which houses the College of Arts and Sciences, is a prominent humanities building on campus.

Humanities Students Take On Additional ‘Practical’ Minors

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

This article is the second in a series about the state of humanities at Cornell, as part of The Daily Sun Dialogues, a new digital project launched this week. Read more about the state of humanities at dialogues.cornellsun.com.

This semester, Maris Hansen ’16 is taking six classes — astronomy, French, two courses on finance, one on comparative inequality and one on immigration policy. But only the last two courses will go toward her government major; the rest, she said, are for her more “practical” See HUMANITIES page 4

Some Cornellians Support Shorter Law School Model could be worthwhile.”

Sun Staff Writer Harris, however, said he has benefitted from his third year of law school.

Some Cornell students “A third year has defisaid they are open to nitely given me the chance changing the current three to take courses that I year law school model in would not have had the favor of a two year-long time to fit into two model that emphayears,” Harris said. size clinical experi“I can see the benefits of Serena Hsieh ences.

Fifty-eight per- switching to a two-year model, law, law representative for the cent of students mostly because law school is Graduate and across the country so expensive.”

Professional Student surveyed by Assembly, said both Kaplan Test Prep Alex Harris law the current model last Fall said they and the proposed support law schools switching to a of switching to a two-year twoyear model have “costs two-year model, according model, mostly because law and benefits.”

“Three years of law to Jeff Thomas, Kaplan school is so expensive,” Test Prep’s executive direc- Harris said. “If switching school is obviously a tor of pre-law programs. to a two-year model would greater time and tuition Cornell pre-law under- make some students feel commitment than two graduates were among the greater flexibility in their years of law school,” Hsieh sampled population, choice of what type of said. “Nevertheless, three work to pursue after law according to Thomas.

See LAW page 5 Alex Harris, a third- school, I think the switch

By SLOANE GRINSPOON

year law student and president of the Cornell Law Students Association, said switching to a two-year model could be beneficial due to the high price of tuition.

“I can see the benefits

Man with a plan | President David Skorton speaks about issues currently facing Cornell at a University Assembly meeting Wednesday.

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Skorton Rejects Faculty Senate Resolution Calling for Divestment

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

“Divestment is not worth the risk,” President David Skorton said at a University Assembly Thursday in response to a

Faculty Senate resolution passed that called on the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

The Faculty Senate — which passed the resolution on Feb. 12 — also called for the University

to reach carbon neutrality by 2035, instead of the University's original goal of 2050, The Sun previously reported.

Though Skorton said he See DIVESTMENT page 5

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Sugarcreek Borough police say they were called when workers found a large plastic bag of marijuana among some donated clothes.

Police Chief Matt Carlson tells the Oil City Derrick he suspects the owner of the drugs has noticed them missing by now, if only because the bag contained a “substantial quantity” of pot.

Police were working with store employees to determine who donated the clothes and when. Police say the drugs were found earlier this week.

The chief says this isn’t the first time officers have investigated an unusual item among donated clothing saying, “we’ve had guns ... cash ... rings, and now marijuana.”

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Several hours and 47 rounds later, an 11-year-old and her 13-year-old adversary had used up all of the available words, forcing organizers of the Jackson

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County Spelling Bee to temporarily halt the showdown.

“It was legendary,” said Mary Olive Thompson, a library outreach manager and co-coordinator of the Saturday spelling bee.

Sophia Hoffman, a fifth-grader at Highland Park Elementary School in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, and Kush Sharma, a seventh-grader at Frontier School of Innovation in Kansas City, buzzed through the list of words provided by the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Then they ran through a list of about 20 additional words bee officials picked out of their Merriam-Webster’s 11th Edition during the lunch break, The Kansas City Star reported.

Hot for Frozen, Ohio Reporter’s Parody a Hit CINCINNATI (AP) — A Cincinnati traffic reporter has gained national attention for his dramatic on-air parody of a Disney movie song.

WKRC’s Bob Herzog changed “Let it Go,” sung by Princess Elsa in the animated movie Frozen, to “Just Don’t Go” to reference the winter weather.

As images of cars skidding on ice and traffic conditions play, Herzog dramatically sings lines like: “I must share what dispatchers say, all the traction’s gone.

School’s closed or at least they’re on a delay.”

A YouTube video of Friday’s performance has a half-million views, and media outlets nationwide have written about it.

The parody is part of Herzog’s “Dance Party Fridays.”

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County Initiative Begins Accepting Investments

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‘Transform Tompkins’ will support tech companies,modernize manufacturing

By SUSHMITHA KRISHNAMOOTHY Sun Contributor

Transform Tompkins, a new initiative planned to stimulate high tech companies in the county, began its public phase of investment at the Ithaca Country Club on Feb. 20. The effort was launched by Tompkins County Area Development, a private nonprofit organization that seeks “to build a thriving and sustainable economy in Tompkins County.”

According Michael Stamm, president of TCAD, the goal of Transform Tompkins is to attract new technology businesses to Tompkins County as well as improve current ones.

“Transform Tompkins focuses on technology commercialization, supporting new high tech companies, expanding existing companies and modernizing traditional manufacturing companies,” Stamm said. “It will also support TCAD’s efforts to create quality jobs.”

So far, local and regional employers of Tompkins have committed $961,200 , or 69 percent of the investment goal of $1.4 million to Transform Tompkins. Top investors include Cornell University, Tompkins Trust Company and Travis Hyde Properties, according to a TCAD press release.

“We plan to wrap up the effort to raise the capital by April of this year,” Stamm said. “Those funds will support efforts over the next five years through 2018. For the five year period, we have established several goals related to new job creation and private sector investment.”

According to Greg Galvin, CEO and chairman of Rheonix, a molecular diagnostics company in Ithaca, the capital will

augment TCAD’s economic development mission by helping new businesses find funding, becoming familar with different state incentive programs and finding space and negotiating leases.

“Under Transform Tompkins, TCAD’s efforts will also be directed at trying to increase the commercialization of technology here at the county through the startups and new technologies coming out of the academic institutions located here,” Galvin said.

As a member of TCAD, Cornell University will also be working support business growth through its existing programs, according to Mary Opperman, vice president of Human Resources at Cornell University and co-chair of the Transform Tompkins Campaign.

“Our plans to open a downtown incubator in partnership with Ithaca College and Tompkins County Community College will help entrepreneurs in the local community, as well as students from our institutions, receive the support and assistance they need to further their innovative ideas,” Opperman said.

Opperman also said Transform Tompkins will work in conjunction with New York State’s START-UP NY program, which offers tax incentives to new and expanding businesses for generating employment.

“These programs will be coordinated with and supported by TCAD and the increased capacity they will have due to Transform Tompkins will make our county even more attractive to businesses looking to grow and locate in our area,” Opperman said.

Sushmitha Krishnamoothy can be reached at sk2273@cornell.edu.

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Students Will Lobby Congress For Necessity of Financial Aid

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

As part of the Cornell’s eighth annual Federal Student Aid Advocacy Day, approximately 20 students will travel to Washington D.C to lobby their state representatives next month.

Students participating will try to stress the necessity of federal aid in education, according to Diane Miller ’88, director of Cornell’s Office of Federal Government Relations. Students participating in the event will not be required to be on federal aid to participate in the event, she said.

“The federal student aid lobby trip is one of the most important advocacy efforts that Cornell University supports,” Miller said. “It is the chance for our students to tell their financial aid stories directly to the lawmakers who provide funding for student aid programs.”

The students have been briefed on current federal programs such as the Pell Grant and recent changes to federal student aid, but will ultimately speak from their own experiences with student aid, according to Karen LoParco, federal relations associate for the Office of Federal Government Relations.

“It’s the students’ job to tell their story on the importance [of ] federal student aid and for them to tell how their aid

has helped them achieve their educational goals [at] Cornell University,” she said.

According to Miller, the goal of the event is to encourage legislators to vouch for more federal aid in light of rising student loan fees.

“Lawmakers have been very good about protecting the Pell Grant program during the last several years of budget cuts, but they have not been very good about keeping other aspects of federal financial aid from being cut,” she said.

According to LoParco, the event is organized by the Office of Federal Relations, which represents the University’s interests to the government. She said the office schedules meetings between University faculty and students and relevant legislators on Capitol Hill.

“When you bring in the students, it brings a personalized face to the issue. The members of Congress really enjoy meeting the students; it’s a great opportunity for students to get involved in public policy and helps the government see what aid is doing for students,” LoParco said.

Miller echoed LoParco’s sentiments and said student input is important for representatives to hear.

“In the case of federal student financial aid, it is very important that [legislators] hear directly from the people

who are most impacted by their decisions to cut or reduce spending, to change program eligibility requirements, to raise or lower interest rates, and to change the repayment policies,” Miller said.

Michael Alan ’14, who participated in the event in 2011, said he believes that Cornell should make an effort in providing more financial aid alongside the federal government.

“I hope that the administration understands that as it asks the federal government to continue providing student aid, it must also show a commitment to increasing access to the Cornell experience with the university’s own resources,” Alan said. “Private financial aid — at least at Cornell — plays a much larger role in bringing a diverse slate of students to campus.”

The Office of Financial Aid and Cornell Media Relations are aiming to attract a diverse pool of volunteers, according to LoParco.

“Our reach is limited only by the geographic makeup of the students who attend,” Miller said.

The Cornell in Washington Program assists the event by hosting students at the Cornell Wolpe Center in Washington D.C. Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

Police Report Unlawful Possession Of Alcohol An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator for unlawful posession of alcohol at Keeton Hall Friday, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

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Prof. Nelly Andarawis-Puri, orthopedics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, lectures about impaired tendon function in Kimball Hall Tuesday.

Petit Larceny at Noyes An officer was dispatched to take a report from a student regarding the theft of cash from their unsecured wallet at

Noyes Community Center Saturday, according to CUPD. Unlawful Possession Of Marijuana Two individuals were referred to the Judicial Administrator for unlawful possession of marijuana in North Baker Hall Saturday, CUPD said.

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Career Prospects Push Humanities Students To Pick Up New Minors HUMANITIES

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minors in business, international relations and law and society.

“The business aspect came in after long, long discussions with my mother,” Hansen said. “My family agrees that I should study something I truly care about and am passionate about, but they wanted me to also do something practical and employable — something I could fall back on.”

Hansen is not alone. In recent years, Cornell has seen an increasing number of humanities majors factoring in career preparation when deciding on minors, second majors and courses in which to enroll, professors say.

Though the number of students majoring in the humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences has been consistent over the years — 28 percent of students in 1981 and 24 percent in 2013 — the number of students adding minors rose from 180 students in 2009 to 288 students in 2013, according to data provided by the College.

Clara Ann Joyce ’15, a classical studies major, said she decided to also minor in business — in addition to Italian and horticulture — because it is a “practical minor.”

“My parents had always said, ‘you’re a classics major, but you do have to get a job eventually. What are you going to do with that?’”

Nate Jara ’16, a government major and near eastern studies minor, said he has also tried to make himself more appealing to potential employers in the intelligence community. For Jara, this was by way of taking Farsi, a language that he believes is currently among the most “marketable” in the intelligence community.

“I had to do a language for Arts and Sciences, but in terms of the

“My parents had always said ‘you’re a classics major, but you have to get a job eventually. What are you going to do with that?’”

Clara Ann Joyce ’15 one I went with, it was a decision I came to after doing research on what’s best for the career field I’m interested in,” Jara said.

Among students majoring in the humanities — including foreign languages, literature, philosophy, religion and anthropology — professors say they have seen an increase in students adding second majors and minors in areas such as business and economics, that students believe are more likely to prepare them for their careers.

This trend is not limited to Cornell, according to Pauline Yu, president of the American Council of Learned Societies, a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen relations among humanities scholars.

“In my contact with various programs around the country, I have heard that this phenomenon is very popular with students interested in humanities who want to hedge their bets,” Yu said.

Prof. Annetta Alexandridis, director of undergraduate studies for art history, said she has seen more students in her department double-major in computer science or economics in recent years.

Some choose to major in those subjects and keep art history as a minor, which she said is “a way to satisfy themselves and their parents.”

She said, though, that a degree in art history could be attractive even to employers in science, technology, mathematics and engineering fields.

“This mental training with images is something you need in the medical community and in the sciences, and as an economist, where you’re organizing images to be understood,” she said.

“Employers want people who can think outside the box.”

Prof. Abby Cohn, the director of undergraduate studies for linguistics, said while the number of majors in her department has stayed fairly constant at about 15 students, they are increasingly adding computer science as a second major.

“That’s one of the areas right out of undergrad where there are a lot of opportunities available,” she said.

Cohn added that there is a concern among professors in the College of Arts and Sciences that more students are adding majors and minors that seem useful, rather thatn focusing on subjects they are truly passionate about.

“Often, students will have one major that is the thing they love,” she said. “The other one is something someone in their family thinks is a good, practical thing to do.”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.

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Dean: Cornell Law Skorton: Divestment From School Will Not Adopt Fossil Fuels Not Worth ‘Risk’ Two-Year Program Univ.expected to exceed $2M budget this year LAW

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years gives law students more opportunity to find their interest and learn more about different areas of the law.”

However, Stewart Schwab, dean of Cornell Law School, said he does not believe that a two-year law school model is feasible.

“A two-year law school model does not take into account a complete curriculum that balances doctrine, theory, ethics and skills,” Schwab said. “While a two-year school would presumably reduce costs, it would also reduce the education and preparation for a lifetime career.”

For these reasons, Schwab said he believes Cornell Law School will not be changing its current three-year model.

“To properly prepare a student for a future in law, I believe the traditional three-year model is optimal; necessary in fact.”

Dean Stewart Shwab “I do not expect that Cornell Law School will consider any other model, at least not in the foreseeable future,” Schwab said. “To properly prepare a student for a future in law, I believe the traditional three-year model is optimal; necessary in fact.”

Dean Schwab said the law school provides students with many opportunities for clinical experience.

“Cornell Law School offers a great number of opportunities for students who want hands-on, clinical experience. Our clinics provide students the opportunity to act as advocates for real clients, under the supervision of faculty,” he said.

Schwab said the clinical experience provided to students at Cornell Law School helps give them the foundation necessary for a career in law.

“By bringing real-world experience into the classroom, students develop their legal skills and ethical practice, as they advocate for justice,” he said. “This practical experience gives students a solid foundation as future practitioners dedicated to excellence and ethics.”

Hsieh added that the law school offers several opportunities for a clinical experience in a variety of areas in addition to opportunities outside clinics for students to gain practical experience.

“The law school offers a variety of drafting and other skill seminars for students to develop negotiation and transactional experience,” she said. “There are also moot court, mock trial, mediation and [an] externship program for students to work and earn school credit.”

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

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endorses the carbon neutrality goal of 2035, he said he does not currently support divesting from the fossil fuels industry because the University currently has a “barely balanced budget.”

This year, the University is expected to exceed its oncampus budget of over $2 billion, according to Sko rton. He described this margin as a “thin line” and said he was not willing to risk having the University face a deficit by divesting from fossil fuels.

“I don’t know for sure whether divestment will hurt our endowment or not,” Skorton said. “But I’m not willing to recommend it. I cannot tell you it’s safe to divest.”

While the University will not divest from the fossil fuel industry, the Office of University Investments has invested $71-million in alternative energy and sustainable developments, Skorton said in a written response to the Faculty Senate resolution.

On the carbon neutrality

front, Skorton said steps have been taken towards the earlier goal of 2035, but there are also several hurdles, including a lack of available technology and the difficulty of changing habits — such as turning off lights and turning down the thermostat during the winter.

The University is one-third of the way towards the goal, according to Skorton.

“I cannot tell you it’s safe to divest.”

President David Skorton The University has currently spent $40 million out of an allocated $64 million to make campus buildings more energy-efficient, Skorton said.

Additionally, Skorton said he believes that new carbonneutral technology must be developed. In a written response to the Faculty Senate, he said that the faculty should reorient their efforts towards climate change research.

Skorton acknowledged that the campus is “energy hungry” due to the number of campus buildings that must run scientific instruments 24 hours a day.

Skorton’s response to the Faculty Senate resolution follows a string of discussions on divestment, which has beco’me a widely debated topic on campus since the Student Assembly passed a resolution in Feb. 2013 urging the University to divest from the fossil fuels industry.

Skorton’s rejection of divestment, however, does not preclude divestment efforts led by other members of the Cornell community. The University Assembly can still decide to support the divestment movement and recommend it to the Office of Investment, University Skorton said.

The University Assembly will discuss divestment at their next meeting on March 11, according to Jim Blair, the executive committee chair of the U.A. Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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Calling for a Mental Health Partnership FOLLOWING A STRING OF RECENT student deaths at the University of Pennsylvania, mental health has once again been catapulted to the forefront of the news at college campuses. These tragedies have highlighted the continued need for mental health programs and services to maintain student wellbeing across the country. Cornell’s increased focus on mental health programs and services in the last five years has been met with great success. We call on the Ivy League universities, including Cornell, to exchange ideas on how to improve and expand mental health resources available to students.

Since 2010, when three Cornell students committed suicide, our University has been committed to expanding mental health services. With the goal of providing students with a variety of ways to seek help, Gannett has implemented new programs, such as online counseling, to complement existing resources like Counseling and Psychological Services and the Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service. Cornell has also been committed to fostering collaboration between students, faculty and staff through the Executive Committee on Campus Health and Safety, which is tasked with deciding on the “best practices” for mental health issues at the University. The programs Cornell has adopted are a solid start to combating mental health issues on the Hill. If all eight Ivies join together to battle these problems, the collaboration could lead to stronger and more expansive mental health services across the League. We imagine that formalizing a conversation on mental health between the Ivy League campuses could provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among the schools to help prevent future losses.

We encourage the universities in the Ivy League to provide students with a variety of mental health resources including student-to-student counseling, faculty and student committees and professional counseling. In an editorial last month, The Brown Daily Herald criticized its university’s practices. The Herald’s editors argued a peer counseling program would benefit those students who may be uncomfortable with the idea of professional counseling. Last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian called for the University of Pennsylvania to diversify its new Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare by including students, as well as faculty, in the conversation about mental health support on Penn’s campus. We agree with our counterparts at Penn and Brown that peer participation and input are critical to addressing the mental health problems college students currently face. We must be proactive, offering a diverse set of support programs — created with students, for students — before tragedies occur.

An Ivy League coalition would serve to advance this goal. While all of the institutions in the Ivy League have made strides to improve mental health practices on their campuses, each university still has the potential for continuous growth. We call on all eight Ivy League institutions to band together and draw inspiration from one another, evaluating old and new mental health programs to determine what methods work and which should be changed or expanded to best serve students. Through such a partnership, we can strive to prevent tragedies at all of our institutions.

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Humanities: As Necessary Today as Yesterday T

he great writer, literary scholar and 2011, the number of majors in the humaniCornell professor, Vladimir Nabokov ties is ticking back upward. However, we –– who also happened to be a scien- will not know if there has been a longertist –– said in a 1962 interview, “During my term shift towards the STEM disciplines years of teaching literature at Cornell and until a few years from now. But whether elsewhere, I demanded of my students the they are English majors, economics majors passion of science and the patience of poet- or physics majors, I remain optimistic that ry.” While the debates about STEM versus our students come to Cornell for the great the humanities continue, I am left thinking liberal arts education they receive here. about how great it would be if more instituAs society confronts urgent world probtions of higher learning embraced both in lems, it is worth remembering that humanists the way we always have at Cornell. often raise more questions than answers: Upon my return to the College of Arts Asking questions is a powerful way to engage and Sciences to serve as dean, I was struck the public in thinking through some of our by what has remained constant in the thirty most pressing issues. The great Nobel Prizeyears since I graduated winning novelist Toni from the University.

Morrison M.A. ’55 We have a strong, once wrote, “There is Many of our greatest interdisciplinary acadreally nothing more to challenges are emic community that say — except ‘why.’ But fundamentally human. is constantly generatsince ‘why’ is difficult ing new ideas. We to handle, one must have excellent, deditake refuge in ‘how.’” cated teachers who challenge students to We often think that our grand challenges expand their imaginations and sharpen their of the day rely solely on breakthroughs in critical and creative responses to all they science and technology. However, many of encounter. We enroll impressive, indepen- our greatest challenges are fundamentally dent and diverse students and scholars who human: the erosion of public ethics, the are on their own paths to discovery. The fraying of a shared public discourse, the College of Arts and Sciences is — and has growth in exclusionary ideologies, the always been — a college of ideas, imagina- declining commitment to liberal culture and tion and discovery, whether we are teaching arts and a crisis of confidence in a shared chemistry, physics, government or Romance and improved future. These pressing constudies. cerns beg for engagement by humanists.

I am reminded of another legendary Humanities education –– as part of a Cornell professor, Carl Sagan, who wrote, broader liberal arts education — is as neces“It is an exhilarating experience to read poet- sary today as it was yesterday and the day ry and observe its correlation with modern before. It is the education of the whole perscience. Profound scientific thought is hard- son, and a wholly educated public is the ly a rarity among the poets.” That link foundation for a wholly informed elecbetween imagination and discovery in the torate. The humanities are necessary not humanities and sciences is expressed today only for the creation of democracy, but also in a popular University course, History for the sustenance of that democracy.

1700: The History of Exploration: Land, However, the humanities serve more than Sea and Space. It is co-taught by Prof. Mary civic participation. The humanities chalBeth Norton, history, and Prof. Steve lenge us to see the world through other perSquyres, astronomy. spectives. That experience fosters empathy, Interdisciplinary collaboration and schol- compassion, creativity, clarity of expression arship is in our DNA as a university, and the and deep understanding — qualities that humanities and related social sciences have must be in play when working to solve the as much relevance in addressing our most world's great problems. pressing challenges as the STEM disciplines do. Maybe that’s why we haven’t seen a Gretchen Ritter ’83 is the dean of the College of Arts decline in humanities majors to the extent and Sciences. This column is part of the Daily Sun that other colleges have experienced in this Dialogues, a new digital project launched this week. country. Though we did see a decrease in Read more at dialogues.cornellsun.com.

Letter

Opposing minimum wage increases To the Editor: Re: “Cornell Divided Over Effects of Potential Minimum Wage Increase,” News, Feb. 24 While most economists and businessmen make it clear that raising the minimum wage will impact the economy negatively, their protestations and well-reasoned arguments often fall on deaf ears and closed minds.

Perhaps it’s time to approach the argument from a different angle.

If the minimum wage is increased as desired, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that 16.5 million jobs will experience pay increases, while 500,000 jobs will be cut by 2016. It is morally repugnant for anyone to use these findings to justify the proposed minimum wage increase. The more important point is that a half-million wage earners will experience a 100percent wage decrease and become destitute.

Since when is it the government’s role to force people out of work in order to win political clout?

Only in a collectivist, utilitarian paradigm is it acceptable to sacrifice one group for the sake of another. Would advocates of this interventionist measure support a law that sacrificed one million jobs to employ 33 million people at an even higher wage? Would they support leaving two million people unemployed to raise the economic lots of 66 million others?

They would decry such measures as going too far and hurting too many, even though this would result in the same proportion of jobs being killed to jobs being improved as the proposed wage increases would. The difference is only a matter of scale, but each uses the same absurd logic.

While utilitarian arithmetic is sometimes tempting, the end result is always misery for some arbitrary group for no other reason than political gain elsewhere. In no way is the proposed minimum wage increase compatible with free markets and non-utilitarian morality.

Casey Breznick ’17

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OPINION

Sam Ritholtz |

Sans Pants

Natalia Fallas |

The Tribunal

We Do-Gooders May Not Be Doing Good O

ne random day in July 2012, I sat in an non-governmental organization’s office in Tanzania and stared at a wall, bored. This boredom crushed me.

I had such a strong desire to make an impact in the community, and on that day, in that specific moment, I was doing nothing. No one needed my help.

After reflecting with my program’s coordinator on that moment of frustration, I realized how foolish I had been. No one needed my help because no one needed me. With my Western, privileged notion of working in Africa, I had failed to consider that I had no tangible skills to offer. I was an undergraduate with a very minimal skill set, and on that day, those skills were of no use. The coordinator reminded me that this organization had functioned without me before I had arrived, and it would continue to function without me once I left. My purpose was to listen and learn from my Tanzanian peers and be of assistance when possible: My responsibility was to be conscious of my presence and its repercussions.

This formative moment, coupled with other experiences from that trip and others, have completely developed my view of how students from elite, Western institutions should work and behave in Africa. In short, students must be aware of how their presence affects the communities they work with, educated on the historical situations that allow them the privileged opportunity to visit and cognizant of the true extent of their abilities to “help.” Students working or volunteering abroad can positively impact the communities they work with, but this positive impact comes from them acting as students ready to learn and understand, not as harbingers of change. When visiting a foreign community, we must realize our roles and limitations as guests.

In Tuesday’s paper, Daniel Lumonya grad wrote, “Too often the Western academic community has been complicit in reinforcing structures of power that produce depravity.” I agree to the highest extent with Lumonya, and I fundamentally

Students working or volunteering abroad can positively impact the communities they work with, but this positive impact comes from them acting as students ready to learn and understand, not as harbingers of change. believe that Cornell University can do more to responsibly channel the altruism of its student body. As Cornell makes access to traveling abroad more available, it must also implement protocols that help prevent students from promoting harmful power dynamics when they visit with a skewed sense of mission. In Tanzania, the Cornell staff recognized Cornell’s responsibility to educate us to be mindful participants in the program. In the past two years, it has become significantly easier for student groups to extend their volunteer work on campus to communities abroad. Now, we must think critically about ways to ensure that these students act in an ethical, educated manner.

As an institution, Cornell has already established mechanisms to engage in an ethical analysis of the work it sponsors. Whenever a researcher at Cornell wishes to conduct a study involving human participants, the proposed study must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board, which is also known as the Independent Ethics Committee. The IRB reviews these proposals based on the ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence and justice. Should the IRB deem a study to do more harm than good or to unfairly help those in a more privileged position, the IRB will reject the proposal. Why is there no institutional organization that ethically questions proposed service-learning initiatives?

The similarities between research with human subjects and service-learning initiatives are evident, since service-learning is based on the fundamental belief that students can learn from service experiences that inherently involve interactions with other human beings. Thus, if we can ethically question the effects of educational pursuits in a research setting, we can certainly do the same for educational pursuits in a service setting. The three ethical principles followed by the IRB still apply and can certainly serve as a starting point for any new organization. If a student’s plan to work in a community fails to respect the members of that community, benefits only the visiting Cornell students or does harm to that community, why should Cornell pay for that program?

I do not wish to punish anyone by adding more bureaucracy to Cornell, but we should have enough foresight by now to recognize that much of the harm inflicted by students from elite, Western institutions in the developing world can be prevented. Our work should be monitored, and there are already existing organizations on campus that can provide this necessary review. Funding structures that are in place should include a necessary ethical review, and students should be challenged on all funding applications to highlight any potential ethical dilemmas associated with their trip. Change on this front will not occur overnight, but that does not mean we should wait until tomorrow.

Sam Ritholtz is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at sritholtz@gmail.com. Sans Pants appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Rebecca John |

Mushroom Rage

Home Is Wherever You Rest Your Head A

s a child, I spent a lot of time in airport terminals, passing time in between layovers.

As unsettling as it was to be so unsettled, to move across time zones faster than my body could adapt, I grew used to feeling ungrounded. Home was a transient place. As an immigrant, home is something that is always in the process of being recreated. There are familiar things you can take with you anywhere: You can hang up the same picture wherever you are. You can make the same cup of tea and even drink it beneath the 8 a.m. sun gleaming through a window just like your mom did.

Eventually, migration feels normal; this state of placelessness feels natural.

These days, we often romanticize this kind placelessness, and we leave our migration stories devoid of any sort of history.

However, there are more profound nar-

home.

Indian author and journalist Amitava Kumar once questioned our tendency to see the local and the global as separate, distinct places: “Where is Indonesia but in the sole of your shoe?”

And American novelist James Baldwin once n o t e d , “Perhaps home is not a There is great serendipity to the place, but an irrevocable way the world around us is condition.” I created. I am not here totally by come back to these quotaaccident or intention. tions frequently to remember the precarious would like us to that there is great movement of peo- believe. Some pro- serendipity to the ple. And it is easily immigration reform way the world facilitated by the posters feature gor- around us is creatstate for some and geous butterflies ed. I am not here heavily restricted and the tagline, totally by accident and dangerous for “Migration is beau- or intention. So tiful.” While I while I used to be others.

The question I would like to obsessed with the am most interested believe this, the fact idea of home, now I in considering is is –– in most just feel like I want this: How did I get ways –– migrating to move. After all, here? That story is in today’s world is in our current age of globalization, we way more compli- far from beautiful.

Still, I feel the can’t forget that we cated and interesting than any singu- urge to keep mov- are never really lar voyage outward ing, though I’m not placeless at all. that I can imagine. certain to where. I Rebecca John is a senior The answer incor- know that I am a in the College of Arts porates displace- particle of dust in and Sciences. She may ment after displace- this huge world, be reached at ment and choices and I know that rj224@cornell.edu.

Mushroom Rage that were made somehow it doesn’t appears alternate within constraints feel quite as huge Wednesdays this semes–– and constraints when I come back ter. ratives behind how we got where we are. Migration can often be understood in terms of displacement; it is forced movement away from one unwelcoming place to another. It is militarized borders.

It is the safe and maneuvered movement of capital and

that limited choices. This begs another unanswerable question: Where do we actually belong?

Where is home?

How we get to be where we are isn’t entirely coincidental, nor is it entirely the intentional result of hard work, as “bootstrap” narratives

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Outreach

Computer Science

Physics

Two Cents: Tweeting About Science

By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Senior Writer

With 241 million monthly active users, Twitter provides celebrities, politicians and news organizations with audiences in the thousands to receive updates on everything from the latest global news to what a pop star just ate for lunch. Professional scientists also use Twitter as a way of communicating with their colleagues and reaching out to people interested in learning more about their area of expertise. Well-known science educators Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye each have over one million followers. This week in Science we ask Cornell professors with active Twitter accounts what made them decide to join, what keeps them tweeting, and whether they think Twitter is useful for science education, communication and outreach.

Why did you join Twitter?

Was it originally for science outreach purposes?

PROF. KEINAN @alonkeinan 273 followers 684 tweets

I joined Twitter to be more often in touch with a larger number of scientists in the research community.

––– Prof. Alon Keinan, biological statistics and computational biology Twitter was for purely recreation.

––– Prof. David Collum, chair of the chemistry department I joined Twitter to help me to reach a broader audience for communicating our research findings and outreach efforts.

––– Prof. Martin Wiedmann, food science

PROF. DICHTEL @Dichtel 468 followers 549 tweets

I originally joined Twitter to follow breaking news — it’s much better than traditional news sites despite having a fair amount of junk along with good stories. It took a while before I started using it to talk about science. Now there seem to be a small number of academic chemists who actively use Twitter (and I suspect a bunch more who follow the discussion but do not post).

How much do you talk about science news and/or your research on Twitter (versus other things going on in your life)?

Two percent.

––– Prof. Collum

I’d say the majority of my Twitter posts relates to science news, my research as well as the outreach and extension efforts of my group and my department as well as Cornell at large.

––Prof. Wiedmann Most of my tweets are science related. I promote my group’s papers and major news on Twitter but am unsure of the impact doing so.

A lot of my other tweets highlight articles or issues about national science policy or career issues in academia. Every now and then my hobbies will creep into Twitter, but I usually use Facebook to share more personal stuff.

—Prof. Dichtel I tweet on science news a few times a week, less often regarding my own research, on which I only tweet “breaking news.”

––Prof. Keinan

I have not yet used Twitter for scientific outreach – that is, promoting science to the general public. It certainly could be used effectively for this purpose!

– Prof. William Dichtel, chemistry Do you think Twitter is a good tool for science outreach and education? Would you encourage other scientists to start using Twitter?

PROF. WIEDMANN @foodsafetyprof 164 followers 372 tweets

Based on your interactions on Twitter, do many of your followers seem to be interested in your research and area of expertise?

Twitter is evolving to be a great tool for science outreach as it facilitates quick, daily discussions. As always, there is a cost-effectiveness calculation to be performed in deciding whether to use twitter and how often.

–– Prof. Keinan

Yes, almost all of my followers are chemists or people who I know in real life.

–– Prof. Dichtel

I think Twitter is a good tool for science outreach and education and I would encourage others to start using Twitter. I actually taught a class in 2013 where all students had to join Twitter and post at least one tweet a week as I am convinced that a good scientists should know how to communicate their findings in short form. Somehow most students didn’t like it ...

–– Prof. Wiedmann

My followers mostly span computational biologists, geneticists, as well as scientists from other disciplines. Most follow me based on their (presumed) interest in my research.

–– Prof. Keinan Absolutely, I don’t think anyone follows me to learn about the things going on in my life, or to learn about our obnoxious cat.

–– Prof. Wiedmann PROF. COLLUM @DavidBCollum 2443 followers 2737 tweets

I have chemistry followers, but if they are there for my chemistry they are sorely disappointed.

––– Prof. Collum

I would imagine Twitter would be great for science. Twitter is great for any identifiable community (economics, fantasy football, etc).

––– Prof. Collum In theory, yes, although I don’t use it for this purpose. For me, it’s a way to browse science news, inject a small amount of my own commentary, and to promote my work. I certainly encourage other scientists to join the conversation and find their own ways to use Twitter within their privacy comfort level and their time constraints.

–– Prof. Dichtel

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SCIENCE

Prof.Noah Snavely Uses Your Photos to Model the World

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

Imagine the billions of photos uploaded online onto platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. While many are silly cat photos, all of these photographs can be collected and analyzed for information.

Prof. Noah Snavely, computer science, is developing algorithms to automatically extract information from large image collections. Using a range of computer vision techniques, his research can analyze objects and scenes from photos downloaded from the Internet, from a famous piece of architecture to a taxi cab.

Take, for example, the Parthenon in Rome. Swarms of tourists visit the temple

throughout the year, photographing and uploading the images onto the Internet.

Collectively, photos shared online “are an amazing source of visual data,” Snavely said, because even though they represent images taken by millions of different people, the algorithms he designs can incorporate these images together and sew the photographs into a single 3-dimensional model of a building or even a city.

Snavely and his colleagues have done exactly that with models of landmarks around the world, including iconic Italian buildings, in his work on matching and reconstructing massive photo collections, including his “Building Rome in a Day” project from 2009.

Snavely has also released Bundler, an open

source software that also creates 3D models from 2D photographs, on GitHub. Researchers have used Bundler not only in computer science, but also in ecology and archaeology, Snavely said.

Building 3D models from large image collections is only the beginning of the potential applications of computer vision, according to Snavely.

“Longer term, we want to build tools that can use all the world’s photos for scientific and forensic applications,” Snavely said. “For instance, if you want to do an ecological study of a city like New York, can we use the billions of consumer images of the city to track the health of every tree in the city? If a bridge collapses, can we make tools for quickly digging through the photographic record online

to help find the cause?”

Snavely has also worked on techniques that determine where a photo was taken and on OpenSurfaces, a software that analyzes and annotates the surface properties of consumer products like kitchen countertops and floors. The OpenSurfaces project was a collaboration with Prof. Kavita Bala, computer science, Sean Bell grad, and Paul Upchurch grad.

The algorithms involved in computer vision need to be able to understand how different images overlap, identify outlier images, and recognize the objects in the photos.

According to Snavely, a key problem in computer vision is object recognition. It is a longstanding challenge for algorithms to accurately figure out what objects are in the photograph, and it is harder still when the photo itself is the only source of information.

In his NYC3DCars project, Snavely improved the process of object recognition by coupling photos of New York City with information about where and when the photos were taken. If the software knows where the image was taken, then it can better recognize which parts of the photograph are roads, and from there where you expect to see cars, and hence put the objects in perspective with each other and with the rest of the world.

“Applying this method to millions of online photos, we could start to do things like understand traffic patterns in New York purely from online images,” Snavely said.

The wealth of visual data has greatly benefited computer vision researchers, according to Snavely. Having more access to photographs and information through the Internet has allowed researchers to develop larger-scale and better computer vision algorithms.

“When you talk to vision researchers who have been around for a while, they talk about how in the early days your algorithm was a success if it worked on three images,” Snavely said. “Now some computer vision research is running on millions or even billions of images, which has only been possible because of the Internet.”

COURTESY OF PROF. NOAH SNAVELY

Modeling the mayhem | Prof. Noah Snavely, computer science, designs algorithms to take photos from the web and sew them into three-dimensional models. The above image is Snavely’s 3D model of Times Square, New York City with reconstructed camera positions.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

Prof. Greg Fuchs Looks At Magnetic Moments on the Nanoscale

By IAN MACCORMACK Sun Contributor

The physical world at the nanoscale is full of rich phenomena. Understanding and taking advantage of the physics of these tiny systems promises a multitude of advancements in the development of technology, according to Prof. Gregory Fuchs Ph.D. ’07, applied and engineering physics.

The only problem is that nanoscale systems are extremely hard to see.

Fuchs seeks to make this world more accessible. His research group is developing methods to create small-scale images of the relative direction of a magnet’s north pole to its south pole, known as its magnetic moment. The magnetic moment determines both the direction and strength of the resulting magnetic field, according to Fuchs. “[We are] trying to find ways to image — literally take pictures — of magnetization dynamically.

So not just a static picture,” Fuchs

said. “We want to take a picture of the magnetic moment on the correct fundamental scale, both in space and in time.”

The challenge, according to Fuchs, is rooted in the sheer tiny size of individual magnetic moments, and the rate at which they change.

This means that the device they use to look at the magnetic moments must be a high enough resolution to focus on extremely small areas.

“Taking a picture at these scales is really hard, and I can tell you right now that we haven’t done that yet,” Fuchs said.

Currently, techniques for this kind of magnetic imaging do exist, using a method involving what is called XMCD, or X-ray magnetic circular dichroism.

However, XMCD techniques involve the use of very high energy X-rays, which can only be produced by a particle accelerator, according to Fuchs.

“In order to use that technique, unfortunately, you have to go to a synchrotron. It’s a facility-

anchored experiment. My hope is to be able to do this with things that you can put on a table,” Fuchs said.

Fuchs and his group have been developing methods for surmounting this challenge. He is exploiting what is called the Anomalous Nernst Effect — a phenomenon in which an electricity-conducting material is subjected to a particular set of conditions, notably a high temperature at a small point.

This generates a small voltage, which provides information about the size and orientation of the magnetic moment. This information corresponds to an image on film, which is laid parallel to the experiment.

“What we do now is use a laser to warm up a region,” Fuchs said, “and then we use electrical pickups to pick up this small voltage.

If we can figure out ways to heat a smaller region, then we can increase the resolution. That’s the basic idea of our magnetics research.”

Once fully developed, the

Fuchs group’s methods for imaging magnetization will be an invaluable utility for creating new technology.

“We’re not working towards a really direct application … there isn’t a device,” Fuchs said.

“Instead it’s a tool. If you have this tool, you can start to answer questions you couldn’t ask before, which is really useful in the development of technology.”

The ability to view magnetization at a small scale will open new doors in information processing and a variety of other fields, according to Fuchs.

For his innovative research in the area of magnetism, the Department of Defense awarded Fuchs the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The awards are given annually at a ceremony in Washington D.C. for outstanding contributions to scientific research.

In addition to his work in magnetism, Fuchs has other areas of inquiry.

“The theme of my research is

PROF. FUCHS individual nanoscale systems.

Either spin or electronic systems – isolated ones,” Fuchs said.

His other areas of research have potential applications in electronic sensing, solar power, information storage, and more.

“Everything is an interesting problem,” Fuchs said.

“Everything that I have actually gotten involved in, I have found exciting. It’s the enthusiasm that keeps you going forward. Then things just happen from there.”

Ian MacCormack can be reached at idm8cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Sun’s Oscar Predictions Best Actor

Best Picture

SHOULD WIN: NEBRASKA

SHOULD WIN: LEONARDO DICAPRIO Leonardo DiCaprio’s turn as Jordan Belfort in Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is easily his fourth or fifth Oscar-affording performance, and though the Sun can understand why the Academy thinks “there’s always next year” for Leo — he has been playing twenty-something year-olds since the ’90s — the injustice we are predicting for 2014 is going to be the impetus of a Daily Sun Arts section communal weeping and Leo Deo drinking game. Rules: Watch The Departed, or Blood Diamond, or Revolutionary Road, or Django Unchained; drink every time it’s obvious that if it hasn’t happened yet, it’s not happening now.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany

WILL WIN: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Era. Today, we are living through the McConaissance.

Since 2011’s The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey has redefined his public image from hollow matinee idol to down-and-dirty method thespian.

They say a pay cut follows, but McConaughey now has trophies aplenty to fill the void that keeps us mere mortals up at night. Following wins from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and critics groups across the country, an Oscar sure seems likely, especially with his snub for 2012’s Magic Mike still on the Academy voter’s conscience. It also just so happens he does incredible work in Dallas Buyers Club, where he plays Ron Woodroof, an early AIDS patient defying the medical industry. Too much ink has already been spilled on his 45-pound weight loss — at the Globes, Tina Fey joked the loss was “what actresses call ‘being in a movie’” — so, instead, note the urgency McConaughey brings to Woodroof’s eyes as he thinks up a plan to keep himself, and others, alive. It’s a smart, dynamic, embodied performance from a man who we are glad has seen the light.

— Zachary Zahos

Best Supporting Actor

SHOULD WIN: JARED LETO WILL WIN: JARED LETO Dallas Buyers Club should win an Oscar. If it gets stiffed in its other categories it will take home guaranteed gold at least for the real-life glorious mane of ombré hair fitted atop star Jared Leto — one that has every Rachel Bilson-wannabe green with envy. As a transgender accomplice in smuggling unapproved AIDS treatments, Leto’s acting also proved to be critically acclaimed, garnering him numerous awards, including ones at the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice. We are sure that, come Mar. 2, Leto will be able to flip his hair and call himself a winner again.

— Zoe Kaplan

From Bruce Dern’s mysterious silhouette to the monochrome that adorns the entirety of the film, Nebraska is a film with a tenderness that the other films in this category do not possess. Alexander Payne makes this road movie as uncomfortable as road trips usually are (car seat butt, anyone?) while wrestling with the motifs of depression, disappointment and death.

These big thematic “D”s still leave ample room for genuine comedic humdrum and Nebraska should give 12 Years a Slave a run for its money. But in the amalgamated opinion of the Sun Arts section … it won’t.

— Teresa Kim

WILL WIN: 12 YEARS A SLAVE

12 Years a Slave is a top contender for Best Picture this year that caters more to Oscar voters than the average viewer. The film is by far the hardest one to stomach out of the nine nominations this year. However, its ending is the most cathartic. Although at times resembling too much of a documentary shown in a history class, 12 Years a Slave is riveting, emotional and courageous all at the same time. In a year that director Steve McQueen and actors Chiwetel Ejiorfor and Lupita Nyong’o all face stiff competition, this film as a whole is definitely the Oscars’ cup of tea.

— Charley Du PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT AND PARAMOUNT VANTAGE

Best Actress

At this point, Woody Allen has become predictable enough in his penchant for neurotic protagonists, but Cate Blanchett brings a hilarious originality to her role in Blue Jasmine as Jasmine French, a Xanax-popping, vodka-chugging ex-Manhattan socialite recovering from a recent mental breakdown. Jasmine is pompous and entitled, yet Blanchett takes us beyond these flaws to show a strikingly compelling and vulnerable woman unable to overcome the loss of her old life. Blanchett has already won both a BAFTA and Golden Globe this year for her role in the film, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Martin Scorsese’s 2004 film, The Aviator. The Arts section almost unanimously declared that she will follow up these awards with an Oscar.

—Yana Lysenko PHOTO COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

Best Supporting Actress

SHOULD WIN: LUPITA N’YONGO There is no question that this past year’s most captivating performance came from Lupita N’yongo. A rookie actress fresh out of Yale Drama School, N’yongo had a remarkable acting debut in one of the biggest and best films of the year, 12 Years a Slave. While Chiwetel Ejiofor has gained critical acclaim for his performance as the stoic and respectable Solomon Northup, N’yongo was the emotional crux of the film, providing many of the most painful and saddening scenes to watch. Critics need to look no further than her “soap” scene in 12 Years to see just how impressive her turn as Patsy was. N’yongo shows a lot of promise in her ability to completely disappear into a role on the same level as Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet, and I hope to see more from this young starlet.

— Sean Doolittle

Best Director

WILL WIN: ALFONSO CUARON PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

SHOULD WIN: CATE BLANCHETT WILL WIN: CATE BLANCHETT

WILL WIN: JENNIFER LAWRENCE Whoever is advising JLaw on which roles to take is a genius. Between Winter’s Bone, Silver Lining’s Playbook, The Hunger Games and now American Hustle, it’s hard to keep the young, outspoken actress out of the public eye. While we love JLaw to death, and adore her slightly unhinged American Hustle character Rosalyn, her most recent performance didn’t blow us away like some of her others. Critical love and the sleek sexiness of American Hustle will put Lawrence in heavy contention for the Oscar — she already took home the Globe for the performance — she doesn’t quite top our girl Lupita N’yongo in the category. We won’t be sad if/when Lawrence wins (so many beautiful GIFs), but we won’t be fully satisfied either — even if her win would make her just the fifth actor or actress to win an Oscar in two consecutive years.

— Arielle Cruz

The revolutionary auteurism of Cuarón’s space film, in the words of A.O. Scott, “rewrites the rules of cinema as we have known them.” This is directing on a canvas hitherto unseen by a mainstream audience, and the virtuosity of the way Gravity has been staged, filmed, and assembled shows the Academy members a clear example of a master filmmaker at work. Cuarón has an edge in this regard and if he wins, you will hear no complaints from The Sun. We’ve been massive fans of his since, well, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (this just in: Alfonso Cuarón — the only thing J.K. Rowling does not regret about the Potter franchise).

— Mark DiStefano

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“Crime”

“Midnight”

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By Yana Lysenko

By James Rainis

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros released their third studio album, claimed by frontman Alex Ebert to be “liberated and rambunctious,” late last summer to a lot of criticism. The group has traditionally had a very folk-rooted, jangle-pop sound, putting the hippie in hipster, producing sprightly ballads with folky bigband arrangements, but in their new album this image is taken to a new and unfortunate, garishly peppy extreme.

The track “Let’s Get High” is so onedimensionally bright and positive that it almost seems like a parody of the 1960’s festival scene: all hare krishna, bare feet and hand-holding. The peace-and-love lyrics are cloying, nonsensical (“Don’t you know it don’t make no difference to blood/ it’s all kung-fu in the mud/ When we’re high on love”), possibly racist (“Ain’t we all just Japanese/ When we’re high) and not really about anything at all. A bouncing, bubblegum beat backdrops Ebert’s absurd spiritual musings and pleas for universal love, but you have to give the man credit — he has infectious energy.

However, this track creates a nuanced style of folk music that was about a whole lot more than a good group high; Sharpe & the Zeros ought to have some respect.

Real Estate’s new single, “Crime,” debuted last week as a YouTube guitar tab tutorial that allows fans to mimic the band’s musical simplicity. The second single off of their upcoming album, Atlas, “Crime” features Real Estate’s classic, easy-going sound: upbeat, jangling guitars and wistful lyrics longing for simpler times. Even as lead singer Martin Courtney mourns a failing love (“I don’t want to die/ lonely and uptight/ stay with me”), the track manages to stay upbeat with guitarist Matt Mondanile’s optimistic riffs. The track is uncomplicated, but sincere — exactly as it should be.

Real Estate hates to be called “surf pop,” but it’s hard not to think of lazy summer afternoons in suburbia when you hear their nostalgic lyrics and relaxed melodies. Listen to “Crime” as you walk across the Arts Quad on one of those rare, sunny 40-degree days, and try to pretend that summer is almost here.

Coldplay may have kickstarted their career by aping the best moments from Radiohead’s The Bends, but they’ve established themselves as pop rock’s top dogs with a sound that is opulent at its best and, at its worst, overstuffed. So, when new single “Midnight” begins with icily pulsating synths and Chris Martin’s voice singing in stacked harmonies reminiscent of Bon Iver, you think it’s a matter of time before timpanis and violins introduce the stadium collapsing hook, but it never happens.

For once, Coldplay shows restraint: the ticking tension resolves itself with a whisper rather than a shout, something they may have learned from collaborator Jon Hopkins and his darkly stunning 2013 ambient techno record Immunity. Since it’s Coldplay, the melodies are almost offensively pretty, and Chris Martin beckons someone to “leave the light on” with his trademark yearning falsetto.

It’s a surprising move from a group that rarely strays from their winning formula; here’s to hoping that the next record sees more “Midnight”-style subtleties and less radio-baiting bombast.

Jael Goldfine is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.

Yana Lysenko is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ylysenko@cornellsun.com.

James Rainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

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Taken With Liam Neeson: The Last Action Hero

n Sunday’s 60 Minutes, Liam Neeson opened up about the death of his wife, actress Natasha Richardson, five years after the fact. If you do not recall the circumstances, she sustained a traumatic brain injury after falling on a ski slope at Mont Tremblant.

Among other things, Neeson said, “[Her death] was never real. It still kind of isn’t. There’re periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years ... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I’m going to hear her.”

Shot in tight close-up, the interview stands against the action star persona Neeson has fashioned for himself since 2008, when he sprinted down Parisian alleys, growled about his “very particular set of skills” and made Taken into an unlikely hit.

Universal Pictures presumably planted Neeson in the 60 Minutes hot seat to plug NonStop, which looks to be a very typical Neeson-kicking-ass vehicle set aboard a hijacked airplane, opening Friday. What they got instead was an emotional confessional about the pain of loss and this rather candid aside about his unusual typecast: “I’m 61 years of age, man, you know? Going around, fighting these guys, yeah, I feel a wee bit embarrassed, you know?” He said something similar to Dublin station 98FM around the time of Taken 2’s release, downplaying the probability of a third installment because his character’s daughter “can’t get taken again … that’s just bad parenting.”There will, of course, be a Taken 3, because you don’t just say no to a $20 million paycheck, but I would like to hone in on those words “bad parenting.” Tragedy foregrounds the important

things, in this case being a parent, both on- and off-screen. As CIA agent Bryan Mills in Taken, Neeson turns into a kind of Super-Dad, singlehandedly bucking the human trafficking trade in order to prevent his daughter from becoming another crime statistic. In the 2010 A-Team reboot, Neeson chomps a cigar for almost two hours as Hannibal Smith, the papa of a quartet of mercenaries who “loves it when a plan comes together.” These days, Neeson not only often plays the oldest member of an ensemble but its most assured, intelligent and dexterous one, too.

It must feel great — even consoling, on a deeper level.

The Neeson brand of middle-aged wish fulfillment appeals to male Baby Boomers who have children of their own and next to no chances to clock a twodimensional bad guy in the face.

More telling is the zeal A Lover’s Quarrel with which millennials With the World — at least, based on the sample pool I know — have latched onto Neeson. If I could venture a guess as to why I so wanted to see Taken when it came out, I would say irony had something to do with it: Old Oskar Schindler, shooting fools and jumping through windows? Sounds awful. Let’s see it! As age and experience teach us, though, one invokes irony to mask feeling, especially feelings we may find embarrassing to share. With the exception of Battleship and Wrath of the Titans, I have seen every Liam Neeson action movie since Taken. So, why?

I see in Liam Neeson a father figure, one even greater than the individual characters he portrays. I approach each new movie of his expecting pretty much the same guy, in that I do not

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waste much energy scrutinizing, say, what his motives are this time around. In exchange for this dumbing down of character and abandonment of realism, I admire Neeson’s ever-growing mythology. Old-school Hollywood used to sell movies this way, with a star’s name guaranteeing a certain personality in the character he or she played. There is a comfort in getting what you expect, and yet there is something more when the expected dispenses evil in such a thorough, pleasurable way that his actions provide comfort on their own. While Neeson’s movies sell flattened, superficial lies on how to deal with the problems in the world today, his hero’s familial focus — always after those who wronged his family, or after some lost feeling of love — channels his violent tactics to a higher, more compassionate purpose.

This current image of Liam Neeson also leans on his earlier, more spectacular work. Schindler’s List tackles too real and devastating a monstrosity to contribute much to Neeson’s persona these days. Instead, I think to the Christ-like mentors he played in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace and The Chronicles of Narnia. We hardly saw a peek into the inner lives of Qui-Gon Jinn or Aslan, which in turn only reinforced their mythic proportions. In the 2008 video game Fallout 3, Neeson voiced the soft-spoken, genius scientist James, known simply as “Dad” for most of the game, for he is the father of the character you play. You are tasked with finding your dad for most of the story, so that sprawling open-world game ultimately boils down to an odyssey of child reuniting with his or her father. Fallout 3 heralds Neeson’s Taken turn with a saintly and sterile manifestation of the paternal savior he

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would soon define.

Only in The Grey, an underrated 2012 thriller, does Neeson bridge the resourceful man of action with the tortured soul he surely was following his wife’s death. Stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, his character, Ottway, writes letters to his ailing wife, and you can sense that Neeson is mining a core painfully, tragically accessible to him. This is the greatest Liam Neeson performance in years, where he refuses to reiterate his valid, if one-note, Super-Dad and chooses, instead, to find meaning in his real-life suffering.

In The Grey, Neeson embodies the quintessential cinematic father figure of our time: you trust him with your safety, but more than anything else, you feel like he could use a good hug.

Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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EQUESTRIAN

Red Wins Region,Looks Forward to Riding at Zones

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell equestrian team endured a pair of losses to Rochester and Alfred University this weekend.

However, after finding success earlier this season, the Red had already established a convincing lead in the charge for a regional title. Though Alfred and Rochester tied for high point, leaving Cornell reserve, the Red won seven classes and now heads to zones as regional champions.

According to freshman Gabrielle Rutkauskas, who won her class, the team had a unique approach to the contest, setting long-term goals and giving less experienced players the chance to show their skills.

“The team’s attitude toward the Alfred show was more laid back than it had been the whole season,” Rutkauskas said.

“Because we were winning the regional title by so much, our coach wanted to give some of our girls who don’t normally get the chance to show the opportunity to showcase their abilities.”

The riders did just that, and the Red saw success on an individual level.

Numerous players clinched victories to win the region and junior co-captain Georgiana de Rham was crowned winner of the Caccione Cup. The team’s strength was demonstrated even further as the race for this regional award was run between three of Cornell’s own.

Despite her individual success, de Rham spoke most highly of the team’s

strong showing overall.

“It was an exciting end to the season indeed, [and] exciting competition for many individuals,” de Rham said. “The most important thing is that the team did well.”

Integral to the individual success stories was the team effort the Red has been building upon all season, according to freshman Marissa Rice.

“I sincerely believe that we have an amazing team this semester. … It has been such a pleasure to work with Todd and with the other members of my team,” said Rice, reserve high point rider who won both of her classes. “Everyone is so supportive, and I think we are looking good for zones and hopefully nationals.”

Considering the numerous individual victories at Alfred, The Red has reason to be confident looking ahead.

Rutkauskas, who earned her fourth blue ribbon in a row at Saturday’s show, remained undefeated in her first regular season on the varsity team — a notable accomplishment as a freshman.

“My personal goal is to keep working hard so that I can eventually point up to the novice division, still undefeated,” Rutkauskas said.

The Red is hoping to advance to nationals for the first time in its history, and junior Madeleine Breen was effusive with praise for her teammates’ accomplishments.

“I am so proud of the girls this year. … We have all pulled together to create an amazing team that has the potential to take us to nationals, something that has

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Chomping at the bit | Junior co-captain Georgiana de Rham was crowned winner of the Caccione Cup on Saturday.

never happened before for the Cornell Equestrian Team,” Breen said. “Even with the various personalities on the team the spirit has never felt higher. …

Both veterans and new members have clicked together very well, creating a friendly and fun environment that I just love being part of.”

As the Red looks ahead to the remainder of the season, the team is proud to

advance numerous riders to regionals.

“As a veteran member of this team I am so proud of the number of people we have going to regionals this year as individuals,” Breen said. “They have worked so hard to get qualified and deserve their place at regionals.”

Anna Johnson can be reached at ajohnson@cornellsun.com.

Fantasy Can’t ShowWhat Makes aTrue Star Red Falls to Penn;Princeton DUBNOV

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attempt, I did not care whether the team that the player actually played for won or lost in real life.

This mindset brings to question the true value and effectiveness of fantasy sports in creating loyal fans of a sport.

Engaging in fantasy sports is certainly a great way to explore a professional sport outside of your favorite team. Putting together a roster of players from the entire league generally causes added awareness of what is happening amongst the various teams in a sport. However, while fantasy sports may succeed in making fans more attentive, it should not be mistaken for a foolproof educational resource.

There is one major flaw in using the game as a method to fully understand a sport and the athletes that engage in it. The issue with fantasy sports is that there is a lack of consideration for the true defining characteristics of an athlete or team: teamwork, leadership and success. It is easy to like style over substance. It is easy to like a player that can hit three home runs a game. It is easy to like a team that will put on a show by hitting a ton of three-pointers. However, it is harder to follow a team that wins by doing all the little things right.

To draw some examples from this year’s NBA season, we can compare DeMarcus Cousins and Tim Duncan. If you offer a fantasy owner a choice between the two big

men, the choice would be easy.

Cousins is having a career year with per game averages of 22.4 points, 11.6 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.3 blocks. Those numbers are incredible. Duncan, on the other hand, is scoring 15.6 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks.

From a fantasy perspective, the two players cannot compare. If you want to win in your league, Cousins will take you to the fantasy championship. However, in reality, DeMarcus Cousins has shown immaturity in his play. He has topped the NBA charts in technical fouls every year since his ascent

Fantasy sports will not teach you the intrinsic elements that make up a true star athlete. professional play, following one year at the University of Kentucky.

Despite his physical prowess in the paint and dominance from all ends of the floor, Cousins’ tantrums have given the big man a reputation for being irresponsible.

Conversely, Tim Duncan has had one of the most illustrious careers in NBA history and is certainly on the path to the Hall of Fame. Duncan is a symbol of professionalism and dominance. His four NBA titles and 14 All-Star game appearances are just material examples. Duncan has been the backbone of the San Antonio Spurs organization for almost two

decades. Off the court, the aging star is known for being introverted and composed, but always doing the right things to support his team’s success.

Duncan is the type of player that any professional sports franchise hopes to keep on the roster for years. Cousins, on the other hand, has yet to demonstrate his leadership and ability to perform in the clutch in his young career.

The Sacremento Kings’ big man has the opportunity to turn his career around and lead the franchise to championship success in the future, but for now he is simply a wild card.

That is the problem with fantasy sports. There is weight given to statistical athletes, rather than true leaders that know how to succeed.

Playing fantasy sports can certainly be a great way to explore a new sport. It can help you learn about who can perform individually. However, fantasy sports will not teach you the intrinsic elements that make up a true star athlete. The things that are done to get the team to the next level, including performing in the clutch, doing the right things off the court and maintaining a sense of professionalism, are important factors in judging the difference between the good and the great.

These central judgments cannot simply be made through using fantasy sports to facilitate a person’s fandom for a sport.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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Princeton side, wrapping up a strong season in defeat. Senior Laura Caty was the sole victor amongst the Cornell line up, winning her game against Tara Harrington over five matches.

Devoy said she was proud of the Red’s performance and notes that the final results do not reflect the true grit the squad showed from start to finish. “[The girls] came out yesterday with absolutely nothing to lose. ... [They] gave it their best shot. … They definitely could not have played any better,” Devoy said of the Princeton result.

“Their opponents were strong and that’s how you get the end result of an 8-1. Again the scores don’t reflect the efforts being put out on courts.

There were some good long rallies and some tight points. You had to be out there to understand,” she added.

Devoy was generally upbeat about her team’s final position, insisting that maintaining consistency amongst an everchanging line up is never easy.

Devoy also highlighted some of the disadvantages that teams face within the recruiting pool. “[The final ranking] is positive, definitely. It reflects the hard work that the girls are

putting in to maintain the spot.” she said. “It doesn’t really reflect on the girls here playing, it reflects on recruiting. It’s a known thing that Harvard and Princeton get the pick of the crop and the internationals.

And I and the other Ivies get the second pick. We lost a number three last year and didn’t replace her with the same quality player so we did well to hold our six.”

Devoy was also positive about the team’s future chances, maintaining that the experience gained this season, coupled with a strong recruiting class, would put the squad in good stead for future years.

The women’s side has a lot of young talent, with only one senior making an appearance in a competitive game against Princeton on Sunday.

“We’re going to have a very young team next year. I have five incoming freshmen. …

Even though we’ve lost our number two and three, we are going to have a solid core in the middle,” Devoy said. “You only have to win five of nine matches and [not] the top. And that’s what our recruiting pushes us to do. Next season is looking promising.”

Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at halyousefi@cornellsun.com.

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Jorgensen Wins Second Ivy League Classic on Bars

title as her freshman year, Jorgenson scored a 9.800 to beat all other competitors in the event. Additionally, senior captain Elise Kerner and freshman Elana Molotsky This weekend, the Cornell gymnastics team traveled tied for fifth place. The bar lineup brought the Red back to Providence, R.I. to compete against Brown, Yale and into the competition, and within reach of the eventual Penn in the Ivy Classic. Despite showing a consistent winners.

The floor lineup was at its best Sunday, as the gymnasts performance as a team, the Red could not measure up to the Bears. The Ivy foe dominated the meet with a score posted one of the highest scores in recent history for the of 193.375, a full three points higher than second place Red, 48.700. They were just shy of matching the 2009 proYale (190.250). While Cornell finished the meet with gram record of 49.000. Senior floor competitors Mackenzie the lowest score of the four teams, only a little more than Sato and captain Lexi Schupp led the scoring for Cornell. two tenths of a point separated second place and fourth Schupp earned a third place finish with a 9.850, the fourth best score on floor in program history, while Sato nailed her place.

According to senior Melanie Jorgensen, the standout routine for a 9.775 and sixth place. Freshman Krystin performer for the Red, the squad’s wavering energy level Chiellini also performed well in her routine, scoring a 9.725. contributed to the Red’s poor perforThe final rotation saw the Red head mance in the afternoon.

“Going into Ivy Championships “We need to put in more to the beam, an event the squad has to find a rhythm in this season. everyone was pumped up and excited. numbers on vault and be struggled Junior Maia Vernacchia started the Red … We carried that into our first event, more agressive as a off with a solid routine, posting a 9.625 floor, where we had our best team score to take fifth in the event. Sophomore of the year,” she said. “But we had team on beam.”

Kaylie Cronin was also successful, finishtrouble keeping our energy up after Melanie Jorgensen ing with a 9.600. some disappointing vault perforAfter a strong beginning to the final mances.” event, the Red had to count two consecThe Red failed to carry the positive momentum from its strong floor showing onto the vault, utive falls before Jorgensen brought the team back. She recording two falls in the event. Junior Sammy hit her beam routine for a 9.800, a personal best and secVanderPutten started off the event strong, scoring a ond best in the event. Although three gymnasts placed in 9.550. After counting two falls moments later, sophomore the Top-six spots, including Jorgensen’s second place finSara Schupp picked up the slack and scored a 9.600. ish, the Red had to count four falls in total.

Despite the disappointing results on vault and beam, While Schupp finished in fourth and VanderPutten took fifth, the overall team score on vault hurt the Red’s the Red saw several members place in those events.

Additionally, the squad excelled on the floor and finished chances in the end.

The Red saw more success on bars as a trio of com- the event on a high note with a solid bars showing.

Jorgensen remained confident and said the struggles petitors finished in the top five, including Jorgensen, who won her second Ivy Classic bars title. Claiming the same can be mended.

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK

Sun Staff Writer

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Up in the air | Melanie Jorgensen scored a 9.800 on bars to win her second consecutive Ivy Classic title.

“For the next couple meets we need to put in more numbers on vault and be more aggressive as a team on beam,”she said.

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com.

Fantasy Football & Fandom Red Maintains Sixth Place at Howe Cup Cornell finishes its season with an 8-1 loss against No.5 Princeton D WOMEN’S SQUASH

By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s squash team wrapped up its season this weekend after competing in the Women’s National Team Championship, otherwise known as the Howe Cup. The tournament took place at Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium, where the Red finished 9-7 on the season, maintaining its sixth place spot in the national-

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Match point | Sophomore Olivia Wherry won a fivegame match, helping the Red defeat Stanford, 6-3

rankings for the third season running.

Cornell took on No. 3 Penn on Friday afternoon and, having narrowly lost to them, 6-3, in the regular season, hoped to pull off an upset. However, the Red failed to avenge its loss as it fell to the Quakers, 8-1.

Senior Jessenia Pacheco gave Cornell its sole point, defeating Yan Xin Tan to put the Red on the board.

Head Coach Julee Devoy still applauded the Red for putting forward a strong effort against a challenging team.

“I’m not really disappointed with the result. … mainly because they are a really strong team, they were ranked third going into the event,” she said. “Despite the fact that we took three matches from them in the regular season, they came out with a point to prove on Friday. … We put up a good fight. You can’t be disappointed when your team puts everything out there.”

The Red was, however, victorious the next day as it defeated No. 7 Stanford, 6-3, in the consolation semifinal. The tight match ultimately went in Cornell’s favor as the squad’s bottom order put forth a strong showing. The trio of senior Laura Caty and sophomores Olivia Wherry and Reut Odinak won their matches over four and five games respectively.

The result guaranteed that the Red would maintain its ranking of No. 6 in the nation for the third consecutive year. It also meant that Cornell would go on to face No. 5 Princeton, whose team had comprehensively defeated the Red, 9-0, only two weeks ago in a consolation final, with the victor claiming the No. 5 spot.

A fifth place finish would have represented the equaling of a program best for Cornell, matching the 2001 team that placed fifth following victories over Dartmouth and Brown.

Unfortunately, it was not to be for the Red. Cornell fell, 8-1, on Sunday afternoon against a strong See SQUASH page 15

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A year had passed and the NFL was getting back in the swing of things. I, however, decided not to engage in fantasy that year. As the actual NFL teams began their

Nikita Dubnov Guest Column the game worked. I grew up being a fan of basketball and baseball. In terms of football, I only knew about the Giants and the Jets because those are my local teams. The fantasy season began with a league draft that I found to be totally confusing, an opinion I held for a couple of weeks.

However, the season progressed and I developed a fascination with a sport I had never found interesting before. My attraction to football only grew with time, culminating in ritualistic viewings of most NFL matchups on any given

search for success in the 2009-10 season, I noticed that my interest in the sport was not the same without my ceremonial changes to the roster every week.

If somebody were to argue that I am not a true fan of football, I would not disagree. I realized that I found interest in the sport while watching the players on my fantasy team rack up points in my weekly matchups. As long as my running back rushed for a ton of yardage or my kicker hit every field goal See DUBNOV page 15