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Survey Finds ‘Alarming’ Rates Of Sexual Misconduct at C.U. As campus leaders struggle for solutions, over half of student respondents report experiencing harassment

By ALEC GIUFURTA Sun Staff Writer

Little has changed in the trends of sexual misconduct on campus since 2017, a recent University survey shows, finding that half of respondents have experienced some form of sexual harassment during their time at Cornell — with disproportionate rates based on gender, and frequently in situations including Greek life.

The biannual survey, last run in 2017, charted sexual harassment rates on campus as marginally in decline since 2017, down around five percentage points from 55 percent.

Since entering Cornell, 68.2 percent of undergraduate women and 51.3 percent of undergraduate men reported experiencing some form of sexual or gender-based harassment,

according to the 2019 survey results. In 2017 these values were 70.5 percent of undergraduate women and 54 percent of undergraduate men.

Among TGQN students — transgender, genderqueer, questioning and not listed — however, sexual harassment rates increased by almost 10 percentage points from 72.2 percent in 2017 to 81.3 percent in 2019.

The survey received 2,247 responses from across the university.

Additionally, more than a quarter of undergraduate women reported an experience meeting Cornell’s definition of sexual assault since entering Cornell, an increase from 22.5 percent in 2017. For the majority of that demographic, the most common location for the “most serious incident of nonconsensual sexual contact” See SURVEY page 5

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Trends continue | According to a survey emailed to students last week, 68.2 percent of undergraduate women and 51.3 percent of undergraduate men reported experiencing sexual or gender-based harassment.

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Far below Cayuga’s waters | Cargill operates a salt mine, located 2,300 feet beneath the lake’s surface, that produces 10,000 pounds of salt a day.

Group Accuses Cargill Of Polluting Cayuga Lake

By MADELINE ROSENBERG Sun Contributor

According to Hang, the DEC failed to notify the public of the sodium ferrocyanide discharge, even though it was “a serious environmental problem in mining.”

Hang’s environmental group broke the story last month, noting that the discharge could have threatened the Cayuga Lake drinking water supply, which serves approximate-

A local environmental database organization accused The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and Cargill Inc. of allowing sodium ferrocyanide — a compound used in salt mining that becomes toxic when exposed to sunlight — to flow undetected into Cayuga “I found that these illegal, Lake from the Cayuga unpermitted discharges had been Salt Mine in Lansing.

Cargill, the nation’s happening since 1977.” largest privately held company, has operated Walter Hang the mine under Cayuga Lake since 1970. Walter Hang, president of a toxic site ly 40,000 residents in Ithaca and database Toxics Targeting, told neighboring communities.

While consuming sodium ferroThe Sun in an interview earlier in October that the DEC issued cyanide in salt — where it is used as a notice of violation to Cargill on an anti-caking product — is harmFeb. 12, after the agency reported less, the compound can become a green discharge seeping from a hazardous when released into the broken pipe into the lake at the company’s 13,000-acre salt mine.

See POLLUTION page 5

Only 25, Young Alumnus Recounts Journey to Elected Office

By SEAN O’CONNELL Sun Staff Writer

After graduation, students often find themselves in an all-too-common dilemma: what to do with the rest of their lives. For Josh Lafazan ’16, this was never a question. At the age of 23, he was elected to the Nassau County Legislature at the age of 23, becoming one of the youngest elected officials in New York.

Hailing from Woodbury, Long Island, Lafazan got his official start in politics at age 18, winning an election for a seat on the Syosset Central

School District Board of ical family, but I thought, Trustees in 2012, where he who better to understand the needs of the students?” he served from 2012 to 2017.

“The superintendent in continued.

This, Syosset “I don’t come from a however, was colwas not lecting a political family, but I Lafazan’s [salary] of thought, who better to first foray over half a million understand the needs of into comdollars, munity the students?” while at service. In the same 2011, his Josh Lafazan ’16 time our junior year teachers of high were facing a pay freeze,” school, driven by getting his Lafazan said of his motiva- driver’s license and a desire tions for running In an inter- to “protect his classmates,” Lafazan founded an orgaview with The Sun. “I don’t come from a polit- nization called Safe Ride

Syosset, which is “a community outreach program dedicated to ensuring that no Syosset teenager gets behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated,” according to his bio on the Nassau County Legislature website.

The organization, which was initially just Lafazan, his car and his phone, quickly expanded to 40 volunteer drivers, credited with providing rides home to over 350 students in just less than a year.

“On nights we operated there wasn’t one single teenSee POLITICIAN page 4

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Off to the races | Armed with campaign posters, Josh Lafazan ’16 readies his reelection bid this November.

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Project Team Aims for Cleaner Water With Gravity-Based Tech

By WINNY SUN Sun Staff Writer

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Open books | The newly formed Ad Hoc Budget Planning Advisory Committee is set to release a guide that will make Cornell’s sprawling, multi-billion dollar budget more accessible to the average layman.

New Guide to Decipher C.U. Finances

From how the endowment works to T.A. pay, guide aims to demystify Cornell’s complicated cash flows

By ARI DUBOW Sun Staff Writer

By March 2020, students will be able to learn about how the University finances work through a guide written specifically in layman’s terms by the newly formed Ad Hoc Budget Planning Advisory Committee, whose membership span across undergraduates, graduate and professional students, and faculty.

Entitled “The Cornell Budget: A User’s Guide,” the document aims to address students’ questions and concerns about the most opaque parts of the system.

“People want to know, what sets the T.A. stipend? How many graduate students can a department financially support each semester?

How does the endowment work?” said Manisha Munasinghe grad, a student-elected trustee and a representative of the ad hoc committee at a Graduate and Professional Student Assembly

“People want to know, what sets that T.A. stipend? How many graduate students can a department ... support.”

Manisha Munasinghe grad meeting on Monday.

Additional topics that students expressed interest in include the processes behind evaluating student financial aid, costs at the university in addition to tuition such as gym membership and TCAT passes, and employee salaries — particularly those employees with salaries that are near or

above seven figures.

“We want to come out with an easy to read report for laypeople so that they can understand how the dollars flow,” said Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan, another representative from the committee. “There’s a real shortage of people who understand the dynamics of the budget

“There’s a real shortage of people who understand the dynamics of the budget.”

Dean of Faculty Charles Van Loan process and how it works, and also understand academic directives.”

In addition to Van Loan, the committee consists of another member from the University Assembly, two members from the Student Assembly, two from the GPSA, and two selected by the Employee Assembly, according to the committee’s webpage. In creating this guide, the Committee will be working in collaboration with the Faculty Senate’s Financial Policies Committee.

Specifically, part of the goal of the report is to enable students to better participate in the financial processes of the University by understanding the timeline of the process, so that students are aware of the University’s financial business before decisions are already made.

“We need educated laypeople who can participate in these things,” Van Loan said.

Ari Dubow can be reached at adubow@cornellsun.com.

tom as in conventional plants.

Additionally, while some treatment plants need manual help from operators to settle out sediments accumulated at the bottom, AguaClara facilities have a self-cleaning segmentation system that eliminates this often time-consuming step.

Using research and designs AguaClara develops, local NGO partners have built water treatment plants in countries such as Honduras and India. Currently, there are 12 AguaClara plants in Honduras and two in India.

In order to prove the effectiveness of existing AguaClara plants, the team compared them to Cornell’s own, more conventional water treatment systems.

During the trial run, a smaller-scale of AguaClara’s facility filtered water in parallel to the Cornell water treatment plants, offering team members a consistent basis for comparing performance and quality across the two different systems.

“The Cornell Water filtration team has been super supportive,” Rosenberg said. “The relationship works both ways. It’s a partnership where we are helping each other and learning from each other.”

According to Rosenberg, the analysis, which is still ongoing, has so far produced positive results: Water treated through the AguaClara plant meets U.S. standards, and is similar in quality to water treated by Cornell systems.

“If the results are promising, we can start to ask the question, ‘what can conventional plants do in order to improve their systems?” he said.

A group of student engineers from the AguaClara project team recently went head-to-head against Cornell facilities with their water filtration technology, powered solely by gravity. And so far, they are not lagging behind.

The AguaClara project team was founded by Prof. Monroe Weber-Shirk, civil and environmental engineering, in 2005 to address the lack of sustainable water treatment plants in impoverished communities. Since then, AguaClara has grown to more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students, according to the team’s website.

Weber-Shirk and his team of students have constantly looked for ways of treating water that does not demand external power sources. By studying the physics behind how water is treated, they have developed a treatment technology that treats water using only gravity, according to Yitzy Rosenberg ’21, head of AguaClara’s Investments and Public Relations teams.

“Weber-Shirk has researched the physics behind how water is treated for the past 15 years. By understanding the physics, we as a team has been able to develop certain processes based on the equation that comes out of that physics,” Rosenberg said.

Aside from being gravity-powered and electricity-free, AguaClara facilities have several other unique features. Their filters, which are stacked on top of each other, use approximately one-sixth of the area that is normally necessary for conventional water treatment. As a result, water can filter in from many different Winny Sun can be reached at angles, rather than just through the bot- wsun@cornellsun.com.

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Crystal clear | AguaClara, a project team that is run by more than 50 students, currently runs 14 water filtration plants in India and Honduras.

County Legislature Approves Use of Rifles for Bear, Deer Hunting

BY EMILY YANG Sun Staff Writer

Earlier this month, the Tompkins County Legislature narrowly voted in favor of a resolution that would allow rifle hunting for big game in the area, joining 58 other upstate New York counties that already granted such permission.

While rifle hunting is already allowed for small game, such as ducks and rabbits, the provision expands it to include deer and bear, which previously could only be hunted with shotguns, handguns or crossbows. The measure, which passed 8-6, compels the County’s legislative delegation to support an amendment to state environmental conservation laws, which, by custom, Albany almost always grants.

Although much of New York has long permitted the use of rifles during the three-week big game

hunting period, which takes place from Nov. 16 to Dec. 18 this year, discussions on the proposal lasted for months — highlighting the increasingly contentious nature of the debate on changes to gun policy.

Amanda Champion, a county legislator who voted against the resolution, believed that the move would amount to a worrisome encroachment of firearms at a time when many have increasingly feared the danger of guns.

“It is an expansion of gun rights and regulation, and we’re in a critical time right now,” she said. “I didn’t want to be a part of that.”

Michael Lane, on the other hand, voiced support of the change on the grounds that while rifles’ bullets can travel farther and faster than shotguns, they are ultimately more accurate and cause less suffering to animals being hunted.

“This is one of those issues I went back and forth on,” he said.

“It’s not the responsible hunters I’m worried about, it’s the irresponsible ones.”

Other supporters said that the measure simply closes a small gap in the legislation that otherwise already has allowed rifle hunting for smaller animals.

“It makes no sense to me that hunters can use rifles 49 weeks a year to shoot anything but deer and bear, but cannot use rifles for three weeks a year and only if they’re hunting deer and bear,” Deborah Dawson, who voted in favor of the resolution, wrote in an email to The Sun. Dawson said her decision was also based on statistics that refuted the supposed correlation between shooting accidents and the type of weapon involved, arguing that the law would not change gun-buying behavior. “[I]t’s been my experience that

folks who hunt tend to own several guns, including rifles,” Dawson said in the email. “The law as it stood was simply NOT a deterrent to buying a rifle.”

Dawson also said that Tompkins County’s more populous municipalities, such as the Villages of Cayuga Heights and Lansing, are free to set their own restrictions on deer hunting, and would likely not be affected by the recently passed legislation.

Anne Koreman, who voted against the resolution, argued that Tompkins County is more populated than the nearby counties that already allow big game rifle-hunting, potentially posing a risk to the passerby.

Koreman told The Sun that her neighbor once had a stray bullet graze the side of his face from several hundred feet away. She also described a friend who was accidentally shot while hiking by a hunter who was using a rifle.

“Her girlfriend was killed, and she had several bullets in her,” Koreman said. “It could do that at a distance because rifles can shoot a really long distance.”

“My main concern is safety,” she said. “I think it’s an accident waiting to happen.”

An amendment introduced by Lane will allow the new rule to be reviewed by the Legislature in two years, pointing out that “if there [are] issues, we could revert to just hunting by shotgun.”

Even with that concession, Koremane still expressed reservations about the bill.

“It’s much harder to take away people’s perceived rights,” she said. “Anything that we’re doing now to expand the use of any gun, we should have a really, really good reason to do it.”

Emily Yang can be reached at eyang@cornellsun.com.

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Precedence | Sandra Fuentes-Berain and Roberta S. Jacobson debate if Trump represents a new shift in immigration policy or if he is just sticking to the policies left for him by the Obama administration.

Trump’s Immigration Policy: More of the Same or a Change?

Former and current diplomats debate whether Trump’s policies are a break from Obama’s

By LOUIS CHUANG

policy.

Flores-Macías, who filled in for Jacobson during the first half of the panel when the ambassador’s flight Amidst a presidency that has seen clashes at the was delayed, argued that, while Trump’s immigration border and high-profile confrontations with Mexico, policy has, at times, drawn intense outrage — it largely a pair of former diplomats debated whether Trump’s represents a continuation of the precedent set by the previous, and often less conimmigration record represents a radical change — “If you look at the numbers ... we have, in fact, troversial, President.

While “President Trump or merely an extension of the fewer deportations taking place in this is accused of adopting this status quo. openly anti-Mexican policy In debate on Monday administration than under the … if you look at the nummoderated by Prof. Gustavo Obama administration.” bers … we have, in fact, Flores-Macías, government, fewer deportations taking Sandra Fuentes-Berain, Prof. Gustavo Flores-Macías place in this administraMexico's Ambassador tion than under the Obama Emeritus who served as the Consul General of Mexico in New York, and Roberta administration,” he said.

According to Axios, despite Trump’s repeated S. Jacobson, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, debated the implications of the Trump’s immigration pledge to deport large swaths of America’s approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants, that hardline position has failed to materialize during his time in office: While the Obama administration deported an average of 350,000 individuals, ICE deporations under Trump have yet to eclipse 290,000.

But Fuentes-Berain said that explanation was overly-simplistic. She said that much of Obama’s policy “was part of the strategy” — that it may have been driven by a longer-term plan to bring about the sort of comprehensive immigration reform that has eluded Congress for decades.

“It was [Obama’s] way of showing Republicans that he was tough on immigration,” according to FuentesBerain, so that “he could try and pass [the laws] that were very badly needed in immigration reform.”

Although Flores-Macías defended Trump’s deportation policy as being in line with predecessors, he did acknowledge that U.S.-Mexican relations have soured under Trump’s watch, becoming “a lot less civil” and “a lot more crass.”

However, he still maintained that the day-to-day impact of Trump’s policies, especially the revised NAFTA deal, have only had a marginal practical DANIEL RA / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER impact — a conclusion Fuentes-Berain said ignores Fill-in | Prof. Flores-Macías, government, filling in for Sandra Trump’s reliance on roughshod diplomatic tactics to Funtes-Berain who missed the start of the debate due to a achieve his domestic political goals. delayed flight.

For instance, Fuentes-Berain described Mexico as Sun Contributor

“weakened and at the mercy of Trump” in explaining the country’s recent role in helping the Trump administration prevent migrants from reaching the United States.

Earlier this summer, in response to Trump threatening to dramatically hike tariffs to up to 25 percent, the Mexican government agreed take greater efforts to stem the flow of migrants from Central America and allow asylum-seekers to remain south of the American border while their cases are processed.

According to Fuentes-Berain, that move amounted to Trump taking Mexico “hostage” and giving it “no choice but to pay the ransom.”

But in a discussion marked by disagreement over the true impact of Trump’s polarizing policies, the panelists found little trouble agreeing on the importance of the U.S.-Mexican relationship — and that cooperation must take the place of divisive rhetoric.

“The U.S.-Mexico relationship is the most important in the world — it is a relation“[The U.S.-Mexico relationship that affects more Americans ship] is a relationship that on a daily basis affects more Americans ... than any other,” said Jacobson, who than any other.” arrived later on in Roberta S. Jacobson the debate.

Going forward, the only way to mend the two countries’ fraying ties is for Trump to tamp down campaign bombast and focus on areas of agreement, according to Jacobson, who served as Trump’s Mexico ambassador for a little over a year before resigning over disagreements.

“The single thing that we could do is mutually respect each other and avoid the vilification of Mexicans. The chanting in rallies about the wall — it is really very insulting to us,” said Jacobson. “You have to stop the rhetoric that the administration has used towards Mexico when it’s convenient and start focusing on cooperating.''

Louis Chuang can be reached at lc742@cornell.edu.

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age driving accident [in Syosset],” said Lafazan. He urged people that might consider following in his footsteps to “pay it forward,” adding that the second volunteer driver was “somebody we had picked up, drunk, the night before.”

Lafazan attended Nassau Community College after graduating high school, later transferring to the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, of which he spoke highly of.

“I don’t believe that there is a program that better prepares you for a career in public service than ILR,” he said. “Plenty of skills that I utilize in my job every day, I got from there.”

Unlike the average Cornell student, Lafazan split his time between Ithaca and Long Island, New York, making the

six-hour trip every three days in order to fulfill his responsibilities on the Syosset school board.

Lafazan mentioned turmoil in his county as part of the reason he decided to run for Nassau’s 18th district — after receiving a Master’s degree in Education from Harvard University — highlighting the arrest of former Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano for corruption as a driver for his run.

Lafazan ran as an independent, basing part of his campaign on issues shared by all the residents of Nassau County.

“Potholes are not partisan,” he told The New York Times, “There is no Republican or Democratic way to pave a road.”

The then-prospective legislator faced an uphill battle against two-term incumbent conservative Donald McKenzie, a veteran attorney, along with a “5,000 vote enrollment edge” from the Republicans,

as reported by Newsday. Ultimately, Lafazan’s campaign, staffed by student interns, was able to win the race with 56 percent of the vote.

As a freshman legislator, he was responsible for the passing of a number of bills that drew support from both parties through the county legislature.

“Timothy’s Law,” passed unanimously in 2018, provided for the creation of a 24-hour hotline meant to raise awareness of substance-abuse issues.

Another recent bill involved tackling the issue of food allergies, requiring restaurants across Nassau County to comply with more stringent food safety measures in order to increase their accessibility to those with sensitivities to certain foods.

Lafazan is up for re-election in 2019, and is employing over 70 student interns aged 12 to 22 — barely younger than the candidate himself — in a bid to retain

office. His campaign stresses bipartisan cooperation on salient issues in Nassau County, specifically a shortage of affordable housing.

In addition to his political career, Lafazan authored a 2015 book titled, “Political Gladiators: How Millennials Can Navigate the 21st Century Political Minefield and WIN!” He is also a TED speaker, expressing concerns about the college admissions process in addition to other topics.

With a final word, Lafazan talked about his reasons for running for office. “I didn’t know I wanted to pursue a career in politics.” He continued, “Quite frankly, I got pissed off because this is a time where people can’t afford to live in Syosset, and I thought, why not me?”

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Sexual Assault Data Shows Little Change ‘This thing happened to one of our Cummings’ position: Victim advocates members … and we’re choosing not to are dedicated to providing catered supContinued from page 1 socialize with them,’ and I think that’s port to those affected by harmful, threatreally valuable,” she said. “Fraternities ening, or other violent incidents. For was an on-campus fraternity house.

When questioned about the rates wouldn’t hold mixers if sororities didn’t comparison, 55.2 percent of students were aware of the Title IX coordinator’s at fraternity houses, University media come to them.”

Gonzales expressed support for this services. relations coordinator Abby Butler noted “People don’t think about the existing education programs through type of collective action, but added that resources available to them until they Cornell Health and the Office of Sorority he found this practice “largely naive.”

“I feel that sororities will stop mixing need help,”said Laura Santacrose, assisand Fraternity Life. These include an with a certain fraternity … maybe for a tant director of the Skorton Center for annual ConsentEd training and a onetime mandatory training on bystander short while, and then they’ll just keep Health Initiatives at Cornell Health. doing it for reasons of social capital,” he 95.9 percent of students were aware intervention given to new members.

“We are continually assessing these said. Gonzales explained how sororities of Cornell Health’s services, something issues and the programming available for may feel internal pressure to continue Santacrose expressed optimism in: “If mixing with what he called “top tier students start at Cornell Health, they our students,” Butler said. will find their way to the services they In 2019, 22.6 percent of undergrad- fraternities.”

Gonzales continued, “You get peoneed.” uate women responded that a fraternity house was the setting of their most seri- ple who want to join IFC “It is our hope that students use the ous incident of sexual violence in 2019, chapters for a lot of reasons closely in line with the findings of two … some of them are peotools and knowledge gained from this ple we may not necessarily years prior. want in our chapters, some training wherever they may be.”

“I think it’s inherent to patriarchal systems,” Maya Cutforth ’20, Panhellenic may not rush with the right Abby Butler reasons or the right motives Council president, told The Sun. Cutforth said it is necessary to have … and they end up causing a “broader conversation” around why problems.”

And at fraternity parsocial events primarily occur at fraternity Student most often disclose experihouses and fraternity-affiliated proper- ties, sober monitors designed in part as ties. Sororities at Cornell are prohibited active bystanders, “aren’t always sober,” ences of sexual harassment to a friend, according to the survey results. by their national associations from host- Gonzales said.

Off-campus residences represented “Fewer than 1 in 5 students who ing events, she said.

Cristian Gonzalez ’20, Interfraternity the second most common location (19.7 experienced nonconsensual sexual conCouncil president, attributed the rates percent) for undergraduate women’s tact reached out to a Cornell- or comof sexual harassment to what he called most serious experienced incident of munity-based resource to talk about that sexual violence, and represent experience,” a coalition of university the most common location for leaders including Ryan Lombardi, Vice “You get people who want to join IFC chap- sexual violence (24.2 percent) President for Student and Campus Life demographic is expanded said in a statement. “We must continue ters for a lot of reasons ... some of them are iftothe include all students. to inform students about the care and people we may not want in our chapters ...

Off-campus, Cornell pro- support that is available to them on camgramming may have a limited pus and in the community.” they end up causing problems.” reach. Butler, the university spokesperson, emphasized the Members of the Cornell Community Christian Gonzalez ’20 skills taught in the bystander may consult with the Victim Advocate training process. by calling 607-255-1212, and with “It is our hope that students use the Cornell Health by calling 607-255-5155. “structural inequalities in how these parties are set up,” with fraternities serving tools and knowledge gained from this Employees may call the Faculty Staff as the host. “Sororities don’t really have training wherever they may be,” she said. Assistance Program (FSAP) at 607-255Nina Cummings, victim advocate 2673. An Ithaca-based Crisisline is availmuch agency,” he added.

Cutforth said that some sororities –– and sexual violence prevention program able at 607-272-1616. The Tompkins she declined to specify which chapters director at Cornell’s Skorton Center for County-based Advocacy Center is avail–– will not attend social events at fra- Health Initiatives, called the data “alarm- able at 607.277.5000. For additional ternities with sexual violence allegations ing.” She urged students to observe what resources, visit health.cornell.edu/services/ is occurring on campus, and to “consider victim-advocacy against their members.

At Panhellenic chapter president the collective impact of what their peers meetings, Cutforth tries “to cultivate may be experiencing.”

The survey also revealed that only Alec Giufurta can be reached at a space where presidents can say, like, 24.4 percent of students were aware of agiufurta@cornellsun.com.

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environment. The National Center for Biotechnology Information warns in all capital letters, “Do not expose [the] solution to sunlight for any length of time to avoid generation of hydrogen cyanide.”

Cargill has since removed 400 tons of polluted soil and wastewater at the mining site to clean up the discharge, the Ithaca Times reported. But the company stopped excavation efforts when railroad tracks interfered with the remediation process. As a result, the contaminated area has not yet been cleaned up to meet New York State regulatory standards, Hang said in an online letter.

However, the DEC and Cargill disputed Hang’s claim that these organizations have not fully remediated the polluted area.

“We immediately repaired and tested the pipe before returning it to service later in the day,” Cargill told The Sun in a statement. “In coordination with the DEC, we took numerous actions to ensure the spill was properly cleaned up and regularly monitored the area to make sure there were no additional failures.”

The DEC said in an email to The Sun that the agency immediately notified the Cayuga and Tompkins Counties’ health departments to ensure that the discharge did not threaten the drinking water or create other related health concerns.

Still, Hang said Cargill has historically failed to prevent unpermitted discharges from flowing into Cayuga Lake, beyond the recent sodium ferrocyanide report.

After filing a records request under the New York Freedom of Information Law, Hang said public data documented decades of excessive levels of chlorides, cyanides and other pollutants discharging from Cargill’s Lansing salt mine into Cayuga Lake.

“I found out that these illegal, unpermitted discharges had been happening since 1977,” Hang said. “This has been going on for 40 years.”

Hang is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) to investigate the pollution and require Cargill to clean up the contaminants. More than 1,000 Ithaca residents and other concerned individuals have signed a coalition letter to safeguard Cayuga Lake.

“We took numerous actions to ensure the spill was properly cleaned up and regularly monitored the area to make sure there were no additional failures.”

Cargill Inc.

Beyond pollution concerns, the letter also asks Cuomo to deny permits for mining expansion and “phase out” Cargill’s mining activity under the lake, allowing only dry land mining to preserve this “incomparable jewel as well as a critical component of the regional economy.”

“We’re saying, [Cargill] has dozens of these problems,” Hang told The Sun. “They have to investigate and remediate the whole site. They can’t continue to allow these pollution problems to go unremediated ... We now know that these pollution problems are a lot more severe than anyone ever understood.”

Madeline Rosenberg can be reached at mrr227@cornell.edu

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Media narratives ignore violence of Hong Kong protesters To the Editor: I’m a Chinese Ph.D. student who came to Cornell to pursue the world’s best education and technologies, hoping to one day make a contribution toward the evolution of all human societies. I usually follow political news but always stay apolitical myself, since I like to keep my life simple and focused on science.

However, upon reading two recent articles from The Sun — entitled “Claims of Vandalized Pro-Hong Kong Posters Bring Overseas Tensions to Cornell” and “When Victims Become Perpetrators: The Human Condition of Chinese Students” — and the pro-Hong Kong protest slogans actively appearing around campus, I’m deeply concerned by the serious misinformation and lack of communication between the Chinese and American communities. I’ve never felt so unrepresented before, and the past few weeks have been the most difficult time during the six years I’ve spent at Cornell.

I’m not writing to directly contradict the opinions from those aforementioned articles. In fact, I understand and even share some of the thoughts they express, such as anti-vandalism and speaking out through proper channels. But both articles share the same tone as all major U.S. (western) media: depicting the Hong Kong government and police as oppressors who beat protesters — while not mentioning the extreme mass violence (arson, abduction, assault on lone policemen and anyone who speaks Mandarin on the street) initiated and committed by the Hong Kong protesters every day that is killing the once-prosperous city.

You can find full-length videos of all these crimes online, but you must try hard, since major media outlets never report them. The media have their political goals in such biased reports, and I do not wish to think about them. But their ignorance has impacts on young communities such as Cornell: People who don’t regularly access news sources outside U.S. media don’t know the other side of the story, and people who oppose the violent Hong Kong protest find themselves isolated, unrepresented and alone. For the latter, they wish to bring it to attention that to talk about freedom, the protesters must first free themselves from violence.

I love both my own country and the U.S., since I’ve had some of my best memories in each of them. I do not wish to see a day when they are divided because of such lack of communication.

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Stay in the U.S. Or Go Back to China?

f you ask a Chinese student randomly walking on Cornell campus their plan after graduation, there’s a growing possibility that they could be heading back to China.

According to a survey conducted by S.C. Johnson MBA students in the class of 2021 during a Cornell career consulting session, Chinese students are increasingly concerned about the prospect of staying in the U.S., while attracted more by the Chinese job market.

Yes, the tendency is not new. However, in recent years, growing rejections of student visas — let alone the almost-impossible-to-get H-1B visa — have fermented pessimism among students who are striving to stay. In the meantime, growing opportunities in China’s job market, especially in finance, manufacturing, investment and AI, have drawn attention from across the global economic landscape, offering more spice for new entrants.

What are the reasons behind this trend? What are they looking for back in China? Should the trend be assigned more importance? How could a better information channel between the U.S. and China be built?

According to the survey, 64 percent of students think there are more opportunities in Chinese domestic markets, while 38 percent say staying in the U.S. is very challenging. This urge was felt months prior to the Cornell MBA slot of a joint MBA program, whose students were approached by a group of Chinese students at Cornell inquiring about job opportunities back in China.

Li Mengying, a student who was asked for career advice, initiated the career consulting session at Cornell, trying to help more students access the Chinese job market. More than 10 students from the MBA class offered one-on-one advice in the form of 15-minute coffee chats.

Students who provided the consulting range from finance and investment to engineering and media, which are all among the most promising and rapidly growing industries in the world. “As a global MBA, we specially dedicate to bridge the gap on both sides,” Li said.

The dual-degree MBA program is jointly held by S.C. Johnson Business School and School of Finance of Tsinghua Univerisity, the top financial academy in China. It aims at strengthening the academic sphere and business education bond between China and the U.S. It’s so far the only MBA degree within the

Ivy League granted by the Ministry of Education in China.

That’s why the career consulting session was extremely well-received. More than 100 students signed up and stayed until the last guest left. It lasted for 3 hours with more students waiting and asking for similar sessions for more guidance.

In the 2017-18 school year, the number of Chinese students exceeded 360,000, an increase of 3.6 percent compared with the previous school year, accounting for 33.2 percent of all international students.

The arrival of Chinese students has promoted the development of education and industry in the United States.

In the past year, the cooling of SinoU.S. relations is gradually affecting the way these students are studying in the United States — which is known for its openness and freedom, but is constantly tightening visas for Chinese students and is involved in the vortex of the two countries.

Of the 100 students surveyed, more than 60 percent showed direct interest and clear goal of going back to China even before their study tour starts.

However, more of them are concerned: “Seems we are not very well prepared about the domestic situation back to China, and we are kind of worried,” says Yang Lu. According to a 2017 LinkedIn report, the areas with the highest preference for international students to return to China are Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou — especially the Greater Bay Area, a new special economic zone, which is attracting overseas talents with lucrative bonuses.

“It’s because the job madrket in China is very compromising and I don’t want to lose the opportunity back to China,” says Li Chen, a finance major who has been looking for jobs back in China since her first year of college.

Li Mengying said because of the increasing urgency, her team has already reached out to the Cornell career center to raise the awareness of the trend. They are trying to build up a more comprehensive information-sharing platform to bridge the gap on both sides. “It’s meaningful to building up social impact in the changing context,” said Li. Stella Song Yuhang is a graduate student in the S.C. Johnson College of Business. Guest Room runs periodically this semester. Comments may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com.

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Canaan Delgado | No Church in the Wild

Out With Columbus Day and in With Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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olumbus Day is observed on the second Monday Europeans did. Christopher Columbus did not just comof October in the United States in order to recog- mit genocide during his lifetime, but the ripple effects of nize the contributions of Italian Americans and to his actions have killed millions and destabilized numerous commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the indigenous nations.

“New World” in 1492. The United States has arguably There will certainly be those who would prefer to hold played the largest role in celebrating Columbus while onto Columbus Day. However, the majority of these ignoring the consequences of his actions. For this reason, pro-Columbus parties are doing so due to a flawed sense of nationalism or readings from over eight states, the flawed perspective of 130 cities and The U.S. has arguably played the largest Columbus’s personal writ10 universities are recognizing role in celebrating Columbus while ignoring ings. Columbus portrayed a more deservthe native people that he encountered as helpless peoing alternative the consequences of his actions. For this — Indigenous ple who cut themselves on Peoples’ Day. reason, states, cities and universities are his sword because they did I believe that recognizing a more deserving alternative: not know what it was. We building awareknow from historical records Indigenous Peoples’ Day. that the native groups were ness of the histofamiliar with war, as they ry of Christopher Columbus’s behavior would lead anyone to the conclusion fought numerous battles with Columbus, almost from that Indigenous Peoples’ Day should replace Columbus the beginning, to get him to stop plundering their lands.

Day — and that Cornell, Tompkins County and America Columbus was not a hero; he was a murderer. And he at large aren’t doing enough to make up for Columbus’s should not have his own holiday.

Indigenous People’s Day has the ability to begin a proactions and the patterns of behavior that he started.

In 1492, Columbus began a series of four voyages to cess of acknowledging marginalized groups in American the Carribean. During these four voyages, Columbus and society. Young people should confront the darker side of his subordinates plundered minerals and exotic wildlife American history in order to bring about a better tomorwhile fighting brutal campaigns against local resistance row. I do not believe that much can be done to fix the and taking slaves. All attempts by Taino natives and other actions of Christopher Columbus. However, new probnative groups to rebel against the slave states established lems facing indigenous communities such as exploitation

by Columbus resulted in mass hangings and other brutal by industry could, and should, be combatted. forms of punishment.

Cornell University has its own history with Columbus In addition to the things that Christopher Columbus Day. Protests of Columbus Day at Cornell started in did intentionally, we must look at the ramifications of early 2000, and Indigenous People’s Day was adopted his actions. Columbus set the tone for future exploration by the University in 2016. However, the issue of Cornell of the Americas. The pattern of continued exploitation being built atop the lands of native Cayuga tribes, of the and slavery was only amplified by the drastic changes Iroquois confederation, cannot be solved easily. Cornell that Europeans brought to the environment. Invasive should partner alongside students and faculty, especially species and new diseases, such as smallpox, killed even those in American Indian and Indigenous Studies, to raise more native people through starvation, by killing native awareness on campus to inform our community about species, and general pestilence than direct conflicts with the importance of celebrating the culture of our original

inhabitants.

The Tompkins County legislature currently recognizes Columbus Day, an artifact of colonialism, and Indigenous People’s Day simultaneously, which misses the point entirely. Celebrating the two holidays concurrently does not take a neutral position; it implies that Columbus Day’s supporters have ground to stand on. Legislator Mike Lane of Tompkins County missed the mark by saying, “[I] ndigenous people have been and are an important part fact [sic] in our community. We’re pleased to have them here. It’s the same with all of our immigrants and other people that are here. They accepted us and we accept them and we want them to understand that they matter to us.”

Except that Native Americans were here first. The biggest next step that Americans, particularly those of European descent, can take is to recognize that they are responsible for another historic genocide. And that a history of vio-

Tompkins County simultaneously recognizes Columbus Day, an artifact of colonialism, and Indigenous People’s Day, which misses the point entirely. lence and broken systems can never be made whole.

High above Cayuga’s waters lies not only our institution’s alma mater, but also those who perished for an unjust cause. Let’s remember that day in and day out, that we live and study on Native American soil; this land is stolen and Christopher Columbus is a part of our history that we should not celebrate.

Canaan Delgado is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cdelgado@cornellsun.com. No Church in the Wild appears every other Tuesday this semester.

Amelia Zohore | And What About It?

Kylie Jenner’s $65 Hoodie Shows Why We Need a Wealth Tax

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arly this week, the internet was consumed by a video of media personality, Kylie Jenner. In the video, Jenner enters her baby’s room and sings, “rise and shine” in a hilariously off-key tone. Amidst the hype, Jenner is selling a $65 poorly designed rise and shine hoodies.

It definitely wasn’t that funny.

Of course, capitalizing off internet

wealth, and still wish for more. Writing in The New York Times in 2014, Sam Polk, CEO of Everytable, offered a compelling possible answer, admitting that in his time as a Wall Street trader, he was addicted to money. He found himself surrounded by billionaires and desperate to be one. “Dozens of different types of 12-step support groups exist to help addicts of various types, yet there is no Wealth Addicts Anonymous. Why not? Because our culture supports and even lauds the addiction. Look at the magazine covers in any newsstand, plastered with the faces of celebrities and C.E.O.’s; the super-rich are our cultural gods.”

That said, I do somewhat believe it is unfair to vilify the wealthy completely.

Many of them are “self-made” and have worked hard to amass to their success.

Studies even show that wealthy people tend to work longer hours and spend less time socializing. After all, they have achieved the American Dream that has been ever so glorified in our country.

I think the problem lies largely in how our government manages wealth.

The issue of income inequality has garnered much conversation in the political arena, especially with several Democratic candidates like Tom Steyer, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren being in support of implementing a wealth tax. A wealth tax would require the ultra-wealthy to pay the federal government a percentage of their yearly

It is quite unsettling that a 22-year-old billionaire would sell such an expensive product, based on a fleeting meme, to her audience that primarily consists of adolescents. fame is how she became famous in the first place, but it is quite unsettling that a 22-year-old billionaire would sell such an expensive product, based on a fleeting meme, to her audience that primarily consists of adolescents.

There are billions of people across the globe who live in poverty, yet the one percent continues to grow wealthier and wealthier. The income inequality gap is the greatest it has been in almost 50 years. But at what point is enough, enough?

It is said that if you made $5,000 every day since 1492, you still would not be a billionaire.

There are 2,208 billionaires in the world, each having an average of $4.1 billion. Their accumulated wealth is estimated at roughly $9.1 trillion.

I often wonder why it is that a person can have such an insane amount of

net worth. Candidates suggest that the money would fund initiatives in environmental efforts, health care reform, economic investment and more.

In this month’s Democratic Debate, moderator Erin Burnett highlighted the terrifying fact that “the top one percent now own more of the nation’s wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.” Bernie Sanders, an avid proponent of the idea that “billionaires should not exist,” also stated that “we cannot afford to continue this level of income and wealth inequality, and we cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families of this country for 45 years.”

Even some billionaires have vocalized support in enacting such legislation. Eli Broad, the 78th wealthiest man in America, wrote in a New York Times article, “Let’s admit out loud what we all know to be true: A wealth tax can start to address the economic inequality eroding the soul of our country’s strength. I can afford to pay more, and I know others can too. What we can’t afford are more shortsighted policies that skirt big ideas, avoid tough issues and do little to alleviate the poverty faced by millions of Americans.

There’s no time to waste.”

While I agree with Sanders’ sentiments on containing wealth disparities in America, I fear his verbiage will ostracize many Americans from adopting this ideology. Instead, I think can-

didate Elizabeth Warren’s stance is the most digestible for the American people.

Warren’s plan would place a 2 percent annual tax on those making over $50 million, and an additional 1 percent for those valued in the billions. Her team estimates that the tax would only affect one in 1,700 American families, but the impact would be widespread. She hopes to use this tax revenue to increase funding for the public education system, especially in low-income communities.

Kylie Jenner and her hideous, ridiculously overpriced hoodie are indicative of a far more significant problem — the few who hoard wealth from the many. If she, like other billionaires, can afford lavish vacations on private jets, an extensive collection of luxury cars and five multi-million dollar homes, she can certainly afford to pay a 3 percent tax that will improve the lives of millions.

Kylie Jenner and her hideous, overpriced hoodie are indicative of a far more significant problem.

While I believe a wealth tax is imperative for our country, the upcoming presidential election will be a fascinating indication of how we as a nation prioritize this pressing issue.

Amelia Zohore is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at az288@cornell.edu. And What About It? runs every other Tuesday this semester.

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SCIENCE Architecture

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Cornell Professor Creates A.I.-Interfaced Photoluminescent Fiber Installation

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A.I.-interfaced Ada | Prof. Jenny Sabin’s latest project displayed in Microsoft’s Redmond campus.

Sabin, who was invited to participate in Microsoft’s

By LOUIS CHUANG Artist in Residence program, hoped to “explore artificial Sun Contributor intelligence in ways that would make it more human In Building 99 on Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington centered — would provide bridges to understanding the campus, Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture, unveiled her latest technology.” Through Ada, she hopes to bring more people project: an A.I. interface called Ada that translates people’s closer to artificial intelligence in a more friendly, approachfacial reactions into color by using a network of a dozen able manner.

Ada was named after gifted mathematician and early cameras designed to collect people’s facial expressions.

computer programmer Ada Lovelace, who was cited to have written instructions for the first computer program in the mid-1800s. According to Sabin, the system functions as an interface for “expressing sentiment data that’s been picked up by cameras and reveals the data through light and color.”

Beyond the 12 cameras within the room, there is also an additional sensor and camera contained inside the project that can override the other cameras. These sensors and cameras read “the collective sentiment of the building [facial expressions] from individuals,” according to Sabin.

“There are inherent structures and intangible aspects of data that we can’t normally see, but visualization and showing in new ways can allow us to probe [the data] and ask new questions,” Sabin said.

Ultimately, the purpose of Ada is to raise awareness about issues that people may not necessarily think about. “[We are] providing a platform for looking and exploring artificial intelligence, but making it very playful and joyful and cheerful and full of wonder so that it allows people to have a dialogue,” Sabin said.

Addressing the specific privacy concerns surrounding Ada, Sabin explained that all of the data is anonymous, alleviating concerns of individuals being identified. “One of the mandates of this project is to foster dialogue around this issue [privacy] and to ultimately create a project that’s about transparency ... the issue of how data is being collected [and used],” she said.

Although Ada is now complete, Sabin’s work is far from over. “We have three research projects here in the lab, [and] we have a couple projects that are going into construction.”

Sabin added that she has been working on a permanent project commissioned by the College of Human Ecology for a number of years now. The project is currently in fabrication and will open in the spring of 2020.

Louis Chuang can be reached at lc742@cornell.edu.

More Than a Game: The Physics of Hockey

By NATALIE MONTICELLO Sun Staff Writer

Hockey is a complicated sport: 12 players battle on frozen ice, navigating the game on thin metal blades beneath their skates. Players try to hit a frozen disk-shaped puck into the goal, and the team with the most points after three periods wins.

While the physics department may seem worlds away from Lynah Rink, this icy sport that would be impossible without the fundamental laws of the physical sciences.

The first and, arguably, the most important component of hockey is the puck. Hockey pucks are made of vulcanized rubber and are frozen between games. “If you want the puck to stay on the ice and not bounce all over the ice, you [need to] freeze it to reduce the elasticity,” explained Nima Leclerc grad, a Ph.D. student from the physics department.

Another crucial aspect of hockey is the player’s ability to effortlessly glide on the ice with special hockey skates. “The skates in hockey are actually quite an interesting shape: The tip is really two points separated by a slight groove,” Leclerc said.

Specific conditions and the physical properties of ice further impact players’ abilities to skate

smoothly. As the compression from the narrow skate blade helps melt ice, skaters are able to move more effortlessly.

“The low-friction interphase critical for skating can be attributed to the thin-layer of quasi-liquid water between a player’s blade and the solid-ice beneath,” said Samuel Bader grad, also a Ph.D. candidate studying physics. “Less work is required to break dangling bonds at the liquid water surface when speeding up, in contrast with the person with sneakers walking on concrete.”

But despite the benefits and speed brought by a smooth surface, sometimes friction is also critical in helping players accelerate and decelerate quickly and move laterally. The process of building speed involves the skater repeatedly pushing off with blades angled away from the direction of motion, Bader said.

“Ice inherently makes a low friction interphase between chrome-coated steel and itself, given that its coefficient of kinetic friction is over 100 times smaller than the contact between our sneakers and the concrete surfaces we walk on,” Leclerc said.

Alternatively, hockey players often dig their skates into the ice in order to slow down or decelerate “to impose a lateral force oppo-

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Hockey dynamics | Cornell students break down the physics behind Cornell’s most popular sport. site to the direction of friction,” according to Leclerc.

“It is the physical differences between ice and normal surfaces that allow players to enable lateral motion to glide, rather than a transverse motion to walk on a surface,” Leclerc said.

Furthermore, the type of the blade on the hockey skates determines players’ mobilities. “Skates with a deeper groove dig into the ice further for more grip, while skates with a flatter groove glide more smoothly on the ice surface,”

Bader said.

In hockey — or any sport that requires skating — it is essential that players balance on the ice while moving quickly. Finding the right balance, therefore, is essential because the act of skating is essentially a clever manipulation of friction. The design of the hockey stick makes it possible for players to hit the puck and score goals; optimal hockey sticks are designed to accelerate the puck from the small force generated by the player’s swing.

“Holding force constant, one desires that the lower region of the stick be long enough to yield the maximum torque, as torque is proportional to the length of the lever arm being rotated,” Bader said.

“Every sport worth playing carves out its own niche in the interplay of physics, strategy and the ultimate limitations of the human body,” Leclerc said.

Natalie Monticello can be reached at nmonticello@cornellsun.com.

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t’s easy to say that art is universal; it is something that brings us together. It is a representation of our shared humanity, or it is how we all share our divergent experiences of humanity.

But all of these statements are decidedly ignorant and are used violently to define norms and values; to divide people into groups based on those values; to stratify people based on their experience and access to education in the norms.

Museum curators, art historians, teachers, writers and critics act in impactful and intensely political ways to decide how we understand the world. They make decisions about what is art versus trifle, display-worthy versus dust-gathering substrate.

Their decisions about art arrange how people make social and political decisions by either defining their assumptions about humanity or challenging them.

In defining assumptions about humanity, art is able to create the framing with which we craft our values and beliefs. Art seems like it’s our direct, objective gateway to understanding what cultures and experiences other than our own are like. Since we are so apt to take art as our “true” source of background, without an exploration of the curation, we are bound to accept a warped image. Luckily, art curators are also in a great position to challenge assumptions because

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objects of art are so convincing.

Some curators of work — whether in museums, classes, bookstores or other institutions — put careful thought into the ideas and values which they are constructing. I look to my high school English curricula, which focused deeply on fictional and biographical stories about racism, sexism, genocide, poverty and mental illness, written by people with those experiences. Sure, I took a class about Shakespeare, but we spent the entire year picking apart bias and oppressive systems in Othello and The Merchant of Venice.

Still, there were important themes and concepts missed. We never read about colonialism or environmental injustice.

I’m sure I remain ignorant to a vast swath of other things.

Resident Bad Still, we were Media Critic taught that literature was about the exploration of strife and resistance and that lives exhibit tremendous diversity in struggles and joys.

The lack of analysis that goes into many curations of work is truly astounding.

Exhibit designers can craft words which cover up crimes against humanity to glorify the successes of domination by people.

They often exoticize, infantilize and deny the accomplishments of people who don’t use the same metrics of achievement as the curators.

An important amount of these decisions

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do come from the demands of donors and high-level managers who make deals to increase the prestige of the institution.

Constrained by these requirements and norms about what is curatable, museums self-perpetuate these exclusive and biased collections and continue to acculturate people to assume that their understandings of art are accurate.

This becomes especially pernicious in cases where the funding is coming to museums from morally questionable institutions.

Lots of museums, but most famously the British Museum, are stocked full of stolen artifacts from colonized areas. Brought back as exotica, these items are held on display because. The Museum of Modern Art, for example, was recently the site of a protest against its investments, donations and board member Larry Fink, whose firm

BlackRock invests heavily in private prisons.

The Met recently denied the claim that they accept donations from the Sackler family, who are closely linked to the promotion of OxyContin and the deadly opioid epidemic, yet they retain a wing named after them for previous donations.

Insisting that the money which funds art is apolitical, because the virtuous act of presenting art to the “public” (what’s the admission fee again?) is valuable enough, is unacceptable. If art cannot be presented without causing the struggles it aims to console and ameliorate, it needs to be reevaluated.

Katie Sims is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached ksims@cornellsun.com. Resident Bad Media Critic runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Kanye Was Wrong: Being Bipolar Sucks

to be bipolar to do that.

Yes, I’m bipolar. Type II to be exact. The aforementioned is really just some of the least harmful manifestations of my mood constantly being a rollercoaster. While I was never trying to hide it, it’s not something I like to talk about outside of my psychiatrist’s office. Why write about it now? Well, I watched a TV show.

We seem to be living in an age where it’s easier to find thoroughly researched, well-written psychopaths on screen than it is to see even just a semi-accurate depiction of more common mental illnesses, without it being romanticized or sensationalized. Believe me when I say, I’ve never seen someone remotely like me in TV Thanks to Kanye West, the American shows or movies.

And thanks to public has heard quite a bit about Kanye West, the bipolar disorder in recent years; this American public has heard quite a has done more harm than good. bit about bipolar disorder in recent years; This has chaos. And of course, I would definitely done more harm than procrastinate for days on a paper good. and then write all 15 pages the So imagine my surprise when, day it’s due, but you don’t need after a bad day, I started binging

rigger Warning: This column contains graphic content regarding bipolar disorder.

I’m someone who tends to take many things in life to either extreme. I would go without reading a single book for months and then one day decide to buy multiple novels and read them all in one sitting. I survived without streaming services for a year before resubscribing to Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime out of the blue. I could cook an elaborate meal one evening and then barely eat anything over the following days.

I could clean every corner of an apartment by myself in an afternoon, only then to let my room descend into a state of

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the new anthology series Modern Love on Amazon in the middle of the night, only to find myself watching the very nightmare I was trying to avoid unfold on screen. The series is based on the beloved New York Times column of the same name, and the third episode, specifically, is adapted from the 2008 essay

and proceeds to block out the world by hiding in bed. The guy she meets at the supermarket, upon seeing her disheveled and disoriented on their first date, asks her jokingly: “Do you happen to have a twin?”

What he doesn’t know is how close to the truth that is.

But Lexi doesn’t tell him the truth. But after failing to make it through her second date with supermarket guy, and getting fired by Five Minutes her law firm ‘Til Places because despite her brilliance “Take Me as I Am, Whoever they simply could not put up I Am,” where the author Terri with her dismal attendance Cheney details her journey record, Lexi finally confides in a with rapid-cycling bipolar and friend and co-worker. the disaster it made of her life Her friend cancels a meetand her romantic relationships. ing, buys her coffee and listens.

Anne Hathaway plays Lexi, a “How does it feel telling me?” brilliant, accomplished attorney She asked. “Like the elephant with beautiful red hair and a has taken one of its feet off my personality just as vibrant. She chest.” goes days without sleep during And isn’t that just the crux a manic episode, dresses whim- of it. It’s amazing how trusting sically and finds herself dates in people can finally allow you to the fruit aisle of the supermar- breathe, but opening up in the ket, only to crash the moment first place is the foot of the eleshe walks through her own door phant you yourself have to lift.

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I’m lucky to have supportive people around me. But even then this illness is the worst form of loneliness. I’ve often said that representation shouldn’t exist solely for representation’s sake, but that is not to discredit the tangible social impact storytelling can make. In depicting mental illness right in art and media, we could not only help many people understand experiences they have not lived through. More importantly, it could let those who suffer from the disorders know with absolute certainty that they are seen.

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Employees may call the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) at 607-255-2673. An Ithacabased Crisisline is available at 607-272-1616. For additional resources, visit caringcommunity. cornell.edu.

Andrea Yang is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at ayang@cornellsun. com. Five Minutes ‘Til Places runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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C.U. Suffers Disappointing Setbacks Against Top-25 Foes FIELD HOCKEY

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down,” Smith said. “We made a lot of individual errors without team structure, and it cost us goals.”

The score remained neutral through an uneventful, defense-driven first quarter.

The game took a turn in the sixth minute of the second quarter as Albany scored the first goal of the contest. Just five minutes later, the Great Dane’s 1-0 advantage quickly

ballooned into a two-goal lead when Dana Bozek clinched her first goal of the day.

Smith decided to insert sophomore goalkeeper Laura Kubit in goal during the third quarter. Despite a stellar performance in the frame with three saves, Kibit failed to stop Bozek, who chipped the ball into the net and extended the scoring gap to a comfortable 3-0 lead.

The Red entered the fourth period hungry and desperate for a comeback. The team, however, struggled to capitalize on its four shots on goal. Meanwhile, Bozek clinched two

more goals to cap off scoring for the day.

“We just didn’t take our chances and they did,” Smith said. “We will go into Wednesday’s game with confidence high, knowing that we need to get the first goal.”

Looking to learn from this weekend, the Red will return to Dodson field this Wednesday at 4 p.m. to take on Lehigh.

Faith Fisher can be reached at ffisher@cornellsun.com.

Red Shows Rust, Still Notches Easy Victory Over Nipissing MEN’S HOCKEY

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“We’ll figure it out, but I was encouraged. We made some good plays. I think we must’ve hit — I don’t know how many — goalposts tonight, but it was a good start. Keep working on that chemistry.”

Also of note is that Kaldis, a captain and a stronghold on the power-play unit, was out on Sunday. Schafer put forth various line combinations throughout the match, none of which are likely to be the one he will use come Nov. 1, when Kaldis is likely to return.

Early in Sunday’s game, the No. 1 power-play unit that emerged featured Regush, junior captain and forward Morgan Barron, junior forward Brenden Locke, sophomore forward Max Andreev and freshman defenseman Sam Malinski.

“You want to go out there with the same mentality every shift.”

Jack Malone “It doesn’t matter if you’re out there with your normal linemates that you play with most of the game or someone you’ve never played with before,” Malone said. “You want to go out there with the same mentality every shift.”

Rust

Going into Sunday, the Red had only practiced together five times.

“Like many exhibition games, I thought: rusty. In a lot of different areas,” Schafer said.

Throughout the game, communication seemed to be a weak point as players missed passes and couldn’t find one another.

“There’s things in the forecheck, you know, being out of position, being sure that we’re moving away from the puck,” Malone said. “Those are two big ones that [Schafer] said in between periods, we’ve got to improve on — being more intense within the pocket, that’s something that you’ve got to be wary of.”

A New D Pair?

Malinski and junior Matt Cairns were paired up on the blue line for much of the game, and both contributed offensively while looking good as a unit on defense. Malinski had two assists, and Cairns’ second-period goal gave the Red the lead back for good after the Lakers tied the game 2-2.

With Kaldis, Haiskanen and junior Alex Green certain to

play top-four minutes and a handful of freshmen hoping to make a splash right away, Cairns worked to make his case

to earn some playing time after failing to crack the everyday top-six during his freshman and sophomore seasons.

The Red will take to the ice next Saturday at 7 p.m. to play the U.S. National Team Development Program Under-

18 team.

Christina Bulkeley can be reached at cbulkeley@cornellsun.com.

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Sports

SAILING

Red Adds Two Top-10 Finishes

By MONICA KIM

did not have as much time on the water.

“People did really well despite getting only a couple of sets before,” Fowkes said.

Cornell sailing performed well last weekend Still, the team did not finish off as strong as in both New Haven, Connecticut and Newport, they began the sail for both of the events.

Rhode Island. “[We need to] focus on improving consistenFinishing fifth at the Yale Women’s meet cy, mental toughness, and working together as a and ninth at the Coed East Coast Showcase team,” Fowkes said.

Tournament, the Red added two more top-10 “[The regattas were] good all around,” said finishes to its impressive fall slate. assistant coach Daniel Thompson. “[We just need With Nationals comto work on] going ing up in two weeks, out and executing.” both regattas served as “We proved again that we're one of the Thompson also perfect opportunities to best programs in the country.” expressed his slight compete in larger pools disappointment in Alex Fawkes and against a tougher the weather, as the batch of competition. wind made sailing Specifically, the Yale conditions far more Women’s meet allowed difficult on Sunday.

Cornell to sail against the 18 of the best teams in Still, the Red will likely encounter unideal weaththe country. er on bigger stages, thus the inclement weather Results from this weekend also reinforced the provided even more valuable experience to aid the legitimacy of the team, proving that its pair of top- team in the future. five finishes a week prior was no fluke.

Cornell will be back in action next weekend at “We proved again that we’re one of the best the MAISA Women’s at St. Mary’s, Maryland and programs in the country,” said senior captain Alex at the War Memorial coed conference championFowkes, “We showed the depth of our program by ship at Kings Point, New York. competing really well two weeks in a row.”

The two regattas last weekend — both of which were relatively bigger compared to earlier meets — Monica Kim can be reached at also provided more experience for the sailors who hk747@cornell.edu .

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Preparation | The Red participated in the Pre-National Invitational and the Canisius Classic in the lead-up to the Heptagonal Championships.

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With split-squad action in different states on Saturday, Cornell men’s and women’s cross country competed well in both meets, but they still displayed room for improvement moving forward. 14 athletes ran in the Pre-National Invitational hosted by Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, while 23 attended the Canisius Classic in Buffalo, New York.

At the notoriously competitive Pre-National Invitational, the men’s team finished 33rd out of 38 teams in the 8km with 852 points. Freshman Perry MacKinnon led the way, placing 115th overall with a time of 24:58.2.

“Overall [the team’s performance] was okay, but I think we can do a lot better. I feel like we have a lot more potential,” said MacKinnon.

The race also served as an important learning opportunity for the freshman-heavy team.

“I’m gaining a lot of experience running on the NCAA circuit … I’m getting used to the big races with a lot of people in them.

There's a big learning curve for me and I’ve been improving as we go. You have to earn everything in these races — there’s nothing that’s easy,” MacKinnon said.

“This weekend I really focused on getting a better finish, which I did, so I was really happy with that,” he continued, reflecting on the adjustments he’s made.

The women’s team ran the 6km and finished 20th out of 37 teams with 567 points. Senior Taylor Knibb led the way, placing 75th overall with a time of 21:10.3.

“I think [the team’s performance] was good. We definitely have places we want to work on but the point of the meet was to gain experience and we did just that,” said Knibb.

Knibb also commented on the ways in which the team could improve.

“Each individual has specific aspects of their race that they can

work on,” said Knibb. “I felt like everyone had about a kilometer or two within their race that didn’t go as they wanted to ... It’s just each individual running better and smarter, and that will add up to something bigger.”

At the Canisius Classic, the men’s team had three runners competing in the 8k, but without a complete five-person team, it did not receive a team score. Freshman Sean Henretta (25:51.8) finished first for Cornell with a ninth-place finish, followed by freshman Alec Hill (26:20.5) with a 23rd-place finish and sophomore Jamie Granata (26:42.8), who finished 37th.

The women’s team ran the 5k and finished strong in first place out of 13 teams with an impressive 18 points, 67 less than the second-place team. Junior Annie Glodek placed first overall and led Cornell with a time of 18:24.5.

Right behind her were freshman Tess Reyes (2nd, 18:25.9), junior Nadia Stratton (4th, 18:36.4), freshman Katy Storti (5th, 18:38.9) and sophomore Rachel Green (6th, 18:46.9).

“Every time we’ve gone to this [meet] in the past, our team has dominated and that was the goal.

We sort of did that — so that was awesome,” said Glodek.

Glodek discussed critical upcoming events and the team’s goal for the remainder of the season.

“Two weeks from now is the Heptagonal Championship meet, so we run against all the other Ivy League [schools], and the goal is definitely to place as high as possible, that's kind of what we shoot for every year,” said Glodek. “I think we have a pretty good chance to do well this year … I think our training over the next couple weeks is going to set us up to be ready to compete our best at [the Heptagonal Championships].”

Next, both the men’s and women’s teams will host the John Reif Memorial Run this Friday, Oct. 25, at the Moakley Course.

Alyson Wong can be reached at aw797@cornell.edu.

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POLO

Red Continues Hot Start With Three More Wins

By JUSTIN SUZZAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell men’s and women’s polo continued their winning ways this past weekend as both teams earned important early-season victories.

On the men’s side, the Red notched a weekend sweep, defeating both Westport and Skidmore, 14-11, and 13-4, respectively. Meanwhile, the women’s team notched a 21-11 victory over Melinda’s Prospect from the Oxley Equestrian Center.

Coming off an impressive 11-2 victory against Bluestone Farm, women’s polo (2-1) added another dominant victory to their resume on Cornell dom“We are very excited that Friday. inated its opponent we were able to pull that over the course of the entire game, coasting game out as a win.” to a 10-point victory.

“This weekend, Shariah Harris I think we played extremely well,” said senior captain Shariah Harris. “We played a pretty tough and experienced team, so we are very excited that we were able to pull that game out as a win.”

With three consecutive wins, the men’s team (3-0) is off to its best start since 2016 when it began the year with seven straight victories.

The early success of both Cornell polo programs cannot be discussed without mentioning both groups’ new leader.

Newly-appointed head coach Branden Van Loon ’13 has been leading his teams to success so far this season. Players from both the men’s and women’s teams recognize that the firstyear head coach has been integral to their success.

“Our new coach has contributed greatly to our teams’ success thus far,” Harris said. “Whether that is incorporating new drills during practice or reviewing more game film, he always comes up with new ways for us to better ourselves individually and also as a team.”

Both programs hope to carry this early momentum into Virginia later this week for the annual University of Virginia Invitational. The men’s team will battle Southern Methodist University on Oct. 24 in the first round. If they advance, they will then take on the winner of the UVA-Kentucky matchup

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New Regime | Under new head coach Branden Van Loon ‘13, both the men’s and women’s polo teams have not missed a beat in achieving their yearly success.

for the title on Oct. 26.

On the women’s side, Cornell will take on Texas A&M on Oct. 25. The team will look to avenge last year’s heartbreaking loss to Texas. If the women prevail, they will also face either UVA or Kentucky in the finals on Oct. 27.

The UVA Invitational will be a true test of where both programs are at this early stage in the season. UVA hosts some of the most talented teams in the country, and the Red will see its best competition of the year thus far.

“Our goal heading into the Virginia tournament is to

continue with the same intensity and aggression that we had for our game against Melinda’s Prospect this past weekend,” Harris said. “I believe if we keep up that intensity and our team cohesion, we have a very strong chance to win the tournament.”

With confidence emanating from the program, all eyes will be on Cornell when it competes in Virginia this week.

Justin Suzzan can be reached at jbs389@cornell.edu.

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Red Held Scoreless by Harvard and Albany does. We played very hard against Harvard, and I think that the cause had a little bit of something to do with it.”

Despite the bright prospects of the day Cornell field hockey suffered two losses versus top-25 competition this past week- and evident heart displayed on the field, end. Harvard and the University of Albany the inertia of history proved too strong to each clinched shutout wins over the Red, overcome.

Starting the game against the Crimson, 2-0, and 5-0, respectively.

Four years have passed since the Red the Red adhered to the season’s strate(7-5, 2-2 Ivy League) has reigned victo- gic trend — enter the field with energy rious over the Crimson (10-3, 4-0). As a to secure an early advantage. Although Cornell’s drive and vigor were apparent, its efforts were futile — “We played very hard against Harvard, the first half saw offensive domiand I think that the cause had a little bit nation by the Red, but five shots and four penalty corners failed to of something to do with it.” translate into goals.

“I feel like we came out and Andy Smith battled Harvard for the first 20 minutes of the game,” Smith revamped team embracing a new coaching said. “We had all the shots, we had all the philosophy and toting wins against top possession.”

Unlike the Red, the Crimson was able competitors this season, the team was ready to reverse the unfavorable course of history. to find the back of the net with more ease, The game on Saturday had a dual-pur- notching the first goal of the day in the pose — play quality field hockey and raise eighth minute of the quarter.

The Crimson — clearly energized money for the Make-a-Wish foundation.

The fundraiser was spearheaded by senior by their first-quarter goal — brought a midfielder Maddy Conklin, who was diag- revamped offensive drive to the second nosed with Cystic Fibrosis and became a stanza. The Red’s defense proved to be an member of the Make-A-Wish family in adequate bulwark against their advances until the last two minutes of the quar2010.

“She is the heart and energy of our ter. Harvard’s Kiley Allen took advantage team,” head coach Andy Smith said. “She of a rebounded ball and netted it past is an inspirational person in everything she senior goalkeeper Maddie Henry for the

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Good cause | The Red’s matchup against Harvard on Saturday doubled as a fundraiser for the Make-a-Wish foundation.

Crimson’s second goal.

The 2-0 scoring gap established in the first half persisted for the rest of the game.

The remaining frames saw staunch backand-forth defense from both sides, but the Red could not muster enough offensive opportunities to turn the scoreboard in its favor.

“I think for the full 60 minutes we went out there, never gave up, and believed we were in this game,” senior defender Kristen

Ferguson said. “We just didn’t execute under pressure and finish on the balls we had.”

The Red tried to learn from their mistakes as it faced off against Albany (10-6, 1-2 America East), but to no avail.

“I had hoped that our execution under pressure would be better against Albany, but unfortunately the same thing let us See FIELD HOCKEY page 13

MEN’S HOCKEY

Cornell Cruises to Exhibition Victory Over Nipissing Red improves to 15-0-2 in exhibition play in the last decade as six different players score

By CHRISTINA BULKELEY Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Sunday afternoon’s game against Nipissing offered a first look at the No. 5 201920 Cornell men’s hockey squad in action. The final 6-2 tally marked the team’s 15th exhibition victory across 17 games in the last decade.

With each of those six goals

scored by a different player — and four of them coming on the power-play — the Red showed strength throughout the lineup against its opponent, who had a 4-0 record coming into the contest.

But some shaky plays and missed opportunities also demonstrated room for improvement. Here are some takeaways from the tilt.

Lineup and Injury Report

It’s an exhibition game day at Lynah Rink. Here’s how Cornell lines up against Nipissing: Six players were listed as scratches going into Sunday’s game. Among forwards, freshman Matt Stienburg, junior Cam Donaldson and senior Jeff Malott didn’t suit up.

Also scratched were defensem-

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Dominance | Over the last decade, Cornell has gone undefeated in exhibition games, and its latest contest versus Nipissing ended with a comfortable four-goal victory.

en senior Yanni Kaldis, junior for them to contribute a lot.”

Cody Haiskanen and sophoForward Jack Malone — more Joe Leahy. who, along with his classmate “Some of them, it’s just nag- Stienburg, was selected in the ging stuff,” Schafer said. “So we 2019 NHL Draft — had an just didn’t need to play them assist and a power-play goal.

“Even though it’s an exhiearly in the season. I don’t think anybody’s [out] long-term right bition game, it’s special when now.” you’re wearHaiskanen “We have a really strong ing the jersey and Malott to put your group [of freshmen]. both had seafirst goal in,” s o n - e n d i n g We’re looking for them to Malone said.

“It’s someinjuries last contribute a lot.” season, with thing I’ll Haiskanen sufremember.”

Michael Regush Injuries fering an arm throughout laceration in a 5-0 win over Clarkson in the lineup last year, some of February and Malott tearing his which seem to still be nagging ACL against the Golden Knights some players, gave the freshmen in the ECAC Championship playing time, limiting the damgame. Malott is still waiting age that could be done to the to be cleared for game action, veterans.

Schafer said.

“Things got chippy out there; Malott has been skating and it’s another reason to keep guys wore a yellow no-contact sweat- on the bench,” Schafer said. er in Friday’s Red-White game.

Power-Play Pros and Cons Kaldis, Donaldson, Stienburg The power-play went 4-forand Leahy didn’t play in Red12 on the day, but that 33 White; Haiskanen did suit up. percent conversion rate didn’t tell the full story. Even with Flurry of Freshmen Eight of Cornell’s nine fresh- those four goals, the team wasn’t men saw ice time in the match; totally dominant on the man forward Matt Stienburg was a advantage — Nipissing even scored two shorthanded goals. pregame scratch.

“We’re just really trying to “They’re great,” sophomore forward Michael Regush said of find chemistry,” Schafer said. the newcomers. “We have a really strong group. We’re looking See MEN’S HOCKEY page 13