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Cornellians Attend United Nations Climate Conference

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Delegation meets with top global policymakers, including Pelosi

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Wildstein said. “To see how that process happens and how all of the different parties interact at a global Earlier this month, a group level was really important for me. of Cornellians travelled nearly You hear about COP all the time 4,000 miles to Madrid to attend in my field, but to see COP and the United Nations’ Framework be a part of COP is an entirely different story.”

While the United Nations has long garnered a reputation for its bureaucracy and ineffectiveness, one of the main takeaways students had, despite popular perceptions, is that there is plenCOURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY ty of progress and Climate summit | A group of Cornellians meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. work being made at an international level.

Convention on Climate Change Change Science and Policy to “The interactions that are — a two-week climate summit attend COP and experience the being made behind the scenes and that allowed students to brush convention firsthand, Wilstein the networking that happens is shoulders with some of the inter- told The Sun. so valuable,” Wildstein said. “It’s national stage’s biggest names.

But beyond Featuring government leaders hob-knobbing “We were really lucky. She was making from around the world, students with some of the who went during the second week world’s top clian effort to stop by the universities, and had the opportunity to meet with mate policymakSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ers, attending she [Pelosi] stopped by our booth.”

(D-Calif.), a Democrat who has COP25 exposed made aggressive climate change Wildstein to Pamela Wildstein ’20 action key to her political pitch. energy policy on “We were really lucky. She was an international making an effort to stop by the scale, which she said informed the not all politics. There is a lot universities, and she stopped by work that she plans to do in the of important sharing of informaour booth,” said Pamela Wildstein future. tion and data from an academic ’20, one of the conference attend“For me, it’s huge because this ees. “Speaker Pelosi was very nice. is the work that I want to do,” See CLIMATE page 5 Sun Staff Writer

She thanked us for our work in climate action and for dedicating our education to that.”

For the past few years, Cornell has obtained passes for students taking Earth and Atmospheric Science 4442: Global Climate

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As Christmas nears, downtown Ithaca features a variety of festive displays, including these multi-colored prisms, which can be spun around.

Scoop of Tradition: Special Ice Cream Flavors Made For C.U. Presidents, Deans

By MIA GLASS Sun Contributor

An eager Cornell student walks up to the Dairy Bar counter in deep contemplation over what flavor to choose. The options are endless: Would the student go for the luscious Triple Caramel Bliss, the refreshing yet satisfying Mint Chocolate Chip,

Alumna Awarded Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship Nina Acharya ’19 one of just 11 from Canada to claim famed honor

By JOHN YOON Sun Staff Writer

On Saturday, November 23, Nina Acharya ’19 was finishing up a Secret Santa gift exchange with her sister and childhood friends when she got a phone call. She had interviewed for the Rhodes Scholarship earlier that day, and was told to expect a call that evening.

That call came with good news: she had just been accepted into the scholarship,

becoming one of only 11 Canadian students to claim the prestigious award — whose previous winners have ranged from former President Bill Clinton to current candidate Pete Buttigieg.

Widely considered one of the most prestigious honors a student can earn, the Rhodes Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship that provides students the ability to study at the University of Oxford without paying tuition fees and receive an annual stipend

of £13,000. The Scholarship bears the name of British businessman and politician Cecil John Rhodes, who founded the award over a hundred years ago in the hopes of bringing English-speaking nations closer together.

Now one of 95 newly minted Rhodes Scholars worldwide, Acharya, currently a first-year medical student McMaster University’s medical school, plans on attending Oxford next fall.

“One thing about the

Rhodes that excites me is the idea that the scholars are supposed to learn from each other as much as they learn from their degrees,” Acharya said.

“I am looking forward to meeting the other scholars and participate in this sort of exchange of ideas and See RHODES page 5

the Chocolate Gorges trickled with bits of cookies and fudge or … the “Martha Pollack”?

The Dairy Bar has a tradition of dedicating ice cream flavors to important figures, such as University presidents, college deans and special guests. Cornell’s current president Martha E. Pollack is just See ICE CREAM page 4

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Chlamydia Most Prevalent STD Amongst Student Body

Gonorrhea and HIV were the other prevalent STDs amongst the 7,000 students who seek STD testing at Cornell Health each year

By AMANDA H. CRONIN Sun News Editor

Whether it’s sores, rashes, aches or other uncomfortable symptoms, this is just another busy year on the books for Cornell’s health center, which annually tests thousands of Cornellians for sexually transmitted diseases.

“Approximately 1 in 4 college students has an STI at some point in their life,” Rachel Clark, Cornell Health clinical director of women’s and sexual health, told The Sun. She said the clinic sees about 8,000 patients for STD testing each year.

Chlamydia currently tops the list as the most common disease currently spreading on Cornell’s campus, with gonorrhea, HIV and syphilis following behind, according to Beth Kutler, assistant director for medical services at Cornell Health. Citing HIPAA regulations, Cornell Health could not breakdown specific numbers for the amount of students who have received treatment.

New Yorkers across the state are also most likely to contract chlamydia out of all STDs, according to the CDC annual report. The Empire State clocks in at number 10 in the country for the number of annual Chlamydia cases, with around 119,571 reported in 2018.

Almost two-thirds of all nationally recorded chlamydia cases were among patients aged 15–24 years.

Physicians have also noticed occasional upticks for syphilis “over the years,” prompting state and Tompkins county health departments concerned about the spread of the bacterial infection to coordinate their monitoring

“The stability [in STD prevalence] shows that our clinical staff is doing a good job of not overor under-screening in the student body.”

Beth Kutler efforts with the University.

On campus, there have been fluctuations in the rate of students seeking testing over the last 10 years. Clark partially attributed these changes to the influx of students requesting testing after service access was granted to all students, regardless of whether they are enrolled in the Student Health Plans.

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Busy body | With over 7,000 students undergoing STD testing at Cornell Health each year, chlamydia has appeared as the most prevalent STD amongst students, followed by gonorrhea and HIV. But while the move created an inflow of new visitors, according to Cornell Health representatives, the proportion of disease occurrence has remained mostly unchanged.

The month of August is typically the busiest time for medical staff conducting urine and blood samples for testing, according to Kutler, who said that many students might get tested at the beginning of the fall semester after returning from summer break.

Besides those surges, the relative prevalence of STDs has been “quite stable,” Kutler said. “The stability shows that our clinical staff is doing a good job of not over- or under-screening in the student population.”

Even so, the rise of Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, Hinge and other dating apps has become a major driver in the contraction of STDs among college students, public health officials have warned.

“They are the apps most often used by individuals who

have tested positive for STIs, both in Tompkins County and in New York State,” said Jennifer Austin, Cornell Health’s director of communications. “Anonymous sex creates a real public health challenge.”

Compounding matters, the normalization of so-called “hook-up culture” and its associated anonymity can also lead to the potentially awkward situation of notifying your partner about your diagnosis, said Clark, who cautioned that “honesty is the best policy.”

Students looking to test for STD can go to Cornell Health, Planned Parenthood, CVS Pharmacy, Urgent Care offices and Cayuga Medical Center. Student organizations like the Panhellenic Council also sponsor pop-up clinics over the course of the semester.

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

Years After Department Closure, Education Minors Seek Reinstatement

By MEGHANA SRIVASTAVA Sun Staff Writer

Every Cornellian has heard Ezra Cornell’s famous motto for the University: “Any Person, Any Study.” While Cornell boasts 80 major fields from eight undergraduate colleges, there is one gap in the education the University provides.

Students who attend Cornell cannot major in Education, and, as a result, cannot be certified to teach K-12; in fact, there is no longer a Department of Education at Cornell after being shuttered over the course of two years starting in 2010.

“We do not have the additional resources that would need to be invested in the pro-

gram to ensure its pre-eminence as we move into the future,” said Kathryn Boor ’80, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, in a Cornell press release announcing the department’s closure nine years ago.

Cornell’s teacher certification program, a master’s program that allowed students to be approved to teach in New York state, also wound down at the same time, due to lack of resources and costly new accreditation requirements implemented after 2008.

“New York State had its own accrediting body for teacher certification. The recession hit that accrediting body very, very hard …

All the programs that used to be accredited

by New York State now had to get national accreditation,” said Prof. Bryan Duff, devel-

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Money matters | Cornell shuttered its Department of Education over the course of two years from 2010 to 2012, citing issues with resources. Now, some students are asking for its return.

opment sociology, who said such a hurdle ers in agricultural education, Prof. Jeffrey “requires more resources, more money, more Perry ’89, development sociology, now works faculty, [and] lots of time.” as a full-time professor at Cornell and an “When I first got here in 2011, Cornell adjunct professor at Ithaca College, allowing had a teacher certification program, and so, its students to be certified in that field. we could train teachers. We could recom“While we did lose the major and we no mend them for New York State certification. longer certify here, I’ve run four cohorts at But only in agriculture and the STEM fields,” Ithaca College, and in the 30 years that I’ve Duff told The Sun, noting the limitations of been teaching, the students coming out of Ithaca College are stronger teachers than what its program.

But the decision to not seek national we produced at Cornell,” Perry said.

And even though the University’s educaaccreditation, and instead close its department, was not one mirrored by other schools, tion imprint has been significantly reduced, however. Duff pointed out that nearby students interested in pursuing the field can schools Cazenovia College and Ithaca College still pursue the Education minor, which decided to conform to the Perry called an important new regulations in order of Cornell’s “The students coming out of component to keep on offering their Education structure.

Ithaca College are stronger education program.

According to Perry, As a result, Cornell students who major in teachers than what we’ve students interested in any field and pursue an produced at Cornell.” getting certified to teach Education minor are humanities, for instance, ultimately more “conProf. Jeffrey Perry ’89 are encouraged to apply tent-based teachers” to the teacher certificathan those who major in Education, highlighting tion program at Ithaca the notion that Cornell’s lack of an Education College.

“After Cornell got rid of its teacher certi- Department does not necessarily make for fication program, we formalized that referral poor educators.

Kyle-Avory Muna ’21, a student pursuprocess a little more … we call it on the website, an Articulation Agreement, but all it ing the minor, too echoed these sentiments, really says is, if you complete the Education saying that the lack of a “full-on” education minor at Cornell and do a lot of fieldwork in department has given reason to be “more crethe process ... you do have to apply to Ithaca ative with my education at Cornell,” which College, but you do not have to get letters of will “make me a better educator.” recommendation,” Duff said.

Nevertheless, Muna said that reconstiSuch a process aims to make up for the tuting Cornell’s dormant Education departUniversity’s lack of a certification program, ment could send an important “signal to the providing an easier pathway to teacher cer- New York state community and abroad that tification for Cornell students, while also Cornell actually cares about education.” creating closer links between the two schools.

For instance, since Ithaca College previ- Meghana Srivastava can be reached at ously did not have a program to certify teach- msrivastava@cornellsun.com.

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What’s in a Name? Cornell Dairy’s List of Notable Ice Cream Flavors ICE CREAM

Martha’s was made out of real bananas, but it didn’t taste real. But that’s my personal opinion.” the most recent continuation of this unique In 2015, the Dairy Bar presented “24 custom: Her “Bits and Bytes” flavor gets its Garrett Swirl,” blending together chocolate, tongue-in-cheek name from her artificial mocha, and smooth caramel, for President intelligence research.

Elizabeth Garrett’s inauguration. Cornell Its custard-like French vanilla is comple- students chose this name in an online mented with banana swirl and brownie piec- contest, voting out “Garrett’s Chocolate es, sprinkled with white chocolate to top it Bar Association” and “Cornelle Chocolate all off. The flavor’s logo even evokes Pollack’s Chunk.” computer science background, as it spells out Presidents are not the only individuals “Any Person, Any Study” in binary numbers. who can get their own ice cream. Dean of This Dairy Bar honor stretches all the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences way back to 1995 when former President Kathryn J. Boor ’80 had the flavor Boorange Hunter R. Rawlings III was inaugurated. Chip named after her. “When I first started, His flavor, “Inauguration Swirl,” was a we had Boorange Chip. That was orange chocolate ice cream with a swirl of rich with chocolate chips and that was fantastic!” mocha.

Ryan Newton, another Dairy Bar employee, In 2003, the Dairy Bar created “Ezra and told The Sun. Upon finding out that the former Vice President is a big ice cream-lover, when Joe Biden came to Cornell to give a convocation address in 2017, the Dairy Bar made it their mission to deliver a flavor for him. Tim Barnard, Cornell’s dairy plant manager, discovered that Biden’s favorite flavor was vanilCOURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY la chocolate chip, Name brand | The list of notable people with ice cream flavors in their honor and after a naming includes former and current University presidents, Joe Biden, and others. contest, decided to produce “Big Red, Andrew’s World View” for President Jeffrey White, and Biden.”

Lehman, an espresso-base ice cream featur“They were special chocolate chips ing a fudge swirl and hints of cinnamon, imported from Buffalo. They were extra vanilla, hazelnuts and praline pecans. Other small and milk chocolate instead of dark. It than inaugurations, the Dairy Bar also com- was super popular. We had requests for it memorated President H.T. Rhodes’ retire- for months after we had it,” Newton said. ment in 1995 with the special flavor “Rocky Cornell’s FDSC 1101: Science and Rhodes.”

Technology of Foods class also came up President David J. Skorton was honored with a “Freedom of Peach” flavor for the with “Banana Berry Skorton,” a medley of election of President Donald J. Trump chocolate with swirls of banana and raspber- in 2016. Judges from CALS and Cornell ry in 2006 to mark his inaugural reception. Dining picked this peach-base flavor that The flavor was taste-tested by his wife Robin featured cinnamon and graham crackers Davisson and her staff. The Dairy Bar com- throughout. piled 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream, These flavors were only at the Dairy Bar 11 gallons of raspberry sauce, 11 gallons of for a limited time and are currently not chocolate flakes and a few pounds of banana available. Now, the Cornell community flavoring to make 3,500 cups of the epony- excitedly awaits the next dean or president mous flavor. that will be honored with an ice cream fla“Skorton’s was banana and I liked his. To vor of their own. me, Martha’s tasted like the fake banana, but Skorton’s tasted real,” Dairy Bar employee Mia Glass can be reached at Karen Muckey said. “Actually, they told us mtg74@cornell.edu.

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Fan favorite | Upon discovering former Vice President was a huge fan of ice cream, Cornell Dairy rushed to deliver him a flavor in time for his convocation speech in 2017.

Icon | Margaret Lawrence ’36 was the only black student in her class at Cornell. Despite facing prejudice due to her race, she overcame and went on to have an illustrious career in medicine.

Famous Psychoanalyst, Alumna Dies at Age 105

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun City Editor

At Cornell, Lawrence was a skilled archer, scoring in the top eight and snagging a spot on the archery team, according to archived editions of The Sun. She would chronicle these challenges in a book titled “Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer,” written by her daughter, Prof. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, sociology, Harvard University. In one recollection, Lawrence described how when

When Margaret Lawrence ’36 arrived in Ithaca in 1932, she was the only black student in her class.

Denied on-campus housing due to her race, the future psychoanalyst and pediatrician once slept in an attic, working as a live-in maid to help pay for her Cornell degree.

Lawrence — whose name was Margaret Cornelia Morgan at the time — Lawrence 's story resonated with former applied in her senior year to the medical school Cornell University President Frank H.T. to continue her eduRhodes, who reportedly heard her struggles cation at Cornell, but was denied, since “twen- and penned a short apology letter for the disty-five years ago there crimination in 2008. was a Negro man admitted,” a dean explained, “and it didn't work out.”

That student had died from tuber- she turned 21 and went to register to vote, she was asked to take a literacy culosis.

Columbia University did accept test.

Lawrence’s story resonated with Lawrence, propelling the alumna to eventually direct the Therapeutic former Cornell University President Developmental Nursery at Harlem Frank H. T. Rhodes, who reportedly Hospital and becoming chief of the heard her struggles and penned a Developmental Psychiatry Service for short apology letter for the discrimination in 2008.

“He wrote her a Columbia University did accept short letter of sincere and serious apology for Lawrence, propelling the alumna the assaults of discrimto eventually direct the Therapeutic ination and racism she had suffered,” LawrenceDevelopmental Nursery at Harlem Lightfoot said.

Hospital.

According to The New York Times, Lawrence-Lightfood said that her mother appreciated the Infants and Children for 21 years.

When Lawrence — who would be “respectful and heartfelt apology.”

Lawrence died on Wednesday in known for her empathy for children patients, according to The New York Boston at an assisted living center at Times — was in medical school, she the age of 105. continually faced the compounded difficulty of sexism and racism as one of 10 women, and the only black Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com. woman in her class.

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Revered Astronomy Professor Cornellians Attend U.N. Dies at 80 After Prolific Career Climate Summit, Brush A legend in his field, Prof. Yervant Terzian inspired thousands, won dozens of awards and saw Cornell’s Department of Astronomy reach new heights

By SHRUTI JUNEJA

and I have taught many hundreds and thousands actually of students.”

Praised as an engaging proHis introductory astronomy fessor, respected academic, percourse, ASTRO 1101, which sistent leader, compassionate Rhodes called a “legend on camfriend and supportive colleague, pus,” was known for always fillProf. Yervant Terzian, astroning up the lecture hall in Uris for omy, passed away last week on many years.

Nov. 25 at the age of 80 “after Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger, astrona long illness,” according to his omy, who is the director of the obituary.

Carl Sagan Institute and While Terzian had currently teaches that an impressive and same introductory course, “What struck me right from the extensive CV — which told The Sun that she and beginning was just how upbeat and included receiving Terzian shared a similar optimistic he always was.”

NASA’s highest honor attitude towards giving and authoring over students who might not Prof. Saul Teukolsky 235 scientific publigo on to take additional cations — it was his science classes a chance to charismatic personality appreciate the complexiand passion for supporting aspir- increase both the size and the cal- ties of the universe. ing scientists that many of his iber of the department. A lot of it “He came from a country colleagues and friends remember was his doing,” Teukolsky said. where it was not easy for him to most as his defining legacy.

One of the faculty members become a scientist and he made it “What struck me right from recruited by Terzian was Prof. work and … he also dedicated a the beginning was just how Martha Haynes, astronomy, who lot of his time to make sure that upbeat and optimistic he always told The Sun that she first met other people could do that too,” was. Whenever there would be Terzian in 1973 when she was she said. some problem … whatever it a research intern at the Arecibo For his engagement in the was, he always … helped peo- Observatory in Puerto Rico. classroom, Terzian earned the ple figure it out,” Prof. Saul She still vividly remembers how, Clark Distinguished Award for Teukolsky, astronomy, told The although just a guest lecturer, he Excellence in Teaching in 1984.

Sun. “He was completely tena- still took the students on a field His academic focus was pricious, if he had something he trip and out to dinner. marily on examining the “physics wanted to accomplish, he would Terzian later went on to of the stellar evolution, planetary go at it and just wouldn’t take no recruit Haynes and persuade her nebulae, hydrogen gas between for an answer, always with a big to join the astronomy depart- galaxies and the presence of smile on his face.” ment at Cornell, changing the unseen matter in intergalactic Terzian began this illustrious trajectory of her career. space,” according to a University career from humble roots. He “He was an enabler of peo- press release. He also received was born in Alexandria, Egypt ple,” Haynes said, adding that the Gold Medal, the highest in 1939; his father had fled the he not only recruited talented honor for scientific achievement, Armenian genocide at a young faculty, but was amazing at sup- from the Armenian government, age, while his mother was the porting and retaining them. served on eight NASA commitdaughter of a fisherman from a As department chair, Terzian tees, directed the NASA New remote Greek island, according was also credited with build- York Space Grant Consortium, to his obituary. ing consensus and uniting vari- and held a variety of other scien“I was very curious about the ous stakeholders to build up the tific leadership positions. sky. In Egypt, the sky was very department into what it is today.

In the documentary, Terzian dark at night, particularly from “He presided over a remark- said he realized that “Cornell is the desert, and those diamonds able department, full of won- the place for me, and Arecibo in the sky needed an explana- derful colleagues — Carl Sagan, is the telescope … Through the tion,” Terzian remarked in a Tommy Gold, Ed Salpeter ... decades at Cornell, it has been a and somehow journey of happiness, discovery, the wisdom science, education. Cornell has “He is a bright and bubbly personality and sheer sense been a fantastic place to have a who just loves to share what he does.” of partnership career.”

His obituary asks that “in lieu that Yervant Patricia E. Fernandez de Castro Martinez brought to of flowers, memorial donations that distin- may be made to the Armenian guished group National Science & Education was something Fund.” Terzian was the founder documentary made for his 70th that not only kept the depart- of this fund, which is “a project birthday by members of Friends ment intact, but allowed it to that ultimately promotes scienof Astronomy at Cornell, a group grow,” President Emeritus Frank tific innovation by giving the he founded in 1992. “I started a H.T. Rhodes recounted in the unique opportunity to Armenian love with the sky at a very young documentary. scientists to carry out research in age. I read all I could about “I remember his beating up their home country through the astronomy, it was not easy to find on me to get two more floors support of annual grant,” accordbooks, but the American embassy added to the astronomy build- ing to its website. had a lovely library where I read ing and he succeeded and that’s A memorial service for Terzian all the astronomy books they no small undertaking,” Rhodes will be held on Friday from noon had.” to 2:30 p.m. at 404 Highland added.

Terzian went on to earn an In 2017, a conference room Avenue in Ithaca. undergraduate degree in physics on one of these new floors — the “He is a bright and bubbly from the American University 6th floor of the Space Sciences personality who just loves to in Cairo in 1960 and a Ph.D. Building — was renamed and share what he does and his awe in astrophysics from Indiana dedicated to Terzian “in recogni- and his intense and deep knowlUniversity in Bloomington in tion of his many years of leader- edge of the universe,” his wife, 1965. He then joined the newly ship, scholarship and citizenship Patricia E. Fernandez de Castro built Arecibo Observatory in to Cornell.”

Martinez, said in the documen1965, which was then managed Terzian was also remembered tary.

by Cornell, before coming over for having a profound impact on to Ithaca two years later as an students, stating in the documenassistant professor. tary that “the most important He went on to lead the depart- thing for me during my career at Shruti Juneja can be reached at ment as its chair for 20 years from Cornell have been the students sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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1979 to 1999, which, according to Teukolsky, who also served as chair, is highly unusual. In science departments, individuals typically serve as chair for only three to five years, Teukolsky said.

“He used the time to really oversee the hiring of a lot of the faculty, attracting world class people to come and really

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perspective.”

According to Christopher Galantino M.Eng.’19, although the climate-related challenges discussed at COP are part of larger, more complex systems, the conference motivated him to consider how he might incorporate solutions into life back at Cornell.

“Some of the challenges outlined in the conference are extremely systemic,” Galantino said. ”I think you have to push yourself to make a difference in whatever way you think you would be most effective towards sustainable development goals and helping climate change.”

Facing knowledge that five of the warmest years on record have taken place since 2010, the threat of global warming feels more imminent than ever but, according to Galantino, but the conference nevertheless found ways to encourage and inspire.

“It is so hard not to be negative about what is going on, but it’s encouraging when you learn about all of the really cool

ways that people are applying technology and policy in very elegant ways,” Galantino said.

“The fact that Cornell was able to give us the opportunity to present in an international context is truly an honor.”

At the conference, Cornellians were only with a handful of other universities, and for the most part, were surrounded by delegates and legal policy representatives from around the globe.

Invigorated by the chance to see the workings of climate policy up close, in trying to explain the complexity of climate change policy through a simple metaphor, Galantino encouraged individuals to “act like a bee.”

“Bees are very task-oriented and, [individually], they are not necessarily going to make a big difference with respect to the hive,” Galantino said. “When everyone is working together toward a common goal, the impact that a group can make is substantial.”

Stacey Blansky can be reached at sblansky@cornellsun.com.

One of Only 95 Worldwide, Alumna Claims Rhodes Honor International and Dance Ability Movement, which knowledge.” support people with While abroad, disabilities. she aims to study After graduatchildren’s nutrition, ing from Cornell, researching how the Acharya received varying developthe inspiration to ment of internationpursue the Rhodes al countries affects Scholarship after health among vulworking at the nerable communiCanadian governties. That goal marks ment on formulating a continuation of international nutriAcharya’s time tion assisat Cornell, tance policy. where her “I genuinely thought I had “I genuundergraduate no chance, but ... I knew inely thought honor’s thesis I had no focused on how I would regret it if I didn’t chance, but, the lack of vitasimilar to try.” min D affects when I was the sun-deapplying Nina Acharya ’19 prived Inuit to Cornell, people.

I knew I “She is just sim- ing college students would regret it if I ply an excellent stu- to scientific journals. didn’t try,” Acharya dent. She is sweet She also served as said. she laughs easily, performance director Pressing future you can see her kind and co-president of students who might heart clearly,” said the Sitara Bollywood be interested in the Prof. Pilar Parra, Fusion Dance Team. Scholarship not to nutritional scienc“A big passion of harbor self-doubt, es, Acharya’s facul- mine is dance, and Acharya said, “if ty advisor. “She was it has always been a when the time comes assigned to me due significant part of my you are still interestto her HBHS major. life,” Acharya said. ed, talk to the fellowThe first thing you “It took up a lot of ships office and put notice is that she is time, but is one of in an application. very organized and the things I was most You will never know she can manage her proud of during uni- if you don’t try!” stress easily.” versity.”

The Rhodes selecShe was also John Yoon can be tion process stresses involved in reached at “instincts to lead, Best Buddies johnyoon@cornellsun.com.

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decided to give myself a break over the weekend to relax and rejuvenate. I tend to do things in chunks such that I spend either a full day studying or a full day unwinding all at once. I realized, however, that I now have less than two weeks until graduation, and that I can’t leave spending time with and appreciating my friends here for later. So, with final papers and exams in the back of my mind, I went to watch Frozen II at Regal Ithaca Mall.

The scene where Elsa begins singing “Into the Un k n o w n” particularly caught my attention.

Besides the stunning visual effects and Idina Menzel’s graceful voice, I was most captivated by the eeriness of the melody that expressed Elsa’s sense of discomfort and desire for journey.

In many ways, I realized that I am like Elsa, seeking to venture out into the world that lies beyond the confines of the Cornell bubble, but also a little intimidated by what unknowns I face and will have to overcome to become the best version of myself.

When I first set foot on the unknown land of Ithaca in August 2016, I thought that I would become a very different person by the time I graduate. Freshman me expected graduating seniors, with their experiences on campus — academic, extracurricular, personal — to be sophisticated and poised, soon-to-be productive members of society.

But now that I am actually at this stage, I realize that not too much has changed. I still overthink every little situation, wake up almost every morning regretting why I hadn’t slept earlier the night before and ignore my will to live healthier by exercising and reducing my instant ramen intake. I don’t feel ready to graduate, and I wish that I could slow down time to relive happy memories. I wish I would have spent more time looking at the

comes to asking for help and seeking support when necessary. One thing that freshman me didn’t know that senior me now knows is that being resourceful is being comfortable with soliciting guidance from others.

Although my past three and a half years may sound dismal and full of regrets,

Freshman me expected graduating seniors to be sophisticated members of society. But now that I am at this stage, I realize that not too much has changed.

I am truly thankful for the privilege of being a Cornell student. I will miss all the amazing people I’ve met, the beauty of the gorges and trees and the feeling of knowing that I am one of the thousands of other Cornellians who have left a mark to make this place what it is. As much as I complained, I love this campus, its people and all that it stands for (love is a strong word that I use with caution, but I do really love Cornell).

I am most thankful for my parents who

As much as I complained, I love this campus, its people and all that it stands for (love is a strong word that I use with caution, but I do really love Cornell). have supported me through and through over the past three and a half years. Thank you for sending me to Cornell to give me the experiences that you never had, giving up literally everything you have to support me and Agnes. Thank you for teaching me to be thankful for what I have, for raising me up when I doubted myself and for teaching me to explore the greater world.

I came to Cornell with a 50-pound suitcase and so many hopes and dreams. I leave with a similar sense of mixed confusion and curiosity, alarmed with what lies ahead. I am still a little afraid, a little too comfortable here in Ithaca to embrace the uncertainty that lies ahead. I keep asking myself, is it ok to graduate with so much hesitation? Am I prepared enough? While I will never know the answer until perhaps another three and a half years, I know deep down that my time as a Cornellian now and beyond will serve as a stepping stone to venture out into the unknown.

I keep asking myself, is it ok to graduate with so much hesitation? Am I prepared enough? bigger picture and embracing the life of a college student as part of a greater adventure rather than a series of prelims, papers and internships.

And through all the regrets and doubts, I also know that I have grown and developed during my time here. I have learned most to be more communicative, whether that is with others or to myself. At times, I was not outspoken enough and felt like I compromised my sense of self. I realize the need to be more expressive and candid when it

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Jacob Brown | Mapping Utopia

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restigious universities like Cornell are, in theory, institutions where talented young people receive the education, ideas and skills needed to tackle the world’s most pressing issues. A closer look into elite culture reveals that these conceptions are fantasies that serve privileged, wealthy sectors of society that equate their own interests with those of the rest of the world. While the concerns of financial institutions, big tech and other sources of extreme wealth are carefully looked after by Cornell as an institution and community, the most fundamental issues for the world’s poor majority and for future generations: Climate change, nuclear proliferation and widespread hunger, are hardly considered outside of abstraction.

That two of these issues are existential threats to human civilization is a testament to the irrationality of managerial class interests which dominate discourse among the political, business and intellectual communities. That universities like Cornell ignore calls for modest steps towards social responsibility on climate change, whereas dialogue about world hunger and nuclear proliferation is virtually nonexistent, is demonstrative of an intellectual environment that discourages cosmopolitan, rational policy in favor of the pathological preservation of the status quo.

Elite universities indoctrinate future professionals and upperclass members of society into conformity, creating generation after generation of obedient capitalists.

Elite universities indoctrinate future professionals and upper-class members of society into conformity, creating generation after generation of obedient capitalists.

Contrary to the commonplace, paranoid belief that universities are overrun with neo-Marxist professors and

radical students, more American students study business than any other discipline. William Wang ’20 put it well when he wrote in The Sun that “There isn’t anything more intriguing and sexy than working on Wall Street for most students here.” In my own graduate field, two out of the four Ph.D. graduates last semester took jobs at banks.

The vast majority of students at elite universities are not looking to change the world in any meaningful way, but to secure or maintain their position in its professional and managerial classes.

Meanwhile, discussion of bold initiatives to address the world’s problems are largely absent from the campus playgrounds of the wealthy and privileged. It is not that issues such as world hunger are unsolvable abstractions no one knows how to address, but that the majority of the intellectual establishment has determined that issues such as the fact that 150 million children have stunted growth due to malnutrition or that nine million people die of starvation every year are unimportant — at least not important enough to implement mild budgetary reforms that would radically transform the world for the gmajority.

International aid organizations estimate that redirecting about 10% of global military spending could eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in 15 years. The United Nations estimates that spending about $30 billion a year could end world hunger. These are clearly achievable goals that would be of utmost urgency in rational socio-economic system. The fact that this readily-available information goes undiscussed at Cornell and other elite centers of Western education is indicative of an intellectual culture that values the interests of the boards of Lockheed Martin, IBM and other benefactors of the taxpayer-subsidized war machine more than it values the lives of the 100 million or so who will die of hunger over the next decade.

I find that in issue after issue facing the world, moral

approaches and rational approaches tend to look more or less the same.

Imagine if, rather than bowing to the will of powerful interests, the intellectual community devoted more of its resources to the establishment of a sustainable socio-economic order, or to the eradication of hunger, poverty and other manifestations of human misery. Imagine if the business-academic class had the courage or intellectual curiosity to have honest discussions about these barbaric realities.

Imagine a world in which our universities encourage students to seek bold, rational, moral solutions to the real problems of the world.

Imagine if, instead of seeking that “sexy” Wall Street job, Cornellians sought to create a world in which human needs are put before investor “needs.” A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.

Imagine a world in which our universities encourage students to seek bold, rational, moral solutions to the real problems of the world. An educational environment that does not encourage us to imagine how we might strive towards a better world for all is not an educational environment at all, but a center for the manufacture of conformity and for the preservation of wealth and power.

Jacob Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in applied mathematics at Cornell University. He can be reached at jbrown@cornellsun.com. Mapping Utopia runs every other Tuesday this semester.

Colton Poore | Help Me, I’m Poore

Change Your Major (Before It’s Too Late) A

s a student advisor for the biology major, I’ve listened to two cohorts of bright-eyed first year students talk excitedly about writing seminars, languages courses and PE classes. I’ve yet to hear one say they enjoy general chemistry, intro to cell bio or any other class that’s actually related to biology. It’s an implicit understanding between us that those classes are merely supposed to be survived rather than enjoyed.

As a senior, then, I’m nothing if not a survivor. I’ve survived general chemistry to then survive organic chemistry to then survive biochemistry, genetics and physics. I waited for the time I’d finally get to take biology classes I thought I’d enjoy, and I’m writing now to tell you that I’m only surviving those too. And after having almost outlasted biology, I can say that it’s a lot more exciting to enjoy your major than to endure it.

I stand today as a biology and English

gotten excited over reading lists and felt the agony of having to choose between two courses being held at the same time.

After my excitement fades, I pull out the four-year plan I made with my own biology student advisor during my first year, type in the course numbers with clinical precision and make the appropriate adjustments in my master spreadsheet.

I’m an English major by choice and a biology major because for the first two years of college, I thought I had to be STEM to survive, and afterwards I stayed in it because I had already invested too much time in it to drop.

I think a lot of people become engineers and scientists because they feel they must. They choose biology as first-years because they think it’s what they have to do to become a doctor. They study computer science because everyone around them is doing it. They choose engineering because they want a fulfilling career.

When I ask them what a fulfilling career is, they tell me that it’s a stable one.

As 18-year-olds forced to choose one of Cornell’s colleges to apply to, we haven’t been adequately exposed to other fields of study to make an informed decision.

The first time I realized that Cornell had seven different colleges was when I had to choose one to write an essay about two days before the application deadline. And in my mind that was conditioned to equate STEM with success, I quickly narrowed in on CALS, Arts and

I’ve survived general chemistry to then survive organic chemistry to survive biochemistry. I held out for the time I’d get to take biology classes I thought I’d enjoy, and I’m writing to tell you that I’m only surviving those too. double-major. Each pre-enroll, I’ve pored over the English course offerings,

Sciences and the College of Engineering — all of which, unsurprisingly, have science or engineering in the name.

And when we get to Cornell, we don’t gain much more exposure. Distribution requirements are nice in theory. But when we have to take general chemistry, introductory biology, math and biology lab in our first year to not fall behind, one required history course is limited in its ability to change my life. And engineers are similar, taking one introductory ENGRI before feeling like they must pigeonhole themselves into a major.

The consequence is a University of students who chose a career path out of relative ignorance, pursue that choice out of compulsion and realize too late that they made the wrong one. We get trapped in our major because it’s really hard to start over by the time we realize that we do, in fact, want to start over.

While I do know a lot of people that are entirely happy with their major, I know a lot more that aren’t. And the common theme among those that aren’t is that they wish they’d had more time to explore. But when we elect to explore, we fall behind in our requirements. So we become survivors. We survive our majors to survive our careers to survive our lives, when we really ought to be

enjoying them.

STEM may be the way of the future, but it’s not the only way to salvation.

That way has and will always be doing the thing that makes you happy — and not being miserable doesn’t count as happiness. I’m not miserable studying biology, but I’m not content, either.

If you truly enjoy science and engineering — and I have several friends that do — congratulations, you will be rich

If you truly enjoy science and engineering — and I have several friends that do — congratulations. If you don’t like your major, then change it. and joyous. And to the rest of you with “inferior” interests such as myself, please give yourself at least a small chance at joy.

If someone had told me that the peak of being a biology major would be breeding fruit flies and memorizing all 20 amino acids, I’d be reading Jane Austen right now and not writing this column. If you don’t like your major, then change it.

Colton Poore is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at cpoore@cornellsun.com. Help Me, I’m Poore runs every other Tuesday this semester.

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How Super Mario Unknowingly Fought Bots

’m not gonna lie: Art is hard. You practice illustration or animation or music or writing for years and years, waffling between periods of time when you either think your creation is the greatest thing known to man or everything you do stinks like a dorm room dumpster. When you’re an artist online, all of these internal suspicions are confirmed by thousands of commenters, emboldened by varying degrees of anonymity, praising your accomplishments and highlighting your flaws. In that kind of environment, you might look for ways to make your work better, to take shortcuts, to make all the money you can to support yourself. But in doing so, you might walk the line between inspiration and plagiarism, or cop others’ work entirely — after all, who’s going to say you can’t? The art police?

It’s just the Internet.

The Internet might not be such a lawless place for much longer. Last week, a large swath of Twitter’s art community took a stand against art theft. It technically started on Nov. 29, the day after Thanksgiving, when a Japanese promotional account for Sony’s Playstation posted a “PS4 Lineup” compilation video. The spot featured clips from current games like Death Stranding and Persona 5, punctuated by animated bumpers depicting an (unnervingl y - s m i l e y, like he knew what he was getting away with) cartoon character running, jumping and fighting through colorful shapes and PS4 controllers. It stayed up for only a couple days before Animation Twitter realized there was something wrong. The character’s design and environment were original and specific

to the spot, but his movements — swinging through clouds of dust and turning rubber-hose to jump on top of a planet — were all taken from somewhere else. Twitter users quickly started stitching together side-byside comparisons, suggesting that the character’s movements were all traced frame-byframe from a wide range of works, from small student films to well-known shows like FLCL and Steven Universe.Sony took the video down and cut ties with the animator responsible, but that wasn’t where Twitter’s anti-plagiarism crusade ended.

It continued on Dec. 3 when artists began to upload curious, text-based art, urging their followers to respond asking for t-shirts of the images. Every image had some variation on the phrase “this website steals art.” Why? For a while now — I first saw this happen a few months ago, but the trend probably has gone on longer than that — custom-shirt websites have sent swarms of bots, disguised as normal Twitter accounts, into the replies of popular artists. Whenever someone comments something along the lines of “I’d love to buy a shirt of this!” on a popular illustration, that bot downloads the art, removes the artist’s signature and lists it for sale as a shirt on a separate website. It then tags anyone who replied to the original tweet, posing as a regular user who just happened to find the listing online.

Unsurprisingly, artists didn’t On the Level like this too much — it’s a little like stealing a shirt from Kohl’s and then reselling it in the parking lot of the Kohl’s.

That’s when the Twitter artists’ plan comes in. They figure if they can bait these bots into stealing images that say “don’t buy

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from this website!,” they can trick them into warning potential buyers that the site sells stolen art. It’s a solid plan, but the trend mutated a step farther: Some artists started putting copyrighted characters in the images, like Mickey Mouse or Mario, in the hopes that Disney’s and Nintendo’s respective lawyers will join the fray. When an independent artist’s work is stolen and sold elsewhere, they usually don’t have the legal muscle to do more than request the site takes the one listing down, but big corporations are famous for using legal action to protect their IPs online. YouTube, in particular, always yields to big copyright holders to avoid facing legal action themselves, which is why the video-sharing platform has survived so long.

It remains to be seen whether this tactic will actually work, whether these bizarre shirts will stop the bot problem once and for all or just drive more traffic to these knockoff sites. Corporate legal teams can’t sweep every corner of the Internet, as evidenced by the copyrighted content that lives on

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YouTube despite its strict rules, the reruns of That’s So Raven sped up 1.25x, mirrored and pasted onto a stock image of a television that pop up if you know where to look. The Playstation incident won’t stop tracers from making money on other people’s work, either; outrage around the video has calmed down since its deletion, but that doesn’t mean the conversation around plagiarism is over. Every week, I see new debates about referencing vs tracing, homages vs rip-offs, springing up on my Twitter timeline like grass growing in sidewalk cracks. But maybe this past week is a sign of gradual change.

Maybe if artists continue to make noise, one day, copyright law will protect smaller creators the way it does larger ones, and The Bots will finally be defeated.

Olivia Bono is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at obono@cornellsun.com. On the Level runs alternating Tuesdays this semester.

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Jean Cambareri In between sucking face with Shawn Mendes courtside and becoming one half of the most meme-able couple of 2019, Camila Cabello has been falling in love, falling out of love and falling back in it again. More importantly, she’s been writing songs about all of it.

On Romance, Cabello is clearly drawing from more personal material (taking cues from her pop-star contemporaries Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez). Sonically, the album is an amalgamation of songs we have already heard on the radio.

Some are undoubtedly hits, but others feel half-baked and some others are simply annoying to listen to — especially those that

make generous use of her signature falsetto.

Most of the first half of Romance feels like different iterations of the same overly produced love song. However, I did appreciate the variety of sounds used; Romance makes use of Latin-inspired guitars, trap beats and of course classic pop instrumentals. But even so, the radio-ready tracks on this album seem to easily blur together, with few sticking out as clear hits. “Shameless” is an attempt to recreate the angst of Cabello’s 2017 hit “Never Be the Same,” with the dramatics dialed up even higher than ever before. Despite the strong build-up to the chorus of this

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track, it ultimately just does not pack the punch that “Never Be the Same” did and simply is not as memorable.

The sweet revenge song “Should’ve Said It” and the danceable “Liar” get better with a bit of time and I have found myself accidentally humming them to myself after a couple of listens, but unfortunately, many of the other tracks simply fall flat and blend into one another.

The low spot of Romance for me is stuck right in the middle of the album with “Bad Kind of Butterflies” and is meant to be somewhat of a thesis statement for the project: Camilla is in love with someone, but she wants someone else. Presumably,

this is drawn from her real-life experiences as Cabello has been in two serious relationships during the creation of this album. While the concept is a tale as old as time, “Bad Kind of Butterflies” is annoyingly dramatic and the production makes it oddly feel almost like a Halloween themed track.

The bright spots on the second half of the album redeem the repetitiveness of the first.

“Easy” is a love song with a chorus that makes it almost impossible to hate: “Always thought I was hard to love, ‘till you made it seem so easy.”

“Used to This” is undeniably

a bop and “First Man” is a sweet and emotional letter to Cabello’s father, the first man she ever loved. Both were uncoincidentally produced by Grammy-nominated producer Finneas, as they are unquestionably the high point of the album, both sonically and in their honest delivery.

On Romance, Cabello has not fully formed a unique voice within the industry, but she has proven her ability to churn out a slate of hit pop songs, even at the expense of a few fails.

Jean Cambareri is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at jcc444@cornell.edu.

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The Perpetual Quest to be ‘Good Enough’

o be completely honest with you, I forgot I had this column due today and when my editor emailed me, I had a minor freakout. But please, bear with me — I tend to overcommit myself, and this semester has been particularly bad since I’m desperate to prove my value to everyone again after coming back from abroad.

I spent last night in the studio, downing coffee and trying to work on two films and a paper simultaneously. When I was about to leave, my friend asked me to take a look at his cut again. Reluctantly, I sat down again and watched his roughly assembled movie I had finished producing a mere month ago. It was not quite done yet; there were placeholders for not-yet-shot sequences here and there.

The main character was out of focus in a few shots, some moments could be shorter, the music was mediocre, etc. I was so exhausted that I might have come across as cranky, and after I finally finished commenting he asked, anxiously, “How bad is it?”

Someone else asked me the same question earlier in the night, holding up a piece of costume she had made for my upcoming installation. The sheer dress seemed like it was about to disappear in her hands, and her eyes sparkled in the dim light. It had been a long day

— I said it wasn’t bad at all. But she was still worried about the thread ends sticking out from places and told me she would’ve done better, but she didn’t have time.

When I first started taking more humanities classes, I had a really hard time letting go of my projects. Unlike a problem set you can just submit and throw out of your head forever, creative assignments demand personal attention.

There’s always something to go back and change, always room for improvement.

Especially when you’re a growing artist, maybe you, like me, can’t help but look at your past work with many regrets. I made my first film almost three years ago, and to this day I still tell myself that I’ll revise it when I have time. I know exactly what sequence I would modify and where I would fade in which soundtrack, but I never have time.

And I don’t even have enough time for ongoing projects, which is anxiety-inducing. I try to pick and choose, but that becomes hard, too, when everything is so interesting.

Can I do each project justice with limited attention? If Escape I sleep less, if I do another cut, if I start drafting early, if I can just film for one more day, maybe, just maybe, it could’ve been much better.

But everyone has just 24 hours a day.

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There are deadlines I have to meet as a creative, for pay or for grades. In an ideal world I would spend as much time as I could with each project, but it’s also possible that I would never get anything done because nothing could ever be perfect. Some of the flaws in my past work still bother me, but more of them have grown on me. It’s endearing to see an earlier version of yourself through these explorations.

During the excruciatingly long post-breakup months, my incredibly patient ex-boyfriend ensured me again and again that I was “good enough.” At the time, I struggled to understand why being “good enough” still didn’t guarantee me a place in his life, but I was hung

up on the wrong thing. We all want to do better, to be better. But sometimes when we can’t, “good enough” is good enough. At least, it’s a nice thing to believe when you are lying in bed trying to sleep for two hours before your alarm goes off again as another existential crisis hits.

I had to whip this column out in way too little time. Treat it as a draft. Maybe I will revise it. But probably not before I get to the other 87 things on my list.

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Cornell Prof Finds Hidden Connections Between Energy and the Environment

By TUCKER HWANG Sun Staff Writer

With the introduction of congressional bills like the Green New Deal, climate change and the environment have been at the forefront of the nation’s mind.

However, for Prof. K. Max Zhang, mechanical and aerospace engineering, it was a class at Cornell that inspired his current research on High Energy Demand Days — days during the year when energy demand is particularly high.

Zhang’s focus within environmental engineering is the study of particulate matter, or, “the physical and chemical transformations of ambient airborne particulate matter,” Zhang said. “I did my dissertation

on nanoparticles and how they transform near highways.”

He was initially introduced to HEDD research when he first taught MAE 5010: Future Energy Systems, where he became familiar with the literature and current research around human energy systems.

The Energy and the Environment Research Laboratory at Cornell, led by Zhang, recently published a paper looking at the most recent data on energy consumption of New Yorkers and how the placement and use of photovoltaics like solar panels can help meet the state’s energy needs.

Zhang estimates that if the threshold of the voltaic cell is set at 10 gigawatts, you would only find 50 to 100 hours per year to be above that threshold. The peak consump-

tion per hour is usually around 13 gigawatts, he said.

Despite the relative scarcity of these spikes in energy demand, the energy production system needs to have the capability to match that demand, even if it’s not all the time.

To put it in perspective, Zhang explained the situation with a car analogy.

“My car is maybe 120 horsepower. The question is: When do you actually use that power? Actually very rarely, maybe once a year, when you really need to accelerate. But you have to have it, even if you’re not using it, in case you need it,” Zhang said. “In the same way, you need your power plants to be ready to meet the peak demand.”

However, Zhang’s most interesting findings came when he looked at ramping, a measure of the spikes and dips in energy demand, and how energy systems are currently equipped to handle these rapid changes in energy consumption.

“We expected high ramping during summer days, but to our surprise, [high ramping occurs] during sunny winter days,” Zhang said.

According to Zhang, in the winter, energy demand is actually the lowest during midday. But if it’s a sunny winter day, your energy generation from photovoltaics is highest in the midday, exactly the time when you need that energy the least.

When the sun goes down and people return to their homes in the evening, energy demand rises again but energy generation drops sharply in the absence of sunlight — a perfect recipe for high ramping.

Zhang says that this specific issue with

sunny winter days is also somewhat exacerbated by the fact that, despite higher ramping during these days, energy demand on the whole is higher during the summer.

Thanks to research like Zhang’s, energy providers are starting to notice and create contingency plans for these kinds of events.

One popular idea is efficient energy storage.

In the context of sunny winter days, for example, a system would store the excess energy in the midday and distribute it for use when traditional energy production methods can’t meet the demands on their own.

“When we talk about solar resources, or wind resources, that’s all meteorology,” Zhang said. “Renewable energy is really just a natural way of converting natural resources into an energy form. … That’s why energy and the environment are always coupled together.”

This coupling — a two-way cause-andeffect relationship between energy demand and energy supply — is the primary focus of Zhang’s new research. “When you talk about renewable energy, you’re really talking about the merging of two systems, the energy system and the atmospheric system.”

Zhang said.

But for Zhang, his study is more than just practical: “We are doing this [research] in the context of New York State’s goal of clean electricity by 2040: 6-gigawatt solar by 2025, 9-gigawatt wind by 2025. These are big targets in a short amount of time.”

Tucker Hwang can be reached at thwang@ cornellsun.com

The Environmental and Economic Impact Of Oat, Almond and Soy Milks

By CHENAB KHAKH Sun Staff Writer

Many Cornellians begin their day with a cup of coffee. Beyond the classic addins like caramel syrup and half-and-half, alternative milk products have recently gained popularity as add-ins for cold brews, lattes, and even fruit smoothies.

The rise in demand for plant-based milk products is actually nothing new. Since the 1970s, soy milk has been a famous alternative for those who were lactose intolerant, allergic to dairy or vegan. The latest rise in alternative milk products is particularly note-worthy because of the more recent emphasis on environmental sustainability and improving human nutrition.

Today, 37 percent fewer Americans drink cow’s milk than in 1970, and dairy milk sales dropped 20 percent — from $15 billion to $12 billion — between 2011 and 2017. On the other hand, plant-based milks have soared in pop-

ularity with sales at $2.11 billion in 2017 from $900 million in 2012.

While dairy milk offers a balanced mix of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, it also has allergens that can make digestion and consumption very difficult.

As far as nutrition is concerned, oat, soy and almond are all fortified with vitamins and proteins, but each to a different extent.

Unsweetened soy milk is considered heart healthy with less saturated fats.

Almond milk does fall short on protein content — about 1 gram per cup versus soy and dairy — but is a good source of vitamins A and E, and has less fat and carbohydrate content.

Oat milk has a high level of dietary fiber at 2 grams but also has a high carbohydrate content and a medium protein content at 3 grams per cup. It is also important to note that sugar and fat content will vary if the product is sweetened, flavored, or unsweetened.

The environmental

impacts also vary across the three alternative milk options.

A glass of soy milk produces about 195 grams of carbon dioxide, compared to dairy milk at 600 grams.

It takes 0.26 calories of fossil fuel to make 1 calorie of soy milk, in comparison to the 14 calories of fossil fuels needed for the same amount of dairy milk, according to a study conducted by Professor Emeritus David Pimentel, ecology and evolutionary biology.

It has also been found that one liter of soy milk requires about 297 liters of water to produce, which is one-third of the water required to produce one liter of cow’s milk.

After 2008, however, soy milk lost its crown in sales due to a rise in almond milk. By the end of 2015, almond milk was sold at three times the rate as soy milk.

Almond milk also has a lower environmental impact than dairy or soy milk, produceing about

0.14 kilograms of carbon dioxide.

What is of concern with almond milk is the incredibly high water requirement.

Produceing one almond requires 14.5 liters of water.

With droughts on the rise in California, a major almond growing state, the sustainability of almond production has come under question.

Oat milk is the newest and most rapidly growing milk alternative. Oatly, a Swedish company, introduced oat milk in the United States through specialty coffee shops. These cafes then began to sell Oatly milk across the counter in bulk.

As of January 2019, Oatly began to sell at Wegmans and will join Fairway and Shop Rite stores this year.

Oat milk has a lower adverse environmental impact, compared to soy and almond. To produce one pound of oats, it takes one-sixth the amount of water and resources needed to produce one pound of

COURTESY OF ALICIA WANG

Alt milk | Soy, oat, and almond milks are on the rise. almonds. Furthermore, oats at least to the extent that use 80% less land to grow the competition is honest.

Paying more attention to than dairy milk.

Currently, oat milk rep- reducing our environmenresents a small fraction of tal impacts is simply necthe total plant-based milk essary,” said Prof. Andrew sales in the United States, Novakovic, applied ecobut Chris Ross, vice pres- nomics and management.

Ross predicts that oat ident of marketing and research development at HP and almond dairy will Hood, predicts this is going dominate the milk industo change. try more equitably in the Ross suggests that dairy future in the United States companies like Hood will in both milk and all other produce both dairy and dairy products. non-dairy products. In fact, Therefore, it will also HP Hood launched Planet be important for farmers Oat, the company’s first and milk industry leaders non-dairy product, earlier to stay ahead of the changes this year to compete with to come.

Oatly.

“The competition from Chenab Khakh can be plant-based products makes reached at dairy improve its game, ckhakh@cornellsun.com

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Dairy, Cornell Alumnus-led Dean Foods Goes Under

By OLIVIA WEINBERG Sun Staff Writer

Dean Foods, America’s largest milk producer, filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 12, following years of declining sales and steep competition from both industry competitors and rival food groups.

Best known for producing labels such as Dairy Pure and Troo Moo, the company has been a staple of American refrigerators for over 94 years.

But despite its long venerated status, the dairy-maker has, in recent years, been the victim of milk’s broadly declining popularity as plant-based, lower-calorie alternatives, like coconut and soy milk, soar in sales.

Amidst increasingly desperate financial straits, Cornell SC Johnson School of Management alumnus Eric Beringause MBA ’82 took the reigns of the embattled company only four months ago. With decades of executive experience in the food industry, Beringause was appointed Chief Executive Officer at the end of July, after a slew of predecessors had failed to stem the firm’s bleeding.

Dean Foods declined to

offer comment to The Sun. “I am honored to join Dean Foods at this important juncture,” said Beringause in a press release. “I am excited to work with the Board and management team to leverage our scale and substantial assets to realize the significant opportunities available to transform our company.”

But the combination of a swelling debt load and declining revenue proved a nearly impossible challenge for the newly minted CEO to surmount. In what proved to be one of the company’s breaking points, Walmart — once the brand’s largest buyer — announced that it would drop the company’s products in favor of its own in-house dairy line.

Dean Foods is currently working with the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative on a potential deal in which the DFA would purchase almost all of the company. While talks are underway, Dean Foods has procured loans to keep the business running as it works its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, Bloomberg reported.

Yet even if Dean Foods sur-

vives, the rising popularity of plant-based alternatives cannot be ignored, according to Emily Ooms ’20, president of Cornell University Dairy Science Club, who said that most of Cornell’s dining locations — the famed Dairy Bar included — are offering more vegan options to keep pace with growing demand.

In 2018 alone, total milk output fell by over $1 billion, while sales of vegan-friendly beverages increased by nine percent.

But while the high-profile fall of a dairy titan has left many producers on edge, Cornell students involved in the industry have nevertheless expressed confidence that milk is here to stay.

The bankruptcy, ultimately, does not mean “a whole lot,” Aaron Harbach ’20, who grew up working on his family’s dairy farm, told The Sun. “The milk that the farmers were sending [before] is still getting sent and being processed … [the DFA] is still willing to take on more.”

Olivia Weinberg can be reached at oweinberg@cornellsun.com.

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POLO

Women Defeat Central N.Y. Polo

Quick thinking | The teams had a last-minute schedule change, but the women took down its unexpected opponent for its seventh win in eight games.

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

A scheduling conflict created by Harvard students protesting their university’s investment in fossil fuels forced Cornell polo to play the Central New York Polo Club instead of its Ancient Eight foe over the weekend.

Women’s polo found success, downing the club, 15-12.

The men’s team, however, was not as fortunate in its Saturday match, losing to the Polo Club 11-21.

These games bring the women’s record up to 10-4 and the men’s record to 8-4. The women have won 7 of their last 8 games; the victory marked a return to form after the Red fell to Virginia on Nov. 24.

The Central New York Polo Club draws members from a 75-mile radius, with half of its members being high school and college students and the rest of the team comprised of non-students.

Senior Anna Ullmann and sophomore Rachel Booth, who both also competed with the varsity team last year, helped lead their team to victory in their match last weekend.

Cornell polo is now done for the semester, and will be back in action in January. The women’s program will face off against the University of Massachusetts on Jan. 25. The men’s program resumes a bit later, and will be playing Yale on Jan. 31.

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

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Men’s swim and dive came in first place out of a field of seven teams at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio. In the women’s version of the meet, Cornell placed third out of eight.

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C.U. Ends 2019 With Sweep

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WRESTLING

Red outscores opponents, 9-2, in away series

By JUSTIN SUZZAN

for the goal.

In the win, junior Lindsay Browning once again played outstanding for the Red, stopping 23 Cornell women’s hockey concluded its 2019 out of 24 shots in the 5-1 win. season schedule by picking up two big wins on the After stomping its Ivy League foe, Cornell left road against Princeton on Friday and Quinnipiac New Jersey for Hamden, Connecticut, to take on on Saturday.

Quinnipiac (9-7-3, 3-6-2 ECAC). The result was The last time No. 4 Cornell took on No. 6 similar as the Red defeated the Bobcats, 4-1. In Princeton, the Tigers put up a tough fight in the first, Lewis continued her impressive weekend Cornell’s 3-1 victory. This time around, the Red for the Red, scoring the opening goal. Coming off earned a far more comfortable 5-1 victory. an assist from Slobodzian, Lewis took the puck The game was deadlocked until Princeton’s and charged towards the goalie deeking her out (9-3, 7-3 ECAC) Shannon Griffin was called and sliding the puck passed for the goal. for a charging penalty. Like it has done all year, Halfway through the second, Cornell once Cornell’s (11-1-1, 7-0-1 ECAC) power-play unit again got on the scoresheet. This time, senior jumped on the opportuniJaime Bourbonnais led the ty. The team waited for its charge as she took control of CORNELL @ QUINNIPIAC chance and worked the puck the puck in Quinnipiac’s zone. around the Tigers’ zone until She fired the puck towards the sophomore Gillis Frechette net and it found the stick of 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL opened the scoring. Her wrist Game: junior Finley Frechette for the 4 1 1 2 shot from the faceoff mark Cornell redirect goal.

1 1 0 whizzed over the goalie’s pad Quinnipiac 0 With three minutes left for the goal. Senior Paige in the period, Quinnipiac’s Lewis and junior Willow Slobodzian notched Coutu-Godbout was able to cut the deficit in half assists off the goal as well. for the Bobcats. Off a slapshot, the team’s leading After a quiet end to the period, Lewis once goal scorer was able to tip it in past Browning again was involved in Cornell’s second goal of making the game 2-1 entering the third. the night. Taking over the puck in the corner of The last period of play saw a defensive lockPrinceton’s zone, she drove towards the crease and down from the Red as it refused to let its oppoher skills were unmatched as she gave the Red a nent back into the game. Along with the solid 2-0 lead heading into the third. defensive play, senior Kristin O’Neil and Gillis The final period of play saw the Red tack on Frechette added goals in the period in the 4-1 win. three more goals to Princeton’s one. Cornell’s By the end of the contest, 11 players tailed a point goals came in a span of just six minutes and it put for the Red. the game completely out of reach for the Tigers.

Cornell will now enter the long winter break Lewis notched her second assist of the night off a having won 11 of its first 13 games. The Red will goal from senior Grace Graham. The Red then have a few weeks off before taking on Mercyhurst added another power play goal on a 5-on-3 from in a two-game series on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5. the stick of senior Micah Zandee-Hart. Only 30 seconds later, Graham scored her second of the night as she received the puck in the slot from Justin Suzzan can be reached at Slobodzian and beat the goalie as she lifted it up jsuzzan@cornellsun.com.

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ECAC does it | With the wins over Princeton and Quinnipiac, Cornell stays unbeaten in conference play at 7-0-1.

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What happens in Vegas... | The Red couldn’t break the top 10 against a tough field of ranked teams at the Cliff Keen Invitational in Nevada.

Tucker Places 1st, Red Comes at No. 11

By FAITH FISHER Sun Staff Writer

to carry the title of Cliff Keen Champion. After persevering through a grueling four rounds to reach the finals, he hit the mat against Wyoming’s No. 7 ranked Montorie Bridges in the fifth and final round, an opponent he had failed to defeat in their two previous career meetings.

Although Bridges opened up the final round’s scoring with an escape, Tucker quickly responded with an escape of his own to even the score. With the scoring deficit eliminated, the Red wrestler took

Cornell wrestling put a pause on its collegiate dual matches and brought its talent to the Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas, Nevada. Competing with 15 of its fellow top-25 teams, No. 17 Red clinched the 11th place overall finish.

As a testament to the tournament’s staunch competition, over 100 nationally-ranked wrestlers from some of the nation’s top wrestling programs were in attendance “It is still early in the year — I felt good in a field of 31 for Chas [Tucker], but we have a lot of teams. Among work to do.” the teams were No. 3 Nebraska, Rob Koll No. 4 NC State, No. 5 Ohio State, No. 6 Iowa State, No. 7 Arizona State control of the match, successfully firing off his first shot of the day. and No. 8 Northern Iowa.

“When you wrestle against In a third-period offensive attack, teams and guys of this caliber, Tucker pinned his opponent to you are going to lose a lot,” head the mat to seal his 4-1 national coach Rob Koll said. “If you’re victory.

“He has become extremely not wrestling against this type of competition it’s hard to deal with poised and confident,” Koll said. it when you face it. Hopefully our “He is really controlling matches. guys are learning from it, and not It was a dominating victory. With the way he wrestles, Chas doesn’t getting discouraged from it.”

Even though the Red has score a lot of points, so a 4-1 vicembarked on this 2019 season tory is like a 10-0 shutout score without four of its top wrestlers, for him.”

As he sailed through the tourCornell’s 2019 results in the tournament eclipsed its performance nament, Tucker conceded only last year. In 2018, Cornell secured one takedown. His win pushes only 40 points, placing 21st in the his individual season record to an immaculate “[Tucker] has become extremely poised 12-0.

“There and confident. He is really controlling were some mixed results,” matches. It was a dominating victory.”

Koll said.

Rob Koll “Obviously we had Chas who did a fantastic job and two other place winners, invitational.

Pivotal to the Red’s 11th place but we expected to have those this year was Chas Tucker’s tri- place winners. It is still early in umphant performance as the the year — I felt good for Chas, senior took home first place in but we have a lot of work to do.”

After taking a pause for the the 133 weight class. Sophomore Ben Darmstadt found himself holidays, the Red will return to on the 184 weight class podium competition at the South Beach with a seventh-place finish and Duals. The action will occur on senior Brandon Womack clinched Dec. 29-30 in Fort Lauderdale, the eighth-place position at 174 Florida. pounds.

Tucker is the 20th Cornell Faith Fisher can be reached at wrestler in the program’s history ffisher@cornellsun.com.