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Dean’s Impending Resignation Kept Grads to Object Secret From Top Business Admins To C.U. Actions

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Cornell University so carefully and closely guarded the impending resignation of its business college dean last week that it kept even the college’s own top administrators in the dark.

Kate Walsh, dean of the School of Hotel Administration, said in a closed-door meeting with several dozen faculty members late Monday afternoon that she learned of former dean Soumitra Dutta’s abrupt resignation only when Cornell’s provost publicly announced the change in an email to business college employees and students last week.

Walsh’s comments in the private meeting — related by a person in the room who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of retaliation by the University — show that even while Cornell planned for at least a day for the resignation of the SC Johnson College of Business’s chief, it kept top administrators within the college clueless.

The College of Business, which launched in July of 2016 despite protests from students and faculty, brought the hotel school, the Johnson Graduate School of Management and the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management together under one college.

L. Joseph Thomas, the interim dean of the business college,

said Cornell asked him on Monday, Jan. 29, to take on the interim position and said he was surprised by the request.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in an email to business college employees and students the next day, Jan. 30, that Dutta had submitted his “It has resignation and that Kotlikoff had been a accepted, effective i m m e d i a t e l y. privilege to Kotlikoff gave no serve rationale for Dutta’s sudden Cornell as a Dean.” resignation, which came three days after the Prof.

Board of Trustees Soumitra concluded a Dutta scheduled meeting in New York.

The unexplained resignation has stunned the Cornell community, sending rumors and concern rippling through Ithaca campus halls and alumni networks.

On Feb. 2, Walsh wrote to hotel school faculty members

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By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell Graduate Students United plans to file an objection to the University’s conduct surrounding the graduate student union recognition election held last March.

Jaron Kent-Dobias grad, CGSU communications and outreach chair, told The Sun that CGSU’s membership “pretty decisively chose not to accept the University’s offered settlements” in a referendum vote, nearly one year after the results of the election were determined too close to call.

Michaela Brangan grad, former member of the Union Management Committee, previously told The Sun that the referendum would present CGSU members with three options: filing objections with the arbitrator,

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#MeToo Founder Speaks at Cornell

Calls campus a ‘space that needs healing,’ cultural shift

By PARIS GHAZI Sun Staff Writer

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Innovation teday | Founder and creator of TED highlighted key elements of innovation in a talk on Monday evening in Kennedy Hall.

TED Founder Challenges Definition of Innovation

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

Technology, Entertainment and Design Talks founder and creator Richard Saul Wurman shared his thoughts on design while jumping from topic to topic, using anecdotes and metaphors to address innovation.

“All my speeches are a conversation,” Wurman said.

Breaking away from the traditional format of a talk, Wurman began with a question and answer period as soon as the doors opened, familiarizing himself with the audience. He

repeatedly requested audience members to sit in the front rows.

The talk was not Wurman’s first time at Cornell — decades ago, he taught in the architecture school as a visiting professor.

Although the talk was sponsored by Cornell Hillel, Wurman did not talk about Judaism aside from a few jokes.

“I am very proud of being a Jew, but I can’t speak about Judaism,” Wurman said.

Instead, he began by sharing some of his wisdom around a See TED page 5

As the latest reports of sexual misconduct emerge from a University report on Zeta Beta Tau, founder of the #MeToo Movement Tarana Burke told her audience, “we need to talk about Cornell,” at Bailey Hall on Sunday night.

Prior to her talk, Burke educated herself on sexual violence on the Cornell campus by reading the 2017 survey on the subject. “We need to be thoughtful and we need to be strategic,” she said.

Though she applauded Cornell for even addressing the issue through a public medium —since “a lot of schools ignore [sexual misconduct] and don’t even try to comply with Title IX”— what she learned from the statistics convinced her of the pressing need for a campus-wide conversation.

“This is a space that needs healing,” said Burke. “This is a community that needs to change a culture — there needs to be a cultural shift here, and this is not just for

Cornell, this is the same shift that needs to happen in the world.”

The results of the survey were not unlike those of other universities, according to Burke. She particularly commended the ample resources available to sexual assault survivors, but questioned that “a good portion of folks did not know about the services.”

What struck Burke the most, however, were three answers students provided for why they chose to not report their sexual harassment and assault incidents: they had “other things to focus on,” they “didn’t think it was serious enough” or they “wanted to just forget.”

“Nine times out of ten if a person thinks that ‘it’s not serious enough,’ it prob-

#MeToo | Burke called on students and faculty to evaluate campus climate.

ably is serious,” said Burke.

“Across the gender spectrum we are trained to stuff away those things, to hide them, to figure out another way to ignore it.”

At the heart of this report is “the insidiousness of rape culture” and how the silencing of the most vulnerable, particularly non-white, queer, and trans individuals, creates space for “doubt and blame,” accord ing to Burke.

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By ALEXIS OH

directed toward all undergraduates. Friedland hopes that Fabian can set an example for work that social science majors can pursue.

The Hill’s White House correspondent will “Sometimes students have a misconception that reveal what it’s like to report from the certain majors are more ‘pre-profes“front lines” of President Donald sional’ than others,” Prof. Friedland Trump’s administration and address said. “All over the country, after the post-graduation opportunities open to financial crisis of 2008, there was a humanities majors at a talk in Goldwin movement out of humanities majors Smith Hall next Friday. into majors that people, rightly or Jordan Fabian ’09, who has wrongly, thought were more practical.” appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, Friedland said the economic recovCNN and C-SPAN, has written artiery has reminded people there there are cles for The Hill on topics from many majors in the workforce.

Trump’s health to his handling of the “Now that the economy has picked government shutdown, according to up again over the last several years, it’s The Hill’s website. just a kind of reminder to everybody FABIAN ’09 Prior to his professional career, that there’s a whole bunch of majors Fabian majored in history in the College of Arts out there and that every major gives people certain and Sciences. His talk at Cornell, titled “Trump, skill sets that they can use in practical ways,” he Year One: Observations of a White House said.

Correspondent,” is hosted by the history departAccording to Friedland, Fabian will discuss the ment and was made possible through a gift from past year’s events from the perspective of a White James H. Becker 1917.

House reporter. In addition to the lecture, he will Every year, the history department invites a meet with a small group of students to further disrenowned alumnus cuss his experiences and career. to campus to speak The networking event is currently a College of “We thought to students about Arts and Sciences exclusive event, but it may open careers. [he] ... would be up to students from the other colleges if space “We’re hoping remains two days before the event, Friedland told particularly interesting.” that Jordan Fabian The Sun. will be able to The additional event will serve not only as an Prof. Paul Friedland show how he has intriguing presentation but also as a valuable netput the research working opportunity for students, Friedland said. and writing skills he learned as a history major to “We thought the fact that he’s a relatively recent good use in his professional life,” said Prof. Paul graduate would be particularly interesting and Friedland, history, the event’s host. inspiring to current students,” he said.

Although Fabian was invited back to Cornell by the history department, the event is public and Alexis Oh can be reached at aoh@cornellsun.com.

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East coast groceries | A Cornell research team studied how food travels from grower to consumer by looking into 11 supermarkets in rural and urban areas in the Northeast, including the one above.

Researchers Tackle Food Insecurity in Study

By KYLA CHASALOW Sun Staff Writer

Cornell researchers have released case studies of northeastern food supply chains that could help policymakers understand the needs of independent supermarkets that provide food security to low-income communities.

Researchers, led by Prof.

Miguel Gómez, applied economics and management, conducted interviews and tracked food prices along food supply chains to create an economic picture of how food moves from grower to supermarket to consumer.

Part of a seven-year, multi-university investigation, the project focused on 11 supermarkets in rural and urban areas across the Northeast and was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the role of regional food pro-

duction in providing food security in the Northeast.

Because low-income areas tend to have small supermarkets with less ability to order from large manufacturers, the researchers investigated whether “suppliers and mainly growers in the Northeast would be sufficiently able to reach these supermarkets,” Kristen Park, extension associate of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, told The Sun. “Many times … it’s a smaller, independently owned grocery store or supermarket,” Park said.

“They don’t have enough volume to be able to buy directly from manufacturers because manufacturers would never fill up a big truck of canned peaches and then drop off one pallet.”

The team also looked into the differences between regional sup-

ply chains and those originating in states such as California and Washington to understand whether regional supply chains might sometimes provide a better option.

To study these questions, the researchers could not rely on existing data, according to Park.

“When we’re looking at supply chains and trying to look at regional supply chains and other supply chains, there isn’t any data that’s collected by the government or by companies that’s publicly available … So we went with the case studies in order to unearth that data ourselves,” she said.

Obtaining that picture involved a bit of food detective work.

Researchers traced a selection of eight common food items along the various junctions of the food See FOOD STUDY page 4

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Fighting stress | Cornell researchers made a device called EmotionCheck that can remind users to calm down when worried.

Researchers Create Mental Health Aid Device monitors user’s heartbeat

By MARIN LANGLIEB Sun Staff Writer

A Cornell research team has developed a watch-like device meant to help students calm down during stressful scenarios.

Jean Costa grad created EmotionCheck, which was recently featured on the Daily Planet, a Discovery Channel program, alongside a team of researchers at the People-Aware Computing Lab. Users experience gentle vibrations on their wrist when their heart rate increases. This tapping, which is slightly slower than the user’s heart-rate, is shown to help the user regulate their emotions and calm down, according to Costa.

“When you feel the vibrations and you're not really thinking about it, you have the impression that you're actually feeling your own pulse,” Costa said.

Costa wanted to help people overcome their anxiety without feeling distracted by technological intervention.

“People can focus on their task at hand but, in the back of their mind, the technology can still act on them,” he said.

Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury, information science, who leads the People-Aware computing lab, said that part of what makes EmotionCheck unique is that it requires very little of the user.

“When someone is struggling with mental illness often times they are not proactive,” Choudhury said. “We see EmotionCheck as a way to deliver early-on intervention that is … keeping tabs on a person in a way that just blends into their everyday life, without requiring them to take a lot of initiative and effort.”

This method can be more effective than devices that encourage users to perform breathing exercises, according to Costa.

“If a college student is in the middle of a presentation, he can’t really stop in the middle and take his phone out of the pocket and do a deep breathing exercise,” Costa said.

While the device was not initially aimed at college stu-

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dents, Costa said that universities, especially Cornell, have been a great place to study the intersection of mobile technology and mental health intervention.

“Students and college students in particular have just left home and experience a lot of changes and stress, but they are also avid users of technology,” Choudhury said. “They are a receptive audience to use technology and help understand problems in mental health and to deliver intervention.”

Although EmotionCheck has only been researched in a lab, Costa is now trying to incorporate the same technology into a smartwatch app. The project, which Costa plans to

“People can focus on their task at hand but, in the back of their mind, the technology can still act on them.”

Jean Costa grad start in the next month, will test if the technology works in the real world.

The lab team will conduct a study in which students will try the technology with Apple Watch to determine whether the program functions in classes, exams or at home, according to Costa.

“In this way, we can better understand the effectiveness of technologies like EmotionCheck in our daily lives,” he said.

In the future, Costa said the device might be able to predict times or places where individuals will feel anxious and could calm them down before they realize that they are stressed.

Costa also noted that, while the smartwatch will be able to collect information that can help users, data collection isn’t the goal of the project.

“My goal is to focus on intervention,” he said. “The sensing part is important, but if you can’t intervene to directly help the person, it doesn’t solve the problem.”

Marin Langlieb can be reached at mlanglieb@cornellsun.com.

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Food Insecurity Investigated Mystery of Dean Dutta Supermarkets can obtain healthy foods from wholesale FOOD STUDY

“The environmental impact is not built into Continued from page 3 the cost,” she said. “We’re not paying for the carbon dioxide emissions.” supply chain.

Despite the lower transportation costs and fuel “We interviewed the supermarket owner, use, Park cautioned that the debate over whether manager and then we interviewed their suppli- regional supply chains are cheaper or more enviers,” Park said. “We asked them about how much ronmentally friendly is not resolved. volume they move, how much they paid in trans“A lot of times northeast production might portation, what were the prices— purchase price, not be as efficient as California,” she said. “They selling price— to get can produce many a sense of what volitems much cheaper “Growers were big enough ... [that] umes came from what than the northeast, everything that they had to offer could even factoring in transareas of the country.”

What they discovbe offered through the supermarket .” portation.” ered left them with “We’ve barely important knowltouched the surface of Prof. Kristen Park edge: supermarkets some of these quesgenerally could tions,” Park continued. obtain healthy foods through wholesale Still, Park said that her team’s research is an providers, including foods from the Northeast. important step towards creating better numerical “We found out that … growers were big models of food production that could help polienough and had enough volume that they sold cymakers to make informed decisions about through the wholesaler and then everything that which areas of production and transportation to they had to offer could be offered through the support and to evaluate whether there might be supermarket,” Park said. “policy measures that are inhibiting those proThe researchers also discovered clear differ- ducers.” ences in transportation costs between regional The hope is that more informed policies will and non-regional supply chains. benefit both independent supermarkets and proOne of their most important findings was that ducers throughout the region. lower transportation costs and fewer delays times “You can use the numbers to help talk to polwill allow “the Northeast to continue to be an icymakers or other people about the northeast important supplier,” according to Park. and it continuing to be a provider of food in the She also compared regional suppliers to other region,” she said. suppliers from an environmental perspective, saying that lower transportation costs also means less Kyla Chasalow can be reached at fuel consumption. kchasalow@cornellsun.com.

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urging them not to speculate on the reasons for Dutta's resignation with students.

“Please, please refrain from doing so, as well as from talking about it in front of them,” she wrote to the faculty. “It does not provide support to our students and heightens their anxiety levels.”

“If they ask you about it, please simply say you don't know, but we are moving forward as a school and college,” she continued. “It would be helpful if you could do the same with our alumni.”

Over the weekend, Dutta, who will stay at Cornell as a professor of management, made his first public comment since his resignation in a post on LinkedIn. “The time had come for a transition in leadership given the completion of the successful merger of the three schools within the SC Johnson College of Business and the many achievements of the College over the last years,” Dutta said in the post.

“It has been a privilege to serve Cornell as a Dean and I am very grateful to my team and the faculty, staff and students of the College for their support, dedication and friendship,” added Dutta, who has not responded to multiple requests for comment.

“I look forward to being part of the Cornell community as a Professor in the coming years.”

Dutta had given no indication that he planned to resign, and at an alumni gathering on Jan. 25 — five days before stepping down — Dutta painted a positive picture of the college, according to an alumnus in attendance.

Tim Cole ’83 MBA ’84 said in an email to The Sun that Dutta “provided a comprehensive and very positive update” on the business college at the alumni event at a conference center in Midtown Manhattan.

“There was no mention or indication of an impending departure,” said Cole, a hotel school alumnus who is now the general manager of a country club in Westchester County. “I was stunned when I received an e-mail about his resignation.”

John S. Dyson ’65, after whose father the Dyson school is named, once criticized the process by which Cornell proposed and sought to create the College of Business but later relented after winning concessions from the University.

In an email to The Sun last week, Dyson, founder and chairman of Millbrook Capital Management, a private equity firm, said that, as a trustee emeritus, he had followed Dutta’s abrupt resignation “with great interest.”

“I completely support the decision of [President Martha Pollack] and the Provost as we continue to build an even stronger business program at Cornell,” Dyson said.

He emphasized that H. Fisk Johnson ’79 and he have “been very supportive of cherishing the distinctiveness” of the three schools that merged under the College of Business umbrella.

“I am sure we are now on the right track with Fisk’s transformational gift including an important challenge grant portion.”

Johnson’s $150 million donation in January of 2017 — the largest ever to Cornell’s Ithaca campus — affixed his name to the school. Johnson, the CEO and chairman of SC Johnson who has five degrees from Cornell, had no part in Dutta’s resignation, a senior vice president of the company, Kelly M. Semrau, said in a statement to The Sun last week.

Dutta was scheduled to participate in an event on Monday in which he would answer questions live on Twitter, but the Indian software and service companies trade association hosting the event, NASSCOM, canceled, telling The Sun that Dutta was delayed in his travel.

“His absence was caused by travel delays today as he moved from Boston to France," Kavita Doshi, senior manager of corporate and digital communications at NASSCOM, told The Sun on Monday. “We are looking to reschedule it next week.”

In the meeting on Monday in Statler Hall, Walsh said the change in leadership was a personnel decision and that Cornell would issue no further comment, she confirmed.

Several faculty members said they were concerned about the direction of the College of Business, the person in the room said.

Walsh said in an email to The Sun on Monday that the hotel school is “on a growth trajectory and it will continue, even with this change in leadership.”

Dean Thomas expressed a desire to “move forward — and not just keep idle until a permanent dean is found,” Walsh said.

“That’s what I am hopeful will happen and I very much appreciate that he has agreed to take on this role.”

Cornell has declined to answer all questions about Dutta’s resignation, including whether Cornell asked him to resign, whether the Board of Trustees voted on the change and whether Cornell stands by Dutta’s statement on LinkedIn. Asked if Cornell employees who speak to The Sun are at risk of retaliation, John Carberry, the director of media relations, said in an email that Cornell employees “with work-related access to confidential information pertaining to employees, students or patients are aware of their responsibility to protect privacy.”

“Beyond that, the university does not restrict anyone’s right to speak to the press,” Carberry said.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nickbogel@gmail.com

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theme of TED: subtraction.

Wurman said the TED conference began by “subtracting virtually everything I hated” about other conferences at the time.

These changes included taking away the lectern, eliminating panels and long speeches and having multiple subjects be the focus of the conference.

“A lot of [TED] was by subtraction,” he said. “Taking away a lot of things that were unnecessary.”

Wurman furthered his discussion by challenging what is commonly thought of as innovation. He referenced the Tesla as an example, calling it “an electric car they made nicer, better.”

“It is the false notion that this is innovation,” Wurman said. “We have to pull apart all the notions of what we worship and what we think about as innovation... I think the Tesla car is nice, [but] it is not a fundamental look at what things are.”

Wurman also addressed how the health care system is viewed today to further encourage his audience to examine all components of innovation. He noted the difference between “preventative medicine” such as healthy eating and and “curative medi-

cine” like hospitals.

“There is a whole look at medicine that has to do with preventative medicine,” he said.

“Nobody talks about that.”

Education is another sector where innovation can strike, according to Wurman.

“There is a whole system as a great education system and a great learning system,” he said.

“Two completely different systems. Learning is remembering what you are interested in.

Interest is what drives us.”

Currently, Wurman said, “nothing is fundamentally about learning [and] nothing is fundamentally about health and wellbeing. It’s about the cost.”

Wurman, a trained architect, is interested in design and understanding patterns.

“The big design problem is designing your life,” Wurman said, “I spend everyday all day just trying to see patterns, just trying to find some pathway, some way of visualizing my world around me. Sometimes I come to a conclusion in a book, and sometimes not.”

Sara Hwong ’18, was inspired by the talk by Wurman.

“His disregard for convention was inspiring,” Hwong said. “It was definitely thoughtprovoking.”

Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at akilpatrick@cornellsun.com.

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accepting the University’s settlement of negotiations or accepting the results of the election.

The referendum, which was slated to begin in October, concluded on Friday, Jan. 26, KentDobias said. “[The offered settlements] frankly didn’t have many of the features we would have liked to protect us from the University breaking our agreements like they did during the last campaign,” Kent-Dobias said.

Kent-Dobias said the University’s offer amounted to another union recognition election under the same terms as the first, which he said “didn’t seem like a worthwhile settlement” to CGSU members after the University had “skirted the spirit of those terms and at times the letter of them.”

Etha Susca grad, administrative liaison for CGSU and UMC member, previously told The Sun that objections would be based on alleged, unfair labor practices by the University.

These actions, Susca had said, included offering health insurance benefits to graduate students on election day, claiming CGSU intimidated voters during the election and making statements regarding unionization in the Ask a Dean forum emailed by administrators to graduate students.

Kent-Dobias noted that objections will not be filed until after CGSU holds a public general assembly meeting on Feb. 15. There, he said, members

will discuss the recommended resolution they wish to submit to the arbitrator along with their objections.

Kent-Dobias said he expects the University to run “some sort of soft PR campaign” airing their views on the union recognition election.

Kent-Dobias also raised the possibility that the University could file its own objections. As The Sun previously reported, Joel Malina, vice president for university relations, told the Chronicle of Higher Education in September that if CGSU decided to file objections the University could follow suit and submit its own complaint.

The question of whether or not another union recognition election will be held remains to be determined and will be brought to membership at the upcoming meeting, KentDobias said.

“I think right now most active members are pretty ambivalent about that,” he said. “I think when we file, if we do ask for a retry to the election, we will likely ask the arbitrator to make that at least a year out so that there’s time for everything to settle.

Certainly we don’t have a plan to attempt anything within this semester.”

When asked about the progress of negotiations with CGSU and the University’s plans regarding the matter of graduate student unionization, the University said it had no comment at this time.

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

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“#MeToo is not about taking down powerful men,” said Burke. “This is not just a movement for women — more specifically, for famous, white, cisgender women.”

To “look at the rest of the spectrum” of gender-based violence on campus, she suggested developing community spaces that protect the most vulnerable and “discourage shame and encourage self-care.” If these platforms do not exist, she encouraged students to demand them.

“It’s not intangible,” said Burke on the value of community healing. “We know the statistics.

We know that there are survivors everywhere.

We have to create spaces that are trauma informed, we have to create policies that protect and policies that support.”

“Every college campus is a community, and that means that you deserve protection and you deserve safety,” Burke told her audience. “The solutions should be built around you and you should be centered in the process.”

As she recalled an experience from when she was 22 and “couldn’t even bring [herself ] to ‘Me Too’” when a young girl shared her sexual abuse story, she stressed that sometimes survivors can find greater solace in empathy than sympathy —“Listen with your heart,” she said.

Burke — who added that she does not identify as an “activist” but rather an “organizer”— began her work on racial causes while she was a student at Auburn University, at a time when sexual harassment “wasn’t a big topic, to be honest,” she said.

Although “in the whole history of the world and sexual violence in this country we have been talking about this for four months,” she told her audience to expand the scope of #MeToo beyond sexual harassment in the workplace.

An intent of the #MeToo Movement is community healing at a global scale, but Burke commented that people often have misconceptions Paris Ghazi can be reached at about what the #MeToo movement is. pghazi@cornellsun.com.

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One Week Later: Still No Answers on Dutta Departure ONE WEEK AGO, PROVOST MICHAEL KOTLIKOFF announced the surprise resignation of Soumitra Dutta, dean of the SC Johnson College of Business.

In the seven days since, the University has refused to explain the circumstances of Dutta’s departure. The Sun has reported that administration officials are working hard behind the scenes to maintain silence, and a brief statement released by Dutta on his LinkedIn page offers no further substantive explanation for his exit.

The announcement blindsided not only Dutta’s interim successor, L. Joseph Thomas, but faculty and administrators in and out of the business college, including the dean of the hotel school. Professors and students alike have become amateur Poirots and Marples, speculating over coffee as to the reasons why the dean left so abruptly.

Continued stonewalling on Dutta will only have one effect: a loss of trust in the University. Faculty, staff and students have a right to know the answers to their many questions, and every day that goes by without an explanation from the administration is an indicator that Day Hall is uninterested in accountability and undeserving of our trust.

By remaining silent, the University has allowed for the creation of a fast-growing rumor mill, which, if not checked by facts, will inevitably spin out of control and damage Cornell. The only way to put such speculation to rest is to provide an accounting for Dutta’s exit and the intense secrecy that followed.

Allowing this to go any further is unfair to the faculty, to the staff, to the students and to Dutta himself. We need answers, and we need them now.

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Why The Super Bowl?

ou’re told to write about what you know — with good reason, in order to avoid assuming the likeness of a total dud and expounding on topics that are far beyond your expertise. Today, though, decorum begs to be broken as I attempt to comprehend the national spectacle that is the Super Bowl.

Powerful enough to coax a purr out of President Donald J. Trump, Super Bowl LII transported us to an alternate universe where viewers’ pride and happiness are inextricably linked to the wins of their athletic counterparts. [Spoiler Alert] “Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles on a great Super Bowl victory!” — a tweet posted last night from Trump’s own account, staggering and confounding in its authenticity, begins to capture the scope of this annual match. Such a priority is the occasion, in fact, that previous commitments are rescheduled and responsibilities are dismissed for a fateful few hours. For 52 years now, the Super Bowl has commanded respect. Arguably, a sizable chunk of loyalty lies in tradition, so for the Super Bowl to age so gracefully is unsurprising. Yet, year after year, the Super Bowl receives heavier, more energetic viewership than any of several award shows featuring Hollywood’s elite. It always graduates in status to something of a historic development, and, I think, understandably so.

The renowned halftime performance, headlined by Justin Timberlake’s smooth vocals, invites some speculation on the junction of arts and athletics. The entertainment industry is founded on extravagance and profits from viewers’ inclination to escape reality. It encourages our emotions to latch onto distinctly extrinsic events. We experience the joys and sorrows of our favorite on-screen personalities. We develop affections for our dream celebrities (or “stan” them, so to speak); we vocalize approval and dissent over actions that have no direct bearing on us. We are personally offended or pleased or angered by the lifestyles and relationships of well-known figures. This level of comfort that so many onlookers feel with unrequited attention is incredibly strange to me.

Sports, in contrast, narrow the rift between celebrity and supporter. The Super Bowl, then, is a meaningful investment. It is an overt testament to the common man, self-made, fancy watch on his wrist earned through strenuous training.

Although athletes also live lavishly and, to some degree, distance themselves from the middle class, their diligence is unique to them. While film stars are concerned with appearance from a largely cosmetic standpoint, athletes rely on health and fitness to maintain their careers.

Recognizing this distinction elevates the significance of sporting events beyond simply entertainment — they are culminations of concentrated personal effort.

Still, the craze surrounding reputed artists often overshadows the contributions of athletes, many of whom, like Colin Kaepernick, also mobilize themselves for noble causes. It’s intriguing to compare the sway of usual celebrities in the film and television space with the reach of drafted athletes. Fundamentally, both parties embody certain palpable idealities that many an American strives toward. Exceeding this implicit commonality of attractiveness, however, is a shared image of success, easily standardized and easily subscribed to. It may be that the affinity for actors, actresses and musicians grows more profound due to fluctuating depiction in the media — viewers per-

haps feel more intimately connected after a series of scandals and triumphs, but, in my perception, athletes tend to live less glamorously and toil more regularly than artists do. Yet, athletes remain in the periphery of the limelight and are bypassed by those seeking to #relate, fueling a curious discrepancy.

There’s also the phenomenon of Super Bowl commercials, where arts and athletics collide once more. Ironically, the multibillion-dollar companies that can afford even 30-second slots in the advertisement queue are, well… multibilliondollar companies — the ones that already revel in their established brands. It is a little bit — just a little bit — tipped in favor of the wealthy megacorporation, but what isn’t? At first glance, it seems a daunting task to cater an advertisement to the approximately 110 million sets of eyes soaking up the Super Bowl, but these corporations follow the science. Some light, friendly humor, a deftly chosen face and a smidgen of flattery reduces all of America to a single target identity. This is not to discredit the ideation and production of visual media or the value added by actors and actresses — it is just to highlight the various circles of social influence and their differing fibers.

In some ways, the appeal of the Super Bowl resembles that of the Olympics. You wouldn’t require the classification of

I wonder what it would take to produce screams and shouts, hot tempers and feverous excitement, about things of real, pressing consequence. being a sports enthusiast — trust me — to feast on marvelous displays of physical prowess, often challenging the limits of the human form. So, I appreciate the charm of the Super Bowl, and it is refreshing to witness such passion, in players and fans alike, amidst a decade with dwindling interest in unity. Still, it’s quite mysterious that, despite its global scale, in the U.S., the Olympics fails to stimulate such concentrated scrutiny and engrossment outside an immediate sphere of impact as does the Super Bowl.

I’m not grappling with the prestige of the Super Bowl as much as with the fierce sentiment it evokes. I wonder what it would take to produce screams and shouts, hot tempers and feverous excitement, about things of real, pressing consequence. I wonder what it would take to sustain the zeal and prevent it from dissipating as soon as a shinier distraction enters the stage. Sometimes, we are quieter about matters of life and death than we are about what’s playing on TV. I’m certainly guilty of it. It’s less controversial and less taxing to be this way, but maybe it’s worthwhile to direct the same enthusiasm inwards and, time permitting, consider bettering ourselves and our neighbors’ circumstances rather than meddling with stardom.

Priya Kankanhalli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

Defending Our Neighbors T

here is a sudden and explicit way to experience our obligations to others, but it usually requires some kind of loss. The mayor dies. A neighbor takes a new job. The man who bags groceries and teaches Sunday school moves south to be closer to his ailing mother. It’s discovery by absence, the sudden realization that in some way, and for whatever reason, we have obliged ourselves to care about the life and wellbeing of

In a very basic sense, this means a comprehensive defense of our incidental communities. That is, why we owe a duty to a stranger. a stranger. Unlike the cultures and congregations that form the pillars of our identities, these are incidental communities. They rarely demand deliberate care or proactive attention, but instead form a web of translucent connections that are often only felt when they are broken.

At the core of our national debate about immigration is a dispute over the limits of these communities.

It’s a dispute borne of fixed resources, the tacit understanding that we simply cannot provide for everyone and that we should not be expected to. Less tangibly, it arises from the belief that national identity only holds significance if it is also exclusive. Thus while countless other questions spiral out from this central dispute, the indispensable personal question we are asked to consider is: to whom do we owe a duty of care?

For hundreds of people in Ithaca, Jose Guzman’s arrest by ICE last spring was a partial answer. In a way that no political argument could replicate, we wit-

nessed our duty to Mr. Guzman through the loss we felt when he was detained. It was a display of incidental community and a recognition of our collective obligation. However, as ICE continues to threaten our neighbors, and our politics remain frozen on the issue of immigration, it simply isn’t enough to define our community only when we lose a member.

This is because every day, the President and his administration offer their own definition. They do so through the instruments of the state, and the bully pulpit, from which Trump casts immigrants in a gnarled image of criminality and deceit. It is a cruel and simplistic vision, defining only a narrow, racialized set of American responsibilities; it is rejected by the basic moral intuitions that so many of us experience as members of compassionate communities.

Yet rather than address the fundamental questions of belonging, our political conversation tends to focus only on externalities. From the right we hear warnings about criminality, job depletion and cultural change, while from the left it’s the promise that migration will spark economic growth. While they arrive at different conclusions, both arguments treat the lives and concerns of immigrants as secondary. If the salient effects of immigration policy are only those that are felt by citizens, then the implication is that they are the only group to whom we owe an obligation of care.

Maybe more crucially, the way in which immigration policy is executed often removes any chance of observing the personhood of its subjects. ICE arrested three men in Ithaca last month, but I could not tell you their names. By design, we do not know the contents of

their lives, the details of their residence, or the circumstances of their arrests. This strategy, which is typical of ICE, obscures human consequence, making it even harder to experience the connections that should trigger our outrage.

The sum result is a jumbled, often vague set of platitudes that make the left’s stance on immigration confusing even from within. That is, I am perfectly comfortable claiming that I support comprehensive immigration reform, but would have a very hard time telling you what that means. I know we support the DREAMers, because it is quite possibly the lowest bar to basic decency that a person could be asked to reach.

However when it comes to the millions more, whose complex circumstances require a more nuanced moral justification, I find myself without a clear answer.

Critically, in a national moment when fear and uncertainty are dominant political forces, we absolutely need one. The evolution of traditional communities, coupled with rapid economic and technological change have created a sense of anxiety that can easily be directed at the newcomer. These deep cultural forces require more than milquetoast claims about the economics of population growth, or the vagaries of our current rhetoric. Instead, we need actively to define our national community in a way that rejects our worst instincts.

In a very basic sense, this means a comprehensive defense of our incidental communities. That is, why we owe a duty to a stranger. This takes self-reflection and active debate that does more than just virtue-signal our support for the idea of immigration. When so many lives are profoundly affected by the strangers we choose to prioritize, we have a duty to be conscious and deliberate in the way we make these decisions, and our postfact recognition is not enough. Anything less will leave our solidarity incomplete and our activism ineffective.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com. The Common Table appears online alternate Fridays this semester.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee | Here, There and Everywhere

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Sickness and Stress

018 was going to be my year. This semester would be one where I would finally expand my network, get good grades, find an internship and just feel great about myself. I returned from a de-stressed break a week before school started to get over the jet lag and prepare for the upcoming semester, by planning out classes to take and striving to become a morning person.

As the start of the semester approached, I began to feel tired and I developed a tickle in my throat. I was awfully exhausted on the first day of classes and had to drag myself to Cornell Health only to find that I had a fever of over 100 degrees. I couldn’t let this happen. This was supposed to be the start to a great semester, and I just couldn’t allow myself to start it out by being sick.

In hopes of recovering soon, I did everything I could possibly do — took over-the-counter medicine for cold symptoms, drank lots of warm water and tea (often with honey), and rested as much as I could. But none of that seemed to work because my fever jumped to 102 degrees, my throat felt like it was burning and I was coughing non-stop. Despite being told that it wasn’t the flu, I felt awful both

physically and emotionally.

I had spent so much effort trying to start out the semester right, but was already behind on my classes and feeling miserable.

People say that time will heal everything, but it didn’t feel like that at all. All I could think about each morning was how much I wanted to go back home, halfway across the world. I felt terrible just walking to Ives, dreading the thought of having to repeat this for another four months. Never had I wanted to get out of Ithaca and Cornell so badly, simply because of this dreadful cold.

Homesickness was another illness that was aching away at my heart. Even though Seoul’s weather is currently almost as bad as Ithaca’s, I felt like being home would have made all the difference.

No number of friends or acquaintances in Cornell could make up for the warmth of family I had back home.

What’s worse, I hated myself for having such feelings of homesickness. I shouldn’t feel sad to be here because I am privileged enough to have this position of Cornell student over some other person that didn’t get in, or some other person that couldn’t afford to come here.

I’ve realized how much an illness can make one feel completely drained. I was hopeless as I saw no end to this cold. I was upset, watching the rest of the world carry on fine without me. I had planned

friend and potential intern. I had been so fixated on developing a better me for others and never really thought about what it means to be a happy, healthy version of and for myself. I now know how critical

I couldn’t let this happen. This was supposed to be the start to a great semester, and I just couldn’t allow myself to start it out by being sick. to sit in on all these different lectures to choose suitable classes for the semester. I was hoping to attend club info sessions and mock interviews before my coursework piled up. But none of that could work out without being healthy. I finally understood what my grandma meant when she constantly reminded me that health is the most important virtue of all.

Prior to the start of the semester, my goal was to become a better student,

it is to fully care for and look out for myself, because only then will I be able to fulfill any other aspirations. I also know that 2018 will still be my year; I’ve only taken a small step back to make a bigger leap forward.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a sophomore in the ILR school.

She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays.

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E-Cigarettes: A Shiny Alternative To Smoking?

Rising vape culture has unknown consequences, says study

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Smokescreen l Two men vape in a store in Philadelphia. Research is inconclusive on the health effects of e-cigarettes.

By CHENAB KHAKH Sun Staff Writer

Smoking is cool again. Who would have thought?

Just when many thought smoking was on the decline, with stomach-churning advertisements of charred lungs on public television and the preeminence of smoke-free environments, an alternative form of nicotine delivery is gaining popularity: high-tech e-cigarettes. One of the most popular of these is the JUUL, which accounts for 32 percent of the U.S. e-cigarette market share.

The JUUL is about one-fifth the size of an iPhone and uses patented nicotine juice cartridges, called JUULpods. With a metallic finish and shaped like a USB drive, JUULs’ marketing and style takes total advantage of millenials’ infatuation with technology and sleek design.

Since 2015, more than one million JUULs have been sold. In 2017 alone, JUUL Labs brought in $224 million in sales, which is a 621 percent increase from the previous year. Additionally, as of Oct. 2017, 20 million pods are being produced per month, and JUUL Labs is struggling to meet demand, according to Business Insider.

JUULs were designed to make conventional smoking obsolete and decrease public health risks. On Jan. 23, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine revealed a

comprehensive report about e-cigarettes and their implications after analysis of 800 journals and experiments. They found conclusive evidence that substituting conventional smoking for e-cigarettes completely reduces users’ exposure to carcinogens and toxins in nicotine and lowers risk for short-term health issues.

While the JUUL is a ‘safer’ alternative to cigarettes, the NASEM study also

ventional cigarettes in the short-term, but that there are many unknowns about the long-term effects of vaping.

Current smokers, who are the target market for e-cigarettes, often overestimate the risk of e-cigarettes and continue smoking cigarettes.

“If we conducted a public health education campaign that helped people realize the true riskiness of e-cigarettes, it’s possible that e-cigarette use would increase,” Kenkel said. “This could lead to a big improvement in public health — if the new information prompts smokers to become vapers.”

Although e-cigarette awareness might possibly reduce adult cigarette smoking, a new demographic has developed an interest for e-cigarettes: non-smoking adolescents, making the rise of vaping a double-edged sword.

In 2016, a study at Weill Cornell Medicine showed that 13.2 percent of teens opt for JUULs, compared to 9.2 percent for conventional cigarettes.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, more than two million middle and high school students were users of e-cigarettes in 2016.

Previously non-smoking teenagers, who likely would never have touched a traditional cigarette, have caught the nicotine bug and vaping is on the rise in school communities.

At the University of Southern California, Dr. Jessica Barrington-Trimis has been researching JUULs and teenagers for two years. She has found that more than 40 percent of high schoolers who use e-cigarettes have never

“The addiction is so severe that I have witnessed Canadian students traveling to the U.S. just to refuel their JUULs.” Shraddha Harshvardhan ’20 showed there is insufficient evidence that e-cigarettes like these are successful in helping people quit conventional smoking completely.

Prof. Donald Kenkel, policy analysis and management, has emphasized the complexity of the health implications of e-cigarettes.

“Banning e-cigarettes from public spaces might prompt some smokers to continue smoking instead. So banning e-cigarettes might easily hurt public health,” he said.

Additionally, the study claimed that e-cigarettes are less harmful than con-

smoked a conventional one, suggesting that JUULs and similar products are indeed enabling the emergence of vaping culture.

“You cannot walk into a library on any college campus without seeing kids juuling,” Marisa Gerard ’20 said.

Teens are not only becoming addicted to nicotine but are also falling into the trap of peer pressure. Often, having a JUUL can signify wealth, social status and popularity among teens. Listed at $34.99, the JUUL device is not cheap, even when bought legally. On the black market, JUULs are being sold for $80 to $100.

“The addiction is so severe that I have witnessed Canadian students traveling to the U.S. just to refuel their JUULs,” Shraddha Harshvardhan ’20, an international student from Canada, said.

In concurrence with Kenkel, Weill Cornell Medicine reported that, since ecigarettes are a substitute for conventional cigarettes, regulation to remove them from the market would drive nicotine users — some of whom only started due to the invention of the JUUL — to conventional cigarettes.

Policies from 2016 that upped the minimum age to legally buy e-cigarettes to 21 are also no obstacle for American teens, who are finding creative methods of getting their hands on these products.

A Boston psychologist reported to the Boston Globe that one of his patients “used his parents’ credit cards to buy thousands of dollars of JUULs online, and then turned around and sold the devices and flavored pods to other kids at a profit.”

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The Weill Cornell investigators’ report suggested that a minimum purchasing age of 21 for conventional cigarettes would be better than a minimum age of 21 for e-cigarettes to regulate adolescent smoking.

This way teenagers addicted to nicotine would at least have access to the ‘safer’ option of e-cigarettes.

What began by two Stanford students as an alternative for adult cigarette smokers

to decrease their smoking habit is now a teen sensation. PAX Labs, which is responsible for producing JUULs, is aware that their product is reaching an unintended market. Former CEO Tyler Goldman reiterated his support for regulation to uphold its initial goal to help cigarette smokers switch to a “safer” option. “[We have] actually stopped trying to create new users by leaving some stores purposefully out of stock of the vaporizers.

It sells only refill cartridges to those stores, so people who use JUUL and switched off

cigarettes can stay switched,” Goldman said.

Despite the company’s efforts to stay true to their original intentions, the combination of users’ addiction to nicotine with their obsession with the sleek look of the JUUL have led to a booming accessory market, including JUUL cases, stickers and vape art.

If e-cigarettes worked for their intended goal and ended conventional smoking, then they would result in a net public health benefit. However, with the signifi-

cant increase in smoking teens who previously had never touched a cigarette, the long-term impact of e-cigarettes is unknown.

Originally conceived as a safer alternative to traditional cigarette smoking, e-cigarettes are currently fueling an interest among non-smoking juveniles. The jury is still out on the long-term societal impacts of vaping.

Chenab Khakh can be reached at ckhakh@cornellsun.com

Cornell Tech Professor Explains Hype And Pitfalls of Cryptocurrencies Expresses uncertainty over future as a currency, optimism about other blockchain uses

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

Chances are you know someone who's mined bitcoin. However, cryptocurrencies are not everything they appear to be. Drawing the ire of governments and financial institutions alike, questions about its reliability are on the rise.

Prof. Ari Juels, computer science, discusses the impact, technology and regulatory environment of cryptocurrencies.

Co-director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts — a collaboration between Cornell, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, based at Cornell Tech — Juels helps lead research on blockchain technology and its applications.

Cryptocurrencies are one of the most notable applications of blockchain technology. Blockchain is a digitally-secured distributed ledger of transactions. Juels talked about possible reasons behind the surge in popularity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

“Cryptocurrencies are digital assets created and managed in decentralized or peer-to-peer systems,” Juels said.

“Bitcoin is so popular now because it points the way to new and interesting models of digital trust. But of course the main reason is simply that its price has skyrocketed.”

According to CoinDesk, the price of one Bitcoin today is $7,011.

Bitcoins are created through a “mining” process in which certain computers solve complex math problems.

Every time a computer “mines” a new Bitcoin, it becomes harder to mine more Bitcoins. The increase in Bitcoin mining has taken a large toll on overall electricity consumption.

“The Bitcoin network consumes as much electricity at this point as a small nation. This is unconscionable and unsustainable. Happily, less wasteful alternatives are the subject of active research and deployment,” Juels said.

In the past few years, there have been many instances of cryptocurrency exchanges getting hacked. Bitcoin has been subject to thefts with damages often exceeding tens of millions of dol-

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Energy sink l This Bitcoin farm in Guizhou, China requires a tremendous amount of cooling power. lars. Cryptocurrencies, despite being a relatively new development, have the same security lapses as the general internet, according to Juels.

“The difference is that cryptocurrencies are a particularly rich and juicy

needed to hold and transact with cryptocurrencies, is yet another,” said Juels.

Juels added that securing private keys are even challenging for security experts.

He expressed doubt on the ability of current cryptocurrencies to be widely used as a means for exchange.

“Whether ‘permissionless’ cryptocurrencies can function effectively as true currencies remains to be seen,” Juels said.

Juels gave his thoughts on the current regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies.

“I’m a computer scientist, not a regulator. But I’ll point out that cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems more generally were intended to spark a revolution and throw off the yoke of institutional and governmental oppression,” Juels said.

An Initial Coin Offering is a method by which the organizations behind an upcoming cryptocurrency can raise funds. ICOs have come under scrutiny

“The Bitcoin network consumes as much electricity at this point as a small nation.”

Prof. Ari Juels target and their partial anonymity helps black-hat hackers,” Juels said, referencing groups of illegal hackers.

Juels elaborated on security concerns and other drawbacks which are associated with fully decentralized cryptocurrencies.

“Price volatility is only one problem.

High and volatile transaction fees are another. And the perennial challenge of managing private keys, i.e., the secrets

from the Securities and Exchange Commission and they have been a topic in an ongoing debate over whether cryptocurrencies should be legally treated as currencies or as securities, like stocks.

Despite the current controversy surrounding cryptocurrencies, Juels hopes for positive regulation in the future to ensure stability and foster innovation.

“I’d like to see regulation that effectively brings the best of the old and the new, removing corrupt players in the traditional financial industry, but preventing new and worse unscrupulousness,” Juels said.

Although cryptocurrencies are contentious, Juels emphasized the importance of the variety of applications behind blockchain, the technology which serves as a backbone for cryptocurrencies.

“Blockchains and smart contracts promise to strengthen trust relationships and automate business processes in areas ranging from humanitarian aid to food supply chains,” Juels said.

Amol Rajesh can be reached at arajesh@cornellsun.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Cornell’s Artistic Window: Highlights from the Collection Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Cassatt, Picasso, Goya, Piranesi and Dürer. Goya’s “El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos” in particular stood out due to its small size and the prominence of its subject in a mob of owls and bats which represents the artist’s fear of darkness and ignorance in the midst of the Enlightenment.

Finally, it wouldn’t be 45 Years at the Johnson without the celebration of Cornellians. Specifically, the exhibition features several sketches from Arthur Garfield Dove 1903 and went on to become one of the first American abstract painters and modernists. Dove’s early works show the influence of impressionism while his later works demonstrate a willingness to experiment with style and form. For example, “Sunset” almost seems to depict the sun melting into its surroundings and darkening into moodier colors, though the shapes remain simple and unadorned.

Through the breadth and diversity of the works displayed in this exhibition, the Johnson Museum shines a light on the richness of its permanent collection and points out the contributions of Cornellians over the years. In doing so, the exhibition demonstrates the ways in which the past and present continually reshape each other, transcending geographic and social boundaries.

BY RAMYA YANDAVA Sun Staff Writer

From Picasso to Piranesi, Cassatt to Cunningham, the Johnson Museum’s Highlights from the Collection: 45 Years at the Johnson showcases a wide variety of art.

The scope is immense in both historical and geographical breadth. Upon entering the exhibition, I found myself face-to-face with a cow with its head turned to the side, eyeing some distant pastoral horizon as though musing over the kinds of deep insights only cows are sensible of. Its front legs are posed as though aware of an audience — Constant Troyon’s 19th century bovine scene is at once striking and peaceful, unique and unobtrusive.

Past the cow is a row of medieval Asian art where a bronze 12th century Ganesha is adjacent to a 15th century Burmese tile depicting two elephant-headed warriors.

This links to works that display the intricacies of religion in Asia. Richly decorated manuscripts from the Quran, the Ramayana and the Buddhist Prajaparmita are juxtaposed as well. It’s no doubt that the Asian collection is one of the Johnson’s strengths. Elsewhere throughout the exhibition, Asian art abounds: from Zao Wouki’s 1953 “Lune Noire,” a dreamlike vision of blue and gold, to the delicately detailed ukiyo-e woodblock prints, to Nam June Paik’s “Global Grove,” an avant-garde 1970s video art that both reflects on and

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foreshadows the growing impact of television as “the landscape of tomorrow.”

In fact, the idea of a “landscape of tomorrow” is seen in a variety of pieces.

The vast temporal spaces covered by works such as pre-Columbian ceramics and a 2004 sculpture of plastic bottles and other found objects, serve to remind us that indeed, all art has, at one point in history, been contemporary. In fact, Edward Hopper’s “Monhegan Landscape” utilizes rich colors and heavy brushstrokes in the modernist tradition; this provides a unique contrast to some of his later, more well-known works. Several paintings in or following in the tradition of abstract expressionism highlight the modern spirit especially well.

Against one wall, a series of stencil cutouts by Matisse pulse with nearly-neon colors and abstract shapes and evoke a sense of movement and rhythm similar to a cubist print by Fernand Léger in another section of the exhibit. These foreshadow more contemporary works such as Syed

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Ahmed Jamal’s “Rockin,” a medley of rich colors and bold brushtrokes, and Joanne Greenbaum’s “Color System,” a maze of bright abstractions, pigments, and gridlike patterns.

The Museum also boasts an impressive photography collection. Although categorized thematically, these photographs flow smoothly into each other and are wellintegrated into the context of their surrounding mediums. Nineteenth century Meiji-era photos serve to bridge the gap between Japanese woodblock prints and early 20th century British and American photography.

On the opposite wall, a series of midand late-20th century photographs, such as Sebastião Salgado’s image of the horrendous conditions suffered by workers in gold mines, demonstrate the importance of photography’s social and documentary power.

I also really loved the exhibition’s collection of prints and drawings, which featured works by well-known artists such as

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Viri Garcia There has always been a certain magic to Girlpool.

The bond that duo Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker share is unlike any other. Girlpool stands out due to their lack of a drummer: Cleo’s guitar chords and picking fit perfectly with Harmony’s bass — or vice versa when they trade off. Their vocal styles also seem to have been made for each other and are instantly identifiable. Their music was perfect already without a drummer.

However, they began to change last year with their album Powerplant, which was the first to feature a drummer.

Now, their new single “Picturesong” not only features drum tracks, but synthesizers and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange.

It seems that Girlpool somehow has already mastered the art of exploring; regardless of the additions they’re making,

they manage to keep their dreamy, nostalgic and slightly melancholic sound that makes their music so unique.

In Powerplant, Girlpool strayed away from the home they had built with their previous album Girlpool. However, they strayed away only to build a very similar home with the same furniture, just in a different place.

“Picturesong,” as Girlpool explained with the release, “[it] is a word invented to explore what we create in each other when we want to feel deep love because of loneliness or otherwise, and brings into question the reality and delusion of the things we feel.”

While this theme of desiring something unattainable may be tired and overdone, Girlpool has a way of taking feelings and making them their own, but still relatable.

“Picturesong” is about wanting what you can’t have, but in a

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special Girlpool way. The lyrics are rawer and feel like the listener is looking at feelings through a stained-glass window rather than the usual foggy, rained-on window other artists seem to create.

“Picturesong” opens with soft guitar and drum track, which may already catch longtime listeners off guard.

However, once Harmony and Cleo start singing, it’s like being home. “You're a god charade I'll let you down like a noise complaint / I know my cover's blown” are the first words that are sung. The lyrics “What does holy want? / I’ll be that Picturesong” are a beautiful representation of a longing that is not mutual but persists.

Most Girlpool tracks always have a line or two that hit the listener right where it hurts and in “Picturesong,” these are it.

Everything is smooth and dreamy like a sad lullaby as the first and second verses slowly

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After the second verse, there is a guitar solo accompanied by some delicate piano. After this, the song reaches a climax of distortion. However, Harmony, Cleo and Dev continue to sing as gently as in the first two verses. “What does holy want?

A wind-up picturesong.” There may be no chorus, but this line appears again and Girlpool’s explanation of the title word becomes clearer. When you want someone, you’re willing to become the idea you think they might want: their picturesong.

“Picturesong” explores the way we worship who we want and willingly lose ourselves, all for that person. However, it takes caution and finesse when delving into these emotions and it takes even more to paint them into something beautiful, which Girlpool and Dev Hynes have done. Most artists fall short of making vulnerabil-

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ities something shameless and, very often, when we listen to a song about being sad, we get sadder. This is not the case with “Picturesong.” Rather than walking through rain on a sad day, the song feels like lights and shadows playing at twilight: gentle and comforting, a reminder that it’s okay to feel.

No one is a stranger to unreturned affection and admiration. No one is a stranger to sadness. But if you claim to never have felt sadness, after listening to “Picturesong,” you’ll realize that at some point you have, even if you don’t even know when. Girlpool always makes you feel things you didn’t know you were capable of feeling and they just did it again.

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the national attention, this team was far from perfect.

“There are a few areas of our game that we have to get better at,” he said before the weekend.

Cornell also says goodbye to its nation-best 11-game winning streak, something Schafer’s group isn’t likely to lose sleep over.

“If you lose one game, … it doesn’t matter what happened in the previous 10,” Schafer said last week. “It means everything in the world to everybody else except the guys in that locker room. And that’s the culture that exists on our team right now, not being slaves to praise.”

This is a sentiment that is consistent with all of Schafer’s soundbites this season and many seasons before. And with a winning streak of zero games and a slip in the

“If you lose one game it doens’t matter what happened in the previous 10.”

Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86

to cement this season into the annals of Cornell hockey history.

Now, the focus shifts to a road contest against No. 7 Clarkson, which lost to both Quinnipiac and

“I’m thinking we better get our shit together.

That’s what I’m thinking.

I’m thinking these guys better wake up.”

Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 Princeton this weekend, to try and make a statement against the ECAC’s second-place squad.

When asked what his thought process was heading into such an important game after such a disappointing loss, Schafer had no trouble mixing words.

“I’m thinking we better get our shit together this week,” he said.

“That’s what I’m thinking. I’m thinking that these guys better wake up.”

Whether this loss was the wake-up call that Schafer describes remains to be seen, but this weekend’s perennially-tough trip to North Country will surely provide the answer.

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them for the entire season so we have grown accustomed to counting on these two freshmen.”

In addition to Darmstadt’s win by fall, a bonus point win against the Bald Eagles came from another one of Cornell’s dominant freshman. No. 4 Yianni Diakomihalis won by technical fall over Kyle Schoop, 19-3.

Darmstadt and Diakomihalis combined for more than half of the Red’s points on Sunday, representative of their impact on the team this season. They each picked up two bonus point wins on the weekend to bring their season totals to 21 and 19, respectively.

Despite picking up two more wins, Koll expected more from his team but recognized the difficult circumstances.

“It is very tough to wrestle at home, hop on a bus and turn around and wrestle the following day.”

Head Coach Rob Koll “It is ... very tough to wrestle at home, hop on a bus and turn around and wrestle the following day,” he said. “It’s not ideal but our guys need to learn to wrestle well even when the environment is not perfect. As a team we didn’t

achieve that goal today. I am thankful we still came away with the victory.”

Saturday’s match against Columbia (3-10), on the other hand, saw Cornell in the driver's seat from start to finish.

Beginning the meet with a fall from Darmstadt, the Red ended the day with five bonus point victories and only two losses.

“Our guys need to learn to wrestle well even when the environment is not perfect.”

Head Coach Rob Koll Two weight classes — 157 and heavyweight — did not see any wins over the weekend despite heavyweight wrestler Jeramy Sweany’s return on Sunday.

“Sweany has missed a couple weeks due to injury,” Koll said. “I expect he will improve markedly in a short period of time.”

With the win over Columbia, Cornell picked up its 81st consecutive Ivy League victory and continues to lead the Ancient Eight with a record of 3-0.

After an evening meet at Drexel on Friday, the Red will visit Penn (8-5) and Princeton (2-7) on Saturday to close out Ivy League play and look to clinch the program’s 16th-straight Ivy League title.

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Runners Find Weekend Success in Four Meets Both teams benefit from strong individual performances, women finish first at Penn State

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Personal bests | Both track and field squads saw many individual accomplishments this weekend, including several personal records accross various events.

There were a few standouts for the women, particu“In practice, I show up every day with the mentality

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer larly in the 5000-meter race. Cornell dominated the to give a 100 percent regardless of what may have or may leader board, placing first, second, third and fifth. not have occurred during the school day,” Alfred said of In a busy weekend that included trips to Senior Erin McLaughlin topped the event with a time of her work ethic. “To constantly have a clear, focused mind is critical in order to execute sprint workout.

Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and even South Hill, the 17:08.78.

Along with their successes last Friday, both men’s and Both the head coaches, as well as the participants in Cornell track and field teams posted big numbers and women’s teams competed in the Ithaca College Bomber this weekend’s meets, commented on their further goals had a number of program and personal successes.

Many of Cornell’s men performed incredibly well at Invitational, hosted in the Ithaca College Athletic and for the semester. They noted particular areas that need work and how they will use their practice time to the Scarlet and White Invitational in Boston, most Events Center, this past Saturday.

Once again, both teams performed impressively. improve for next weekend’s meets. notably senior Dominic DeLuca and junior Alex Beck.

“Our ultimate goal is the win the Indoor HEPS Track DeLuca, a distance runner, had a time of 4:06.95 in the Freshman Paul Casavant had a personal record in the & Field Championship in mile, which was a personal record. Beck, a sprinter, mile with a time of 4:27.07. three weeks,” Durant said. earned a personal record of his own in the 400-meter Junior Tyler Fisher also had a “Our ultimate goal is to win the Indoor “Going forward we'll focus on personal record in the mile race with a time of 48.56 seconds. competition rather than “The biggest performances would be the three new with a time of 4:33.20.

HEPS Track & Field Championship in On the women’s team, training. We've just about additions to our All-Time top ten list,” said men’s head three weeks.”

Rebecca done all of the training we coach Adrian Durant. “Alex Beck with the Cornell [No. sprinters can do, now all that's left is to 5] all-time mark in the 200m (21.64), Brailin Paulino Ekeanyanwu and Anastashia Men’s Coach Adrian Durant compete hard.”

[No. 8] all-time in the 200m (21.83) and Zach Hawley Alfred did particularly well.

Ekeanyanwu “We want to continue to replacing his previous [No. 10] all-time mark in the Sophomore placed eight in the 60-meter dash, with a time of eight improve each week and continue to hone our competishotput throwing 54 feet, 8.25 inches.” tive skills,” Smith added. “In practice, each event group The women’s track and field team had a successful seconds.

“This past week I've been working on my block starts is doing a nice job building on their fitness and skill sets day on Friday as well. The Red travelled to State College, Pennsylvania to compete at the Sykes-Sabock to help me with my drive phase,” Ekeanyanwu said. “In and we’ll continue with those progressions.” addition, I've been running a couple of 150m sprints to The women’s team travels to Boston University on Challenge Cup at Penn State.

Friday for the Valentine Invitational. Both women’s and “We had a fantastic meet this weekend, with all event help me with my quick feet.”

Alfred placed 11th in the preliminaries of the 60- men’s teams will also be competing at NYU in the Fast groups on our team contributing to the team title at Penn State,” said women’s head coach Artie Smith. “This meter dash, with a time of 8.11 seconds. She placed Track Invitational next Friday. was the first time in our program’s history that we’ve 13th in the 200-meter dash finals, with a time of 27.00 Zora Hahn can be reached at zhahn@cornellsun.com. seconds. won this meet.”

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but we have to convert more on those opportunities,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “It was a solid effort on lead heading into the third period.” the road but execution both defensiveJunior goalkeeper Marlene ly and offensively will have to be betBoissonnault came up huge for the ter.”

Red in the crease And the Red was with a split-save one certainly better the minute into overtime “It was a solid effort on following night, to keep the period the road but execution handily defeating the scoreless and force Green 3-1. Cornell both defensively and the draw. dominated offensiveoffensively will have to ly throughout the Boissonnault also recorded 23 saves on night, taking 31 be better.” the night and was an shots to Dartmouth’s integral part of the Head Coach Doug Derraugh ’91 19. Sophomore forpenalty kill unit that ward Paige Lewis and kept Harvard 0-4 on freshmen forwards the man advantage.

Joie Phelps and Willow Slobodzian Unsatisfied with the draw, Cornell highlighted the night with one goal looked to fix its errors from the night each. as it turned its attention to the Green.

Defensively, Boissonnault was bril“We created more chances to score liant once again, recording 18 saves on Continued from page 16

the day.

“We did a good job of getting pucks to net and accumulating shots on goal each period,” Serdar said. “We can continue to work on bearing down on our chances and capitalizing on them.”

Cornell will next take a brief respite from conference play to welcome Syracuse (9-17-2, 8-5-1 CHA) to Lynah this week. The Red handed the Orange a 6-3 loss the last time the two squads faced off, and will look to do the same once again.

“At this time of year you want to become the best version of yourself, so we will be focused on improving our habits so we continue to improve,” Derraugh said.

The puck drops against the Orange on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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Despite a 2-0 deficit, it felt as though the moment would come where Cornell would finally make a push to reclaim its dominance.

Perhaps just one strong shift was all they needed, or maybe a fortuitously-timed power play.

But that moment never came.

“No one likes to lose,” Schafer said. “But with that comes staring reality in the face …

But we’ll come back and get ready to play [next week].”

With a No. 1 ranking raising questions about the Red’s long-term potential this season, the loss can certainly be characterized as a surprise. But Schafer and his team were well aware before this weekend that despite all of See M. ICERS page 13

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Grapplers Dismantle Columbia, Survive Lock Haven Red gets boost from freshmen Dean, Diakomihalis, Darmstadt

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The wins keep on coming for Cornell wrestling.

Following a dominant 33-5 home victory over Columbia Saturday, the Red hit the road Sunday and topped No. 23 Lock Haven, 20-18, for its fifth straight win.

Heading into the final four matches of Sunday’s contest, the Bald Eagles (114) held a 15-8 lead over “Dean and the Red. The situation Darmstadt have only became pressing, and it was unclear if the Red (9lost three matches 2) would emerge victoribetween them for ous. But key wins by the entire season so junior Brandon Womack (174) and freshman No. we have grown 10 Max Dean (184) accustomed to pulled Cornell within one point. counting on these Down by one in the two freshmen.” twilight of the contest, the Red turned to freshman Head Coach Rob Koll standout No. 3 Ben Darmstadt as it had many times before. A victory by the rookie grappler would give his team the lead. After 67 seconds, the match was over. Not only did Darmstadt take care of business by winning his match, but he pinned Lock Haven’s Trey

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Formiddable freshmen | Ben Darmstadt’s 21 bonus-point wins so far this season have led a group of freshmen that has powered the Red to success.

Hartsock, giving Cornell the breathing room it would need for its ninth win of the season.

The string of victories late in the meet by Womack, Dean and Darmstadt was a welcome sight, though it did not come as much of a surprise to head coach Rob Koll.

“Womack has struggled as of late so it was nice to see him take two matches this weekend,” Koll said. “Dean and Darmstadt have only lost three matches between See WRESTLING page 14

MEN’S HOCKEY

After Loss, Red Poised To Rebound With Success

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Productive travels | After a trip to face off against Harvard and Dartmouth, the Red returned to East Hill unbeaten on the weekend after earning a tie in Cambridge and a win in Hanover.

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Icers Earn Three Points in Road Trip Red battles Harvard to tie, skates past Dartmouth to victory

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Despite being back on the road for the first time in almost a month, the Cornell women’s hockey team was able to remain unfazed by the lack of home ice advantage to end the weekend undefeated.

The Red (14-7-3, 11-5-2 ECAC) battled Harvard (9-11-2, 7-8-2) to a 2-2 draw on Friday before skating past Dartmouth (5-17-1, 3-14-1) the following Saturday for the 3-1 victory.

Cornell got off to a thunderous start against the Crimson, with freshman forward Kendra Nealey and senior forward Brianna Veerman both lighting

the lamp in the first period to give Cornell an early 2-0 lead.

However, despite being outshot 43 to 25 by the Red, Harvard continued to claw its way back. The Crimson’s Keeley Moy kept hopes alive with a late second period goal, before Harvard’s Kat Hughes scored the equalizer in the third period to force overtime.

“We learned a few lessons from the Harvard game after they scored that late equalizer in the third period,” said junior forward Lenka Serdar. “It is so important to bury teams early on in the game and … learn to close out games when we have the See W. HOCKEY page 15

Great teams are built on resilience.

And for this Cornell men’s hockey team, that mantra has held strong all throughout its improbably successful 201718 campaign.

Even on Saturday, when the team was shocked at home, 2-1, by a four-win Rensselaer team, Cornell appeared determined to net an equalizer down to the final buzzer. A late thirdperiod push was perhaps too little, too late, and the Red fell short of what would have been its fifth comeback to tie or win from down multiple goals this season.

“You play with fire [when] you get down in a game,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said after his team’s loss to the Engineers. “And then you have to string some plays together, make some great plays. And we just didn’t do that [against RPI].”

With the loss, Cornell surrendered its newly-awarded consensus national No. 1 ranking, a position the team has not held since 2003. In a matter of three hours, Cornell’s reign had ended.

“It’s a great honor for our program to be [ranked No.

1],” Schafer said during last week’s media availability.

“But I’m more focused on [the players] and watching them respond to it.”

In Friday’s 4-3 win over Union, the Red coughed up an early lead — a scenario that might have seen many teams roll over and give up.

But the Cornell men held steady, and the response that

“No one likes to lose.

But with that comes staring reality in the face.”

Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 Schafer was looking for earlier in the week seemed to arrive just in time.

But on Saturday night, against a decidedly worse RPI team, the grit and intensity that drove the team to its success less than 24 hours earlier appeared to be wholly absent.

Cornell was down early, surrendering a fluke goal just 20 seconds in, and went down by two after a costly power-play turnover in its defensive zone led to an RPI shorthanded tally.

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