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Students Express Strong Concerns About Approved Need-Aware Policy

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s announcement stating that the admissions process for international students will no longer be need-blind has sparked concern among both international students and the student body at large.

The new policy states that international students will be admitted on a need-aware basis starting in fall 2017.

Cornell currently spends about $235 million annually on undergraduate financial aid, of which $11.53 million is budgeted towards grant aid for international and undocumented students, according to Kotlikoff.

Kotlikoff also noted that after the $11.53 million has been awarded to

international and undocumented students with demonstrated financial need, no more aid will be available to that group.

The provost argued that need-blind admissions results in admitted students with demonstrated financial need not being awarded any financial aid.

“For international and undocumented admitted students who have demonstrated financial need but are awarded no Cornell financial aid, they must decide if they will, with their own resources, attend Cornell,” Kotlikoff said.

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Faculty and staff emphasized the need for increased involvement in administrative decisions when discussing the College of Business initiative at an open forum Wednesday.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff moderated deliberations about the administrative rationale for the decision at the forum.

Although many have characterized the decision as sudden and surprising, Kotlikoff said discussion of the College of Business actually began in 2008.

The creation of the College of Business is a politically difficult initiative, so the administration chose to bypass the Faculty See FORUM page 4

Tuition Hike Said to Support S.A.Candidates Voice Platforms Increasing Operation Costs

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By SUZY PARK Sun Staff Writer

The approved 3.75 percent increase in tuition will help address the rising operating costs of the University, according to Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and dean of the graduate school.

Among the areas covered with the increased undergraduate tuition will be faculty and staff salaries and benefits, academic program investments and facilities maintenance and utilities, according to Knuth. Additionally, she said the University aims to “realize sufficient tuition revenue to sustain the quality and value of a Cornell education” and “provide access to education for deserving students regardless of their ability to pay”

when setting to yearly tuition rates.

“If we did not continue to invest in our people, programs and facilities, the quality of a Cornell education would quickly degrade,” Knuth said.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced last Thursday that undergraduate tuition will rise 3.75 percent in the 2016-17 academic year. The increase will result in a $50,712 tuition for endowed college students and out-of-state contract college students, and a $33,968 for New York residents enrolled in contract colleges, according to a University press release.

Despite the tuition increase of 3.75 percent, the net undergraduate tuition revenue will increase by approximately See TUITION page 4

Twelve candidates are vying for four spots in this semester’s Student Assembly Special Elections, which will close at two p.m.

Thursday.

The special elections will fill vacancies for the remainder of the semester, as students replace S.A. members who transferred to different Cornell colleges, are studying abroad or have had issues with attendance at meetings, according to Matthew Henderson ’16, chair of the S.A. elections committee.

Four candidates each are running for College of Arts and Sciences representative and LGBTQ+ Liaison at Large, three are running for School of Hotel Administration representative and one is running for College of Engineering representative.

Dale Barbaria ’19, the sole candidate for

Engineering Representative, was seated immediately on the S.A. because he was running unconteseted, according to Henderson.

The Sun asked the other candidates about their platforms and the issues they think exist within their schools and the University.

CANDIDATES FOR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING REPRESENTATIVE Dale Barbaria ’19 — already seated

C ANDIDATES FOR SCHOOL OF H OTEL A DMINISTRATION R EPRESENTATIVE Nelson Billington ’19 Billington, a member of the Dean’s Student Advisory Board — a group of students that connects the administration with the student body — said he hopes to ease the School of Hotel Administration’s transition into the See ELECTIONS page 5

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Jay Cohen ’77, chairman of the senate executive committee, said appointment of the three community trustees strengthens the trustee committee but is “not an acceptable alternative to senate representation on the committee.”

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Other Complaints Several senators also expressed disapproval last night of trustees and administration handling of senate power over the athletics budget.

Hawley Wolfe ’77, chairman of the senate campus life committee, told the senate of a decision made by President Dale R. Corson during the summer to have the director of the athletics department report directly to Senior Vice President William Herbster. Previously, the athletics directory reported to Vice President for Campus Affairs, William Gurowitz ’53.

Wolfe said the campus life committee has asked the administration to “make an explicit statement” explaining the implications of this move for the senate committee.

Gurowitz recently said it would be “inadvisable” for the senate to “tamper” with the athletics budget.

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Pulitzer Prize winner describes marketing methods employed in food industry

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Architecture Professor’s Design Featured At Smithsonian A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City will include a textile pavilion designed by Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture, according to a University press release. The pavilion is seven-feet tall and made of photo-luminescent and solar-active threads, and its illumination mimics the transition from day to night.

Andrea Lipps, co-curator of the exhibition, said in the release that he commissioned Sabin because of her architectural work with new technologies.

“I think it's really going to be one of the highlights of the exhibition,” Lipps said in a University press release.

“Just given the form, the structure and the lighting, it really is a very special commission and installation.”

Michael Moss, a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner, spoke about his effort to expose harmful impacts of the processed food industry and its advertising strategies in a lecture Wednesday.

Moss drew heavily from his 2013 book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Fast Food Giants Hooked Us in his talk. He recalled reporting on the Iraq War in 2008 for the New York Times when he said his editor assigned him to write about a salmonella outbreak in the U.S. caused by tainted peanuts from the Peanut Corporation of America.

“These peanuts were being used as ingredients in this $1 trillion processed food industry about which we really know very little,” Moss said. “That outbreak became the story about how that industry had lost control over its food chain.”

Moss said this first experience with food safety reporting later led him to report on an E. Coli outbreak in Minneapolis in 2007, food industry.

Moss said a conversation with one of his sources shifted his attention to the massive amounts of salt being added to many food products.

A desire to expose an overdependence on salt, sugar and fat additives in processed food became the impetus for much of the research for his book, according to Moss.

“The problem lies in their deep dependence on using lots of salt, sugar and fat to get to that ideal product.”

Michael Moss He added that he was able to interview “key players” in large food companies about their marketing strategies to understand th

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appeal of unhealthy food.

“This is an industry that strives 24/7 not just to get us to like their products but to want more and more of them,” Moss said.

“The problem lies in their deep dependence on using lots of salt, sugar and fat to get to that ideal product.”

Moss explained that this “ideal product” would combine low cost, convenience and utter irresistibility. He said a tour through one of the Kellogg Company’s factories opened his eyes to the importance of additives such as salt in taste, color, solubility and texture of processed foods.

Moss said he tasted prepared snacks made without any salt and said the frozen waffles tasted like straw, corn flakes tasted like metal and he could not even swallow the Cheez-Its. “That’s when I really got how dependent we’ve become on large amounts of salt, sugar and fat, Moss said. “The industry itself is even more dependent on them which is a real problem for now.”

Processed food companies are constantly looking for ways to reduce the amount of salt, but these innovations do not address concerns from most nutritionists about how consumers should eat more fruits and vegetables, according to Moss.

“One of the most difficult things for the processed food industry is not decreasing the bad ingredients but increasing the good stuff,” Moss said.

His lecture, "A Journey into the Underbelly of the Processed Food Industry,” was the first of the Spring 2016 Messenger Lecture Series, according to Prof. Thomas Björkman, horticulture.

The series was commissioned by Dr. Hiram Messenger 1880 in 1924 to “improve the moral life on campus by bringing in public figures to speak to us on issues of today,” according to Björkman.

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Food for thought | Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Michael Moss discusses the health hazards posed by the processed food industry in a lecture Wednesday.

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun.com.

Employee Assembly Evaluates Benefit Options Members discuss aid available to employees in benefits, insurance and outreach

By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

The Employee Assembly discussed the health and insurance benefits available to Cornell employees at a meeting Wednesday.

These available benefits are communicated to employees through informative programs, according to Paul Bursic, senior director of benefit services.

“We do have an extensive outreach in a number of different areas, particularly around retirement plans, to let people know what benefits are available to them,” Bursic said.

Bursic added that Cornell offers a number of opportunities for employees to visit the benefits office throughout the year.

“There are various seminars and one-on-one counseling,” Bursic said.

“We are also working to improve our webpage presence.”

Gina Giambattista,

“This is a provider director of the office of the assemblies, and Billy problem and we always Kepner, vice chair of have to remember that communications, com- the way healthcare is municated concerns about insurance avail“We do have an able to employees extensive outreach in a struggling wth mental health illnesses. number of different Cornell’s benefits areas.” plan provides extensive service for mental Paul Bursic illness patients but it has limited resources due to the insurance mar- structured in this country ket, according to Bursic. is a private for profit

business,” Bursic said.

“Cornell’s healthcare plan has been in the vanguard for mental health care.

Higher educational utilization for mental health services is roughly doubled than the profit market out there.”

The E.A. also plans to increase its presence on campus through meetings with the stakeholders of each college, according to

Tanya Grove, executive vice chair of the E.A. “We’re defining stakeholders as the high administrators of each college,” Grove said.

“We are arranging meetings with the high administrators so that they can encourage their staffs to participate in the E.A.” So Hyung Kim can be reached at sohyungkim@cornellsun.com.

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Come together | The Employee Assembly gathered Wednesday to discuss the level of benefits offered to Cornell employees.

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Faculty, Staff Debate New College Housing, Dining Fees Increase For First Time in Four Years

according to Kotlikoff.

Shared governance will be implemented Continued from page 1 moving forward to navigate the “stress Senate when making the decision, according between individual colleges saying, “I own to Kotlikoff. my own curriculum,” Kotlikoff said.

“If we had entered an extended debate According to Kotlikoff, the main purpose with faculty and alumni, it would have been of the College of Business is to increase the tremendously resisted,” he said. “excellence, influence and visibility” of There was a consensus based on previous Cornell’s accredited business programs by task forces and the programs’ accreditation preserving the unique focus of each school, reports, that this was a necessary step, which are currently disparately housed in the according to Kotlikoff.

School of Hotel Administration, the Dyson Kotlikoff emphasized that he wanted to School of Applied Economics and Manfocus the conversation on the future. agement, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson “The imporGraduate tant thing to me “We could become the business school School of is where we’re Management. going in the that starts to change the way business “It’s not a education and research is done.” future, how we reduction of can do the best other programs Prof. Christopher Barrett job in recruiting at Cornell, but faculty and reit is a response cruiting students and providing them with to the fact that we have three small accredited the best opportunity to interact,” he said. business programs, and we could do better at Faculty members voiced their disap- Cornell by working together,” he continued. pointment in the decision-making process.

The initiative also seeks to create a Michael Fontaine, acting dean of faculty, College of Business “that affirms Cornell’s talked about the repeated argument that the core principles” by addressing societal probtrustees had overlooked input from the lems and the changing business landscape, broader community, including a faculty sen- according to Kotlikoff. ate resolution that suggested tabling the iniProf. Christopher Barrett, applied ecotiative. nomics and management, deputy dean and “The trustees did not ignore the resolu- dean designate of academic affairs for the tion, they opted against it,” Fontaine said.

College of Business, echoed Kotlikoff’s senA number of faculty and staff members timent. also questioned the administration’s ability “We could become the business school to act transparently in the future after the that starts to change the way that business precedent they had set. education and research is done,” Barrett Several committees — comprised pri- said. marily of faculty — have been created to “I think it’s a challenge that we can do, address components of planning for the new and I’m excited about it,” he added. college. These committees will report back to shared governance structures to enable a Talia Jubas can be reached at “robust discussion of all these issues,” tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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2.4 percent after undergraduate financial aid expenditures are subtracted, according to Knuth.

“The investment in financial aid — about $235 million annually — reduces the amount Cornell actually receives from tuition by approximately 35 percent,” Knuth said. “With this 35 percent financial aid ‘discount’ the actual net value of the tuition increase will be approximately 2.4 percent, which is closer to historical and projected inflation rates.”

Most undergraduates who receive grant aid as part of their financial aid package, will not see an increase in tuition because a rise in tuition would mean an increase in grand aid as well, according to Knuth.

“Because Cornell meets the full demonstrated need of students on financial aid, this means that as tuition fees increase, Cornell grant aid also increases in most students’ financial aid packages to meet the increased costs their accounts would be billed,” Knuth said.

When adjusted for inflation, the median net tuition for most students receiving financial aid will remain lower than that of 2008, when the University instituted a series of significant financial aid initiatives, Knuth said.

In addition to the 3.75 percent increase in undergraduate tuition, dining and housing rates and student activity fee will increase by 2 percent and 2.1 percent respectively for the 2016-17 academic year, according to the University. This marks the first housing and dining fees increase in four years.

“Housing and dining rates have remained flat for the past three years in order

to help maintain costs associated with financial aid,” said Karen Brown, director of campus life marketing and communications. “[However,] in order to cover food and labor costs that continue to rise annually, we must increase our housing and dining rates.”

The revenue generated from the increase will be used to support programs such as ‘Menus of Change’ — a movement that was adopted in the 2014-15 academic year in order to reduce waste and increase the amount of produce served in the dining halls, according to Brown.

The student activity fee — which will increase from $236 to $241 — which is paid by every undergraduate to fund the University’s byline-funded organizations such as Slope Day Programming Board and Cornell EMS, according to Matthew Stefanko ’16, the Student Assembly vice president of finance.

“This year, a moderate increase was suggested to both track inflation and, more significantly, support the increase in student organizations that are registered with the SAFC,” Stefanko said.

“The growth will allow organizations like the Women's Resource Center and Cornell Environmental Collaborative to substantially increase their programming and services to the undergraduate community.”

Knuth said there is no relationship between the increase in tuition rate and the University’s recent decision to pursue needaware admissions policies for international and undocumented students.

Suzy Park can be reached at spark@cornellsun.com.

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entrepreneurship in the SHA and continue his work at Annabel’s Grocery, where he is the director of development and corporate partnerships.

Billington said he looks forward to potentially representing the Hotel School at S.A. meetings.

“I would be honored to work with this distinguished group,” he said.

Andrea Quartner ’18 The largest issue in the current Hotel School is a lack of communication with the S.A., which has led to frustration regarding the College of Business and financial aid, according to Quartner.

Quartner said she plans to create open forums for School of Hotel Administration students to voice their opinions, educate students on recent changes in financial aid and maintain the Hotel School’s independence throughout the College of Business merger.

“I see the adoption of the College of Business as an exciting change for the Hotel School, just as long as the students and faculty are on board and understand what this change entails,” Quartner said.

“I will accomplish every single one of the above points during this term and not seek reelection.”

Cole Stefan ’18 Colin Wellborn ’16 Wellborn said his experience working with members of Congress and military service will best help the Hotel School, which “needs strong representation to convey students’ messages to the administration.”

Wellborn said he plans to sustain the SHA’s reputation for excellence as it merges into the College of Business — an administrative decision he said disappointed and alarmed many students.

He named preserving the Hotel School’s small class size — which could easily change with an influx of students from the

new college’s students — as an example of how he would support student interests.

“We need to protect what the students have invested their time and money in, and give them the curriculum and learning environment they were promised and deserve,” Wellborn said.

CANDIDATES FOR COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES REPRESENTATIVE Thomas Ball ’19 Ball, a first-year spring admit, said he decided to run to become a representative after hearing students complain about the lack of shared governance. He said the state of shared governance “can't be allowed to worsen when Cornell is an institution meant to be for any person.”

Ball’s platform centers on addressing sexual assault on campus, re-implementing the Climate Action Plan — which President Elizabeth Garrett said the University would not prioritize — and creating a database to connect students with alumni, he said.

“I also want to ensure students feel like they have a representative who will welcome their voices and opinions as future issues arise,” Ball said. “My platform is not a rigid mindset, but rather a guided set of aims.”

Jeffrey Breuer ’16 Breuer, who has attended S.A. meetings this year despite not being an official S.A. member and frequently the only student attendee, said he decided to run because he felt students were “not engaged in the shared governance system.”

He cited student apathy, lack of conversation between S.A. representatives and their constituents and limited student input on issues like the College of Business as some of the most prevalent problems he saw in the Cornell community.

Unlike many other candidates, Breuer said he does not plan to run again in the fall if he is elected.

“This special election was designed specifically so that representatives could run now and run again in just a few short weeks for their position in next year's Assembly,” Breuer said. “Instead, I'll be working from day one for my constituents and won't look back.”

Jung Won Kim ’18 Kim said he plans to compile a directory of Arts and Sciences alumni that will help students find mentors and internship

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Need-blind admissions result in admitted students with demonstrated financial need not being awarded any financial aid, according to Kotlikoff.

“For international and undocumented admitted students who have demonstrated financial need but are awarded no Cornell financial aid, they must decide if they will, with their own resources, attend Cornell,” Kotlikoff said.

Mackenzie Lemieux ’18, an international student on financial aid, expressed reservations about the new policy.

“I can see how this would seem like a good idea in theory, but they definitely do not actually stand by what they say,” Lemieux said.

Lemieux added that she believes the University has a good idea of the amount of aid students need but often does not provide the amount they had promised.

“They also do not factor in exchange rates which is especially bad considering the Canadian dollar right now,” Lemieux said. “I definitely think that they are less lenient to international students when it comes to giving aid.”

Shivang Tayal ’16, international liaison at large to the S.A., also voiced concerns about the equity of the policy, saying he would like to know why these standards are imposed for international students

and not for domestic applicants.

Another international student said in making the admissions process for international students “need-aware,” Cornell risks diminishing its student diversity.

“One of the main reasons people go to elite institutions such as Cornell is to be surrounded by a diverse group of intelligent people,” the student said. “The fact that students come from different backgrounds and countries has meant that I have learnt as much from my peers as from my classes. Preparing students for life after college should involve preparing them to interact with different cultures, a task which Cornell cannot accomplish without an international student population.”

This policy shift will also affect undocumented students who hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, according to the S.A. announcement.

“Undocumented immigrants who hold DACA status will, starting in fall, be considered the same as U.S. citizens and permanent residents,” Kotlikoff said last week.

“Such students will not have to be included in the fixed $11.53 million budget but instead will be included in the open-ended financial aid expenditures that Cornell now spends on U.S. citizens and permanent residents.”

Kyle Oefelein can be reached at koefelein@cornellsun.com.

opportunities. He said this initiative would be the first step in creating a sense of cohesiveness in the Arts and Sciences community and was inspired by the unity of the School of Hotel Administration.

“I see the bonds that Hotelies have with one another, and it is something to be envious about,” Kim said.

A voting member of the Academic Policy Committee, Kim also said he plans to open course evaluations — allowing students to view syllabi before the add/drop period — and work with multicultural groups to create intercultural events.

Cole Stefan ’18 Stefan said he is running for Arts and Sciences Representative to “restore sanity” to the S.A., which he called “hyper-political and single-minded.”

He said he hopes to maintain and expand financial aid for all students — including international and undocumented students — increase transparency in University finances by creating a list showing the programs that student tuition funds, establish open course evaluations and increase alumni connections within Arts and Sciences.

Stefan said he will also decline to run for another term if elected.

“I will accomplish every single one of the above points during this term and not seek reelection so we don't have another representative who is too focused on campaigning to get things done,” he said.

CANDIDATES FOR LGTB LIAISON AT LARGE Rachel Evarts ’16 With a unique perspective as a bisexual woman with a wife and a daughter, Evarts said her experience as a member of the LGBT community has given her a “a deep understanding for oppression.”

As Liaison at Large, she plans to increase campus awareness of LGBT issues, create dialogue about problems that should be changed and increase communication between the community and student government.

“I really just want to be a voice for the community and bring about inclusivity and education and awareness through community events and group activities,” Evarts said.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell is not a democracy To the Editor: Recent university policy changes have caused a rift between students and university administrators. Disagreements over student health fees, the formation of the College of Business and non-renewable energy divestment have provoked criticism from students, putting University administrators on the defensive. It seems that students need to be reminded that they do not direct University affairs, and students do not need to be consulted when these types of decisions are made.

Not to downplay the student perspective, but it’s mostly important for recruitment. Prospective students look at financial aid packages, future job prospects and university rank when shopping for a college. These potential students probably aren’t thinking about the university procedures for new college formation. As an exercise to the undergraduate reader, did you research Cornell’s investment portfolio to ensure Cornell was divested from fossil fuels when you considered your college application? How about a thorough review of the Student Assembly’s policies and powers to make sure you agreed with them before applying? Once prospective students begin to care about these issues, then you’ll see Cornell weigh the student perspective more heavily.

After a student has enrolled, the student perspective loses importance, mainly because of its predictability and singular point of view. Take the student health fee for example. It is of little utility for administrators to solicit the student opinion if they already know what it’s going to be. Of course students will complain about a mandatory health fee or increased tuition costs, much in the same way that they’d complain about more testing or lengthier homework assignments. Additionally, it’s highly unlikely that students have a thorough understanding of the overall complexity that is higher education administration. Cornell has over 100 academic departments spread across 14 colleges, filled with nearly 10,000 faculty and staff teaching some 4,000 courses. It’s easy to imagine how each of these people, departments and colleges will have different agendas and thoughts about how Cornell should be run. And that’s not including alumni, the Board of Trustees or other stakeholders.

I’d encourage students to remember that they picked Cornell because of what it offers them, not because they thought they could change it. Students need to trust that University administrators really are trying to improve Cornell for the better. To be sure, mistakes will certainly be made along the way. Excluding the Faculty Senate from the new College of Business formation decision-making process was an avoidable error, however this should be attributed to a misstep rather than a deliberate attempt to circumvent faculty powers. Cornell administrators might not always make the right decisions, but we should understand that they have student interests at heart.

R. Alex Coots grad

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ebruary 14th, Valentine’s Day. Some people call it SAD (Singles Awareness Day) and others use it as an excuse to make their significant other reaffirm their love through consumerism and diabetic means. The talk of love and romance over the past few days has led me to question today’s relationships. With such a prevalent “hook-up culture,” and technological distractions, I found myself thinking, when do we talk? When do we have real talk, meaningful talk, big talk?

How well do we actually know one another?

A lesser known section of The New York Times is a collection of essays called Modern Love. Every week, readers submit

the way, I fear that the conversation will remain surface-level. I want to move away from the “What’s your major?” “Do you have any siblings?” “What classes are you in?” “Where are you living?” questions and jump into “What do you see yourself doing after college?” “What’s the deepest love you’ve ever felt?” and “Cats or dogs?”

The answer to the latter is always cats.

People fall into the pattern of small talk. Maybe it’s easier. Maybe it takes less effort. Maybe there’s something scary about letting your guard down so fast and being ready to show someone who you really are. Maybe it’s the writer in me, my desire to always want to know more, or the feeling of despair and hopelessness I get

Maybe it’s the writer in me, my desire to always want to know more, or the feeling of despair and hopelessness I get when I realize small talk doesn’t get me anywhere. real-life essays about relationships, marriage, dating and parenthood. The stories usually have a “contemporary edge,” straying from the cliché romance stories that infiltrate pop culture and media.

One of my favorite articles that is part of Modern Love is “The End of Small Talk.” The author, Tim Boomer, recalls a memory of watching a couple on their first date. The couple discussed their commute to the bar, the weather in Boston and — taking a huge step and putting it all out there — their jobs. Although the author believes flirty joking and witty banter is indeed something to keep, the dull talk about facts and figures and weather and jobs are irrelevant. Essentially, he argues that small talk should be replaced with big talk: meaningful, deep conversations.

Boomer writes, “Why can’t we ... ask each other profound questions right from the start? Replace mindless chatter about commuting times with a conversation about our weightiest beliefs and most potent fears? Questions that reveal who we are and where we want to go?”

A criticism right away is that you can’t ask big questions until you know the answer to the small ones. However, with the slightest tweaking, you can easily switch from small to big. While finding out the answers to the small questions, you can also dig a little deeper. Boomer replies to the criticism by describing how he strays away from small talk. “One of the common questions I find myself asking a woman on a first date is where she has traveled. The response can quickly become a list of places, and once again we’re in résumé territory. So instead I’d ask, ‘What place most inspired you and why?’”

I believe a distinguishing factor in relationships is whether I continue to remain on small-talk level with somebody or if I can immediately dive into a conversation where I’m inspired by their answers, moved by the way they can speak and interested such that I am genuinely involved in the conversation. First dates make me wary. Although it’s important in the beginning to get some questions out of

when I realize small talk doesn’t get me anywhere.

For me, falling and remaining in small talk is a sign that things aren’t progressing; things are stagnant. Boomer, in his essay, writes, “On the first night away, I found myself engaging in one of those dull work conversations people use to fill the time ...

‘So how long does it take you to get to the office?’ I heard myself ask. Then I stopped in horror.” After Boomer remembers a time he had escaped small talk with a hitchhiker in Costa Rica, he takes a deep breath and asks his colleague, “‘Why did you fall in love with your wife?’ He looked at me oddly, thought about it for a moment and then told me something beautiful.”

A conversation I had with someone over the weekend reaffirmed my belief that big talk is the way to go. As I discussed the articles I had written — obviously things that are important enough to me that I find time to write about — as well as visions of where I saw myself in the future, I felt the person I had known for such a short time understood me more as an individual. I believed they got the feeling of who I was — who I am.

Big talk and small talk influences how you know another person. Some people you can describe through where they live, where they work, what their hobbies are, what they are interested in, where they have traveled and so on. And then there are people whom you might not know what their favorite color is but you know that they haven’t cried since their grandfather passed away, or that they’re afraid of commitment because of their past relationships or that they took a chance one time and ended up hurt. But uncovering these parts of them ultimately allow you to form connections that are sincere and significant.

So let’s forget the small talk, and start big.

Gaby Leung is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached atgl376@cornell.edu. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Kevin Kowalewski | Democratic Dialogue

The Rule of Law W

ith the recent death of Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia, the United States has lost one of its greatest legal minds. Scalia’s nearly 30-year tenure on the Supreme Court was marked by his textualist philosophy, pointed questions and his carefully crafted and passionate opinions. Further, his presence also shifted the Court in a notably conservative direction, including on Second Amendment jurisprudence. Although Scalia’s legacy will be indisputably controversial, none can question that it is significant.

Nonetheless, we now have a vacancy on the Court. The current timing is not ideal — arising in the middle of an already contentious presidential election season. Yet President Barack Obama has nearly an entire year left in his term. And according to the Constitution, he has not only the authority but the obligation to appoint a replacement. There is no provision for inconvenient timing.

Unfortunately, this does not seem to matter to many members of the Senate.

Within hours of the announcement that Justice Scalia had passed away, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that the Senate would not consider any nominee that President Obama selects. The rest of his Republican colleagues quickly agreed. Blanket opposition to all possible candidates, it appears, is the Republican response.

They have sought to cloak this unprecedented move, ironically, by appealing to supposed institutional norms.

Republicans have repeatedly cited the fact that “a Supreme Court nominee hasn’t been confirmed in an election for 80 years.” Except Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed 97-0 in 1988, the final year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Before him, 13 other Justices were confirmed during an election year. President Obama’s pledge to nominate a replacement is standard practice — and the idea that he should not is fairly unusual.

After all, the repeated talking point is that we should wait until after the election and “let the American people decide.”

However, the presidential election is not for another nine months; both parties are still engaged in highly contentious primary contests. If we wait, this vacancy could persist for more than a year. It is true that the Court functions with only eight members, but it does not function well. An even number of Justices significantly increases the odds of a 4-4 split decision.

This affirms the ruling of the lower court, but results in no opinion or clarification from the Supreme Court. Crucial matters of constitutional law should not be left undecided because of political games in the Senate.

This form of obstructionism is sadly not new to the Obama presidency. Senate Republicans have repeatedly stalled the

President’s other judicial appointments, and since taking back the majority last January, they have essentially ended the process for selecting new appellate judges.

Even before this, the federal court system was overworked and understaffed. Right now, our strained judiciary does not need more difficulty at the very top.

Clearly, President Obama is correct to acknowledge his constitutional duty to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice.

The Senate, too, should accept its basic responsibility to advise this nomination.

Indeed, the confirmation process for the Supreme Court is not a light one. Every nominee encounters intense scrutiny: a proper measure for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. When Justice Sonia Sotomayor was nominated in 2009, she was required to submit an exhaustive briefing on her entire career on the federal bench — totalling more than 5,000 pages. In this intense political environment, it seems quite possible that President Obama’s nominee will be the most carefully investigated in history.

After holding these confirmation hearings, the Senate may find President Obama’s nominee unacceptable. It would not be the first time that a potential Justice was rejected. But before he knows who it is, Majority Leader McConnell has refused to even consider a nominee. I suspect that this reluctance may sprout from the fact that there are several candidates with a his-

tory of undivided support from the Senate. Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Jane Kelly both enjoy impeccable credentials and a moderate record — Republicans would be hard pressed to find a legitimate argument against their confirmation.

This, finally, reveals the actual motivation of the Senate. It is perfectly understandable that Republicans are wary of replacing Justice Scalia with an appointee from President Obama. And they should be honest about their reflexive opposition; to claim that President Obama has no right to appoint a nominee is absurd. The reality is more simple. Few potential nominees — even those from a Republican president — would be able to match Justice Scalia’s conservative credentials.

Fewer still would be able to match his stature on the Court. Democrats, too, would be anxious about replacing a similarly eminent liberal Justice. But the Court is ever-changing. Our political system must not be paralyzed every time it does.

On September 17, 1986, Antonin Scalia received the unanimous support of the United States Senate. Isn’t it time, now, to at least give President Obama’s nominee a chance?

Kevin Kowalewski is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at krk78@cornell.edu.

Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

THROWDOWN THURSDAYS Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

Scalia A

ntonin Scalia was never popular at Cornell.

Whenever the name Justice Scalia surfaced in any of my government courses, a collective sigh of anger and frustration filled the room. Yet for some of us, Scalia was an unapologetic trail blazer. While certainly there were numerous decisions in which I strongly disagreed with the late jurist, I nevertheless found Scalia to be one of the most decent, brilliant and profoundly transformational members of the high court.

My admiration for Scalia emerged in the first Supreme Court case I ever followed: Maryland v. King (2013). The case revolved around the question of whether a Maryland law, which gave the police the authority to obtain DNA evidence (via a saliva swab) without a judge-issued warrant, was constitutional under the Fourth Amendment.

At the time, I firmly believed that the Maryland law was unconstitutional. It was (and still is) my belief that DNA constitutes an individual’s property –– and the Fourth Amendment protects from warrantless searches and seizures of property. However, the Court disagreed with me. In a 5-4 ruling, the Court upheld the Maryland law, stating that obtaining DNA without a warrant was no different from obtaining a fingerprint without a warrant.

While I saw Maryland v. King as a great defeat for property rights, I also found my judicial hero. The majority opinion was mostly made up of the Court’s conservative wing –– Justices John G. Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Samuel A. Alito and Clarence Thomas –– along with Stephen G. Breyer, a reliable liberal on the Court.

However, Scalia was notably absent from the majority.

Surprisingly, the jurist stood with the more liberal wing of the Court (Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan) and wrote the dissenting opinion. Instead of simply blending into the conservative majority, Scalia stood on principle, brilliantly stating: “The Fourth Amendment forbids searching a person for evidence of a crime when there is no basis for believing

the person is guilty of the crime … The Court’s assertion that DNA is being taken, not to solve crimes, but to identify those in the State’s custody, taxes the credulity of the credulous.”

In a world wrought with frivolous partisan divides, Scalia brought a refreshing blunt style to the Court. His King dissent was one of numerous instances in which Scalia sided with the Court’s liberal wing –– and quite frankly, Scalia didn’t care if his more liberal decisions (or any of his decisions for that matter) made people angry.

For Scalia, the question of the Constitution was not one of popular opinion. Instead, the Constitution represented the anchor of a republic –– the foundation of an everchanging society. So, if standing with the

Scalia was a man who could easily fill the room –– his bold voice, brilliant intellect and constant humor made the justice the center of attention wherever he went.

Court’s liberal wing meant preserving the principles of the Constitution, then Scalia was more than happy to join his left-leaning colleagues. These ideals –– though not popular with many Americans –– prove that one can cross the partisan aisle and simultaneously stand on principle.

Scalia’s principles helped to bring a renaissance to conservative legal ideology. Prior to Scalia, conservative judicial philosophy revolved around the idea of originalism – – the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted based on the intentions of the founding fathers. However, as time progressed many began to point out the flaws in this method of legal reasoning. The framers were inher-

ently political beings and had clear disagreements as to how the Constitution should be interpreted. So, if the founders disagreed as to the interpretation of the nation’s laws, how can one truly discern their intentions?

In place of originalism, Scalia helped to construct stronger legal theory: textualism. Though a cousin to originalism, textualism states that one cannot look to the intentions of the framers. Instead, the idea holds that one must simply look to the text of legislation to determine how it should be implemented. Scalia’s constant advocacy of this legal theory helped to drastically change the composition of modern jurisprudence. Today, not only do notable conservatives utilize textualist theories (such as Justice Alito), but some liberals have even begun to adopt the theory.

While Scalia’s accomplishments will forever enshrine the books of legal theory, history often forgets to tell the story of great men and women like Scalia. Scalia was a man who could easily fill the room –– his bold voice, brilliant intellect and constant humor made the justice the center of attention wherever he went. More importantly, his decades-long friendship with liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 could teach Congress a lesson in civility. Though Scalia was often cited as the leader of the Court’s conservatives, and Ginsberg as the leader of the Court’s liberals, the two justices were able to share a deep bond. In her touching tribute to Scalia, Justice Ginsberg wrote: “We were best buddies. We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation … It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.”

Michael Glanzel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mg786@cornell.edu. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Got Beef With Veganism?

Why a Million Americans Choose This Lifestyle

By NANCY SHEU Sun Contributor

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’m sure that most people by now have heard of vegan diet, and of those who have heard of it, most associate it with various not-so-good connotations.

Veganism has quite a bad reputation with the general American population, conjuring images of lifeless lettuce leaves and sad cherry tomatoes. It’s hard for Americans to understand this lifestyle because our own lifestyle is so incredibly centered on meat.

Is Thanksgiving really Thanksgiving if you didn’t share a huge stuffed turkey with your family? While Thanksgiving ranks as the number-one eating day of the year for Americans, Super Bowl Sunday is a close second. According to the National Chicken Council’s 2015 Wing Report (yes, that is actually a thing), Americans consumed around 1.25 billion wings while watching the Patriots and Seahawks fight for the Lombardi Trophy.

That’s like winning the 2016 Powerball Lottery except, instead of winning cash, ending up with a billion wings!

Without a doubt, meat is a huge part of American culture. It seems like no meal is complete without some source of animal meat — bacon at breakfast, a chicken sandwich for lunch and maybe some steak for dinner. And the truth is, meat is great! So why would someone ever choose to give it up to become vegan?

First off, it would be good to know exactly what it meant to become vegan. Contrary to popular belief, becoming vegan isn’t just a dietary adjustment; it’s a complete lifestyle overhaul. In addition

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to not eating meat (red meat, poultry, fish), vegans do not use or consume other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, honey, leather, fur, silk, wool, cosmetics and soaps derived from animal products.

Knowing all this makes you realize just how big of a commitment the vegan lifestyle is.

As a vegan, you can’t even put ranch dressing on those lifeless lettuce leaves — ranch is composed of mayonnaise, which, in turn, contains eggs.

Okay, let’s say you decide that you actually don’t need ranch dressing. In fact, you decide that you do want to become vegan. Well, that’s great! So it’s 6:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, and you and your friends decide to eat dinner at Okenshields (because every other dining hall is closed, and this is an absolute last resort). You walk in with a smile on your face, but as you scan each section, your smile fades, realizing you can’t eat the chicken Parmesan, or the buttered corn, or even the stir-fried noodles. The only foods you can eat are in the small salad section. And this unfortunate situation doesn’t just happen in Okenshields: It happens in almost every eatery you decide to eat at.

You walk in, take a look at the menu and notice a vegan section; however, it’s awfully small and unappealing. So not only is it hard giving up meat — it’s also hard finding vegan vegan-friendly foods to eat when you’re out. In the face of all these difficulties, the same question looms: why would someone ever choose to become vegan?

Actually, it’s not just someone — as of 2013, there have been around a million vegans in the United States alone. Of course, everyone has their own reason for choosing to become vegan. Three of the most common reasons have to do with an individual’s health, ethics and the environment. It’s important to note that those three reasons

are by no means mutually exclusive, and it’s actually more common to have people become vegan for a combination of reasons.

It’s no secret that following a plant-based diet is a great way to eat healthily, especially when you consume a variety of different vegetables and whole grain products. On the other end of the spectrum is our typical American, meatheavy diet. I am not implying that meat in and of itself is unhealthy because you can definitely derive much needed nutrients from eating meat.

However, the problem lies in how Americans tend to cook our meat, as well as the total amount we consume per day.

We have the tendency to cook our meat with lots and lots of fat, because let’s face it: no one wants to eat a piece of dry, flavorless chicken for any meal. Instead, we want things like fried chicken or chicken wings over-glazed with tangy sauces. And the unfortunate truth is that in the process, we turn that piece of chicken into something incredibly unhealthy, and even though it’s now brimming with flavor, it’s also saturated in fat. There are definitely healthier ways to cook meat, such as grilling or roasting; however, given the high rate of obesity in the United States, I find it hard to believe that the majority of Amricans make use of these healthier methods. The worst part is how much of these fatty meats Americans consume every year. America consumes a whopping one-sixth of the total worldwide meat consumption annually, which is a huge deal, considering the fact that we make up only 4.4% of the world’s population.

This brings me to the second reason why someone would choose to become vegan: ethics. In order to supply America’s huge, almost insatiable demand for meat, a lot of livestock and poultry are not only slaughtered, but also terribly mistreated. One

example of the many instances of animal cruelty can be found by looking at the beef industry. Before they are killed, cows in factory farms are fed an unnatural diet to fatten them up, which causes them to have chronic digestive pain from a build up of gases in their stomachs. On top of constant stomach pain, these cows are tightly packed right next to one another, with just enough room to stand. And cows in the dairy industry do not fare much better.

What most people do not know is that when we eat this much meat, not only do our own bodies suffer, but the environment does as well.

Every year, humans release 350 teragrams of methane into the atmosphere, 90 Tg of which is from agriculture.

That number may not seem like a whole lot, but it’s actually the second leading source of methane per year, after the 115 Tg from fossil-fuel emissions. And methane as a greenhouse gas is almost 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide because it has the potential to trap so much more heat. You can imagine how factory farms, with their mounds of manure, are huge sources of methane pollution.

And in order to raise all those animals for slaughter, you need to create croplands to produce feed for those animals, which comes at the price of soil erosion and the clearing of once great forest lands.

However, I am not trying to convince anyone to adopt a vegan lifestyle — I myself am not a vegan. I just want to shed some light (albeit, very minimal and incomplete light) on why a million people in America choose to live the way they do, in spite of the many inconveniences such a lifestyle engenders.

Nancy Sheu is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ns577@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Grammys: An April Fools Award Show

BY GWENDOLYN AVILES Sun Staff Writer

“The 58th Grammy Awards are getting ready to start NOW,” Bow Wow exclaimed, a full minute and a half earlier than he was supposed to. After beaming into the camera for a painful 20 seconds afterwards, he started bouncing around from Grammy attendee to Grammy attendee, instructing them not to be camera shy.

The Grammys were off to a disastrous start, but then again, when aren’t they? Instead of being an anomaly, Bow Wow’s flub of an introduction was almost to be expected and may have set the tone for most of the night. In the three and a half hour televised awards show, a multitude of blunders occurred. Some were committed by the artist herself, like when Taylor Swift fell flat during her opening performance of “Out of the Woods” (poor girl went back to her seat and cried). However, quite a few of the gaffes were perpetrated by the The Recording Academy — the body of individuals who vote on the award winners in each category.

Was Meghan Trainor really selected for “Best New Artist” over Tori Kelly?

The Grammy Awards is at its best when it actually focuses on what it purports to celebrate: artistry and music.

Kendrick Lamar, winner of five 2016 Grammys (“Best Rap Performance”, “Best Rap/Sung Collaboration,” “Best Rap Song,” “Best Rap Album” and “Best Music Video”) was by far the best performer of the night. Trailing across the stage in handcuffs, in line formation with his dancers, Lamar stepped on the stage with an vivacity and gravity the Grammys were sorely missing beforehand. The beginning of his set, during which he sang “The Blacker the Berry” was set in a prison, with beats resembling gun shots and fast flashing lights that jolted the audience. When the song finished, he proceeded to limp across the stage, as the hopeful #Blacklivesmatter anthem “Alright” began and a bonfire shooting flames in the background. His performance is disturbing in the best possible way; one cannot help being mesmerized by the severity of his passion, even if one is not a fan

of his.

Lamar was only rivaled by some of the various tribute performances to established musicians. Perhaps the most shocking of these was Lady Gaga’s medley of nine David Bowie songs. Gaga, donning an orange wig and what appeared to be a Japanese-inspired shawl (which she then stripped to reveal a fur and bedazzled jumpsuit) seemed to be the perfect approximate of David Bowie. Her Grammys performance proved that while imitating David Bowie is an impossible task, if any contemporary musician can embody the spirit of David Bowie, it’s her. Demi Lovato also gave a venerable tribute to Lionel Richie, who won a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys last night. Many of you probably laughed at that last sentence. That’s cool, but Demi is an outstanding vocalist, a fact that is sometimes subdued behind garish pop songs and the knowledge that she was once on Disney Channel, but rings true nonetheless.

All in all, the awards appeared to be split evenly across categories and artists with the main controversy (because what kind of award show would it be without some controversy?) being Taylor Swift’s winning the “Best Album of the Year” accolade over Kendrick Lamar. It is easy to see why some people are outraged. Swift’s 1989 was revolutionary for Swift as an artist. She started her career playing pop-country, but with the release of 1989, she made the crossover to pure pop. But Swift’s album has not contributed anything new to the Pop music genre, except for a few catchy hits, whereas Kendrick’s album is politically infused and lyrically inspired.

With a basic working knowledge of how the Grammys work, however, who is really surprised by this outcome? The Grammys are a joke. This is not to say that the artists who won them are talentless buffoons or that the awards are inherently meaningless (there’s a reason why most of us haven’t won Grammys), but the awards are presented as part of a show.

Perhaps I would be more incensed about the outcome were I a bigger fan of Lamar’s and were he also promulgating a feminist message instead of conflating black women with the pressures America puts on black men as in his “For Free” interlude and ranting about how “his dick ain’t free.”

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While Swift is not necessarily the most deserving artist, I can stand behind her speech about the people along the way who try to undercut the success of women. Take a look through the YouTube comments on Taylor’s speech and you will find misogynistic gems like: “she needs 5kg of clear FAT. Because this slutty bitch is a skeleton right now.” Taylor used her speech as a platform of retaliation against Kanye’s heinous lyrics about having sex with her whenever he wants and these YouTube commenters and to me and other marginalized women out there, it was inspirational and worth Lamar winning one less award.

The Grammys are flawed; they have become less about the music and more about the objectification of certain performers as celebrities. But once we come to accept this, we can take delight in continuing the quest to find the music that echoes our own souls.

Gwendolyn Aviles is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at gaviles@cornellsun.com.

‘Formation’: Out of Touch, or Well-Informed?

BY HADIYAH CHOWDHURY Sun Contributing Writer

People were taken by surprise when Beyoncé dropped her new music video, “Formation,” the day before the Super Bowl.

Since then, I have had so many discussions about this song with so many people; some say it is entirely overrated while others gush about how empowering it is. I fall somewhere in between.

I love the fact that “Formation” is unapologetically black and makes references to black culture that are entirely missed by non-black audiences.

The video itself is absolutely beautiful, rendering images of black culture throughout American history. In addition, Beyoncé’s lyrics praise physical traits that are typically negatively associated with black bodies (“I like my negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils”).

Beyoncé herself embodies a plantation owner, turning the typical trope of plantation owner and slave on its head. The near-absence of white bodies in the video speaks to Beyoncé’s intention of creating content meant to be shared and appreciated amongst solely black audiences. In this respect, Beyoncé definitely achieved her goal. Because of the way she incorporated period costume into the video, she was able to trace different methods of oppression throughout black history up until recent police shootings. The video as a whole made it clear, through the use of costume and various shots of graffiti reading “stop shooting us,” that police shootings were yet another manifestation of anti-black sentiment that pervades American culture.

At first, I also criticized “Formation” because it did not include very many images of poor, black America and instead embodied a history full of glamour and wealth instead.

However, I think this choice served more of a point than I had

previously thought; instead of the typical images of black Americans one sees in the media, Beyoncé chooses to question norms by including a black cowboy and black plantation owners. While this depiction does not quite match up with American audiences’ perception of black life, one starts to ask oneself why this is the case. Perhaps Beyoncé intended to question this depiction and to show that it does not have to be the

video as a way to criticize those who would claim that the United States’ has progressed in terms of its conception of race relations since its inception. Ultimately, she makes her audience doubt this idea.

Given this realization, one might wonder what Beyoncé suggest black folks do about their continued systematic and institutionalized oppression. The last line of the song perfectly explains what she thinks should be done: “always be gracious / your best revenge is your paper”. And this was where the song failed for me. Beyoncé’s claim here is that the best way to resist oppression is by profiting off of the colonialist system that created current conceptions of class in the first place. Instead of calling for unified resistance, she instead chooses to direct people towards a much more individualistic solution, embracing the tried and tested capitalist trope that if one only works hard enough, one can achieve one’s goals. This is, of course, not the case.

One’s success depends on much more than one’s own perseverance because of the way the American class system has been created. While Beyoncé has managed to become extremely successful, she is an exception, not the norm. I do not think liberation can be achieved by working within the existing structures of oppression and colonialism. After all, these are the organizations by which the current COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES race-based class system was created.

It should be noted that ultimately, I am not Beyoncé’s intended audience. These are only my norm. personal thoughts on her video. If nothing else, Beyoncé defiOne particularly effective scene involved a breakdancing nitely managed to stun everyone with “Formation” and I would young boy in front of a line of white police officers. At the end encourage people to listen to it, if only to be momentarily transof the video the white men throw their hands up in surrender ported to a world where black folks dominate the media withfollowed by a quick shot of the aforementioned graffiti. The out being tokenized and exploited. juxtaposition of these two images was so powerful that I had to pause for a moment before finishing the rest of the video. I Hadiyah Chowdhury is a sophomore in the College of Arts and asked myself if anything had really changed. Beyoncé uses her Sciences. She can be reached at hchowdhury@cornellsun.com.

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Theeb: Learning From a Wolf

BY HARINI KANNAN Sun Contributing Writer

One would expect a foreign film like Theeb to provide the audience with some sort of historical backdrop in order to contextualize a niche storyline. However, besides the minimal information that we are now in 1913 Jordan, not much else is given to Theeb’s viewers, who are immediately afterwards thrown into a jarringly different geo-historical perspective limited through the eyes of a child. Viewers quickly learn this child is the titular character Theeb who lives away from sedentary civilization. Historically keen viewers can surmise (or avid Googlers can verify) that Theeb belongs to a nomadic group of people called Bedouins. The intrinsic vagrant nature of Theeb’s life coupled with his naïve youth parallel our limited contextual understanding of the setting of the film. Viewers learn and question with Theeb. As he garners more information, we garner more information. Thus, writer and director Naji Abu Nowar lures viewers into Theeb’s emotionally raw and unedited perspective of his surroundings The precarious development of events in relation to Theeb appear slow at first. Interactions with his brother and other clan members seem almost relentlessly drawn out to the point of redundancy. However, as the story makes small but crucial pivots, the viewer becomes invested in the minor moments of Theeb’s life. The long shots of the film provide visual insight and understanding into Bedouin life. At first, the scrutinous attention to the miniscule details of desert life or small clan interactions appear painstaking to the first-world viewer.

However, over several scenes of the film, even the most privileged viewer gains a transitory perspective into the slow-moving life of a nomad. Every movement of a clan member, every conversation, every gust of wind or unfamiliar footstep seems inconsequential to the first-world viewer, but to the Bedouin character these events carry an amount of pertinence we evolve to value. Theeb’s attention to detail as he goes about his daily activities is particularly important in developing an understanding of the sociopolitical climate in which Theeb lives; his curios-

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ity and scrutiny become gateways for the viewers’ understanding of his life.

Specifically, the prolonged scenes with Theeb and his brother give the viewers more insight into Bedouin culture. Through these scenes, viewers form a dependency with the older brother, Hussein, who provides us with answers in this sphere of limited perspective. We eventually learn that these particular Bedouins lived as pilgrim guides, but when the Ottoman Turks constructed a train (ambiguously referenced to as just “the train”), the need for pilgrim guides fell obsolete. Thus, many took up raiding in order to survive.

During the movie, an Englishman arrives.

While we are not clued in to the historical significance of British involvement in Bedouin life or Ottoman Turkish life, the Englishman acts becomes a point of curiosity for both Theeb and the viewers. the Symbolically, Ottoman Turks and COURTESY OF MAD SOLUTIONS the Englishman are abrupt and detrimental aberrations from Theeb’s normal life.

While the raiders also introduce a level of danger in his life, this danger is predictable and, gauging from the film, brought upon indirectly by the Ottoman Turks. An Ottoman train brought about an indirect collapse of Theeb’s clan, sufficiently outsourcing their work and leaving many to resort to unforgiving lifestyles. Theeb eventually falls victim to this lifestyle, but it was catalyzed by the Englishman (rather than the Ottoman Turks).

The introduction of the Englishman created an immediate dis-

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placement, jolting Theeb into a jarringly different reality.

Behind the physical causes of change in Theeb’s life is an underlying process of decay and evolution of destruction that we see unfold throughout the film. As Theeb experiences the death of loved ones, there is a stark juxtaposition between Theeb’s emotional decay and the physical decay of death. Theeb transitions rather abruptly from a life of survival with emotional support to life of survival as a lone wolf. The evolution of his character into this “lone wolf” trope plays off his own name, Theeb, which means wolf in Arabic. A recurring idea in the film is a saying Theeb’s father instilled in Hussein and Theeb that “the strong eat the weak.” As Theeb forcibly parts from his innocence and childhood, he adopts this mentality in order to survive and avenge his loved ones. By the last scene, Theeb succumbs to the final stage of this evolution into destruction. While this evolution is physically exacerbated by the train, the Englishman and the raiders, it is also selfmotivated through his incessant curiosity. Unfortunately, the viewers do not get a glimpse into the future to see whether he returns to his clan, becomes a raider or simply a lone wolf.

By the end of the film we are left with as many questions as we started with and our perspective is limited once more with the departure of our counterpart Theeb. While in the beginning the viewer’s perspective was paralleled with that of Theeb’s, they become orthogonal by the end because Theeb reaches a point of realization, maturity and purpose that the viewer does not simultaneously obtain upon his absence. What the viewer is left with is a subdued understanding of Bedouin life, along with feelings of anger and disappointment because we no longer are part of Theeb’s story. With geopolitical and social thematic strands hanging off the film, we itch to sew them together at the end, but find ourselves lost without the perspective of our titular character and without any contextual knowledge of the history. Within an hour and 40 minutes, Naji Abu Nowar constructed and deconstructed a jarringly real life through adept and keen filming and story development, creating a film that is at once curiously provocative and teasingly ephemeral.

Harini Kannan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at hkannan@cornellsun.com.

How Kendrick Won the Grammys

was hoping to write my column this week on something mundane and sweet and a little dark, a sort of Valentine’s Day hangover cure. Picture this: me, my 93-year-old grandmother, and my parents in a snowed-in theater, watching Rob Reiner’s rom-com classic When Harry Met Sally. Then, the day after, me in my room, alone, shades closed, watching Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness: a hallucinatory, nihilistic portrait of post-Gulf War Kuwait’s burning oil wells. It’s a funny juxtaposition, and the column writes itself (if you’re familiar with Werner Herzog’s famously dreary, unforgiving and very German manner of speaking): Imagine if Werner Herzog narrated When Harry Met Sally! Get it? It’s a send-up of trite Hollywood conventions in a cruel and ephemeral world!

Alas, that column will have to wait, because on Sunday, Kendrick Lamar EVISCERATED the Grammys. The all-caps hyperbole (thanks, Huffington Post Jon Stewart coverage) doesn’t even quite capture it.

Kendrick’s performance of “The Blacker the Berry,” “Alright” and an unnamed, unreleased track at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards has to be ranked among the most visceral and unapologetic political statements ever to take place on the national stage. On a night that saw him sweep the rap field but lose to Taylor Swift’s 1989 for Album of the Year, his kinetic performance threw mass incarceration, the Ferguson protests and the injustice of the Trayvon Martin case into the spotlight.

Forget the awards — this will be what lasts in the collective memory of everyone who tuned in. I try to avoid this sort of grandiose statement-making, but then again, I can’t think of any other times I’ve witnessed a televised performance quite like this one.

Perhaps Beyoncé’s recent performance of “Formation” during the Super Bowl halftime show stacks up. In case you missed it, Beyoncé led a spectacularly choreographed phalanx of leather-clad Black Panthcers and, in front of

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the biggest television audience of the year, asserted her identity as a black, southern woman, and took pride in her success against all odds. (It’s unconfirmed, but there are reports that Coldplay was also there.)

As author Lasha notes in Salon, that performance has been loudly maligned by some for ostensibly "exploiting black resistance” to drive her personal brand. Yet, the double standard to which such critics subject Bey is blatantly unfair: Kendrick will undoubtedly receive less backlash for an equally political and sales-boosting performance that will similarly improve album sales. I think most reasonable people would agree with the author’s notion that “Celebrating and embracing sensuality and fighting the revolution would seem to be mutually exclusive for the black woman” under this frame of criticism. To attack her performance on this front is thus counterintuitive to the goal of combatting racism and laying the groundwork for feminist liberation.

Similarly, one might argue that Beyoncé's

Sam Bromer No Place Like Brome “conflation of capitalistic success with feminist liberation,” as Tiffany Lee puts it, is wrongheaded, but then again, a song that so boldly seeks to ignite and organize a nascent social movement need not be the last word on these subjects.

Finally, in the same article, Lasha is right to point out some of the possible shortcomings of Kendrick’s Grammy performance.

Specifically, while she asserts that his performance represents a powerful example of resistance, she argues that it focuses only on struc-

tural racism, rather than the specific struggle of black women to overcome multiple, overlapping forms of oppression.

With all that said, Kendrick’s performance was undeniably special, the kind of event that could draw national attention to social justice movements across the country and shed light on the persistent psychological toll of 400 years of oppression.

I’m required to give the play-by-play now, but trust me, if you haven’t seen it, just go see it. This was no Imagine Dragons collaboration. Lamar sauntered onto the stage with a chain-gang of mock-inmates, twitching as he approached the microphone, flanked by jail cells in which jazz players softly noodled dissonant, melancholy harmonies. Struggling in handcuffs to hold the microphone, Kendrick launched into the first verse of “The Blacker the Berry,” rapping the controversial first lines, “I’m the biggest hypocrite of 2015” as his rhythm section came to life.

Kendrick goes on, in the original version of this song, to say he’s a hypocrite because he mourns the unjust death of black men and celebrates pride in his heritage while also participating in violence against black youth. When it was first released, some criticized Kendrick of falling victim to respectability politics — of attempting, perhaps unfairly, to police fellow black men and women. Others, such as novelist Michael Chabon, have argued (on Rap Genius of all places) that hypocrisy is an unfortunate but possibly inevitable condition of an oppressive world which drags its victims through morally ambiguous situations.

However, in this performance, Kendrick ditched the most controversial segments of this track.

Over an angry prog-jazz arrangement, Kendrick spits the politically charged first verse, which focuses on African American and Pan-African pride in the face of a country which “Hate[s] my people,” whose plan is to “terminate my culture.” As the music built up, and the lights dimmed, Kendrick’s fellow

inmates lined up behind him, their prison garb lit up in day-glo, a visual counterpart to their continued vibrancy even under simulated conditions of incarceration.

Suddenly, he threw the audience into “Alright,” another To Pimp a Butterfly cut which has become a staple of the Black Lives Matter movement. A bonfire — reminiscent of scenes this past year in Ferguson — became a site of an African dance and exaltation: a vision in the face of continued violence, of a diaspora ended and an escape achieved.

Finally, thanks to some crafty camera work (good job, CBS), Kendrick’s manic stare was broadcasted into millions of homes through a series of disorienting cuts between close-up angles. He tore through a verse full of despair, which explored the personal and societal implications of Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands of George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012. He lamented that the crime “adds to a trail of hatred” in his community, as more Black Americans come to believe that the law is not meant to protect them, but that is instead actively designed to prevent their resistance against oppression with any means necessary: in the worst cases, murder.

His response? Though he fantasizes of nihilism (“hollow tips is all I got”) or even violence (“I plan on creeping through your door and blowing out every piece of your brain”), his ultimate reaction is to promote “Hiiipower,” a term he’s coined meant to signify "heart, dignity and self-respect.” In a world gone mad, Kendrick’s approach is simply to keep the madness from engulfing his community. It is, in short, an attempt keep inner equanimity in the context of extreme outer turmoil. His performance certainly shook up my aforementioned grandmother in the process, but that’s a whole other story.

Sam Bromer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. No Place Like Brome appears alternate Thursdays this semester. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com.

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overlooked is Texas Tech, who has done a great job so far surviving the gauntlet that is the Big 12. They’ve got no real bad losses on their resume, and have two straight wins over Top 25 squads. They still have work to do in order to make the tournament, but they’ve shown that they can play with the best teams in the country.

But maybe the most interesting team on the bubble is LSU. They have a number of bad losses, including one at home to Wake Forest. Their only real impressive wins are over Kentucky and Texas A&M, and even that A&M win is looking less impressive as the weeks roll on. Why could they make a run? Well, because they have the most dynamic player in the country in Ben Simmons. The dude is the best passing forward I have seen at the college level, and he can score at will around the basket. The only knock on Simmons is he seems to lack a killer instinct come crunch time. He plays too passive, when he should be exerting his dominance down the stretch. There’s no rea-

son that LSU should have lost to Oklahoma, but Simmons was a non-factor towards the later stages of the game. If he can become more assertive, I can see him leading the Tigers to a tourney run.

Speaking of Oklahoma, Buddy Hield is the clear and only candidate for the Wooden

call them the favorites to win the championship.

But I’m not predicting the Sooners to win it all. Nope, my gut tells me that this year, the March Madness champions reside in Austin, Texas. That’s right, I’m going with the Texas Longhorns as your 2016 NCAA Champions. Nobody expected the Longhorns to compete in the Big Shaka Smart is one of the few elite 12 this year. But here we are this late in coaches in college basketball, and I the season and the Longhorns sit at think he’ll have his boys focused come fourth in the conference. They’ve beaten Baylor, West Virginia twice and had tournament time. a huge win over North Carolina, a team many consider to be the best in the country. Sure, they’ve had their Award. The dude is absolutely sick. He’s hiccups. A loss to TCU is embarrassing, and shooting 50/50/90 on the season and aver- a home loss to Washington doesn’t look aging 25 points and four 3-pointers a game. good. But Shaka Smart is one the few elite Those are video game numbers. His late coaches in college basketball, and I think game heroics against Kansas and LSU are he’ll have his boys focused come tournastuff of legend. I think there’s a good chance ment time. Purely from an objective point that Buddy Buckets is the Kemba Walker of of view, Sportstradamus is going with the 2016, a guard that puts the team on his Longhorns. back and carries them to the title. Of course, this Oklahoma squad is much better Shane Lewis can be reached at than that UConn team. At this point, I’d slewis@cornellsun.com.

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to have all the momentum on their side.

Enter Hanna Bunton.

Bunton — Cornell’s goals and points leader — tied the game back up just 15 seconds later. She added a second, unassisted goal about a minute afterwards to give Cornell the lead. Junior defenseman Sydney Smith tallied a late empty net goal to seal the win.

“It was really huge for us,” Bunton said.

“Coach is always talking about never giving up in games.”

“We needed to win this game,” Woods said. “We came together as a team. We kept believing in ourselves and our system.”

Saturday’s win was Derraugh’s 200th career victory as a head coach, all for the women’s side of the program he graduated from. He said his 200 wins are a testament

to the tenure and strength of the relationship he has with his assistant coaches and staff.

“It means I’ve been here a long time,” he joked, adding, “It’s a milestone and an honor.”

After a successful road trip, the Red returns to Lynah Rink this weekend. There is a lot happening both on and off the ice this Friday and Saturday; the last games of the regular season, the Harvard Game and the Senior Game all against the backdrop of an ECAC playoff picture that is very much still in flux.

Before Saturday’s spectacle, the Red faces Dartmouth (6-17-3, 6-11-3 ECAC) on Friday; game time is 7 p.m. Woods says Cornell will focus on controlling Dartmouth’s front line.

“Dartmouth has some very good offensive talent,” Woods said. “We have to keep them on the outside and on the perimeter.

We need to capitalize on [their goalie and

defense].”

Saturday’s much-anticipated 4 p.m. game against Harvard (15-9-3, 11-6-3 ECAC) is Cornell’s last contest of the regular season.

“They’re solid from top-to-bottom,” Derraugh said of the Crimson. “We’ve had a tough time with their systems.”

Saturday is also the Class of 2016 senior game. Derraugh reflected on role this year’s class has had in creating a positive, winning environment at Cornell.

“It’s a class that’s done a lot for our program,” he said, adding, “Also, [they’re] very good teammates.”

The Red is looking forward to taking on the Crimson at home to end the regular season.

“I know our players love waking up to those games,” Woods said.

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun.com.

Ends Strong To Defeat Syracuse

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Damion Lee scored 15 points, Trey Lewis added 14 and No. 18 Louisville pulled away in the second half to beat Syracuse 72-58 on Wednesday night.

The Cardinals (20-6, 9-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) snapped a two-game slide, shooting 56 percent in the second half.

They overcame a 3-of-14 shooting start to finish at 48 percent overall.

They also held the Orange to 38 percent shooting to stop their fivegame winning streak and hand them their worst loss this season.

Lee shot just 6 of 14 but made all three 3-pointers in just under three minutes in the second half to key one of several runs that put Louisville comfortably ahead.

Lewis was 6 of 11 from the field with a couple from long range, and Chinanu Onuaku added 13 points and 15 rebounds for Louisville.

Trevor Cooney scored 19 points for the Orange (18-9, 8-6), Michael Gbinije had 13 points, and Malachi Richardson 10. They trailed by as 19 with just under four minutes left.

Louisville outrebounded Syracuse 41-30 and controlled the paint 50-20. Louisville’s backups outscored the Orange’s reserves 25-7 to help coach Rick Pitino win a matchup against fellow Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim.

The Cardinals also recorded their 14th straight 20-win season, a needed boost after consecutive road losses at Duke and Notre Dame. Though they’re just 2-2 since the school announced a selfimposed postseason ban on Feb. 5, they got back on track toward salvaging what’s left of their shortened season.

Saturday’s loss at Notre Dame was especially painful for Louisville, which lost an 11-point, second half lead behind 28 percent shooting. Then came Monday’s bad news that sophomore 7-footer Anas Mahmoud would miss the final six games with a sprained right ankle, leaving the Cardinals even thinner in the post.

Those events didn’t bode well early on against Syracuse’s trademark zone defense, which frustrated the Cardinals in building an 18-6 lead. Louisville doing itself in with flat play featuring turnovers and cold shooting.

But Syracuse then went cold while Louisville snapped out of its funk to close the half with a 22-9 run for a 28-27 lead at the break.

The Cardinals made 9 of 18 down the stretch and clamped down defensively, holding the Orange to 35 percent shooting.

Louisville was just getting started, making 12 of its first 18 from the field in the second half with Lee setting the tone from behind the arc. He made three in less than three minutes to put Louisville up 49-40 en route to a 28-14 run over 9:13 for a 60-46 lead that was never threatened.

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SPORTS

SQUASH

Squash Teams Work Toward Postseason Play Men earn 5-4 victory over Penn

By BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

Winner takes all. It is that time of year again for the Cornell women’s and men’s squash teams: the postseason. Both teams secured spots into Nationals following impressive seasons.

The eighth-ranked women’s team finished the season at 9-7, losing its last match to No. 2 Penn in a 9-0 decision. Despite the loss, the team will still enter Nationals.

The 12th ranked men’s team were able to get some revenge for the women’s team, with a close 5-4 upset over Penn. With this win, the team could possibly be placed as a top seed in the Hoehn Cup or could be catapulted to the A Division and manage to secure a spot in the Potter Cup. In a hard-fought seasons, the two teams have been able earn their rewards and are now fighting for the top prize “This past weekend we showed what we are capable of playing at the highest level in college squash by beating UPenn, who was ranked third in the nation.” said senior captain Graham Dietz. “We’ve won four matches in a row, and just beat one of the best teams in the nation so we are very confident. We know we need to continue to work hard to reach our goal.”

The women’s team feels fully prepared for the road ahead.

“We can be very competitive when we bring a lot of energy to each match and focus on one game at a time.

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN FILE PHOTO

Swing, Swing | The postseason for the men’s team is still up in the air; the team could either be competing for the Hoehn Cup or the Potter Cup.

Our main competitors this season are Columbia and Stanford and we were able to play well against both teams,” said senior captain Olivia Wherry. “If we bring our confidence and determination with us we can work even harder to become stronger and beat them at Nationals. We have what it takes to beat both teams, we just need to believe it and fight for every point.”

Both teams plan on taking the lessons from the regular season with them to the big stage.

“When we hit good length in a rally our competitors often make mistakes,” Wherry said. “So our goal is to focus on keeping the ball tight and deep, forcing our opponents to make mistakes. We also need to run after every ball because, in the words of our coach, Julee, ‘the rally is never over until it’s over.’ ” Both teams have fought hard against top seeds all season long but the postseason will be a new experience for the young teams.

“We have a young but very competitive team. We need to work hard in the postseason to give us confidence as we move forward,” Wherry said. “As a graduating senior, it is important to keep up the strong work ethic in order to help the team as they move towards accomplishing next season’s goals.”

But despite the novelty of the experience, both teams are looking to build and develop their programs from the experience of postseason. They know what is at stake and look to further advance themselves by standing tall as a unit.

When asked what was the biggest lesson he and his teammates took away from their long hard fought season, Dietz offered a simple set of words: “play as a team and for each other.”

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bbiggs@cornellsun.com.

TENNIS

Men Take Second atTournament;WomenWin Twice Cornell defeats Harvard for the first time in five matches in ECAC Indoor Championships Semifinals

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams took to the courts this past weekend. The men’s team (3-6) came home in second place in the ECAC Indoor Championships, losing to Princeton in the final. The women’s team (4-3) won both of its matches against UConn and Albany.

The men’s team began the weekend by playing against St. John’s on Friday.

Coming into the match, Cornell was facing a five-match losing streak, while St. John’s was riding a seven-game winning streak.

By singles-match wins by junior Colin Sinclair, junior Chris Vrabel and doubles wins by Sinclair, freshman

David Volfson, Vrabel and junior Bernardo Casares Rosa, the Red came away with a 4-1 victory.

Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu said he was impressed with how well his team bounced back against St. John’s.

“We had one of the toughest schedules in the country to start our spring semester,” Tanasoiu said. “We did not start the way we wanted, but we knew all along we are a good team. Through training and competing the right way, we were able to make some good strides. We are starting to execute on all cylinders and we are sure that there will be positive things ahead of us.”

On Saturday, Casares Rosa, Vrabel, Sinclair and Volfson all won their doubles-matches, and Volfson, Vrabel and Casares Rosa all won their singles

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS

Building confidence | Jane Stewart helped the women’s tennis defeat UConn and Albany over the weekend.

matches to give Cornell a 4-1 victory on Sunday, winning 5-2. The Red swept over Harvard in the ECAC semifinals, all three doubles matches, with singles the Red’s first win in five matches victories coming from Cusick, against Harvard. On Sunday, the Red D’Ascenzo and sophomore Lizzie took on Princeton in the finals and fell Stewart.

Both D’Ascenzo and Cusick were short with Sinclair accounting for the impressed with how their team perRed’s only point.

Despite the strong performance, formed this weekend, and are excited to see what the Casares Rosa rest of the remains criti“We did not start the way we wanted, season will cal of the but we knew all along we are a good hold. team’s perfor“Our two mance at the team. ... We are starting to execute on wins this tournament. all cylinders.” weekend He said he were really believes that Silviu Tanasoiu exciting, and the team the team is could have continuing to gain confidence and beaten Princeton.

“I think that we have a good enough experience as the season goes on,” team to beat Princeton, and any other Cusick said. “We are looking to team,” he said. “But since every team is improve with each coming match. I competitive, we have to make sure we think our team needs to focus on take advantage of the few opportunities improving one match at a time. It is a the other team gives us during the long season, and I believe that as the match. Against them, we had a lot of season progresses, we will continue to very difficult matches where the game get better.”

D’Ascenzo echoed these sentiments. was decided in just a few points. They “Winning two matches this weekend were the ones who took responsibility, played better, and took the title away definitely helps everyone with the confidence, both individually and as a from us.”

The women took on UConn on team,” she said. “We need to keep Friday, holding them off, 4-3. Junior working on everything that we have Alexandra D’Ascenzo won both her sin- been doing in practice and just contingles and doubles matches, with the ue to build up our confidence and keep clinching win coming from sophomore improving throughout the season.”

The men’s team will take on Penn Priyanka Shah at the No. 5 singles position. Wins also came from senior Jane State, Saturday the 20th at University Stewart at singles and junior Marika Park, Pennsylvania, and the women’s team Cusick at doubles paired with will play NJIT on the 20th in Ithaca.

D’Ascenzo.

The women’s team came away with a Jamil Rahman can be reached at more convincing victory against Albany jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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‘This is our first and foremost goal.’

Wrestling Wins14th Straight Ivy Title

By SHAN DHALIWAL

your side.”

The transition to collegiate wrestling is not always an easy one.

Cornell men’s wrestling captured its “The hardest thing is that every14th straight Ivy League title this past one’s so good, so it’s just a grind,” weekend, defeating Penn early on Macri said. “Wrestling that many kids Saturday and then officially earning that are that good is definitely a tough [The team’s] “senior the title with a 23-16 victory over task.” trio of Garrett, Pickett Princeton later that day.

The Eastern Intercollegiate and Realbuto Winning the Ivy League has Wrestling Association (EIWA) chamcontinued their reign become a yearly routine for the Red, pionships on the weekend of March but head coach Rob Koll and his team 5th will serve as the team’s national of excellence.” never take the championship for grantqualifier. Last year the Red qualified Rob Koll ed. nine wrestlers for the NCAA meet — “Each year, this is our first and forewhich tied a school record — and most goal,” Koll said of winning the hopes to build off that this year at league. “Sometimes we take the chamEasterns. pionship for granted, but with all the “The two-day break was a perfect struggles we have faced this year it’s a way to kick off our training and prepanice way to finish off the dual meet ration for the Eastern Championships, portion of the season.” which also serves as our national qualSenior Nahshon Garrett, freshman ifier,” Koll said.

Dalton Macri, senior Duke Pickett He also noted how the team “will and junior Brian Realbuto all finished continue [its] regiment of highly CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER the weekend with two victories. intense, but shorter practices leading Koll praised performances from Grappling Garrett | Nahshon Garrett won both of his matches as Cornell defeated Penn and Princeton to up to the Eastern and NCAA tournafreshmen Dalton Macri and Joey win the Ivy title. Garrett and the Red are now preparing for Easterns and Nationals, both held in March. ments.”

Galasso in particular. Dalton had Macri, new to the collegiate that stuff really matters and everyone gets a wrestling experience, nonetheless feels confimissed the previous three weeks and Galasso son.

“I think the most important thing is to clean slate whether you're 24-0 or under dent that Koll’s training has prepared him has battled illness throughout the season. “[Marci and Galasso] went 2-0 and realize that it’s pretty much over and walking .500,” he said. and the rest of the team well for the postseaNationals are on March 17th, so veterans son. demonstrated to the rest of the league that out on nationals ... it’s just important to leave they are back and ready to compete for it all out there and and leave all the work and like Garrett as well as as freshmen like Macri “I think that our coaches will have us all the effort and everything that you've put have about a month to prepare.

Eastern titles,” Koll said. peaking at the right time, so I feel like everyMacri described how he looks up to one is right there and will be ready for Koll also noted how the team’s “senior trio in for the last eight months out there,” Garrett as a mentor. of Garrett, Pickett and Realbuto continued Garrett said. nationals and easterns, including myself,” “Nahshon’s probably more of mentor to Macri said.

“I think a lot of guys might be trying to their reign of excellence.”

Garrett, the top ranked wrestler over the define themselves by how well or not well me because I'm a small guy, so I can really weekend, will look to build off his fifth place they've done in the past tournaments and relate and look up to him,” he said. “It’s def- Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwfinish at the NCAA Championships last sea- past matches, but the reality is that none of initely really helpful to have a guy like that on al@cornellsun.com.

Sun Staff Writer

Predicting Icers Sweep In-Conference Opponents March Madness A WOMEN’S HOCKEY

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s hockey enjoyed its first conference sweep of the season, beating Brown and Yale on the road over the long break. The Red (11-12-4, 7-9-4 ECAC) was victorious over the Bears (3-21-3, 1-16-3 ECAC) on Friday and the Bulldogs (10-16-1, 9-10-1 ECAC) on Saturday.

The only thing in common between the two games was the 4-2 final score.

Against Brown, Cornell scored According to Cornell head coach early and often, led by senior for- Doug Derraugh ’91, the difference ward and alternate captain Taylor between this weekend’s outcome and Woods’ two the tie against “We came together as a team. We kept Brown goals and an at assist. The in believing in ourselves and our system.” Lynah Red totaled January was 41 shots in prying open a Taylor Woods the game two-goal lead and led 3-0 to put the after the second intermission. game out of reach. He said the third “We got a lot of chances,” Woods period comeback by Brown was a result of the Red spending too much time in said. “We limited our turnovers.” the box in the last twenty minutes.

“We took a few more penalties than I would have liked,” Derraugh said.

“We didn’t stay as aggressive as we had early on.”

Unlike in the clash against Brown, on Saturday against Yale, Cornell did not score first. The Bulldogs jumped out to their first lead of the day off of the stick of forward and Olympic bronze medalist Phoebe Staenz 7:18 into the game. Cornell junior forward Kaitlin Doering answered in the period’s closing minute, and the game would stay 1-1 into the third.

Yale took the lead back with fourteen minutes left in regulation, and with home ice, the Bulldogs appeared CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER to have all the momentum on their

Coming to a close | The Red ends its regular season with a pair of ECAC games this weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard.

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s predicted, the Denver Broncos upset the Carolina Panthers to take home Super Bowl 50. Of course, you would have known that before the game if you would have read my column about The Fate Theory. With football over, it is now

Shane Lewis Sportstradamus time for us to turn our attention to college basketball. With conference tournaments and March Madness quickly approaching, I think I’ll offer up some more of my famous predictions. And as you know now, never doubt Sportstradamus.

First of all, let’s talk about some teams on the bubble that could make a run come playoff time. There’s almost no team hotter in the country than the Wisconsin Badgers, who have won seven in a row after a forgettable start to their season. This includes See LEWIS page 14