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The Division of Student and Campus Life plans to reassess on-campus housing this semester. | Page 3

Mark DiStefano ’16 said he hoped “something more to chew on” in Hail, Caesar! | Page 6

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BSU Promises Further Protests, Anabel’s Grocery Urges Day Hall to Address Demands Opening Pushed to Next Academic Year

By EMILY FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

Members of Black Students United expressed disappointment with their progress in implementing a list of demands delivered to the Cornell administration and promised future action on campus at a meeting on Thursday.

Amber Aspinall ’17, political action chair of BSU, and spoke of the past, present and future of student activism, saying that many of the demands are the

same demands that students have been making for the last 50 years.

“This is a history that we’ve inherited, and I take that history and that legacy very seriously,” said Aspinall. “A lot of the demands unfortunately have been things that people have been talking about for decades. The big question is if we’re having these conversations over and over again, what conversations aren’t we having?”

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Demanding change | Dialogue.

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Staff Writer

While Anabel’s Grocery was originally projected to open in February, the grocery store will most likely open at the beginning of the next academic year, according to its founders.

Both co-founders — S.A. executive vice president Emma Johnston ’16 and S.A. vice president of finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 — said they are comfortable moving the opening to August because of the faith they “[The construction have in their team to mantimeline was] more age the project over the summer. bureaucratic than we “We just selected new originally imagined.” people for the purchasing team, for I.T., for our proMatthew Stefanko ’16 gramming, and it will also allow us the opportunity to make sure that all the tech is in place before the new school year starts,” Johnston said. “The new team is making sure that registration and membership are something that run really smoothly within the store for the students that visit it.”

According to Stefanko, an August opening will allow time for the new board members to adjust to their positions.

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19-Year-Old Graduate Student Assembly Urges Garrett to Adhere Student Sues N.Y.Attorney To Skorton’s 2035 Carbon Neutrality Pledge

General Over Drinking Age

Despite having received an invitation to the social, Uhalde said the manager Matthew Uhalde, grad — threw him out because he was a 19-year-old student in the underage.

“The manager said it was a Cornell Department of liability having Horticulture me there, even if — has sued “The issue is not I didn't drink,” New York Attorney that I can’t drink Uhalde said. “It wasn't the first General Eric Schneiderman, but rather that it’s time something that had claiming the hard to go out.” like happened. I was legal drinking feeling excluded age makes him Mathew Uhalde grad and fed up.” feel “ostracized Matthew and excluded” from the company of other Kibbee grad, said he sympathizes with Uhalde, calling the graduate students.

The lawsuit was prompted drinking age in the U.S. is by an unfortunate experience “absurd.”

“I can certainly see how he at a graduate student social at Big Red Barn last week, See LAWSUIT page 5 according to Uhalde.

By JOSEPHINE CHU

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By MELVIN LI

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The Student Assembly adopted a resolution urging administration to return to its original pledge of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035 at its Thursday meeting.

Despite President Emeritus David Skorton’s support for the 2035 carbon neutrality goal, President Elizabeth Garrett has said that the University will not commit to the campaign.

“President Garrett’s words were that she didn’t want to draw a line in the sand,” said Elizebeth Chi ’18, one of the resolution’s sponsors. “By this point, there are 200 universities in the United States that have set target carbon neutrality dates within the next 20 years. Cornell

doesn’t even make that cut, it’s kind of sad.”

Chi stressed that the S.A.’s proposal is not a radical one.

“We are just asking President Garrett to com-

mit to a hard deadline of carbon neutrality by 2035 with the original timeline or with an alternate timeline, whatever it takes as long as we can reach that target date,” she said.

In response to questions about the costs of carbon neutrality, S.A. executive vice president Emma Johnston ’16 said See 2035 page 5

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Profs Stress Urgency of Paris Climate Summit

Say grassroots efforts will make agreement more successful than 1997 Kyoto Protocol

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Professors expressed their hope that the United Nations 2015 Climate Change Conference, will be more successful than previous global climate change initiatives, like the Kyoto protocol at a Thursday lecture.

The Paris conference — commonly referred to as COP21 — indicated a need for grassroots efforts, according to Prof.

Robert Howarth, ecology and evolutionary biology, at a panel Thursday.

“What COP21 does is to set the stage for what we can do in the grassroots level, and without grassroots leveling we won’t get to where we want to,” said Howarth, one of the participants in COP21. “When the nations of the world, 195 of them, agreed to what they did in Paris because of the grassroots pressure… we need to keep doing it.”

Prof. John Mathiason of the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs said he believes countries will adopt the measures agreed upon in the Paris Agreement — a global

effort to reduce climate change approved by all countries present at COP21 — even though the commitments are voluntary.

“If they are voluntary, any country that is [a part of ] the framework convention can say ‘yes, I can agree to this’ because it doesn’t require a new treaty that has to be ratified,” Mathiason said.

While the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 was not implemented because some countries refused to ratify it, Mathiason said he believes the climate change initiative is likely to be effective this time.

“Climate change has gotten to a point where local climate impacts are changing mindsets, it’s very hard for the human mind to get around global issues,” he said. “It’s much easier for people to deal with local impacts.”

Prof. David Wolfe, horticulture, cited a change in corporations’ stance on climate change issues as an additional reason for the recent progress of climate change innitiatives. He emphasized that it is consumer action that is influencing corporate decisions and industry action.

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Warming up | Three professors discuss the urgency of climate change initiatives given the perceived impact on local communities at a lecture Thursday.

“I feel like business leaders are going to lead the politicians to the table of both parties about climate change,” he said.

Wolfe also stressed the need for grass root support for climate change initiatives.

“Every nation [needs to] push their governments to live up to their agreement, without that it’s going nowhere and it’ll be dead in months,” he said. “It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.”

After the consensus in Paris, the next step would be to translate the agreement into action, Mathiason said.

“The real issue is that we now have to do a bunch of stuff,” he said. “One of the reasons why you can’t get an internation-

al agreement very often is because you put off stuff. The hard stuff, like who’s going to do what and when.”

Howarth further emphasized the urgency of climate change actions in response to the information discovered at the Paris conference.

“The science presented in Paris [suggests that] we need to move very, very aggressively with that 1.5 or well below 2 degrees Celsius and take it very seriously,” he said.

The lecture is part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs Spring 2016 Colloquium series.

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

Food Science Prof Defends GMOs as Essential to Food Production

By ZACHARY KAPLAN Sun Staff Writer

Prof.

Emeritus Joe Regenstein ’66, food science, outlined arguments in defense of creating and using genetically modified organisms in food production before an audience of nearly 50 Cornellians Thursday.

Regenstein presented research in his recently coauthored book, Genetic Modification and Food Quality: A Down To Earth Analysis, which argues that, from a scientific perspective, GMOs pose no problem to food consumption.

Regenstein also stressed that

GMOs positively combat new said. “We’re talking about the challenges to food production possibility that we may no longer have oranges, and we systems.

“As we all think about cli- may not have bananas.”

GMOs have led mate change and to some preliminary population increases, successes, but and therefore less research must be land for agriculture, expanded and the we’re going to have popular rhetoric to use more marginal against GMOs lands, we’re going to should be rejected, have to use crops according to that do things differently, and we’re PROF. REGENSTEIN ’66 Regenstein.

S p e c i f i c a l l y, going to have to do that rapidly,” Regenstein said. Regenstein disputed GMO Regenstein added that concerns pertaining to issues GMOs are necessary to the such as health or the environment, and in several instances growth of certain crops.

“We also need the ability to pointed out a lack of any creddeal with certain diseases,” he ible peer reviewed research

capable of demonstrating the potential risk of GMOs. Regenstein responded to one of the main critiques to GMOs — which says they are unnatural — by saying “there ain’t nothing natural in most of our food supply.”

To illustrate his point Regenstein cited examples of unnatural phenomena within food production rising from classic breeding patterns and genetic modifications that plants and animals undergo, absent of human interference.

Regenstein also explained the indirect link between fast food restaurant Chipotle’s commitments to GMO-free food and the restaurant’s

recent series of contaminations.

“Local farmers have far less resources to throw at things like food safety,” he said.

“Chipotle is encouraging these farmers to be GMO free which makes them less efficient.”

However he said he believes the concern about allergies to GMOs allergens is genuinely legitimate and something the scientific community ought to consider.

Regenstein concluded his talk, saying, “GMOs have a lot of positives, but we should keep an eye on the negatives.”

Zachary Kaplan can be reached at zkaplan@cornellsun.com.

Prospective Master Plan to Guide On-Campus Housing for Next Decade

By DAVID BROTZ Sun Staff Writer

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Preliminary planning | Mews Hall is a first-year residence hall on North Campus, where all first-year students are housed. The administration is working on a new master plan to reassess on-campus housing.

This semester, the Division of Student and Campus Life will join real-estate and economic development consulting group U3 Advisors in drawing up a “master plan” to reassess on-campus housing for the next decade.

“Our goal is to get an objective assessment of our current housing situation and develop a roadmap to help us plan for the next ten years, a roadmap that is consistent with the University’s campus master plan,” said Marty Rauker, senior director of strategic initiatives for student and campus life.

Student-elected trustee Yamini Bhandari ’17 said that this housing evaluation is neces-

sary because Cornell housing is “disorganized in its current state.”

“Between the shortage of oncampus housing, the increasingly high costs of apartments in Collegetown and the unstructured nature of finding off campus housing, there are a number of pressing concerns,” Bhandari said. “There are also concerns around the housing system creating social stratification amongst students.”

The entire process is expected to last nine months, according to the University. During this time, U3 will hold focus groups and conduct surveys to better understand the housing needs of the Cornell community.

“U3 advisors will guide us through the process, help us to be objective in our assessments, and

help us conduct our research intentionally,” Rauker said.

“They will also perform benchmarking with other schools, and help us think creatively about financial planning to make the housing master plan a reality.”

Bhandari cited the lack of change in campus housing as a reason for housing issues.

“I also think there are issues within the campus housing because some of the original plans for housing like West Campus have not been re-evaluated since their creation,” said Bhandari. “The changing social dynamic of Cornell is an important consideration for our campus.”

David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun.com.

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BSU Promises More Protest And Disruption After Demands BSU

Speaking directly to the administrators, Aspinall promised future protests.

“I know there are some administrators in the Aspinall said the administration has been room, and I’ll tell you this right now, we are receptive to several of their demands, including going to continue to shut things down,” changing the name of the Cornell Plantations, Aspinall said. “Meetings will not replace the setting up weekly support groups at Gannett for direct disruption of your offices. It is a process.” students of color and dedicating career services Some of BSU’s demands are related to diveststaff members to minority recruiting, according ment from the private prison system, and the to Aspinall. administration’s response to these issues has While she believes these demands can be met been less promising, according to Aspinall. quickly, Aspinall said some of the demands will “When we talk about changing campus clitake more time and effort, specifically institut- mate, we can talk to Vice President Lombardi ing a diversity curricuand we can talk to lum.

Garrett “I know there are some administrators in the President One student spoke because they have conin favor of a diversity room, and I’ll tell you this right now, we are trol over here, but curriculum by highsupreme control, a going to continue to shut things down.” lighting her experiphrase listed in ence in an intergroup Cornell documents, Amber Aspinall ’17 dialogue class facilitatrests with the board of ed by students.

Aspinall trustees,” “I think it is a lot easier for students to tear said. “When we talk about money, old white down those walls and face the challenges or the men’s money, that is another whole conversaissues that oftentimes would be ignored in the tion that is a lot more difficult to get success in.” presence of staff members when they’re disThroughout the meeting, members of the cussing it amongst peers,” the student said. “I audience expressed their appreciation for the took the class and it was a process. You could Black Students United, and the work that confeel yourself changing before you even knew tinues to advance the group. that you were actually actively making a differ“You are very thoughtful, very aware of what ence.” is happening here on this campus as well as Attendees also discussed how they hope to what is happening around the country and achieve change on campus using protests — like around the world,” a Gannett staff member prethe takeover of Trillium that occurred earlier sent at the meeting said. “You really help to this year. educate people on this campus although I know “The idea is to disrupt business as usual,” that at times is exhausting.”

Aspinall said. “That is the point of a protest, to disrupt. It is often interesting when we get back- Emily Friedman can be reached at efriedman@cornellsun.com. lash saying ‘you guys were a distraction.’”

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Anabel’s Grocery Announces Fall Grad Student Sues Opening Date After Months of Delay N.Y.Attorney General Over Drinking Age ANABEL’S GROCERY

there with exactly what they want and how to do it,” Riley said.

The Anabel’s team is using the delayed openMatthew Stefanko ’16, S.A. vice president of ing as a chance to focus on their food insecurity finance, said the delay was something he and his initiatives, including Anabel’s Meal Kit Builds team “always knew was a possibility.” which provides non-perishable food items in The process of the construction was “more bulk free of charge to students, according to bureaucratic than they had originally imagined.” Stefanko.

However, Stefanko said, Anabel’s could open “It turns out that the demand was even higher within a week before the semester ends. than we had predicted and what we had seen “We made an educated decision, based on the during Thanksgiving, and our February Meal Kit level of bureaucracy Build actually had about that exists within the 375 students,” Stefanko “We’ll be having cooking classes at construction process said. “It’s one of those least twice a month, and then other and our own readiness good and bad stories in to launch the store, large events that aim to address food a lot of ways — it’s good and made a determibecause we found insecurity in a more holistic way.” nation that we would demand and we supbe able to more sucplied for it and that’s Emma Johnston ’16 cessfully launch in exciting, but obviously August or September it’s bad and sort of an than we would in April or May,” Stefanko said. indication that this problem is a lot bigger than While the team aims to have an official open- we had even imagined.” ing at the beginning of the next academic school Johnston said she hopes that students utilize year, the team plans to hold an informal open- the programming while they wait for Anabel’s to ing over the summer, according to Isabel Riley open. ’17, current Anabel’s Grocery Risk Management “We’ll be having cooking classes at least twice Team member. a month, and then other large events that aim to “This would allow the new team to test address food insecurity in a more holistic way,” Anabel’s Grocery out on the smaller student Johnston said. body of summer students, so that in August when everyone’s back restocking their apart- Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at ments, not knowing how to cook anything, we’re aeskenazi@cornellsun.com.

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graduate students frequently go to bars,” Kibbee said.

Uhalde said his lawsuit “isn’t about alcohol at all” but about his right to associate with his peers.

“The issue is not that I can’t drink, but rather that it’s hard to go out,” he said. “I have a legal right to associate with my classmates.”

Agreeing with Uhalde, Kibbee said he thinks the complaint has more to do with the broad age range of graduate students rather than the drinking age.

“Some people start graduate school in their early twenties, others start in their thirties or forties once they’ve gotten married,” he said. “In general it can be hard to socialize with people who are significantly older or younger than

you are.”

Nathaniel Rogers, grad, said that while he never felt like alcohol consumption was “the foundation of his graduate student social life,” he recognizes that the age limit can be a strong deterrent.

“I can sympathize with the fact that at 19-years-old, a grad student might have a lot more in common with the undergrads he or she T.A.’s than with his or her academic peers,” Rogers said.

Prof. Kevin Clermont, law, said Uhalde is a “fine student,” but “his lawsuit does not have a snowball’s chance.”

Uhalde said he never intended for his lawsuit to be publicized nor did he do this for attention.

“I’m only doing this for me,” he said.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

Student Assembly to Garrett: Reconsider 2035 Carbon Neutrality Pledge STUDENT ASSEMBLY Continued from page 1

The administration’s reluctance to adopting Carbon Neutrality despite faculty participation in the United Nations 2015 Climate Change Summit is “embarrassing,”said S.A. vice president of internal operations Mitchell McBride ’17.

“We’re sending faculty over to Paris and having people say of our college ‘Why isn’t Cornell doing this? You’re supposed to be advocating on behalf of this but Cornell doesn’t even do this’” McBride said.

McBride urged Garrett to see Climate Neutrality as “creating knowledge.”

“President Garrett said, ‘The purpose of Cornell is to create knowledge.’

We need to be creating the knowledge of how to [reach the 2035 goal.] We

need to show other universities and the sentative to describe the search process, entire U.S. how to do that,” McBride Lombardi said he would form a search committee “with very heavy student said.

In addition to the carbon-neutrality involvement.” Lombardi said he supdiscussion, Ryan Lombardi, vice presi- ports a very open process of looking for new candidates dent for student and would enteraffairs, held a “We’re sending faculty over tain suggestions Q&A to provide from Cornell’s him with student to Paris and having people student body. input before he Matthew starts the search Stefanko ’16, for a new candi- say of our college, “Why isn’t S.A. vice presidate to replace Cornell doing this?” dent of finance, current dean of said that the new students Prof.

Mitchell McBride ’17 dean of students Kent Hubbell should be willing ’69, architecture.

Lombardi said he came to have a to communicate news of major deciconclusive conversation with students sions to students early on before they about their concerns and that he wel- have already been made. He also sugcomed comments from anyone present. gested using the search process as an When asked by Gabriel Kaufman opportunity to restructure certain ’18, S.A. undesignated at large repre- offices.

Turkey Blames Kurdish Militants For Deadly Ankara Bombing ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Thursday blamed Kurdish militants at home and in neighboring Syria for a deadly bombing in Ankara and it stepped up pressure on the U.S. to sever ties with the Syrian Kurdish militia that has been a key force against the Islamic State group in the complex Syrian conflict.

The blast at rush hour Wednesday killed 28 people and wounded dozens more in a car bombing that targeted buses of military personnel. Ankara’s second bombing in four months came as Turkey grappled with an array of serious issues, including renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels, threats from Islamic State militants and the Syria refugee crisis.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a Syrian national with links to Syrian Kurdish militias carried out the attack in concert with Turkey’s own outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency. He also blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for allegedly supporting the Syrian Kurdish militia.

Turkish leaders vowed to retaliate for the Ankara attack, and the military said its warplanes conducted cross-border raids within hours against PKK positions in the Haftanin region of northern Iraq, striking about 60-70 rebels, including senior leaders. The report could not be independently verified.

“The S.A. and the Office of Assemblies are directly below the vice president of community relations,” Stefanko said. “There’s, in my opinion, a huge conflict of interest between a huge group of people that is trying to send a certain message from Cornell and students who might frequently disagree with that message.”

Lombardi said he expects the new dean to be responsive to students.

“I would be asking [the new dean] to be very engaged with students and be present, be active, be listening, be open and be very transparent in those regards,” Lombardi said. “It’s an expectation of mine and that for me would be a metric of success for this position.

If we don’t achieve that then we’re not doing something right.”

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

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Inmates gather for a visit from Pope Francis at a prison in Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Coens Take Hollywood: Hail, Caesar!

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

The abundance of non-sequiturs and throwaway scenes in Hail, Caesar! is not unusual as these are the trademark characteristics of the Coen brothers’ work. As A.O. Scott put it, a Coen brothers movie is “a brilliant magpie’s nest of surrealism, period detail and pop-culture scholarship.”

While this is true, you must understand before going to Hail, Caesar! that you are basically paying to watch the Coens lovingly recreate all the different styles of Hollywood product from the 1950s — westerns, noirs, swimsuit musicals and melodramas. Their new film is merely a vehicle for them to outright mimic all the films they have paid homage to previously — the Busby Berkeley dance number from The Big Lebowski, the non-self conscious roving landscapes of True Grit, the musical numbers from O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis. It is a beautifully crafted pastiche without multi-faceted characters, a whimsical whim which is enjoyed, digested and forgotten.

The Coens like to make three distinct varieties of movies — hardboiled thrillers, goofy screwball comedies and mixtures of the two. If Blood Simple or No Country fall to the thriller end of the spectrum then Burn After Reading or Oh, Brother fall to the screwball end. They have made masterpieces in all three categories — both Fargo and A Serious Man were winning combinations of the two. The Coen brothers are masters of deft plotting and subtle tension, as well as absurdism and rat-a-tat joke-telling. Hail, Caesar! is clearly intended to be a silly film, but it isn’t as off-the-wall as the trailer would lead you to expect. It tickles you, yes, but doesn’t make you laugh uncontrollably. For a better, dare I say funnier, Hollywood satire with more teeth in its bite, try David Cronenberg’s underlooked Maps to the Stars from last year.

Josh Brolin plays Eddie Mannix, a studio fixer straight out of the Coen playbook. He’s the man on-the-go who mops up messes where the stars and talent are concerned. The dame from the latest picture is having an affair? Send over Mannix and he’ll sweep it all under the rug, send her home with a pat on the back and reassure her that the work she’s doing churning out studio fare is valid and valuable. The professional deceiving takes its toll; he goes to confession every day. It is a

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subtle point of the movie that everyone who works for the studio system is merely kidding themselves along while putting up the shows that will give false impressions to many, but the Coens don’t embellish on it much.

Trouble strikes when Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), star of the studio’s biggest production of the year, a Roman swords-and-sandals epic called “Hail, Caesar” is kidnapped.

A ransom note appears and Mannix sets to work wrangling

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Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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Porches

Porches frontman Aaron Maine seems to have spent the past couple of years enjoying, like so many of us, a great run of 80s synthpop inspired indie records. His latest release Pool bears heavily the mark of their influence.

I began listening to Porches in 2014 after (unfortunately) missing their Fanclub Collective show at Watermargin.

At the time, the band was promoting Slow Dance in The Cosmos — a lo-fi pop/indie rock ode to melancholy punctuated by moments of high energy and lyrical hilarity (see “Headsgiving,” “Fog Fog,” “Jesus Universe”). At the time, the band both exemplified and exceeded much of what I would have expected from a band touring the basement scene/small venue circuit. Slow Dance exhibited a DIY aesthetic rendered from imperfections, both in recording equipment and in the rough edges of the singer’s untrained voice and simple lyrics about commonplace scenarios and emotions. Porches did everything with a humor, a pathos and a commitment to interesting and unconventional lyricism that gave them an edge over almost any other band they played alongside.

Just moments into the opener “Underwater,” it is obvious that Pool is an entirely different sort of album than Slow Dance. Entirely absent are the imperfectionist lo-fi warmth, the ironic humor and almost any trace of rock or folk. In their place is high-gloss, electronic pop indicative of a newfound professionalism and perfectionism and a decisive new direction for the band.

All in all, this isn’t entirely surprising, given that Porches is a recent Domino Records signee. Furthermore,

Whitlock back. This plotline is interrupted time and time again for the Coens’ excursions into the ’50s studio system milieu. Brolin visits an editor based on Margaret Booth, played by Frances McDormand, who hysterically gets her kerchief stuck in a spooling film reel. Alden Ehrenreich plays a western actor modeled after Kirby Grant, who can’t for the life of him act melodramatically, much to the chagrin of British director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes). Tilda Swinton plays two identical twin muckrakers hunting for a scandal in Mannix’s company. Even Alison Pill shows up as Mannix’s ’50s-branded servile wife.

The supporting cast is terrific and the reveal of the people behind Whitlock’s kidnaping is quite amusing. Once you find out who these people are, you might just sympathize with them. Suffice it to say that they are the most incessantly abused people in the movie business.

Those excursions take the center stage, and the cast comes to support them. All the actors have essentially bit parts, and the film shuffles from Brolin to Clooney to Fiennes to Scarlett Johansson.

Jonah Hill turns up in one scene and is gone. All of this is amusing and pleasant, but much shallower than the fare we are used to from the Coens. Where is the sense of foreboding malice and laughable conspiracy that thwarts Barton Fink’s attempt to write his first screenplay? That throwaway film from the Coens had much grander things on its mind — mainly the frustrating, masochistic nature of the creative process — than this one does. If asked what the themes behind Hail, Caesar! were, I believe I would draw a blank. I think it functions solely as an expression of one of the Coen’s particular fancies. I’m willing to get on board for anything that comes from their minds, but I had hoped for something more to chew on.

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Pool was produced by the esteemed Chris Coady, whose résumé is an impressive list of indie-rock and pop records, the most pertinent of which is Future Islands’ Singles — and yeah, the lead single off Pool, “Be Apart,” would probably sound almost as good on Letterman as “Seasons (Waiting on You)” did.

The wry despondency that gave Slow Dance its distinctive character has been replaced on Pool with what seems an almost purposeful attempt to channel the downtempo bleakness of Caribou’s Our Love (see especially “Braid”).

Elsewhere Maine tries his hand unsubtly, but enjoyably enough, at producing the New Wave R&B of his new Domino label mate Blood Orange (see “Mood,” “Security”). Our Love and Blood Orange’s Cupid Deluxe rank easily as two of my favorite albums of the past several years, but Pool just doesn’t have the spark of originality necessary to make it as good as its influences, Though Pool is not a great pop album, the fact that it is a good and thoroughly enjoyable pop album should not be overlooked. My favorite parts include the atmospheric chorus of “Mood,” which finds Maine inquiring in a smooth falsetto “Are you in the mood?” (though in the mood for what he doesn’t make clear) and the well constructed, Ariel Pink-esque lo-fi pop of “Glow.” Listeners cannot help but compare Maine’s unexpected ode to automobiles on “Car” — “Oh what a machine!” — to Gary Numan’s classic synth-pop ode of a similar name. Porches comes to a strong close with “Security,” in which Maine tells us with arresting openness, set to a backdrop of bom-

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The clear standout for me, though, is the album’s title track. In “Pool,” the wavering quality that characterized Maine’s voice throughout Slow Dance finds its electronic parallel in bold auto-tune usage. “When it’s around about two, you suggest the pool,” the track opens up, “oh how I could just see it now your body as it comes down in slowmotion.” These last two words comprise the song’s refrain, and Maine sings them in a drawn out manner that, in conjunction with the autotune, suit the quality of his speech to his words themselves. Soon, the listener finds himself as immersed in the track as Maine’s muse is immersed in the titular pool. The track dissolves into an ecstatic Knifeesque blast of a synth riff in its final sixty seconds and demands repeated listens.

Unquestionably, Pool is a breakthrough for Maine. His new status as a Domino signee, the two bangers already released as singles — “Be Apart” and “Hour” — and even more importantly, Pitchfork’s coveted “Best New Music” tag will win Porches a league of new fans. Whereas the quirkiness of Slow Dance only appealed to a niche audience, the fresh trendiness of Pool makes Porches a band you can safely put on in front of anyone and look cool.

But one can’t help but feel that Porches have sacrificed their own distinctive sound for trend chasing.

Matthew Pegan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun.com.

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Addressing a Canonical Conspiracy

nd When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead is a documentary about the American Beat poet Bob Kaufman, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Billy Woodberry. It was first released in Portugal last fall, but it will start showing at the MoMA this Friday.

Although I haven’t seen it, what I can glean from reviews is that it is an honest attempt to make a substantial, non-fictional account of Kaufman’s life — which was a tough one in many ways. This profound aspect of the film is enough to merit approval, or at the very least, foster significant interest. Bob Kaufman’s poems are unique. They are at various moments prophetic, rapturous, vengeful, ecstatic, psychedelic and revelatory.

Most of all, though, they’re almost totally unknown.

It’s likely that only a few people reading this piece will have heard of Bob Kaufman.

He often took to composing poems in his head, but he didn’t take well to writing them down. And when the pieces were written down, they were transcribed by Kaufman’s wife Eileen. He lived for 61 years, yet he only published three volumes of original poetry.

His last published work, a comprehensive collection of all his writing, was released 20 years ago. Kaufman did not seem to care about reputation or attracting audiences.

American and English literary establishments awarded him no laurels and granted him no recognition. Readers of the Beat generation — a literary movement still widely read today — have almost forgotten him completely, due in no small part to the fact that he was a black man. No academic has taken the effort to conduct a thorough, full-length study of his life and work, and no significant

trace of him exists in our popular knowledge of the Beats or of the vital poetry of the ’50s and ’60s. The only reason I’ve heard of him is because of a blog post by poet Jericho Brown. Meanwhile, Allen Ginsburg has been portrayed on screen by 21 different actors, including James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe; Sylvia Plath has been portrayed by

one of the many academic works that attempt to understand the Beat generation through their literature. Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg line the shelves of those histories. Pour through the archives. Explore treasured letters and facsimile editions, all by a beloved group of experimentalists who refused to compromise themselves. Go check out the movies, dig into the myths and rumors of all this edgy literature. What you won’t find is any case study of Bob Kaufman. You will find no letters, no dedicated scholarship and no memories.

Instead, you will discover a disapAppearances pearance — a vanishing into thin air — compounded by the political and social norms the Beats attempted to fight and which we eight, including Gwyneth Paltrow. I can find (the cosmopolitan consumers of literature “Howl” and “Ariel” at my local Barnes & with oh-so-little time on our hands!) have Noble. Bob Kaufman? I can’t find him any- reproduced today.

Why do we neglect Kaufman? He was one where besides the Internet. He’s a ghost.

All of this is a reflection of the canons we of the founders of Beatitude magazine alongkeep. It’s a matter of what becomes a “classic” side other key figures, including Ginsberg. in any particular culture or subculture. Often There’s a somewhat credible legend that he times our cultural catalogues of good books even coined the term “Beatnik.” He’s one of rarely have anything to do with how good the the best and most singular American poets of books actually are. When they do, these the post-war era. Why has even the supposed books become highly selective, even though counter-culture forgotten him? His revoluthe criteria for this selectivity never relies 100 tionary work hangs on to the edges of the percent on merit. It is no different among map. It has taken sizable labor from people alternative canons and collections, ones like Billy Woodberry just to begin its restorawhich were challenging and risky for their tion, solely because we as readers have overlooked him, or rather, have never even bothtimes.

The Beats were subversive. They pushed ered to look for him in the first place.

When time passes, inevitably leaving progressive ideals into the space of poetry and language. But there’s no need for me to tell most works of art behind, what do we take you about their importance. You could read with us? What do we believe speaks for us,

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speaks to us? These questions are important, if a bit too romantic. I imagine plenty of people consider them in some shape or form.

However, what we often fail to think about is how these works of art have reached us in the first place. When we do stop to think about how we first encountered certain books or movies or music, we should understand that whoever is handing them to us — whether that’s a community, a person, or a canon — possesses a direct bearing on whatever art or entertainment they might show us. Art may not be inherently political, but the way we digest and consume it certainly is. I’m not sure how to adjust the nature of our consumption, so for the time being, I guess we’ll have to rely on artists like Billy Woodberry to make a committed effort for the benefit of (hopefully) all of us.

In honor of this incredible poet, I will end with a few lines from Kaufman’s poem “All the Ships That Never Sailed.” This piece was the first thing Kaufman said after a 10 year vow of silence, which began with John F. Kennedy’s assassination and ended with the conclusion of the Vietnam War: “My body once covered with beauty is now a museum of betrayal.

This part remembered because of that one’s touch.

This part remembered for that one’s kissToday I bring it back And let you live forever.”

Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com. Appearances runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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ollowing last Thursday’s announcement that starting this fall, Cornell will be need-aware when considering international undergraduate applications, concerns have been raised about the policy change potentially leading to a decrease in the economic diversity of Cornell’s international student population or a decrease in applicants. There are misperceptions that this is a budget-cutting move. In reality, this change in policy will enable admissions committees to act affirmatively based on more complete information to admit truly high-achieving, low-income applicants from around the world. Admissions officers will have more accurate and robust information about

decrease the international financial aid budget, which is currently $11.53 million annually. This budget typically increases each year to keep pace with increases in tuition, housing, and dining. Under the new policies, more of that budget will be available for international students because undocumented students with Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals status will move out of that financial aid pool and into the funding pool available for U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

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Under the current policy, Cornell is not able to offer any financial aid to many admitted international students who have applied for financial aid, creating a great deal of uncertainty for applicants who do not know if they will be selected for aid when admitted to Cornell. which applicants are low-income. This will, therefore, have the ability to act affirmatively with explicit consideration to achieving economic diversity goals for our undergraduate international student population, rather than engaging in practices suggested in Wednesday’s editorial such as inferring “a student’s financial situation from where one was raised or a parent’s level of education” which are questionable indicators of family income status.

With the change in policy, Cornell will be able to offer full financial aid to meet the demonstrated financial need of every admitted student, domestic or international. Under the current policy, Cornell is not able to offer any financial aid to many admitted international students who have applied for financial aid, creating a great deal of uncertainty for applicants who do not know if they will be selected for aid when admitted to Cornell. Under the new policy, Cornell will award financial aid that meets full need for all admitted students with demonstrated need and will actively select for admissions students from low-income backgrounds who will enhance the geographic diversity of our student community. Rather than waiting until the back end of the admissions process to determine which admitted international students with need will receive financial aid, those decisions will be made at the front end of the admissions process. At that stage, admissions officers will have better information to be able to act affirmatively on the applications of truly low-income students, thereby ensuring that every admitted student with need will be awarded financial aid that meets their full demonstrated need. Currently, Cornell enrolls aided students from over 50 countries; we do not anticipate that number will decrease. In fact, through acting affirmatively, we are aiming to increase the number of countries represented by our aided students.

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compared with the average Cornell grant award for a domestic student of $35,964.

When our admissions officers travel internationally with peer institutions, many of which are need-aware, they observe the following. International applicants and their families know that only a small number of elite U.S. institutions offer substantial amounts of international financial aid, and Cornell is among this group. Need-aware, elite institutions that grant substantial financial aid garner significant positive interest from these international students and families. Given the difficulty of gaining admission to these elite universities, it is reassuring to families with need that they will receive financial aid if admitted (something that Cornell cannot currently guarantee).

Only a very small number of international students are admitted to the very few institutions that have both need-blind admissions and guarantee financial aid to every admitted student with need (e.g., Harvard, Yale, Princeton). International students realize that they are vying for admission and aid to a small number of schools in the United States with substantial (more than just a few scholarships) aid budgets, and that most of these schools are need-aware. In fact, Cornell’s current policy is difficult to explain (why would we admit students, then not provide funding if they need it?) and only becomes a harsh reality when students with need are admitted and are faced with the issue of not being selected to receive aid.

With our new policy, every admitted student — international or domestic — who has demonstrated financial need will receive financial aid that meets their full need at Cornell. That’s the clear message that will attract applicants from all socioeconomic and geographic spheres.

Barbara Knuth is the Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School. Responses may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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How a Vote Could Change the Climate L

ess than two weeks ago, hope for the long term stability of the recent Paris Climate Agreement was wearing thin. In an unprecedented step, the five conservative justices of the Supreme Court issued a stay on Feb. 9, 2016, preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had ruled on the merits of the case challenging the regulation. This unexpected decision from the Court, overriding the decision of the D.C. Circuit to deny a stay, dealt a serious blow to the confidence of the major stakeholders of the Paris Agreement. The Clean Power Plan is a foundational aspect of the United States’ commitment to greenhouse gas emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and it was only the United States’ willingness as a major emitter to make significant reductions that brought other countries to the negotiating table in Paris in the first place.

If the United States cannot uphold its commitments under the Paris Agreement, other countries will also begin to treat their commitments as suggestions rather than obligations. Environmental policy experts

If the United States cannot uphold its commitments under the Paris Agreement, other countries will also begin to treat their commitments as suggestions rather than obligations. from within India and China have already voiced concerns that their countries’ governments may interpret the stay as an indication that the Supreme Court will vote against upholding the regulation when the case eventually reaches the Court on appeal. However, the recent death of the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the five justices to vote to issue the stay, significantly reduces the likelihood of a decision invalidating the Clean Power Plan and may restore other countries’ confidence in the United States’ ability to adhere to its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Because Justice Scalia passed away during an election year, the political stakes regarding who replaces the conservative justice on the Supreme Court are particularly high. Based on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent statements, along with statements from many Republican presidential candidates, it seems clear that the Republican majority in the Senate is poised to refuse to confirm an Obama nominee through the end of President Obama’s term, regardless of how moderate or experienced that nominee might be.

Since the case has not even been argued yet in the D.C. Circuit, there is still significant time before the full issue might reach the Supreme Court. It is likely that the Court would agree to hear the case on appeal, but even then it would probably not hear arguments on the case until sometime during the first few months of 2017. By that time, a new president will have taken office, so even if the Senate blocks all Obama nominations, they could confirm a new justice nominated by the newly elected president in time for this case to be heard.

The ideological perspective of the person who eventually replaces Justice Scalia on the Court will profoundly impact the Court’s likely voting pattern on a wide range of issues, but few are so grand in scale as the impact on global climate change. The Court’s ultimate decision in the Clean Power Plan case will not just affect the implementation of that regulatory scheme in the United States but has the potential to undermine or reinforce the foundation of the most significant international climate agreement ever reached.

There are a few possibilities for how the nomination process could work out. In the unlikely scenario where the Senate confirms an Obama nomination to the Court, that person will almost certainly fall at least slightly to the left ideologically from Justice Anthony Kennedy, the current middle of the Court. This would shift the Court’s ideological balance to the left, making a 5-4 decision to uphold the Clean Power Plan significantly more likely. If the Senate continues to block nominations to the Court through the beginning of the next president’s term, the Court will likely reach a 4-4 decision, meaning that whatever decision the D.C. Circuit reaches will stand. If the Senate confirms a new justice at the beginning of the next president’s term, then everything hangs on who that president turns out to be. If a Democrat takes the White House, then addressing climate change and appointing a more liberal justice to the Court will take priority. If, however, a Republican takes office, it is likely that a conservative justice will be appointed and will overturn the Clean Power Plan, possibly leading to the collapse of the Paris Agreement and a return to the drawing board on how to address climate change at the international level.

The news is currently full of analyses of how Justice Scalia’s death will impact the future of American jurisprudence. This is just a reminder to consider that a vote for a senator or a president might help determine the next person to join the Supreme Court, and that who that person is will impact much more than what happens within our borders.

Allison Hoppe is a J.D. candidates at Cornell Law School.

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The War We Are Now Seeing L ast semester, I wrote “The War We Are Not Seeing,” a column looking into the complex and unfolding standoff between technology companies and government officials over how to handle encryption for matters of national security. This week, the so-called “war we are not seeing” became very visible to the American public, so I think it’s important to revisit the subject. When we left off in the fall, my hope was that technology companies and federal investigators would work together to achieve a satisfactory balance of privacy rights and national security interests.

So much for cooperation.

On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Judge Sheri Pym ordered Apple to comply with the FBI to help unlock an iPhone involved in the San Bernardino terrorist investigation. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has now inadvertently become the leader amongst tech giants and privacy advocates, has since responded by not only reiterating its vehement resistance to creating a “backdoor” on privacy grounds, but promising to challenge the court’s decision in response to what it believes to be a dangerous precedent for future government incursions. The FBI contends their request is both lawful and simply a one-time aid that does not put people’s privacy at risk. With Apple and the FBI seemingly drawing a line in the sand, the questions to ask are: who is right and where do we go from here?

Perhaps the law can shed some light on these questions.

The first statute to consider is the All Writs Act of 1789, the chief law referenced in support of the Judge Pym’s ruling. The Act states, “The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” It’s hard to fathom that a seemingly innocuous and unassuming line of text from 1789 is the basis of one of the most complex privacy debates of the 21st century, yet this is the

reality we’re faced with.

What’s more confusing is that different courts have offered different interpretations of whether the statute can be used to compel technology companies to assist the government. For example, last year, in a separate case involving Apple, U.S. District Judge James Orenstein explicitly repudiated using the All Writs Act of 1789 to force the tech giant’s hand for being too vague to be useful in setting standards for this new generation of technology. He also asserted that Congress has thus far failed to act to settle this debate, saying “This case falls in the murkier area in which Congress is plainly aware of the lack of statutory authority and has thus far failed either to create or reject it.”

Is Judge Orenstein right?

Has Congress not passed a sin-

over 200 years ago in light of no recent legislative guidance.

Returning to the first question of who’s right and who’s wrong, we can surmise that there’s simply no undisputed precedent to guide this answer.

Privacy advocates will never feel comfortable with government intrusion, while federal investigators may equate a lack of cooperation as a major victory for the criminals they seek to put to justice.

Without an easy answer in mind, where can we go from here? Apple and the FBI both seem to have very legitimate interests to protect that in one way or another affect all Americans, so it’s important for the public discourse to continue. The American people must play their role by listening and continuing to painstakingly discuss both arguments in order to make

Apple and the FBI both seem to have very legitimate interests to protect that in one way or another affect all Americans, so it’s important for the public discourse to continue. gle law to address this issue?

Before considering Congressional action, it’s important to acknowledge that the Supreme Court did use the All Writs Act to support its ruling in U.S. v. New York (1977), which made it mandatory for a phone company to install calltracing equipment. Since then, Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act in 1994. This act required carriers such as Verizon and AT&T to help make intercepting calls in real time a possibility. While this act has been amended to apply to new technologies like broadband Internet, it has not been expanded to include technology companies such as Apple. Optimistically, we can hope this was an intentional decision by our legislatures to let this issue play out in the courts, given its complexity (as opposed to political nonsense).

Regardless, it’s no wonder that judges have been differing over how to interpret a statute from

meaningful strides toward achieving consensus. From a legal perspective, congress must also thoroughly discuss these issues in a 21st century context rather than, like the Courts, depending on an antiquated and ambiguous law clearly not designed to address the smartphone generation.

Last fall, and still today, the hope was for tech giants and the government to compromise. Unfortunately, given the developments this week, it seems we are farther away from this middle ground than closer. Until such a compromise is reached, and with battle lines being drawn between privacy advocates and government advocates, we must take a good hard look at where the American people and our legislatures stand and hope that the opposing sides will be willing to listen.

Ethan Berkowitz is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. Views From the 14853 appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ified their roles. There’s a lot of competition in practice right now. We have a lot of very talented young men and the depth is helping us.”

On the precipice of the season, Kerwick admitted that team is still “piecing it together.”

“It’s going to take a little time,” Kerwick said. “It’s really going to be about developing this group, and preparing for the Ivy League schedule. ... We’re still finding our way but I’ve really been impressed with the leadership and the effort and that’s all that we can ask at this time of year.”

The team gets its first chance to take the field for real when Penn State comes to Ithaca tomorrow. The match against the Nittany Lions will also mark the return of Cornell’s former head coach Jeff Tambroni, who won 109 games with the Red across 10 years.

A former teammate of Kerwick’s at Hobart, Tambroni lead Cornell to three NCAA Final Four appearances, before departing for the Nittany Lions in 2010.

Penn State (2-0) enters the game “loaded, full of talented young men” according to Kerwick. The Nittany Lions went 5-9 last season, defeating top opponents like Penn and Marist and losing close matches to Ohio State, Johns Hopkins and Denver, a team that would go on to win the National Championship.

“It’s going to be a scrap from start to finish,” Kerwick said. “At this time of year, it’s just about competing.

The game begins on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Cornell to Face Penn State in Season Opener Red welcomes former head coach Tambroni back to Schoellkopf

Cornell

By ADAM BRONFIN

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Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell men’s lacrosse team doesn’t rebuild. It reloads.

Following the graduation of a number of critical players from last year’s Ivy League Championship squad — including Connor Buczek ’15, Jordan Stevens ’15 and Matt Donovan ’15 — head coach Matt Kerwick remains confident that this year’s team will find players to step up and fill the voids left by the talented members of the class of 2015.

“It’s part of being a great program,” Kerwick said about the departure of last year’s seniors. “When you have so many seniors who play so many minutes for us over their careers — three- and four-year guys — it happens ... and you expect new guys to step in and do the damage for us.”

Senior midfielder John Edmonds acknowledged the importance of instilling Cornell lacrosse’s key tenets to the younger guys.

“The thing that we stress to those freshmen is work ethic,” Edmonds said. “It’s not necessarily putting up points, it’s working hard.”

Aside from the new faces on the team — the Red has 17 freshmen — Kerwick said he also expects upperclassmen who did not get much play time in previous years to see time

Penn State Tomorrow, 3 p.m.

Ithaca, N.Y.

JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Opening act | Head coach Matt Kerwick said he expects senior midfielder John Edmonds to play a much larger role in the offense this season.

this season.

“A couple of older guys who have really been earning their time will really step up,” Kerwick said. “We’ve got some guys who had been waiting in the wings the past couple of years and now it’s their turn.”

Kerwick cited senior midfielder Ryan Mathews as one of such players. Mathews, who transferred to Cornell from Johns Hopkins in his junior year played in just six games last season. Kerwick also looks to sophomore defensemen Scott Flynn and Jake Pulver as potential breakout players on

defense.

Joining Flynn and Pulver on the defensive end will be a couple of returning starters from last year’s team, including junior defenseman Marshall Peters. Kerwick praised what he has seen from the team’s defense so far in the preseason, which consisted of games against Marist and Marquette.

“We have a lot of very talented players back there [on defense],” Kerwick said.

Last year’s team ranked second in the league in scoring defense, and with several

returning key players, the defense — which Kerwick has always taken pride in — will likely continue last season’s success.

“Our defense is strong right now, we’re hoping to rely on that going forward,” said senior midfielder Matt Schattner, another one of the captains of the squad. He also underscored the importance of transition offense to the team’s success.

“A lot of our offense comes from our defense or our rides,” Edmonds said. “That’s diving for a ground ball, picking it up and creating opportunities not just by dodging.”

Edmonds is one of the team’s returning starters. A captain this year, Edmonds had 21 goals and nine assists last season. With the departure of both of his fellow starting offensive midfielders and two of the three attackmen, Edmonds will likely see an increase in his role on offense. Kerwick called Edmonds “a force” and expects to have more plays run through the senior midfielder.

“John Edmonds has been outstanding all year for us,” Kerwick said. “He’s our leader on the offensive end, so he’s going to be the main guy for us.”

Kerwick stressed how in this season, in contrast to other years, there’s a lot more competition within the team for starting roles, including, perhaps most notably, at the goalie position. Kerwick stated that senior Brennan Donville and Dan Nemirov were still battling over the starting role against Penn State.

“It’s a little bit different for us,” Kerwick said. “It’s not an established group, like in the last few years we’ve had seniors that kind of led the way and [we had] guys that solidSee M. LACROSSE page 11

MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Hope to Improve Standing as Tournament Nears

By TROY BRIDSON

impact the NCAA selection committee’s final decisions, they are a good gauge of what teams will be making the tournament. A total of 16 teams are selected, so right now Cornell is on the bubble. The Red started the season hot, winning seven of eight games before downing

Nonetheless, Harvard presents numerous challenges, including a bevy of talented forwards No. 16 Cornell men’s ice led by senior Hobey Baker hockey (12-8-5, 7-7-4 Award finalist Jimmy Vesey.

ECAC) will look to bounce Associate head coach Ben back after a disappointing one Syer noted the importance of point weekend with road starting the game strong and games coming up against not giving up an early lead, Harvard (14-8-3, 10-5-3) and especially against a team like Dartmouth (13-11-1, Harvard with offen10-8-0). sive talent.

Cornell Cornell The team uses rela“We know they’re tively the same apvery skilled up front proach on the road as at so we need to advance home, but the away pucks and get into the environment creates offensive zone,” Syer vs. vs. some changes during said. “Certainly we the game, according to need discipline and junior forward Jeff have to stay out of the Kubiak. penalty box because “You have to feed off they have a great Harvard Dartmouth your own energy power play.” because you do not have In their first meeting Tonight, 7 p.m.

Tomorrow, 7 p.m. your home crowd,” of the year, Cornell gave Cambridge, Mass.

Hanover, N.H. Kubiak said. “Momenup six goals to Harvard, tum on the ice, big hits three of which came on and big shifts by certain the power play. lines gets the team then-No. 1 Providence, 2-1, “We’ve been spending a going and the energy it creates in overtime. Things have lot of time working on is huge to road success.” gone awry as of late, as the defending the power play,” With NCAA tournament Red has just one win in its Syer said. “What our guys selection Sunday approach- last ten contests. need to understand is that ing, the Red is looking for A win on the road against a there isn’t a lot between two quality results to talented Harvard side would killing a penalty off and givstrengthen its resume. certainly go along way in ing up a power play goal.”

Although polls do not securing a playoff berth.

A slight breakdown, such Sun Staff Writer

as a player not getting out to the puck in time or not putting a stick in the right lane, can be the difference between success and failure on the penalty kill.

“Every detail matters so that’s what we spend a lot of time on,” Syer said. “The last part of it is you have to clear the puck 200 feet.”

On the other side of the ice, Cornell has been creating more scoring chances after recent struggles, according to Syer.

“I thought we got pucks to the paint at different times over the past weekend,” Syer said.

Syer noted that Harvard and Dartmouth each have their own unique styles of play, but it ultimately comes down to consistent pressure and presence in the offensive zone.

“We have to make sure we are getting enough pucks down there so that we can go to work in the offensive zone,” Syer said.

If the Red can gather two wins this weekend, the team can punch its ticket to the NCAA tournament. Conversely, another sluggish couple of games could severely jeopardize the Red’s chances.

The Red has the talent to

match up with both Harvard and Dartmouth. It will all come down to execution.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

“We know [Harvard is] very skilled up front so we need to advance pucks.”

Ben Syer

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Red rematch | After losing against Harvard at home earlier this season, junior forward Jeff Kubiack and the Red looks to get revenge against the Crimson this weekend.