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MSNBC Host Addresses Racial Inequality at MLK, Jr. Lecture Melissa Harris-Perry encourages students to resist‘being silenced’

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Fight on | The Residential Student Congress discusses alternative measures to the new health fee.

Students Seek Potential Health Fee Alternatives

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

The Residential Student Congress of Cornell discussed possible plans of action in response to the implementation of the $350 annual health fee at its meeting Monday.

The new health fee, which mandates students who are not enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan to pay a $350 fee at the start of the 2015-16 academic year, was announced by President David Skorton earlier this month.

“This [fee] would affect 70 percent of the undergraduate and … residential student population, so it’s a very relevant topic for us to be discussing and talking about as a group,”

said Alex Parkhurst ’17, advocacy director of RSC, which is comprised of two representatives from each residence hall on campus.

The RSC plans to “conduct a survey … of the residential student community to determine if the cost of receiving care at Gannett Health Services is … driving students away from needed health care services and publicize the results widely,” according to the resolution that was drafted.

Parkhurst said the survey will move the student body in a more constructive direction by providing statistics about the financial burden of the fee on students.

Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC host, writer and professor, addressed conflicts of racial inequality at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Sage Hall Monday.

The ceremony began with a reflection by Jamila

Carter, a Martin Luther King, Jr. scholar from Ithaca College.

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will continue to live on in our hearts,” Carter said. “He taught us that ... in order to live we must be willing to die for what we believe. We all have the power to change our comSee LECTURE page 5

‘We can’t breathe’ | Below: MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry talks about issues facing the black community in modern America at yesterday’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture. Right: King himself speaks before an audience of 2,600 in Bailey Hall on April 14, 1961, stating that the underlying philosophy of the sit-in movement then underway was “understanding love and goodwill” and that the struggle in the South was for “moral ends through moral means.”

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C.U.Students Visit United Nations Campus in New York City

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Over one hundred Cornell students and faculty members traveled to the United Nations last Friday to tour the recently renovated headquarters and participate in a panel discussion.

This year’s trip to the U.N. marks the 11th consecutive year students have traveled to the headquarters, according to Prof. N’Dri Assié-Lumumba, Africana studies, who said she has organized the annual trip each year.

According to AssiéLumumba, the trip to the

U.N. helps prepare students for roles as professionals by contributing to locate their formal learning from inside the classroom “within the broader context.”

“For me, having the United Nations right here truly represents the golden opportunity to [bring to our students] that sense of discovery [of their broader global context],” Assié-Lumumba said. “It is a great service to give them that opportunity.”

Representatives from different departments of the U.N. discussed with students about the role of women, climate change, humanitarian affairs and sus-

tainable development, according to AssiéLumumba.

Students chose the panel’s topics through a unique selection process organized

by Assié-Lumumba, who said she wanted “something more” than the typical briefing which may accompany tours to the U.N. “I wanted students’ own participation as well,” AssiéLumumba said. “There is a whole process for selecting the topics. And then I work with the U.N. to select speakers who are experts on the respective topics.”

Jeffrey Ly ’16 said he was impressed with how well

Cornell students were able to interact with panel members.

“It made me proud to be a Cornellian, honestly, to see

Economic and Social Council and the Security Council.

The U.N. reopened these rooms just last September after a sixyear, $2.2 “I realized that people are out there b i l l i o n enovadoing things, and that these people rtion of its were probably just like me.” headquarters, Jeffrey Ly ’16 according to a U.N. how these students were able press release. to present these things right Ly said the tour “gave a off the bat on topics they lot of history on how everywere hearing about right thing came together at the away,” Ly said.

United Nations.”

Students also toured the “I realized that people are recently reopened rooms of out there doing these things, the General Assembly, the and that these people were

probably just like me,” Ly said. “The tour, for me, was an inspiration.”

Assié-Lumumba said she believes a trip to the United Nations can have a powerful impact on a student.

“These experts presenting [come] from different parts of the world,” Assié-Lumumba said. “The goal is for the students to get a sense of what is there and to stir the interest and curiosity of the students to follow up with more searches and look for more information beyond the U.N.” Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbryns@cornellsun.com.

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Around the Ivies Suspected Case Of Measles Prompts Precautions at Princeton Officials at Princeton University notified certain faculty and staff members last week that they must provide proof of protection against measles before returning to work, The Daily Princetonian reported Thursday. According to the University, a student had been diagnosed with a suspected case of measles last Wednesday, prompting several dining halls and cafés to temporarily cease service.

Local Town of Ithaca Reports Salt Shortage The Town of Ithaca distributed a public service announcement Friday announcing a depletion in salt supply due to the “severity of the winter season this year.” According to the announcement, the availability of salt from vendors is “severely limited.” The vendors are working “around the clock” in an attempt to meet the current demands. Attention will be shifted to focus on “salt application at intersections and hilly roadway sections” in order to extend the remaining salt supply to the end of winter.

Pipes in Ithaca Bursting Due to Cold Due to the recent record-setting cold front in the area, water pipes in Ithaca have been freezing and subsequently bursting at an unusually high rate, according to the The Ithaca Times.

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State Violence at Rikers Island Continues Despite Scrutiny Between August and January last year, The New York Times found 62 cases of brutality at the Rikers Island Jail Complex on the East River. The report specifically referred to cases of corrections officers injuring inmates.

Though New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a speech last November that he would make stopping this violence “a priority,” The Times reported that there has not been significant progress made, and a similar amount of incidents have been reported.

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Engineering Group Invites Students To Design New Amusement Parks

does is meant to replicate what it is like to work professionally in the theme park industry: combining creativity with the business.”

The organization includes members from a variety of academic The Theme Park Engineering Group — a student-created organi- backgrounds who complete monthly design challenges modeled on zation that designs theme parks — is hosting a national competition requests that ride design firms receive from theme parks, according to Forster. to revitalize an old theme park, according to Miranda Jeffries ’17, a member of TPEG’s Ronald Forster ’17, president and co-founder of executive board, said only some passion in the TPEG. “The idea behind [TPEG] design field is needed to join the competition.

The competition, engaging teams from univer“You really just need to be interested in the sities such as the Massachusetts Institute of is to integrate all sorts theme park industry, as well as enthusiastic about Technology, Princeton and The University of of skill sets that apply to learning more and potentially designing your own Texas at Austin, asks participants to redesign and rides,” Jeffries said. reimagine the Geauga Lake theme park in Ohio. the theme park industry.”

Forster said he created TPEG on the basis of The contest ends Friday, according to Forster. his love for theme parks and the thrill he experi“The idea behind the [TPEG] competition is Miranda Jeffries ’17 ences on roller coasters. that you have a plot of land and need to use your “My love and passion for roller coasters stems creativity and imagination to make it into a new, back to middle school,” he said. “I am absolutely exciting place to attract guests,” Forster said. “We have to create something new based on very limited information that obsessed with them and would love to get a job in the industry in the future.” we are given.”

TPEG, which won the Academic Curriculum challenge of the The competition will be judged by 13 companies, including Ryerson Invitational Design Challenge last year, does work that is amusement ride manufacture Premier Rides and roller coaster simula“inherently entrepreneurial,” according to Forster. tion software designer NoLimits, according to Forster.

“The idea behind the group is to integrate all sorts of skill sets that TPEG, which was founded at Cornell last June, seeks to provide opportunities for students to apply technical skills with student ideas, apply to the theme park industry — whether that be engineering or design and environmental analysis or art,” Forster said. “We also focus according to Forster. “[TPEG] comes up with new ideas as far as thrill rides and coaster more on connecting to industries to form corporate connections.” designs and tries to integrate the fun and excitement of theme parks into the curriculum in public schools,” Forster said. “The work TPEG Scott Gartenberg can be reached at sgartenberg@cornellsun.com.

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USAID Administrator Speaks at Cornell Monday Human Rights Initiative director expresses need for NGO, government cooperation

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Staff Writer

Sarah Mendelson, senior adviser and director of the new Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., discussed several political issues — including problems of “closing space” and “non-governmental organization efficacy” — at a lecture in Goldwin Smith Hall Monday.

Mendelson said she has worked in the Obama administration for the past four years, serving as a deputy assistant administrator where she is responsible for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in the Bureau for Democracy and Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The topic of why governments target civil society “may sound quite academic,” but in reality “there is a very concrete role for social scientist to play,” according to Mendelson.

“When I left the government I felt that it was primarily an issue on which the government should work, but there is an enormous amount of research to be done and a space for social scientists to do it,” Mendelson said.

The lecture centered on the issue of closing space around civil society.

According to Mendelson,

governments around the world have sought to inhibit the work of NGOs and “close space” around civil society.

Closing space occurs when governments pass laws restricting registration, foreign funding and limiting freedom of assembly, she said.

“The argument upfront is that there are multiple drivers of this phenomenon [of closing space] and we need to have very good contextual information in order to understanding it,” Mendelson said.

Certain measures have been taken to close space at the United States federal government level, according to Mendelson.

“In 2014, [President Barack Obama] announced a memorandum directed at agencies who are engaged in civil society around the world,” Mendelson said.

“The advancement of democracy inside the United States is a direct result of the help of our civil society.”

Space is closing due to “the source of funding,” the “level of AntiAmerican sentiment,” the concern of “counterterrorism” and the “use and abuse of religious arguments,” such as the ones against the LGBT community, according to Mendelson.

“I would like to focus on this backlash about connectivity and a shift on this sense of sovereignty,” Mendelson said. “On

the one hand we have a greater connectivity of citizen and really amazing anti-corruption movements, but we also have ways of tracking funding that we did not have previously.”

Mendelson said numerous governments around the world are making it difficult for NGOs to be able to exist and seek to inhibit their work.

“Governments are passing laws that make it nearly impossible for

NGOs to obtain foreign funding,” Mendelson said.

According to Mendelson, there is a “crisis of NGO legitimacy.”

“People are researching the idea that NGOs are too distant from the people they are meant to represent,” she said.

Social scientists and NGOs can both help collect data on public opinion, according to Mendelson. She said she hopes that by working together, the causes of

closing space can be discovered and “remedied.”

While Mendelson said she has ideas for collaboration between NGOs and social scientists in the future, she said there are still some obstacles to overcome.

“NGOs and social scientists do not necessarily interact well,” Mendelson said. “We need to make them come together.”

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bcarnaghi@cornellsun.com

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War and peace | Sarah Mendelson, a senior adviser and director of the new Human Rights Initative in Washington, D.C., speaks to students and faculty in Goldwin Smith Hall Monday.

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Students Plan Response to Fee FEE

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“Right now, there has not been a lot of justification given for … [why] students avoid care at Gannett,” Parkhurst said.

“And one of the things the administration has said in its fact sheets and statements is that we need to offer students a reprieve from the out-of-pocket costs. So the real question is, are these outof-pocket costs burdensome to students?”

Parkhurst also said the survey will have more experience-based questions for students about the quality of Gannett’s service.

“The goal is to get objective information, and not just opinion,” he said. “The idea is [to find] what kind of objective information we can give to the administration to really empower them — and empower us — to work through this together,” Parkhurst said.

The resolution also says the RSC should work to “facilitate a constructive dialogue with administrators and students regarding potential alternative solutions” to the fee. These solutions include a debt removal from the health fee’s accounts, fee reductions and the inclusion of the new health fee within tuition costs.

“[We want] to give the administration an avenue of getting feedback … give them a way to work with us and give them a vehicle to discuss … what alternatives we could take,” he said.

“Because right now, there’s not a lot of discussion about the alternatives.”

The RSC plans to initiate a dialogue with the appropriate administrators of Gannett as well, according to RSC President Alexander Powell ’15. “[If we] can make a change in the insurance acceptance at Gannett, that could be a win-win situation for both the students and administration,” Parkhurst said. “That would be an ideal situation.”

The RSC said it plans to disclose the results of its efforts to the Cornell community.

Both Parkhurst and Powell said they hope the administration, Gannett and the student body can come to a mutual agreement as a result of the RSC’s efforts.

“The RSC ... is an organization that works to foster cohesion as well as promote the betterment of the residential community,” Powell said.

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

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Civil Rights U.S. Seeks Stay of Ruling on Obama Immigration Action Discussed LECTURE

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munity for the better.”

After Carter’s reflection, HarrisPerry, host of her self-titled show on MSNBC, spoke about the essential qualities of American society.

“To live in a democracy is to have the right to govern, not simply be governed,” Harris-Perry said. “I want to acknowledge that there is an enormous difference between the political philosophy and the realities of our lived history.”

Harris-Perry also said she believes it is important to understand the difference between “being silent” and “being silenced.”

“It is important to be silent sometimes,” she said. “But there is a difference between being silent and being silenced. Being silent [and] choosing to listen, to be quiet, to wait until you have something to contribute is a powerful act. Being silenced is having someone take your voice.”

According to Harris-Perry, the human force behind a movement is an element of struggle.

“These struggles are always embodied … struggle requires bodies,” she said. “Bodies that have embodied the struggle, bodies that have moved, bodies that will not be moved, bodies that will sit, bodies that will march and bodies that are broken ... this past decade has been particularly fraught for black bodies.”

Coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was particularly problematic in its portrayal of black individuals, according to Harris-Perry.

“When you see many of my neighbors wrapped in flags, waving flags … they were symbolizing the one thing citizens were asked to do,” she said. “We have given our life for our country ... and the media camera looked down on us and called us refugees.”

Harris-Perry addressed more recent circumstances of racial violence in the United States — including the deaths of Troy Davis, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. “[Trayvon Martin] was a young child who encountered a stranger at night that was prepared to kill him.” she said. “I hope that in those final moments ... he fought for his life.”

The Civil Rights Movement and the efforts to end racial inequality that are occurring today are important to connect, according to Harris-Perry.

“These struggles are interconnected,” she said. “Bodies engaged in protest are transmitted across generations.”

Harris-Perry said the “I Can’t Breathe” movement sparked by the most recent deaths of Brown and Garner are not simply metaphorical.

“When we say ‘We Can’t Breathe,’ there is an actual life claim. We actually cannot breathe,” she said.

In her closing remarks, HarrisPerry said she believes black bodies needed to act as “artists” in order to further the most recent civil rights movement.

“An artist refuses to be invisible … An artist refuses to be silent,” she said.

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sachriche@cornellsun.com.

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government asked a federal judge Monday to lift his temporary hold on President Barack Obama’s action to shield millions of immigrants in the country illegally from deportation.

The Justice Department’s motion for a stay was filed with the court of U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas.

The federal government on Monday also filed a three-page notice with Hanen, telling him it is appealing his decision to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court in New Orleans.

Last week, Hanen issued a preliminary injunction sought by 26 states suing to halt the executive action by Obama, who wants to spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally. The states, led by Texas, have argued the action is unconstitutional and would force states to invest more in law enforcement, health care and education.

If Hanen puts his ruling on hold during the appeal to the 5th Circuit, then Obama’s immigration action would be allowed to go forward while the lawsuit proceeds through the courts.

Obama announced the executive action in November, saying lack of action by Congress forced him to make sweeping changes to immigration rules on his own.

Republicans, who say Obama has overstepped his authority, are blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Democrats agree to cancel Obama's order.

Justice Department attorneys said a stay of Hanen’s ruling is necessary “to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security is able to most effectively protect national security, public safety, and the integrity of the border.” The 20-page motion argued that keeping the temporary hold “would also harm the interests of the public and of third parties who will be deprived of significant law enforcement and humanitarian benefits of prompt implementation” of the president’s immigration action.

Government lawyers also contended Hanen lacked the authority to issue the injunction, the national effect of which is “vastly” excessive.

The injunction issued by Hanen should only focus on Texas “so that we can move forward with these executive actions in other states,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.

“We will continue to oppose attempts by the Obama Administration to implement its executive amnesty scheme that undermines the rule of law, mocks the principles of democracy and defies the U.S.

Constitution,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement responding to the federal government’s request for a stay.

It is not unheard of for judges to delay rulings they have issued. Last year, a federal judge ruled Texas’ same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional but put that on hold to allow the state to appeal. But legal experts say it’s unlikely Hanen will put his ruling on hold, because his ruling said states would “suffer irreparable harm in this case” if Obama’s actions on immigration were to proceed while the lawsuit is argued.

“Based on [Hanen’s] language, it stands to reason that if you stay this order then those harms would start to accrue and that's the whole point of him enjoining the order in the first place,” said Pratheepan Gulasekaram, a constitutional and immigration law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law in California.

The first of Obama’s orders — to expand a program that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children — had been set to take effect Feb. 18. The other major part, extending deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years, was not expected to begin until May 19.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Narcissism Matches Compassion At the 87th Academy Awards

BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

The Oscars matter insofar as without them, fewer people would have seen or at least have the privilege to consciously ignore small, human-sized movies like Boyhood, Whiplash and Still Alice. Or so the thinking goes; a world where works of art are not pitted against each other in competition, where the long months of campaigning and op-ed defaming makes each final victory feel more than a little pyrrhic, could very well be more egalitarian and receptive to intimate, intrinsic artistry — but that is not the world in which we live.

For better or worse, Sunday’s 87th Academy Awards reflected the conflicted state of things in America today, with every forward-pushing acceptance speech tempered by a nostalgic spectacle or tone-deaf joke. There was, as per usual, no lack of self-congratulation.

Birdman fits the Best Picture profile, given the film’s insular regard for itself, which aligns perfectly with the Academy’s. Along with other recent winners The Artist and Argo, it offered Hollywood the chance to stop, light a smoke and think, “Aren’t we great?” The ceremony’s low points belabored this self-love, stretching the broadcast’s runtime to the longest in eight years, while the brightest moments shined past any one film or celebrity to illuminate, as only an awards show can, a myriad of political issues.

The low points, I am sorry to say, almost always involved the affable, seemingly perfect host, Neil Patrick Harris. He started strong with a song and dance number that ran through movie history and brought Into the Woods star Anna Kendrick on stage for harmonies. A cynical Jack Black

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jumped on stage to rant, in his own singsongy way, about the omnipresence of superheroes, “formulaic scripts” and, reaching for his smartphone, “screens in our jeans” in movie culture today, to much applause.

Without such an irascible counterpoint for the rest of the show, Harris struck a tone at once overly chipper and flippant. For the whole show, Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer had to go along with a gag where Harris locked his “predictions” in a box that, when revealed, proved how the whole show is predictable, scripted or just ill suited to three-hour joke set-ups. His banter punned on Reese Witherspoon’s name or the furry ball dress of Dana Perry, just after the Best Documentary Short Subject winner opened up about her son’s suicide. His Birdman/Whiplash parody, where he took the stage in tighty whities to Miles Teller’s accompaniment on drums, displayed his most obvious assets without hiding, at least to awards season addicts like me, that Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell made the same joke at the Independent Spirit Awards the night before.

What this show never fails to deliver are the moments of unscripted awkward that, against all the micromanaged rehearsals leading up to it, scramble the evening’s gloss. I should disclose that the so-called disasters, like John Travolta’s garbling of Idina Menzel as “Adele Dazeem” last year, are my favorite parts of any live broadcast — anyone who follows up how embarrassing Travolta was with the decree that “he should never be up there again!” is no fun. Thankfully the show’s producers are fun, and reunited Menzel with Travolta, who after being introduced as “Glom Gazingo” petted the

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morally good. Great movies are rarely any of those things, and Frozen singer’s cheek as if he were Romeo.

It was the creepiest, most GIF-ready snippet of the night, never all three at once, but “the movies,” the mystique of though equally weird was when Terrence Howard took the Hollywood that the Academy and theater chains sell, is, stage to introduce Whiplash, The Imitation Game and Selma. always.

It is that feeling of uplift, if oh so fleeting, that jettisons Midway through, he paused to say, “Our next film ... is amazing. I’m blown away myself right now,” before reading the syn- Eddie Redmayne’s light track record and The Theory of opsis not to Selma, but The Imitation Game. Drunk off emo- Everything’s deadness from my mind when he took the stage tion or some other drug, Howard could barely convey his for Best Actor. His youth, his recent marriage and his humilienthusiasm for the other injustice-themed also-ran in the Best ty made for an infectiously adorable speech, which filled the Picture race and not the good one. It felt like anything could room I watched from with high-pitched “Awww”s. Julianne have happened during his minute on stage; Imagine if Travolta Moore deserved Best Actress not just for her work in Still Alice but for her unparalleled career, yet her speech was what we just wandered, out of focus, in the background.

While Tegan & Sara, The Lonely Island, Questlove, Mark wanted to hear for its focus on love, family and community.

Mothersbaugh and Will Arnett hit peak goofiness during The The work itself has no hold on the rapture of the Oscar LEGO Movie’s “Everything Is Awesome,” it was John moment — before all the lights and cameras, only gratitude, Legend and Common’s performance of “Glory,” conviction and a manageable dose of human weakness thrive.

Birdman’s second-half sweep — in Best Cinematography, from Selma, that provided the moral center for the night. With lyrics evoking both the march to Original Screenplay, Directing and Picture — introduced the Montgomery and the Ferguson protests and a grand manic, musky humor of the film into the speeches, which backdrop of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, “Glory” did not vibe well with the prevailing Oscar ethos. I have struck a chord with the audience, bringing star David already expressed my unfavorable opinion of the winning Oyelowo and Chris Pine to tears. It’s easy to be cyn- film, which I think is little more than clever. Boyhood and The ical about such emotional displays at awards shows, Grand Budapest Hotel were the rare masterpieces to actually but the way Legend brought Dolby Theatre and make it into Best Picture consideration, which makes their viewing parties across America to silence during his loss more painful, since cinephiles more often than not revere final solo cut through all the noise to contemplate their favorites in closet-sized shrines, without much notice the seemingly irreconcilable divide that exists in our from the outer, louder world.

But Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman’s director, said country, the Academy most certainly included, to this day. Lady Gagas Sound of Music medley, though something that resonated with me during his acceptance impressive, felt too sweetly nostalgic after such a con- speech, which went as follows: “Ego loves competition, because for someone to win, someone has to lose. But the scious musical statement When “Glory” rightly won Best Original Song paradox is true art, true individual expression, as all the work after, Common and Legend were one of many to of these incredible fellow filmmakers, can’t be compared, unashamedly marry thank-yous with impassioned political statements. Common pleaded for equality PHOTO COURTESY and freedom of expression via mention of the Charlie OF BIILLBOARD Hebdo and Hong Kong protests, while Legend stressed the disproportionate amount of incarcerated black men in prison. Best Documentary winner Laura Poitras, with her Edward Snowden-starring Citizenfour, urged awareness of the surveillance state, while Patricia Arquette, who won Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood, stumped for gender equality as Meryl Streep, flanked by a cheering Jennifer Lopez, pointed and hollered in approval. Graham Moore, Best Adapted Screenplay winner for The Imitation Game, seized everyone’s breath as he confessed to attempting suicide 18 years ago. He followed this harrowing anecdote with the hope that his presence on stage will inspire those younger than him, who feel like they do not belong, to “stay weird” and “stay different.” It was a powerful speech.

The thing about Graham Moore winning, though, is that can’t be labeled, can’t be defeated, because they exist, and our he wrote an awful script. “Sometimes it is the people who no work will be judged, as always, by time.” I can’t say I think one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can his film, with its Justin Bieber references and inexplicable imagine,” is a line The Imitation Game trailer holds dear and gender politics, will survive that ultimate test, but I thank the movie itself repeats, out of the conviction that historical him for taming that ego this awards season has fed so well, characters speak as if composing their memoirs. Share that for just a moment, to remind us of the absurdity of this quote on the Dolby stage, however, and it naturally, indis- whole artless enterprise. putably belongs. The Oscars so rarely award real art because they, themselves, are not art, and they don’t need to be. The Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can most memorable moments are inspirational, rousing and be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

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50th Anniversary: John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

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ifty years, two months, and 15 days ago, four geniuses (or was it one genius and his three disciples?) cut the greatest jazz record of all time, if not the greatest musical composition of the 20th century. Fifty years ago exactly — as of just a few days ago — Impulse! Records released A Love Supreme: An exultant suite in four movements, crafted by four brilliant musicians and sculpted by one sonic prophet as a musical laudation and thanksgiving to his Providential Savior. John Coltrane’s awesome masterwork has proved to be the most enduring, affective and influential jazz composition to have ever been put to wax.

In 30 brief minutes, Coltrane and Co. not only changed the shape of all music to come by expanding the fundamental possibilities of organized sound and massaging the boundary between art and popular music, but also created one of the monoliths of American cultural heritage: A work which, once this nation crumbles, as all are wont to do, will be hailed, alongside Citizen Kane, the Model T, Moby Dick and the atomic bomb, as one of the United States’ indelible marks on the human tradition — an American Aeneid.

So, it’s no wonder that A Love Supreme can still steal your breath after 50 years.

Stentorian and affirmative, the first movement, “Acknowledgement,” opens with the smash of a gong, which gives way to a saxophone riff tiptoeing over the airy wash of cymbals. A bassline stalks in and overshadows the sax, with a dancing drum lurking and a persistent piano seeping close behind. Soon the saxophone returns, this time to stay. For the next

several minutes, the band plays with an improvisational looseness that almost defies the notion that this was painstakingly composed: Coltrane wails, juxtaposing bouts of divine, dissonant heedlessness with smooth planes of sage constraint; McCoy Tyner strokes his ivory thoughtfully, a lush and reserved counterpoint to Coltrane’s quaking bombast; Jimmy Garrison plucks in the undercurrent, teasing at the suite’s imminent motif; and Elvin Jones batters along, tinkling his cymbals and rolling his drums, with what seems like only peripheral awareness of his peers’ playing. And then, after almost five minutes of this daring, disjointed (on the surface, at least) supplication, the main motif — a four note, instrumental croon paralleling the suite’s title — crawls unassumingly out of John’s sax, and proceeds to be iterated devotedly as the backing band paradoxically grows more restless. Soon, the saxophone iterations cede to a short piano burst and then the titular, monotone proclamation of “A Love Supreme.” And as these three words — flatly uttered, almost plaintive — skulk out of the speakers, the movement Guest Room musters purpose and the whole suite is grounded in Coltrane’s cry of, devotion to, plea towards and metaphysical yearning for “A Love Supreme.”

For him, this “love” was the perceived divinity that rescued him from addiction and sin. But, as you listen and the next three movements diffuse around you for another 20 minutes or so, you realize that this supreme love

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can be anything: Any muse, any source of inspiration, any revelatory experience, any higher being, natural or supernatural. It could be nature’s great expanse, or it could be Jones’s drum solo at the beginning of “Pursuance.” It could be the touch of God as he granted Coltrane with his spiritual compositional ability, or it could be Tyner’s undeniably, hedonistically human piano technics which dazzle in Part III. It could certainly be the Gates of Heaven ushered open by the pouring mist of “Psalm,” or it could be the base, primitively satisfying sax screechings of “Resolution.”

Whatever form this “Love” may assume for any listener, though, it is undeniable that the sounds emitted by Coltrane and his band are the epitomical sonic essence of “A Love Supreme.” And therein lies this record’s timeless brilliance: whoever listens, in whatever language, at whatever period in time, under whatever circumstances, this will be a record of inspiration, revelation and beauty. Long after

Christianity is anything more than a historical oddity studied for its social implications by groups of bespectacled historians, Coltrane’s everlasting ode to his God will remain a source of spirituality and inspiration for any intelligent creature whose ears it graces. A Love Supreme transcends its purpose, its creator and its time; It is bound by no social context and requires no greater understanding, only ears and a listener looking for something greater, something to aspire to. Just as it astounds 50 years after its inception, it will continue to astound 50 years after the publication of this article and 50 years after that. A Love Supreme, like Beethoven’s 9th Symphony or Homer’s Iliad, is a timeless masterpiece; So to it, happy birthday. Here’s to another 50 years.

Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs every Tuesday this semester.

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o guys, it has been quite a ride writing opinion for The Sun these past two years, but last night I realized that I am finally out of shit to say.

Being out of shit is probably the worst thing that can happen to a writer. But thankfully, I’m not a real writer, just a cheap imitation knockoff.

Normally, being out of shit would mark a troubling point in my columnist career. But I’ve found relinquishing ties to my own ideas allows me the freedom to steal from the best. And what nobler pursuit in literary heights than the anonymous biweekly sex column? I may have run out of creativity but I’ve also run into my magnum (XL) opus.

Titillating Tuesdays: 50 Shades of Brown

By Tara Nuholl My avid readers know I’m a regular fiend for quirky, kinky sex. I’ve let multiple men make love to the soles of my feet and I’ve played enough rusty trombones to be my own brass section.

I’ve worn so many strap-ons that some guys call me “Peggy.” Readers love me because they know my stories are the rawest and realest, all coming from the relatable context of a fellow peer on campus. I have faithfully updated y’all to my sexual misadventures with the utmost integrity this past semester.

Therefore, when I say this story is the nastiest, weirdest sexcapade I have written to date, my fans will know I really mean it.

I swiped right on Tinder a couple of hours before I met … let’s call him Mr. Brown. He was cute and had funny one-liners and didn’t seem to be one of those creepy nice guys laying a trap. He was actually a gentleman, and asked me out to coffee first.

He paid for the drinks and we went back to his apartment. In one fluid motion, he swept me off my feet and kissed me firmly. I laid into his face with my lips. We entered his bedroom, where he threw me on the bed, kissing me in all the right places. Forehead, cheeks, chin, neck, the space between my breasts. He unbuttoned my shirt

and continued downward. Breasts, nipples, belly button. He unzipped my jeans and threw away my panties and descended even lower, wrestling my clitoris with his tongue before gently kissing my thighs. I was in ecstasy.

We proceeded to fuck in what was some of the best sex of my life.

Then it got nasty. We both took a moment to breathe when he grabbed me firmly and looked deeply into my eyes. He brushed my hair behind my ears with his long, slender fingers, and I felt a chill run up my spine as I looked into those beautiful hazel irises.

“Listen to me. I don’t do romance.”

I stared.

“My tastes are very … gastrointestinal. You wouldn’t understand.”

I batted my lashes. “Enlighten me then.”

Then he suddenly propped me up above him by the ass-cheeks. “Baby, I want you to give me a Cleveland Steamroller! I want you to shit all over my chest! I want monsoon season in Browntown!”

A bland, average person would have immediately refused, but I am neither bland nor average. I am a brave pioneer into uncharted sexual territory, and I decided then and there to pinch the sexiest loaf of Mr. Brown’s life right onto his shredded, hairless chest. This was my first encounter with a fecophile and I didn’t want to let him down.

I clenched my cheeks, but something was wrong. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t poo. A few farts here and there, but no chocolate rain. I was out of shit. And Mr. Brown was shit out of luck.

We stayed like that awkwardly for a few minutes, waiting for the other poo to drop, but it never did. He offered for me to wait while he took some laxatives, but I told him it would ruin the mood.

I ended up farting in his face a few times before he prematurely ejaculated.

David Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com.

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Sexual Assault: What Has Cornell Done and What Can We Do Now?

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exual assault remains a serious issue that deserves continued attention, on Cornell’s campus and on college campuses across the country.

I recently conducted research on sexual assault policies and Title IX investigations across the Ivy League, and I discovered that Cornell is doing well compared to our peers. In fact, Cornell is only one of two Ivy League institutions that has not been investigated by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for violation of Title IX in the handling of sexual assault cases. Penn is the second.

However, there is still much work to do before we can be sure that our community is a safe and respectful one where students need not fear sexual victimization. We must continue to re-examine our policies and discuss both minor and major changes that could improve the Cornell community.

Compared to our peers in the Ivy League, Cornell has had relatively few sexual offenses reported by campus police and Title IX complaints filed against the University. But take this with a grain of salt. These statistics are hard to compare because it may be a positive sign to see higher sexual offenses reported. This could indicate that students feel more comfortable reporting incidents, which we want to encourage. Still, these numbers support a general takeaway from my research that Cornell is successfully addressing the issue of sexual violence.

Cornell has been proactive and appropriately reactive in amending our sexual assault policies. In 2013, Cornell moved our sexual assault policy out of the Campus Code of Conduct and into Policy 6.4, after many years of tough discussions about how to make

While Cornell is doing comparatively well on this issue, the standard should be higher than what I saw across the Ivy League. We must not get complacent and we must fight the urge to avoid talking about major policy changes just because we made some major positive changes recently. improvements. It was during this transition that Cornell changed to a “preponderance of the evidence” standard of proof and to a system of investigations by neutral fact-finders for adjudication of sexual assault complaints.

Additionally, when the White House issued new recommendations for sexual assault campus policy in 2014, Cornell already had many of the recommended measures in place. Some of these measures include: confidential victim assistance, around-the-clock services, education and training programs, preventative and bystander intervention programs, student education and awareness programs and comprehensive online resources.

To me, these measures seem like no-brainers. Of course Cornell and our peers should have these programs and resources in place.

But I was surprised to learn that many of our Ivy League peers did not have very comprehensive programs in place, had been downright resistant to change rather than proactive and appropriately reactive and had seriously botched some very difficult cases that students were brave enough to bring forward.

While Cornell is doing comparatively well on this issue, the standard should be higher than what I saw across the Ivy League. We must not get complacent and we must fight the urge to avoid talking about major policy changes just because we made some major positive changes recently. Policy 6.4 should be treated as a living document. Both language tweaks for clarification and sweeping changes should be on the table as we continue to learn about how best to prevent and address sexual assault cases.

In our continued discussions, we should also devote attention to the rights of the accused in the implementation of Policy 6.4.

Further, we must continue to educate our students, faculty and staff to prevent dangerous situations from developing in the first place. I believe that Cornell can be doing more on education and prevention, and I believe we can learn a lot from some of our peers that have (finally) recently made bold, dramatic changes to their sexual assault policies.

Until major societal and attitudinal changes occur, the problem of sexual violence is not going away. In the meantime, Cornell should continue to do its part to create a more respectful and supportive culture on campus, and to provide a fair avenue for adjudicating sexual assault claims when our culture doesn’t live up to our standards.

Annie O’Toole is a second year law student at Cornell Law School and the graduate student-elected trustee. She can be reached at ado29@cornell.edu.

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The Madness of Rudy Giuliani W

hen I ended my last col- held assumption that both parties umn with an exhorta- have disparate visions of what will tion that students make our country better, rather protesting the health care fee must than disparate amounts of love for remember that a tactlessly present- their country, then we have a ed proposal is not proof that the chance to move forward construcSkorton administration was acting tively.

And yet, this conflation of poliin bad faith, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was not high cy and patriotism — which was on the list of luminaries I hoped rarely, if ever, exploited by those the Bush might stumble across that day’s opposing copy of The Sun. In retrospect, per- Administration’s invasion of Iraq or haps he should have been higher. its expansion of “enhanced interroThe national embarrassment of the gation techniques” — continues to one-time “America’s Mayor” has color reactions to President garnered far too much attention for Obama’s recent actions in office, far too long; why are we discussing and not only from stale presidential the hateful musings of a miserably hopefuls who have long since fallen failed presidential contender who is from grace.

From all across the political making us all suffer through his audition for a Fox News talk show? spectrum, the president has come And why, more disturbingly, are under fire for his speech last week significant players within the cur- during his summit on violent rent crop of Republican president extremism, in which he asserted hopefuls refusing to disavow that ISIS (or, as he so insistently Giuliani’s remarks? The story has calls it, ISIL) should not be considlingered on our newsfeeds, and so I ered Islamic, nor should its leaders felt compelled to write about the be considered by the wider world to be religious figures of authority. absurdity of its endurance.

Giuliani’s initial remarks — that To claim, as Obama did, that ISIS President Barack Obama does not is not a product of Islam but rather love America or its citizens because “he was not brought up” in the same manner To claim, as Obama did, that as the patriotic ISIS is not a product of Islam ...

Republicans in the does not strike me as a room — are beyond the realm of defensi- particularly provocative bility. His follow- statement. ups, which included assertions that the remarks were not race-baiting of those who have “perverted because Obama’s mother was Islam” does not strike me as a parwhite, and that the president has ticularly provocative statement. been under the sway of Our country cannot equivocate on Communist ideology since before the enormity of ISIS, nor can we puberty, are somehow less offensive shrink away from rooting out its to me. For years now, legions of warriors. But it is abhorrent to Republicans, threatened by their denounce our president as someimpending irrelevancy, have boxed thing less than patriotic for refusing themselves into similarly repugnant to start a religious war between the remarks. It is his first speech that most powerful, predominantly Christian nation in the world and frightens me.

In a robust, democratic society, the idea of Islam. George W. Bush, the notion that love of country for those of us with shorter memospoke out against must be commingled with adher- ries, ence to partisan ideology should Islamophobia in the wake of 9/11, never have enough traction to even and made similar statements of solmerit a rebuttal. President Obama’s idarity with the mainstream policies might be anathema to Muslim world.

Over a decade later, the territorRudy Giuliani — and, indeed, some of those policies may indeed ial breadth and state-building have been misguided, or at the very ambitions of ISIS make it even least presented as ineptly as was more essential for the United States SkortonCare — but the political to maintain the trust of the Muslim realities of any administration community. In the end, nearly should never translate into abstract every American ally that is necesaccusations of insufficient patrio- sary to destroy ISIS is a Muslim tism or sincerity. As long as our one: neither British airstrikes nor political debate retains the long- Israeli intelligence nor French com-

mandos can permanently quell the conditions of misery and regional discontent that allow the lunatics of ISIS to gain traction in the first place. The Arab world must work with us, and they are far less likely to do so if the American president declares “war on Islam.” Such a rhetorical flourish would only satisfy those among us who crave an enemy, while it would undermine the moral clarity — and philosophical nuance — that makes America the natural leader in fights against extremism, whether Islamist or otherwise.

The echo chamber that has allowed Giuliani’s comments to commingle with critiques of Obama’s approach to ISIS has, in the past few weeks, thrown our caliber of national debate back to the age of “birtherism.” A few days ago, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said he could not confirm whether Obama is a Christian, an asinine aside by a presidential contender that meshes perfectly with both Giuliani’s “love” comments and the assumption that the president, by refusing to make himself an ideological enemy of the world’s population of one billion Muslims, is somehow “soft” on Islamist extremism. Ask Osama bin Laden if he agrees.

So where does that leave us? Responsible commentators and citizens must ensure that Rudy Giuliani drift into paranoia is not taken seriously (which, in the end, it is not). But we must also realize that Giuliani’s comments represent a more virulent strain of modern American thought, of which the opinion pages of The Sun are not entirely innocent. It is difficult to boast that our campus is a progressive and tolerant place when nearly every adversity we face — whether with Greek life or diversity initiatives or, yes, health-care fees — causes us to break out into a chorus of accusations, in which no one but the speaker’s faction has a sincere stake in resolving the issue at hand. If we go about our arguments — whether they encompass the nation or just our campus — with the assumption that our rivals’ motives are inherently hollow, then eventually our rivals will cease trying to persuade us otherwise. And that is no way to have an argument.

Jacob Glick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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HOCKEY

and creating goal-scoring opportunities.

“As a team, we want to conframe, Saulnier had a remarktinue to play the right way and able goal on a one-on-two play. do the right things,” she said.

She dipped past the two defend“It is going to be crucial for us ers and backhanded the puck to get a lot of shots and traffic in five-hold past RPI’s netminder, front of a good goaltender.”

Shenae Lundberg. In the next The team is looking forward two periods, freshman to these playoff games. defender Erin Burton said that she is “This weekend we were able to get confident in the team’s O’Connor and Saulnier would each get a goal to ability to perform due some contribution from different win the matchup. to its drive and strong Compared to the last players, which is going to be key desire to win. three games against “Everyone is more moving into the playoffs.”

Harvard, Princeton and than excited to play Dartmouth, Bunton this weekend but we all Hanna Bunton said she believes that know how important the team did a better these games are and job of moving the puck towards the Saints during the regular how we have to play in order to the net, reducing penalties and season. The two teams will bat- be successful,” she said. “Playoff playing smart throughout the tle at Lynah Rink in the ECAC hockey is all about the team entire game. quarterfinals this Friday and who wants it more and I think “This weekend we were able Saturday at 7 p.m. we have a great group of girls to get some contribution from Going into these games, the that will put their hearts and different players, which is going team expects there to be a lot of souls into these next few to be key moving into the play- resistance. To win, Bunton said games.” offs,” she said. “We also did a that the team needs to have a good job of getting pucks and strong offensive game by creat- Danielle Letourneau can be reached at bodies to the net and creating ing traffic in front of the net dletourneau@cornellsun.com.

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Baseball Hopes It Will Pick Up Its First Win BASEBALL

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Despite being the defending champions, George Mason (1-5, 0-0) is also off to a rough start this season. The Patriots have a new team this year, with 14 of their players graduated from last year’s conference-winning squad. Six of these seniors were starting position players and two were top starting pitchers. George Mason is now a very young team and Cornell will look to take advantage of its inexperience this coming weekend.

“From a pitching standpoint, we did a great job this weekend, so we will have the same approach going forward. I expect to see some low scoring games this weekend,” said assistant coach Scott Marsh. “The weather has definitely affected us offensively because we haven’t been able to get outside and for our hitters, this is really their first chance to see live pitching. As the season progresses, our offense will only get better going forward.”

The Red will need to take all three games against George Mason this weekend in order to get back to an even record for the season. Game one of the series is set for 2:30 p.m. Friday in Fairfax, Virginia.

Rehan Sabri can be reached at rs642@cornell.edu.

havoc for the goaltenders.

Lastly, we did a better job of staying out of the penalty box.”

This victory left Cornell tied with St. Lawrence for fourth place in the ECAC. As a result, the Red earned the home-ice advantage after notching a 1-0-1 record against

Suns Reshuffle Roster Trade Thomas and Dragic, get Knight SHATZMAN

respected his trade request. Brandon Knight is just 23 c h i s e - d e f i n i n g years old and the move by adding Bl e d s o e - K n i g h t Carter-Williams. duo should be Only time will tell. among the best backcourt combos in the With so much l e a g u e . promising talent, Thomas was coming off of the 2015 deadthe bench in Phoenix and line is sure to after a nice have a significant season in Sacramento, impact on the he didn’t deserve a franchises bench role. involved in major He should thrive under deals.

Brad Stevens in Boston, and the Suns The Suns had got a first-round the busiest trade pick in return. It deadline of all, was a bit of a dealing Dragic to strange move by Miami, acquiring the Celtics, seeing Brandon Knight as they drafted and then sending Marcus Smart sixth Isaiah Thomas to overall in 2014, Boston for Marcus replacing the gap Thornton and a left by Rajon 2016 first-round Rondo. It’s unclear pick. From the whether the Celtics’ Suns’ standpoint, it front office pictures was a solid day. a Smart-Thomas Dragic wanted out combo, or if Smart and they ultimately didn’t appear to be Continued from page 12

the player they thought they drafted.

Anyhow, despite giving up a first-round pick, they acquired a good player in Thomas, who could be the key to a late-season playoff push in Boston.

It’s not as though any of the trade deadline moves were appalling — none of them were — but rather, a couple of years down the road, these moves are bound to have consequences.

These trades were intriguing. With so much promising young talent dealt, the 2015 deadline is sure to have a significant impact on the franchises involved in major deals. Whether that impact is positive or negative remains to be seen.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Red Earns Both Wins on Weekend NBA Gains

And Losses

Women, coming off two away games, look toward ECAC playoffs

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell (16-10-3,14-6-2 ECAC) women’s hockey finished its regular season on a strong note with dominant wins against RPI (6-23-4, 4-16-1 ECAC) and Union (4-22-8, 1-16-5 ECAC) this weekend.

In its last matchup against the Engineers, Cornell cruised to a 7-1 win over RPI. However, on Friday night, the team had to battle back from a 1-0 deficit to win the game. On a Cornell powerplay for tripping, RPI’s Alex Gruschow was passed the puck in the left circle. She then loaded up a wrister that beat Voorheis to the short side. RPI would hold onto the lead going into the first intermission.

However, Cornell was quick to bounce back and regain control of the game. Three minutes into the second, senior forward Jillian Saulnier netted her third goal in the past two games after she deflected a rebounded puck past RPI’s netminder, Brianna Piper.

Five minutes later, senior forward Brianne Jenner and Saulnier controlled the puck in RPI’s zone, playing catch at the point. When the opportunity arose, Jenner snuck past two defenders to shoot the puck five-hole into the

KELLY YU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Double trouble | Senior forward Jillian Saulnier, pictured above, notched her third goal in two games in the Red’s match against RPI. cage, earning Cornell a 2-1 lead.

Up until the last few minutes of the third period, the game was close, with both teams playing smart hockey.

With seven minutes left to play, Cornell got some breathing room when sophomore forward Kaitlin Doering capitalized on a powerplay.

Sophomore forward Hanna Bunton attempted a wraparound shot, but it rebounded out. However, Doering pounced on the rebound in the crease and slammed it past Piper for a 3-1 lead. To top off Cornell’s win, Saulnier scored with three minutes left in the game.

In its last regular season match, Cornell had an outstanding performance, shutting out Union, 4-0.

Sophomore goaltender Paula Voorheis stopped 25 Dutchwomen shots to get her second shutout of the season and fifth of her Red career. In the second period, she frustrated the Union team by blocking all 10 shots.

With momentum from the RPI matchup, the team jumped to an early lead five minutes in, when junior forward Anna Zorn deflected Bunton’s slapshot into the net to score her first See HOCKEY page 11

BASEBALL

Men Drop Three Opening Matches to GWU

By REHAN SABRI Sun Contributor

Call it a tough weekend for the Cornell baseball team (0-3, 0-0). The Red, opened its 2015 season with a three-game set against Gardner-Webb University (5-1, 0-0) in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, last Saturday.

After losing the first two games of the series, each by a single run, the Red fell victim to the same fate on Sunday, losing, 1-2, against the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs. The Red battled and persevered until the final out in each game of the series, but ultimately fell each time by just a play or hit. On Sunday, it was a failed pickoff attempt that doomed Cornell.

The Red utilized three different pitchers in the loss to GWU on Sunday, with senior Kellen Urboun going five innings strong of shutout ball, striking out four and allowing just four hits. Cornell was only able to put together four hits with its lone run being unearned. Cornell did briefly take the lead in the

eighth inning, after senior right fielder Dan Morris drove in sophomore catcher Jamie Smith with a single, scoring the game’s first run.

However, GWU immediately responded in the bottom half of the eighth with a run of its own. The Red then turned to its bullpen and junior Matt Horton came in to close out the frame. After failing to score in the top of the ninth, Cornell took the field in hopes of sending the game into extra innings.

However, the Red watched as the game slipped through its fingers, after the Runnin’ Bulldogs’ Sam Fulginiti was hit by a pitch with nobody out. Then GWU’s Taylor Fisher was summoned to pitch run for Fulginiti.

Fisher appeared to be picked off when breaking for second base, but Horton’s throw sailed over the first baseman and ended up by the bullpen.

The error allowed Fisher to come all the way around and score, costing Cornell the game.

Sunday’s lost completed a three-game sweep for Gardner-Webb.

“Kellen did a great job for us on Sunday. He pitched to contact, had a few strikeouts [and] most importantly, he gave us a chance to win,” said senior infielder Ryan Karl. “Three games of one run losses are unfortunate, but the offensive will only get better from here on out, so, I expect to see some good things next week.”

The Red will face another tough opponent in the defending Atlantic 10 conference champions, George Mason, this weekend, with single games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

“We saw some good things against GardnerWebb, therefore, the mind set will stay the same going into our games with George Mason, but

we will have a little more focus offensively,” Morris said.

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LEENA KULKARNI / SUN FILE PHOT0

Falling Red | Senior pitcher Kellen Urboun pitched five strong innings in Sunday’s game against GWU, despite the Red’s loss.

The NBA trade deadline was far busier than anticipated, as playoff contenders attempted to increase their chances for post-season glory, and bottom-dwellers — cough, cough, 76ers — dished out valuable assets with hopes of playoff glory in 2035.

And while some teams certainly benefited from the deadline, there was an unusual amount of head-scratching moves — deals that deserve critical examination.

Let’s first look at the deals that have been inevitable since October. Phoenix dealt Goran Dragic to Miami, and OKC moved Reggie Jackson to Detroit. The Heat was not thought to be a likely landing spot for Dragic, who, frustrated by his role in the jumbled Suns backcourt, requested a trade.

The Heat capitalized on circumstance, getting an All-Star caliber point-guard, completing as much of a starting five as any in the East — that is, before Bosh was ruled out for the season. Still a great move by Miami. Reggie Jackson had been vocally discontent with his role as backup, less than 20 mpg guard in OKC, and seeing as

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz Brandon Jennings is out for the season in Detroit, the Pistons were a match made in heaven for Jackson. He tweeted that he was literally crying tears of joy. Shots fired, OKC. Those were the expected moves. Now for the shockers. The Sixers dealt promising point-guard Michael Carter-Williams to the Bucks. Carter-Williams was the 2014 Rookie of the Year and oozing with potential, if he just improved his jumper.

However, the Sixers traded him for more picks. At this rate, the Sixers should be in possession of every first-round pick in the 2048 draft. In all seriousness, though, there is a sensible side to this trade for Philly.

MCW was far from the next Magic Johnson and the Sixers’ front office obviously has loved what its seen from 21-yearold Tony Wroten. Wroten has arguably as much potential as Carter-Williams. Sure, general manager Sam Hinkie is beginning a several-year rebuilding plan, but he felt he was receiving value in the trade.

The Bucks, on the other hand, received Carter-Williams, but traded Brandon Knight to Phoenix for Miles Plumlee and Tyler Ennis. Jason Kidd has a lot of say in Milwaukee. He must have either loved MCW or strongly disliked Knight — the latter of whom is having a breakout season and has star potential. The Bucks have been one of the most pleasant surprises of the season, playing Spurs-like ball on both ends. They had “playoff first-round upset” written all over them. Now they have to adjust to a new point-guard, which can take time, and at this point, there is not much left in the season. But Carter-Williams has loads of potential and with the length of MCW and the Greek Freak, combined with a healthy Jabari Parker, the young Milwaukee Bucks may have made a franSee SHATZMAN page 11