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A Muslim human rights activist and students explored the life and work of Malcolm X. | Page 3

Brandi Carlile, who is coming to Ithaca in May, has just released her new album. | Page 10

TUITION THROUGH THE YEARS Undergraduate tuition has increased 3.75 percent in each of the last three years and is currently $36,564 for New York students enrolled in contract colleges and $54,584 for students in endowed colleges.

Cornell women’s hockey skates past Princeton and into the ECAC semifinals. | Page 16

Undergraduate Tuition Rises By 3.75 Percent for Third Year Tuition increased $2,000 following vote by trustees

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Cornell University announced on Monday that its Board of Trustees voted one month ago to raise undergraduate tuition by nearly $2,000 for the 20182019 year. The board also decided to increase financial aid funding and raise the cost of housing, meal plans and students’ health fee.

The board approved the parameters at its closed Jan. 27 meeting in New York, but Cornell did not release the new sticker prices — $54,584 for undergraduate tuition, $36,564 for New Yorkers enrolled in the contract colleges — to the

public until Monday, and many of the details remain under wraps. The University revealed the changes in the Cornell Chronicle, which is run by the University.

This is the third year in a row that undergraduate tuition has increased by 3.75 percent. The University bylaws note that the Board of Trustees may increase the tuition and all fees “at any time and without prior notice.”

About half of Cornell undergraduate students pay the full price of tuition and room and board, Cornell said last year.

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Trillium Now Open For ‘Late Night’ Dinner Student athletes demanded more dinner options

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

Frequent visitors of the Ag Quad may have noticed a new rush of students near Trillium after sun down over the past few weeks. While the eatery is often overrun by students during lunchtime, its doors have opened for dinner only recently — and Cornell’s student athletes helped make it happen.

After the closing of Synapsis in summer 2017, student athletes were deprived of a late-night dining option that

“I would definitely say that student athletes using their voice helped make this happen.”

Morgan Chall ’19 was accessible to them from their practice locations.

Working with Cornell Dining, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee pushed for an alternative option — and were presented with Trillium as the solution.

The popular food court is now open for dinner from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Mondays

through Thursdays.

Former co-president of the SAAC Tori Togashi ’18 kickstarted the initiative to get an alternative dining option last school year after learning about the closing of the Weill Hall eatery.

Over the last year SAAC members have voiced their concerns that other eateries at Cornell do not match up to the level of convenience that Synapsis brought for studentathletes.

The other dining halls are either not centrally located or do not take Big Red Bucks, making it difficult for athletes to get there before they close or prior to their next obligation.

Current co-president of the SAAC Morgan Chall ’19 said that student athletes also have “exams, jobs, or night classes” that run close to their practice times.

“Our concern is [for] an actual place for people to get food that is centrally located near the athletic buildings after practice,” Chall said. “At the end of the day we didn’t care that we were losing [the food] from Synapsis.”

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Eagle has landed | Cornell employees hold the wing of a juvenile bald eagle — one of over 1,000 animals treated at the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center annually.

Birds Saved After Exposure to Toxins

By SAMANTHA STERN Sun Staff Writer

A Cornell-run wildlife care center rescued a bald eagle and a northern harrier in critical conditions due to exposure to man-made toxins in January.

The harrier was recently released back into the world, while the eagle remains in rehabilitation and will be reconditioned for flying.

The bald eagle, brought in by a Department of Environmental Conservation officer who found it on the side

of a road in Onondaga County, suffered from both a wing fracture and dangerously high lead levels that can cause mental and physical disturbances in victims.

The center received the northern harrier after someone witnessed a red-tailed hawk attack it at Syracuse University.

Doctors diagnosed that the harrier suffered from the effects of anticoagulant rodenticide toxicity, which prevented the harrier’s blood from clotting.

Both birds were transferred to New York State licensed

wildlife rehabilitators once their conditions stabilized.

Prof. Sara Childs-Sanford, zoological medicine and section chief of the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center, treated the two birds affected by lead and rodenticide poisoning.

“We see over 1,000 injured or ill wild animals annually and they are often in very debilitated condition,” Childs-Sanford said. “For each one, our initial thoughts are pretty much See RESCUE page 4

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A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS Today Strategy & Business Economics Workshop 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., 106 Sage Hall On the Optimality of Periodically Reformed, Simple Fiscal Policies 11:40 a.m. - 1:10 p.m., 498 Uris Hall Hyperspectral Reflectance-Based Models for Early Late Blight Detection in Potato 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., A134 Barton Lab Athletes & Activism with Etan Thomas 4:30 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall Inhabited by Spiders and Ghosts: The Succession Crisis in Japanese Buddhism as Seen from a Sociology of Religion Perspective 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., 374 Rockefeller Hall Crossing the Mediterranean: Migration, Death and Culture 4:30 p.m., Guerlac Room, A.D. White Hall

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We matter | Former NBA player and author Etan Thomas’ new book addresses advocacy within sports.

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Ending Hunger Sustainably Through Evidence-Based Consensus 12:20 - 1:10 p.m., Emerson Hall 135

Shaping America's Future: Six Leadership Lessons from High Performing Learning Communities 5 p.m., 3330 Tatkon Center

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Toshiko Mori: Dialogue in Architecture 5:15 p.m., Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

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Moment of Zen | Rev. Dr. Masaki Matsubara, an ordained Zen priest, will lecture on the succession crisis in Japan’s temples and how ordination recruitment strategies are changing the clergy.

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Muslim Human Rights Activist Celebrates Malcolm X’s Legacy

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Malcolm’s legacy | Yahya Abdul-Basser ’20 leads the roundtable debating the place of Malcolm X in American history.

“Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land,” Yahya Abdul-Basser ’20 said, reading from Malcolm X’s “Letter from Hajj.”

Joined by Cyrus McGoldrick, a Muslim human rights activist of Iranian and Irish descent, the Cornell Muslim Educational and Cultural Association celebrated Malcolm X's life through a roundtable discussion, late Monday afternoon.

MECA, which has served Cornell for over 20 years, aimed to offer Muslim and non-Muslim students a place to examine both Malcolm X and his legacy in contemporary U.S. politics.

The forum challenged common perceptions — in and beyond the Muslim community — of Malcolm’s contentious legacy by offering a glimpse of the activist’s lesser known years as a devoted Muslim.

“Malcolm realized on his pilgrimage that black and brown people across the world actually cared about what was happening to black people in America,” McGoldrick said about Malcolm’s journey to Mecca. “Malcolm began to identify with people beyond American black nationalism in a global sense.”

McGoldrick focused on Malcolm’s abil-

ity to balance opposing qualities like confidence and humility, inclusion and exclusion and spirituality and secularity.

“It is a tremendous act of humility to be able to change one’s mind and to do so publicly,” McGoldrick said. “Malcolm was someone who grew in public without being ashamed.”

On the issue of managing inclusion and exclusion, McGoldrick and MECA members delved into a divisive debate of “safe spaces.”

“I worry when I see us broadcasting weakness,” McGoldrick said of the safespace mentality. “We need to be strong.

We don’t need to talk about how damaged we are and how fragile we are, even if it’s true, I don’t think this helps us.”

Despite contention over safe spaces, the group agreed that Malcolm’s legacy has crucial implications for contemporary politics.

In particular, McGoldrick praised Malcolm’s ability to build “strong local communities outside of the state system,” his “clear language” and his steadfast devotion to a cause.

According to the group, most important of all was that Malcolm “internationalized the struggle” through his Muslim pilgrimage, changing “the discussion from civil rights to human rights.”

Julia Curley can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun.com.

Climate Change Politics Not Hopeless, Ex-Diplomat Says Despite ‘doom and gloom,’ Paris Accords still in effect

By SHAWN HIKOSAKA Sun Contributor

In terms of the future of multilateral climate change agreements, Jennifer A. Haverkamp, former U.S. special representative for environment and water resources, acknowledged that “it’s hard not to be pessimistic, it’s hard not to be concerned.”

With the intense domestic partisan debate over climate

“Once you’re a party and the [Paris Accords] enter into force, no party can withdraw until three years later. One federal administration cannot stop [it.]”

Prof. Jennifer A. Haverkamp change and the announcement of U.S. intentions to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Prof.

Haverkamp, law, admitted that an aura of “doom and gloom” is often associated with the topic.

Despite this widespread cynicism, Haverkamp argued that many people are unaware of the more optimistic realities of the situation — for example, despite popular misconception to the contrary, the U.S. has not withdrawn from the Paris Agreement yet.

“Once you’re a party and the agreement enters into force, no party can withdraw until three years later,” she said. “One federal administration cannot stop [the Paris Agreement] from being implemented internationally or, even to a significant part, in the United States.”

Haverkamp also discussed other climate agreements occurring parallel to the Paris Agreement, most notably the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and the Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation agreement.

The former aims to cut down on the usage of chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons, while the latter is a plan to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions of civil aviation.

Unlike the Paris Agreement, these proposals garnered “strong bipartisan support, strong industry support and there’s a good chance the U.S. will stay in those,” she said.

Furthermore, Haverkamp said she is hopeful about “the reaction of the rest of the United States to the federal government’s announcement [to withdraw from Paris Agreement],” as well as about the various state and regional initiatives that have been taken to combat climate change.

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Zen | Three Zen Buddhist priests visiting Cornell discuss the role of religion in education with Cornell students and chaplains.

Japanese Zen Buddhist Priests Visit Cornell, Join Cornell Chaplains and Students in a Roundtable Discussion where children play soccer and then meditate in hopes to combine children’s activities with the virtues of meditation.

Three Zen Buddhist priests “Five years ago I started a from Japan joined Cornell stuchildren’s program … I was dents and chaplains in a imagining so many roundtable discusmilling sion on a range of “So I thought wait a minute, my temple children around the temple, I topics from the role has a lot of land, why don’t [the saw that as a very of religion in educabeautiful scene,” tion to bamboo children] do sports?”

Matsubara said. “So I chopstick-making on thought wait a Monday.

Masaki Matsubara Ph.D. ’09 minute, my temple Prof. Jane-Marie has a lot of land, why Law, religious studdon’t you do sports?” ies, made the arrangement for a two-way exchange.”

Masaki Matsubara Ph.D. Chaplain Rick Bair related priests Masaki Matsubara Ph.D. ’09, Uchida Ichido and ’09, who studied under Law, to Matsubara’s experiences, shared his experience of runSomyo Nagai to visit campus.

See BUDDHISM page 5 “We have so many things at ning a program in his temple

By MATTHEW MCGOWEN Sun Contributor

Cornell, the Lab of Ornithology, the biodiversity studies, and I really wanted them to appreciate the type of people that study at Cornell,” Law said. “I really want it to be

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Cornell Announces 3.75 Percent Trillium to Open for Dinner Tuition Hike for Undergraduates To Accomodate Student Athletes Undergraduate financial aid to increase by $10 million TUITION

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for Ithaca’s campus will need to be approved by the board in May. The trustees also approved a 3.25-percent increase in the housing rate — from $8,564 to $8,842 for a double-occupancy room — as well as a 2.75-percent increase in the price of a meal plan, from $5,766 to $5,924 for the next academic year. The health fee will increase from $358 to $370.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff, who was quoted in the Cornell Chronicle release but did not respond to an interview request on Monday, said in the Chronicle that the $10 million increase in undergraduate financial aid — to a total of $265 million — “augments Cornell’s commitment to increasing

“[Tuition] is likely to increase each year. That is the norm.”

Robert Harrison ’76 the socio-economic diversity of its student body.”

Kotlikoff is quoted by the Chronicle as saying that most students who are receiving financial aid will not see their net tuition cost increase.

The Cornell Chronicle release includes many claims about what the budget supports — “enhancement of the educational experience for Cornell students through increasing experiential and engaged learning, evidence-based teaching, innovative uses of technology, and curricular advances such as the gateway courses initiative” — without giving any evidence or figures.

Susan Kelley, who is listed as the author of the Cornell Chronicle release, declined to answer questions about whether she had seen the budget planning documents, none of which have been publicly released.

Rebecca Vali, a Cornell spokesperson,

said Cornell would only be sharing the overall budget parameters at this time, which include building the University’s capacity to invest in key academic priorities, ensuring sufficient and predictable budgets for academic units, increasing socioeconomic diversity of the student body and lowering the total endowment payout to below 5 percent.

Tuition rates for professional master’s degree programs vary by program but none increased more than 3.75 percent, Cornell said. There will no increase in tuition for doctoral and research master’s degree students, Cornell said, the ninth year in a row with no increase. The nine-month stipend rate for graduate students who have fellowships or teaching or research assistantships is increasing 2.5 percent to $26,426.

Kotlikoff is quoted by the Cornell Chronicle as saying that the budget includes an “increased investment in faculty recruitment in Ithaca” and “cross-campus collaboration and programing” that will “preserve and enhance our stature.” The release does not provide any more information about the increased investment or mention it again.

Robert Harrison ’76, the chair of the board, and Joanne DeStefano, the executive vice president and chief financial officer, also either declined to comment or did not respond to requests.

Harrison told The Sun last year that, “When we talk about this at the Board, the discussion among the trustees is about one thing — how to maintain the affordability of Cornell to those who we admit on a need-blind basis.”

“It is likely to increase each year,” he said last year of the tuition.“That is the norm that we are expecting unless we scale back on our ambitions, which I don’t have any interest in doing and I don’t think Cornellians have any interest in doing.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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“Our job is really to voice the opinions [of student athletes] and to make the highest quality experience for student-athletes on campus,” Togashi said. “Issues like this where people do not have good food options for after practice if they want to go to a library or if they have a night-prelim, [are] a big deal to a lot of athletes because they need to eat.”

Togashi also recalled that the lack of late night dining options compromised her classroom experience when she had a night class last year.

“I was falling asleep in class, I was hungry, and when I’m hungry I’m distracted and not paying attention. It’s tough to have a practice that goes from 4:30-7:00 and then a night class that goes from 7:3010:30 and not [eat] anything in that entire stretch,” Togashi said.

“I would definitely say that student athletes using their voice helped make this happen,” Chall said.

“I think it’s awesome that we got this started so soon,” Togashi said.

“We started talking about options

and we initially didn’t think [Trillium] was going to be an option because it takes so many people to run [Trillium],” Togashi said.

The SAAC brought the issue to the attention of Cornell Dining with the help of the Student Assembly Dining Service Committee.

The support students expressed allowed Trillium to become an option: “There was so much support for opening Trillium that they decided to go with it,” said Emma Bankier ’19, chair of the Dining Service Committee.

The extended hours will remain in place for the rest of the semester.

The University will have to determine if keeping Trillium open will pay off financially, according to Togashi.

“It’s super nice to finally feel like Cornell is doing something for us and going out of their way to help the student athletes and enhance our experience,” Togashi said.

“They were really on top of it and wanted to get it done as soon as possible.”

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

Govt Regulation to Blame for Bird Hospitalization, Prof. Says RESCUE

said. “And consumption of game killed with lead ammunition has been shown to result in increased always the same — to get the patient blood levels in people.” Childsstabilized and then proceed with Sanford also pointed out that alternadiagnostics as soon as possible.” tive forms of hunting are available These two cases come a little and could decrease these negative under a year after the federal govern- effects while maintaining hunting ment retracted the Department of practices.

Interior’s order 219 — which Non-lead ammunition — a heavily banned lead ammunitions in federal- researched development — is “effecly owned lands and waters — to tive,” similar in cost, and “readily availencourage hunting, fishing and other able,” Childs-Sanford said. “We can recreational activities in national continue to support sport hunting and parks. fishing while also working towards a Allowing such hunting practices safer and cleaner environment.” will have negative environmental Childs-Sanford stressed that impacts, accordalthough these two ing to Childscases are success Sanford. Deaths “The scientific evidence is stories, the majoriof waterfowl from abundant, and lead is a ty of similar cases lead poisoning do not have the proven toxin to both hovered around 2 same happy endwildlife and humans.” million annually ing. decades ago until “Most animals Prof. Sara Childs-Sanford dramatically exposed to these declining after a toxins likely die in ban on the use of the wild, or may lead shot for waterfowl hunting in make it to a hospital or rehabilitator 1991, Childs-Sanford added. and be too severely affected to sur“The scientific evidence is abun- vive,” Childs-Sanford said. dant, and lead is a proven toxin to She believes that there are ways both wildlife and humans that can people can help to minimize the incihave long-lasting detrimental dents of such cases of toxicity. effects,” Childs-Sanford said. “Lead “People can help reduce the has been removed from almost all impact of these toxins on wildlife other aspects of our lives, such as health, the environment, and human gasoline, paints, and other household health by eliminating their use of items — yet we knowingly are lead ammunition and fishing tackle, depositing lead in the environment finding alternatives to anticoagulant through sporting activities.” rodenticides for rodent control, and Childs-Sanford also believes that supporting legislation that restricts this ban will pose positive effects on and reduces the usage of these toxic humans as well. substances.”

“Many people do not realize that lead ammunition fragments into tiny Samantha Stern can be reached at pieces on impact,” Childs-Sanford sstern@cornellsun.com.

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Buddhist Visit Promotes A ‘Two-Way’ Exchange Cornell continues relationship with Zen Buddhists BUDDHISM

agreement.

This discussion and campus visit is a continuation of a threesharing that he too found suc- year relationship with Zen cess coupling religion with Buddhist priests hailing from activity, running programs that various temples in Japan. let kids “kick [the ball] around.”

“In the last two years profesIchido Uchida’s temple has sor Law and I worked together kids make bowls and chopsticks to bring Cornell students to out of bamboo, as well as grow- study in Japan, focusing on Zen ing baby bamboo shoots to eat. Buddhism,” Matsubara said.

“The bowls and the cups are “Last year we recognized it made of bamboo, and you real- would be beneficial to bring ize it’s precious. ... The bowl Ichido-san and Somyo-san to becomes a metaphor … you Ithaca to make a much stronger become mindful of the bowl, relationship.”

Uchida said he “Last year we recognized it would be “learned a lot beneficial to bring Ichido-san and Somyo-san to of things in terms of bioIthaca to make a much stronger relationship.” diversity” when he visitMasaki Matsubara Ph.D. ’09 ed the Lab of Ornithology, you become mindful of the highlighting what he sees as a chopsticks, and you have to similarity between the discipline have something concrete and Buddhism. because it’s [with] children,” “One subject who wants to Law said of the program, which learn his own mind, makes a involves over 150 parents and visit to 53 experts. The number kids.

53 actually expresses that idea of Winnie Brown ’19, a student biodiversity,” Uchida added. in Law’s Zen Buddhism class, “That effort to learn one’s mind got a chance to engage on social from diversity of many different justice issues related to educa- people, I think I’m very interesttion and pointed out some of ed in that philosophy and I the challenges faced by the want to practice continuously American education system at learning while I am in Ithaca.” the roundtable.

Nagai was surprised that the “There are kids sitting in the trip really came to fruition since same classroom, and one is hun- “several years ago we were workgry because they only have ing to bring Cornell students to enough money to eat once a Japan, and at that time I did not day, and the other has a private expect that I would be able to tutor,” Brown said. stand here in 2018. Still now [I] Law related a similar issue think, wow this is Cornell, this occurring in Japan, where some is [the] U.S., this is like [a] students only have access to the dream,” he said. one meal a day that is provided by the school. Upon translation, Matthew McGowen can be reached the visiting priests nodded in at mam688@cornell.edu.

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Many Unaware of ‘Optimistic Realities’ of Climate Change U.S. has not yet withdrawn from Paris Agreement CLIMATE

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“Below the federal level you have efforts to address the issue not just nationally but internationally,” Haverkamp added.

The event, sponsored by the Atkinson Center, the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and the Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions, is part

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“Frankly, your interest, dedication and commitment to finding solutions to [climate change] is what is going to get us out of it. My generation screwed up,” Haverkamp said.

Shawn Hikosaka can be reached at sh932@cornell.edu.

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We the people made our Constitution and have the right to amend it.

The Second Amendment, ratified in 1791, says: “A well regulated militia being necessary to a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Article V of the Constitution says in part: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, . . . which, . . . shall be valid . . . when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, . . .”

We should now repeal the Second Amendment because we no longer need to protect ourselves as our forebears did in 1791. The 28th Amendment would give each State the right to make laws concerning arms and would read as follows: Section 1. The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of arms, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

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Students shouldn’t give up their right to use tobacco on campus To the Editor: Listen up Cornell students… did you hear that whooshing sound? It was the sound of another one of your fundamental rights being flushed down the toilet. That’s right, the bureaucratic, administrative state known as Cornell is considering banning tobacco, if a campus-wide referendum passes. There are so many problems with the idea of banning tobacco, but, don’t be fooled, this is an issue that’s much bigger than tobacco. I believe that our “deep state” (consciously or unconsciously) is using tobacco as a front to control more of our lives. Today it’s tobacco and tomorrow it’s a woman’s “right to choose” or access to contraceptives. Today we are governed by the liberal elite but tomorrow it could be different. It’s very, very important that we unite against this so-called ban; our individual liberties are stake.

I don’t use tobacco. I don’t Juul, I don’t smoke cigarettes or cigars and I don’t chew tobacco. I understand the health risks, and I choose not to do it. With that in mind, I found it interesting to read the letter to the editor from Henry Garrison of District 3 from the City of Ithaca and I found his argument regarding the development of the mind, particularly before the age of 25, especially fascinating. It is true that tobacco and nicotine have negative effects on the minds of young people, but why stop there? Drinks with too much sugar can negatively affect young minds and can be addictive so we should ban those too.

Similarly, foods with pesticides can have negative impacts on young minds as well, so they shouldn’t be allowed on campus. And if our minds are not fully developed, we should not be able to consent to sex, so sex should be banned on campus. And the rates for car accidents are higher for people under 25 years of age, so anyone under 25 should not be allowed to drive on campus. While we’re at it, let’s ban all books and movies that reference tobacco, because that could negatively impact our underdeveloped minds.

I want a safe campus, where students are protected from anything bad, so we should make the decision to keep bad things away from students, right? But I don’t think we should stop with students, because I don’t want more negative influences getting in the way of our underdeveloped minds. I don’t want any professors who use drugs to be teaching at this school, so we should drug test all professors to make sure their drug-infested opinions aren’t negatively affecting the precious minds of the young people on this campus. I just want this community to be as safe as possible.

And another thing, how is this ban going to be administered? Are the campus police going to go door-to-door arresting folks or giving us tickets? (I'm still waiting for the campus police to figure out who threw a brick through a window in my house.) Is the judicial board going to have more hearings putting marks on students' records for code violations? (How is the prelaw student going to explain to the dean of admissions of the Cornell Law School that he or she was fined for doing something that's perfectly legal in this country?)

I can’t wait to see how the University's general counsel will codify the ban with pages and pages of regulations that will trip us up with legal jargon. Blah, blah, blah, blah….

Listen folks: apathy is the main weapon of the autocratic state. Cornell students, let’s not be apathetic. Let’s send a message to the community that our rights are important. So-called “bans” are the enemy of our individual right to choose. Vote “no” on a ban and vote “yes” for individual liberty.

Xander Furman ’19 College of Arts and Sciences

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Willow Hubsher | This is Not a Sex Column

From Hitting Girls to Killing Kids W

hen I was younger, I thought the idea of two guys fighting over me was very Shakespearean and dreamy. As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that fighting over a girl was just a concept that men have romanticized to excuse their toxic masculinity, violent tendencies and feelings of ownership over women. And no two

1991, Virginia Tech in 2007, Pulse Nightclub in 2016, and both Sutherland Springs, Texas and Las Vegas in 2017: a history of violence and aggressive behavior against women. Cruz physically abused his ex-girlfriend and the ultimate catalyst of his high school expulsion was his fight with said girl’s new boyfriend.

This desire for control over

law, just over one third of perpetrators of mass shootings were prohibited from owning a gun.

It is this gap — the men who abused women and yet were not “domestic abusers” under the law — that perfectly illustrates the way in which the fears and con cerns of women are so regularly devalued, even in

The link between aggression toward women and mass shooters seems obvious when looking at the histories of some of the most famous mass shootings in recent history. guys have ever liked me at the same time, but that is beside the point. When violence and romance become entangled it is usually a bad sign.

Earlier this month, Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida. In retrospect, it is clear that authorities missed or ignored several warning signs regarding Cruz’s volatility, a common theme in the aftermath of these cases.

Cruz fit the profile of mass shooter. Young, white, male.

However, he shares another commonality with the perpetrators of the attacks at Killeen, Texas in

women — stalking, fighting other suitors, threatening — is not just a clue that physical abuse is likely to follow but also exemplifies the fragility that toxic masculinity fosters. A fragility that, if challenged, can morph into larger acts of violence.

In fact, if you look at the history of mass shootings — incidents in which four or more people are shot and killed — over the last 10 years, 54 percent of cases were related to domestic or family violence. Forty-two percent of shooters — almost all of whom are men — showed warning signs. And yet, under the

life and death situations.

The link between aggression toward women and mass shooters seems obvious when looking at the histories of some of the most famous mass shootings in recent history. So where are the gaps in the law that allow these men to obtain guns legally?

Federal law prevents people convicted of domestic violence who live with, are married to or have children with their victims from purchasing guns. But “boyfriend loophole” that allows the convicted domestic abusers who don’t meet those criteria to continue to purchase weapons.

In addition to all the ways men

can bypass background checks by buying from unlicensed sellers, there is a huge gap in the law where men who have displayed a tendency that is a proven sign of further violence can still legally own guns. Some states, like Oregon, are working to close the boyfriend loophole.

Abusers who merely dated their victims can still have guns.

Men convicted of misdemeanor stalking offences can still buy guns. In 35 states, people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes can still have guns. People who have had a restraining order placed against them can still have guns. In 40 states, prohibited domestic abusers are not required to relinquish guns they already own.

Hear that guys? If you’re planning on hitting your girlfriend in the future, stock up on guns now!

This is important not just for preventing more mass shootings, but also protecting women’s lives. More than half of all murdered women in America are killed by an intimate partner or family member. Having a gun in the home increases the likelihood that a domestic abuse situation will become fatal by 500 percent.

I could come up with countless examples of women like Zina Daniel, Karen Smith and Phoukeo Dej-Odoum, all of whom had their reports of abuse and requests for protection

denied, only to be shot and killed by their abusers. The shame and scrutiny applied to women who report their abusers, be it physical or sexual, is not only unavoidable but an incredible deterrent to reporting at all.

Women of color are about 50 percent more likely to experience domestic violence and yet are less likely to report. The rates of abuse also increase in low income communities and among those with less education.

Women of color once again shouldering the scrutiny and doubtfulness of their validity that all women experience.

The pain, opinions and truths of women, especially women of color, are constantly taken less seriously than those of men, and I believe this to be partially to blame for the epidemic of shootings in America as of late. This is emblematic of the things we, and our legislators, need to consider in terms of gun reform. The solution to this — as well as practically every other problem — begins with trusting and supporting women. Unfortunately this is something that men everywhere — guidance counselors, college administrators, HR reps and law makers — seem grossly reticent to do.

Willow Hubsher is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at wrh73@cornell.edu. This is Not a Sex Column appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Living With a Disability at Cornell

am a student at an Ivy League university, where I plan to major in mathematics with a possible double major in government. I earned an A+ for my first college math class, Theoretical Calculus II, and have advocated in front of three New York State senators, the lieutenant governor and the state comptroller.

I have actively participated in the sport of fencing for more than five years, and hope to one day become a certified referee.

I have a rare congenital disorder called Larsen’s Syndrome which affects my muscular-skeletal system and has left me unable to walk. I require 24/7 nursing care, and assistance with many activities such as showering, preparing meals and transferring onto the toilet. I was baptized the day I was born for fear that I would not survive the night. I am one of the lucky ones.

As I look back upon my first semester at Cornell, I think about the challenges, joys, hiccups and surprises I encountered along the way, both from the perspective of disabili-

ty and as a normal college freshman. After I took my first tour of Cornell, I went home with one word in my head: hills. As amazing as it all seemed, my accessibility needs made Libe Slope look like Mount Everest. I exaggerate greatly of course, but to someone trying to get his wheelchair up to the Arts Quad for the first time, the analogy does seem apt. Nevertheless, I decided to apply (because, why not?) and, to my surprise and elation, I got in!

Also, after initial conversations with Cornell’s Student Disabilities Services, I was immensely impressed with how accommodating Cornell was to my physical situation. So, still unsure on how it would all work, I sent in my deposit.

Even before I had my first class, the University worked hard to figure out how I would live on campus. The people at Cornell, especially those at SDS, worked tirelessly to create an accessible living environment on campus, renovating a dorm room and installing in indoor ceiling-track lift so that a

single nurse could transfer me in and out of my chair to the bed, toilet or shower. They also told me about CULift, a transportation service offered for free through SDS which transports students with disabilities or injuries around campus to their classes or other events.

Mount Everest began to seem climbable after all.

When classes began, the student body at Cornell impressed me most of all. With the fencing team, I was quickly included as a member of the group, and I now help out by refereeing practice matches and doing some data-entry of fencing statistics (which ties in very well with my interest in math). To me, it is truly a testament to the attitude of inclusion at Cornell that a team of Division I college athletes from so many different walks of life can be so inclusive of someone from the entirely opposite end of the “physical spectrum,” so to speak. Within the student body in general, I have extremely rarely felt any hint of the “pity party” that characterizes too

many interactions between able-bodied and disabled individuals. Even after one semester, I have already made quite a few friends, and met people who I think will be my friends for a very long time to come.

The entire picture is not this rosy, however. As part of orientation, I attended the Identity and Belonging Project at Bailey Hall. While the show was very informative and enlightening, I was struck by how little mention was made of disability in any form, especially considering the fact that there are over 1300 students registered with SDS, according to their own website.

I felt that a wonderful opportunity to share at least part of the disability experience with the freshman class was foregone, with the only mention of disability at all being a single mention of a student having epilepsy, and little further exploration of what that, or any other disability, means in terms of daily life, identity or any other aspect of a Cornell student’s experi-

ence. Moreover, I feel that Cornell missed the chance to explain to a broad audience how, for some, disability is a source of pride and an identity and culture to be shared and celebrated.

Nevertheless, I was

While there were other issues that came up, they certainly did not stop me from enjoying my first semester here at Cornell.

The atmosphere of accessibility seems wonderfully pervasive and obviously runs deep to Cornell’s core

The atmosphere of accessibility seems wonderfully pervasive and obviously runs deep to Cornell’s core (though maybe not its physical buildings). pleased to find out that there was a vibrant disability community on campus. Early on, I was able get involved with the Cornell Union for Disability Awareness, a group of students who advocate for people with disabilities at Cornell, to raise awareness in the general student body of the issues they face. Within this group I have seen some truly excellent advocacy work begin, and I am proud to be a member of it.

(though maybe not its physical buildings). No longer does Libe Slope seem like Mount Everest (temperature notwithstanding). I have seen the people here prove helpful and understanding beyond my wildest dreams, and in doing so show that Cornell is, truly, a place where any person can find instruction in any study.

Conan Gillis is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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CEO of Ithaca-based Transonic Systems Talks ‘Disruptive Change,’ Cautions Against IPOs Drost discusses technological innovation, growth strategies Headquarters l This facility, located at 34 Dutch Mill Road, houses Transonic Systems’ manufacturing, R&D, sales, marketing and support staff.

By AMOL RAJESH Sun Staff Writer

Interested in having your own startup? An Ithaca-based company with annual revenues of $20 million and subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Japan and Taiwan is here to give you the inspiration you need.

Researchers and clinicians seek reliable quantitative data to make informed decisions about patients and experiments. Transonic Systems aids in this process by producing diagnostic and research measurement equipment.

Cornelis J. Drost, CEO and president of Transonic Systems, discussed his inspiration behind creating the business. After working for 10 years as a research associate in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Drost realized that there was a need for improved measurement tools in the worldwide market of animal studies.

“More accurate flow measurement tools for chronic animal studies (where one animal may be used at its own control during the course of a chronic study) reduces the number of animals needed to answer questions on physiology, drug efficacy and such,” he said.

Building on the research he did at Cornell, specifically developing innovative bloodflow measurement technology, Drost said that he wanted to create a company that could carry this patented technology outside Cornell and into other life science researchers’ labs. He aimed to do just that by founding Transonic Systems in 1983.

Prof. Alan Dobson, biomedical sciences, who taught at Cornell from

1964 to 1995 and died in 2017, was the founding director of the company.

Drost talked about the impact of the company’s first technology.

“Our Cornell University flow measurement technology has become the worldwide gold standard for chronic and acute animal studies,” he said.

Drost also talked about other product lines which have become successful.

“We expanded our early Cornell University technology with ultrasound indicator dilution measurement,” he said. This development has led to improved measurement of patient cardiac output and dialysis access flow.

“An estimated one million such measurements are made per year with Transonic hardware,” said Drost.

Drost also discussed the size and scope of Transonic Systems’ target markets.

“Blood flow measurement in life sciences has many niche markets, from $5 million per year for flowmetry in animal studies, to $600 million per year for the central hemodynamic monitor in the [operating room/intensive care unit]” he said.

Drost believed his company has made an important contribution in advancing innovation across the life sciences industry.

“All our products start as innovations – we initially sell these to the innovators/early adopters in the various life science disciplines who then help us to bring about a disruptive change,” he said.

Drost discussed how Transonic Systems has continually adapted in the face of competing technologies.

“Once a market segment has been made successful by us, me-too competitors pop up, growth slows down, and the company (or part of it) needs to restructure into a sales organization,” he said.

According to a talk Drost gave at Cornell in 2013, Transonic Systems has an annual growth rate of 6-8 percent.

Transonic Systems is a privately held company, meaning that it does not issue stock on public stock exchanges.

When asked about the potential for a Transonic Systems IPO, Drost was firm in his answer, reiterating that “they are strong believers in organic corporate growth.”

Drost offered advice for Cornell stu-

dents aspiring to be entrepreneurs.

“If at all possible, grow your company organically: you will have the advantage of adjusting your plans according to ongoing successes and failures.

Many start-ups that follow the IPO route will end up over-promising on one trajectory, and be locked in on that trajectory,” he said.

Aside from talking about the pitfalls of IPO-oriented growth strategies, Drost emphasized passion over profit.

“Follow your technology innovation dream, don’t follow a get-rich quick dream,” he said.

Amol Rajesh can be reached at arajesh@cornellsun.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Beauty and Vulnerability of Netflix’s Queer Eye

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

On Feb. 7, Netflix released its reboot of mid-2000s hit reality series Queer Eye. For the uninitiated, Queer Eye features a crew of gay men — the “fab five” — who rejuvenate their subjects’ lifestyles. Each fab five member has a specialty: fashion (Tan France), grooming (Jonathan Van Ness), interior design (Bobby Berk), culture (Karamo Brown) and food and wine (Antoni Porowski). At first blush, Queer Eye sounds like an indulgent, if light, watch.

But after binging its first season in just over a day, I realized that Queer Eye is an outlier. The show’s emotional impact is unlike that of any other lifestyle show I’ve watched.

“Really?” my friend asked, “You’re calling it one of the best shows ever?”

I understand the apprehension. The original Queer Eye, which was broadcast on Bravo from 2003 to 2007, had vocal critics.

Some queer viewers felt that the show reinforced the stereotype that gay men are inherently fashionable and cultured. In a 2003 Village Voice polemic, Richard Goldstein wrote, “it’s a measure of how far we haven’t come that the meeting [between straight and gay men] must be staged on stereotypical ground.”

But in Netflix’s reboot, fashion, grooming and the like are truly conduits for conversations about sexuality, masculinity and

vulnerability. To fall in love with Queer Eye, you have to understand that the fab five’s make-overs — or, as they say, “make-betters” — strike much deeper than the surface.

The fab five work with a diverse group of men who live in the Atlanta region throughout the season. The thing that ties all of their subjects together is their conformity, in one way or another, to masculinity. Rather than simply giving their subjects an expensive wardrobe and a fresh haircut, the hosts delve into the worries and desires that gender roles create. Where a viewer may see a messy living room or someone in desperate need of a shave, the fab five see insecurity or loneliness.

For example, in the fourth episode — “To Gay or Not Too Gay” — the fab five work with strikingly handsome civil engineer A.J. He has a chiseled jawline, thoughtful eyes and, by his own admission, an “above-average body.” (Translation: he’s ripped.) Yet, France observes that A.J. wears baggy outfits that make him look years older. When France takes A.J. shopping, A.J. shirks from bright colors and tight clothes.

A.J.’s fashion aversions stem from more than personal taste.

As the fab five learned at the start of the episode, A.J. is gay, and anxious about talking about his sexuality with people who are close to him. During the shopping trip, A.J. explains that he fears telegraphing his sexuality to the world by dressing any way other than modestly. Porowski empathizes. He

shares that he also chooses to dress in a fashionable, but understated way. In the fitting room, France, Porowski and A.J. converse about their diverse interests and experiences as queer men. In the end, Tan recommends terrific, youthful outfits, but also respects A.J.’s desire to dress conservatively at work.

In his review, Goldstein also complained that the original Queer Eye make-betters made “everyone look like a resident of West Hollywood.” While watching the reboot, however, I noticed that the fab five consistently recommend products and habits that are affordable, accessible and in line with their subjects’ tastes.

The fifth episode — “Camp Rules”— focuses on Bobby Camp, a father of six who works two jobs to support his family. Rather than taking Bobby to a haute couture boutique, France, Porowski and Van Ness bring Bobby to Target, where Van Ness finds products that the whole family can buy in bulk and use.

Bobby says that he rarely buys himself clothes, preferring to save the money for his children. As such, France picks out a few outfits from the men’s section, showing him how fashionable he can look without expending much effort. Furthermore, Queer Eye’s message isn’t that high fashion is the ideal, and some people have to economize. Rather, it’s that fashion and confidence come from knowing your worth and loving yourself.

Regardless of their field expertise, all

members of the fab five find ways to connect with their subjects. Bobby, for example, seeks to keep and accentuate items from the subjects’ homes that they love, be them a treasured painting, hand-me-down furniture or memorabilia that showcases their hobbies. The central theme of Queer Eye is the idea of the “make-better,” and the fab five consistently stress all of the beautiful attributes that their subjects have always had.

A few episodes into Queer Eye, I felt that the show was not only enjoyable (and it is wildly, giddily enjoyable), but also important. Queer Eye features men being vulnerable and crying on screen. In every episode, the fab five praise their subjects’ willingness to open up and discuss their emotions freely.

Towards the end of “To Gay or Not Too Gay,” culture expert Brown takes time to talk with A.J. before the party where A.J. will tell his step-mom that he’s gay. Brown affirms him as one black, gay man speaking to another, praising his beauty and his strength. Moments like these evidence the emotional power of Queer Eye. It is a show that is simultaneously a meditation on sexuality, gender, race and socio-economic status in the United States, and a lovely reality show that lets you revel in the fab five’s stunning make-betters.

Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

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A LONG, LONG FINNEGANS BREAK A few weeks ago, former Arts editor Troy Sherman ‘18 and I decided to ruin our February break. Instead of going on a trip with friends, catching up on sleep and work or just spending time thinking and relaxing, we chose to spend a good portion of the break in close quarters, reading pages and pages of near-nonsense. When others asked us what we planned to do over break, we’d respond, with a mix of self-conscious amusement and embarrassment, “We’re going to read Finnegans Wake aloud.”

Why? I’m not entirely sure, looking back, how the seed of this idea was first planted. I’m an avid fan of the Irish writer James Joyce, and I think at some point last semester I realized that if I didn’t read Finnegans Wake — his final and by far most difficult work — now, while I’m in college and have friends like Troy that will do ridiculous, simultaneously self-flagellating and self-indulgent things like this with me, then I might never read it.

It is a notoriously difficult work to make sense of. Many of the words in it were created by Joyce himself, who used something like sixty languages as resources to form bizarre, sometimes hilarious and more often incomprehensible puns and double (perhaps triple, quadruple, who knows!) entendres. There is a barely comprehensible narrative about a family, all of whom are referred to by a number of different names: a man, HCE (Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker,

Here Comes Everybody); his wife, ALP (Anna Livia Plurabelle); their sons, Shem and Shaun, and their daughter Issy. What little there is of a discernible plot revolves around the rumor of a sexual indiscretion involving HCE in a park, which seems to ultimately lead to his wife’s departure at the book’s end. But Joyce refuses to offer even this much certainty: the book ends with a half-sentence that is completed by the half-sentence Despite all the that begins the Amputations first chapter, implying that the work is a never ending cycle with no beginning and no end, which somewhat undercuts the significance of ALP’s departure. In addition, there is the possibility that the entire book is simply the dream of a sleeping man, possibly HCE. Or perhaps all of these things are somehow true at once. The characters blend and overlap so fully that, in the end, it hardly seems to matter who does what to whom, since everybody seems to contain one another and be contained by one another: hence, Here Comes Everybody.

Here’s how it went down.

Friday, Feb. 16: We started reading aloud at Troy’s room at 3 p.m., alternating every five pages. We finished Book I (213 pages) at 1 a.m. in my room, ending by listening to the recording of Joyce reading the final few pages in the baubling, delirious language of some washerwomen by a river. This first book was probably the most enjoyable. Troy’s girlfriend’s dog, Moxie, heard every word,

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and seemed, along with us, to be generally following the “narrative” direction.

Saturday, Feb. 17: We started reading at 11 a.m., and finished 257 pages later at 12 a.m., mid-way through Book III. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken so many words in a day. Moxie grew increasingly anxious throughout the day as cabin fever took hold of all three participants. By the end, my voice was rusty and my mouth was dry, I had a very tenuous grasp on where the story was and where it was going, and Troy’s eyes were bloodshot and watery. We were over the hill, past the midway point and securely in the final third of the book, but there was little sense of triumph, only of exhaustion and temporary relief.

Tuesday, Feb. 20: Troy left on Sunday, so we didn’t pick back up until Tuesday.

Reading at this point was like pulling teeth. Everybody was back from break and we wanted to be saying real words with meanings that we understood to people whom we hadn’t spent almost 48 hours straight with just before, not reading nonsense words alone to one another.

We gave up early, far short of our set goal.

Wednesday, Feb. 21 to Saturday, Feb. 24: Over these four days, we read short sections, inching closer and closer to Book IV, the final chapter that I had promised Troy was far more fun and comprehensible than the rest. This turned out to really only be true for the part I’d already read, the final few pages of ALP’s monologue as she decides to leave her home. This speech is so heartachingly poignant and direct that, for me, it nearly overwrites the hundreds of pages of sketches and jokes before.

What I found most surprising, I think, was how unsurprising I found the major-

Sitting in Ithaca Bakery getting ready to listen to By the Way, I Forgive You, I thought back to the first time I heard Brandi Carlile during an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Her song “The Story” was a major part of the musical episode in season seven and it's been a constant in my Spotify throwback mixes since. I already associated her music with the faux cloudy Seattle of Grey’s, so I was ready to delve into the new album with my latte in hand. “The Story” showcases what folk singers and specifically Carlile do best: wrap a heartbreaking story in anthemic music. In her opening line (“All of these lines across my face / Tell you the story of who I am), Carlile makes something personal feel utterly universal.

Her folksy newest album, which was released on Feb. 16, reminds me of a combination of Joni Mitchell’s mastery of storytelling mixed with Dolly

Parton’s simple but piercing melodies. The album is an amalgamation of bluegrass, gospel, and folk with each song featuring a little something different.

The first song off the album (“Every Time I Hear That Song”) is easily one of my favorites, featuring a catchy, folksy guitar-driven backtrack combing with easy-to-remember lyrics. These lines though simple are rich with lyrics such as “They told me the best revenge would be a life well lived.” The hints of vulnerability present throughout the rest of the album start here, making the lead single memorable.

A very different story is told on the second track, “The Joke,” which relies on a swelling string section and Carlile’s voice breaking on the chorus to drive the message home. The song reminds people who are struggling that in the end, the joke is on the people who do not understand

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ity of Finnegans Wake. It was, in fact, almost exactly what I thought it would be, and had been led to believe: a maddening, boring, profoundly self-indulgent and fascinating work by a genius who decided he no longer needed to communicate with anyone or anything other than his own intellect and knowledge.

Instead, he left a work that one could make equally compelling arguments is about “everything” and “nothing”: a work made up of glimpses, mirrors, hidden treasures, murmurs, galloping rhythms and swirling chaos and thousands of puns, and he dared the world to try to make sense of it. Troy and I hardly tried, instead resigning ourselves to a degree of incomprehension and finding solace and entertainment in the more coherent sections.

And this sense of recurring bewilderment offset by momentary recognition was, I think, the most valuable part of the experience. We were lost in the foaming, spewing maw of a great storm, gasping for air; and now and again we would find something, sometimes just a little piece of driftwood and other times an entire log, to hold to for a moment before the waves pulled us back into this storm with no discernible center, beginning or end.

Those moments of respite were brief, but they were powerful; and more than anything they confirmed that we were moving, touching new things, not simply at the mercy of random, overpowering waves. And so, in this way, I suppose I did go on a trip over February break.

them and to not let adversity break one's spirit. This story driven song is the most listened to off the album on Spotify, which is understandable given the message and instrumentals.

“The Mother” describes changes brought on by motherhood with nods to the hardship and pride that goes with becoming a parent. One of the most incredible lines was “Oh, but all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time / From inside of the ages through your eyes.” This song definitely transported me to another mindset and I sent it to my mom as soon as it finished; it made her tear up, which is a small testament to the song’s nuances. “The Mother” is musically mellow while describing one of the most complex and beautiful journeys in the world.

While the other songs on the album explored personal relationships or family relationships, “Sugartooth”

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broaches a darker and harder subject: death and addiction.

This is the most complete story on the album and describes the journey of an unnamed southern man, tracking him from high school into adulthood.

Carlile describes meeting him in high school while “he was searching for some kind of deeper truth / Between the lines and the Bible and living proof.” The song continues to delve deeper into the subject of addiction with prescription drugs and eventually suicide.

One of the verses includes how he succumbed to his struggle with “After so many years of feeling the loss / He finally made his way back home.” The song concludes with his ashes scattered at “Jesus rock,” showing he was finally reunited in some way with something he searched for his entire life. This song gives an honest look at the victims of addiction on an individual level, showing their struggles as people who yearn

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The album closes with “Party of One,” which describes finding another lonely soul and the sense of belonging that follows. She realizes that she has loved this person from the beginning but acknowledges the pain caused by her partner's drinking.

As a fan of “The Story” and her previous albums, I was not disappointed in this sixth album. Singer-songwriters may not be the most popular, but this album reminded me that the best songs are often stories that impart understanding and deal with difficult topics such as addiction, loss, peace and love with true wisdom.

For those interested in hearing some of these new hits live, Brandi Carlile will be playing at The State Theater of Ithaca on May 8.

Ashley Davila is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at amd395@cornell.edu.

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Red Torched By A&M in First Series BASEBALL

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of distanced themselves on us,” Pepicelli said. “I think we played just as solid in game three as we did in game one, just a little bit different luck.”

Cornell’s two runs in the final contest came in the ninth inning, and the team had just three base hits in the game, two from senior outfielder Dale Wickham.

The Red will look to bounce

back in a three-game series at Duke next weekend. “[Texas A&M is] a College World Series team,” Pepicelli said. “We knew we were fighting off a big challenge to come down and play them here, but I thought there were definitely some positives to take out of it and definitely something to build off of.”

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

C.U. Surrenders Early Lead in Loss W. LACROSSE

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League play and its quest to defend its Ivy League title this weekend against No.14 Penn (2-0).

“We will focus mainly on getting back to the basics and making sure our skills and stickwork are where they need to be,” Phillips said. “Also, that the foundation of our team, the discipline, is back at 100 percent because without the foundation of our pro-

gram being solid we can’t be successful and win games.”

Cornell will kick off Ancient Eight play at 1 p.m.

Saturday at Schoellkopf Field.

“Penn will be an exciting game to open our Ivy League play with,” Reed said. “We are excited to get to work this week improving on what we’ve learned in our first two games.”

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SPORTS

Cornell Finishes Strong in Road Win Over Hobart M. LACROSSE

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that we were a little bit more experienced in the middle of the field and made some better plays,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman. “We were getting more consistent play throughout and I think that allowed us to see the plays a little bit ahead.”

The Red (1-1) struck first but fell behind early in the first quarter at Schoellkopf, after the Statesmen (0-3) scored four unanswered to take a three-goal lead.

“We were really struggling to get into our offense because [Hobart] applied a little bit of pressure,” Milliman said. “And I don’t think we were moving at a pace we needed to.”

But Cornell took control late in the first and into the second, scoring seven unanswered to enter halftime with an 8-5 lead.

The home team never looked back, cruising to a decisive victory.

“The boys showed some grit coming back from a bad start,”

“It took a little while to settle in,” Knight said. “Even as a fifth-year guy, you know, everyone has to work the nerves out.

[But] it really comes down to the defense, they played outstanding.”

Cornell picked up 28 ground balls to Hobart’s 25, an improvement from the last matchup where the Red was badly outmatched on that front.

On the faceoff, Cornell faired better this week as well, holding its own and for an even 13 for 26 on the draw. The improvement came partially due to a personnel change, swapping out sophomore Paul Rasimowicz in favor of freshman midfielder Matt Licciardi, who was successful on 10 of 19 draws. “[Licciardi] is a very talented young man,” Milliman said.

“He works as hard as anybody; he plays as hard as anybody, and he’s got an ability to do a lot of things well.”

Despite improvement on ground balls and faceoffs, the Red took care of the ball poorly, coughing up 14 turnovers, six of

“We finished the game well, played strong through the middle, and I think we’re happy with a big step forward.”

Interim head coach Peter Milliman Milliman said. “But we finished the game well, played strong through the middle, and I think we’re happy with a a big step forward.”

When all was said and done, some familiar faces sat atop Cornell’s box score. Sophomore attack Jeff Teat led the way for the Red with a 10-point performance, notching four goals and six assists, while junior attack Clarke Petterson had four goals of his own.

“Once we started putting the ball in the net and feeling comfortable out there, then that’s when we knew we were playing at our pace, and we could do anything we want,” Teat said.

In goal, fifth-year senior Christian Knight made 19 saves to help anchor his team to victory.

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which came on the clear.

Cornell was successful on just 17 of its 23 clears, a poor showing that mirrored its biggest weakness a week ago.

“I thought we did a better job winning ground balls and winning faceoffs,” Milliman said. “[But] we still need to clean up some clearing stuff.”

The meeting Saturday was the 137th between the two programs, collegiate lacrosse’s most frequently played rivalry.

Cornell expanded its series lead by picking up its 86th win against the Statesmen.

The Red is back in action next Saturday when it travels across Interstate 88 for a matchup with No. 2 Albany.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Women’s Lax Drops Close Contest to Penn State

Red scores game’s first four goals, but surrenders momentum to tough Big Ten opponent in loss

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Tough loss | The Red scored the contest’s first four goals, but couldn’t prevent a Penn State comeback, as the Nittany Lions rattled off four straight goals of its own and pulled away to take the lead.

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Despite being within striking distance of Penn State for the

majority of the game, the Red fell victim to a late Nittany Lion scoring run Saturday and lost to the Big Ten powerhouse, 16-11.

“We played well in spirits, but

then had too many lapses,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86.

The Red (1-1) got off to a hot start — junior attack Tomasina Leska, who had three

goals in the game, and sopho- midfielder Taylor Reed. “We more attack Caroline Allen, who weren’t able to regain it towards had four, scored four straight the end when they pulled away.”

Defensively, Farinholt caused goals in the first six minutes of two turnovers and sophomore the game.

Down early, Penn State (3-1) goalkeeper Katie McGahan was responded with a four-goal run exceptional in the net, making of its own, before senior captain 11 saves for the Red. and midfielder Ida Farinholt “We had a few lulls in the game where found the back we allowed Penn State to take the of the net to give the Red the momentum back.” lead once again.

Senior Taylor Reed The Nittany Lions scored “We need to focus on bringthrice more before halftime to ing the energy for the full 60 take a 7-5 lead.

The Red never let more than minutes of the game,” Phillips a three-goal gap develop during said. “We can’t start strong and the second half — even narrow- then get complacent. We have to ing the deficit to one goal after bring 110 percent for the full junior captain attack Sarah game. Also, making in-game Phillips capitalized on a man-up adjustments has to come a little opportunity with 10 minutes quicker — they had a lot of opportunities on the eight meter remaining.

The Nittany Lions, however, and we have to mitigate the went on another four-goal run amount of chances they get 1on-1 with our goalie.” to put away the Red. The Red will look to stick to “We had a few lulls in the game where we allowed Penn fundamentals as it begins Ivy State to take the momentum See W. LACROSSE page 13 back,” said senior captain and

TRACK AND FIELD

Cornell Teams Earn Disappointing FifthPlace Finishes at Heps

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

The Ivy League Heps tournament was marked by disappointment for the Cornell track and field teams, both of which finished in fifth place at Dartmouth last weekend.

“We placed fifth in the Ivy League which is unheard of for Cornell since the early 2000s,” said junior Alex Beck.

“How do I feel about the score? It's pretty awful to say the least.”

The men’s and women’s teams were both disappointed with their results given their preparation.

“I was very happy with the women’s competitive efforts although we were certainly aiming for a better finish than fifth,” said head coach Arthur Smith. “We converted on a lot of scoring performances but didn’t end up with the team place that we wanted.

“We’re accustomed to finishing higher but at the same time this group competed hard and accumulated a lot of points in a lot of places,” Smith said. “The points just

[weren’t] enough to move up the standings, but we’re proud of the efforts.”

“Overall the men's team was extremely unsatisfied with our performance,” said senior sprinter Stanford Cooper. “The final score was in no way indicative of how hard we had trained and what my team deserves, and it leaves a bad taste in our mouth.”

Despite the disappointment, both the women’s and men’s teams had a few standout performances. Most notably for the women, senior Michaela Smith won first place in the shotput with a personal record of 49’11.75”. Junior Annie Taylor won the 1-mile run with a time of 4:48.9, Cornell’s first victory in the event since 2005.

In addition to their two Heps champions, the Red had three women’s runner-ups: senior cocaptain Shannon Hugard in the 1000 meter, junior Leena Morris in the weight throw and the 4x800 of sophomore Sara O'Malley, junior Tina Welzer, freshman Leya

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

‘Pretty awful’ | The men’s and women’s track and field teams both left the Ivy Heps disappointed with fifth-place finishes.

Both teams travel to Boston this weekend for the ECAC championships.

Salis and Hugard.

Smith, which emerged “I do know that the For the men’s team, victorious at the champi- team as a whole is hungry junior Austin Lyons ran a onships. for the outdoor season,” personal best Beck said. of 7.94 in the “We really 60-meter hur- “We really can’t have this kind of meet can't have this dles, and happen again. I know we’re going to kind of meet sophomore happen again. be more aggressive in our meets.”

Zach Hawley I know we're set a personal going to be Junior Alex Beck best in the more aggresshot put. sive in our Another bright spot The tough Heps meet meets and just compete was the injury-plagued has both teams looking to compete instead of men's 4x400 relay of ahead to stronger perfor- over-thinking.”

Beck, Ben Fields, Max mances as the season pro“Everybody on the Comer and Michael gresses. team will focus on

improving themselves individually,” Cooper said. “The team title is won by each of us doing our part. Whether it's staying healthy or perfecting technique, we all have a different job to do, and that's what we'll do going into outdoors.”

Both teams are travelling to Boston this weekend for the ECAC championships.

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

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Beat Princeton in ECAC Quarterfinals Cornell dominates Tigers in win-or-go-home game three, advances to conference semifinals

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Under pressure in a win-or-go-home matchup, the Cornell women’s hockey team kept its composure Sunday and defeated Princeton 4-0 to win the ECAC quarterfinal series, two games to one, advancing to the conference championship weekend in Potsdam.

Cornell (21-8-3, 15-5-2 ECAC) bested Princeton (14-14-4, 11-10-1) by a score of 2-1 in Game 1 on Friday as goals from freshman forward Maddie Mills and senior forward Brianna Veerman propelled the Red past the Tigers.

The Red looked in position to secure a clean sweep of their Ivy League foes, taking an early 2-0 lead in the second game of the series on Saturday. But the Tigers had other ideas, using success on the power play to come from behind and defeat Cornell 5-4 in overtime to force game three on Sunday.

“We were very disappointed about our performance in game two,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “So we wanted to make sure we played our best game of the series in game three.”

With its back against the wall, Cornell demonstrated incredible resiliency and poise on Sunday as it trounced the Tigers, 4-0, behind goals from Mills, Veerman, junior forward Diana Buckley and senior captain Sarah Knee.

The game also marked junior goalkeeper Marlene Boissonnault’s seventh shutout of the year — tied for fourthbest in the nation.

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Moving on | After allowing Princeton to come back from a multi-goal deficit in game two, the Red dominated the Tigers in game three to clinch a spot in the ECAC semifinals.

“We knew that our season was on the line [Sunday],” said junior forward Pippy Gerace. “Coming into a game that’s a must-win is nerve racking, but that is how it is going to be for the rest of the year. We definitely came out with a spark which ignited throughout the whole game.”

Despite the pressure, players felt they would get the job done.

“I don't think I've seen the team as

determined as we were going into Sunday,” Knee said. “After those kinds of losses [like Saturday], it's easy to doubt your team’s strength or place blame, but none of that happened. Everyone was very eager to prove what we're capable of.”

With so much at stake, the series was extremely physical, with Cornell receiving 22 penalties to Princeton’s 19 on the weekend.

The large amount of penalty minutes accrued put a lot of stress on the special teams units, particularly the penalty kill.

“This weekend we saw that special teams can make or break a game,” Buckley said. “That was the difference between game two and game three. To continue playing through the ECAC tournament, we need to stay out of the box to limit the offensive chances for the opponent.”

In addition to limiting penalty minutes, Cornell will be focusing on taking care of other controllable variables as it takes on No. 4 Colgate (31-4-1, 19-3-0 ECAC) in the ECAC semifinals.

“For next weekend, we will be focusing on our side of the game,” Boissonnault said. “Our power play and penalty kill have been getting better and better lately — that’s one place where we’ll be focusing to keep our good results.”

Puck drops against the second-seeded Raiders at 4 p.m. Saturday at Clarkson University’s Cheel Arena in Potsdam.

Last year, in the same building, Cornell defeated St. Lawrence in the conference semifinal before falling to top-seeded Clarkson in the final game.

Should the team defeat Colgate, it would face either the Golden Knights or St. Lawrence on Sunday at 2 p.m. The winner of the tournament will automatically secure a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

BASEBALL

Texas A&M Dominates C. U. Pitching in Series Sweep

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

MICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Win column | Despite falling behind early, Cornell took control late in the first half and cruised to victory against its oldest rival for its first win of the season.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Laxers Rally to Beat Hobart In First Win of 2018 Season

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

Desperate to prove that 2018 would be a new chapter after a disappointing 2017 and a season-opening loss to Colgate last week, Cornell

men’s lacrosse showed up on Saturday to defeat its oldest rival, Hobart, 15-8, and secure its first victory of the young season.

The win comes off the heels of a shaky opening game against the Raiders last week,

where the Red seemed off balance from a fundamental standpoint.

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The Cornell baseball team knew traveling to take on a nationally ranked team would be a tough way to start the season, and its fears were proven true as No. 10 Texas A&M dominated in a three-game series sweep.

The Red’s (0-3) offense had almost no success against the Texas A&M (7-0) pitching staff, scoring just four runs in three games, while the Cornell pitchers allowed 22 Aggie runs in game two and eight runs in game three.

The Red managed to hang with the Aggies during a close 3-2 contest in game one where each team recorded six hits.

“I think any time you can keep an SEC team to three runs, you’re doing something [right],” said head coach Dan Pepicelli.

But games two and three quickly got ugly for Cornell.

In game two, Texas A&M dominated the Red by a lopsided 22-0 score, chasing senior starting pitcher Tyler Fernandez from the game in the first inning.

Fernandez allowed seven runs —

five earned — and recorded just two outs. Sophomore Jeb Bemiss got 10 outs in relief and surrendered nine runs, six of them earned.

“Game two was silly,” Pepicelli said. “We got down early and I wasn’t going to fire any bullets to keep it close, because I was trying to win game three, and it just got away from us.”

Texas A&M mowed down the Cornell lineup in the middle game, building a 16-0 lead after three innings. Chandler Jozwiak threw five shutout innings for the Aggies, and the Red racked up just three hits, compared to the Aggies’ 29.

During game three, Texas A&M built another early lead from which the Red was never able to recover. The Aggies continued to tack on runs and finished the sweep in an 8-2 decision.

“We couldn’t really get any rhythm going against [Texas A&M starter Mitchell Kilkenny] on offense, but we were hanging around and eventually they kind See BASEBALL page 13