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Project manager Robert Ralyea M. Sc ’98 describes his path from the army to the project manager for Big Red Cheddar . | Page 3

Catherine Hwang ’18 calls Ithaca College Opera’s production of Semele “vivid, bright and in constant motion.” | Page 8

Women’s basketball won against Penn and lost against Princeton this weekend. | Page 16

Myrick ’09 Outlines Plan for Drug Injection Facility Plans to lobby legislatures, pledges city will not ‘arrest our way out of problems’ CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Path to recovery | Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 calls a supervised injection facility the best way to prevent overdoses.

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

A week after announcing the controversial Ithaca Plan — a proposal which would establish the nation’s first supervised drug injection facility in Ithaca — Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 outlined the steps the city’s administration will take to make this plan a reality in an interview with The Sun. Myrick said he advocates this initiative because he believes that current “war on drugs” has been largely ineffective in its reliance on imprisonment rather than rehabilitation.

“I felt for a long time that America’s drug policies were terrible,” Myrick said. “As a child my father was an addict and this cycle of jail, forced rehab, jail, did him and my family no favors.”

Myrick said he formed the Municipal Drug Policy

Committee — composed of administrators, healthcare providers and law enforcement officials — in April 2014 to investigate and develop new approaches to combating drug addiction in the Ithaca area.

The blueprint of The Ithaca Plan, which the MDPC and Myrick published last week, includes the group’s findings and policy recommendations. “[The Ithaca Plan] is a new, smarter public health campaign that will save people lives,” Myrick said. “We are not going to arrest our way out of these problems anymore.”

The component of the Ithaca Plan that has been deemed most controversial is its proposed supervised injection facility, where people would be able to legally inject heroin under supervised medical care. While new to the United States, these operations have successfully prevented overdose deaths, infectious diseases and bacterial infections for heroin users in both Canada and Europe, according to the mayor.

Myrick also defended his program from critics who See MYRICK page 4

C.U. Introduces Masters in Public Health Professors Weigh In on

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Beginning next fall, Cornell will offer a campus-wide master of public health degree, according to Gen Meredith associate director of MPH and international health programs.

The program is still pending approval from the State University of New York and registration with the New York Department of Education, which could take either weeks or months, according to Meredith.

Meredith said that although the curriculum of the MPH program is still under development, candidates stand to “benefit from the participation of Cornell’s multiple world-class colleges, schools and departments.”

Claudia Wheatley, senior public affairs officer for the College Veterinary Medicine, said her school would take a leading role in the partnership between the academic units.

“The College of Veterinary Medicine alone has world-renowned experts working in epidemiology, population medicine, infectious disease, food systems and human-animal dynamics,” Meredith said. “With faculty from across Cornell, our students will learn and apply public health competencies from a multidisciplinary approach.”

The program will look at the connections and overlap between many different health fields, according to Wheatley.

“We expect to have a focus on disease of course, but there will also be a focus on land usage, on poverty, on diseases that humans and animals share,” Wheatley said. “[The MPH program] is going to be a lot of different disciplines with a focus on public health. We’ve all got something to bring to the table when it comes to public health.”

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After Trial, Tan ’17 to Leave Cornell Tan’s Pittsford home last February. Charges against the student were dropped after a Former student Charles four week trial in October Tan ’17 has ended in a hung decided not to jury, The Sun prereturn to Cornell viously reported. after second Although Tan degree murder had originally charges against planned to return him were to Cornell after his dropped in trial, he withdrew November. in advance of a disTan, 20, was ciplinary hearing TAN ’17 charged with the that would have murder of his father, who was determined whether he viofound shot 12 times in the lated the University’s code of

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conduct, Tan’s lawyer Brian DeCarolis told the Democrat and Chronicle.

DeCarolis added that Tan plans to continue his education at a school where people are not as familiar with his case, according to The Ithaca Voice.

Tan’s case was thrown out in a surprise move by Judge James Piampiano last year.

Assistant District Attorney William Gargan was especially upset at the jury’s decision, See TAN page 4

Super Tuesday Results

MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

After Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump emerged as victors from Super Tuesday, Prof.

William Jacobson, law, and Prof. M. Elizabeth Sanders, government, shared their beliefs about what the results imply for the 2016 presidential election.

Clinton and Trump were both declared victors in seven primaries.

Bernie Sanders won the remaining four states in the Democratic primaries, while Republicans Ted Cruz was victorious in two states and Marco Rubio in one.

Prof. Sanders said that she believes these election results demonstrate the contention and controversy that have characterized this election cycle, calling the victories the product of “remarkable times.”

“Trump and Clinton just swept the primaries. Rubio has failed the Republican establishment by winning only one state,”

she said. “Cruz, on the basis of winning three states — two tonight, plus Iowa — is now positioning himself to the right of Trump, claiming he is the only true conservative.”

Prof. Sanders said she believes that because Clinton is a political candidate, whose principles, like Trump’s, have shown “great flexibility,” she is See PRIMARIES page 4

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Pennlive.com reports that management at Little Buffalo State Park gave permission for Steve Hoke to create the small, magical houses in December.

Since then, he has made 38 tiny houses in tree roots, hollow logs and on stumps around the forest near Newport, about 25 miles northwest of Harrisburg.

He says the houses were a major attraction for children.

Park Manager Jason Baker tells the news site he gave the OK originally, but it was later decided the homes could affect wildlife habitat.

Hoke removed the little abodes Monday after being told he had until Feb. 29.

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Josh Reed, who is 6ft3 and has a beard, travelled from London Stansted to Dortmund on a Ryanair flight with petite brunette Sophie’s ID. According to the 21-year-old, security at the gate only checked his boarding pass, meaning he only spotted that he had the wrong travel documents when he landed in Germany.

But at no point did anyone else notice that he wasn’t girlfriend Sophie Watkins.

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Runaway ‘Unicorn’ Leads Police on Four-Hour Chase A pony dressed up as the mythical spiral-horned beast escaped from a photoshoot and evaded capture for four hours on Wednesday night.

At 5:30 p.m., Juliet bolted from a home in the Fresno suburb of Madera Ranchos just as owner Sandra Boos was taking pictures of her with a child.

Multiple drivers reported seeing the 400-pound animal, wearing a pink halter and horn, trotting into traffic on different highways.

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Project ManagerTraces Path Toward Cheese Production

By ZACH SILVER Sun Staff Writer

When Robert Ralyea M.Sc ’98 walks into work, instead of sitting at his desk and answering emails, he buttons his white coat and pants, puts on his hair net and heads to the processing plant to begins the day’s batch of yogurt.

Some days he begins as early as 3 a.m.

Ralyea is a senior extension associate and pilot project manager in the department of food science and the project manager for the Cornell Dairy’s Big Red Cheddar.

“What I do is support the number one agricultural industry in New York state [Cornell Dairy],” Ralyea said. “I try to keep New York state on the map with dairy. I’d like to have New York kick Wisconsin’s ass in cheese production.”

While Ralyea’s career is currently focused on cheese, he said he didn’t anticipate dairy as his career of choice when he was a young man.

“I wanted to be a veterinarian originally, but that didn’t work out,” Ralyea said. “Probably [in] high school was when I realized I didn’t want to be a vet. Growing up on a farm contributed to why I wanted to originally do that.”

The deciding factor for Ralyea was his 21 years of military service in the veterinary corps, when he realized he might not be cut out for permanent veterinary work, he said.

“I ran out of money, joined the Army and took part in a program that allowed me to finish a degree at the next level, so I came to Cornell,” he said “I would have been a good veterinarian. I am a big dog-lover.”

Ralyea earned a master’s degree in food sciences in 1998. After a six-year deployment, he returned to Cornell, where he said he was offered a job in the University’s dairy facility.

During his career as a pilot project manager, Ralyea revitalized Cornell cheese production — a program that he said had been dormant for several decades.

“In 2013 we started making Big Red Cheddar; that was the first cheese Cornell started making and selling,” Ralyea said. “They used to do it many, many, many years ago but it fell off the radar. There was a year of figuring out what we want to make it to be, but then we just started making it. We’ve tweaked it over the past couple of years, but now we think we have a great product.”

Although Big Red Cheddar was initially only sold

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on campus, it is now being sold in the Ithaca branch of Wegmans. Ralyea said he hopes to expand the product’s reach further.

“We’ve talked with Murray’s Cheese in New York City,” he said. “It’s more about figuring out the logistics of where things need to go from here. We have permission to sell off campus. We’re looking outside of the box.”

While acknowledging that dairy production and military work are quite different, Ralyea said he believes the skills he gained in the military helped him gain level-headedness and perspective which help him in his current role. “[The Army] taught you that not every day is a sunny day. You just dealt with it,” he said. “You tend to look at things from a little bit of a different perspective when someone comes to you with a bit of an emergency and you’re like, ‘Well I’m not quite sure that’s an emergency so to speak.’”

Along with his passion for cheese, Ralyea labels himself as a “gear head,” or someone who likes collecting and fixing up old cars. He said his pride and joy is an 1984 Mustang.

“My father was a mechanic after the farm, so that’s probably where some of the gear-headedness came from,” Ralyea mentioned. “We’re building a new garage [for my cars] and [my wife] is not happy about that.”

Ralyea encouraged students to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves, no matter how surprising they appear.

“You never close the doors because you never know when that opportunity is actually going to strike for you,” Ralyea said. “I’m always looking for the next vision. No matter how rickety the bridge looks, you never kick the bridge down, because one day that could be the bridge you take.”

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

Harvard Files Amicus Brief Against Graduate Student Unionization BOSTON (IVYWIRE) — Harvard jointly filed an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday arguing against the unionization of graduate students, joining six other Ivy League universities, Stanford, and MIT in a call for the board to uphold existing rulings that define the relationship between private universities and graduate students as strictly academic.

In an email sent to faculty members, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Xiao-Li Meng wrote, “Along with our peer institutions, we share the concern that introducing labor unions into this educational relationship would disrupt academic programs, administration of financial assistance, and infringe upon academic freedom.”

Last April, a group of graduate students at Harvard made public their unionization efforts, and last week leaders of that group indicated that their movement had gained support from the majority of graduate students who work across Harvard as teaching fellows or research assistants.

In 2004, the NLRB ruled that graduate students at Brown University were not employees, meaning that federal union protections would not apply to them.

Currently, two cases brought separately by graduate students at Columbia and The New School are under review by the NLRB and could stand to alter the relationship between private universities and their gradu-

Auto Workers posted on its Facebook page ate students.

The brief, filed jointly by nine universi- that members “are disappointed in the ties at the solicitation of the NLRB for the administration’s continued interference with Columbia case, comes while graduate stu- our democratic process and their refusal to dents across the nation—including at recognize or respect the majority of graduate Harvard—push for their universities to rec- workers who have openly called for a ognize them as employees with the right to union.”

For some students, the filing represents a collectively bargain. shift in Harvard’s stratThe brief emphaegy regarding the sizes the strong stance unionization effort. In Harvard has already “We’re not trying to be October, GSAS taken against unionadversarial or have any administrators issued ization, arguing that animosity towards our guidelines on how to the formation of a graduate student employers. We want to come respond to the movement—welcoming union would fundato the table as equals.” discussion but dismentally change the couraging hostility. relationship between Abigail Weil “So far, it feels like graduate students and the administration has universities to one been running a pretty based in labor, not in education, and that such a move could dainty, gentle anti-union campaign, and we “transform the collaborative model of grad- expected it to get more aggressive and we uate education to one of conflict and ten- couldn’t predict the form that it would take sion.” University President Drew G. Faust exactly,” Ph.D. student Abigail Weil, a has made clear her opposition to unioniza- member of the unionization effort, said.

John T. Trumpbour, research director of tion on similar grounds.

“Both collective bargaining and arbitra- the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard tion are, by their very nature, adversarial,” Law School, said he thought the University’s move was not surprising. the brief states.

“I think that the private universities really GSAS administrators sent students an email late Monday afternoon announcing feel that they are at a turning point, so a lot the filing of the amicus brief and reiterating of them really want to do as much as they their stance against unionization. The can to stop these victories now, and this they Harvard Graduate Student Union-United see as a very crucial decision,” Trumpbour

said. He added that if a Democrat is elected the next U.S. President in 2016 and the NLRB rules in favor of graduate students, it could be difficult for a future board to reverse that decision.

Weil said she disagreed with the brief’s claim that collective bargaining is inherently contentious.

“We’re not trying to be adversarial or have any animosity towards our employers,” Weil said. “We want to come to the table as equals.”

Chamith Y. Fonseka, a Ph.D. student and a member of the unionization effort, wrote in an email that he is “particularly disappointed in the administration because contrary to the University’s claims - efforts like these are exactly what creates an adversarial relationship between the administration and student body.”

Much of the brief focused on the threat a union could pose to academic freedom. The brief described a hypothetical situation in which a professor wants to change the format of a final exam from multiple-choice to an essay, and, as a result, a graduate student union files a formal grievance charging that the change could create extra work for teaching fellows.

The brief also cites issues that have surfaced at New York University, the only private institution that has voluntarily recognized a graduate student union, such as grievances filed over the selection of teaching assistants.

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argue that the initiative would normalize or encourage heroin use by tempering the dangers inherent in abusing the drug.

“People [start using drugs] never imagining that one day they would need to be rescued,” Myrick said.

“Nobody, who is fifteen years old and at a party, when someone hands them an oxycontin, says I know I shouldn’t take this, but 12 years from now, I can check into a supervising facility and inject myself with heroin while someone else watches. They take it because they are feeling something, that they rather not be feeling — boredom, isolation, probably anxiety, stress, maybe the beginnings of bipolar disorder or depression.”

He also emphasized that people need assistance rather than deterrents, criticizing the “just say no” approach to the prevention of drug abuse and insisting that those struggling with addiction need “tools, alternatives and treatment.”

Making the Ithaca Plan a reality will be a gradual process, one which will require several years of planning and hard work, according to Myrick.

“We are going to start everything that we are legally allowed to do,” he said. “First we will create the [Ithaca] office of drug policy. After we’ll seek to build a wet shelter, improve our education around drug use, and build a 24 hour crisis center. All of these things will happen in the first three to four years.”

Myrick said he foresees securing a physical location for the supervised injection sites and 24-hour crisis center as the most difficult part of the plan to execute.

“The committee told me this was going to be the largest hurdle, but there are possible locations. There are locations available that are close to services we already provide, like our existing homeless shelters, rescue missions, food pantries and soup kitchens,” he said. “There are also places where neighborhoods have adapted to offering harm reduction services, which is what all of these programs are.”

While many of these programs are being strengthened in Ithaca, Myrick plans to lobby the state legislature for funding of the injection centers, and if that fails, he will appeal to the state department of health, urging them to declare a state of emergency.

“We start building the programs that we can while lobbying with our right hands at the state level,” he said. “If we never get approval for the supervised injection, we’ll still have 95 percent of the plan to fight addiction, all we’ll be lacking is this five percent.”

Myrick said there are several metrics that he will use to analyze the success of the injection center once it is established, including continuing to gauge amount of drug overdoses in the city.

“If we can have no people die [from a drug overdose] then we know we are doing something right, because every single death from drug use is preventable,” Myrick said.

“Our goal is to get that number to zero.”

In response to recent concerns voiced by community members that the supervised injection locations might be

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he did not regret his actions.

“I stand by every decision I made here and I was more than willing to have handcuffs placed on me to be able to argue my point, because I didn’t cross any lines,” Gargan said.

He added that although the judge dismissed the case, he believed there was enough evidence to convict Tan. “When you have someone saying, ‘I did it. I had to do it.

He was going to kill my mother.’ And you find the deceased. And you find the murder weapons. And the

a target for crime, Myrick countered that most people who would use these shelters are homeless and more vulnerable to crime then they would be in supervised injection facilities.

“This population usually has on them their fix and nothing else. They are not folks who walk around with $10,000 worth of heroin on them, they are walking around with $10 of heroin, which is usually not worth the trouble and doesn’t attract crime,” he said. “It also doesn’t attract dealers for the exact same reason, because these are people without a lot of resources and money.”

The mayor encouraged other cities around the country to consider adopting a similar drug policy plans, calling problems of addiction and rehabilitation both ubiquitous and urgent.

“I don’t know how much longer we can wait,” he said.

“We are losing 115 to 125 people a day. People say we should continue the war on drugs, but I say for how long?

We have been doing this for 40 years.”

Myrick said he did not aim to be a pioneer in creating the first supervised injection facility in the United States — rather he felt that the city within his jurisdiction was suffering too severely for him to justify continuing with an approach to drug abuse that was simply not working.

“These people are going to die, while you continue to try something which you know doesn’t work,” he said. “So I ran out of patience. We have to stop waiting for the federal and state government, we’ll do it ourselves."

Lauren Kelly can be reached at lkelly@cornellsun.com.

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judge took great pains to point out that the murder weapon was found not in the house, but in the garage,” he said. “That’s the sort of nuance that is of little meaning.”

Tan’s defense team, however, emphasized that they believed the judge made the right decision.

“He’s been living a nightmare for over a year with this case going on,” said James Nobles, one of Tan’s defense lawyers. “Certainly at this point in time he can move on with the rest of his life.”

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Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

The body of Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a former commander in the armed wing of Hamas, at his funeral lies at a Gaza mosque in February. The onetime Hamas fighter was accused of homosexuality and executed by his comrades.

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curious if her more leftist leaning stances would change in the general election.

“An important question is whether Clinton, who in her speech Tuesday night clearly channeled Bernie Sanders, would retain her new Sanders-like commitments in the general election and the presidency,” Sanders said. “She is a politician whose principles and policy commitments have, like Trump’s, shown great flexibility.”

The results of Super Tuesday make Trump the likely Republican nominee, absent the narrowing the field of candidates to a single contender, a strategy which could result in a more united force of opposition countering Trump, according to Jacobson.

“After tonight, unless the Republican field narrows to a single main challenger, Donald Trump will be the nominee even though in most states he’s not breaking the 40 percent barrier,” he said.

Jacobson also shared his speculations about which Republican candidate

could face-off against Trump as a single challenger.

“Cruz would seem the logical challenger since he has won three states, but the GOP establishment hates Cruz even more than it hates Trump,” Jacobson said. “Rubio could be an establishment alternative, but he seems to hold more promise than performance.”

Although Jacobson said he believes the only way to prevent Trump from gaining the nomination would be to narrow the Republican candidates to a single challenger, he said he believes this option is growing increasingly unlikely.

“In the present posture ... it seems likely [that] both Cruz and Rubio will stay in at least through the mid-March, winner-take-all primaries, and that benefits Trump who may pick up boatloads of delegates without ever winning a majority of the popular vote,” he said.

Unlike Jacobson, Sanders said she believes that the Super Tuesday results reveal that fight for the Republican nomination has narrowed to Cruz and Trump.

“So, while Trump may have hoped to keep Cruz in the race to block Rubio,

the stage is now set for a very hostile fight to the finish between Cruz and Trump, one of which will it seems safe to say — carry the Republican flag against Hillary Clinton.”

Cruz and Trump’s primary victories reveal the disenchantment many Americans feel from the Republican elite, according to Sanders.

“Much is at stake here,” Sanders said.

“Trump and Cruz are both unpredictable candidates outside the center of their party. Their strength tells us that there is great unhappiness with the Republican elite, and the solutions they offer their voters could lead to great domestic conflict.”

Sanders said she believes a TrumpClinton race could converge on key issues.

“A Trump-Clinton election contest would be extremely negative, but they may not be very far apart on major economic or foreign policy issues,” Sanders said. “Clinton may even be the more conservative of the two.”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcoheny@cornellsun.com.

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This interdisciplinary focus will distinguish Cornell’s MPH degree from the Master of Health Administration degree offered by the College of Human Ecology’s Sloan Program, Meredith said.

Although MHA programs cover issues of public health, their primary focus are the business and managerial sides of healthcare, Meredith said.

“An MPH program focuses on the health of communities and the conditions that cause or prevent the spread of diseases and other conditions that undermine the health of people, animals and the environment; healthcare systems are covered as one of many factors at play,” she said.

“The MHA and MPH should complement each other, and will offer students an expanded choice as they come to Cornell.”

Meredith discussed the fall 2016 launch of this MPH program at the second annual Global Health Gala held on Sunday.

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

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Stalemate Continues on Supreme Court Nominee After Senate Republicans Meet at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — After an Oval Office sit-down on Tuesday did nothing to move Republican Senate leaders off their hard line against a Supreme Court nomination, Democrats pulled out another weapon in the heated election-year fight: Donald Trump.

In a White House meeting that lasted less than an hour, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told President Barack Obama that any confirmation process during a presidential campaign would politicize the court. They offered up no potential candidates that would win their backing and no route to filling the seat.

“This vacancy will not be filled this year,” McConnell told reporters after the meeting.

Democrats accused Republicans of trying to hold the seat open so that a Republican president can fill it. That president could be Trump, they noted, hoping to needle a GOP establishment uncomfortable with the prospects of Trump presidency.

The meeting — which also included Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee — was the first time the leaders have met since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month set off a highstakes clash over the Supreme Court vacancy.

While the men huddled at the White House, voters in 12 states were preparing to weigh in on a presidential contest that has tanked Obama’s chances of filling the seat — but also given Democrats a new line of attack.

As they emerged from the meeting, they quickly linked the GOP strategy to the Republican frontrunner poised to pick up significant momentum Tuesday night.

“All we want them to do is fulfill their Constitutional duty and do their job, and at this stage, they decided not to do that,” Reid said. “They think that they can wait and see what President Trump will do, I guess.”

Reid’s comments were aimed at riling up Democrats, as well as moderate and establishment Republicans who cringe at the thought of the unpredictable celebrity candidate controlling the future of the court. It was an early sign that with formalities — such as awkward White House meetings — dispensed with, the fight over the court was largely a battle for public opinion.

“Whether everybody in the meeting today wanted to admit it, we all know that considering a nomination in the middle of a heated presidential campaign is bad for the nominee, bad for the court, bad for the process, and ultimately bad for the nation,” Grassley said in his statement about the meeting. “It’s time for the people to voice their opinion about the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system of government.”

At another time, the gathering might have been a nod to the tradition of at least limited cooperation in naming and confirming justices to the nation’s highest court. The president might have floated potential candidates; Senate opposition might have come armed with their own preferred names.

On Tuesday, neither side came with much more than talking points.

Justice Clarence Thomas Breaks 10-Year Silence Monday WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence Monday and posed questions during a Supreme Court oral argument, provoking gasps from the audience.

And it wasn’t just one question; it was a string of them in an exchange that lasted several minutes.

It was only the second week the court has heard arguments since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Thomas’ friend and fellow conservative, whom he’d sat next to for seven years. Scalia was famous for aggressive and sometimes combative questions from the bench. His chair is now draped in black in observance of his Feb. 13 death.

Thomas’ gravelly voice unexpectedly filled the courtroom and enlivened an otherwise sleepy argument about gun rights. He peppered Justice Department lawyer Ilana Eisenstein, who was trying to wind up her argument, with 10 or so questions that seemed to be a vigorous defense of the constitutional right to own a gun.

“Ms. Eisenstein, one question,” Thomas said. “This is a misdemeanor violation. It sus-

pends a constitutional right. Can you give me another area where a misdemeanor violation suspends a constitutional right?”

Until then, it had been business as usual for the first 50 minutes of the hour-long session in Voisine v. United States. The court was considering the reach of a federal law that bans people convicted of domestic violence from owning guns.

None of the other justices visibly reacted to Thomas’ remarks.

Eisenstein noted that violating other laws can, in some cases, limit a person’s free-speech rights under the First Amendment.

“OK,” Thomas said. “So can you think of a First Amendment suspension or a suspension of a First Amendment right that is permanent?”

It was a topic no other justice had asked about. And his comments came after several of the other justices seemed to favor the government’s position that the law applies whether the abuse is intentional or reckless.

Thomas last asked a question in court on Feb. 22, 2006, and his unusual silence over the years has become a curiosity. Every other justice regularly poses questions from the bench.

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f we were all celebrities, I would probably be the washed-out, child star.

Something tells me I wouldn’t be alone, either. Many of us achieved small-scale, but early eminence before enrolling at Cornell. Never basis to preen about campus, accomplished pasts may actually encumber us with misguided aspirations toward grand-scale successes.

This time of year, our ambitious inclinations materialize in onerous searches for ready-to-commodify summer experiences.

Securing highly sought-after internships at venerated professional firms, policy centers and research labs, entails, in part, repeated rounds of interrogation. Interviewing is inherently one-sided, but it also informs us about ourselves. Curating an abridged compilation of experiential profundities compels a degree of introspection, and soul-searching can be an utterly stupefying task. It might even kindle distaste for the system altogether. A common discovery through this process is that our backgrounds are rather ordinary, and that’s not all bad. Ordinariness isn’t just tolerable, but also darkly humorous (see American Beauty, Sam Mendes). Humor of any kind inspires late night television personalities, so it’s no surprise that Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment accosting unsuspecting teenagers caught strolling along Hollywood Boulevard with a straightforward, but piercing inquiry, well-known to student interviewers: “What is your greatest accomplishment?” Among befuddlement and timid responses, hilarity ensued as one pubescent adolescent claimed to have caught all 649 Pokemon. Kudos there, but I reckoned I might discover more meaningful answers by redirecting Kimmel’s question to close friends here.

Walking among our ivied quads are diverse virtuosos: chess champions, recording artists, four-minute milers and startup CEOs. With so many years lying ahead — the statistics from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention suggest college graduates have an increased life expectancy of nine years — one must wonder if we peaked too early. Is it possible that our greatest accomplishments may have already occurred? Without a next big thing, do we lose sense of purpose? Both questions frighten my faded, child star self.

As I endeavor in the allure of fictitiously typecasting myself a child star, my appreciation for bona-fide whiz kids who are making headlines is genuine. Being in the news is cool — period. Having accomplished something newsworthy is often a source of personal fulfillment, plus it’s a cop-out answer to every priming for a fun fact about yourself (e.g. imagine if you were the youngest person to ascend Mt. Everest).

Fun facts seem infrequent, but tend to startle me once a month. Because I abhor fun facts, a dozen reliefs per year would be bliss. I met a former prodigy with this good fortune two summers past: a Scripps National Spelling Bee champion, in the flesh. Bee champions lack wall pin-up recognition, but I know he won because his stardom was the third factoid he shared about himself. Prompt admission of such rarefied achievement seems haughty in retrospect, but its immediate impact was sim-

ple, jaw-dropping awe. His presence affronted me with the fifth grade memory (read: shame) of misspelling lavender as if it shared a suffix with calendar. No embitterment — time healed my wounds — but I was intrigued. First, youthful accomplishment was deeply intertwined with his identity. Instead of depicting oneself as an avid snowboarder studying economics — like everyone else — his introduction had cachet. Co-workers embraced that and every few hours, would insist spell-checking services of his sage wisdom. I also empathized with the unlikelihood that he would ever precede his age thirteen feat.

Pondering whether a winner-takes-all society could drive us to peak too early, I felt oddly thankful to be an improficient speller. Success begets success and many spelling bee champions enjoy fruitful, productive lives, but delayed gratification also protects us from riding on our own coattails. Too often we confuse recognition and accomplishment. Regardless of whether Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for best actor in a leading role for The Revenant, the public and critics alike would have recognized his career as an accomplished one.

Trophies collect dust and propagate a system that values ends ahead of means.

Returning to the greatest accomplishment inquiry, a tepid, “probably getting into Cornell,” was my friends’ parallel copout answer. Getting into Cornell pales in comparison to correctly spelling autochthonous (2004 Bee final word).

Attribution bias might be at play too. It’s unclear whether our acceptance was a result of hard work or luck, socioeconomic advantages and other arbitrary factors.

Simply put, gaining admission to an elite institution is a hollow accomplishment.

Colleges must be aware of this too. To glorify the random event, notification comes in writing: a big, fat red envelope designed to complement the decaying trophy shrine in your childhood bedroom. The fundamental problem is attempting to turn an intangible accomplishment into a tangible one. Intangible accomplishments that expand your moral character and intellectual boundaries can be equally fulfilling to those lionized by trophies, money and fame. It is okay to admit that your greatest accomplishment is something that only you appreciate, like talking to your mom everyday or being the tallest sixth grader in your school. There’s silliness to it too, and who cares.

Our faded, child stars are not out of luck either. Now more than ever is a time for a comeback. My first suggestion would be Netflix. They’re reprising Full House, Adam Sandler and Pee-Wee Herman. If that doesn’t work, you could follow Donald Trump’s suit and run for president.

Before doing either, contemplate whether one-upping yourself is a worthwhile undertaking. A long list of accolades may lead to no greater happiness than surrounding yourself with friends and Pokemon cards.

David Tauber is a senior in the College of Industrial & Labor Relations. He can be reached at dat229@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

CORRECTION A March 2 news story, “Student Groups Call for Release of Imprisoned Qatari Poet in Letter,” incorrectly spelled Ana Jimenez’s ’18 name and incorrectly identified her as the president of COLA.

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Katy Habr | On the Margin

Intro to the World I

walked up the stairs to the sixth floor of Balch carrying a box of my belongings. A shy and anxious freshman on move-in day, I was eagerly awaiting my first human contact at Cornell. I met my first hallmate once I reached my floor and we exchanged nervous smiles and greetings. “Where are you from?” I asked.

“California,” she replied, “what about you?”

“I just moved from Kuwait,” I answered.

“Oh...” she laughed dismissively, “I don’t know what that is.” I was shocked. Gob Bluth’s voice echoed in my head: “I’ve made a huge mistake.” I began to wonder if I had misjudged Cornell. After all, what use is a degree, a great GPA or a perfect test score if it does not bring with it knowledge of the world in which we live?

In a world so connected, structuring educational curriculums around providing international perspectives and promoting multiculturalism is crucial. Students must learn about the world beyond a useless one-week trip to an African country to build a house or a semester abroad in Paris or London. Classes need to engage with international issues and address how the state of the world affects the subjects we learn about in our U.S.-centric studies. It is our responsibility to become more internationally-aware global citizens, not just to gain a competitive advantage in the job market, but also to be able to interact respectfully with those around us and make more informed decisions.

Learning to understand others is the essence of being human and imperative to humanizing others in the world.

Due to increasing economic competition, college has become just as much of a job factory as a place of higher learning. Instead of focusing on broadening perspectives and learning about different cultures, college is seen as an opportunity just to advance prospects in the work market.

Learning about different cultures is now just another hurdle to jump through: languages are learned to pad resumes and classes about different countries and cultures are taken begrudgingly to fulfill a single “cultural requirement” that encapsulates the whole non-Western world. Students learn languages largely without regard for the people who speak them and without respect for the cultures they represent.

Students learn to conjugate verbs and craft sentences yet they do not humanize what they learn and connect language to the larger heart of a population. They learn Arabic, only to join the military and help fuel Western imperialism; they learn Spanish to gain a skill for their resume or to capture Latinos as customers, yet disregard the experiences of Hispanics and Latinos in America and look down upon those that speak English with an accent.

More internationally focused classes are often seen as burdensome requirements. The Industrial and Labor Relations curriculum, for example, requires one class that fulfills a “cultural perspectives” requirement: three or four credits out of 120 to learn about a country that is not America. It is fine that classes are U.S.-centric; after all, the United States is where most students will live after graduation. However, there does seem to be a disparity in the weight given to learning about different areas of the world. American high school curriculums focus only on the United States, failing to provide students with adequate knowledge of other countries around the world. It is no surprise that United States college students are so U.S.-centric — that is all they know how to be. The system reinforces itself, as ignorance breeds indifference and stifles students’ curiosity to learn about the larger world.

Living in the United States, it is easy to dismiss things happening in other countries or to feel like we do not need to learn about the world because we are the center of it. This attitude is evident in the nonchalant mistakes we make. Even professors lecturing about their subjects of specialty are dismissive of geography, providing misinformation or finding humor in not knowing where particular countries are. Not knowing what the modern day equivalent of Rhodesia is or mischaracterizing Christian Assyrians as Muslim may not seem like great offenses, but they are a symptom of the disregard for and othering of diverse people from around the world.

Misinformation and ignorance matter because they spawn dehumanization. Not caring enough to correctly identify the religion of the demographic one is teaching about shows a lack of respect for that group of people. These are small symptoms of underlying issues that manifest themselves in large problems such as large-scale violence and imperialism: all fueled by ignorance and lack of respect.

Students need to embrace the insight being an international citizen can bring. In learning about the world, we access new ways of living and new perspectives that reframe and challenge the ways in which we perceive the world, as well as the notions we take for granted as being normal and true. We are challenged to think more critically and engage with issues more deeply, and along the way we learn respect and understanding. Curriculums (starting before college) should focus more on integrating knowledge of a subject with its global implications and stimulating students to think more broadly and learn more about the world.

Katy Habr is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.

Comments may be sent to kh547@cornell.edu. On the Margin runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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n a time where “political correct- they and I, did not grow up with phrases used towards people who ness” is constantly debated, it’s pictures of J-Lo on our walls and critique something they find inapinteresting to see how that how they hated reggaeton. propriate or uncomfortable is “why affects dynamics within marginal- Apparently we were different from can’t you take a joke?” People fail to ized communities. There are all the majority of Latinx people realize that these “jokes” are indicatypes of actions and rhetoric that because we enjoyed reading classical tive of bigger issues. Having a percreate an “us and them” vibe literature and liked listening to son of color say that another person between people with the same alternative music. I was really of color is taking something too identities. They try to distance uncomfortable as they said this seriously is feeding into the same themselves from a subset of the because it wasn’t just discounting disparity that harms them, which is same community sometimes those who shared our identity, but why it always confuses me to witbecause they are afraid of how they they was also assuming a lot about ness those types of incidents. Like the previous example, they are will be viewed by others. A com- me that he didn’t know.

To them, it seemed like we were going against those in their own mon example is how some women distance themselves from labeling better than other Latinx people community while simultaneously themselves as feminists. The word because we were more intellectual acting in a way that instills certain often has a negative connotation and “cultured” than the stereotypi- standards for people of color. because feminists are just seen as cal Latinx person. They somehow Distancing yourself from those annoying, angry women who can- managed to otherize our own com- who are “too politically correct” not let anything go. This makes it munity by making that distinction does not make you any better than hard for people to identify with the and making it seem like we were us or make you any less affected by term because they are afraid of the better for straying away from racism. If a fellow person of color aspects of our culture. This isn’t an finds something wrong and choosassociation.

There is a similar situation in okay mentality to have because it es to voice that, it is probably for many other communities, including communities of color, as we try Having a person of color say that another to distance our- person of color is taking something too selves from stereotypes or any kind seriously is feeding into the same disparity that of negative view harms them, which is why it always confuses by society.

Whenever I wit- me to witness those types of incidents. ness something like this, I’m just left feeling confused and not really sure how to divides our own community by try- the best to fully consider what respond. I feel a different kind of ing to make it seem like we’re differ- they’re saying before completely pain than when a white person ent. I mean, I’m an English major denouncing them.

Ultimately, it’s really hard for me shares their opinion on a lifestyle or and I actually hate classic literature political engagement of people of but I love reggaeton, so does that to be critical of other people of color. I expect that, but I don’t ever change their view of me? Do I sud- color, even when we disagree. I really expect the critique and tone denly become one of those Latinas? know that I want to provide suppolicing from other people of color. Some pride themselves on how dif- port and educate them more than I It causes harm within our commu- ferent they are from a good portion want to be angry about whatever nities as well as allows those with of their community without realiz- they said or did. Like I said before, ing it’s another way to separate and it’s not the same as if a white person privilege to remain superior.”

These sentiments are not always pit us against each other. One type does it because these are people due to politics, but are strongly is regarded more highly than the from either my own Latinx comrelated. Recently, I was talking to a other in society because one meets munity or the greater community family member about the Latinx the standards for “good” person of of people of color. Arguing and discommunity at Cornell and some of color that the United States has cre- tancing ourselves from each other is the difficulty we sometimes have ated. Speaking in that fashion just just another example of how syswhen communicating. They com- adds to the idea that we are only tems can manipulate us into trying pletely misunderstood what I was accepted by others if we act a par- to act a certain way. saying and went on to describe how ticular way.

A similar concern for many peo- Sarah Zumba is a sophomore in the College it is sometimes difficult to relate to other Latinx people because “we’re ple of marginalized identities is that of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at not like them.” My relative they are being “too politically cor- sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out explained that by saying we, as in rect.” One of the most common appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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so great in number or complexity overall, but the relative simplicity of say, a single green, patterned couch, was made deeper with small details, an enchanting chorus and clever plays with lighting, designed by Erik Herskowitz ‘16. One Semele by George Frideric Handel is the tale of the affair of my favorite scenes was when Semele sat enchanted by the between a mortal girl named Semele (Laura McCauley) and television with the chorus surrounding her, the light of the the immortal Jupiter (Joseph Michalczyk-Lupa), and what screen brightly illuminating her face in results when Jupiter’s vengeful wife Juno (Hector Gonzales slightly different tones and leaving shadSmith), the goddess of marriage, finds out about it. Based ows stretching behind the cast. on one of the origin tales of the Greek/Roman gods and The set and costume played an goddesses, the story itself is naturally wrought with drama, important role in how the story itself passion and tragedy. I honestly had no idea of what to was portrayed. With a stark, clean light expect from Semele, as I have never seen an opera before. wooden box as the main component in Would I be seeing a fantastically mawkish tale? A complete which our characters play in, there is an train wreck of emotions as the three lead characters, fantas- inevitable sort of modern twist to the tically selfish and vain, tromp around the stage? Or just clas- story. It’s in the details, the work of sical white togas and dry lines? scenic designer Daniel Zimmerman and Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts’ production costume designer Greg Robbins — Iris’s of Semele — directed by Ithaca College graduate and pro- bright red, shiny lace-up platform boots, fessor R.B. Schlather — caught me off-guard in a lot ways, the yellow button-down shirt of Semele’s and I was all the more bespectacled father glad for it. Vivid, and Juno’s headbright and in constant phones, cigarettes motion, the show was and magazines. modern, amazingly All of these vibrant and colorful — bring quirks to old classical characters rich in colors, but and make for vibrant people that we tasteful and cohesive in can better understand, more so than its palette. Our eyes an entire cast dressed in white sheets. feasted on pale blue The actors did an excellent job of bodies, silver headbreathing life into these additions with dresses and purple playful, dynamic expressions, comicaldisco lights. On the ly histrionic movements and a flair of stage we saw flower bright, humorous drama. There was wreaths here and there dancing, there was finger-snapping and showers of green, and there was some very impressive COURTESY OF SHERYL SINKOW green dollars. In some singing. ways, the props for the Love Perseveres A forbidden romance blooms between Jupiter (Joseph Even between the prancing on stage were perhaps not Michalczyk-Lupa) and Semele (Laura McCauley). stage, all the players filled the room

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with a full, steady sound that was bolstered by a lovely live orchestral performance overseen by musical director Blaise Bryski. The acoustics of the theatre did end up making solos hard to understand at times, but the play’s lines running across the top of the stage made that inconsequential in the end. The combination of a contemporary set and lively acting created a new Semele, one that is far more humorous and light-hearted than one might have expected from such an old classic.

From Juno’s crazy sobbing on her wooden throne to Semele’s coy expressions of manipulation, the production was utterly charming with its contemporary elements and eye for detail. The opening night was filled COURTESY OF SHERYL SINKOW with laughter and cheers. With its subconscious ability to draw the audience in, I found myself consciously reminding myself to close my mouth and stop gawking. If you asked, I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint what drew me or the rest of the audience in so quickly — it was simply engaging, shocking and beautiful in its use of color, and fun to watch. It’s a show full of whimsy and delight, and it has definitely hooked me into opera and the rest of Ithaca College’s 2015-2016 season.

Semele will be performed two more times on Thursday and Saturday in the Hoerner Theatre in the Dillingham Center at Ithaca College.

Catherine Hwang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at shwang@cornellsun.com.

Listen to My Friend Evan

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have a friend named Evan whose rapper name is Dough Boi and he makes music and you should check it out on SoundCloud.

I realize how unappealing that sounds. My reaction to people on social media or YouTube hawking their “fire mixtapes” and begging “please just give me a chance” always inspires a mix of disdain and embarrassment in me. The only music I ever listen to is either critically lauded or at least signed to a record

Jack Jones Despite all the Amputations label. Evan is the only exception.

Maybe the reason I like Evan’s music really is just the extra emotional heft of knowing an artist personally. I like music that at least appears to be confessional, but in the end I run up against the fact that I really don’t know in the end how authentic or honest Bob Dylan or Kanye are being. I know much better how authentic Evan is being, which is pretty goddamn authentic. Evan makes brave, honest music. He doesn’t lie, exaggerate or self-aggrandize. His pain is real, his insights are real and his release is real and is realized through his music.

This is, to my knowledge, the first piece of music criticism on the work of the rapper Dough Boi. In the pursuit of transparency, I reiterate that Evan/Dough Boi is my friend. I’m going to call him Evan for the rest of this article because Dough Boi is a silly name that he will hopefully either outgrow or recast by becoming so influential and ubiquitous that his silly name will come to signify something else altogether, like what happened to the Beatles.

Evan has completed three projects since he came to Cornell.

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The first was released this last summer was titled The Best Mixtape in 5Evar and was credited to the “Street Scholars,” a duo made up of Evan and D.J. Bailey Smooth, the latter being my freshman year roommate. This mixtape is pretty bad, as Evan now admits. On the other hand, “Shelbywhatever” is pretty, “Yo Breath” is pretty funny and “The Friend” is pretty sad.

“My Body is a Thing You Should Touch” features a godly beat created by Bailey out of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body.” Let’s move on.

Evan released a full-length album called Bad Beginning on Oct. 24. He wrote all the lyrics, crafted all the beats and basically did everything except sample Bailey playing acoustic guitar on “Alarms.” Bad Beginning is a concept album about Evan’s freshman year and is, as you might infer from the title, a pretty rough trip. It’s one of the most monomaniacally focused breakup albums I’ve ever heard.

There are moments of joy and beauty — the opening promise of “We Can Be Anything,” a layered a cappella cover of Bill Withers’s “Lean on Me” — but for the most part, the record fluctuates between bleary depression and white-knuckled determination to persevere. It’s a despondent, exhausting and cathartic work. “C2H60” is an incredible song about the void of partying that is even more explicit in its criticism than Kendrick’s often-misconstrued “Swimming Pools (Drank).” “Guardian” is a beautiful ode to Evan’s friends and family. Bad Beginning ends with its strongest two moments: “Last Letter,” a moment of closure with the girl who inspired the album, and “Until,” a showcase of Evan’s expert word-spitting so potent that you should actually just listen to it.

I was very impressed by Bad Beginning. Nonetheless, I rarely want to listen to it, because it’s so unrelentingly troubling, particularly for a close friend of Evan’s. That’s why I am thrilled

with the direction that Evan has taken his music. His most recent project, released a few weeks ago, is Don’t Worry, a 15minute E.P. (Evan: “Don’t call it a mixtape. I realized that when people say they made a mixtape nobody ever wants to listen to that.”) Don’t Worry is quite simply one of my favorite things to listen to at the moment. It’s soothing, comforting, playful, amusing, exuberant; essentially, everything that Bad Beginning was not. While Bad Beginning consisted of a variety of sounds generally built around synthesizer and keyboard effects, Don’t Worry has a more natural feel, with most of the songs featuring Evan’s mandolin. It only consists of four songs. Any student struggling under crippling amounts of work can relate to the opening track, “Make It Better.” “Sorry II” contains the wonderful lyric: “I am not coldblooded, you’re a squad of chameleons/And I’m sorry for mistaking you for wanting to be my friends. My dad described it via text as “v strong” and a “song of hisself.” Then the tape really hits its stride, with Evan’s best two songs ever. The first is the titular “Don’t Worry,” a beautiful and dynamic instrumental track featuring mandolin and recorder.

The tape ends with “January,” COURTESY OF EVAN CZAKO which takes the ubiquitous shout-out track to stratospheric heights of joy and gratitude.

Evan raps, “Shouts out to my ex, I probably didn’t deserve ya / Sorry ’bout the tape, I ain’t taking it any further,” a line so mature and tasteful after the bitter depths of Bad Beginning that I smile every time I hear it.

I’m proud of Evan. I think he makes wonderful music.

Check it out at: https://soundcloud.com/dough-boi-3.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com. Despite all the Amputations runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Smartphones

privacy

Apple Should Not Follow FBI Request To Unlock iPhone, Says Prof

By SARAH CROWE

according to Wicker.

“Even if the In a time when the boundaries of privacy are becoming software is locked unclear in technology, the verdicts from the ongoing battle to a particular between Apple and the FBI over a terrorist’s locked iPhone phone, Apple and will change the field of encryption. A key player in this most computer field is Prof. Stephen Wicker, electrical and computer scientists can’t be engineering, who has spoken to Congress and the White sure that the softHouse about privacy in today’s world. In this fight, he ware will stay believes that Apple is correct. locked to that On Dec. 5, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik p a r t i c u l a r shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, phone,” Wicker before being killed themselves in the ensuing shootout said. “They can’t with law enforcement. The FBI is now in possession of be sure that the one of the shooter’s iPhones and believes unlocking it FBI won’t miscould offer valuable information about the case. place it, it won’t When a certain security preference is set and a wrong be misused… passcode is entered 10 times in a row, all of the data on the and let’s not forphone is erased. The FBI is looking to Apple for to over- get that the govBRYAN R. SMITH / THE NEW YORK TIMES come this challenge and gain access to the phone’s data. ernment itself has “What the FBI is asking Apple to do is to create an been hacked.”

Hold the phone | Encrypted smartphones held as evidence by the New York City Police Department operating system that can be used on a particular iPhone On Feb. 16, a was displayed at a news conference in February. that will bypass that iPhone’s security features,” Wicker California court said. ruled that Apple must comply with the FBI’s request. The said he understands that the agency needs to access every Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to do so on the grounds ruling cited the All Writs Act, which according to Wicker piece of evidence that it can, as long as they respect the that the privacy of all iPhone users would be threatened, is a two-sentence statute that dates back to the Judiciary lines of privacy that are drawn by the law. according to an Apple cus“I think prosecutors are wonderful people,” Wicker Act of 1789. He is not contomer letter. Wicker believes vinced that the statute justifies said. “They do a phenomenal job. We have a great justice that this refusal is an imporsystem, in part because we have prosecutors who work the court’s decision.

“I don’t think there’s a tant moral stance that will “If you read the actual really hard.” protect the rights of smart- general understanding of Wicker also understands why some people might feel words [of the statute], they’re phone users. extraordinarily vague,” Wicker as though the FBI is justified, especially if breaking into “Smartphones are the what’s been asked for.” said. “And in a case in the late the phone could help prevent future attacks. He is not personal papers of the 21st 1800s, a court said that the convinced, however, that the public grasps the magnitude Prof. Stephen Wicker century, and cryptography collection of personal papers is of what is being asked of Apple. the primary means of keep“I don’t think there’s a general understanding of what’s essentially equivalent to forcing our data to ourselves,” Wicker said in a University ing an individual to incriminate themselves. No one been asked for, of the nature of cryptography, of the nature press release. would have thought that the All Writs Act could have of the operating system and how operating systems can be If an operating system that can bypass iPhone security been used to force someone to reveal their private papers.” easily replicated and distributed,” Wicker said. features is created and released to the FBI, the security of Despite his disagreement with this court ruling and all iPhones is weakened and dangerous possibilities arise, with the FBI, Wicker has great respect for prosecutors. He Sarah Crowe can be reached at soc22@cornell.edu.

Sun Staff Writer

A ‘Hole’ New World: Improving Efficiency of Water Splitting

By SIDDESH RAMESH Sun Staff Writer

Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms is a simple reaction that holds important implications towards energy and fuel needs. Photovoltaics — the process that converts solar energy into electricity — offers a feasible way to use light energy to split water.

Prof. Peng Chen, chemistry, and his team aimed to optimize this process by studying the surface of nanorods of semiconductor titanium dioxide with respect to levels of photocatalytic reactivity. Their research indicates that the variations in the structure of the surface of the nanorods lead to variable water-splitting activity.

Titanium dioxide nanorods can be used as photoanodes in a photochemical cell. Water is oxidized into oxygen on the surface of these rod-shaped crystals, according to Chen. The electrons extracted from water during oxidation is passed through an external circuit to generate a current.

Light can excite electrons in titanium dioxides, causing the electrons to jump to a higher energy state. This results in the formation of “holes” — empty states that acts like a positive charge since it is missing the usual electron — that tend to migrate to the surface of the nanorod and then

react with water. Chen’s team worked to precursors of OEC, generating and increase the amount of holes and increase depositing OEC on the surface of titanithe overall efficiency of this process, um dioxide,” Chen said.

With the use of single molecule fluobelieving that applying a co-catalyst called cobalt-borate — a type of oxygen evolu- rescence microscopy, Chen and his team used specific probes to detect where the tion catalyst — could prove pivotal.

Chen and his team observed that the “hole”-induced reactions occurs on the surface of the nanoscale crystal of titanium titanium dioxide, identifying which sites dioxide has many different types of sites are more or less active.

“The probe reacts with the hole or caused by the inherent characteristics of other hole-induced surface-oxidizing the nanoscale structure used. species and “There are generate a always struc“The probe reacts with the hole or will fluorescent tural defects other hole-induced surface-oxidiz- m o l e c u l e , ” and because of Chen said. the shape, difing species and will generate a Sites with ferent facets more holemay be fluorescent molecule.” induced reacexposed,” Prof. Peng Chen tions will Chen said. exhibit more This begged the question of where to place oxygen evo- fluorescence. Additionally, the amount of lution catalysts to yield the greatest current generated from the hole-induced improvement in efficiency, since certain reactions — which is proportional to the sites are probably more efficient than oth- number of electrons taken from water ers. The team investigated this by using a during oxidation — can be used as a meaprocess called photoelectric deposition to sure of efficiency.

Chen and his team found that the areas precisely apply cobalt-borate at different that were already active did not yield a sites on the crystal.

“A potential is applied to titanium great improvement when the catalyst was dioxide, and a laser is focused at a particu- placed there. However, there was a big lar location, exciting electrons and creat- improvement in efficiency when placed in ing charged carriers that react with the the less active regions on the nanorods.

“If one wanted to have the most amount of improvement [in efficiency of oxidizing water], you would want to put the catalyst in the low active regions,” Chen said.

In terms of meeting energy and fuel needs, the current generated from the water-splitting activity can be used directly to power electronic devices. That current can also be delivered to a cathode and reduce protons to hydrogens, which can be used for fuel.

In the future, Chen hopes to further elucidate the mechanism behind the interaction between cobalt-borate and the activity of the holes on the surface of titanium dioxide. Testing and improving the efficiency of other semiconductors and oxygen evolution catalysts are also research questions that could be addressed later on.

Chen’s research on optimizing the semiconductor titanium dioxide by identifying specific regions for placement of oxygen evolution catalysts to yield the highest amount of water-splitting activity establishes important fundamental knowledge that can be used to engineer more effective photoanodes and improve current photovoltaic cells.

Siddesh Ramesh can be reached at sr746@cornell.edu.

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SPORTS

Red Places Fifth in Ivy League Swimming Championship This weekend, the Cornell men’s swim team traveled to Providence, Rhode Island for the Ivy League Swimming Championships. In what would be Cornell’s best finish since 2009 in the three-day event, sophomore Alex Evdokimov came in first in the A-final for both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events.

In just two short years with the Red, Evdokimov has emerged as one of the powerhouses for Cornell. Not only did he sweep the breaststroke events this year, but he also did so at last year’s Ivy Championships, earning himself the MVP title for the Red along with junior Dylan Sali. Last year, he was the first Cornellian to win multiple events since 2007.

Other notable performances came from seniors Victor Luo and Carl St. John, as well as sophomore Will Stange. Luo had a top-10 finish in the 200 breaststroke, St. John came in 10th for the 200 fly and Stange finished in third in the 200 back.

Overall, the team came in fifth out of eight, coming in ahead of Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth. While Harvard came out on top with almost 500 points on the Red, the Cornell squad was still able to place one spot higher than last year’s sixth place overall finish.

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A good run | Senior Alex Evdokimov dominated the end of his final season with first place finishes both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events.

Portland Did Not Fall Victim to Same Fate as Philly SHATZMAN

Continued from page 15

Western Conference, two and a half games in front of the Rockets, who Sports Illustrated ranked sixth in the same rankings. How can this be? Portland’s offseason acquisitions were guys like Al-Farouq Aminu and Mason Plumlee — not big-name, high-price free agents. In fact, Portland is currently last in the league in team payroll, paying just $53 million, compared to Houston’s $86 million, and Cleveland’s $107 million. It isn’t as though the Blazers’ went out and spent a ton of money to replace Aldridge and the other three starters. So, then, how are the Blazers’ this good?

Portland’s success can be attributed to a number of factors. First, Damian Lillard is criminally underrated, and his team’s performance this season confirms this long-held notion. Lillard’s greatness was somewhat overshadowed by Aldridge the past three seasons. This season, Lillard is the clear go-to guy. He’s averaging 25 points, seven assists and four boards per game on a winning team. But he doesn’t win games by himself.

Portland’s success is also due in part to the emergence of CJ McCollum, who the Blazers drafted 10th overall out of Lehigh in 2013. McCollum is scoring more than 20 points a night, and is proving to be as consistent a knockdown-shooting two-guard as there is in the league.

When Lillard missed a couple of games in December, McCollum led the Blazers in his absence, posting a 3511-9 line in a win over Sacramento. McCollum was buried behind Wesley Matthews and Arron Afflalo on the depth chart in his first two professional seasons.

But the Blazers’ developed their 2013 lottery selection, and while basketball fans wrote Portland off, the Blazers’ knew they were about to unleash a stud guard who would have a prime opportunity to breakout in the

Association. McCollum and Lillard — 24 and 25-yearsold, respectively — are and should continue to be as dynamic a backcourt as any in seasons to come. Blazers’ GM Neil Olshey went in-house to improve the Blazers, handing guys like McCollum, Meyers Leonard and Allen Crabbe significant roles, to which they have responded with effective play. But Olshey was also frugal in acquiring productive on-court value while spending less than all other teams. I mentioned that Portland traded for Mason Plumlee and signed Al-Farouq Aminu, both of whom have been reliable starters for the Trail Blazers.

Now the Sixers must attempt to do what the Thunder did: capitalize on top lottery picks over a string of drafts.

Olshey also signed an athletic big-man in Ed Davis, and traded for Gerald Henderson, Noah Vonleh and Maurice Harkless, all of whom have contributed to Portland’s success, whether in a bench role or with the starting unit. When a scoring duo like Lillard and McCollum is surrounded with defensive-minded wing players who can shoot, and big-men who can both rebound and other big-men who can spread the floor, the result will be potent, consistent offensive production. Through inhouse development, savvy personnel decisions, and the dependency of Damian Lillard, the Blazers have earned their spot in the Western Conference standings. Their success is no fluke.

Portland’s extraordinary rebuild isn’t something that can be copied to perfection. The front office, coaching,

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and player personnel must work in harmony for this to be successful. The Rockets, although not facing a rebuilding situation, flubbed big-time in trading for Ty Lawson, who is earning an elite-level salary to sit on the bench for a team fighting to make the playoffs. The Rockets also fired their coach midseason, in part because their star players are divas. So when a team lacks the unity of management, coaches and players, a situation like the one in Houston — from Western Conference Finals to eighth seed despite essentially the same team — can occur. In the NBA, big-name players don’t always equate to wins, as is the case in Houston, as well as Sacramento.

In Philadelphia’s case, though, a Portland-like rebuild is obviously out of the question. They have no Damian Lillard to surround with production. The Sixers traded their only possible Lillards — Jrue Holiday and Nikola Vucevic — in order to begin the “process” a few seasons ago. Now the Sixers must attempt to do what the Thunder did: capitalize on top lottery picks over a string of drafts, ultimately forming a Kevin Durant Russell Westbrook-like foundation to build upon. The problem is that the Sixers’ seemingly lack direction, as they have stockpiled big-men with no clear plan for how they will be utilized. The lottery format of the NBA draft — that is, that the worst team is not guaranteed the first overall pick — is also a negative in relying on the draft to rebuild. As other teams improve in far more expedient ways than Philadelphia, Sixers’ fans can only continue to trust the process, in hopes that it eventually works out.

And maybe it will. But how long down the road?

A previous version of this column was published on March 1.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com. Calling the Shatz appears every week this semester.

Women Avoid Last Place With Victory SQUASH

Continued from page 16

CRAIG LITTEN / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Pitcher Zach Wheeler attends the first day of spring training for the New York Mets, in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

last. For the rest of the team, the off-season now means training for the next season. It means

“It was a very tough match for her because she lost “[Scherman] used every to her opponent last time, so there ounce of energy in her body was a precedent and managed to win before she stepped on the match.” court,” Garceau Sophomore Michele Garceau said. “But she didn’t let that get to her and she played super well and preparing to ultimately used every ounce of ener- play their best at the next gy in her body and man- Nationals tournament. aged to win the match.”

Dietz wishes his team Jessica Brofsky can be the best of luck in their reached at next season as this was his jbrofsky@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Women’s Hockey Season Over After First Round Icers fail to to reach ECAC Championship game for first time since 2008-09 season

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

A winding season’s journey is in the books for Cornell women’s hockey. The Red (13-14-4, 9-9-4 ECAC) lost the first two games of the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals to Clarkson (28-3-5, 14-3-5 ECAC). On Friday, the Knights won, 2-0, and on Saturday, 5-2. This year is the first since the 2008-09 season that Cornell is not represented in the ECAC Championship game.

Facing a formidable foe on Friday, Cornell got off to a strong start, outshooting Clarkson in the first period.

“I thought we did start strong, actually,” said Cornell head coach Doug

Derraugh ’91. “I thought we came ready to play.”

According to senior assistant captain and forward Taylor Woods, the low-scoring game that evolved over the course of play meant scoring the first goal was going to be important.

“Who’s going to get that first goal? And the momentum goes that way,” she said.

Unfortunately for Cornell, it was Clarkson that struck first. The Red kept it a one-goal game until allowing an empty net tally with 24 seconds left in regulation.

“Our goalie [junior Paula Voorheis] played phenomenal in both games,” Woods said. “She made some critical saves ... when we had lapses in our defense.”

“Paula played outstandingly,” con-

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Not enough | Despite a solid performance from junior goalie Paula Voorheis, Cornell failed to advance.

curred senior captain and defender Cassandra Poudrier.

According to Derraugh, the 2-0 final score meant the Red did a good job keeping Clarkson off the board on Friday but failed to generate offense themselves.

“Clarkson’s a real strong team, solid defensively,” Derraugh said. “We struggled to get some great opportunities. Overall, we were pretty solid defensively. We just couldn’t [score].”

Down 1-0 in the series, the Red were playing a must-win game on Saturday.

Cornell understood the imperative of getting off to a good start.

“Our goal for the second game was to get the first goal,” Poudrier said.

Senior forward Jess Brown capitalized on an extra attacker opportunity midway through the first to give the Red the game’s first lead, and freshman forward Christian Higham made it 2-0 only three minutes later.

“It’s better to protect the lead than come back from one,” Woods said. “We had a lot of power play time.”

Derraugh said had the Red been able to go into the first intermission up by two; it would have accented their first period statement. However, the Knights trimmed Cornell’s lead to a single goal in the closing minutes of the first. Five minutes into the second, a second Clarkson goal had the game all tied up. With most of the game still to play, Woods and Poudrier still believed in Cornell’s chances.

“You could feel ... it could go either

The Irrationality of Fandom DENSON

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there, but we cling to, pray, cry, smile and jump in joy at the anticipation of a championship, and the subsequent dreary loss of our hope. With athletics I’ve learned, as poets have written, hope lies to mortals but man’s deceiver was never mine. This way, when I expect the worse I’m not let down. Maybe this is my nature as a depressed — yet pleasantly surprised — Mets fan. I believe it takes a certain type of understanding to accept irrationality, and almost — to understand it even.

The irrationality of fandom allows us to connect to something bigger than us — something that we can easily understand and share emotion with those around us. Think of it as a never-ending movie, but it is a drama, comedy,

horror and everything else. The offseason is intermission and preseason is the preview. All that you hoped for will happen to a team — and all that you’ve feared will also happen. As a subsection of

Even if you are a Raiders fan, you are equally as happy as a Patriots fan. society, a team allows us to channel our emotions. And as we all know, men are not nearly in touch with their emotions as are women. Perhaps this why statistically more men follow sports because deep down we need it as an emotional tool, while women are inherently smarter and don’t need the emotional crutch.

Let me drill this word into

your head. Catharsis. See, even if you are a Raiders fan, you are equally happy as a Patriots fan.

Same goes for Bobcat (now Hornets) fans and Celtics fans … and so on. Each and every franchise serves an emotional purpose, and it is this irrational hope that keeps us going. Even though I am a pessimistic fan, do not be like me. Do as I say, not as I do.

Because why would you not be a fan when all you need is hope, because really, even if you are a lowly 76ers fan, anything is possible. Take what you love and let it become you. Let it envelop your psyche, and make it your own.

That way, when you fail — and you will — you can look to your cathartic tool for redemption.

way,” Woods said, emphasizing the importance of momentum. “A person or even a play creates that for a team.”

Woods said the Red did not block as many shots as the team usually does.

Indeed, Clarkson fired in puck after puck on net, getting 52 total shots on goal to Cornell’s 15. With six minutes left in regulation and the game still tied at 2-2, the Knights finally found the back of the net.

A second goal a few minutes later made it 4-2, and an empty net formality closed the books on Cornell’s season.

“We’re disappointed,” Derraugh said.

“At the start of the year, our goal was to get to the ECAC Championship.”

As seniors, Saturday was Woods’ and Poudrier’s last game in Carnelian and White. Poudrier pointed to the strength of team chemistry and character of her fourth and final Cornell team.

“We never backed down,” Poudrier said. “We had a lot of ups. We kept moving forward.”

Woods reflected on the season and her career, saying that while this Cornell team did not go as far into the playoffs as it would have liked, over the course of the season, they achieved positive influence on others, raised money for charity and achieved personal growth.

“We’ve accomplished so much,” she said. “I’ve really enjoyed my time at Cornell and I know I’m going to miss it.”

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

How the Trailblazers Avoided 76ers’Mistakes “T rust the process.”

It’s the mantra that 76ers’ fans preach to one another when their team’s 15-point halftime deficit balloons to 25 five minutes into the third quarter. It’s what my friends, now semi-mockingly, tell me after a Nik Stauskas air-ball, or a Nerlens Noel missed dunk or when footage of Joel Embiid draining threepointers surfaces online:

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Ben Denson is a senior sports columnist. He can be contacted at bdenson@cornell.edu. The B.D. Report appears every week this semester.

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Despite an outstanding performance from Campbell and her teammates, the Tigers took the win, 94-57.

Campbell had a career high of 22 points while also tallying three steals, two rebounds, one block and one assist.

The difference maker in this game was shooting. The Tigers shot .673 from the floor and .444 from beyond the arc, forcing Cornell to choose

“Maddie’s senior night game did not turn out the way we wanted to but we are thrilled for how she showcased “We are thrilled for how her talents for the last [Campbell] showcased time at her talents for the last Newman,” time in Newman.”

Aston said.

“It was an Junior Nicholle Aston emotional night for sure but one effort from the entire I am sure none of us will home team, Princeton forget.” kept up the pace and “It was a really uptook home the win. and-down weekend,” the lesser of two evils in stretching their defense out or packing it in.

Despite a 40-minute

Campbell said. “Beating Penn was probably the highlight of the season.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t repeat the effort the next night. … But it was still an incredible senior night having so much support from family and friends. My teammates couldn’t be better, and I will definitely miss playing in Bartels with this group of girls.”

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky @cornellsun.com.

Draft picks are crucial.

Teams tank to get the elite prospects. I get it. But there are other ways to rebuild a team, too. Heading into this season, the Portland Trail Blazers epitomized “rebuilding.” All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge left for the Spurs in free agency. Wes Matthews went to the Mavericks.

Robin Lopez for the Knicks.

Nicholas Batum was traded to Charlotte. Portland lost

good or bad, it’s part of the process.

But what exactly is the process? In 2014, the Sixers went 19-63. Today they are 8-51. And I don’t mean to suggest that the Sixers’ young core lacks potential, or that Joel Embiid’s injuries haven’t delayed the process significantly, or that the upcoming draft is irrelevant, but I think most fans would agree that the process rhetoric that began as declarative is now far more interrogative: “Trust the process!” is now “trust the process…?”

four of its five starters from what many believed was a championship-contending team. Despite acquiring some solid replacements in the offseason, Portland’s 2015-16 campaigns was declared over before it started. The Blazers were ranked 28th in Sports Illustrated preseason power rankings, ahead of only the Sixers and Timberwolves, and behind the Nets, Knicks and Lakers.

Today, the Blazers are 32See SHATZMAN page 14

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SQUASH

Men Place Second in Nationals,Women Seventh

Washington University and then Drexel University. The Red won their first two matches and with a loss in their last In the world of collegiate squash, this game, the exact opposite of the women’s weekend was everything. Nationals is the team.

“Our expectations were to win a most important tournament of the year national title and we fell just short,” said for the players of the Red. The Cornell women’s squash team senior Graham Dietz. “It was a frustrat(10-9) played against Harvard on Friday, ing way to end our season.”

The season culmiYale on Saturday and nated in these matches, Columbia on Sunday.

After the Red lost their “Our expectations were to so the teams hoped to leave everything they first two matches, they win a national title and had on that court conquered Columbia to claim the seventh spot we fell just short. It was a before entering their off-seasons.

These in the Howe Cup. frustrating way to end.” matches had the most “We did better at weight and importance nationals than what we Senior Graham Dietz to them. were ranked at the end “These matches of the season,” said sophomore Michele Garceau. “We fin- meant everything for this season,” ished the season ranked eighth in the Garceau said. “Nationals is the final nation and we came in seventh at nation- tournament of the season where every als. Our team did better than expected team has the chance to prove themselves on paper, which is fantastic, but I knew and come out strong for one last push to we could do it if we all went out and see who really is the better team.”

For the men’s team, breaking their sixplayed our best and we did. We beat Columbia on the final day of nationals, match winning streak in a 5-4 loss and they were ranked one spot ahead of against Drexel was a letdown, but they still showed some great play. us.”

The men’s team, “played really well in On the other hand, the Cornell men’s squash team took second place at the close matches,” Dietz said. “[The] Nationals in the Hoehn Cup. The Red most exciting moment was getting our faced off against Middlebury, George revenge against GW. We pulled out a

By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

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Falling short | Senior Graham Dietz finished his Cornell squash career Sunday with the Red losing to Drexel in the final round of the Hoehn Cup.

tight win 5-4 to get ourselves in the finals.”

A lot of the game is mental, and Garceau attests to aspect in the context of this tournament.

“I think that the reason we beat Columbia to earn that seventh place finish was because on that day, we truly believed in ourselves,” Garceau said. “We truly believed that we could beat them,

and we did. We all came together and everyone played amazing squash.”

One of the most exciting moments Garceau watched in the tournament was when her teammate, junior Rachel Scherman, won her match at the No. 2 spot in the game against Columbia.

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Sports:Our Red Splits in Final Home Games Catharsis Maddie Campbell scores career-high 22 points in final home game “T WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

A previous version of this story was published on March 1.

The women’s basketball team had a weekend of

highs and lows as the team hosted Penn and Princeton for two very special nights.

On Friday, the Red welcomed the Quakers, who entered the contest second in the league. The Quakers had previously beat the Red, 65-50, in their last

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Going out with a bang | Although the Red lost, senior guard Maddie Campbell did not hold back in her final home game.

meeting in Philadelphia.

The Friday night game also held special significance for the Red. It was played under the Play4Kay banner, and all proceeds went to cancer research and awareness. Head coach Dayna Smith tried to instill in her players the feeling that this effort had greater ramifications.

“Before our game Friday, coach gave an inspirational talk about what the game means not only for cancer research but what it means to each of us individually,” said junior forward Nicholle Aston. “We each named a person we were playing the game for and it really helped us get motivated for the game.”

The motivation worked and Cornell raised hundreds of dollars for the foundation as well as delivering a loss to Penn.

Numerous Cornell players contributed to the final score of 51-46. Aston had an incredible sixteen points while junior forward Nia Marshall almost got a double double, tallying 13 points and nine rebounds.

Senior guard Maddie Campbell started her last home weekend with a bang, grabbing 10 rebounds and adding five points.

Smith said she was incredibly proud of the team effort.

“I’m just so happy and proud of the team. It was a gutsy performance,” Dayna said. “[Play 4Kay] means a lot to us … I think our defense really stirred our energy and got us focused on what we needed to do.”

Junior guard Megan LeDuc had high praise for the team’s overall effort.

“We really learned a lot from the first game,” LeDuc said. “We played together the entire time and never panicked when Penn got close. It was a great win all around and we were happy we could do it at our pink game and on senior weekend.”

The next day the team faced Princeton, the topranked team in the league who had beaten Cornell earlier in the month, 71-51.

This night, however, the Red had a greater cause to play for: Campbell was honored on her senior night and played for her last time in Newman Arena.

Despite an outstanding performance from Campbell and her team-

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he structure of sports inherently inspires situations of redemption,” said assistant sports editor Joon Lee ‘17 in his column earlier this semester. I could not have said it any better myself, Joon, but I’m going to try. I admire your

Ben Denson The B.D. Report appreciation of the cathartic nature of athletics — the primitive emotion of competition brings us in touch with our anxieties, desires, fears and, most importantly, aspirations.

Much like the athletes that play a given sport, we share their emotion on the field.

Let me bare my soul in this column — as I usually do. We find therapy in everyday activities, in the mundane to the extreme, but the lines are blurred with sports. Even the mundane athletics bring out the emotion in all of us. Herein lies the beauty of it all — that sports itself is the catharsis — the therapist, or the escape, if you will.

Fandom is an irrational concept itself. It is something that many have loved in vain, because, as pessimistic as this view might be, the individual needs the team more than the team needs the individual fan. Feel free to disagree with me, but attaching emotion to numbers is like hoping that the Cubs will win a World Series. Numerically it is unlikely, but still possible. There just is not much logic See DENSON page 15