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A Columbia professor spoke to Cornellians about the life and work of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55 yesterday.. | Page 3

Stephen Meisel ’18 says Boston band Pile’s new album, You’re Better Than This, is “good stuff indeed.” | Page 11

The men’s hockey team will pursue its 13th ECAC championship this weekend. | Page 16

Students: Review C.U.Worker Treatment in Qatar Members of Cornell Organization for Labor Action drop off letter for President Skorton

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

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Together we stand | Members of COLA dropped off a letter at Day Hall Thursday that called for an investigation into the treatment of workers at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.

More than a dozen members of the Cornell Organization for Labor Action gathered in Day Hall Thursday to drop off a letter for President David Skorton that called for an investigation into the treatment of workers at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.

Though Qatar is the rich“What we’d like to hear is that est country in the world per capita, only 13 percent of its [Skorton] is taking the issue seriously.” two million citizens are Michael Ferrer ’16 Qatari nationals, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The rest of the population is largely comprised of impoverished migrant workers from countries such as India, Nepal and Bangladesh. These workers — some of whom work without documentation — often live in “cramped unsanitary conditions,” the report says.

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Tan’17 Pleads Not Guilty to Murder Charge The Sun Interviews S.A.

By SOFIA HU

Tan was arrested on Feb. 9 and charged with fatally shooting his 49-year-old father, Ling Tan. During Tan’s arraignment, William Gargan, Monroe County assistant district attorney, said Tan went to Canada on Feb. 6 and returned on the day he was arrested, The Democrat and Chronicle reported.

Charles Tan, who is a Canadian citizen, must hand over his passport in order to be released on bail.

Deputies from Monroe County Sheriff’s Office visited the Tan residence late Feb. 5 but have declined to say why, TAN ’17

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Charles Tan ’17 pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder Thursday in the February shooting death of his father.

County Court Judge James Piampiano set his bail at $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond, according to The Democrat and Chronicle.

Piampiano also ordered Tan to continue his studies at Cornell during the indictment, The Democrat and Chronicle reported. James Nobles, Tan’s lawyer, said the decision whether to allow Tan to return to class would be up to the discretion of University officials.

CORRECTION A news story published in The Sun Wednesday provided an inaccurate representation of President David Skorton’s comments on the incoming Provost budget cuts.

The story, titled “Skorton Says Budget Cuts Needed for ‘Financial Flexibility,’” stated that Skorton believes the University’s response to the 2008 financial crisis will be “the best prediction of future behavior” in handling of the provost’s budget cuts. As printed in The Sun, this quote was misleading and implied Cornell would act in the same manner it had following the budget crisis.

In his interview with The Sun, President Skorton discussed how the University typically acts when facing a budget crisis — citing the 2008 crisis as an exam-

ple — rather than how decisions will be made under the Provost budget cuts. In fact, President Skorton said it is not known whether staff positions or certain resources would be affected, but stressed that faculty renewal and financial aid, among other areas, would be protected.

“But the overriding values are going to be protection of curricular and other student services, financial aid and faculty renewal and the general approach we have to employment here — good benefits, retirement benefits, health benefits — all of those things are very high priorities. But the high priority that I just mentioned are all priorities for every single college and support unit here,” Skorton said in Tuesday’s interview with The Sun.

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Presidential Candidates

By SUN STAFF

The Sun recently sat down with the three candidates vying for the position of Student Assembly president: Juliana Batista ’16, current executive vice president for the S.A.; Jeffrey Breuer ’16; and Matthew Stefanko ’16, current vice president for finance for the S.A. Sun Staff Writer Olivia

Lutwak ’18 spoke to the candidates about a variety of issues, from the recently-announced student health fee to issues of transparency at the University and the S.A.’s greater role on campus.

T HE S UN : What do you feel the Student Assembly’s role should be on campus? How do you plan See INTERVIEW page 4

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Opinion, “I Slept Outside One Night; They Do That Every Night,” Monday Speaking about homelessness in Ithaca “As we are very much a part of the Ithaca community, I urge all Cornellians to be mindful of the issue of homelessness and affordable housing and engaged with it in some way.”

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News, “Provost Deficit Raises Questions Among Faculty,” Tuesday Addressing the Provost’s announcement of University-wide budget cuts for the next academic year “The budget cuts after 2008 were very drastic. The surprise is that we’re going to endure substantial new cuts [due to reduced provost allocations], just when we hoped to be doing new replacement faculty hiring and graduate program rebuilding.”

Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, government News, “Skorton Addresses Budget Cuts,” Wednesday Speaking on the expected budget cuts across all of Cornell’s colleges for the 2015-16 academic year “These are tough cuts, they’re real cuts, but we have to get back to the point where there’s financial flexibility.”

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News, “Student ‘Bill of Rights’ in Works,” Thursday Advocating for a student bill of rights, which would list the rights guaranteed to students on campus “Students need to feel empowered. We do not have any pro-formative language that describes what students are allowed to do and what their rights are on this campus.”

Juliana Batista ’16, executive vice president for the Student Assembly

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CUPD Searching for Installer Of Campus Bathroom Camera

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Senior Writer

Cornell Police are seeking public help in identifying a male individual involved in placing a camera in a women’s bathroom in Jameson Hall last year, the University reported Thursday.

In a continued effort to identify the male responsible for the camera, investigators released a new image and short video extracted from the camera, which appear to show the individual.

The camera — which was “covertly” placed in a first-floor bathroom of a North Campus dormitory — was discovered by a Cornell staff member last May, according to the release. The employee reported the camera to her direct supervisor, who then noti-

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An image of the suspect was recovered from the camera after its discovery, which police distributed and sought help in identifying the man last year, The Sun previously reported.

New images and videos of a higher resolution were extracted from the camera with assistance from the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Center and have since been distributed to the media, according to the release.

The University urges anyone who knows the identity of the individual to contact police or send in an anonymous tip through CUPD’s Silent Witness Page.

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Students serve chili at the 11th Annual Willard Straight Hall Chili Cook-Off event in the Memorial Room Thursday.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

Common Council Upholds Ban on Dogs in Ithaca Commons

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

The Ithaca Common Council voted unanimously not to amend laws that prohibit dogs on the Commons at a meeting Wednesday.

Current legislation only allows licensed guide dogs or those owned by residents with special permits to enter the Commons, according to Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st Ward). The Commons is the only location in Ithaca — other than Stewart Park — which does not permit visitors to bring dogs.

During the Common Council meeting at which the petition was discussed, several Ithaca residents said they were concerned about dog owners not cleaning up after their pets, noise caused by barking and pedestrian safety.

“The Commons is a concrete canyon which accumulates any noises that occur there,” Ithacan Fay Gougakis said. “I am opposed to … the cumulative effects that barking and howling can have.”

Residents also said that current laws concerning dogs are not strictly enforced, and that dog owners do not respect requests to control their pets.

“There’s clear signage about needing to have your dogs on leash, and people clearly ignore it all the time,” Alderperson Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward) said.

However, Brock said she believes other open areas in Ithaca have not experienced significant negative effects as a result of being open to dogs.

“I’m wondering if we’re possibly projecting an influx of dogs which I don’t think we’ve seen in any other location where dogs are allowed,” Brock said. “I think typical dog owners will behave responsibly.”

Another issue discussed by residents and council members was the negative effects that dogs might have on business in the Commons.

“People are not going to come downtown with their kids

“I’d rather have Commons officers and the community police officers dealing with real issues.”

Ellen McCollister ’78 if you have big dogs on the Commons,” said Adil Griguihi, owner of Casablanca Pizzeria.

Alderperson Donna Fleming (D-3rd Ward) added that allowing dogs on the Commons would only increase pedestrian traffic in a way that would not be economically beneficial to the city.

“We want people to buy things and eat things and to go to our merchants,” Fleming said. “Once you’ve got a dog on the Commons, you can’t go into a restaurant, sit on an outdoor dining area and go into most of the stores, so there’s really nothing for you to do with your dog on the Commons except to walk.”

Fleming also said she believed out-of-town visitors might be uncomfortable with the presence of dogs.

“People come from places where they’re not raised to be comfortable with having dogs around and would rather not be around them,” Fleming said. “There’s also the personal issue with some people being frightened of dogs.”

Council members argued that additional resources would be needed to enforce any new dog laws.

“We don’t have a great track record with enforcement,” McCollister said. “It’s going to cost the city to enforce these things. I’d rather have Commons officers and the community police officers dealing with real issues.”

If passed, the proposal to allow dogs on the Commons would have been implemented among numerous other new pieces of legislation created in anticipation of the reopening of the Commons, including ordinances governing street noise and mobile vending carts.

The Commons Advisory Board has been working on these regulations for a year, according to Alderperson Seph Murtagh M.A. ’04 Ph.D ’09 (D-2nd Ward).

Alderperson Josephine Martell grad (D-5th Ward) suggested that the Common Council return to the issue once it has a better idea of how much traffic the Commons will experience when construction is complete.

“I would like to see us revisit [this issue] about a year after the Commons has been reopened,” Martell said.

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

Prof Speaks on Work of Morrison M.A.’55

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Beloved | Prof. Farah Jasmine Griffin, comparative literature, Columbia University, speaks on common motifs found in Toni Morrison’s novels.

marginalized and dispossessed communities,” Griffin said.

“She has done so by focusing on the ways those communities are shaped by and respond to white supremacy.”

Griffin then analyzed the beginning of Morrison’s 1970 novel The Bluest Eye. She

doors” echoes a line from Holiday’s song: “My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast, wouldn’t give me no dinner, Prof. Farah Jasmine Griffin, squawked about my supper comparative literature, then he put me outdoors.”

Columbia University — a “[This line] relates to the scholar who studies the life of individual and collective abuses Toni Morrison M.A. ’55 — suffered by black people in spoke to students about America,” Griffin said.

Morrison’s life and work in Goldwin “Morrison is most often thought of as a “It is a litany of dispossession, homelessness, Smith Hall Thursday.

Griffin began her writer whose creative project is to draw and hunger. It records an act of a man against lecture with a recordattention to and dismantle racist a woman, but also an ing of the Billie language.” act of America against Holiday song “Billie’s its black citizens.”

Blues,” which chroniProf. Farah Jasmine Griffin Griffin also said that cles a loving wife’s brua common motif in tal abuse and mistreatment at the hands of her cruel explored the narrator Claudia’s Morrison’s most successful husband. Griffin said the song’s notion of rejected African works is the image of ruins. descriptions of the mistreated American women being “put According to Griffin, this is According to illustrated by a section of wife parallel many of Morrison’s outdoors.” writings on African American Griffin, Morrison believed Morrison’s Song of Solomon, in being “put outdoors” represent- which the protagonist Milkman women.

“Morrison is most often ed a hopeless fear and terror of Dead journeys through a forest thought of as a writer whose a world in which one has sup- to the ruined and overgrown creative project is to draw atten- port to rely on and was very dif- Butler Mansion, meeting an tion to and dismantle racist lan- ferent from being simply “put elderly black woman named “Circe.” guage, and to present alterna- out.”

Griffin said that Morrison’s tive meanings and worldviews See MORRISON page 5 through the language of the definition of being “put out-

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to expand the role of students in administrative decisions?

BATISTA : “Each of our representatives needs to understand and work closely with the communities in which they exist.

The S.A.’s role is to be visible, to be transparent, to push rather than pull information. I’m trying to create a central hub of calendar events on campus and rebranding and reconstructing Denice Cassaro’s emails. The S.A. as a whole needs to be thinking about big picture issues … to advocate for the voice of students on these issues, as well as to work on little things that students may not see but that really affect their experience here.”

BREUER: “I think the role of the S.A. should definitely be as an advocate for student interest in areas that are plausible. If elected, it would be my priority to start a dialogue with President [Elizabeth] Garrett as soon as possible. It’s about creating a relationship there that’s being defined for the rest of their administration ... I think we need to work together on it, but you get there from respect. At the end of the day, paying $60,000 to attend Cornell does not entitle you to any decisionmaking authority, and that sucks. When we can fight the good fight about issues the student assembly can really change, we owe it to the students to fight for them every day. When it comes to issues beyond our scope … we can disagree, but we must move forward.”

STEFANKO : “At the end of the day, the S.A. needs to be an effective voice for students, but beyond that they need to be an effective advocate for students.

Not just expressing concerns for students, but actually trying to convince administrators of those concerns. On the assembly end, it means you hold all representatives more accountable, including myself. If they aren’t doing that job of effectively advocating, you make them do it better. On the administrative end, you tell the administration that if they aren’t going to listen to us on these issues and if our voices aren’t actually going to be heard, then we’re going to quit being a part of this shared governance system.

That’s the question I want to be asking next year. I hope the answer from the administration is going to be that they want us to be part of this system.”

SUN: What is your opinion on the potential 3.9 percent tuition increase? Is there a way to eliminate or reduce increases in tuition?

BATISTA: “I think what we really need to look at is … what’s going to get cut: student funding.

A lot of the departments that are going to receive reduced budgeting are niche groups or groups directly affecting students. We need to align people on our assembly that are in the finance roles [at] the University. We need to align ourselves better with the people making these decisions, and we also need to figure out ways to advocate for tuition decreases that are not going to the departments that directly affect student life.”

testers were criticized for being disrespectful to President David Skorton during the Day Hall takeover. What are your thoughts on their conduct?

dents who are able to go into that health care system.”

S UN : If elected president, what specific goals do you have for the S.A.?

BATISTA: “I think that the pasBATISTA: “I really want assemsion and the uprising of students is great. There are a hundred big bly representatives to be decisions the administration informed, aware, and active parmakes. If we can move the direc- ticipants in the community. I’ve tion of that conversa“Part of creating a dialogue to move tion before forward is about treating people you don’t the decision is made in necessarily agree with with respect.” one out of those one Jeffrey Breuer ’16 hundred cases, that would be considered success in really taken a role as Vice my mind. Conduct is incredibly President in making it less important and I really think that administrative. I really pride what was perceived as rude myself in going 110 percent. In behavior came out of pure frus- terms of initiatives I’d like to see tration and passion. Taking over happen next year, we need a stuDay Hall was a strong stance that dent Bill of Rights. We need to needed to happen.” have free legal services on campus, integrating it into student BREUER : “If I could describe funding. We also need to continthe student health fee in two ue to follow the work I’ve done words: It sucks. Three-hundred- with Big Red shuttle and restrucfifty extra dollars doesn’t come turing for advocacy support out of nowhere, and especially for groups on campus. A lot of our the folks that can’t really afford it, discussion about multiculturalit’s a tangible cost. The reaction ism on campus is dialogue, which from the student body itself is not an end, it’s a means to an wasn’t the same as the reaction end.” from the protest. Most of the BREUER: “One of my goals is folks I’ve talked to agree that it was immature to disrespect these making engagement far better individuals who have spent their than it’s ever been. My goal is to lives trying to make this talk to students as often as possiUniversity better. Part of creating ble. I want to be sitting down a dialogue to move forward is with folks who have concerns. I about treating people you don’t think we need to be a lot more necessarily agree with with engaging with students. Sexual respect. I was very much disap- assault prevention is something I pointed to see a lot of S.A. mem- have been very passionate about. bers themselves at the protest. I We need to start to branch out view it as a big problem when and try to create a student-driven [members of the S.A.] say they’ve program for sexual assault prebeen aligning with the adminis- vention. I want to create a culture tration for too long. It’s about where if you go up to a student working together.” and ask who their representative is, you don’t just get head scratchSTEFANKO: “I certainly think es and long pauses. Students deserve to know who their representatives are.”

BREUER: “From the perspective of the S.A., I don’t think that there’s anything that is possible to do. In the dealing with the finances of the University, that’s left up to the Board of Trustees. I think it’s a common misconception that those are issues “If our voices aren’t actually that the S.A. has authority in.

STEFANKO: “First is the The student assembly derives going to be heard, then we’re its authority from the adminstudent-run grocery store. A going to quit being a part of this lot of work has been done, istration. The undergraduate population deserves represenshared governance system.” but I want to make sure it’s tation that’s willing to say in a position to succeed after Matthew Stefanko ’16 that both sides have engaged I graduate. Confronting sexin behaviors that are not ideal ual assault is [also] going to concerning major issues, but be a huge part of this camwe need to continue working for- respect is important. That being paign. There’s been a lot of ward together.” said, I very much sympathize awareness, which is great, and with where the protesters were that work should continuously be S TEFANKO : “The way the coming from. They’re coming done. However, there hasn’t been administration explained the from a place where they don’t feel enough work from an actual polincrease in their press release, it that their voices are being icy perspective and from a fundbasically made it seem like they respected and heard. I think the ing perspective to make this actuwere doing us a favor. But if student health fee is wrong, and I ally succeed. I think more work tuition increase keeps rising as it don’t think it’s okay that the needs to be done within the does, in 10 years it will be over amount we’re paying is the Greek community, like address$80,000. Whether or not tuition amount we’re paying. The idea of ing medical amnesty. The final increases can be frozen next year, the health fee is that we take all area of concern is multicultural they’re going to need to be frozen the costs of student health care communities and students who at some point or that bubble is and bring it all together, collec- don’t feel like they have an equal going to break. Part of my plat- tivize it, and have everybody pay voice. We need to investigate how form is to form a student com- for each other. That to me, in the University funds resource mittee to gather more informa- theory, is a really good idea. The centers on the campus to make tion on the cost of higher educa- issue is when you really run the sure they get the appropriate and tion and present it to the admin- numbers, the health fee would be right amount of funding.” istration. These things matter to $150 if that’s all that you are payVoting will take place online at me on a personal level and ing for. Deciding to not tie because of the people I’m sur- enrollment to the amount of assembly.cornell.edu/vote, with money that is given to health care polls opening on March 16 at 8 rounded by.” services is not very smart. That’s a.m. and closing at 4 p.m. on SUN: “What is your opinion basically saying we’re going to March 17. on the student health fee and the continue to give the same response from the general student amount of money to the health The Sun’s News Department can be body? Many #FightTheFee pro- care despite the number of stu- reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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COLA’s letter seeks to address some of these concerns as they relate to the University, according to Alison Considine ’17. Similar letters were dropped by student groups from New York University, which has a campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Georgetown University, which has a campus in Education City, Qatar — the same location as Cornell’s.

“We’re working in concert with student groups from NYU and Georgetown to collectively pressure our universities to improve the standard of labor in Education City and make sure that these labor rights violations aren’t happening abroad under the Cornell name,” Considine said.

The letter, written under a campaign called United Students Against Sweatshops, calls for the University to submit and publish an independent review of the working conditions on the Qatar campus as well as “actively cooperate” with workers in Education City who desire to form unions or increase their voice in the workplace.

“If the workers on our campus decide to form a union, we expect the University to voluntarily recognize their association and to collectively bargain over their terms and conditions of employment,” the letter states. “A firm commitment to the protection of these rights is required, because no external infrastructure exists to prevent the discharge and deportation of migrant workers who seek to exercise their basic rights in Qatar.”

Under a sponsorship system known as ‘kafala,’ many

workers’ legal residences are tied to their employment, Human Rights Watch reported. As a result, workers are often severely restricted in their freedom of movement and may be denied payment for their labor.

Furthermore, the labor itself can be life-threatening, as seen by recent reports of fatal accidents during construction of infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. COLA requests that Skorton respond to the letter by March 19, according to Michael Ferrer ’16.

“What we’d like to hear is that [Skorton] is taking the issue seriously and that he’s going to take steps to meet our demands,” Ferrer said.

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Student Pleads Not Columbia Professor Says Morrison Guilty to Murder of Father ‘Dismantled Racist Language’ MORRISON

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according to The Democrat and Chronicle. The indictment claims Ling Tan was killed sometime between Feb. 5 and Feb. 9.

Deputies returned to the Tan residence on Feb. 9 and were met by Charles Tan and Qing Tan — Charles’ mother and Ling’s wife — at the driveway. Ling Tan was found dead, and investigators found a shotgun in the garage the morning after.

According to James Nobles, Charles Tan’s attorney, the Tan family has a history of domestic violence.

Monroe County Sheriff ’s Office officials have responded to several domes-

tic-related calls at the Tan residence, and Qing Tan was in the process of obtaining an order of protection against her husband before he was killed.

Many of Charles Tan’s friends and classmates have expressed their support, raising over $47,000 on the fundraising website GiveForward. At least 20 people were in court Thursday to show support for Tan, according to The Democrat and Chronicle.

Charles Tan is no longer enrolled at Cornell, according to University officials.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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According to Griffin, Milkman’s encounter with Circe parallels a similar meeting between Odysseus and the Far Eastern goddess Circe, who lived in an isolated mansion surrounded by dense forest on the island of Aenea in The Odyssey.

“A number of critics have noted Morrison’s engagement with Greek and Roman literature,” Griffin said. “Tessa Roynon, in her book Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition, is especially insightful in this area. A student of Latin throughout high school and a classics minor at Howard University, Morrison is clearly well-versed in the literature of the Greeks and Romans.”

Griffin said the ancient Greeks were

very open in acknowledging the world around them, recognizing the importance of Africa and Asia — a fact that Morrison appreciated.

“Greek writers, like Homer, were aware of the diversity of their world ... more so than any modern racial category,” Griffin said.

Sarah E. Rice, event coordinator for Cornell’s English department, said the lecture was intended to honor Cornell’s sesquicentennial by recognizing the work of Morrison, one of the University’s most distinguished alumni. The lecture was the 2015 installment of Cornell’s Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature.

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

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Madeline Salinas ’16 Jason Ecker ’16 Jesse Weissman ’16 Anna Brenner ’16 Katie O'Brien ’16 Laura Boland ’16 Jael Goldfine ’17 Radhi Parikh ’17 Gwen Aviles ’17 Christopher Stanton ’17 Harini Kannan ’18 Anita Alur ’18 Amy Lin ’18 Brendan Murphy ’18

Natalie Tsay ’18 Hadiyah Chowdhury ’18 Jack Jones ’18 Letitia Chai ’18 Rachel Mack ’18 Mark Kasvin ’18 Troy Sherman ’18 Shay Collins ’18 Lylla Younes ’18 Emily Fournier ’18 Stephen Meisel ’18 Tyran Grillo Grad

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John Zakour ’15 Nikita Dubnov ’17 Kevin Linsey ’18 Joel Cooper ’17 John McGrorty ’15 Lisa Awaitey ’16 Olivia Mattyasovszky ’17 Joon Lee ’17

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Haewon Hwang ’17 KK Yu Grad Katherine Chen ’16 Cameron Pollack ’18 Jennie Li ’16 Michaela Brew ’18 Greg Keller ’19 Kevin Chan ’17 Brian Stern ’13

BLOGS BOARD Eric Ding '15* Meghan Flynn '15* Michael Levin '15* Zachary Siegel '15* Nate Jara '16* Gabriella Nonni* Ian Sigalow '16* Marina Caitlin Watts '16*

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CURRENT FULL-TIME & PART-TIME SUN EMPLOYEES BUSINESS OFFICE DISTRIBUTION PRODUCTION PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Amy Wilson, Office Manager Robert Armstrong ’75 John Schroeder ’74, Production Manager; Linda Holzbaur, Advertising Production Specialist Arielle Cruz ’15; Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15; Jasmine Curtis ’15; Aditi Bhowmick ’16

That’s All for Now

IF YOU KNOW ME WELL, you know that I am very rarely at a loss for words. However, tonight I finish out my tenure as the Editor in Chief, I could not even imagine trying to sum up The Sun and the time here that has made my Cornell experience over the last four years.

However, what I can say is that I am so proud of the 132nd Editorial Board.

Not only have we covered some of the most exciting news in Cornell history, including the announcement of the 13th president as well as student protests over the student health fee and TCAT negotiations. But we have seen the campus rally around issues of importance and are proud to have been there to cover them. As a Board, we have made internal structural changes to continue to be able to cover Cornell to the best of our ability, as well as continuing to improve our coverage, both in print and online.

To the 132nd Editorial Board: You are some of the most talented and inspiring people that I have ever met. I am sure have made a mark on this organization that will be remembered for a lifetime. Thank you for being the greatest Sunnies and I am so proud of you all!

While there is so much more work to be done here at The Cornell Daily Sun, we on the 132nd Editorial Board look to our successors to carry on the 134-year legacy of our institution and continue to push the envelope further than we could have ever imagined. As the last Cornell Daily Sun that will be put out with me at the helm comes to a close, I am more than confident in the members of the 133rd Board that will take mine, and my fellow editors and friends, desks here at 139 W. State Street. I eagerly await to see what the new editors do and look forward to continue to read The Daily Sun each and every day.

To the Hill!

— H.A.V.

Letters

SCIENCE BOARD Kathleen Bitter ’15 Sarah Cohen ’15 Nicolas Ramos ’15 Camille Wang ’16

Alex Rehberg ’16 Chardae Varlack ’15 Kiki Li ’17 Kameron Nelson ’17

Editorial

OPINION BOARD President David J. Skorton Corey Ryan Earle ’07 Tess Keppler law Annie O’Toole grad Nikhita Parandekar grad Sarah Byrne ’15 Christo Eliot ’15 David Fischer ’15 Ross Gitlin ’15 Jacob Glick ’15

Jayant Mukhopadhaya '15*

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Senior Editor

Gabriella Lee ’16* Ariel Seidner ’16 Rebecca Blair ’17 Aimee Cho ’17* Zoe Ferguson ’17* Scott Gartenberg ’17 Sloane Grinspoon ’17* Sofia Hu ’17* Dave Janeczek ’17 Jonathan Lobel ’17 Eric Oberman ’17 Anika Sethy ’17

Melody Li '18 Audrey Hu '18

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Social Media Manager Senior Editor

Madeline Salinas '16 Kendall Goodyear '16 Tyler Breitfeller '16 Dennis Fedorko '17

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JAYNE ZUREK ’16

Bendetta Carnaghi grad Jonathan Dawson ’15 Emma Quigley ’15 Jonathan Swartz ’15* Ashley Collis-Burgess ’16 Christopher Byrns ’16 Sarah Cutler ’16* Helen Donnelly ’16 Sophia Ho ’16 Grace Hurley ’16 Talia Jubas ’16* Andrew Lee ’16

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Hillary Landsman ’16 Nicolas Lozano ’16 Gwen Petro ’16 Zach Siegel ’15 Ian Mitchell Sigalow ’16

Adam Davis '18 Zachary de Stefan '18 Pulkit Kashyap '18 Elie Kirshner '18 Michael Mauer '18 Hunter Moskowitz '18 Natalie Tsay '18*

Dearest Haley, Halez or Halestorm, Well, well, well, it’s been quite a year. While your reign may be ending, I have the utmost confidence that you will be able to bully your successor into following your legacy well past elections on Saturday. Speaking of elections, #tbt (this is being written Thursday night, after all) to when we first bonded in Sun elections freshman year. I believe it went something like “Hey, you’re in AEPhi too, right?” And the rest was history. But I digress. Typically, this letter is a roast of sorts from your friends making fun of you for The Sun becoming your life and other things like that. First of all, that would be semi-ironic coming from me, right? And second, you told me not to make fun of you in this.

So I’ll do my best.

I could spend many pages listing your accomplishments as Editor in Chief.

From visionary initiatives to improving interdepartmental cooperation (buzzwords on purpose), but in my mind there are many other times that are memorable from your time as EIC. It’s the midnight runs to Louie’s, dance parties to Kanye/Katy Perry/random eight year old girls and the times where we would sit in your office for hours on end imagining changes to make The Sun even greater than it is now.

Oh, and showing up to Dunbar’s and Fishbowls by last call, because it is not a 132nd Editorial Board joke editorial without a mention of Dunbar’s.

Basically, your leadership has towered above the rest.

Alright, I am going to finish this up so we can drink, as per Schroeder’s Last Night of Compet rules, but if I can conclude this letter with one thing it’s this: Live it up, you deserve it.

Love, Well, I would say other people but let’s be real, its just me, — C.S.F.

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OPINION

David Skorton | From David

In Response ToWyatt Nelson’16

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thank Wyatt Nelson ’16 for sharing the intricacies of his love-hate relationship with Cornell. Maintaining any relationship requires understanding, clarity and communication, and in that spirit, I would like to contribute to the discussion by sharing context and corrections to errors in Mr. Nelson’s seven examples of why he cannot love Cornell.

One: “Cornell employs far more administrators than faculty,” and employs 3,250 full-time administrators. Cornell is a complex place and those who provide administrative services (also called exempt staff) are an important part of our community. They support much of our infrastructure, evolving technology, departmental management and countless programs and services that advance the academic community and account for about 15 percent of the operating budget. Included in this population of dedicated employees are more than 500 professionals who support health and student services. Beyond administrators, Cornell is what it is because of the superb work of thousands of dedicated and talented staff who support students, faculty and each other.

Two: “Cornell hosts world-class professors, but recently the administration has cut their salaries and continues to add fewer and fewer full professors.” Actually, we are hiring more faculty. Cornell’s faculty went from 1,549 in 2001 to 1,652 in 2014, an all-time high. We use very few adjunct professors and do so only in areas where adjuncts have expertise that is lacking on campus.

Three: University cuts to the performing arts department budget are “destroying the department’s ability to interact with the community . . .”

In 2010, the entire University faced budget cuts. The Theatre, Film and Dance department, as it was known at that time, did absorb a significant reduction but was not alone. The College of Arts and Sciences asked faculty to reimagine the department in light of these budget cuts, and the faculty returned with a new, creative and forward-thinking model that would emphasize student experiences and establish our place on the cutting edge of scholarly and creative work. Today, the Performing and Media Arts major offers more flexibility for students to explore opportunities across the traditional theater, film and dance boundaries in ways that weren’t possible under the previous model. The department is engaged in the local community in many ways. As just one example, as we celebrate Cornell’s sesquicentennial, the department has played a leading role, staging 150 events throughout the year.

Four: It is incorrect to suggest that we “fail to provide graduate students who carry out that research with basic medical protections.” All registered graduate students who receive financial support through assistantships or fellowships, including almost all research doctoral students and most research masters students, are covered through the Student Health Insurance Program as part of their financial support. Graduate and professional students not covered through SHIP must have their own health insurance. All graduate and professional students, whether receiving financial aid or not, are covered through the procedures for graduate student injuries described on the Procedures for Graduate Student Injuries website.

Five: “Cornell could provide free tuition using only the interest the endowment produces . . .” Interest generated by Cornell’s long-term investments ranges from $20 to $30 million per year. This is a fraction of the approximate $650 million contributed by undergraduate tuition annually. Most important, interest earnings and investment returns are used primarily in support of academic programs, need-based student financial aid, professorships and some other operating expenses.

Six: “Why do the Trustees think Cornell should be run like a corporation?” Because it is a corporation. Not all corporations are in the for-profit sector; many nonprofits are incorporated. Unlike for-profit corporations, Cornell does not have shareholders and our mission remains focused on education, outreach, research and creativity. To be successful, we need to sustain our financial health as the cost of supporting those missions continues to increase.” Most important, good corporate governance implies “best practices” that include many of the actions we seek to accomplish, including sound fiscal management, transparency, clear policies and internal controls.

Seven: Mr. Nelson states that “. . . middle class families are shut out of the University because they are too rich to get financial aid but too poor to afford $61,000 per year . . .” Middle class families are not “shut out” of Cornell; they are prevalent at Cornell. During the past several years, institutional grant aid to Cornell undergraduates has grown from less than $100 million annually to more than $240 million today. In the fall of 2014, fully 34 percent of all Cornell students receiving need-based financial aid were from families with $0 to $60,000 annual income; 33 percent were from families with $60,000 to $120,000 annual income; and 33 percent were from families with more than $120,000 annual income. Mean debt at graduation for 2014 Cornell graduates who borrowed was $21,411; the national mean for private nonprofit colleges was $29,708.

The University that Wyatt Nelson loves is not becoming unrecognizable; it has evolved steadily over decades into a community that is increasingly diverse and has the courage to face current difficulties and challenges in a collaborative, collegial fashion. In this sense, I again thank Wyatt for his views and invite him to work with me to re-establish the mutual trust we are both seeking.

David J. Skorton is president of Cornell University. He may be reached at david.skorton@cornell.edu. From David appears bi-monthly this semester.

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Comment of the day “One element that’s been missing from the budget discussion is debt. Cornell took on more than $1 billion in additional debt between 2007 and 2013.”

Drake_Road Re: “Skorton Says Budget Cuts Needed for ‘Financial Flexibility,’” News published March 4, 2015

Nikhita Parandekar |

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Hoof in Mouth

A Day in the Life

n the last year, I’ve written frequently about the “clinics experience,” covering everything from the transition from classes to clinics to the general lifestyle on clinics to the longterm effect clinics has had on my life. However, I still haven’t given a clear picture on what it practically means to be an upper-class student on clinics, so here’s a look at a day in the life of a student on clinics.

6:15 a.m. — Phone alarm rings. Wake up in a panic because your phone is also your pager and you think you’re getting paged. Realize it’s your alarm and shut it off for another five minutes. But your cats know that alarm equals breakfast, so they take over anyways.

6:30 a.m. — Try to remember what you need to wear/bring for the day.

Will you be seeing clients and need to wear professional clothes?

Will you be in surgery and need to bring scrubs? Will there be cows in your day which mean you need overboots and extra coveralls? Are you going to be working outside in an Ithaca winter and need to figure out how many layers you can wear and be functional?

7 a.m. — Get to the hospital and examine your patients.

Look at their charts to see how they did overnight, perform physical exams, tend to their needs and give them medications. Start inputting things into the digital medical record if you have time.

8 a.m. — Update the doctor on your patients, discuss the plan for each patient for the day.

Continue updating the digital medical record while also researching the new cases you will be seeing for the day.

8:45 a.m. — Round with your service on all of the patients in the service. In the large animal hospital, this means doing stall-side rounds in front of each patient and updating the

7 p.m. — Night treatments — examine your patients, perform physical exams, medicate them and see to whatever other needs they might have. Let the doctors know if you have any concerns and your plan to address them. Touch base with the owners one last time to update them on their animals and address any questions they might have.

8:30 p.m. — Get home, still thinking about your cases from the day. Debate whether showering or eating is more important — showering wins. Take a few minutes to relax while you eat dinner.

9:30 p.m. — Research lingering questions from the day or look into what you might be doing the next day.

10:30 p.m. — Go to bed.

Dream about your cases.

Sleep restlessly Some of my friends have if you’re on very different lifestyles call.

I would call than mine and will go to bed much later. And on this a roughly average day the days where you’re on for me. It’s call for emergencies, hard to come anything can happen. up with a template like this because there’s the doctor can approve it before such great variability in the days the animal leaves and the client — one of the things I love about can have instructions and a visit this profession, really. Moreover, summary to go home with. some rotations are set up very Noon — Some of the differently (for example, on appointments from the morn- anesthesia you don’t have your ing had to spend the day for own patients, and on emergency additional diagnostics. and critical care you’re schedParticipate in these procedures. uled for 12 hour shifts).

Keep the medical records Weekends work a little differupdated. Participate in what is ently, but on the services where happening with your previous you have patients that you’re responsible for you can spend inpatients for the day.

2 p.m. — Realize you anywhere from three to seven haven’t eaten all day and quickly hours in the hospital, even when eat while continuing to update you’re not on call. On some days the caseload is much lower and medical records.

4 p.m. — Have topic rounds on other days it’s much higher. with the chief of the service or Some of my friends have very the resident. They either will different lifestyles than mine discuss one of the cases in depth and will go to bed much later. or they will pick a topic that is And on the days where you’re on clinically relevant to our career. call for emergencies, anything 5 p.m. — Discharge the day can happen. cases, making sure the animals have everything they need and the clients have all of their ques- Nikhita Parandekar is a third-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary tions answered.

Medicine. She may be reached at 6 p.m. — Catch up on the nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in rest of the medical records.

Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

other students, doctors and chief of the service on the patient. In the small animal hospital this is usually done in a rounds room away from the patients.

9 a.m. — Start appointments for the day. Greet the clients and animals, get them settled in the hospital, take a history from the clients to learn what’s been happening with their animals and perform a physical exam on the animals.

Then present all of your findings to the doctor who will then go and repeat what you’ve done (clients who come to Cornell are aware that it is a teaching hospital and are generally accepting of the repetition). Come up with a plan for the animal with the doctor. Quickly write a detailed medical record for the animal so

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

132nd Editorial Board

HALEY VELASCO Editor in Chief

CAROLINE FLAX

TYLER ALICEA

Associate Editor

Managing Editor

CATHERINE CHEN Business Manager

ALEX REHBERG

ZACH STEELE

NICK DETULLIO

SCOTT CHIUSANO

RACHEL ELLICOTT Blogs Editor

Multimedia Editor

ELIZABETH SOWERS

News Photography Editor

CONNOR ARCHARD

NOAH RANKIN

ANNIE BUI

Design Editor

KELLY YANG

City Editor

News Editor

ANUSHKA MEHROTRA

KAITLYN TIFFANY

SEAN DOOLITTLE

KATHLEEN BITTER

KAY XIAO

Advertising Manager

News Editor

Web Editor

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Sports Editor

Sports Photography Editor

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Science Editor

Dining Editor

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NICOLE HAMILTON

CHARDAE VARLACK

SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Assistant Sports Editor

Assistant Sports Editor

Assistant Sports Editor

Graphic Design Editor

MANU RATHORE

EMMA LICHTENSTEIN Marketing Manager

KATHLEEN SHIM

CHRISTOPHER UHLER

Social Media Manager

LUISE YANG

Human Resources Manager

The Spot Manager

ARIELLE CRUZ

ALEXA DAVIS

MICHELLE FELDMAN

DARA LEVY

JAYNE ZUREK

Associate Multimedia Editor

Outreach Coordinator

Senior Editor

Senior Editor

EMILY BERMAN

Senior Editor

ANNA FASMAN

Senior Editor

Senior Editor

Haters gonna hate hate hate ... Players gonna play play play.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Rewrite: Hugh Grant’s Return From the Wilderness

goes his famous English stutter in favor of a more mature and world-weary air (the fact that he is broke, divorced and does not speak to his 18 year old son helps create this sense of character).

In further variation on the types of films that flood the romAs someone who maintains a continuous love affair with the com genre, Grant and Tomei’s process of falling for one anothromantic comedy, I have been somewhat heartbroken by Hugh er never takes center stage. Michaels’ brief sexual relationship Grant’s five-year absence from the genre that he has come to with an attractive underage student named Karen (Bella define. You can therefore imagine my excitement when I finally Heathcoth) finds almost equal screen time, for instance, and settled down to watch The Rewrite, which is directed by Marc brings him into conflict with ethics committee chair, Wheldon.

Lawrence (Music and Lyrics, Miss Congeniality) and stars Hugh This departure allows Lawrence to highlight not only Michaels’ Grant as washed up screenwriter, Keith Michaels, whose finan- personal growth, but also that of his students. Such a decision cial woes force him to take a teaching position at Binghamton evokes considerable sympathy for characters that would norUniversity. The accomplished cast also includes Marisa Tomei mally exist on screen as one-dimensional fillers and conse(Ides of March) as Holly Carpenter, a single parent working her quently leads the film to become more substantial and moving. way through school and Grant’s main love interest, J.K. Since the word “comedy” is part of the genre’s name, viewers Simmons (Oscar winner for Whiplash) as Dr. Lerner, an ex-navy expect rom-coms to possess a certain amount of humor. The seal who is now a family loving English Department Chair and Rewrite definitely does not disappoint in this respect and much Allison Janney (West of the film’s comedy stems from the characters Wing) as Professor played by Simmons, Janney and Chris Elliot (How The Rewrite Mary Wheldon, a I Met Your Mother) as well as a litany of one-liners rather stern Jane courtesy of Grant, which are often quite clever, if Directed by Marc Lawrence Austen expert who overused. A light-hearted motif that runs throughStarring Hugh Grant, Marisa heads the school’s out the film is Michaels’ strong emotional attachethics committee. ment to his family (he starts crying whenever his Tomei, J.K. Given Grant and daughters and wife are mentioned) and Elliot’s Jim, Simmons Lawrence’s poor an awkward but lovable English professor, develops showing in their as an amusing foil to Grant’s comparatively suave 2009 collaboration, Michaels. Additionally, in an exchange symbolic of Did You Hear About Michaels and Professor Wheldon’s entertaining the Morgans?, I’ll incompatibility, Michaels tells Wheldon that Jane admit that I wasn’t expecting too much out of The Rewrite. In Austen’s work is “all a bit trivial” and that he’s “just a little bit fact, I was simply hoping that I wouldn’t end up glaring at the tired of female empowerment.” As an apology, he proceeds to end credits while trying to figure out how to blame the film’s fail- buy her a variety of Jane Austen apparel such as a “What Would ure entirely upon its director. Much to my surprise, however, I Jane Do?” tote bag. found that The Rewrite sees Hugh Grant in his most significant The film’s musical score was also a pleasant surprise; and endearing performance since Love Actually. Over the course Melancholic jazz reminiscent of Vince Guaraldi overlays scenes of the film, Grant’s character predictably learns that there is more in which Keith Michaels is alone with only his thoughts for to life than sleeping with beautiful woman and finding success company. In conjunction with Binghamton’s bleak and grayin Hollywood: Yet, unlike with most films in this genre that dominated setting (something to which anyone living in upstate revolve around a shallow male protagonist’s moral journey, Keith New York can relate) the musical score mirrors the negativity of Michael’s evolution feels authentic, in part because Grant for- Grant’s initial feelings for his new life.

BY JOSEPH DIRIGOLAMO Sun Contributor

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Indeed, the sun only appears in the film’s final 10 minutes when Michaels and his students’ lives are markedly improved.

Although Marc Lawrence’s use of music and setting to build the film’s tone was a bit heavy handed, it nevertheless successfully reinforced Keith Michaels’ development as a character as well as succeeded in creating an atmosphere that felt more “real” than is usual with films in the genre.

On the whole, The Rewrite is an enjoyable film that offers a variety of upgrades on mainstream romantic comedies. But in my opinion, the film’s most unique, curious and memorable aspect lies in how it handles the subject of writing. Michaels’ advice to his students that “writing can’t be taught” and that “when it comes to writing there are no rules” are staples of introductory creative writing courses. His conviction that writing “Is real. It’s true,” echoes what many notable screenwriters and novelists would say is one of their deepest held beliefs about fiction’s importance to our lives. And to its credit, The Rewrite is, itself, able to prove fiction’s validity as a valuable narrator of truths.

When Michaels first arrives in Binghamton and calls his agent, she tells him that J.K. Rowling once said, “Failure was the best thing that ever happened to her because it meant the stripping away of the inessential.” By the end of the film, Grant’s character proves to audiences that this statement is as true for him and as true for anyone, as it was for J.K. Rowling.

Joseph Dirigolamo is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at jad362@cornellsun.com.

The Ugly Underbelly in Tinseltown: Maps to the Stars

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Sick, demented and entertaining as hell, Maps to the Stars is the first great film of 2015. Similar to Nightcrawler, it tells a scathing story about the putrid underbelly lurking beneath La La Land, only in bad boy David Cronenberg-style fashion. It is a lacerating satire and should be required viewing for all you starry-eyed dreamers who want to make it big in the film biz. It’s a rude and completely essential slap in the face — a bucket of cold water to shake you out of those Tinseltown fantasies.

Cronenberg, a body horror maverick who is absolutely fearless of controversial and lurid subject matter, takes a scalpel to them with no reservations. Much appreciated.

The movie contains a cast of characters all worthy of rehab roll call, each one of them disgusting at heart and a pleasure to watch. What would make you retch in other movies becomes priceless buffoonery in Cronenberg’s hands; we laugh at these goons digging themselves deeper and deeper into oblivion with drugs, wealth and fame. He’ll cut from one conversation involving a 13 year old child star facing murder charges to a threesome, then to a scene where a star speaks shamelessly to her assistant from the toilet. Having encountered these sorts of people myself in the City of Angels, I was grateful that the theater was empty COURTESY OF ABC NEWS

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at the screening I attended — the private viewing allowed me to scandal with his estranged freakshow daughter messing it all up. roar with laughter and shout gleefully when characters said Cronenberg, a master of mixed emotions, chills your blood even things like, “I gotta work on my screenplay this weekend.” as Cusack is hugging her goodbye — you get a powerful sense Here are some snippets of the characters’ inner lives: Havana that he wants to break her neck. Meanwhile, Havana rejoices Segrand (Julianne Moore, polar opposite from her Oscar-win- when the death of a child results in her getting the part in the ning turn in Still Alice) brownnoses with the thickest valley girl biopic about her mother. She sings and dances around the house accent since Emma Watson’s in The Bling Ring. The difference is, with Agatha — a miracle has saved her career. Robert Pattinson whereas that film gave me a serious LA overdose and also stars as a limo driver made me want to spend a week with hillbillies, whom Agatha begins Moore’s brilliant performance comes with a sting to date — until Maps to the Stars in its tail, and a powerful one at that. We know Havana, the living through and through that her character is a moron, impression of Directed by Marc Lawrence the minute she refers to her new assistant as “a new expired jailbait, takes Starring Hugh Grant, Marisa chore whore.” Havana wants to be cast in a new a liking to him. film that is a biopic of her mother’s life, and The story conTomei, J.K. although the director is “no PT Anderson” the role tains some unwelSimmons is “custom-made for Best Supporting.” come and tonally Screenwriter Bruce Wagner’s dialogue is loaded inconsistent Sixth with little gems that will have film-buffs in stitchSense interludes, es. where several characHer new chore whore is Agatha Weiss (a deliters hopped up on ciously creepy Mia Wasikowska), with this kind of way too many prescripbaggage. She’s a fresh-out-of-the-clinic arsonist who burned tion pills can see dead people down her family’s house and is back in So-Cal to track them come to haunt them. This is more than forgivable in light of down and apologize. But once you meet her family, you honest- the film’s spot-on and blazing ridicule. It’s worth the price of ly wouldn’t blame her. Her brother Benjie (Evan Bird) is a admission just to see Moore demand a laxative from Whole foul mouthed child star, who at the ripe age of 13 has Foods as she barks to Agatha from her bathroom. Like her direcalready been in and out of rehab, has a fondness for guns tor, she is absolutely shameless, and there’s no sign that her recent and a dirtier disposition than anyone else on screen. When Oscar glory is going to limit her bold choices as an actress. As for he first eats dinner with Olivia Williams, you’re not sure if Cronenberg, this is one of his best films, right up there with A she’s his mother or his manager. She’s his mother, as it History of Violence, Scanners and Eastern Promises and a soon-toturns out, and she comforts him while he vomits after a be classic anti-Hollywood epic, like Mulholland Drive. meeting with the agents, where her son has forced them to It’s inconceivable that anyone watching this film will walk fork over an immense amount of dough. “It’s okay, sweet- out of the theater wanting to enter the film business. Why would ie,” she says, “We’ve got them.” you want to enter a maddening, psychotic, psychotropic snake When Agatha comes to visit Benjie in his trailer where pit like this? It’s a lunatic thing to do — that is, unless you’re an he’s popping Valium and Vicodin, the result isn’t pretty. artist like Cronenberg.

Her father Dr. Stafford (John Cusack) makes a call on her; he’s not only Havana’s masseuse, but an author with an Mark DiStefano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He important new book on the horizon, and he can’t have a can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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Pile You’re Better Than This Another Recording Company

Stephen Meisel Until about a week ago, your humble reviewer had never heard of the band Pile.

What a dark time that was, believing (illogically) that traditional guitar-based rock music had no more tricks up its sleeve. That the good stuff now was just some kind manipulation of the nostalgia for the good stuff back then.

I truly thought that all possible ways a band could change the game with a simple bass-drums-guitar setup had been done a hundred times over. We’re in a new era, I thought.

Enter Pile, AKA the good stuff, a Boston foursome already on the verge of something very, very exciting. Their past two full length attempts, Dripping and Magic Isn’t Real, while underappreciated, have asserted the band as a force of nature in today’s rock music. And their latest release, You’re Better Than This, continues to show off their disgusting talent.

Perhaps the first thing to get out of the way when discussing Pile is their lyrics. I suppose the argument could be made that, when they’re audible, they’re self-indulgent, or maybe that they’re hopelessly silly. From a certain perspective, a line like “I sleepwalk with my second grade teacher” off the track “Waking Up in the Morning” could come off like a friend fooling around with a microphone. However, an inseparable element from most of the lyricism on this album is the off-kilter delivery of Richard Maguire. His vocals are a type of controlled mania. They lead us into a

state of confusion as to what the next line — or even the next word — might be. More than that, they inject seemingly nonsensical phrases with a wealth of texture and emotion. In this manner, the escalating word-by-word absurdity of a line like “I sleepwalk with my second grade teacher” becomes a delight to hear as, steadily, the sentence just gets more and more ridiculous.

“Escalation” would probably then become a buzzword in the conversation started by You’re Better Than This. It becomes clear that this album is a shining example of what dynamism can do in rock music.

First, you have Pile’s noisy but organized heaviness. It is distinctive; it is powerful. But there is always a type of eccentricity to it. In the album opener “The World is Your Motel,” we’re introduced to a punk energy that is both standoffish and extremely tactful. In an ideal world, it would essentially be a simple barn-burner, a traditional rock opener and yet the pervasiveness of Pile’s characteristic combination of wit and anger renders it endearingly off-kilter. As Maguire say himself in their song “Touched by Comfort:” “it’s the same place on the map, but most things have turned over.”

Then, at its softer moments, You’re Better Than This provides an expressive counterpoint to the album’s intense and frequent climaxes. Yes, because of the surface similarity and frequency of these sections they are put at risk for becoming

a bit indistinct. But a closer listen reveals something different. The quieter parts of songs like “Mr. Fish,” “Touched by Comfort” and “Waking Up in the Morning,” display the group’s ability to sound calculatedly apathetic, their rhythms and patterns staying smart but unafraid to get messy or loose. Here and there the acoustic guitar comes in, fingerpicked with a country-blues type of style, most manifested in the track “Fuck the Police.” And in the end, the listener is able to decompress from a blitzkrieg of fantastically heavy peaks, with the liberal howls and cries of Richard Maguire at the forefront. There is never a total relaxation, though. Something about Pile’s idea of tranquility and counterbalance carries with it a particular type of listlessness, as if the songwriting is itching (and in a song like “Tin Foil Hat” simply pleading) to return to full throttle.

And when they do turn all the way back up, it is an explosive feeling. It may even be Pile’s strongest songwriting ability: To control the dynamics of these lows and highs so masterfully that the idea of oversentimentality is never broached. But their energy at the top of these more versatile tracks doesn’t soar or celebrate; It’s as if Pile is recoiling from pushing themselves down to such a slow (but definitely not tame) level. When these tracks don’t suit your fancy, there is always the thrill of songs like “#2 Hit Single,” “Tin Foil Hat” and “The World is Your Motel” that cut the slacker attitude as soon as possible, throwing powerful distorted punches to the body as tribute to the god of dirty ’ol rock and roll.

It suffices to say that there are no dull moments on You’re Better Than This. Maybe a few similar ones, sure. But a few more listens should convince you that they’re not cheating you in the least bit. In fact, with all they’ve done to show that theirs is genre that can be revitalized, they’re fulfilling what hopes people have these days for an honest-to-god innovative rock band. Good stuff indeed.

Stephen Meisel is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at spm243@cornell.edu.

Simultaneously God, Fine Art and a Small Child: Kanye West COURTESY OF STYLOGRAPH

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he last time Zane Lowe interviewed Kanye West, the meeting of the two geniuses spawned a host of classic Ye quotes, a Jimmy Kimmel parody and a retaliatory Twitter attack written in all caps (in which West called the interview “THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS”).

Fast-forwarding to last week, the Kiwi FM radio mastermind ensured that his stellar BBC Radio 1 career would be sent out with a bang by interviewing Kanye again. Like any of his appearances, the Feb. 26 conversation was predictably erratic, including holier-than-thou boasts, a supremely half-assed Beck apology and a tearful breakdown. While Kanye’s broad-sweeping, biblical edicts were far from absent, Lowe made steps in humanizing a man who now has a “Who Said It: God or Kanye?” feature on Pitchfork.

The interview, which clocked in at around 45 minutes, lived up to all expectations as another peek into the enigma of Kanye’s persona. Personally, I had always been of the mentality that his Jesus-like character is roughly 80 percent constructed, and he is succeeding in making his life into the largest-scale, most intricate performance art piece of all time. Of course, the world will probably never know the true mélange of brilliance, craziness, immaturity, egoism and absurdity that is swirling around inside Kanye’s unsmiling head, but even if he happens to be the most genuine person ever, his life is still beautiful, thought-provoking art.

His chat with Zane Lowe (another exceptional mind, but one unfortunately largely unknown in America) was a crucial step in

both the re- and demystification of Kanye’s baffling lifestyle. As such, I think a play-by-play of the interview, accompanied by some stimulating color commentary, would make either a lovely companion piece to the conversation itself or a thoroughly incomplete summary of the juiciest bits.

“If I meet someone I respect or look up to, I will literally kiss their feet.”

Overlooking the trite joke I could make about how he clearly doesn’t respect anyone because he hasn’t literally kissed anyone’s feet, this quote unintentionally reveals a lot about whom Kanye respects and whom he doesn’t. Throughout the interview, he talks about certain figures in a very reverent way, including Drake and the late Hermann Deninger. He doesn’t hold back when discussing their brilliance, so this quote seems substantiated. He later gives an apology to Beck for his Grammy antics, but this line confirms the assumption that he has little respect for anyone about whom he doesn’t explicitly gush.

“The deal [with Adidas] is all about the moment when I can bring a shoe to a kid in Foot Locker and get on my knees and take it back to when I worked at the Gap, and put the shoe on his feet.”

Um, what? I don’t believe this has happened, unless the “kid in Foot Locker” is Dave Chappelle. I get that the point he’s making is that this project is for the people, but this metaphor is both a massive stretch and strange as hell. Also, side note: It’s beginning to seem like Kanye might have a thing for feet.

“Exclusivity is the new n-word … Everyone should have an opportunity to drink from the same fountain. The idea of exclusivity is a new colored people fountain concept.”

Preach, Ye, preach. You’re not wrong here.

As short-sighted as it may be to draw this distinction entirely on racial lines, he is right that expensive streetwear is often targeting the people who can least afford it. It’s too bad, though, that Kanye drove this streetwear exclusivity from 2009 to 2014 with his Nike Air Yeezys.

that wasn’t crazy.”

And we’re back to good ol’ Kanye. I wish I could provide some sort of pertinent context here but there really isn’t much. Yes, Kanye is a visionary in many ways, and I truly believe that. But, c’mon, this is the kind of shit that crazy people say.

“The guy painting the windows at the house — when we changed them from white to chocolate brown, you know, what the architect suggested — he is just as important as anyone else that walks in the house and grabs a glass of champagne.”

In attempting to illustrate a meaningful point about classism being the new racism and how money doesn’t determine a person’s value, Kanye showed a staggering lack of perspective in a single sentence. During an attempt to appeal to the commoner, he mentioned a major redecorating job based on an architect’s advice and casual, regular champagne consumption. That’s how the common man lives, right?

“When I was, ironically, having dinner with Taylor Swift, the Beck song was playing, and I was like, ‘Wow, this is really good …

Maybe I might have been wrong.’”

A New Cult It seems like this is as close as Every Day Kanye can get to a spoken apology. Despite admitting to enjoy‘Your egg. My semen. We change the world.’” ing Beck, he still barely approached actually I’ll be sure to try this at Dunbar’s. apologizing to the guy. Even though he conKanye breaks down crying while talking tinues on to admit that he’s a hypocrite, Kanye about his last meeting with the late Louise appears to have too much pride to take serious Wilson, a fashion design professor at Central responsibility for his words. At this point, I Saint Martins. began to fully realize the immense role that There’s nothing more humanizing than a immaturity likely plays in his aloof eccentriciteary breakdown. If it was a calculated move, ty. then it would be super shitty on Kanye’s part.

Lowe: “Do you think about giving her This seemed uniquely raw, though, especially [your daughter] brothers and sisters? as he says, “That’s never happened to me in an West: “Oh, I’m practicing really hard. I try interview before.” Particularly by this point, as many times a day as I can. Norry, this one this interview really made me re-examine my is for you! You need a sibling!”

“Kanye’s life as performance art” thesis in lieu As hilarious as this is, see what I said about of seeing him as an exceedingly eccentric and immaturity? out-of-touch, yet honest, person.

“You know when someone calls you crazy so Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Arts many times you start to believe it? And I and Sciences. He can be reached at almost got scared of the idea of going crazy, but msosnick@cornellsun.com. A New Cult Every I wasn’t going crazy. I was, like, the only person Day appears alternate Fridays this semester.

He did mention that further iterations of his partnership with Adidas will come at a lower price point, so it’s inspiring that he seems to have seen the light, but it’s a little frustrating that he lacks the self-awareness to admit he was a major root of the problem just a few years ago.

“Think about the kind of shit I used to say in interviews, and imagine if someone said this very thing to a girl at a bar … and she’d be like ‘Yo chill,’ like, ‘Gosh, get me out of here already.’”

Now here’s some self-awareness. It’s not every day that Kanye admits he was wrong, so remember this moment. He has faults. He’s human. That being said, I wonder how far back this change in thought was. Does he consider “eatin’ Asian pussy, all I need is sweet and sour sauce” from just a year and a half ago to be a part of his old self or his new self?

“My message was, you know, simply like,

Mike Sosnick

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Father of Marathon Victim Testifies BOSTON (AP) — With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seated at the defense table no more than 15 feet away Thursday, the father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing described the moment when he looked down at his son’s pale, torn body and realized he wouldn’t make it.

“I saw a little boy who had his body severely damaged by an explosion,” Bill Richard told the jury, “and I just knew from what I saw that there was no chance, the color of his skin, and so on.”

Martin Richard was one of three people killed in the bombing near the finish line of the race on April 15, 2013. The boy’s younger sister, 6-year-old Jane, had her leg blown off, while their older brother, Henry, suffered minor injuries.

Their father, testifying at Tsarnaev’s federal death penalty trial, spoke in a slow, halting voice but remained largely composed as he described the chaos and confusion.

He said he watched as Jane tried to get up, then fell down. He scooped her up in one arm and took Henry in the other and “tried to shield both of their eyes” as he took them away.

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turned his attention to those who still had a chance.

“I knew in my head that I needed to act quickly or we might not only lose Martin, but we might lose Jane, too,” he said.

Tsarnaev, 21, showed no reaction to the testimony and appeared to look straight ahead, not making eye contact with Richard, who sat off to the side in the witness box.

Some of the women on the jury appeared to wince at times during his testimony. Spectators in the courtroom could be heard quietly crying, including Rebekah Gregory, who lost a leg in the bombing.

As Richard testified, the jury watched a video of the father rushing to help his children. Prosecutors paused the video frequently so that Richard could explain what was happening.

A prosecutor then circled a face in a photo — a young man in a white backward baseball cap — who could be seen just behind Jane and Martin, who were standing on a metal barricade, watching the race. It was Tsarnaev, shortly before the two pressure-cooker bombs went off.

Richard took the stand as federal prosecutors continued trying to drive home the horror of the attack in such graphic detail that Tsarnaev’s lawyers objected — and were overruled.

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als. Maybe Murphy is not going to openly bash Bean for being gay, but his words stand at the very root of homophobia. To me, everything he said in this statement was a train wreck. If anyone should be speaking up on this issue, it should be players who are staunchly in favor of inclusion in baseball, not players like Daniel Murphy. I won’t be able to look at him in the same way again.

I wrote a column last year after the Richard Sherman debacle, purporting that if Sherman could become less of an egomaniac, he might serve as a role model for young football players. I take it all back. I believe we have seen the death of the athlete role model. As the Chancellor said, we are all flawed. To think that we can look up to these professional athletes, whom we know nearly nothing about, now seems ludicrous to me. It makes sense to respect an athlete for his or her abilities, because they are simply

so extraordinary — take Mantle Look up to your mom and dad. as an example. But once we start Find a role model in a teacher. calling someone a role model, They might not be perfect peowe equate part of ourselves with ple but at least, on a very perthat person and we can only be sonal level, they have made you disappointed. The Washington into who you are.

Post reported on a letter that a My brother is my role gay father wrote to Daniel model. I’ll forever be trying to Murphy in response to his com- live up to him and probably ments: “To my son, you are never will, but I’ll always know more — you are a role model. I that the way I field ground understand that may not “My brother is my role model. I’ll forever have been be trying to live up to him and probably something you signed never will. ... I’ll always have his respect up for, but and he’ll always have mine.” for better or worse, for him and others like him, you are larger than balls was influenced more by him than by any major league life.”

I think it is time to stop player. No author that I’ve ever thinking of athletes in this way. read could mean more to me Maybe I’m horribly cynical. than my brother’s advice. I can Maybe I’m killing the eight- know for sure that I’ll always year-old in me who worshipped have his respect and he’ll athletes. It’s hard to swallow. always have mine. There is no But the people we look up to are space for disappointment. That supremely important. If they is all I need. disappoint us, we disappoint ourselves; our judgment was Scott Chiusano can be reached at wrong, our morals were skewed. sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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sidelined players have left holes in the Red squad, the slew of injuries, according to Schafer, has made the team resilient.

Senior captain John McCarron said the team’s resiliency will play a major role in Cornell’s play in the weekend series.

“We’ve been battling all year long now. It’s do or die now in the playoffs,” he said. “It gives you extra incentive and we should have confidence going in against Union, having b e a t t h e m “This is one of the few b o t h years where, from top times this y e a r. to bottom, every team There is is a good team.” no excuses any Cole Bardreau more to be made.

We’re in the playoffs, so it’s a message that the upperclassmen need to give to the younger guys.”

Senior wing Cole Bardreau, who was named to the All-Ivy First Team on Thursday alongside Ryan, said that there have been reasons beyond injury that the team has struggled this year.

“The league is also just really good this year,” Bardreau said. “This is one of the few years where, from top to bottom, every team is a good team and they’re going to bring it every night. There is no easy night. Obviously, our goal scoring is struggling too and that’s holding us back, but it’s really a testament to how good our league is.”

The Red took both games of the season

series against the Dutchmen this season, winning, 5-1, at Union in January while stringing together a 2-1 victory in late February. Schafer said that the team’s strengths, defense and goaltending, are the backbone to a strong playoff team. “[A good playoff team is] a big strong physical team where you play a good style of hockey [and] where you can wear another team down over two or three series,” Schafer said.

“It’s not just one game. It is a series, and when you play that same team back-to-back nights, you have that carry over from that first night to help you in that second night.”

John McCarron has seen other players step up in light of the team’s extensive injuries.

Goaltender Mitch Gillam, named to the AllIvy Second Team, has been atop the goaltending statistics charts all year long.

“The guys have been given an opportunity to step up, especially in Joel Lowry’s role,” John McCarron said. “He’s a huge loss for us and other guys have been able to shine brightly in those roles and take over, which has been great for us. Some guys need to fill into these roles and they’re already going to have played there.”

Bardreau hopes to see the team play its best game of hockey for the full 60 minutes.

“If we compete for a full 60 minutes and we’re doing the little things, [like] winning puck battles [and] getting first to the puck, I think that we’re one of the best teams in the league,” Bardreau said. “There is no one that we [can’t] beat if we do that and with a fresh start here with the playoffs, we’re going to look to follow through on that and try to find some success.”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.

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ECAC Red | Senior defender Joakim Ryan, one of the top contributors for the Red on the ice, has struggled with injury throughout the season.

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By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s and women’s polo teams are off to a solid start to the second half of the polo season. The women’s team has won three of its past four matches this season, winning against teams from the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, Stanford University and Wisconsin. Following the women’s lead, the men’s team is also on a winning streak, winning its past three matches against the University of Virginia, the West Shore Polo Club and the

University of Connecticut. This past weekend coming off of momentum from previous wins, both the women’s and men’s teams went into matches against the University of Virginia with confidence. These meetings were both teams’ second face-offs against UVA. Though the women lost the last match against UVA, which was played in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Red was enthusiastic about playing UVA again on its home turf at Oxley. Sophomore Emma Eldredge and juniors Anna Winslow and Devin Cox started the match for the Red. The match began with the Cavaliers in the lead and UVA stayed

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Galloping to victory | The men’s polo team was able to earn a victory over UVA this weekend, coming out ahead by eight points.

ahead throughout the first chukker.

The Red took back the lead in the second and held UVA scoreless throughout the rest of the chukker. At half, the overall score was 7-2 in Cornell’s favor. During the third chukker, the Cavaliers tried to regain its lead. With the Cavaliers coming close to taking the lead, just two points behind the Red, Cornell stepped up in the fourth chukker and outscored UVA, 6-1.

The Red won the match with a final score of 15-8. It was a high scoring match for the Red, with Winslow tallying seven goals, Cox with five and Eldredge with one.

Like the women’s team, the men’s team saw success against the Cavaliers. Sophomore Ignacio Masias and seniors Nick Stieg and Alex Langlois started the match for the Red. The first chukker began with a 4-1 lead in Cornell’s favor, which was quickly equalized, with the teams ending the first chukker in a 5-5 tie.

The second chukker proved to be just as challenging as the first with much back-and-forth play. The teams went into the second half with an overall score of 10-9 in Virginia’s favor.

Senior Hakan Karabey replaced Langlois in the second half and helped the Red take the lead.Throughout the fourth chukker, Cornell not only kept its lead, but was able to extend it in order to break out of the back-and-forth play with the Cavaliers.The match ended in Cornell’s favor with a final score of 23-15. The match ended in Masias tallying 14 goals, followed by Stieg with six, and Langlois with one.

“This weekend we took on and beat our biggest rival, UVA. They are usually among the favorites to win the National Tournament in April,” Langlois said. “I think the tides are turning in our favor. Our goal is to win the National tournament this year and I think we proved it to ourselves this weekend that it's a serious possibility.”

Both teams are looking forward to upcoming matches.

The women will be up against the University of Connecticut, while the men will face Giant Valley and the Huskies as well.

“We are hopeful to win our regional tournament and qualify for Nationals,” Stieg said. “We have a genuine shot at winning the championship this year and we, the players and coaches, are working tirelessly to make sure we are as well prepared for the tournament.”

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.

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Some of us had more romantic ideas about the athletes’ potential than our professor, who believed that the celebrity of athletes in modern American culture prevents them from being role models. We pushed back hard against him. What about Derek Jeter? What about LeBron James? One of my classmates, whom I respect a lot for his

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knowledge of all things sports, brought up Daniel Murphy. He’s always been one of my favorite players on the Mets as well. He’s a quiet, unassuming guy who isn’t too strong or talented, but makes up for it by playing hard every day. He took off opening day last year to be with his wife while she gave birth.

Why can’t we look up to Murphy? I remembered reading about Murphy taking heat for missing that game and I respected him.

Now, just two days after having that dis-

cussion, I think I’ve become a cynic.

Yesterday Murphy spoke out after the Mets hosted Billy Bean, the MLB’s first ambassador for inclusion. “I disagree with his lifestyle. I do disagree with the fact that Billy is a homosexual. That doesn’t mean I can’t still invest in him and get to know him. I don’t think the fact that someone is a homosexual should completely shut the door on investing in them in a relational aspect … but I do disagree with the lifestyle. 100 per-

cent,” he said.

How can anyone truly respect Daniel Murphy now? NBCSports.com reported on this article, writing that the second half of this quote suggests that Murphy’s “feelings are not that of a stereotypical homophobe.”

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Red Hosts First Round of ECAC ThisWeekend

By JOON LEE Sun Staff Writer

Inconsistency has been a hallmark trait of the Cornell men’s hockey team this season.

The Red has been unable to put together a four-point weekend since the end of November. On one night, the Red could outplay a team that has the potential to make a Men’s Hockey Men’s Hockey deep run into the postseason, but the next night, look like a team unable to win a game in the first round of the ECAC tournament.

Cornell Cornell As the team pursues its 13th ECAC Hockey Championship, Cornell looks to turn around the season-long narrative of inconsistent play as the team prepares to host vs. vs. defending national champion Union College for a best-of-three series at Lynah Rink.

Head coach Mike Schafer said that the team is better built for the playoffs than the regular season.

Union College Union College “We’re playing the same team. A lot of these series, they go two out of three and Tonight, 7 p.m.

Tomorrow, 7 p.m. you’ve got to be ready for anything in a Ithaca, N.Y. Ithaca, N.Y. series,” Schafer said. “I think the physicality of our team is built for the playoffs and any physicality that we’re going to have on a team in the first night is going to carry over to the team in the second night.”

The team has been hit hard by significant injuries this season. Top contributors such

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Post-season ice | Senior wing Cole Bardreau was named to the All-Ivy First Team on Thursday with senior defender Joakim Ryan.

as senior defenseman Joakim Ryan, junior defenseman Reese Wilcox and freshman defenseman Patrick McCarron have all missed considerable time due to injury. Senior wing Joel Lowry was ruled out for the year after undergoing back surgery. Although these See HOCKEY page 14

Death of the Red Notches Win Against Colgate Wednesday Role Model “W WOMEN’S LACROSSE

By JOEL COOPER

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s lacrosse team bounced back from a tough weekend against the University of Albany, beating local rivals Colgate, 11-5, Wednesday evening. The Red (2-1) was coming off the back of a close result against Albany last Saturday, where a last minute goal for the Great Danes gave Albany the 12-11 victory.

Such a close loss was understandably a disappointment for Cornell who, according to sophomore midfielder Amie Dickson, lacked intensity and aggression in the second half, allowing Albany back in the game. However, the Red was determined to step up its game and make the changes needed to bring home the win against Colgate.

“We were not happy about our loss against Albany, especially with the lack of energy in the second half, but it fired us up to come out strong against Colgate for our first win on Schoellkopf,” Dickson said. “We really wanted to play

a full 60 minutes with the same amount of effort from the start to the end of the game.”

Cornell showed its intensity from the start against Colgate who, after attacking the Red’s goal for over six minutes, was stripped of possession and quickly brought down to its defensive end of the field. Cornell then got on the scoreboard after senior attacker Lindsay Toppe notched a Red goal. Colgate continued to pose a threat in the first half, winning four draw controls, however, the Raiders were no match for a powerful Cornell defense.

After Colgate eventually broke through to level the score, the Red’s attack got back into action, scoring four in a row to build a commanding lead, after having 12 shots on goal in the first half compared to Colgate’s 3.

At halftime, Cornell led, 5-2, and once the break was over it wasted no time, scoring the first two goals of the break. The game then tightened up once more, with the teams trading goals back and forwards until the Red went on the BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Bouncing back | Sophomore midfielder Amie Dickson had four draw controls and six points on the attacking end in the Red’s game against Colgate on Wednesday.

run again, netting three, two from sophomore attacker Catherine Ellis.

Cornell’s defense continued to play hard, only allowing one goal in the last 21 minutes and getting 10 turnovers for the night. The final score finished, 11-5, to the Red, with Dickson recording a career high six points thanks to three goals and three assists. Toppe finished with two goals and junior attacker Emily Tripodi and Ellis both netted two as well.

According to head coach Jenny Graap, Cornell was able to dominate Colgate — a team that had averaged 12 goals per game before its competition against the Red — because of its increased intensity and work rate.

“Overall, the coaches felt the energy and the effort was consistent over 60 minutes which was a point of emphasis going into the game,” Graap said. “Our defensive unit was really solid tonight and Dickson really stepped up with four draw controls and six points on the attacking end.”

Despite an impressive final score, Graap thinks the red still has work to do in its attack as it heads into its first Ivy League game against Yale on Saturday.

“I’d like to see our Cornell attackers scoring on their shots at a higher percentage,” Graap said. “Our offense is generating shots, but we need to improve on both power and placement in order to score more goals.”

However, if the Red attacks Yale from the start with the same aggression it used against Colgate, Cornell has a good chance to bring home the win in its first conference game of the 2015 season.

“Every conference game is crucial and every athlete on our squad needs to bring intensity, desire and discipline to the game [against] Yale,” Graap said.

“Competition within the Ivy League is always intense and we can expect a battle on Saturday in New Haven.”

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

e all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.” The Chancellor in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII speaks these wise words, and I think they are particularly relevant now. I just finished reading Mickey Mantle’s biography for my class on baseball in literature, and if ever there was

Scott Chiusano Who’s on First a man who embodied those words, it is the Mick.

Severely flawed, broken down by injury and alcoholism, Mantle was at once America’s greatest hero of the 1950’s and at the same time a shell of a man, tortured by himself. But he could tear the cover off of a baseball, and he was adored because of it. I obviously never had the pleasure of seeing Mantle play, but I’ve worn his number for all of my baseball playing days because he was my Uncle’s favorite player. He was America’s favorite player.

Though we could have spent the two hours of class time discussing Mantle as a player, what he was and what he could have been (he was only a .298 career hitter and is still considered one of the best ever), we chose instead to talk about his legacy as a man. The biography delves deep into his post-baseball life, which was wrought with affairs, alcoholism and severe loneliness. The man America fell in love with could not love himself. This led us to a discussion about professional athletes as role models and whether or not such role models existed anymore.

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