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Cornellians Remember Garrett at Vigil Students, administrators unite to honor Cornell’s late President by candlelight

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Hundreds of Cornellians gathered on Ho Plaza Tuesday evening for a candlelight vigil honoring President Elizabeth Garrett, who died of colon cancer at her home in New York City on Sunday night.

Attendees listened solemnly as student leaders and administrators payed their respects to President Garrett and the Cornell Big Red Marching Band played the Alma Mater.

Vice President of Student and Campus Life, Ryan Lombardi remembered how he was one of the first people who Garrett hired to join her administration, saying he knew from their first conversation that she would be a wonderful colleague.

“I remember the night vividly that I first met with her,” he said. “We had about a two hour long Skype conversation and when I got off of Skype that night, I went home and told my wife that there was no question I

would work for her if given the opportunity. It was incred- about her students, stressing ultimately what mattered ible and I think most people who had the chance to inter- most to her was “that Cornell was moving forward in a way that would serve students the best that it could.” act with President Garrett felt that same connection.”

“I think it’s important that you all know that, that’s Lombardi added that despite the complications of her what your president was all illness, Garrett repeatedly about up until the days before expressed to him how much she regretted not being able “Please let them know how much I care her last breaths,” he said. “I’m to be interact with students about them, how much I respect them and honored to have had the chance to work with her and I during her treatment. how proud I am to be their President.” look forward to carrying on “I was in touch with her — as we all should — the until the day before she President Elizabeth Garrett incredible vision that she set passed,” he said. “I had an out for all of us and for this email from President Garrett great institution.” from about 4:30 in the Michaela Olson ’16, a former drum major for the Big morning that said ‘Please tell the students that I’m so sorry that I will not be able to see them today. I feel terrible that Red Marching Band, said she will always remember how I can’t be there to listen to their concerns. Please let them President Garrett represented the Cornell spirit.

“Beth is in every note and every melody and every song know how much I care about them, how much I respect them and how proud I am to be their President.’”

Lombardi added that until the end, Garrett cared See VIGIL page 5

In memory | Attendees gathered in front of Willard Straight Hall to remember President Garrett on Tuesday evening.

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C.U. Basketball Player Arrested On Rape, Strangulation Charges

By JOON LEE and STEPHANIE YAN Sun Senior Writer and Sun Assistant News Editor

Cornell police arrested Xavier Eaglin ’19 Sunday on charges of rape, sexual assault and strangulation, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

CUPD charged Eaglin with firstdegree rape, three counts of first-degree criminal sexual assault and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation.

Eaglin, 19, is a forward on Cornell’s men’s basketball team and is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has played nine minutes total in seven games this season. While he did not score a point, Eaglin recorded one steal

and one block. $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond.

Eaglin is a native of Raymond, A preliminary hearing will be held Texas and was named District Player of Friday at 2:30 p.m., according to the Year as a senior at CUPD. Dayton High School, “The Cornell Univeraccording to the sity Police urge anyone Cornell Basketball blog who has been a victim of report. Prior to comsexual assault to call 911 mitting to Cornell, to receive police assisEaglin received offers tance, emergency health from Yale, Columbia care for injuries, get and Loyola University access to supportive servMaryland. ices and — if you choose Eaglin was charged to do so — to report a with four Class B crime,” the CUPD press EAGLIN ’19 felonies and one Class release reads.

A misdemeanor. He was arraigned Monday and was remanded to the The Sun news department can be Tompkins County Jail in lieu of reached at news-editor@cornellsun.com.

Weill Cancer Fund Created For President Elizabeth Garrett Two days after President Elizabeth Garrett died of colon cancer, Dean Laurie Glimcher of Weill Cornell Medical announced the launch of The President Elizabeth Garrett Fund for Colon Cancer Research on Tuesday.

The creation of this fund a fulfillment of one of Garrett’s last wishes, according to Glimcher.

“Before her untimely death, Beth expressed her desire to create a fund at Weill Cornell Medicine to advance research in colon cancer,” Glimcher said.

Glimcher stressed that while Garrett’s death is a tragedy, it is also an opportunity for reflection.

“It’s also a painful reminder of why we’re all here — to advance medical research and offer patients the best care, so that they can achieve their dreams and live as fully as possible,” she said.

— Compiled by Madeline Cohen

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A policeman ticketed and fined Mehic last month asserting the belch was too loud — and too close for comfort. But many took his side, including an Istanbulbased company serving the sliced meat sandwich that saw Mehic’s punishment as a downer for the doner.

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Officers had felt it their duty to look after the fish until the owner was found, Bech said Monday. He said the fish had been “well looked after.”

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Scooby-Doo Like Van Escapes California Police REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Northern California police have a real mystery on their hands.

A driver of a mini-van painted to resemble the “Mystery Machine” from the Scooby Doo cartoon series led Redding police on a high-speed chase reaching speeds in excess of 100 mph Sunday afternoon before giving her pursuers the slip.

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Kraftees Closes Doors After10 Years of Collegetown Operations

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

New plan | The first plans for Dryden South were made before Kraftees announced its closure.

After over 10 years in Ithaca, the Collegetown location of Kraftees College Textbook and Clothing store will close its doors at the end of March.

While there is another location of Kraftees in Oswego — approximately 75 miles away — the Ithaca location is closing permanently, according to owner Patrick Kraft.

Plans are in place to build an apartment building, Dryden South, where Kraftees was formerly located. It will have 40 new beds and should be completed by August 2016, according to Kraft.

Although Kraft had originally planned to have Kraftees occupy the ground floor space of Dryden South, because the Johnson School will house a new education center next door, Kraft said he decided to “explore other more complementary uses for the commercial space.”

Kraft said that although he regrets that he must leave his Ithaca location, he is looking forward to spending more time with his family.

“I have proudly served the Ithaca community since 2002, but I felt that moving forward with a new building on the site would help to better serve the community as a whole,” Kraft See KRAFTEES page 5

Prof Addresses Misconceptions of Islam Critiques Western, gender-biased interpretations of the Qur’an

By KAUSHIK DE Sun Contributor

Prof. Nimat Barazangi, feminist, gender and sexuality studies, challenged the view that Islam is a religion of submission in her, discussion of the West’s understanding of Islam in a lecture Monday.

Barazangi began by explaining some of the “academic jargon” that she said pervades discussions of Islam.

“Islam comes from the Arabic word ‘aslama.’ It means being at peace with oneself,” she said. “It does not come from the root ‘sallama,’ meaning submission.”

Barazangi also highlighted the differences between Shari’ah and shari’a law.

“Shari’ah, with a capital ‘S,’ is the path that is guided by Qur’anic ethos in its totality to achieve justice,” she said. “It is neither the collection of rules derived by Muslim

jurists, nor the interpretations that were solidified by Muslim leaders … under ‘Islamic law’ or ‘shari’a law’ with a small ‘s.’”

Barazangi stressed this clarification, saying “the massive use and abuse of the terms Islam and Shari’ah as the cause for the motives of violence should be the main drive for us to rethink the meaning of these terms.”

Barazangi added that modern shari’a law, and thereby Western views of Islamic states, stem from misunderstanding of the Qur’an, which she called “the primary and only divine source,” and the Hadith, or “secondary source” of narratives relating to Mohammed.

“When an individual Muslim accepts the reported narratives that ‘women are inferior in faith,’ this individual could not have understood the message of the Qur’an,” Barazangi said. “Unfortunately, a majority

of modern Muslims erroneously believe that all shari’a rules are binding morally and legally to the Qur’an.”

She urged attendees to rethink the Hadith saying most of the gender-biased interpretations of the Qur’an rely on the reported narratives in the Hadith. These narratives are often misused without corroborating their narratives with the Qur’an, according to Barazangi.

“I urge Muslim women, and men for that matter, to rethink the Hadith,” Barazangi said.

Namit also said that Hadith narratives “directly contradict” the Qur’an numerous times, pointing out that --Qur’an opposing slavery and equal distribution of inheritance amongst children regardless of gender, while sections of the Hadith claim the opposite.

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Misinformation | Prof. Nimat Barazangi speaks on the Western view of Islamic religion and law on Monday.

Alumni Startup Creates World’s First Smartphone Glucose Meter

By ALEX CHAKRIN Sun Contributor

Fathi Abdelsalam MPA ’13 and his colleagues at AkibaH — a Silicon Valley startup specializing in utilizing data science has created the world’s first smartphone glucose meter.

The meter, GluCase, utilizes smartphone technology to provide information to diabetes patients about their glucose levels.

“By seamlessly integrating a glucose meter, test strips and lancets into a smartphone case, it

eliminates the need for a person with diabetes to carry bulky meters, test supplies and logbooks,” Abdelsalam said.

The project founders said that the name, AkibaH comes from ‘akiba haiozi’ — a Swahili proverb that meaning “a person with foresight will always know prosperity.”

“AkibaH focuses heavily on machine learning for personalized, data-driven care to empower patients,” Abdelsalam said. “As you increase the size of relevant data, you’ll begin to unlock extraordinarily insightful correlations

among many different lifestyle factors.”

The founders created GluCase to simplify a traditionally bulky and burdensome glucose meter into a form that could fit onto the back of a smartphone and appeal to a large audience, Abdelsalam said.

“AkibaH and the development of the GluCase began spring 2013 at Cornell in response to the team’s self-imposed challenge to drastically improve the lives of people living with diabetes” he said.

The group began as a collection

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of Cornell students with a back- insightful correlations among ground in engineering and data many different lifestyle factors.”

As a start-up specializing in science, according to Paul Chang data science and health care, the M.Eng. ’17. group found “I was friends that their with one of the biggest initial founders, challenge was Haroon Ismail making sure MBA ’13, and that they found he reached out a solution that to me to see if I fit the needs of knew of any their customers. mechanical engi“After speakneers that can help with develing with countoping the medless individuals ABDELSALAM ’13 ical device,” he living with Type said.

“After 1 and Type 2 showcasing diabetes, we some of my past knew that one projects and way to accomdemonstrating plish our goal my skills in prowould be to totyping, I was simplify the soon developing form factor of a the first iteration t r a d i t i o n a l , of the GluCase.” bulky and burAbdelsalam CHANG ’17 densome glusaid that the cose meter kit founders are by integrating it excited to realize the potential of with everyone’s health care techmost prized nology in data possession — s c i e n c e . our smart“AkibaH focuses p h o n e , ” heavily on Abdelsalam said. machine learnCornell ing for personalopportunities ized, data-driven played a large ISMAIL ’13 care to empower role in steering patients,” he said. “As you increase the founder’s engineering backthe size of relevant data, you’ll See STARTUP page 5 begin to unlock extraordinarily

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“Beth is in every note and every melody and every song that the band plays to bring spirit and celebration to Cornell University.”

Michaela Olson ’16

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Grieving Garrett | Cornellians gather on Ho Plaza for a candlelight vigil to honor the life of President Elizabeth Garrett on Tuesday.

Cornellians Honor President Garrett at Candlelight Vigil VIGIL

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“Beth is in every note and every melody and every song that the band plays to bring spirit and celebration to Cornell University,” she said. “We are not only wishing her farewell, but inviting her to stay with us and inspire us as we work to making her vision a reality.”

Other attendees said they came to the vigil both to show their support for Garrett and for the Cornell community.

“I wanted to support the community and show that Elizabeth Garrett is in our thoughts and prayers, and I think it’s a good opportunity for all of us to come together and think about how short and precious life really is,” said Lory Henderson, grad.

Shikhorshams Wahad ’19, called Garrett an “integral part” of his Cornell experience, citing her pioneer status as Cornell’s first female president as a source of inspiration.

“[Garrett] was a true inspiration as the first female president at Cornell. She was part of the Cornell expereince for me .... As a freshman I used to think of her when I think of Cornell.”

Shikhorshams Wahad ’19 “She was a true inspiration as the first female president at Cornell,” he said. “She was part of the Cornell experience for me … As a freshman, I used to think of her when I think of Cornell. I’m deeply saddened by what happened.”

Chris Arce ’19, one of the event’s organizers, said the vigil marked a change from the moment of silence on Monday.

“Yesterday we were observing, it had just happened,” he said. “But today it was good to actually reflect and speak about President Garrett so we could come together as a community and grieve but also rejoice in the fact that we had her for the time that we did.”

He added that he helped organize the event to honor Garrett’s legacy, remembering her commitment to the idea that a sense of community should supercede self.

“Last year during convocation she stressed how it’s important to have a purpose that extends beyond ourselves,” Arce said. “I really think that by gathering here tonight we can show that although she was only president for a few months, she really was invested and her purpose extended beyond herself.”

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

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C-Town Kraftees Location to Close This Month KRAFTEES

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improve our service to Cornell students and faculty.”

Kraft said he is grateful to his faithful customers who have visited the store over the past decade.

“Opening the store in Collegetown has been an excellent experience since day one, and the foray of people since that time has provided many fond memories,” he said.

Kraft said he recalls many special memories at Kraftees, including housing Cornell memorabilia at his store before his team moved down the street.

“When we occupied 325 College Ave., we had a crew boat from Cornell Crew hanging in the store,” Kraft said. “It was used in multiple championship races and really helped create a lot of pageantry in the store. When the building was closed and we were

forced to move, taking down that boat was a solemn moment.”

Kraft added that he hopes the Cornell community will always appreciate what his store offered to the community.

“[Kraftees] had everything the Cornell store had, but at a discounted rate.”

Adon Chowdhury ’18

“We hope in the coming weeks that the community will make one last stop to Kraftees,” he said. “We hope that we are remembered fondly and that we will be missed.”

Alumni Create Glucose Reader STARTUP

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prized possession — our smartphone,” he said.

The founders’ Cornell education and relationships played a large role in steering the founder’s toward product design and development, according to Chang.

“I was friends with one of the founders, Haroon Ismail MBA ’13, and he reached out to me to see if I knew of any mechanical engineers that can help with developing the medical device,” he said.

“After showcasing some of my past projects and demonstrating my skills in prototyping, I was soon developing the first iteration of the GluCase.”

After raising the necessary funds to launch the product on the crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, AkibaH is in the process of beginning production and clinical studies this month, according to the group’s crowdfunding page.

Alexander Chakrin can be reached at awc83@cornell.edu.

Trump Wins Two Primaries; Clinton Takes Mississippi; Sanders Wins in Michigan LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan’s primary Tuesday night, chipping away at Hillary Clinton's dominance in the Democratic presidential race.

Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in both Michigan and Mississippi, overcoming fierce efforts to blunt his momentum.

Even with Sanders’ win, Clinton and Trump moved closer to a general election face-off.

Clinton breezed to an easy victory in Mississippi, propelled by overwhelming support from black voters, and she now has more than half the delegates she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination. Trump, too, padded his lead over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who carried the Idaho primary.

The front-runners turned their sights on November as they reveled in their wins.

"We are better than what we are being offered by the Republicans," Clinton declared.

In a nod toward the kind of traditional politics he’s shunned, Trump emphasized the importance of helping Republican senators and House members get elected in the fall. Having entered Tuesday's contests facing a barrage of criticism from rival candidates and outside groups, he also delighted in overcoming the attacks.

“Every single person who has attacked me has gone down,” Trump said at one of his Florida

resorts. He was flanked by tables packed with his retail products, including steaks, bottled water and wine, and defended his business record more thoroughly than he outlined his policy proposals for the country.

Sanders (D-Vt.) meanwhile, said Michigan signaled “that we are a national campaign.”

“We already have won in the Midwest, New England and the Great Plains and as more people get to know more about who we are and what our views are we’re going to do very well,” the Vermont senator said in a statement.

While a handful of recent losses to Cruz have raised questions about Trump’s durability, Tuesday’s contests marked another lost opportunity for rivals desperate to stop his march to the nomination. Next week’s winnertake-all contests in Ohio and Florida loom large as perhaps the last chance to block him short of a contested convention fight.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich was in a fight with Cruz for second place in Michigan and hoping a good showing would give him a boost heading into next week's crucial contest in his home state.

For Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Tuesday marked the latest in a series of disappointing nights. He emerged from Michigan and Mississippi with no new delegates, a grim outcome for a candidate who has the overwhelming support from Republican senators, governors and other elected officials.

Several students mentioned that they will miss the lower textbook prices the store offered, calling them much better than those at the Cornell Store.

“They had everything the Cornell store had, but at a discounted rate,” said Adon Chowdhury ’18, who added that he will now have to find a new place to buy textbooks. “The Cornell store overprices their textbooks, so I’ll probably end up using Amazon or online sources instead.”

James Jiang ’18 said he will miss Kraftees’ convenience and friendly customer service.

“The people who work at Kraftees are really nice,” Jiang said.

“They always give me a free Cornell shirt whenever I buy books there.”

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

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the level of the Qur’an.”

Barazangi argues that Qur’anic instructions concerning women have not been fully practiced development of “since The Prophet established the first Muslim community in the seventh century.”

“I urge Muslim The Professor urged Muslim women to reread the Qur’an, women, and Muslim calling the act of reinterpretamen for that matter, to tion “scholarship-activism”, and rethink the Hadith.” called on an intrafaith reformation to shift the world’s view of Prof. Nimat Barangzi Islam.

Barazangi explained that the shari’a law in the Hadith narratives is what has led to the modern status of women in Islamicmajority countries.

“Despite the fact that the Qur’anic guidance were intended to change the tribal patriarchal norms of the time, women have been mostly absent in shaping and developing Muslim thought,” Barazangi said. “They were hardly involved in developing the rules of jurisprudence ... The biased rules were solidified and elevated to

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A Reflection On 2016 1vyG

ast weekend, I was one of the many students who were given the opportunity of a lifetime of representing Cornell University, First in Class, in the 2016 Inter Ivy League First generation College Student Conference at Harvard University. It was a powerful, yet deeply emotional experience to meet 300 first gens like me who, despite being a student at an elite university, came from very humble backgrounds.

As we departed Cornell from the Office of Academic Diversity (OADI), memories of how it all started began to rewind in the corners of my mind. I transferred to Cornell from a community college in Maryland. While at community college, I was a full-time student and worked multiple jobs so I could pay for college and also help my family. In addition, I was also very involved on campus, especially the Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society. Life was tough but with continuous support from my mentors in the community college, I was able to graduate with two associate degrees. While I was thinking that a fouryear college was not even an option for me because of high tuition, I was surprised to know that I was one of the recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, nation’s largest and proba-

dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, I did not know that he was a Cornellian too. When I briefly mentioned him my story of being a first gen immigrant student, which later he mentioned in his speech while addressing the mass of outstanding first gen students from across the country, he said that it reminded him of the struggles of his parents as immigrants to this country. He could relate to the identity of being a first gen college student with many of us. In his speech, he showed how deeply he cared about making Harvard and the community a welcoming home for first gens.

Later that weekend, I met with Ted White and Anna Barros, two incredible first gens at Harvard who were also the co-chairs of the conference. Anna served as the President of the Harvard College First Generation College Student Union and Ted as the Vice-President. Their tireless work with many other students from Harvard had made this event a reality. In their speech, several times, they showed the genuine passion they possessed for a change, a wave to make the nation’s most elite colleges inclusive towards first gens.

In one of the group discussions, I joined my fellow First in Class members and mobilizers to talk about the ways in which we could bring the message home

1vyG taught me to take pride in my first generation status and lead with the same passion as that of Anna Barros and Ted White to create a wave of change in our home: Cornell! bly, the most prestigious scholarship for low-income, high achieving students.

This generous scholarship opened the doors of Cornell for me.

As I climbed up the slope from the West Campus every morning for my classes in the beautiful fall weather, I was incredibly excited for my new identity: a proud Cornellian. I was thankful for the opportunity given to me. But soon, I realized that many students did not come from the background like mine. It was not until I found OADI, I was comfortable with my transition to Cornell. It was OADI where I met with some of the kindest people at Cornell: William “Woodg” Horning, Ricardo Gonzalez, Sarah Anderson and Trey Waller. I was also fortunate to have Professor Cole Gilbert as my faculty advisor who himself was a transfer student during his college years. Despite being one of the top insect biologists in the world and the director of the undergraduate biology at Cornell, he was very welcoming, kind and had a big heart for transfer students. Without the support from these people and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, I would probably have been lost in the sea of students; I would have probably asked to myself if I really belonged here.

With those memories flashing back, I reached Harvard College where I stayed with my host student and another first gen from Brown University. The next morning, when I shook the hand of the

from the conference and use it to make Cornell more inclusive towards the first gen college students. Many students might not know about the Cornell First in Class, First Generation Student Union which seeks to support, encourage and empower first generation students on campus. We made agendas to reach out to those students on campus by coordinating with various colleges within the University and letting the incoming first gens know that we exist, and we care about them!

1vyG taught me to take pride in my first generation status and lead with the same passion as that of Anna Barros and Ted White to create a wave of change in our home: Cornell! I am excited about the new possibilities but it will only be possible with Cornell’s generous funding to OADI and First In Class initiatives.

This is also an opportunity for Cornell to set an example, as it always has to be a home where any person can get instruction in any field of study. The question is, when that any person is a first gen from a low-income background, how much Cornell cares to reach out to these students, and go beyond its limits to create an environment where their background is not the predictor of their success.

Sagar Chapagain is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Akshay Jain | College Stuff

Fuller House And Stuff

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hat ever happened to predictability? This question often haunts me late at night. Whether your answer is innovation in the television industry or increased competition between networks and online streaming services, we can all agree that there’s never really been a better time to be a TV viewer. With unpredictable shows like Master of None, House of Cards and Transparent available at the flick of da wrist, we never really have to settle for the same, boring sitcoms of the past. But what if you just really want to watch a shitty old sitcom?

Everywhere you look, someone is probably watching Netflix. If you walk through the sixth floor stacks, you might catch me watching a quick episode of Love or Louie in between classes. While these shows have positive ratings on Metacritic, I’ll admit I do have one embarrassing guilty pleasure. I love Full House. As a son of Indian migrant parents, the show has always been way for me to peek into the lives of the traditional American family. Just kidding. But Full House has always been able to provide me with plenty of giggles and heartwarming moments. You can probably imagine my euphoria upon hearing Netflix’s recent release of Fuller House, a spinoff of the beloved 90’s sitcom.

Whether it’s the milkman or the paperboy, almost everyone I know was talking about Fuller House this month. When I finally started it, I was not disappointed.

The first episode plays out like a Full House fan’s wet

When I’m feeling lost out there and all alone, I usually seek out things I’m comfortable or familiar with. Fuller House is essentially this. As many critics have already concluded, Fuller House is pretty much the same Full House characters playing out the same old Full House plots. dream. Everyone’s favorite family is back under the same roof one last time, with the exception of the Olsen twins, but let’s be honest, they’re entirely too cool for a Full House spinoff anyway. The family has gathered back in their Full House home to take it all in before Danny sells it. However, after learning of DJ’s struggles as a recently widowed single mom, Danny gives the home to DJ, and Kimmy and Stephanie stay back to help her raise her family. It’s like Full House, but with girls!

When I’m feeling lost out there and all alone, I usually seek out things I’m comfortable or familiar with.

Fuller House is essentially this. As many critics have already concluded, Fuller House is pretty much the same Full House characters playing out the same old Full House plots. That doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. Don’t get me wrong, Fuller House is a god-awful show, but that’s okay. It’s kind of like watching your good friend’s terrible improv group. You understand what you’re in for, prepare yourself for the occasion and somehow the laughs come. It’s not about the quality of the jokes, it’s all about the familiarity and love you have for your old friend.

When watching Fuller House, there’s a heart (there’s a heart) to the show. Every character seems genuinely happy to be working with their old co-workers again.

While some of the cast has found more success than others, there doesn’t appear to be any jealousy or animosity amongst the actors. In every interview the cast has done, a certain emphasis has been placed on the idea of family.

While it may sound hard to believe, it appears the Fuller House cast has found a way to consolidate their Full House chemistry, and it’s a beautiful thing to watch.

Netflix just renewed the show for another season, so it seems we’ll never escape San Francisco’s favorite sitcom family, and I’m not complaining.

Akshay Jain is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at aj265@cornell.edu. College Stuff appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “I offer condolences for Elizabeth Garrett’s untimely death, but among the news stories, I cannot help but be shocked that she recently deprioritized Carbon Neutrality from Cornell’s goals. I must hope that among the concerns that a new president will bring forward for Cornell, that revisiting this issue will be among them...”

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lack History Month was Instagram or overhear a con- want five children or never lit, like, it was a litua- versation in Trillium and think want to get married. Just tion. And I had a feeling we’re still living in the 18th because you wouldn’t do it, that Women’s History Month and 19th centuries when all doesn’t make it wrong for was going to be too, especially women were good for was hav- someone else to engage as long when Melissa Harris-Perry ing children and keeping it’s not harming themself or started it off by leaving her post house. I get it, portraying anyone else.

All Kim posting a nude selfie at MSNBC and spilling all the females as worthy of respect tea on Twitter. (What did we probably helped us achieve does is make her more money. do before social media allowed things like the right to vote You know why? Because it us glimpses into the salacious and creates a society in which keeps her in the news — being lives of American celebrities?) Hillary Clinton could very Googled, tweeted and written But then, Kim Kardashian well become the next President about. If you’re so mad that posted a nude selfie and the of the United States. And even someone like Kim Kardashian timeline went from discussing though we’re at the very least has a platform to do and say whatever she women’s wants to, empowerstop talking ment to slutEven though we’re at the very least in the room now, about her. shaming, Stop watchs p e w i n g we cannot become complacent. It is time for ing her patriarchal feminism, womanism or whatever belief about shows. Stop nonsense and her outright women, our history and place in society you hold, to playing video game. judging Kim But don’t you for her behavadvance even further. It’s time for women’s history dare shame ior. her because Don’t get and feminism to truly make space, be accessible to her choices me wrong, I and advocate for everybody. differ from am not about yours. I can’t to post nudes imagine what to my Instagram, but as a self-identi- in the room now, we cannot the women who first fought for fied and proud feminist, I will become complacent. It is time our right to exist outside of the march for Kim, or anyone else’s for feminism, womanism or male gaze and as entities of right to do so. It does not make whatever belief about women, male consumption would think her less of a mother, woman or our history and place in soci- about Kim Kardashian and her human being worthy of respect ety you hold, to advance even place in the movement, because (and if you think it does then further. It’s time for women’s I’m not them. But, I’m confiyour penchant for respectabili- history and feminism to truly dent that I want no parts of ty politics is showing and you make space, be accessible to your “feminism” or “Women’s History” if it doesn’t include should do better). Kanye does and advocate for everybody. not need to buy her clothes or In 2016, Women’s History space for all women — women tell her to cover up — it is her Month should celebrate both of color, white women, rich body and she can do what she Rosa Parks and Claudette women, poor women, trans wants with it — contrary to Colvin, Kim Kardashian and women, queer women and popular belief.

Malala, Caitlyn Jenner and every other group of women Like Black History, Sonia Sotomayor, Michelle that has ever existed. We all Women’s History is often told Obama and Beyoncé. There has have something to contribute. through the lens of certain got to be space at the table for We all deserve the freedom to narratives — narratives that both Gloria Steinem and the do whatever we choose to with leave out women who do not girl who lives down the street our womanhood. It’s time fit the so called “mold of that has never even heard of women and men alike, truly domesticity” or engage in feminism but knows that she allow all of us, at the very least behaviors that are not deemed believes in the equality of the that. respectable and lady-like. In sexes and supports women’s some ways, we have come so rights. We as women have to Gabrielle Hickmon is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be far with regard to how we view begin to allow each other to be reached at ghickmon@cornellsun.com. and engage with women. In full human beings. People who Gabbing with Gabby appears alternate others, I look at Twitter, are sexual, silly, make mistakes, Wednesdays this semester.

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Department spotlight

Vet School Researchers Publish Largest Ever Study of Dog Genetics Study provides insights into genetic diseases in humans

By SARAH CROWE Sun Staff Writer

Cornell researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine have recently published the largest genetic study of dogs to ever be completed.

Adam Boyko, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, is the senior author of the paper. He said this study would not have been possible without the Cornell Veterinary Biobank, a collection of samples that includes the DNA of over 10,000 dogs from around the world.

“It’s a really great resource for research,” Boyko said. “If you need to get sample sizes that are beyond the capabilities of your lab, you can use the resources that [the biobank] has and much more quickly scale up studies to help you make discoveries.”

Because the researchers had access to the biobank’s samples, they were able to design a study that was vastly different from most genetic analyses of dogs, according to Boyko. He added that most traditional studies compare dogs of only one breed at a time.

In this publication, the researchers compared dogs of many different purebred breeds in a large-scale genome-wide association study.

According to Boyko, they did this by marking certain segments along the genome and analyzing the traits of the dogs that share that segment of DNA. “It gives us the zip code of where a variant that affects a disease is, and lets us know where to look [for that disease],” Boyko said.

The researchers successfully identified segments of the genome, called loci, which are associated with shedding, body size, and several inherited diseases. After identifying and analyzing 17 different loci associated with body size, the researchers were able to predict the size of a dog with 90 percent accuracy.

Boyko attributed this success to the relative simplicity of the dog genome, which is one of several reasons he believes dogs could be an excellent translational model species for genetic diseases in humans.

“Dogs are great because there’s a whole bunch of different purebred populations

and they’ve been selected for different traits ... and so you can find associations with an order of magnitude less samples than if you were doing a human study,” Boyko said.

Boyko also cited dogs’ genetic similarities to humans and said dogs often live in the same environments as people. If an environmental factor is a cause of disease in humans, it is likely also a cause of disease in dogs, who drink the same tap water and often eat the same food as the humans that they live with according to Boyko.

“If you have some sort of environmental toxin, you’re probably going to see the effects in dogs before you would see the effects in humans, if you were looking for it” Boyko said.

Boyko believes that this type of study could potentially help battle certain genetic diseases, such as cancer, in dogs as well as in humans.

“We could identify genes that are important for certain cancers in dogs, [and] if we use this mapping strategy, those genes are likely to be important in certain human cancers as well,” Boyko said. “It’ll give us a lot of insight into what’s going on, which will also help us in tailoring appropriate treatments.”

Jessica Hayward, a post doctoral researcher in Boyko’s lab and one of the first authors of the paper, says that the information in the study is a first step towards helping purebred dog populations stay healthier as well.

“Once you have these loci identified, the future goal is to develop genetic tests so that breeders can test the dogs before they breed them and then make decisions to help create healthier populations,” Hayward said.

The study was published in the journal Nature Communication, and it was made Prof. Adam Boyko publicly available online so that other scientists can expand upon it.

“It’s a fun data set to play with….researchers everywhere are using it and hopefully coming up with new discoveries too,” Boyko said.

“We could identify genes that are important for certain cancers in the in dogs, [and] if we use this mapping strategy, those genes are likely to be important in certain human cancers as well.”

Sarah Crowe can be reached at soc22@cornell.edu.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF PROF. JESSICA HAYWARD

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Furry Features | 1 Penny, a mixed-breed, and Huckleberry Finn,a golden retriever, are two of the over 4,200 dogs included in this genetic study of complex disease and morphological traits; 2 Huckleberry Finn is one of the purebred dogs in the study.

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Spotlight: BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE Director Discusses Dept.

Presence and Opportunities

By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Contributor

Nestled among some of Cornell’s most contemporary edifices, Phillips Hall can be easy to miss.

Regardless, it is home to the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering which is engaged in some of the most cutting edge work on campus.

That has been the case since 1883, when the discipline of electrical engineering began to rise on Cornell’s fledgling campus. Indeed, this discipline was the first of its kind in the nation, and while other schools would soon follow, it was rarely without Cornell’s leadership.

Stanford, for instance, started a similar program the following year—“by stealing members of our faculty,” Clifford Pollock, the current director of electrical and computer engineering, is quick to add that qualifier with a smile.

One would be hard pressed to find an individual more eager to talk about their program. Professor Pollock, who joined ECE in 1983, for instance, has no struggle in creating replies when asked about fields in which ECE has been a pioneer.

These include high voltage transformers and wiring, oscilloscopes, cathode tubes, and the first good textbooks on electrical circuits, to name a few.

These developments were not the result of an initial spate of successes at a time in which few schools competed with Cornell. Even as some of the nation’s top institutions rose to prominence in electrical engineering, ECE continued to pave the way.

For instance, ECE was on the vanguard in developing the infrastructure necessary for work in planar and inner circuits. In 1980, it became home to the first nanofabrication facility in higher education — which included the development of the first national clean room for public use at a university. Today, too, ECE continues to break new ground. Pollock explained that while most programs continue to work on all things digital, Cornell is leading the pack in delving once again into analogue circuitry in which we have been the leader for the last 10 or 15 years.

The work of ECE does not only benefit engineers and electricians, either: one area in which ECE faculty and students are currently dedicating significant energy is molecular beam epitaxy which Pollock explains has important applications in consumer technology. By allowing the growth of extremely thin layers of exotic materials, MBEs permit construction of goods like more powerful batteries without the need to enhance their size. Such technology has far-reaching applications in a world where

Silicon Valley continues to delve into smaller wearables. One example is the new security issues that arise alongside the proliferation of electronic systems.

“How, for instance, do we assure that chips being produced abroad don’t ship with backdoors?”

Pollock asked.

This problem, too, falls within the purview of ECE. Still, the obstacles being tackled by ECE are not only research-oriented. Anyone walking through Phillips’s second floor would be hard pressed not to notice the shiny, glass-walled room under construction. A straight shot from Phillips’s Campus Road entrance, the refurbished space is the Maker Lab, a personal undertaking of Pollock.

The Maker Lab, which Pollock joked is the “only nice space in Phillips Hall,” aims help students

campus and an electronic classroom such that students in both locales can take classes at the other.

Here, yet again, ECE finds itself on the forefront.

What is it, then, that makes Cornell the right environment for electrical engineering?

“Cornell has a culture of interaction. You don’t just work within your department. The whole university sort of talks to each other. It truly is a culture of interacting with other departments.” Pollock said.

He backed this up with an anecdote: sometime ago, Pollock said he was trying to hire a faculty member from Princeton. Upon inquiring why the sought after faculty member would want to leave Princeton, Pollock said he was met with a reassuring reply: “because you guys work together.”

That, and excellent professors is what makes ECE a great field to study according to Rohan Ghosh, ’18.

“All of my ECE professors have been great—whether entertaining and funny, or just really knowledgeable,” he said.

Pollock himself does not escape praise: “he’s the head of the department, yet he teaches an introductory course in circuits in his spare time” Ghosh said.

As an electrical engineer hoping to minor in Computer Science, Ghosh himself is no stranger to the sorts of collaboration and crossover Pollock identifies as key to Cornell.

As the dividing lines between different fields continue to blur, the Pollock question becomes one of the role ECE will play in the future. To this end, Pollock said that he came across an electrical engineering curriculum from 1883. On it was “telegraphy, electric lighting, and things like fields and waves,” he said. Electric lighting, he proceeds to explain, is now transitioning into solid state lighting like LEDs. Communication is as prominent as ever with the rise of networks, the modern form of telegraphy.

This shows that technologies may change, but with each advancement new challenges arise—“but instead of going at one bit per second with the telegraph, we are going at a terabit per second.”

So will ECE still be around in fifty years?

“We take science and math and make it practical… we are the bridge, and I think we will always be there.” Pollock said.

Nevertheless, Pollock does see one scenario in which the need for a College of Computer and Electrical Engineering ceases.

“Perhaps when we all want to turn the lights off that will be the end of us,” he declared. “But I don’t foresee that happening in my lifetime.”

“Cornell has a culture of interaction. You don’t just work within your department. The whole university sort of talks to each other. ” Director, Prof.Clifford understand their devices better.

“Growing up, I had to fix my bike every weekend.

These days, if an item breaks, you take it back to the manufacturer because it’s so high-tech, or just throw it away.”

In the Maker lab, ECE students will have access to a wall full of materials that they can use at any time to make circuits. It is a space where ECE students will be able to “go in and play, and make something,”Pollock said.

All the progress on the Ithaca campus aside, perhaps ECE’s most significant current project is its emerging role in New York City’s Cornell Tech. As one of only four departments represented at Cornell’s new tech campus, ECE will play an essential role in developing the new school, opening up a slew of opportunities for ECE students and faculty alike.

“Class and teaching in Ithaca, and outreach opportunities there,” Pollock said “you shouldn’t have to give up on one to have the other.”

The move into the Big Apple means changes in Ithaca as well: Pollock aims to have an electronic computer space that links seamlessly with the tech

Sam Kitterman can be reached at sok26@cornell.edu

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Fashion Spotlight Speaking With Senior Designer Riley Kilgariff ’16

BY MAX VAN ZILE Sun Staff Writer

SUN: Like watermelon?

From her ruby-red lips down, Riley Kilgariff ’16 makes her interest in fashion clear without saying a word. After spending four years studying in Cornell’s Fiber Science and Apparel Design (FSAD) program, she’s finally been offered the opportunity to display her work at the Cornell Fashion Collective’s upcoming Annual Runway Show. This Saturday, her collection of dresses and jackets will be displayed alongside the work of her peers in Barton Hall.

The Sun had a chance to speak with Riley outside Libe Café, where she explained her interest in fashion, explicated her philosophy on design and gave insight into the program from which she’ll soon graduate.

THE SUN: So how did you become interested in fashion design?

RILEY KILGARIFF: Well, I’ve always been interested in art.

I’ve been in art classes my whole life. … I don’t know the actual moment when it happened, but I know I’ve always really enjoyed drawing and painting, and I moved over into fashion sometime in middle school. Ever since then that’s what I’ve wanted to do. Then I did it, and here I am!

SUN: What kind of clothes do you normally design?

R.K.: I do women’s wear. Basically, stuff I like for myself.

Nothing too crazy or over the top. This collection is dresses, pants and jackets, so it’s dark green and bright pink.

R.K.: Yeah, I know, people have been saying that!

I’m like, yeah, it does look like watermelon, but that was not my intention. But yeah, kind of like that.

And then I have these circle motifs, and some other pieces.

SUN: Do you have any opinion on the fashion industry’s superficiality and recent move towards more realistic-looking models?

R.K.: That’s something to think about, and that’s also one of the reasons I might not want to do fashion. It seems — not useless, because I don’t think that. I do think fashion is important. It’s something everyone interacts with, something you can’t escape.

So it’s very important in that way. But I definitely think the move to be more inclusive is good, because it is something that everyone has to deal with and interact with and I know there are a lot of issues with brands and sizing. It’s important.

SUN: Do you find yourself, as a fashion designer, judging people’s clothing choices or sense of style?

R.K.: I wouldn’t say judging. I actually had this conversation with someone recently. He was describing some crazy outfit that he was wearing, and I was like, that could work! He said every fashion major he’d told the story to had that same reaction, but everyone else was like, “Ew, why would you wear that?” So it’s less about what you wear but how you wear it. It’s personal. I definitely notice it, but I wouldn’t say I’m judging between good and bad. It’s just interesting to see what people wear.

SUN: Is there any unifying theme in your work or a statement you’d like to make, or do you just try to make the prettiest thing possible?

R.K.: That’s interesting. I know there are a lot of designers who have a very strong statement about what they’re trying to say, and a story. I guess I’d say I make pretty things that I would wear, and that I think are cool.

SUN: So you have an idea for a dress. How long does it take from having the idea to someone actually wearing the dress?

R.K.: Well, it depends on how complicated it is. It’s hard to estimate. If it was a really basic dress, like a sundress, I could probably do that in a day. The way it works is if I had the idea, I’d sketch it out and it’d go through a bunch of rounds of sketches until you find the perfect one that you want, and then you go and make it out of paper pattern, and then from there you make it in a mock-up, and you fit it on your model, make all the adjustments, and then you do it on your final fabric, sew it and finish it.

SUN: Would you describe members of the fashion industry or your program as hypercompetitive?

Mitski “Your Best American Girl” Don Giovanni

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R.K.: Not here, but I have noticed that elsewhere. I think that since we’re such a small program, we’re more collaborative than competitive. Especially [with] all the seniors right now, our styles are so different that you couldn’t really compare them. There isn’t really much competition. The industry is pretty competitive though. But not at Cornell. [It probably is competitive] at other schools, where there’s a bigger fashion program. Especially since here, everyone can show [their designs]. At some other schools, not everyone can be in the final show, so that probably creates more competition. Being here and being in this environment that’s not like an art school is good for that.

SUN: Were there any other people’s work in the show that you found especially interesting?

R.K.: I thought everyone’s work was interesting!

SUN: That’s a good answer.

R.K.: Yeah, but it’s true. Everyone has a different perspective and they’re bringing different experiences. Just the way that someone will interpret something is really interesting.

We’ve been working on this basically since the beginning of the year, and last semester we had a class where we were establishing what we wanted to do with a collection. Collecting images, inspiration, that kind of thing. So it’s really interesting to see someone’s wall of inspiration turn into clothes, because the way they interpret their images is different from the way I would do it. It’s a really interesting process to see how everyone’s vision plays out in the end. It’ll be really interesting to see how everyone’s stuff turns out!

Max Van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mvanzile@cornellsun.com.

Mitski’s excellent new track, “Your Best American Girl,” from the recently-announced Puberty 2 is, according to her interview with NPR, a largely autobiographical exploration of identity. To characterize this exploration as one of “fitting in” would be reductive. Mitski creates the impression that there is not even a space in which she could fit, an impression made more significant by the fact of her identity as an Asian American female in a music scene where this is still a novelty.

Over a hushed, strumming guitar, Mitski begins with a visual metaphor of spoons that fit into one another, a metaphor that she leaves herself out of through the use of a conditional “If I could.” She then complicates the trope of the lover as the sun by declaring over shoegaze-y melodies, “I’m not the moon / I’m not even a star,” positioning herself outside of the scene altogether. Mitski’s signature static distortion crescendoes in the chorus; her voice is in the eye of the storm, straining to convince the listener, “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me / But I do, I think I do.”

The song itself comes out of a place of retrospective understanding. Beautifully-crafted and lyrically-brilliant, “Your Best American Girl” is a track that grounds the conversation of racial identity and diversity within the narrative of a love story gone awry due to irreconcilable cultural differences. Having been unable to find an existing space to fit into, Mitski uses her music to create this space for herself.

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An Interview With Mad Men’s Semi Chellas There have always been a few shows known for a singular voice (Deadwood, Sopranos), but it’s much more common now.

BY MARINA WATTS Sun Staff Writer

Semi Chellas is a writer and co-executive producer for the acclaimed television series Mad Men. The Emmy-nominated writer studied English at Cornell as a Mellon fellow, and on March 10 will be returning to campus to speak at Klarman Hall. In anticipation of her lecture, “Telling Secrets: Notes from the Writers’ Room,” The Sun had a chance to speak with Chellas about her experiences writing for Mad Men and her opinions on the television industry in general.

T HE S UN: What are the day-to-day operations like working in the writers’ room?

S EMI C HELLAS : There were about 10 to 12 people in the writing room, including two advertising people — i.e. not advertisers for the show but people who worked in advertising — [including] one that worked in advertising in the 60s. A writer’s assistant typed out everything as it proceeded.

The room looked like [it did] when they [Sterling Cooper Ad Agency] worked on the Jaguar pitch in [the episode] “The Other Woman”; that was the art department’s interpretation of our writers room.”

SUN : What do you think of the single-series format in comparison to a multiple-season format?

S.C.: It’s a different way to conceive a series.

People return to series for more of what we love — for a long time, that was the people onscreen. Now, people are much more aware of the voice in TV shows.

S UN: How much of your influence has impacted the way the female characters in the show developed?

S.C.: For me, the heart of the show was always the women. Watching the pilot, I felt like the women had

began. There was a shift happening [in the show], and that season brought it to a head for Megan, Joan and Peggy and their relationship to work.

My mother was born the same year as Peggy would have been born, and in the 60s worked in offices in New York and moved out to California. I’ve always been interested — even pre-Mad Men — in the shift that was happening when my mother was coming of age. She became an activist in the women’s movement, but she’d come from a place where it was hard for her to see that coming. I used some writing I’d done about her as the sample I sent to Mad Men. S UN : Finally, what is your favorite episode of Mad Men?

S.C.: One favorite is episode nine in season four, from before I worked on Mad Men. [It’s called] “The Beautiful Girls.” Don is still involved with Dr. Faye.

Sally runs away from Betty and goes to her dad. Don’s secretary, Mrs. Blankenship, last of her kind, dies at her desk. Bert Cooper says, “She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th COURTESY OF AMC floor of a skyscraper. She’s an astronaut.” That really no idea what was about to hit them. It’s the times that sums up a lot of our discussion about the changing changed, in the show. Not the show itself. Weiner was roles of women!

The final moment of the episode is Peggy, Joan and always writing for those women, and he had a very clear sense from the beginning of where the show Faye in an elevator. They’ve all had these storylines could take them, even though he had no idea how that are really huge shifts for them. Peggy looks into long his series would last. Even for Betty, the iconic the camera in that shot. I remember watching that housewife, going back to school for her degree in before I ever dreamed of working on Mad Men, and I 1970. Part of the genius of Weiner’s vision is that no felt like that episode was speaking directly to me on one character is ever as simple as first appearances. every level.

Even Don Draper wasn’t [just] that man in the grey suit. He wasn’t even Don Draper.

Marina Watts is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life I joined [Mad Men] in 1966 when season five Sciences. She can be reached at smwatts@cornellsun.com.

Irresistably Upbeat: Gaelic Storm at the State

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Remember a little movie from the late 90s called Titanic? Remember the dancing scene in third class with Jack and Rose spinning around the table? Ladies and gentlemen, last Saturday at the State Theater, that scene’s own traditional Celtic band: Gaelic Storm. The band’s most recent album, Matching Sweaters, is the their twelfth, released in July 2015; it peaked at 60 on Billboard 200 the following month. As a side note, Storm’s albums tend to have very playful, colorful titles: Chicken Boxer (2012), Cabbage (2010) and Herding Cats (1999), on which the famous track from Titanic appears.

I only became a fan of Storm recently, when I was perusing different songs from movie soundtracks, being the usual film critic that I am. When I came across ‘Titanic Set’ or ‘An Irish Party in Third Class,’ I was hooked immediately. Gaelic Storm’s powerful instrumentation coupled with their irresistible peppiness and upbeat tone makes them a quick sell for anyone who is a fan of traditional Irish music or of folk music in the broader sense. Personally, as a lover of both movie scores and classical, folk and alternative music, Storm lands squarely in my personal taste in music. When I heard they’d be playing the State Theatre this semester, I said yep, count me in.

Aside from never having covered a concert in Ithaca, I had never attended a concert at the State Theatre before Saturday either, and what a lovely venue it was. It reminded me of one of the oldtime movie palaces that decorate Los Angeles, with its opulent inner structure and rows upon rows of velvet seats. It truly is a gorgeous establishment.

Then out came the performers, who as it turned out, not only had a great sense of music, but a great sense of humor as well. Frontman Patrick Murphy, notable instantly for his stainless Irish brogue, told the crowd they were going to perform the show backwards, beginning with the number they usually close with. They performed one song, introducing it as their grand finale, and then all five band members promptly walked off stage. Buoyed by the crowd’s applause and calls for an ‘encore’ they walked back on to perform the rest of the show. We had thus learned it was to be a very interactive type of performance.

Some bands like to keep an invisible wall between themselves and the audience — Gaelic Storm was big on audience participation, and we were going to have to work for our entertainment, almost as hard as them. At numerous points, they would turn the vocals and beat over to the house, with Murphy and violinist Kiana Weber (who can fiddle like nobody’s business) guiding us to keep the beat.

Each of the musicians had a distinc-

tive talent. Weber, the band’s only female member, stole the spotlight at many different points. She launched into many bravado fiddle solos and a sort of pseudocompetition as it were with the band’s Canadian member Peter Purvis, who played the bagpipes as virtuosically as any Scotsman before him. The two of them would command center stage, each leaning forward on their instrument, channeling a rush and a blast of pure adrenaline through the pipes and the strings. On the drums the massively talented Ryan Lacey kept the beat cruising and jolting, Brit Steve Twigger contributed stellar guitar riffs and sang lead vocals along with Murphy. Occasionally, Murphy would pick up a Bob Dylanesque accordion-piano-harmonica and make it sing. Others instruments used onstage included spoons, tambourine, mandolin and bodhrán.

Not one of the band’s songs carried a somber tune. This was purposeful, as Murphy at one point explained. “We’ve all lost somebody close to us,” he said, “and rather than write a sad song, we thought we’d write a song celebrating the life of that person and how lucky we were to even get to spend a little bit of time with them at all.” Their number celebrating the good times shared with a lost friend struck a deliriously high chord, but truthfully, the whole concert was like that. There was good cheer in the air throughout — a song performed about a man spending hours in the pub, needing

only one more pint before rushing home with his live escargot to his scourge wife was flat-out hilarious. “What’s your excuse?!” demands his wife, “You’re three hours late!” “Come on, lads, just a little further!” yells the man to the snails, crawling along the floor.

Another highlight was a moment of audience participation, with people in the house doing their best wild dancing donkey impression. The best were spotted by Murphy and brought on stage.

Sitting towards the back of the upper balcony, I shared my row of three seats with a lovely couple from Greene, New York. The husband suggested to his wife that she run across the balcony doing the dance, and she’d be sure to get noticed. Sure enough, she was called up on stage, much to her husband’s and my elation. A variety of prizes were doled out to five audience members — tshirts, scarves and the drummer’s half eaten banana.

Gaelic Storm brought their unique sense of humor, their musical bravura and their infectious love for performance to the party on Saturday night. It was one of the most enjoyable and lighthearted concerts I’ve ever attended. If shows at the State Theatre are all this much fun, we should all make a point of hitting the place up more often.

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

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Curry Can’t be Stopped Pepicelli Earns First C.U.Win DENSON

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beautiful, less physical and more finesse based. It’s the era of small ball — let it be, Mark Cuban.

Focus on Shark Tank and leave NBA policy to the real analysts.

Also consider trying to help your Mavs be contenders again.

Part of me misses the domination of big men from my childhood. The pure strength and fury of Shaq was remarkable. Does anyone else remember him breaking the backboard, the glass shattering into thousands of little pieces as the hopes of any opponent breaks with it?

Is it a good thing that the game has become less physical? It depends on whom you ask, but critics will, again, be silenced as soon as Golden State wins its second championship in two years.

As much as I love Charles Barkley, his theories on how the small ball game can’t win championships was proven false. Now the only proven thing is that the Warriors’ style works — it’s working in the NBA, has potential to

give the Warriors immortality by (hopefully) setting the single season wins record and showing an entire generation that the little man can be the best on the floor.

As more and more casual fans become diehards from watching Curry effortlessly put up shot after shot from 10 feet away beyond the 3-point arc, we are reminded of how this isn’t the way it used to be. What happened to post-up buckets?

The NBA has entered a new era, with Steph Curry as the messiah leading the cause. As his wrist reads, love never fails — we will continue to love the game. Critics will criticize the small ball game, and those critics will be proven wrong. The debate will live on.

NBA legends will attack Curry, argue his game and analyze the results — but in the meantime he’ll be setting records and winning championships with ease.

Ben Denson can be contacted at bdenson@cornellsun.com. The B.D. appears Wednesdays this semester.

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When you find yourself thinking when a ball is hit at you, you are in trouble, according to Lowell.

“We need to trust ourselves,” Lowell said. “We need to trust the process.”

After dropping the rubber

game, Pepicelli and the Red are not satisfied with the inconsistent start.

“We could have won the series,” Pepicelli. “I expect to win.”

Winawer echoed his coach’s optimism.

“We flashed some signs of what we’re expecting from the team,” Winawer said. “We were

able to see where we’re able to improve.”

The slow start aside, Pepicelli has full confidence in his players and the team culture he has worked to help establish.

“This is a great group of kids,” he said.

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

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last indoor competition of my junior season, and I knew I was not done breaking records.

I wanted to go for the all-time indoor 400m dash record for Cornell.

Travelling five plus hours to run around a track in under 47.04 seconds was all I had to do.

Going into the meet, I was No. 5 all time with a 47.99. It may not seem like much, but dropping almost an entire second on your 400m dash personal best is no easy task.

During the Saturday prelims, I ran a clean 47.44 seconds to place second in my heat. I was still .4 seconds away from putting myself on

top of Cornell’s record books, but I knew I still had more money in the bank for finals the following day.

My mind was stirring for the next 24 hours. I was one race away from attaining my goal and putting away my indoor season on the best note possible. This, along with a midterm, presentation and take-home exam I had coming up the following week was more than enough to drive me up the wall.

Unfortunately, my hotel’s internet service was buggy and unreliable, so using simple sites like Blackboard to access my learning materials was borderline unfeasible. Evidently, I had no choice but to solely focus

on preparing my body for the fastest race of my career.

On Sunday, the IC4A championships atmosphere was exceptional. I felt proud to be the only Ivy League athlete representing the 400m dash at one of the largest track meets in the Northeast. I ended up in the first heat of two, determined to drop the hammer.

The race itself was a neck-and-neck battle between me and a Hampton University athlete. He led the charge to the 200m mark in just over 22 seconds, with me following right behind.

With 150m left to go, my body slowly but surely built up lactic acid from going out so fast in the beginning. I can hon-

estly say if it weren’t for my coach’s enthusiasm, the race would have ended differently.

“Stay with him! Stay with him,” head coach Adrian Durant shouted from the infield.

Strangely enough, that was the only exclamation I could hear among the huge crowd. It made me think about all the work I put in for that very moment, all the long hours I travelled to be there, all within a few milliseconds.

To read the rest of this column, please visit cornellsun.com.

Tobe Attah is a junior on the track and field team. Stories from an Athlete will appear throughout the semester.

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Sean O’Sullivan is a 28-year-old journeyman in Spring Training for the Boston Red Sox. Paul Balestrieri is a junior in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. What do they have in common? They both were tabbed as starting pitchers against Northeastern last week, O’Sullivan by Red Sox manager John Farrell on Tuesday and Balestrieri by Cornell head coach Dan Pepicelli on Saturday.

Cornell baseball (1-2) dropped its first series of the season

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to Northeastern (6-5) at neutral, tropical Winter Haven, Florida last weekend. The Red was shut out in the first and third games, 6-0 on Saturday and 11-0 on Sunday morning, and picked up the middle game, 7-5.

In the first game on Saturday, Cornell hit some balls hard and right at fielders. Senior left fielder Jordan Winawer pointed out that despite all the work the Red has put in since arriving on campus in August, there is no substitute for game action. “[Northeastern starter Aaron Civale] has pretty good stuff but it’s nothing we haven’t seen,” he said. “It takes a couple of

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at bats for some guys ... to get settled in.”

Senior shortstop Eliot Lowell said some had jitters taking the field for the first time this season. He agreed with Pepicelli that Cornell hit well.

“It was more good pitching than bad hitting,” Lowell said.

With the second game also set to be played on Saturday, Cornell was tasked with shaking off a loss quickly.

It took the team five batters into the first inning to put three runs on the board. The game’s first two batters reached base and scored on a two-run triple by junior first baseman cleanup hitter Cole Rutherford, a transfer playing in his first Cornell game. Rutherford was knocked in by a double from sophomore right fielder Dale Wickham.

“We jumped all over him in the first inning,” Winawer said about Northeastern’s opposing pitcher. “That’s what our offense expected to do.”

Senior left hander Michael Byrne, handed a lead, was touched for an unearned run and did not last long enough to factor in the decision. The Huskies, trailing 5-1 after five innings, chipped away against Cornell’s bullpen, taking advantage of a few costly walks. After eight, the game was tied up at five. With a man on in the top of the ninth, up again stepped Rutherford, who launched one out of the park for a two-run homer.

“Cole’s a big part of our lineup,” Winawer said. “He got a good pitch to hit. It was a no doubter ... It’s huge for him.”

The 7-5 score held up in the bottom of the ninth, and Pepicelli earned his first victory as a Cornell manager.

After solid mechanics and results on Saturday, Cornell did not have a good game on Sunday. Northeastern scored with clean hits. They scored on errors. They invoked the mercy rule.

“Sunday, we got exactly what we deserved swinging the bat,” Pepicelli said. “We didn’t play good defense, we didn’t pound the zone.”

Lowell, who committed one of the box score’s three Red errors, said he found himself reluctant to trust on the work he had put in.

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Steph Curry Is My Quest to Break a C.U. Record An NBA Revolution Tobe A Attah

fter the grueling loss against our rival team Princeton at the 2016 Indoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, the men’s track and field team was distraught to say the least.

We were the definitive favorites to reclaim our championship title, but Princeton did not care about any predictions.

The Tigers’ primary goal was to beat the guy with a ‘C’ on his chest, and this mentality carried throughout their entire team.

Princeton even got the best of me in my own race. During the prelims of the 400m dash on Saturday, I managed to

smoothly break the Barton Hall record in 48.13 seconds. I was confident I was going to have similar success the following day on finals, but confidence only took me so far.

Princeton managed to edge me out by a miniscule 0.03 seconds to take the 400m HEPS Championship title in my favorite event. To technically make things worse, our race was so competitive that we both ran under 48 seconds, meaning he

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Bouncing back | Junior Tobe Attah and other members of the track team travelled to Boston for the IC4A Championship.

Stories from an Athlete now claims the Barton Hall record.

To this day, we are the only two people to run a 400m dash that fast on this flat track.

Luckily I am only a junior, so I have another year to take back this milestone on my home track.

Aside from all the drama collegiate sports brought to my life that weekend, I still had a slew of schoolwork to deal with. I made sure to knock out quick assignments before the HEPS even commenced, but group projects and newer assignments were on the rise.

As hectic as my schedule can be, I have somehow made it a chaotic simplicity. Instead of taking the next weekend off to rest from our conference championships, I decided to venture out east for the 2016 IC4AECAC Indoor Championships in Boston. This would be the See ATTAH page 15

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‫תלשכנ אל םלועל הבה‬Love Never Fails. The sacred Hebrew text is inked on Steph Curry’s shooting arm, featured prominently on his wrist.

“But where there are prophecies,” the biblical word continues, “they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”

If we love the NBA, love the sport itself and love the competition it gives us then we will be at ease with the beauty and unconventionality of Curry’s game; at ease with how he has changed the sport — for better or worse.

The days of the reigning big man are over. Charles Barkley and Hakeem Olajuwon watch in disbelief, cringing at how the best NBA team relies on lowpercentage shooting instead of aggressive in the paint play. A shrimp in comparison, the 6-foot3 Steph Curry has already broken the single season record for most 3-point field goals, while his team has already clinched a playoff birth with a month left in the season.

And nearly 50 years later, the rogue experiment of the American

Basketball Association has been realized … in the NBA. Using the 3-point shot as a competitive marketing strategy, the ABA relied on unorthodox style and flair to attract fans away from the established, yet mundane, NBA. Catering to the cavalier attitude of the start-up ABA, the 3-point line was an opportunity for teams to space the floor and allow more dri-

Ben Denson The B.D. Report ves to the hoop. Eventually the ABA folded, giving us teams like the Spurs, Nets and the Nuggets.

The Warriors style of play is becoming endemic. So much so that the outspoken, impulsive Mavericks owner Mark Cuban suggested moving the 3-point line back. Chalk this up to Cuban overreacting to Steph Curry’s exceptional talent. The game is evolving, growing into something See DENSON page 15