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Cornell Schedules Memorial Honoring President Garrett

In Memory | President Elizabeth Garrett speaks at Convocation in August.

Event to feature speeches, live performances

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By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor

A memorial gathering for President Elizabeth Garrett will be held on March 17 at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall, Chairman Robert Harrison ’76 announced in an email to the Cornell community Thursday. The event is open to the public.

Members of the Cornell community are expected to speak and the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will perform, according to the University. The event will be livestreamed on CornellCast.

President Elizabeth Garrett died of colon cancer at her home in New York City Sunday.

The memorial follows a candlelight vigil event and a moment of silence earlier this week.

Cornell administrators also launched a memorial website Thursday that honors President Garrett’s career and contributions to Cornell. The site includes articles, photos, videos and an opportunity for visitors to leave personal remembrances.

The Marmor and Garrett families ask that memorial gifts be directed to either Student Scholarships, in memory of President Elizabeth Garrett, in support of students with need on the Ithaca campus or to the President Elizabeth Garrett Fund for Colon Cancer Research at Weill Cornell Medicine, which was established this week the email said.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

Student Assembly Proposes Introduction of New S.A.Contenders Major, First Generation Representative Promote Plans at Candidate Forum

By YUN SOO KIM

Sun News Editor

By RUBY YU Sun Staff Writer

Student Assembly candidates running for Minority Students Liaison, International Students Liaison, Arts and Sciences Representative and Engineering Representative presented their platforms at a forum moderated by the Cornell Speech and Debate Society Thursday.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING REPRESENTATIVE Dale Barbaria ’19

Barbaria, the only candidate to run in the Special Election last month, said he aims to increase the presence of the S.A. within the engineering community.

“My goal by the end of next year is to get a student from the engineering community to run for another S.A. position besides engineering representative to increase involvement,” he said.

The Student Assembly passed two resolutions aiming to augment diversity on campus at its Wednesday meeting afternoon.

The assembly “The Asian passed a resolution supporting the creation of an Asian American studies major 19-1-1, with an additional two community votes bumping the vote to 21-1-1.

“The Asian American studies lacks resources and remains understaffed … with increase in interest but no additional resources have been allocated to this program since its creation in 1987,” said Linda He ’16, facilitator of Cornell Asia Pacific Islander Student Union.

demand for this major, because enrollment numbers in this particular field have doubled, tripled in the last few years,” she said.

Department faculty numbers have decreased and several professors only teach Asian American studies classes part-time, according to Li. He added that American studies lacks resources and student enrollment remains understaffed.” in the Asian studies courses has increased Linda He ’16 in recent years.

“For example, experiences are very varied, so it’s really two years ago, enrollment numbers for an important to have an academic curriculum intro class in this field was at eight people,” that can encompass and articulate all those she said. “This year, that same class has 48 people enrolled. We’re asking for the different narratives,” He said.

Diana Li ’17, S.A. undesignated at University to put money where its mouth large, sponsored the resolution due to is at.”

Li also stressed the resolution’s role in increased interest in Asian American courses.

See ASSEMBLY page 4 “We have eagerly seen an increase in Cornell currently has an Asian American studies minor, but students stressed the need for an Asian American studies.

“As a community we are really large … our Asian diaspora is really large, so our

Rebecca Herz ’18

Herz stressed the need for students to become more united and pushed her platform to create a website to swap textbooks, share notes and form study groups to foster more of a community within the College of Engineering.

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Higher education | Assembly members discuss an initiative to create an Asian American Studies major.

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Opinion, “Place in the Movement,” Tuesday Speaking about feminism and the status of women “In some ways, we have come so far with regard to how we view and engage with women. In others, I look at Twitter, Instagram or overhear a conversation in Trillium and think we’re still living in the 18th and 19th centuries when all women were good for was having children and keeping house.”

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News, “Alumni Startup Creates World’s First Smartphone Glucose Meter” Wednesday Speaking about the development of a glucose meter for smartphones “After speaking with countless individuals living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, we knew that one way to accomplish our goal would be to simplify the form factor of a traditional, bulky and burdensome glucose meter kit by integrating it with everyone’s most prized possession — our smartphone.”

Fathi Abdelsalam MPA ’13 News,“Students Debate Diversity in Computer Science,” Thursday Speaking about a Facebook group cover photo of white male Computer Science profs “The photograph was a stark reminder of the white male ‘bro-culture’ myth that women and other minorities in C.S are struggling to change. All good intentions aside, the posting of the photograph was insensitive to many and obviously struck a nerve through the hearts of those in the community.”

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West Schoellkopf Stands Torn Down Due to Underuse, Disrepair

University Cornell in Turin Program Honored The Cornell in Turin program was recognized for its work in Turin’s San Salvario neighborhood as part of its research studies of migration and services of immigrants in Italy Thursday, according to a University press release.

La Stampa — the national daily based in Turin and one of the oldest newspapers in Italy — featured the Cornell program’s study of community centers in Sal Salvario as models of integration.

Students meet with politicians, tour business sites and visit community centers that have ongoing programs designed to help women, immigrants and poor families, according to Kora von Wittelsbach, senior lecturer, romance studies, The University said.

Local Ithaca Celebrates Tibetan National Uprising Day The Ithaca community gathered in the Commons Tuesday to celebrate the 57th anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day, according to the Ithaca Journal.

Approximately 55 people attended the event, including monks from the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies.

The monks led the Prayer of Words of Truth, a minute of silence and sang the Tibetan national anthem.

Ithaca leaders also spoke about current conditions in Tibet, according to the Journal.

Tibetan National Uprising Day marks the conflict between Tibet and China, which caused the Dalai Lama to flee from Lhasa to India in 1959.

National Obama Greets Canadian Prime Minister President Obama greeted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during Trudeau’s visit to Washington D.C., according to The New York Times.

The two leaders agreed to a joint plan to reduce the release of methane gas into the atmosphere, in an effort to curb global warming, reported The Times.

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Flag on the play | The west stands at Schoelkopf Field being torn down due to underuse and possible safety hazards.

The west stands across from the Crescent at Schoellkopf Field are in the process of being torn down due to underuse and potential safety hazards, according to Jen Baker, associate director of athletics.

William Sitzabee, associate vice president of engineering and project administration, said the University decided to disassemble the stands “in lieu of an expensive repair for a facility that was underutilized and not needed.”

“They had reached a state of disrepair that limited their use to a point where they were no longer effective,” Sitzabee said.

Schoellkopf Field is the home of Big Red football, sprint football and men’s and women’s lacrosse. The west stands were added in 1947, increasing the stadium capacity to 25,597, according to the University.

President Garrett and the Capital Funding and Priorities Committee — the committee that oversees approval for university projects with budgets over $500,000 — approved the decision last December, according to Sitzabee.

— Compiled by Molly Kluger

Development Committee Promotes Low-Cost Housing

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca Common Council’s Planning and Economic Development Committee voted to circulate an incentive zoning for affordable housing ordinance at City Hall Wednesday.

The proposed ordinance provides developers with incentives such as the elimination of minimum parking requirements and exemption from site plan review to build affordable living units, according to the ordinance.

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said the high cost of housing is “the largest problem in Ithaca” in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

He supported incentive zoning as a means of making city living more affordable, saying the most important effect is to increase the supply of housing and listing possible ways to do so.

“The first is that we can build more subsidized housing,” Myrick said. “The second is incentive zoning, so that we can encourage the private market to build subsidized housing.”

Myrick added that the proposal is a way for the community to increase the Ithaca housing situation without resorting to previously contested measures.

“This proposal is an opportunity for those of us who claim to care about affordable housing but oppose large-scale subsidized housing,” Myrick said.

Lynn Truame M.A. HPP ’91, community development planner of the Ithaca Urban Renewal Project, defended the efficacy of the proposed incentives.

Truame referred to the exemption from site plan review incentive, saying that the developers would like the city to do “anything ... to streamline our project approval process.”

“The site plan review exemption incentive is probably the strongest one we have,” she added.

Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D – 4th Ward), executive director of the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Research at Cornell, was

generally in favor of the ordinance, but he expressed reservations about some of its provisions.

He noted that the elimination of minimum parking and density bonus incentives were clear to understand but questioned the site plan review incentive.

“The site plan review process can often turn up many issues, in particular on large projects where there’s a lot of public interest,” Kerslick said. “I’m not sure I am as supportive of that incentive as I am for the other two that are listed, which are, to my mind, clearly better linked

to the program.”

Alderperson Seph Murtagh Ph.D. ’09 (D – 2nd Ward), the committee chair, doubted that the incentives were strong enough to attract developers.

“It’s all carrot; there’s not really any stick in here,” Murtagh said. “I want to move forward with it, but I think it might be good to set a point in the future —18 months or two years — where we look at it again and see if any developers are taking advantage of it.”

See DEVELOPMENT page 5

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Member of the World Cup-winning U.S. women’s national soccer team and prominent LGBT advocate Megan Rapinoe speaks in Newman Arena at Bartels Hall.

Two Cornell Researchers Earn Schwartz Award

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Natasza Kurpios, assistant professor of molecular medicine, and Susan Daniel, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received awards from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women in the Life Sciences for their work in cell signaling and viruses Tuesday, according to a University press release.

Each winner received $12,500 with the award, which seeks to encourage women in

science to take risks, according to the University.

The award is endowed by Ronald Schwartz ’65 and Joan Schwartz ’65, who “throughout their careers, have been interested in supporting women in

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science who are taking risks,” according to Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for faculty development.

“The academic selection committee felt that the research conducted by the applicants is exciting and innovative,” Levitte said.

Kurpios works with chicken and mouse embryos to study the formation of organs and birth defects and Daniel studies virus-cell memDANIEL brane fusion, according

to the University.

Levitte added that there were many other outstanding candidates, and the award was very competitive.

“Reviewers noted that almost any applicant was deserving of the funds,” Levitte said. “The competition was fierce.”

The two recipients of the award were chosen from 23 candidates, according to the University.

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

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S.A.Debates New Major,First Gen Rep Li also stressed the resolution’s role in addressing issues “rooted in the ongoing struggle of equal representation on this campus.”

Julia Montejo ’17, a community member, emphasized the need to educate people on the “depth and breadth of the Asian diaspora in America.”

“When I talk to students about undocumented student issues, many have no idea that the majority of students who are undocumented at Cornell are in fact Asian,” Montejo said. “ As a result, I think it is imperative that we look to the fact that many people fail to recognize

the issues of Asian Americans because of model minority stereotypes perpetuated on our students day in and day out.”

The S.A. also discussed a resolution supporting the creation of a first generation representative on the assembly.

Ben Bacharach ’18, S.A. chair of financial aid review committee, supported this resolution and addressed issues regarding the creation of the position.

“One concern was that we’re not going to have enough people run for the new S.A. [position],” he said. “My main argument is the opposite — this is a great way for get people back interest-

ed in the S.A. and get people to run for this position, which has so much potential and has done and can do so much.”

Bacharach added that he believes the S.A. should approve the position as soon as possible.

“I think this is an incredible start, I’m not comfortable on waiting for a full restructuring of this position,” he said. “I think we need to bring this position in now, so we can start its process.”

The resolution, which was tabled last week, passed 22-2.

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

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S.A.Candidates Detail Platforms at Forum Daniel Engelson ’18

DEBATE

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Justin Selig ’17

Selig talked about his past accomplishments on S.A., which further his goal of improving the policies that affect students. He said he has collaborated with the faculty senate to reduce prelim conflicts, improved the housing lottery and helped make open-course syllabi available before enrollment period.

Engelson focused on mental health issues at Cornell and the fight to help students get the assistance that they need while remaining on track academically.

All three candidates agreed that the S.A. needs to improve its connection with the administration and collaborate more effectively in order to achieve its objectives.

Minority Students Liaison At Large Julia Montejo ’17

Weihong Rong ’17

Montejo said she has had success in connecting different minority student communities across Cornell.

She said she has also spoken out in response to issues facing minority students on our campus, such as the administration’s response to incidents at the Latinx Ivy League Conference, the exclusion of student voices in decision-making processes and the recent changes in financial aid policies, according to the Cornell Assembly Elections website.

Richard Wang ’18

Montes based his platform on ideals of collaboration and connection. As a Latino student, he said he understands the struggles that minorities face on campus and has strived to preserve cultural identity and expand multicultural programs.

Montes said he believes in power in numbers and wants to help other minority groups as much as he has helped the Latino community.

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Rong called the College of Arts and Sciences “a wonderful intersection between the arts and the sciences, as the name implies.”

“It is currently the largest, and arguably the most diverse, college that Cornell has but I find that just because of its size, it gets lost in the shuffle of Cornell’s environment,” Rong said. “And that’s what I hope to bring together in unity, transparency and generally, happiness.”

Wang voiced the need for more representatives who embody the ideals of the college.

“We don’t just need more representatives, we need representatives to actually represent the different academic interests of Arts and Sciences,” he said.

Wang also called collaboration with the administration a past failure of the S.A. that he would like to address.

Jose Montes ’19

Mohammad Imtisal Qadir ’18

Qadir discussed the creation of more community resource centers for minorities and the need to increase the number of minority representatives on S.A. He also asserted that students should not have to pay to reserve

university spaces. Qadir suggests fostering unity among the minority community as early as freshman year, with the help of R.A’.s.

Traciann Celestin ’19

Celestin said she strives to develop an annual leadership conference where leaders at Cornell can share their experiences and improve their skills.

She also said she will urge minority student groups to promote mental health awareness by sending out surveys and holding forums.

International Students Liaison At Large Akhilesh Issur ’17

Issur discussed his aim to address mental health issues in a more proactive way on campus. He said he wants to hold more events connecting international students of different backgrounds with different international groups at Cornell.

He added that he wants to give international students a larger voice in making decisions pertaining to financial aid and housing policies.

Hamish MacDiarmid ’19

MacDiarmid said he wants to focus on improving international student life.

He said he wants to keep at least one dining hall open during short breaks for students staying on campus and to make storage more affordable through collaborations with the International Students Union.

He also urged reverting back to a need-blind policy for international and undocumented student admissions.

Not all S.A. candidates were present at the forum.

Ruby Yu can be reached at ryu@cornellsun.com.

Myrick ’09 Calls for Cheap Housing HOUSING

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Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D – 1st Ward), the committee’s sole dissenter, was not convinced of this approach, saying its potentially costly implementation offers no guarantee of success.

“Because of length, labor and oversight required to maintain [the incentive zoning regulations], I am apprehensive to float something like this as a trial without a commitment of resources to a full understanding of how it would be done,” Brock said.

In spite of Brock’s oppo-

sition, the committee voted to circulate the ordinance, which provides “a starting point for discussion,” according to Truame.

The drafted ordinance will next be circulated to the Common Council, the Tompkins County Planning Department, the Board of Public Works and various city boards and committees.

After circulation, the committee will vote on whether or not to recommend the revised ordinance for adoption by the full Common Council.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornell.edu

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Catrina Corley ’16 Talks Costume Design and Extravagance could get a good bowl of gumbo, and I do like wearing flip-flops in a modern city built up around all these old buildings that have year-round. As a non-traditional student, it was horrifying at been around since the beginning of our country, for the most first because I didn’t know if I would fit in or relate to my part. And I just found it really fascinating how you’re on your younger peers. After being at Cornell for four years, I was cell phone, but looking at something that was builtaround Catrina Corley ’16 is a Fiber Science and Apparel Design impressed with how much I have in common with Lincoln’s time — it was just fascinating to major and a Theater Production minor. Hailing from Houston, everyone here and I’ve made really good friends. me.

Texas, Corley had a business designing costumes before coming Getting out of my comfort zone in Texas taught me So I was inspired by Washington, D.C. to Cornell, and now seeks to balance extravagance and fun with a lot about myself and my strengths and weaknessitself. My collection is called “American everyday-wearability in her designs. The Sun spoke with Corley es, and Cornell’s program has the right balance of Rome,” and that is a nickname for about Cornell, her fashion philosophy and her D.C.-inspired tech, business and fashion.

Washington, D.C. And so I took some of designs in the upcoming Cornell Fashion Collective Runway SUN: Tell me about your designs. What’s your the design details from architecture like Show. approach to designing and what motivates you?

Roman columns, and I made direct designs T HE SUN: How did you get started with designing, and C.C.: My philosophy is that clothing has power, based on those. And I also was inspired by what made you decide that you wanted to pursue it as a career? and when you put on something really cute, or George Washington himself; I used some CATRINA COLREY: I got my start making costumes for sci- something really powerful, you act like the clothes of his military uniform’s details and just ence fiction fans. These are the people made designs that paid attention to some you wear. So if you just flounwho go to Comic Con, Dragon Con. I dered around wearing sweats and of the trends that are going on now — like made one Star Trek costume one time, a t-shirt all the time, you might off-the-shoulder — and I applied some of and people would not let me stop! So I be comfortable all the time, but the old, 1790s techniques and brought started a business and it was pretty popuare you going to take yourself them together. My models will have on lar. It was called Space City Costumes. It’s George Washington wigs and they’ll be seriously? Whereas maybe you’ll no longer in business because of school, dressed as Roman columns — it’s going to put on a really nice silk dress, and and it was just, I couldn’t do it. I got my be really fun and really extravagant. But the it just makes you feel sexy. So I start through making dramatic things, like to not be boring, and when pieces are still really wearable, you could things that aren’t normal everyday clothes somebody’s wearing something I say, “Hey, if I take just this jacket I could — sometimes you just want to be extravmade, when they walk into the wear it somewhere and not feel like I’m PHOTOS COURTESY OF CATRINA CORLEY agant or special, I like making things like dressing up for Halloween.” I’m really room, I want people to admire that. People still email me wanting cosit. I like to make things that are different and excited about it, and have worked tirelessly on it with no sleep! tumes to this day, and I’m like, “Hey, SUN: Do you have any particular fashion inspirations? fun and unexpected. sorry, not yet!” So that was how I got my SUN: Can you talk about your collection C.C.: I really like Donna Karan, I liked Nicolas Ghesquiere start. for the fashion show? What’s it like and what when he was at Balenciaga and I liked everything John Galliano SUN: What brought you to Cornell? inspired it? did, before he had a meltdown; we’re working on forgiving him.

C.C.: Well, I’m from Houston, Texas, C.C.: So for this fashion show, I wanted to SUN: Any graduation plans? and I hadn’t lived anywhere else. I was C.C.: I am going to the highest bidder for either New York do something really fun. I spent my last curious to know what it would be like to semester in Washington, D.C. through or D.C. It depends, really, on what I get offered and where somelive in another state. I got accepted to the Vibrant Design | Corley poses with Cornell in Washington, and I interned in the body can really use all my talents. I do everything from building University of Texas and to Cornell. They models from a previous fashion show. Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles computers to designing, to whatever — I’m an all-around girl. both have similar design programs, but and Apparel. Through the internship and the I’d love to work with a team and collaborate on designs. because Cornell was so different I decided to come here. program in Washington, I got to see Washington, D.C. I’d never SUN: And how have you liked it here? been there before and I didn’t realize it was so cool; it was very Katie O’Brien is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can C.C.: Well, the barbecue leaves much to be desired! I wish I unexpected to me. One of the things that I really liked was being be reached at kobrien@cornellsun.com.

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Speak for Themselves: An Interview With _____

BY TROY SHERMAN Arts & Entertainment Editor

Five underscores and no letters seems like a questionable name for a band; everything has to be called something, right?

Not according to Brad Nathanson ’17 and Carsten ThueBludworth ’17, the two members of _____. Their band name doesn’t have any pronunciation; you’re not meant to say it. And while on the surface this might seem like a gimmick, they have the music to back it up. Their recorded output is limited so far to one promising E.P., The Linden Sessions, which jolts and tumbles with a compositional vivacity and surety of form indicative of a band much deeper into its career than _____. In anticipation of their inaugural performance at The Sun’s Big Red Desks Concert Series — an idea in the vein of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts in which local and up-and-coming talent will perform for online dissemination in the Daily Sun offices — I sat down with the two members of _____ to talk about how they came to be, their main influences and their outlook on performance, composition and music in general.

THE SUN: First off, tell me about the band. Who plays what and how long have you been playing?

CARSTEN THUE-BLUDWORTH: I play drums and keyboard, and sometimes guitar, too. Mainly drums, though. Brad plays guitar.

BRAD NATHANSON: We both like each other’s instrument better, so a lot of times during practice we’ll switch and play and jam. [Laughs] I mean, I’m just kidding, I’m a guitar player for sure. But it’s fun to switch it up. For me it makes you think on your feet and not fall into just playing what you’re comfortable with.

SUN: How long have you guys been playing in _____?

B.N.: We were matched up randomly freshman year, and we always talked about playing music together pretty seriously.

But since he didn’t bring his drums up to school, it was always just playing acoustic guitars in our room or outside somewhere.

We lived together the next year with a bunch of other people, and we still had this dream of playing together, which never

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really happened. We both stayed in Ithaca this past summer, and Carsten’s mom drove him up from Florida with his drum set. We both just played music; that was our main goal. This summer was the point where we stopped talking about doing it and actually did it. And then when the semester started, we just sort of went right into it.

S UN: So speaking of your performances, what is your live dynamic like? What do you try to go for when you perform?

Do you go in with a set, or do you just jam?

C.T.: We usually try to do a mixture of both, though I’ve found that it really depends how we’re feeling during the set, in the moment. Just the other weekend we had a show that was a lot different than our other performances, where we jammed a lot more. We did a switch jam where we played each other’s instruments, and we played some extended versions of our songs which had some new stuff that we had never played before then. It all just kind of happened in the moment. That being said, we do go in with a few songs in mind that we’ve written for a kind of basic outline.

S UN: That seems like a good dynamic. So, I’m sure you guys probably listen to a bunch of music, but in the context of _____, what do you guys try to draw on for your sound?

C.T.: Some of the music that I started listening to which inspired me to bring in the keyboards was lots of Jason Lindner and his band Now vs. Now. It’s all instrumental; a lot of jazz

fusion with electronic influences. But it feels really organic because it’s very much about the music rather than the words.

That’s a huge thing for me.

B.N.: And that’s a huge thing for our band, too. As you know, the name of the band is _____. The reason being that, for us, words don’t have as much of a place in the music as the sounds we create, partly because words have a specific meaning.

Of course there can be different interpretations of different words, but the second you say a word someone gets an idea in their mind. Because our music is instrumental and because our idea is to make you change your perspective on certain things, we thought that placing a word in reference to our group wasn’t the right thing to do. So _____ is our band name. We’re well aware that it’s a difficult thing logistically, and we’re okay with that.

Carsten and I come from different backgrounds in what we’ve done with music, what we used to listen to and what we still listen to, and it’s super evident in our sound I think. I was totally out of my comfort zone when we started playing together this summer. I had been in a pop rock band PHOTO COURTESY OF KAI NEALIS in high school and I listened to Jimi Hendrix and blues guitar players. Carsten totally introduced me to this “math rock” world of sounds. For me, it made everything exciting again. When you hear our music there are elements of very highly composed, structured, mathematical sections. And then we’ll break out into a jam that is much more about emotion, sort of seeing where it takes us. We like to call what we play “emotional math rock.” [Laughs] It’s because we think that math rock tends not to capture our emotive capabilities, and that’s what we’re interested.

Troy Sherman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.

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I like to think that I am a good person. But when I honestly think about it, there is no reason for me to believe that this is due to anything but sheer luck. I have lived a privileged life, and I have no idea what I would be capable of if circumstances ever pushed me to the edge. It is easy to assume that the horrors of this world are the handiwork of deranged, unstable people, but the evidence of history, full of genocide, mass murder and ethnic cleansing shows this to be a dangerous misconception. How is this possible? How do ordinary people, most of whom just want to live comfortably, come together to perform heinous, unspeakable crimes against humanity?

In order to answer such questions we have to determine something definite about the fundamental reality of human nature. These are the types of questions that interested professor Stanley Milgram, the researcher behind the infamous obedience experiments which took place at Yale University in the ’60s. The 2015 film Experimenter, directed by Michael Almereyda and presented this past Friday at Cornell Cinema, tackles not only these issues, but the fundamental question of whether any person can ever be free to make their own decisions.

The premise of the experiment is simple. Milgram, played with complete conviction by Peter Sarsgaard, tricked his test subjects, newly christened as “teachers,” into believing that they were administering real electric shocks to another test subject for answering questions incorrectly. However, with each wrong answer, the the voltage of the shocks increased, and soon the “learner” (who was in on the experiment) began to yell, shout to be let out and even go completely silent. Astonishingly, around 65 percent of the subjects proceeded all the way to the maximum voltage, 450 volts, merely because a man in a lab coat politely requested that they continue. These scenes are in many ways the centerpiece of the film, and they unfold with a chilling

realness that enhances the sense that these are people no worse than you or me. These are gentle people. People with families.

Good people.

The film focuses not just on the experiment, but on the concept of obedience in all of its forms, especially as they manifest in the life of the individual. Milgram may have been some sort of genius of social psychology, but in many direct addresses to the camera, we learn that this persona is just as calculated and shallow as his test subjects’ morality. It is crucial to note that

except for the scenes of the experiment as it happens, most of the film is shot with a dreamlike, intimate quality that not only makes it apparent that this is a narrative, but casts doubt on the power of any narrative to convey truth. Artificiality is king, and it is not about the correctness of the story but about how persuasive and convincing the narrator is. In this way, as Milgram navigates the objections to his work and his relationship with his wife, played by Winona Ryder, it becomes difficult to separate the man he is from the man he tells us he is.

This artificiality is carried through to the setting and cinematography of the film. Many of the shots take place in front of gorgeous, but obviously fake backdrops. When Milgram and his wife visit his former professor, the entire scene is shot against fake black and white photographs. This makes the gender poli-

James Frichner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jfrichner@cornellsun.com.

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The Snails Songs from the Shoebox Self-Released

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Songs from the Shoebox, the first full-length from Future Islands side-project The Snails does not answer answer these questions per se, but it does tell us that vocalist Samuel T. Herring and bassist William Cashion have chosen what may be the best response to the crossroads they have come to face as musicians. They chose to go back to making the music they’ve always loved without worrying too much about how many people are still listening.

Everything about Songs from the Shoebox — from the relentless snail-play in its presentation to the fact that nowhere on its bandcamp page is it definitively tied to Future Islands — suggests that the album is not meant to be Herring and Cashion’s next large-scale artistic statement. Rather, it is a chance for them to let loose and explore more experimental avenues: chiefly, those psychedelic and punk elements which have always been part of Future Islands’ sounds, but which have typically taken a

tics of the scene even more poignant as we see two men debate the nature of control in front of the women who serve as little more than their assistants. These techniques run the risk of coming across as heavy-handed, but they are implemented so beautifully and unobtrusively that they succeed. Even a simple, almost cliché line like “Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards,” is dissected and fragmented until it becomes a beautiful sentiment again. On the whole, it is a beautifully shot, directed, acted and edited film, and one whose message might be even more important now than it was in Milgram’s time.

I mentioned the beautiful editing, and one of absolute best parts of the showing was the chance to have a discussion with the film’s editor, Cornell alumna Kathryn Schubert, M.A. ’05, Ph.D. ’05. Schubert graciously answered every question, which ranged from the insightful to the inane. She explained her unconventional journey from a doctorate in philosophy to a feature film editor, and she offered a refreshing peek behind the curtain of the filmmaking process.

This was her first time working as the head film editor on a feature length project, and her handiwork was apparent in many of the excellent transitions and poetic image sequences of the movie. Schubert downplayed the role COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES of her personal philosophies and vision in the making of the film, but it was obvious to this viewer that this was just a perfect example of modesty at its best.

Having her there was invaluable and quite revelatory.

At one point Milgram says in the film, “sometimes awareness is the first step to our liberation.” It was quite clear to me that this is a film that has the potential to inspire great awareness in people, not just of their own flaws, but of the fundamental ways we still lack understanding of how the mind works. It is painful to examine your own potential darkness, but as this movie and Milgram’s work make abundantly clear, if we fail to do so then the remaining days of the human race may be short indeed.

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As with Future Islands, Herring’s warm, quivering growl of a voice plays the dominant role for The Snails, but there are quite a few characteristics on Songs from the Shoebox that belong exclusively to the latter band. The most distinctive of these is the saxophone. Whereas the melodies of Future Islands’ songs are comprised of the brilliant synth works of non-snail Gerrit Welmers, the melodies of Snails songs are produced by a Baltimore-based collaborator whose playing meshes with indie-rock in the same felicitous manner as Colin Stetson’s. Additionally Songs from the Shoebox features certain stylistic elements, which were played a minor role in Future Islands’ music, but have been brought into a new prominence. Cashion's percussive bass work, for example, has always sounded like that of Joy Division/New Order bassist Peter Hook, but his playing has never exhibited this influence more strongly than on Songs from the Shoebox. The most upbeat elements of Hook’s work with Joy Division are channeled by Cashion throughout the album and repackaged in a colorful, happy wrapping. Indeed, mid-album instrumental “Dusty Snails” sounds like it could be a tribute to the bass-line of “Disorder.”

The title Songs from the Shoebox, for me, conjures images of the sorts of knick-knacks and keepsakes you might stow away in your closet and, living up to this image, the album plays a bit like a scrapbook. It feels simultaneously unserious and deeply personal, trivial and precious. Opener “Tight Side of Life” sets the mood for the album, starting with cartoon spring sounds before leaping dramatically into upbeat post-punk guitar work. After a psychedelic drum

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If you listen to one song from Songs from the Shoebox, make it the title track “Shoebox.” At least sonically, this song brings the record down from playfulness to a far more solemn place. If we’re comparing The Snails to Joy Division and early New Order, then “Shoebox” is their “Ceremony.”

Just like “Ceremony,” “Shoebox” glides back and forth between gorgeous, downtempo guitar riffs and a passionate, uptempo chorus. The difference is that while the brooding, Ian Curtis-penned lyrics to “Ceremony” center around a fractured relationship, I’ll be damned if on “Shoebox,” Herring isn’t singing about basketball. (I cannot be certain as Herring’s voice is often difficult to decipher and lyrics, but I swear I hear stuff about ballgames, being able to “dunk that thing,” and “hit the three.”)

Whether he’s talking hoops or not, when Herring gently repeats during one of the songs refrains — “She likes to watch me play, she likes the way I play” — he sounds like he’s at his most vulnerable, and it’s the album’s finest moment.

While Songs from the Shoebox isn’t serious or ambitious in the way a new Future Islands record might be, it strikes gold in the balance Herring and Cashion strike between revelling in low-stakes experimentation and keeping to their their commitment as pop musicians of producing deeply enjoyable music.

Matthew Pegan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun.com.

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his semester, I’ve paid more of original thought is often lack of attention to the campus goings- mainstream success, and common on from abroad than I ever did themes are safe topics. The challenge is while on campus. And boy, has it been a to be true to your thoughts no matter rollercoaster of a news cycle. First there how vulnerable it makes you (or how was a minor student rebellion over the stupid it makes you seem), and the College of Business, followed by a fra- reward is the respect that comes with ternity scandal, issues with need-based obvious honesty. financial aid, a tuition hike, a drug bust It’s pretty hard to be vulnerable with — Cornell has certainly not been bor- controversial topics like race and sexualing. Not to mention the raised political ity. Even when you want desperately to tension brought on by the empathize, you can never fully underShakespearian comedy that is this year’s stand the challenges that others face. It presidential election and, of course, the seems that as many steps as society takes untimely passing of President Elizabeth towards progress, there will always be a Garrett. It seems that Ithaca is coming gap between those wronged and those through on little but the recent strain of outside the problem looking in. The good weather. challenge here is to allow yourself to The student and faculty response to own your biases, and the reward is an President Garrett’s death has been over- understanding of perspectives outside whelming and exceedingly interesting. your own.

Few of us knew her; she served for such It’s pretty hard to be vulnerable in a short time that few got the chance to forming friendships. Sometimes it meet her. Yet for seems like humans someone whom a want desperately to good majority of the really know those For many, the students were largely around them while president’s death unfamiliar with simultaneously owing to her short shielding themselves was a reminder that time with us, the from being known. campus response has life is very short. For It’s a funny paradox been a wonderful tesin that everyone goes me, this was a tament to her influaround protecting ence. The scale of the reminder that life will their true identities, reaction initially surmissing each offer us the chance just prised me, because other like opposite she was so new to our to be vulnerable, and ends of a magnet. The campus. But I think challenge here is to with great courage open up to people, that the heartfelt response to her passand the reward is usuwe can take that ing was ultimately ally a series of lasting less of a personal sorrelationships. chance. row and more of a These are simplitribute to Cornell fied examples of the itself and what it means to all of us, col- broader vulnerability of life, but the lectively. We love Cornell University. instinct to shy away from vulnerability And when you love something, you is easily understood. Because what is mourn when it mourns. You rejoice this particular brand of self-sabotage, if when it succeeds, you hurt when it not distinctly human? I know it seems hurts and you smile when it is lifted up. kind of odd that the untimely death of We love this school, and Elizabeth Cornell’s first woman president would Garrett was a part of it. make me think about living my life with For many, the president’s death was a more vulnerability in the time that I reminder that life is very short. For me, have. But in reality, the scandal and sadthis was a reminder that life will offer us ness of the past semester, President the chance to be vulnerable, and with Garrett’s passing included, has tested great courage we can take that chance. the vulnerability of the entire university Like all things that are inherently scary, and its students, shaken our foundavulnerability offers some cool rewards, tions and shifted the mood of our camamong them the ability to live honestly pus. I think the lesson here is that vuland think critically about your own life. nerability isn’t a bad thing, but a cataA few examples: lyst for self-reflection, honesty and For me, it’s pretty hard to be vulner- change. And that, I believe, is the posiable in writing. There is a sort of con- tive outlook on what has been a tumulstant state of cognitive dissonance that I tuous and tragic couple of months for seem to live in — wanting desperately our school. to write something that is relatable to the human experience and will connect Ruth Weissmann is a junior in the College of Agriculture Life Sciences. She can be reached at with an audience but also fearing com- and raw287@cornell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears ing off as cliché. It seems that the price alternate Fridays this semester.

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The Patent Trap:The Fight for CRISPR Rights A

war on the ownership of the greatest biological discovery of the decade is quickly exposing the ruthless side of science, which often maintains a veneer of cheerful collaboration.

No sooner had we begun to faithfully write six as the last digit in our notebooks, the year itself promised to be an important one for the fate of gene editing. In early January, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a motion of interference in a case of the Broad Institute at MIT vs. the University of California, Berkeley, and set up a winner-take-all legal showdown regarding patents for CRISPR, a technology worth billions of dollars, expected to revolutionize science and win a Nobel Prize. All of this is up for grabs, and likely, by the end of the year — intense, right?

So let’s rewind — how did we get here?

The story centers around a technology called CRISPR, short for Clustered RegularlyInterspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which allows for very specific and efficient binding of bespoke molecular scissors to the genome. This, in turn, allows for precise targeting, cutting, deleting and adding synthetic sequences or proteins to cells on a dish, fish, mice and — eventually, we hope — people! This is a huge leap forward in gene therapy and has significant implications for personalized medicine. Indeed, our imaginations have taken flight, with applications resembling the sci-fi imagined dystopias of designer babies and utopias of absolute freedom from disease. Of course, with great applications, comes great money, and this is where things get cagey.

Here’s a simplified timeline on the discovery of CRISPR: in May 2012 Lithuanian researcher Virginijus Siksnys’s group submits a paper to the journal PNAS characterizing the CRISPR complex in bacteria. The paper, naturally, takes months to be revised and is approved in August 2012. In parallel, Jennifer Doudna’s group from Berkeley, in collaboration with Emmanuelle Charpentier’s group at the University of Vienna, submits a similar paper to Science — a substantially more prominent journal — albeit three weeks after Siksnys’s group. However, editors at Science, recognizing the paper’s potential impact, promptly accept it within two weeks, and Doudna pips Siksnys to publishing.

Correspondingly, UC Berkeley files a patent for CRISPR with Doudna as the inventor in May 2012. Two other groups, those of Feng Zhang and George Church from MIT and Harvard, respectively, submit and publish papers in January 2013 in Science demonstrating the use of CRISPR, but in mammalian cells.

They, too, file patents, for CRISPR in October 2012. In 2013, Doudna, Zhang and Church proceed to found Editas Medicine — a therapeutic genome

editing company based around their patents and expertise, and everyone lives happily ever after.

If only. In April 2014, the USPTO grants the MIT patent, citing Zhang as the sole inventor for broad applications of CRISPR within eukaryotes — essentially all complex living organisms.

MIT, it transpires, has paid the USPTO extra to fast-track the patent and has beaten UC Berkeley to the punch. Moreover, the Berkeley patent, which correctly speculates but does not initially demonstrate use in complex organisms, is excluded by MIT’s claim. Doudna promptly leaves Editas to join Intellia, a rival company and Berkeley mounts a legal protest by asking for an interference ruling — seeking review by a tribunal on who was “first to invent” the technology. The “first to invent” rule, incidentally, was revoked in 2013, as the US caught up with the rest of the world in granting patents to those who were “first to file.” However, because the filings were prior to the law change, the interference ruling — one of the last of its kind — was sought.

All of that brings us to this year. The story so far has had science, economics, and law, but 2016 promises to bring theatre. In January, the motion for interference was granted, naming Doudna and Berkeley as senior parties — meaning the burden of proof for invention falls on Zhang. There are a number of nuances at play, but principal among them are: did the groups arrive at the CRISPR results independently? And does Zhang’s finding of CRISPR activity in complex organisms constitute an innovative step, or is it an obvious corollary of Doudna’s finding? An interference tribunal is given a year by statute to complete its decision. Though extensions can be granted, it’s likely that this could be settled before 2017.

Meanwhile, despite its looming legal entanglement, Editas successfully became a publicly traded company in January, and all parties continue to enjoy their welldeserved time in the spotlight.

Zhang continues to innovate on CRISPR mechanisms, and has recently discovered an alternate system called Cpf1 that may achieve similar results. Doudna has become a prominent voice for ethical implications of gene editing technology. Labs everywhere continue to use CRISPR, freely available for academic and research purposes, refining uses and expanding contexts. But the calm of academic progress could well be a harbinger of the storm that will be the interference verdict by year’s end.

After all, the science behind CRISPR is only academic in one sense of the word.

Suveg Pandey is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York City. He may be reached at sup2020@med.cornell.edu.What’s Up Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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interned at JPMorgan Chase the summer of my freshman year in NYC. Yet despite working with bond values, derivatives, financing and debt pricing, one of the most important lessons I took away from my time was that certain things in this world are priceless. However, I do not believe students need a corporate internship to learn this lesson, it can be learned on the train ride to work. The J train runs between Jamaica Center in Queens and Wall Street in Manhattan and in between our starting point and your destination you meet an array of characters. The concrete jungle is home to the rich and powerful, but it is also home to the underestimated to the underserved. I have heard some of the saddest stories: mothers trying to support their children, veterans without homes, performers with talent, hungry men wanting meals and immigrants holding signs for support.

I feel unnerved every time I enter into a subway car and hear a person tell a compelling story about how they are seeking money and then to proceed to see no one donate a dime in help.

I will not use the word begging because some of the stories one hears while on the NYC subway are equivalent to crowd funding is without the Internet. It does not matter if it is 8 a.m. or 11 p.m., the NYC subway system is home to a vast array of stories. I believe that stories are priceless.

However, having seen people’s lack of empathy, the cold shoulders and disdainful looks for over ten years, sometimes I begin to question people’s intentions.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen to me if I ever had to crowdfund, not on the subway but online. Would people’s attitude change if they get behind a computer screen? Everyday I am reminded of my commute between Jamaica Center and Wall Street, the screech of subway cars, wheels twirling in revolution and doors opening with opportunity.

I initially attributed people’s lack of donations to one of three reasons. The first was doubt; the person who heard the com-

pelling story fundamentally doubted the person’s mission, vision or authenticity. The second was seeing people’s actions reflected their attitude on life. If a person gives a menial donation it is because that person thinks your cause is menial, hence the small act of giving, thus it can be seen as an insult. In my mind if I ever had to crowdfund I would have to make sure to emphasize brand, net worth, and for the minimum contribution I believed the campaign deserved.

If you’ve told your story and people still do not decided to give, what else can you do? As I thought about the question longer and asked people for their opinion I realized that sometimes no matter what you do some people will just not give to your campaign even when they hear about it. Psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane coined this phenomenon as “The Bystander Effect,” while others will argue that this term was recognized earlier in the parable of “The Good Samaritan.” In retrospect I learned that it is impossible to convince everyone that you are doing good work, it is impossible to please everyone and that some people will look at your efforts and simply walk away.

However, I believe that part of the problem rests in the hope we put in our capitalist system.

Capitalism leads us to believe that we are productive members of society only so far as we are products of the system and uphold the system. Under a capitalist system we ascribe emotions to dollars, care to numbers and commitment to digits. The only pieces of paper we want to see are bills that are paid, not handwritten thank you notes, happy birthday cards and crayon paintings from our children. Under this framework, capitalism leads us to doubt the value and authenticity of our neighbors. In our society we question if humanitarian efforts, requests and campaigns have the purest of intentions. However, we are hesitant to question our own intentions for doing the work we do on an everyday basis. Moreover, capitalism leads us to believe that the person who has the most

money brings about the most change. Throughout time the names have taken different forms, bourgeois and proletariat, the one and the 99 percent. In a capitalist society we know cents are found in our wallets, but forget sense comes from our minds.

We remember the physical change in our pockets, but forget the intangible change comes from our hearts. Capitalism does benefit many people, yes. After working at JPMorgan Chase I saw the power that can be shared by helping give people access to funds. There are many benefits of capitalism, however, I do not believe the benefits should blind us to what the consequences are and the hidden costs we are paying to keep capitalism alive. Is it time we reimagine our value system and reexamine what we put value on? There are some things in life that are too priceless to compromise.

Here at Cornell, Professor Edward Baptist teaches a class in the spring called HIST/ASRC 2006: Understanding Global Capitalism Through Service Learning. Professor Baptist takes students to Petersfield, Jamaica during Spring Break to critically analyze the economic policies of the world, understand their repercussions and see the effects it has on the local community. This year, 17 students from the class started a GoFundMe entitled “Service Learning in Jamaica” with ten days left to reach their crowdfunding goal. Classes and trips like these in the History, Africana, Economics and AEM departments are necessary for undergraduates to critically think and ask the important questions.

If one admits that capitalism is corrupt, what then is the proposed alternative? If the “developing” country is underdeveloped by the “developed” country, what is the role of the citizenry in addressing the issue? What is priceless and what is not?

Which is more important, debt or death?

Jeremiah Grant is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Jeremiah can be reached at jg856@cornell.edu. Gates & Ladders appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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BASEBALL

Baseball Finishes Opening Weekend 1-2 Red looks to improve defensively,maintain offensive production this weekend against Wofford

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

First year head coach Dan Pepicelli and Cornell baseball have shaken off the nerves with opening weekend in the past. Coming up against a tough opponent in Wofford this weekend, the Red looks to stick to the game plan they worked on during the offseason

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Long Break | It has been 114 years since the Red last played Wofford, in 1902.

and eventually start to put together a winning record.

Cornell (1-2) is coming off a mildly successful opening weekend, picking up one win in the three-game series against Northeastern (6-5). The Red surrendered 22 runs on the weekend and were shut out twice by the Huskies. Clearly, their rust was showing.

“The main thing ... we need to improve on is trusting our process,” said junior infielder Cole Rutherford. “Coach Pepicelli and all of the assistant coaches worked tirelessly with us the entire offseason on implementing the details that will enable us to be successful.”

While the defensive results are alarming, it is too early for anyone to start panicking.

“I think a lot of that defensive stuff will work itself out just with people calming down from opening weekend,” Pepicelli said. “I’m not going to overreact.”

Pepicelli noted that even some of his best players were not showing their best stuff.

“Frank Padulo made a few errors and if you watch him play everyday he is as good of a defender as there is,” Pepicelli said.

Junior infielder Padulo himself is not sweating it either.

“We just need to play to our standard and have trust in ourselves and the system,” he said. “That trust will allow us to go out and play loose, especially on defense where it will allow us to play with more rhythm.”

Rutherford also agrees with Pepicelli in

“[Wofford has] been playing well so far saying he believes things will begin to work this season and we will have a good test out defensively.

“I know our team was not satisfied with against them,” Rutherford said. “They have how the defense performed and we will con- a lot of team speed and like to steal, bunt tinue to put in the work to make sure that and put the game in motion, so that is what we are up to our standard,” Rutherford said. we are expecting out of them.”

Pepicelli has decided to There were also some good aspects of last week- “The main thing ... we stick with the same rotation of junior right-hander end that the Red can ride on going into the week- need to improve on is Paul Balestrieri for game one, senior left-hander end.

“We had some posi- trusting our process.” Michael Byrne for game two and junior right-hantives at times last weekend Cole Rutherford ’17 der Tim Willittes for game offensively that we can three. build on,” Padulo said. “If Willittes allowed 5 earned runs over 4.1 we stay more focused and win each pitch, we innings in last Sunday’s 11-0 loss to will be fine.”

Cornell will travel to Spartanburg, S.C. Northeastern, but Pepicelli and the coaching to face the Wofford Terriers (10-4) for the staff are sticking to their guns.

“I think Timmy WIlletts didn’t have his first time since 1902.

It is essential that the Red trust the best game,” Pepicelli said. “He thinks there process and focus on what they have been is better in there — I think there is better. doing, when facing a quality opponent such We are looking forward to seeing how he does on Sunday … He’ll be good. I’m conas Wofford. “[Wofford] is a real good program,” fident in him.”

Pepicelli believes Willetts and the rest of Pepecilli said. “They are really dynamic on the bases [and] have been one of the [top] the Red just need to find their rhythm and teams in the country every year on stolen success will follow.

Cornell will play a doubleheader on bases. We are going to have to really control Saturday starting at 1 p.m. against the the running game.”

Wofford’s dangerous run game could Terriers, and then a third on Sunday at prove costly if the Red’s defense does not noon. have a better outing this weekend.

Minimizing baserunners against a strong Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com. base running team like Wofford is crucial.

BASKETBALL

Ivy League Basketball To Begin Postseason Tournaments in 2017

By ADAM BRONFIN and JOON LEE Sun Sports Editor, Sun Senior Writer

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but for the first time in the 64-year history of the Ivy League, the conference is changing things up. The League’s Council of Presidents approved a four-team conference tournament in men’s and women’s basketball with the winner earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Basketball tournaments, according to a conference press release. Prior to the announcement, The Ivy League was the only Division I conference to not have a postseason tournament.

“It’s great to give the studentathletes that experience, something to play for and fight for at the end of the year, even if you’re not in first place,” said Cornell men’s basketball head coach Bill Courtney.

“It gives you something to strive for and it adds so much excitement for the Ivy League to have a tournament and bring all the universities together in one place.”

The tournament will be implemented beginning next season,

2016-17, and will take place on March 11 and 12, 2017 at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Penn’s home court.

“The presidents adopted the proposal to establish men’s and women’s basketball tournaments after thoughtful discussions and careful review of the thorough information provided by our athletics directors and head coaches,” said Pete Salovey, Yale president and chair of the council, in the release. “Ultimately, this decision was based on enhancing the overall experience for our basketball student-athletes, while also paying attention to time demands by shortening the regular season.”

One distinction, however, is that the team that finishes with the best record in the conference at the end of the regular season will continue to be recognized as the Ivy League champions.

“The structure of our basketball tournaments is consistent with our model of college athletics and the format allows us to preserve the significance of the regular season,” said Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris in the release. “Most

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Core Four | Only the top four teams in the league will compete in this tournament, which will increase competition.

importantly, this creates a landmark event during March Madness for our basketball student-athletes to anticipate while they are in school and to cherish throughout their lives after graduation.”

Courtney said he disagreed with the common concerns that the tournament reduces the importance of regular season games.

“You still have to get into the top four,” Courtney said. “I don’t think it diminishes [the regular season] at all. College basketball is such a great regular season sport anyway.”

Harris noted that momentum for the tournaments had been building since before her seven-

year tenure with the Ivy League.

There had been several movements to add in a tournament but none gained much traction until Fall 2014 when the athletic directors of the eight Ivy schools met to create a “working group” comprised of athletic directors and head basketball coaches, according to Harris.

This group was critical in creating a format that was fair to each university and preserved the amateurism of Ivy League basketball.

Last season, the Bulldogs and the Crimson tied in the regular season and then squared off with a bid to March Madness on the line.

Harris said that the success of that game made the conference feel as though a tournament should be

made a reality. Harris called the environment “fabulous,” and noted that even though it was a neutral site, there was still a “packed house.” She also said The Palestra makes the most sense for the first ever tournament, calling it “venerable and iconic.”

Beyond 2016-17, no decision has been made as to at which university the tournament will be held, or even if the tournament will occur at one of the eight Ivy schools.

Adam Bronfin and Joon Lee can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com and jlee@cornellsun.com.