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Bill mandates campus-wide biannual surveys By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer
The University may need to change the way it investigates and evaluates cases of alleged sexual assault if federal legislators approve a new law on sexual violence. Introduced to the United States Senate by a bipartisan group of 12 senators on Feb. 26, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act seeks to regulate how universities and colleges handle cases of sexual assault. After the first iteration of the bill in July was not passed, the Senators revised the legislation based on feedback from stakeholders. Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner was among those who testified, appearing Dec. 9 before the U.S. Senate to provide her opinion on strengthening the law, according to the University. The updated version of the bill now requires universities to conduct a mandatory, anonymous survey on students’ experiences with See SEXUAL ASSAULT page 4
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A design by Madeline Miles ’14 is displayed yesterday on the terrace floor of the Human Ecology Building.
Justin Ying ’16 gives a speech about escaping environmental crises at the 5th annual Harold I. Saperstein ’31 Cornell Topical Sermon Contest held Tuesday at Anabel Taylor Hall.
Skorton Addresses Faculty Senate
President discusses future of higher education in America Wednesday
for American higher education,” he said. According to Skorton, the most discussed issue concerning the future of American higher education President David Skorton spoke to members of is affordability. “There’s no doubt, despite strong voices for the the faculty about the future of American higher educontrary, that higher education at the Faculty Senate cation has a major impact meeting Wednesday. “There’s no doubt, despite on graduates’ economic In what Skorton said strong voices for the contrary, success,” Skorton said. would be his last time that higher education has a “Unlike other major addressing the Faculty expenditures that one Senate as president of the major impact on graduates’ might finance with debt, University, he said he was economic success.” like a car, the investment going to be “blunt and in higher education ecodirect” about what he President David Skorton nomically appreciates and views to be the direction of doesn’t depreciate over American higher educatime.” tion following 35 years of experience. According to Skorton, Cornell has a long tradi“I decided to accept a very gracious invitation that [Dean of Faculty Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66] tion of providing talented students from a wide varigave me to speak about just a few of the opportunities and the challenges that I see going forward See SKORTON page 4 By MELVIN LI
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Ritter ’83 examines how C.U. experience shaped her career By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer
Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, spoke about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ’54 successes as a civil rights lawyer and how her experience at Cornell shaped her professional passion at a talk in Hans Bethe House Wednesday night. As a student at Cornell in the 1950s, Ginsburg had exceptional teachers such as Robert Cushman and Vladimir Nabokov, who would greatly influence her, according to
Ritter. Ritter said that Cushman, a government professor, impressed on Ginsburg the importance of democracy and government and particularly the importance of civil liberties. Ginsburg reflected on her Cornell career at an alumni event in September, where Ritter said she cited Vladimir Nabokov as having a particular impact on her writing and career. “Professor Nabokov changed the way I read and changed the way I write,” Ginsburg said at the event, which was held at The New-York Historical Society. “Even when I’m drafting [High
Court] opinions, thinking about how the word order should go, I remember him.” Ritter said that prior to Ginsburg’s advocacy in the court for women’s equal protection of the law, there was not a single cohesive foundation on which to base an argument, so gender equality advocates had not made much progress. “For several decades there was a partisan competition between the Democratic Party which favored working class women and the Republican Party which See GINSBURG page 5
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Local New Report Shows Tompkins County Is Recycling More With its new waste divestment goal, Tompkins County saved $1.4 million while helping the environment, The Ithaca Journal reported Wednesday. A state comptroller’s audit examined recycling programs from January 2013 to July 2014, and applauded county officials for their success. According to Tompkins County Solid Waste Managment Director Barbara Eckstrom, the county raised revenue through selling the recycled materials, The Journal reported.
State Man Arrested For Flashing Laser At Planes in NYC 36-year-old Frank J. Egan, a New York resident, was arrested by the New York Police Department for flashing his black tubular laser at the sky Monday night, according to The New York Times. The light was forceful enough to harm the eyes of four pilots, which included two police officers in a helicopter. The Federal Aviation Administration told the police that there was a beam of green light in the sky, which seemed to be directed at aircrafts, The Times reported.
National Alabama Child Dies After Drinking Laced Grape Soda An Alabama toddler has died after drinking grape soda that police say may have been laced with methadone, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. 31year-old Cassie Townsend was babysitting the toddler on Friday when she noticed that “a bottle containing methadone ws not where she left it.” Townsend brought the 2-year-old boy to the hospital, but he was unresponsive and later died, The AP reported.
Kerry Condemns Letter From Republican Lawmakers To Leaders of Iran Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the State Foreign Relations Committee Wed nesday, calling a letter Republicans sent to Iranian leaders “misleading and irresponsible,” according to The New York Times. The letter said that “any agreement on Iran’s nuclear program that was not approved by Congress would not be legally binding,” and could be changed by lawmakers or revoked by a future president, The Times reported. — Compiled by Madeline Cohen
C.U. Speech and Debate Debuts Radio Show
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‘Stir It Up’ covers current events and longstanding issues By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Contributor
The Cornell Speech and Debate Union has a new radio show, Stir It Up, which has Talk it up | The Cornell Speech and Debate Union recently debuted Stir It Up, a radio talk show. covered issues ranging from Greek life to “We only just started, but we’ve covered recording it for a podcast to make it a much legalizing marijuana in its three shows so far issues including lowering the drinking age to more accessible platform,” Montejo said. this semester. Montejo said Stir It Up will help students Stir It Up covers both current events and 18, banning Greek life on campus and legallong-standing controversies, according to izing marijuana. In the future, we plan on feel more comfortable joining the Cornell Jake Meany, director of debate outreach for getting people from outside campus to Speech and Debate Union. “We are really passionate about discussing debate about the the Cornell Speach and war on terror,” issues and really critically thinking about Debate Union. In addition, “We are really passionate Kim said. “We’re them, and we want to convey this to our the show will feature a variety also holding public campus,” Montejo said. “I felt intimidated to of guest speakers, ranging debates soon about join speech and debate, and I think [our from faculty and staff mem- about discussing issues and affirmative action radio show] is a great way for students to bers to field experts. really critically thinking and police brutali- connect with us.” Jennifer Kim ’16, president Meany said the speech and debate union ty, so those might of the union, said the new about them, and we want to be topics for the designed the show to engage with the comradio show is an effort to munity and create opportunities for students show as well.” expand outreach for the orga- convey this to our campus.” practice and develop their communication to Montejo, Julia nization. Julia Montejo ’17 ’17, co-captain of skills. “We do many public “I am excited to expand the opportunities the speech quad for debates each semester, but we the organization, students have to practice argumentation and wanted a platform for students who don’t necessarily have time to go said the new radio show is a good way to public speaking,” Meany said. “Stir It Up to our other public events to be able to learn bring the ideas of the speech and debate creates a forum where students can serve as about and engage in ongoing campus issues union to a medium they have not used in the advocates for the issues they are interested past. in.” and other relevant issues,” Kim said. “We have a live radio show on Kim said the organization began by covering issues they think are relevant to students Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4, but the live Josephine Chu can be reached at show is on cornellradio.com and we are also jfc239@cornell.edu. on campus.
Attorney Speaks on Hate Crimes at Wednesday Lecture By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer
Ami Gandhi, an attorney and executive director of the South Asian American Policy and Research Initiative, discussed the anti-hate advocacy and immigration policy the initiative has worked toward to approximately 40 students at a talk in Myron Taylor Hall Wednesday. Gandhi said SAAPRI is a non-partisan, non-profit organization which promotes data-driven policy to serve South AsianAmericans in Chicago. The first half hour of Gandhi’s presentation focused on specific hate crimes and the legislation that followed, in particular the Oak Creek, Wisconsin shooting of six people at a Sikh temple in 2012 and the congressional hearing concerning hate crimes the following month. Gandhi said she disapproved of a Chicago newspaper’s recent publication of a “Turban Primer,” which illustrated how to
identify different ethnic and religious groups based on caricatures. “[This graphic is] overly simplistic and even harmful caricatures that we’ve seen over time of other Asian-American groups,” she said. “We’ve learned some of those painful lessons throughout our country’s history, and we still don’t really have appropriate and constructive ways to talk about some of our other racial [and] religious minority groups,” Gandhi said. “That’s what we saw in this problematic ... publication.” Gandhi closed her talk by stressing the importance of activism, even if it consists of simply sparking discussion amongst peers about the importance and relevance of these issues. “Consider talking about these issues and breaking the ice about these issues, even in a really informal way,” Gandhi said. “It could be putting on a program, it could be leading an activist campaign on your campus or in your community, or it could be RULA SAEED / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Discussing discrimination | Ami Gandhi, executive director of the South Asian Research Institute, stressed the need for activism to end intolerance at a presentation Monday.
bringing up a topic over dinner or with your friends and family that you really care about [and] that you feel is worth some attention.” Tahera Doctor ’17, vice president of Cornell’s South Asian Council, a co-organizer of the event, said she was glad Gandhi brought attention to hate crimes she thinks are not sufficiently considered. “We hope that Ami will be able to provide a unique perspective from SAAPRI … about community work, specifically regarding hate crimes,” Doctor said. “In our opinion, hate crimes have not been adequately addressed on campus in the past, and we hope that Ami’s talk [helped to] educate the Cornell population about these issues.” The event was organized through the SAC in collaboration with the South Asian Law Students Association, according to Doctor. In addition to the presentation, Gandhi attended a dinner with students. Co-event organizer Akshali Gandhi grad said the dinner “provided a chance for Ami to really speak about her work on the ground at the local level.” “One of SAC's central goals is advocacy, and we felt that discussing hate crimes was a necessary component of this conversation,” Doctor said. “SAC actually began when an undergraduate student was racially targeted at the airport, so addressing hate crimes definitely holds true to our original purpose.” SAC President Rishabh Iyer ’15 said she hopes Cornellians will gain a sense of “civic activism” from the event. “We are hoping the community will take away a sense of civic activism relating to issues that affect them and a greater sense of awareness of the different organizations … that operate in the space of public interests,” Iyer said. Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.
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of sexual assault in Fall 2014 reflect a trend that Cornell has been seeing since 2007, when the number of reports began to slowly increase. sexual assault — with results to be published online According to data submitted by the University to — every two years, rather than every year, as previ- the U.S. Department of Education, in 2007 only ously required by the bill. three cases of forcible sex offenses on or near campus Yamini Bhandari ’17, women’s issues representa- were reported, compared to 16 reports in 2013. tive for the Student Assembly, said that while it is According to Grant, the University currently has important to keep a level of confidentiality for vic- no way of knowing whether the number of unreporttims of sexual assault, she does see value in publicly ed rapes are higher or lower at Cornell compared to releasing statistics. other institutions. “Any statistics that can be released on the number “We do know generally, though, that sexual of cases could be very useful in giving the community assaults are underreported nationally and, therefore, a better sense of how are likely underreported at real this issue is for so Cornell,” she said. many students,” “We share the responsibility for creating Grant said the increase a safer, more caring campus culture in in reports at Cornell show Bhandari said. The revised law also which bias, harrassment and violence that that University’s outlines new standards attempts to raise awareness have no place.” for confidential adviabout sexual violence have sors by designating that been a success. Joel Malina university affiliates “The increase reflects should provide advice better communication and support to alleged victims of sexual harassment. among campus partners who are consulting with Additionally, under the revised bill, colleges would Title IX coordinators about allegations — even if the have to disclose all details of any sexual assault com- victim does not wish to proceed with a formal complaint to the accused student. plaint,” she said. According to Joel Malina, vice president for uniBhandari said it is difficult to say if more reportversity relations, the University is currently in the ing reflects real success, since she said she believes that process of reviewing the revised legislation, and there- “more students reporting is only the start in addressfore cannot yet speak to the potential implications for ing the real problem.” Cornell if the bill is enacted. “I think success would be if we see the incidences “We commend Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D- of rape itself reduce, not just if we see the number of N.Y.) and the other congressional sponsors of this bill cases reported reduce,” Bhandari said. “Something for helping to drive continued public attention to like that takes a culture shift, and that requires more this important issue,” Malina said. support from administration.” Reports of on-campus sexual assault have been on Malina said the University currently supports a no the rise across the Ivy League. 91 on-campus reports tolerance policy for any form of sexual assault or were filed across all eight Ivy League schools in 2010, abuse against students, staff, faculty, alumni or visiaccording to the U.S. Department of Education. Two tors. years later, that number increased to 126. “We share the responsibility for creating a safer, While Cornell has had the fewest number of on- more caring campus culture in which bias, harasscampus sexual assault reports of the Ivies, the number ment and violence have no place, and every member of reported incidents at Cornell is at a 23-year-high, of our community is free to flourish,” he said. The Sun previously reported. According to Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Jonathan Swartz can be reached at Grant J.D. ’88, the increase in the number of reports jswartz@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
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ety of economic backgrounds with educational opportunities. Skorton said that Cornell currently ranks in the top 10 universities in the U.S. for economic diversity in the student body. “For the less than half of undergraduates students who borrowed, the mean debt at graduation, including all federal, Cornell, and private loans, is $21,000. That’s compared to the national mean of $30,000 for four-year private colleges,” Skorton said. “Of course, students pursuing post-baccalaureate education can borrow much more money than that. It took me 21 years to pay my debts off, including medical school.”
Skorton said income levels and employment rate vary drastically based on levels of education. “A study released in January also by the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that the unemployment rate now for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher was 2.8 percent, the lowest levels since the beginning of the recession,” Skorton said. Skorton also said he believes that broader salutary effects of higher educations are as important as economic ones. He said that most public discussion of higher education is largely geared towards STEM disciplines and that he would like to see other fields included in the discussion as well. According to Skorton, the American professoriate bear the
brunt of the responsibility for the lack of understanding for the importance of non-STEM disciplines by failing to develop generally accepted measures of student learning outcome in these fields. “The social sciences, arts and humanities help students gain cross-cultural knowledge, critical thinking skills that apply beyond a particular discipline, skills in oral and written communication, and a deeper understand of international and domestic issues,” Skorton said. “Most importantly to me, studying these subjects teaches us all that it means to be fully human and help us better understand ourselves and others.” Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun.com.
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Dean Discusses Ginsburg at Lecture Ferguson Chief Resigns
Ritter encourages students to appreciate diverse education GINSBURG
ed arguing these cases in the ’70s did the court Continued from page 1 ever rule that the Equal Protection Clause applied to gender.” argued for business-oriented equal rights for Ritter quoted Ginsburg in one of her most women,” Ritter said. famous cases, Reed v. Reed (1971), in which a This partisan divide was the reason women’s mother whose son committed suicide was denied rights were not properly addressed before the the rights to his estate, which were instead given Civil Rights Act of 1964 found that any discrim- to the father. ination in the way jobs are offered to men and “Race and sex are comparable classes. Both women is unconstitutional, according to Ritter. have been defined by, and subordinated to, the “This ended the debate and opened up the same power group — white males,” Ginsburg path for Ginsburg in dealsaid. ing with the issue of In focusing on whether or not the role as an extraCornell’s “I definitely remember and Fourteenth Amendment ordinary place of higher think that some of my classes would be applied,” Ritter education for Ginsburg, said. and professors have had a huge Ritter played another clip Ritter spoke on the in which Ginsburg disimpact on my life.” evolution of Ginsburg’s cussed her appreciation of career, identifying her as a the diverse and compreDean Gretchen Ritter ’83 renowned women’s rights hensive education she advocate. She cited received, with some of her Ginsburg’s founding of favorite classes being the American Civil Liberties Union Women’s music and art classes, even though they weren’t Rights Project in 1972 — the strategy of which related to her studies. Within the clip, Ginsburg was modeled after the National Association for gives advice to students. the Advancement of Colored People Legal “Take advantage of a diverse education,” Defense Fund — as an example of such. Ginsburg said. According to Ritter, the reinterpretation of the Ritter concluded her talk by saying she agreed Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in with Ginsburg. Brown v. Board of Education served as the inspi“I definitely remember and think that some of ration for Ginsburg to argue six cases before the my classes and professors have had a huge impact Supreme Court in the 1970s, which began the on my life,” Ritter said. “I encourage you to look process toward achieving women’s equal citizen- for those experiences, even if they don’t fit neatly ship. in your curriculum. I’ve only ever heard of people “A key part of what it means to be a citizen regretting the classes they didn’t take, so do that in the United States is to have equal protection for yourselves.” of the law,” Ritter said. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg is like the Thurgood Marshall of women’s Ariel Seidner can be reached at rights. Not until Ginsburg and her allies start- aseidner@cornellsun.com.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses her use of a private email address during her time as Secretary of State, at the United Nations in New York yesterday.
Study: Tetanus Shot May Aid Treatment of Cancer NEW YORK (AP) — Can a tetanus shot help treat brain cancer? A small study hints that it might. A dose of tetanus vaccine let patients live longer when added to an experimental treatment for the most common and deadly kind of brain tumor, researchers report. It “put the immune system on high alert,” paving the way for the experimental treatment to work better in attacking the disease, said researcher Kristen Batich of the Duke University Medical Center. In a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature, she and
others describe a study of 12 patients. Some who got the tetanus shot lived years longer than those who didn’t. Dr. John Sampson of Duke, senior author of the report, called the results promising but noted the study was small, and said bigger studies are needed to confirm the results. A follow-up study has already been planned but isn’t recruiting patients yet, Batich said. Brain cancer experts unconnected with the work were impressed. The results are “very exciting,”said Dr. Nader Sanai of
the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. While he agreed more work is required, “what you have so far, it’s a very positive story.” Tetanus is otherwise known as lockjaw. Vaccines for it are routinely recommended for children and adults. The new study focused on glioblastoma, which killed Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 2009. Even after surgery to remove the tumor, it usually grows back and kills. The few drugs to treat these tumors have little effect. Half of patients die within about 15 months.
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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — city to move on. “I believe this is the approThe police chief in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson resigned priate thing to do at this time,” Wednesday in the wake of a Jackson said. “This city needs scathing Justice Department to move forward without any report prompted by the fatal distractions.” During a 12-minute news shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police conference, Knowles said Jackson resigned after “a lot of officer. Calling Chief Thomas soul-searching” about how the Jackson an “honorable man,” community could heal from the Mayor James Knowles III racial unrest stemming from announced the city had reached the fatal shooting last summer. “The chief is the kind of a mutual separation agreement that will pay Jackson one year honorable man you don’t have of his nearly $96,000 annual to go to,” Knowles said. “He comes to you when he knows salary and health coverage. Jackson’s resignation becomes effective March 19, at which point Lt. Col. “I believe this is the Al Eickhoff will become acting chief while the city appropriate thing to do searches for a replacement. at this time. The city Jackson had previously resisted calls by protesters needs this to move forand some of Missouri’s top elected leaders to step down ward without any over his handling of the fatal shooting of Michael distractions.” Brown and the weeks of sometimes-violent protests Chief Thomas Jackson that followed. He was widely criticized from the outset, both for an aggressive police response to protesters and for that this is something we have his agency’s erratic and infre- to seriously discuss.” Jackson becomes the sixth quent releases of key informaemployee to resign or be fired tion. He took nearly a week to after the U.S. Department of publicly identify Officer Justice last week issued the Darren Wilson as the shooter report that cleared Wilson of and then further heightened civil rights charges in the shoottension in the community by ing but found a profit-driven releasing Wilson’s name at the court system and widespread same time as store security racial bias in the city police video that police said showed department. The resignation was welBrown stealing a box of cigars and shoving a clerk only a short comed by state lawmakers who represent Ferguson. time before his death. “There would be a lot of Jackson submitted a foursentence letter in which he said people that would approve of he was announcing his resigna- that,” said Democratic state tion with profound sadness. He Rep. Sharon Pace, who repretold the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sents the neighborhood where that he felt it was time for the Brown was shot.
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Speedy,Thorough Handling Of Sexual Assault Cases THE OFFICE OF THE JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATOR has repeatedly failed to meet deadlines outlined by Cornell’s Policy 6.4 and federal recommendations when handling sexual assault investigations. J.A. Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 attributed the lack of timeliness to the extra procedural steps introduced by the recently modified policy and insufficient staffing. Despite the office’s best efforts to address these reports in a timely manner, the failure to meet both University and federal policies remains inexcusable. The administration must take steps to remedy its inability to complete reports promptly as dictated by its own policies and Title IX. Policy 6.4 — which addresses issues pertaining to discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual violence — has remained the subject of controversy since its major revision in 2012. Most notably, in efforts to support victims and to decrease barriers to reporting incidents of sexual violence, the University changed the policy to decrease the burden of proof required in a case, and necessitated recommendation reports be written and sent to both the victim and accused and a faculty review panel. As a result, according to those working with the Office of Judicial Codes Counselors, many of the cases are not completed within the 60-day period required by Policy 6.4 and recommended by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights. Instead, the process can take up to six months; Judicial Codes Counselor Amanda Minikus grad told The Sun that approximately four-and-a-half months are “devoted to the fact-finding process and drafting of the investigation report.” A report released in January and discussed at Tuesday’s University Assembly meeting found that the office faces “inadequate staffing.” Grant additionally expressed serious concerns over the J.A. office’s ability to complete investigations in a timely manner at Tuesday’s meeting. We share her concerns. In order to address reports of sexual assault in a speedy yet thorough approach and the increased workload facing the J.A. office, the University must increase resources available to the J.A. The level of tact required when handling sensitive sexual violence cases is understandable and laudable. Ensuring the accuracy of each investigation remains paramount to protect the rights of those who are accused of a sexual crime while safeguarding a victim’s right to find justice. While we affirm our stance towards handling sexual violence cases in a methodical and timely manner, Cornell’s inability to comply with the timeline provided by its own controversial Policy 6.4 remains unacceptable. Balancing the rights of those accused while protecting a victim’s ability to seek justice without obstruction will remain a challenge as Cornell’s policies and methods of handling sexual violence are evaluated in the future. Yet, achieving a resolution for both the accused and victims in a timely fashion remains imperative. The University must fully address both the potential legal implications of failing to meet the federal government’s recommendations in handling investigations and the lack of timeliness for all parties involved in an investigation. Simply making its best effort to resolves cases as quickly as possible is not enough.
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oday, I have no opinion. I have no struc- stole you from me, he shoved me over the edge tured analysis of an institutionalized of the bed where you slept for the last time, and injustice, just an incoherent mess of feel- for a while, I couldn’t stop falling and falling ings that I am currently drowning in. This and falling and falling — and then I woke up. piece will serve testament to the necessity of Once more, your lightning struck my back, mental health awareness, both objectively and and upon opening my eyes from the shock, subjectively. To everyone else out there, who that’s when I found you — sitting on top of my feels that they can’t get up from bed some chest this morning. Today, I’m reminded of mornings, I hear you. I hope you can hear me how much your being — and not being — crushes me. You make this already massively too. Terror struck me right across the back this dense planet so much harder for me to hold up morning, like a sharp lightning bolt ripping Mom, and today, I guess that’s why I couldn’t across a humid sky, leaving me shocked — get up. Getting up requires peeling my back off leaving me paralyzed. At night, upon tucking from the sheets. Getting up requires me to be myself in bed, I routinely shifted over the strong enough to shift the weight from my weight of the world from my shoulders to the chest to my shoulders again. Sometimes, I wish direct center of my chest. Every morning, it I could play God and shove you off my back. We’re all holding different bits and pieces of crushes me. My diaphragm struggles to compress and expand through fractured ribs, and you, because this nuclear chemo destruction there’s no way for me to romanticize this anxi- didn’t take you whole. In my dresser, I hold ety that plagues me every damn waking day — memories of you that my sister does not. In it comes with wondering when these shards of between each neuron, I hold memories firing bones might finally puncture their way right back and forth of days when you no longer had through my heart. From my room, I can see a memory. Your memory of me was the first the clock tower’s persevering hands; like a piece the explosion blew off of you. I wonder today, what it’s like to strong woman, she explode — to forget. timelessly sustains a This morning, I’d rhythmic grit, movlike to forget you too. ing on and letting The day God stole you from I still can’t get up. each second’s bullshit Right now, I don’t go. When you’re 6 me, he shoved me over the care about the am, I’m still 4 am. edge of the bed where you world’s injustices, but Constantly, and seem to let go enduringly, 4 am. slept for the last time, and for ofI can’t the minutes where I have dreams of blood stained shirts a while I couldn’t stop falling an injustice was bestowed upon you. tucked beneath a and falling ... “Beloved mother, stack of bins filled wife and daughter.” with old clothes — That’s what read on the ones I used to your crummy tombwear when the world wasn’t mine to carry. I have dreams of my stone, somewhere deep inside the Dominican father’s hands growing into his taxi cab handle, Republic. As you continue to rot away, that each finger so hopelessly rooted into the cheap phrase will prevail. The dedicator must have leather of that handle that the harder he pulls either had a writer’s block thrown at his head; away, the more his skin tears. He’s truly teth- the dedicator must have not known you . If I ered to his occupation, and when he works the were ever to become a designer of death phrasnight shift in the Bronx, I can only hope that es, I wouldn’t write five words. I’d carve you an he doesn't bring home yet another one of those entire story in stone, because that’s who you shirts to place on top of my world. Not even were. A long, complicated, and bittersweet bleach can rid his shirts of its scarlet marks, but story with no ending. You’re not just a 1) he insists that he’s doing this for us. I have mother, 2) wife and 3) daughter. Three people dreams of my father driving back home each cannot possibly hold the capacity of completely night, to a home that no longer exists. demolishing my sanity, the day you were oblitSometimes, in those dreams, he doesn’t make it erated. You’re not three people, Mom. You were back home, even when he’s the best at giving the world. Besides the other nightmares I have like one directions. But those instances aren’t really just way tickets from Ithaca to the Bronx, silver moments when my neurons spaz out during sprouting from my father’s scalp, pain atrophyREM sleep. They’re not dreams. I could only ing my aunts calloused hands, wrinkles creasing my forehead faster than the minutes spared wish they were. Home is a museum, that no one pays to visit for my dad and aunt on this increasingly dense anymore. There’s remnants of my mother: rings world I’m lifting — I still wake up, somehhow. and pearls, baby socks and bibs still left over Shaken, yes, but still alive. I know how fragile from when the nuclear dust finally cleared away. this damn world is, and my memory of you — I dream of coming to terms with God again, and perhaps upon shoving that memory off my even when he steals. I dream about gliding over chest this morning, it shattered. For a while, I’ll cool wooden floors on quiet Saturday morn- have to learn how to walk my way around broings. My sister and I would play with our bar- ken shards of glass, but it’s time for me to move bies, during a year when time took breaks from on with time. Even if you’re nothing but bromoving so quickly just to watch over us from ken glass now, I’ll carry the feeling and not the afar. We’d sit Barbie in her new white car that memory of you. While your memory is what’s Pamela got for her birthday, I’d drive her down crushed me today, your touch is what electrifies the narrow hallway, turn right at the corner — me — it’s what woke me up. I’ll sit on top of the world again, soon. And I’d bump right into my mother’s feet. When the world was Atlas, and we were his Maybe I’ll see you there. weight, you and I would taste clouds together. Man, when it rained, it poured but even then, Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of your embrace was nothing but electrifying. We Human Ecology. She can be reached at were so high up above the heavens, but I knew pmunoz@cornellsun.com. Midas’ Crumbs that only one of us could stay. The day God appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
CORRECTION A March 11 news story, “Judicial Administrator Missing Sexual Assault Investigation Deadlines,” said that under federal guidelines set by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights, investigators of sexual assault and harassment cases have 60 days to complete the investigation. In fact, the OCR recommends schools to complete investigations within 60 days.
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OPINION
Eric Pesner | Dems Discuss
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Fifty Years After Selma
ifty years ago this month, hundreds of brave Americans dared to cross the Edmund Pettis Bridge, only to be met with violence from the opponents of civil rights. These Americans were marching from Selma to Montgomery to try to gain the right to vote denied to them by a racist white establishment hell bent on maintaining its own power. Their dream was the ability to cast a ballot without hindrance or fear of retaliation. And the result of their struggles was the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The United States has come a long way since the events in Alabama 50 years ago. Americans of all races can cast their votes without persecution, Jim Crow segregation is little but a memory, and Barack Obama is President of the United States. But this rosy image of a postracial American belies the hard truth underneath. It’s been half a century since those days in Selma, but those events echo still. When the Voting Rights Act became law in 1965, it was supposed to ensure that all races were treated equally in the eyes of the law when it came to the right to vote. And since the decline of the Southern congressmen, who for so long used their power to block any meaningful reform, the Act has enjoyed nearly universal support and acclaim. It has been reauthorized every few years, the most recent time under President George W. Bush, showing that the Federal Government still supports its goals. But, in 2013, the Supreme Court
thought differently, striking down Section Four facing in the struggle to maintain voting rights. of the Act, calling the formula Congress had Voter identification laws have sprung up in reapproved only a few years earlier outdated. many states since President Obama was elected This decision deprives the Justice Department in 2008. These laws purport to prevent voter of the ability to review the voting laws of the fraud but they really only prevent qualified votstates which have historically hindered the abil- ers from exercising their rights. When states like ity of racial minorities to vote. Affected minori- North Carolina pass voter ID laws as part of a ty groups can still sue their states, but this a package that reduces early voting periods, premore time-consuming process which could vents Election Day registration and makes it harder allow for for coldiscriminalege stution until a c o u r t This rosy image of a post-racial America dents to vote, the decides to belies the hard truth underneath. It’s been true aim block it. half a century since those days in Selma, of the And the universal but those events echo still. l e g i s l a tion is support obvious. that the The two Vo t i n g Rights Act has enjoyed for decades has evaporat- most likely groups of voters not to have valid ed in this era of Republican intransience. Earlier photo identification are black voters and young this year, a bipartisan group of Representatives voters. These groups overwhelmingly vote for introduced a bill to restore the protections of the Democrats which is why voter ID laws have Act. But despite support from both sides of the been pushed almost exclusively by Republicans. Furthermore, Republicans have also pushed aisle, this bill stands little chance of making it into law. The Republican Party of today is for laws making it harder for felons to vote, even increasingly dominated by white conservatives after they’ve served their sentences. The abysmal from the South, so it’s no coincidence that the racial inequities in the criminal justice system in Republicans who support the bill are all from this country have made it so an outsized proportion of the disenfranchised population is black. the North. And the weakening of the Voting Rights Act While only 13 percent of Americans are black, is not the only threat that racial minorities are 23 percent of disenfranchised felons are black.
In three states — Kentucky, Virginia and Florida — over one in five black adults is ineligible to vote. While there is a bipartisan group of Senators led by Rand Paul and Cory Booker trying to rectify this problem, a huge group of Americans aren’t able to influence elections in this country at all. And the legacy of racial oppression can still be seen in race relations in the country today. From the way that black people interact with police throughout the country, for example in Ferguson, to the experience of black students on college campuses as exemplified with what happened at the University of Oklahoma this week, the interaction between people of different races in this country is nowhere near perfect. The march at Selma in 1965 led to a massive change in the way that Americans view the rights of racial minorities. But, while the changes since then have been great, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done until there is true racial equality in this country. We cannot believe the notion of a post-racial America because otherwise we’ll just be stuck and we won’t be able to move forward. The lesson that we must take from Selma 50 years later must be that the work for racial equality is still, and always will be, a work in progress. Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at erp55@cornell.edu. Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
THROWDOWN THURSDAYS Julius Kairey | Always Right
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Still No Alternative to Capitalism inston Churchill once called democracy the worst political system, except for all the others.
Among economic systems, the same can be said of capitalism. And it is striking that in today’s political conversations, even the political left cannot seem to argue otherwise. At the time of the 2008 economic crash, capitalism was said to have failed, and a myriad of solutions emerged to tackle the supposed problem. The left took the opportunity to reiterate their assertion that capitalism is inherently flawed, arguments that they said were vindicated by the crash. But even their proposed solutions — like increased regulation of financial institutions — would leave capitalism largely intact. It is still unthinkable to have a society where the government owns and manages most of the private sector, re-imposes 90 percent tax rates on the highest earners, or seeks to provide nationwide wealth equality. Capitalism will never satisfy a utopian thinker. By its nature, capitalism permits inequality, viewing it not as a flaw, but as a feature. Unlike socialism, capitalism is a system designed to comport both with the realities of the world we live in and with human nature. People need incentives to work, to channel their natural desire to improve their condition into productive activity. Capitalism turns an individual’s profit motive (or greed, if you prefer) into a societal virtue. In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith points unabashedly to the fact that a baker provides bread not out of a beneficent desire to ensure that people do not starve, but to make a profit. This ensures that we get our dinner, and the baker has a reason to go back to work the next day. The proof that capitalism works is clear for all to see. If you look at the richest countries today, they are nearly all capitalist, which is to say that the means of production are left in the hands of private individuals and corporations. This is as true in the West as it is in Asia, where countries and territories like Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have produced modern economies in the span of just 50 years. The people did not change, but their economic system and standard of living did. Their citizens are
no longer equally bound to the depths of poverty, but are now free to compete with one another for escalating levels of wealth. Put this in historical perspective. The human race used to go thousands of years with little improvement in the daily life of the typical person. Average life expectancies were sometimes no higher than 30 or 40 years. New technologies emerged slowly, and upward mobility was limited by social class and standing. Because the concept of wealth creation did not exist before the advent of modern capitalism, becoming rich meant taking that which belonged to your neighbor, not generating value for the society through the creation of new technologies and innovative ways of thinking.
The proof that capitalism works is clear for all to see. If you look at the richest countries today, they are nearly all capitalist. It is hard to imagine this world today, where we expect that the particular cell phone model we carry around in our pockets will be obsolete in a matter of years. Capitalism has enabled the poorest individual in our society to enjoy luxuries not available to the richest people 200 years ago: from electricity and computers, to modern refrigeration and indoor plumbing. The fact that we take these luxuries for granted serves only to prove the success of capitalism in giving us a standard of living unparalleled with any other in human history. We hardly even notice that we live lives that are longer and more comfortable than people did in any other historical period. For socialists, however, capitalism cannot be good without being perfect. They have a very different starting point in evaluating the merits of economic systems. Rather than judging from a historical vantage point, they evaluate capitalism based on whether or not it produces an ideal world, free of any poverty, inequality or unhappiness.
But contrary to what socialists may believe, nirvana is not for this world. Capitalism is a system that is meant to maximize social utility by acknowledging that the world is imperfect, and that human nature is imperfect. There are no angels who can be trusted to organize society for us or who we can assign to determine who deserves what. Every government that has inspired its citizens with the promise of full economic equality, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China, has failed to deliver. There is a reason why socialist countries feel compelled to build walls to keep people in, while capitalist countries need to build walls to keep people out. What prevents capitalism from receiving the universal acclaim it deserves is its perceived lack of moral standing. Simply put, capitalism has an image problem. Rather than being recognized as the liberator of the poor from poverty, it is seen as the wealthy’s excuse to do nothing for those at the bottom. We have seen these sorts of images conjured up by the left: wealthy bankers emerging from their skyscrapers to riffle banknotes over the noses of the homeless, just to prove that they can. Shouldn’t Adam Smith’s baker, they ask — if he truly is a righteous man — be willing to provide bread out of the goodness of his heart, rather than for money? It is true that capitalism does not give a complete guide on the proper way to run a society. It has needed and always will need a moral framework that encourages the wealth produced by society to be utilized in an ethical way, with provisions made for those who end up on the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. Capitalists do not dispute the need to help the poor, but disagree on how to do so. They prefer private institutions that spur upward mobility to government mandated programs which often create generational economic and social stagnation. But the fact is this: Those truly interested in the well-being of the poor should realize that capitalism is the best economic system for all of us. Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun.com. Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Thursday, March 12, 2015
DINING GUIDE
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Southern Comfort On the Commons By IAN SIGALOW Sun Staff Writer
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’ve always viewed Waffle Frolic as a mini escape — a place to grab a cup of coffee and thaw out while meandering along the Commons. However, this time things were going to be different. This time, I was going to wander away from my typical order of fresh waffles topped with strawberries, chocolate chips and whipped cream. And this time, I was stepping into the realm of chicken and waffles. For a bit of background, I moved here from Florida, which allows me to provide at least a hint of Southern charm to the winter wonderland of Ithaca. So with my my ten-gallon hat and parka in tow, I made my way to the Commons to offer readers some insight into how Waffle Frolic’s chicken and waffles stack up against the rest. This was my first time walking into Waffle Frolic in the evening, and it was relatively desolate. A few diners seemed pleasantly shocked to see someone
clanking through the restaurant with spurs on the back of his boots (I’m joking, I did not actually wear cowboy boots or a hat — although the parka was a must). I ordered the chicken and waffles (the twin order, of course) and decided a black cherry cola would be the appropriate accompaniment. After ordering, I waited upstairs in suspense until my name was blared over the loudspeaker. The waffle was served with three generously sized pieces of fried chicken — one of which was a drumstick, while the other two were boneless and easy to cut. The waffle covered nearly my entire plate and had butter melting into each crevice of this breakfast-for-dinner masterpiece. I had the responsibility of determining the proper ratio of syrup to specialty maple hot sauce with which to smother my entrée. Ultimately, the chicken and waffles more than passed the test. When evaluated individually, each component was great. The waffle was fluffy, hot and fantastic. Waffle Frolic’s syrup was
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super sweet — which I like — and had a nice consistency that allowed it to soak into the waffle without making it watery. However, the true highlight of this meal was definitely the delectable pairing of fried chicken with the maple hot sauce. The breading was crispy and the chicken was properly spreadable across all of the available waffle real-estate. In addition, the
maple hot sauce, a relative to the Buffalo sauce family, was fantastic. I’m not a fan of spicy sauces, especially when it comes to chicken and waffles, but the subtle taste of maple in coordination with the Buffalo sauce was great. This week I learned that Waffle Frolic expertly pulls off one of my favorites (Waffle Frolic receives an A+ in my chicken and waffles gradebook). But perhaps
the greatest lesson I gained from this experience was that Waffle Frolic delivers. So next time, I can enjoy my southern comfort food without putting on my winter jacket (or cowboy boots) and trekking to the Commons in the dead of Ithaca’s winter. Ian Sigalow can be reached at ims48@cornell.edu.
Not Quite Mastering the Art of Internet Cooking By HANNAH BROWN Sun Contributor
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for internships or studied, or did whatever else it is productive people do (it should be obvious by now that I am neither of those kinds of people). So over break when I found myself balls-deep in a Netflix binge with no end in sight, looking positively trolllike (I take care of myself when I’m at school, I tell her. I don’t believe you, she replies), I pondered how to break the monotony. My other winter break resolutions had already fallen by the wayside — so I cooked. I’m not sure when it started, but I have always enjoyed trying out new recipes. Perhaps it was when I was five and, much to my mother’s chagrin, I combined leaves and other fauna with toiletries from the bathroom to make questionably edible potions. Or when, at age eight, I became obsessed with the Food Network (Good Eats! still remains my favorite). In any case, this endless fascination with new
recipes, new cooking methods, new and exotic ingredients, has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I am, and forever will be, in love with both the production and consumption of good food. The second day of break, I made latkes. Why? Because it was Hanukkah. Never mind that I had never even tasted, much less made a latke. It couldn’t be that hard, I thought. So I rustled up the ingredients, found the Smitten Kitchen recipe (What Would Deb Perlman Do?) and set to work. I experimented with thicknesses and diameters, cooking times and oil temperatures, and I discovered two immutable truths: 1. It’s really hard to fuck up fried potatoes because no matter what you do they will be delicious, and 2. Thinner and crispier is so much better. I would give myself an A- for effort and taste, and a B+ for pissing off my mother.
Up next: Chicken 65, an Indian fried chicken recipe I (obviously) found on Buzzfeed. By the time I burnt or undercooked nearly all of the chicken, accidentally added oil to the yogurt sauce and forgot to make any kind of side dish (instant rice you are a godsend), it was nearly 8 o’clock and my family was rabid with hunger and wondering why in the hell I had decided to make such a long and complicated recipe. Grade? I’d say A for taste (so delicious), C for efficiency and D for pissing off my entire family this time around. They never stay mad for long, though. Cares melt away when the food hits the table, steaming and bubbling and filling the house with its vital pungency. And my mother, of course, is happy as soon as I clean up the kitchen. Hannah Brown can be reached at heb57@cornell.edu.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
‘Performance Laboratory:’ The Vampire of the Grotto And Friedrich Schiller’s Bad Girls Club BY EMILY FOURNIER Sun Staff Writer
The ongoing experimental work of Cornell’s Association of Graduates in Theatre (AGIT), through the AGIT Lab, is a way for graduate students to showcase their work in an nontraditional environment. AGIT’s goal through this production is to connect the graduate students’ theoretical work to theatre and performance, so that their work can be shared with others and become real for themselves. This year’s lab centers on two plays adapted from older works and will hold performances in the Schwartz Center’s Black Box Theatre, March 12 to 14 at 7:30. I was able to sit in on Tuesday night’s rehearsal, which revealed that, although both productions are considered unfinished, they are strongly structured and help to make centuries-old plays much more accessible to a modern audience. The first play to be rehearsed was an adaptation of J.R. Planché’s 1820 work, The Vampire, penned by Aoise Stratford grad and retitled The Vampire of the Grotto. Stratford laments that Gothic dramas are rarely produced in today’s theatres, so she set out to modernize the text based on her research on Gothic drama and how such pieces were likely staged. Thus, the piece focuses fairly closely on the original and is simply updated. Following the woes of a vampire called Ruthven (Seth Soulstein grad) and his need to marry a virgin and drink her blood in order to survive, the play chronicles his various failed schemes. In his attempts to marry Lady Margaret (Claire Stack ’15), Ruthven terrorized the otherwise peaceful Scottish island. This work was treated as a staged reading, as scripts were used onstage and there was minimal blocking. The actors mocked this aspect of their work by ignoring many of the stage directions that were read aloud, even simple ones like “they embrace.” Since it closely followed the 19th century play it was based on, the production felt slightly drawn out, but was made truly entertaining by modernized dialogue
and wonderfully terrible vampire jokes. I was then able to watch the production titled Friedrich Schiller’s Bad Girls Club, created by Nick Fesette grad and Erin Stoneking grad. It used the storyline of Friedrich Schiller’s 1781 drama The Robbers but replaced the mainly male cast with representations of America’s “bad girls,” changing the role of gender.
forming the play into a mockumentary. Described as “a morality play with no morals,” this production followed the members of the “bad girls club” as they plotted against and murdered others, progressively becoming more nonchalant about their horrible deeds. Many of the characters began to treat theft and homicide as inconsequential and the play questions how far people will go to serve themselves. It maintained the dramatic, theatrical sensibility of the production despite its main characters imitations of Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan and the “Real Housewives.” The play also subtly questioned what we find most shocking in others when Franny (Jazlin Gomez ’16) stated of her sister Carly (Kiki Hosie ’17), “she has robbed, she has killed, she is a slut.” Quips like this, and the use of mixed media, allow the production to question the roles of self-image and entertainment in society, making Schiller’s original work culturally relevant. Fesette and Stoneking explained that they collaborated with the actors in many aspects of the play, making it a rather complete (if technically unfinished) work. While the works the AGIT Lab is producing are unconventional in many ways, they are not so bizarre as to alienate non-theatre scholars. In fact, both pieces are so well updated that they feel as though they could have been COURTESY OF CORNELL’S ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES IN THEATRE written with no basis in older texts. The Vampire of the Grotto’s creepiness and Friedrich The very serious German play from the Sturm und Schiller’s Bad Girls Club’s pop culture references create Drang (“Storm and Stress”) movement was made an intriguing contrast, and both are meritorious on memorable by hilarious pop culture references, wild their own. This performance’s quirks may intimidate pashmina-swinging and angry cartwheels. While Bad potential theatre-goers, but the plays’ accessibility defGirls Club was still considered a “work in progress,” initely makes this AGIT Lab performance worth with an evolving script and a relatively bare set (save attending. for a circle of plastic wine glasses that would later play The Vampire of the Grotto and Friedrich Schiller’s Bad a role in the many deaths), the actors dressed in cos- Girl Club will run March 12-14 at 7:30 at the Schwartz tume and had their lines memorized. This was a mul- Center for Performing Arts. timedia production, as the main action occurred onstage but an offstage camera projected onto a visible Emily Fournier is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She screen allowed the actors to soliloquize while trans- can be reached at efournier@cornellsun.com.
‘This Bodega (Is Trying to Kill Me):’ Ithaca Underground at The Loft BY STEPHEN MEISEL Sun Staff Writer
This Sunday at The Loft marked the first New York state stop, as well as the final stop, for the New York Telephone Tour, which featured New York City rap artist Uncommon Nasa, Pennsylvanian rapper Carl Kavorkian and their backing D.J. Samurai Banana. San Williams and Cornell’s own Dave Fol provided the local flavor. The futurist soul music of Dave Fol provided a compelling start to the evening, the majority of his pieces falling somewhere along the lines of a danceable form of indie rap. But even before he had launched into the meat of his set, the Cornell artist opened by name-dropping and immortalizing through song one of the more notorious University celebrities: our rootin’ tootin’ sheriff Kathleen Zoner who, according to Dave Fol, “prints so many J.A.’s they run out of toner.” Homer would have been proud. Facetiousness aside, Fol continued his show with a mix of freestyle and (literally) fresh lyrics, all to self-produced backing tracks. At some points he straddled the mic stand, singing in a gruff baritone about the nuances of love and sex, choosing on a whim (as Williams said, trying new things) to show off his dance moves. At other moments he came out into the audience in an attempt to rile up the crowd not only for his own act, but for the music which lay ahead. Up next was the previously quoted Ithaca rapper San Williams, accompanied on the hooks by his producer,
Eyukaliptus. Where Dave Fol displayed the youthfulness and style that can be found in rap music, San Williams’ act occupied a different area of the spectrum. Beginning with a collection of somber and melodious tracks, he realized soon after that the Loft’s Sunday night audience wasn’t hyped enough. Eyukaliptus helped him find a solution. A mosh pit was formed to the banging sounds of San Williams’ more feisty tunes and in response the audience exuded a different, more aggressive energy. Soon after, however, the mood mellowed out to previous levels. It was then that San Williams resolved to have himself a seat because, after all, here in the Ithaca Underground, a sense of experimentation and adventurousness is certainly noticeable. After these two acts, I can’t say I had any idea that the bearded man wearing fingerless gloves in the audience — his whole demeanor being something like a boxer’s — would, along with a fellow bearded traveler, come up to the front of the venue and start to throw down. But it was a great surprise nonetheless. New York City rapper Carl Kavorkian and D.J. Samurai Banana followed the Williams/Fol Ithaca sampler with a barrage of crazed industrial-style sounds mixed behind a flow reminiscent of old school hardcore hip-hop. Here and there you could hear the darker, more violent sounds of thrash metal samples. Occasionally, when Kavorkian wasn’t leading the audience in chanting things like “Black the fuck out!” his vocals turned from the rapid-paced rhythms of his verses into the visceral growls of a death metal frontman. All the while, D.J. Samurai Banana never failed to keep moving. He jumped about when he needed to and rocked his head
when he didn’t. His vinyl scratching skills, dispersed throughout Kavorkian’s set were well-timed and well-executed. In fact, after Kavorkian was finished with his set, Samurai Banana didn’t even leave the stage. He stayed on, showing the crowd his capacity to back not only the powerhouse rap of Carl Kavorkian, but also the swaggering rap of show headliner Uncommon Nasa. The music of Uncommon Nasa shows off the type of irreverent charisma many hip-hop fans know and love. His songs have titles like “This Bodega (Is Trying to Kill Me),” and when he raps, he strolls around in front of the audience, getting very close to their faces and staring them straight in the eyes or else stands concentrated and aware; he sings to us “I hate you!” so that we can shout back “I hate you too!” Nasa’s hip-hop, which may have been “lighter” in mood than Kavorkian’s, was definitely not lacking in energy or intensity. The tracks packed a punch, no small thanks to Samurai Banana, who somehow put on an even more physical performance than before. It was a set that topped off the evening nicely. As San Williams and Kavorkian took us into a serious state of mind, Uncommon Nasa relaxed us while managing to continue the show’s great vibe into its finale. The entire time, I held in admiration just what a good thing Ithaca Underground is doing, that is: providing a space where both local and touring acts can stop by our humble town and, well, try new things. Stephen Meisel is a freshman in the College of Arts and Science. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.edu.
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The Pop Group Citizen Zombie Freaks R Us
Troy Sherman The Pop Group (which they were absolutely anything but) were — along with the likes of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Pere Ubu and Tortoise — one of the greatest and most influential musical acts you’ve probably never heard of. Between 1979 and 1980 they cut two albums and three singles which, while failing to make even the remotest impact beyond punk’s grimy and pockmarked underbelly, rumbled cataclysmically deep in the genre’s bowels. Their first disc, Y, was a deliciously unholy amalgamation of dub, funk, punk and avant-garde, and was not only one of the unheralded peaks of the post-punk movement, but also a viscous (both lyrically and musically) political statement that was sinfully ignored. Their second, For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, cranked up both the funk and the politics from the first, finding more of a groove but (sadly) no more of an ideological foothold. With just these two records and several singles, the Pop Group established themselves among the most extreme, inaccessible, politically conscious, utterly bizarre, absolutely brilliant and unfortunately unrecognized post-punk acts; as critic Piero Scaruffi puts it, they were “the musical equivalent of a bunch of cannibals walking in a protest march,” in the absolutely best way possible. However, such a volatile and unsuccessful act was fated to be fleeting, and alas, 1981 saw their dissolution. Thence,
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the world went 29 years without the Pop Group, and to be honest, I think we did alright. Those who gave a shit were satiated by their first two offerings and those who didn’t, naturally went on living their lives. Which is why the band’s reformation in 2010 — when they were all but forgotten oddities from that weird musical petri dish of the yesteryear that was the English punk scene — was a little strange. But I guess strange is natural, since they’d never been ones to conform to reason or expectations. Last week, however, they took their proclivity towards inexplicability to another level entirely with the unveiling of Citizen Zombie, their first L.P. since 1980. However, it’s release isn’t the most baffling part, nor is its presentation of stale rehashings of the band’s oncegreat compositions. What’s truly puzzling, almost verging on disturbing, is their production choice: Grammy winning, Adele and Cee Lo Green producing, pop-song purveying Paul Epworth, whose stamp on the disc is nauseatingly evident. Quenched is the flame that was the Pop Group’s eviscerating DIY sincerity and Epworth is surely the thief of their fire. Citizen Zombie’s tracks range from unfulfilled good ideas (“Shadow Child”) to completely forgettable attempts at something listenable (“Nowhere Girl”); from ham-fisted political statements that are too lacking in the luster of yore to be effective (“Nations”), to absolutely sickening piano-
driven quasi-dance tracks (“The Age of Miracles”). To put all the blame on Epworth would be unreasonable, as we are surely dealing with a band whose members are several decades removed from relevance or inspiration. However, I think there’s enough evidence to incriminate Epworth for the crime of removing this record from the “Unfulfilled Reunion Attempt” category and placing it squarely in the realm of “What is This Shit?” Take “The Age of Miracles:” once the band kicks in and Mark Stewart (our vocalist) commences barking, it sounds like they’re actually pining for their old sound. Sure, the dub is an undercurrent, the emotion is directionless and the scuttering musical interjections are more for the sake of themselves than compositional necessity, but the acceptable components are certainly there. The real problem is that nauseating dance production. It sounds like Ellie fucking Goulding! (Albeit an Ellie Goulding very, very high on crystal meth, but Ellie Goulding nevertheless). And in this way, it seems that Epworth defecated on any small chance there was of the Pop Group’s comeback record being something other than a legacy-smearing disappointment. The radio-friendly guitar rock on “Nowhere Girl,” the deceptively unoriginal Joy Division-outtake sound of “Nations,” the poppy, jubilant dub-funk in “Mad Truth” and innumerable other marks of a pop producer all point to the fact that this record was crafted by someone with Billboard in mind, at least subconsciously. Admittedly, I know on a basic level that, yes, the Pop Group is probably mostly to blame for the disappointment of Citizen Zombie, but the reverential, optimistic part of my brain (the part that keeps me sane by letting me believe that all the great art hasn’t already been made and that people with genuine genius do really exist) just won’t let me accept that this is a Pop Group record in every sense of the word. And so, deserved or not, I blame Epworth for the farce, because, if for nothing else, you are never, ever supposed to try to make a pop record with the Pop Group, and that’s exactly what he did. Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.
Mixtapes I’ll Never Make You
s a simultaneous iPhone-carrying member of the millennial generation and avid fan of movies in which feathery mulleted teens work in video rental stores and women wear turtlenecks and tease their hair, there are a lot of small, inapreciable everyday things that I deeply regret that I’ll never do. I’ll never develop a roll of film, make a collect call or watch saturday morning cartoons. I’ll never make a prank call or play ding dong ditch. I’ll never worship David Bowie, the Pixies or the Violent Femmes without having discovered them through my dad (or some irritatingly hip and music savvy friend) and without a certain, inevitable, accompanying smugness about my well-cultivated music taste. I’ll never wear jellies or mom jeans (previously just known as jeans) without it being “vintage,” or if we deconstruct the term, in some way, perversely ironic. But among the greatest of my golden-age-thinking regrets is probably that I’ll never make a mixtape. Despite the cliché it’s ultimately become, there is still something affectingly enchanting for me about the practice of making and exchanging mixtapes. The love labor of meticulously selecting and ordering songs, whether in a narrative arc or affirming one theme or mood, to create a musical experience greater and more meaningful than the sum of its parts; to express something that simply could not be said by one song alone via a small plastic rectangle is sort of incredible, and certainly romantic. John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity says, “To me, making a tape is like writing a
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letter … you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.” The fictional sad-sack said it; I would like to make mixtapes like letters. I would like to spend an entire day in my room, albums (vinyl, 8-tracks, C.D.s? It’s unclear to me what era this fantasy is taking place in …) strewn around, calculating the effect of and relationship between every congruent set of tracks, rearranging, adding and eliminating songs, writing the listing in tiny print on the sleeve and agonizing over the perfectly cryptic inside-joke title — until I’ve created a collection of music so fibrously intertwined and cohesive that it’s as if all of the bands had gotten together to record a concept album just for the occasion of my emotional turmoil. A well made mixtape has the potential to transcend the track, and repurpose its beat, poetry and sound into a confession, a love letter, an apology, a celebration or a study in one’s own grief or happiness. Unfortunately, I was born just under a decade too late to partake in this great
Jael Goldfine Objectivity Bites American pastime. And this brings me to the question of whether the mixtape really is such a lost art, or if I’m just indulging 900 words worth of my own unproductive, Generation X-moviemotif-induced nostalgia. I was born just in time to make a few C.D. mixes during middle and high school, so I’d
like to think that I COURTESY OF BUENA VISTA PICTURES got just a brief, delicious taste of the mixtape experience. I have fond memories: downloading new songs on LimeWire onto my dad’s iTunes, deliberating whether or not to switch out a Death Cab for Cutie song with a more poignantly wistful Shins track, burning the mix and writing the track list, add songs or skip the tracks you don’t spiraling around the disk. It saved me a like. If this attitude is unshakeable in veritable buttload of money on birth- the experience of using Spotify or its day presents, but I also adored the ritu- peer sites, it inherently denatures the al of it — the intimacy. I made mixes potential of a mixtape. And often when for my sister while she was away at col- I do make playlists for others, it often lege, for my parents, for friends, for feels like it’s more about showing them myself … for people I would never give the music that I like; inviting them to them too — and there are a few I’ve explore my music taste, instead of givbeen given over the years immortalized ing them a gift tenderly and diligently on my iTunes, that I’ll (stubbornly) catered to theirs. Maybe hope is not lost, however, never get tired of. As digital music sharing has ren- and to recover the intimacy and dignity dered the C.D. obsolete, I’ve found of the mixtape, we simply have to fight that the intimate ritual of mix-making our instincts and reject the digital faciland exchange has become creepingly itation of lazy, anonymous playlists. obsolete along with it. As a dutiful There’s a lot to recommend doing this patron of Spotify, I consume music mental work and attempting to recreate largely through playlists. I love making the mixtape attitude; for me, it’s the playlists (one of my favorite methods unique joy of sharing a musical experiof procrastination), but I find myself ence with another person, (ideally) making them haphazardly (often dif- without ego or agenda. So make your ferent selections of the same 15 artists playlists like mixtapes — like letters. As and 30 songs) and largely for myself. I music writer Rob Sheffield says, “There wonder if the musical infinity of iTunes are all kinds of mixtapes. There is or Spotify, the luxury of drag and drop always a reason to make one.” and the possibility of unending modifiJael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of cation enables inattention to our Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at playlists. Why finish or curate a jgoldfine@cornellsun.com. Objectivity Bites playlist? You can always just delete, or appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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good at bats, and Chloe [Pendergast] came up big with a clutch single in extra innings to give us our first win of the season.” Weinberg also cited the freshmen as a key to the victory. “We have a ton of freshmen this year and having them get in and really used to playing at the college level before we start playing Ivies is huge,” she said.
“With the circumstrances, we’ve been able to prepare to the best of our abilities and I have really high hopes for this season.” Taylor Goodin
“A couple freshmen already seem pretty comfortable since two of the them are leading the team in batting average.” Thanks to the coldest February in Ithaca history, the team has been forced to play in the Ramin Room when snow covers the field. “Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to practice outside yet, but with the current weather, it looks like that could change soon,” said junior infielder Taylor Goodin. “With the circumstances, we’ve been able to prepare to the best of our abilities and I have really high hopes for this season.” Those high hopes start off this weekend when the Red hopes to repeat its outstanding performance of last year’s Delaware Invitational. “Last year we headed down to this tournament and had one of the best weekends of our season, so I expect us to be able to do the same thing this year,” Weinberg said. Olivia Mattyasovsky can be reached at omattyasovsky@cornellsun.com.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s players were in no mood for a repeat of last year’s brief stay at the Atlantic Coast Conference, and they didn’t want to watch Boston College’s Olivier Hanlan have another big game against them. Instead, the No. 19 Tar Heels slowed Hanlan and led most of the day to beat the Eagles 81-63 on Wednesday in the second round of the tournament, a much better debut in Greensboro than the oneand-done exit of a year earlier. “Coach [Roy Williams] didn’t talk about it a lot but I brought it up today as we coming to the gym, that we lost the first day we played last year,” junior Marcus Paige said. “That it was bad and we went straight back home. I was telling the guys, ‘You don’t want that feeling.’” Paige and Brice Johnson each scored 17 points to lead the fifth-seeded Tar Heels (22-10), who played without forward Kennedy Meeks. UNC had trouble putting away the 12th-seeded Eagles (1319) for much of the second half, but pulled away late and won its seventh straight meeting to set up a matchup with
No. 14 Louisville. fewer than eight from there, shaking off a Among the biggest keys for that suc- cold start to the half and finishing at 52 cess: making Hanlan — an all-ACC guard percent shooting after the break. who scored 30 in the only regular-season It was a much better start to the tournameeting between ment than a year the teams — work earlier, when the It was a much better start to for his points. Tar Heels fell Hanlan scored behind by 20 and the tournament than a year 18 points, but went couldn’t rally in a earlier, when the Tar Heels loss to Pittsburgh just 5 for 19 from that gave them a the field, including fell behind by 20 and quick exit from 1 for 5 from 3Greensboro. point range. The couldn’t rally. “It’s great,” Tar Heels rotated Johnson said of the several defenders, win, “because that though Williams credited J.P. Tokoto’s work on him in par- Pittsburgh team we played last year really punked us.” ticular. UNC Summary: Fresh man Justin “He’s big time, a big-time player, and our goal was to try to make sure he didn’t Jackson added 12 points, including two 3pointers. ... UNC took a 43-25 reboundshoot a great percentage,” Williams said. ing advantage and scored 19 secondHanlan missed 12 of his first 14 shots. “We got some great looks offensively,” chance points. ... Joel James started for Hanlan said, “but I had some in-and-outs Meeks and finished with six points and and them having so many guys and so many three rebounds. ... Williams earned his different guys guarding me, being fresh all 746th career win, moving into a tie for 15th in NCAA history former Kansas the time, obviously played a huge factor.” UNC led by 13 at half and never by coach Phog Allen.
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Men Win Twice; Women Come Up Short Against UConn By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer
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Streaking horsemen | The men’s polo team won against UConn and Giant Valley to extend its win streak to seven games.
The Cornell men’s and women’s polo teams both entered this weekend with strong records and momentum, but had different results on the field. The men’s team was able to win twice, bringing its record to 10-3. But the women’s team struggled in its matchup and eventually dropped the contest, falling to 12-4 on the season. The men’s team carried a five
game win streak into this weekend’s matches. The Red started off its successful weekend by traveling to Storrs, Connecticut to take on UConn. The match consisted of a lot of back-and-forth play and proved to be a tough match for the Red, who beat the Huskies three times already this season. However, Cornell was able to outscore UConn in all four chukkers. The match ended in the Red’s favor with a final score of 29-10. Following its match against UConn, the Red traveled back to Ithaca to play Giant Valley at Oxley. Playing Giant Valley, a team composed of alumni allowed the Red to fine-tune its game plan as it continued its quest to win this year’s National Championship. Though it was a tough match against Giant Valley, the Red was able to come out on top, notching a 20-14 victory. “Overall, this past weekend was very positive for the team.
“Over the next couple of weeks, we have to focus on keeping ourselves motivated and maintaining team cohesiveness.” Ignacio Masias
We were able to win two really tough games against UConn and Giant Valley, an alumni team,” said sophomore Ignacio Masias. “More importantly, we played well and proved to ourselves that we have a strong chance of winning the National Championship this year. Over the next couple of weeks we have to focus on keeping ourselves motivated and maintaining team cohesiveness.” Unlike the men’s team, the women’s polo team did not have much luck in its match this past weekend. The women also traveled to Connecticut to battle UConn. The match was quite tough for both teams, but the Huskies jumped to a lead that the Red could not overcome. UConn ended the fourth chukker with a seven-point advantage over Cornell. The match ended with a final score of 18-11 in the Huskies’ favor. The loss was the Red’s first loss to UConn in three matchups this year. The men’s team continues its season at home against Skidmore College on Sunday. The women’s upcoming match is still to be determined. With strong records from both of the Cornell polo teams, they are very much in contention for the National Championship. Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.
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GYMNASTICS
Gymnasts Win Against Temple On Senior Day By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer
This past weekend, the Cornell women’s gymnastics team competed at home in Teagle Gymnasium against rival Temple. The Red (2-0) was able to have an impressive senior day and scored its best team total of this season thus far with a final score of 192.125. Temple finished with a score of 188.875. “I was really proud of how the team did this weekend,” said senior Samantha VanderPutten. “It was the first meet this season where we didn’t have to count any falls. While we did have some tiny errors, our performance was definitely the best of the season.” The Red was able to win all four team events. Cornell had an impressive showing on the bars and on the beam, which widened the gap against Temple. The Red scored over 48 points on three events compared to the Owls, who failed to crack 48 on any events. “The meet was the best of the season as far as energy, camaraderie and staying positive. We also had a great crowd, which motivated us to nail every routine,” said senior Maia Vernacchia. “Everyone fought to stick landings. Temple is one of our favorite teams, so it was nice to have them as our opponent for the senior meet.” On the floor, the Red had multiple strong performances. Freshman Joy Gage had a final score of 9.775,
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Flying high | Elana Molosky scored 9.775 on the bars as the Red beat Temple by a score of 192.125-188.875. good for the Red’s top score. Sophomore Alexandria Bourgeois and junior Julohn Teixeira also had impressive routines that put them in second place with a score of 9.750. “The last few home meets we struggled with scoring on vault,” VanderPutten said. “I am really proud of our vault lineup, and really happy with how the scoring went this week. On the vault, junior Alicia Bair finished first for the Red with a score of 9.750. The Red had four gymnasts finish in the Top-six on the vault. “We still need to work on not giving up tenths here and there, and then we can easily score a 193,” Vernacchia said. “We need to continue with this upward trend at our next meet in order to keep our chance of qualifying for nationals alive.” On the bars, sophomore Elana Molosky lead the Red with a score of 9.775.
SOFTBALL
Softball Heads to Delaware In Search of More Victories By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSKY Sun Staff Writer
in South Carolina showed that the Red has some serious talent on the roster. “All freshmen pitchers look great. All three are unique and talented in their own way,” McGivney said. “A lot of underclassmen came up big our first weekend. Karlie Mellot was fantastic in the leadoff spot, Meg Murray was super clutch hitting with runners and played phenomenal defense at first [base], Olivia May was superb at third and h a d
This weekend, the women’s softball team will travel to Newark, Delaware to play in the Delaware Invitational. Cornell is set to take on Delaware State, Saint Francis, Villanova and the University of Delaware. Last week, the team’s trip to George Mason was cancelled due to snow. After a slate of games in South Carolina against Army, Canisius and Bucknell in the begin the season, the Red’s record stands at 1-5, with the lone win coming against Canisius. “This past weekend we got snowed out and lost out on [playing] those six games, which puts us in a bit of a tough situation heading towards Ivy League play,” said junior infielder Emily Weinberg. “Being able to go down to Delaware this weekend and play some quality teams will help us get back on track.” Last year, the squad played Delaware State (8-4) in March and dropped a tough doubleheader to the See Hornets. The Red, however, has found SOFTBALL success against UDel (9-6) and page 14 Villanova (6-9), picking up wins against them in last year’s Delaware Invitational. This weekend will be an important starting point for the team this season, according to junior outfielder Michiko McGivney. “If we want to [win] Ivies, it starts with this weekend in Delaware,” she said. CONNOR ARCHARD / Though the team SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER has not had a lot Fantastic frosh | of time on the Junior outfielder Michiko field together McGivney said the team’s freshmen this season, the weekend have been hugely important to the team.
“To continue to Nationals, we have to do as well or better the next two weeks than we did this week,” VanderPutten said. “We have been working really hard in practice, so I am very confident that we can do it.” On the beam, freshman Courtney Spitzer finished second place overall with a score of 9.750. The Red had five finish in the Top-seven in this event. Going forward in the season, VanderPutten said the Red looks to continue to develop and continue to succeed. “We definitely had a rough start, but the last few weeks and meets have been great,” VanderPutten said. “I am confident that if we continue to work on tiny details in practice we will finish off very strong.” John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.
NFL or Fantasy Football League? ZAKOUR
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There’s exceptions to everything, though. The first day of free agency, Tuesday, was a whirlwind. What made it especially frenetic was how it all crescendoed at once. It all happened in a matter of minutes, or even seconds. It was the perfect free agency for the social media era. Frantic, sudden, confusing and with plenty of misinformation and speculation. Let’s put it this way. Say you had the typical Cornell busy day. At noon you had a midterm, then you had class and lab all afternoon. Then you finally have a moment to yourself, and check the latest NFL news. At the beginning of the day, you were wondering about Darrelle Revis. At the end of day, you wonder if this is the NFL or a fantasy league. Not only is Revis a Jet, but Jimmy Graham is a Seahawk, quarterbacks Foles and Bradford have switched teams, the Jets acquire Brandon Marshall, Haloti Ngata is a Lion, Jake Locker retired, Andre Johnson and Frank Gore likely became Colts and Brandon Browner became a free agent. This is on top of the deals that leaked prior to Tuesday of the Bills trading their young linebacker Kiko Alonso for Shady McCoy, Patrick Willis retiring and Jeremy Maclin moving to Kansas City. In other words — pandemonium. It was glorious pandemonium. The Foles and
Bradford quarterback swap was a slow drip of drama. The terms came out only after hours of misinformation, like a show with a twist ending. First, there was the foreshadowing. The Eagles wanted to make a move for a quarterback. Do they want to draft Marcus Mariota? Wait, a trade, where there are first round picks involved? Were they swapping firsts? Wait, now they’re just giving them a second? Not to mention the final trade, which had more stipulations on draft picks than any I can remember in recent years. Most compelling of all, the trade doesn’t even seem to be the final chapter. A sequel is surely in the works. Now, the Saints trading star tight end Jimmy Graham to Seattle was total shock and awe. There were no mainstream rumblings. It came out of nowhere, and it was just as crazy. Let’s talk about the Eagles. Head coach Chip Kelly has had such a furious free agent period that Stephen A. Smith implying he’s a racist barely registered. (For the record, there’s no way a successful football coach can be a racist, right? I mean it’s kind of irresponsible to make that claim, but I guess I shouldn’t expect any journalism from talking heads.) Chip Kelly has been on the war path. He’s been bold and decisive, the kind of action that will either get him labelled a genius by this time next season or unemployed. Either way, I have to respect, if not approve of his offseason.
It’s also a marked change from last year. A season ago, only a few free agents were of interest, mainly defensive backs. Jairus Byrd going to the Saints might have been the most high profile free agent signing. This free agency has got me wondering if there has been a paradigm shift in the NFL. A good, solid offensive lineman — Seattle’s Max Unger — was traded for Saints’ star tight end Jimmy Graham. A feature running back was traded for a linebacker. These aren’t typical trades. Not so long ago, Albert Haynesworth was the big free agent signing. It seemed this period historically was about reinforcing your team, not building it. Building through free agency was more of a baseball thing. But now, anything goes. It seems teams now are replacing less internally and going after their guys. But what would cause this? Maybe it’s because two of the most successful teams have built through free agency. The Broncos are almost entirely free agent driven and the Pats were pushed over the edge by a litany of free agent signings. Now it seems NFL teams are trying to hop on the bandwagon and get their guy. Maybe because the rest of the NFL thinks it can catch up quick to the top of the class and all think a free agent or trade can put them at the top. It’ll be fun to watch play out. John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.
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Sports
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015
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WOMEN’S FENCING
Fencers Successful at Regionals
Wines wins epee;others finish strong leading up to NCAA tournament
By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
Cornell’s fencing team had an incredibly successful weekend competing at the NCAA Northeast Regional Tournament. With spots at this year’s NCAA Tournament up for grabs, the Red (16-8) placed three girls in the Top-10 of its division, with sophomore Victoria Wines placing first out of 58 epee fencers. Senior Olivia Weller finished 10th in the same division with junior Ediona Sera finishing 10th in the foil. Other strong performances came from senior Yolanda Li, who finished 12th in the epee and junior Angelica Gangemi, who managed 13th in the foil. With such strong performances, Weller, Sera, Gangemi and Li are in contention for at-large places at the NCAA Tournament, with places being announced on Tuesday evening. Wines’ overall victory guarantees her a second trip to the national competition. “It’s a bit bittersweet for this being my last NCAA Regionals, but I couldn’t have imagined a better performance or a better group of girls to do it with,” Weller said. “The epee squad got all three girls to the final round, and Vicki Wines won the whole tournament.” Cornell was coming off of the back of a very impressive season, with the epee team finishing 5-4 in the recent Ivy League round-robin. Wines recently finished fifth at the trials for the USA Junior Olympic Fencing team. With such a strong season so far, the Red was confident it could produce at regionals, according to Weller.
“We’ve posted a lot of great performances in all of the weapons this season so I think we came into the weekend with a good competitive drive,” Weller said. “Epee was coming off a strong performance from Ivy Championships and really kept up the momentum this weekend. Foil has also kept up their intensity and showed great results this weekend.” As to be expected at such a tough competition, there were nerves from freshmen, Luby Kiriakidi and Megan Buteau, both making their first trip to the competition. However, according to Kiriakidi, the tournament was a great learning experience and will hopefully lead to even better performances in the future. “I was very nervous going into this competition because I knew there would be some tough opponents and I was not sure of my chances,” said Kiriakidi, who finished 17th in the foil division. “I am confident that this experience will help me perform better next year. I’ve learned that it’s one big test of endurance.” Wines started the tournament in commanding fashion, winning all six of her pool match-ups before going on to win the overall competition, which is by far the biggest of all the NCAA regional tournaments. She will head to the NCAA Tournament, held March 19-22 at Ohio State’s French Field House. Hopefully, she will be joined by Weller, Sera, Gangemi and Li as at-large contenders. “I’m very excited to see all of the girls go to Columbus,” Weller said. “I think they’ve earned it and will undoubtedly give it all they’ve got.” Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.
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Fierce fencers | The fencing team placed three women in the Top-10 of their respective events.
BASEBALL
AWild NFL DiamondmenTravel to Florida for Four Offseason By JOON LEE
Assistant Sports Editor
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he NBA is worth talking about. As are all other sports besides the NFL. The NBA MVP race is worth following, as either three or five candidates, depending on who you ask, battle for the league’s highest individual honor. Seriously, pay attention to the NBA (and the NHL! Baseball is starting soon, too.) Don’t let the NFL swallow all of
John Zakour Point Blank American sports, as it is wont to do. Russell Westbrook has been on a warpath for the Thunder and Steph Curry averages a dazzling play a game. Anthony Davis is quietly tearing apart the league, doing his best to will his team to a playoff spot. It’s all exciting and compelling, honestly. But we do need to talk about the NFL. For once, I have to table a discussion about an inseason sport to talk about an offseason. Because, believe it or not, this is the offseason in the NFL. It’s hard to tell given the flurry of activity. While the NFL is usually the most tame offseason of pro sports, this free agency has been especially hectic. The ultimate team game doesn’t usually lend itself to as much high profile jersey trading as other sports. See ZAKOUR page 15
Simply keeping up with the best collegiate baseball team in the country isn’t enough for the Cornell baseball team. Even though the team put its best effort forward — led by senior pitcher Brian McAffee’s seven shutout inning, seven strikeout effort — it doesn’t matter to the team that they led the best team in the country through eight and a half innings. All that matters was the end result, a 5-4 loss at the hands of the University of Virginia. The Red (1-5) doesn’t want your pity. “We don’t want any pats on the back. That loss wasn’t okay. We beat them that entire game. We outplayed them that entire game and then we gave it up,” said senior outfielder J.D. Whetsel. “There was no point where Virginia came out and beat us. They just didn’t deserve to win. It’s tough to say that losing that game helped us more than a win would have. Playing a game like that helps us, but losing there was disappointing for all of us. There was no point where we said, ‘Oh, we hung with them. We tried. That’s all we could ask for.’” BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Florida bound | J.D. Whetsel and the team are ready for the Russmatt Invitational.
As the team heads down to Florida for the Russmatt Invitational to play four games against LIU-Brooklyn, Bowling Green, Maine and Huntington in a threeday span, the Red looks to build off its performance against the No. 1 Cavaliers. In the early part of the season, the Red struggled collectively at the plate, hitting just .174/.226/.234 with just nine extra base hits in 196 plate appearances. Head coach Bill Walkenbach ’98 said he hopes to see improvement in the team’s situational hitting. “If we scored runs like we are capable of, we’d probably be 5-1 or 6-0,” Walkenbach said. “We haven’t given the pitchers any run support. It’s a very difficult thing to do. One of the toughest things in all of sports, and it takes time and patience, and you have to build confidence. We’re still in that confidence-building mode. Once we get that confidence rolling, I expect to see those numbers improve.” Senior southpaw Nick Busto said the loss against Virginia provides a valuable lesson for the young players. “We’re all playing the same game. They’re not better than you because they might go to a Virginia or a North Carolina,” Busto said. “It all comes down to how hard you’re gonna prepare and how hard you’re gonna work through the game and execute. That being said, to be able to see that as a freshman or sophomore and see that, ‘Oh, we can strikeout these guys,’ or ‘Oh, we can hit doubles off of them,’ it takes away the David and
Goliath theme that you might have as a freshman. I felt it a little bit as a freshman.” Having that perseverance and gaining confidence is an important attribute to have in the Ivy League, Whetsel said. “You’re in a lot of close games [in the Ivy League],” Whetsel said. “In a league that’s competitive, if you can learn how to win those one-run games in the eighth and ninth when you are up by one and you close the door on them or you’re down one and you scratch a run or two and get a win late, it’s important for the younger guys and the team as a whole to learn how to win those games.” For the Red, the goal this early in the season is to build up momentum for the team to hit its stride when the Ivy League schedule starts in late March. At this juncture, the most important thing for Cornell to take away from the trip down to the Sunshine State is exposure to live pitching and innings playing outdoors after a winter filled with indoor practices. “Our hitters need more at-bats out in the sunlight,” Walkenbach said. “They need to face more pitchers, get more atbats. Vision is a huge part of hitting and the more experience you have with seeing the ball, the better you’re going to be at it. Our pitchers need to continue to build their stamina towards the Ivy League season. Our starting pitchers, especially, are getting to the point where they throw six to seven innings and we’d like for that to continue to grow so they can go a complete game if they need to and if they keep your pitch count down. It’s still a developmental weekend.” Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.