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Cornell Remembers Garrett

Speakers recount president’s accomplishments, perseverance

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Those who knew and worked with President Elizabeth Garrett closely spoke about her passion for learning, her spirit of undying curiosity and her commitment to Cornell at a memorial service held in Bailey Hall Thursday.

Following a rendition of “The Road Home” by the Cornell University Chorus and a presentation of quotes from Garrett’s speeches at Cornell, Board of Trustees Chair Robert Harrison ’76 spoke. He called Garrett’s death on March 6 from colon cancer “enormous, institutionally unprecedented and profound both for Cornell and for many of us personally.”

“In the past 10 days I have been flooded with condolences, expressions of disbelief and memories of Beth from

people whose lives she’s touched in Oklahoma, Virginia, her after her cancer diagnosis, stressing that she “never Washington, Chicago, California, New York, China and gave up.” Even during his final conversation with her two Israel,” Harrison said. “Beth was an extraordinarily pas- weeks ago, Garrett was determined to return to Cornell.

Annie O’Toole grad, a member of the presidential sionate, courageous and can-do leader who devoted her life to scholarship and public service. She was a remarkable search committee that selected Garrett out of almost 200 candidates in 2014, said that she looked up to Garrett as role model and friend to so many.”

Harrison said that Garrett made an “unforgettable first both a leader and a mentor. O’Toole added that she saw in impression” on him during her interview with the presi- Garrett the qualities of a “lifelong student,” saying she dential search committee when, after greeting the 22 comSee MEMORIAL page 5 mittee members by name, Garrett “turned two hours of Q&A into a virtuoso demonstration of deep “Beth was an extraordinarily passionate, courageous and can-do familiarity with Cornell.”

Harrison said that leader who devoted her life to scholarship and public service.”

Garrett remained “infectiously optimistic” during Robert Harrison ’76 his frequent phone calls to

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In memory | Acting President and Provost Michael Kotlikoff speaks at President Elizabeth Garrett’s memorial Thursday afternoon in Bailey Hall.

S.A.Supports Indigenous People’s Day Congressman Reed Criticized

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly passed three resolutions — creating an

Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day, recommending a return to need-blind financial aid process for international students and “banning the box” from

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Need for support | Student speak in support of a resolution calling for Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day Thursday.

employment applications at Cornell — at its Thursday meeting.

Many Cornellians attended the S.A. meeting to support the passage of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, after a student-run Facebook page urged community members to support the resolution.

The resolution calls for the University to recognize the second Monday of October — currently Columbus Day — as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Benjamin Oster ’17, co-president of the Cornell Chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, spoke on why his organization believes the resolution is important to underrepresented communities at Cornell.

“We are looking to raise a See RESOLUTION page 5

For Trump Endorsement

By ISABEL LING

Collins’ (R-N.Y.) endorsement of the GOP frontrunner, making Reed the second Republican Many community members congressman to publicly endorse criticized Rep. Tom Reed’s (R- Trump.

N.Y.) decision to “If he were really back Donald interested in moving Trump’s presidential ‘beyond the bombasbid on Wednesday. tic rhetoric,’ he would John Plumb — who not have made such a is challenging Reed reckless choice,” for the 23rd Plumb said of Reed’s Congressional show of support.

District seat — “This is exactly why accused Reed of we need a new repreREED “putting politics sentative in Washingbefore country” in a press release ton, D.C.” Thursday.

Students active in Cornell’s Tom Reed’s endorsement of political groups also emphasized Trump follows Buffalo-area repSee ENDORSEMENT page 4 resentative, Congressman Chris Sun Staff Writer

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Opinion, “Unconditional Big Red Love,” Monday Speaking about the Cornell community’s reaction to the death of President Elizabeth Garrett “The scale of the reaction initially surprised me, because she was so new to our campus. But I think that the heartfelt response to her passing was ultimately less of a personal sorrow and more of a tribute to Cornell itself and what it means to all of us, collectively.”

Ruth Weissman ’17 News, “Hotel School Dean Says Departure is ‘Totally Unrelated’ to College of Business,” Tuesday Discussing his decision to depart for a job as provost of Babson College, “Deans, provosts and presidents at Cornell serve two five-year terms, and this is year 10 for me,” Johnson said. “I told the [School of Hotel Administration] community last spring that this would be my final year at Cornell, long before I knew there would be a [College of Business].”

Dean Michael D. Johnson Opinion, “Dormant Populists Emerge From The Republican Party,” Wednesday Speaking about Donald Trump’s appeal to a sizeable faction of the republican electorate “Trump offers a promise to Make America Great Again and to make government really, really good for the people.

And that’s all they want. After years of perceiving government to only work for the poor, or minorities, or the LGBT, or foreign countries, of course voters are susceptible to an anti-government message.”

Jake Forken ’16 News, “Kotlikoff Addresses Search for Cornell’s Next President at Faculty Senate Meeting” Thursday Explaining what the search for the next university president will entail “The plan is to try and assemble a search committee for the new president and have the committee consult broadly with the campus.”

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CALS Hosts Reception Honoring Garrett

University Professor Séamus Davis Awarded St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal The Science Foundation Ireland presented its prestigious St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal to Prof. Séamus Davis, physics, yesterday. Charles Flanagan, Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs and trade, was part of celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day in Washington D.C., according to the University.

In the award ceremony, Davis was said to be at the forefront of physics research for more than 30 years. His work focuses on the visualization and exploration of electronic structure and behavior at the atomic level. This is the third year the medal has been given out to recognize the contributions made by U.S.based technology leaders with Irish connections, the University said.

Cornellians share 24 Garrett Swirl, ice cream flavor named after late president

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornellians gathered in Stocking Hall to honor the late President Elizabeth Garrett by sharing the ice cream flavor that Garrett helped create. The Thursday event sponsored was by College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Kathryn Boor ’80, the dean of CALS, discussed Garrett’s key role in creating the ice cream flavor called 24 Garrett Swirl, describ-

ing how involved the president in sculpting the dessert.

“As we were working towards the President’s inauguration, she worked with a team here in the dairy processing plant in Stocking Hall to come up with her flavor of ice cream,” Boor said. “She, her sister and her niece sat together and tasted the different flavors that the processing plant had put together for them. President Garrett picked every single aspect of the different flavors so she could get just the one that she wanted and we

arrived at this flavor.”

Garrett also included a “secret” message in the ice cream recipe, according to Boor.

“If you look at the chocolate pieces that are in the flavor, they are shaped in peace signs and hearts,” Boor said. “President Garrett picked these specifically to send a message about how she saw her role here at Cornell, to send that message of peace and love to the community.”

Boor said she believed this event was an appropriate way to celebrate President Garrett’s legacy, recounting that Garrett once told her that designing the ice cream flavor was one “the most fun times she had as President of Cornell University.”

Boor also credited many organizations within CALS for planning the event, saying the CALS Student Advisory Council decided that the gathering would be a good way to remember the president .

“We discussed this idea last week and then CALS communication team and alumni affairs and development were the ones who actually made it happen,” she said.

The event concluded with the creation of a remembrance tree, where attendees wrote their messages of support for President Garrett.

“The remembrance tree will be presented at Mann library so everyone can read the messages of support and hope and joy that we’re sharing with each other,” said Boor.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

National Bridge Scandal Trial Could Inhibit Choosing Chris Christie As Trump’s Vice President Some have said that Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump means he hopes to be Trump’s choice for vice president, according to The New York Times. But something that could complicate these aspirations is the trial in the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge during his 2013 reelection campaign.

Although the trial has already been twice postponed, it has been been moved to September, during the final months of the presidential campaign.

While Christie himself is not on trial, two of his former top employees face nine counts, “including conspiracy to commit fraud” for closing the bridge, the Times reported.

Syrian Peace Talks Off To Slow Start As Syria’s government rejected negotiations with with opposition envoys, they dampened hopes of compromise at peace talks after Russia withdrew troops this week from the country, according to the Washington Post.

In Geneva, the talks are off to a slow start. In Damascus, there is a fragile ceasefire.

— Compiled by Madeline Cohen

Commemorating Garrett | Members of the Cornell community hand out and eat the ice cream flavor that President Elizabeth Garrett helped design.

Jamal Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

Professor Shares Bengali Rebel Poet’s

Legacy of Revolutionary Advocacy, Imagery

By CAROLYN DOYLE Sun Contributor

Prof. Rachel Fell McDermott, religion, Barnard College and Columbia University, discussed the complex and divided views on Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a seminar Wednesday.

McDermott described her interest in “exploring how Nazrul is remembered, celebrated and thought of differently in West Bengal and Bangladesh.”

The professor asserted that Nazrul Islam’s epithet as the “Rebel Poet” was derived both from his most famous poem “Bidrohi” — which means “the rebel” in Bengali — and from the radical views he conveyed through his poetry during the 1920s and 1930s.

“He was a revolutionary in many trajectories,” McDermott said. “Nazrul was very much against social injustice and clearly expressed his anti-British and anti-colonial sentiment through his writing.”

McDermott also said Nazrul Islam’s practice of Islam and Hinduism influenced his writing.

“What is fascinating about his poetry is that it is interlaced with Hindu and Muslim imagery,” she said.

However, McDermott acknowledged that Nazrul Islam’s cultural influence is remembered quite differently in Bangladesh and West Bengal, portrayed as an advocate of Muslim regeneration, and “a sec-

ular icon” respectively.

“Nazrul is mostly championed in Bangladesh as a pioneer of Muslim regeneration,” she said. “He wrote, time and time again, that Muslims needed to be regenerated in Bengal because they were too conservative and uneducated. He had a view of Muslim uplift.”

McDermott also addressed the presence of some dissent over Nazrul’s designation as the National Poet of Bangladesh, stemming from many

Bangadeshi’s belief that someone who lived in the country for a longer period and who was not half Hindi should hold this title.

Further, McDermott stressed that Nazrul Islam’s emphasis against religious divisions in society is inconsistent with his popularity in Bangladesh, a country formed as a result of such divisions.

“He represents a difficult legacy for people trying to claim him as a national poet in a country that is built around separation

through religion,” she said.

McDermott concludes by recognizing that Nazrul Islam remains a complicated but revered public figure.

“He is such a complex person that multiple Nazruls can arise as needed,” she said. “Because of this multivocality, he inspires endless fascination and endless pathos. Who is this Nazrul and who will he become?”

Carolyn Doyle can be reached at cpd49@cornell.edu.

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Community Responds to Rep’s Trump Endorsement ENDORSEMENT Continued from page 1

their disappointment in Reed’s endorsement of Trump.

“Congressman Reed’s endorsement of Donald Trump for President of the United States explains better than I ever could why he is not fit to represent the people of this district,” said Nate Jara ’16, Deputy Communications Director of Cornell Democrats. “That Reed sees such a vile, xenophobic, and hateful politician as fit not just to represent his party, but the entire country is incredibly disappointing.”

Brooke Cohen ’17, second vice chair of Cornell Republicans explained the recent Republican Party’s response to the possibility of Trump’s nomination.

“Republican leaders are split between two options: to endorse him [Trump] in order to rally support behind the eventual nominee so that the GOP will win the general election and take back the White House or to come out against him in order to turn the party away from the direction Trump and his supporters are taking it,” Cohen said.

Endorsing Trump demonstrates Reed’s belief that the candidate has the ability to win, according to Cohen.

“I think that Tom Reed’s endorsement shows that … he has accepted that Trump will win and has decided to throw his support behind him earlier rather than later,” she said.

Billy Bristow ’16, President of Cornell Democrats, called it “it is utterly irresponsible for Mr. Reed to support such a candidate at a time when the American people require strong, inspirational leadership.”

According to Cohen, Trump’s polarizing campaign has been successful by appealing to people who feel shut out from mainstream politics. “[Trump supporters] think that the country is headed in a bad direction and that an outsider who makes statements that they perceive as strong and who is himself a very successful business man will be able to turn the country around and make Washington fight for average Americans again,” Cohen said.

Cohen said that she and many fellow Cornell Republicans are trying to show the Cornell community, “that Republicans are not bigoted,” but acknowledged that Trump’s race is making this increasingly difficult.

“With many of the comments Trump has made, this becomes very difficult,” she said.

I am disappointed that the American people are not able to see the positive and sensible policies of the GOP through all of Trump’s bullying and showmanship.”

Isabel Ling can be reached at iling@cornellsun.com.

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Polo Focuses on Regionals Softball Looks Ahead POLO

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Cornell men’s team all year, which is great preparation for us because they are fantastic and are always challenging us,” said senior Elena Wicker.

“We have also added some extra practices during the semester that focus on specific skills, like foul shots, so we can be as accurate as possible at game time.”

Wicker also emphasized that individual preparation is equally as important.

“On an individual level, my teammates and I are all focused on being healthy, well-rested and on top of our assignments,” she said. “It is always a bit difficult to manage playing in a tournament and keeping up with all of our work.”

There are several weeks separating Regionals from Nationals, so the teams must consider training in the future as well.

“Our long term goal right now is to make it to the national final again this year,” Winslow said.

“The short-term is to decisively win the region this week and perform the best we possibly can.

The next month will be the most important part of our season this year.”

Although there is some element of mystery as to which teams the Red will play in the tournament, they have certain predictions and expecta-

tions.

“For the most part, we know what we will be up against for the regional tournament,” Winslow said. “We met UConn, who is second seed and our biggest competition for the regional title, a couple of weeks ago in their home arena. That said, it is important that we not underestimate our competition going into this weekend.”

Wicker also emphasized that the team should not necessarily be focusing on who it will play but rather on how it should play.

“Regardless of who we will be facing, we are focused on starting the match with a strong first chukker and then maintaining our momentum throughout the game,” Wicker said.

The women’s team has remained confident, despite the pressure that naturally comes at this point in the season. They have trained hard and accomplished a lot.

“I think we are in a great place heading into this tournament,” Wicker said. “We have had an undefeated semester and we are all focused and excited.”

With great records this season, both the men’s and women’s teams should be feeling confident and prepared approaching regionals.

Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsun.com.

To Busy Weekend SOFTBALL

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atively strong start, and Farlow is confident that this solid performance will continue.

“As long as they stay aggressive, they’ll be okay,” Farlow said.

Playing five games in one weekend is one more than normal, but players don’t think fatigue will be a problem. Parker actually sees this crowded game schedule as a benefit.

“It works to our benefit when we get to Ivy season,” she said.

Unlike baseball, Parker described how pitch counts and inning limits are not an issue in softball. She said that sharing five games with two other pitchers is not that big of a deal.

“If they’re pitching well, it’s not a concern,” Farlow agreed. “[If not], it makes [the other team’s] at bats that more productive.”

Farlow emphasized that the bigger concern will be finding time to rest for several hours between each of the team’s doubleheaders.

“When you play back-to-back, it’s easier to get your stamina up,” she said.

In general, Parker and Farlow said they are looking forward to the weekend’s games.

“George Mason is a familiar place for us,” Parker said. “The weather should be kind of nice, and it’s a new weekend.”

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

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a stronger voice for Indigenous people on campus,” Oster said. “We would like better recognition from the community that Cornell is situated in an area not only rich in Indigenous heritage, but rich in modern Indigenous culture.”

Oster added that he believes the University must recognize Indigenous history, saying that although Indigenous Peoples were removed from their traditional lands, their story is generally ignored at educational institutions.

“Our history has not always been a positive one and on today’s college campuses there are people who are recognizing that we need to step forward to resolve this,” Oster said.

Many students present voiced their support for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Approximately 750 people also supported this resolution on Facebook, according to Oster.

Community member Christian Brickhouse ’17 expressed his support for the resolution, saying he believes it might pave the way for more diverse variety of programs celebrating indigenous cultures

“International students come all parts of on campus.

“I think this is a great resolution because the world,” Tayal added. “These students not only does it counteract the erasure of want educational opportunities in the U.S. indigenous people, but it also provides us because the opportunities in their countries an opportunity for the creation of other are not good enough to get us good jobs programs and dialogue to increase and to help us achieve goals” Students also voiced concerns about the [Indigenous Peoples’] visibility,” administration’s failure to consult internaBrickhouse said.

The second resolution of the day was tional students before making the switch to raised by Shivang Tayal ’16 and aims to a new financial aid policy. challenge the University’s “The University has a new need-aware financial responsibility to be an “It is incredibly difficult equalizer of society aid policies for around for people to get hired International Students, the world and that’s why which was announced by after reentry into society.” we need Cornell to be one Provost and Acting of the few educational Garrison Lovely ’16 President Michael institutions that still Kotlikoff in February. abides by the need-blind “I think it is well process,” Tayal said. established that the need-blind processes The Student Assembly also passed resoare supportive and helpful for students lution promoting the “ban the box” initiafrom many different backgrounds, whereas tive. This resolution urges Cornell to reneed-aware processes are ones that are move questions about criminal history unsupportive,” Tayal said. from its job applications to make the The resolution argues that the new need- University a fair chance employer. aware policy would not accept meritorious “This matters because it is incredibly students who would have originally been difficult for people to get hired after reentry accepted in the need-blind policy if they into society,” said Garrison Lovely ’16. applied for financial aid but did not receive Lovely provided figures that stated that it. there are 70 million U.S. adults with con-

viction histories, saying that minorities are often harmed by the prejudice promoted by this policy.

“It is worse for people who are minorities because they are less likely to get a first interview if they check the box,” Lovely said. “We believe that people deserve a fair, second chance because without employment people who are recently released are more likely to go back to prison.”

“Ban the Box” is a nationwide movement that has been passed in 12 states and 100 cities across the country, including Ithaca. Lovely argued that because Cornell is the largest employer in Tompkins County and influences the labor market through its application policies, the administration should adopt this policy to set an example for other businesses in the area.

Some S.A. members raised concerns about this resolution, saying that the University should be aware if job candidates have been charged with felonies for safety reasons. Lovely was quick to answer that the University can still find out of criminal history, through steps like background check, after the conditional offer is made.

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

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related to those at Cornell so well because she herself “never stopped learning.”

“Her intellectual curiosity was limitless and she had this very rare ability to continuously seek out new information,” O’Toole said.

“She was the type of student I strive to be every day when I walk into Cornell Law School. Her example reminds me that the greatest success is found when one follows one’s passions. She may have been the hardest working person I’ve ever met.”

Mark Weinberger, CEO of Ernst & Young, recalled Garrett’s “incredible excitement, anticipation, pride, optimism and pure awe” on the day before her presidential inauguration on Sept. 18.

Weinberger said that he was initially incredibly frustrated with

how Garrett, who graduated first in their law school class, “was always perfect” but later came to love her for it over the course of their 25-year friendship.

“There are just some people in this world who suck oxygen out of a room when they enter it and there are some who breathe life into it. Beth breathed life into everything around her,” Weinberger said. “There are those who constantly give and those who mostly take. Beth was the ultimate giver … She could have been a brilliant and very wealthy lawyer but she chose a life of education and scholarship — of building a better future for others.”

Weill Cornell Medicine Prof.

Orli Etingin, clinical medicine, said that Garrett was a scholar, leader and true visionary, saying she felt privileged to care for her during her time of illness.

Etingin also remembered how

Garrett continued to hold meetings, travel and deliver speeches as her illness progressed, despite the rigors of treatment which often left her feeling poorly.

“Whenever there was a brief respite from the pain or the treatments she would be sending emails to Cornell faculty and students — many of you know you got those emails at 3 a.m.,” Etingin said.

“She was holding conference calls from her hospital room all the time … Those of us who knew her were awestruck by her perseverance.”

Etingin said that Garrett “always hoped she would recover from this illness” until her last day, when she returned to her home after a five-week hospital stay.

Etingin said she visited Garrett and her husband on Garrett’s final night.

“She pulled me close and gave me a message to give all of you in

the Cornell community,” Etingin said. “She said, ‘Please Orli, please tell them. Be sure to tell them at Cornell that I think they’re great-that there are important things in store for them. I am so proud of everyone and I know that they’ll be fine. There’s a great road ahead for Cornell.’”

Acting President and Provost Michael Kotlikoff said that Garrett’s intelligence, energy, candor and fierce determination helped all Cornellians think more boldly about taking risks and making achievements.

He also said that Garrett’s career helped demonstrate that certain characteristics such as gender and race do not determine how well individuals perform as leaders.

“I think it’s very important for everyone in our community to know that Beth was enduring symptoms of her illness and undergoing difficult treatments for

much of the time she was with us,” Kotlikoff said. “Our president, this force of nature, refused to surrender to her disease and refused to allow it to define her. She was convinced that she would beat it — in this too she challenged gender stereotypes and behavioral assumptions. While many of us may wish that she had allowed us an opportunity to offer expressions of comfort, affection and encouragement and in the end allowed us to grieve with her, Beth would have none of it. She told me ‘Mike, I don’t want to be the president with cancer.’”

The memorial concluded with a performance of “Amazing Grace” by the Cornell University Glee Club, followed by the Alma Mater, which was sung by all in attendance.

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

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Memory Drips Down Only Yesterday at Cornell Cinema

BY JAMES FRICHNER Sun Staff Writer

Animation has always held a distinct position within the realm of film, enchanting viewers with its unique advantages. One of its most powerful capabilities is its ability to infuse fantastical elements into otherwise totally realistic settings. Before the advent of CGI, animation was pretty much the only way to create convincing epic fantasy worlds such as those we see in contemporary blockbusters like Avengers or Lord of the Rings. When it comes to the history of western animation, Disney towers above almost everyone else.

Virtually every American child in the 20th century has come into contact with the ideals expressed in films like The Lion King. However, there is an equally rich, generally underappreciated tradition of animation in Japanese culture. And although Disney may still hold the global animation crown due to the sheer volume of their accomplishments, there is a strong argument to be made that when it comes to creating convincing, vibrant new worlds, the best studio for the past few decades has actually been legendary director Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli.

Responsible for such classics as My Neighbor Totoro, Sprited Away and Princess Mononoke, Ghibli films are known for their creativity, spirit and lovable child heroes, as well as their gorgeous animation.

However, it must be noted that at the same time as they were reinvigorating the realm of traditional animation, these films were pushing the boundaries of what is considered acceptable or possible in the medium. This experimental side of the studio is especially embodied in the works of co-founder Isao Takahata.

Takahata’s filmography is wide ranging, encompassing everything from family comedies starring raccoons to realistic wartime drama. His 1991 film Only Yesterday is the only Studio Ghibli film to never receive a North American release, but a lucky few were able to see it screened

for the first time this past Saturday night at Cornell Cinema. It is a film that displays all the depth and grandeur of a Ghibli film, with one simple twist: it takes place in the real world.

At its core is nothing more than a simple drama. We follow the 27 year old Taeko Okajima as she tries to find her place in 1982 Japan. She lives in Tokyo, but takes a ten day vacation to the countryside to work on an organic farm harvesting safflowers. Along the way she is joined by a rather unusual companion: herself. To be more accurate, her memories of herself as a ten year old girl.

For the most part,

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the film depicts life accurately, although not simply.

The animation style is luscious and fills each entire frame with sumptuous details for the eye to feast on. This is especially true of the countryside scenes.

There is one particular scene where they are harvesting flowers as the sun rises, which struck me as one of the most beautifully animated, realistic sequences I have ever seen — but there were at least four other sequences like this that made me sit up in my seat and mutter to myself in astonishment.

Every Studio Ghibli film is spectacular in its own way, but seeing one on the big screen for the first time was unforgettable. This highly detailed style is slightly contrasted with the memory sequences, which use a lighter, slightly faded color

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scheme that evokes the fuzzy yet completely vivid nature of our memories.

Memory is the central concept of the film. Taeko, although still relatively young, is experiencing more pressure to settle down, more reminders from the other people in her life that her biological clock is ticking. She is uncertain about how she should proceed with her life, which makes her think of her younger self, who also dealt constantly with being unusual, with not fitting into the acceptable parameters that a young Japanese girl was expected to fit into. The film switches back and forth between the past and present with a fluidity which would not be possible in a live action film. Not to mention the incredible sequences when her memory takes on an enchanted, otherworldly quality that evokes all the substance of childhood without sticking too closely to realism. In one memorable sequence, the boy on whom Taeko has a crush makes a point of running into her on her way home. The encounter is animated in a surreal way that is still realistic, but as she runs home, she rises up into the sky.

She floats home as if in a dream, flying through her window and gently landing in her bed. We cut to the outside, where a massive heart expands and pops, jumping us forward to the older Taeko, who is just as giddy and lovestruck in her recollection of the past as she was in the actual past.

This interweaving of present and past is astonishingly well done, and it is the perfect example of something easily animated that would be incredibly difficult to film otherwise. The film made me aware of how big a role memory plays in our lives and how, if we ignore those memories, we are ignoring a key part of what makes us human. In its literal translation, the film's title means Memory Drips Down, which is the perfect description of the feat which the film accomplishes, as well as the way our memory constantly infiltrates our lives. It is this accomplishment which ultimately makes the film utterly unforgettable.

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

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The Importance of Listening

was told,” my high school biology teacher explained to the class, “that kids your age learn better with pictures.” She drew something, presumably related to the scientific study of life, and my pubescent self sat there confused.

I am constantly being informed that our generation (which I’ve decided not to call by specific names, since terms like millennial wreak of yuppie argot, not to mention its status as a market demographic) communicates in pictures. We are visual. Our everyday language moves beyond words and into the area of images and videos.

This claim is easy to prove. Favored technologies these days include the laptop and the cell-phone, objects which require my gaze and half-hearted attention. Advertising, with its questionable motives, always seems to scream at me using large pictures of sneakers and vague phrases in big, bold letters like JUST DO IT. What we call media now usually involves things like social media, a mode of self-expression heavily reliant on seeing.

Sound, on the other hand, is an overlooked phenomenon. Because of that fact, any idea of listening as something you do actively — with the focus and care you might give to reading or seeing — falls to the wayside. Sure, plenty of people, including myself, love music and listen to it all the time, but music is only a subset of our auditory lives. It relates to sound and listening in the same way film or art relate to seeing. We experience music through sound, of course, but music is only a fraction of the sounds we experience. Unfortunately (or perhaps just as a fact of our lives) these highly concentrated collections of sound, cohering through pitch

and rhythm, define most of our ideas about audio and listening. I often believe that the only things which deserve to be listened to are those made with the intention of being heard. Music and speech fit into that category. Most sound, however, does not.

But if you were to, at any moment today, close your eyes, pause whatever video or song you might be playing and listen, you would

mind’s dependence on auditory perceptions for balance. Total and complete silence does not exist. Actually, it might, but we’re living organisms, with a barely audible pulse, so we’ll never come to know it.

This might sound fatalistic. In the end, though, it’s a good thing. The longest time anyone has been able to last in an anechoic chamber is 45 minutes. After that, the hallu-

If you were to ... close your eyes ... and listen, you would undoubtedly hear a much richer and more complex array of sounds than what you previously had thought was happening. undoubtedly hear a much richer and more complex array of sounds than what you previously had thought was happening. This is true anywhere on Earth. Even in an anechoic chamber, a room built to exact specifications so that no sound from any outside source will enter, so quiet its loudness is measured at negative decibels, you will hear your heart beat, your blood flow and your body function. At a certain point, you become disoriented and are unable to stand, due to our

cinations, anxiety and distress become too much to handle.

Still, I don’t want to take the rug out from underneath everyone and say that sound is this highly undervalued treasure and that we should be ashamed of our negligence, and while we’re at it, let’s lay down Appearances our belongings at its temple in gratitude.

Rather, I want to stress that listening and hearing are keystones in the ways we come to know the world and ourselves. I learned to

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speak before I learned to read. Before I recognized myself in the mirror, I heard my own voice. I can remember my home as those 100 degree summers during which I lay awake, sweaty and bored and without sleep, hearing the air conditioner hum to life only to hear it cut off fifteen minutes later, then turn on again, then shut down. I can pick the voices of my brothers out of a lineup, despite even my own parents’ inability to distinguish between us over the phone. Now, my days begin to the methodical disorder of construction projects and the clamor of bell chimes. If, at night, I step outside to socalled “silence,” I can hear a generator run, or the bass-heavy stereo systems of passing cars, drunk Collegetown patrons screaming or laughing or crying (I’m never sure which), the wail of emergency sirens, or a shipping train as it whines to a halt on the other side of Ithaca, and all this time the wind shakes the trees.

The sounds I experience at Cornell make it a unique and identifiable place in my mind. As much as I enjoy the architecture and landscape, I try to place as much importance on what I have heard here. This part is, ultimately, where I always come up short.

My biology teacher was correct. As auditory of a person I am (whatever that means), in the end I do give primacy to sight. I think most of us do. But maybe, at certain points, we can reconsider our hierarchies and enjoy this constant lack of silence.

Stepehen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com. Appearances runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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On Divestment,Israel And Palestine R

ecently, the Board of Trustees released a statement claiming that Cornell will only “divest from companies if their actions are ‘morally reprehensible,’” citing examples of apartheid, genocide and so on. We welcome this development. In its clear-cut identification of what constitutes an inappropriate financial investment, the University appears outwardly responsive to a longstanding concern in Cornell’s body politic — ethically responsible allocation of the University’s endowment funds.

In light of this newly calibrated position on divestment, however, we find it fitting to remind the Board that Cornell’s endowment remains invested in several corporations which directly and indirectly profit from Israel’s 48-year occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Consistently condemned by the international community as the single most enduring obstacle to the attainment of peace in the region, Israel’s illicit occupation of the Palestinian territories involves routine violations of the Palestinian people’s fundamental human rights. To cite three examples, Caterpillar Inc. sells bulldozers and industrial crawlers to the Israeli military deployed for the express purpose of demolishing existing Palestinian homes and villages in order to make way for Israeli settlements — which continue to openly contravene principles of international law enshrined in the Geneva conventions. Raytheon, a self-proclaimed global leader in “weapons research” and the manufacture of guided missiles, also plays an instrumental role in financing and maintaining the Israeli military’s subjugation of the Palestinian people. Hewlett-Packard provides the biometric I.D. system behind the nearly one hundred checkpoints which dot the occupied West Bank, an area roughly equal to the size of the state of Delaware. These checkpoints allow the Israeli military to indiscriminately control all forms of civilian movement in occupied Palestine.

And yet, when student activists sent a resolution calling for Cornell to divest from such “morally reprehensible” corporations to the Student Assembly in the spring of 2014, the Assembly immediately tabled the resolution without holding a vote. In addition, the Assembly declined to even present the resolution on the floor for discussion. While the Assembly’s actions constitute but one example of a well-established praxis of silencing open debate regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campuses across the U.S., the sheer speed with which Cornell quashed our dissent sets it apart.

Sadly, however, the administration’s transparent hypocrisy in its blithe reference to “moral reprehensibility” falls within a long tradition of refusal to divest from ethically deficient institutions. Despite decades of protest (beginning with the iconic student takeover of Willard Straight Hall during the zenith of the white backlash to the American civil rights movement in 1969), the University consistently rejected student and faculty resolutions calling for total divestment from apartheid-era South Africa in the 1980s — a government with the unique distinction of receiving universal condemnation as one of the most grotesquely racist, “morally repre-

hensible” régimes to ever exist. In fact, the University retained $42.1 million of stock in South African corporations in 1989, the year which saw Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and the commencement of apartheid’s demise.

This damning context renders the Board’s citation of “apartheid” as something worthy of divestment either historically ignorant or deliberately dishonest.

Cornell boasts the unenviable distinction of remaining one of the valiant few collegiate institutions in the U.S. never to have divested from apartheid-era South Africa. Given this track record, which seems blatantly inexcusable by the administration’s own standards, we fail to see how the Board expects its issuance of last week’s statement to appear sincere.

Indeed, the heavy weight of these historical transgressions — in tandem with that of our own experiences on this campus — leaves us convinced that the Board’s declaration amounts to nothing more than a feeble sham, concocted in a desperate attempt to assuage the increasingly vociferous calls for conscientious stewardship of Cornell’s finances.

In closing, what constitutes an apartheid state? The African National Congress, the torchbearer of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, has consistently expressed its solidarity with the Palestinian people. South African trade unions, activists and political leaders have repeatedly pointed out that the Palestinians’ quotidian reality remains strongly reminiscent of that of blacks in apartheid-era South Africa. Apartheid means an Israeli prime minister willing to make flagrantly racist remarks about Palestinian Arab minorities and duplicitously repudiate any prospect of Palestinian statehood. Apartheid means explicitly segregated roads and transportation routes in the occupied Palestinian territories. Apartheid means over half of the land in the occupied West Bank entirely cut off to Palestinians, at an estimated cost to the Palestinian economy of $3.4 billion per annum. Apartheid means Palestinian workers and farmers subjected to inhumane conditions — often earning less than the Israeli minimum wage — silenced by the fear of losing their work permits. And most importantly, apartheid means thousands of Palestinian men, women and children killed without cause in periodic outbreaks of staggering violence such as the world witnessed in 2008, 2012 and 2014 in Gaza.

We harbor no doubt that these actions — and, by extension, the efforts of corporations which contribute to and profit from sustaining such actions — qualify as “morally reprehensible.” Yet the last time students attempted to raise the issue of divestment from these corporations, the administration tacitly backed a complete shutdown of the debate. If the Board wishes to retain any iota of credibility in its casual invocation of “apartheid” and “moral reprehensibility,” we can only hope that it adheres to its stated position — and publicly divests from corporations which profit from Israel’s unrelenting occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Ambarneil Saha, Emad Masroor and Hadiyah Chowdhury are students at Cornell. Responses may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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f you think you want to be a lawyer but also wish you could stay in school as long as a medical student, you might consider studying law in Germany. The German legal education system takes up ten or more years in most cases — all of them filled with eyebrowraising words like Zahlungsauthentifizierungsinstrumentelesegerät.

I’m spending my third year of law school getting a master’s degree in Berlin, and I thought I’d use this column to show some meaningful differences between the German and American legal education systems. There’s a lot of logic in the German system, and American legal education would do well to adapt certain aspects of it.

First, university administration is worlds apart from what we know here at Cornell. It’s not that it doesn’t exist, or that nice and intelligent people aren’t in charge of it — it’s just that there is a much lower administrator-to-student ratio, so administrators simply can’t do as much for you. Matriculation is an example: it involved being shuttled from room to room so that I could receive a piece of paper saying that I was matriculated, and lasted an entire day. In contrast, Cornell’s administration responds to email within hours, and everything as simple as matriculation is done online.

An exclusively practice-oriented third year [of law school], similar to the Referendariat, would reduce the learning curve many encounter in their first legal jobs.

A reason for the difference is that the German State subsidizes the university system, and state-funded systems often have less money than their private counterparts. The inadequate funding means that facilities originally built by the communist East German government still look that way (complete with — and I’m not joking — Marx and Engels stained-glass windows). On the other hand, German law students do not pay for their education and receive subsidized meals, so they escape the staggering student loan debt American law students know all too well.

Second, lectures are very different in Germany. In most American law schools, professors use the Socratic Method (randomly calling on students). This can be terrifying, but it makes you do your reading and pay attention. Here, by contrast, professors deliver lectures in monotonous two or three-hour chunks of PowerPoint slides. Students who want to get ahead can buy books, but they’re not required. This means that success in a German law school depends to a great extent on individual students’ work ethic. Because the first part of legal education begins at age eighteen, this means that many students need to rapidly disabuse themselves of high-school habits, and it doesn’t always work.

The most redeeming quality of the German system, however, is the practical experience it requires. To become a lawyer in Germany, you need to do a two or three-year “Referendariat” after your four or five years in school. During the Referendariat, you rotate between different three-month “stations” at law firms, courts, administrative agencies, states attorneys’ offices and similar places. This is something that our legal system truly lacks. The stations cover almost every job in which you could imagine practicing as a German lawyer. This means that people leaving the system likely have a very good idea of the kind of lawyers they would like to be. To contrast, the typical American law student only does two internships, one each after the first and second years of law school. The Referendariat, combined with the two State Exams Germans need to take before and after it, means that German lawyers in many cases are much better prepared to be lawyers when they leave law school than their American counterparts. They’ve simply done the job for a longer amount of time under professional supervision than we have.

Much ink has been shed discussing the need for reform in American legal education. As many have written, the third year of law school is often unnecessary, and law students likely would benefit if it were abolished in favor of a year of small internships. An exclusively practice-oriented third year, similar to the Referendariat, would reduce the learning curve many encounter in their first legal jobs. If employers were allowed to pay students during that year, students might have less debt and be more inclined to go into public service instead of corporate law. In that vein, it is worth noting that while Germany cannot offer the best facilities or administration, it does not saddle its law students with over $50,000 of debt every year. That is a trade-off that many American law students would be happy to make.

To be clear, the German system is not perfect. Professors are less approachable, and the availability of free education encourages a degree arms race wherein students amass unnecessary LLMs and doctorates. The length of time it lasts — ten years or more — is also excessive. Still, it is hard to escape the impression that German law school is probably a better system for German clients than American law school is for American ones.

Garrett Biedermann is a J.D. candidates at Cornell Law School.

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f “the pen is mightier than the sword,” and “a picture is worth a thousand words,” then what does that mean for video? The presence of videos in our lives, particularly in mobile and digital form has grown significantly lately. Whether we’re watching ‘Snaps,’ or YouTube, our generation is increasingly enamored with a video-first mindset when it comes to absorbing new content on all platforms. What does this mean for The Cornell Daily Sun — why should it have any bearing on us? Given the shifting landscape of content consumption towards video, it’s important to seriously consider delving deeper into video content in order to reinforce our reputation as the premier collegiate newspaper in the country.

It’s ironic isn’t it? Recommending video content as a strategic move for a newspaper.

But consider The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today. All three newspapers, which are among the highest circulated in the country, have had to change their business model and ramp up their online presence to deal with declining readership in order to remain financially sustainable. One aspect of this webpush has been incorporating video content into their digital presence.

Today, these papers significantly integrate video into their websites, either in association with a top story or as a feature. This has helped them better compete with television networks who have also proactively increased their video content online.

There are also important arguments against expanding our video content. First and foremost, why do we need it? To be fair, The Cornell Sun isn’t a national paper, and its position as Cornell’s student paper is stable. So no, we don’t explicitly need it, for now, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t greatly benefit us. Creating more video content is important for The Sun as a means of standing out from our local competitors, such as the Ithaca Journal, as well as other collegiate newspapers.

Another benefit of our delving deeper into video content is associated with another argument against doing so: cost. How do we pay for the cameras, editing software, etc. ? First, The Cornell Sun does in fact already create video content. Did you know that? On the Multimedia page, you can find videos on topics ranging from politics to the 18th Annual

Chili Cook-Off in Ithaca. While we may have to make some additional equipment investments, these costs could be outweighed by another benefit: increased video content can provide a new, untapped source of revenue. The advertising world is continuously adapting and trying new strategies for monetizing video content based on evolving Internet and mobile trends. Maybe we could start developing plans around these trends, such incorporating pre-roll ads, working with local businesses to create sponsored video content or focusing on highly shareable videos designed to drive more traffic to the website where we already have ads.

Regardless of how we do it, The Sun can and should take a serious look into the profit-generating potential of developing enhanced video content.

So what can The Sun create?

There are so many ideas worthy of video format to share with our

tions on campus. For Cornellians, especially non-PMA students, few classes or clubs offer access to a variety of video-based positions like The Sun could. Thus, it’s hard to imagine The Sun having trouble finding willing and able students interested in journalism, filmmaking, editing or producing, who would wholeheartedly embrace the new opportunities to create video content.

While there are many upsides to expanding The Sun’s video content, there are many internal and external challenges as well.

Internally, it demands we push ourselves creatively: what topics can we cover that would be best for video? How can we make our content viral? What’s the best way to deliver a specific idea in a succinct way? At the same time it demands top-notch leadership amongst the editors to maintain structure and integrity: how can we make sure this content is tasteful and insightful? Is this video

If we are truly committed to sustaining this reputation whilst striving for “strong, digital journalism,” let’s challenge ourselves to see how video can fit into this goal. followers beyond what we already offer. If The Sun is committed to the idea of embracing video content, it can experiment with different topics: national news, Cornell news, sports commentary, branded content, original content and investigative journalism. Videos can be short clips or long and in-depth. Clips can be anything from funny satires about the happenings on our campus to a reactionary piece covering a major Cornellian sporting event.

Unlike with the daily grind of print, there are no rules dictating how often The Sun must churn out videos. Especially early on, The Sun can test out different videos covering different subject matters to get a feel for what sticks, as well as what its readersturned- viewers would be interested in. As we mentioned before, the videos to date on The Sun’s site have barely scratched the surface in terms of potential.

Who would create the video content? Just like the written content, our students can take on these new roles. Currently, there are surprisingly few opportunities to get involved in video produc-

thoroughly thought out and worthy of being posted and branded as original Cornell Sun content?

These challenges don’t include external obstacles: can we shore up potential filming issues on campus? Can we interview the faculty on camera? It would be short-sighted to think that aren’t other issues to deal with such as these, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take a serious look at how to address these challenges.

Earlier this year, The Sun took a major step forward by redesigning its website with a “digital-first mentality.” Why not reinforce this mentality by going one step further by building out our video content? Previous Sunnies have worked hard to help us establish the reputation we have as the leading collegiate newspaper. If we are truly committed to sustaining this reputation whilst striving for “strong, digital journalism,” let’s challenge ourselves to see how video can fit into this goal.

Ethan Berkowitz is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. Views From the 14853 appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Central Collegetown Apartments, Houses, Parking

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400 COLLEGE AVENUE 1 & 2 Bedroom Luxury Apartments Above Starbucks

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Superb Panoramic Views Modern Elevator Buildings

Collegetown Plaza: Fitness Room, fantastic Cayuga Lake Views Studio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 BRs. Parking.

Collegetown Center: Concierge Service, quiet building, Fitness Room Studio, 1, 2 BRs. Parking.

Collegetown Court: Super convenient, exceptional value Studio, 1, 3, 4, 5 BRs Rent Smart. Live Well.

607-272-3000

PJ APARTMENTS PRIME COLLEGETOWN LOCATIONS Studios to 18 BR Mansions 607-229-5116 www.pjapts.com pjapartments@gmail.com

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Many New Beautiful Renovations Completed.

College Ave. 5 Bedroom

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Office at: 119 Dryden Road

Fully furnished.

Large bedrooms with walk in closets.

Laundry & parking.

607-339-1137

Collegetown Crossing College Ave's Newest Location 307 College Ave. Now Leasing for 2016-2017 Completely New Studios, 2, 3 & 4 Bedroom Apartments.

Fully furnished, heat & hot water included.

Rental office at 226 Linden Ave. www.collegetowncrossing.com 607-330-2442 info@urbanithaca.com

TRAVIS HYDE PROPERTIES “The Rental Company of Choice”

Westview / Westview Terrace Lakeland / Edgecliff Gateway Commons / Cayuga Fall Haven / Westminster Center Ithaca / Lake Street 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments www.travishyde.com 607 273-1654

RAVENWOOD WEST CAMPUS Dryden South Now Leasing for 2016-17.

4 bed, 2 bath suites, generous floor plans.

Fully furnished, Safe, Monitored, Private.

Suites still available on floors 2-3 $1190.

5th floor $1350. 10 month leases. www.DrydenSouth.com

5 bedroom Townhouse Fully furnished w/big Screen TV Dishwasher/microwave Laundry on Site Parking available On bus route www.travishyde.com 607 273-1654

Fully Furnished Heat, Hot / Cold Water Sewer Included

www.StudentRentalsIthaca.com (607) 277-3767

407 College Ave

Studios Fully furnished Heat, hot water and internet included Close to campus, shopping and nightlife

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The studio apartments located on a bus route and a 25 minute walk to Cornell come with heat, water, electricity and free parking, included in the rent. Garbage and recycling are on the premise, and coin-operated laundry is available on-site for your use. Prices start at $720/month. If you have any questions or would like to take a tour of an apartment email: renting@ithacals.com or call 607-280-7660.

Beautiful Five Bedroom Apartment Lower Collegetown Original woodwork throughout the house.

Huge bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, washer/dryer, fully furnished.

Available 8-5-16. $525.00 per person plus utilities.

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Collegetown Terrace Apartments Available now and for Spring Semester!

Rooms, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments to share. Heat, hot water and high speed wireless internet included.

Free State of the Art Fitness Center Covered parking available for a fee.

Novarr-Mackesey Property Management www.collegetownterraceithaca.com office@ithacastudentapartments.com 607.277.1234

Houses, Apts, Parking 1 to 10 Bedroom Collegetown - College Ave, Linden Ave, Dryden Rd, Bryant Ave, Cook St. 607-330-2442 info@urbanithaca.com www.urbanithaca.com

COLLEGE AVENUE 1 BEDROOMS & STUDIOS

EDDY STREET 4 OR 8 BEDROOMS

CATHERINE ST 2 BEDROOM

ELMWOOD AVE

1, 2, 3 bdrm. with modern upgrades, washer / dryer options. Professionally managed with 24 hr. maintenance.

Now accepting applications for 2016-17.

607-257-5200 Open 7 days / week

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Westview Terrace

North Campus 1 and 2 Bedrooms w/storage washer/dryer, dishwasher, A/C

PETS WELCOME!

Free parking, internet included

2-Bedroom Apartment Downtown Available August 1.

Ideal for grad or working professional(s).

Downstairs apartment with full bath, living room, kitchen and yard. Washer and dryer on premises. Quiet residential downtown area on Cascadilla St. close to Commons and near bus stop. No undergrads, no smokers, no pets. References required. $940/mo plus all utilities.

273-7082 or email gm27@cornell.edu for appointment or info.

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Westview

North Campus Studio, 1 and 2 bedrooms Parquet hardwood floors Fireplaces, dining rooms and lots of closets!

Heat and hot water included

www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com NORTH CAMPUS

LAKELAND

2, 3 and 4 bedrooms Fully furnished TV and dishwasher Heat, hot water, gas internet included!

Pets Welcome!

On bus route parking available

www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com NORTH CAMPUS 1 bedrooms Fully furnished Heat, hot water, gas internet included!

Pets Welcome!

On bus route parking available

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Campus Hill Apts.

709 Stewart Ave. We are not near the campus, We are ON THE CAMPUS, The only privately owned apartment complex literally on Cornell University's campus. 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms.

1. Walk to classes and West Campus amenities in minutes 2. Most have brick fireplaces 3. Balconies 4. Two on site Laundry rooms 5. Free high-speed Roadrunner Internet 6. Free Standard Cable (70+ channels) 7. On site parking 8. Furnished with TVs 9. Very competitive pricing

www.kimballrentals.com 257-0313

RIGHT BY CORNELL 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR APTS. BEST PRICES QUIET NO STREET NOISE 10 & 12 MONTH LEASES 607-592-7694

Edgecliff Apartments

FURNISHED AND

2 and 3 bedroom apartments Fully furnished with 42 inch TV Heat, hot water and gas included.

Covered parking available On bus route

8 Bedroom Last Collegetown Unit 607-330-2442 info@urbanithaca.com www.urbanithaca.com

1 Studio Apartment 309 Eddy St New bldg, fitness center, elevator, nice furniture, AC. From $1450 includes heat, water, furniture. nick@lambrourealestate.com or 607-256-3778 office

1BR Cottage 125 Eddy St Cute mini 1BR-house, nice furniture, AC. $1195 Aug-Jun Lease (10-mo.) includes water, trash pick-up. nick@lambrourealestate.com or 607-256-3778 office

www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com WEST CAMPUS

RAVENWOOD 4 and 5 bedroom apartments Fully furnished with 42 inch TV Heat, hot water and gas included.

Covered parking available On bus route

www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com WEST CAMPUS

110 Lake Street 1 bedroom apartments Fully furnished with 42 inch TV Pets Welcome On bus route Parking available

Beautifully Furnished Studio, 1 Bedroom, 2 Bedroom & 3 Bedroom units.

Office Open M-F 9am-9pm; Sat/Sun 12n-5.

607-273-9777 or 312collegeave.com

Modern Two Bedroom Apartments Upper Collegetown Spacious rooms, lots of light, fully furnished. Access to laundry, parking. $675 per person/month. June 2016.

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Modern Three and Four Bedroom Apartments Upper Collegetown Spacious rooms, large living area, lots of light. Fully furnished.

Access to laundry, parking. $530 per person/month.

Available June or August 2016

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www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com WEST CAMPUS

106 and 108 Lake Street 1 and 2 bedroom apartments Fully furnished with 42 inch TV

North Campus 3 Bedroom Apartments On Site Laundry www.ithacastudentapartments.com 607.277.1234

312 College Ave Collegetown’s Best Address

WEST CAMPUS

3 BEDROOM

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COLLEGETOWN

ITHACA-APARTMENTS.COM Your #1 Apt. Source

LAKELAND

We have availability for 2016 spring semester at Hudson Heights Apartments.

HUGE 1 BEDROOM

ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED! Pets Welcome On bus route Parking available

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Three Bedroom Apartments Lower Collegetown Large rooms, hardwood floors, porch, bus stop directly in front of the house!

Walk to campus or commons. Fully furnished. $550 per person/month.

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Top of Williams St. $1095 Incl. Everything.

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CONVENIENT, QUALITY & AFFORDABLE Furnished 1–3 Bedroom Collegetown & Lake Apts.

PARKING, LAUNDRY, UTILITIES! 607-273-7368 www.IthacaApartmentRental.com

WALK TO CAMPUS 1 Bdrm apt. featuring w/w carpeting, free parking and laundry on premises.

Professionally managed with 24 hr. emergency maintenance.

Limited Availability for 2016.

607-257-5444 www.brooklanecornell.com

27 H OUSE FOR R ENT 9 Bedroom House $525 / Person Lower Collegetown 12 minutes to Cornell. 3 minutes to Commons. Beautiful 3500sf house.

Wrap around porch, fully furnished, large bedrooms, free laundry, backyard, parking. Available 6/1/2016.

Text/Call 607-379-9168

Eight Bedroom House Lower Collegetown Two kitchens, two full bathrooms, all new flooring, washer/dryer, fully furnished. Parking available.

Available June 5, 2016. $555 per person.

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First Month’s Rent Free!

Ten Bedroom House Cook St. Two kitchens, two full baths, large bedrooms, washer/dryer, parking, fully furnished.

Available 6-5-16. $615 per person.

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Four Bedroom House Upper Collegetown Large living areas, hardwood floors, private screened in porch.

Fully furnished, laundry, parking. $615 per person/month.

Available June 2016.

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30 SUBLET COLLEGETOWN SUBLETS at only $550.

Includes utilities, Internet, Cable.

Several sublets for this SUMMER and SPRING 2017 semester.

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Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

FRIDAY MARCH 18, 2016

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Cornell Hosts Polo Regionals

POLO

By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Big implications | Both the men and women are 13-2 on the season; a solid performance this weekend could qualify each team for Nationals.

This Friday marks the first day of the men’s and women’s USPA Northeastern Intercollegiate Regional Polo Tournament, held at Cornell’s Oxley Equestrian Center. This event and the USPA National Intercollegiate Championships on April 4 are the only two tournaments the men’s and women’s teams will compete in together.

The women’s team plays first — on Saturday — against the winner of the Harvard-Skidmore game.

Depending on the outcome, they will also possibly play on Sunday against the winner of the UConn-

Alfred State game.

“Going into the weekend, we will really be trying to keep up our communication to effectively execute team plays,” said senior captain Anna Winslow. “We will also be looking to play at a fast pace and work on accurate goal shots from the field. This is how we have been most successful this season.”

This weekend is extremely important because a solid performance could qualify the Red for Nationals. The team is putting in a lot of preparation as a result.

“As a team, we have been practicing with the See POLO page 5

BASEBALL

Defense,Pitching Are Focus for Baseball Against Bucknell

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

With an impressive series win against Wofford (12-6, 0-0 SoCon) in the books, the Cornell men’s baseball team (3-3, 0-0 Ivy) will hit the road again this weekend with a four game stint at Bucknell (6-9, 0-0 Patriot).

Head coach Dan Pepicelli was pleased with his team’s performance against Wofford but still sees a lot of room for improvement.

“We’re fortunate to come away with a series win last weekend against a really good Wofford team,” said Pepicelli. “Right now we’re just trying to clean up our own game and do the little things better.”

Pepicelli noted that the team has been working on improving its defense. The Red made four errors in three games against Wofford, but fielding struggles are typical early in the season with players still settling into positions and getting a feel for live action hitting.

The ball can come off the bat unpredictably in actual games, no matter how many ground balls players take at practice.

Fielding develops with time and experience.

Overall, though, fielding should not be too much of a concern this season with several veteran players in the lineup.

Still, Pepicelli singled out defense and quality innings from the starting pitchers as areas of focus against Bucknell.

Pitch count will definitely be a factor for the Red this weekend as well. Pitch count is always monitored in games, but early in the season it is particularly important not to over-extend starting pitchers.

“Pitch count definitely plays a roll this early in the year,” Pepicelli said. “It’s something I discuss quite a bit with [assistant] coach Scott Marsh and just get an idea of what our plan is and what we’re looking to do with each pitcher.”

Cornell’s starting lineup is not set in stone yet. Pepicelli is still getting to know the players, as this is his first season with the Red. “We have some spots that are pretty strong,” Pepicelli said. “We’re still trying to see what other people are capable of doing and trying to figure out what each player looks like in a competitive environment.”

With the Ivy League season still weeks away, Cornell has time to fine-tune its lineup. The out of conference schedule also allows Cornell to play teams across the country with different skill sets and approaches to the game.

With teams like Wofford and the University of Central Florida on the sched-

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Weeks away | The Red’s tough out-of-conference schedule will give the team a sufficient challenge to prepare for Ivy League competition, which is still weeks away.

ule, it is essential the Red come ready to play each game.

Pepicelli expects the Ivy League to be very strong this year, so it is essential that the Red play quality out-of-conference teams to begin the year.

“It’s our intention to compete for an Ivy League title, and we don’t shy away from

that,” Pepicelli said.

Cornell’s performance in out-of-conference games could be an indicator as to how the team will fare in a competitive Ivy League this season.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

SOFTBALL

Softball Looking for First Win This Weekend

this weekend’s tournament. Cornell head coach Julie Farlow ’97 emphasized that facing St. Francis again is not necWinter’s browns and greys still pre- essarily a bad thing.

“We’re pretty familiar with them,” dominate here in Ithaca, even as temperatures tick upwards. Meanwhile, sev- she said. “We know that their hitters are eral hundred miles to the south in dangerous. Our pitchers will try to give Fairfax, Virginia, late March means them a different look [and] our batters springtime. And what is the color of will be comfortable and more confident.” spring? Carnelian.

Red senior outCornell softball is “We’re so ready to get a fielder and pitcher one of five teams competing in the 2016 W, it’s crazy. [ We] must Meg Parker agrees that knowing St. Mason Cherry have a short-term Francis well means Blossom Classic this memory.” knowing what it weekend at host takes to beat them.

George Mason. The Meg Parker ’16 “They’re defiRed (0-8) will face St. nitely a beatable Francis (12-12) on team,” she said.

Friday and Saturday afternoon, George Mason (8-9) Friday evening, “We’ve seen all their pitchers [and] Georgetown (5-16) Saturday morning we’ve seen their hitters.”

The Red has played the other three and Canisius (4-16) Sunday morning.

The Red — still looking for its first teams in the tournament in recent seavictory of the season — faced St. Francis sons. Parker said that this means the three times this past weekend. The Red Red will be facing familiar lineups.

“They’re all good competition,” dropped all three of those games and will have to face the Red Flash twice in Farlow said. Also — because of Ivy

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Perfect with practice | The Red will hope to use its experience against St. Francis to come away with a win.

League rules — these teams will also all have played slightly more games thus far.

According to Farlow, part of this weekend’s focus is to build toward league competition later in the spring.

“All of these games are good preparations for our Ivy games,” she said.

The Red also wants to end its losing streak.

“We’re so ready to get a W, it’s crazy,” Parker said. “It’s still possible [to have a winning record after the 50-game season is over]. [We] must ... have a short-term memory.”

Farlow described how Cornell’s three pitchers have been putting in a lot of work prior to this weekend in order to produce more consistent results.

“Pitchers are [focusing on] being more consistent and better at hitting their spots,” she said. “Our pitchers are going to try to work ahead in the count.”

“The pitchers are working on throwing more strikes,” Parker added.

See SOFTBALL page 5