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A program co-created by a Cornell professor calculates the user’s risk of falling below the poverty line. | Page 3

David Gouldthorpe explores social commentary in Disney’s animated film Zootopia. | Page 6

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The gymnastics team won its second ever ECAC title over the weekend. | Page 12

Johnson Museum Ends Security Company Contract Service has alleged ties to prison industry

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor

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President Barack Obama shakes the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro on Monday, initiating Obama’s historic visit to Havana, Cuba.

Comedians to Perform at C.U.

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

Stand up comedians Dave Coulier and Hannibal Buress will perform at Cornell in April and May respectively, according to a Cornell University Program Board press release.

Coulier — who played Uncle Joey on the ’90’s sitcom Full House, COULIER which was recently reprised on Netflix as Fuller House — is scheduled to perform in Statler Auditorium April 20, the release said.

Cornell University Program Board Selections Chair Maria Chak ’18 said she hopes attendees will remember Coulier from childhood viewings of Full House.

“The nostalgia aspect of Full House will make this an appealing show to the college-age crowd who grew up with it,” Chak said.

However, Coulier’s stand up performance — which has been featured on The Tonight Show, BURESS Detroit Comedy Jam and Comic Relief — will be different from his work

BSU press release.

“Incarceration across the globe has wreaked havoc on communities of color,” BSU said in the release on Monday. “Any step the University takes in distancing itself from that brutal system is a step in the right

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will terminate its contract with G4S Secure Solutions USA — a security service company that Black Students United says has ties to “Incarceration across the the prison industry — according to administraglobe has wreaked havoc on tor Renee Alexander ’74.

Provost and Acting communities of color.”

President Michael Kotlikoff said the museBlack Students United um’s relationship with G4S will be terminated in a letter, said Alexander, the associ- direction.” ate dean and director of interculturJohn Carberry, director of Media al programs, student and academic Relations, added that the University services and advisor to BSU. is pleased to have been able to work Cornell’s Division of Financial collaboratively with BSU. Affairs had previously contracted “The administration has been with G4S for consultation on working closely with BSU and other Johnson museum security, accord- student groups on a number of ing to the DFA website. The com- issues, and we are very pleased with pany provides risk consultation, the progress that has been made,” investigation and technology sup- Carberry said. port services, according to the security firm’s website.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at Additionally, G4S has “been syan@cornellsun.com. linked to the private prison industry, both domestic and abroad,” according to a

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Student Responses to Email Survey Will Inform Housing Master Plan Students responses to an open online survey will be analyzed and used as a source of input for Cornell’s housing master plan, according to Cornell media relations specialist Daryl Lovell.

The Division of Student and Campus Life sent online surveys to a random sample of students on March 18. The survey, which collects the student body’s opinions of the current housing system, will close March 30, Lovell said.

The University is in the midst of researching the master plan, which will guide Cornell’s efforts to accommodate housing for undergraduate and graduate students.

The plan is Cornell’s first indepth study of its housing system since the 2008-09 economic crisis, according to a University press release.

3,900 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students — living on and off campus, in Greek life and unaffiliated with Greek life — received the survey, according to Lovell.

Many undergraduates struggle with freshman room selection, said Lily Englert ’19, listing pressing problems with Cornell housing.

“My friend and I both got bad time slots [during freshman room selection] and had to block with someone we

didn’t know very well,” Englert said. “It was very stressful.”

Similar questionnaires have been sent to students in a complementary research project by freshmen in the Meinig Family Cornell National Scholars program, according to Marty Rauker, senior director of strategic initiatives for Student and Campus Life.

The Division of Student and Campus Life has also created student focus groups that discussed undergraduate housing needs earlier this month, according to the release.

— Compiled by Anna Delwiche

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Secure foundations | The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will no longer work with G4S Secure Solutions USA.

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Vox Campaigns for Imprisoned Pregnant Women Local

Ithaca Police Officer Honored for Helping Implement Use Of Body Cameras On Monday, Ithaca Police officer, Sergeant Melissa Harmon, was awarded the Kiwanis Club Frank G. Hammer Officer of the Month Award for her efforts in implementing body cameras for officers, according to The Voice.

Harmon played an important role in the passage of a body camera policy by the Common Council. She also made sure that the policy was enforced and accurately implemented.

“It’s progressive policy work and I’ve found it very interesting,” she said, according to The Voice.

National El Niño Upsets Seasons Internationally El Niño is the strongest it has been in a generation and its effects are far reaching. The storm has had negative impacts on areas in South America, Africa and Asia, according to The New York Times.

The extreme warm weather is causing other major weather fluctuations like with rainfall levels. While some areas are experience abnormally high levels of rain, as the case in Paraguay’s capital and South Africa, other places are experiencing low level so rainfall.

This extreme weather is not only having an impact on country’s economy, but also on the health of its citizens.

According to The World Health Organization, El Niño-related weather adding 60 million people to health risks like malnutrition, waterand mosquito-borne diseases, and other illnesses.

Obama and Castro Cuba Meeting Exposes Old Grievances In a historic moment Monday, President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro discussed a new future regarding United States and Cuba relations. Despite President Obama’s declaration of a “new day,” however, the two nations could not combat lingering issues and problems that are still evident today, according to the New York Times.

The exchange was the first time leaders of the two countries met in over a half-century.

They discussed the release of political prisoners and issues of human rights, education and equal pay. The two leaders equally commented on areas where their respectable countries fell short, which made for a positive discussion, furthering a more amicable relationship, The Times reported.

— Compiled by Samantha Acriche

By DEVON GILLIAMS Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s chapter of Voices for Planned Parenthood (Vox) has received nearly 100 signatures on a letter urging the New York State Senate to prohibit solitary confinement for pregnant women, according to the group’s Facebook page.

Vox’s letter-writing campaign aims to pressure the State Senate into passing Senate Bill S5729 on to Governor Andrew Cuomo. The bill would prevent the state from placing pregnant prisoners into solitary confinement, except under exceptional circumstances, according to the senate’s website.

The organization’s letter urges the Senate to pass the bill because solitary confinement “jeopardizes the physical and mental health of pregnant women,” according to the letter.

“Inmates in the Special Housing Unit are more likely to experience self-harm, anxiety, and depression,” the letter reads. “This environment is detrimental to the mental and physical condition of a pregnant female inmate and her

baby.”

Vox’s campaign also hopes to highlight the lack of reproductive health education available to women in New York’s prison system. Imprisoned

women are also not given adequate access to contraception and sanitary supplies, according to the letter.

The bill was sponsored by Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-NY)

and six other New York State senators, according to the senate’s website.

Devon Gilliams can be reached at dgilliams@cornellsun.com.

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Protesters gather outside the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington D.C. on Monday evening.

Prof Creates Poverty and Risk Calculator Online economic stability measure developed to stress urgency of social crisis

By YUN SOO KIIM Sun News Editor

Prof. Thomas Hirschl, development sociology, has created a program that calculates the likelihood users will fall below the federal poverty line, according to a University press release.

Hirschl’s ‘Risk Calculator’ utilizes factors such as level of education, age, race and marital status to compute the user’s economic stability in the next five, 10 and 15 years.

Hirschl developed the calculator in collaboration with Prof.

Mark Rank, sociology, Washington University and Prof. Kirk Foster, African American studies, University of South Carolina, the press release said.

The Internet-based calcula-

tor — which has already been survey that has been collecting accessed by over 63,000 people information about families for — accompanies a book that over 50 years. He used $24,000 Hirschl, Rank and Foster wrote — the 2015 federal poverty line for a family of four in 2014, according — as his reference to the release. for what constitutHirschl said he ed ‘poverty,’ accordcreated the calculaing to the Risk tor to remind peoCalculator website. ple about the factors Life events that contributing to usually result in poverty, in the drastic changes — release. such as job loss, “The idea of the divorce or a major poverty calculator is illness — can lead we’re trying to make PROF. HIRSCHL to a period of poverty risk more real, so that people can see poverty, according to Hirschl.

“We have a society where, if where they stand and where people like them stand,” he you fall on hard times, you feel that it’s your fault, that there’s said.

Hirschl obtained the data for something wrong with you,” he his calculations from the Panel said in the release. “Among Study of Income Dynamics, a whites, that’s especially true.

There’s very little understanding about social causality and the decisions that we’ve made as a country, particularly since 1970.”

Hirschl said that he hopes the calculator will spark a nationwide discussion on poverty, so that government officials can address the issue.

“A lot of the political discussion doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, but people are starting to come to terms with issues they haven’t thought about,” Hirschl said. “We need to go into the discussion with intellectual clarity. We hope the calculator will help establish a baseline to bring about that clarity.”

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

Feds Find 70 Pounds of Cocaine in Flight Attendant’s Luggage LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities are searching for a flight attendant they say bolted from a security screening at Los Angeles International Airport, leaving behind about 70 pounds of cocaine stashed in her luggage.

Transportation Security Administration officers stopped the woman at random Friday, and she remained at large Monday, said Special Agent Timothy Massino with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The flight attendant was sent to a secondary

screening area, but she quickly dropped her bag, ditched a pair of Gucci heels and fled barefoot downward in an upwardmoving escalator, said Marshall McClain, president of the union representing LAX airport police officers.

Police were called to investigate an unattended bag and later uncovered 69 pounds of cocaine inside, McClain said.

McClain expressed concern that officers were alerted about the unattended bag but not a suspicious person running through the airport, he said

Monday. He said the case also shows why all flight attendants and other airport employees need to be screened.

“With her bringing this amount of narcotics in the airport, chances are this wasn’t her first time through,” said McClain, head of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association. “We’re hoping this is a wake-up call to airport management as well as federal legislators.”

Security threats from “insiders” — airline and airport employees, as well as workers hired by contractors — have been a

focus of the TSA, particularly after the December 2014 arrest of several Delta Air Lines baggage handlers.

Prosecutors allege they smuggled guns, including an AK-47, from Atlanta to New York.

Federal authorities said last year that they busted a marijuana smuggling ring at Oakland International Airport, with arrests including baggage handlers. A separate arrest in December involved a TSA worker accused of allowing drug runners to pass their bags through X-ray machines without being stopped.

Four former baggage handlers at San Diego's airport were sentenced in September in a drug-smuggling case.

The TSA has said that full screening of all employees would cost too much. Instead, the agency has urged airports to increase random screenings of workers and to keep background checks up to date.

“We will pay particular attention to the insider threat,” TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told a Senate committee earlier this month.

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Dave Coulier and FBI May Access Locked iPhone Data Hannibal Buress Will Visit Cornell PERFORMANCE Continued from page 1

in Full House, according to Chak.

“We are very excited that we can bring one of the original cast members and showcase him doing stand up, which people might not know he had in his repertoire,” she said.

Buress has acted in Broad City and The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim and will visit Cornell on May 6, according to Gabe Diamond ’18, CUPB executive chairperson.

Diamond said Buress was previously scheduled to perform at Cornell in November of 2014, but canceled and was replaced by comedian John Mulaney.

“The Cornell population’s interest in seeing Hannibal perform has only grown since he was scheduled to appear in the fall of 2014,” Diamond said.

Buress’s third standup special, Comedy Camisado, is currently streaming on Netflix, and he recently appeared in the movie Daddy’s Home and voiced characters in upcoming animated films The Secret Life of Pets and Angry Birds, the release said.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A much-anticipated court hearing on the federal government's effort to force Apple Inc. to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack was abruptly vacated Monday after the FBI revealed it may have a way to access data without the company’s help.

Federal prosecutors made the surprising announcement on the eve of Tuesday's hearing in U.S. District Court in Riverside, California. In court papers they said the FBI has been researching methods to access the data on Syed Rizwan Farook’s encrypted phone since obtaining it on Dec. 3, the day after the attack.

“An outside part” came forward over the weekend and showed the FBI a possible method, the government said in court papers requesting the hearing be postponed.

Authorities need time to determine “whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data” on the phone.

If viable, “it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple,” according to the filing.

The government did not identify the third party or explain what the proposed method entailed.

Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym granted that request and ordered the government to file a status report by April 5. Pym

also stayed her Feb. 16 order compelling Apple to create software that would disable security features on the phone, including one that erases all information if a passcode is incorrectly entered more than 10 times.

In a conference call with reporters, Apple attorneys said it’s premature to declare victory in the case because it’s possible that authorities could come back in a few weeks and insist they still need the company's help. The attorneys spoke on condition they wouldn’t be identified by name because the case is still pending.

The company hopes the government will tell Apple about whatever method it uses to access the phone’s encrypted files. But the attorneys said it may be up to the FBI to decide whether to share the information.

The fact that a third party may have found a way into the phone without Apple’s help appears to contradict every sworn affidavit and filing put that the Justice Department has put forward in the last month.

The government has argued in each of its filings that Apple’s help is necessary and that the company was the only entity that could provide investigators with what was needed.

FBI Director James Comey told the House Judiciary Committee in sworn testimony earlier this month that agency investigators had approached

even the National Security Agency for help but did not have success.

Apple has previously said in court filings that the government did not exhaust all its options, and lawmakers have criticized the FBI for not doing more to try to crack the iPhone itself before seeking Apple’s help.

“To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn’t understand the technology or they weren’t giving us the whole truth when they said there is no other possible way” of examining the phone without Apple’s help, said Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. “Both of those are scary to me.”

The ACLU has filed a court brief supporting Apple's position.

Robert Cattanach, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who handles cybersecurity cases for the Dorsey & Whitney law firm, said the government would likely not have disclosed it had a lead on possibly unlocking the phone unless it was almost certain the method would work. That’s because the disclosure weakens the government’s case by introducing doubt that it could only access the phone with Apple’s help, he said.

“They’ve created ambiguity in a place where they’ve previously said there is none,” he said.

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Protesters Urge GOP to Allow Supreme Court Pick Vote COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An effort by liberal groups to pressure Republicans to allow Senate consideration of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee got off to a modest start Monday as small groups of demonstrators rallied outside lawmakers’ offices around the country. A bigger electionyear battle ramped up as both sides brought their viewpoints to television, social media and supporters’ email inboxes.

Five days after Obama tabbed federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland for the vacant seat, about 25 people appeared outside the Columbus, Ohio, office of GOP Sen. Rob Portman, who is backing Republican leaders’ insistence on awaiting the pick of whoever is elected president in November. Some carried signs saying “#DoYourJob,” a battle cry of Senate Democrats aimed at their GOP colleagues, and “#FillTheSeat.”

“The idea that they need to wait until the people have spoken, well, the people already did speak,” said Barbara Eakins, 70, an Ohio State University retiree.

“They spoke when they elected Obama to office twice.”

Similar-sized crowds were observed at rallies in Austin, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Des Moines, Iowa, respectively targeting GOP Sens. John Cornyn, Ron Johnson, Pat Toomey and Charles Grassley.

Above the Austin rally, a plane circled briefly pulling a red “Fill the Seat” banner. Cornyn is the No. 2 Senate GOP leader while Johnson, Toomey and Grassley face re-election this fall.

The demonstrations were among 51 events across the country, according to Brian Stewart, a spokesman for MoveOn.org. The group organized the actions with Credo Action, Democracy for America and other liberal organizations, timed to the beginning of a two-week Senate recess.

Thirty-seven events were outside Republican senators' offices and another 14 were aimed at Democrats to thank them for backing Garland, Stewart said. He said about 2,700 people told the groups over the Internet that they would attend an event.

Former State Department Employee Sentenced to Five Years for Threatening to Expose Explicit Photos ATLANTA (AP) — A former U.S. State Department employee was sentenced Monday to serve nearly five years in federal prison for accessing young women’s online accounts from his computer at the American embassy in London and threatening to expose their sexually explicit photos.

Michael C. Ford, 36, sent “phishing” emails to women, specifically targeting members of sororities and aspiring models. He claimed to be a member of Google’s account deletion team, which doesn't exist, to get them to hand over their passwords, prose-

cutors said.

U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross sentenced him to four years and nine months in prison followed by three years on supervised release.

Ross granted a request to delay the start of his prison term until after Aug. 1 so that he can be present when his wife is due to give birth to their second child in late July.

Ford told the judge he was feeling small and looked down upon in his personal and professional lives and retreated into an online world where the people he was interacting with didn’t seem real, he said. He’s truly sorry to his vic-

tims, he said.

“What I did was a low and cowardly act by a person who was desperate,” he said.

He wanted to get caught so he’d be fired and could leave an unbearable work situation without having to say he was a quitter, he said, adding that he suffered from severe depression and suicidal thoughts. He cried as he addressed the judge.

More than 30 of Ford’s friends and family members, including some who’d traveled from England, packed the courtroom to show support.

Obama, Castro Engage in Negotiations, Ending Diplomatic Standstill HAVANA (AP) — Laying bare a half-century of tensions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other Monday over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference that stunned Cubans unaccustomed to their leaders being aggres-

sively questioned.

The exchanges underscored deep divisions that still exist between the two countries despite rapidly improved relations in the 15 months since Obama and Castro surprised the world with an announcement to end their Cold War-era diplomatic freeze.

Obama, standing in Havana’s Palace of the

Revolution on the second day of his historic visit to Cuba, repeatedly pushed Castro to take steps to address his country’s human rights record.

“We continue, as President Castro indicated, to have some very serious differences, including on democracy and human rights,” said Obama, who planned to meet with Cuban dissidents

Tuesday. Still, Obama heralded a “new day” in the U.S.-Cuba relationship and said “part of normalizing relations means we discuss these differences directly.”

Castro was blistering in his criticism of the American embargo, which he called “the most important obstacle” to his country’s economic development.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Disney’s Zootopia:

Stunning animation with social commentary

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Contributor

It’d be hard to imagine anyone hasn’t heard the hype around Walt Disney’s 55th entry into their animated canon. The film has dominated the box office for the past three weekends — even overshadowing the release of Allegiant — and it’s not hard to see why. Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush, combines wit, charm and fun with sharp social commentary, creating an experience that is truly unforgettable.

The story revolves around a rabbit named Judy Hopps, voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, who — true to Disney standards — is a bright-eyed dreamer who wants to make the world a better place. She feels that the best way to do this is to become a police officer, but faces obstruction from people around her who point out that there’s never been a rabbit police officer before. While on the job, she runs into a smooth-talking fox named Nick Wilde, voiced by Jason Bateman, and they end up working together to crack a case that exposes a massive conspiracy threatening the very existence of the city.

Now, at this point, many people may be thinking that this is traditional Disney fare: talking animals doing human things, a message about being kind to others, nothing particularly original or exciting. However, Zootopia excels at driving these elements to heights that Disney has not reached before. First of all, the world built around the titular city of Zootopia is a mastercraft of imagination. Other films have talking animals in a human world. Here, the world is very distinctly animal; instead of repurposing our own world, the movie’s designers have reengineered society from the ground up to create something that feels organic and takes our breath away. The sequence that introduces us to the city is visually impressive and dripping with creativity, as well as puns. That’s not to say that the world is completely unrecognizable from ours. Animals walk around texting on smartphones, they cut in front of cars on the street, they celebrate pop stars and take part in activist rallies. Zootopia is a perfect balance between familiarity, so we can identify with their society, and originality, so that our curiosity is piqued and we are invited to learn more.

Of course, pretty visuals can only offer so much without good writing behind them. Luckily, Zootopia delivers here as well. Every single character is compelling and memorable, even down to minor characters. Of course, the center of attention is on the two protagonists, Judy and Nick, and they meet and exceed their duties as main characters. Judy is an idealistic role model, who at first enthusiastically buys into Zootopia’s slogan of “Anyone can be anything!” Of course, she quickly learns that the mantra is not reflected in reality, but she refuses to let go of her optimism. That’s not to say she’s dumb or naive about it; indeed, she proves herself to be a clever and quick-thinking character always determined to stand up for what’s right. On the other side of the aisle is Nick, a charming and cynical con artist whose main business involves illicit popsicle sales.

He’s the guy who knows everyone on the street, and he is the wake-up call for Judy that draws her from her dreams of utopia. The duo deliver a fantastic energy to the screen that makes the humor funnier, the drama more palpable and the action more engaging. Even more importantly, the characters help each other grow, creating a pair of compelling arcs that intertwine to build an engaging plot.

Everything I’ve described talks about what makes Zootopia a good movie. But there is one more element that makes it go above and beyond typical animation: the message. Zootopia delivers a powerful moral about racism, sexism and discrimination in many forms.

Of course many children’s movies

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have played with this same theme before, but with a hamhanded approach that usually translates to, “Don’t be mean if someone’s different!” This simple message suits a preschool classroom, but lacks the adult perspective needed to apply to the real world. Zootopia excels at lampooning this approach, and then at actually tackling these themes in a way that displays nuance and an understanding that these issues are very serious and real. Right in the first five minutes, an incident of playground violence establishes that we’re going to be seeing something sincere and meaningful, and the film does not fail to deliver.

Scenes and lines echo civil rights movements both past and present. The film talks about tokenism; it shows politicians extolling diversity in front of a podium, and then failing to practice their words; it displays how people who face prejudice can harbor prejudices of their own; perhaps most chillingly, it discusses the political benefit of hatred and identifying internal enemies. Anyone who’s been keeping up with the presidential races can see where

this message fits perfectly within our national discourse.

Already the film has inspired me to open new dialogues with people about discrimination in our society — I doubt many animated movies, or even films in general, can claim they’ve accomplished anything similar.

Step aside Frozen; Zootopia is without a doubt the best movie that Disney has put out in years, and arguably one of the most important ones as well. It’s a great film in its own right, but it also goes above and beyond to deliver brilliant commentary on a current issue. When you consider that an animated film takes about four years to make, putting Zootopia’s genesis before the events of Ferguson and the start of Black Lives Matter, that timing is unbelievable. When you realize a cartoon rabbit and fox display more social responsibility than certain presidential candidates, that is equally unbelievable.

David Gouldthorpe is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu.

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Is Anyone Listening?

BY SAMUEL MORRISON Sun Staff Writer

If you don’t already know, looking at bright screens — particularly before bed — is severely detrimental to sleep patterns. Most articles on the topic suggest the obvious solution: stop doing it. But millennials need a little more than that to get in the way of Netflix (and chill) before bed. Seeking a replacement for myself, I’ve turned to radio drama.

Discovering this medium has single handedly salvaged my slumber and opened me up to a new world of immersive storytelling armed with only the power of sound. It is visceral and real, and it attains psychological realism in a way that other mediums sometimes cannot.

The words “radio drama” induce nostalgia for a time long before I was born. When I hear them, I think of War of the Worlds and a distinctive MidAtlantic accent. But ever since the 1950s, the television has forced radio dramas into a sharp cultural neglect, and the genre has even had trouble mirroring the recent surging popularity of podcasts. But there

are a few good production companies out there carrying on the abandoned torch.

The Truth Podcast has become my go-to for bedtime entertainment. It produces 15 to 30 minute narratives that have an eerily cinematic feel to them.

Using scripts as a launch pad, the dialogue is mostly improvised and the result is crazy realistic. The normative image of a radio drama is something like a play dialogue with an over-dramatic underscore, but these guys are radically deconstructing our conception of an outdated style, and tapping into this genre’s full effect.

The short pieces have a remarkable capacity to tell almost any story. If you’ve ever written for the stage, you can appreciate how the practical constraints of time and space are freed once you get into film, as nonstop set changes and flashbacks become casual.

Radio flagrantly disregards essentially any constraint, especially ones considering money. Dinosaurs, spacescenes and births on radio cost a fraction of the price tag on a movie, and these things are often impractical for a staged performance.

Beyond financial restrictions, theatre, film and even oratory present a visual accompaniment to the

story that is concrete and constant. It’s not that your other senses of sight, smell and touch aren’t working when you’re listening to a radio drama, but it’s that you construct them yourself. Close your eyes and the auditory inspires a visual sensation your brain has produced just for you. There is something about auditory fiction that finds a more direct path of psychological engagement than if all of your senses were to be determined for you. The product is virtually hypnotic, and something I’ve never felt before.

This is a plea to explore the most underrated dramatic, literary, and creative art form I’ve encountered.

It seems absurd trying to put into words why sound is a powerful and underused medium of storytelling; just listen to it yourself! I’m a sucker for sci-fi, so my favorite The Truth piece is “Dark Matter,” but you can start with their most recent production, “Man Vs. Nature,” which re-thinks the classic stranded-on-anisland narrative with three cynical and pseudodepressed 30-year-old men on a lifeboat.

Samuel Morrison is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smorrison@cornellsun.com.

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Do you want to be cool? Sub-question: do you think that a person’s taste in pop culture can signify their coolness or uncoolness?

Twenty-five years ago, I’m pretty sure that almost everyone would have said yes to both. People from before the Internet took over used to identify themselves using now-defunct subcultures like “punk” and “nerd” — or so my parents tell me — and if you were part of one subculture and not part of another, that was considered cool. This is what spawned movies like The Breakfast Club, which divided teen culture into five easily recognizable and incredibly reductive stereotypes. Were people in the eighties really that onedimensional? Maybe not, because if you haven’t seen the movie, it ends with a ringing rejection of those stereotypes: “Each of us,” narrates a fresh-faced Anthony Michael Hall, “is a brain, an athlete, a basket case a princess and a criminal.” The idea was to fight the idea of coolness as a function of membership in a group. But do those groups even exist any more?

Let me back up. The occasion here is that LCD Soundsystem is reuniting and playing Coachella this year. The single most critically-beloved band this side of Radiohead, Soundsystem were (are?) the Brooklynbased product of aging hipster James Murphy, and they blended electronic and rock music into a catchy and addictive stew. But their real calling card was Murphy’s self-aware, self-conscious, painfully postcool lyrics. On songs like “All My Friends” and “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House”, Murphy questioned his cultural relevance and general hipness. The lyrics to “Losing My Edge” are a good case study: “I’m losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties,” sang Murphy, his three-day stubble complemented by a vintage suit.

In other words, few bands in recent years have written so openly about grappling with the idea of coolness and cultural relevance. But the paradox here is that they became arguably the most acclaimed band of their generation — the Pixar of postpunk — and that acclaim often centered on the idea of Murphy as the coolest guy in the room. Like a hipster alchemist, Murphy transformed a fear of appearing uncool into golden cool — at least in eyes of Pitchfork, who referred to him as “the embodiment of coolness” when reviewing This Is Happening (they gave it a 9.2) in 2010. They quoted Murphy: “I spent my whole life wanting to be cool... but I’ve come to realize that coolness doesn’t exist the way I once

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assumed.” In other words, he realized that by selfconsciously admitting your fears of being old and irrelevant, you can be embraced by others who, secretly, may have felt the same fear. The assumption is that that fear exists at all, and the weird thing is that now it might not.

Culturally, there’s a precedent to all this. The term “post-irony” is so silly-sounding that it invites mockery; I can think of a perfect word to describe that, but I’ll refrain from using it. But post-irony has a basic definition: where irony can be used to point out how something is absurd, ridiculous or hypocritical, postirony aims for sincerity. The reason it’s called “post-irony” and not just “the regular way human beings look at things” is because postironic writers like Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace self-consciously pointed out their own sincerity: a lot like Murphy openly Guest admitting he was worried that his Room records weren’t cool enough.

To those of the Breakfast Club generation, this message makes a lot of sense. But to a generation who grew up friends with everyone they knew, unashamedly posting selfies and instantly accessing the entirety of recorded music on-demand, why would it even matter? I haven’t stood on the quad polling people about this or anything, but I think 99 percent of millennials just don’t care about this stuff.

Murphy’s tactic — pointing out that you might be

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outdated to deflect accusations that you’re outdated — has become outdated.

However uncool it might be to quote the Bible, a proverb is in order here: “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

Watching Murphy agonize over his own relevance might be fun, but constantly worrying about this stuff means you have less time to think about, you know, actual issues. My guess is that a new generation of writers, having grown up on post-irony, will write in a way that reflects the knowledge that this stuff ultimately just doesn’t matter. Freed from self-examination and anxious hair-pulling, they’ll then be free to write about the fun stuff — corporate culture, government surveillance, and romantic drama.

So what I’m really saying, I guess, is that James Murphy is old and irrelevant. Worrying about losing your edge no longer constitutes edge. The peasants used to storm the castle with pitchforks, now the kids storm Coachella with Pitchforks. I hope Soundsystem puts on a good show this summer, but once you start doing reunion tours, it’s the beginning of the end.

(Ask their co-headliners, Guns ’N Roses.) The new generation just hasn’t considered the questions Murphy wrote so much about. Each of us is neither a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess nor a criminal, and not one of us has ever bothered to wonder which we might be.

Max Van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mvanzile@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Banning the Box: Cornell As a Fair Chance Employer THE STUDENT ASSEMBLY URGED the University on Thursday to join the national “Ban the Box” movement by removing job application questions asking applicants if they have a criminal record. In passing this resolution, the S.A. rightly acknowledges the need for fair chance hiring practices and the crucial role Cornell plays in the community. As an educational institution and an important community member, Cornell University is obligated to be a fair chance employer.

In New York state, 42 percent of 24,605 ex-offenders were taken back into custody three years after their release, according to the N.Y. Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Additionally, 32 percent violated terms of their parole and 9 percent were convicted of a new felony. Recidivism remains an important community issue, and employment plays a key role in reducing it, according to a September report by the Criminal Justice and Alternatives to Incarceration Board.

The “box” — which refers to the check box applicants fill if they have a criminal record — allows the stigma of a criminal history to restrict the access to work for people with convictions. This contributes to high levels of unemployment for ex-offenders and undermines their ability to be self-sufficient, contributing to recidivism. Improving access to gainful employment following release from prison is a meaningful step towards reducing recidivism and encouraging ex-offenders to become productive members of society. Those convicted of crimes serve a prison sentence in punishment for their actions. This punishment stops with the end of a jail sentence, and like all other members of society, ex-offenders deserve a fair chance to be hired.

Some students have asked whether doing so will jeopardize on-campus safety, but banning the box would still allow the University to conduct a background check after extending a conditional offer of employment. Additionally, in Tompkins County, the majority of people in jail are charged with misdemeanor offenses and spend an average of 35 days in jail, according to the report by Criminal Justice and Alternatives to Incarceration Board. Nearly all of the 794 inmates (sentenced and unsentenced) in Tompkins County jail in 2014 were under the age of 33. For these young ex-offenders facing misdemeanor charges, the obstacles towards gaining employment is often disproportionate to the offenses they committed. Cornell, the largest employer in Tompkins County, has a responsibility to act fairly and appropriately in its hiring practices.

Through initiatives like the 17-year old Cornell Prison Education Program, Cornell has a strong history of supporting the burgeoning incarcerated population and promoting successful re-entry. The University should further work towards these aims by joining over 100 cities, including the City of Ithaca, and 21 states in banning the box.

Who Doesn’t Love a Good Contest(ed Convention)?

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une into any Sunday morning talk show and you will hear about the “growing possibility” of a contested Republican National Convention this coming July. You will most likely hear that “there hasn’t been a contested (or brokered) convention since 1976” when Gerald Ford defeated Ronald Reagan in Kansas City. This is not entirely accurate; while Ford entered the convention with only a plurality of pledged delegates, he quickly won the support of enough unpledged delegates to ensure a victory on the first ballot. The last time our nation saw a real “contested convention” was in 1952, when the Democratic Party nominated Adlai Stevenson, not even a candidate at the start of the convention, instead of Estes Kefauver, who had won all but three primaries that year.

Simply put, not since the advent of the modern primary system in 1972 has our country seen a contested convention. Accordingly, the possibility of one this year has political journalists and junkies of all stripes salivating.

Aside from providing more fodder for the everhungry 24-hour news media cycle, a contested convention would offer a peek into the arcane parliamentary procedures that govern our politics. Even though most of us will never understand the full scope of those rules and regulations, they are an intriguing concept nonetheless. Let’s not forget entire movies were made recounting the legal and administrative debacle that was the 2000 presidential election.

Try not to get too carried away. Come July, there will in all likelihood be a presumptive GOP nominee. For better or worse, that nominee will most likely be a riot inciting, overgrown and morally corrupt Jersey Shore extra also known as Donald J. Trump. Regardless of what you may think about the Donald’s overzealous trumpeting of his electoral victories, the man has a point. He is winning votes, and he is winning a lot of them. Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Texas) counters by saying that 63 percent of Republicans haven’t voted for the Donald, and that disqualifies him, but by the same logic, 75 percent of Republicans don’t want Ted Cruz, and that really disqualifies him from the nomination. Donald is a winner, and there is absolutely nothing to suggest that he’s going to stop winning anytime soon. Cruz’s best states are behind him, and Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) has openly stated that he has no direct path to the nomination. That being said, if this election season has taught us anything, it is that nothing will happen the way it is predicted to happen, and that Donald Trump’s hands are perfectly in proportion with the rest of his body, thank you very much.

Let’s assume Trump walks into Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, with fewer than the 1237 pledged delegates necessary to win outright. What could happen then? The possibilities range from the absolutely mundane to the mildly eccentric to the off the walls improbable. With each round of voting, more and more delegates are freed from their obligation to vote for any given candidate, and so each new ballot adds another measure of volatility.

The most obvious scenario is also the most boring. Trump arrives with a clear plurality, far ahead of Cruz or Kasich, and after a first ballot fails to produce a nominee, enough of Ted Cruz’s delegates switch their allegiance to Trump to carry him to the nomination. He announces a limited-run edition of The Apprentice during which he will select a running mate, and then he takes his private jet out of Cleveland as fast as he humanly can.

Again, quite boring and altogether likely.

But what if Trump isn’t able to quickly consolidate support? In this case there is a historical analogue. In 1924, Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo won a plurality on the first ballot with 40 percent of the delegates, and his main competition was Al Smith, who recorded 22 percent of the delegates. No other candidates registered more than six percent. After 103 rounds of balloting, the party declined to

nominate either frontrunner and instead went with the consistent third place finisher, John Davis, who, while not inspiring any enthusiasm, was moderately acceptable to enough delegates.

This is the situation John Kasich is hoping for. The Ohio governor hopes that both Trump and Cruz are so unpalatable that no matter how hard they work to curry the favor of the delegates, neither one will be able to muster a majority. Eventually, Kasich reasons, the party will grow tired of the Trump-Cruz rivalry, and will coalesce around him, the compromise candidate. In this version of the convention, Kasich, like John Davis, does not need to place first on a single ballot until the final one. That being said, we should be so lucky to have as exciting a convention as there was in 1924. As each individual ballot was announced, supporters of the various candidates would launch into spontaneous parades (complete with marching bands) around Madison Square Garden.

Then, there is what I like to call the Boehner option, named for former House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner endorsed Governor Kasich before the Ohio primary, but since then has stated that if there is a contested convention, he will support his successor Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.)for the nomination. Speaker Ryan has stated in no uncertain terms that he is not at all interested in the nomination and has no intention of accepting the nomination if it is offered. This is, of course, the same Paul Ryan that not one year ago stated in no uncertain terms that he was not at all interested in the Speakership and would not take it even if it were offered to him.

When push comes to shove, Paul Ryan has shown himself to be highly susceptible to peer pressure, and there is no reason to believe this time would be any different. In a situation where Trump, Cruz and perhaps a resurgent Kasich are locked in a dead-end battle for delegates, the optics of which only hurt the Republican Party, it is not hard to see Speaker Ryan succumbing to the pleas of the party establishment and stepping in to take the nomination. The man did run for vice president in 2012, so it’s fairly clear that he wants to end up in the White House some day. Why not now?

There is, of course, another possibility, alluded to by Donald Trump when asked about the possibility of a contested convention. Trump declared that there would be riots if he were denied the nomination, and the conduct of his supporters at various rallies backs up that assertion. Trump’s campaign manager has recently been at the center of not one but two incidents involving violence against protestors and the media, and Trump himself has incited his supporters to violence against protesters multiple times. If Trump simply applies those tactics to the convention he could have the whole thing wrapped up in an hour. Ted Cruz supporters? “Get ‘em outta here!” Kasich supporters? “Go back home to mommy.” Republican Party establishment?

“In the old days, they’d be carried out on stretchers … punch them right in the face. I’ll pay for the legal fees.” The GOP has been spineless against Trump so far. It’s not hard to imagine that a little more strong-arming (quite literally) is in the cards.

All jokes aside, this is a very odd time in politics. All this uncertainty is frightening, for sure, but it is also exciting. We could witness history this July, an event that would require the rewriting of textbooks and could serve as a final reckoning for one of America’s major political parties. So there you have it folks. Go and buy as much popcorn as you can. If nothing else, this should be entertaining.

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun.com. The Jacobin appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Michael I. Kotlikoff, Elizabeth Chi & David Shalloway | Guest Room

Bringing Us Together To Move Toward Carbon Neutrality

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Comment of the day “Sectarian conflict of any kind; religious, political, racial is not what the founders wanted for the ‘experiment’ of Cornell University where ‘anyone can find instruction in any study.’ It is sound to pay attention to our history.”

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n recent months, many campus conversations have focused on Cornell’s commitment to adopt 2035 as the end date for achieving carbon neutrality on the Ithaca campus. The degree of interest in our progress, spurred by strong direction from Cornell’s shared governance groups, shows that fostering sustainability remains a powerful realization of our core value to develop and disseminate knowledge that helps solve the world’s most complex problems.

Cornell is dedicated to leading in the research and educational efforts to combat climate change, and our campus serves as a living laboratory to create, test and demonstrate solutions to the global crisis. Cornell has a superb history in making bold investments in sustainability, most notably our lake source cooling system, which operates with a fraction of the electricity use and environmental impact of traditional systems, and our recent commitment to renewable energy via geothermal heat and solar panels on Roosevelt Island. Because of creative, collaborative approaches to energy generation and conservation, our Ithaca campus has seen a 30 percent reduction in CO2 emissions since 2008, and no increase in building energy usage since 2000, despite a 20 percent growth in square footage. We added solar panels to the rooftops of two campus buildings over the last three months, and we have shaped fresh approaches to harnessing solar energy through our two new solar farms. We also continue to pursue hydropower, wind and other renewable energy sources to meet our campus electricity needs. Our institutional commitment to sustainability is a signature of who we are as an academic community.

In 2007, we set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2050. That date inspired the award-winning Climate Action Plan and galvanized support across campus. In 2013, following resolutions from campus governance groups, the Acceleration Working Group (AWG) was formed to develop recommendations to support the goal of 2035. The AWG provided us with an excellent blueprint, yet the report relies extensively on a strategy of deep geothermal heat production; while extraordinarily promising, this approach has not been pursued in our region and remains one of uncertain costs and ultimate feasibility. If we are to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2035, we need a plan that does not rely on a single, unproven technology, but rather incorporates multiple strategies.

The Senior Leaders Climate Action Group (SLCAG), which includes students, faculty and staff, is charged with prioritizing initiatives to help Cornell become carbon neutral. Today Provost and Acting President Kotlikoff has asked the SLCAG to report back to him by Sept. 1 with a menu of options and associated costs for achieving carbon neutrality by 2035. This information will help us to assess the relative costs and benefits of our choices in the context of our academic mission and our role as an international thought leader. A plan that includes a financial and feasibility analysis will provide all of us with the confidence that we will be successful in achieving our carbon neutrality target of 20351.

In addition to Cornell’s institutional goal, we should also pursue local efforts as a university community, and a regional partner, to promote reduction of reliance on fossil fuels by our faculty, staff, students, and neighbors. For this reason, the SLCAG group has also been asked to propose initiatives that engage our university and surrounding communities in the reduction of carbon emissions.

Broadening the menu of options to achieve carbon neutrality does not indicate a reduction in our efforts to explore deep geothermal technology. Earth source heat could enable us to greatly reduce Cornell’s dependence on fossil fuels and, if successful, would serve as an exciting demonstration project for other communities seeking renewable, sustainable forms of energy. We will continue to explore earth source heat’s potential from both a technological and cost perspective, but will also look to the SLCAG report to highlight other carbon footprint reducing options.

In the interim, Cornell will continue to advance campus sustainability efforts, guided by the President’s Sustainable Campus Committee, advocate for advances in public policy on climate change and generate solutions across a spectrum of climate-related issues. We call on our faculty, students and staff to work together with flexibility and creativity, across our disciplines and programs, as we address this global challenge.

1Provost Kotlikoff had an opportunity to discuss this with President Garrett several weeks ago, who enthusiastically endorsed this approach.

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eparating a goal from the meth- dwarfs the $45,550 earned by ordi- wider consequences.

One can observe the primacy of ods employed to achieve it — nary members of the clergy — rather distinguishing between an end than serving as institutions which numbers in the reduction of electoral and its chosen means — may at first further any “common good,” such as campaigns to little more than opinappear to be a rather academic dis- providing an ideological mooring or ion poll gatherers. Polls have become tinction. However, mixing and spreading the gospel of Christian sal- such a central tool of electioneering that, seduced by their reductive simmuddling of the two has serious con- vation.

The “electoral-industrial com- plicity, the public now upholds poll sequences. While the exact natures of both ends and means are frequent plex” is another symptom of endifi- numbers as approaching an absolute sources of disagreement, it is impor- cation. The transformation of poli- truth measuring support for a canditant to separate the two, a fact which tics into business has diluted its role date. Despite their power, polling is increasingly neglected by our soci- as an arena for policy discussions and has failed to predict the outcome of ety. Public structures and organiza- public accountability. Armies of major elections. Indeed, the tions have become de-instrumental- reporters, commentators and consul- increased reliance on polls as a source ized — rather than serving as means tants depend upon this industry for of supposedly objective information for achieving society’s goals or repre- their livelihoods. As components in has come at a time when conducting senting supporters’ interests, the political business, these people opinion polls has become signifiAmericans today consider national have hollowed out its function as a cantly more difficult (fewer people institutions as ends in themselves and acknowledge the primacy of those institu- Voting ... has mutated into a method of tions’ self-interest over their role as means of furthering one’s own ideology instead of achieving ends.

Institutions and deciding between different options based collectives at any level have always sought to on which is best for society. further their own goals and concerns, for disregarding their self-interest means for social change and, in with landlines; fewer people with prevents institutions from orienting much of the American conscious- patience), hampering the applicabilthemselves within society and pre- ness, turned it into an end that must ity of the insights gleaned.

Finally, society’s endification of its senting a coherent agenda for action. be sustained for its own benefit.

Our conception of public organi- institutions has reduced voters’ deciWithout protecting what they possess and seeking what they desire, zations as ends has eroded the con- sions down to allegiance to one of religious, political and other public nections we draw from them to two political tribes. Because political organizations wither away, their broader societal effects, thereby pro- parties have begun to be seen as ends members and societal relevance moting a narrow understanding of in themselves, the national discourse poached by more rational institu- trends and phenomena and isolating has grown more polarised as citizens institutions in our minds from the become more concerned with suptions.

Reading the previous paragraph, social fabric in which they are truly porting the Democrats or the discerning reader may declare the embedded. If an institution is under- Republicans for their own sake thesis of this column null and void stood as a discrete entity whose most rather than because of either party’s after falling victim to its author’s important task is pursuing its own real actions in office. Voting — and blunders. Not so, the author interest, we become concerned pri- politics more broadly — has mutatripostes. Whereas in the past it was marily with effects upon that institu- ed into a method of furthering one’s understood that national organiza- tion and ignore its effects upon soci- own ideology instead of deciding tions should work for the common ety as a whole. Organizations are between different options based on good or at least represent the public contemplated not as entities acting which is best for society. Despite groups to whom they are supposedly in and shaping a complex world but their protests to the contrary, the beholden, nowadays we accept as as individual objects whose only endification of political parties has normal that these institutions cham- understandable importance is to contributed to the demonisation of the other side — many are thus pion their self-interest over that of themselves.

This limited view promotes Democrat or Republican first and society and their constituents. The true shift is thus in our conception of quantitative inquiry over qualitative American second. As a result, not institutions, which has morphed understanding, an attitude that in only have institutions become sepainto seeing them as ends rather than turn reinforces the disregard for rated from the social fabric but so means, not any real change in orga- holistic contemplations of society. have Americans begun to cleave nizational behavior. It is what we Statistical data is no longer a tool themselves from any sense of nationconsider acceptable institutional whose import depends upon its situ- al cohesion. The consequences of purposes that has changed, not the ation within a larger interpretive this fragmentation in a country as framework. Rather, numbers have large and as powerful as the United actual actions of collectives.

Such “endification” pervades become our primary interface with States should concern us all. society. The rise of the megachurch social reality. In a vicious cycle, this Davies is a junior in the College of Arts exposes the effects of this transfor- reliance on quantitative data and Alex and Sciences. He can be reached at mation on American religion. These lack of interpretive framework has ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News stadiums of God enrich their pastors obscured the true nature of institu- For You? appears alternate Tuesdays this — whose average salary of $147,000 tions as means whose actions have semester.

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Campus Hill Apts.

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

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Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TUESDAY MARCH 22, 2016

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GYMNASTS WIN SECOND EVER ECAC TITLE Dudley wins beams,Green takes first on bars

GYMNASTICS

By BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

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Standing tall | For the second time in Cornell’s history, the gymnastics team won the conference title.

scoreboard and knew how close it was heading into the last event.”

Freshman Malia Mackey said the moment when the team clinched the victory was unbelievable.

“It was such an exciting meet,” said freshman Malia Mackey, who tied for second on vault in this weekend’s historic victory. “The feeling was indescribable, when Lyanda, our last person up, nailed her routine we knew we had done it. We looked

that if she hit, we’d win, and if she didn’t, we wouldn’t. When she landed her last pass we were screaming, jumping up and down and saw the tears in everyone’s eyes.”

Championship season is not over for the Red as the women will look to continue their dominant season in April.

“Overall, it was a superb meet. We had our second highest score of the year, set a new team beam record and officially have our highest Regional Qualifying score in school history,” Dilliplane said. “Kaitlin Green has qualified as an individual to the NCAA Regional Championships at the University of Michigan on April 1through 3 and then we have qualified as a team to the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships being held at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri on April 8 through 106.”

Mackey said even after earning the conference championship crown, the team is still hungry to continue its winning ways.

“Now we have our sights set on nationals in a couple weeks,” Mackey said. “With some solid performances under our belts, we’re ready to get back into the gym and keep up the energy and momentum. We are cherishing every last moment with our seniors, and are ready to finish the season strong.”

In a big weekend for Cornell athletics, the Red’s gymnastic team was able to secure its second ECAC title in school history on Sunday.

It was a weekend of many victories for the entire team: freshman Lyanda Dudley was named ECAC Rookie of the Year and fellow freshman Kaitlin Green won Specialist of the Year. Aside from the players, the coaches also won top awards with Melanie Dilliplane “We knew that if [Dudley] hit, earning Assistant Coach of the Year we’d win, and if she didn’t, and Paul Beckwith garnering his secwe wouldn’t. ” ond Coach of the Year award.

In the team’s championship Malia Mackey drive, the Red came up .100 points shy of beating the school record the women set earlier this year. Dudley to each other and saw tears in everyone’s and Green were both major contributors. eyes as we jumped up and down. [It] was Dudley tied for first on beams and was incredible to say the least.” fourth in the all around. Green tied for This meet was all about execution for first on the bars. the team who was well aware of their Cornell beat out fellow Ivy league com- chance to make history, according to petitors Brown, Yale and Penn on its way Mackey. She said that the team trailed to victory in Virginia. It was a big win for Brown late in the meet, but ended up a program that was already having an overcoming the deficit. amazing year, according to Dilliplane.

“Going into the competition, we knew “Saturday’s championship was a nail we had a chance, but we also knew that we biter until the very end,” Dilliplane said. had to hit to do it,” Mackey said. “The “All of the ECAC teams are very closely turning point of the meet was really going matched which we’ve seen all season long. into it confident in each other and ourThe team did a fantastic job of staying selves … Lyanda’s floor [routine] ended up Brittany Biggs can be reached at focused even though they could see the being the final deciding factor. We knew bbiggs@cornellsun.com.

BASEBALL

Dominant Pitching Helps Cornell Pick Up Three Wins

By ZACH SILVER

from just about everybody. I think that’s really important going forward.”

Pitching was another huge story this Ten games into a collegiate baseball seaweekend. In the blowout loss in game one son is often telling of how the team is going of Saturday’s doubleheader, Cornell used to shake out. It also gives the coach a feel five pitchers who gave up a total of 12 for what has to change in order to runs. Just minutes after the game improve before it gets too late. ended, Pepicelli had to gather the The men’s baseball team’s first-year “[The pitchers’] character and heart are troops and focus on the second game head coach Dan Pepicelli said he is very really, really the strength of the program of the day. happy with how the team has per“Their character and heart are realright now.” formed during the first 10 games this ly, really the strength of the program year. Following a 3-1 series win over right now,” Pepicelli said about his Dan Pepicelli Bucknell, the team is off to a 6-4 pitchers. “[Junior] Jamie Smith record, a drastic improvement on last pitched some really great innings for us year’s 1-9 opening.

Arndt’s three-RBI effort in the first game, a at the end of that blowout, and I really “We have had a way of just going one performance that also included a game- think that gave us momentum going leadgame at a time, looking at the next chal- winning, 2-RBI double in the 11th inning. ing into the second game of the doublelenge in front of us,” Pepicelli said. “We “We had a better total effort than we header.” play with a lot of heart. Our biggest asset is had in the past,” Pepicelli said. “We’ve been In the second game, junior pitcher Tim that we are tough competitors. We have able to plug players in, take players out who Willittes shutdown Bucknell, only allowing flaws we are trying to work out, but all and have really contributed. We have been able three hits and no runs, while striking out all, our ability to get into a baseball game to play a lot of people and get contributions 13. In the last game of the series, junior and be tough in one-run games is our most important asset.”

New and improved | The baseball team is off to a 6-4 This tenacious attitude was visible this start this season, far better than last year’s 1-9 start. past weekend of play, against the Bison (7COURTESY OF 12.) The first game was an extra-innings CORNELL ATHLETICS thriller won by the Red, but the Bison took the second in a blowout.

“It’s always good to get out and play a tough team like Bucknell and get three out of four [wins],” Pepicelli said. “We are a different group. They are very tough kids and competitors.”

The third and fourth game, however, were nitty-gritty close wins, and Pepicelli said he was very proud of how his team stayed tough in those efforts.

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

On the offensive side, the whole weekend was not dominated by one or two players, but rather by team-effort performances.

Only in one game did a position player record more multiple runs batted in. That one game was freshman right-fielder Josh

Peter Lannoo tossed six and two-thirds strong innings, only giving up four hits.

“We had some pitchers that really shined for us,” Pepicelli said. “We are asking our pitchers to really bring their games.

[Assistant] coach [Scott] Marsh does a great job with them and to give us as many quality innings as possible. Timmy and Pete did fantastic jobs conquering the strike zone.”

Going into the next stretch, the Red will be playing five games in six days against Central Florida and Rollins. This would be a cause of concern for most, but Peppicelli said he remains confident in his team.

“They really enjoy it and work very hard at it,” Pepicelli said. “We are really focused on the details, but we let them play. I think five games in six days is something they really look forward to. It should be a lot of fun, I don’t want to take that out of it.”

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.