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Provost Search Committee Holds Public Forum Monday Committee hopes to reach decision this fall

By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer

The University’s Provost Search Committee held a public forum for faculty, staff and students Monday, where logistics and challenges of the ongoing search were discussed.

The forum, which was held in Uris Hall Auditorium and attended by approximately 30 members of the Cornell community, follows the committee’s discussions with the Faculty Senate and University Assembly earlier this semester.

Two members of the search committee — Alan Mathios, dean of the College of Human Ecology and Prof. John Siliciano, law, senior vice provost for academic affairs — moderated the discussion and answered questions.

Mathios, who is also vice-chair of the committee, said potential replacements for the provost include both internal and external candidates, which he said differs from previous provost searches that were limited to internal candidates.

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Big Red decision | The University’s Provost Search Committee met yesterday in G01 Uris Hall to discuss logistics and challenges of the ongoing search.

S.A.Aims to Implement Referenda Process in Fall

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Free wheeling | A new bicycle and pedestrian corridor will run along Pine Tree Road from Maple Avenue to the Route 366 intersection. Construction will begin this August with an expected completion date of July 2016.

C.U.Pledges $400K for Bicycle,Pedestrian Path Corridor along Pine Tree Road will run from Maple Avenue to Route 366

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Cornell has pledged $400,000 to help finance a bicycle and pedestrian corridor along Pine Tree Road, according to a University press release.

The corridor, which will span 0.3 miles from Maple Avenue to the Route 366 intersection, will include clearly designated bicycle and pedestrian facilities compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the release.

Pine Tree Road currently does not have any pedestrian or bicycle

lanes along the proposed stretch, which connects the Cornell campus with East Hill Plaza — the site of businesses, residences and University facilities.

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completion of the new trail will provide “economic, environmental and quality of life benefits” for local residents.

“The average daily traffic on Pine Tree Road … between Route 366

“This multi-modal safety improvement project will connect East Hill with [the] Cornell campus for all those users.”

Jeffrey Smith cial website of Tompkins County, the county’s highway division will be overseeing the planning and construction of the Pine Tree Road project.

Jeffrey Smith, the director of the division, said

and Maple Avenue is approximately 10,500 vehicles per day,” Smith said. “This area has long seen a growth in amount of vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle traffic. This multi-modal safety

improvement project will connect East Hill with [the] Cornell campus for all those users … [and] provide safe and accessible accommodations for pedestrians, bicycles, and motor vehicles.”

Smith said the project will also involve renovating the Universityowned railroad bridge that goes over this section of Pine Tree Road.

“The project will build a 10-foot wide, paved, ADA-compliant path connecting existing sidewalks at Maple Avenue and East Hill Plaza to paths on See CORRIDOR page 5

The Student Assembly will aim to implement a previously passed referenda process that has been delayed after President David Skorton returned the resolution for consideration, according to Juliana Batista ’16, executive vice president for the S.A. The process would allow any student to submit a question for studentwide referendum after collecting enough signatures, according to the resolution.

Batista, one of the resolution’s co-sponsors, said S.A. representatives aimed to host the process during the spring elections when the referenda process was initially proposed.

However, due to changes in the election calendar and Skorton’s decision to return the resolution for reconsideration, the S.A. is working to have the process ready for fall elections.

In his response to the resolution, Skorton asked the S.A. to address parts of the resolution.

“Some concerns were raised about the specificity of the language versus the current capabilities of the Office of Assemblies, which need to be

addressed,” Skorton wrote.

According to David Vakili ’16, arts and sciences representative for the S.A., some of the issues raised include how the infrastructure for the process will look like.

“To be a candidate for S.A. elections, collecting signatures is all on paper, but we really want this petition process to include an electronic option because it’s 450 signatures — not the 100 needed for a candidate — we’ve encountered some security issues with putting the names online,” said Vakili, another co-sponsor of the resolution.

Vakili added that S.A. representatives are working with the Office of the Assemblies to sort out details of a referenda infrastructure and intend to resubmit the resolution this month.

In order to resubmit the resolution to the Office of the President, the S.A. intends to pass the resolution again this month, according to Batista.

“I wish these issues had been smoothed out when [the S.A.] had the resolution,” Batista said. “The process isn’t always perfect, but we’re working with the Office of the Assemblies by See RESOLUTION page 4

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Despite Late Maple Season, Hundreds Flock To Maple Festival Though the maple syrup season this year is behind schedule because of the frigid winter, hundreds of people arrived at the Anrst Forest in Van Etten this weekend for the annual Maple Weekend, according to The Ithaca Journal. Visitors were given the chance to see how maple products, including maple syrup, are made.

State New York State Voters Disagree With Cuomo Email Deletion Policy A poll found that voters in New York State strongly disagree with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) administrative policy to automatically delete the emails of state workers after 90 days, according to The New York Times. Eighty percent of voters said a longer period of time should be allotted before emails are purged.

Cuomo said he would consider approving a new policy if the “legislature agreed to provide the public with greater access to its records,” The Times reported.

UPSTATE reaches Kickstarter goal, will sell shorts with ‘funky patterns’

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Since its official launch Friday, UPSTATE — a clothing brand created by three Cornell students — has already reached its $7,500 Kickstarter funding goal and gained over 800 likes on Facebook.

The brand, which will sell shorts designed to be flipped up at the hem to display different patterns, originated when Carlos Singer ’17 — a co-founder of UPSTATE — said he “picked up on the fact that lots of people, including [himself ], like to cuff their shorts [and] basically roll them up once.”

Singer, who said he found cuffing his shorts as a good way to “stand out,” said he noticed that no clothing brands currently made shorts that were meant to be cuffed.

“I [cuff my shorts] frequently and [so do] my friends ... so I thought, ‘why doesn’t anyone make shorts specifically for cuffing and add some funky patterns to make you stand out?’” Singer said.

Singer, who said he surveyed the market but could not find any of the shorts he was looking for, approached Teddy Devico ’17 and Gavin Hilder ’17 — his floormates at the time — to help design a new product and start a business.

Looking to raise money to fund their business, Devico said the three co-founders chose to raise money through online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter because

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“There’s so many different patterns and solid colors that we can pair together that will look fantastic.”

Carlos Singer ’17 because it’s a selling platform,” Hilder said.

“If we were to have build[t] our own ecommerce site, it would have taken a lot more time, money and energy. Kickstarter lets us truly focus on the product and bring our shorts to the market quicker.”

Though UPSTATE has already reached its funding goal, Devico said the team hopes to double or even triple their $7,500 goal.

Hilder, who has been in charge of UPSTATE’s marketing campaign, said the brand primarily marketed through Facebook and Twitter as well as through friends at Cornell and other colleges.

“Our whole market[ing] campaign has

been selling the whole college idea and marketing towards people we can really relate to,” Hilder said. “We’re trying to have fun with it, rather than be[ing] too serious because the reality is, we are in college and we’re predominantly selling to college kids.”

The co-founders said they were excited for the opportunities the money raised from the Kickstarter campaign would afford them in the future.

“We’re really excited because at the end of the day, the opportunities are kind of endless for us,” Singer said.

“There’s so many different patterns and solid colors that we can pair together that will look fantastic.”

Plans for the future of UPSTATE after the Kickstarter campaign ends on April 18 include a continued sale through the summer, expanded marketing efforts, creation of an e-commerce website and possible product expansion into women’s clothing and limited-edition shorts, according to the co-founders.

Hilder added that comfort would continue to remain a key element in the future of the clothing brand.

“Our shorts are designed for everyone to enjoy and wear,” Hilder said. “Our mission is for everyone to feel comfortable in them, allowing them to stand out in the crowd and be different.”

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

Class Council Candidates Discuss Platforms

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer

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they thought it was a “great market.”

“We’re college kids and we don’t have money,” Devico said. “So, we thought Kickstarter was the best way to mitigate our risk and really test out the concept.”

Hilder added that Kickstarter was not only an appropriate platform for start-ups, but that it would also decrease the time it took for the product to reach the market.

“It just makes a lot of sense for us

Elections for members of the Class Councils opened Monday. Seventeen students are running for the three different councils — the Classes of 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Class Council representatives traditionally plan classwide events like Movies on the Quad and class coffee tabs.

Additionally, senior Class Council representatives are in charge of planning events including Senior Week, Convocation and Commencement.

Only three positions are contested, and several positions have no candidates at all.

Those running for seats on the Class Council said they have a variety of platforms and

visions for the organization.

John Lowry ’16, who has held the position of Class Council president since his freshman year, is running unopposed for president on the Class of 2016 council. He said he hopes the council will continue to host leadership training workshops and give more recognition to students who have impressive achievements.

Lowry also said he wants to make sure members of his class graduated with school spirit and memories. “[I hope] students leave Cornell with fond memories and a devotion to both themselves as well as their community,” he said.

Alyannah Kassam ’17 — one of the two candidates for president of the Class of 2017

council — said her vision for the council is three-pronged.

“My vision [is to] provide

“[I hope] students leave Cornell with fond memories and a devotion to ... their community.”

John Lowry ’16 quality programming, improve civic engagement and community service, [as well as] build awareness of Class Councils,” Kassam said.

Kristen Vilcans ’17 — another candidate for president of the Class of 2017 council — said she hopes to “alter the

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Netanyahu Apologizes To Israeli Arabs For Remarks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized on Monday for commenting that “droves” of Arab citizens were voting, according to The New York Times. Despite the fact that a group of Israeli Arabs gathered at Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home as he made the apology, the White House remained “furious” at campaign comments that seemed to end the possibility of a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict, The Times reported.

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underlying structure” of events hosted by the councils.

“My plan is to alter the underlying structure [of Class Council sponsored events] from a reliance on spare time to one that integrates into day-to-day campus life,” Vilcans said.

She said she hopes that students “can get to know each other, and if elected President, that would be [her] goal.”

Another contested race is the president of the Class of 2018 council.

One of the candidates, Brendon Frankel ’18, said he would like to implement “recreational activities that will foster class interaction, collaborate with other groups on campus and offer opportunities for productivity.”

“Cornell is very unique,” Frankel said. “There are so many people from very different places, so I hope to bring people together to exchange ideas. There’s a lot more to learn here other than [classroom learning], which I think may be even more valuable from a social standpoint.”

His opponent, S.J. Munsi ’18, said she would like to “create opportunities to unify the class.”

“It’s really important to [listen] to feedback from my fellow students,” Munsi said.

“While I have some ideas for our class, others have great ideas, too. [I want to make sure] these ideas get heard and [are] considered when we, as 2018’s Class Council, discuss possible events.”

Kimberly Lee can be reached at kimberlylee@cornellsun.com.

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the fall semester. I’m trying very hard to make that happen.”

Despite the delay, Batista said she believes student response to the referenda process has been strong.

“People want it. Plenty of people have passed me

saying they want it,” Batista said. “There are a lot of people with a lot of questions about the process.

Some issues brought up include questions like should we have a diversity requirement on campus?

A co-ed fraternity? How can we address odd-even parking in Collegetown?”

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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The committee is working with search firm Spencer Stuart — the same firm that helped find President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett, according to Mathios. He said the committee hopes to come to a decision this fall.

Siliciano said the search committee — which Garrett chairs — will make a recommendation, which will then be pending approval by the Board of Trustees.

“I think anybody coming into the provostship at this point has a lot of challenges, even in so-called ‘normal’ times,” Siliciano said. “It’s an incredibly challenging job. It’s not only the chief academic officer — which means all of the deans and all of the departments all ultimately report up to you, but [it’s] also the chief operating office — the person who manages the budget.”

One of the main topics of conversation at the forum was the difference between what an internal hire might offer to the position

that an external candidate could not, and vice versa.

Mathios said he believes that “no candidate is going to be perfect on all branches.”

“I think internal candidates come with advantages and disadvantages … You know the organization, but whatever your faults are, [they] are also more visible,” Mathios said.

In reference to the discussion on the qualities of an internal versus external candidate, Mathios said that “there’s no single element that someone must have.”

However, he added that committee members “on every dimension … talk about the competencies of the job.”

Siliciano said the decision whether to choose an internal or external candidate as provost is “very complex.”

“What Alan suggested we do is to really think that through in the context of the individual candidates,” Siliciano said.

Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell’s campus at the Pine Tree Road [and] NYS Route 366 intersection as well as with the East Ithaca Recreation Way,” he said. “The latter trail will be carried over Pine Tree Road on a new pedestrian bridge.”

Construction will start on the corridor this August with a projected completion date of July 2016, according to Smith.

He said commuters along the road could expect minimal delays in traffic, with some daily closures.

This project is projected to cost $1,865,000, according to the release. State and federal governments will contribute $1.2 million, Tompkins County will contribute $196,000 and the Town of Ithaca will pledge $70,000. The University has pledged $400,000 toward the project.

Joel Malina, vice president for university relations, said the project will increase the safety of members of the Cornell community.

“Projects like this further move Cornell and the greater community toward a sustainable, multi-modal approach to transportation,” Malina said in the release.

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) greets attendees after speaking at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Monday. Cruz formally announced his candidiacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination the same day.

Utah to Allow Firing Squad Executions Three Workers Die in SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method for use when no lethal injection drugs are available, even though he has called it “a little bit gruesome.”

The Republican governor has said Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup execution method in case a shortage of the drugs persists.

“We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty, and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued,” Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter said. However, enforcing death sentences is “the obligation of the executive branch.”

The governor’s office, in a statement announcing the new law, noted that other states allow execution methods other than lethal injection. In Washington state, inmates can request hanging. In New Hampshire, hangings are fallback if lethal injections can’t be given. And an Oklahoma law would allow the state to use firing squads if lethal injections and electrocutions are ever declared unconstitutional.

Utah’s new approval of firing squads carries no such legal caveat and represents the latest example of frustration over botched executions and the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs as manufacturers opposed to capital punishment have made them offlimits to prisons.

The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield, argued that a team of trained marksmen is faster and more decent than the drawn-out deaths involved when lethal injections go awry — or even if they go as planned.

Though Utah’s next execution is probably a few years away, Ray said wants to settle on a backup method now so authorities are not racing to find a solution if the drug shortage drags on. Ray didn’t return messages seeking comment Monday.

Opponents of the measure say firing squads are barbaric, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah saying the bill makes the state “look backward and backwoods.”

Utah lawmakers stopped offering inmates the choice of firing squad in 2004, saying the method attracted intense media interest and took attention away from victims.

Scaffolding Collapse

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Workers were dismantling a scaffold at a high-rise construction project on Monday when a piece of it fell to the ground in downtown Raleigh, killing three men and sending another to a hospital.

All four men were involved in the construction of Charter Square, a glass and steel building in downtown Raleigh, said Jeffrey Hammerstein, community outreach chief for Wake County EMS. A 911 caller told the operator that men were working on the scaffold when it fell about 11 a.m.

The equipment, known as a mast climber scaffold, moves up and down a building's facade to take workers to different floors.

“We just had a mast climber fall off. There were men on it,” the caller said, estimating the men fell 200 feet.

The operator asked if the victims were awake, to which the caller responded: “No, they’re dead.”

The accident happened as subcontractor Associated Scaffolding was in the process of dismantling the scaffold on the building’s exterior, said Mike Hampton, the chief operating officer for the building’s general contractor, Choate Construction Company.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT In the Belly of the Whale: Leviathan

BY LAURA BOLAND Sun Staff Writer

“Ambition” is the first word that comes to mind upon looking at a poster for the film Leviathan. It combines the prehistoric grandeur of a whale skeleton, bleached white by the sun and sunk in mud, with the grey hills that rise like fortresses around the Barents Sea in northern Russia. Above it all towers the word “Leviathan,” whose austerity recalls both the suffering of Job and the absolute power constructed in Thomas Hobbes’ book of the same name.

The film lives up to this ambition, and then some.

The story revolves around Kolya (Alexey Serebryakov), a mechanic who has lovingly built a house on the coast where he lives with Lilya (Elena Lyadova), his wife and Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev), his son from a previous marriage. The corrupt yet devout mayor, Vadim (Roman Madyanov) is in the process of repossessing Kolya’s property for his own use and Kolya has decided to challenge the court’s decision. At first his prospects seem promising when his old friend Dmitri (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), a lawyer from Moscow, arrives with a folder of evidence of Vadim’s questionable activities that he has procured using political connections high within the ruling party. But we quickly learn that Kolya cannot win, and because of his boldness, his tragedies are multiplied.

The brilliance of Andrey Zvyaginstev, director and co-writer of the film, was to combine a political satire of contemporary Russian government with the timelessness of biblical myth. There are a few explicit references to Russian history, including one scene in which portraits of past leaders like Lenin and Gorbachev are brought out to become targets in a shooting range. But for the most part the film refrains from commenting specifically on current affairs. It is enough to see Putin’s

COURTESY OF VARIETY smug image looming over Vadim’s shoulder as he cuts deals to know what situations these characters inhabit.

Anyone can watch the two old cronies, politician and priest, twist the law until it is a hollow farce and feel a timeless dread, because the vulnerability of individuals within systems of power is a theme as old as the earth.

To do justice to the scope of the film’s vision, a strong ensemble was required, and this cast delivers.

Zvyaginstev’s unobtrusive camerawork allows each actor the space to fully display their craft. It is impressive that they managed to keep the many vodka-soaked conversations interesting. The cast-member who really steals the show is Elena Lyadova as Lilya. The camera lingers on her face, drawn and concerned in the pale interior light and her grace draws the eye away from the bumbling men around her. Ultimately her decisions drive the plot forward more than anyone else. It is a flaw of the script that her motivations for several of her crucial actions are so obscure. Her suffering goes unexamined despite the implication that it is more profound than even Kolya’s, the supposed victim of this drama.

Zvyaginstev artfully balances a number of relationships and themes in his script but at times it feels a little heavy-handed. One of the film’s theses comes early in the film. “We’re innocent until proven guilty,” a character comments, “But who’s going to prove it? And to whom?” For the rest of the film Zvyaginstev feels com-

Death Grips Jenny Death Harvest Records

I was expecting to do this review a couple weeks later than I currently am. Partly due to the fact that Jenny Death, the second disc of the new Death Grips’ album The Powers That B, was set to come out on March 31, but also partly due to the fact that I, falling into the same old trap as many others have, thought Death Grips would never do anything by any guideline, regulation or even vaguely defined set of rules. So instead of a discrete March 31 release, they have allowed their entire album to be streamed track-by-track on the Internet.

Somehow I was taken off-guard: A fool’s mistake.

But it turned out more a pleasant surprise than anything else. The fresh material Death Grips had put out — singles like “Inanimate Sensation” and the eponymous “Powers That B”— had been promising. They weren’t the best Death Grips tracks by far, but they gave me hope. So I was excited to listen to what was supposedly the band’s last release, (I’m not sure if I believe that) in order to witness the maximum amount of hyper-negativity vocalist MC Ride, drummer Zach Hill and producer Andy Morin had injected into their swan song.

The first thing that came to my mind when listening to this record was just how poor and confining terms of genre have become in discussing rap music. Death Grips are ostensibly an “industrial-rap” or “rap-rock” group with a unique style in both those categories. Yet Jenny Death doesn’t work like that. In terms of a conventional sound, it doesn’t obey. It defies. In a song like “Why A Bitch Gotta Lie,” arena-size drums are thrown in over a hammering electric guitar riff which is then accented by a violently delivered punk mantra,

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The religious references are especially egregious, including a couple shots that linger luxuriously on the image of Christ, and a handy-dandy village priest who appears just in time to quote Job at Kolya before the final tragedy. The last scene, in which a different priest is literally sermonizing about “reawakening the soul of the Russian people,” does not achieve the solemn note one would hope for.

If it seems that Zvyaginstev is overzealous at times, it is only because the questions raised about trust, guilt and community are so important. Not only does Leviathan deliver a visually rich epic about the conflict between a man and the state, but it also presents a cleareyed view of human nature that is as unsettling as it is unforgettable.

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and then the entire section is countered by raps through a vocoder. It is the type of song that theoretically would be some sort of noisy disaster. Ride, Hill and Morin don’t allow that to happen. The chaos found in “Why A Bitch Gotta Lie” — as well as in tracks like “Beyond Alive,” “The Powers That B” and “On GP” — is a skillfully controlled one, channeling the distortion and the clipping of the production as well as the off-kilter rhythms of MC Ride’s verses into something that, in its heaviest moments, is an all too powerful type of groove.

Other songs thrash about madly and immerse themselves in the psychotic synthesizers and Hill and Morin’s halfhuman, half-machine beats. All the while, MC Ride is delivering powerfully. For the most part, these pieces were thrilling. “I Break Mirrors With My Face on the United States” was the perfect barn-burner to open the album and remind you that Death Grips, in all their glory, are back.

But it is also one of these tracks that contains the album’s biggest miss for me, “Inanimate Sensation.” I find this song almost comic, with the car-engine imitations atop a four-tothe-floor drum beat. It is, in my mind, the least-compelling track on the album. Call it an average track on an excellent album and be done with it.

Like I said when I reviewed their single “The Powers That B” last week, all this sound in Jenny Death plays like a kind of garage futurism: energetic and technological, yet homegrown and real. The overall forms of its songs remain conventional enough to give the listener what he or she wants, but the cleverness behind them prevent any particular track from dipping

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into territories of annoyance or boredom. Even “Inanimate Sensation” held my interest over all its other disparaging elements.

The lyricism, for the most part, will probably remain a point of controversy. Ride feels significantly less present on some of these tracks than I would have liked, given that his talent as a writer was one of the initial factors of Death Grips that hooked me in the first place. His style stays no less intimidating, no less brutalistic, but lines like “my shit’s been retarded since the beginning of time” or “my favorite color is oh my god bitch” simply lack the poetic skill that Burnett has displayed on past Death Grips releases. His flow and delivery remain unrivaled in their creativity, but his words sometimes fall short. However, as Ride doesn’t do as much “rapping” in the traditional sense, the quality of the songs isn’t affected much at all by this downside. Arguably, the type of vocals on this album only serve to push the limits of our genres further.

And so the sum of Jenny Death is a deadly work of art.

It stretches the boundaries, perhaps to the point of redefinition, which once again reminds us that hip-hop and rap music — if it includes forward-thinking Leviathans like Death Grips — is a veritable hotbed for innovation in this strange day and age.

Stephen Meisel is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com.

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March 28 and 29 at 2 p.m. at Ithaca College A trio of Ithaca College, Department of Theatre Arts choreographers and faculty members, each with a unique, dynamic and experimental style have come together to explore light and darkness, identity, rebellion, myth and logic through dance. Come and savor their three piece study of movement: “Hop on, No Stops” choreographed by Amy Walker O’Brien, “Tiny Rebellions” by Lindsay Gilmour and “Under the Covers” by Roy Lightner.

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Ithaca Underground: Alex G, Lust, Lucia Roberts 6:00 p.m. on Thursday at Angry Mom Records

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8:00 p.m. on Thursday at The Haunt If you’re interested in an evening of high-energy, improvisational groove-rock and funk, come out to see Aqueous, this Thursday at The Haunt. Hailing from Buffalo and experimenting within the national groove scene, they defy genre and confuse labels with their harmonic, free-form sound, which infuses vocal harmony, eclectic arrays of instrumentation and raw energy. On their tour through the ortheast, come witness their signature live intensity at the classic Dan Smalls Presents venue.

— Jael Goldfine

Alex G, largely self-produced Philly solo act, is a little-told secret in indie rock.

Compared to a millenial Elliot Smith, Alex Giannascoli has retained remarkable, selfimposed anonymity despite the acclaim he holds in smaller, DIY communities. His bleakly introspective, experimental lo-fi rock and pop has a distinctly adolescent affect that is shockingly melodic and provocative. Most who have heard him have concluded that there is something special about this singer-songwriter, and he travels to our own Angry Mom Records on Thursday to perform, where he’ll be joined by Cornell-based post-punk trio, Lust and singer-songwriter, Lucia Roberts.

—Jael Goldfine

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n the media-dominated culture we live in, artists tend to market themselves not solely based upon their music, but also through compelling personas that boost their relevance by keeping the public invested in what they have to say. For instance, Kanye West’s series of overacted, outraged interviews (HOW, SWAY?!?) during the promotional rollout for 2013’s Yeezus kept the egotist in headlines for months on end.

Sustained media presence often equates to continued cultural relevance, and yet some artists — across genres — have managed to build and maintain intrigue through a sort of elusive mystique, alternately portraying themselves as wisened vagabonds or tortured recluses.

Bob Dylan has played both of these roles, more or less writing the script for the former (albeit by borrowing a few pages from Woody Guthrie). Songs that seem to encapsulate the state of both humanity and America (“The Times They Are A’Changing,” “Visions of Johanna”) would not carry the same sense of credibility without the mythos Dylan cloaked himself in. As the man himself once said, “If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.” Though his ungodly lyricism certainly affirms the widespread acknowledgment of his wisdom, Dylan’s true fountain of intrigue lies in the myth that he arose from nowhere in particular with a divine purpose to lead a nation through one of its greatest periods of social unrest.

Born Robert Zimmerman to a Russian-Jewish couple in middle-class Minnesota, the singer supposedly adopted his stage name as homage to poet Dylan Thomas, though his refusal to confirm that reinforces the idea that his intrigue lies in our ignorance. The Guthrie disciple soon began performing original songs, popping up all over Greenwich Village’s blossoming folk scene before striking it big in the early 60s. A love

affair with fellow voice-to-the-people icon, Joan Baez kept Dylan’s compelling mystique tangible even as he became ubiquitous, and his snarky contempt for media (most obvious in the hilarious troll of an interview that was his 1965 appearance in Time Magazine) meant that the America’s obsession would never find gratification in a tell-all. This myth-building continued to define the greatest moments of Bob Dylan’s career, as the reclusive recovery period following his legendary 1966 motorcycle accident resulted in that Holy Grail of music known as The Basement Tapes.

Dylan established resentment toward media as the new vogue for artists aspiring to cultural pertinence. In the time since, this influence has popped up across all genres.

Rapper Jay Electronica has managed to remain a part of the cultural discourse and sustain the enlightened vagabond image without releasing any actual music. After reportedly spending years living as a homeless man in every one of the great American cities, he emerged quietly onto the rap scene in 2008 with his largely spoken-word mixtape, Act I: Eternal Sunshine, a beautiful curiosity backed by the score to Michel Gondry’s masterpiece, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Electronica then proceeded to

Chris Stanton Guest Room date Erykah Badu and connect with all-star producer Just Blaze for a pair of bombastic singles (“Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C” — no word on if an “Exhibit B” even exists) that many consider amongst the best rap songs released in the last decade. In his most high-

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profile move to date, Electronica signed to JAY Z’s Roc Nation imprint in 2010 and announced work on a new album, entitled Act II: Patents of Nobility. And then, nothing.

The walking enigma made headlines for marrying a Rothschild of all people, but has mostly remained out of the limelight apart from a few guest verses and a show-stopping performance at last year’s Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. He has also documented his travels to the far east and espoused his beliefs in the Five Percent Nation of Islam, giving the impression that he spends his free time kicking it with Farrakhan. These antics — supplemented by his remarkable talent on the mic — have maintained a remarkably large fanbase for Jay Electronica and the 38 year-old’s shaman-esque mystique seems limitless.

The American public obsesses over these wandering free spirits because they seem unplugged from the Matrix that is our daily lives. These artists’ unknown backstories grant them mystique and a sense of credibility, yet audiences remain incapable of ceding the same embrace to those with inyour-face differences. While up-and-coming

Brooklyn rapper Le1f has established something of a fanbase for himself, wider audiences seem to elude him in part due to his queerness, a topic he frequently raps about (“Ask a gay question, here’s a black answer,” he snarls on “Hey”). Hardworking musicians like Le1f — who constantly expresses gratitude to his fans — seem relegated to the underground music scene because of their differences, yet there remain artists who build popular mystique through apparent disregard for their listeners. Hipsters perpetually fawn over Death Grips, yet the group reveals borderline contempt for the people who buy their music when they arbitrarily decide to not show up to their own scheduled performances.

The public’s obsession with elusiveness and mystique can pave the way for talented, prophetic artists, but there remains a troubling distinction between what aspects of the unknown inspire intrigue and which ones alienate listeners.

Chris Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears every Tuesday this semester.

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recently watched “Felina,” the final strangers and loved ones. Famous people episode of Breaking Bad. At the are easy examples, with crowds who beginning of the episode, meth king- aspire to their achievements and adore pin Walter White threatens his former their identities. But this kind of adoraassociates and now successful philan- tion is the same process as imagining an thropists Gretchen and Elliot so that elaborate romantic fantasy after checking they safely gift his drug money to his out a particularly well-dressed person children. Gretchen and Elliot are every- from across the room for 30 seconds. It’s thing Walter is not, and can never be — predicated on an assumption. In our respectable, successful, cultured, legiti- judgment, we weigh the sliver we do mate. To him they are happy figure- know about someone over the vast mysheads, stark oppositions to his dark real- tery of their personalities we don’t know. ity. He calls them “beautiful people.”

But natural as it is to elevate people, I think I understand what Walter isn’t it a bit unfair? And a bit false? means. That moment we first saw the Because these idols really aren’t the peopopular kids somehow all mysteriously ple we see them to be. They are not flawcoagulate at the less marble statues. same lunch table, We may see them we knew.

Or Beautiful people make us at their best, but watched million once they step off swoon and make us dollar gowns strut the pedestal, they down red carpets to their own jealous. And when we’re return on T.V. Or seeing private lives beset your favorite team not busy admiring them or by the same loneligloating in the end inadequacy, desiring them from afar, ness, zone or your mistakes and ugly favorite band They we’re wishing we could doubt. killing it at their return to being last show. These be them. In their radiance, human. people had someWe have to be we are ugly. We can’t thing we didn’t. careful who and what we adore. To There’s no even compare. some, the beautiful shortage of “beaulife is one of thrills tiful people.”

They sing our favorite song and act out and romance, but that may be ugly to our favorite characters. They lead our someone who beautifies chastity and communities and make our classes duty. Common forms of the beautiful interesting. They get us into the party life prescribed to us through media are and date people we can only dream dangerous illusions, shadows on a cave about. Sometimes they simply lead wall meant to keep you dissatisfied. normal, stable and successful lives that Elevating people and lifestyles to fantaswe could only hope to establish. tical greatness can be a dangerous game, Beautiful people make us swoon and because fantasy and personal reality are make us jealous. And when we’re not difficult to reconcile. Too often we probusy admiring them or desiring them ject the beautiful people in our minds from afar, we’re wishing we could be onto their real-life counterparts with disthem. In their radiance, we are ugly. appointing consequences. In the end it doesn’t matter how much meth we cook, We can’t even compare.

And they are “beautiful,” aren’t they? I we’ll never be upstanding billionaire don’t mean physical attractiveness. Real philanthropists getting interviewed on beauty gets its value from the mind, a Charlie Rose, so maybe we should just type of elusive and glamorous mystique. learn to love our inner Heisenbergs It can be physical, but it doesn’t have to instead (seriously, go watch Breaking be. “Beautiful” can range from oily mus- Bad).

I think people usually take one of two cles to enlightened thought, from musical creativity to financial success or views: 1) We mustn’t forget that everyone, charming charisma. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it takes a subjective including ourselves, is a “beautiful person,” capable of greatness and inspira“I” to behold it.

In the way that Lebron James is a tion to others.

2) The “beautiful person” is a mirage beautiful athlete, I would say Charles Bukowski is a beautiful drunk. In the conjured by our minds to represent way Barack Obama is a beautiful politi- everything we don’t have.

Take your pick, really. cian, Magnus Carlson is a beautiful chess player. They are beautiful in the sense that we can never be them.

Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and All these people belong to different David Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com. demographics. Beauty projects to audi- The Angry Spirit Bear appears alternate Tuesdays this ences of one or to entire nations, to both semester.

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Constitutional Literacy And Youth Education

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Constitution, it is said, is vital to every functional democratic system. It is the glue that holds governments together; It spells our government’s powers and duties and at the same time protects against government encroachment on individual rights and freedoms by government. Thus it could be said that the constitution empowers but also places limits on the powers of the various arms of government (i.e. executive, legislature and judiciary). Most importantly, the constitution establishes the rule of law: No one is above the law, and everyone must follow the law.

Enshrined in the U.S. constitution are basic, yet fundamental rights in the form of the bill of rights. The bill of rights, in my view, is the single most important section of the U.S. constitution, with regards to citizen’s rights. Unfortunately, the constitution, a powerful and easily accessible document, still has difficulty finding its way into the libraries and homes of most U.S. citizens. A constitutionally literate citizen is not only able to challenge government, but also able to demand accountability and transparency from his or her government.

The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was conceived in 1999 by Professor Jamin Raskin of the American University Washington College of Law in order to recruit and mobilize talented law students to teach constitutional law and juvenile justice in underserved public high schools. The project is designed to engage high school students, while informing them of their rights and duties as citizens.

Because many students do not participate in and feel detached from politics, the movement for constitutional literacy was born of the belief that high school students will profit for a lifetime from learning the system and structure of rights and responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution. With the launch of the Cornell Law School chapter this semester, Cornell has thus joined the league of law schools taking on the herculean but noble task of educating public high school students in the local community via the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. The Cornell chapter, which had its first special session last Friday at the New Roots Charter School, Ithaca, as part of a temporary arrangement with the high school with hopes to commence fully in the fall semester of 2015, is posed to bring quality education in areas of criminal and constitutional law.

In the following semester, Cornell fellows will work with a supervisor to teach in groups of two or more at least once a week in local high schools like New Roots. New Roots Charter School is the first in what will hopefully be a string of schools that the Cornell chapter will be serving in Ithaca’s local community next semester. In total, there are 18 chapters across the United States with the main headquarters in Washington College of Law, Washington D.C. The opening of the Cornell chapter makes Cornell only the second law school in the Ivy League participating in the project, the other being Yale Law School.

Cornell Law School has thus joined the literacy battle in order to provide quality education to Ithaca’s underserved high schools and to ensure that Ithaca students are constitutionally literate. This is indeed a step in the right direction as is evidenced by the passion, commitment and determination displayed by the programs fellows and student representatives. New Roots Charter School is but the first in a string of schools that will be served by the Cornell chapter when it commences fully next semester.

The chapter hopes to become as prominent in Cornell as the Cornell Prison Education Program which mobilizes students to teach incarcerated men at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities, while offering a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for the prisoners. Unlike the Cornell Prison Education Program, which offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in vast areas such as genetics, economics, creative writing, constitutional law and medical anthropology, the Marshall-Brennan program will focus mainly on criminal law and criminal procedure and constitutional law.

In order to achieve this, the project aims to utilize two different textbooks for its curriculum: Youth Justice in America and We the Students. Both books focus on criminal and constitutional law respectively and will both be used by the fellows to help educate students on their legal and constitutional duties and as well as rights as US citizens.

Once fully commenced next semester, the teaching fellows, along with the high school students, will receive academic credits each semester for their participation in the project. And like the Cornell Prison Education Program, the fellows will also be supervised by a faculty member at the Law school.

The special sessions have so far proven successful and students seem engaged and interested. The program has managed to spark their interest and as said before, it is indeed is a step in the right direction. It has not just been a successful trial session for the Cornell chapter and its fellows alone, but one for New Roots as well as this could open the door to future partnership and collaboration for both institutions while unlocking numerous possibilities and opportunities for both fellows, students and the Ithaca community at large. In the words of the late Martin Luther King Jr., “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” It is therefore safe to say that we have gotten the students thinking. Now we can only hope to build on what we have started and hopefully progress to the next level.

Chiemezie Okeke-Ojiudu is a law student at Cornell Law School. He can be reached at Associate-Editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester.

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“We don’t have to forget our ethnic roots, and we don’t all have to eat the same foods and listen to the same music, but for a multiracial and multiethnic society to work, we do have to have hold some things in common. [We must] be able to communicate with one another through a common language.”

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ith yesterday’s announce- Stefanko in the first place. In saying ment by the young, fire- that the S.A. system is “broken” brand Senator Ted Cruz because representatives often (R-Texas), everyone should now choose to “cater to the administraknow that our nation is once again tion” in a way that causes our camin campaign mode — as if the sud- pus to often see “our shared-goverden anguish over Hillary Clinton’s nance structure as a symbolic form emails had not been a large enough of representation that only serves to hint that the 2016 season was rubber-stamp decisions of this already upon us. At Cornell, how- University’s administration,” The ever, campaigning has just ended; Sun not only preemptively criwith the election of Juliana Batista tiqued the incoming S.A. president ‘16 and Emma Johnston ‘16 as the as an insider, despite its prior week’s next leaders of the Student assertion that her “demeanor” was Assembly, Cornellians are giving not sufficiently welcoming to the some thought not to campaigns, future Garrett Administration, it but to what it means to govern. In also attempted to annex the sentitoday’s campus environment, this ment of student discontent with will invariably involve talk of stu- the University Administration, dent activism, especially mobiliza- which it seemed to dismiss when it tion against the financial sins of the endorsed a candidate because of his outgoing Skorton Administration. superior rapport with administraNowhere have these rumina- tors and with the institution of the tions on student government been S.A. itself. more visible than in the pages of There is, of course, a difference The Sun, where recent editorials between promoting shared goverhave painted a disturbingly incon- nance and promoting reflexive and sistent view of student activism counterproductive antipathy to the that, I fear, is an unwitting capitu- Skorton and Garrett lation to those who protest solely Administrations. Perhaps the edifor the sake of protest. The trouble started with The Sun’s endorsement of Matthew Stefanko Is this what The Sun thinks is ‘16; that is not to say Cornell’s new normal? Is this that there was anything wrong with the sort of student activism The Sun’s endorse- that The Sun believes to be the ment of Stefanko, S.A.’s path back to legitimacy? rather the rationale I hope not. behind its endorsement. The editorial relied mainly on Stefanko’s perceived “understand- tors at The Sun, who have covered ing” of the University’s administra- both Batista and Stefanko’s political tion, in part because he is “directly” careers at length, saw Stefanko as involved in searching for our new channeling that same, “outsider” Provost. This was contrasted to energy in a more constructive manBatista’s “potential unwillingness to ner. But, even if that were the case compromise and to work with in their endorsement, it was those in Cornell’s senior leader- irreparably undercut in the subseship,” a trait which The Sun’s edi- quent editorial after Stefanko’s loss. tors derived from the outgoing What I am referencing — why I Executive Vice President’s apparent felt the need to write this column antipathy towards the Garrett — was the The Sun’s assertion that Administration, as well as her leg- “accessibility, transparency, affordislative agenda that, while impact- ability and meaningful representaful for Cornellians, was not tion” were “normalized by student deemed sufficiently “objective” for activists throughout [this] academa future leader of the S.A.. ic year.” Based on the fact that the After the student body handily editorial also cites the preliminary rejected — or, more likely, ignored lack of objection by the S.A. to the — The Sun’s suggestions, a post- dreaded student health fee, I can election editorial reversed course only imagine that the student entirely. First, it explained away activists who “normalized” the Cornellians’ disagreement with its emphasis on shared governance endorsement by citing low voter were those who stormed Day Hall turnout as a reason to say it is “dif- and, as shown in a widely circulatficult to see any of the individual ed YouTube video, attacked candidate’s [sic] victories as victo- President Skorton in a way that ries for students,” and then went clearly and shamefully disdained on to seemingly disavow the rea- substantive debate. soning behind its endorsement of Is this what The Sun thinks is

Cornell’s new normal? Is that the sort of student activism that The Sun believes to be the S.A.’s path back to legitimacy? I hope not.

Though the dramatic display of the Day Hall takeover captured the imaginations of many Cornellians — student and faculty alike — it is not the sort of student activism that this campus needs. Just as the equally dramatic “takeover” of the S.A. itself, in the wake of last year’s failure of Resolution 72, failed to bring success to campus activists who sought to boycott the Israeli occupation, the takeover of Day Hall did not rid Cornell of SkortonCare. It did, however, reveal a shocking lack of disrespect for President Skorton, as well as ad hominem attacks that distracted from and delegitimized some very valid concerns about the University’s new policy. Now it can be argued that students who oppose this view are working from a severe disadvantage, because the faces of their movement were seen as furious rather than far-sighted.

So I will ask The Sun again: is this what ought to normalize student activism at our University?

In its endorsement, The Sun chose to reject Batista’s candidacy because her “passion” on issues such as AIDS Week and women’s advocacy did not suffice as meaningful activism that could strengthen the shared governance setup in the coming year.

Fair enough. But it boggles the mind to see The Sun dismiss Batista as a leader incapable of objectivity or of collaboration with the Administration, and a week later has the audacity to assert that, in order to better represent the student body, newly elected officials ought to subscribe to the immature and ultimately ineffective tenor of recent campus debates. I think we are far better off with a student activism that is grounded straighttalk with administration officials and in legislation that has, in The Sun’s description of Batista’s efforts, “the potential to directly affect Cornellians across campus,” rather than a brand activism that depends on slogans, showmanship and shouting to make its point.

I challenge The Sun’s editors to evaluate whether or not it agrees with me.

Jacob Glick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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much of the game, SMU ultimately took a commanding 5952 lead with just over one minute remaining.

Then madness ensued.

With 1:06 left, UCLA sophomore guard Bryce Alford drained a difficult 3-pointer, cutting the Mustang’s lead to four. Hall-ofFame coach Larry Brown had four timeouts at his disposal.

After Alford’s 3-pointer, one would have expected Brown to call one those timeouts to, you know, gather his players and draw up a play for a crucial possession.

But he didn’t.

With 34 seconds left, UCLA freshman center Thomas Welsh blocked SMU senior center Yanick Moreira’s shot. The Bruins wasted little time, and with 29 seconds left, UCLA senior guard Norman Powell is fouled, and headed to the line for two free throws. He sank both. SMU lead by just two points.

This is the NCAA tournament. You were inducted into the Hall of Fame. You have four timeouts. Call one, dude. For some godforsaken reason, Larry Brown still does not call a timeout.

UCLA is pressured SMU 90 feet from the basket, looked to get a quick steal, and if unable to,

Red Stays Unbeaten In Ivy League Play

By BEN DENSON Sun Staff Writer

Cornell rolled over Brown this Saturday at Schoellkopf Field en route to a 14-6 victory and a 3-0 record in Ivy League play. The Red is now 62 overall this reason.

The Red started off the game on a very strong note, scoring nine goals in the first period of play. Senior captain Lindsay Toppe scored four goals with two assists. After her performance this weekend, Toppe has 126 total career goals.

“I can’t say enough about senior captain Lindsay Toppe,” said head coach Jenny Graap. “She goes hard every day in practice and continues to work on her game. Her knowledge of attack strategy is excellent, and she can adapt her game to whatever the defense throws at her.”

Sophomore goaltender Rene Poullott had an excellent game, finishing with eight saves, and continues to remain a viable option in the net.

Cornell led Brown 23-9 in shots in the second half. Senior Claire MacManus played an excellent defensive game, forcing two caused turnovers and a ground ball in the opening 30 minutes.

“I thought Brown’s senior goalie had a strong game between the pipes with 14 saves. Brown battled us well on the draw control,” Graap said on the strength of Brown’s team.

Throughout the game, the Red were confident, as they should be shown by the team’s 3-0 Ivy League record.

“Coach Friedrich, Coach Moore, Coach Fallon-Oben and I are all pleased with our squad’s start in the conference,” Graap said. “Being 30 feels great, but we are also keenly aware that the 4 games remaining in the Ivy League will be incredibly challenging” As the team aims to qualify for the Ivy League tournament, Cornell’s undefeated leaguer record so far is the best possible start to the season.

Cornell expects tough matchups against Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn and Princeton later this season.

“I was very pleased that we started both halves well and were able to control the tempo of the game,” Graap said. “Having the opportunity to get a lot of players into an important Ivy League contest was very valuable. Without a doubt, Cornell’s effort was a full team effort.”

Toppe said the team goes in with the same mentality every game.

“When you start the game with authority and an aggressive attitude, it is easier to carry that mentality throughout the game,” Toppe said.

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Ben Denson can be reached at bdenson@cornellsun.com.

Defense first | Senior Claire MacManus shuts down Brown.

would foul to extend the game.

But before they can do so, SMU senior center Cannen Cunningham threw a bad pass that went out of bounds. Turnover an UCLA’s ball.

With 22 seconds left, UCLA head coach Steve Alford (he’s not in the Hall of Fame, but apparently recognizes that this is the NCAA tournament) called a timeout to gather his players and draw up a play. With 13 seconds left, Bryce Alford threw up a wild 3-pointer that was nowhere close to going in.

However, Moreira touched the ball close to the rim, and the refs called goaltending. The basket counted. UCLA up by one point.

Everyone in the stadium went nuts. The call was controversial to say the least.

Larry Brown still had four timeouts. You’d think he would obviously use a timeout to get an explanation from the refs and to draw up a game-winning play, right?

Again, Brown failed to use a timeout. Did he fall asleep? What was the deal?

The commotion from the goaltending call was over in seconds (even the announcers were stunned at how fast this occurred) and suddenly SMU had the ball with less than 10 seconds left.

Junior star guard Nic Moore missed a 3-pointer, got his own rebound and missed again.

UCLA won. SMU’s season ends. Larry Brown takes his four timeouts to an expensive Thursday-night steak dinner.

To you, Larry Brown, I ask: what were you thinking? You’re in the Hall of Fame, man. Who knows what would have happened had Brown used any of his timeouts, but he should have talked to his players and calmed them down in the most highpressure basketball situation of their lives.

Seven of the 15 players on Brown’s roster were seniors, meaning the loss to UCLA was the final game of their collegiate careers. I feel for them. A coach should never go home with a timeout, much less four and especially not in the frickin’ NCAA tournament.

Some may blame SMU’s loss on the refs for the questionable goaltending call. To me it was a goaltend. But correct call or not, don’t blame the refs. They were doing their jobs.

Larry Brown wasn’t doing his.

And he gets paid $2 million per year.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Sports

TUESDAY MARCH 24, 2015

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SOFTBALL

Softball Splits Series Against Mount St.Mary’s Despite the overall lack of consistency, a couple players knows what it need to work on.

McGivney is taking a pragmatic for the Red had big weekends. approach to thinking about the “[Junior infielder] Emily Weinberg played very well, weekend.

The Cornell softball team traveled to Emmitsburg, drilling line drives all day to get things going,” McGivney “No one played their best Maryland this past weekend to play a pair of games against said. “[Junior catcher] Leanne Iannuci caught great the secgame of softball [on Mount St. Mary’s College. Though the game scheduled for ond game, throwing out two speedy base runners and going Sunday] but we still Saturday was canceled, the Red split the doubleheader on the other way with clutch triple with runners on.” got the Junior Meg Parker had a solid day in the circle, Sunday, losing the first game, 8allowing four earned runs on five walks.

5, while winning the second “We’re well aware of Goodin said, “Our pitching was pretty game, 9-7.

After splitting with Mount what we need to work solid this weekend, and we’re all aware of win,” we need to work on as we head into Ivy St. Mary’s the weekend, the on as we head into what McGivney said. “Sometimes you have play.”

Red’s record stands 3-8, placing games like that and you just have to While the Red bats performed well at the them at fourth in the Ivy South Ivy play.” take them under your belt. As an athplate, the team struggled defensively. conference.

Taylor Goodin lete there’s always something to “Our biggest weakness, though, was prob“We were fortunate enough improve upon… it will keep us sharp ably defense,” Goodin said. “Practicing in to split with Mount St. Mary’s, and focused for Yale and Brown.” the Ramin Room just doesn’t compare to but there’s no doubt in my mind that we were the better team and losing the first game the game atmosphere. There’s simply no way for us was a huge disappointment,” said junior infielder Taylor to simulate playing on dirt and the distractions Olivia Mattyasovszky can be Goodin. “As a team we weren’t able to capitalize on oppor- that come with playing outside.” reached at omattyasovszky “Practicing the majority of the time in the tunities to drive in runs.” @cornellsun.com.

Junior outfielder Michiko McGivney agreed with Ramin Room can make you overanxious and lost that sharpness and intensity in a CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN Goodin’s sentiment.

Hurler in the SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER “Mount St. Mary’s is a 3-11 team; this is a team we need live game,” McGivney said. “But last week circle | Junior pitcher to shut the door on,” McGivney said. “Despite scoring a lot we got to go outside one day to play Meg Parker has the lowest ERA on the of runs, we had a lot of bad at bats, not swinging early, let- defense which was really refreshing.” team among those pitchers with at least 15 The Red has a lot of good to ting juicy pitches go by, putting poor swings on the ball, and innings pitched. build on after this weekend but not coming big with runners on was the biggest thing.”

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY

Sun Staff Writer

MEN’S TENNIS

Cornell Shuts Out Buffalo at Home What Brown Red rolls over Bull as team takes fourth straight heading into Ivy play Didn’t Do I

By JESSICA BROFSKY

Sun Staff Writer

As head coach Silviu Tanasoiu has said all season, the Cornell men’s tennis team is steadily improving, and they are gaining momentum with every practice and match. The Red beat Buffalo, 7-0, this Sunday in Ithaca. The match is the team’s last before the start of the Ivy League schedule, and the Red are in their best position of the season.

“This has been the most consecutive wins we’ve had all season,” said senior Quoc-Daniel Nguyen. “It’s not just the winning streak but I feel like we played very well from all positions to shut out Buffalo.”

Wins do not always correlate with the level of tennis exhibited on the court, but this time for the Red, it did.

Five players won all of their matches, and, for the fifth game in a row, Cornell won the doubles point.

“Our doubles [play] has improved dramatically since the start of the season,” Nguyen said. “I think we started off losing three of the first four doubles points we played, but have won almost all of the other ones. If you can get that first point going into singles it always helps.”

As for singles, sophomore Colin Sinclair’s match was riveting, according to Nguyen, who considers it a highlight from Sunday.

“I thought Colin had the tightest match at the number four position,” Nguyen said. “He won the first set easily but the second set went into a tiebreaker and it was going back and forth for a while so that was exciting. I think during that point in the match almost the entire center was watching his court.”

While the Red lost its match against Buffalo last year, the team won easily

against the Bulls the two years ago.

Cornell, however, walked confidently into the match due to the team’s play as of late.

“I think the guys have sharpened up a lot,” Nguyen said. “We’ve played about 12 to 13 matches so far and it’s tough to see any of our players play a bad point or make a bad decision anymore.”

Confidence is at an all time high for the Red as they go into their match against Columbia Saturday. The team heads this match against No. 29 Columbia with four consecutive wins.

Nguyen stressed how important it was to not focus on who they are playing, but rather to stay focused on their own games. Once the games get going,

Cornell, ranked 52nd in the nation, has as good a shot as anyone.

“Not many people think about it but tennis is a very fast sport, if you get down early in a match it’s extremely tough to work your way back,” Nguyen said. “We just have to stay on our toes, play with a lot of energy, and we should be fine.”

As he reflected back on the season thus far as the team approaches Ivy matches, Nguyen said, “There’s nothing complicated we have to think about, just keep it simple and I’m confident we have a chance to bring home the Ivy title.”

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

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n April 2012, Southern Methodist University hired Larry Brown as head coach of the men’s basketball team. The school had not reached the NCAA tournament since 1993, and was leaving Conference USA for the highly competitive Big East. So hiring Larry Brown — a Hall of Fame coach who has won titles in both the NBA and NCAA — made sense.

SMU agreed to pay Brown roughly $2 million annually — a steep price in college basket-

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz ball terms — but for a coach of Brown’s caliber, it seemed worthwhile. Brown’s reputation would attract high-profile recruits, and with a talented roster, Brown would be able to lead the Mustangs to success. And this season, he did. SMU, now playing in the American Athletic Conference, went 27-7, won the conference regular season and won the conference tournament, locking them into an NCAA Tournament bid.

Until that point, Brown appeared to be worth the $2 million price tag. But on Thursday afternoon, in the school’s first NCAA basketball tournament appearance since 1993, Larry Brown failed Southern Methodist University.

The sixth-seeded Mustangs were pitted against the 11th-seeded UCLA Bruins, a team that, while talented, did not deserve to make the NCAA tournament. After trailing for

Shining senior | Senior Quoc-Daniel Nguyen (pictured) and Stefan Vinti have been successful playing doubles matches for the Red, compiling a 7-3 record.

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