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New York State May Increase Allocation to C.U.

By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

Renovation | Left: A rendering

A change in New York State’s legislative budget process may result in an increase in state allocations to Cornell, according to the Board of Trustees Committee on University Relations.

The committee held a meeting Wednesday to discuss updates from the state legislatures regarding budgetary and financial matters, “There is not a health care coverage budget crisis for medicaid eligible students and the going on in the College of Business. state ... the C h a r l e s Kruzansky, Associate legislation is Vice President of trying to take Government Readvantage of lations, said both New York legislative that.” houses want to add Charles Kruzansky to Governor Cuomo’s proposed funding for state schools.

“The assembly proposed nearly tripling that and the senate doubling that, so instead of 9.5 million dollars, our allocations will likely be 19 million dollars,” Kruzansky said. “This is a really good development, after a number of years house and the senate have not added to the capital.”

However, the legislators are pushing back on other components of SUNY 2020 legislation — See NEW YORK page 4

shows the new Ag Quad as viewed from Kennedy Hall plaza.

Above: A current view of the quad shows the traditional Cornell light fixture style that will be added around the quad.

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Ithaca Planning Board Approves Hughes Hall, Ag Quad Renovations Construction to begin this summer,‘revitalize the quad’s aesthetic’

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

The City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board voted unanimously to approve renovations for Hughes Hall and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Quad at its Tuesday meeting.

Hughes Hall renovations — which will begin this summer — will add a courtyard entryway and glass stair tower to the building, enclose an open-air loggia and if funds allow repave the Fork and Gavel Café’s dining terrace, according to the board’s resolution.

The project will also modify the existing lower Hughes

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courtyard “to include new paving, seating, lighting, walkway, bike racks, landscaping and drainage improvements,” the resolution said.

As a result of renovations, Hughes Hall will no longer be used as a residence hall for first-year J.D. law students, The Sun previously reported. The building’s lower floors will become administrative offices and event spaces, and the upper floors will become faculty offices.

The board also discussed renovations to the Ag Quad, which will take place alongside planned utility maintenance work.

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Wavves to Perform at Cornell’s Bailey Hall CCC Promotions Director Sarah Dellett ’18 said she hopes Wavves will bring an “upbeat, edgy Surf-punk rock band Wavves will vibe to [Bailey Hall’s] traditionally perform at Cornell on April 8, more low-key, acoustic venue.”

Dellett added that she expects according to a press release from the Cornell Concert Commission. The the band’s mix of musical styles to attract a variety concert will be of attendees to held in Bailey the concert.

Hall and is open “Their eclecto the public. tic surf punk The San sound will bring Di e g o - b a s e d out old and new band, best fans from the known for their WAVVES Cornell and song “King of the Beach,” is recognized for a Ithaca community,” she said.

Over 420 people have sound that combines the acoustic, pop and punk genres, the release expressed that they are “interestsaid. The group released their fifth See WAVVES page 4 studio album, V, in October.

By STEPHANIE YAN

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Seven of Cornell’s ten national sororities may lose their national charters if proposed Human Rights Committee legislation is passed by the faculty next week, Panhellenic Council officers speculated Friday at a Faculty Committee on Student Affairs meeting.

In addition, “a large number of fraternities would probably have to leave the campus,” according to Assistant Dean Donald Sheraw, if one specific provision remains in the legislation.

The seven national sororities involved have “recommendation” systems which stipulate that before a girl is pledged, an alumna recommendation must be proposed. Assistant Dean for Sororities Sheryl Sheraw stated that such recommendation systems would violate the proposed requirement that all sororities must have “complete local autonomy at every stage of its membership selection process.”

The FCSA did not act on any reommendation to change the proposed legislation. The committee did not have jurisdiction to directly change the proposal, FCSA Chairman Anthony Caputi declared.

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on Human Rights, although both student groups’ suggestions were heard at the Human Rights Committee last week at which some changes were made in the proposal.

Although the entire concept of “local autonomy” troubles the sororities, the fraternities would be most affected by the proposed stipulation that “any rules, regulations or rites governing pledging, initiation, or operation of a residential unit which involves a religious commitment and/or sectarian, ethnic or racial connotations should be eliminated.”

Since most fraternities have some “sectarian, ethnic or racial connotation” involved in their pledging or initiation, Dean Sheraw explained, most national fraternities would at present be required to change or withdraw their chapters here.

Sheraw recommended on behalf of the IFC, that the phrase be changed from “connotation” to “commitment.”

The proposal does not allow “ant nationally affiliated residential unit” unable to immediately comply with the legislation to ask the Human Rights Committee for a “temporary waiver.”

The FSCA did not act on a faculty member’s request that the committee take a strong stand on fraternity hazing practices, Chairman Caputi postponed any such action until present investigations are completed.

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Prof Attributes Trump’s Rise to Democratization, Economic Tension

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, government, explained how the democratization of primary elections, increased influence of money in politics and economic conditions of the working class explain Donald Trump’s popularity in a lecture, Tuesday.

At the beginning of her talk, Sanders labeled Trump a demagogue and posed several questions to the audience to frame her discussion.

“My real question for you to try to answer is, ‘Why Trump now?’” she said. “Why has such an unusual candidate come to the fore, and who are his constituents? Why did they choose to follow him, as opposed to other candidates?”

Primary Changes

Many aspects of the 2016 elections can be explained through changes in institutional party politics, according to Sanders.

From Andrew Jackson’s presidency in 1828 to the late 1960s, U.S. political parties chose their own candidates in a large meeting of elected officials and other party leaders, with limited input from the rank and file, Sanders said.

However, after political upheaval in the late 1960s — specifically, the violence and protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention — reformist

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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump waves after giving reporters a tour of the site for the Trump International Hotel Monday.

democratic party leaders attempted to get rid of what reformers called ‘party bosses’ and democratize the process of presidential nominations, according to Sanders.

“We decided to have elections all over the country, and anybody [could] show up for a registered party and say, ‘I’m here to support whichever candidate I chose,’” Sanders said. “That was seen as the essence of democracy.”

Sanders said that she believes these more “democratic” primaries have fueled partisan polarization, as the most passionate voters are most likely to head to the polls.

“You get zealots in these elections — people feeling really passionate about a candidate or an issue,” she said.

“They aren’t going to represent larger groups, but passionate minorities.”

This kind of primary participation translates into overall party polarization, Sanders said.

“When a quarter of the most committed voted in primaries, parties began slowly drifting apart, and Republicans in particular were captured by their most zealous faction,” she said. “That has created paralysis in Washington.”

The Role of Money

Expanding primaries to the general public has vastly altered the role of financing in party politics, according to Sanders.

See TRUMP page 5

Tompkins Financial to Consolidate Headquarters Seven-story downtown office, drive-through planned for completion in spring 2018

By LAUREN KELLY

standpoint, but also from a functional one,” according to the Tompkins Financial construcTompkins Financial tion proposal.

Corporation will consolidate Cornish added that the comoperations into a single building pany decided to move into a sinin the Commons, which will be gle building due to “their clients’ completed in spring 2018, needs for consolidated, conveaccording to JoAnn Cornish, nient services.”

Ithaca’s Director of Planning and “Currently, they are leasing Development. several spaces for various bankThe corporation related operations will construct a throughout the city seven-story office “This will allow and town,” she said. building at 118 E. will allow them to house “This Seneca St. and relothem to house their cate its existing drivetheir plus or plus or minus 250 through teller to the employees and minus 250 ground-floor parking respective services employees and under one roof in the area of 119 E. Seneca Street, according to services under core of downtown.”

Cornish.

The Planning and one roof.”

Overall, the entire Development Board project will cost approved the driveJoAnn Cornish approximately $27 through portion of million, Cornish the project in July, said. but the headquarters Tompkins Financial — which building did not receive final site is comprised of services from approval from the Planning and Tompkins Trust Company to Development Board until Tompkins Insurance Agencies — December, Cornish said. aims to move most of its services While the building plans are into the heart of the city’s busi- complete, construction has not ness district, according to begun, according to Cornish. She Cornish. added that the project’s initial These operations are current- completion date of spring 2017 ly housed in disconnected loca- has been pushed back a year. tions throughout Tompkins County, a situation that is “not Lauren Kelly can be reached at only undesirable from a financial lkelly@cornellsun.com.

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Acceptance and asylum | Experts on refugee policy encouraged European countries to take in more exiles at a talk Wednesday in Myron Taylor Hall.

Policy Experts Call for Generous Refugee Acceptance, Integration last a few days, weeks or months.”

Prof. Alexander Aleinikoff, law, Columbia University, said a refugee’s presence in a host counThree leading experts in refugee policy dis- try typically lasts much longer.

“Some people spend decades as refugees,” cussed the problems surrounding the management of the Syrian and Middle Eastern refugee crisis by Aleinikoff said. “In a refugee camp in Kenya, it was estimated that there were different countries at a round10,000 children who were born table on Tuesday.

Lakhdar Brahimi — a practi- “Many [refugees] believe to people who were born in that tioner-in-residence at the Mario it is a provisional situa- camp.”

Aleinikoff added that Einaudi Center for tion that will last a few European nations should not be International Studies and former Minister of Foreign Affairs days, weeks or months.” concerned by the numbers of refugees seeking asylum. for Algeria — explained the “Usually the press and politihardships that refugees face, Lakhdar Brahimi cians talk about the numbers: 50 stressing the need for other million displaced people, 10 countries to be aware of these million Syrian refugees,” he said. “But to me it’s struggles.

“A refugee is a person that feels they have no not the numbers that are the crisis. These numbers choice but to leave their home country,” Brahimi can be handled, and they have been handled said. “It is usually an event that occurs suddenly, before.” and oftentimes their destination is unknown.

See REFUGEES page 4 Many believe it is a provisional situation that will

By CAROLYN DOYLE

Sun Staff Writer

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Relations Committee Experts Address Challenges of Discusses Business Integrating Syrian Refugees Say United States must be a world leader,‘step up and help’ College,Health Care REFUGEE

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a 2011 initiative intended to strengthen academic programs in New York public universities and colleges — according to Zoe Nelson, associate director for state government relations.

“We can see that the legislators are starting to tinker and question things that have been put in place for years,” Nelson said.

Kruzansky attributed to the increase in budget for higher education to New York’s healthier economic performance.

“There is not a budget crisis going on in the state right now, so there’s a little bit of freedom and the legislation is trying to take advantage of that,” he said.

University representatives have also been working with the State Department of Health to provide students eligible for medicaid with Cornell health insurance, according to Nelson.

“The Cornell student health plan is very robust and it’s excel“[Legislators] are really lent for students living and interested in what we are studying in Ithaca,” Nelson said. doing right now and how it “We’d actually be saving state’s money, since the state would be works and how it will paying a smaller amount for the work.” students’ insurance.”

Nelson added that the Charles Kruzansky University still needs more support from the legislators to cover the health insurance plan with student financial aid, but talks with legislators in D.C. have been successful.

“We needed to pull in some influential folks and urge them to take a look at the program again and we’ve successfully secured an attention for a pilot,” Nelson said.

Committee members also raised concerns about responses from the legislature to the College of Business.

The state is particularly interested in possible impacts the Business College may have on the land-grant Dyson School of Business, according to Kathryn Boor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

“I met with the AgriBusiness Council last week and we discussed the relationship between the Dyson School and its land grant mission,” Boor said. “We also talked about its continuation of the support of vast arrays of industries in New York.”

Kruzansky added that the legislators in Albany have expressed interest in how the College of Business will develop in the future.

“They are really interested in what we are doing right now and how it works and how it will work,” Kruzansky said.

So Hyung Kim can be reached at skim@cornellsun.com.

take away their jobs.”

Countries also need to evaluate the refugee crisis from perspectives other than a humanitarian Turkey’s acceptance of refugees is an excellent one, Aleinikoff said. example of this, according to Lisel Hintz, a post“What we need is an approach that brings in doctoral fellow at the Einaudi new actors, like development Center. that can provide “The United States has agencies, “Turkey is hosting between resources to hosting states,” he not played its usual role said. “Their involvement can 2.7 and 3 million refugees,” Hintz said. “They can be intepromote economic developof being a leader in grated. We shouldn’t allow this ment of the host region but also solving major refugee huge number to be an arguprovide job opportunities for ment for why we aren’t seeing refugees.” crises.” more progress on the issue.”

Aleinikoff said the United Alexander Aleinikoff Hintz added that Turkey has States has the responsibility of been reluctant to offer asylum setting a better example for the to large numbers of refugees due to cultural con- rest of the world regarding the refugee crisis. flict within the country.

“The United States has not played its usual “This is a country with many identity cleav- role of being a leader in solving major refugee ages that it is already dealing with,” Hintz said. crises,” Aleinikoff said. “We need to step up and “Introducing a very large new population of help.” refugees, in the eyes of the Turks, not only threatens to affect the fabric of their society, but also to Carolyn Doyle can be reached at cpd49@cornell.edu.

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Planning Board Approves Renovations RENOVATIONS

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“A fair amount of utility work needs happen in the Ag Quad, and because of that we have the opportunity to revitalize the quad’s aesthetic,” university architect Gilbert Delgado said at a previous Planning Board meeting.

The renovations will remove all existing hardscape and add new pedestrian paths, plazas in front of Mann Library and Roberts Hall and a large bioretention area east of Kennedy Hall, according to the proposal.

Prof. Jack Elliott, design and environmental analysis, raised concerns about the Cornellian cherry trees just south of the quad, which he said would be removed in the renovation process.

“We need to maintain the legacy of those trees,” Elliott said. “They are the first to leaf out in spring and the last to lose their leaves in the

fall. They have significance on that site.”

Project manager Davies Orinda maintained that the trees must be removed in order to provide a safe exit path from the Plant Sciences Building, but assured the board that renovators would attempt to preserve the trees and replant them after construction is completed.

“We have some very strong proponents of preserving the trees at Cornell, and we considered all the factors that we could,” Orinda said. “The concern [about the trees] was that we could try to do as much as we could to not displace them, but that the impact and their age was going to be too detrimental to their survival.”

The Board resolution called for an attempt to be made to preserve those trees.

Renovations will begin within the next month and cost $7.8 million, according to Orinda.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

Punk Band Wavves Will Bring ‘Upbeat, Edgy Vibe’ To Cornell WAVVES

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ed” in the concert on the show’s student-run Facebook event page. Over 230 have indicated that they are “going.”

Orchestra and mezzanine tickets cost $10 for students and $15 for the general public and Cornell faculty and staff, while balcony tickets cost $8 and $10, respectively, according to the CCC website.

Tickets for the show are available at www.CornellConcerts.com.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Cites appeals to frustration with big donors, economic stagnation

Inappropriate Remarks

Prof Explains Trump’s Primarys Wins Governor Admits to TRUMP

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[saying] ‘I have so much money that as president I won’t have to adopt any’s issues in return for their money,’” she said. “ A lot of people find that as close as you can to diminishing the power of money in elections.”

“If you have to run in 50 states for your party’s nomination, you need a lot of money,” she said.

Sanders added that the 2010 Citizens United v.

Federal Election Commission Supreme Court Who Are Trump’s Constituents?

Decision has played an important part in exacerbatSanders said Trump is championing issues that ing the influence of money in politics. are important to a segment of the American popula“Big donors claimed that they could not be lim- tion she described as “downwardly mobile working ited in making large, independent class people” who “do not see donations to political committees anyone in the Republican Party “Politicians will kiss the speaking for them.” because spending their own money ... was implicit in their hands of wealthy donors Trump is often most popular right to ‘speak,’” Sanders said. in sections of the country “that “This spending can be secret; you ... and adopt their policy have lost an industry in the last often don’t even know where the twenty years,” she said. positions.” money is coming from.”

The Republican party’s lack of Prof. Elizabeth Sanders Because elections are so expenresponse to the economic stagnasive, in the absence of financial tion of the South is why we regulation the wealthy can heavily Trump has gained such support, influence elections and subsequent policy outcomes, according to Sanders. according to Sanders.

“What has the Republican Party done for the “Politicians will kiss the hands of wealthy donors, people it brought in over social issues?” she said. take their money and adopt their policy positions,” “Can anyone think of anything for downwardly she said. mobile whites? I can’t either, so that’s how we got Sanders said Trump has used the anger of people Donald Trump.” who feel donors have too large of a role in politics to gain voter support.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at “Donald Trump has sold himself to the public, mcohen@cornellsun.com.

Years After Boston Marathon Bombing, Brussels Attacks Stress Race Preparations BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s top law enforcement official says the attacks in Belgium have added a sense of urgency to securing next month’s Boston Marathon.

Police Commissioner William Evans told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he has no information suggesting a specific threat against the marathon, which was targeted in 2013.

Two bombs planted near the finish line killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others on April 15, 2013.

Evans, an avid runner, said he’s canceled his plans to run the 2016 edition of the race on April 18 so he can tend to security duties. He said he had planned to make it his 50th marathon and 19th Boston, but Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels prompted him to reconsider.

Instead, he said, marathon

security will be his main focus.

“I can’t in my right mind go out and lace up the sneakers and run that day,” he said in his office, where dozens of marathon medals decorate the walls. “We’re only three and a half weeks away. My priority is here, doing my job and making sure the race goes off without any problems.”

Evans did not elaborate on security precautions being taken around the 120th running of Boston, America’s oldest and most celebrated footrace.

He said heightened measures used since the 2013 attacks would be in place, including stepped-up patrols by uniformed and undercover officers, a greater use of surveillance cameras and tactical units, and checkpoints for the tens of thousands of spectators lining the route.

Within hours of the Belgium bombings, Boston authorities

were on the phone with the FBI as well as state and international law enforcement agencies to review threats and security plans, Evans said.

“You worry about copycats.

You worry about these homegrown terrorists who are in their basement plotting something,” he said. “It’s a constant worry for me.”

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for the 2013 marathon bombing and is being held at the Supermax federal prison in Colorado.

Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police several days after the attacks.

Evans had run the Boston Marathon in 2013 and was soaking in a hot tub when word came of the attacks.

He hasn’t run his beloved race since.

Calmness in calamity

DANIEL BEREHULAK / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Belgian soldiers and police search commuters before they enter a Metro station in Brussels on Wednesday.

Two suicide bombers carried out deadly attacks in the city a day earlier.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley admitted Wednesday that he made inappropriate remarks to a top female staffer, but he denied accusations that he had a physical affair.

The governor’s admission capped a bizarre political day in which, a day after his firing, his former law enforcement secretary and one-time close friend made public the content of a clandestine recording — made by a family member before Bentley’s wife filed for divorce last year — and accused his former boss of having an inappropriate relationship with the staffer.

The two-term Republican governor, a former Baptist deacon, acknowledged in a concilia-

tory news conference that he said “some inappropriate things” to his senior political adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason.

“I made a mistake. Two years ago I made a mistake,” Bentley said, adding that he had previously apologized to his family and to Mason and her family.

“Today I want to apologize to the people of the state of Alabama and once again, I want to apologize to my family. I am truly sorry and I accept full responsibility.”

Former Law Enforcement Secretary Spencer Collier held a news conference Wednesday and said he heard a tape recording in 2014 in which Bentley made romantic and sexually charged comments to a woman he believed to be Mason.

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Letter to the Editor

Taking action for safety on campus To the Editor: I am writing on behalf of myself and members of the Cornell Employee Assembly. I was recently approached by one of my constituents who was concerned about an article in The Cornell Sun highlighting the “Union of White Students at Cornell.” After reading your article and their page, I too am alarmed by the manifestation of white privilege and ignorance attributed to the Cornell community.

This kind of racist publicity negatively impacts our current and prospective students, staff and their families. Subsequent coverage has further boosted the group’s message. I have found articles, many referencing The Cornell Sun, in the Ithaca Voice, The College Fix, The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Ithacan, The Daily Caller and The Tab; as well as on Reddit, blogs, forums and more. Whether or not the initial group was started by members of the Cornell community, its impact is very real. Harm has been done, and it needs to be addressed clearly, directly and with action.

Groups like this use flawed logic to justify positions of white supremacy. White is not a race, but a collection of people given preference based upon skin color. When we consider history, it is clear that groups like this are not working towards equality. They are already, as a group, in a position of power. At best, they are perpetuating the status quo of a privileged white society. Based on this, when groups talk about “advancing the white race,” what that means is advancing white power. They are seeking to preserve and expand an unfair advantage that comes at the continuing expense of people of color.

We embrace and value our diversity, work actively to promote equality and understanding, and want our University to feel safe and welcoming to people of all ethnicities. We feel that remaining silent at this point would serve only to reinforce the message of this group. That is why we have to take action.

The EA has drafted a resolution that is in part a declaration of opposition, explicitly denouncing this group and its views as detrimental to the University’s commitment to extending its legacy of recruiting a heterogeneous faculty, student body and staff; fostering a climate that doesn’t just accommodate differences, but engages with them; and providing rich opportunities for learning from those differences.

Our resolution is also a call to action. We will be working with diversity groups to ensure that we, as representatives of our staff, have a better understanding of and more training regarding racism, its historical impact and the ways in which we can support the University’s commitment. We will be reaching out to other Assemblies on campus to encourage them to do the same.

I ask that you join us. Help us boost our signal. Together, we can overwhelm attempts to create fear and division on campus with a positive message. Together, we will lead by example and find new ways to promote the values of and efforts toward true equality that make Cornell such an amazing place to work, study, play and live.

Jeramy A. Kruser, Employee Assembly Representative at Large

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veryone’s really limping to the don’t want to be in my 40s at my nine finish line here. Doesn’t it always to five job (kidding, I’m an English feels like spring break comes a major, I’ll be unemployed) and look week too late? Look at me, it’s 3:30 in back at my college years and realize I the morning and I’m just getting didn’t have any fun then either. We around to writing my column the have our entire lives to be bitter and morning before it’s due. While I’d love swamped in responsibilities, enjoy to say this is the result of the unfair these last few years as much as you can. hand of fate, I will be perfectly frank, if Sure, there’s nothing wrong with I had simply spent more time in the spending a few Friday evenings in the library, I could have finished the 200 library, so long as that doesn’t become some pages of reading, honors seminar a habit. If that means dropping that essay, opinion column and the rest of third minor, then so be it.

What’s more, we need to be sure we the work I had in timely fashion and still make it to bed at a reasonable take care of our mental health. No one hour. But instead I chose to go out at Cornell is a machine. I don’t care twice last weekend, stay up way too how much caffeine you consume, late and generally procrastinate in my you’re not going to be able to study various fashions. And I regret nothing. 24/7. And that’s perfectly fine, normal The work ethic of the general even. You should be viewing your mind Cornell student body never ceases to as a battery that needs to be charged amaze me. Because while I know there not just with rest, but with also with are plenty in the same boat I am, I also leisurely activity. Sleep is not enough; know there are a lot out there who I urge all of you to waste more of your have way more work time. Stop studying, go get drunk and than I do, most importantly, don’t feel guilty about and still get doing it. You’ll be better for it. ... Your it done in time while GPA will survive and so will maintaining your hireability. a stellar GPA. And while these people sort of creep me out, I still respect you have to enjoy some of your waking them. But you know? Sometimes I hours too.

So while it’s miserable to be up this wonder if Cornell students are a little too goal oriented, like they have noth- late working on something I could ing in their lives but their work. I can’t have easily finished last weekend, I tell you how many people I’ve seen regret nothing. In fact, I urge all of you freak out because they got a B+ instead to waste more of your time. Stop of an A. You hear these people talk as if studying, go get drunk and most a bad grade is the end of their year. importantly, don’t feel guilty about Sometimes I think the competitive doing it. You’ll be better for it. Your atmosphere here at Cornell is more comprehension of a class is not going damaging than encouraging. Sure, no to drop overall because you don’t do one’s going to argue against being some of the reading. Your GPA will responsible and getting your work survive and so will your hireability.

Am I simply justifying my lax done, but I’ve seen it taken way too far here. I’m sorry, there’s no need to freak behavior? Maybe, but I honestly out because you got a B+ instead of an believe there is something healthy A. And we all know someone like that. about slacking off. Sure, no one is Stop. The world will not end if you going to argue that it’s important to pay attention to your academic work, lose that 4.0 GPA. I think a lot of us are forgetting that but you have to strike a balance a college education is not to be found between that and enjoying yourself. solely in the classroom, it’s also in the Were the last few days miserable social experience. You’re not going to because of the work I had to catch up learn how to talk to strangers in a on? Yes. Will I regret choosing to go physics textbook. And do we really out instead of living in the library? Not want to look back on our college years in the slightest. and just remember what the inside of Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and Olin library looks like? I’d rather not. Sciences.

He can be reached at skm94@cornell.edu.

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Fuxxxy Cleopatro | Cruising Dystopia

Craigslist,or,The Straight Man’s Closet F

or this “Sex on Thursday,” I again refuse silence about “explicit” or even “unnatural” gay sex acts that gays still cannot generally discuss openly.

The one summer where I stayed on campus, I still wasn’t completely out. And I hadn’t turned 21 yet, so I couldn’t go to any bars to meet guys at gay night. Finding little luck without a face pic on Grindr, I posted on Craigslist for sex while buzzed one summer evening. Using an old e-mail address, and having changed its “sender name” to something unrecognizable, I started receiving responses to my ad within minutes. My inbox full of body shots, dick pics and sexual preferences — can you imagine!?

I texted and then called one really hot guy, who emphasized that he was “straight,” and we discussed what we wanted to do. A beautiful guy — “Brad” — showed up at my place about 20 minutes later, since he actually lived just around the corner. Brad’s skin was this beautiful hue of brown, his abs and pecs were chiseled, and his member — the stuff of fantasies! One reason this experience stands out is that Brad was so sensual, taking the time to kiss and make out and explore all the exposed skin that each of us had to offer.

Some of the worst sex I’ve had was with guys who wanted to skip over this fun, preliminary teasing. I wonder

if that impatience for the “main event” has to do with the fact that many young gay men I know learned about gay sex completely through porn. Full disclosure: I don’t endorse academic activists like Catherine MacKinnon, who demonize all porn as such. Of course, porn is clearly oppressive when lacking legal consent (to having sex, being filmed or sharing the video).

But I find it truly oppressive that hostile attitudes about gay sex push gay boys to porn for instruction. Beyond my own adolescent realization that men turned me on instead of women, I had nobody to tell me what good, pleasurable gay sex looked like — and I was horrified to ask questions and possibly out myself. Sure, there are probably those “gem in the rough” parents, who openly explain to their adolescents how to have pleasurable, safer, consensual sex, regardless of the child’s sexual identity. Nevertheless, conversations with my gay and straight friends alike make me believe that such parents are rare exceptions to the strictly prude rule in the U.S. So, a little advice from Fuxxxy to any newbs reading this: you and your fuck buddy will have a much easier time getting it up and climaxing if you both take time beforehand to lightly touch, caress and kiss parts of your bodies other than your penises. Afterward, cuddling is an essential act for some, but simply too much contact for others.

Now, it’s impossible to know with certainty that Brad’s development of his fantasies above and beyond porn had led him to think that foreplay made sex way more fun. But after working up a sweat (and waking up my housemates) with some more intense play, we wiped ourselves clean and let the soaked towel fall from my small twin bed to the ground as we held each other closely. Brad clearly enjoyed himself that evening, and we hung out a few times after that — despite his insistence that he was “straight” and needed to remain “discreet,” especially to his fraternity brothers.

Sometimes when I doubt my commitment to my own sexual liberation, I reread a journal entry that I wrote after this, one of my first positive gay-sex experiences. This early experience of random Craigslist sex with Brad helped me better understand the responsibility of radical uncertainty in all sexual situations. I still find it important to have a “beginner’s mind” whenever I have sex, whether I’m someone’s lover, fuck buddy or both.

Though I have personally grown with experience, there are still a stubbornly high number of guys on Craigslist and Grindr who insist that they are “straight” and thus need to remain “discreet” (or worse yet: “discrete”). Without much skin in the game of gay politics, I used to not care if my hookup was “straight.” But I am now convinced that secret sex between straight men empowers straightness and holds the

queers down.

In Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, Jane Ward argues that homosexual hazing rituals between straight men are not only typical of white heterosexuality — they are also a necessarily secret way of maintaining white-hetero power and privilege. Straight, white men establish and maintain power precisely through elephant walks or the navy’s “line crossing” ritual — and even via (gasp!) secret, random hookups with other straight, white men.

Secret sex between “straight” or “discreet” white men reinforces the idea that gays need to stay in the closet — that gays must learn how to fuck in secrecy and then keep all depictions of gay sex (hand jobs, blow jobs, butt sex, to name a few) in the bedroom.

Writing a sex column about finding sex on Craiglist or bottoming in a bathhouse offends straight sensibilities. It disrupts the idea that the gays are “just like” the straights. I’m unhappy because people thought my last column was radical, when it simply deviated from their simpleton images of happy, monogamous gay families. But I take great pleasure in knowing that others are unhappy because I have disrupted their stable idea of desexualized homosexuals.

Fuxxxy Cleopatro is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to fuxxxy@cornellsun.com. Cruising Dystopia appears periodically this semester.

The Duchess | Between the Sheets

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omantic attachment is terrifying. It’s something we have little control over, something that can make one feel weak and pathetic when not reciprocated and something that many of us try very hard to avoid in college (and life in general). Nevertheless, we still want to have sex with people and usually end up just hoping we won’t like them for anything more than the orgasms. With attachment coming into play, though, it’s sometimes easier to either avoid this contact entirely, or find oneself stuck in painfully unstable interactions. Don’t get me wrong though, attachment and the formation of a deeper relationship with an individual are amazing. What’s painful is trying to remain detached, trying to persuade yourself that you care for nothing more than the physical aspect of an interaction with an individual. So, what is a way to understand feelings towards a person, to learn what is comfortable and to distinguish between the different kinds of relationships you can have with them?

I spoke to an amazing woman about how I struggled with the idea of wanting some kind of human connection and being confused when detached sex and friendship clashed. She told me about the four different ways she sees relationships: superficial relationship, companionship, friendship and love.

From the moment you introduce yourself to someone, add someone on Facebook, party with someone once, you’ve established a superficial relationship. You know who each other is, you’ll say hello, but you know nothing more and interact in no other way. This is also the equivalent of a onenight stand.

In a companionship, you continue to lack a deeper connection but you know a little more about the person. Maybe a more regular hookup or an individual in your friend -group.

You might know basic facts about them, but nothing personal. The main point is that their presence or absence in activi-

ties does not make a difference; your focus is on activities that can be carried out with many different companions. Such an interaction can be sex. A fuckbuddy or FWB, someone you have no other relationship than a repeating sexual encounter.

In a friendship, your focus shifts to the individual. You want to spend time with that person, you want them in your life, you are yourself around them, they know more about you than someone you met recently or who has a work-based relationship with you. The complication here is that these are also people you can have sex with. Once you begining talking more with a FWB, knowing about their life, their friends, their interests, worries etc. they begin shifting into the friendship category and it becomes natural to care for them as a person. You want to spend more time with the person and begin not caring if you’re watching a movie with them or going grocery shopping. You want to be with that person. This is the usually “Hey let’s hang out” relationship you have with friends. But what if you’re having sex with them? And what if that sex has been agreed as a purely FWB interaction, no emotions, no strings attached? This is where it becomes difficult to not get emotionally invested in a relationship, albeit sexual, with someone. I, for one, have not been able to figure out how to control those feelings towards the individual, feelings that go beyond sex. I was lucky that this situation turned into a relationship for me the first time around and that I was able to allow myself to embrace the caring feelings. When it happened again though, I knew it wasn’t going to end the same way so I found myself in a lot of emotional pain. My solution was stepping away from the sex altogether, and distancing myself from him too. I lost a friend though, and I know that things went wrong when this was a person I cared about as an individual and added sex to the equation, hoping that I could keeping the non-sexual caring separate. As if a very different

part of me would engage in the sex and different part in the friendship.

This of course doesn’t mean that all sex will go from just physical pleasure to caring about the individual. I have also had experiences with guys I have never been emotionally invested in, guys who never left the companionship stage. I know for me that the line between the companionships and friendship stage is very fine so I’m careful not to cross it unless I am confident I want to invest the time and emotional energy.

The sad thing is that because of this time and energy, I’ve seen girl after girl shy away from any kind of emotional involvement with a male during a sexual encounter simply to avoid this chaos. Or, alternatively, investing too much and getting hurt. Even though we are living in a school with a strong hookup culture, there is still the potential for a meaningful relationship and it’s not fair to deprive oneself of that opportunity. Simple knowledge of one’s own ability for emotional involvement and knowing that caring about someone as a person and also having sex with them can get very complicated can be enough to help establish a sort of ‘safe’ form of relationship — even if this is just sex, knowing that when you cross over to caring about someone it can get complicated can help protect the instability that is the reality of college life. Most importantly, knowing that caring about someone is not a weakness and is not pathetic. It is a normal human response in interactions. I found that sometimes it’s been better for me to step away that to try and crush those feelings. And I found that I can remain whole as a person and have the ability to engage in other emotional relationships.

The Duchess is a student at Cornell. She can be reached at queenbee@cornellsun.com. Between the Sheets appears periodically this semester.

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Copper Horse Coffee Roasters

By KAY XIAO Sun Staff Writer

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ednesday is roast day, and outside of the red farm house on Slaterville Road, it’s impossible to miss the distinct, slightly burnt scent of coffee beans cooking. The unassuming structure is home to Copper Horse, small batch coffee roaster and tasting room coowned and operated by Freeville native Jesse Harriott.

From communicating with farmers and sampling different seeds to stamping each individual package of the final product, Harriott single-handedly juggles all of the moving parts that bring his blends from crop to cup.

Inside, the naturally lit space is compact and neatly organized with all of the materials and equipment needed to roast the raw, earthy green seeds that later resemble what are more commonly referred to as coffee beans. One hundred

and fifty pound burlap sacks filled with seeds from around the world line one wall, and an impressive royal blue coffee roaster with “Dietrich” stenciled into its bodice sits idly by. Scales, stamps, printers and other packing supplies are dispersed along the back wall, and a simple tasting bar is tucked in the corner.

Amidst it all, Harriott makes the seamless transition from task to task. Watching him perform his craft with a red timer around his neck and trucker hat that reads “barista” across the front is like listening to a well-rehearsed set, one that hits every note without miss. Against the medium hum of the roaster, Harriott tunes into the crackle of the beans and glides over to the give the batch an extra stir. He steps away to tend to the packaging, but knows intuitively when to return to the roaster.

Both time and temperature are adjusted to bring forth the nuanced flavors of each coffee seed.

Social worker turned artisan coffee roaster, Harriott’s path to roasting has been serendipitous to say the least. Jesse originally moved to Louisville, Kentucky to pursue a graduate degree in social work. While he waited to gain resident status, he moonlighted as a barista. During this time, he met a rocket scientist and coffee roasting mentor who

Harriott’s craft and care for quality and the process come through with every cup, which I experienced at my very first coffee tasting.

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encouraged him to take a stab at competing in roasting competitions. Afterward, Harriott worked in the coffee industry of Louisville for about a decade, most recently for Sunergos Coffee, before moving to Ithaca with his wife and three kids to be closer to family.

In September of 2014, Harriott founded Copper Horse with the help of a Kickstarter campaign and fellow coffee enthusiasts Caleb Scott and Kristian Woodall (Woodall is owner of Carriage House Café on Stewart Ave.).

Shortly after, Copper Horse won an award for “America’s Best Espresso” at Coffee Fest in Atlanta Georgia. Today its roasts can be found at Carriage House Café, Green Star and Café Press among other vendors. Currently, Temple of Zeus is serving Copper Horse’s seasonal dark roast Warhorse blend.

When asked what drew him to coffee roasting, Harriott said “The process of finding,

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making and sharing coffee is really cool to me — there’s an excitement to discovering new coffee and trying to find the best profiles for them and sharing that with people.”

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Harriott doesn’t have regular open hours for tasting, but will brew a cup of coffee for friends who drop in at the sight of his car parked outside.

He’ll also prepare coffee tastings for those who call in ahead of time, which is how I ended up there and learned more than I ever could have hoped to know about coffee.

As I sipped on a series of freshly prepared coffee and listened to Harriott explain where each individual crop came from and what flavors to look out for, I came to a realization: When it comes to tasting, Ithaca has more to offer than a Cornell wines class, and Copper Horse is proof of this.

Kay Xiao is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kx28@cornell.edu.

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BY MATT PEGAN Sun Staff Writer

Though Ithaca has a thriving basement scene, the undisputed DIY capital of the U.S. is another college town: New Brunswick, N.J. Advantageously situated within an hour of NYC, the scene attracts alternative acts from across the globe, and has spawned an impressive number of punk and indie bands, a small sample of whom found themselves on Saturday night, playing to a modest crown in the cozy, polychromatic, basement of 660 Stewart. On their ninth day of touring, the bands were tired and apparently low on funds, but their spirits soared nonetheless, and each put on a high energy performance.

The band originally set to open the show, Hoboken’s Rest Ashore unfortunately had to cancel, but were replaced by Cornell’s own _____: an instrumental math-rock with a name not meant to be pronounced. Jersey City’s Kadian Quartet followed, playing a progressive, jazz-rock set, and though their music made them an outlier, both for the night and among the set of bands brought to campus by Fanclub Collective, they managed to be an audience favorite, generating eruptions of applause after each impressive piano and guitar breakdown. To those weary of what sometimes feels like the cookie-cutter DIY, punk sound sported by so many of the bands brought to Ithaca by Fanclub and IU, the quartet came as a breath of fresh air.

Up next was the first of the two New Brunswickbased headliners, Eagle Daddy. The band played a set of emo-tinged punk, laden with pessimistic humor. Funny

moments included what sounded like a lyrical allusion to Nelly’s “Ride Wit Me” and the line “I wanted to rebuild bridges but I hadn’t exercised in a while.” The standout out song was “Bummer,” a passionately sung pop-punk number with a jingly little guitar riff. Another fine moment in the set came when the band turned from their melodic punk sound into edgier post-hardcore territory, inspiring a brief mosh pit in the middle of the crowd. Flipping through the band's bandcamp page, I

able marketing skills (“We have some stickers for sale, I’ll give you one for free”), to their shitty name (and even in a scene where it seems the more hideous your band name is the cooler you are, Professor Caveman is one of the most fantastically awful I’ve seen) everything about the carelessness with which the band presents itself suggests that they aren’t putting more than ten percent of themselves into the project, but their music suggested emphatically otherwise.

The band exhibited a unique ability to weave elements of funk and latin into a surfpunk sound. Standout tracks included “Toca CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR La Guitarra” and “Vaseline.” The former is a track which encapsulates everything that is great about the band — intensely blissful — and the latter is a hilarious ode to sex and masturbation (the chorus: “It feels like vaseline when you touch me like I touch myself ” sung in a falsetto).

Frontman Rob Romano is a truly gifted rock ’n roll vocalist whose style was often reminiscent of Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken.

He nailed melodic surf-rock choruses and rough-around-the-edges punk cantos alike.

The glowing guitars which comprised the band's melodies were played in a style reminiscent of Mac DeMarco’s work on Salad Days. All in all, Professor Caveman is a band to watch, and an excellent example of the type believe this occurred during their performance of album of band coming out of the New Brunswick scene. I opener “Pavement.” would love to see them get much bigger, and maybe even Up last was the standout performance: that of New get considered for tenure.

Brunswick’s Professor Caveman. Professor Caveman is a band of strikingly talented musicians in the guise of a group guys who are just fooling around. From their mid- Matt Pegan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be set confusion over what to play next, to their question- reached at mpegan@cornellsun.com.

Breaking Rules and Following Tropes: The Real O’Neals

BY PEGAH MORADI Sun Contributor

For a network that gave us Black-ish, Fresh Off The Boat and Modern Family, a sitcom about a white Irish-Catholic family seems a little out of place. After all, this is 2016!

Didn’t Shonda Rhimes promise to protect America from yet another all-white cast? Despite its first impression, the premise for The Real O’Neals tries to be more audacious that it initially appears. The series, which debuted earlier this month, follows the members of a supposedly perfect Christian family as they are forced to face circumstances that challenge their righteous — yet image-obsessed — lifestyle.

Among these circumstances? Well, parents Eileen and Pat (Martha Plimpton of The Goonies fame and Mad Men’s Jay R. Ferguson, respectively) announce they are getting a divorce, eldest son Jimmy (Matthew Shively) has an eating disorder and the family’s devious daughter, Shannon (Bebe Wood), reveals she embezzled church funds to buy a used car. Most notably, the series’s narrator and perpetually uncomfortable middle-child Kenny (Noah Galvin) comes out as gay — all in just the span of a few minutes. The sheer magnitude of what the family experiences makes one thing loud and clear: this is going to be a bold show.

At first, that promise seems plausible. Particularly in an era where discussions of sexual identity still make many parents uneasy, depicting not only complex LGBTQ+ characters but also the relationship between gay teens and their uncomfortable parents through humor is daring in and of itself. The pilot lays firm groundwork for an apt discussion of the generational divide in social ideology and confrontation of the very real, very pressing problems that face today’s youth. Ultimately, The Real O’Neals has the capacity to venture into previously untouched and somewhat risky comedy territory by illustrating what many TV viewers have been observing for a few years: the collapse of the perfect, classic all-American TV family.

Unfortunately, The Real O’Neals doesn’t do any of that — at all. Instead, the show quickly turns mediocre through

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a script that falls firmly into COURTESY OF ABC cliché territory and becomes a watered-down analysis of the issues it ambitiously chose to tackle. Jimmy’s anorexia is quickly resolved by eating Jesus-shaped pancakes and is rarely mentioned again. Shannon’s kleptomania is ignored and instead adapted into a general disbelief in a Christian god, which is then disregarded as well. The only lasting struggle for the family lies between Kenny and his mother, who still wrestles with her son’s sexual orientation.

Although Plimpton’s portrayal of an aggravated mother torn between her religious ideology and her love for her son is excellently chilling, her performance is overshadowed by boring plot lines and easy jokes.

The Real O’Neals ends up as a banal network comedy that employs little to no creativity. The characters seem to have been derived straight from a list of TV tropes (A laidback father, zany mother, airheaded older brother … the list goes on.) and the plots stick to the standard “Something goes wrong and hilarity ensues!” formula that plagues network TV. The Real O’Neals, as a comedy, is unappetizing. The bulk of the successful jokes come from Kenny’s role as the straight man (no pun intended) against his illogical family as well as his sheer awkwardness (Kenny suddenly blurting “I’m scared of vaginas” to his father was the comedic apex of the pilot episode.). Although Galvin, who is 21, plays the role of a gawky 16-year old entertainingly, his portrayal of Kenny’s unsuccessful attempts at being suave can only make up the entire comic backbone of the series for so long. Into the third and fourth episodes of the series, Kenny’s quirks become less humorous and more agonizing; it soon becomes clear that the writer’s room is relying heavily on Galvin and Plimpton’s perfor-

mances to generate laughs.

In spite of its uninteresting execution, The Real O’Neals finds some zest in its parodies of religious zeal. Several conservative Christian organizations condemned the show well before it even debuted, referring to it as anti-Catholic and bigoted. Eileen’s invocations of religion are amusingly extreme (Kenny remarks that his mother put a statue of the Virgin Mary on top of their toilet to ensure he and his brother remember to put the seat down) and successfully satirize the qualms of many areligious youth. Like Kenny’s funny-at-first awkwardness, however, Eileen’s intensity soon becomes overused not only as a platform for quick quips, but also as an exhausted plot device.

The Real O’Neals shows incredible promise, and, of course, has the rest of the season to prove its worth to viewers. For now, the show’s current trend in sticking to the stale sitcom rules and relying greatly upon its leads points to a dead-end for this TV family. Regardless, one part of The Real O’Neals’ failure with the well-worn comedy playbook is encouraging — perhaps this flop will, once and for all, signal the end of the cliche-ridden American sitcom.

Pegah Moradi is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at pm443@cornell.edu.

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Poptimistic EDM: A Love Story

012 was an easier time in pop music.

Love was international and starships were meant to fly. I could call you maybe or blow your whistle, baby. More importantly, though, I felt more confident in distinguishing pop from EDM. Now I’m not a stickler for genre, but there’s a time and place for different types of music. Each styles serve different purpose in people’s lives. Few people self-identify as hardcore pop music devotees, but that isn’t the case for EDM. We all have at least one raver friend who talks our ear off about their “Trance Fam,” somehow treats Electric Daisy Carnival both as a pilgrimage and an annual necessity and has thirty Facebook photos of them decked out in neon and showering in glitter, with PLUR written somewhere on their body. As ridiculous as the subculture may seem to those of us outside it, electronic dance music is deeply important to a ton of us. But when the line between pop and EDM gets blurred, what’s left for the raver?

Broadly speaking, there gap is still well defined. One could say, for example, that Justin Bieber is clearly pop and Tiësto is clearly EDM. At one point in time, this would have been true. “Baby” is undeniably pop and whatever the hell Tiësto was doing in 2010 was definitely EDM. (Briefly listening to Kaleidoscope confirms this.) But what is “Red Lights”? It sounds like a pop track to me: a catchy hook, a singlalong chorus, and a massively approachable song structure. It also sounded a lot like a pop song to the Z100s and KIISs of the world, who made sure it was one of 2014’s summer bangers. More importantly, what is “Sorry”? Listen to the two songs together — they’re much more similar than they are different.

“Sorry” (and “What Do You Mean”) also sounds a hell of a lot like Kygo, the Norwegian megastar D.J. we have to thank for much of this confusion. Even though Kygo didn’t start what’s being referred to as “tropical house,” he’s definitely the person who has brought it into the most earbuds worldwide. Tropical house — the sound Kygo has cornered the market on that now inspires tons of traditional top 40 artists, like Justin Bieber — is characterized by the twinkling sounds of perpetual summer. Totally conflict free and manufactured to be easier to swallow than a spoonful of sugar, tropical house eschews the drop many of us associate with more, shall we say, “festive” EDM. As Dorian Lynskey so eloquently described the style for The Guardian, “It evokes a vague but potent feeling of nostalgia for the recent past, the way you might look back on your Instagram shots of a blissful summer

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holiday in October.” Or, as described by Clive Martin for Vice, it “washes over your being like a neck-nibble from the sun, [and] somehow manages to drop you into a kind of generation-wide collective memory.”

In the recent past, tropical house’s existence was mostly kept online. That has obviously changed, though, as demand for its biggest names grew at festivals around the world. But where does an artist like Kygo belong? At a populist festival like Montreal’s Osheaga? Or at an EDM mecca like Ultra?

Apparently the answer is both, and therein lies the casualties created by this blurring of genre.

EDM as big business is nothing new. It has been music’s “next big thing” for years. Absolut has sold us vodka with Swedish House Mafia and Kia got us driving their cars using Axwell cuts. Since the monetary value of music festivals has skyrocketed, though, those 40 Percent have become the front lines of milking elecPapier-Mâché tronic dance music for every last greenback.

This commercialization has made them even more visible on your Facebook and Instagram feeds as friends you wouldn’t conceive of dropping $400 on organic music spend the same amount on heavily manufactured parties orchestrated at the top level by people in suits.

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adherents, the ones who actually did blow their yearly savings on surrounding themselves with music and other people with the same mindset. These people are losing their place at festivals, though, because they’ve consciously become as palatable to the mainstream as possible in their own bid to cash in. Using this past weekend’s Ultra as an example, performers included Avicii, David Guetta, Icona Pop, Kaskade, Kygo, Miike Snow and Zedd — under our calculation above, all essentially pop artists. Miami was flooded with pop-minded spring breakers looking for the craziest possible party, and this clusterfuck of mass-sponsored neon, festival greed, major labels and pop-EDM confusion has all but pushed out the true ravers.

Where there’s a rave, there’s a way, and the most dyed in the wool parts of the subculture will (and, to an extent, already has) found its own new spaces. The trend in pop is bound to change, just like 2012’s need for every radio hit to have a rap verse. The commercialization and mainstream fetishization of festival culture, though, I fear is irreversible.

Regardless of the festival fallout (All the more reason not to pay a ton of money for back sweat and performers who will only receive a small fraction!), anyone who listens to the radio can benefit from pluralistic pop music in the meantime. Pop fans win with musically diverse airwaves, so let’s toast to an inevitable Ed Sheeran x Armin van Buuren collaboration.

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. 40 Percent Papier-Mâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

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more useful information in the clubhouse than he will in the classroom, as far as life lessons.’” While this is slightly absurd, it is helpful to understand that LaRoche himself grew up in a big league clubhouse.

Dave LaRoche, Adam’s father, worked as a coach with the White Sox while Adam was growing up. This makes it easy to see how LaRoche would want his son to grow up in the same environment, whether or not it is the right way to raise him. He should be admired for prioritizing his role as a father over his role as a baseball player.

As for the other side, the White Sox shed a thir-

teen million dollar commitment to a player that would not have pronounced role with the team.

There also were reports that the team had received anonymous complaints from players who did not feel that a 14-year-old was welcome on a regular basis in their place of work. Interestingly enough, some players felt that the team betrayed and lied to LaRoche.

The team did not handle the situation well, but the end result was good $13 million to spend more time with his son, and the White Sox saved $13 million that can be spent on something more useful than an aging LaRoche.

Noah Eli can be reached at neli@cornellsun.com.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Key New York lawmakers said Wednesday they’re continuing efforts to legalize daily fantasy sports following Monday’s agreement by its two biggest websites to stop taking bets in New York until July.

New York’s Republican-controlled Senate has already backed regulating daily fantasy sports, putting that in its recent budget proposal. Sen. John Bonacic, the Middletown Republican whose committee has jurisdiction in the matter, was pushing for that. The budget deadline is March 31.

In the Democrat-controlled Assembly, J. Gary Pretlow, who chairs the committee with gambling jurisdiction, has predicted since December that the Legislature will legalize and regulate it. But he said it will happen later, before lawmakers adjourn in June, giving them time to craft a law that will survive any legal challenges.

“I don’t have enough time to go through all of the nuances that we have to do because we want to do this right,” Pretlow, a Mount Vernon Democrat, said. “We have until actually the end of the session to come up with a bill. I’m pretty sure the governor will sign it once we do it.

“But I don’t want to just look at what the fantasy industry has offered or suggested,” Pretlow added. “We want to do our own bill. It’s going to be something that is fair for all parties concerned.”

Bonacic said Wednesday that if the Assembly wants more time, “so be it.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said following the agreement in the attorney general’s court case that it “looks forward” to reviewing proposed legislation.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued New York-based Fan Duel and Boston-based DraftKings in November, contending they were conducting illegal gambling prohibited under New York’s constitution and laws.

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had been playing their daily fantasy sports, in which users pay entry fees to manage rosters of teams like a general manager and then earn points depending on how well those players do. The companies depicted their contests as games of skill, not chance, and not subject to the state’s gambling restrictions.

The lawsuit already had a chilling effect on the financial institutions processing players’ money for the companies that were dominant in the New York market.

Under the agreement, if Albany lawmakers fail to pass legislation, a state appeals court will take up the case during its September term.

Meanwhile, the companies cannot take bets from users with New York IP addresses and must withdraw their New York clients’ balances within seven days of being asked to do so.

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Red Loses Three Cornell Men’s Hockey: Of Four in Virginia 2015-16 Season in Review SOFTBALL

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This team made us believe.

When Union finished off the Red last March, 70, most Cornell fans and players did not want to see Lynah Rink for a while. A decent season had ended on an extremely sour note with a first-round playoff exit.

The first inkling that the 2015-16 edition of Cornell men’s hockey would be different came just a week prior to the season.

Coach Mike Schafer ’86 announced that all four seniors, Teemu Tiitinen, John Knisley, Christian Hilbrich and Reece Willcox, would serve as captains of the team. This sent a signal to the rest of the league that Cornell would play as a team, and that this senior class intended to lead by example. By then, we already knew the members of Cornell’s freshman class, many of whom would play an integral role in the season to come. One of these freshmen, Anthony Angello, let the Lynah Faithful know of his talent by scoring four times in one preseason game. Freshman defenseman Alec McCrea, another young standout, also notched a goal and an assist in that game against Laurentian.

Early on in the season, the Faithful saw Schafer stick to his promise at the end of the previous campaign. Schafer had emphasized that his teams had been playing hard-nosed, defensive Cornell hockey, but needed to take more shots. In the season’s first few weeks, Schafer had the perfect formula. When Cornell is scoring goals, it is almost impossible to stop the Red. Cornell put up seven or more goals in each of the season’s first three weekends, only losing one game in the process. Teams began to truly fear Lynah Rink like in years past. Quinnipiac would be the only team to beat Cornell at Lynah until late January.

Yes, there was a January and February swoon, but Schafer put the pieces back together and made Cornell a confident unit heading into the playoffs.

Union was vanquished at home, exorcising the demons of last season. In the next playoff round, the Red wrestled with top-seeded Quinnipiac in their house, playing hard enough to steal game two, but the Bobcats were the better team and rightfully won the series. Then, the pieces just would not fall into place in order for Cornell to find its way back into the NCAA Tournament, ending a season that will go down in Cornell history as a year of what might have been.

This was a season of ups-downs and contradictions throughout. Cornell defeated the number one team in the country twice in five matchups this season. Yet, the men also suffered two straight zeropoint weekends. Cornell swept out-of-conference opposition Merrimack and Niagara, but could not

defeat Boston University at Madison Square Garden and embarrassingly lost 8-0 to Ohio State in Florida. Cornell tackled St. Lawrence and Clarkson at home, but fell to both in overtime on the road.

When a collegiate sporting season concludes, thoughts naturally turn to the seniors. Cornell men’s hockey’s seniors have worn the famous Red threads for four seasons and deserve to be remembered.

Although their last two campaigns might not measure up to the lofty standards at Cornell, they have given their all for the team and have earned a chapter in Cornell hockey history.

Any discussion of Christian Hilbrich begins and ends with for Full Court Press the man’s sheer size.

At 6-foot-7, he is a trailblazer for this Cornell team on and off the ice. He also demonstrates noticeable skill and hands, especially for a player of his size. While this year he failed to post as many goals as his tally of ten last season, his leadership proves how invaluable he is, on and off the ice.

He missed just two games all season and has been a large presence in Cornell’s lineup, in more ways than one.

On the other end of the vertical scale, John Knisley may be small, but he has shown a ferocious tenacity throughout his Cornell career. While Knisley was never a dependable scorer, he always seemed to pop up with odd goals at key moments when the big scorers were struggling. For example, he scored two goals at last year’s Frozen Apple and tallied additional goals versus Yale and Princeton this year. Knisley struggled with injuries at times, but he will always be remembered as a player who gave it all the moment he stepped on the ice.

Reece Willcox has been a dependable force on Cornell’s blueline for four straight seasons. The Philadelphia Flyers prospect has shown an incredible slapshot and an even better eye for an assist. He has been reliable on the defensive end as well and always played big minutes on the power play and penalty kill for Cornell. He will be sorely missed in the years to come.

Teemu Tiitinen knew his role at Cornell. He was never going to be the headlining, hat-trick scoring forward. He knew his job was to kill penalties and play defensive Cornell hockey, a role he excelled at in four years on East Hill. He chipped in with a pair of goals this season as well and was a tremendous leader for a promising class of freshmen. It will be hard for Schafer to find a player with Tiitinen’s expertise at this role next year.

Thank you to this entire Cornell hockey team for everything. Seniors, good luck in your future endeavors. Fellow Lynah Faithful, see you in the fall.

Up next, a whole new team is tasked with making us believe.

Kevin Linsey

Kevin Linsey can be contacted at klinsey@cornell.edu.

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Still, in the first two games of the tournament, Cornell showed signs that its game was starting to come together.

“It’s hard to be successful when just one side of the game is working well,” Farlow said.

“We need solid performances both offensively and defensively in order to get more victories.”

Cornell got just that on Saturday against Georgetown (5-18, 0-0 Big East). The Red won their first game of the season 6-5 with a combination of solid hitting, pitching and fielding. Right off the bat, Cornell started quickly and produced an impressive first inning. The Red scored three runs.

Sophomore pitcher Sierra Stone held Georgetown in check for most of the game.

“Sierra threw very well and that was a big highlight,” Farlow said.

However, it was not smooth sailing for the entire game. The win appeared in jeopardy after Georgetown threatened with a comeback.

“We gave up the lead late in

the game but were able to score in the last inning and win on a walk-off hit,” Farlow said.

“That was big for our confidence.”

Cornell has lost several games this season after giving up runs in late innings, which is a problem that has cost the team many wins.

“It was good to be on the other side for once,” Farlow said.

Cornell squared off with St. Francis again in the second matchup on Saturday, but the Red ran into unstoppable pitching from junior Ketarah DeVries, who no-hit the Red in a 13-0 loss.

The last game of the tournament was definitely a step back from some of the improvements the Red seemed to have made in the previous three games.

Overall, Farlow was pleased with the team’s performance and sees many players making strides.

“We’re looking to put all the pieces together now and string together some wins,” Farlow said.

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

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dable UCF team, which plays strong programs throughout their season.

“Central Florida is a real strong program,” Pepicelli said. “They are playing against the likes of Florida State, Florida and Miami week in and week out. We expect a high level of competition … and we are looking to play up to our standard to see what that looks like … I think just pursuing that against really high quality opponents will bring out the best in us.”

Cornell is focusing on playing up to their standard.

Coach Pepicelli has tried to instill in his players that if they play up to that standard and stick to what they have been doing, the results will come.

“We approach each game the same,” Wickham said “Just trust the process we have worked on since day one, and go out and compete come game day. When we trust the process and compete, we expect to win every time we step between the lines.”

A big name program like UCF does not scare the Red. But there is not much room for error.

“We’re going to have to pitch, we’re going to have to play defense,” Pepicelli said.

“We are probably not going to line up against them and hit

six home runs we did in the one game at Wofford. You can’t rely on that type of stuff happening.”

Cornell will then regroup on Monday and travel to Rollins (15-11) to play Tuesday and Wednesday. “[Rollins] is a really good offensive team,” Pepicelli said, highlighting the importance of pitching for those games.

Pitching will also be somewhat of a challenge to figure out. The Red will be coming off the three-game weekend series. In addition, Cornell begins four games of Ivy League play the following weekend, which will be crucial.

“We are going to need Michael Byrne out of the pen.” Pepicelli said. “Then we are going to reshuffle the deck on Monday and see what we want to do with the midweeks.”

Cornell will start junior right-handers Paul Balestrieri, Tim Willittes and Peter Lanoo in that order against UCF. Willettes notably has been on fire in his last two outings, with 13 strikeouts in his last outing against Bucknell this past weekend. Cornell hopes to see continued success from Willittes and the rest of the pitching staff in a busy stretch of games down south.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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SOFTBALL

Softball Wins First Game of Year Why LaRoche Cornell ends 10-game losing streak with win over Georgetown

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

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Room for improvement | Despite picking up their first win, the Red still lost their other three games over the weeekend.

A previous version of this story was published online on March 22.

Even in times of disappointment, little things can spark some momentum and raise a team’s confidence level.

Even though the women’s softball team lost three games during the Mason Cherry Blossom Classic this past weekend, they were able to record their first win of the season and improved on both sides of the ball.

“Overall, we played our best softball of the season,” said head coach Julie Farlow.

Farlow noted that the team hit the ball more aggressively and cleaned up some areas of defense. The Red also pitched better and did not allow as many walks as it had in prior games.

Cornell lost, 5-4, in a tightly contested game with Saint Francis University (15-12, 0-0 NEC) in its first matchup of the tournament, an improvement on the scores the team has been seeing earlier in the season.

Senior Emily Weinberg added two hits and drove in two runs for the Red. Senior Meg Parker produced a quality start on the mound and also contributed offensively.

In the second game, George Mason (10-9, 0-0 Atlantic 10) beat Cornell 7-2 behind solid pitching. Even though the Red had 11 hits, George Mason was able to get out of

Walked Away O n Nov. 24, 2014, the Chicago White Sox signed Adam LaRoche to a two year contract worth $25 million. In the three seasons before he signed the contract, LaRoche averaged 26 home runs, a .346 on base percentage, and a .256 batting average. In addition to his impressive offensive production, he also provided stellar defense as a first baseman.

Essentially, LaRoche was a very good player who played at a level that exceeded the contract that he received as a free agent with the White Sox. His 2015 season was less than suc-

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BASEBALL

Red to Face Off Against UCF, Rollins

By JACK KANTOR Assistant Sports Editor

With a strong start through 10 games, the Cornell men’s baseball team looks to continue their success as they travel again to Florida to take on the University of Central Florida and Rollins College on what will be a busy five-game road trip.

The main focus for this weekend and beyond is playing up to what they consider their “standard.”

The Red (6-4) has been pleasantly surprised by their success, as they have defeated difficult opponents such as Wofford (15-7) and most recently took three of four games in series against Bucknell (7-13). Nevertheless, head coach Dan Pepicelli and Cornell believe there is still a lot of room for improvement.

“We’ve got a lot of things to work “We’ve put together complete games in on,” Pepicelli said. “There are things all three aspects a couple times so far this that we definitely need to clean up year, but will look to achieve at our stanbefore Ivy League play. But I am happy dards more often looking forward. Our with the fundamentals of what I am see- best baseball is still yet to come.”

Yet, it is clear the players are not dising, which is their ability to compete regarding their success day in, day out, completely, especially regardless of scoreboard. I really like “Our best baseball is with Wickham, who is hitting a solid .342 batour energy and our competitive spirit.” still yet to come.” ting average, and a .405 on base percentSophomore outSophomore Dale Wickham age. fielder Dale Wick“Success always feels ham agrees with good, and I’m just Pepicelli that the team still needs to improve and is not looking to carry consistency with me as close to its peak. The Red is not accept- we move forward into Ivy League play,” ing decency. Only work up to their stan- Wickham said.

Cornell will need to continue stickdard will be permitted.

“Each game we hold ourselves to a ing to the fundamentals coach Pepicelli high standard that combines hitting, defense and pitching,” Wickham said.

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Feeling it | Sophomore Dale Wickham has been in a groove as of late, batting .342 and putting up a .405 OBP on the season.

spent 2011-2014) that allowed him to bring his son to the majority of games that the team played. He made a similar arrangement with the Chicago White Sox, before signing his contract. He mentioned this agreement as a significant reason for signing with Chicago.

Drake was even given his own locker and uniform, and was allowed to participate in practice drills with the team.

During spring training, White Sox chairman Kenny Williams asked LaRoche to cut back the amount of time that his son spent with the team to about half of all games.

If I Were G.M. cessful, after hitting .207 and striking out 133 times, which were both career worsts.

On March 6, 2016, the White Sox signed outfielder Austin Jackson to play centerfield, moving Adam Eaton to left field and Melky Cabrera into the role of designated hitter.

These moves meant that Adam LaRoche was unlikely to see nearly as much playing time as expected. With a diminished role for the team, LaRoche became worth much less than the $13 million that he was owed. What makes this situation interesting is that Adam LaRoche just walked away from his $13 million contract.

Over the course of his career, LaRoche made almost $72 million over 12 seasons as a ballplayer. Recently, LaRoche has made waves when he retired after the White Sox management requested that he limit the amount of time that he brings his 14-year-old son, Drake, to the clubhouse. LaRoche had made arrangements with management during his time with the Nationals (where he

LaRoche declined to follow the instructions of Williams, leading to a clubhouse ban of Drake. LaRoche decided to retire after this incident. After he retired, Williams put back his original offer onto the table (half of the games), but this was not enough to keep LaRoche in a White Sox uniform.

In this situation, no party truly appears to be at fault, and the end result may have been the best thing for all sides involved. Provided that Adam LaRoche has saved a significant amount of the money that he earned as a ballplayer, the money is not an absolute necessity for LaRoche’s family.

LaRoche is simply prioritizing raising his child in the way he sees fit over one extra year of his salary. He does have a very unique parenting style that would be very difficult for the average person to pull off.

Drake studies with a private tutor while with the team, and goes to school during the offseason. In 2013, Adam LaRoche was quoted as See ELI page 14